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Brendan Sorsby Update, Baker’s Contract Situation, NFL Energy Levels & Mailbag · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on? My friends, my people?
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: How are we doing? John Middlecoff Three and Out Podcasts.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Hopefully you're doing great, because I'm having a good day myself.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: And today we're gonna talk some football because Brendan Soresby,
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: the dude, the habitual Gambler, said he was addicted, looked
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: like his career was over in college. Nope, not so fast, NCAA.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: So we'll dive into that. Baker Mayfield contract extension might
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: be on hold as well, and uh do some football stuff.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Some mail bag questions at John Middlecoff at John Middlecoff
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• 0:54
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• 0:57
  Speaker 1: Reid on Friday. Yesterday we had the Commander's GM friend
• 1:02
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• 1:05
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• 1:07
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• 1:11
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, so we'll just keep rocking and rolling. Let's
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  Speaker 1: dive into some football. Well, I want to start with
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  Speaker 1: Brendan Sorosby because my take all along is like I
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  Speaker 1: I think we are all in agreement. If you bet
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  Speaker 1: on your team to lose and you were on that
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  Speaker 1: team as a player, as a coach, automatic death penalty,
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  Speaker 1: Like you're done right. And the hard part about this
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  Speaker 1: is he used some friends to place bets, and of
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  Speaker 1: all these thousands of bets, there were a couple that
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  Speaker 1: were against Indiana, and he claims that he had nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with it. So I listen, I mean a
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  Speaker 1: lot going on here if he was a part of
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  Speaker 1: that funneling inside information. Indiana was terrible at the time,
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  Speaker 1: so betting on them to lose. This isn't the Signetti team,
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  Speaker 1: you know. This was pre Signetti when they were the
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  Speaker 1: worst team in the history of Division one football. I
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  Speaker 1: have a little sympathy for a guy as a red
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  Speaker 1: shirt freshman board as shit making some money with nil
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  Speaker 1: gambling a lot. Obviously, the gambling rules in college I
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  Speaker 1: think are a little different than the gambling rules and
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  Speaker 1: the pros. Remember there's some dudes on the Lions, like
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  Speaker 1: a year or two ago, they got in trouble because
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  Speaker 1: they were placing bets in the facility. But it was
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  Speaker 1: on like the NBA or baseball or whatever, and you're
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  Speaker 1: allowed to bet, you just can't bet at the facility.
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  Speaker 1: My overall take on a lot of people have moral
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  Speaker 1: high ground takes on gambling, and definitely the media members.
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  Speaker 1: It's like they will give a ten minute take and
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  Speaker 1: then they're like, let's break, and then they'll be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: pushing parlayss. Like, guys, this is not twenty years ago,
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  Speaker 1: because let's face it, twenty years ago, Brendan Soresby, if
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  Speaker 1: you got caught gambling, you would have been banned immediately.
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  Speaker 1: I also think you probably I don't want to say
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  Speaker 1: this too confidently because listen, if you can play, people
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  Speaker 1: always look past stuff. But historically gambling with sports, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think NFL teams would have messed with you. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like this guy's like the next John Elway or
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Luck, at least based so far in his career.
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  Speaker 1: It probably would have been career over I think people
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  Speaker 1: that breed the biggest sigh of relief beside Texas Tech
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  Speaker 1: today were the NFL scouts because they don't have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with this if he was gonna enter the supplemental
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  Speaker 1: Draft in a couple of weeks, and they would have
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  Speaker 1: had to try to dig on information that's like where
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  Speaker 1: do you even start. You're gonna need the big domb
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  Speaker 1: of your team, like placing calls to the judicial system.
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  Speaker 1: It would have been a major pain in your ass
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  Speaker 1: to try to handle this from a scouting intel standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: So now you got the entire season. Who knows how
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  Speaker 1: this plays out, because just before I hit record, there's
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  Speaker 1: a story from Yahoo Sports that the Big Twelve teams
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  Speaker 1: are already having conversations of like, we are going to
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  Speaker 1: refuse to play Texas Tech, not just in football but
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  Speaker 1: in every sport and ads. These were not anonymous sources.
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  Speaker 1: This is the ad of Kansas State. Who's in the
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  Speaker 1: Big Twelve. What's his name, Gene Taylor. It's fucking bullshit.
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  Speaker 1: I know the kid has a problem, Well get well
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  Speaker 1: and focus on your problem. It's absolutely devastating for him
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  Speaker 1: to be able to play when every other sport, no
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  Speaker 1: matter the level, deans an athlete ineligible or they are
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  Speaker 1: punished severely for betting on their team out of nowhere
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  Speaker 1: the UGA the Georgia Bulldogs ad Josh Brooks. He took
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  Speaker 1: it a step further. I think there needs to be
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  Speaker 1: a serious conversation about not playing Texas Tech in any sports.
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  Speaker 1: This is not about Tech, It's about protecting our own
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  Speaker 1: locker room. We cannot in good conscious put our student
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  Speaker 1: athletes on a field where the competitive integrity of the
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  Speaker 1: contest is compromised and overridden by the courts. If a
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  Speaker 1: state court wants to dictate eligibility rules, they can play themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So I think internally, non Texas Tech programs are furious
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  Speaker 1: they wanted this kid band because they want to set
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  Speaker 1: the precedent that this is never allowed. You cannot bet
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  Speaker 1: on your own team, whether you're the star player, whether
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  Speaker 1: you're some red shirt freshmen that no one besides like
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  Speaker 1: people that work at Rivals dot Com I've ever heard of.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand that because he goes well, I bet
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  Speaker 1: on us to win. This gets into the Pete Rose situation.
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  Speaker 1: I get back to, We're in a different point in society.
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  Speaker 1: When I was a kid, if you wanted some weed,
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  Speaker 1: you typically met a dude in the back of a
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's parking lot in the dark in the back corner
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  Speaker 1: where there weren't lights. Now, I'm not a big weed
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  Speaker 1: guy anymore, but if I wanted some, I could get
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  Speaker 1: it delivered to my house by a company that is
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  Speaker 1: on the public market and pay with a credit card
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  Speaker 1: to get points. So things change. We're all in my business.
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  Speaker 1: In college sports, in pro sports, people in bed with
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  Speaker 1: gambling companies. It is now viewed above board. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: not federally legal everywhere, but it's legal in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of different states. And obviously these companies are intertwined in
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  Speaker 1: the sporting world. And me personally, a lifetime gambler, very
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  Speaker 1: unfazed for it. I don't have an addictive personality, so
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  Speaker 1: when I see this guy kind of crime foul the
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  Speaker 1: ninety thousand bets, if you would have given me a
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  Speaker 1: million dollars over the course of my late teens and twenties,
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  Speaker 1: I also would have made ninety thousand bets. When most
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  Speaker 1: people I hung out with like I don't view that
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  Speaker 1: like some of these people in the media that are
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  Speaker 1: in bed with the gambling companies, but they wouldn't bet
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  Speaker 1: ten dollars on a game, so they don't understand. These
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  Speaker 1: are my people, you know, I relate to that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I get it is very serious placing a bet on
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  Speaker 1: your own team, and that's where it gets into murky waters.
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  Speaker 1: But historically the NCUBLEA it was weird, right, They didn't
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  Speaker 1: have any legal jurisdiction, right. They weren't like the government
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  Speaker 1: that they weren't the cops. Yet they could come down
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  Speaker 1: and hammer you, and the teams would just give in
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  Speaker 1: and capitulate to their demands. It's like this guy's band,
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  Speaker 1: take away his trophy. Those those wins don't count, that
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  Speaker 1: final four, take down those banners. That NCUBA Championship football,
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  Speaker 1: no go, you get the death penalty. All this stuff, well,
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  Speaker 1: they have now been rendered irrelevant. They have it's not
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  Speaker 1: even it already wasn't arguable. It is not even a
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  Speaker 1: debate anymore. They have zero juice, legitimately zero power. There
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  Speaker 1: are a bunch of empty suits with no ability to
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  Speaker 1: create any sort of you know, restrictions. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: the capabilities to tell you what or what not to do.
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  Speaker 1: So to me, when it comes to football, basketball is
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  Speaker 1: a little different because I'm pretty sure the NCAA owns
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  Speaker 1: or you know, as a shareholder in the tournament with
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  Speaker 1: the revenue in football. That's not the case. They don't
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  Speaker 1: own the conferences, they don't own the college Football Playoff,
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  Speaker 1: and clearly they no longer have the ability to tell
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  Speaker 1: you this guy's eligible to play, this guy's not eligible
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  Speaker 1: to play. In my short time, for a couple of
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: years at Fresno State, which is not exactly fucking Harvard,
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  Speaker 1: it could be difficult to get guys into school, right,
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  Speaker 1: Guys that were transferring from other programs, junior college kids,
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  Speaker 1: even high school kids. There was a mandatory number you
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  Speaker 1: typically had to hit in your SATs, in in your
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: whatever the different standardized tests were. There was like a
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  Speaker 1: sliding scale with your GPA, and if you did not
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  Speaker 1: hit it, you could not get in. Now, in years past,
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  Speaker 1: I think like in the early two thousands, there used
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  Speaker 1: to be this thing called it was either a prop
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  Speaker 1: forty eight or a PROP forty nine that schools like
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  Speaker 1: Fresno State could utilize. Logan Mankins was an example. His GPA,
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  Speaker 1: his test scores didn't equal college eligibility. It didn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: They could get him in with that proposition, and he
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  Speaker 1: went on to have a great career, become an NFL
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  Speaker 1: star and make millions of dollars and become a thriving
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  Speaker 1: member of society. Well, those got thrown away and you
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  Speaker 1: weren't allowed to use him anymore. So for a long
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  Speaker 1: period of time, it was always really difficult for guys
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  Speaker 1: academically struggling in high school in junior college to make
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  Speaker 1: it to some of these schools, especially some of the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the private schools. They didn't have to abide
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  Speaker 1: by these rules, but these public institutions that were taking
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  Speaker 1: money from these states just kind of followed these NCAA guidelines. Well,
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: I knew early on in the transfer portal, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: you can never tell me school matters for when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to football, because there's no way a guy, when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to schools, can just bounce school to school
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  Speaker 1: every six months. It would be academically impossible for all
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  Speaker 1: these schools to just let you in. And some of
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: them kind of battled at Stanford, Vanderbilt and even them.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: Remember Clark Lee a couple of years ago was like,
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: if we want to win, we got to change this.
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  Speaker 1: What's the first thing he did? Took a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: kids from New Mexico State. Then it changed his program
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  Speaker 1: and made him nationally relevant. But like once the transfer
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  Speaker 1: portal started happening. I went, academics is irrelevant, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's some of these schools. You could argue it always was,
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  Speaker 1: but at one percent does not matter at all. This
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  Speaker 1: is football one hundred percent of the time. And unlike
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  Speaker 1: the NFL where we went through that long period of
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  Speaker 1: time where rog was like the judge, the jury, and
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  Speaker 1: the executioner, it was like he just decides. It's like
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving you four games, they're giving you six games.
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  Speaker 1: Your banned for the year, and he just got The
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  Speaker 1: NCAA kind of used to have that type juice. They
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  Speaker 1: no longer do. So what I think is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: fascinating moving forward, separate from the Soresby case because I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of people are uncomfortable of like this
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  Speaker 1: shows if you get caught and you're a good player,
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  Speaker 1: that you're not gonna get banned. Someone can just sue.
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  Speaker 1: Well part of it. Suing ten twenty thirty years ago
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  Speaker 1: was probably not an option. Why because these it's not
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  Speaker 1: like the schools are always suing, it's the individual player. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what does the individual player now have? Money? What do
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  Speaker 1: you need to go into a courtroom? Money? Right, I've
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  Speaker 1: said it forever. People get you know, you get online everyone.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing that matters the most when you enter
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  Speaker 1: a courtroom, especially when there's some serious stuff going on,
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  Speaker 1: is do you have the cash? Because if you do,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of people avoid some serious time
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  Speaker 1: with and that's what Soursby has now cash so he
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: could get a high priced lawyer. They could finagle it,
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  Speaker 1: get it in the Texas court systems. I know there
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  Speaker 1: was this video going around or as a picture of
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  Speaker 1: the judge that was going to uh you know here
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  Speaker 1: the case was a Texas Tech alum. It was like
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  Speaker 1: he was doing the double guns. I saw. I was
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  Speaker 1: listening to Andy Staples earlier today. That was not the guy.
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  Speaker 1: This was actually a Houston alum that ruled on this
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  Speaker 1: court case that I do understand. You know, part of
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  Speaker 1: the things that he wrote were like he would feel
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: harm about not being able to be around his teammates
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  Speaker 1: and you know it could ruin his life. It's like, well,
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he kind of did this to himself.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to really ruin his life,
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  Speaker 1: but it would clearly cost him a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: assuming he would go on to have a big season
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  Speaker 1: become a number one, you know, not even the number
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  Speaker 1: one draft pick, but if he's just you know, a
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  Speaker 1: top fifty draft pick, it could change the course of
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  Speaker 1: his life. The irony though, is if it was a
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  Speaker 1: huge in judge he suspended against Albaline Christian who I'm
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident Texas Tech's gonna win that game
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  Speaker 1: they go to Oregon State because he suspended the first
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  Speaker 1: two games Week two, which ten twenty thirty years ago,
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  Speaker 1: that would have been a really serious game. Now if
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  Speaker 1: nil Oregon State can't keep a player or a coach,
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  Speaker 1: think Texas Tech will win that game. Their first game
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  Speaker 1: that he's quote unquote eligible for is against Houston, which
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: you know Houston and the NIL era has been a
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  Speaker 1: pretty solid program. So I just think this story is
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  Speaker 1: is one that's not just gonna go away just because
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  Speaker 1: this injunction was was rendered in the favor of Soresby
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  Speaker 1: and the Texas Tech football program. The Big twelve is
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a saying in this, how their coaches handle this,
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  Speaker 1: how they're athletic programs, you know, in the other schools
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  Speaker 1: in the conference handle it. Cause if it gets serious,
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  Speaker 1: like we're refusing to play you, then like what are
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  Speaker 1: they gonna do not play the game? Are they gonna
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  Speaker 1: let them play? I don't know, But like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I think the big winner is the NFL scouting community
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  Speaker 1: that does not need to deal with this guy in
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  Speaker 1: terms of accumulating information, let alone just watching him play,
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  Speaker 1: because you know this would be a guy like if
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: you're doing Texas, you have that region of the country,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: you might not do Cincinnati, So you got to bang
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: out a bunch of film. Your GM's got it. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: just wants to go to vacation. They don't want to
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  Speaker 1: deal with the sores By case. And the other thing
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  Speaker 1: is it's a massive question in your own building. Do
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  Speaker 1: you feel comfortable with the guy with the clear gambling
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  Speaker 1: problem who can't stop. It's just gonna go away now
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  Speaker 1: if he's a good enough player, the NFL won't give
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  Speaker 1: a shit. I mean, Josh Jacobs in jail one day,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: at practice field the next day Cooper another dude, domestic violence.
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  Speaker 1: Now he denied it. He'll be up the Denver Bronco practicacility.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: You know, it's proven over and over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over again that if you can play, teams will look
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  Speaker 1: the other way until they can't look the other way,
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  Speaker 1: but is caught up on the moral high ground unless
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  Speaker 1: you can one hundred percent say that he bet against
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  Speaker 1: his team to lose the games and there wasn't under bet,
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  Speaker 1: but he claims it had nothing to do with him.
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  Speaker 1: It was a friend. I don't know. It's clearly a
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  Speaker 1: you know, a story that is just not ideal. You know,
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  Speaker 1: But this if you think, and I've been saying this
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  Speaker 1: for a while because I just put myself in these situations.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just say you're a random like wide receiver and
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  Speaker 1: you're making six hundred and fifty grand living in one
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  Speaker 1: of these smaller towns, playing power forward Division one football.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do with your money? Like everyone's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they just got you think they're just investing in na video.
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  Speaker 1: Even if they are, there's still got some pocket change.
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  Speaker 1: What could you possibly do with your money? And I
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: got no problem with any of these guys making money.
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  Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. I actually hate the term
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  Speaker 1: nil because it's not nil nilan you're getting paid like
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes or Aaron Rodgers, you know all State commercials
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  Speaker 1: or you know Steph Curry being paid by under Armour
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  Speaker 1: for a decade like that, that's nil. This is just
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  Speaker 1: paying guys to play. It has nothing to do with
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: their name, image and likeness. They're literally being paid to
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  Speaker 1: produce on the field, like the NFL, like Miles Garrett
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  Speaker 1: gets a contract extension from the Rams, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Stafford that's to produce on the field, anything that
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  Speaker 1: he does off the field. Sleep number so far no
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  Speaker 1: free ads is that's nil. Name, image and likeness, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I just think that these guys are being paid
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  Speaker 1: to play. They're getting a ton of money and shocking
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  Speaker 1: and I would be stunned if this doesn't happen more often.
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  Speaker 1: And that that's the big pushback is people don't want
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  Speaker 1: this to continue happening. They don't ever want the integrity
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  Speaker 1: of the games to come into question. The day before
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: the basketball season, the NBA a head coach was arrested
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  Speaker 1: in his house. The week of opening night, the Feds
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: to his house. We have not seen him since, and
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: by all some of these other guys singing like Canary,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: clearly you know behind closed doors, he's probably gonna go
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  Speaker 1: to jail because like it's it's hard to dispute you
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  Speaker 1: did something when it's pretty clear. It looks like they
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  Speaker 1: all did it. So I think just part of our
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: culture and once you hit a certain age, I'm a
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: big believer in this. You kind of know right from wrong. Like,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: it's pretty rare right now in twenty twenty six for
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: me at forty one years old to not know right
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: from wrong. Now, when I first got into this podcast business,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: this is before Colin I left radio, got in the
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: podcast business, like twenty sixteen. There are probably some things
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: that like, yeah, I was probably pushing the envelope on
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: that one, and we were doing well, we were trying
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: to grow. I was doing everything possible. You know why,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: because the Internet was the wild wild West. There were
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: no rules. Rules did not exist. Now like it's very
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: regimented and very strict kind of what we do and
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: how we sell things, and people either say yes or no.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you look back for a couple of years,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and it was very profitable what I was doing, but
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: it was like, you know, we got to push the
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: envelope here to make shit happen, and a lot of
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: people in the history of the Internet, the first ten, fifteen,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: twenty years did that. Now, when my son Jack is
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: my age, I can't even imagine the rules and regulations
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: on the internet. Some of the stuff I did, and
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sure many people did, will be viewed as like,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: that's illegal, but the rules just did not exist. It
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: was a great place to start, you know, kind of
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a new career. It's like, God, it's fucking like the
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Wow Wow West right up my alley. I thrive in
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: those environments. Not everyone does, you know, But I just
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: think that gambling is a lot like that. For a
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: long time, very taboo. When I was a kid, my parents,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: she says, don't smoke dope. You say dope. Now I
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: think like crack weed. I mean, more people probably smoke
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: weed or take gummies now than ever before. Now you
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: could argue some of stuff's a little too powerful. And
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: you take the gummies, you don't know exactly what you're taking.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they don't hit right away, you take another one.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden you're in, you know, floating in
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the stars an hour later. Not an ideal situation if
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: you get a little paranoid, but it kind of is
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: what it is. You know, my son's gonna grow up
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: an environment where weed is. He's gonna walk into a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: store and they're gonna have weed infused drinks. I mean,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: they already do, but it'll be just everywhere. So times change,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: things change. Most of these kids, I would say one percent,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: no wrong from right, and this will just be us
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: as an example moving forward that I think every coach
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: is gonna hammer on. I don't believe when I'm watching
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech play, assuming he plays that like is the
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: integrity of the game in question? Do you know what
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I thought that when I was watching Game two of
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals, a league that has a history of
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: being corrupt, a league that when I was in high school,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: the mob had fucking Tim Donagy in the bag and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: he started calling a bunch of fouls and made sure
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the Lakers won, which, now as I'm older, totally understand
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: you want the bigger brand. The Kings not quite the same.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: But I'm watching the Knicks look like they're gonna kick
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the shit out of the Spurs and a sweep. All
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, referees on the other side of the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: court are blowing the whistle. It's like, Oh, here comes
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the league, make it it, and here comes ESPN pushing
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: this thing to go six or seven. Keep that money
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: train rolling. It's the business they're in. They make more
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: money if the thing goes longer, and even the referees
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: couldn't pull the Spurs out of game two, which if
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: you're listening to this, game three happened, We'll see how
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: crazy that thing gets. But we just live in different times,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and I just, like I said, have a hard time
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: of getting two worked up overthinking. This is like the
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: end of college football. There are no there there haven't
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: been rules. I thought this was stupid forever. One powerful
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: thing the NFL has is they're all unified, right, so
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: if I need a new coach and I'm the New
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: York Giants. The reason they got John Harball because he
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: got fired. If John Harbball had not been fired, you
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: know who doesn't have access to John Harbaugh. Even if
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: it was like Steve Buschatti would have come out the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: day after they go eight to nine and missed the playoffs.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: So that's unacceptable. John's got this season, but he's got
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: to prove he's on the hot seat. And if you're John,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I might get fired and maybe I
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: need to jump ship. Well, in college that guy would
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: jump ship because there are no rules. Lane Kiffin just
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: had a college football playoff team, a team that by
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the end clearly, I mean, was one of the best
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: teams in the country. But like a ball breaks right here,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: like could have been in the National Championship. If you're
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: in the National Championship, you could win the game. He
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: didn't even coach a playoff game. Why because I'm going
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to LSU. Well, the forty nine ers. If Kyle Shanahan quits,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: can't just take Sean Payton for the Denver Broncos. It
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: doesn't work like that. If you're under contract, you're stuck.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: That's why a couple of years ago, when Kevin O'Connell
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: won to raise, he couldn't threaten. Well, you know, I
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: might go to the Bears. What did he have to threaten?
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: He used Jay Glazer and they said, well, teams might
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: trade for him. One thing. College they have so much
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: shit they got to figure out. I think the sores
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: be becomes such a hot button headline. I actually think
• 22:20
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  Speaker 1: Another story that I saw was Baker Mayfield, and he
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: had mentioned that that they're nowhere near a contract extension.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Obviously a little like Sam Donald a couple of years ago. Well,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Sam did it last year with a Baker a couple of
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: years ago. He signed a contract that was viewed as
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: very team friendly, because anytime you're not making fifty sixty
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: million dollars and I get you for three years one
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars or whatever it's viewed as and you
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: become a guy that's making a Pro Bowl as one
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: of the best deals in sports, as a guy that
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: can lead me to the playoffs. And in twenty twenty four,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Baker was like seventy two percent completion percentage and threw
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: forty one touchdowns and the Bucks went ten and seven.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: They were in the playoffs. Well, last year he kind
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: of got banged up. Their team clearly wasn't good. They
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: lose their offensive coordinator and it did not look great.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And he was down closer to his career average, like
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: sixty three percent, and I think he threw twenty six touchdowns. Now,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: he did have a lot of interceptions the year before
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: through sixteen, and he's always you know, fumbling. Uh, I
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: think he has like twenty six fumbles, but he's only
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: lost like six, five or six of them the last
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: couple of years. You can't get into business with a quarterback,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: even if it's team friendly in the NFL, if you
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: don't think the guy is a top ten quarterback. And
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Baker's proven that when he's on he can be. Two
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: years ago he was excellent, and last year he showed
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: signs of if we were paying this guy forty five
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: million dollars a year, we would immediately regret it. And
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I think Tampa, who clearly has one of the best
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: general managers in the league, goes. I said this forever
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: with Tua, I said this with Kyler. I wasn't just
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: trade the guy. I wasn't just cut the guy. How
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: about we just let it play out. There are certain
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: people in sports, just like certain people in life. If
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you're dating someone that's way out of your league and
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: she's great in bed, she cooks, she cleans, and she
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: makes a ton of money, it's like I wouldn't wait
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: too long to put a ring on that finger. You
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: better get pretty aggressive. You get Miles Garrett in the building,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: immediately change his contract, extend them, do whatever you gotta
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: do totally get it. You got Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes. You give those type guys extensions the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: moment you can. Baker Mayfield's like, ah, we probably would
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: have felt good about this a year ago. But things
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: change and most of these quarterbacks can eb and flow
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: a little bit. And the number one thing you will
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: regret in the NFL is we talked about this, I
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: think last week about TJ. Watt. When you pay defensive stars,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: they now are cost over one hundred million dollars in
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: guaranteed money. Will quarterbacks A cheap deal for a quarterback
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: be like one hundred and fifty guaranteed. So it's one thing.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh, extend Nick herbig four years, one hundred million,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: forty two million dollars guaranteed. Let's say he never lives
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: up to that contract. It's not the worst thing in
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the world. But if you give Baker Mayfield, let's give
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: him a three year extension, you know, forty five million
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: dollars a year and guarantee one hundred and thirty million
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: dollars if he keeps going like he was going last
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Year's never quite healthy, not playing that well, that's a problem,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and I think the number one thing you can do
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: whenever you have questions about anything, let it play out.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Take a deep breath, do not rush it when you
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: know you know when you're dating the right person. Get
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: aggressive when you have the right guy on your team,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: fucking extend his ass immediately. In this situation. If you're Tampa,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: no need to do anything right now. Best case scenario,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: dude goes out, dominates, you win double digy games, you're
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: back in the playoffs, and you feel good about it.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: But if you have another year like last year, like Noah,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: we need to reevaluate our options. And sometimes reevaluating your
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: options is a healthy thing to do. Uh. You know
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Adam Peters, I asked him how he deals with because
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I I could never not have the feeling in my
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: stomach and I was never the boss. When a guy
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: would be laying there on the ground, you're basically in
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: your head, especially if there's like a pile rooting for
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: it to not be one of your best players. But inevitably,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: over the course of a career, if you're a GM,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: if you're a coach, you were going to have devastating injuries.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Two star players and Adam even mentioned on the podcast,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I'm terrible. I don't handle it well. And I saw
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: today that Abdul Carter, who should become I mean, his
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: ceiling is sky high. Obviously last year was pretty not
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a great year. I mean, let's face it, from all
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: the stuff off the field with the tardy miss getting benched,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: weird stuff, and just I think people were hoping for
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: a little bit more production because I thought he'd be
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: a plug and play like seven eight SAC guy immediately
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and that was not the case. Well, I do believe
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: his ceiling with Harball and the kind of that mentality
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: and how they're gonna play is really really high. So
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine today when he went down the entire
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: kind of sideline, just their stomach hits, you know, or
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: their heart drops in their stomach. And this is going
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: to happen at times this week where a guy is
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: on the ground ideally just rolls an ankle, he just scared,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: walks it off, walks the trainer, and everything's fine. But
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: there's a reason I saw this happened a lot. It
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: was happening at Steeler camp that guys like her Big
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: was not practicing. He was out there, but he was
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: doing one of those whole dems like I'm not doing
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: drills because if something bad happens that potential contract that
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I have coming my way or we're negotiating, you guys
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: wipe with your ass, which I would too if I
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: was the team. Listen, I'll pay you this contract, but
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: if you shatter your leg in practice, we're no longer
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: paying you that contract. It's a cold world. Welcome to America.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of the way the private sector works.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: So I've always supported players holding in. I think the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: whole in is become much more effective now. It's like, listen, guys,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I want to be here, and we all have to
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: acknowledge these numbers are so big now. Even if I'm
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: a lower price player like Darnell Washington who got the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: contract last week from the Pittsburgh Steelers, what do you
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: get twenty five million dollars guaranteed? The media Lef's thrown
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: around generational wealth, like it's got to be one hundred
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: million dollars, Like last time I checked, twenty five million
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed. I've known some very successful humans that sold
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: their business for like twenty million dollars. Guess what they're
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: fucking rich immediately, because if you have anyone with a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: brain managing your money, you turn that money into even
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: more money. So you start talking millions upon millions of dollars. Obviously,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: there are different levels to it in the NFL, guys
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: like Stafford Miles Garrett to guys you know, making twenty
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: thirty million dollars signing bonus like Christian Watson like that.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: That's a game changer. And if I had a contract
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: that was in flux or we're in mid negotiations, I
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: wouldn't do shit at one of these OTAs either. And
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I definitely wouldn't do shit at a training camp practice
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: because the pads come on, bodies are flying. You have
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of Johnny Tryhard's trying to impress their coordinator,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: their coach, which they should be doing. That's where you
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: get in some precarious situations. So I'm glad he's okay,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and I hope all these guys this week, all throughout
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: the league, you know, we get no injuries. It doesn't
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: feel like we've had too many major injuries over the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: course of the last couple of weeks. I think that's
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: definitely by design, but it's the one hard part about
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: football now, it's you go to training camp and the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: pads come on, and it just gets so physical, so
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: fast that it feels that some of those injuries that
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: used to happen during May and June now are more
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: inevitable in August and some of these preseason games because
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: you're just not used to I mean, not to be
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: old man, get off my lawn, but I I just
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: remember in twenty ten, my first couple weeks working for
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, thinking these OTAs were intense. They were a
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: couple hours, guys flying around. It was a very physical practice.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Obviously you're not wearing pads or anything, so you're not
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: tackling to the ground, but it was. It was an
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: intense environment. And those days they don't exist anymore anywhere.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: So I had a buddy recently tell me, he's like,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you know, I kind of have a theory about basketball.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: He's a big NBA guy, covers the NBA. He's like,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: one reason I think we've seen so many injuries in
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: the playoffs over the course of the last handful of
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: years is because the regular season and the playoffs now
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: is in a different universe, and guys play so hard
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs that you're the guys aren't used to it,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: and some guys people fall into each other. People are
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: just moving at a little different speed that you're just
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Sometimes some of your regular season games are more like
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: a run at the y. You're not as worried about
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: getting injuries. Obviously it can happen, but you see some
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: of these even the first game when the dude fell
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: into Jalen Brunts's knee, you just got bodies flying around
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: a little more randomly because guys are playing balls of
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: the wall. And in football, once the games start, like
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: all the games, there's not that big of a gap
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: between a big regular season game week eight and a
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: playoff game. The main difference is if you lose the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: playoff game, you go home. But if I just show
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: you Sunday Night football, Chiefs, Bills, Denver Pass, whoever, just
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: a big game. Everyone on the field is playing balls
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: to the wall, and if you don't, you get yanked
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: out of the game. And if the coach doesn't notice it,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: you're the game. If you're not a star player, you
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: might get cut the next day. It's just not tolerated.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: So I think the key to football and I don't
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: think there's an easy answer to this. It's no different
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: than MMA or boxing. There's a reason these guys sparred.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: There's a reason these guys build up so once they
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: get to the fight, they have some of those callsies
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: on them. It's very hard to build that in football.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Now that the way that the new CBA allows you
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: to build the team in the offseason. Then you just
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: get to the games and you call plays like you
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: would have thirty years ago. And guys played just as
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: hard as they ever would and now they're faster than
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: they have ever been because of the training, but they
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: play less football than they've ever played because no double days,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: no pads, most teams don't tackle to the ground and
• 34:43
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  Speaker 1: what about the team with the better record in the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl host the game? Well, a couple problems here
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: is they typically don't want to do I mean they
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: never want to do an outdoor game in the cold.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: So it's a big reason all these teams that are
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: rebuilding stadiums are putting domes on which I don't love,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: but it's I understand it from a business standpoint. You
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: get to host Super Bowls in two you get to
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: host winner events, final fours concerts year round, where it's like,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: you know, Lady Gaga or Morgan Wallen's not going to
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Soldier Field February, but if you have a dome, you
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: can go to whenever you want. Right. The other thing
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: is the super Bowl, like these conference championship games in
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: college football, which have become a major talking point because
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: what is their value to I was talking to a
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: buddy who works in the music business, but he's involved
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: in golf and he goes out to the Masters for
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: like five days. He's like, some of these big corporations,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: their marketing budget, the majority of it is spent that
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: week for them, and the Super Bowl is a corporate event. Obviously,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the game is extremely important for the two teams involved
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: in the two fan bases, but that event for the
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: league is how they take care of all their corporate partners.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: So they're beer sponsors, they're gambling sponsors, there, you name it.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: It's when everyone gets together and kind of does business
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: and depending on what industry you work in, you have
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: these of events throughout the year that you go to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: which are fun, but they're really kind of networking business,
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: taking care of people that you work with, or partner with,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: or want to do business with. It's also that so
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: people they want to get involved, you take care of
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: them that way. So the super Bowl, you know, we
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: at Alguido, the president of the forty nine ers last
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: year the week before the super Bowl, right and we
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: talked about that event. They start prepping for that event
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: a year in advance, so that's also part of it.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Part of that prep is because of the corporations and
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: the business that comes in. It's not something that you
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: could just flip around like a championship game with the
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Rams making the blockbuster move for Miles. Do you think
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: the Niners need to make a counter with someone like
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Max Crosby to ensure they can keep pace. I do
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: think the Niners are going through a period like the
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Rams went through in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: kind of resetting their roster. I mean, the only way
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: they can maintain being a good team is they have
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: to have hit on a large core of these draft
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: picks over the last couple of years, so three, I
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: would say seven or eight guys between this year and
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: next year and last year moving forward. If they don't,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: then they're fucked either way. So as you're kind of
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: going through that transition, you don't know how good you are.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: To me. If you're the forty nine ers, I think they're,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: you know, a wild card team still because of the coach,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: the culture. They still have a lot of really good players.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I actually think some of their draft picks from last
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: year are gonna be good players. We'll see on this year.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: If you are better than expected, then you get really
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: aggressive at the trade deadline. And as we've seen over
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: the course of the last four or five years, the
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: trade deadline has completely changed. Hell. For the forty nine ers,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: they got Christian McCaffrey at the trade deadline. So I
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: to me, they're in a position now you slow played
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: a little bit and ideally if this works in a
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: year or two, you're in the business of doing those deals.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Max Crosby's not going to get traded. Max Crosby is
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: a raider moving forward. He said it. He said at
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: the moment that the trade got mixed, he said, I
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: watched some of his press conference the other day. He's like,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: We're not talking about Baltimore anymore. I'm here. This is
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: where I want to beat, is where I've always wanted
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: to be. I believe in what we're doing, so to me,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: it have to get really bad and then maybe Max
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: will get traded at the deadline. But my guess is
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Max is on the Raiders for at least the next
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: couple of years. Could be wrong there. You've had interviews
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: with head coaches recently for scheduling. Are they able to
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: do those before OTAs or just in the middle of them. Also,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: once the NFL goes dark for a month, how do
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: they keep track of what the players are doing? Do
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: they or the teams ever step in to try to
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: keep players from doing dumb shit that a young guy
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: with a pocket full of cash might do well To
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: answer to the second part of your question, these guys
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: have had cash. So if I've just drafted multiple guys,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: all these guys were minimum making hundreds of thousands of
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: dollars if you played at a real program. So these
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: guys have been used to having money. Now you have
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: more free time in the NFL than you do in college.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: But it's like it's part of being a grown up, right,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: So it's I can't hold your hand. I don't hold
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: your hand. During the season. If we're a decent team,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: you get Mondays and Tuesdays off, and there's not much
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: you can do, Like if you're gonna do something dumb,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: there's only so much a team can do. The first
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: part is I think it just depends, you know. It's
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: it's a pretty lax time, right. So when I talked
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: to Andy, whatever day that was Tuesday or Wednesday, he
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: was come. He had just come from practice, so that
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: they had practiced when I talked to him, eleven, so
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: they must have practiced. I talked to him about one
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: ten Central time. So my guess is in practice is
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: like eleven to one, eleven to twelve forty five. He
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: comes off practice, probably has lunch waiting for him, does
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: a couple TV hits, podcast hits, probably takes a shower,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: watches the tape with the offensive guys. But it's a
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: little more relaxed right now. I talked to Adam Peters.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I think they were going to have a late practice.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: They were going onto the field. I talked with him
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: at seven thirty in the morning. I guess we pushed
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: it back to eight thirty. So then I talked to
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: him till about nine. I guess it was noon. They
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: were going out to practice. I mean, what's so before noon?
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: What's he really doing? Right, He's probably trying to sign
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: his rookies that he hasn't signed. Maybe they're working on
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: a couple extensions with guys on the team. Again, this
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: is all hypothetical, but there's what are you watching, like,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: maybe some college players for next year, maybe some I
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe you have some special projects. But this
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: is what I said, it's a pretty relaxed time this
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: time of year. I recently was talking to a buddy
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: about Vrabel. I said that while I initially thought Vrabel
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: thing would blow over, it got weird and it became
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: a distraction. If the Patriots have a slow start, it
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: could get toxic. But my buddy said something that floored me.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: He said, if the Patriots start two and three, Rabel
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: is on the hot seat and might get fired mid season,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: and it would be a defensible decision. I think that's
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: absolutely insane thing to say about a coach that just
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: made the Super Bowl year one. So this is my
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: buddy insane. He's not on the hot seat. It would
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: get weird if they have a bad season, not because
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: they have a bad season, because if you look at
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: their schedule, it's gonna be really hard, but because everyone
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: would use that talking point. I just think Mike Vrabel
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: is somewhat of a made man for the Crafts right now.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, think how they didn't even flinch during this time.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Why do you think that was the case because they
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: had just seen they were like Andy dufrayin those last
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: couple of years of Belichick and with Jared Mayo, crawling
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: through the shit, and then Mike Vrabel shows up and
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: they got to the other side, and then before they
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: knew it, they were in fucking Aruba having the time
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: of their life, you know, waxing the boat. Mike Vrabel
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: in year one takes them to the super Bowl. Think
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: about this. The Crafts had been used to for twenty
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: years being if not the most important team, one of
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the most important teams, and most years at minimum they
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: were gonna be in the championship game. Think about that.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: When the year started, it was like, yeah, they're gonna
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: be the championship game. It's like, can they win the
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: two games. Can they win the Super Bowl? Will they
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: lose the Super Bowl? Could Payton Manning take him out
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: in the championship game? That was a conversation and then
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden you start just sucking. So I
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: think as long, Mike Rabel's proven to be a pretty
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: good coach, and I just think he's I think he's
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: pretty safe. Hitt and tile for the first time on
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Fourth of July with my buddies from college. We're in
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: our mid twenties and rented a big airbnb and inclined village.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: These guys are living. Would love to hear any golf
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: activities recommendations you have. Also, should we get a boat
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: for the fourth or would we be okay partying on
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: the beach unless you have, like I don't know, if
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: your airbnb's on the water and you have your own beach.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: The beaches during Fourth of July weekend are fucking bananas.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: So I would recommend renting a boat and just having
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: a guy driving around and drink on the boat. But
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: it's it can be choppy and depending on like the weather,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: it's it's not necessarily just a smooth ride. I think
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: the beach thing you have to get there really really
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: like the crack of dawn to get a spot, depending
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: on where you are in Incline and if you have
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: access Toandy the private beaches. For those of you listen,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Incline is actually on the Nevada side, not on the
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: California side. It's known now as income Village because people
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: have moved to just cross an imaginary line from California,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: buy a house an Incline Village or the general area
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: and live there six months a year in a day
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: to pay no state income tax. It's actually beautiful spot.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I mean it's the prices there are insane. It's me
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: and Maria rented at Airbnb there last year for a week.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: It's awesome. I would say rented to Airbnb inclient. Would
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: love to hear there's an Incline Village like public golf
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: course that is around this time of year. It's probably
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: a couple hundred bucks. It's a good track. It's just
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: called like I think the Championship course. I would that
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: weekend you need to I would try to buy a
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: tea time right now, but I would recommend it. It's
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: a little on the price your side, depending on where
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: you guys are coming from but it's a legit track.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Me and my brother played there last year and the
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: day before Maverick McNeely, who's on the PGA tour, was
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: just playing there. I mean, it's cool track. So there's
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: also a hike. Hike would be strong. It's more like
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: a walk that if you go toward the end of
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Incline Village basically as you had to go around the
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: lake to head toward back toward the other side where
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Edgewood is, there is a walk that basically is a
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: path all the way down like Tahoe, and you can
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: just go on for as long as you want, a
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: couple hours. Last year, actually Maria was pregnant and we
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: pushed it. She had to go to the bathroom really bad,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: and we went to this beach that you have to
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: pay a couple of dollars for. We didn't have any
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: cash on us. They don't take pain on her phone.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I'm like, my wife's six months pregnant, she needs to
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: go to the bathroom, and the lady just wouldn't let her.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Complete bitch. It was a nightmare. Anyway. I didn't think
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: we're gonna make it, but we did, and I would
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: recommend doing that I mean, I've told people this before
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of times. In Tahoe, you just kind of
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: hang out, have some beers at the house, you know, barbecue.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: It's pretty chill, you know. Inclined village that there are
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: a couple casinos, pretty old school, but there's not like
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: that much to do, you know, which is the draw
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: for a lot of us. You just kind of get
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: away from your problems. We're going there in a couple
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: of weeks and we just kind of hang eat, drinking,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: and hike. And when I say hike, walk on the
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: streets because you're just walking up and down. You just
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: go on walks just it's just nice. Reflecting on Russell
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Wilson's retirement, I suspect his immediate move to broadcasting is
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: an assertive attempt to at image rehabilitation. Let's be honest.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: When it comes to Hall of Fame, recency biased is
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: not on the side. I believe that a few years
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: of solid broadcasting would be much more helpful for getting
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: in the Hall. Yeah, I don't maybe I'm naive. I
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: don't even think it's that deep, you know. I'm sure
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the Jets were offering him whatever, a couple million dollars
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: to be the backup on a team that was terrible,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: and he's like, what's the point of this? Where CBS
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: is offering he can work way less, probably the same wage.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: So it's like, wait, I could make a couple of
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: million dollars, I could work every Sunday. I could still
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: be around my kids NonStop and do whatever I want
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: to do all week. I think it's more that. Does
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: anyone think he's gonna be good on TV? I hope
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I'm wrong. Now. Granted I don't really watch a lot
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: of the studio shows on Sunday. I just kind of
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: watched the games and podcasts, But I just I think
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: he's gonna get made. He's gonna let it rip, hopefully does.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: If he does, it'd be one of my didn't see
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: that coming, you know, didn't see that coming. I had
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: someone DM me the other day like, do you think
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be Drew Berries? Because remember when Drew first
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Scot on TV? It was like, true, you gotta say
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: what you actually believe. Sometimes you can't be afraid of
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: offending every single coach or player you've ever met, and
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, like you don't even
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: do you know what the fans. How you can get
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: away if you're a former player, from ripping the players.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Rip the coaches. Rip the coaches, that's the easiest thing
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: to do. Rip the front offices. You don't even need
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: to talk. Just use them as the proxy to talk
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: to shit. But you can't just tell me everything's good.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: When a team's to and ten, you know, leads a
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: league in turnovers and it's not going well, it's like,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: well they got they got a bright future. Like no
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: one wants to hear that. That's not going to resonate now,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: and I think a lot of players really struggle with that.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: I'm a lifelong coach fan, and I'm struggling with some
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: of the recent decisions. I'm starting to wonder are we
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: actually trying to win a Super Bowl or just trying
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: to be competitive. Here's my rule. If the fan cares
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: more about winning than the organ organization does, it might
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: be time to reevaluate the relationship. So I'm considering putting
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: my NFL fandom on the open market. Who are your
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: top three teams you'd invest in right now? Organizations that
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: are aggressive, smart, desperately chasing championships and would actually be
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: fun to root for. Do I need to calm down,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: stop being dramatic. I do think they've tried. I think
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: once you get in this quarterback situation, there's only so
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: much you can do. They viewed Daniel Jones their best option.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: They didn't really have any other options. I don't agree
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: with how they paid them, but I don't know where
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: else they could have gone. He took a big swing
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: on the quarterback with ar Ar fifteen. Yeah, I guess
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: he had to change Anthony Richson and it just blew
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: up in their face. So I don't think they're trying
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: to win. I actually think if Daniel Jones can get
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: back healthy, they could be a competitive team like they
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: have tried. They're not just trying to be competitive, they
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: are trying. They traded two first rounds for Sas Gardner.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: I think you're underselling. I think the Colts have tried.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: It hasn't worked, but I don't view them as like
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: going through the motions trying to save money. I think
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: they have been very aggressive they traded. I remember in
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty when they traded for Deforce Buckner that they've
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: gone even this year going after Philip Rivers to try
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. They've been desperate to try to win.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: I actually it hasn't gone well, but I don't think
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: they deserve you to jump the ship yet. I'd give
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: them this year. But if I mean, you can just
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: become like you need an NFC team, just root for
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: the Rams. Probably a golo question, but on fire Away,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: how much do pro golfers rely on their caddy versus
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: their instincts? Just watch Scotty melt down on sixteen with
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: this caddy. If you are feeling one club shot path
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: and your caddy wants you to do another, would you
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: not just do what your intuition is telling you. For
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: those of you that don't fall golf, Scotti Schaffler, the
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: best player in the world, absolutely undressed his caddy Ted Scott,
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: who's I mean viewed as one of, if not the
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: best caddies in the world, who was on Bubba Watson's
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: bag forever, who won multiple Masters and just all around
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: high character, good guy. He fucking undressed him. It was
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: honestly a loser. Look it really was. Tiger Woods, the
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: best golfer of all time, used to scream at himself,
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: fucked Tiger. He would just say Tiger. He would slam
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: his club and just drop f bombs at himself. I
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: never remember. It would still be viral to this day.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Him screaming at Steve Williams, his former caddie in his heyday.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Definitely not Joe Lacava when he was older. So to me,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Scotty can be a little whiny as golfers can be.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: You know, when a head coach gets mad at a coordinator,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Why the bleep did you call that? It's like, hey,
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: you're the head coach. You are listening to the headset.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: If you hear something and you don't like it, do
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: you know what you should do? Hey, we're not running that,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: call something else. Now there's a balance. You don't want
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: to be a micromanager, but like you're the boss. So
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know all the details of this scenario. If
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: Ted Scott goes, hey, Scotty, you should hit a seven iron,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: and Scotty wants to hit a six iron, And Scotty
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: listens to Ted and hiss the seven iron and in
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: this scenario, the wind is ball went in the water
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: and he starts bitching a moaning like I'm sorry, Scotty.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: You're standing there too, you can feel the wind. You
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: are the head coach. In this scenario, he's the coordinator.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: He chimes in with ideas. You listen to a lot
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: of them. They go well, and honestly, it's it's golf,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: the wind blows, it's football. You call a bad play.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: You can't freak out over every call. You can't freak
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: out over every mistake. I Tiger one of his elite qualities,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: just as a sportsman was moving on. Hit a shitty shot,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: next shot, dialed in. It's why some of his greatest
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: moments have been incredible chippins. Well, when you have to
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: have an incredible chip in, especially for Birdie, what does
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: that mean you hit a bad approach shot? Tiger could
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: just dial in like he's Tom Brady or Michael Jordan.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Scotty starts bitching and whining. It's like, bro, you could
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: do whatever you want. Ted Scott works for you. Sometimes
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: when I hear this in like the sporting world, it's like,
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: you know my agent, my agent wants the agent works
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: for you. You pay him, he doesn't pay you. That's how
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: the business relationship works. So if you want to do something,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: you tell him what to do. Hope to get one
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: of my questions answered on the show. I've been in
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: banking for a little over five years now, and I've
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: worked for a small local bank in KC. Great experience,
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: and I learned a lot. I got bored and decided
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: one day I'd throw my name out there and see
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: if a bigger bank, paying more money with way more
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: opportunities for growth, would want to take a chance. Well,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: I got an offer and I accepted the position. What
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: is the best advice you can give to someone starting
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: in a relatively small local role and transitioning to a
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: larger role with obviously more work to come. That's a
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: good I'm not the greatest person to answer this because
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: I I haven't really worked in many corporate environments that
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: were big. I mean, even when I worked for the Eagles,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: like it was I was like answering to like, you know,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: a small coaching staff in front office. It didn't feel
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: like I was working at Wells Fargo. Same thing with
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: the radio and then at the Volume It's like it's
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: a small startup company. You know I'm not working for
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: isn't he here? So my macro advice to anyone getting
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: a bigger position, I would assume you're a younger guy,
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: is like just put in as much time as you
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: can to get really good at what you're doing, go
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: above and beyond to impress people. And once you figure
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: out like the people that need to be impressed, like
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: do what needs to get done to catch their attention,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Like take advantage of the opportunity to grind. And I
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: don't know what your role is, but if it's you know,
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: landing clients, landing business, like grind your dick off, and
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: typically good things happen out of that. And if you
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: go to a bigger place, they typically have more resources
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: and theory. Again, I'm probably the wrong person to ask,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: but I would say this too, like listen a lot
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: early on, just kind of get a lay in the land.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Just go in there kind of with your mouth shut
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: and your ears open and just take everything in early
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: on and then kind of and then figure out kind
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: of the way to attack it. But I would say
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: early on, just kind of feel your way out now.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Don't just not do anything, but I would I would
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: definitely just try to listen a lot early and I
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: would imagine there's you know, I mean, money's money at
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: the end of the day. The rates are kind of
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: the rates, so it's not like you're you know, you're
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: going from speaking English to speaking Chinese. It's gonna be
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: in the same vein maybe bigger banks, you're dealing with
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: bigger clients. But hell, I know people that work for
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: quote unquote smaller banks that do fucking huge numbers, So
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: there might not be that big a difference beside maybe
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: the corporate structure, and if they're paying you more money,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: maybe they maybe in your mind they think you need
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: to do more where it's just like that's just the
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: going rate for the bigger companies. Again, I hate to
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: say this, but I'm I don't have a lot of
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: experience in some of these roles, just because I've never
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: truly worked in some of these corporate situations like some
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: of you have, which are just a lot different. I mean,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: one of Maria's friends came this weekend with her young
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: baby from San Diego and she's crushing it to right now.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, God, I mean, some of these some of
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: the women in my life, whether it's her friends, whether
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: it's girls I went to college with, so between like
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: I would say thirty three to forty year old range.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, they make so much money. It's crazy how
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: much women are making right now in sales, I mean
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: printing cash like big, big, like I mean it's it's like,
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: damn good for them. I mean it's like, this is
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: fucking twenty twenty six is the year of the fucking
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: woman's salesman, because every story I hear it is like
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: this chick's fucking crushing U and just listen to her talk.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: It's you know, you gotta you kind of got to
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: figure out where your bread's buttered in corporate situations, and
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: then you know, there's a feeling out process. I would say,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: don't go in their guns blazing to like, you know
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: it all, you're gonna stand out within the first couple
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: of weeks, but going there ready to grind and just
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: don't talk as much early as maybe potentially that you
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: will eventually. If you could choose three former players coaches
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: to have dinner with, who would they be? I'd probably
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: separate it. I mean it'd be pretty cool to be like, yeah,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: you know, I had dinner with Vince Lombardi, Bill Walsh,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: you know, Mike Didka. I think the players, or you
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: could do like an intermix of like Bill waltsh Joe Montana,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Ronnie Lott, something like that. Like Belichick, Brady Vrabel, I'd
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: be pretty entertained. With most people, I think you'd want
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: to go with a big personality, right, Like if you
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: went to dinner with like Bill Parcells and Sean Payton,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: those guys would never stop talking, so you could just
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: drink and hear stories and take mental notes and then
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: I can use on the podcast. I think I'd want
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: to do something like that. I'd want big personalities and
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: big talkers, so you can go the Parcels Street, you
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: go Parcels, Sean Payton, Dan Campbell, just have those guys
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: telling stories players. I mean, it'd be pretty sweet to
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: do Peyton Eli and their dad. I'd be pretty badass.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think you'd go wrong with that
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: many like famous people. I think if you're going old
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: old school, go like you know, Al Davis, Lamar Hunt
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: and like one of the old Rooneyes. What would be
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: pretty awesome. I mean, if you wanted to go on
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: I'm just like a bender, you go, you know, do
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: you know not a drug guy, but like you know,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: like the Lawrence Taylor types. I could just go out
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: to dinner with like Mahomes, Josh Allen and who else
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: has like it and like Baker Mayfield and just talk
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: about having a young babies, just talking about babies on soup.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: It's crazy how much when you just like, how often
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: having a baby comes up. It's like, Hey, I'm John,
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: I'm Jackstadt. That's essentially how he introduced myself to random people.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: I was actually talking to this guy at the gym
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: the other day. We just got out of the sauna.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: We were sitting there on these chairs outside, and within
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: like two seconds, my kid comes up and then he starts.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: It's crazy when you talk to older people, they immediately
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: start giving you wisdom, and the first thing they say
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: is got it goes by quick. He's like, I trust me,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: I know my kids are forty It's what he said.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: My god, damn, I always thought you were like fifty
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: five years old, which was out. He was like seventy plus,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: but he looked great. It's crazy, that wisdom, when they
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: say enjoy it, it flies by when you're in it.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: That that comment, it's so embedded in my brain. Now
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: I'll use it one day. But it doesn't make you,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: like Jesus say, because you're not waking up at two
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. Hey man Daily listener when on
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: this lifelong Chiefs fan, curious your thoughts on Rashi Rice.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: What do you think the Chiefs and Beach do next offseason.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a chance they give him big contract.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: What type of trade compensation do you think his market
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: would given his risk reward potential? Well, he's currently in jail.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: So anytime you're discussing about a contract extension with a
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: guy sitting in the fucking clink who had to get
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: Burkholder to send him rehab instructions so he could take
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: to jail, we don't discuss contract negotiations. If I'm Beach
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: like contract negotiations that those do not exist here. You're
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: in fucking jail for a month, So I would say
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: that you just riote it out with him. You know.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: So he is in the last year of his deal.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. How what draft pick was? He fifty fifth overall?
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: His cap hit this year is zero point zero seven percent,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: so it's not even one percent of the cap. You
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: That's why people in the NFL will tell you in
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: a good draft, second and third rounders, that second day
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: of the draft you can get impact, elite players that
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: cost nothing. You know, in the first round, Like if
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Sonny Styles and Jeremiah Love and these guys are good,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: like they're not cheap. I mean they're cheaper than Fred
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Warner or Saquon Barkley, but they're still making seven eight
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: million dollars and their cap hit the first couple of
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: years are relatively big. So you hit on these second
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: round picks. I just we'll deal with who when we
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: deal with it. I'd be stunned if they gave him
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: a contract extension. I think this is a one played
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: out year. I don't. I don't know what they do.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think there's a good I mean,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: he's already been suspended six games, he's currently in jail,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: could get suspended again. So I I think this is
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: We'll take a deep breath and we will reevaluate come
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: January February. Audios, have a great day, See you later.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: The volume