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NFL Futures: Division Winners, Wild Card Picks, NFL MVP + Major Award Predictions · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: is here this week. We've had college football all weekend.
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  Speaker 1: We are no more preseason games or training camps. Just
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  Speaker 1: actual football. And I think I just have a bigger
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  Speaker 1: smile on my face just because it's football season. It's
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  Speaker 1: also why I want to talk. I do want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about Trinidad Chambliss. off the top, some other NFL stories.
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  Speaker 1: I'll just give out my picks. My playoff teams, my
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  Speaker 1: division winners, my MVP, Coach of the Year, Defensive Rookie
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  Speaker 1: of the Year, or Defensive Player of the Year and
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  Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year. But that's what we'll do today.
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  Speaker 1: ton of content this year on the YouTube channel, so
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  Speaker 1: you can check that out as well. Just 3NOW, John Middlecoff,
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  Speaker 1: that'd be me, YouTube channel. And let's just talk quarterbacks.
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: There was a movement that happened close to 15-plus years ago.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson was drafted in the third round and then
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: became a superstar and opened the door for a lot
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: of short quarterbacks. And guys that never, not in a
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  Speaker 1: million years, would have been drafted number one or in
• 3:21
  Speaker 1: the top five or top ten started going really high
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: because of what he did. Kyler Murray is a great example.
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: Bryce Young's an even better example. Right? Baker Mayfield was
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: a guy who's six foot one, who I would say
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: historically never would have been drafted that high. And all
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: these guys, you know, were Bama, Oklahoma, like incredible talents.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, Kyler was drafted in top 10 in baseball,
• 3:43
  Speaker 1: but like I been around the NFL for a long time,
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: used to go to a lot of games. A lot
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: of guys running out the tunnel were Peyton Manning, Phillip Rivers,
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: Eli Manning, Joe Flacco, Ben Roethlisberger. They look like Draymond Green.
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: They're six foot five, six foot six. They're enormous human
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: beings and the world changed. And then we started drafting
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: these guys, and some of them, you know, haven't quite
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: lived up to the hype, and you just go, can
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: short quarterbacks play in the league? And I think it's
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: a valid question. I think you have to be very,
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: very unique. Russell Wilson was an extremely unique player. I
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: just saw Sierra. is pregnant again. I think like baby
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: number five. I think it's his fourth kid. Russell, say
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: what you want about him. He gets it in. But
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: I will never take away. It ended since he went
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: to Denver. It got a little weird. I attended probably
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: four Russell Wilson games in his prime as electric of
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: a player I've ever seen live. Right up there with
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Maybe it would have been because he was
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: always playing the Niners and he played the Niners. He
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: looked like John Elway meets Steve Young when he played him.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite players ever in his heyday.
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: And I do think the NFL has pivoted back. They
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: want bigger guys, sturdier guys, and college has given them
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: more of those over the last couple years. You look
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: at Jaden Daniels is taller, he's thinner, but Drake Mays big.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: You know, Caleb's a little shorter, but he's 230 pounds.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: And then you get Trinidad Chambliss, who I don't know
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: if he's the best quarterback in college football. but you
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: couldn't convince me there's anyone better. Watching him on Sunday night,
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: I think he's a combination of Kyler Murray and Russell Wilson.
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: I was texting with Daniel Jeremiah. He kept saying Russell Wilson.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: Kyler was definitely faster than Trinidad, but I do think
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: Trinidad's closer to his size than he is Russell's. One
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: underrated part about Russell is Russell was just built like
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: a little tank. A lot like Jalen Hurst. And I
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: think Trinidad's somewhere in the middle. Kyler was so fast,
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: it didn't really matter. You watch this guy play, and
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: you go, well, what can he do? He's incredible in
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: the pocket. He's extremely accurate, short, intermediate, and his deep
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: ball is absolutely beautiful. His mobility, running two-pass, and where
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: I think he has a lot in common with Russell,
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: in Wilson's heyday, you couldn't, sacking him was an extreme
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  Speaker 1: challenge because he had like these eyes in the back
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: of his helmet where he would avoid pressure like how
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: did he know that was coming and run away and
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: sometimes it will just be a throwaway but instead of
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: it being second and 18 it was second and 10
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: and you watch Trinidad there is an instinctive nature to
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  Speaker 1: his game that like you just can't teach and Now
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: he will be 25 next August. So as a rookie,
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: he will be 25 years old. Personally, I don't care
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: as much, honestly. Because if I'm a GM, it's like, well,
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: what's going to happen the next 10 years? Well, in
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: 10 years, it'll be 2037. I mean, half of us
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: might not even be alive, let alone the majority of
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: the GMs and the coaches will probably get turned over
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: by then. I'm just trying to win the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of years. And this is a guy, he didn't even
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: start at Ferris State, who is basically the Alabama, Saban Alabama,
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: even though I think DeBoer actually has a pretty good
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: team this year, but of Division II, until he was
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: 22 years old. Like, he did not play early on
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: there for a while. And then he finally starts, and
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: they win the national championship, as they do a lot.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: They're an excellent program. And then he transferred to Ole Miss.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: He wasn't even supposed to be the starting quarterback. And
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: then he becomes a starting quarterback and never looks back.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: Becomes second team all-SEC last year. Looks like he's going
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: to be first or second team All-SEC this year. And
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: he's just a remarkable player. It's one of those when
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: you're watching television, you don't need to be Bill Polian
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: or Howie Roseman or Andy Reid or Sean Payton to
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: know that is electric. You can't take your eyes off him.
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: And the deep ball, the accuracy over the middle of
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: the field, there's an instinctive nature to him. And this
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: is people on comments think I'm being mean to Bryce Underwood. No.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: Some guys just can't play quarterback, right? And you typically
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: know that coming from college, though we get a lot
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: of busts. But I think a lot of reasons for
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: busts in the pros, there's a whole handful of different reasons.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: But definitely from high school to college, the gap between
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: playing at Alabama or Ohio State to the NFL is
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: much smaller than high school to college. And you see
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys that don't work out in college football,
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: these huge recruits that are big-time athletes, right? That have
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  Speaker 1: the size, the speed, and they're just not accurate enough.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: And some guys develop, right? I wouldn't say Bryce Underwood
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  Speaker 1: is a good example, is never going to be able
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: to play. Because I might have said Nico a couple
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: years ago. I don't really see it now. I watch Nico,
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: I think. Kind of reminds me of Josh Allen. But Trinidad,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: the moment he started playing, you're like, this is just–
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: this is Electric City. This is– there is something he
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: brings to the table that these GMs and coaching staffs
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: and front offices, I'm going to be fascinated what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Because if he keeps playing like he did last year
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: and what we saw on Sunday night throughout this season–
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: I don't see how he's not in the mix to
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: be one of, if not the top pick, right? Because
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: I think his comp, if it goes to Russell Wilson,
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: it's going to be prime Russell Wilson. The character, the leadership,
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: being able to handle all the craziness with Lane leaving
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  Speaker 1: and not skipping a beat, and clearly they love him.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: Here's the other thing. If I just remove Trinidad Chambliss
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: for a random quarterback that Ole Miss will probably have
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: moving forward, Is that like a five-win team? Like, what
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: would they... If I just put, like, Arch on that team. Like, listen,
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: I gave Arch his flowers, looked a little bit better.
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: I know they played Texas Southern State West. But it's like, okay,
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: he improved a little bit. If I put Arch on
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss, that team, Trinidad, his DBs can't tackle a soul.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: No one knows where to line up. He has to
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: be superhuman. Now, I do think in a couple weeks
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: when they play LSU, that is going to be a
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: difficult assignment for the young fella, but young, I mean,
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: he's 24, so older, which again, I view that as
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: a positive. This is a guy that you're getting who's
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: a plug-and-play guy. It was my issue with the Michael
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Penix Tua situation. Part of drafting Michael Penix was you
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: get an older player who's a plug-and-play starter. Now, is
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: he good enough? I don't know. I personally loved him
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: at Washington. Bet on him and DeBoer a lot. One
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: of the biggest bets I've ever made was on those
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: two guys against Texas. And I had to sweat it
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: out at the end, but it was incredible. I'm a
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: Michael Penix fan. But I never understood the Cousins. The
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: Tua now, if Penix is leg healthy, just start him.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: What are we doing? And to me, that's Chambliss. If
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: he keeps playing like this, to me, I think he's
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: going to go in the top five. Unless he is
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: way shorter and smaller. Unless you tell me he's actually 5'8,
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: a buck fifty. But if he ends up being 5'11,
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: six feet tall, 210 pounds. Bryce Young, again, at 5'9.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: I know he weighed in at 200, but as someone
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: that was in the weight room at the combine when
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: it happened, told me he waddled up there. He had
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: about 75 protein shakes over a 24-hour span. He's small.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: And I'm rooting for Brian. Loved him in college, too.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: But once you see a guy in that NFL uniform
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: and they're small, it can be difficult. Well, Russell was
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: such a magician, it didn't matter. And I do think
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: Chambliss has some of that magic. I'm a massive fan.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, Mensah at Miami, Dante Moore at Oregon.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: I think Chambliss is going to be right in the conversation.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: Every single team in the league, especially the quarterback ones,
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: you're going to treat this no differently than you treat
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: those guys. You do all the work and this guy's
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: in the mix. A couple other stories just from around
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: the league. We mentioned the Pennix-Tua thing. It is pretty
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: crazy that Tua and Kyler are being paid a combined
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: $ 55 million, $ 35 million. I mean, you're talking like $ 90
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: million to start for other teams. Shows you how far
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: the NFL has come. Roger Goodell, why'd he get a
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: four-year extension? Because teams like the Arizona Cardinals, who are
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: by far one of the poorest teams in the league,
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: can just pay a guy $ 36 million to start for
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: someone else. Now, Steven Ross has money, but still, in
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: what time in football history would you pay someone $ 50- plus
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: million to literally be the starter for someone else? Now,
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: you could also say, Tua Takawhilo is actually starting for
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: someone else? Yeah, he is. I talk with Colin about it.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, I don't even know what to say. Personally,
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: I think Stefanski, I'm not... seems like a nice guy.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: I feel bad because I did meet him at the
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: combine one year and he was cool, but I just,
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think he has a great feel for what
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: actually plays at quarterback. Like he liked Dylan Gabriel. He
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: likes to a clearly I can Ian Cunningham and Matt
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: Ryan not step in. I just don't quite get it. Uh,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: Kyler thing. I get like, I mean, Kyler, uh, I
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: don't think it's going to work, but I always understood it, right?
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: His attributes were just so elite to me. I listen,
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: it's going to sound like I'm playing Monday morning quarterback here.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: I didn't understand Tua coming out of college. I'm like,
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: he's already had a hip injury. He's injured. He's small.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: He's got a weak arm. He plays with like four
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: first rounders at wide receiver in the peak of the
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: Bama dynasty. So it's like, well, he wasn't going to
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: go one with Burrow, but yeah, I get Herbert has
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: some question marks, but You're telling me this guy's 6'6,
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: 240 pounds, runs like a deer with a huge arm.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: You're going to take this little guy over? Now, obviously,
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: I would say Herbert's become better than I even would
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: have envisioned. But still, I never understood that one. One thing, listen,
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: we make a lot of fun of this guy. He
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: takes a lot of heat. His own fans boot him
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: in a preseason game. They boot him when he tours Achilles.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: Team likes him. Team captain. The Cleveland Browns have five.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: I repeat, five captains, which some teams have like 10
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: to 15. Jim Tomsula one year had like 27 captains.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: They had like guys on the practice squad were captains
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: of the practice squad. It was crazy. But Deshaun Watts
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: is a captain. So we say what you want. You know,
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: you talk about got to know your locker room. Maybe
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: guys in the locker room like him. Coaching staff likes him.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: The fans just hate him. But if you would have
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: told me the weekend, I guess it would have been
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: the second preseason game, when he got booed and he
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: had the fans, yeah, in a couple weeks, he's not
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: only going to be named the starter, he's going to
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: have a C on his chest. I'd be like, I
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: don't see that coming. But that's what happens. What else
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: do we want to do before the predictions come? Bill
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Simmons had a funny tweet today that Robert Kraft, who
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: I guess is the leader of the competition committee, put
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: out a statement about Roger Goodell's contract extension, a little
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: four-year extendo. My guess, four years, like 200 mil. So
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: basically like a James Harden type contract before they signed
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Christian Gonzalez. You know, Belichick, the Belichick family is under
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of heat right now, right? But Belichick took
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of crap over the course of his career
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: for being cheap with contracts and being a tough negotiator.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying he was anti-pinching pennies in trying
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: to get people at discounts. It's not like he would
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: have just wanted Albert Hainsworth, right? I'm in agreement that
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: he was on board with that. But can we also
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: acknowledge that Robert Kraft, this is where I defend like
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: the Bengals, because everyone's like the Bengals. I don't know.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: They just traded pick 10 for Dexter Lawrence and then
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: gave him an extension. They paid their second wide receiver
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: $ 28 million or $ 30 million a year to go with
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Jamar Chase, who for my money is the best wide
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: receiver in the league. They gave Joe Burrell an unlimited
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: amount of money. They're not as cheap as the way
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: they get talked. Robert Kraft legitimately, for a guy with,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, an ungodly amount of money at this time,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: they fight tooth and nail over these contracts. Like, the
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: market's the market. So if you want Christian Gonzalez on
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: your team, pay him. They kind of got him by
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: the balls. Like, what's he supposed to do? Not play
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: in the game. He wants to play football. But like
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: this to me, I saw a headline today that like
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: their assistant GM has been the guy running point and
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: he's been the pain in the ass. I'm calling bullshit.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Like to me, the crafts love. I've been saying this
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: about the Spanos forever. No team in the league is
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: spending less cash than them. Like actual cash to the players.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: The cap, everyone's around similar money. A couple teams that
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: have well under the cap. But the Chargers, they have
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: this quarterback, and you're telling me that they're consistently every year,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: the Bills, the Ravens, the Niners, the Eagles. Jimmy Haslam,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: some of that's Deshaun, but he spent a lot of
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: cash on his football team. The Rams this year spent
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. It's like if you just, Robert,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: just the contract's a contract. It shouldn't be this complicated.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: This is always the Jerry thing. And I think Jerry's
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: more he likes the headlines than he'll end up paying
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: the premium. But I think Kraft seriously thinks, like, I'm
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: going to get a deal. Like, what are you actually
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: going to save? A couple million dollars total? What are
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: we talking about? Just give him the money. This is...
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: What are we talking... Like, we're at the point now
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: with the premium players... that you're not arguing with some
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: random guy in free agency. This is a guy you
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: drafted who was by far your best defensive player last year,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: who's an elite player at a position that is very,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: very valuable. So I think crafts kind of get a
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: pass on being really, really cheap, at least nationally. I
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: think locally they talk about it a lot. One thing
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: that's always been a pet peeve of mine, this happened
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I think last week, that this happened to Phil Mickelson
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: maybe however five, four months ago. when he got in
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: trouble with some of the allegations with women at some
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: of the golf courses, and then his lawyer comes out
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and was like, I'm suing you. If you alleged that
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I did something, and obviously with women, but it could
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: even be a DUI or whatever, you need to speak
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: for yourself. Like, you're not the CEO of fucking NVIDIA here. Like,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you're a human being. You are the corporation. Speak for yourself.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I feel like you need to say something. So, when
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Tony Romo gets the DUI, and, you know, to me,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: he didn't even look that drunk. Then I saw his breathalyzer,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: shows you Duke and booze. Come out, like, his representation,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: give a statement, and then a couple days later, he, like, Tony, you...
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Just speak for yourself, man. I never understand these guys
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: that can't just like type up a little thing on
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: a notes app. This isn't that complicated. People aren't just
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: be like, hey man, I screwed up. I've been boozing
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: too much. I got back pain. I've always supported some
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: of these guys like Tiger Woods or Tony Romo. Tony
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Romo has to withdraw from golf tournaments in his late
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: 40s because his fucking back doesn't work. We get it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: You're in a lot of pain. Even humans like myself,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: who's not in that much pain, we've all seen our parents,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: seen people in our lives have injuries. It could be
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: as simple as car. You name it. Like we understand
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: like I, whether you lose or keep your job, that's
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: out of all of our control, but just be a
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: human being. Like you're not, you're not Taylor Swift or
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Michael Jackson here. You can release a statement. And I
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: just thought like, you can't hang your hat. On being
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: like the everyman, this relatable guy like Phil Mickelson or
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Tony Romo. And then when something weird happens, you just
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: go silent and have your law team speak for you.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: If I need a lawyer to speak for me, I
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: don't even know where I'd start. I'd have to start
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: in Google because I don't have a lawyer. I'd have
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to figure out one to represent me. That's how I
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: think most human beings. So when the first statement is like, bro,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: it's DUI. It's not the end of the world here.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: You can just say, hey, I made a mistake. I've
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: got a problem. I've got to figure it out. Okay,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: keep it moving. Tiger Woods pleads guilty or whatever. Can't
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: drive for five years. That's going to be a job
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: that some people are going to be lined up for. Now,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Tiger's kind of like the Crafts. Pretty cheap. Tiger's like, yeah,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I need a full-time driver. I'll pay you $ 37, 000 and
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a $ 10 stipend for lunches. That's it. Don't sleep on Eldrick.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: You know, he took out the Marines and made them
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: pay for their cheeseburgers. Famous story that Wright Thompson wrote about.
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• 22:31
  Speaker 1: just do some predictions. Uh, I've been, I've been thinking
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a lot about this. I spent so much time thinking like, well,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I got to leave people out. If I take the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: AFC and NFC West to get three teams in the playoffs, uh,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: What do I do? So I've just spent so much
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: time thinking about my wildcard teams because I've been pretty
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: confident about my division winners. So if we just go,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: we'll start the AFC and we'll make our way through
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the NFC. AFC East. I'm just betting on Josh Allen
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: until I'm wrong. Now you'd be like, well, you were
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: wrong last year, Middlecoff. Yeah, I was. And the coach
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: got fired. I'm pretty confident that Josh Allen, he's the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: best player in the division. I think he's the best
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: player in the league. I think most people would agree
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: with me. In the peak of his powers. And I'm
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: just picking him on a yearly basis to win the division.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean he's going to win it every year. Didn't
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: last year. But I feel pretty good about my spot
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: when I picked Josh. I also talked to Joe Brady
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: at the Combine. I'm just a believer. Guy's got some swag.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I think he's really good at his gig. Jim Leonard,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: always been a fan of. Defensive coordinator, former safety for Rex.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I think they're going to be good. This is one
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: I feel very confident on this. I think this team
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: can win the Super Bowl. I think they definitely could
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: be in the AFC Championship game. I think they are
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: going to be a major, major factor in the Cincinnati Bengals.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I'm a believer. Now, they have started slow, it feels like,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: every year, which can be a problem. I need them
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: to start fast. They got week one. That game's going
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: to be a little tricky, you know, playing the Bucs.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: But I love the Bengals this year. I love them.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And let's not forget, it's like, well, what about the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Ravens or McCarthy and the Steelers? Both those two games,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: a game could have ended in a tie week 18.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Let's not act like those two teams were beating the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: shit out of everyone last year, especially the Ravens. AFC South,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: this is actually probably the easiest pick. I think the
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Houston Texans, CJ Stroud could play like me and they'd
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: win 11 games. If he just plays solid, this team
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: could win 14, 15 games. I think their defense, which
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: has consistently been, is going to be the best in
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the league in 2026. The AFC West, I'm just going
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: to ride Denver. You can convince me on the Chargers.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs still have too many question marks to put
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: them back in there. I think they're probably a year
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: away from getting back in that conversation, but I mentioned
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: this to Coward, you remove the quarterback. So you just
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: took all 32 teams, no one as a quarterback, but
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: you have your entire roster non-quarterback. I think you could
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: make the argument Denver's the best team in the league,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: just roster-wise. So I'm going Bills, Cincy, Texans, Denver. In
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the NFC, I've been hammering this for a while. I'm
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: not pivoting now a couple days before the season. I'm
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: taking the Cowboys. I don't like the Cowboys. I love
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Now I'm betting on this young hotshot defensive coordinator,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Christian Parker. I'm betting on Caleb Downs. I'm betting on
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: some of this defensive line coming together more as a unit.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Mike is gone because last year was an abomination on defense.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: We know their offense is going to be awesome, even
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: though all-pro guard just had a finger injury. He's out
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: a month. Listen, we can fill in with a guard.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: We can make it happen. Not ideal on one of
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: your good players, but it is what it is. I'm
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: betting on this defense just being middle of the pack
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: because I think they're going to have one of, if
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: not the best offense in the league. And I think
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: you go back and forth with them in Philly. I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: just got question marks in Philly. I mean, this new
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: offensive change is dramatic. You see it in college a lot.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: where a prominent program will just change its offense. And
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: sometimes it works, and other times it is an abomination. Now,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I've never disputed that the Eagles roster isn't high-end, but
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I'll give Nick Wright credit on this one. I heard
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: him say this, I don't know if it was TV
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: or with Colin on a podcast, that there's probably not
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a team in the league that has a bigger swing
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: of wins and losses than the Eagles. You could convince
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: me it works, and Philly wins 13, 14 games, you
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: can convince me it just unravels and their roster's still
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: too good. They go 8-9. So to me, they're probably
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: 9-10 wins because I think their defense is going to
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: be so awesome. I just got too many question marks
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: on offense. You're just telling me this guy, it was
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: all the coordinator? It was all the coordinator and A.J. Brown.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know. The quarterback's just– and part of it
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: is can you run the ball? Because last year they couldn't.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: So this offense in theory is easier to run the ball.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I know the Cowboys offense is elite. And it's kind
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: of an offensive league. That kind of matters. The NFC North,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: who I'd probably pick to be the one seed. You know,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I think in the AFC it'd be Cincy or Denver
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to be the one seed. In the NFC, I think
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I'd go Detroit. I think Detroit's going to be awesome.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I just, you know, last year... He just made a mistake.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: He hired his buddy and the players turned on him.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: And the one thing I respect about the kind of
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the modern day NFL, like players have a lot of juice, right?
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Players in college and the pros have a lot of power.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: 20 years ago, 30 years ago, the equivalent of Dan Campbell,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the players, this isn't Magic Johnson or John Elway here.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't think they could have forced the
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: coordinator out, but it was clear. I saw this a
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago with the 49ers with the defensive coordinator.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: When Fred Warner turned it on, you're done. And that
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: happened in Detroit. And I think Drew Petzing, I watched
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of Arizona down the stretch because there weren't
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: that many games in the, you know, afternoon window on Sundays.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: They didn't win a lot, but offense wasn't the problem.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Jacoby was slinging that thing around. Mike Wilson, who just
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: got a big contract, lapped Marvin Harrison. I'm a believer
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: in Detroit. I think, I think offensively they are going
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to be unbelievable. Now defense, you know, they, They obviously
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: had to cut a first-round corner because of the kidnapping thing,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and John Schneider's like, come over. But I'm a believer.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I'm a believer in Dan Campbell. Maybe I've watched too
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: many interviews on YouTube with him. I think they're going
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: to be excellent. This is a little bit of my
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: sleeper pick, even though I've heard so many people pick
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: this team. It's no longer a sleeper. I don't like
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the Saints. I love the Saints. I think the Saints,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: you're looking at 10-plus wins. I think Tyler Shuck is
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: going to be– a quarterback that is, is consistently talked
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: about moving forward. Now there, we have a couple issues
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: is some of the injuries on offense, you know, Jordan Tyson,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: who I, I depending on zero and Chris Alave, like
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: has rightfully so like a concussion thing in his contract
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: because he's had a lot of concussions. But if Alave
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: is on the field, like I think that guy's a
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: pro bowler, their tight ends good. They sign ETN. Kamara
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: got hurt. It's like a Kamara. Well, They signed Travis Etienne,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: who I think is a big reason I don't like
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the Jags as much because he was such a big
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: kind of blanket, a safety blanket for Trevor Lawrence. So Dallas, Detroit,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: New Orleans. and I'm just I'm just sticking with what
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I know and Seattle um I'm just not picking the
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: ramps I just I just don't think it's that easy
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I know everyone does and I'm not saying they're not
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: going to be good I'm not saying that the game
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: won't come down I think they play the second to
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: last week of the season which is like January 3rd
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I think it has a lot of similarities to this
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: year where we have seen now pretty consistently in the
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: NFC that a game a couple years ago was Detroit, Minnesota.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I remember years before that, multiple times it's been Seattle,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: San Francisco. It was Seattle-San Francisco technically last year. Seattle-San
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Francisco in 2019. I think we get some similarities this
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: year with that Seattle Rams game at the end of
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the season dictating it. And I'm just leaning Seattle. We'll
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: stick with the Rams on the wildcard teams. I'll take
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the Rams. I think then we have a group of
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: teams in the Bears, the Niners, the Eagles, and Green Bay.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I'm not picking Green Bay. You know, they've won nine games,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: two of the last three years. Now, you would say
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: they punted the last week of the season. Okay, but
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: this is not some team that is just rattling off 12,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: 13 win seasons. They have a ton of turnover on
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: their team. The best player on their team, the reason
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: they don't have a first round pick who is going
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: to contribute to this team is currently not going to
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: be available for who knows how long, which I I'm
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: not a doctor. I just follow sports, so I feel
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I have a good understanding of timelines. All these other
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: guys with all these injuries and all these positions are back.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: And you'd be like, well, quarterback's different. Okay. George Kittle
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: tore his Achilles, and it looks like he's going to
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: play here in a couple days. Mike, I think, was
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: his injury actually worse than we thought? Are they just
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: being extra cautious because of how much they gave up?
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not acting like Green Bay is going to be
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins this year. I just don't think they
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs. So then I'm basically down. If the Rams-Seattle,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: you know, Seattle wins it, Rams give them the first
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: wild card spot, is down two, three teams. The Bears,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the Niners, and the Eagles. I'm going to lean the Bears.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I got it wrong last year. Early in the season,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Caleb and Ben's not going to work. By
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the end of the season, I'm like, this is magic.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: And once he becomes a more consistent passer, like, this
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: is going to work. Now the Bears have some question marks.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: You know, Kobe Bryant gets injured basically out for the season.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: pretty dependent on some random guys on the defensive line.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I just think offensively, I just think Ben Johnson's too good.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give the Niners the edge over the
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Eagles because they play the second to last week of
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the season on NBC. It's a Sunday night game. And
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I think that's a little loser leaves town, winners in
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Because I think to me, the Bears, Niners,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Philly all kind of hover around You know, 10-ish wins.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: And I saw that song and dance last year. More
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: than the 49ers in a must-win game having to go
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: to Philly. What happened in the playoffs? So, I could
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: be wrong on Philly. I'm not a Philly hater by
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: any means. I think their roster's fantastic. I just think
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: they've got a lot of moving parts. I think the NFC,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, look at who we're talking about. It's just
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: way deeper. I don't know the Packers to make the playoffs.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Packers make the playoffs every year. You know, I'm just
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: going to not have Kyle Shannon in the playoffs. Last
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: year he won 12 games with me and you playing
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: defense for half the season. So it's hard to do,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: but Philly's out. Let's go wildcard teams in the AFC. L.A.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: is just a football town. USC's back. Rams are the,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: you know, everyone thinks they're going to go 20-0. To me,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the Chargers, you could convince me the Chargers win the division.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: If you want to take the Chargers to win the
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: AFC West, all for it. Not even against it. Might
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: dabble on them a little bit. But I just think
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: that the Chargers are a lock to be good. Now,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: their ceiling, the pressure in the playoffs, Jim, Herbert, got
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to win a playoff game. But regular season, you tell
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: me they get their tackles back. You know, I'm not
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: the biggest old Marion Hampton fan, but I was texting
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah, who calls the Charger games, who's at every practice.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: He's like, bro, he's pretty solid. He's a good outside
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: zone runner. He's a physical player. He's fine. He's not,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: it might not be Earl Campbell or Adrian Peterson, but
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: he's going to be a good player. It's like, okay,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: maybe I'm being a little too harsh. But Chargers to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: me are a block playoff team. I mean, they couldn't
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: have had any more injuries they did last year and
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: they were in the playoffs. I think the Chiefs are
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: a pretty polarizing team because last year went so bad.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: They got dad bod Travis Kelsey. They got Mahomes coming
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: back off the ACL. I AI'd it today. I'm like,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: how many times has Andy Reid been in the playoffs
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: since 1999? The answer is 20. He's been to the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: playoffs half of my life. Andy Reid goes to the playoffs.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: 11 of those are with the Chiefs. What happened last year?
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: is beyond an outlier. Remove Philly, just say his Chiefs tenure. Like,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I'm just betting on Andy Reid and Mahomes. And it's
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: going to be a transition year. They had that a
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: couple years ago when they traded Tyreek. They won the
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Now, I'm not picking them to win the
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I think, hell, it would be hard, you know,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: getting a seven seed, getting in at like 10 wins,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: that'd be an impressive bounce back, especially off, you know,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: your quarterback being injured. But I just, I got to
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: pick the Chiefs to make the playoffs. And I like
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the Chargers more than the Chiefs, so they got to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: be in. Then all of a sudden I go, well,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I only got one spot. The Patriots were in the
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl last year and I got the Bills win
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the division. The Steelers were in the playoffs last year.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I don't got them win the division. The Ravens, who
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: honestly their schedule, if they beat the Colts, which I
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: think is kind of a sneaky game. So I got Steelers,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the Ravens, and New England all for one spot. I
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: originally put Indy in that mix, but I think if
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I just make a living not riding Daniel Jones, I'll
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: be okay. So I'll remove Indianapolis and just have New England, Baltimore,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh for one spot. I think this is a lot
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: like the Niners-Philly thing. They're all around 9-10 wins. Who's
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: the best quarterback of this bunch? You know, historically, over
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the course of his career, you would say Lamar. Drake
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: had the better year last year. You know, Aaron Rodgers
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: at this point in time of his career is the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: worst of the three. Who's the best coach of the three? Right? Well,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I would say McCarthy's resume is better than Vrabel's, and
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: we just know nothing about Jesse Minter. The other thing
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: with the Ravens is first-time play caller. Sometimes that goes great.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Ask the Eagles. Sometimes that is a nightmare. So I...
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I struggle with this one because I'm going to take
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the Steelers. I'm going to take McCarthy. I'm going to
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: take one last ride, Aaron Rodgers. And I think all
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: three of these teams, it all comes down to tiebreakers.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: But I'm taking the Steelers with that last wildcard spot.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: So I got the Chargers, Chiefs, and Steelers in my wildcard.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: And I got the Rams, Bears, and Niners in my wildcard.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: My MVP. If I love the Lions, I also love
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys, but I just think Jared Goff is your classic.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I think Dak would fall under this a little bit,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: but I think if you polled most people, they would
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: say Dak is better than Goff. I might disagree. Dak
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: used to give you more mobility. We have just had,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: for a stretch, of just Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers, these all-time
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: great Hall of Fame-type guys win MVPs. Every once in
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: a while, you get like, Matt Ryan wins the MVP.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Even Cam, by far, had the best year of his career,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: won an MVP. Cam feels less crazy than Matt Ryan,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: given that Heisman Trophy, won the national championship, number one
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: overall pick, higher ceiling than Matt Ryan. Matt Ryan was
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: just more consistent. But I would put both those guys
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: in a similar category of like, not quite the same.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I'd say Cam's got more star power than Matt Ryan,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: but both of them in the category of like, yeah,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: it's not exactly Mahomes or Brady, you know? And I
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: think if you like the Lions to be really good
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: this year, and their offense on paper looks fucking fantastic,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Jared Goff the last two years has 71 touchdowns. To me,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: so that's averaging about 35.5. If you can get to
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the point where that number gets to like 42, and
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: this is a team that wins. I mean, a couple
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: years ago he threw 37 when they were the one seed.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: And he had to, because that's the other thing. Their
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: defense is not going to be great. It's a little Trinidad-Chambers.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I need you to score, because if you don't score,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: we're not going to win. I think Jared Goff wins it.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going Jared Goff, MVP, Coach of the Year. I'm
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: going Brian Schottenheimer, because if you tell me the Cowboys
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: win the East, I don't see how he doesn't win
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Coach of the Year. They're just, they're talked about too much. He's,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: it's just too, the microscope on that franchise and the
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: lights on that franchise are just too bright. Plus, a
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: couple years ago, everyone thought it was the biggest embarrassment
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: of a hire of all time. So if you go
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: from biggest embarrassment of a hire of all time, two
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: years later, winning the division against, you know, a franchise
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: that is consistently, I don't know, what are the Eagles? Top?
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: three or four franchise in the league just consistently year
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: in year out over a 25 year period um I'm
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: going Brian Schottenheimer defensive player of the year this is
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: actually a pretty easy one for me I I think
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: this guy is going to be viewed when it's all
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: said and done as one of the best players of
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: all time his play style, his violence, the unit in
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: which he plays on, and just this guy is a
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: dominant player. Now, there are some sexier names. Miles Garrett,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: could he win it again? But I'm taking Will Anderson.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: I think the Texans have the best defense in the league,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: and I think Will Anderson just jolts himself. I mean,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: this is a guy that was top three pick from
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Alabama who just a blue chip recruit, no nonsense, no bullshit,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, everything you would want in a superstar player
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: in terms of the character, the work ethic, the no drama.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Barely even hear the guy talk. I love this guy.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I think defensive player of the year. He is going
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: to have a massive season. Rookie of the year. Again,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: if I'm in on the Cowboys turning around on defense,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: I got to be in on Caleb Downs. And offensive
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: rookie of the year, a lot of these quotes coming
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: out of Seattle. I like Seattle this year to win
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the division. Whether you like them to win the division
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: or not, I think everyone would agree Seattle's going to
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: be good. Well, if they're going to be good again,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: the running game was a huge part of their operation.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker's gone. Charbonnet's coming back off the injury. You know,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: the guy's a little under the radar in Jadarian Price
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: just because he backed up the number three overall pick.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: So I like Price. I can see 1,000 yards. The
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: other thing is, like, he's going to score a bunch
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: of touchdowns. Like, would a jockey if he has seven,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: eight touchdowns? He's playing in all these marquee games. So
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I'm going Caleb Downs, and Price is my offensive and
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: defensive rookie of the year. We'll end it on that. Adios.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: The Volume.