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"Let the Chips Fall..." episode 200 · DMV Mess Hall

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Hi folks, this is Rick Doc. Walker to DOC.
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This is John Kind and you're listening to the mess hall with
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Rally Captain and Tailgate 10. What's going on, Rally?
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How was your first weekend off for what, 19 weeks?
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Let me tell you something, I felt good just just being able
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to sit at home in my PJS and watch some good NFL football.
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Man, it felt really good to be able to do that.
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For those who don't realize, I mean, you travel to every home
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game and away game, right? And people know that you're
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there all the time. But like thinking about the, the
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commitment that is to you are on the road every week.
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And then we had our bye week, but we were doing the trip in
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Spain for the bye week. So I I doubt you were home or
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were you back by the bye week? Yeah, for the bye week,
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actually, I, I needed to rejuvenate.
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So I went down to South Carolina to go hunting.
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And that helped me just, you know, bring back a little bit of
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normalcy, if you will, because like you said, it's a grind.
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But it's something, it's something that I love to do, you
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know, and it's something that I will, I will continue to do for
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a little while until my body says, all right, enough's
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enough. But right now I've got a little
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bit more in me. I'm glad and happy to hear that
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you still got some more in you. So for me, it's it was nice to
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not have to worry about what am I making this week?
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How many people are going to show up?
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How much help do I have out there?
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We are actively recruiting for the tailgate crew.
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I've got some people in the crew that are not renewing season
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tickets for, you know, different reasons.
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So I could definitely use some help out there.
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So those of you that are listening, hit your boy up, let
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me know. But I enjoyed it, man.
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I didn't think I was going to watch a ton of football this
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weekend just because it's a little salty.
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But obviously like this time last year we were in Tampa Bay,
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right? I mean, I just, I remember the
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rally in Tampa, just being out there hanging out partying with
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everybody trying to, you know, find a place that I could get my
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2 waffles from and a Waffle House wouldn't sell me two
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waffles. Just as one order started to put
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in multiple waffle orders. It was just, you know, it was
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just such a fun. Run.
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You mean to tell me that you can't order two waffles a la
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carte? They made me get 2 like meals
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for the waffles from there. So yeah it was it was a lot of
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food but your boy didn't want to jinx it because I've been eating
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those that don't. Remember Jayden had his whole
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Bisquick waffle campaign that he eats 2 waffles before every game
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for good luck. So I started eating 2 waffles
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before every game for good luck. And I just remember being out
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there and trying to find a place in Tampa when we were out there
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that sold them. Waffle House was down the street
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so ended up walking, you know, a couple blocks of the Waffle
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House hang up. Actually, I think Doug Williams
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was there eating waffles one day.
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People ran into him, right? By my right, By my hotel, yeah.
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Yeah, it was. I was kind of reminiscent about
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this time last year and how much fun we had.
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And now it's like, damn, we're just sitting on the couch and
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just watching everybody have a blast.
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And I do appreciate the Niners fans that reached out to me that
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after they beat the Eagles, some random Niners fans don't know
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who the hell they are. Just said this one was for you,
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Tailgate Ted. And that's like definitely
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appreciated. That followed them immediately.
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And, you know, thank them for it because it was kind of hilarious
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because, once again, not we're not playing right?
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And just sit here and all of a sudden, my name's getting
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tagged. And this because I guess some
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fans from San Fran tried to go to a bar in Philly.
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And the bar replied back in an e-mail saying, with very little
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thought, we're deciding not to host your party here.
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All right? And it just kind of cracks me up
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that, you know, everyone just kind of still thinking about
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that whole spot. But it was nice to watch the
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games, man. And then all the teams I wanted
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to win, for the most part won this weekend.
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That's good. That's good karma, is what I'll
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say. Oh yeah.
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You know, you can't continue doing it for people and expect
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good things, you know, you just can't.
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So, but that city will always be that type of city and there's
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nothing that anyone can say or do to change it and so on.
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On one aspect, my hat goes off to them because of their deep
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rooted fandom. My, it does because I, I would
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like for us to, to take over our stadium, not with the attitude
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or the, the, you know, the, the nonsense, but just the, the, the
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true flair that they have for their, their, their football,
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their, their sports teams, if you will.
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So on one aspect, I, I, my hat goes off to you, but on the
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other aspect, that other stuff can, can kick rocks, man.
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And so, yeah, it it couldn't have happened to a better team,
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I'll say that. Yeah, I I didn't think they were
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going to win that game, right? I ended up putting down money.
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I didn't bet on a single team to win.
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I put down a couple parlays like I put down for Christian
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McCaffrey to get 2 touchdowns that hit definitely close.
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Had to be a freaking wide receiver reverse pass to
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McCaffrey to get me that second touchdown.
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But I didn't think the Niners were going to win that game, all
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right? I just thought that it wasn't
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going to happen because Trent Williams was going to be out.
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They had all these guys go out. They lost Kittle in the middle
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of that game. Dude orders a bottle of Patrone
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from the owner's box and get it delivered and finishes it off in
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the locker room because he's in so much pain from what I think
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was tearing his Achilles ACL. Yeah, I think it was his
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Achilles. And then Mitch Tischler put this
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tweet out after the game. And those who don't know, Mitch
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does the Monumental Sports stuff and the Beltway football pod he
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put. Maybe Sirianni should have let
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Jake Elliott practice those Pats instead of trying to embarrass
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the Commanders with a gutless 2 point try versus a third string
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quarterback. Right?
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And that's in response to their kicker missing that extra point,
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which would have only let him down by what, 3 instead of four
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of them having to go for the TD. And I mean, I don't know, I, I
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listen to Philly radio after they lose because it just, it
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cracks me up. So that next Monday WIPI mean,
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if I'm A.J. Brown, I am hiring security for
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every one of my family members. I am putting up and making sure
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all the cameras around my house have batteries, that they're
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fully charged, that the solar panels are working.
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Because the amount of hate for him flowing through that town
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right now is insane. Yeah, yeah.
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Well, you know, he's somebody else who all year long, even the
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ball, I'm open. Maybe you see the commercials,
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I'm open. And then at his biggest moment,
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he wet the bed. I mean, so will he be around
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next year or, or shall I say later this year?
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Probably not. But hey, you know, yeah, it's,
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it's something else, bro. It, it really isn't.
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And I'm not mad at it because they took that L and.
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And once again, I wouldn't be so upset or not.
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I wouldn't be so, so giddy the way I am.
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But they talk cash trash at the stadium last a couple weeks ago.
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They just did. And so you get what you get,
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guys, and that's the last thing I'm going to say about.
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I I, I hope for our sake that they get rid of AJ because the
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guys terrorized us. I love that.
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I'd have to face him. I mean, he is a match up
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nightmare for anybody when he can catch the ball for some
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reason against us, he likes to catch the ball.
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Against other teams. He doesn't, which is fine by me.
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But yeah, all that trash they've been talking.
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I guess we're going to Cancun together, right?
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Because, you know, I don't know who's going to win this thing in
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the end. I thought the Rams were going to
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just demolish the Panthers and they had a couple problems
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there. Didn't bother covering that
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spread, which was 10. I mean, from an AFC perspective,
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I want to see the Bills do it. But man, I feel like Josh
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Allen's doing it with just duct tape and bubble gum and a bunch
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of no name people he's throwing that ball to.
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And you see the the tush push where they picked him up and he
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ran 10 yards. It almost scored.
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He ran maybe 3 and his lineman picked him up like the other 9
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yards. I don't think you could do that,
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but but hey, obviously they bend the rules for who they want to
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bend the rules for. Yeah, but it was it was a fun
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weekend of football, right? Just getting to watch it.
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There really weren't any crazy blowouts.
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I mean, I refused to watch the Steelers game last night.
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I just didn't think it was going to be a fun, exciting game.
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It was 7 to 6 going into the fourth quarter.
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And then woke up this morning and, you know, they scored
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thirty points against his. Rodgers threw a pick six and
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some other stuff. But I'm excited about the
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matchups this weekend. I am still bummed that we're not
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going to be in there because I do feel that we could compete
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with some of the teams that are in there right now, right, given
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a healthy team. But we weren't healthy this year
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and it was what it was In the last time we talked, DQ and
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Peters had not had their post season press conference yet.
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Well, they had it and it was 35 minutes and they basically said
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absolutely nothing during that press conference.
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Did you listen to the thing? No, I didn't.
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I was working bro. So I, I, I missed all that
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stuff. I miss a lot of this stuff.
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But but The thing is this, what did you expect them to say?
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I expected some humility, right? Some like, OK, we should have
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did this instead of this because there's things I mean, Noah
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Brown was your number 2 wide receiver.
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To have that guy be your number 2 wide receiver on your depth
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chart is a huge whiff, right? It was just a big fat swing and
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a miss by Peters. Like understanding that like
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you've got all of meat is Zacchaeus OZ playing for the
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Bears right now and contributing All right.
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And I don't know how much OZ got paid compared to Noah Brown got
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paid. I can easily look it up, but
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it's not really that big a deal. But the fact of the matter is
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you put the depth and the talent down so little.
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And he was asked, is there a long term plan to keep Jaden
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healthy? This is actually what Peters had
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to say about that long term plan.
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Adam, is there a way to come up with kind of a long term plan to
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keep Jaden upright and make sure he plays 15 or 17 games rather
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than 7? Is there a way?
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I think really, I think, and this might be a better question
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for DQ, but you know, from from me, I think it's just continuing
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to like from my, you know, from a personnel or GM perspective is
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continuing to put good players around him.
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You know, that's in front of them at the old line.
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It's it's running backs to to control the ball and control the
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clock and not put it on his shoulders and get in 2nd and 3rd
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and manageables. It's receivers that he can you
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can trust and throw to so that he's not holding on the ball
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longer. And and so from my perspective,
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it's just getting good players around him, getting a good
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defense on the other side. So he's not it's not all on his
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shoulders to win the game. So I can DQ can probably talk
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more schematically, but in terms of from me, I think those are
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the things that that I can and need to do to help him out.
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Been putting better players, more players around him so he
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doesn't basically turn to Superman.
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All right, and I'm looking at the stats.
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I mean, this is just an example of someone that was here,
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someone that was, you know, still here.
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O ZS making 1.5 million for the Bears on a one year deal.
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So he's an unrestricted free agent this year.
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Noah Brown making $3.2 million right this season and he's an
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unrestricted free agent. So I mean, hindsight's 2020, but
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OZ played sixteen games. Noah didn't even come close
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Right I. Think the reason that is is
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because they wanted to go taller.
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I think that's the reason in a nutshell.
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They wanted a taller receiver. And, and and and they let's face
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it, he had his his 15 minutes of fame against the Atlanta
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Falcons. Oh, I'm sorry.
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Yeah. No, I guess.
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It's the Bears against the Bears, excuse me against the
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Bears. He had his 15 minutes fan with
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the Bears. So I understand and because we
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we did need a a taller receiver. We just didn't have it.
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And I'm sure that we will be deep Deeping or seeping back
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into the pool to get another tall receiver, if you will.
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So a healthy tall receiver. So I can understand that, but,
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and I'm sure OZ didn't want that much more, but that's the way
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the ball bounces, bro, You know what I'm saying?
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We can't travel spilled milk here we are.
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We got to, we got to do what we got to do.
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And, and, and, and I got to tell everybody we got a short time to
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get this thing done to, to be what we need to be.
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It really is not a long time at all.
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Yeah, No, I mean they, they, they do.
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It's just 33 free agents, right. And when we had talked prior,
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Cliff Kingsbury was still with the team, We did bring up the
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fact that there was some rumblings from Diana Rossini
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about the report that Kingsbury and Peters were having issues.
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And then next thing you know, the very next day, Kingsbury and
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the team decided to mutually part ways.
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And to me, saying we're mutually parting ways, I guess is a way
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of saying, you know, I guess let the guy save a little bit of
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face. And maybe they just didn't want
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to embarrass them. And they wanted to say, hey, OK,
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you know, we're not going to say we fired you.
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Whatever else are going to mutually part ways.
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Coaching contracts are guaranteed no matter what.
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So none of that part really matters.
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But what did you think when you heard that news come out?
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I kind of twofold one, I was if it make if this makes sense, I
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was surprised. But then the last part that we
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did, we talked about it and his play calling was questionable.
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So I really wasn't surprised. And I know that's, that's,
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that's riding a fence, but we thought that there was a
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possibility of him coming back because of, hey, you know,
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there's consistency with him and Jay and, and JLB healthy and
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with a healthy offense. We saw what he could do.
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But then like we said, you're like, wait a minute, man, you,
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you actually did that play 3 times and, and you didn't hit
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pay dirt and, and there's so many other things that was, was
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just kind of off the wall. And so I can see how they said
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no go. So now here we are with a
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vacancy. Well, we had a vacancy.
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And so I was really sanding myself.
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All right, we got to make this up sooner than later.
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And so I'm, I'm whatever decision that they decide to do,
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I'm, I'm going to ride with it because that's what you do when
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it's your team, whether you agree with it or not, you, you
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got to, you got to ride with it and ride that wave.
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And so the tide is out and we're all looking back at that wave on
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our surfboard, ready to get on top of it and ride it.
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So let's get it. What do you think?
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So I was kind of surprised Jordan Schultz came out with a
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report, said sources. Part of the issue the Commanders
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have had in the building is the front office meddling with the
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coaching staff on personnel and which players to use, an ongoing
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problem dating back to 2024 when they were having success with
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the team struggling. This year it reached new heights
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and there was notable disagreements.
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Moreover, I have not gotten the impression Dan Quinn want to
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move on from his coordinators. The entire disconnect is 1 to
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watch. So we had in 2026.
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There's a lot of S going on there.
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A source set. So I was kind of surprised that
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that story came out after Kingsbury decided to mutually
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part ways, basically saying that someone in the front office is
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just meddling with the coaching staff.
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To me, that means Peters, right? Peters wants this got to play
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versus that got to play or trying to tell someone to not
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call these players anymore. And honestly, I was fine with
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Kingsbury going all right. I just, I got tired of his play
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calling and I have not been shy about it.
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I got tired of just some of the asinine things he had done.
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And no one else in the NFL runs the Kingsbury style offense, the
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Air Raid offense. It's running college.
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But in the NFL it is not adopted by any other team out there.
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So to me, that's a little bit of like, why if it's that good of
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an offense, why is no one running it?
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So people might have heard the Cliff Cliff like the Kingsbury
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Cliff, like he gets off to a good pace like in Arizona.
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Start doing well here first year, start doing well, but then
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once defenses get taped, things don't go well, right?
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And I feel that this year we hit that Cliff.
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Kingsbury wasn't able to, some people call it self Stout wasn't
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able to adjust at halftime, wasn't able to change anything
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he wanted to do based upon what defenses were doing to him.
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And I also feel that in his offense, it relies way too much
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on the quarterback being able to improvise, on the quarterback
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being able to use his legs and do other things.
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And if Jayden really is the future, we need to run a
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different offense that's going to make sure the kid stays
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healthy and puts keeps that in mind.
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Because we've all said he's got the brains and he's got the arm.
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You don't have to use his legs all the time.
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No, yeah. I mean, he has an arm.
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And one thing that we know he can do is he can read defenses,
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whereas a lot of times in the past, our Q BS couldn't read the
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defense. But he's a smart kid.
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We know that the VR goggles have put him in a position to be able
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to to to shine above other Q BS. And as you said, a last resort
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if he needs to, he can plus that speed out and get out of
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trouble. You don't always want that to be
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the number one thing that he has is able to do so.
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Hey, Cliff, good luck to you brother.
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That's all I can tell you, He. Interviewed for the Ravens job
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just the other day and I mean it's more power to him.
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There was a commercial on One O 6-7 The fan that it's a local
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commercial. One O 6-7 is a local station
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here in the DC area. WJFK and it's Cliff basically
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talking about getting Manny Petty's at some local shop and
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it's the only chance he gets a time to turn his brain off when
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he's here because they give you a pair of noise cancelling
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headphones and he stops thinking about football and all this
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other stuff. So I at AI thought it was like a
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Saturday Night Live skit, but now it's legit like a commercial
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for kind of a spot like the. I can't think of the name.
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There's like a gentleman's Barber shop that they have in
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Tyson's Corner and some other spots.
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It's kind of like that. And I'm thinking I'm pissed off.
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If I'm that company that paid him, who knows how much money to
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be their advocate and the guy's gone now.
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Should. Have been in his contract.
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You get fired, we don't pay you anything.
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I mean, they're going to be running the hell out of that app
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for a while, but. Yeah.
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Developing. Well, actually for for that
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niche though, for that niche, even though he's gone for that
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niche, I'm sure that they they'll make some money off of
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it because of, of who he is. So yeah.
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Oh yeah, I'm sure. Right.
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And just the fact that, hey, he had, you know, some success
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here. And then you obviously have
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people from other. I'm not trying to like whenever
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I put someone out, people just want to reply back like they're
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not fans of the Commanders. They don't follow me.
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I don't understand why, but Oh well, what was wrong with his
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offense last year, right? It was good enough for you guys
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then. Like you guys don't understand
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you. You don't pay attention to the
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stats. This is something that Kingsbury
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does where he just does not adjust.
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I mean, I remember early on last year when Terry wasn't doing
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anything, people are talking about how Kingsbury doesn't put
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his guys in motion. Terry lined up on the one side
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of the field constantly and they never moved him around.
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Everyone bitched and complained about it.
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And it wouldn't surprise me if Peters was meddling and saying,
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why don't you move them around and do this and do that.
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And that's part of them complaining about last year.
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And next thing you know, Terry starts having a career year, one
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of the best years ever, and then signed that off season deal
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because he got 13 touchdowns for the team.
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But early on, right, he's just kind of stubborn.
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And rumor is Kingsbury went into D QS office that next morning,
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they had some discussions potentially about changing
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things in his offense. And he said, no, this is my
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offense, this is what I run. And they decided to mutually
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agree to part ways. But what got a lot of fans
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excited, I have never seen so many of the burgundy and gold
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kind of most of the point unanimous about this.
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Mike McDaniel, the coach for the Dolphins got fired.
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And those that don't know Mike McDaniel, I mean, I don't know
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how you don't know, but McDaniel and Dan Quinn have a long
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history together. Every time we play the Dolphins,
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it always comes up Mike McDaniel had a problem with alcohol.
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Dan Quinn helped him get sober and he credits Dan Quinn to
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basically helping save his life. So I'm thinking, oh, here we go.
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We can bring Mike McDaniel here. He's got an exciting offense,
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right? The problems that two had were
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two just couldn't stay healthy. He was taking some other hits
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and some other stuff going on there.
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But his offense is, I remember freaking Tyreke just destroying
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us and watching them on the Hard Knocks that one year.
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I'm fine with that dude being Roc.
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So I was thinking, all right, bring him here.
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I mean, what were your thoughts when that came out?
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Everyone was saying that and I'm more of a guy that's just going
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to sit back and wait before I try to say yeah or nay.
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And so, yeah, just what they what they made and, and when it
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didn't happen surprised me because it kind of was like,
23:40
well, so a couple years back when we were saying who do we
23:45
want as far as the head coach is concerned?
23:47
And everybody wanted the cat out of Chicago.
23:50
And I was one of the ones Ben Johnson, everybody Ben Johnson,
23:53
everybody wanted Ben Johnson. And, and I, I wanted Ben Johnson
23:56
because of what I thought. And then once the DQ came in and
24:00
and, and uprooted everybody and change the culture here I was, I
24:04
was all over his jock. So I said, no, not going to do
24:09
that anymore. I'm not going to do that.
24:11
Just just let the chips fall. And, and Ted, once again,
24:13
brother, I needed to decompress. So whatever they decided to do,
24:19
I'm going to be fine with it. I was going to be fine with it.
24:21
So because once again, they have much more knowledge than me.
24:26
But I did listen to the radio station and as you said, one O
24:29
6-7, the junk, they put it out there and they basically had a
24:34
99.9 percentage rate of everybody who wanted him.
24:38
So, but he's not here. So that says something about
24:44
maybe why he isn't. So, and this is all rumor and
24:49
speculation, Mike McDaniel just got fired by the Dolphins.
24:54
People are thinking it's because Harbaugh, who got fired by the
24:56
Ravens, is going to basically get that job down to Miami.
24:59
Because when Harbaugh got let go, they said seven teams had an
25:04
interest in John Harbaugh, but there were only 6 openings so
25:08
someone was still going to get fired.
25:09
They hadn't been fired yet. Turns out it was Miami where
25:11
McDaniel. So the Cleveland Browns, the
25:14
Atlanta Falcons, the Titans and the Ravens are all trying to
25:18
interview McDaniel for their head coaching job.
25:22
So Blau, who's here, right? Blau took over for Taveta
25:27
Pritchard. Pritchard left in the middle of
25:29
the season to be the Stanford head coach.
25:32
So. Yeah, Blau got moved up.
25:35
Blau was getting coaching interview request for offensive
25:38
coordinator for the Detroit Lions.
25:41
Blau used to be a quarterback for the Lions back in the day.
25:45
The Lions need some help so they want to bring him in.
25:50
The Commanders seeing this and also not knowing because
25:54
McDaniels was going to do the head coaching interviews before
25:57
he was going to do an offensive coordinator interview.
26:00
So you risk McDaniels taking a head coaching job and then Blau,
26:06
who you have in house, taking the job of the Lions and you
26:10
being left with absolutely nothing.
26:13
So the team decided to interview a bunch of internal staff and
26:19
when they interviewed that staff, they gave the position to
26:21
David Blau. And honestly, I'm fine with it,
26:25
right? And it just I was trying to find
26:27
before the podcast my shirt. Peters Quinn 24 It's kind of a
26:31
play on, you know, Peters Quinn 2024 like politically from last
26:35
year I got from Breaking T couldn't find it.
26:37
Why probably got rid of it because it was a shirt from last
26:39
year. But to me, Peters Quinn 25
26:43
Peters Quinn 26 right? I still trust those guys to
26:46
making the right decision and reports came out that Jayden
26:50
Daniels was upset and surprised that Kingsbury wasn't with the
26:57
team anymore, which I called BS on that.
27:00
I don't think there's any way the team decide to make that
27:02
decision on Cliff without talking to Jayden, right?
27:05
Some of the players, no, man, not, not, not your franchise
27:10
quarterback and not the relationship that Cliff and
27:13
Jayden had. I don't think they consulted him
27:16
on should they keep him or not. I do think they told him before
27:20
he found out from social media. You had some guys that said they
27:27
found out on Twitter, they found out on Instagram, they found out
27:31
on a text chain with the rest of the other, you know, players
27:34
that were all there just kind of shooting the ass, like, oh, hey,
27:36
by the way, Cliff's gone type of thing.
27:39
But there is no way that Jayden found out by reading a report
27:43
by, you know, Adam Schefter. OK, please, in my opinion.
27:50
OK. I mean, I think that a lot of
27:55
times, you know, we look back at the whole and, and and no, I'm
27:59
not comparing the 2. So I don't want to say people
28:02
say you compared RJ3 to I'm looking at the situation.
28:05
If you think about, you know, R GS parents going into saying,
28:09
Hey, I want my son to run this type of offense and RG saying
28:12
that, you know, I think that I don't, I don't see them saying,
28:19
Hey, this is what we're going to do.
28:22
I, I, I don't see it. I, I mean, I could be wrong, but
28:26
ultimately, yes, you are my franchise quarterback, but this
28:31
is who you got and you'll be OK with it.
28:34
Like anything else in life, either you, you will or you
28:37
won't. And so now this guy, he's, he's
28:42
been with us, you know of them. So I don't think that that it's,
28:48
it's a, it's a bad thing because he, he, he's worked with him for
28:50
the for the last two years. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm excited
28:54
about it. The team interviewed 5
28:56
candidates for the OC vacancy. It was Cowboys tight end coach
28:59
Lunda Wells, Cardinals wide receiver coach and pass game
29:02
coordinator Drew Tyrell, our tight end coach David RA,
29:07
Commanders pass game coordinator and assistant head coach Brian
29:12
Johnson, and Commander's assistant quarterback coach
29:15
David Blau. Blau got the job right and there
29:19
are press clippings, videos from a year or two ago of basically
29:24
Blau getting praised by Cliff Blau getting praised by DQ and
29:29
others out there and he has got a tight relationship with Jaden.
29:32
It's come out prior to this that every Friday morning in the
29:36
bubble he and he and Jaden play HORSE.
29:40
Basically, in regards to football, those that don't know
29:43
HORSE is a game that you know, are you playing basketball where
29:46
somebody makes a shot and you try and make that exact same
29:49
shot and they do the same thing in the practice bubble in
29:55
regards to, you know, throwing the ball?
29:57
Blau played and this is kind of crazy.
30:00
He played just a couple years ago, right?
30:02
Yeah, what long? No, what long ago at all.
30:05
So he was. He went undrafted, but signed
30:08
with the Browns in 2019. Spent most of his career with
30:13
the Lions from 2019 to 21, and then he went back again 23.
30:19
He also played for the Vikings and the Cardinals.
30:21
So he's got 7 starts, finished with 1400 yards, 6 touchdowns
30:26
and 9 interceptions. So I mean, he and Jaden aren't
30:31
too far off, you know, timeline wise, right?
30:34
So he can relate to the kid. And I think there was a Hard
30:37
Knocks clip where Jaden was in the bubble throwing the ball and
30:41
Blau was there and you can see him in the background.
30:43
It might be a mistake if I'm almost positive he was there.
30:46
So I am excited because he already has a rapport and a
30:51
relationship with Jaden that he can build on.
30:54
He's coming from the Ben Johnson and the Kevin O'Connell tree.
30:58
So he was with Johnson and O'Connell in past lives and he
31:02
knows what he wants to do or else I don't think DQ would give
31:05
him a job because this is a resume generating event for DQ,
31:10
right? If he gets this wrong, he's
31:13
gone. He can't afford to get this
31:15
wrong. I.
31:16
Agree with you on that. I was going to say you, you
31:20
spoke about that whole tree, if you will.
31:23
How many coaches were on this tree of Redskins commanders?
31:29
I mean, we've got a lot and they've had success.
31:33
So what you don't want to do is and is, is go back to saying
31:38
another one got away and he potentially goes wherever and
31:43
he's successful and you guys are saying, what are you doing?
31:46
You had him in your house, you know we don't want that anymore,
31:50
so it's a good thing. Yeah, and I just, I'm, I'm happy
31:56
about it. I'm fine with it because I feel
32:00
that. I remember back in the day I was
32:04
trying to get a job and I said you don't have experience, you
32:07
don't have experience. Well, how else you going to get
32:09
experience unless you get a job, right.
32:13
So what's a double edged sword? Like the guy obviously does not
32:16
have experience calling plays, but how else is he going to get
32:20
it? And OK, sometimes it sucks that
32:22
he's going to be getting experience on your watch and it
32:26
might be a little bit rough, but he's already in house.
32:31
He's able to devise this offense with Jayden there and knowing
32:37
the assets of the weapons he has.
32:38
And if Peters is true to his word, he's going to get other
32:42
weapons for Jayden to be able to use and Blau to be able to use.
32:46
So Jaden doesn't have to be Superman and do it all on his
32:51
own to basically do what Josh Allen did and just try and take
32:54
that game over single handedly. Because Jaden ain't built like
32:56
Josh Allen. And we don't want him to.
32:59
I mean, if if he has to, obviously if it, if it's, if
33:02
it's playoffs like Heineck he did when we were playing Tamil
33:06
Bay and he dove for the pylon, which I have a picture of that.
33:09
We understand that. But every game you can't put
33:12
your body through that And, and we don't want them to.
33:14
So wow brother, I know that you are at the office dialing up
33:23
stuff as we speak, putting things together.
33:26
So this is going to be OJT. And for those who don't know
33:30
what OJT is on the job training, I mean, literally if you're
33:33
you're ready to rock'n'roll. So hey man, put those concepts
33:37
together and, and let's see where it takes it.
33:40
And I'm hoping that it takes us far.
33:44
I also feel that fans somewhat forget that Kingsbury was on the
33:49
list to get a job last year, last offseason, all right?
33:54
And I remember him coming here, people were always saying, oh,
33:56
you're going to bring in Kingsbury and he's going to
33:59
leave in a year or two. Well, I think this all season,
34:04
Kingsbury was gone one way or the other.
34:06
He was gone because we did so well.
34:09
He was going to get a head coaching job someplace else or
34:13
unfortunately, what happened, we didn't do well and Kingsbury's
34:17
gone because we didn't do well. So I did not see him on our
34:21
coaching staff for the 26th, 27th season regardless.
34:26
And people are freaking out that, Oh my gosh, he's gone now.
34:28
What are we going to do, right? He was going to leave and he was
34:34
forced out neutral left. However you want to call it back
34:37
to the matter is dude didn't hear anymore.
34:39
But guess who still is Jaden, right?
34:42
And I just, I've got no doubt that the young man, if he can
34:47
stay upright and be healthy, will do we need to do to learn
34:51
this system that he's going to have a hand at.
34:57
I look forward to it and one thing that I asked right now is
35:03
patience. A little patience, just a little
35:06
patience, folks, you know, and, and, and let us, there's going
35:11
to be some bumps in the road. Let those bumps even themselves
35:16
out and hopefully we get past it, but just don't kill the kid
35:22
right off the break. Yeah, I I do want to see and
35:27
they're not going to show it during preseason, right?
35:29
We're not going to see any bit of the offense in preseason and
35:31
and training camp. I do want to see some other
35:33
stuff because people are going to say, well, Cliff ran the
35:36
ball. Like if you look at the stats,
35:38
OK, yes, we did run the ball. I think fifth most in the NFL.
35:43
But unfortunately, if you look at that, 19th in regards to
35:47
running back carries, not in regards to actual carries by an
35:52
RB that's throwing in QB carries as well.
35:56
So it's just a lot of stuff going back and forth there.
35:59
Joe Witt being let go. We all knew that was going to
36:02
happen, right? The writing was on the wall
36:04
there. Guy got demoted and play calling
36:07
duties in the middle of the season and they just let him
36:09
live out the rest of the year. So it is what it is.
36:12
But for you, which side of the ball can they afford to not get
36:17
wrong? Which side of the ball right?
36:21
Two years in a DQ, both your offensive and your defensive
36:26
coordinator are gone. Which one do they have to get
36:31
right? Defense, they have to get
36:34
defense. And I say that because I'm
36:36
looking at Houston Texans and Stroud did not look very good.
36:43
He did just enough, if you will, but the defense was what pulled
36:47
him through, pulled that team through.
36:49
So if you can get some dogs who can get to the quarterback, get
36:53
him off his mark, some cornerbacks, you know, just
36:56
some, just just overall a good defense.
37:00
We have JD and JD can can make a mediocre offense look that much
37:08
better. So I say defense, bro, because
37:12
as you know, teams just ran through US, man.
37:17
We we did a we did a little bit better, but team once again, it
37:22
goes back to the river air. If it was 3 and 12, they'd get
37:27
their team and and we can't have that.
37:32
And this year it happened a lot. They ran the ball through a lot.
37:38
So I don't know who's got to who's got to stay, but that
37:44
defense has got to change because we were terrible.
37:49
We'll say you I'm. Going to agree with you on
37:51
defense right? Jayden can buy you some time as
37:57
a a kind of a rookie offensive play caller to start finding
38:01
your groove and finding your rhythm because he can mask
38:04
deficiencies and inequities. And we saw him do that before
38:08
and we talked about not wanting him to be Superman, but he can
38:11
still write just his God-given talent.
38:14
Defenses have to respect our defense right now.
38:18
I just I'll never forget 87 plays against the Cowboys,
38:21
right? That's just so painful to watch.
38:23
And I'm trying to find the clip. I can't find it now have I'm
38:27
sure you probably saw it on Instagram.
38:29
It's some podcast where this guy calls in talking about how you
38:36
know an offense going against the commanders should commit a
38:39
penalty because basically like second and 20 is a guaranteed
38:44
first down, right? Whenever a team had second a log
38:47
against us, right, It was a guaranteed like 30-40 yard play
38:53
for whatever reason. And the guy just, he sounds
38:56
really calm and he's just hanging out and then he just
39:00
blows up out of nowhere because he's just so frustrated and
39:03
angry with our defense because something where they're behind
39:07
the sticks and they should not get a chance to get it.
39:10
Our defense would just give it up.
39:13
And I just, I don't know if it's a philosophy, if it's a mixture
39:17
of the people we have. Frankie Louvou came out after
39:20
the season and said he didn't really enjoy where he was
39:23
playing position wise. And I get it, right?
39:25
He got asked to be a defensive end when he's a linebacker,
39:29
right? He got moved down there to put
39:30
his hand in the dirt because we lost 4 defensive ends this
39:34
season. So they needed someone else to
39:36
do it. It is, man.
39:39
We lost 4 defensive ends, bro 4 normally OK, you you may lose 1
39:46
maybe, maybe 2 at the most, but four there's no this is so hard
39:52
for a team to be able to come back from that and it showed.
39:56
It showed. Yeah, it's, it was, it was
40:00
insane, all right. And so you've got guys playing
40:02
out of position. I think that's partly what
40:04
happened to the defense, but also the defensive scheme, the
40:07
defensive philosophy. And I don't know who to bring it
40:09
in here. They talked about today
40:11
interviewing Brian Flores or asking to interview Brian
40:14
Flores. Those that don't recognize the
40:17
name. He's the guy that kicked our ass
40:18
against the Vikings that blitz the hell out of Jaden, when we
40:21
finally had our offense 100% and we got shut out for the first
40:25
time since, you know what, the 19th season against the 49ers.
40:29
So it's been a while. Like you, I'm waiting to see
40:32
where the chips fall on the defensive side.
40:35
All I know is 33 free agents, we got some holes we got to fill.
40:41
There's a lot of work they got to do.
40:43
But we know they need this coaching staff in place before
40:46
they go to the Senior Bowl to go scout, before they go to the
40:50
combine and all these other places.
40:52
Because you got to figure out who you going to pick, who you
40:54
going to take. And even though we don't have
40:55
that many draft picks, you just got to make your determination
40:59
on how you're going to build this scheme, how you going to
41:01
build this team and what's going to go on down the road.
41:03
And I wasn't expecting this many questions after being right just
41:09
60 minutes from the Super Bowl. And that's kind of what has me
41:13
worried the most about this offseason.
41:16
But they did it before, right? They took care of all these
41:21
questions last time, and I do have faith they're going to be
41:24
able to do it again. One thing that I, as I said
41:27
earlier, I would have is either who's going to need faith?
41:36
I do not believe they're going to be able to turn on overnight.
41:43
I don't I don't see it happening.
41:45
I feel it. So you know this week or later
41:47
show. But I feel as though we're going
41:50
to have a typical time unless that glue just sticks and that
41:57
this new DC comes in as a philosophy, that easy
42:01
philosophy, basically C ball, git ball, have a thing, you know
42:05
what I mean? Versus versus.
42:06
We always, we always hear, we always heard that the scheme is
42:10
just too difficult and the guys got to think versus play.
42:13
So, you know, and I don't know how you fix that, but make it
42:17
easier for them just to go out and hunt.
42:19
And so one thing that you can do is that if, if, if you're having
42:24
a difficult time trying to understand the playbook, the
42:27
UFO, the BC is going to know what he's up against.
42:33
And so looking forward to it. And I and I honestly wish that,
42:40
Oh no, I don't let me slow down. I was like, that was the season
42:43
for smart soon, But you know, I, I need this break.
42:47
I need to break they the the squad is going to need to break
42:51
to be able to regroup as well. So, so I'm going to slow down,
42:56
slow down and and enjoy this offseason Will.
43:00
You'll be both, man. You'll be both.
43:01
I'm going to enjoy watching these playoff games knowing that
43:04
the Eagles aren't in it anymore, knowing that like the rest of
43:08
the NFC East is sitting on the couch with us.
43:11
So I'm I'm don't know who I'm pulling for.
43:14
Probably the Bills. I'd say they're probably buy one
43:17
seed right now because I would like to see Josh Allen try and
43:21
get one without having a Mahomes in there, without having a
43:24
Burrow in there and some other stuff.
43:26
But we'll see, right? Are the Patriots for real?
43:29
Is Drake May really it? Yeah, that's another one.
43:33
That's another one that the Patriots look good.
43:36
Now you know the. Defense.
43:39
Yeah, defense looks really good for the Pats.
43:41
Yeah, yeah. And so once again, once Tom
43:45
Brady left, you had Gibson go to them.
43:49
They they really want a good looking team.
43:52
But then they packaged me well, they had great three agents.
43:57
Now the QB is is coming to fruition.
44:00
So we know that it can be done, you know, but it's gonna it
44:04
just, it's gonna take a little bit.
44:06
So it goes back. So, so it's so weird because,
44:13
you know, we said the previous part or a couple parts back.
44:16
I kind of wish we didn't have to set as fast as we did.
44:19
People, people gramed me for saying that, but I think they
44:22
took it out of context. Of course we want the team to be
44:25
well, but you want to have that success and sustain it.
44:30
You don't want to just have it one year and it goes away.
44:33
And so we need sustainability is what we need.
44:37
And so I'm willing to start off slow and see the building
44:41
process just so that we can be there for the long haul and not
44:46
just have, you know, we want it done.
44:50
Yeah, the sugar high. I'm not.
44:52
I'm not down for that. Right.
44:54
It's nice that we had that rush, but we want that sustained and
44:59
it's going to take some time to truly do that and truly build
45:02
that. And Peter said when he came
45:05
here, he was going to build to the draft and augment or
45:08
supplement the free agency. That game plan changed once he
45:12
realized the quarterback he had and the talent they have with
45:16
Jaden. So sometimes you got to call an
45:19
audible and they're calling an audible right now.
45:21
Sometimes that audible gets stuffed, and this year got
45:24
stuffed, right? Next year without audible.
45:27
We'll see how it goes. But like you, I am enjoying the
45:32
break. I'm looking forward to, you
45:34
know, just hanging out watching some football instead of being
45:39
out there going crazy. I'm not going to lie, right?
45:41
I am going to think about this weekend when we were in Detroit
45:44
last year and hanging out at Mama's Spaghetti with you and
45:47
everybody else and just having a blast.
45:49
And I kind of wish I could turn off my Facebook.
45:51
Like, you know, this time last year was going on posts or, you
45:55
know, a little Throwback Thursdays that pop up or
45:57
whatever else. But regardless, man, I am
46:00
looking forward to seeing the pieces fall in this coaching
46:03
puzzle that they're trying to put together right now.
46:06
Rapid fire before we leave Mario, does he say or leave?
46:10
Mario's gone. I can't see him sticking around
46:13
here. There you have it.
46:20
Hey, I love to leave it just like that brother and I hear the
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