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Ep.27: Called it · Football Junkies podcast

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Bag alert, bag alert, bag alert, bag alert, bag alert, bag alert folks, that's right.
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We have to end the week with another bag alert.
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I predicted it.
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I called it.
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You already know we're going to have to go over it.
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Okay.
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Creed Humphrey resets the center market and we got to ask a few questions.
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We really do.
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We really got to ask a few questions.
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All right.
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Is there more pressure on Aaron Rodgers or Russell Wilson disease?
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Let me know.
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Let me know.
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Okay.
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Should the 49ers value extending Trent Williams or Brandy Niu?
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Now that one, that's going to be a controversial one, but it's okay.
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We got to go.
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We have to talk about it.
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Okay.
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As well as the Omar Khan reads to try to upgrade the receiver position to keep this very light
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and we're going to keep this very, very, very, very condensed.
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Okay.
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Because we just gave y'all, okay, almost an hour episode.
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We're just going to keep this one real light just to end the week right.
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Okay.
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All of this and more on the 27th episode of the football junkies podcast.
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I'm your host.
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Okay.
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You're a GM who still does not have a job right now, but currently is taking interviews
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and is also giving advice to current GMs right now.
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Three teams.
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Okay.
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Two of those teams are super bowl caliber teams.
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Okay.
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As well as your chief, the head of the table, Bagrod Domes, as well as your chief bag meteorologists.
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You already know what I'm getting ready to say.
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I am your host, Kale.
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Let's lock in.
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All right, folks, let's just get into the information.
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Let's talk about the bag alerts.
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Okay.
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We're not going to keep this episode very long and drawn out.
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We're going to hit everything that we need to hit and then we're going to let it go.
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Okay.
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So, Queen Humphrey Center for the Chiefs.
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Okay.
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Super Bowl reigning chiefs.
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Okay.
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I have to put that in there and for it to be signed a four year 72 million dollar deal
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to stay with the chiefs, of course.
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So let's just go over the financials.
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Okay.
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So he gets 50 million in total guarantees and he's making about 18 million a year according
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to who?
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Spot right.
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Shout out to spot right now when we break things down, right?
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So these are stats from last season.
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Of course, there's no stats for this season because season hasn't even started yet, but
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supposed to be starting in two weeks.
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Right.
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So he was first in past blocking snaps.
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He was first in when it comes to pressure, pressure rates.
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He was first in one on one pressure rates.
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He was seventh in sack rates and he was third average.
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I can't even speak.
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He was third when it comes to average time to pressure.
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Okay.
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According to NFL pro, there's a lot of new staff.
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So it's still a little bit of a learning curve with everything, but I'm going to learn
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your own learn.
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So when we look at it, this was very respected.
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Lee Humphrey is definitely a top five center in the league.
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I mean, let's be real here.
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It was expected he was going to reset the market.
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Same thing with people like Tyler Linderbaum and all the other really good centers that
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are in the league.
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So I mean, granted the market force centers aren't that expensive.
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So it's a little bit easier to digest compared to the receiver market, the quarterback market,
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the patch rusher market, the quarterback market, all those different types of markets.
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So all in all, it's a really good deal.
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Creed Humphrey has definitely been an anchor for that offensive line since being drafted
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by the chiefs if we can be real here.
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So all in all, it was a great signing.
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It really was.
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I mean, 18 million a year.
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That's good.
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That's really good.
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Now, if I can throw in my bag of diamonds hat for a quick second, do I believe someone
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is going to crest that 20 million pretty soon?
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Yes.
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I think it's going to be either Tyler Linderbaum or I think Ryan Kelly is probably going to
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get one more big payday.
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I do.
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I do believe that because there, how can I say this without trying to be disrespectful?
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Centers are they aren't as valued as other positions, but when a team has a premier,
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you know, great center on their team, most likely they're going to stay there for the
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rest of their career.
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Right?
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It's rare that you see centers, you know, really great centers actually, you know, leave,
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you know, leave the team that they, you know, that they were drafted to or, you know, signed
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to or whatever the case may be.
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Right?
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And, you know, this is, this is what it is.
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This is what it is.
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Creed Humphrey has been one of the best centers since coming into the league.
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You are talking about someone who has been consistent.
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You're talking about somebody who, you know, has, has done it all.
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You really, you rarely see him, you know, give up, give up on plays.
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You rarely do.
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He is consistent.
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He holds his own against some of the best interior defensive linemen and he does it well.
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So this is just him, you know, getting fairly compensated for that.
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So congratulations to him.
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Now on to the juicy topics.
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Okay.
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This is a topic that I've definitely been thinking about because let's be real here.
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Aaron Rodgers has been getting a little bit more slack and a little bit more leeway compared
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to Aaron Rodgers, especially from certain people who will remain anonymous.
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Let's just call it for what it is, right?
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Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson, you know, two quarterbacks who are from the older generation
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of quarterbacks who are still trying to hang on, who still feel like they can play at the
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league level.
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And that's perfectly fine.
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It really is.
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However, I feel like we are diminishing one quarterback and continuing to praise another
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quarterback when that other quarterback has not done anything since, you know, changing
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to another team.
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Now, granted, granted, he could not control the injury.
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He couldn't.
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But at the same time, we are hyping him up and putting him on a level that he has not
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even reached in a few years, right, compared to Russell Wilson, who basically, you know,
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it's just, you know, just a complete media beatdown, you know, oh, he's not supposed
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to be calm.
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He's not supposed to be this down the other.
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Just like, bro, it's the preseason, right?
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It'll be different if this was, you know, the regular season and, you know, your and
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the team is on like a three game losing streak or whatever, then it's like, okay, you needed,
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you need a, there need to be some urgency in your voice.
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You need to be some urgency in your tone in the message that you're trying to convey,
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you know, not only to the media, but to the team, right?
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And you know, Russell Wilson has always been somebody who can control the media.
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He always does.
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He's not someone that uses his emotions.
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He's not someone that, you know, you don't know how things are going to be when it comes
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to reporters and different types of things.
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He is someone who you may have to try to decipher exactly what he's saying, but he's always
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going to be, he's always going to handle the media thing very well.
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That's one thing that you can't take away from Russell Wilson.
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Whereas the other person, you don't know exactly what you're getting, right?
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You don't know if you're getting someone that's going to be professional or you're going to
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get someone, you know, has a 10-4 hat on.
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That's just what it is, right?
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And you know, when we look at their numbers, right, their numbers are somewhat similar.
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They're very close, honestly.
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So let's just look at them.
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Okay.
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So Russell Wilson's last full season, 2023, of course, last season, he had 297 completions,
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447 attempts, 3070 passing yards, 26 touchdowns, eight interceptions, a 98 pass, a 10-4 pass,
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a rating, and he averaged 6.9 yards per attempt.
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Cool, right?
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Now let's look at Errodgers, okay?
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Errodgers last season was 2022, okay?
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350 completions, 542 attempts, 3,695 passing yards, 26 touchdowns, 12 interceptions, a
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91.1 pass rating, and he averaged 6.8 yards per attempt.
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Now, the only difference, honestly speaking, in their numbers is Errodgers probably threw
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for more passing yards, just a few more passing yards than what Russell Wilson did, right?
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But they have the same identical touchdowns, except Errodgers threw more interceptions,
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and their pass rating is somewhat close, right?
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And whether we want to imagine it or not, Russell Wilson, he didn't, the last season
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was not necessarily a bad season, it was just a, it didn't meet the standard that we always
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see when it comes to Russell Wilson, right?
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Compared to any other quarterback, right?
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Like we're comparing Russell Wilson's stats from last year to, I don't know, Daniel Jones,
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Trevor Lawrence, or you know, some no name or whatever the case may be, of course Russell
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Wilson's numbers are going to look a whole lot better compared to who, the other person,
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right?
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And so I feel like, you know, there's more pressure on Errodger than it is on Russell
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Wilson, because why?
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The Jets moved a lot to get Errodgers, not to mention, they also got his old, you know,
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offensive coordinator, his little towel boy, and then they got some of his receivers, Alan
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Luzard and Randall Cobb, and you know, they brought all of those people in with him, right?
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You had all this, you know, this big media buzz, you know, they were on hard knocks and
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you know, all these, you know, different types of things.
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So the pressure is on Errodgers, you know, to show something.
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It is, because granted, they've done a lot.
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Well, I wouldn't, to my standards, I don't feel like they've done a lot, but in their
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eyes, they feel like they've done a lot for, you know, for this team, right?
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From trying to, you know, rebuild the offensive line, and you know, they get the left tackle
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from Penn State, and then they get Tyrone, Smith, and one now, they're trying to invest
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more into the offensive line, you know, try to protect Errodgers, and you know, they're
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just trying to do a few different things just to, you know, try to only make things better
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for Errodgers, but somewhat try to take the load off of Errodgers.
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But at the end of the day here, folks, you know, a lot has been moved for Errodgers.
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A lot, you know, the expectations were set high for Errodgers, right?
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You, you know, there were a lot of people that were saying, oh, Errodgers are going
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to, you know, take them to a Super Bowl and this, then the other, and blah, blah, blah,
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blah, and it's just like, no, that's not a guarantee.
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It's never a guarantee, right?
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And you know, Errodgers is in a place where, you know, either one or two things are going
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to happen.
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Either you're going to have a dynamic season that's going to go down in the history books
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or you're going to have a season where everyone is basically going to be like, bro, just retire,
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just retire, just, just, you know, find, find a little place on the beach and relax for
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the rest of your life.
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Okay.
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Sure, you can still throw the ball, you know, to some kids in the neighborhood or whatever
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the case may be.
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But, you know, as far as you playing, you know, professional football, suiting up every Sunday
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and playing, do not do that, right?
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That is what is, and in some ways, it's in somewhat of the same situation for Russell
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Wilson as well, because, you know, the Steelers signed him to a vet minimum, right?
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And the Broncos basically were like, to hell with it, we'll eat, you know, the biggest
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dead cap hit in NFL history, just so we never see you again, right?
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And granted, some of that was because of Sean Payton and, you know, his vision and whatnot.
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But I feel like, you know, the temperature in the locker room for the Broncos, when
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it came to Russell Wilson, started to hit a point that, you know, if you, if you were
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around when the Legion of Boom, you know, was like, was like really up there and a lot
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of people were talking about them and they were supposed to be like the next big dynasty.
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And you know, the whole debacle with the, you know, with the Super Bowling whatnot, it
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sort of gave you somewhat of a similar vibe, but it didn't.
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And so, you know, here we are, right?
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You know, Russ is trying to change his image.
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He's trying to show people that, hey, I'm still the Russell Wilson of old.
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I can still do this, this and this, but it's like, are you?
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Are you?
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Because it's easier.
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It's easier for us to trick our minds and to tell ourselves that we are the same person
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that we were, you know, the person that was able to do, you know, all these various different
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things.
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But the fact of the matter is there comes a time and point where we all have to have
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that honest, honest discussion with ourselves that, hey, I've lost my step, right?
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I lost a little pep in my step.
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I don't know how much I've lost, but I've lost a little bit.
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Okay.
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I've lost a little bit of, I can't do this anymore, or I can only do it a few times or
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whatever the case may be, right?
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And that's perfectly fine.
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But, you know, the pressure, the pressure is on the both of them to show something, right?
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Because Russ is trying to fight for another big deal, another opportunity to be a starting
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quarterback.
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Aaron Rodgers is somewhat finding of a spot to see, you know, if he's not going to get
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pushed into retirement at this point.
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That's what it is.
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That's really what it is.
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It's nothing, you know, super hard or super complex to understand or whatnot.
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It's none of those things.
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And to any person that says that, you know, there's no pressure on Aaron Rodgers or your
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liar, the Jets moved having an Earth to get him.
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They did.
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And they carried on some of his teammates with him as well and some of the coaching staff
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as well with him as well.
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A lot of players decided to go to the Jets because they were thinking, oh, with Aaron
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Rodgers being there, this is going to change everything.
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And so far hasn't lived up to those expectations nor those standards.
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So again, I will continue to say that the Jets are not a Super Bowl team.
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Now that defense, that defense is a very potent defense.
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That's a defense that you don't want to see in January.
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Okay.
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And when it comes to that offense, I just don't see it.
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I just don't.
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Even with the decision of Aaron Rodgers not even taking at least a few snaps in the pre-season
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game, I would have had him do it because he needs to get into a stride going into the
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season instead of just, you know, you not knowing exactly what version you're getting
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out of it.
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You just need to do that.
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If Patrick Mahomes can go in for a few drives, if Jarragov can do it, if every other starting
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quarterback can do it, what is it?
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What is the exception for you, Aaron?
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What is the exception for you?
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You haven't.
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Okay, granted, you've won a bunch of MVPs, but you haven't won a championship lately.
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You haven't even though you had an opportunity to do it, but you choked that away.
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Right?
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So exactly what makes you so high and mighty that you are above, you know, taking a few
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snaps and building that chemistry with your players compared to just saying, I'm okay.
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And we, I don't need to do that because you know why?
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Because I'm Aaron Rodgers and I don't need to do that.
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I'm okay.
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I'm him.
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No, no, you need this more than everybody else does.
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You do.
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And it's okay if you don't want to admit it.
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It's perfectly fine, but you do need it.
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Now, moving on to the other topics that are going on.
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We're actually breezing by this pretty good, but I keep telling you guys this is going
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to be a pretty short episode.
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It's not going to be drawn out.
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Just wanted to hit all the focal points.
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And you know, if anything crazy happens, you know, of course, we'll, you know, talk about
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it.
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And of course, it'll be an episode about it, but you know, just want to keep things fairly
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light for you guys, but you know, there was definitely a question that came up that I
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saw.
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I think it was either on Twitter or Instagram and it basically asked, well, I think it was
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talking about Trent Williams, right?
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And you know, there are people that were saying, Oh, no, they don't need to do anything with
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Trent Williams to stand the other blah, blah, blah.
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And I'm just like, do you guys not know who Trent Williams is?
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You guys not get who Trent Williams is?
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Trent Williams is going to go down in history as one of the best, one of the greatest left
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tackles in NFL history.
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He is going to rub elbows with Jonathan Ogden.
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If you don't know who Jonathan Ogden is, YouTube him.
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YouTube him.
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You'll see.
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And you have Brandon Iewik, who basically is this disgruntled receiver who feels like
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you know, he's being screwed over when it's like, bro, the team originally offered you
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26.
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Okay, cool.
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You wasn't, you feel like you were worth more than that.
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That's perfectly fine.
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I'm not going to argue with you on that.
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Then you go from that to, you know, you requested train.
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Okay, cool.
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The 49ers, you know, take call from the Patriots, the Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Cool.
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The Patriots were offering you 32 million.
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You didn't want that.
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The Browns were offering a Mario Cooper and a little bit of money.
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You didn't want that either.
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You keep teetering and tottering.
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When if you want to go to Pittsburgh or not, same thing with Washington as well with their
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whole debacle now with Jahan Dotson getting traded, right?
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So as right, you cannot continue to say, you know, you can't continue to have, you know,
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report you wants to stay here.
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You know, he moved this family here and this and the other blah, blah, blah.
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And that's the case and sign the papers.
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Sign the papers.
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Why are you taking so long to come to a resolution?
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Either you want to be here or you want to go somewhere else.
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It's a simple decision.
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It's a yes or no.
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That's it.
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It's not hard.
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So I don't understand why the world has this thing, you know, basically drawn out going
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into the regular season.
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I don't get it.
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The 49ers have literally been over backwards, forwards, side to side, left to right, spin
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around, do the spinaroni and more for Brandon I.U.
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They've done a lot for Brandon I.U.
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And you know, they're probably, you know, frustrated to the point where they're just
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like to hell with it, to hell with it.
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Is it really worth trying to keep him?
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If it means that, you know, we're basically having to go through hell and high water just
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to please this fool in my eyes.
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And this is just me personally.
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I know I'm probably going to get a whole lot of slack for it.
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To me, it is easier to replace and to find a Brandon I.U. tire than it is a Trent Williams.
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I'm going to say that again because you probably didn't get that.
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So I'm going to say it a little bit closer in the microphone so you can really hear exactly
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what I'm saying.
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It is easier to find a Brandon I.U. type player than it is a Trent Williams.
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Okay.
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And the reason why I say that is because you can somewhat mold a player into the skill set
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that Brandon I.U.
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has, right?
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Trent Williams, that is natural.
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That is God giving ability with Trent Williams.
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You are talking about somebody who when he was drafted to Washington, he was an anchor
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on that offensive line.
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And I'm talking about an offensive line that didn't have a lot of star power, that didn't
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have a lot of upside.
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He was the upside, right?
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And, you know, of course things happen with them and they handled a situation, you know,
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the wrong way.
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And he basically won it out and he went to San Francisco and he made, you know, San Francisco's
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run game, pass game, just a whole entire offense, a whole lot better, right?
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And so this was expected for him to ask for more money once Christian Derisaw got paid.
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A little bit more of an easier process to figure out a, you know, figure out a way with
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Trent Williams' deal because he already has a preexisting deal.
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So all in all, he probably just want more guaranteed money just to up the, you know,
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the overall number, which is a little bit more easier to do compared to Brandon Iewick
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where you're basically, okay, the offer is 26 million.
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Okay, he doesn't want 26 million.
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Okay, we're going to up the offer by 2 million.
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Okay, he still doesn't want, okay.
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We're going to up the offer 2 more million.
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Okay, he still doesn't want it.
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Okay, we're going to up the offer 3 more million, right?
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It's a lot easier to do something with Trent Williams than it is with Brandon Iewick, especially
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with reports coming out that basically the only thing that's stopping Brandon Iewick
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from inking this deal is he wants more guaranteed money at the end of his contract.
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Brother, brother, brother, brother, brother, brother.
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Nobody has that.
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Well, no, we'll actually know what no, I lied.
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There are some people that do have it, but even then, most of the times people don't
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even see the end of the contract.
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Most of the times they're traded by the third year, the second or third year of the contract.
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We're being real here.
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So again, as I've said before in multiple episodes prior to this one, something has to
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break at this point, right?
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You're traveling with the team.
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You're not wearing any of the gear.
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You look like you're not interested in the team.
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Go, go.
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No one is stopping you.
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No one is holding your hand and saying, Oh, Brandon, don't go, don't go.
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We miss you all so much.
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No one is saying that, bro.
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If you go and go somewhere, go somewhere because right now the team is trying to focus and
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try to prepare themselves for the gauntlet that they are going to, I can't even speak
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because I'm so upset for the gauntlet that they have to prepare themselves in order to
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get to the Super Bowl and to wait.
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They have to prepare themselves for that.
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And right now this story has basically been dragging on since the end of the last Super
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Bowl.
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It's drawn out.
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People are tired of it.
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People are talking about, people are tired of talking about it.
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People are tired of speculating about it.
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People are tired of just talking about various rumors.
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Either you're going to put your name on that piece of paper and stay with the San Francisco
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49ers and take that picture that everybody, that every single person does, or you're going
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to be holding up a jersey of another team during a press conference.
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It's simple as that.
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Simple as that.
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And if I'm Kyle Shanahan, I'm probably thinking the same thing.
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Listen, there's supposed to be a few good receivers that are going to be coming out next year.
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Guess what?
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We can get them.
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It won't hurt us.
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We won't lose the inch of sleep off of it at all compared to going through this foolishness
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with somebody who, you know, he's basically nitpicking at every single little thing and
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it's like, bro, to stop.
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Stop.
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Because even then, if, you know, when we look at the stats for, you know, for both Brandon
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Iewik and Trent Williams, right?
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Brandon Iewik was second in receiving yards on 10 plus air yard targets, right?
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He averaged 3.2 yards per route, which was, which was the fourth most in a single season
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since 2018.
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He gained 696 yards on intermediate targets, 101 more than any other receiver.
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Granted, he should be fairly compensated because he did have a great season.
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That was the best season of his career so far.
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And he does deserve to be fairly compensated, but it comes in time and point where a team
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has to make a decision.
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Either we have to pay you a little bit less just so we can be able to stay competitive
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or we just have to move on from you.
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That's just what it is.
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And the 49ers continue to try to buy a Super Bowl when it doesn't work like that.
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And I've said this in, I think the last, what was it, two episodes, either two episodes
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or three episodes ago, you can't make every single star player the highest paid.
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You can't reset the market for every single person.
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You just can't.
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They reset the market for Fred Warren.
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They reset the market for Nick Bosa.
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They reset the market for Kittle.
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They reset the market again for Christian McCaffrey.
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They're about to do it for Trent Williams.
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I think they also did it for Debo Samuel at that time.
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You know they're going to have to do it for Brock Purdy.
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At some point, the line has to be drawn in the same.
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It has to.
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It has to.
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And if he's not willing to comply, oh well, ship him.
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You won't lose an inch of sleep off of it.
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Ship him because you in the best time on this one, time on this one that I've ever heard
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was we want, what is it?
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We want not survivors.
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Was it participants?
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I think it's participants.
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We want participants, not hostages.
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That's what Mike Tomlin says.
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We want people that are going to participate and not hostages.
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So if you feel like you are a hostage in this situation, move somewhere else.
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Kick rocks.
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Now when we look at Trent Williams, you know, stats and whatnot, the 49ers have ran more
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to the left and have done this more frequently and more successfully since Trent Williams
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has been traded to the 49ers.
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And he's the only old lineman on that team that ranks top 15 in pressure rates at left
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tackle and he's allowed the fourth lowest pressure rate at tackle.
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That's a whole frame right there, folks.
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That's a bona fide first ballot hall of famer right there.
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That is something that is a difference maker right there from the moment that he was traded
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to the 49ers.
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That was a difference maker.
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That is someone that you cannot find in the draft, that you cannot find in free agency,
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that you cannot find via trade.
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That is a one in a million type of player.
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That is God giving ability.
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Brand IE that's a system.
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That's a system.
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I'm just going to end it there.
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Now onto the last topic.
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Oh wow.
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20 minutes.
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Okay.
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Pretty good.
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Pretty good.
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We're on a good time.
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We got to talk about Omar.
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We got to talk about Omar.
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We we come on, Steve, we got to have an honest conversation about Omar Khan.
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Okay.
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My end and I'm again, I'm going to try to be as non-biased as I possibly can.
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I'm going to try to remove all emotion out of it.
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But if it happens, it happens.
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Okay.
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I think a question that thing that needs to be asked is, did Omar Khan reach when it
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came to trying to, you know, upgrade the receiver position?
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And I would say yes.
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And the reason why I say that is because you were in this situation where you had Deontay
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Johnson, a veteran receiver on your team, who's probably looking for just an extra little
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bit of money and who basically voiced his opinion about the current conundrum that was
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with the quarterback situation and with the offensive play calling.
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And they were just like, to hell with you.
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We're going to ship you somewhere else.
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Right.
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And they were thinking, okay, maybe we'll have a chance to get one of these other receivers.
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You didn't.
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You didn't.
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You were supposed to have a visit with Mike Williams.
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Guess what?
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He signed with the Jets.
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Tyler Boyd took less money to be with the Titans.
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Right.
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Who else?
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Cortland Sutton.
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I mean, he was on a little bit of a holdout situation with the Broncos.
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Guess what they did?
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They just gave him a little bit more extra money and guarantees and whatnot.
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You've basically been the only team that's been trying to hold on to this whole brand
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and IU situation.
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Right.
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At some point, you have to call this a fail.
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It was a fail.
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It was a failed attempt.
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You never should have did it because now you don't create it this big hole on the team
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that you don't, that you've tried to fill it with other lower tier receivers thinking
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that it's going to do it and it's not.
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You got Scotty Miller.
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You got Quest Walkins and a bunch of other receivers thinking that they're going to be
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able to do what Deontay Johnson did and he can't.
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They can't.
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They just can't.
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Right.
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You know, sometimes we have to look at it from a player's perspective.
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Deontay Johnson, you know, his most success came from when he had who?
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Big Ben.
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Right.
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And, you know, that was, that was different.
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It was a different, you know, way that he was getting the ball and, you know, the way
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that he was getting fed and whatnot compared to with, you know, Kenny Pickett and Mitchell
31:24
Biscay and Mason Rudolph, it was a little bit difficult for him because why, you know,
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people are learning, you know, the offensive system and, you know, different, you know,
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various changes and all and whatnot.
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And then, you know, he did have chemistry with Mason and then, you know, the media asked
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him, like, you know, if you could make a decision on who would you want to be the next, you
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know, next year's quarterback, he said Mason and you can't hate him for, he's just being
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honest in that moment because why?
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He was able to get the ball more when he was with Mason than he was with Mitchell Biscay
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or Kenny Pickett.
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That's just what it is.
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The tape doesn't lie, folks.
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If you look at the tape of Kenny Pickett when he was with the Steelers, a lot of times Deontay
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Johnson was open.
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A lot of times George Pickens was open.
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A lot of times Pat Farmer was open.
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Right.
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But we have to call a spade a spade in this type of situation.
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And granted, I understand Omar was thinking he could probably be the con artist and all
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those different types of things.
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But the fact of the matter is you have now made a hole so big that you're basically hoping
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and praying that somebody, that another receiver basically becomes disgruntled and wants out.
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And even then, they probably wouldn't even want to go to the Steelers anyway because
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we're not a Super Bowl team nor are we a playoff team at this point.
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We're not.
32:55
And I understand there are people that are saying, we should have gave up a first round
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pick to seal the deal with Brandon Iewick and whatnot or we should have gave up George
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Pickens to get Brandon Iewick.
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But clearly they didn't.
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And it shows.
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It shows.
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And now they're in a situation where the season is about to start in less than two weeks and
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he don't have a true number one receiver on your team.
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You have George Pickens who's now the one.
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But even then, can we say that he can handle the workload that comes with being a number
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one receiver?
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You have Van Jefferson.
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You have Calvin Austin.
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You have Scotty Miller and company.
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That's what you have.
33:41
And you know, to the people that say, well, what about the Vante Adams?
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The Vante Adams wants to win.
33:46
The Vante Adams wants a Super Bowl.
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We are not there.
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So of course he's not going to come to us, right?
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Unless it's a player who he really doesn't care about winning a championship, but he
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just wants to be put in a better situation than it.
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Okay, maybe something.
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It's going to be a situation where they're going to be like, oh, yeah, I want to go to
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the stairs.
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I want to go to the stairs.
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I don't know about that, brother.
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I don't know about that.
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Brandon, I understand that being a GM is hard.
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As a fellow former GM and one down, I get all those different types of things.
34:20
I understand that you may with on certain situations and whatnot, and you have to take
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your Ls respectfully.
34:28
But you know, when you don't have to do it, then don't do it, right?
34:33
Because the Panthers were already going to release Dante Jackson.
34:36
So you just gave them a draft pick just because, right?
34:39
And then you gave them, you know, a top receiver as well.
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So, you know, we, we whiffed, we whiffed, we whiffed.
34:49
And now they're going to have to hope, pray, you know, fingers crossed and a four leaf
34:55
clover and a rabbit's foot in, you know, a leprechaun and more just to see if they can
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get a true number one receiver on this team.
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But that's all I'm going to say with that.
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I told you guys, I'm going to keep it light and whatnot.
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What a great way to end the week with a bag alert.
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If I can put a little prediction on there, I do think brand IE week, some resolution
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will come within the next coming days.
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I do believe that not speculating it off of, you know, sources or anything, but I do believe
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we are at the finish line with something.
36:32
I don't know what it is, but, you know, hopefully it happens.
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I don't know, maybe by the time I'm done editing this, I don't know.
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But as always, I love you guys.
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I appreciate you guys.
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We are not.
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We are almost what?
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Seven, what?
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Three episodes?
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Three out.
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We're almost three episodes away from 30 episodes from 30 episodes, folks.
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That deserves a celebration, a major celebration.
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Not only for me, also for you as well.
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