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  But he helps with quite a bit of that.
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  face this year. And he is technically going to
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  It's like took me a second. How are you?
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  I'm good brother, how are you? Oh, you know, I, I can sit here
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  and complain all day, but that ain't going to help nobody.
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  So, you know, I say, hey, I figured I would, I figured I'd
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  come in, you'd be, you know, you'd be serious on sports.
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  And you know, I, I, I, I'd be a jokester like I like I always
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  AM. Oh, absolutely.
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  I mean, heck, to be honest with you, that's my personality.
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  Most time is if there's ever a serious situation, I'm like, oh,
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  I got to be the guy that makes the inappropriate joke to make
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  somebody laugh. I got to do it.
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  I just can't help it. But man, I I'm excited because
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  we are, we are finally in the time of year where football is
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  back. Now, as somebody very well put
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  it, we get a little bit of an appetizer 'cause we have
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  technically pre season football has already kicked off at the
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  beginning of this month. But then we also have an
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  appetizer as far as college football.
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  Because Week 0 officially kicks off on Saturday, the biggest
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  match up being UNC versus TCU over in Dublin, Ireland at 12:00
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  PM Eastern on ESPN. Then the other big Power 4 match
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  up is North Carolina State versus Virginia, which we'll get
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  into. But then of course, like all
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  offseason and as we get closer, we have to have that last little
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  bit of drama thrown in there as far as sports goes.
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  Deshawn Watson. Deshawn Watson, amidst all of
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  his things, has been named quarterback number one to start
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  the season for the Cleveland Browns.
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  And then there's a little bit of an upset as far as the college
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  football world because we have college football players
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  returning back to college. Even though they technically
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  went pro, even if it was only for, you know, the length of a
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  cup of coffee, they still went pro nonetheless.
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  But let let's dive into the first part that I know you're
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  excited about. Joel Deshaun Watson named the
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  starter for the Cleveland Browns amidst everything.
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  Man, this, this is just it's such a mess.
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  This was something that was talked about all last year.
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  You know, who was going to be the starter for Cleveland?
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  You know, Deshawn was hurt. You know, then it was a toss up
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  between Shadur and Dylan Gabriel.
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  Now we come into this year. Shadur, he he did the best with
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  what he could. It wasn't like he was turning
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  anybody's heads, but it it, it seemed like the team played
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  better under him. Deshawn is healthy.
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  They're paying him the money, whether he's on the roster,
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  whether he's not on the roster, all of that money is guaranteed.
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  You know, the media says no, don't starting.
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  The fans say don't starting Deshawn Watson even said don't
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  start me. And the Browns said, you know
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  what? This is our guy Joe, I know you
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  are a resident Denver Broncos fan, but you're you're pretty
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  much a sports fan in general. What?
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  What's your thoughts on this whole Deshaun Watson?
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  Well, the first thing is, and just like any relationship, even
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  in a football team, you, you enter the relationship the same
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  way you exit the relationship. You know, it was when he went,
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  when he was at Houston, you know, he he thought he was going
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  to get bypassed with all like the penalties and all the what
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  we'll call it the drama, OK. And now he's in Cleveland and,
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  you know, you know, he sits there and he's complaining to
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  the fan base, which you don't ever do that, OK, you, you, you
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  sit there and complain with the fan base.
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  Oh, OK. All right.
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  Well, you know, when I got hurt, when my ankles got torn up, you
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  know, you got, you guys booed me, brother, I hate to tell you,
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  but they didn't Boo you because you got hurt.
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  They didn't Boo you just because of your past.
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  They booed you because right now the way you're playing is
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  terrible. It is terrible.
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  It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if it doesn't
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  matter if, if, if, if you've done great in college, that
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  doesn't translate over to the pros.
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  And that's what people that's what people seem to failed to
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  realize. Just because you was an All Star
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  in college doesn't mean that it's going to reciprocate in the
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  NFL. And we're we're we're we're
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  seeing that now. You know, we kind of saw that
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  when Tim Tebow was playing. You know, I and Ji.
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  Know. I know she's excited.
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  Oh yes, yes, now I get to hear you guys trade insults all
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  through college. I've it's going to.
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  Be a great time. But you know, I, I, I, but I'll
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  tell you, you know, I, I feel, I, I do feel bad for the
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  Cleveland Brown thing because, you know, I, I do feel strongly
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  that Baker Mayfield was really a good quarterback for them.
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  You know, stuff happens. You know, the Cleveland Browns
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  kind of stepped on their, you know, special purpose and, you
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  know, they just, they keep on stepping on their special
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  purpose. You know, and I, I tell you
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  what, one of the things that I do want to highlight and I, I
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  mean, you know, I, I know this is like one of the top stories,
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  but you know, I, I think it's a huge thing, the spotlight to
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  shed some light that the Dallas Cowboys, they have, they have
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  drafted their first Navajo Indian.
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  Like I did not know that, but the NFL now has the Navajo
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  player. And you know, the reason why I
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  think that's such a big deal is because, you know, it doesn't
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  matter. It doesn't matter what you are
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  like minority wise, you know, sometimes, sometimes you feel
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  alone in a league, you know, and now, now we, we've, we've, we
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  have this Navajo Indian that has embraced it.
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  And I, I, I love the way he brought in the team, you know,
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  say, hey, you know, we play as a team, we fight as a team kind of
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  thing. And I, I think it's very
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  inspirational, you know, especially since till this day,
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  the, the, the natives kind of they, they, they kind of get the
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  cold shoulder every once in a while.
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  So I'm, I'm, I'm glad that this happened.
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  But yeah, you know, he needs to, he, he needs to really just, he
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  needs to just be quiet and let his talk be on the field instead
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  of being on the the podium. Because you know as well as I
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  do, nobody cares what you say. They hear what you do.
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  Yeah, and hopefully I don't. I'm not butchering his name.
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  If, if I do and anybody happens to know, please correct me.
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  The Dallas Cowboys player who's a offensive tackle is Shias
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  Peete or Pete. I don't know.
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  It's Pete. It looks like Pete to me, but
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  maybe it's announced any differently.
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  Don't. Don't.
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  Have to me, I'm a tweeting chef and so episodes, I've been
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  through some people's names, you know?
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  So, so if I'm wrong, please feel free to correct me.
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  Anybody in the comments can feel free to correct me, but I need
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  you to spell it out like I'm six, OK?
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  When I say spell out, I mean tell me how to enunciate it.
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  I'll just give you the letters. But no, I do agree, I think for
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  Cleveland Browns fans, you, you've been stuck in this
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  perpetual loop ever since the Cleveland Browns came back to
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  the city as a franchise. You know, it's oh, we're
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  rebuilding. We're going to build back to the
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  future. We're we're rebuilding.
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  We're rebuilding. And that's not even counting the
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  turmoil that they went through when the Baltimore Ravers Ravens
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  took took Cleveland Browns team. Exactly.
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  Same same thing that happened with the Baltimore.
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  But it but it's one of those they they've been quote UN quote
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  rebuilding for so long. It's been such a struggle and
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  such a turmoil for Browns fans. You know, it's like, OK, we've
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  been doing this for over 30 years.
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  At what point does the rebuild stop?
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  Because you keep you keep saying it's a rebuild and it's like
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  we're going to just toss everything and do it again.
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  And you never give anything enough time to sit there and
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  establish. But you brought up the point of
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  Baker Mayfield. I felt like when they had Kevin
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  Stefanski, you had Baker. It's like, OK, you finally kept
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  continuity as far as a coaching quarterback goes.
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  Baker, you know, he's a little cocky.
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  He's got a little swag to him. You know, he's going to trash
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  talk. You know, he's going to have
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  some really good performances. He's going to have some really
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  down performances. But it seemed like he truly
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  embodied and truly embraced Cleveland and he kind of gave
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  them that swagger that they were missing.
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  As far as, hey, I'm I may not be the best quarterback, but I'm
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  going to tell you I'm the best quarterback.
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  And when I'm going out there and his quote, when I feel
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  dangerous, like everybody's in trouble, you know, the poor dude
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  gets hurt. He tries to play through an
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  injury like how most fans would probably want him to.
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  As far as, hey, we need you out there to, you know, get to keep
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  us competitive, to keep us relevant.
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  You know, unfortunately that ends up falling through.
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  And you know, Baker now is in Tampa as a starter.
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  But the the other issue too, that I think Deshawn, I don't
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  know if he realizes this or not, not only are the fans are really
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  judging you primarily on your past because that's all they
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  have to go off of. You've been there since 2023.
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  If I remember correctly, you've played 19 games for him and in
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  the 19 games that you've played in the three seasons you've been
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  there have not been good. You there's little to no
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  evidence of any type of positivity as far as, you know,
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  quarterback play. Like if they're playing and
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  they're losing, OK that you know, that's one thing, but it
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  it's not even close. I mean, they're getting
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  absolutely destroyed. He's not there for the last year
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  and a half as far as being available to play.
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  So the only thing the fans had to go off of is OK, we have
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  crappy quarterback play and you had a whole lot of drama in
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  Houston as far as allegations and what not go.
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  So there's so there. There's not a lot for them to go
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  off of. For sure, you know, and I'll
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  tell you what, like that, that movie that they made draft day
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  or whatever, boy did they subscribe the Cleveland Browns.
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  To this day, I, I think the Cleveland Browns, I think where
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  they're going wrong is every time they do a draft or, or, or,
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  or something like they, they have to make like a, like a
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  showbiz pick or something. We kind of like draft day.
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  You know, I, I think they're bad luck started when and, and it
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  put them behind 10 or 12 years, I think was when they picked
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  Johnny Manziel. I mean, we remember that, you
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  know, that that guy was waiting forever.
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  I, I, I thought it was going to be a skull.
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  You know, he was supposed to be like a first round and they just
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  waited and waited and waited and it was things like that, you
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  know, because even though teams can work together, it's really
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  hard being in a locker room when the it's a circus.
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  It really is. You know, football players are
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  no different than other people. When somebody starts getting a
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  lot of attention and they don't feel like, you know, you know,
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  they're, they're they're getting any Atta boys or any support,
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  Well, then you know, they're like they I hate to say that
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  they don't guard them as much, but they don't take care of them
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  as much if they're not taking care of them.
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  And we we saw that in the NFLI mean we've hell, you're a Colts
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  fan. You saw that with Andrew Luck.
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  You know, Andrew Luck could have been great, but the ownership,
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  the manager, the leaders, they, they, they kind of ruined that.
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  They really did. Yeah, and it was funny.
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  I don't, I don't know if you've seen it or if you, if you ever
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  want to take. I think it's about a 5 minute
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  clip. The the interview itself I think
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  is like 2 hours. Eric Ebron, one of the former
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  Titans for the Colts, is in it and he's being interviewed by
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  some other players, I think a Titans player and a couple
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  others. He actually talked about his
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  last, you know, his last year in India and his last year with
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  Luck. And he's like, you know, Luck
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  and I are both in there. We're both hurt.
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  Like we're both rehabbing. He's like we're going through
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  practices and, you know, we're just getting absolutely crushed
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  offensive and defensively he goes.
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  But then Luck comes in, he goes, man, he comes in for a drive.
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  He goes, that's my quarterback, everybody's height.
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  And he said that it was weird too, because Luck apparently did
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  not trust the team doctors that apparently he hired his own
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  medical staff to come in and evaluating, make sure that he
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  was good. And and what's to your point for
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  the leadership? What does that say when you're
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  star quarterback that is replacing another star
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  quarterback in Peyton Manning? What does that say when he's
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  like, yeah, I don't trust your medical staff and their
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  judgement. Like I I need you to figure it
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  out or do something. You know, I, I, I, I think
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  that's something usual. I think that all NFL players are
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  like that to a point, because we've seen it at the end of like
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  the five year draft that, you know, they they can, they can
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  take that extra option or whatever.
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  You know, I mean, the people getting mad at these football
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  players and say, oh, you know, he's just getting paid too much.
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  OK, well, you know, I I get that, but it's not your money.
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  It it the NF LS money. Who who cares how much he's
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  getting paid? You know, is, is he producing?
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  You know, for the longest time here in Denver, really good
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  example would be vomiting. You know, Bob Miller has had a
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  successful career. He's went to this place, he's
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  went to that place and you know now recently before he before he
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  went and and signed with the I, I believe the Washington
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  Redskins or was it the Dallas Cowboys?
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  I. Forgot Cowboys.
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  Cowboys are the newest, yeah. Yeah, so before he went there,
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  you know, everybody here in Denver's, you know, Denver's
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  really bad about bandwagon fans. We, we, we really are.
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  And when he when he was getting ready to, you know, come out,
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  you know, hey, this will probably be my last year.
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  Everybody's like, hey, we need Bob Miller.
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  No, we don't. People don't understand that,
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  you know, he's not the same person that he was when he was
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  here. There's a reason why we got rid
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  of him. You know, everybody sits there
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  and you know, when free agency comes, you know, before draft,
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  you know, and, and we get this player and we get this player.
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  I, I forget what player it was And, and I met him as a person,
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  but he was really good. He was a, he was a 49er and he
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  went over to the Denver Broncos. We, he, he, he played in the
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  game in the Super Bowl, he caught one pass and it was the
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  only pass I've ever seen in the Super Bowl that you go with -8
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  yards. You know, this is supposed to be
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  an excellent receiver. But see, The thing is, is just
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  because they're an excellent receiver here doesn't mean
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  they're going to be an excellent receiver there.
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  And I think people failed to realize it's kind of like going
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  to Walmart. You'd think that the vegetable
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  aisle is here at Walmart, but all Walmarts are different.
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  So it's it, it, it takes a while for them to, you know,
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  accommodate, you know, where the locker room is, where football,
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  you know, football field is, where the training room is.
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  You know, some people that might not be a big deal.
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  But for football players, especially in the, you know,
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  well, that's a huge deal, especially those that are very,
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  very superstitious. I know a football player that
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  never changed his boxers for the whole season because they were
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  winning. OK, so they're very
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  superstitious. Hey, most most fans usually are
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  too is like when that's true, when I would watch football,
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  it's like there there was some seasons it was like if I watch
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  the game, they would win. If I don't watch the game, they
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  they'll win and I'm like, well, I guess I'm not watching their
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  games this year. But but no, I do think there
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  comes a point with a lot of fans and.
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  You have to realize at the end of the day, all of these
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  organizations is a business like they are in it to make money.
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  Right. And, and, and everybody wants
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  these players to take like a hometown discount and stuff like
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  that. But it's like, you know, you
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  wouldn't take a discount if you, you know, at your job, you know
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  it, you know, it's like, it's like telling somebody that's,
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  you know, expecting to have like 25 or $26 an hour, you go to
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  them and say, Hey, we want you back.
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  But we're going to give you $15.00 an hour.
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  Congratulations, you've been promoted.
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  Yep, that kind of thing. You know, it's like we, we can't
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  fault him for that. No, and and part of it's the
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  nostalgia and and that too, it's like, you know, for Von Miller,
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  you know, you think about it, he's towards the end of his
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  career. Oh yeah.
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  It's like he he's going to try to get every little bit and
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  every, you know, dime penny that he can.
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  And I don't blame him because it's like, and not saying he
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  can't potentially have another career successfully, if he wants
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  to go to like broadcasting or color commentary or whatever,
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  whatever path he decides to go to, he'll he'll be successful.
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  But nonetheless, though, it's like, hey, while I still can and
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  while I can still do a play in the game that I grew up playing
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  and that I love, I'm absolutely going to do it.
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  But no, I mean it, I do agree. And it it will be interesting to
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  see how, you know, how Cleveland handles this whole Deshawn
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  situation, because for him, he's already got his money.
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  Like they're they're already set and solid as far as that goes.
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  But but to kind of bring up to your point, though, as far as
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  you know, guys trying to get as much as they can as far as money
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  goes, there's been a huge stink in the football world,
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  especially in college football about college players returning
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  back to college from the pros, especially in the pre season.
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  Now the two players that have been in the news most recently,
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  both ironically former Ole Miss players by my LSU Tigers head
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  coach Lane Kiffin, Xavion Harris and Daquan Wright, both were on
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  pre season rosters. I believe it is Daquan Wright is
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  he's going to clear waivers as of Wednesday if no team picks
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  him up. And then if he does, he will be
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  able to go back to LSU to play football after technically being
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  on a pre season roster, playing in the pre season and going back
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  to college. Now, I do want to say because a
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  lot of people have kind of made a stink about this.
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  The Big 10 even announced they were going to pass the bill and
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  they ended up passing it a short bit ago.
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  Basically any player that goes to the NFL, whether it's draft,
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  whether it's pre season, whatever the case may be,
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  they're not allowed to return back to college football, at
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  least in the Big 10. And I do want to clarify
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  something on this is that this rule, well, this whole entire
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  situation only applies football wise to like 16 guys.
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  It's like 100 athletes across sports, like all across college,
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  college athletics. But football wise, it's only
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  like 16 guys. And basically this comes from
• 23:12
  the class of 2022. They kind of feel slighted that
• 23:15
  basically the COVID class. And I believe 2021, they get the
• 23:19
  extra year because of COVID, they got an extra year, couple
• 23:22
  years to be able to play football, college football a
• 23:24
  little bit longer. And then they of course passed
• 23:28
  the rule starting. I can't remember when the rule
• 23:31
  officially starts. I believe it's 2023 is when it
• 23:35
  starts that basically once you come into college football, you
• 23:40
  only have five years maximum play.
• 23:43
  Basically the the oldest age you can be coming out of college
• 23:46
  football is 24. So they're they're a little bit
• 23:51
  peeved that, hey, we were kind of that middle child that isn't
• 23:55
  getting the exception to the rule.
• 23:57
  So there's been a few courts in Colorado, There's been a court
• 24:00
  in Louisiana. All of them have basically filed
• 24:02
  temporary restraining orders against the NCAA to say, hey, we
• 24:07
  believe that we should be able to play.
• 24:09
  Judges have signed off on it. So therefore, these guys are
• 24:12
  able to come back to college football.
• 24:14
  Now, Joel, I don't know how much college football you watch, but
• 24:17
  at least from your perspective though there there's kind of
• 24:20
  this unwritten rule that once you GoPro, you don't come back
• 24:25
  to college, no matter how good you were, no matter, you know,
• 24:28
  how much fans might want you to come back.
• 24:31
  You know, you, you just can't do it.
• 24:33
  I agree with that. I, I agree with that.
• 24:35
  I also agree that, you know, and I know, I know that people are
• 24:40
  going to come at me in the comments about this, but I also
• 24:44
  do agree that, you know, Friday's for high school,
• 24:49
  Saturdays for college and Sundays for for NFL football.
• 24:55
  Now, I'm just like any other fan.
• 24:57
  I love football. I do.
• 24:59
  I love football. Do I like football on Mondays?
• 25:02
  Hell yeah. Do I like footballs on
• 25:04
  Thursdays? Hell yeah.
• 25:06
  Do I like Thurs? Do you know, do I like Sunday
• 25:08
  football? Hell yeah.
• 25:09
  I love all that. But even though I like it, I can
• 25:14
  tell you that the quality of the football performing since they
• 25:20
  started all these different days and ever since they started, you
• 25:26
  know, flying them to England and and doing all these games and
• 25:32
  stuff, like I find the quality of football very lacking.
• 25:38
  Like I don't see the I I don't want to say the hard hits, but
• 25:43
  like I don't see I don't see the motivation.
• 25:46
  I don't see the running. I don't know.
• 25:48
  I don't see the like, you know, just just going at it.
• 25:51
  You know, I don't see that anymore.
• 25:54
  I really don't. I think the the the one even the
• 26:01
  Denver Broncos, like in the left there ahead a bunch of
• 26:04
  touchdowns. Like, I don't see any like kind
• 26:09
  of, you know, plays and stuff. And I, I really do feel, feel
• 26:14
  that Thursday Night Football has watered down the NFL to a, a, a
• 26:20
  certain bit, you know, and if they want to do overseas
• 26:25
  football, that that's fine. That's what I thought.
• 26:28
  Like what the UFLAFLXFL, whatever you want to call it,
• 26:34
  that's what I thought they were for, you know, they, they were
• 26:37
  for kind of like a, kind of like a summer camp, you know,
• 26:41
  learning to be a pro kind of thing.
• 26:44
  But a lot of things have changed.
• 26:47
  A lot of things have changed. And I know the big, the, the big
• 26:52
  thing that they changed or no, it was last year, big thing that
• 26:57
  they changed was the the way the kickoffs were.
• 27:01
  Oh yeah, yeah. You know, and this is what I
• 27:03
  don't like about that, Tony. I don't like that they keep
• 27:10
  changing the NFL rules like you should have rules for high
• 27:16
  school and those rules should trickle down up to the NFL.
• 27:23
  You know, there there shouldn't be any rule change.
• 27:26
  You know, I mean, we're still kicking off regular at high
• 27:30
  school and then when you go to pro, it's like, what the Hell's
• 27:32
  this? You know, they, they keep
• 27:36
  changing the football game and I really like the leather heads.
• 27:43
  You know, I really like that form of football.
• 27:46
  But they, they just, they keep changing it.
• 27:49
  They keep changing the finesse of it and it's just not as
• 27:53
  entertaining. Yeah.
• 27:56
  And I, I don't disagree. And I think for, I think for
• 27:58
  part of this too is, you know, the UFL and whatnot, like you
• 28:04
  said, I think it's good for a good in between it's and, and
• 28:08
  some people may agree with this, some may not.
• 28:10
  And hopefully nobody takes offense to it.
• 28:12
  I kind of see football as like a drug like, and you got to get
• 28:15
  your fix. So it's like you have your fix
• 28:17
  from basically the end of August, beginning of September
• 28:20
  all the way through February when the Super Bowl ends.
• 28:23
  And then it's like you're sitting there and you get a
• 28:25
  couple weeks off, like, OK, I'm off.
• 28:26
  And then end of February, beginning of March comes, it's
• 28:29
  like, damn, I miss football. Kind of kind of really want
• 28:32
  football back. And maybe you can get the you
• 28:35
  can get it soothed a little bit through, you know, March Madness
• 28:38
  and the NCAA Tournament. And then it's like, OK, after
• 28:41
  that it's like, oh crap, I got to have my fix.
• 28:44
  Like now, Now what's then they make the UFL for spring
• 28:47
  football. And you know, like you said, the
• 28:50
  the quality just isn't there as much because it's, you know, a
• 28:53
  bunch of guys that they finished college.
• 28:55
  Maybe they're they weren't necessarily great for an NFL
• 28:59
  roster. Maybe they weren't able to make
• 29:00
  an NFL roster. So this is kind of a chance for
• 29:03
  them to to to have a second, second opportunity to maybe make
• 29:06
  a professional roster again moving forward.
• 29:11
  But I will say too, you know, you talked about how the NFL has
• 29:14
  changed as far as the rules with kickoff and whatnot.
• 29:17
  That's what a lot of people are aggravated with college football
• 29:19
  right now. And especially like this
• 29:21
  situation where you have guys that and I'll be honest, I'm a
• 29:25
  little bit more for this specific situation in them
• 29:29
  coming back to college football. And the reason being is if it
• 29:34
  just just to make it easier as far as timeline and obviously
• 29:37
  there's little stuff in between there.
• 29:40
  Most of these guys last played football January time frame and
• 29:44
  they're not technically playing football again until beginning
• 29:47
  of August. Now obviously there's rookie
• 29:49
  mini camps, there's training camps, there's all that in
• 29:51
  between there. But you know, let's just say for
• 29:53
  the sake of arguments purposes, it's only 6 months removed from
• 29:57
  playing college football. Now, if they had been in the NFL
• 29:59
  like 2 years and then they try to come back like, no, you,
• 30:02
  you've already moved on. Like you, you just kind of take
• 30:05
  the take the loss like your, your college days are behind
• 30:08
  you, you're in the pros. You you got to move forward with
• 30:10
  what you got. Well, hell, we're not even doing
• 30:13
  physical activity, but when we broadcast, Tony, if we take, if
• 30:17
  we take a day off from like 2 broadcasts or we're gone for
• 30:21
  like 2 weeks, like you're, you're resting.
• 30:24
  I forgot to do this or something.
• 30:27
  You know, you have to, you have to do a repetition.
• 30:30
  And I mean, it's the same thing in, in the NFL.
• 30:33
  You know, I, I don't really have an opinion on once they go to
• 30:38
  the NFL, they can come back to college.
• 30:42
  I don't have a real opinion on it because you know, like that's
• 30:49
  assuming this isn't going to work or this, this can't work.
• 30:54
  And we don't want to assume. We, we, we want to know.
• 30:58
  So the only way you're going to find out is if you test it kind
• 31:02
  of like I think last year they finally tested in college.
• 31:06
  The the players would get stipend off of like the ticket
• 31:10
  sales and stuff. It.
• 31:12
  Was starting that last year, you know, and I mean, you know,
• 31:17
  don't knock it until you try it, you know, so it might work.
• 31:21
  Well, and I, I think for a lot of people too, they, they don't
• 31:24
  like how much college football has changed because, you know,
• 31:27
  again, I don't know how much you follow college football.
• 31:29
  College football is a very tradition based sport.
• 31:33
  Like for the longest time conferences were primarily based
• 31:37
  off of geography. So it was like the Atlantic
• 31:40
  Coast Conference. The ACC is like primarily
• 31:42
  everybody's on the East Coast, but now they've added California
• 31:46
  and Stanford all the way over on the West Coast.
• 31:48
  And it's like, wait a minute. They don't belong in the ACC.
• 31:51
  Or like, you know, the, the Big 10, you know, is primarily A
• 31:55
  Midwestern conference. But now they have Maryland and
• 31:58
  Rutgers on the East Coast, but then they also have Oregon,
• 32:01
  Washington, and then Southern Californians like, wait a
• 32:03
  minute. No, no, no, no, no.
• 32:04
  This, this doesn't make any sense.
• 32:07
  So for them, when they see guys leave and then it's like they
• 32:11
  get to come back, you know, people are kind of up in arms
• 32:14
  about it. And, and like I said, it's only
• 32:16
  for a small number of players and everybody's kind of freaking
• 32:20
  out that it's the end of the world.
• 32:21
  And, and don't get it twisted, there's still a lot of issues in
• 32:23
  college football that need to be addressed and fixed As far as
• 32:26
  you know, it's just the Wild West as far as whoever has the
• 32:29
  most money to spend on buying players can basically do it.
• 32:33
  And there's nothing you can do to stop it.
• 32:35
  And you know, you was asking me like, you know, you don't know
• 32:38
  how, how much of college football like, hey, I used to
• 32:42
  follow college football religiously when, when, when I
• 32:47
  was in high school, like the like the big team, you know, of
• 32:51
  course in Indiana, Notre Dame, like that, that's the that's the
• 32:54
  cream of the crop. And, you know, I lost a lot of
• 32:58
  respect for college that year. I, I believe Lou Holtz had just,
• 33:06
  he, he just exited as a coach and it was a new coach and Notre
• 33:11
  team, Notre Dame, like they lost every game.
• 33:14
  They were like 2 and 12 or something like that.
• 33:16
  But they still got the chance to go to the bowl.
• 33:19
  And it's like, wait a minute, hold up.
• 33:21
  You're telling me that this guy doesn't, these guys don't even
• 33:24
  have a winning team and you guys are sending them to the bowl
• 33:28
  because they can bring in money. And ever since then, like I, I,
• 33:31
  I just, I can't, I can't watch football.
• 33:35
  And and if I'm not mistaken, last year that same situation
• 33:40
  came down the line for what was it?
• 33:43
  Was it Alabama, Miami, Miami. OK, yeah, Miami.
• 33:48
  So, you know, that's what I mean.
• 33:50
  Like they, they, they they need to have something organized or
• 33:56
  something kind of like the NFL that because that shit won't fly
• 34:00
  in the NFL. Why is it flying in college?
• 34:03
  But again, you know, we keep changing rules in the, in the,
• 34:09
  in the football era and we're, you know, we're, we're still
• 34:13
  kicking off regular in high school.
• 34:16
  In college, yeah, The kickoff is the same in college, too.
• 34:19
  That's what I mean. So, you know, it's just I, I
• 34:23
  don't like it. I kind of blame it all on Rodger
• 34:27
  Goodell, because Rodger Goodell, he's not acting like a
• 34:31
  commissioner for the Football League.
• 34:33
  He's he's acting like a a pimp when it comes to, you know, the,
• 34:39
  the team of the stuff. You know, how can I get the top
• 34:43
  dollar That that that's how it is.
• 34:46
  And apparently that that is the primary reason.
• 34:49
  So apparently he got another raise.
• 34:51
  And I heard recently, I think the math of what he's making is
• 34:54
  like $70 million a year of a raise that he got from the
• 34:58
  owners. Because basically like every
• 35:01
  single year since he's taken over, their profits have just
• 35:04
  continued to grow and grow and grow as far as margins go.
• 35:08
  So I mean, yeah, he he absolutely, he runs it.
• 35:12
  I will say he's not as because I am not a fan of Goodell either.
• 35:16
  I've I've not been a fan of him for a long time.
• 35:18
  Who? Likes Goodell like.
• 35:20
  The the owners do, there's like 32 owners that like him because
• 35:23
  they keep keeping him. Yeah, the owners are going to
• 35:26
  like him because they put money in his pocket, but like nobody
• 35:30
  else is. Nobody else likes him, you know.
• 35:34
  Because he came into the league, you know, the league was, you
• 35:36
  know, in a turmoil. They had disciplinary issues.
• 35:39
  So he came in to basically be the the big bad sheriff that was
• 35:42
  going to clean everything up. But there was just there was so
• 35:45
  much inconsistencies and stuff that was punished on guys.
• 35:49
  And it's like, is it really that deep or you just want to
• 35:52
  basically, you know, whip your whip your junk out on the table
• 35:55
  and say I'm the, I'm the big dog in in the room.
• 35:58
  And, and now, yeah, it's, it's like he doesn't do that as much
• 36:01
  anymore. And now it's just that, hey, I'm
• 36:03
  in the, I'm in the money making business.
• 36:05
  Like, like you pointed out, as far as you know, hey, let's have
• 36:08
  a game. You know, again, Monday Night
• 36:09
  Football, it's classic love Monday Night Football, same, you
• 36:12
  know, all day Sunday, you know, from 12/12 o'clock Eastern all
• 36:15
  the way to, you know, like midnight, basically when Sunday
• 36:18
  Night Football comes to an end, it's like that that's 12 hours
• 36:21
  of football and it's beautiful. But then like you said, it's
• 36:24
  like Thursday Night Football and especially, you know, they even
• 36:27
  started pointing on the Internet and Amazon and you can even hear
• 36:30
  it in the color commentators voice.
• 36:31
  It's like, hey, Thursday Night Football game, we have the one
• 36:35
  in 10 Titans versus like the one in 10 Jaguars.
• 36:38
  It's like, yeah, this is a crap game that nobody wants to watch.
• 36:43
  But then like you said too, they're doing it overseas and
• 36:46
  they're getting great pops from overseas.
• 36:48
  But here's the thing I think they need to realize is you're
• 36:51
  getting those pops overseas because it doesn't happen very
• 36:54
  often because they're not used to that.
• 36:56
  Exactly. And it's like anything, the more
• 36:58
  you do it, the less it's going to be like, like, it was cool
• 37:02
  like five years ago when you would come here every, you know,
• 37:04
  only once or twice a year. Now you come here every other
• 37:07
  game. And they're not thinking about
• 37:09
  the players, you know, just, you know, take a Hall of Famer like
• 37:13
  Emmett Smith, OK, Emmett Smith, he played, I think what was it,
• 37:17
  910, eleven years as a running back, Hall of Fame, right?
• 37:22
  You're lucky if you have a running back now that goes over
• 37:25
  five years because of the game increase, because of the
• 37:32
  Thursday night games, because of overseas, you know, and the, the
• 37:38
  travelling, the travelling that makes a big deal.
• 37:42
  Let let me tell her, any football fans that are watching,
• 37:46
  whenever you see a team going against another team, like
• 37:51
  automatically put it at 50% because there's a good chance
• 37:56
  that that home team is is going to win the game because they
• 37:59
  don't have to do any travelling. They don't have to go through
• 38:03
  any like superstitious, in fact, true story.
• 38:10
  Matt Prater. Matt Prater was a kicker for the
• 38:13
  Denver Broncos for the longest time.
• 38:16
  And Matt Prater, I was, I was good friends with him and he was
• 38:22
  a he was a fan of the Hawk. In fact, like when game time
• 38:27
  came, his parents would always call him, say, hey, you're going
• 38:32
  to have a good game. We just saw a Hawk.
• 38:35
  You know, they used to do that every single time.
• 38:40
  He used to have Hawks and stuff on his locker, on his necklace.
• 38:46
  That's why he always saw that necklace around him.
• 38:48
  You know, he was very superstitious when it came to
• 38:53
  Hawks. And he's not the only football
• 38:56
  player. A lot of them are like that.
• 39:01
  But yeah, it, it's, it's just so it is weird though.
• 39:05
  It, it, it's weird what, what fans, what fans do as far as
• 39:09
  superstitions, even like you said, what football players do
• 39:12
  as far as how they, how they take care of themselves, how
• 39:14
  they prepare. But but it is also interesting
• 39:17
  too. Somebody brought up the point, I
• 39:19
  think it was Brady Quinn, maybe on his on his show on Fox Sports
• 39:24
  radio. He they brought up the point
• 39:26
  that it you you have a new new entire breed of athletes that
• 39:32
  you know, these guys are, you know, 6 foot 5.
• 39:35
  They're like two 35240 and they're running, you know, track
• 39:40
  meet numbers of like ultimate track Olympians of, you know, 4
• 39:44
  fours, 4 threes. It's like, holy moly, a dude
• 39:47
  that size and that speed should not be moving at that kind of a
• 39:52
  base. But but it's also and, and
• 39:56
  you've watched football a little bit longer than I have, you
• 39:59
  know, not to not to date you or anything like that.
• 40:02
  But. But it but it does seem like to
• 40:06
  an extent the like the quality of football player has kind of
• 40:10
  gone down because when when these guys are healthy, they are
• 40:14
  some of the best athletes out there as far as you know, the
• 40:16
  numbers that they're able to put up and what they're able to
• 40:18
  produce. But like you said, how many
• 40:21
  times do you see a running back now that can make it 12 years in
• 40:24
  Elite and still be productive? I mean.
• 40:27
  I mean, you look at, you know, somebody like Ezekiel Elliott,
• 40:30
  who you know, he was hot coming out of college and he was hot
• 40:33
  his first few years in the NFL. But if you, if you look at his
• 40:36
  statistics, it's like every single year his his yards per
• 40:39
  carry would start to start to go down into a point where it's
• 40:42
  like, hey, you're, you're barely getting two to three yards of
• 40:46
  carry whenever you run and. Look at look at CJ Anderson.
• 40:51
  Like that kid could run. But I mean let's face it, he
• 40:55
  only really lasted 3 years. Yeah, yeah.
• 40:58
  You know, and he had a huge loads of concussions, you know,
• 41:06
  and hey, yeah, the NFL has changed the rules to, you know,
• 41:10
  help concussions. How about we and instead of
• 41:15
  changing rules, how about we invest more in the training and
• 41:22
  you know, you know, playing safe and, and different things like
• 41:27
  that, you know, and that's one thing exactly when you know,
• 41:31
  we're talking about, you know, the high school rules are
• 41:34
  different than the NFL rules. You know, if, if, if you're used
• 41:40
  to, if you're used to wreck marching 10 miles and you go 20
• 41:46
  miles, it's going to take a little bit longer.
• 41:50
  Absolutely. So yeah, I, like I said, it's
• 41:54
  one of those I always enjoy football.
• 41:56
  I'm excited to see, you know, ultimately what what comes of
• 41:59
  this season, especially the NFL, because I feel like honestly,
• 42:02
  the the NFL is more wide open now than what I feel like it has
• 42:06
  been in a very, very long time. Because I'm interested to see
• 42:11
  how Indiana University bounces back this year now that they
• 42:17
  lost their quarterback. And I'm especially interested in
• 42:22
  seeing I. I can't pronounce his name, go
• 42:24
  figure, but he. You know he was drafted to the
• 42:27
  Raiders. Fernando Mendoza.
• 42:30
  Yeah, I'm interested to see how he does.
• 42:35
  I, I really am, you know, he so every time he talks, he sounds
• 42:40
  like a very positive player, you know, have a little bit of a
• 42:45
  sense of humor. Not I wouldn't say he's cocky.
• 42:49
  I would say he's confident and I, I, I would say that he's
• 42:53
  pretty humble, But I'm interested in seeing how some of
• 42:57
  these, you know, some of these guys, you know, come out, come,
• 43:02
  you know, just come out playing. Yeah, he's he's also one.
• 43:07
  I want to see how he does because this will also be our
• 43:09
  first true, true insight to what does the success of Tom Brady
• 43:16
  look like post NFL? Like we already see him
• 43:19
  announcing, you know, you know, games on Fox as a as a color
• 43:23
  commentator. But now that he's a partial
• 43:25
  owner of the Raiders, you know, how much of a hand did he have
• 43:29
  in picking Fernando? And then how much of a hand does
• 43:31
  he have now as a partial owner of Hey, you know, this is the
• 43:35
  tips and tricks I'm going to give you of what I did when I
• 43:38
  was playing. Like this is how you need to do
• 43:40
  this. This is how, you know, this is
• 43:43
  going to kind of be the first chance of to see how does Brady
• 43:48
  move into that role of basically what Bill Belichick did for so
• 43:52
  many years of I'm going to find a guy, we're going to plug him
• 43:55
  into this system and we're going to make it work.
• 43:58
  Because, you know, as we've as we've started to learn now, it
• 44:02
  was a whole lot more of Tom making it work on the field than
• 44:04
  it was just Bill Belichick, you know, picking the players,
• 44:07
  especially during Tom was able to have more success after he
• 44:11
  left. And Bill has kind of since
• 44:12
  fallen off. But I'm glad you brought that up
• 44:15
  because two teams that actually tie in with this, North
• 44:20
  Carolina, who is now hosted by Bill, who's now coached by Bill
• 44:24
  Belichick, as well as they take on TCU and Dublin, Ireland on
• 44:29
  Saturday on ESPN at 12:00 PM Eastern.
• 44:32
  Their former quarterback is now the quarterback at Indiana.
• 44:36
  And Josh Hoover, there's potentially a whole lot of
• 44:38
  upside there. He's very athletic.
• 44:40
  He's actually a little bit more athletic than what Fernando
• 44:42
  Mendoza was, but the match up overall and and Joel, you can
• 44:47
  give me your thoughts as to far as as far as how you how you
• 44:50
  think this is ultimately going to go.
• 44:53
  But as of right now on. Well, is Belichick's girlfriend
• 44:56
  going to be on the on the field? Because if she's going to be on
• 44:59
  the field, then that could possibly be a distraction.
• 45:03
  And I think I think that's one of the reasons why Belichick
• 45:07
  didn't wasn't very good last year as a coach.
• 45:10
  I mean, you got to remember, Belichick is the first coach to
• 45:14
  get traded by the Cleveland Browns, OK?
• 45:17
  So he, he isn't like, he isn't the greatest court, you know, he
• 45:22
  isn't the greatest coach in the world.
• 45:25
  It was a great combination of him and Brady and Bledsoe,
• 45:30
  'cause remember, Brady took Bledsoe's position.
• 45:34
  OK, Patriots didn't really suffer a a quarterback loss like
• 45:39
  like like they have recently. But I think Belichick is a
• 45:45
  really good coach. But I do think that it doesn't
• 45:48
  take much to be a distraction. We saw that during all the
• 45:55
  different scandals in New England, especially the the
• 46:00
  deflate gate. Deflategate, yeah.
• 46:02
  And the Spygate, yeah. And it's it's funny too, because
• 46:07
  North Carolina has had distractions, you know, this
• 46:10
  offseason because their general manager had to step down.
• 46:14
  And, you know, it's it's believed that he was one of the
• 46:16
  biggest parts in hiring Bill Belichick.
• 46:19
  And now it just seems like all of North Carolina's coaching
• 46:22
  staff is this, you know, nepotism filled coaching tree of
• 46:26
  basically every one of Bill Belichick's previous, you know,
• 46:29
  Co workers or people that he liked has followed him there to
• 46:32
  North Carolina. And it's just kind of like he's
• 46:35
  trying to, you know, ride out, ride out his glory days still
• 46:38
  being a coach, But it's been an absolute disaster.
• 46:41
  I mean, he it's obviously he can't recruit well.
• 46:44
  He can't utilize the transfer portal.
• 46:46
  Well. I mean, there was all that hype
• 46:47
  last year. And he got absolutely.
• 46:49
  Blown out. I'm telling you, it's a it's a
• 46:52
  distraction. Now, Hey, look, I've been
• 46:55
  married for 15 years. I I enjoy, I love it.
• 46:58
  Nothing, nothing's hurt me. But it seems like whenever
• 47:03
  football players or coaches, whenever they get into a
• 47:06
  relationship or they get married or anything like that, their
• 47:11
  production drops. And there's a reason for that.
• 47:15
  Their production drops because in high school, Tony, remember
• 47:20
  in high school we it like if we were series about sports in our
• 47:24
  senior or junior year, we dropped down from three sports
• 47:29
  to 1 sport because it was trying to get that, that college ticket
• 47:34
  right. Nothing's changed, nothing's
• 47:38
  changed. You know, so usually like for
• 47:41
  example, bone necks. Oh, I, I, I do.
• 47:44
  I like MO necks. OK, He had a Goodyear last year,
• 47:48
  right? That was his rookie year.
• 47:51
  OK, Now that his surgery and all that stuff is done, you know, I
• 47:59
  am I'm kind of scared because usually what happens is these
• 48:03
  these players, they do really good the first year or they do,
• 48:08
  you know, somewhat OK the first year, then they do better the
• 48:11
  second year. And then after that, after,
• 48:14
  after they get the aroma, you know, the the atmosphere, the
• 48:18
  the smell, everything. They change.
• 48:22
  They always change. So it's going to be interesting
• 48:26
  to see how Bo Nicks, you know, reflects the season like I
• 48:32
  didn't, you know, there's a huge uproar here in Denver because,
• 48:37
  you know, our first game we were like up like 27 to blah, blah.
• 48:41
  And it's like you guys settle down.
• 48:46
  It's pre season. Yeah, you know.
• 48:49
  Like half those dudes aren't even going to be on the roster
• 48:52
  by the time they first week kills around.
• 48:54
  People need to understand that, you know when when when we play
• 48:59
  pre season, usually the first half is always like the first
• 49:05
  starters and then the second-half is the backups and
• 49:09
  then the thirds is the thirds and then third and fourth
• 49:13
  quarter is usually scrubs. Those are the ones that are on
• 49:16
  the bubble trying to find fight to get a roster spot.
• 49:21
  So pre season yeah, great. I love it.
• 49:24
  Football awesome. You know, it's football is
• 49:27
  definitely better than watching Chicago Fire or Chicago PD and
• 49:31
  they don't OK, but we have to also understand that it's it's
• 49:37
  pre season and we're not seeing everything.
• 49:41
  We're not seeing everything, we're not seeing the news.
• 49:44
  You know, and you know, I hate to tell you this, but look, as a
• 49:49
  Denver Bronco fan, I can tell you that however they were last
• 49:55
  year, don't expect them to be like much, much better the
• 50:01
  following year. It is what it is.
• 50:04
  And I don't I don't see I don't see Denver Broncos make very
• 50:09
  many like huge, huge trades or drafts this year.
• 50:16
  I, I, I I didn't see anything that I really like won't spoke
• 50:20
  out. So I I do believe that the
• 50:26
  Broncos will make it past the post season if oh Nicks doesn't
• 50:33
  get hurt. But I am very worried about his
• 50:39
  ankle. Hell, he hasn't even got on the
• 50:40
  field and he has three ankle surgeries.
• 50:43
  I don't care if they were little, I don't care if they
• 50:46
  were just clean up. It's still an issue.
• 50:51
  Yeah, and it's still something that your body has to recover
• 50:53
  from, especially in a in a high, high active sport and a high,
• 50:57
  you know, trying to think of the right word.
• 51:01
  And I just can't think of it off the top of that.
• 51:04
  A a championship level and just a high impact, impact, high
• 51:08
  impact sport such as football. But I am excited to see because
• 51:11
  he he is going into his third season now.
• 51:13
  He had a great, you know, sophomore season technically
• 51:16
  last year under Sean Payton. I do kind of want to, I do
• 51:19
  wonder what that relationship looks like because there's a
• 51:22
  little bit of the back and forth of Sean's like, oh, his ankle's
• 51:25
  not ready. And Bo Knicks is like, now it's
• 51:27
  fine. And the kind of the argument
• 51:29
  back and forth. Some Sean Payton's a prick.
• 51:32
  I mean, he's Oh yeah, he's, he's thrown this kid under the bus I
• 51:37
  don't know how many times. So trust, trust me, they might
• 51:40
  be on the same page, but you know, they're, they're, they're
• 51:43
  not, they're not the same idealistic.
• 51:47
  Yeah. There's, there's parts where I
• 51:51
  think that Sean Payton wishes that he never drafted him
• 51:57
  because of this whole ankle issue.
• 52:00
  You know, and he kind of said that out in public during a
• 52:05
  during a media conference. And sometimes, sometimes it's
• 52:12
  best to keep mouth shut. You know, like I say, sometimes
• 52:15
  in the world, everybody's like a Denver Bronco.
• 52:19
  We tell people what they want to hear.
• 52:21
  We don't exactly tell them the truth.
• 52:24
  And it, and it is kind of sad too, because Bodix, he was
• 52:27
  really good, especially when even when he was at Auburn for
• 52:29
  as bad as Auburn was like he made Auburn relevant and then he
• 52:32
  did wonders in Oregon. So I mean, I thought it was a
• 52:35
  great pick up. And he's older.
• 52:37
  He picked up the system really well.
• 52:38
  Obviously, you know, they got Jalen Waddle from the from the
• 52:41
  Dolphins. So that gives him the true #1
• 52:43
  receiver for him to be able to work with.
• 52:45
  And, and you're right, they did, they did manage to bring most
• 52:48
  everybody back on both sides of the ball.
• 52:50
  Now, like you said, that doesn't immediately mean that they're
• 52:53
  going to replicate the same, same success that they had.
• 52:55
  It's it's one of those football and really sports in general,
• 52:58
  any given day that you're playing an opponent can happen,
• 53:01
  especially like in a professional sport where you've
• 53:04
  got 32 teams and these are supposed to be the best of the
• 53:06
  best guys playing football currently in the world.
• 53:10
  And yeah, any given day somebody could come in, even if they're,
• 53:13
  you know, O and 10, they can come in, hit you in the mouth,
• 53:16
  and next thing you know, you're losing to the you're losing to
• 53:18
  the team that's already lost 10 games.
• 53:20
  Yeah, and NFL players are are, you know, they're they're,
• 53:23
  they're not. What's the word on what life be
• 53:30
  life and for NFL players too. And, and, and watch that, you
• 53:34
  know, I forget who it was, but there was that one time he
• 53:39
  wasn't playing very good. Well, hell, he wasn't playing
• 53:42
  very good. Oh.
• 53:43
  Demetrius Thomas. Remember Demetrius Thomas?
• 53:48
  Yeah. Well, he wasn't playing very
• 53:50
  good because his mom was in jail and they were getting ready to
• 53:53
  pardon her And and, you know, and he wanted her to come and
• 53:58
  watch, you know, and we got to remember that that even though
• 54:01
  these football players are, you know, ultimate athletes, life be
• 54:07
  life and two. So make sure that you kind of
• 54:10
  watch the the drama box also when it comes to, you know,
• 54:15
  Sunday, especially when you're picking your fantasy draft team.
• 54:20
  And I have to remind you that I think HGII think till the final
• 54:25
  time out, I think they're going to do NFL draft thing this year.
• 54:31
  So you'll you'll want to grab on to that.
• 54:36
  But yeah, and, and I know it's probably a little bit dated for
• 54:39
  maybe some of the, some of the potential younger viewers, but
• 54:41
  when the, I believe it was a Monday Night Football game,
• 54:43
  Brett Favre lost his dad. He I think he lit up the
• 54:47
  Raiders. There's like 6 touchdowns that
• 54:50
  night. So I mean, that's the Raiders.
• 54:52
  That's true. It is the Raiders, but still.
• 54:55
  The Raiders, the Raiders are almost as bad as the Denver
• 55:00
  Broncos to where we, we could be better than the other team and
• 55:06
  like we play to their level. I mean, the Raiders and the
• 55:10
  Broncos, they're the same. They're the same team.
• 55:13
  They both play to their opponent's level.
• 55:17
  Yeah, they play down to their opponents unfortunately.
• 55:20
  But real quick though, as far if you had to make a pick.
• 55:23
  So as of right now, North Carolina versus TCU, according
• 55:27
  to ESPN odds, they have TCU at -7 1/2.
• 55:32
  So they're a little over a touchdown favorite to beat North
• 55:35
  Carolina. According to the predictor they
• 55:39
  have TCU winning by 51 1/2 percent is their is their
• 55:45
  prediction over North Carolina. Well, you know, I got to go back
• 55:50
  to, you know, if, if Belichick still has that girlfriend of his
• 55:55
  and she's going to be at the game, I wouldn't expect anything
• 55:59
  different. I think it's going to be the
• 56:00
  same as last year, especially if, you know, I, I, I don't pay
• 56:06
  attention to, you know, upperclassmen who, you know, you
• 56:10
  know how they did last year compared to that, you know how
• 56:12
  they do this year. But you know, if it's, it's one
• 56:15
  of those things that if, if a duck cracks, chances are it's
• 56:19
  still a duck. So I, I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't
• 56:23
  expect anything great or big. I mean, we saw that with the,
• 56:29
  with the Colorado Buffaloes when Deion Sanders was here and his
• 56:34
  kids were a part of the team, they were really good.
• 56:37
  And then that next year, you know, so you got to keep that in
• 56:42
  mind. Yeah, and then the next big
• 56:46
  game, I mean, there's some other games, but this is the next big
• 56:48
  one that kind of matters. We have North Carolina State
• 56:51
  going to Virginia, so luckily it's still here in the States.
• 56:55
  So it's not too far. It's just up in Charlottesville.
• 56:58
  As of now, ESPN has University of Virginia.
• 57:02
  They are -5 1/2 point favourites and ESPN has them as a 68%
• 57:09
  chance of winning over NC State. If you had to pick, who would
• 57:14
  you pick to probably win that game?
• 57:16
  So before I pick, I have one question, Tony, because I don't
• 57:19
  really follow a whole lot of college football.
• 57:22
  When we talking about Virginia, Virginia State, are we talking
• 57:27
  about the Virginia State that has the big like the ACDC song
• 57:33
  coming on and the crowd really gets into it?
• 57:36
  Nope, that's Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech OK, All right,
• 57:39
  Because I was going to say, and if they're going against her
• 57:42
  chin tag, they're screwed because that's that's a lot
• 57:45
  that's a lot of hoopla to fight. You know Virginia is a home at.
• 57:58
  Home, they were just in the ACC Championship game last year.
• 58:02
  I think they are coming off of a, they're coming off of a
• 58:06
  pretty decent season now. I know we talked about it, you
• 58:08
  know, previous season doesn't necessarily matter, but they did
• 58:13
  do really well last. Year, so they still have
• 58:15
  momentum, since they still have momentum and it's a home game.
• 58:20
  I I probably I would probably take them by at least a field
• 58:24
  goal. Yeah, they finished, they
• 58:25
  finished eleven and three last year, including their bowl win.
• 58:29
  So I mean, they they did really well last year, especially
• 58:32
  considering they were, they were kind of one of those teams that
• 58:35
  nobody really expected them to, I guess do much.
• 58:39
  And they just kind of quietly kept on chugging and lo and
• 58:42
  behold, they're there now. NC State also didn't do bad last
• 58:46
  year, including their ball when they finished eight and five.
• 58:50
  So they were kind of middle of the pack.
• 58:51
  They did get a win against Virginia last year.
• 58:54
  They were one of the few teams that beat them.
• 58:55
  They beat them 35 to 31. Now, obviously last year, last
• 59:00
  year's game doesn't matter because North in North Carolina
• 59:04
  State was hosting them and obviously everybody had
• 59:06
  different players, but they did get did a win against them last
• 59:09
  year, so so. That I would agree with you.
• 59:14
  I I think Virginia would take it just because they have the
• 59:17
  momentum from last year. Yeah, I think so.
• 59:20
  And and I believe if I remember, they did actually get a really
• 59:23
  good quarterback in the draft or not the draft, the transfer
• 59:26
  portal and Beau Purbula, he played for Mizzou last year,
• 59:31
  actually had a really good season up until getting hurt.
• 59:33
  So they have an experienced guy who's been around the league for
• 59:36
  a little bit in a few different systems.
• 59:39
  I think they kind of have the edge as far as the quarterback
• 59:41
  battle goes. And NC State lost a few big guys
• 59:44
  to the transfer portal, primarily to Texas.
• 59:47
  So they might be they might be hurting a little bit as far as
• 59:50
  that goes. But nonetheless though, brother,
• 59:53
  that is that is it. That's all I got for for today.
• 59:56
  I appreciate you, appreciate you joining me and and talking some
• 59:59
  ball with me. Man is one of those.
• 1:00:01
  We've been talking about this forever.
• 1:00:03
  I know. No, no, no problem.
• 1:00:05
  No problem at all. You know, and I, I'm, I'm not
• 1:00:08
  going to, I'm not going to do a cheap shot on the Indianapolis
• 1:00:11
  Colts, even though like, I, I, I think I'm the only user in the
• 1:00:17
  world that I support the Pacers. I just don't support the
• 1:00:24
  Indianapolis Colts. I do not like the owner.
• 1:00:28
  Terrible character, even every pad.
• 1:00:32
  I I yeah, I don't like them. But my question to you is what
• 1:00:36
  are your thoughts on the Colts? You, you think this is going to
• 1:00:39
  be a good season? Because if I'm not mistaken, you
• 1:00:42
  guys schedule this year. It it, it's, it's a little bit
• 1:00:46
  weaker compared to last week. It's a little weaker.
• 1:00:50
  It's one of those I, I look at it and it, it's kind of the same
• 1:00:54
  issue is, is what is the quarterback situation look like?
• 1:00:57
  Daniel Jones is also coming off of a major injury.
• 1:01:01
  Obviously you can tell once they stopped, once you basically
• 1:01:04
  stopped the Colts from being able to run the ball with
• 1:01:06
  Jonathan Taylor and Daniel Jones had to be a quarterback for you
• 1:01:09
  no more than 5 seconds. We we got to see the old Danny
• 1:01:12
  Dimes from the New York Giants days and why he was eventually
• 1:01:16
  released from the Giants as a result of it.
• 1:01:20
  And then, of course, the backup situation, you know, is Anthony
• 1:01:23
  Richardson. You know, he's been devoted to
• 1:01:25
  quarterback three behind Riley Leonard.
• 1:01:27
  But there's been a lot of people upset that Riley Leonard has
• 1:01:30
  looked terrible in the preseason.
• 1:01:32
  But as you pointed out, it's preseason.
• 1:01:34
  How much of that truly matters? So that's A and I'll be honest
• 1:01:39
  too, I think I speak for most Colts fans when I say the day
• 1:01:45
  that the GM, Chris Ballard gets fired, there will be probably a
• 1:01:50
  parade in Indianapolis because. He's.
• 1:01:54
  He's been the GM for like the last 10 years, he hasn't made it
• 1:01:58
  to the playoffs, He hasn't won a playoff game.
• 1:02:01
  Like it has been an absolute disaster with it and and how
• 1:02:05
  he's managed to still make it through I think like 3 coaching
• 1:02:08
  changes and he's still not fired.
• 1:02:10
  It's like a. Cockroach.
• 1:02:11
  He is dude. It's funny you say that.
• 1:02:14
  So. Earlier when I again, because I
• 1:02:17
  I listen to like Brady Quinn and Levar Arrington as I'm driving
• 1:02:20
  into work and Lavar brought it up about he said, man, there's
• 1:02:25
  always that one coach on the team.
• 1:02:27
  It's like he manages to make it through like 3 or 4 coaching
• 1:02:29
  Staffs. Like, dude, how do you do?
• 1:02:31
  You are the Roach like you are the Roach of the coaching staff.
• 1:02:34
  It through all the nuclear fallout, you still just come
• 1:02:38
  scurrying out like, hey, guys, still here.
• 1:02:40
  That's Chris Ballard. Like I don't know how you
• 1:02:42
  managed to keep getting out of this unscathed.
• 1:02:46
  But he's wondering. We're not making fun of anybody.
• 1:02:49
  We're just stating when when somebody says that a person's a
• 1:02:52
  cockroach, that means that they've been in that position in
• 1:02:57
  that area for so long. And it just even even with like
• 1:03:02
  unbelievable coaching changes, owner changes that the
• 1:03:07
  Indianapolis Colts have done in the last five years, like he's
• 1:03:11
  still there, you know, still there.
• 1:03:13
  He's still there. They were, they were having
• 1:03:15
  trouble with him and with Chuck Strong, you know, So I mean it,
• 1:03:22
  it's just crazy how he's still there.
• 1:03:26
  You guys, you guys lost Andrew Luck and he's still there.
• 1:03:30
  Absolutely. It is, it's it's absolutely does
• 1:03:34
  it. It's one of those I'm kind of
• 1:03:35
  upset that I have to use the term cockroach on him because
• 1:03:37
  part of me wants to use the term like foreskin where he
• 1:03:39
  disappears when things get hard. But you know, I don't, I don't
• 1:03:42
  know if that necessarily counts in his case or not, but it's one
• 1:03:45
  of those like, man, I hope it does.
• 1:03:46
  So I can just I can just use it at least once?
• 1:03:48
  At least once? And, and you know, and remember
• 1:03:52
  that, you know, the 9 times out of 10, the manager doesn't
• 1:03:58
  really know how to play football.
• 1:03:59
  The managers just knows how to like, you know, pick and stuff
• 1:04:03
  like that. That That's why you have to give
• 1:04:07
  it a little bit of a grain of the salt because one thing that
• 1:04:12
  I don't think he does with with a football team, you want to
• 1:04:16
  build outside to inside. You want to build around the
• 1:04:22
  court and the Indianapolis Colts, you know, you think that
• 1:04:26
  they would have learned with Manning because they didn't.
• 1:04:29
  You know, even though Manning was great for the Indianapolis
• 1:04:35
  Colts and he was amazing for the Denver Broncos, I do think that
• 1:04:40
  the culture of how they create the team, how they recruit the
• 1:04:45
  team, how they place the team. I do think, you know, especially
• 1:04:51
  like Andrew Luck, you know, being him and Manny, they're
• 1:04:55
  kind of like coaches, you know, on the chess board.
• 1:04:59
  That's great. But just remember when they're
• 1:05:03
  gone that that that holes there. Yep, and I think I think
• 1:05:09
  Cincinnati is going to be the next team that has to deal with
• 1:05:12
  that because Joe Joe Burrow has been that guy for them as far as
• 1:05:15
  hey, like he he begged them to go get Jamar Chase, his former
• 1:05:19
  teammate for my LSU Tigers in his national championship.
• 1:05:22
  When he's like, hey, go get my guy.
• 1:05:24
  He is the best wide receiver. You won't regret it.
• 1:05:27
  And sure enough, it it comes to be true.
• 1:05:29
  But every time he's like, hey, I, I need you to get this.
• 1:05:32
  No, we, we, we don't want to, we don't want to do that.
• 1:05:35
  It's and you know, he pointed out it's like basically it's
• 1:05:37
  this year bust. And I, I think Cincinnati, and
• 1:05:40
  it's funny because Cincinnati is run very similar as far as you
• 1:05:43
  know, we, we don't really want to do that.
• 1:05:45
  It's like, OK, well, you're going to waste another
• 1:05:48
  generational talent that could take you to greatness and make
• 1:05:51
  you great, and you're going to absolutely flunder it because
• 1:05:55
  you're either pride, you believe that you're smarter than he is,
• 1:05:58
  or you just don't want to listen, or you just don't want
• 1:06:00
  to fork up the extra money or yeah, or he's uncoachable.
• 1:06:03
  So it it is weird to see, you know, you would think a guy that
• 1:06:08
  you're like, you know what, we're going to trust you enough
• 1:06:09
  to pay you a crap ton of money. You would think if you have an
• 1:06:13
  investment like that, you might want to listen to your
• 1:06:16
  investment of like, we paid him a ton of money.
• 1:06:18
  Maybe we should hear what this guy wants.
• 1:06:20
  If he's our star, if he's our star worker, maybe we should
• 1:06:24
  listen to who our star worker wants to work with instead of
• 1:06:27
  no, we think this will work for you.
• 1:06:28
  No, no, no, no, but I think that's why and I I even use this
• 1:06:33
  on AI probably use this one. I shouldn't have on a more
• 1:06:39
  higher status Co worker at my job.
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  Now she she kind of did one of those where she came in and
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  she's making all these suggestions.
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  I'm like, you haven't even been here to see this.
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  And it's funny because she was also a retired Colonel.
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  I said, you know, one of my favorite people I used to ever
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  work with was the Secretary of Defense, James Madison.
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  You know, he retired as a four-star.
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  I said, but do you know what his nickname was when he was when he
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  was in? She goes, I don't know what I
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  said. It was chaos.
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  You know why it was chaos? Because no, I said it was an
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  and. That reminds me of Iraq every
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  He's like, keep on talking Sir, we'll find you.
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  Yep, and and it was so funny after after I told her about the
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  I, I got talked to you about that not too long, not too long
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  after. I'm like, hey, that's that's the
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  I could basically say you're an idiot in the most respectful way
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  at the same time. But but Joel, brother, it has
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  been a blast. As always, appreciate talking to
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  So definitely check him out. He's a marine in South Carolina.
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  Great dude. But appreciate everybody tuning
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  in. And we will see you next week as
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  college football's back and then shortly after the NFL is going
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  to be back too. So we will see y'all later.
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