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NFL Kicking off on a Wednesday, Latest with Puka Nacua, Final Four Picks · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on my people, John Middlecoff
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Speaker 1: three Now Podcast, Happy Sweet sixteen, Let's go Arkansas and
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Speaker 1: the Johnnies. I'll actually pick my final four a little
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Speaker 1: bit later, but we got a busy, busy show cause
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Speaker 1: I need to dive in on the Australian Game, which
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Speaker 1: is kicking off at ten thirty am on Friday in
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Speaker 1: Australia for the Niners in the rams A take with
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Speaker 1: college sports that is driving me nuts. I want to
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Speaker 1: dive into Pooka Nakua feels like the guy's kind of life.
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Speaker 1: Set a fork in the road, Ty Simpson. That argument
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Speaker 1: just continues. There's video of my homes. We will we'll
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Speaker 1: do a little change of scenery today and when with
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Speaker 1: a couple of mail bag questions at John Middlecoffe as
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Speaker 1: the Instagram fire in those dms. So yeah, that'll kind
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Speaker 1: of do. We got a lot going on. I'm fired
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Speaker 1: up for today's show. You guys know the drill. If
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Speaker 1: actually recording this before the Giants Yankees, which is also
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Speaker 1: on Netflix. It's weird. I mean, I grew up a
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Speaker 1: diehard Giants fan, but I kind of enjoy the Yankees
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Speaker 1: in a weird way because I don't think the Giants
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Speaker 1: are gonna be any good. I'm gonna roof for the
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Speaker 1: Yankees this year, maybe not tonight, but I'm excited for
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Speaker 1: a little regular season baseball on in the background. But
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Speaker 1: let's dive into some football. I do want to start
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Speaker 1: with the news that because of the dates and their
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Speaker 1: rules with high school football, that the NFL can't play
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Speaker 1: on Friday during a certain stretch of the year, and
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Speaker 1: because this year the first week falls under that that
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Speaker 1: that time frame, they were not gonna be able to
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Speaker 1: play on Friday. So they're pushing Seattle, which the defending
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Speaker 1: champs always host the opening game on Wednesday. Because the
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers in Rams, which we've been talking about
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Speaker 1: are you know, it's well I mean well known now,
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Speaker 1: are playing in Australia and because of the flight, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna take them, you know, a day and a
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Speaker 1: half to get there. They can't do it just in
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Speaker 1: a random weekend. It's got to be week one, right,
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Speaker 1: And I want to start overall, like I understand the
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Speaker 1: mindset between international football, like trying to grow in other markets,
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Speaker 1: especially when you're going to get in bed with people
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Speaker 1: like Netflix, which we love being in bed with them here,
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Speaker 1: Apple plus you know Amazon Prime, I would imagine is international.
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Speaker 1: I can't don't quote me on that one, just never tried.
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Speaker 1: But I do understand the desire to try to grow
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Speaker 1: your business. And I think these games in the UK
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Speaker 1: in Germany have set up pretty well because they could
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Speaker 1: kick them off here at nine thirty am Eastern, but
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Speaker 1: they were primetime for those guys, so when they were
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Speaker 1: playing the game, it was like playing a five o'clock or,
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Speaker 1: depending on where you were in the country, a night
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Speaker 1: game on Thursday, Sunday or Monday for the players, like
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Speaker 1: they had the rhythm to the day on game day
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Speaker 1: of playing a later game non morning or afternoon, but
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Speaker 1: the primetime window if you're playing like Sunday night football.
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Speaker 1: I think the problem with Australia, which let me say this,
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Speaker 1: it is a great sports place. They are a very
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Speaker 1: very passionate group of people when it comes to athletics.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a big golf guy. Live is gone
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Speaker 1: there for a couple of years now, and it has
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Speaker 1: been a raging success. It has kind of been the
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Speaker 1: defining moment of the Saudis Tour. You know, obviously rugby
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Speaker 1: is massive there. I mean, these are people that like
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Speaker 1: a violent sport, so it makes a lot of sense.
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Speaker 1: It's obviously football is different than rugby, but like these
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Speaker 1: people like athletics, so I get it. To me, the
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Speaker 1: issue is taking two teams who are a forty five
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Speaker 1: minute flight away from each other. If you get on
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Speaker 1: a plane in Sacramento to go to Los Angeles, it's
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Speaker 1: like fifty five minutes. If you get on a plane
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Speaker 1: in San Jose, it's like a little underd forty five minutes.
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Speaker 1: You can't be any closer. There probably aren't that many
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Speaker 1: games where you have to hop on a flight in
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Speaker 1: the National Football League or in college where you're in
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Speaker 1: the air for less time than when the forty nine
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Speaker 1: ers and the Rams play each other. And you're taking
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Speaker 1: these two teams and you're taking them international, which if
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Speaker 1: you were taking them to the UK, I'd be like, okay,
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Speaker 1: but there's a seventeen hour time toiffit. And the reality
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Speaker 1: is growing this business which the NFL and specifically roge
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Speaker 1: is and I'm sure the owners are obsessed with I mean,
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Speaker 1: I mean they are just they go from six to
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Speaker 1: midnight when they think about some new fans in some
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Speaker 1: of these international markets. Yet they make all their money
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Speaker 1: here because the television window in which they build this
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Speaker 1: game around is a night game eight thirty Eastern time,
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Speaker 1: five point thirty out here on the West Coast. Here's
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Speaker 1: the problem for Kyle and Sean McVeigh. They have to
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Speaker 1: get their team ready to kick off at ten thirty
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Speaker 1: am Pacific time. So what the league has told you
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Speaker 1: is they don't give a shit about the kickoff time
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Speaker 1: for the fans in Australia. But that's not a normal
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Speaker 1: big event ten thirty am on a Friday morning. No
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Speaker 1: sport in America does that none. Now, some events that
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Speaker 1: go seven days, maybe, like a golf tournament has golf
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Speaker 1: going on on Friday, but the main event of a
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Speaker 1: golf tournament is Saturday and Sunday. No different than let's
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Speaker 1: say tennis. Right. You obviously have a bunch of tennis
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Speaker 1: matches early on in the tournament, and as you get
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Speaker 1: down to the quarters, to the semis, to the finals,
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Speaker 1: you start putting that bad boy in a primetime window.
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Speaker 1: So when the league has gone international in the UK,
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Speaker 1: in Mexico, in Germany, they have tried to situate it
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Speaker 1: in a great time slot for the people they are
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Speaker 1: attending the event, and then manipulated it over here, i e.
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Speaker 1: The early morning kickoff. The problem is the time difference
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Speaker 1: in Australia is so extreme they don't have a choice
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Speaker 1: because they would never not in a million fucking years,
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Speaker 1: kickoff rams forty nine ers at ten thirty am. In
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Speaker 1: the States, Roger would jump off the Walt Whitman Bridge
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Speaker 1: before he even I mean, he would fire any one
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Speaker 1: that broach that idea to him. But to get this
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Speaker 1: game on in prime time and play it, that's what
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Speaker 1: they have to do. Now. I get it that Kyle
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Speaker 1: and Sean coming off training camp are gonna have to
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Speaker 1: manipulate how they do things. I'm sure they go over
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Speaker 1: way early. But here's what I know that Sean McVeigh
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Speaker 1: and Kyle Shanahan are made men in their organizations. They
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Speaker 1: are more important. Like obviously the owner Camp is not
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Speaker 1: gonna fire himself, but they have so much juice that
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Speaker 1: they can piss off the owner and there's not much
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Speaker 1: the owners can do. They're specific owner. The owners meetings
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Speaker 1: is right around the corner here in Arizona. If I
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Speaker 1: were those two guys, who probably have the most juice
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Speaker 1: in the younger crew, I would cause a huge stink
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Speaker 1: over this. Now. I'm sure they've known about this. Maybe
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Speaker 1: it just kind of came to our attention when they've
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Speaker 1: really done the math and the time zone difference. But
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Speaker 1: these are two of the best teams in the league.
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Speaker 1: These are two of the most important coaches in the league.
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Speaker 1: These are two of the biggest brands in the league.
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Speaker 1: Nash I would be like, fuck you, this is insane.
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Speaker 1: What are we doing? We have to play Week one,
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Speaker 1: a massive, massive divisional game. I mean these games can
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Speaker 1: be the determining factor of who gets the one seed
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Speaker 1: and who gets the five seed. When the dust settles
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Speaker 1: in early January and we're kicking off in Australia at
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Speaker 1: ten thirty am Eastern, that means our players have to
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Speaker 1: get to the field at seven forty five when the
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Speaker 1: buses arrive. What are we doing here? This is a
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Speaker 1: big newon kickoff Illinois versus USC. I would be if
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Speaker 1: I were those two guys, beyond furious, and I'm sure
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Speaker 1: they have been because they've known about this with the
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Speaker 1: math much longer than it kind of came to all
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Speaker 1: of our attention when we really looked at it today.
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Speaker 1: But that's absurd, and I'm not I've come around, like
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Speaker 1: I understand it. I get you're just creating new revenue streams.
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Speaker 1: I'm all for that. We try to do that here.
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Speaker 1: We all got bills to pay, expenses grow inflation. Like,
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Speaker 1: I'm not shitting on them for having these new ideas, right,
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Speaker 1: Like I expansion in the NBA, You're like, listen, the
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Speaker 1: majority of your league stinks is unwatchable. You're gonna expand
9:13
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, we're gonna charge us seven billion a
9:15
Speaker 1: team that's fourteen billion that we split up thirty ways.
9:18
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, i'd vote for too, if I was
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Speaker 1: on their side. You know, I'm not one of these
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Speaker 1: radical media members who just despise all this shit. Like
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Speaker 1: I understand it, I get it. But to me to
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Speaker 1: put this product in these two teams in that spot
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Speaker 1: feels really really unfair and feels kind of ridiculous. Now,
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Speaker 1: I know people that a lot of you guys that
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Speaker 1: DM ME that are Australian you know either you know
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Speaker 1: people that have moved from the States or people that
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Speaker 1: just like football down there and you're excited for it,
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Speaker 1: and I get it, But are you as excited knowing that,
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Speaker 1: like you gotta take the day off work, like you
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Speaker 1: go to the stadium at ten thirty am? What other
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Speaker 1: events the sporting world have that take place? I just
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Speaker 1: I really don't get it. So I think it's ridiculous
10:08
Speaker 1: and it'll be interesting to see if Kyle and Sean
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Speaker 1: kind of throw up a red flag here in a
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Speaker 1: couple of days. And obviously nothing's gonna change. This game's
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Speaker 1: going down no matter what. But kind of do cause
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Speaker 1: of stink? Because I know if I were those two
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Speaker 1: guys and have the juice, I would one cause of stink.
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Speaker 1: I would go a little Belichick. Let's piss some people off,
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Speaker 1: let's ruffle some feathers. Quick college take And we talked
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Speaker 1: about this. I don't even know when, over the course
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Speaker 1: of the last week or so, is it feels like
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Speaker 1: people are just copy and pasting the way we talk
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Speaker 1: about college sports in the NIL era, from the pre
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Speaker 1: nil era. It's like, guys, what happened? And I think
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Speaker 1: about this In the business I work in, I can't
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Speaker 1: even relate to the twenty fifteen, me a guy that
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Speaker 1: was working on radio and as a decade ago, and
11:10
Speaker 1: the things that have dramatically changed in my industry, and hell,
11:14
Speaker 1: what I'm doing now. I could have moved anywhere in
11:17
Speaker 1: the world and done my show and been every bit
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Speaker 1: of successful. It did not matter. That wasn't even possible
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Speaker 1: that long ago. I mean, seriously, I think about this
11:27
Speaker 1: from the fact that over the course of the last
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours, I ordered a baby seat for the
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Speaker 1: stroller so we can go on walks and he looks out.
11:39
Speaker 1: I ordered gas drops so it kind of breaks down
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Speaker 1: the milk in his stomach and he parents know that,
11:45
Speaker 1: you know, you get burpie and gassy, and these things help.
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Speaker 1: And I ordered air conditioned AC filters for my house
11:53
Speaker 1: because I realized I hadn't changed him in a while,
11:55
Speaker 1: and as the heat's coming in, you don't want old
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Speaker 1: filters and you know, dirty air. The press of a button.
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Speaker 1: Ten years ago, I would have had to get in
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Speaker 1: my car and probably go to three separate places, Ace hardware, whatever,
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Speaker 1: the baby store that has this stuff, and safe way
12:13
Speaker 1: to pick up the three items. It would have been
12:15
Speaker 1: a pain. Now I literally go to an app called
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Speaker 1: Amazon and order fucking everything. I can always need a
12:24
Speaker 1: new toothpaste press of a button. Thank you, Jeff Bezos.
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Speaker 1: If I would have told you that ten plus years ago,
12:30
Speaker 1: you'd be like, what, that's not possible, not doing that. No,
12:34
Speaker 1: that's what we do Amazon. You mean the bookstore. No,
12:37
Speaker 1: this is actually a They just deliver everything, literally, anything
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Speaker 1: you need. Hell, I got new outdoor furniture for the summer.
12:43
Speaker 1: I needed things because we've had crappy outdoor furniture before.
12:47
Speaker 1: We didn't have any covers, and anyone that knows if
12:50
Speaker 1: you live in a sunny, warm place, the sun destroys
12:54
Speaker 1: outdoor furniture. Before we had chief furniture. It didn't necessarily matter,
12:57
Speaker 1: but it brutalized them. This time around, got a little
13:00
Speaker 1: bit nicer furniture. It's like we need to have, especially
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Speaker 1: if we leave for a couple weeks in the summer.
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Speaker 1: We're just we're not using it covers. What did I do?
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Speaker 1: Went to Amazon, pressed the button, delivered they all fit.
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Speaker 1: That's how much life has changed where we live in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. You can bitch and moan about it.
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Speaker 1: I enjoy it makes life a lot more simple. And
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Speaker 1: the one thing about college sports is before it was
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Speaker 1: like history really mattered. This is where so and so played,
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Speaker 1: this is where so and so coached, This program has
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Speaker 1: won this many titles, this program has this practice facility
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Speaker 1: and these cool things in the locker room, and look
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Speaker 1: how big their weight room is. In twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: None of that shit, I repeat, none of that shit matters.
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Speaker 1: How much will you pay me the nil budget or
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Speaker 1: the budget to pay the players whatever that revenue I
13:53
Speaker 1: don't even know. It's kind of ever fluid is the
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Speaker 1: number one thing that matters. If Kurt Signetti had just
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Speaker 1: left Indiana a couple months ago to be the head
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Speaker 1: coach of the Raiders, Indiana was the losingest program in
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Speaker 1: the history of the sport two years ago. Before Signetti
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Speaker 1: got there. It would have been a job that would
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Speaker 1: have been looked at like that's a terrible job, Do
14:15
Speaker 1: not touch that. If Signetti had just left, they would
14:19
Speaker 1: have had the pick of sweet coaches. They would have
14:23
Speaker 1: easily got Matt Campbell, who went to Penn State, and
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Speaker 1: historically Penn State's one of the top destinations. Obviously they
14:28
Speaker 1: James Franklin was a big get, Bill O'Brien was a
14:31
Speaker 1: big get. Now Matt Campbell was a big get. Indiana
14:34
Speaker 1: could have got Matt Campbell, no problem. You know why.
14:36
Speaker 1: They have a big budget to pay the players, and
14:38
Speaker 1: they pay their coach a lot of money and obviously
14:40
Speaker 1: their assistance. That's all that matters. Now. So when I
14:43
Speaker 1: see that North Carolina fires Hubert Davis, all I see
14:47
Speaker 1: is like, this is a destination job. The history Michael
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Jordan played there. Guys, I'm forty one years old.
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Speaker 1: I was born in nineteen eighty four. That's the year
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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan got drafted in the NBA. These you think
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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan playing at North Carolina impacts any of these
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Speaker 1: top basketball players? What about the history, all the championships.
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Speaker 1: Once Roy came there, they he rattled off multiple championships.
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Speaker 1: None of these players care at all. Aj Dubonsa went
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Speaker 1: to BYU, not because he cares about John Smith or
15:27
Speaker 1: because he loves the Mountains, because they paid him seven
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Speaker 1: million dollars. North Carolina in basketball, just like Ohio State
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Speaker 1: under Ryan Day, has not been dominating because they have
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Speaker 1: They're a historic program because they were great with Tressel,
15:44
Speaker 1: because they were great back in the day with Woody
15:47
Speaker 1: Hayes against Bo Shechem Beckler. None of that matters. It's
15:50
Speaker 1: because they have one of, if not the highest budgets
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Speaker 1: to pay the players and pay the coaches in the country.
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Speaker 1: In football, unlike basketball, you're coordinators really matter. So part
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Speaker 1: of Indiana's success is he's got two sweet coordinators and
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Speaker 1: now he's paying them both millions of dollars. Ryan Day
16:08
Speaker 1: has literally has two NFL coordinators, Matt Patricia who makes
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Speaker 1: like four million dollars and Arthur Smith, who now makes
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Speaker 1: like two million. He's paying his coordinators six million dollars total.
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Speaker 1: North Carolina plans on paying a basketball coach like six
16:24
Speaker 1: or seven million, which is a lot in basketball. But
16:27
Speaker 1: when I see like, will they get the Michigan coach,
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Speaker 1: will they get the Arizona coach? Well, yeah, if they're
16:33
Speaker 1: willing to say, we will pay whatever it takes for
16:35
Speaker 1: NIL to buy players. Because none of it matters. On
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Speaker 1: the logo on your shoe, the Carolina Blue, all the
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Speaker 1: championships you've won back in the day that Vince Carter
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Speaker 1: and Rashid Wallace, no one cares, literally nobody. It's the
16:53
Speaker 1: reason Bill self has been getting Darren Peterson. They paid
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Speaker 1: for it. The reason Duke's Landing, all these guys. Obviously
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Speaker 1: Boozer went there because they paid for it. If you're
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Speaker 1: willing to pay for it, you know. I just got
17:05
Speaker 1: a question the other day about Dabo Sweeney going on
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Speaker 1: the rant about losing a player. Do you think that
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Speaker 1: guy twenty years ago, who'd you rather play for Dabo
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Speaker 1: Sweeney or this guy Pete Golding who's coached two games
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Speaker 1: in his career. Dabos sweeneys won multiple national championships. I
17:22
Speaker 1: get the programs down a little bit. But he didn't
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Speaker 1: leave Clemson because he didn't like Dabo, because he didn't
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Speaker 1: like the program. Omis literally recruited him when he was
17:30
Speaker 1: on campus, said what do you make and he said X.
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Speaker 1: He said, we'll play you why That's why he left.
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Speaker 1: The game's very simple, which honestly I kind of appreciate.
17:39
Speaker 1: It's not as emotional. It's not about like I'm going
17:41
Speaker 1: to usc usc just had the number one recruiting class
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Speaker 1: in the country. Reggie Bush, Matt Liinert, and the Pete
17:48
Speaker 1: Carroll era was completely irrelevant for the execution of that.
17:53
Speaker 1: It was simply because in the state of California, you
17:57
Speaker 1: can give high school kids money before they show up
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Speaker 1: on campus, which a lot of other states do not allow. So, USC,
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Speaker 1: who has been very underwhelming since Lincoln Riley got there,
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Speaker 1: got the number one recruiting class in the country because
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Speaker 1: they bought them. Honestly, college sports now watch blue chips.
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Speaker 1: All that was illegal now it's all legal. So when
18:22
Speaker 1: I see the conversation around, will so and so go
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Speaker 1: and personally, I have a theory in college basketball, if
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Speaker 1: you can be like a one, two or three seed,
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Speaker 1: you know, be a top ten consistent team in the
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Speaker 1: country at a football school, that is a better job
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Speaker 1: than living in the fish bowl of Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina.
18:45
Speaker 1: It's like would dust he may leave Michigan. Well, he's
18:49
Speaker 1: been a number one seed. There is a program that's
18:51
Speaker 1: been to multiple national championships over the course of the
18:53
Speaker 1: last decade. They clearly have good nil but at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, like he doesn't take as much
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Speaker 1: shit as fototball coach, even when the football coach is
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Speaker 1: not some dude that's banging everything walking around the street,
19:05
Speaker 1: which it still boggles my mind when I've seen some
19:07
Speaker 1: of these clips. The Charon more in the uh in
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Speaker 1: the courthouse and his wife is there now Again, I
19:16
Speaker 1: never judge anyone on what they're doing when the doors
19:19
Speaker 1: are closed behind their home. You know, inside their home.
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Speaker 1: We all do different stuff. I just know the relationship
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Speaker 1: that I'm in my current wife and my current child.
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Speaker 1: They would not be supporting me in the courthouse if
19:34
Speaker 1: that was my situation, and I would imagine many people
19:37
Speaker 1: listening can relate to that as well. I would not
19:41
Speaker 1: get some loyal ride or die in the situation where
19:45
Speaker 1: I was bending over my assistant in my office. But
19:48
Speaker 1: that's a conversation for a different day. But Alabama, Michigan,
19:52
Speaker 1: these coaches that are having success at football schools, that
19:56
Speaker 1: to me is a great gig, get to fly under
19:59
Speaker 1: the radar, a little get to make a ton of money,
20:02
Speaker 1: and obviously they give you leftover nil, which is still
20:05
Speaker 1: great for the basketball team. Now. I like one thing
20:08
Speaker 1: I saw too is like, could they steal Arizona's basketball coach? Well,
20:12
Speaker 1: as someone tweeted at me, Arizona this year is like
20:15
Speaker 1: a top three or four roster in terms of payments
20:19
Speaker 1: they are paying for the players. He's not just coaching
20:22
Speaker 1: these guys out of thin air. He's not rolling out
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Speaker 1: the ball and saying middle coough you go run the
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Speaker 1: point guard for my team. They're paying premiums for these guys.
20:32
Speaker 1: So I just think that whenever I see these people
20:35
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20:41
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20:45
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20:48
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20:51
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20:55
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20:58
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21:00
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21:04
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21:08
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21:12
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21:17
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21:19
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21:22
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21:25
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21:28
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21:31
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21:34
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21:38
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21:42
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21:44
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21:57
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22:00
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22:04
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22:08
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22:12
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22:18
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Speaker 1: helps the baby. It's it's it's incredible. I mean that's
24:43
Speaker 1: to have a babysitter for a couple of days and
24:45
Speaker 1: get a good night's sleep. I mean she could have
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Speaker 1: a check. You know, the sanity and the uh, the
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Speaker 1: It truly is so found out. I got invited to
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Speaker 1: would you would you be willing to come back? I said,
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Speaker 1: love to. I said, boom, but you tell me when
25:09
Speaker 1: I all ordered your flight yesterday. But I was telling
25:13
Speaker 1: her when I picked her up from the airport. A
25:14
Speaker 1: couple of days ago, we were talking about something and
25:18
Speaker 1: I said, I I can only speak for guys, but
25:21
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us get to a point,
25:24
Speaker 1: and it happens in our twenties, and it could be
25:27
Speaker 1: early twenties, mid twenties, or late twenties where if we're
25:30
Speaker 1: going down a path or doing something we don't want
25:34
Speaker 1: to do, we make a pivot, we make a change,
25:37
Speaker 1: and we go, this is not who I want to be,
25:40
Speaker 1: this is not what I want to do, this is
25:42
Speaker 1: not what I want to be about. And you go
25:44
Speaker 1: in a different direction and you pretty you do it dramatically.
25:48
Speaker 1: And I said, the older you get, I think it
25:51
Speaker 1: becomes much more difficult. It doesn't mean it's not possible.
25:54
Speaker 1: But as you get in your thirties your forties, I'm
25:57
Speaker 1: not saying you don't mentally grow and you don't much
26:00
Speaker 1: sure as a human being, but you don't change that
26:03
Speaker 1: much or it's much more difficult to make dramatic life changes.
26:08
Speaker 1: I truly believe that, and I think for a lot
26:11
Speaker 1: of young men. I was just watching the Red Hot
26:13
Speaker 1: Chili Peppers documentary, which is really really good. It's crazy.
26:17
Speaker 1: I mean, the amount of bands in probably the seventies
26:19
Speaker 1: and eighties and even early nineties. I mean people that
26:22
Speaker 1: are still alive today that became like historic musicians that
26:27
Speaker 1: probably easily could have died in one of the members
26:29
Speaker 1: of the I'm not gonna give it away. It's just
26:31
Speaker 1: if you like the red hot Chili Peppers or just
26:32
Speaker 1: kind of that versus you know, genre of music. I
26:35
Speaker 1: check out the documentary Very Organic how they came about.
26:38
Speaker 1: But life's about making decisions, and those decisions could be
26:42
Speaker 1: as simple as like do you stay up super late
26:46
Speaker 1: or your guy that kind of goes to bed early
26:47
Speaker 1: and get your rest so you're ready to roll every day.
26:50
Speaker 1: You know, are you complaining that you're kind of fat? Well,
26:52
Speaker 1: what are you put in your body right? Being disciplined
26:55
Speaker 1: on what you eat, what time you go to bed,
26:57
Speaker 1: how you treat your body, I mean, or you binge
26:59
Speaker 1: drink or are you not? And these are just personal
27:02
Speaker 1: health questions. To then you a single guy, who you
27:04
Speaker 1: run around with, what type of women, what type of girls?
27:08
Speaker 1: And the more famous you are, the more money you have,
27:11
Speaker 1: Like these are decisions that become much more important because
27:16
Speaker 1: you're gonna be around situations that the average guy's not
27:20
Speaker 1: and these situations can go well and they also couldn't
27:22
Speaker 1: go really wrong. And also, like I always thought about
27:26
Speaker 1: this because my dad said, the one crazy thing is
27:28
Speaker 1: I can do a lot to like raise you and
27:30
Speaker 1: teach you the right things to do and how to
27:34
Speaker 1: live and how to operate. But I don't really get
27:36
Speaker 1: to choose your friends. Like that's kind of on you
27:40
Speaker 1: on who you hang out with from when you're a
27:42
Speaker 1: young kid to when you go to college. Throughout life,
27:44
Speaker 1: you know, who do you gravitate towards and listen, We've
27:47
Speaker 1: all probably ran around with people that you're like, ah,
27:51
Speaker 1: that probably wasn't the best idea. That could have gone
27:53
Speaker 1: really bad. And for some people in that situation that
27:57
Speaker 1: maybe they would have changed, it goes bad and they
28:01
Speaker 1: get into a situation that they they not only regret,
28:04
Speaker 1: that might change their life. And for whatever reason, Pookin
28:08
Speaker 1: Nakula's decision making over the course of the last six
28:10
Speaker 1: to eight months feels really shitty and let's be I
28:14
Speaker 1: mean really kind of you know, the Mormon Wyve situation
28:16
Speaker 1: that happened to the bats of Ratt It feels like
28:19
Speaker 1: a cage cat got got out of provo and just
28:22
Speaker 1: doesn't know what to do with himself and became really famous.
28:25
Speaker 1: And it's not handling it will now. I'm not pointing
28:28
Speaker 1: fingers and saying anyone did anything. I just know this
28:31
Speaker 1: like one headlines like listen, you had nothing to do
28:34
Speaker 1: with it, A great guy, like there's been enough smoke.
28:36
Speaker 1: Now it's like, bro figure shit out. And we talked
28:39
Speaker 1: about this the other day. It doesn't matter what the
28:43
Speaker 1: rams say. It doesn't matter what Les Zied and Sean
28:47
Speaker 1: McVay and Sean I think talks at the owner's meetings
28:49
Speaker 1: here in a couple of days, the words that come
28:51
Speaker 1: out of his mouth mean nothing to me. We'll judge
28:54
Speaker 1: on the actions because JSN just got a historic contract.
28:58
Speaker 1: Are they copy and pasting that or are they going out?
29:00
Speaker 1: Absolutely no chance we're paying him that right now. We
29:02
Speaker 1: do not trust him, and until they pay him, that's
29:05
Speaker 1: the only thing I have to go off of. But
29:07
Speaker 1: it does feel like Puka Nakua, who is one of
29:10
Speaker 1: the more fun players I remember watching in my life.
29:14
Speaker 1: He is just a badass on the field, but as
29:18
Speaker 1: of right now, he's not someone that you could trust
29:20
Speaker 1: giving one hundred and twenty million dollars guaranteed to and
29:23
Speaker 1: I think the rams every day that goes by is
29:25
Speaker 1: showing you they agree. I believe, And I'm not trying
29:29
Speaker 1: to be like Steven A. Smith here, but he's kind
29:31
Speaker 1: of at a fork in the road. It's like time
29:34
Speaker 1: to either draw a line in the sand and be like,
29:36
Speaker 1: I'm getting away from all these fucking people who are
29:39
Speaker 1: putting me in bad situations and then through them, I'm
29:42
Speaker 1: putting myself in bad situations, or I'm just gonna be
29:45
Speaker 1: a slappy And we see a lot of NFL guys
29:49
Speaker 1: with a lot of talent get down a rut and
29:51
Speaker 1: never been able to get out, and you look back
29:53
Speaker 1: what could have been. And I do feel like he's
29:56
Speaker 1: kind of in a fork in the road right now.
29:58
Speaker 1: And he clearly he has a bunch of high level
30:01
Speaker 1: guys around him. I mean, Davante from just a work
30:05
Speaker 1: ethics standpoint, married man, kids, Stafford family. It's like you
30:09
Speaker 1: got guys in your own meeting rooms, in your own
30:12
Speaker 1: side of the ball that are just high level cats,
30:16
Speaker 1: mature dudes. And I get it, you're young. You are,
30:21
Speaker 1: you know, the one of the toasts of the of
30:23
Speaker 1: not the town. Because I don't think La necessarily gives
30:26
Speaker 1: a shit but of the league, you got a lot.
30:29
Speaker 1: You know, heavy is the head that wears the crown, right,
30:33
Speaker 1: So when things are going really well, more people are
30:39
Speaker 1: paying attention, and there's a lot of pressure on you
30:44
Speaker 1: to do the right things. And it's easy for me
30:47
Speaker 1: to say like I never got I mean, I probably
30:51
Speaker 1: got lucky a lot when I was younger, but by
30:53
Speaker 1: the time I got to college, like drugs didn't interest me.
30:56
Speaker 1: I found out pretty quick, like I'm not a club
30:58
Speaker 1: late night guy. I'm not saying I don't like the
31:01
Speaker 1: booze a little bit, but I'm not You're not gonna
31:03
Speaker 1: find me up. I get too tired at like two
31:05
Speaker 1: in the morning, you know, So I and listen, there
31:09
Speaker 1: are probably some women in my single days it's like, yeah,
31:11
Speaker 1: that could have gone wrong, that could have gone bad.
31:14
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people could say, like, I'm
31:16
Speaker 1: glad that we just kind of got through that period
31:18
Speaker 1: of my life. But I also didn't have one hundred
31:21
Speaker 1: and twenty million dollar contract waiting for me in my
31:23
Speaker 1: mid twenties, and it does feel like he's got an
31:26
Speaker 1: opportunity to really fuck this thing up. So I just
31:30
Speaker 1: know that these headlines and gonna deny and It's like,
31:33
Speaker 1: how many headlines are we gonna get now? Because I
31:36
Speaker 1: look around like I don't see any headlines with Jamar
31:38
Speaker 1: Chase or Justin Jefferson or Davante Adams. It's like, it's
31:43
Speaker 1: one thing. Listen. It doesn't bother me tweeting about the refs,
31:46
Speaker 1: But when TMZ is tweeting about you, it's drawing the lines,
31:52
Speaker 1: you know, a line in the sand. Time it's okay,
31:55
Speaker 1: it's time to look in the mirror, have a little
31:56
Speaker 1: introspection and be like, what do we need to change?
31:59
Speaker 1: How do I need to pivot? Because if you don't,
32:03
Speaker 1: this all could get away from me really fast. A
32:06
Speaker 1: couple quick quarterback things. There was video of Patrick Mahomes.
32:10
Speaker 1: I had the video on mute because he was the
32:13
Speaker 1: baby was sleeping earlier today, but he was throwing now,
32:17
Speaker 1: you know, three months out of ACL surgery. I know.
32:20
Speaker 1: When I was at the combine, I was told by
32:22
Speaker 1: very reliable sources they feel very confident about the pace
32:27
Speaker 1: in which he's making. So I think it's fair to say,
32:30
Speaker 1: as we sit here on March twenty six, like I
32:33
Speaker 1: would be prepared for Patrick Mahomes to play Week one.
32:36
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's insane. I wouldn't go there yet.
32:39
Speaker 1: It's well got a long way to go that like
32:41
Speaker 1: by the start of training camp he's ready to go.
32:43
Speaker 1: Even if he was, they would probably ease him in.
32:46
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure even if he does some limited stuff
32:49
Speaker 1: during OTAs, they're gonna work with Justin Fields a Ton
32:52
Speaker 1: and let Patrick mahomes easy into this. But this gets
32:55
Speaker 1: back to they're gonna get a motivated guy. They're gonna
32:59
Speaker 1: get a guy that, let's face said, did not have
33:00
Speaker 1: a good season, and they're gonna have reinforcements. They have
33:04
Speaker 1: a great opportunity pick nine, pick twenty nine other picks
33:09
Speaker 1: in the draft to really change this thing around. And
33:13
Speaker 1: they clearly know it. He clearly knows it. And I'm
33:17
Speaker 1: telling you, I think the Chiefs not saying they're gonna
33:21
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, but they're gonna have a chip
33:24
Speaker 1: on their shoulder. They're gonna be coming, They're gonna be
33:28
Speaker 1: bringing it. The other thing is Ty Simpsons got a
33:33
Speaker 1: first round pick for me. I didn't see it when
33:35
Speaker 1: I watched them. I used this comp of like, I
33:38
Speaker 1: think there's some similarities with perty Perty was a seventh
33:41
Speaker 1: round pick. Those type players for me, are guys that
33:45
Speaker 1: are drafted after pick one hundred. Now I get it
33:47
Speaker 1: with quarterback inflation or Latsky's getting shit on his connection
33:51
Speaker 1: with Cia, who also represents Ty Simpson, which I think
33:55
Speaker 1: we really benefit from. Like in twenty twenty six, we
33:58
Speaker 1: kind of know what's going on, and if we don't
34:01
Speaker 1: know what's going on, we eventually find out what's going
34:03
Speaker 1: on really quick. I've always said this about my parents.
34:05
Speaker 1: They grew up in an era that you know, after
34:08
Speaker 1: World War Two and in just some other international conflicts.
34:14
Speaker 1: When they grew up, like in junior high and elementary school,
34:18
Speaker 1: they would do bomb drills where they hit under the
34:20
Speaker 1: desk prompt. It's like, did no one raise their hand
34:23
Speaker 1: and be like, uh, this makes no sense, Like what
34:27
Speaker 1: are we doing there? But no one didn't and they
34:29
Speaker 1: just hopped under the desk. It's not really the times
34:32
Speaker 1: we live in, Like we kind of have a bunch
34:34
Speaker 1: of information. You could argue too much, but I do
34:37
Speaker 1: think it's fair to say, like when you're represented by
34:39
Speaker 1: the same people and our lawsky's like, well I pay them. Yeah,
34:42
Speaker 1: It's like we all know. Mi guy Ethan Strauss been
34:44
Speaker 1: writing about this for Woes Woes used to destroy coaches
34:48
Speaker 1: who weren't CAA and then guys that were he would
34:51
Speaker 1: protect kind of the game, kind of the world. They
34:53
Speaker 1: helped place you in these spots. They helped make you
34:56
Speaker 1: a lot of money and negotiate. Whoever you're in business with,
35:00
Speaker 1: you are going to have, You're gonna be more cognizant
35:05
Speaker 1: of the relationship. Let me just say, especially people that
35:08
Speaker 1: make you money. Right, So listen, I'm very protective of
35:12
Speaker 1: the relationship I have with Colin and the operation that
35:16
Speaker 1: has changed my life professionally, financially, the whole thing. That's
35:21
Speaker 1: usually the way it go for anyone with a fucking brain.
35:25
Speaker 1: That being said, I've texted a bunch of different executives
35:29
Speaker 1: and scouts, and some people are in agreement with me.
35:33
Speaker 1: No way. I text a buddy today who's a future
35:36
Speaker 1: GM Locke in the next three or four years, maybe
35:38
Speaker 1: even less. Was like, I think he's a top I
35:41
Speaker 1: think he's a top thirty two pick. I think he's
35:43
Speaker 1: a first round pick. He agreed with Dan, maybe not
35:48
Speaker 1: necessarily he was the best quarterback in the draft, but
35:50
Speaker 1: he thinks for sure he's a first round pick. That's
35:53
Speaker 1: kind of draft talk. That's kind of what these draft
35:56
Speaker 1: meetings are. You get into a meeting, there is going
36:00
Speaker 1: to be someone in that room potentially, you know, for
36:03
Speaker 1: guys like Jeremiah Love, you would look like the village
36:07
Speaker 1: idiot if you raised your hand your life. I don't
36:10
Speaker 1: think this guy's that good, you know. I think this
36:12
Speaker 1: guy thinks I hate him, which I don't really personally
36:16
Speaker 1: have any feelings toward him. But Ryan Grigson once had
36:18
Speaker 1: a second round grade on von Miller. It's like, yeah,
36:21
Speaker 1: I'd keep that one to yourself. I wouldn't say anything
36:26
Speaker 1: about that in the room. It's like, this guy's not
36:29
Speaker 1: only a top five pick, it's pretty clear what he
36:31
Speaker 1: does is going to translate to the league fifteen years later.
36:34
Speaker 1: Guy's going to the Hall of Fame. But most players,
36:39
Speaker 1: you can argue till you're blue in the face, cause
36:41
Speaker 1: most guys are not just like, this guy's a future
36:44
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. That's not you really how it works
36:47
Speaker 1: in the draft. So when you look at a guy
36:49
Speaker 1: like makay Lemon or Omar Cooper from Indiana or Bane
36:57
Speaker 1: from Miami or whoever in this draft, you could argue like, yeah,
37:01
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not comfortable with this pick, and
37:03
Speaker 1: they're gonna be guys in every single draft room arguing
37:08
Speaker 1: both sides. So they're gonna be people that don't like
37:11
Speaker 1: Fernando Mendos. They're gonna be people that don't like Ty Simpson.
37:13
Speaker 1: I think the problem for Dan is his argument goes
37:19
Speaker 1: about Fernando. It's like, the biggest games are the most
37:23
Speaker 1: important games. And when he played Ohio State and on
37:27
Speaker 1: the first play of the game, he got hit like
37:30
Speaker 1: you would get hit in the NFL from Miles Garrett
37:33
Speaker 1: or Micah Parsons, and it looked like he broke ribs,
37:36
Speaker 1: got a concussion, and it was like his season is over.
37:40
Speaker 1: And two plays later he shook it off and came
37:42
Speaker 1: back in the game. That's the NFL. That is what
37:46
Speaker 1: the NFL is. So when I see Ty Simpson doesn't
37:49
Speaker 1: have a run game, a lot of bad teams in
37:51
Speaker 1: the NFL don't have a run game. How are you
37:52
Speaker 1: gonna figure it out? That's part of playing football, that's
37:56
Speaker 1: part of playing in the NFL. It's like, well, they
37:58
Speaker 1: were down seven points going into the fourth quarter. Welcome
38:03
Speaker 1: to Sundays. So what he showed in the stretch of games,
38:07
Speaker 1: which were the most important games were the games everyone
38:11
Speaker 1: was watching and against the best competition outweigh some of
38:17
Speaker 1: the bad games or the bad moments that he had.
38:20
Speaker 1: The other thing is how you react to bad plays,
38:23
Speaker 1: which are inevitable in the NFL. Peyton Manning threw a
38:26
Speaker 1: pick six in the Super Bowl. Tom Brady has thrown
38:31
Speaker 1: pick six is in playoff games and I'm pretty sure
38:33
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl as well. Part of the deal comes
38:36
Speaker 1: with the territory. How do you react? What am I
38:40
Speaker 1: supposed to judge a guy throwing three or four touchdowns
38:43
Speaker 1: beating the shit out of you? That's not normal. In
38:45
Speaker 1: the NFL. The Chiefs couple of years ago went to
38:47
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl won it. They went fifteen to two,
38:49
Speaker 1: Like most of their games were one score game in
38:51
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. That's Sunday football. So I, like, my
38:58
Speaker 1: issue isn't like I have no problem with people having
39:00
Speaker 1: different opinions. We need more people with different opinions that
39:03
Speaker 1: are like, yeah, it's just where it goes. If everyone
39:06
Speaker 1: in the room is thinking the same way, you're probably
39:08
Speaker 1: in this wrong room and you're probably gonna get to
39:10
Speaker 1: a bad decision. Right. So I have no problem with
39:15
Speaker 1: him thinking that, though I disagree and I'm on McAfee
39:20
Speaker 1: side about that stretch of games, that is like I
39:23
Speaker 1: know what I watched, and I know the teams and
39:25
Speaker 1: the talent in which he was playing, Like that was
39:26
Speaker 1: fucking impressive. Now that's also being said of like Fernando
39:30
Speaker 1: Mendoz is not some like all time prospect, but in
39:33
Speaker 1: my mind, in my opinion, he's a much better prospect
39:36
Speaker 1: than Ty Simpson. But there'll be people in the league
39:39
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Speaker 1: last year, I know Tomlin's not there, but Tomlin thought
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40:31
Speaker 1: Started his career for the Ravens, end up playing for
40:34
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40:38
Speaker 1: career playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers. I think Joe Flacco,
40:43
Speaker 1: who I thought five or six years ago, wasn't just shot.
40:48
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's out of the league just He's
40:49
Speaker 1: gonna be coaching high school football, hanging out with his family. Somehow,
40:54
Speaker 1: he has dusted off whatever you know, cobwebs were on
40:59
Speaker 1: those cleats and that shoulder and that elbow, and he's
41:02
Speaker 1: actually been a pretty functional backup and the Bengals signed
41:06
Speaker 1: him back, and he's pissed off. He's saying it's dumb
41:08
Speaker 1: that most people in the league don't think he can start.
41:10
Speaker 1: It's like, Joe, you're forty one, you can't move. You
41:13
Speaker 1: can just basically throw the deep ball and check it down.
41:15
Speaker 1: But I appreciate his chip on his shoulder still at
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Speaker 1: and why is he doing this, Like what is the
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Speaker 1: point of this, I'm not quite sure, but I'm really
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Speaker 1: really mad because I think it would have been really
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Speaker 1: cool to see him complete the four corners and just
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Speaker 1: have the NFC or the AFC North the completion of
41:45
Speaker 1: playing for every team and obviously ending his career on
41:49
Speaker 1: the rival to the team that kind of made his career,
41:52
Speaker 1: the Ravens, but we didn't get it. Now Joe Flacco
41:56
Speaker 1: is back on the Bengals, which he didn't really start
42:00
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42:02
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Speaker 1: of middleclock mail back questions, Uh, I do want to
42:37
Speaker 1: pick my final four hard rock bet. I told you guys,
42:41
Speaker 1: the two teams I hammered White, I did three, I
42:44
Speaker 1: did Art, I did Kansas and Saint John's because I
42:47
Speaker 1: knew they were going to play each other and whoever
42:49
Speaker 1: won that game was going to have a lot of momentum.
42:51
Speaker 1: And Patino didn't just win that game. It feels that
42:54
Speaker 1: that walk off he calls the dude big balls bell. Uh.
42:57
Speaker 1: He's won national championships before, for I'm just listen, It's
43:02
Speaker 1: gonna be very difficult, but I'm taking the Johnnies to
43:05
Speaker 1: make the final four. I also got to stick with
43:08
Speaker 1: my guy, John cal Party, who I think is Taylor
43:11
Speaker 1: made for the nil era. Taylor made for the nil air.
43:16
Speaker 1: And the reason Arkansas has a chance to not only
43:18
Speaker 1: make the Final four this year but be a dominant
43:20
Speaker 1: team moving forward is not because Nolan Richardson and Corlis
43:25
Speaker 1: Williamson in the nineties. It's because of Tyson Chicken and
43:28
Speaker 1: the nil behind that program is big time. So I'm
43:33
Speaker 1: going the Johnnys, going Patino, I'm going John cal Party.
43:39
Speaker 1: After Nebraska, his son hits the game winning layup, then
43:45
Speaker 1: the dude misses the half court shot, which was in
43:48
Speaker 1: the basket. I feel like that same bounce ten times
43:52
Speaker 1: it goes in like eight. Might just be a team
43:54
Speaker 1: of destiny. They had never won an NCAA Tournament game
43:59
Speaker 1: until this year. Now they're in the final four. You
44:02
Speaker 1: look at the bracket like, I don't think it's impossible.
44:05
Speaker 1: This one's a little bit more of my heart than
44:09
Speaker 1: what I would bet on. But I'm taking Nebraska to
44:11
Speaker 1: make the Final four and last but not least Michigan
44:14
Speaker 1: feels like they've been in the Final four a lot
44:16
Speaker 1: over the course of the last fifteen years. They're just good.
44:20
Speaker 1: I'm going to Arkansas, the Johnny's, Nebraska and Michigan. Let's
44:23
Speaker 1: do a little midlecoff mail bag at John middlecoff at
44:25
Speaker 1: John midle Coffin just wended with a couple questions. We'll
44:29
Speaker 1: start with Alexander. If you were do podcast on something
44:33
Speaker 1: beside sports, what would it be, politics, travel, life stories, etc. Well,
44:44
Speaker 1: my wife gets very angry at me. I mean she could.
44:47
Speaker 1: I feel like could travel NonStop. Not a big travel guy.
44:50
Speaker 1: Not that I don't like traveling, Like I've been other
44:53
Speaker 1: places and when I'm there, I enjoy it. Chicago last
44:56
Speaker 1: year with Colin was cool. Got married to Nashville. Love
45:00
Speaker 1: that place. I love it when i'm there. I just
45:03
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those guys who's, as my wife says,
45:06
Speaker 1: my cup gets full when I know I got a
45:08
Speaker 1: trip on the books that's not necessarily be again. Been
45:12
Speaker 1: to Europe twenty plus years ago was awesome. If you
45:15
Speaker 1: told me I never went again, I'm like, I like
45:18
Speaker 1: Italy and Blake Cuomo looks as cool as anything online.
45:22
Speaker 1: If you tell me I never go there. I'm not
45:23
Speaker 1: gonna lose much sleep. So I probably wouldn't be the
45:26
Speaker 1: guy for the travel podcast as someone who's trying to
45:31
Speaker 1: change my diet dramatically. I kind of am a fat,
45:35
Speaker 1: acid heart, So I would say I could do a
45:37
Speaker 1: pretty good food podcast because I do love to eat.
45:40
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily a foodie because I kind of will
45:43
Speaker 1: eat anything, but I do think that would kind of work.
45:45
Speaker 1: Like all sorts of genres, nice stuff, crappy stuff, hole
45:49
Speaker 1: in the wall, you name it. But I gotta get
45:51
Speaker 1: better at what I put in my body. Politics, you
45:54
Speaker 1: just get too angry when you know you talk about it.
45:58
Speaker 1: I know I do, but people do. I also think
46:01
Speaker 1: none of us have any impact on anything. Like one
46:04
Speaker 1: thing I've learned besides being able to move you or
46:07
Speaker 1: your family to an area that kind of fits with
46:12
Speaker 1: what you want out of life, like, we don't really
46:15
Speaker 1: have that much juice. So I just try to focus
46:17
Speaker 1: on my business and my family and I guess friends
46:20
Speaker 1: and nothing else really matters. When I see people online
46:23
Speaker 1: getting so caught up, it's like, bro, you have no
46:25
Speaker 1: influence over any of this shit. How are you? Is
46:28
Speaker 1: this all fake? Because there's no way you can actually
46:30
Speaker 1: be this mad, Like I don't think this is you're
46:33
Speaker 1: actually acting like this offline, which I kind of believe
46:36
Speaker 1: none of them really are, especially like the rich, you know, celebrity,
46:40
Speaker 1: powerful people. I don't think they actually care. Once they
46:42
Speaker 1: click off, they just go lead their life. So I
46:46
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I do a football podcast, do
46:48
Speaker 1: a golf podcast. I try to interweave my takes in those,
46:53
Speaker 1: so I haven't really never crossed my mind to do,
46:57
Speaker 1: you know, call her daddy Daddy. Pretty big pivot. I
47:02
Speaker 1: try to describe it to a buddy the other day,
47:04
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, she got famous off talking about blowjobs.
47:07
Speaker 1: Like He's like what, I'm like, No, I'm dead serious,
47:10
Speaker 1: Like the gluck luck, the blowjob is not what just
47:14
Speaker 1: put her on the map. I mean it made her
47:16
Speaker 1: a rocket ship. I started listening. I'm like this just
47:19
Speaker 1: because I was fascinated. It was like this podcast went
47:21
Speaker 1: from zero to like one of the most popular things
47:23
Speaker 1: in America and now it's like interviewing Oprah. You know.
47:27
Speaker 1: I was like, it's a hard pivot, but uh, I listen,
47:32
Speaker 1: gotta do what you gotta do for that cash. Uh,
47:36
Speaker 1: with how young green Bay Packers change the back to
47:40
Speaker 1: football with how young Green Bay Packers are. Is that
47:44
Speaker 1: actually the advantage in today's NFL with cat flexibility or
47:46
Speaker 1: does youth still show up as a weakness in big
47:49
Speaker 1: time playoff moments with Jordan Love and his surrounding cast.
47:53
Speaker 1: I think youth could be a little overrated, you know.
47:55
Speaker 1: I mean the Chiefs got Carloftis and Trent McDuffie and
47:58
Speaker 1: they started going to Super Bowl and they got ready
48:00
Speaker 1: to Tyreek Hill. So to me, youth can get brought
48:03
Speaker 1: up to speed immediately when you have established people on
48:06
Speaker 1: the team, When you have established winning veterans, they can
48:10
Speaker 1: bring you along really quick. It's like you can go
48:13
Speaker 1: into a job and not really know what you're doing,
48:16
Speaker 1: but if you have a good mentor or people you're
48:18
Speaker 1: working with to kind of show you the ropes, you
48:20
Speaker 1: can turn the corner quick. Now, if you go to
48:22
Speaker 1: a place like you get drafted by the Jets and
48:24
Speaker 1: no one knows what they're doing, like, it can be
48:26
Speaker 1: a problem and that's the reason they don't win many games.
48:29
Speaker 1: But I think like when you look at a lot
48:31
Speaker 1: of good teams, nature of the beasts, like you're just
48:34
Speaker 1: gonna have some young players, and the other thing with
48:36
Speaker 1: young players, like they get better. You know, old players
48:39
Speaker 1: can get worse. Do you think John John Schneider could
48:45
Speaker 1: get an equity position from the sale of the Seahawks. Uh,
48:52
Speaker 1: that's a good question. I mean, I'm sure he'd want it. Uh.
48:57
Speaker 1: I just I would doubt that would happen. I don't
49:03
Speaker 1: know if there are NFL rules, But if I was him,
49:06
Speaker 1: I'd be like, listen, you can pay me whatever my
49:10
Speaker 1: salary is. Cut that thing in half and give me
49:15
Speaker 1: if I stay for the next ten years. Every year
49:18
Speaker 1: is a tiny, tiny percentage, and maybe it adds up
49:21
Speaker 1: to whatever a percent or two. I mean, do the math.
49:24
Speaker 1: So I'm sure he would tell his agent, but I
49:28
Speaker 1: don't think that's the way it works. Should they give
49:31
Speaker 1: both those two guys a little dabble? Again, I don't
49:34
Speaker 1: know the rules on that. Typically, rich people aren't just
49:37
Speaker 1: big on just handing out equity though, especially with It's
49:42
Speaker 1: one thing to get equity in a startup worth nothing.
49:44
Speaker 1: It's another thing to give out equity in something that
49:46
Speaker 1: sells for ten billion. Interesting, who's gonna buy it? Right?
49:51
Speaker 1: I Mean, that's I think a lot of people think
49:53
Speaker 1: Seattle Bezos. Does he want to own a football team?
49:58
Speaker 1: I don't know, but again, like ten billion to him
50:00
Speaker 1: probably isn't that much, So maybe it's like, yeah, just
50:04
Speaker 1: buy a football team whatever I'm in. My take would be,
50:07
Speaker 1: if you're super rich, buying football team might be a
50:11
Speaker 1: pain in the ass because if things go bad, everyone's
50:15
Speaker 1: shitting on you, and then you just human nature, you
50:19
Speaker 1: would try, like, if something was going bad, you would
50:23
Speaker 1: have to try to respond, right, So if like, Okay,
50:25
Speaker 1: we gotta fire this guy, we gotta do that, and
50:27
Speaker 1: they can just keep going bad and then everyone just
50:30
Speaker 1: starts saying you're a village idiot. You're like, well, I
50:32
Speaker 1: just pay ten billion dollars in cash for this. I
50:34
Speaker 1: must not be that stupid. Create a thing called Amazon
50:36
Speaker 1: that you guys are all using. But all of a sudden,
50:39
Speaker 1: if Seattle went the wrong way, everyone would be all
50:41
Speaker 1: over his ass. You know. Jimmy Haslam was just a
50:44
Speaker 1: rich guy printing cash until he bought the browns Now
50:47
Speaker 1: everyone thinks he's the worst owner ever. David Temper was
50:51
Speaker 1: just one of the greatest stock traders of all time
50:54
Speaker 1: until he heaves that that vodka soda at that chick
50:57
Speaker 1: of the Jags game and then everyone's been talking shit
50:59
Speaker 1: ever answer, So I don't know. I might just stay
51:04
Speaker 1: rich and just leave me alone. If I want to
51:07
Speaker 1: watch football, just watch it on my couch. Question for
51:11
Speaker 1: the bag, at what point do bad teams really start
51:14
Speaker 1: mailing it in? For example, when a team starts one
51:17
Speaker 1: to five or zero and six next year, do they
51:19
Speaker 1: start making changes quarterback, d line? Uh, it's probably pretty rare.
51:26
Speaker 1: Like the Chiefs, they didn't view themselves a six win
51:29
Speaker 1: team in training camp and then things, you know, hit
51:31
Speaker 1: the skids. I think like when the Jets, the Dolphins,
51:35
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, the Browns, there're gonna be some of these
51:40
Speaker 1: teams in training camp that aren't gonna go okay, we're
51:42
Speaker 1: gonna be really good. So you have an idea. I
51:46
Speaker 1: think you start talking about it in training camp. As
51:48
Speaker 1: the season goes, let's try to work these guys in
51:51
Speaker 1: and then obviously if you start really like oh and seven,
51:55
Speaker 1: that happens. But the thing in the NFL, you can
52:00
Speaker 1: be six and two and if you ain't getting it done,
52:03
Speaker 1: you will get benched. This is a league that win
52:07
Speaker 1: or lose. You have to play well because if you don't,
52:11
Speaker 1: you will get replaced. Now, quarterback a little more sensitive.
52:17
Speaker 1: Let's face, they're just treated differently. But all these other positions,
52:20
Speaker 1: you cannot get smoked every week just because the team's good.
52:25
Speaker 1: And you're a linebacker missing tackles, you're a safety, blown coverages,
52:29
Speaker 1: you're a guard getting smoked, you will get replaced. I
52:32
Speaker 1: think that's what makes the NFL so relatable to society.
52:36
Speaker 1: In basketball, you're just kind of a made man. That guy.
52:38
Speaker 1: I'm making forty million dollars a year. What are you
52:39
Speaker 1: gonna do to me? And the answer is nothing, really,
52:41
Speaker 1: I mean, you probably just keep playing. Right. In football,
52:44
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I've paid you a lot of money
52:46
Speaker 1: just not getting done. See you, I might just cut you.
52:49
Speaker 1: But guy, winning teams cut players. So I think you say,
52:54
Speaker 1: losing teams I think every team thing with football the
52:59
Speaker 1: first coaches do. Right. Let's just say a home game. Obviously,
53:03
Speaker 1: if you're flying home, some of them wants a tape,
53:05
Speaker 1: some of them might just have a peer and relax.
53:07
Speaker 1: But definitely Sunday or Monday morning, right, so you play Sunday.
53:11
Speaker 1: Let's say you have a home game at noon. You
53:14
Speaker 1: know you win or you lose, you shower whatever after
53:19
Speaker 1: the game as a player, as a coach, go home
53:21
Speaker 1: with your family, go to dinner. You're back in the
53:23
Speaker 1: office pretty early. Some coaches are nuts, they're there at
53:26
Speaker 1: like four thirty five. Some coaches maybe work their way
53:29
Speaker 1: in at six seven, get a workout. You typically have
53:34
Speaker 1: some sort of staff meeting before lunch to go over
53:38
Speaker 1: the grades of the tape, because probably like eight or
53:41
Speaker 1: nine you watch the tape, you've watched it individually, and
53:45
Speaker 1: then you watch it like offense defense, and maybe the
53:47
Speaker 1: head coach, if he's an offensive defensive guy, is in
53:50
Speaker 1: there with you, and you're going through it and grading
53:52
Speaker 1: it and evaluating everybody. So if you're the offense, THEOC
53:57
Speaker 1: probably has or the head coach has the clicker, the
54:00
Speaker 1: wide receiver coach, the aligned coach, the tight end coach,
54:02
Speaker 1: the running back coach, quarterback coach. They're all in that room,
54:06
Speaker 1: you know, with their already gray. It's kind of going
54:09
Speaker 1: over it. So over the course of a month, like
54:11
Speaker 1: in September, you could be four and oh, but like,
54:15
Speaker 1: hey man, our fucking right tackle is not getting it done.
54:18
Speaker 1: Do we need to trade for one? Do we need
54:20
Speaker 1: to claim a guy? Do we need to start competing
54:22
Speaker 1: the backup in practice. So that's the thing with football.
54:28
Speaker 1: I think most jobs, I mean, unless you're like Justin
54:31
Speaker 1: Jefferson could have a bad month, you know what I mean.
54:33
Speaker 1: The majority of players, though, are getting evaluated very very
54:37
Speaker 1: thoroughly every single week, win loser, draw, and that that's
54:41
Speaker 1: what I think makes the NFL so intense. It's why
54:43
Speaker 1: when you see these players, these former players talk about
54:46
Speaker 1: the anxiety every week, all these team meetings on Wednesday,
54:49
Speaker 1: because it's just an intense environment. It doesn't matter if
54:52
Speaker 1: you're ten and oh or two and eight. You gotta
54:55
Speaker 1: fucking have your head on a swivel. No good team
54:59
Speaker 1: like has a complacent environment, and then bad teams even
55:05
Speaker 1: if it has a bad environment, everyone's on edge because
55:08
Speaker 1: you know at any moment you get cut, fired, traded, whatever.
55:11
Speaker 1: So good teams everyone's kind of like, hey, we gotta
55:16
Speaker 1: this isn't good enough. We gotta people are coming for us.
55:18
Speaker 1: Bad teams everyone thinks like this could be my last day.
55:22
Speaker 1: It's just football. Listening to today's podcast, I found it
55:25
Speaker 1: funny that one of the ads is for a pet Er.
55:29
Speaker 1: I love that Fugazi rant. Some people hit me up
55:32
Speaker 1: on some of the ads. The automated ads, they're called
55:37
Speaker 1: programmatic ads are typically which that is funny, are sometimes
55:43
Speaker 1: locally driven. Someone's like, middle Coff, you got this political ad. Well,
55:47
Speaker 1: if you live in a certain area, you know, iHeart.
55:50
Speaker 1: We just buy these ad platforms, like the guy that
55:53
Speaker 1: lives in Florida is gonna get a different ad than
55:57
Speaker 1: the dude that lives in Minnesota in Seattle. So some
56:02
Speaker 1: of the now, some of them are national, right, like
56:04
Speaker 1: McDonald's or something. But sometimes some of these ads are
56:10
Speaker 1: locally driven. Which is the power of what we do
56:13
Speaker 1: is you know, it's it's based on where you are.
56:17
Speaker 1: Why radios fucked? Also, a listener gave you an idea
56:21
Speaker 1: for the fans of the show. It's stupid, but you
56:24
Speaker 1: could call your fans the Eagles since they're all obsessed
56:27
Speaker 1: with three and out. I don't think how we would
56:30
Speaker 1: like that joke, but that's a pretty good one. Yeah,
56:33
Speaker 1: we just gotta when you know it, it's like if
56:39
Speaker 1: I ever hear it and I go, that's it. I've
56:41
Speaker 1: just never heard one. It's like, that's it. Who knows?
56:44
Speaker 1: Like knowing what I know? Now? What I name the
56:46
Speaker 1: show three and Out? I don't know. I just I
56:48
Speaker 1: remember needing a football name. I wanted something kind of generic.
56:53
Speaker 1: I remember Daniel Jeremiah moved the sticks. I'm like, that
56:56
Speaker 1: is just a great name, move the sticks. Certain names
57:00
Speaker 1: just just work right, pardon my take. Certain names just
57:06
Speaker 1: call her daddy. I mean, they're just certain names. Like
57:08
Speaker 1: that was a genius name. Three and out. I would
57:11
Speaker 1: I have renamed it like after I started doing it.
57:13
Speaker 1: Who knows? But too deep in and out of change.
57:19
Speaker 1: Question for the bag Ravens fan, how do you think
57:22
Speaker 1: the team should approach the first round? I still have
57:25
Speaker 1: major concerns with a pass rush. While Trey helps, unless
57:30
Speaker 1: Matabuque is healthy and Mike Green takes a major step,
57:33
Speaker 1: I struggle to see this unit not big a weakness, again,
57:36
Speaker 1: considering no one had more than five sacks. I have
57:39
Speaker 1: similar concerns with the pass catchers zay as they and
57:44
Speaker 1: in aging Mark Andrews are their only proven guys. I
57:47
Speaker 1: see mock drafts having us take an interior offensive lineman,
57:50
Speaker 1: but that seems like a reach on a position the
57:53
Speaker 1: Ravens have had success drafting in later rounds. Well, you're
58:00
Speaker 1: kind of the sweet spot because I don't know if
58:05
Speaker 1: there's a wide receiver worth taking there at fourteen, one
58:08
Speaker 1: of the pass rushers could definitely drop. I think you
58:11
Speaker 1: would have to think long and hard about that. I mean,
58:14
Speaker 1: Trey Henderson's coming off a major injury where he played
58:17
Speaker 1: seven games, and he's an older player, so like, what's
58:25
Speaker 1: his What would you say is over under sacks? Is
58:27
Speaker 1: next year? If I said ten and a half? Like
58:32
Speaker 1: to me, if you tell me he's healthy for seventeen games,
58:35
Speaker 1: like he's getting double digit sacks, would I bet on
58:37
Speaker 1: him playing all these games? I don't know if I would.
58:41
Speaker 1: So I think they're very, very invested in him. We've
58:43
Speaker 1: seen some older pass rushers recently like kind of get
58:46
Speaker 1: banged up, so you know, when they change teams, I
58:50
Speaker 1: think you would one hundred percent take a guy if
58:52
Speaker 1: it's worth taking. In fairness to them, they draft pretty well,
58:56
Speaker 1: so you know, Kyle Hamilton's a Flowers, Ronnie Stanley. Times
59:00
Speaker 1: they've had you know, higher picks. They they've nailed them.
59:03
Speaker 1: So I DaCosta maybe kind of a dick, might not
59:07
Speaker 1: have been, you know, the most nice guy to me,
59:10
Speaker 1: but I respect their franchise and how they draft. So
59:15
Speaker 1: now he's got his pickback. No Max Crosby, I would
59:19
Speaker 1: I would say defensive line would be would be an
59:24
Speaker 1: area in which one they could go, uh like mackay Lemon.
59:30
Speaker 1: Kind of feels like a raven. A little bit could
59:32
Speaker 1: see that, I guess. Remember Greg co Sell did not
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Speaker 1: like him. I liked him when I watched him. But
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Speaker 1: in a perfect world I would draft receivers in the
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Speaker 1: second round. I would be much more inclined to take
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Speaker 1: lineman when on that Audie else, see you tomorrow. Peace.
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Speaker 1: The volume