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Kirk Cousins signs with Raiders, Fernando Mendoza’s Pro Day, Fugazi Friday · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on, everybody? How are we doing?
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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff three Now Podcast. We got a lot going on.
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Speaker 1: We got a lot going on, Cousins Raiders. We got
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Speaker 1: to talk about that, the contract with Kubiak, backing up
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Speaker 1: or starting over Mendoza, Mendoza's pro day where he ran
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Speaker 1: the thing like Mendoza ran the pro Day. I'll have
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Speaker 1: some takes on that. I texted a bunch of scouts.
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Speaker 1: Who are there some other stories. Obviously it's Fugazi Friday.
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Speaker 1: I got a couple good fugazis today. And you want
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Speaker 1: fire in those dms, and and yeah, let's enjoy this weekend.
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Speaker 1: I like, I liked Arizona, but now it feels like
1:27
Speaker 1: I was wrong about the coach. He's gonna go to UNC,
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Speaker 1: so probably gonna be an all big ten. I think
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Speaker 1: national championship. I think it's gonna be Michigan Illinois. I
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Speaker 1: just think Illinois four to one as a future is
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Speaker 1: not terrible. They're pretty good and pretty big. I know
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Speaker 1: they lost to Michigan, but they're they're comfortable playing. I'm
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Speaker 1: there in the same conference though. Michigan, whoever wins the
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Speaker 1: Arizona Michigan games, can be heavy favorite in the Natty. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: up on your Netflix screen. And let's just dive into Cousins.
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Speaker 1: You know, Matt Lafleur and specifically Sean McVeigh were I
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Speaker 1: would say begging Kirk Cousins. And what you saw today
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Speaker 1: is financially, you know, the Raiders made it too good
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Speaker 1: for him not to sign the contract. And I think
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Speaker 1: big picture when it comes to this situation is Kubiak
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Speaker 1: had mentioned and I think most coaches would agree with
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Speaker 1: this that ideally you don't want to just be forced
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Speaker 1: going into training camp knowing your rookie quarterback is going
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Speaker 1: to play. Especially the Raiders have some hopes like they
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Speaker 1: don't want to be drafting in the top five next year.
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Speaker 1: Now they might not be a playoff team, but I
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Speaker 1: bet realistically internally right now, especially if this draft goes
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Speaker 1: pretty well, they'd be going, why can't we compete to
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Speaker 1: win seven or eight games and just have a season
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Speaker 1: as we go into December where we're just playing some
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Speaker 1: meaningful football. Last couple of years have been an embarrassment.
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Speaker 1: Last year couldn't have gone worse, right, It got worse
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Speaker 1: every single week, and by the end he got Crosby
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Speaker 1: storming out. I think they go, if some of these
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Speaker 1: free agents hit and our quarterback situation is way better
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Speaker 1: than the Geno Smith debackle, why couldn't we be a
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Speaker 1: competitive team? Kubix proven to be an excellent play caller.
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Speaker 1: I do believe that they could be semi interesting question
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Speaker 1: mark with the defensive coordinator who's younger, defensive line coach
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Speaker 1: Crosby's guide now elevated, but it also helps now have
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Speaker 1: Crosby still in the building, who can kind of be
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Speaker 1: the heartbeat of that unit and that's his guy. But
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Speaker 1: you know, the one thing I was thinking about, and
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Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about this with quarterbacks, is how
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Speaker 1: situations matter. But I think that most of us leaving
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Speaker 1: college don't have a forty to fifty million dollar contract
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Speaker 1: waiting for us that that would have been pretty cool,
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Speaker 1: not really even close. But it is really important as
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Speaker 1: a young person to go into situations where you can
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Speaker 1: look up to people. Now, for most of our jobs,
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Speaker 1: they're not other famous people, but there are people that go,
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Speaker 1: I want to be like that or that is the
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Speaker 1: type guy in my profession that I want to try
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Speaker 1: to emulate what he does because I want to be
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Speaker 1: as good as that guy. And I can only speak
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Speaker 1: for myself, like I was very lucky out of college
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Speaker 1: to go work at Fresno State and Pat Hill was
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Speaker 1: a well established college football coach, and watching how he
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Speaker 1: conducted business in terms of work ethic, in terms of
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Speaker 1: treatment of people, in terms of just energy and passion
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Speaker 1: was something I admired and I was very lucky, as
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Speaker 1: a guy that's twenty three, twenty four, twenty five years
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Speaker 1: old to basically sit next to him every single day
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Speaker 1: because where my little office was was literally connected to
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Speaker 1: his big office, and it was in the meeting room
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Speaker 1: where we watched recruiting film, where we met as a staff,
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Speaker 1: and I was around him all the time. And obviously
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Speaker 1: we had a bunch of other young coaches on the staff.
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Speaker 1: A couple work in the NFL now one's now a
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Speaker 1: head coach at cal Pauly, And I got to just
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Speaker 1: watch these guys who are extremely impressive professionals every single
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Speaker 1: day when I was young. And now, obviously once you
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Speaker 1: become a professional, there are things instilled in you from
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Speaker 1: childhood through junior high through high school that bring you.
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Speaker 1: But there's a different level of a mindset when you're
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Speaker 1: twenty three, twenty four to twenty five in the real
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Speaker 1: world and you have people to emulate who are right
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Speaker 1: in front of you, that you sit next to or
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Speaker 1: see every single day. That is a massive impact. And
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Speaker 1: then obviously when I went to Philadelphia, from Howie to
5:33
Speaker 1: Andy to the Sean mcdermots to Matt Naggie to Doug Peterson,
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Speaker 1: to just want Brett Veach Lewis Riddick on television, watch
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Speaker 1: guys that were just really really high level and go
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Speaker 1: that's how it looks like. And that matters because the
5:49
Speaker 1: reality is I've always hated the term fake it till
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Speaker 1: you make it, because then it kind of sounds like
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Speaker 1: once you make it, are you still gonna fake it?
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Speaker 1: Like that term's always bothered me. You know, It's like that.
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Speaker 1: There are certain terms in life that just you know,
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Speaker 1: it's like not for me, that's one of those because
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Speaker 1: it just feels so hollow. It does feel fake. But
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Speaker 1: it is true that most times you get inserted into roles,
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Speaker 1: especially in your twenties, you don't really know what you're
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Speaker 1: doing and you need people to watch. Whether you're a
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Speaker 1: young quarterback, most people are not Peyton Manning. And even
6:24
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning ask him like set a record for interceptions
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Speaker 1: team went three and thirteen. So it is extremely difficult
6:30
Speaker 1: for young people in low level positions, let alone that
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Speaker 1: are just put at the top of the food chain.
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Speaker 1: And then I can speak for when I got into
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Speaker 1: the business of what I do now talking for a living.
6:42
Speaker 1: I got a job pretty immediately at a radio station
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Speaker 1: in the Bay Area, and I had one of the
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Speaker 1: greatest voices in the history of you know, professional sports,
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Speaker 1: in Greg Papa hosting a radio show right after ours,
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Speaker 1: and even before I became a full time radio host,
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Speaker 1: I went on a show like three times a week,
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Speaker 1: and I got to not just immerse myself around him
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Speaker 1: how he operated his radio show, but I got to
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Speaker 1: hang out with him a lot. And it really impacted
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Speaker 1: my career because one at the time, they had one
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Speaker 1: of the biggest radio shows in the Bay Area and
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Speaker 1: we were on the second station, yet they were still
7:20
Speaker 1: being number one in the rating books because they were
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Speaker 1: that good. And it was like, that's what I want
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Speaker 1: to do, that's what I want to sound like. And
7:28
Speaker 1: I watched, you know, Greg Papa. There can't be many
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Speaker 1: people in many markets that have called games for the
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Speaker 1: professional basketball team, both professional baseball teams, and both professional
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Speaker 1: NFL teams. He did every the Golden State Warriors, the
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Speaker 1: Oakland A's, the San Franco Giants, the voice of the Raiders,
7:47
Speaker 1: and the voice of the forty nine Ers. I mean,
7:48
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. I'm not like a play by
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Speaker 1: play historian, but it's pretty unique. Oh and he also
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Speaker 1: hosts the radio show, and for a long period of
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Speaker 1: time it was the cream of the crop. It didn't
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Speaker 1: get any better. It was like Dan Patrick mixed with
8:02
Speaker 1: Dan LeBatard, I mean, you never knew what was coming.
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Speaker 1: And even other guys like Tim Kawakami, who's the number
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Speaker 1: one columnist for a long time, became a very close
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Speaker 1: friend of mine. And one thing all those people had
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Speaker 1: in common that like the way I was raised taught
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Speaker 1: work hard, try hard, be the first guy there, do
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Speaker 1: everything in your power. Doesn't mean you're gonna be the smartest,
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean you're gonna be the best. When you start something,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna finish it. And you watched all these guys
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Speaker 1: like they're at the top of their profession, and they're
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Speaker 1: all the biggest grinders I've ever been around. So it's
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Speaker 1: like it's pretty clear everything I've done since has been
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Speaker 1: with the mindset of like hard work is extremely important.
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Speaker 1: And who knows if I wouldn't have had the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to get a first hand glimpse at all these people
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Speaker 1: near at the top of their profession, who knows where
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Speaker 1: I'd be sitting today. I don't know, because those people
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Speaker 1: had a huge, huge influence on me. Hell they still do.
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Speaker 1: And you see some of these stories like when Patrick
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Speaker 1: Mahomes got drafted by Andy Reid and the cancer chiefs
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Speaker 1: They had a guy who had been the number one
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Speaker 1: overall pick, who'd seened the dirt the mud in Alex
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Speaker 1: Smith and then resurrected his career and then for basically
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Speaker 1: half a decade had established himself as a playoff starting quarterback.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not a championship starting quarterback, but a guy every
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Speaker 1: single year if you did a good job building your
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Speaker 1: team could get you ten to twelve wins. That is
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Speaker 1: something that brings you immediately immediate credibility. Oh and he's
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Speaker 1: a hard worker and he's really smart. So Patrick gets
9:33
Speaker 1: there from Texas Tech that no shot at the Leech Crew,
9:37
Speaker 1: but that offense is not something that really happens in
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Speaker 1: the league. He gets there, he gets to not just
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Speaker 1: learn from Andy Reid, but he gets to just watch
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Speaker 1: Alex Smith. And to this day he still credits Alex
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Speaker 1: with being a huge influence on the course and the
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Speaker 1: trajectory of his professional career. Even when you look at
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Speaker 1: John Harbor and Lamar jack Lamar Jackson didn't start right away,
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Speaker 1: sat behind Joe Flacco. Now, I forget the exact week
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Speaker 1: he came in. They Joe was kind of not playing
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Speaker 1: well at the time, but he wasn't forcing the action,
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Speaker 1: and you get a big benefit not only not starting
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Speaker 1: if you're quote unquote not ready, and only the team
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Speaker 1: and the player no, and who knows who's truly ready,
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Speaker 1: but just watching a guy every single day. This is
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Speaker 1: what time he gets to the office, This is what
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Speaker 1: time he works out on Mondays and Wednesdays. This is
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Speaker 1: how he times his snacks, his breakfast, his lunch. Because
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Speaker 1: this is not college football, this is not well. They
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Speaker 1: can only have us twenty plus hours a week in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. When you're the quarterback, you might not be
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Speaker 1: working coaches hours one hundred plus hours a week, but
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Speaker 1: you're working probably seventy five eighty. You're working way more
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Speaker 1: than every single player on the team. When it comes
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Speaker 1: to the mental stress you're putting of watching film, breaking
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Speaker 1: down the game plan, separate from even on the field
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Speaker 1: and the workout stuff, which is obviously really important, but
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Speaker 1: what is asked of you off the field. There is
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Speaker 1: no other player that can relate to you except the
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Speaker 1: guy in your meeting room who has been a starter
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Speaker 1: for a decade plus. And obviously, the comparisons to Fernando
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Speaker 1: Mendoza as a person have a lot of similarities to
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. So there's a reason why the all you notice,
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Speaker 1: all the guys who had been around Kirk Cousins, Kyle
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Speaker 1: Forever wanted him, and then Jimmy Garoppolo fell in his lap.
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Speaker 1: Sean McVay has Matt Stafford, who's going to the Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame and was begging at the owners meetings, talking
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Speaker 1: into the camera at ESPN, Kurk, give me a call.
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Speaker 1: We want you on our team. Lafleur was doing the
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Speaker 1: same thing, also coached him in Washington. So the guys
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Speaker 1: that have been around him value this guy at a
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Speaker 1: really really high level, especially for the role that he's
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Speaker 1: now currently gonna play. And the Raiders clearly put on
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Speaker 1: you know, quote unquote overpaid. I mean they essentially or
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Speaker 1: giving him eleven point three million dollars. We'll get into
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Speaker 1: the details of the contract here in the second but
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Speaker 1: they really really valued getting that guy around Fernando Mendoza,
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Speaker 1: and it would have been easy to say, well, Fernando,
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Speaker 1: when it comes to Smart's character and wark ethic, he's
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Speaker 1: he's like a Josh Allen Trent Williams, like he's elite
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Speaker 1: at those you know, those are the least of the
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Speaker 1: question marks. It's like, well, how comes the arm, all
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Speaker 1: the all the intangible stuff, all the boxes he checks
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Speaker 1: with flying colors, Yet they still were aggressive to get.
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Speaker 1: You need a guy to look up to because I
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Speaker 1: don't care how talented you are. That helps, That matters,
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Speaker 1: And I think that's one hundred percent why the Raiders
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Speaker 1: did it. Now they also had a connection with him.
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Speaker 1: Kubiak was in Minnesota for several years as the quarterback
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Speaker 1: coach past game coordinator with Kirk Cousins. So they're not
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Speaker 1: going into this blind. They have a relationship with this
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Speaker 1: player and in this scheme. So that's another thing. Fernando
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Speaker 1: Mendoza is coming to the NFL, they are going to
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Speaker 1: have different terminology, even if there are going to be
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Speaker 1: some similarities which I'm sure some of the pro style
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Speaker 1: concepts that this is the Shanahan Kubiak offense. Well, who
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Speaker 1: knows that as well as anyone in the league not
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Speaker 1: named like Stafford, Jordan Love, brock Purdy right now Kirk Cousins.
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Speaker 1: So who can show and teach Mendoza the way Kirk Cousins.
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Speaker 1: You also get him at a point where this is
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Speaker 1: not two years ago when he signed that one hundred
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Speaker 1: million dollar deal in Atlanta, where he viewed himself not
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Speaker 1: only as a starter, but a guy that could be
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Speaker 1: like a Pro Bowl player. That's why he was so
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Speaker 1: offended and taken back when the Peddock situation happened, because
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Speaker 1: depending on you where you were, where you're at in
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Speaker 1: your career, if you're in the prime of your career
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Speaker 1: and things are just humming and going well, and then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden someone brings in your replacement. If
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Speaker 1: Kyard called me up right now and went, you know,
14:00
Speaker 1: we got this other guy. He's an NFL guy, and
14:04
Speaker 1: we're gonna give You're not gonna have to do anything
14:07
Speaker 1: on Tuesdays and Fridays. We're gonna have Billy. This other
14:12
Speaker 1: former NFL guy really knows his college football too. He's
14:16
Speaker 1: gonna record podcasts on those days on your on your stuff.
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Speaker 1: We'll put him on Netflix, We'll put him on your feed.
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Speaker 1: I'd be like, that's that's not good, right. That would
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Speaker 1: take me back a little bit and so completely understood it. Now.
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Speaker 1: If I was in the swan song of my career,
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Speaker 1: I'd be like, yeah, it's great, go spend more time
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Speaker 1: with my kids, can go hang out with my wife,
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Speaker 1: can go relax a little bit more. And that's where
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Speaker 1: they're getting Kirk Cousins. They're getting We had a point
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Speaker 1: in time in his career where he understands like, I'm
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Speaker 1: no longer a lockstarter anymore. Those days are over. My
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Speaker 1: days of making forty to fifty million dollars a year,
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Speaker 1: which once all said and done, I saw today that
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Speaker 1: he's gonna go down. He'll have made more money in
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Speaker 1: his career than Tom Brady. That's now part of that.
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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, Tom took major discounts for a long
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Speaker 1: period of time. If Tom would have taken market value,
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Speaker 1: he would probably be worth one hundred and fifty million
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Speaker 1: dollars more over the course of his career. And he
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Speaker 1: hasn't even played in the last like five years, when
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Speaker 1: obviously quarterback contracts have gone to insane numbers. But there
15:21
Speaker 1: were times when he was making twelve million dollars when
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Speaker 1: he could have been making twenty. That's just the nature
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Speaker 1: of his situation. But I like this move a lot
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Speaker 1: and makes a lot of sense, and that the guy
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Speaker 1: that should like this move the most would be Fernando Mendoza.
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Speaker 1: And there's there was a story out today, not even
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Speaker 1: a story. It was just reported that next Tuesday is
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Speaker 1: when Fernando Mendoza is going to visit the Raiders. Because
15:44
Speaker 1: during this period of time, you get thirty visits as
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Speaker 1: an NFL club, meaning you can fly thirty players to
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Speaker 1: your facility and get him. I forget the exact number,
15:54
Speaker 1: but it's it's a little bit more than a day,
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Speaker 1: right because travel time, So you basically you know why
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Speaker 1: I'm in at night. Sometimes when I was with the Eagles,
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Speaker 1: I used to pick guys up. We'd go to dinner.
16:04
Speaker 1: I'd bring a couple assistant coaches with us, and the
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Speaker 1: next day, starting at like seven am, it'd beat a
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Speaker 1: trainers to the GM, to the coach, the position coach,
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Speaker 1: the coordinators. If it was a relatively high pick, talk
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Speaker 1: with the owner, you know that it was a really
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Speaker 1: big deal. Meet everyone in the facility, and you know
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Speaker 1: for guys like Fernando Mendoza, who is gonna go number one? Overall,
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Speaker 1: it's it's continued to establish the relationship with a lot
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Speaker 1: of guys, some of them that have got question marks
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Speaker 1: off the field. You're you're really talking to him less
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Speaker 1: about football and more about human stuff. What's your deal? Bro?
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Speaker 1: And I do wonder if they will try to coordinate
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Speaker 1: and have Cousins there on that on that Tuesday and
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Speaker 1: just kind of kick off that relationship, which I'm sure
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Speaker 1: a Kubiak gave Fernando or gave gave Cousins his number,
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Speaker 1: and they've already communicated, because that's a key sometimes in
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Speaker 1: these situations. You know, remember when Roethlisberger was there and
17:02
Speaker 1: they brought in Mason Rudolph, that was weird. Obviously Rogers
17:06
Speaker 1: and Roethlisberger and Rogers are way better players in their
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Speaker 1: prime than Kirk Cousins. But my point is Eagles or
17:12
Speaker 1: egos and Cousins was extremely offended by Michael Penix. He
17:17
Speaker 1: never even played in Atlanta. So I think they're in
17:20
Speaker 1: a much better situation. Everyone knows the drill, but that's
17:22
Speaker 1: the question, like what is the drill? Because going back
17:27
Speaker 1: to the Andy situation, Andy Reid, he hadn't won a
17:30
Speaker 1: Super Bowl then, but he had won a shitload of
17:32
Speaker 1: football games, so it was extremely easy for him to go,
17:36
Speaker 1: Alex you're gonna be the charter still, and Patrick you're
17:39
Speaker 1: gonna be the backup, and Alex you're not gonna complain,
17:42
Speaker 1: and Patrick you're gonna do everything to take notes and
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Speaker 1: soak up everything this guy does and everyone just fell
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Speaker 1: in line. But it's much easier for him to pull
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Speaker 1: that off than it would be like Todd munkin this year, Like,
17:53
Speaker 1: good luck handling that quarterback room, buddy, I promise you.
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Speaker 1: I'm probably betting against it. But in fairness, first time
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Speaker 1: head coaches whether they were sixty or whether they were forty,
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Speaker 1: but these quarterback rooms can be It's just it's just
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Speaker 1: a hot button area. It's everyone, the media, the fans,
18:10
Speaker 1: the room people care about the most, and it's gonna
18:13
Speaker 1: be interesting. Like I wrote down, how are they gonna
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Speaker 1: handle this situation? Because Kubiak's comments were like, ideally the
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Speaker 1: guy doesn't start, So are you just gonna name Cousins
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Speaker 1: the starter? You know? Is he just gonna get the
18:26
Speaker 1: reps in OTAs? And in training camp? Are you gonna
18:30
Speaker 1: have a quote unquote open competition? Will you do one
18:33
Speaker 1: of those situations where Cousins is gonna definitely start early on,
18:38
Speaker 1: but the rep count in training camp is gonna go
18:41
Speaker 1: back and forth. Here's the problem. You got guys like
18:44
Speaker 1: Max Crosby, you just signed a bunch of players. You
18:46
Speaker 1: you got Bowers and Jenty, You got this high price
18:50
Speaker 1: left tackle, you got guys gonna want to win, and
18:53
Speaker 1: the one people, the group of people you can never fool.
18:56
Speaker 1: I actually don't think you can really fool the fans
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Speaker 1: as much anymore. Obviously with quarterbacks, you know, everyone's favorite
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Speaker 1: quarterback when the team's bad as the backup quarterback. But
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Speaker 1: for the most part, when you're watching a team week
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Speaker 1: in week out, you're like, why is this guy still playing?
19:10
Speaker 1: Like what's going on here? How's this guy on the field.
19:13
Speaker 1: It's like, well, he knows the defense, he really knows
19:16
Speaker 1: the route tree. It's like, well, he can't catch and
19:19
Speaker 1: he can't get open. Like, get a younger guy in
19:20
Speaker 1: there and trust me, GM say the same thing. Sometimes
19:23
Speaker 1: he coaches drive people nuts. It's like, listen, nothing but
19:27
Speaker 1: respect for Bobby Wagner's career, nothing but respect, Hall of Famer,
19:31
Speaker 1: one of the best linebackers of the last twenty years.
19:34
Speaker 1: But watching him this year playing for Dan Quinn, it's like, Dan,
19:39
Speaker 1: just use a practice squad. Let someone else get reps.
19:42
Speaker 1: Your team sucks that this is this is pointless. But
19:45
Speaker 1: Dan would say, like this guy, this guy knows everything
19:48
Speaker 1: we're doing. All the checks was he can't move anymore,
19:51
Speaker 1: like this is pro sports, but sometimes they value that,
19:54
Speaker 1: but the players, especially early on, like in training camp,
19:59
Speaker 1: if it's cousins, and this this is the different part
20:03
Speaker 1: of the Alex Smith situation. Alex had won a lot
20:06
Speaker 1: of games with those guys, so he had the respect
20:09
Speaker 1: of the locker room, even if, as reports say, and
20:12
Speaker 1: I've never really talked to each about this, but clearly
20:15
Speaker 1: in the training camp practice and just during the season,
20:18
Speaker 1: Mahomes was doing insane stuff in practice, but like they
20:21
Speaker 1: were winning games. Alex was good. It wasn't weird. But
20:24
Speaker 1: this is one of those situations like do you how
20:28
Speaker 1: much equity do you have to go? He's not gonna
20:29
Speaker 1: play at all, right, And this is not a one
20:32
Speaker 1: year wonder. This guy who's been a multi year starter
20:34
Speaker 1: ton of reps. Hell, he just played a sixteen game season.
20:37
Speaker 1: So I do think this is a tougher situation for
20:43
Speaker 1: a first time head coach because he doesn't have the
20:46
Speaker 1: equity in the locker room. They've just bought a lot
20:49
Speaker 1: of guys from other teams who have had success around
20:52
Speaker 1: the league. Their best player, who's their highest paid player.
20:56
Speaker 1: All he ever says like I just want to win,
20:59
Speaker 1: like that's max biggest issue. I just want to win,
21:03
Speaker 1: not even the super Bowl, but just have like a
21:05
Speaker 1: ten and seven year where we're the seven seed. Would
21:07
Speaker 1: be fucking amazing, playing real meaningful games, not some game
21:11
Speaker 1: against Houston the middle of December where I'm chasing everyone around.
21:15
Speaker 1: I'm keeping it close, but at the end of the day,
21:17
Speaker 1: we're gonna still get the number one overall pick. And
21:19
Speaker 1: that's where I think it can be kind of a
21:21
Speaker 1: slippery slope. How they handle it. It's not an easy situation.
21:25
Speaker 1: It's why I would imagine they won't make any like declarations.
21:30
Speaker 1: They'll just say, hey, we're gonna be open minded on this.
21:32
Speaker 1: I said what I said. I ideally, you know, Mendoza
21:35
Speaker 1: learns from them, but what if Fernando's is better than them.
21:39
Speaker 1: My I don't know. If this was my first year,
21:41
Speaker 1: maybe it was my first year having a radio show.
21:44
Speaker 1: We're at training camp every single day. The Raiders had
21:47
Speaker 1: signed Matt Shop who had just come off a bad
21:51
Speaker 1: season with the Houston Texans. He'd obviously been there for
21:54
Speaker 1: a long time with Kubiak, and they had been one
21:56
Speaker 1: of the They couldn't win in the playoffs, but they
21:59
Speaker 1: had been a really consistent winning team. And Shob had
22:03
Speaker 1: this season where I swore to got he had like
22:04
Speaker 1: ten pick sixes. He had a game, if memory serves
22:08
Speaker 1: me correct, he might have thrown back to back passes
22:11
Speaker 1: that were pick sixes. I mean, I might still be
22:13
Speaker 1: an NFL record. But the Raiders signed him to like
22:15
Speaker 1: a one year, eight million dollar deal. I mean, this
22:18
Speaker 1: is ten plus years ago. There's a lot of money.
22:20
Speaker 1: And then they drafted Derek Carr in the second round.
22:24
Speaker 1: Shobs are quarterback. Derek's competing to be the backup. By
22:27
Speaker 1: the end of training camp, like my mom could see
22:31
Speaker 1: Derek's betteran shop and he had no choice. So going
22:36
Speaker 1: into week one, Matt Schob, who had been the starter
22:39
Speaker 1: the entire offseason, was told you're the backup and Derek
22:43
Speaker 1: You're gonna be the starter, and that that's just one
22:45
Speaker 1: of those situations that can be very fickle because you
22:50
Speaker 1: got a lot of different opinions. You know what's best
22:53
Speaker 1: long term, but you're also like trying to win. And
22:58
Speaker 1: this is not trust the process in the sense of
23:01
Speaker 1: like you got five years, that's not the way the
23:03
Speaker 1: NFL works. Look, look how many coaches Mark Davis has
23:06
Speaker 1: fired over the course of like twenty four months that
23:09
Speaker 1: did not make it to year two, year three, So
23:13
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be fascinated how they do it the comments
23:15
Speaker 1: that come out once Fernando is finally drafted. But I
23:20
Speaker 1: think they clearly feel much better about that situation with
23:23
Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza and Kirk Cousins than they did last year
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Speaker 1: New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia. The Falcons cannot be happy
25:33
Speaker 1: because just a disastrous couple of years from a personnel standpoint,
25:39
Speaker 1: from the Cousins contract to drafting Pennix eight overall, who
25:43
Speaker 1: has a million injuries, who's currently injured, which might make
25:47
Speaker 1: them start to a tongue of iloa, a player that
25:50
Speaker 1: most people would agree you would not want on your
25:53
Speaker 1: team right now, to the James Pierce first round trade,
25:57
Speaker 1: which would be pick thirteen, and he's probably gonna go
26:00
Speaker 1: to jail. I mean, the Terry Fontinau run over the
26:03
Speaker 1: last couple of years gonna go down is one of
26:06
Speaker 1: the worst of all time. I mean serious, say, pretty bad,
26:10
Speaker 1: really really bad. The Raiders kind of finagled this thing
26:15
Speaker 1: because at first, you know, Schefter tweets out it's like
26:17
Speaker 1: a four year, one hundred and seventy million dollar deal.
26:20
Speaker 1: Everyone's sharing. I post a picture on Twitter of you know,
26:24
Speaker 1: Cousins is like the Warren Buffett of the NFL. Turns
26:27
Speaker 1: out the Raiders are paying him one point three million
26:30
Speaker 1: dollars this year, but they're paying him a total of
26:33
Speaker 1: eleven point three million dollars. The way that they set
26:37
Speaker 1: this up is they go, hey, we'll give you the
26:39
Speaker 1: VET minimum this year, the same thing Kyler Murray got.
26:42
Speaker 1: Because there's an offset in Cousins contract with the Falcons
26:46
Speaker 1: that if they would have given him ten million dollars
26:48
Speaker 1: just this season, the Falcons would have owed him nothing.
26:51
Speaker 1: So they went like, clearly, we're competing for your services
26:54
Speaker 1: with other teams, where it's pretty clear if you sign
26:59
Speaker 1: with the Packers or the Rams, for example, if their
27:04
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are healthy, you will not play a snap. You
27:07
Speaker 1: will be one hundred percent the backup, and that's what
27:10
Speaker 1: you will do. And I would guess because of their
27:13
Speaker 1: financial situations they were not offering Kirk Cousins ten million dollars.
27:17
Speaker 1: You can't pay Jordan Love, you can't pay Matt Stafford, right,
27:21
Speaker 1: whatever they're making combined, and pay a backup quarterback ten
27:24
Speaker 1: million dollars not the way it works. Last year, the
27:27
Speaker 1: forty nine ers give pretty a massive contract. Who do
27:30
Speaker 1: they sign Mac Jones? Like a two year, five million
27:32
Speaker 1: dollar contract. So typically you want your backup when you
27:34
Speaker 1: have a high priced guy to be relatively cheap, right,
27:39
Speaker 1: and the Raiders were able to finagle this contract to go,
27:47
Speaker 1: we'll pay you one point three million dollars this year,
27:50
Speaker 1: but will essentially pay you eleven point three million dollars,
27:53
Speaker 1: which is probably an overpay. I would imagine most teams
27:58
Speaker 1: on the open market. Were not in the business of
28:00
Speaker 1: giving Kirk Cousins over ten million dollars. But here's the thing.
28:05
Speaker 1: We're gonna pay you the vet minimum this year to
28:08
Speaker 1: keep your eight point seven, so it won't be ten,
28:10
Speaker 1: but we'll make up the difference of the one point three.
28:13
Speaker 1: The Falcons will pay you eight point seven, so you
28:15
Speaker 1: will get a guaranteed ten million dollars this year. We
28:19
Speaker 1: will give you a roster bonus next year that is guaranteed.
28:22
Speaker 1: That is ten million dollars. So from the Raiders, we're
28:25
Speaker 1: giving you over eleven million dollars, and the Falcons are
28:27
Speaker 1: giving you almost nine million dollars. You'll make combine twenty
28:30
Speaker 1: million dollars. But you're not going to be on our
28:35
Speaker 1: team next year, more than likely because we did this
28:37
Speaker 1: kind of fake contract that if he is on the roster,
28:40
Speaker 1: he would immediately kick into a two year, eighty million
28:44
Speaker 1: dollar contract, which clearly the Raiders are not gonna do.
28:47
Speaker 1: But no matter what, we're giving you ten million dollars
28:50
Speaker 1: next year, and it's worth it for us to just
28:52
Speaker 1: cook the books a little bit. So I would imagine
28:56
Speaker 1: the Falcons are like, we just got fucked. We just
29:00
Speaker 1: got screwed the Raiders. The money they're gonna pay them,
29:03
Speaker 1: they don't even need to worry about till next fiscal year. Now,
29:07
Speaker 1: it's not ideal like they're gonna carry Cousins money on
29:10
Speaker 1: the books next year, but who knows what if Cousins
29:13
Speaker 1: goes this is an awesome situation. And if you just
29:16
Speaker 1: give me a couple million dollars more, we'll redo the contract.
29:19
Speaker 1: So I just come back on the ten million you're
29:21
Speaker 1: paying me, and maybe three or four more, and I'm
29:22
Speaker 1: essentially like a fourteen million dollar backup. Now by that
29:25
Speaker 1: time with Fernando, maybe they're not in the business of
29:27
Speaker 1: doing that, but they're already in for ten for Cousins,
29:30
Speaker 1: so what they're gonna have to pay someone to be
29:31
Speaker 1: the backup anyway, So maybe they could give him a
29:34
Speaker 1: couple of million dollars more to be the backup, especially
29:36
Speaker 1: if he likes the spot. And I just would imagine
29:39
Speaker 1: the Falcons are just like, how did this happen? And
29:43
Speaker 1: it happened because the personnel decisions they made for a
29:47
Speaker 1: couple of years stretch. It just doesn't get much worse,
29:50
Speaker 1: it really doesn't. And for having him now be on
29:54
Speaker 1: the Raiders, and for you still picking up the bill
29:57
Speaker 1: is the reason the GM got fired. Reason that Matt
30:00
Speaker 1: Ryan and now obviously Ian Cunningham, who is the GM,
30:04
Speaker 1: and I saw that they are appealing their Rooney Rule
30:08
Speaker 1: draft picks, which they one hundred percent should get. Matt
30:11
Speaker 1: Ryan has admitted he's running free agency. He's the GM,
30:14
Speaker 1: he's picking the players. That is not my role. It's
30:19
Speaker 1: not these these picks are just created from scratch. It's
30:23
Speaker 1: not like you're taking these picks from someone else. So
30:25
Speaker 1: it's not like anyone else's arguing against them. But which
30:28
Speaker 1: I would imagine they end up winning, but I guess
30:31
Speaker 1: you never know. So the Raiders get them for the
30:35
Speaker 1: VET minimum this year. To kind of show Mendoza the ropes,
30:41
Speaker 1: I texted a couple of people about Mendoza's pro day
30:44
Speaker 1: because I saw Coward talking about it this morning. That
30:48
Speaker 1: one thing Fernando Mendoza did is typically when you go
30:52
Speaker 1: to these pro days for a quarterback, there is a
30:54
Speaker 1: quarterback coach, like their trainer that runs the script. So
30:59
Speaker 1: you see a guy with the script of the passes.
31:03
Speaker 1: There's anywhere from like fifty to sixty. You go through
31:05
Speaker 1: the route tree, you do some mobility stuff, you do
31:08
Speaker 1: some play action stuff, you do some stuff that teams
31:11
Speaker 1: that are interested in drafting you, you know they'd want
31:14
Speaker 1: to see. And you just go through the script and
31:17
Speaker 1: the coach tells the quarterback XYZ, the quarterback and the
31:21
Speaker 1: wide receiver here, and they run the play. Yesterday at
31:26
Speaker 1: Indiana two days ago, now, Fernando Mendoza would call out
31:31
Speaker 1: the route to the wide receiver. He ran the pro
31:34
Speaker 1: day with his former quarterback coach who's been in Indiana,
31:38
Speaker 1: who's now in Tampa Bay. So Fernando Mendoza was in
31:43
Speaker 1: charge of the pro day, and he had said the
31:47
Speaker 1: reason he didn't throw at the combine, which is something
31:51
Speaker 1: that has become more popular, but when he originally said,
31:54
Speaker 1: I'm not throwing at the combine. But the biggest reason
31:56
Speaker 1: I'm doing it is because I want to put a
31:58
Speaker 1: bigger emphasis on my proa where I got multiple wide
32:02
Speaker 1: receiver prospects in this draft that I want them to
32:07
Speaker 1: be showcased. They just helped us me. We just did
32:10
Speaker 1: it together, won the national championship. Those are my guys.
32:14
Speaker 1: So it's throwing to these random guys and listen the
32:17
Speaker 1: combine throwings all over the map. You got short balls,
32:20
Speaker 1: deep balls, you don't know their speed. It was like, God,
32:22
Speaker 1: that makes a lot of sense. And then yesterday, when
32:25
Speaker 1: you watch some of the highlights of him doing that,
32:27
Speaker 1: You're like, damn, I don't even think I've ever heard that.
32:29
Speaker 1: So I immediately start texting around. I text Spi Tech, who
32:33
Speaker 1: was there. He hasn't taken me back yet, but text
32:35
Speaker 1: a couple other people who were also there, said have
32:37
Speaker 1: you ever seen that? And they said, spy Tech, I
32:43
Speaker 1: don't remember seeing that ever. He just text me back.
32:46
Speaker 1: I text multiple other people, I don't remember ever seeing that.
32:50
Speaker 1: I've never seen that before. This is something that does
32:54
Speaker 1: not happen. This is not one of those all you're
32:57
Speaker 1: making too big a deal. I text it with a
32:59
Speaker 1: scout who's been going to Pro days for twenty five years,
33:03
Speaker 1: who's been at the biggest pro days over the course
33:06
Speaker 1: of the last two decades, with the biggest quarterbacks in
33:09
Speaker 1: the draft over those periods of time, from Johnny Manziel
33:12
Speaker 1: to JaMarcus Russell to Goff to you name it, all
33:15
Speaker 1: the guys, big names, guys drafted. It doesn't happen, and
33:19
Speaker 1: he did it. So and here's the other thing I
33:22
Speaker 1: was texting with a guy who said, here's the thing
33:25
Speaker 1: about Mendoza athletic ability, really good arm, solid size, elite, smarts, elite.
33:36
Speaker 1: You know what that sounds like to me? A Shanahan
33:39
Speaker 1: Kubiak type quarterback. They don't. I did, would they love
33:42
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Tom Brady, you know, big arm, who's a
33:48
Speaker 1: big arm justin Herbert of course, but they don't need it.
33:52
Speaker 1: I just use the example of Kubiak's dad with Matt
33:54
Speaker 1: Schopp before he fell apart. One thing. Kubiak's dad had
34:00
Speaker 1: Matt schab looking like a pro bowler because accuracy timing,
34:05
Speaker 1: Alex Smith with Jim Harbaugh and Andy Reid, Brock Perty,
34:09
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo with Kyle Shanahan, Hell, Jared Goff, Ben Johnson,
34:13
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh. You don't need to have a howitzer to
34:17
Speaker 1: excel in a specific offense, which is this one. And
34:21
Speaker 1: this is the thing with Jalen Hurts, we talked about
34:23
Speaker 1: putting the back to the defense. Well, part of putting
34:25
Speaker 1: back to the defense is it makes it easier with
34:29
Speaker 1: these great play guards to get guys open. Why because
34:33
Speaker 1: of the run fas and because of the boots in
34:35
Speaker 1: the play action. It's a huge part of this offense.
34:38
Speaker 1: Cousins has been doing it for a decade, and he
34:41
Speaker 1: can help show Fernando Mendoza and get by on an arm.
34:43
Speaker 1: Cousin's a good example, never had a great arm. But
34:46
Speaker 1: what is Fernando Mendoza, Unlike Cousins, a really good athlete?
34:50
Speaker 1: Not Lamar Jackson, not Kyler Murray, not Josh Allen, but
34:55
Speaker 1: like better than like half the league can move. So
34:59
Speaker 1: I I think when you look at Fernando Mendoza and
35:03
Speaker 1: you look at the size and the intangibles, like that's
35:06
Speaker 1: really important, and you go, well, he doesn't have the
35:08
Speaker 1: biggest arm, bud, he's accurate. You want me to listen
35:11
Speaker 1: some guys that don't have the biggest arm but are accurate.
35:14
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, Dak Prescott in his prime, Kirk Cousins. You
35:20
Speaker 1: can be a playoff quarterback when you have that attribute.
35:25
Speaker 1: Brock Purty. Now, like you're like, well, he's not gonna
35:29
Speaker 1: be Patrick Mahomes. No shit, Patrick Mahomes already like a
35:33
Speaker 1: top five quarterback of all time. He's not gonna be
35:36
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. We've never seen a quarterback like Josh Allen.
35:39
Speaker 1: He's like John Elway reincarnated. Who cares if you tell
35:44
Speaker 1: me that Dak Prescott instead of on the Chaotic Cowboys,
35:47
Speaker 1: had just been playing for McVeigh or Kyle Shanahan probably
35:51
Speaker 1: would have more January wins under his belt. But he's
35:55
Speaker 1: got a ton of regular season wins under his belt.
35:57
Speaker 1: You can win a lot of games with those guys.
36:00
Speaker 1: Is he an all time great prospect? No? Is he
36:03
Speaker 1: the greatest player we've ever seen coming out of college? No?
36:06
Speaker 1: Is he damn good? Though? And if I was a
36:08
Speaker 1: Raider fan, would I be really fired up? And am
36:10
Speaker 1: I a big fan of him as a player, because
36:13
Speaker 1: one thing I've learned is the intangible stuff, the smarts
36:19
Speaker 1: and the accuracy go a long freaking way in the NFL.
36:22
Speaker 1: And obviously the toughness, And that's the other thing I
36:25
Speaker 1: didn't know if he was clearly you don't play like
36:27
Speaker 1: Division I college quarterback and be a puss, So you
36:30
Speaker 1: got some level of toughness. But then there are levels
36:33
Speaker 1: of like, god, damn, this guy's this guy's a war daddy.
36:37
Speaker 1: When he got hit on that first play of the
36:39
Speaker 1: Ohio State game and two plays later he was running
36:41
Speaker 1: back on the field, I want that was that was
36:45
Speaker 1: big time. That that was that's the NFL. Because in
36:49
Speaker 1: the NFL, you turned the corner and all of a sudden,
36:52
Speaker 1: So and So is there who's been to three Pro
36:54
Speaker 1: Bowls and he hits you right in the sternum. So
36:57
Speaker 1: I think Mendoza this conversation, you know from Urlowsky who listened,
37:03
Speaker 1: smart guy played quarterback. Has he ever been in a
37:08
Speaker 1: drafts room or has he talked to these gms? Like
37:09
Speaker 1: what are we talking about here? To me, the gap
37:11
Speaker 1: between these two guys, because I listen, I've heard this
37:14
Speaker 1: argument Ty Simpson is closer to Mendoza than he is
37:18
Speaker 1: the third best quarterback in this draft. This is one
37:21
Speaker 1: of the worst quarterback drafts we've ever seen. So to me,
37:24
Speaker 1: that's not saying much. No one thinks Ty Simpson is
37:27
Speaker 1: some scrub. To me, he's like a third round pick.
37:29
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with you. A third round pick, Russell Wilson,
37:32
Speaker 1: third round pick, Dak Prescott, third round pick, Kirk Cousins
37:34
Speaker 1: fourth round pick you can go on to make hundreds
37:37
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars Pro Bowls and play in the playoffs.
37:39
Speaker 1: Is a third or fourth round pick. But take him
37:41
Speaker 1: in the first round.
37:42
Speaker 2: Of me feels pretty bold.
37:56
Speaker 1: Let's hit on just some NFL stories. I did see
37:59
Speaker 1: this article. I wanted to pull up the quote because
38:03
Speaker 1: we've been talking a lot about this is the difference
38:08
Speaker 1: between cash and salary cap. So I pulled up the
38:14
Speaker 1: cash spending in heading into twenty twenty six in the NFL,
38:20
Speaker 1: the Niners were won at like three hundred and fifty
38:22
Speaker 1: million dollars. The Broncos, the Colts, the Bills, the Eagles,
38:25
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, all these teams are spending more cash, all
38:29
Speaker 1: above three twenty three thirty three forty. The salary caps
38:33
Speaker 1: what three hundred million dollars, So they are spending more
38:37
Speaker 1: money than the cap exists. And the athletic Mike Sando
38:45
Speaker 1: did an article on the AFC and he basically got
38:50
Speaker 1: unnamed gms and assistant coaches and head coaches and guys
38:54
Speaker 1: just to give quotes on the stuff that happened. And
38:57
Speaker 1: there was a you know, different takes on DJ Moore
38:59
Speaker 1: and Crosby and Trey Hendrickson. But I found this really
39:03
Speaker 1: interesting because I listen. I think Jim Harbaugh's a star.
39:06
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the best coaches I've seen
39:08
Speaker 1: in my lifetime, and I think the Chargers are going
39:10
Speaker 1: to be a massive problem this year. I think they're
39:13
Speaker 1: gonna be really good over the next couple of years.
39:15
Speaker 1: But this this executive brought up an interesting point. He says,
39:20
Speaker 1: once you have owners who say no, I want to
39:24
Speaker 1: go for it, it becomes really hard for teams who
39:28
Speaker 1: are passive to win big. If you're the Chargers or
39:32
Speaker 1: the Bengals and you're gonna play this thing passive, yeah,
39:36
Speaker 1: you're gonna compete with the Ravens right now and the
39:39
Speaker 1: Broncos right now, but in two years, it's gonna be different.
39:44
Speaker 1: Teams that have passed you. Their quarterback is making twenty
39:48
Speaker 1: four million dollars in base salary this season, and they're
39:53
Speaker 1: gonna be the lowest cash spending team in the NFL.
39:57
Speaker 1: Take advantage of this and go get good players, even
40:01
Speaker 1: if it's just on one year deals. So when you
40:04
Speaker 1: look at the cash spending this, according to spot track,
40:09
Speaker 1: Miami has manipulated the books a little bit because they
40:12
Speaker 1: have traded away some guys. So technically they're dead last
40:16
Speaker 1: in two hundred million dollars in cash spending because a
40:20
Speaker 1: lot of their salary cap of that three hundred million
40:22
Speaker 1: dollars is going to be dead money, right Tyreek to
40:25
Speaker 1: a waddle, so their salary cap is going to go well,
40:31
Speaker 1: they're using up to three hundred million dollars, but the
40:33
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins as of right now are only spending two
40:35
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. Right above them at number thirty one
40:39
Speaker 1: in the NFL is the Chargers at two hundred and
40:42
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars. Yet they want to compete against the Bills,
40:47
Speaker 1: the Broncos, the Ravens, who are all top eight teams,
40:51
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs, who are not far away at twelve.
40:55
Speaker 1: But it's only the difference of three or four million.
40:57
Speaker 1: The Chiefs are spending one hundred million dollars more than
41:00
Speaker 1: in the Chargers. Now, Listen, I was in the car
41:04
Speaker 1: a couple days ago and I heard Joe Ortiz, Actually
41:07
Speaker 1: this was Eric Sullivan talk the new gym for the Dolphins,
41:11
Speaker 1: of like, you gotta be careful in free agency because
41:14
Speaker 1: unless you're signing a Pro Bowl player, you're overpaying for
41:18
Speaker 1: average to good players and it can get you in
41:21
Speaker 1: some weird spots. So I understand you gotta be hesitant.
41:24
Speaker 1: But the Chargers invested all this money into Jim Harbor
41:28
Speaker 1: and the coaching staff they brought Joe Ortiz from the Ravens.
41:33
Speaker 1: If they're second to last in cash spending, and the
41:35
Speaker 1: only reason they're not dead last because the Dolphins essentially
41:39
Speaker 1: are tanking and traded away or cut all their good
41:41
Speaker 1: players or just high priced players. I didn't quite realize that.
41:48
Speaker 1: And the world they're in, the Jets, the Falcons, the Saints, Arizona,
41:52
Speaker 1: I mean, the group of teams they're in from cash
41:55
Speaker 1: spending is not good. It does show you though, if
42:03
Speaker 1: you pay or get the right coach, he can overcome
42:06
Speaker 1: stuff like this. Because the Spanos family who listen, they've
42:10
Speaker 1: been historically cheap and like I said to me, being
42:15
Speaker 1: frugal is a disease. It's something that you get young
42:19
Speaker 1: and you don't overcome. Most people who are cheap at
42:23
Speaker 1: like twenty four are not like big tippers and big
42:27
Speaker 1: spenders and you know, loose with their money at fifty five.
42:31
Speaker 1: That's not usually the way it works. Historically, Tiger Woods
42:35
Speaker 1: and Michael Jordan, both billionaires, extremely cheap. Well, guess what
42:41
Speaker 1: when they were eighteen, when they were twenty four, they're
42:43
Speaker 1: no different than they were at fifty and sixty years old.
42:46
Speaker 1: It is something that is ingrained in your soul, and
42:49
Speaker 1: Dean Spanos probably gets it from his dad, who came
42:54
Speaker 1: up in a world where money in the NFL was
42:56
Speaker 1: a lot different. I know the Chiefs and Andy and
42:59
Speaker 1: Veitch have battled this with the Hunts, because when you
43:01
Speaker 1: have been in this business back in the sixties, the seventies,
43:05
Speaker 1: the eighties, the money was not like today. And the
43:09
Speaker 1: Spanos family, who's been around for a long time in
43:11
Speaker 1: the NFL, you know that they struggle with some stuff.
43:15
Speaker 1: And to me that quote, if I ran a team
43:17
Speaker 1: that's competing for the Super Bowl against these other teams
43:20
Speaker 1: in my conference that are spending a ton of money
43:22
Speaker 1: in my own division, I'd be fucking embarrassed. I really would.
43:27
Speaker 1: So good luck on them overcoming that. This segment is
43:33
Speaker 1: change of scenery sponsored by our friends at Toyota. I
43:37
Speaker 1: saw this interesting nugget that Brian Schottenheimer said clearly, Osa Digazua,
43:49
Speaker 1: the pass rushing penetrator, was one of his favorite players
43:53
Speaker 1: on the team. Excellent player, just this interior penetrating pass rusher.
43:59
Speaker 1: The Cowboys, whose defense was atrocious last year, are changing
44:03
Speaker 1: their scheme and Osa no longer fit. So they had
44:07
Speaker 1: to trade him. He's under a big contract, and the
44:10
Speaker 1: forty nine ers like, here's the third round pick, we
44:11
Speaker 1: will take him immediately. And John Lynch said that they
44:14
Speaker 1: were in on a couple guys like that they thought
44:16
Speaker 1: they had and fell through, like they were being aggressive
44:19
Speaker 1: on veteran players using a trade. Brian Shottenneimer said when
44:23
Speaker 1: he talked to him on the phone after the trade,
44:24
Speaker 1: he cried, he wept. If you're another team and you
44:28
Speaker 1: trade for a player and that player's coach who has
44:31
Speaker 1: it's not like the guy drafted him. How long shot
44:33
Speaker 1: Nimer been there? Was there one year with McCarthy and
44:35
Speaker 1: then last year was the head coach, so he's been
44:37
Speaker 1: around him a couple of years. I'd feel better. I'd
44:40
Speaker 1: be like, God, this this is what I want. And
44:44
Speaker 1: the Niners are really fired up to have him. He's
44:46
Speaker 1: an excellent positional scheme fit for them who basically just
44:50
Speaker 1: have one gap, get up the field, chase the quarterback
44:52
Speaker 1: with their defensive line. But you know, we talk a
44:56
Speaker 1: lot about these guys make a lot of money and
44:59
Speaker 1: is no different with coaches. It's a bizarre profession. You know,
45:04
Speaker 1: for most of us, we just kind of get to
45:08
Speaker 1: live where we want to live. If we don't want
45:11
Speaker 1: to move, we can just say no. If someone tries
45:14
Speaker 1: to hire us or something and we're not interested, we
45:17
Speaker 1: don't have to do it. When you're in this world,
45:21
Speaker 1: you just it's a nomadic lifestyle, which I'm not a
45:26
Speaker 1: nomadic individual. That is not something that like picking up
45:30
Speaker 1: and moving and changing houses is not something that I
45:33
Speaker 1: would be into it all. Like I really respect listen.
45:36
Speaker 1: I might have got the Tommy Lloyd thing wrong. All
45:38
Speaker 1: signs point to Tommy Lloyd being the next head coach
45:41
Speaker 1: in North Carolina. I said a couple of weeks ago,
45:44
Speaker 1: I'm like, why would you leave Arizona teams loaded? They
45:47
Speaker 1: got a bunch of niol money. Turns out, Gottlieb said,
45:50
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan called him. Maybe he doesn't love his ad
45:54
Speaker 1: and he's probably gonna leave. So I'm I'm all beyond
45:57
Speaker 1: cold takes exposed or whatever. But that guy's led a
46:02
Speaker 1: pretty good life for twenty plus years. He was just
46:04
Speaker 1: with Mark Few and Gonzaga and then one of the
46:06
Speaker 1: best jobs opening, he went to Arizona for five years,
46:09
Speaker 1: and now he's gonna go to North Carolina where if
46:11
Speaker 1: he has success, like he did Arizona in North Carolina.
46:14
Speaker 1: He could be there for twenty years. You might look
46:17
Speaker 1: back and go, this guy's had three jobs in uh,
46:20
Speaker 1: you know, in thirty five years. That's that's pretty abnormal looking,
46:24
Speaker 1: like click kubiaks, go to his Wikipedia. It's like the Vikings,
46:28
Speaker 1: the Browns, the Texans, the Raiders, Seattle, the Saints. It's like, fuck,
46:34
Speaker 1: you know, I mean they honey, we're moving again. And listen,
46:39
Speaker 1: these guys do well. So I'm not crying for them.
46:42
Speaker 1: But I couldn't do that. I couldn't. I have no
46:46
Speaker 1: interest doing that. It's not the lifestyle I would want.
46:49
Speaker 1: So it's always cool to see guys get a little stability,
46:52
Speaker 1: but people are humans, you know, and you get you
46:55
Speaker 1: get the call, it's like, yeah, we gotta trade this guy.
46:57
Speaker 1: We need to open up some cap space. He's not
47:00
Speaker 1: gonna fit the scheme. It sucks, you know. This is
47:03
Speaker 1: part of pro sports. It used to not, you know,
47:05
Speaker 1: part of college sports was like kind of had your team,
47:07
Speaker 1: you recruited a guy who was with you for three
47:09
Speaker 1: or four years, five years. Now college is a lot
47:11
Speaker 1: like that too. I don't know if many people cry
47:13
Speaker 1: in college. They just people just bounce U. There are
47:17
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47:33
Speaker 1: One other story, I've seen a lot and I'm not like,
47:39
Speaker 1: you know, people get so worked up when they see
47:42
Speaker 1: people do things that they think they shouldn't be doing. Like,
47:45
Speaker 1: I'm less phased by that part of these big corporations,
47:49
Speaker 1: like Nate Burlison on the college basketball main show he's
47:56
Speaker 1: hosting it. It's like, this is basic business. They're paying
48:00
Speaker 1: guy probably an astronomical amount of money. If Nate Berlissen's
48:05
Speaker 1: salary came out at CBS, people's job would probably hit
48:08
Speaker 1: the floor. So if you're paying a guy a ton
48:10
Speaker 1: of money and you need to fill a spot, you're
48:13
Speaker 1: not just like, hey, let's pay another guy ten million dollars.
48:15
Speaker 1: You just try to figure that out. Most of these
48:17
Speaker 1: executives aren't exactly like Belichick or pat Riley when it
48:21
Speaker 1: comes to personnel moves. Most of them in the sports
48:25
Speaker 1: TV just see people under contract that make a lot
48:27
Speaker 1: of money or famous people it's like, oh, Joe Montana retired,
48:30
Speaker 1: put him in the booth, lasted like a year. But
48:33
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, it was like Joe Montana,
48:34
Speaker 1: Emmitt Smith, Jerry Rice, the most famous guys in the NFL.
48:37
Speaker 1: They were all terrible and then sometimes like Greg Olsen,
48:40
Speaker 1: this decent tight end. I guess he was better in
48:42
Speaker 1: a DC day. He was a good tight end. It's
48:44
Speaker 1: like one of the best broadcasters. Right. Just you never know,
48:47
Speaker 1: working in TV or podcasting or radio or whatever has
48:52
Speaker 1: like you're either entertaining or not. Like John Gruden's entertaining
48:56
Speaker 1: like or good on TV, not because he was a
48:58
Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning coach, because he's legitimately entertaining, Like that's
49:02
Speaker 1: just something he's good at. It comes naturally to him.
49:04
Speaker 1: Right Treegman's good at TV. He obviously was a great quarterback,
49:08
Speaker 1: but it just good on television. Looks the part handles.
49:11
Speaker 1: It gives strong opinions like town I don't remember Chris
49:15
Speaker 1: collins Worth ever playing a snap in the NFL. Good
49:17
Speaker 1: on television. So ultimately, point is is when these networks
49:21
Speaker 1: now are paying these guys huge sums of money, they
49:25
Speaker 1: try to use them in a lot of different roles,
49:27
Speaker 1: and everyone freaked out because I saw today that Jason kelcey,
49:30
Speaker 1: you know, ESPN and NFL now merged. So the NFL
49:34
Speaker 1: network is owned by Disney, which is obviously owned ESPN
49:37
Speaker 1: as well, so under that umbrella. Not exactly sure how
49:41
Speaker 1: that's gonna work. A lot of people still have questions,
49:43
Speaker 1: you know, rap sheet palasarow they got legitimate people. Hopefully
49:47
Speaker 1: they're able to merge it and just make a bunch
49:49
Speaker 1: of NFL content. We'll see how it all plays out, right.
49:51
Speaker 1: I would imagine my guy DJ just replaces mel Kiper
49:55
Speaker 1: like they got a bigger roster for football, which obviously
49:58
Speaker 1: means a lot to him. But if you think of
50:00
Speaker 1: a lot of the international games have been on NFL network.
50:04
Speaker 1: So when you wake up bright and early on a Sunday,
50:07
Speaker 1: you're watching the Germany game, the Madrid get whatever game
50:10
Speaker 1: on Sunday morning, halfway across the world, it was on
50:13
Speaker 1: NFL network. Rich Eisen and Kurt Warner. Well, some sources
50:17
Speaker 1: say that Jason kelce might fill that role because the
50:20
Speaker 1: NFL network those five or six games, I think it
50:23
Speaker 1: might be up to seven games is gonna be owned
50:26
Speaker 1: by ESPN. So ESPN like that's where that game's gonna be.
50:30
Speaker 1: And ESPN for sure is putting that game either on
50:34
Speaker 1: ESPN or on ABC. Don't think twice about that. They
50:37
Speaker 1: are gonna make their money on that product. And Kelsey's
50:40
Speaker 1: doing that. But Kelsey became controversial because you know, they
50:43
Speaker 1: put him on TGL. I think next week he's doing
50:47
Speaker 1: stuff with the Masters and people like overexposure. If you
50:51
Speaker 1: don't like it, don't watch it. Like it's just this
50:54
Speaker 1: is part of the deal. When these companies pay people Jason,
50:58
Speaker 1: the ESPN probably paying him ten to fifteen million dollars.
51:00
Speaker 1: You think you're just gonna use them once a week
51:01
Speaker 1: on a studio leading into Monday night football. No fucking chance.
51:05
Speaker 1: They're trying to get their money's worth. So it's just
51:08
Speaker 1: it's part of the gig. I mean, it just is. Now,
51:11
Speaker 1: if he annoys you, he's a little overexposure. I get it.
51:13
Speaker 1: Kelsey's are a lot of places. Five six years ago,
51:16
Speaker 1: they were just like two Hall of Fame players. Now
51:18
Speaker 1: everywhere you look, they're kind of in your face. But
51:23
Speaker 1: I've always liked them. I enjoy them. Is he gonna
51:27
Speaker 1: annoy some people at the Masters? But as Pat McAfee
51:30
Speaker 1: I saw this clip one viral yesterday. He's like, everyone's
51:32
Speaker 1: pissed off. Well, at least we've been begging to go
51:35
Speaker 1: to the Masters for like three straight years since we've
51:37
Speaker 1: been a part of ESPN on the par three course,
51:40
Speaker 1: and every time Augusta tells him, get fucked, You're not
51:43
Speaker 1: welcome here. So it's like, clearly someone at Augusta had
51:46
Speaker 1: to give the go ahead. Let's end with Fugazi Friday again.
52:03
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a big mail bag multiple next week,
52:06
Speaker 1: running mail bag at John Middlecoff, Instagram, fire and those
52:08
Speaker 1: dms A lot of you guys have and I will
52:10
Speaker 1: answer your questions next week. But today a couple of
52:14
Speaker 1: Fugazi's first and foremost, like most of you have done
52:19
Speaker 1: over the course of your adult life, dealing with insurance companies.
52:24
Speaker 1: And this isn't just an insurance company issue. This is
52:26
Speaker 1: a lot of different companies. But I will use an
52:28
Speaker 1: insurance example. There was some question with the insurance and
52:34
Speaker 1: my kid and he had to go to the pediatrician
52:39
Speaker 1: today and we had to call the insurance to get
52:42
Speaker 1: They just weren't on the same page and it was
52:43
Speaker 1: just a pain in the ass. But I never understand
52:45
Speaker 1: what you call these companies USA does this. A lot
52:48
Speaker 1: of these companies do it, and you get the au
52:51
Speaker 1: debated service, and all of a sudden, they started asking
52:54
Speaker 1: your questions, right, what is your member I D? What
52:58
Speaker 1: is your day of birth? What is your address? What
53:02
Speaker 1: is your social security? And there's no way to avoid it,
53:04
Speaker 1: so you just you know, ten whatever, blah blah, and
53:07
Speaker 1: you just give it all. And then when you finally,
53:10
Speaker 1: probably twenty five minutes later, get a human being on
53:13
Speaker 1: the other end of the line that says, hey, welcome
53:16
Speaker 1: to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Arizona. You're like, oh,
53:18
Speaker 1: thank god, she asked you the same fucking questions. So
53:23
Speaker 1: you have just listed the seven things that the automated
53:25
Speaker 1: AI services ask you to give. You give it, they
53:29
Speaker 1: verify it, they say, hey, John, thanks for being a
53:31
Speaker 1: member here for four years. You know, the computer's talking
53:34
Speaker 1: back to you. Then when you get the human you
53:37
Speaker 1: have to repeat the same information. And today I was thinking,
53:41
Speaker 1: because I had to do it twice, almost lost my mind.
53:45
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes when you're waiting on hold and that
53:48
Speaker 1: music in the background, I don't know if they give
53:52
Speaker 1: that music at like you know, in war areas like POW's,
53:57
Speaker 1: but that can drive you insane. I was on the
54:00
Speaker 1: phone for like forty minutes today. Twenty eight of those
54:03
Speaker 1: were just listening to that repeat sound. It's like I
54:07
Speaker 1: could go and sing and I'm on edge right now
54:11
Speaker 1: every minute that went by. But I had no choice.
54:13
Speaker 1: I had to wait because I needed some information. And
54:17
Speaker 1: then I just had to repeat the information that I
54:18
Speaker 1: had given twenty minutes ago, which clearly led me to
54:21
Speaker 1: this person, and she knew what I needed. I just
54:25
Speaker 1: I don't quite understand that. And it happens everywhere, banking,
54:31
Speaker 1: you name it. I mean, all these companies. What's the
54:34
Speaker 1: point to verify me? Then to verify me again? It's
54:37
Speaker 1: not like once I talk to the human I give
54:40
Speaker 1: them some other piece of information that truly then verifies me.
54:44
Speaker 1: But it is what it is, and I'll end on this.
54:47
Speaker 1: I saw some viral clips this week of Over the
54:51
Speaker 1: course of the tournament, Tom Izzo and Dan Hurley were
54:55
Speaker 1: both questioned in media availability sessions about if they thought
55:01
Speaker 1: their hard coaching style worked and was needed. And I
55:05
Speaker 1: wanted to throw up in my mouth, and both of them,
55:09
Speaker 1: you know, just you could tell, tried to handle themselves.
55:12
Speaker 1: Both gave really good answers, and Herley eventually said, like,
55:17
Speaker 1: I do this to push these guys because in the
55:21
Speaker 1: real world, no one gives a shit about you. It
55:26
Speaker 1: is cruel, it is cut throat. And I started thinking
55:29
Speaker 1: to myself the real world relative to what these kids
55:34
Speaker 1: are experiencing as Division one athletes playing, you know, in
55:37
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament, it couldn't be more of a one
55:41
Speaker 1: to eighty. You know, if you think about it as
55:43
Speaker 1: a college athlete, you get all your meals taken care
55:46
Speaker 1: of now and il you're making a ton of money,
55:49
Speaker 1: you got a great life, you got the pick of
55:51
Speaker 1: the litter on campus. You know, you can do whatever
55:55
Speaker 1: you want. I mean, nowadays all classes are online, aka,
55:58
Speaker 1: you're not taking any it's a joke, which again I
56:02
Speaker 1: got no problem with. I thought classes in college were.
56:04
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about a fugazi, but for someone
56:08
Speaker 1: to have the I don't even want to say the balls,
56:12
Speaker 1: the like it feels so out of touch with life
56:17
Speaker 1: because just dealing like having a family, dealing with yesterday
56:22
Speaker 1: my dryer just went up and smoke. Essentially like every
56:26
Speaker 1: day in life, I've been fired, I've lost parents, I've
56:30
Speaker 1: lost friends, Like it's a motherfucker, and the more and
56:35
Speaker 1: more people you can surround yourself with who can kind
56:38
Speaker 1: of teach you that and not just kind of keep
56:42
Speaker 1: you in a little bubble in a cocoon and think
56:44
Speaker 1: there's some utopia out there, because that's not the way
56:46
Speaker 1: it exists. To ask two of I mean, Tom Iso
56:49
Speaker 1: is going to go down as one of the most
56:50
Speaker 1: successful coaches in the history of college sports, and Dan
56:53
Speaker 1: Hurley is currently on what has a chance to be
56:57
Speaker 1: non John Wooden, one of the greatest runs in NCAA
57:00
Speaker 1: basketball history. To ask if their coaching style is like
57:06
Speaker 1: to mean, if they're not nice enough. If it was,
57:09
Speaker 1: do you think any of these guys would want to
57:12
Speaker 1: play for them just because they were getting money? They
57:14
Speaker 1: could get money anywhere. All these big schools are now
57:17
Speaker 1: offering money. Why would anyone go play for the quote
57:20
Speaker 1: unquote asshole? Guess what? High achievers? People want to be pushed,
57:26
Speaker 1: And I can speak for men. Sometimes we like getting
57:28
Speaker 1: screamed at. Sometimes I like being humbled a little bit,
57:31
Speaker 1: even if I disagree. Kind of keeps you under toes
57:34
Speaker 1: a little bit. I would say most people I know
57:38
Speaker 1: worth their salt, whether they're athletes, whether they're businessmen. Whatever
57:42
Speaker 1: they do parents kind of like a little you know, contention,
57:48
Speaker 1: kind of like a little anger and screaming every once
57:52
Speaker 1: in a while. Do you know what I call it healthy?
57:56
Speaker 1: You know what I call it real life? Because real
58:00
Speaker 1: life is not all skittles and rainbows. It's not all smiles.
58:04
Speaker 1: Not everything goes well. You get thrown curveballs every single day.
58:10
Speaker 1: There is no handbook for life, like no one prepares
58:13
Speaker 1: you for when you have a child, when you buy
58:15
Speaker 1: a house, when you get into business. You just kind
58:18
Speaker 1: of figure it out on your own. But the easier
58:22
Speaker 1: it is to figure out on your own is all
58:24
Speaker 1: the people when you were young that pushed you, that
58:27
Speaker 1: made you uncomfortable, that prepared you for these situations. Why
58:33
Speaker 1: do you think all these players, whether they became stars
58:36
Speaker 1: in the NFL or just you know, didn't really play
58:39
Speaker 1: much after college, spoke so highly of Nick Saban, who
58:45
Speaker 1: was absolutely insane to play for. Because as you age,
58:50
Speaker 1: as life starts coming in your thirties and your forties,
58:53
Speaker 1: you realize that things he taught you really really mattered.
58:58
Speaker 1: And unlike prospor where let's face it, it's much more
59:03
Speaker 1: black and white. I'll cut you'll get rid of you.
59:05
Speaker 1: I might become friends with you, but relationships matter less.
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Speaker 1: We just have a goal. College like you are around
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Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen twenty year old people that are extremely impressionable,
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Speaker 1: and the good college coaches football and basketball, and I'm
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Speaker 1: sure a bunch of other you know sports, but those
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Speaker 1: sports have a lot of money and eyeballs behind it
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Speaker 1: have the opportunity to really help, you know, a lot
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Speaker 1: of these guys have. They've been shaped a little bit
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Speaker 1: once they come to the program, but really put them
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Speaker 1: in position to propel them to excel in life. I'll
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Speaker 1: never forget being around Coach Hill at Fresno State, who
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Speaker 1: was really intense, who would mf you, who would scream
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Speaker 1: at you, who would ride guys. But I bet to
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Speaker 1: a man everyone that played for the guy at Presnel
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Speaker 1: State for thirteen plus years would say the lessons they
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Speaker 1: learned playing for him, being pushed mentally and physically put
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Speaker 1: them in position when they went into their communities, into
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Speaker 1: different you know areas throughout wherever they went to live,
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Speaker 1: raising families, working for whoever, running a company, doing whatever
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Speaker 1: they went on to do, change the course of their
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Speaker 1: life for the better. And I just think sometimes you know,
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Speaker 1: the media's approval rating speaks for herself. It's never been lower.
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Speaker 1: I just don't think they're that relatable to a lot
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Speaker 1: of normal human beings some of these questions that get
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Speaker 1: asked like that, because I think most people, wherever you
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Speaker 1: stand in life, would be like you're questioning those two guys.
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Speaker 1: Those are the two guys that you're asking, like, is
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Speaker 1: this working? I just it just made me, It baffles me,
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Speaker 1: and you think at this point in time, like it
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Speaker 1: wouldn't even come up. Maybe the guy's trying to go viral.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but if they truly like believe that's
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Speaker 1: a question that should be asked, like I question that
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Speaker 1: human being. But I also think this, like the those
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Speaker 1: of you that have been pushed throughout life and realized
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Speaker 1: early on, whether through sports, whether through just some of
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Speaker 1: the hardships in your life, the advantage you have against
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Speaker 1: the people that can't have or don't have that capability
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Speaker 1: is priceless because they have absolutely no chance, let me repeat,
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Speaker 1: no shot to compete against you. Because in life that's
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Speaker 1: outside of the court, outside of the field, whatever. Most
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Speaker 1: of us are in some sort of business, and a
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Speaker 1: huge part of business is competing your competition for consumers.
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Speaker 1: There are other people that you're going against who just
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Speaker 1: don't have that wiring and they're fucked Why Because, like
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Speaker 1: Dan Hurley said, this world's cruel and it doesn't care
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Speaker 1: about anybody. It truly doesn't, and it'll eat you alive
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Speaker 1: if you're not ready. So props to those two guys,
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Speaker 1: specifically Dan Hurley, who's just a maniac kicking ass and
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Speaker 1: clearly for a reason his shit works the volume