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INSTANT REACTION: Cowboys UPSET by Buccaneers, NFL Week 5 Predictions + CFB Week 6 Preview · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The Volume. What is going on, my friends? How's it going?
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: I'm John Middlecock. This is the Three and Out Podcast.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Probably going better than it is for Jerry Jones and
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Later in this podcast, I recorded part of it,
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  Speaker 1: the majority of it, before the game. And I think
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  Speaker 1: I might mention later in the podcast that I think
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys are pretty good. Obviously, I wouldn't have said
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  Speaker 1: that if I would have witnessed what I just did.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll talk about the game. Cowboys defense is horrendous.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles, Jalen Daniels, not Jaden Daniels, Jalen Daniels, undrafted
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  Speaker 1: free agent. Bucky Irving, I mean, Todd Bowles against Schottenheimer. Very,
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  Speaker 1: very impressive effort from the winless Bucs. And man, if
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: you're a Cowboy fan, If you're an Eagle fan, you're like, hey,
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: you know, I think our house is on fire. Check
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: out them. So we'll dive into Fugazi Friday. Got a
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: couple of Fugazis for you. We'll dive into the weekend slate.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of different games. Not the greatest slate,
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  Speaker 1: but a couple of good college games as well. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that'll be a nice little Friday show. But you guys
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  Speaker 1: let's just dive into Jerry Jones' squad to the headline.
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  Speaker 1: It was the Dallas Cowboys start getting praise. They beat
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  Speaker 1: the Houston Texans who don't have a win. And listen,
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  Speaker 1: I was guilty too. I'm like, this offense, this team,
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  Speaker 1: if they could ever figure out the defense... That was
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  Speaker 1: pretty embarrassing. And I would say that oftentimes, she does
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  Speaker 1: a lot in college, definitely in the pros in some
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  Speaker 1: of these games because the scores can be closer than
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  Speaker 1: what we witness. 24-16 does not feel like what I
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  Speaker 1: just watched. And when I turned on the second half,
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  Speaker 1: giving my little man a bath, and I walk into
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  Speaker 1: the living room, they kick off, and in two plays...
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  Speaker 1: They score a touchdown and Bucky Irvin goes 70 plus.
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  Speaker 1: I went, wow, this is really bad. And then Dallas
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  Speaker 1: proceeds to, this is how the second half started. Touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: Dak pick that was bobbled in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: field with like three guys right next to each other. Touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: fumble the kickoff, field goal. I got to be real
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  Speaker 1: with how bad the Dallas defense is. At 24-10, it
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  Speaker 1: felled over. Because when you can't get stops, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be difficult no matter what. When you look at
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens game, the Texans game, you're getting into these shootouts.
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  Speaker 1: It's like Texas Tech Mike Leach, where you need to
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  Speaker 1: get every single possession and score on every possession. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if you give away possessions, even against a team like Tampa...
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  Speaker 1: who is winless, has this undrafted free agent that unless
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  Speaker 1: you are a deep, nerdy college football person, you're not
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  Speaker 1: watching Kansas football. You honestly probably know nothing to very,
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  Speaker 1: very little about Jalen Daniels. So most people go, hey,
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  Speaker 1: home game, Thursday night, short week against an undrafted free agent,
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  Speaker 1: against a team that doesn't have a win. I was
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  Speaker 1: guilty of this. Cowboys points. Let's roll. This is, this
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  Speaker 1: has like, I don't know, 28, 30 to 13 to
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  Speaker 1: 10 written all over it. You can never think like that.
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  Speaker 1: Because whether it's Jalen Daniels, whether it's me or you,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's Brett Favre, it doesn't matter who it is.
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  Speaker 1: When your defense is that bad. Do you know what
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  Speaker 1: hit me tonight? is that I'm not sure how many
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  Speaker 1: games Tampa's going to win as the season goes on.
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  Speaker 1: I know tonight was really cool. And listen, all the
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  Speaker 1: praise and flowers go to an undrafted free agent on
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  Speaker 1: a short week going 19-25. He was really solid, even
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  Speaker 1: if guys were wide open. That is a tough spot
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  Speaker 1: to be in. and Todd Bowles, because this is the NFL, right?
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  Speaker 1: They have, I counted tonight in the middle of the game,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, let's, they got a lot of guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so I went to the salary cap website,
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  Speaker 1: and you realize, even if you remove Baker, who's their
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  Speaker 1: highest paid player, both tackles make a combined like $ 50 million.
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  Speaker 1: Vita Vea makes $ 25 million. Winfield makes 20. Godwin makes
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  Speaker 1: 14 or 15. You know, Emeka Abuka is a first-round pick.
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  Speaker 1: Bucky Irving will get paid. Anzalone makes 10. Like, they
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of dudes. Reuben Bain makes 15 this
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  Speaker 1: year because he was drafted high and they get a
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  Speaker 1: signing bonus. Like, they got a lot of guys making
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  Speaker 1: some coin. This is not your random, like, Miami, some
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  Speaker 1: of these teams doing the soft tank. The Dolphins are
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  Speaker 1: a good example. Like, this team does have a ton
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  Speaker 1: of dudes that every team in the league, especially all
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: the playoff teams, would gladly take and start on their
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  Speaker 1: team without hesitation. And are making a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: living mansions, on country clubs, driving Range Rovers. Kids are
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  Speaker 1: all going to private school if they have them. So
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  Speaker 1: this isn't some random squad and their coach who, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we can nitpick Todd Bowles all you want. And it
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  Speaker 1: hasn't gone well from the end of last year and
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  Speaker 1: obviously so far this year. He is an excellent defensive mind.
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  Speaker 1: And he was Brian Flores before Brian Flores. Like Mike Zimmer,
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  Speaker 1: he will blitz every fucking play. And if you notice tonight,
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  Speaker 1: when he blitzed, no one was getting touched. This was
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  Speaker 1: a chess match. Todd Bowles against Brian Schottenheimer. One guy
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  Speaker 1: was Bobby Fisher and the other guy was like my
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  Speaker 1: son who's nine months. It wasn't a fair fight. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand when you're going to get the blitz
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  Speaker 1: like that, running all these vertical routes, you have to
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  Speaker 1: have someone on your roster, even if you don't feel
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with your running back doing it, put a wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver back there and just run a wheel route. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of Dak doing the Deion Sanders backpedal for 40 yards,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't have Aaron Rodgers in his prime arm strength.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't Josh Allen here. So sometimes the ball floats
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  Speaker 1: over the middle of the field when he's doing the backpedal.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm a pro Dak guy. And, you know, the interceptions,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm not, they weren't like hit guys in
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  Speaker 1: the breadbasket, right? And in fairness to the Cowboys, they
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  Speaker 1: picked off one of Jalen Daniels' ball and bland dropped it.
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  Speaker 1: But like part of beating that blitz, and I by
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  Speaker 1: no means pretend to be Belichick here. You're not listening
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  Speaker 1: to Nick Saban talk when it comes to schemes. I've
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  Speaker 1: been watching football long enough. I've been around these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Make it an easy completion. Watch the good offenses. When
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  Speaker 1: you're blitzing them, trying to go outside or over the middle,
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  Speaker 1: if the blitzer has a free release and is smart
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  Speaker 1: enough and has the football IQ to like, hey, I
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  Speaker 1: might not land this sack, but if I slow down
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  Speaker 1: and jump, I could tip it or make him throw
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  Speaker 1: it high. So what do you do? Fucking just throw
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  Speaker 1: it horizontally. And your guy catches it and he walks
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  Speaker 1: for seven, eight yards first down. So the Cowboys and
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  Speaker 1: Schottenheimer's offensive play calls, he's going way back and throwing
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  Speaker 1: it deep. But at the end of the day, their offense,
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  Speaker 1: big picture, assuming CeeDee Lamb and his quad are fine,
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  Speaker 1: that's not going to be their problem. And everyone on
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  Speaker 1: social media, Christian Parker, he's got $ 1, 000 reading glasses. He's
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: got a Rolex watch. That doesn't bother me. I got
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: news for everybody. He's rich. He's got a multi-year, multi-million
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  Speaker 1: dollar contract. When he was a position coach for the Eagles,
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: guess how much DB coaches in the NFL make? He's
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  Speaker 1: probably making 700 Gs. So he's been rich for a while.
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  Speaker 1: So when I, some of these guys, like to me,
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, like I don't care about the glasses or
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  Speaker 1: the watch. It's more like, bro, put on some fucking
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  Speaker 1: normal pants, right? All these guys are making a lot
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  Speaker 1: of coin. These are one percenters. My main issue with
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  Speaker 1: the defense, and this is when Sean Mannion, Davis Webb,
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  Speaker 1: Christian Parker, in the history of my life, watching football,
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  Speaker 1: the 90s, I would say the 2000s, and probably the
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  Speaker 1: early 2000s, it was pretty rare that on pressure-packed teams,
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: I would put the Broncos there. I would definitely put
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: the Eagles and Cowboys there. When you have expectations of
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  Speaker 1: being a double-digit playoff win team and you need a coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: you would hire a seasoned coordinator that knew what they
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  Speaker 1: were doing. Teams that were, I would say, rebuilding, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of unknowns, they could take some flyers on younger guys.
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  Speaker 1: But all these teams have taken younger guys on And
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  Speaker 1: everyone is watching their unit. They have, I mean, think
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  Speaker 1: how many guys after the Micah trade, Jerry has invested
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  Speaker 1: in trades, signings, another trade last week. They have invested
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  Speaker 1: a lot with draft capital on this, hell, with guys
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  Speaker 1: they've drafted. They just had two first round defensive players.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes you're going to get beat, right? A good player,
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: but unless you're Deion Sanders or Darrell Rivas, everyone gets
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  Speaker 1: beat a lot. Defensive linemen get stoned. Linebackers get blocked.
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  Speaker 1: DBs get beaten one-on-one situations. It's football, right? People scored
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  Speaker 1: over Scottie Pippen. It's called professional athletics. The other guy,
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  Speaker 1: as a wise man once told me, David Cully, who's
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  Speaker 1: a hell of a wide receiver coach, they make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money too. But when you are playing the
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  Speaker 1: and no one knows where to go right obviously the
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  Speaker 1: tackling is atrocious and you can say that's somewhat of
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  Speaker 1: a personal issue i'm not quite sure what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: in practice it clearly isn't working But now for four
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  Speaker 1: straight weeks when you've watched the Cowboys, they look like
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  Speaker 1: one of those teams that ends up winning two or
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  Speaker 1: three games because their defense, no one has any clue
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  Speaker 1: where to go. So you put this young guy in
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  Speaker 1: this position and he's trying to install, you know, coming
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  Speaker 1: from Fangio. No one knows what they're doing. Constantly on
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  Speaker 1: these deeper breaking routes, you have, it's one guy falls. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But safeties are just going the wrong way. And guys
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  Speaker 1: are catching the ball, stopping in their numbers, in the
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  Speaker 1: bread basket, turning around and then running. It's happened to
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  Speaker 1: him every week. That is, you can be like, well, coaching,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know the place. We know bad coaching when
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  Speaker 1: we see it on defense, when DBs do not know
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  Speaker 1: where to go. For example, Todd Bowles, who we can
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: debate his head coaching ceiling. There is no disputing he's
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: one of the best defensive coaches in the league. And
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: if he gets fired, Brian Schottenheimer should be all over
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  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles because they need a guy like that with experience,
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  Speaker 1: who knows what he's doing, and is good at his job. Now,
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying Christian Parker will never be good at
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  Speaker 1: his job, but right now, he's got no clue what's
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  Speaker 1: going on because it doesn't matter how much he knows
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  Speaker 1: if his players don't know. I remember working in football
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: and thinking these guys would live in the office, live
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: in the office, and then their players would fuck up. Like,
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: why does it matter what you know if the guys
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  Speaker 1: on the field don't know where to go? And defense,
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  Speaker 1: you're already at a disadvantage. A ton of disadvantages in 2026.
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  Speaker 1: Can't hit anybody. And all the officiating is pro offense.
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  Speaker 1: So you have to get by, and you don't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you don't know play calls. So everything you are
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  Speaker 1: doing is reactionary. It's a complete, it's ideally an educated guess,
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  Speaker 1: but it's all guessing and putting yourself in position. So
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: when you watch Todd Bowles tonight, And maybe this is
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  Speaker 1: Schottenheimer's scheme isn't that complicated if you just play sound defense.
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  Speaker 1: Their guys would catch it. Guys would tackle them. Guys
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  Speaker 1: would be behind them. Guys would be right there. Even
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  Speaker 1: if they would gain extra yards, they'd have to go
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  Speaker 1: through a tackle. When you're watching the opposite, when the
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  Speaker 1: Buccaneers are on offense, they would just catch the ball,
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  Speaker 1: look around, and there wouldn't be anyone. And this has
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: been happening for weeks now. This goes back, I'll give
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: you a pass week one. New coordinator, young guy. By
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: the time we get into October... It's like, how long
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: can this persist? But unlike Davis Webb, young coordinator, there's
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: no Sean Payton there to be like, I'm taking the
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  Speaker 1: play calling back. I'm taking back over the reins. And
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: you watch Todd Bowles tonight, like experience matters. And I'm
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: pro young people, right? I mean, I still consider myself young.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: And I'm the same age essentially as Sean McVay. And
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: I once upon a time when he got hired, thought
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: that was insane. I'm like, how are you going to make,
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: there are outliers. And we have seen some of these guys,
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: you know, Kubiak right now is 39. Some of these
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  Speaker 1: younger guys, but their experience level is really, really long.
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  Speaker 1: They've been around the block. You know, I Googled this
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  Speaker 1: guy's resume tonight. Like seven years ago, he was a
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  Speaker 1: defensive analyst in college. And then overnight you become a
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: coordinator and you're not coordinating the Miami Dolphins. where you
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: can kind of fly under the radar and it doesn't
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: necessarily matter. As long as guys play hard, you figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. This is a franchise with arguably the biggest
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: fan base in America. They play in a ton of
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: primetime games. The owner is all over your ass. Schottenheimer
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  Speaker 1: is now going to feel the pressure because it adds
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: pressure to him if his offense isn't perfect. And one
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  Speaker 1: realization I have over the last couple weeks, going back
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: to the Baltimore game, he by no means is perfect.
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  Speaker 1: He gets a little vertical happy. And I get it,
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  Speaker 1: they struggled to run the ball a little bit tonight,
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: but I think sometimes he acts like Dak is Josh
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  Speaker 1: Allen here. There's got to be a little balance. And
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys cannot afford to have a defensive coordinator who
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  Speaker 1: is over his head. And right now... like you have
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  Speaker 1: no chance because your personnel clearly isn't good enough, but
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  Speaker 1: your guys don't even know where to go. So if
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  Speaker 1: you don't know where to go, you are not going
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  Speaker 1: to stop a soul. Even if you're playing an undrafted
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  Speaker 1: free agent at home, meaning he has to travel on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: So essentially he loses on Sunday. He has Monday to
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: walk through Tuesday to walk through and Wednesday shows up,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: eats breakfast, probably does another walkthrough and then heads to
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  Speaker 1: the plane. Guy was in college last year for like
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: his 18th year in Kansas. But again, like I said,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: this is, you didn't just get beat by some college team.
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  Speaker 1: They have a lot of high price guys. Todd Bowles
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: has a lot of pride. Coaches ass off tonight. That
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  Speaker 1: defense was flying around and you just could see it
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  Speaker 1: on Jerry's face at the end. It was, it's just
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  Speaker 1: an embarrassing moment because it's the same thing happening over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over and you have no fixes. And
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: that's part of the thing with experience. Right. You just
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  Speaker 1: have doesn't mean you will fix it, but you have
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  Speaker 1: things to draw on to attempt to fix it. When
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: you're a young guy and they throw you into the
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  Speaker 1: deep end of the pool and you're like, I've never
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: really been taught to swim. You know, you just do
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: everything you can to keep your head above water. And
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: then when you factor in, you know, the pressure pack
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  Speaker 1: job like this, like waves are hitting you. What do
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  Speaker 1: you do? Brian Schottenheimer can't help you out. Like he's
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: he probably shocked. He became a head coach last year.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: So this Cowboy thing, like, it's hard. Like, this division's
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: in shambles. I mean, you got the Jameis, J.J. McCarthy combination,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: who's probably going to be 4-1, assuming they beat, I guess,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels is coming back. But I don't know. So
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: maybe they won't. But the Eagles are in shambles. Obviously,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Washington's kind of in shambles. This Cowboy team, how are
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  Speaker 1: they going above. 500 with this defense? I mean, seriously.
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  Speaker 1: That was– I was just embarrassed. The turnovers, how fast
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  Speaker 1: they were hitting big plays. It's just an ugly, ugly night.
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  Speaker 1: At home, just– I mean, if it was Tampa against Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: it would be one of those games half the people
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  Speaker 1: that watched wouldn't even have watched tonight. But Dallas added
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  Speaker 1: some juice. And then just that. I just– maybe I'm
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: a little bitter because I was on the Cowboys pretty heavy.
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  Speaker 1: But I can't. I can't get over what I just witnessed,
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  Speaker 1: the blown assignments. You have to wonder, you know, does
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  Speaker 1: he make it till next game? Do they make a change?
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: The problem is who would they elevate? Big picture, like
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I said, if Todd Bowles gets fired, Jerry and Brian
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Schadenheimer would be insane to not be all over him
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  Speaker 1: because whoever their next defensive coordinator is, because they're going
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: to have a good offense for the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: These guys are under contract. You know, I imagine Pickens
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: ain't going anywhere. they got to play some defense. And
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  Speaker 1: you just, no chance if that's going to be the case.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy all the guys they invested in are just
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  Speaker 1: not making plays. So congrats to Bowles. Congrats to Jalen Daniels.
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  Speaker 1: And shame on you, Jerry. You embarrassed yourself tonight. Well,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: not you personally, but your coaching staff did. And you
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: paid them. So essentially you did. And I'm sure you're
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: talking right now in the locker room, which, Again, only
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: adds pressure to Christian Parker, which I would imagine they're
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: asking him constantly about. Okay, before we get to a
• 17:37
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• 17:53
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• 18:00
  Speaker 1: games he's played against them, Week 18 and the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: from an eye test standpoint, and beating Denver is a
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: big deal. Now, you could argue second half they had
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: some injuries. This is a different animal. And watching Mike
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: McDonald be asked about him, if he thinks he's underrated,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and Mike McDonald pushed back and said, I think he's fantastic.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And I don't think he's lying, but the two games
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: at the end of last year, going back to a
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: couple years ago when Brock was in the MVP consideration
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: with Lamar, they played late in the season. It did
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: not go well for Purdy. It went well for Lamar,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: and he ended up winning the MVP. So Mike Evans
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: is going to play. Debo's playing great. Christian McCaffrey, Kittle.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: This is a big, big moment in Seattle. Afternoon, a
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: lot of people watching. Can Brock Purdy grow into an MVP? Well,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: it's like the Heisman. Now you can't, you know, MVP
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: moments early in the season, Heisman moments early in the season.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: They typically come in November and December. But this could
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: be early momentum, not just for the 49ers, but for
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: him personally. And, you know, it's candidacy. So I'm excited
• 19:19
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• 19:23
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• 21:05
  Speaker 1: clearing organization. Now to some fugazis. The first one. Sean
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Payton has taken back play calling. To think that one
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: of the great play callers of his generation, a guy
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: considered an offensive mastermind who took Drew Brees' shattered records,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: who last year had all these fourth quarter comebacks, they
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: were the number one overall seed, and if it wasn't
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: for Bo Nix breaking his ankle, they would have been
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. And I said this a while
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: back because it kind of triggered in my mind of like,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you just let Davis Webb go? Like, hey,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: go to the Eagles, be their OC. Go to wherever,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: be the OC. Take the Cardinals head coaching job. Interview
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: with the Raiders. Whatever. I'm the offense. Like, you think
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay is like, can't lose this guy. No, I'm
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the play caller. Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay have lost a
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: million coaches. Andy Reid over the years, a ton. Comes
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: with the territory. It's why, which I would guess, is
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: that the Walmart family, Penner, And his wife and all
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the money people said, hey, Sean, we're paying you a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: lot of money. And rightfully so. You've resurrected this franchise.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: You had us hosting playoff games. And it's been fun.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: But part of it is because you call the plays.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And right now, when we look at the statistics and
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: we watch it with our eyes, it's an embarrassment. You
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: just got worked by a defense that Nick Bosa wasn't
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: on the field. that we looked at their injury report
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: for their defensive line, and beside Osa Adigazua, I don't
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: think most people in America could point anyone out of
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: their defensive lineup, on their defensive line. It's like, yeah,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: they got Fred Warner and some good DBs, solid DBs.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: You know, that's who we can't score against? Like, that?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: And the answer's yeah. Because if Emeril Lagasse or Gordon
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Ramsey own a restaurant, and they had been the head chef,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and it was crushing, and it was the number one
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: restaurant in town. And then they elevated some young hotshot
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: who was 31 years old, and people started complaining about
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the meals. You think Lagasse would just stand there and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: be like, let's let him figure it out. No. He
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: probably would start cooking again. Right? I mean, this isn't
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: that complicated. This is the least shocking thing beside that
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: he was adamant. And to me, the Fugazi here is that...
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton went on record, said, I will not do this.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: This happened to me. This is not going to happen.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: And we made it till, I mean, it got announced
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: October 8th, but I watched some of Sean, his press conference,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: talking about when he talked to Davis at the beginning
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: of the week on Monday. So they had known the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: entire week. And listen, there might be some outside pressure
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: from ownership. This isn't all Davis Webb's fault. The quarterback
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: has played awful. He has been horrendous. He's missing wide
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: open guys. He's skipping easy passes. He has not played well.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: And there's just simple reality. Listen, they picked the last
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: quarterback in the quarterback draft, right? They had the sixth pick,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you know, in terms of all the quarterbacks were off
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the board. They got the last guy of the six. Now,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: you would take him over J.J. McCarthy, clearly. And because
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: of Jaden's injuries, he's just been more durable, even though
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: he broke his ankle, which led to them having to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: start Stidham. But my point is, in theory, he's been
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a durable player. But he just doesn't look good. And
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: he had a lot of games last year that were horrendous.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: He would just make plays at the end of the game.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: He did it in the playoff game against the Bills,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: where he outplayed Josh Allen down the stretch. So he
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: has done it. But there were games, I remember like
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the Raiders on Thursday Night Football, he looked like a
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: practice squad player. There was a point in time last week,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: and it wasn't just because of crazy scheme, he just
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: looked awful. If you can't hit a basic wheel route,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: you have no chance to play NFL quarterback at a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: consistent level. And you can't be a good player in
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the NFL if you don't do things consistently. And you
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: have no clue what you're going to get week from week. Right?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Week to week with him. So I think Davis Webb's
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: taking a lot of heat. And part of it is
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: because the guy's standing next to him. Right? When we
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: talk about Sean Mannion with the Eagles, no one goes like, God,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: maybe Sirianni should take it back. No one says that. Right?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: That's why the Eagles guy becomes under so much heat
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: because he's kind of on an island. The head coach
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: can't help him. In this instance, it's like, Sean, what
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: are you doing just standing there? Why don't you dial
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: up some plays? Even though it's not like Sean is
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: working nine to five, not going to these meetings and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: have no input in the game plan and the plays
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: that are being installed. He probably is equally as aggressive
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: as he's been the last couple of years when he's
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: been the play caller. But it definitely appeases the powers
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that be, the fans, and maybe it shakes things up.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: But to think like this was, when everyone says like,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: this is a great gig, is it? If you're the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: chef in that restaurant and Gordon Ramsay's looking over your shoulder,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're trying to create a business and you
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: got Jeff Bezos right behind you. And a lot of
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: people like Sean Payton overrated. Sean Payton's pretty fucking good.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: The Denver Broncos were a joke when he took him over.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: A joke. He kicked Russell to the curb without even blinking.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: And two years later, they're the number one seed in
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Like, that ain't nothing. You know, now, is
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: he arrogant, cocky, piss a lot of people off? 100%.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I kind of like it. Not talking about him specifically,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: but I like my coaches to be major wildcards. Way
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: more entertaining. If they were all just a bunch of
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: cliche duds, it would suck. I enjoy when Ben Johnson's
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: screaming in the locker room, fuck the Packers. Like, we
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: need more of that. These guys are television characters, major ones,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: in this whole reality show. Which is the biggest reality
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: show in America. And he obviously is a major character.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: And I also think we gotta be careful. Young coaches
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: are a lot like NFL prospects. We love anointing them.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: We love saying this guy's the next guy. And it
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: doesn't always play out that way. And you usually don't
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: fire the top 15 pick year three. Not the way
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: it works. So you demote the coordinator who's 31 and
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: been coaching for whatever, three or four years now. So
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: saw that one coming from a mile away. A couple
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: other quick fugazis before we get to the games. You
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: There's that old saying that money doesn't buy happiness. Which,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you know, definitely, you'd rather stay at the Four Seas
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: than Motel 6. You know, you'd rather eat a nice
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: filet than some crappy food. Though I could eat Chipotle
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: like seven nights a week. But obviously, money helps. But
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: it doesn't guarantee anything. Not in business. We have seen
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a million companies funded before they ever turned a profit die. Right?
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: For every Google and every Facebook and all these companies
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: that all these people invest in before they're ever anything
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: and turn into... dominant operations, there are countless ones we
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: never hear of that die on the vine. And there are,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: if money bought you wins, the Cleveland Browns would have
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: been one of the best teams in the NFL over
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the last five years. Why? Because their owners spent more
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: cash than like every team besides the Eagles and the 49ers.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't. It doesn't guarantee you anything. Because a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: good team, like a good company, is about management, is
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: about leadership, is about hiring the right people, getting the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: right people in place who thrive at individual roles. And
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I by no means watch very much baseball anymore, but
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I do watch the playoffs. I really enjoy the playoffs.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: And I fall loosely to some of the big stories,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: but I understand Aaron Judge has been out the majority
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: of the season and he hasn't played in the playoffs.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: But when you have a payroll of over $ 308 million
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and you're playing a team that has a payroll of
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: under $ 100 million to play them in a playoff series. Now,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the Rays had a better record than them in the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: regular season. And the Rays have been one of the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: standards in baseball because of management, I would say. I mean,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: their GM years ago was hired to run the Dodgers.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Look how they've done. This new guy, I don't know
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: anything about. If I was a big money team, I
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: would hire him yesterday. But I watched for a long
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: time growing up, living in California, and then when I
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: did radio, we had the ace. And when I got
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: there in like 12, 13, 14, 15, they had excellent teams.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: This was like Billy Bean's third iteration of like a
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: high level squad. And they used to always kind of
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: shift the bed in the playoffs. And what Billy would
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: say is like, He would literally say, my shit doesn't
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: work in the playoffs. His platoon system, his mixing and matching,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: because playoffs are kind of random. I was like, oh,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: there's probably some truth to that, but you would think
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: statistically one of these teams that was excellent in the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: regular season would make a run. They never did. And
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Tampa treated the Yankees like if they had played, that
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: was a hundred game series. It feels like Tampa would
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: have won 80, 85 of the games. And you can
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: tell me this about the Dodgers. I remember a couple
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: years ago, my wife's dad, who I never met, was
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a diehard Dodger fan. And as a family, they used
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: to go, I guess, to Dodger spring training a lot.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: So I went with her mom, her brother, brother's wife, Maria,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: this was well before we were ever engaged, to Dodger
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: spring training game. I think this is the first year
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: they signed Shohei Otani. And I was hoping he would play.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: He didn't. But Mookie, if I remember correctly, played like
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: four different positions in five innings before they yanked him.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: And I remember coming away texting someone. That's, I think,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the most, and I've been around, I grew up a
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: diehard Giants fan. When I was in radio, I went
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: to a bunch of baseball games because the Giants were
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: winning World Series. Those A's teams, like, I have a
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: pretty good idea, like, what a good baseball. I'm like,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen a player quite like this. Like,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: this is insane. He can play second, he can play short,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: he can play third, he can play the outfield positions.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: It's like, could he catch? What the fuck is this?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: And you watch the Yankees. Every guy looks like a
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: former tight end that can barely move. And if you
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: throw him a breaking pitch, you can't touch it. It's like,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: what are you spending all your money on? I get
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: you got good pitching and you spend a lot on pitching,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: but how do you not have the athletes? When I
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: was in junior high and high school and those legendary
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Jeter teams, like when I truly think about the greatness
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: of those squads, They had a bunch of guys that
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: looked like they would have been playing on the Tampa
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Bay race. Athletes, position versatility, just, I would say, well-rounded players.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: And it just shows you, you can have all this money,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: but if management makes mistakes, which Brian Cashman has been successful,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: but this team he's put together the last several years. Remember,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: they played the Dodgers a couple years ago in the
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: World Series and got embarrassed because it wasn't a fair fight.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: It's just like Stanton gets hurt every other game. I mean,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: last night they brought him in the eighth inning to
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: pitch hits. Like, what are we? He didn't even come
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: close to making contact. So it's just $ 308 million, I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: think this is the number, for the Yankees' payroll. The
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Rays was not even $ 100 million. They 3X' d the payroll.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And they didn't just get swept. They got smoked. They
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: got worked. And I get it. Baseball is 162 games,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: only three games. But you could just, it's like, this
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: isn't a fair fight. And last but not least, this
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: trailblazer announcer, I think last week, who's now fighting for
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: his job back. If everyone in society, in the history
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: of this country, but let's just say like post-World War II,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: as America thrived, was held to the standard of what
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: they said when they were 15 years old, I don't
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: think America would exist. I've said this countless times. I'm
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: very fortunate to do what I do in the time
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: in which I do it because of technology. It is amazing.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I drove around today. Well, I didn't. The Tesla did.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I typed in addresses. It drove me around. It's still
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the most remarkable thing I've ever experienced. Sometimes I think
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: about it. I'm like, what would my dad think right now?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: But if you held every single person, I can only
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: speak to my experience, people I went to high school with,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: of what we said when we were 15 years old,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: all these guys now are firefighters, police officers, small business owners,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: employees at major companies, little league coaches, they all have families.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know if any of their lives exist. And
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: this guy getting fired for tweets that he had at
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: 15 years old. Now, in fairness, I don't know anyone
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: outside the internet, and I don't even think that many
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: people on the internet agreed with this, They would be like,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: should you be held to the standard of something you
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: tweeted when you were 15 years old? Every single human
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I know in the real world would be like, that's insane.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: What are we talking about? 15, I mean, you commit crimes.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: They don't stay on your record. Let alone, obviously, everything
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: you're not allowed to do. And I can speak for men, boys.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I look back sometimes at the person I was when
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I was 30. Like 10 plus years ago and thinking like,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: that guy was, what a loser. I mean, what a
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Fucking deadbeat. What a selfish, just some of the things
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: that I look back, I have nothing in common with now.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Let alone 10 years before that. Let alone, I mean,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I can't even imagine if people I went to college with,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I went to college in an era where cell phones
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: did not have cameras. Social media did not exist really
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: beside Facebook. And it was, I mean, I don't even
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: know my Facebook account, but it was not nearly what
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: it is now, clearly. And Instagram was not even a
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: thought in Zuckerberg's mind. But holding a kid, and one
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: of the tweets was like, ho on aisle five or whatever. Like,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: are you not allowed to say that? Is that we
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: got to pretend those don't exist? I mean, have you
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Googled OnlyFans? Like, what are we talking about? It's like,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: you can't just have the guy apologize and move on. Now,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I get it if it turns out he's a complete scumbag. Okay.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I know nothing about the guy. But pretty clear he
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: got fired for things he tweeted when he was 15
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: years old. Which I don't think anyone in society could function,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: at least anyone I've ever been around, if they were
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: held to that standard. It'd be impossible. Crazy times we're
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: living in. That being said, I mean, the Trailblazer owner,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: isn't he known as a scumbag, cheap asshole? It's like,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: we hold everyone to high standards here. It's like, you
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: just fired everybody before this guy got the gig. Kevin
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Calabro is one of the more famous play-by-play guys, probably
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: of all the local TV deals. We just live in
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: some weird times. We really do. But I say that,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: and my dad would be like, there's always been weird times.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: It's just things have changed, I guess, with technology. let's
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: go to the four box this is a weird week
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: we have the Chiefs and the Panthers are on bye
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: weeks so bye weeks are starting I would imagine the
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Panthers I don't think you would ever
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: sign up for the bye like week one of October
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I think the earliest you'd want it would probably be
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: around Halloween I think the sweet spot for a bye
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: is like late October early November I I don't know
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: if you'd want it too late if you had some
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: momentum like in December. But I would bet if you
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: ask Andy Reid or Dan Morgan and Canales, they'd be like, yeah, yeah,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I could have pushed it back a couple weeks. Right?
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: But it is what it is. You don't control that.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: And there's a London game, which is actually a good
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: London game. Unlike that game last week, which is the
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Eagles and the Jags that if it was a 10 a.m.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: kickoff would easily have made a four box. And obviously
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, who are down bad, they're a massive underdog
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: in this game. I saw a good stat that when
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the Jags have been big underdogs, or excuse me, big
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: favorites under Liam Cohen, they haven't just covered, they've dominated.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, this does feel like it can get away
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: from the Eagles fast. They've got a bunch of young
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: offensive linemen playing. Obviously the Jags have been playing well.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: We'll have to see how the Eagles' injuries on top
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: of the guys that are just non-existent anymore, the pressure
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: now on Sirianni, this new coordinator Hurts, Jack's like, no pressure.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Just come play your game and you probably end up
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: winning by 20. I mean, that's how it feels. Listen,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: it's football, it's the NFL, it's any given Sunday. It's
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: a London game, I guess. I feel like London games
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: don't even get that weird. I feel like London games,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: for the most part, are what we expect to happen.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: So I'll be stunned if, honestly, if the Eagles keep
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: it close. If you told me to guess the score
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: right now, I'd say like, 28-10, 27-10, 31-10, something like that.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: I'd be stunned if this thing didn't have similarities to
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: what the Eagles have now consistently looked like. And the
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Jags have been one of the best teams in the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: league for a while. So my four box goes like this.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: It was hard. I'll end with the best game, but
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I had to throw Minnesota, New Orleans on there because
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of Houston, Tennessee, There's just some crap.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, there is Cincinnati at Miami. There is Cleveland
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: at New York. I mean, New York at Washington. The
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Giants are going to start 4-1 playing that Rutgers quarterback. So,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what to make of
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the Saints. I saw Brandon Staley was offended that Troy
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Aikman had said something like, what's he supposed to do
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: with these guys out there? It's like, Brandon... You were
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: getting smoked. Second play or third play of the game,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: he takes it 60 yards. We all, like the guys
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: you're rolling out there, like, yeah. You were miffed by
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: what Troy Aikman said. We were all watching it. They're
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: just giving it to the running backs. Brian Robinson looked
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: like B. John Robinson. On top of B. John Robinson
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: looked like B. John Robinson. So he's like, you guys
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: got your ass kicked. In the 20th anniversary of Katrina.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: It should have been like a religious experience and moment
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: for this fan base going back. It was cool. It
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: was awesome. I was excited for it. And the game
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: was over like that. The game was over like that.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Even though you guys have come back in some games,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: like 14-0. I think Tyler Shucks looked pretty good. But
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I said it last week, like... You have two top
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: 40 picks and neither of them can play. The Saints
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: are not good enough to just lose high-end talent, even
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: if we don't even know what that high-end talent is
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: going to look like. But you lose banks to the
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: offensive linemen. I mean, I know Kevin O'Connell said Kyler
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Murray was coming on. Actually, I won't say what this
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: guy does, but he does something for me and does
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: something for a lot of people, like for my house.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: And I had an issue, so I had him come
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: over this week. And he was telling me, he's like,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: I was just working on a house. He's like, it's
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: the nicest house I've ever been in. And he's like,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: you know, this famous guy used to live in the house.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: He's like, he's a football player. And he just, he
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: had to move this year. I'm like, Kyler Murray? He's like, yeah,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I was just in Kyler Murray's house. And he was
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: telling me about all this stuff. He's like, I swear
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: to God, I'm not making this up. He's like, he
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: had the most incredible gaming system in the garage I've
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: ever seen. And I'm like, Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray's gaming system.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: He said the house was badass, but he said the
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: gaming system was just massive. You could fit, like, a
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: car in it. I don't know. He didn't quite understand, like,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: if it was a sectioned-out place in the garage. He
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: said the garage could fit, like, seven cars. So it
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: might have just been, like, you know, he boxed it off.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know. But Kyler likes the game. And listen,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: you know, 4-0? I guess he's not 4-0's starting quarterback.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: But that really kind of made my day. Guy went
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: to Kyler's old house. The gaming system was, I think
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: he had removed some of it, but I think some
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: of the TV spots were still up there. He said
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: it was just, and this guy just seen a lot
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: of different places because of the business he's in inside
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: people's homes. He said it blew his mind. So I
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: don't know Kyler's new setup in Minnesota, but I would
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: imagine when the weather turns, the guy's going to be
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: playing some video games. So I'm going Minnesota, New Orleans reluctantly.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Another game, like, if they were, like, Indianapolis-Pittsburgh. Like, this
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: isn't one of those I'm like, I can't wait to
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: watch this. You know, this is exciting. Like, I can't
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: wait to watch Carly Ursae on the sideline and Rodgers
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: and McCarthy. Like, I feel a lot. I saw Pittman's out.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: He's injured. I don't know. I mean, I... This Pittsburgh thing,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it. Personally, I don't get caught
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: up in people yelling at each other. I grew up
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: in an environment where you got yelled at a lot.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: I've worked in football. I got yelled at a lot.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Now in this business, I don't really have anyone. I
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: enjoy yelling. I actually feel comfortable in it. It's probably
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: not the healthiest thing. I've never been to a shrink,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: but I'm sure they could pick me apart. I understand
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: when you catch McCarthy calling him an asshole, people yell
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: at each other all the time. But you had those
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: two guys yelling at each other. You got T.J. Watt
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: picking up the phone, screaming at people. There's just one
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: thing in that division with Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and since there's
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: this urgency in these organizations, specifically this year. I mean,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: you just saw Baltimore trade a second-round pick for a
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: former Pro Bowler who's kind of banged up. That's pretty risky.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: You just gave $ 60 million to Trey Hendrickson. Fuck, I'd
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: rather have Max Crosby. So I just think that the
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: pressure in that facility, luckily for them, like, you know,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, Baltimore could easily lose because Lamar's not playing.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati's going to win. But, like, you win, you're 3-2,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: you're just right there. And Indy, let's face it, these
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: guys are playing every single week, like, for their jobs.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, you have the owner standing there, taking notes
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: on every fucking thing they do, and at the end
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: of the day, if you just miss the playoffs again,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: I don't care what her notes say, you'd be a
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: little surprised if they keep their jobs. That being said,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I also wonder, there's only 32 of these, but like,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: it kind of crossed my mind, would that be a
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: desirable place to work? Honestly. If you know the owner's
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: going to be on the sideline. Like, I think a
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: lot of credible people... would be like, yeah, I'm not
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: that interested. Anyone with options would say no. Because people
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: with options typically look at things that they view as crazy, weird,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: or that go against what they're trying to do. And
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: in football, like a message, I'm the boss. That's part
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: of the pushback always with Jerry. It's like, Jerry, you're
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: cutting off your head coach's balls when you never stop
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: talking because they know they can just circumvent the coach
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: and go right to you. You've heard people tell this
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: story forever about the older version of Al Davis. It's like,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: everyone knows Al's in charge, so when you've got an issue,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: just go to Al. If you don't like the scheme,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: go to Al. And it's like, I just, I don't know.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: I don't find Indy as interesting as I once did.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I give them no credit for beating the Rutgers guys.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, by the time, I kind of came to
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: it like 7-10 last Sunday, which is sleeping in in
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: my house on a weekend. And I had forgot, I
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: got a text. I was like, oh yeah, the game's on.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: And Mariota's already out of the game for some guy
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: no one ever heard of. And Indy obviously dominated the
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: rest of the game, as they should have. But I
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: think I saw Sauce this week say that He was
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: embarrassed by his effort. That's kind of concerning. So again,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: I don't even feel good about these two games. This
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: is what happens. This is the pushback on the Sunday ticket.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: It's like, I don't mind doing it. I mean, I'd
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: do this for a living. I would buy it no
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: matter what if I sold insurance. But I do get
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: a guy that's like, hey, I buy Sunday ticket, and
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: then we start getting in the flow of the season.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Some of the buys, some of these games aren't that great.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: That's why God made Polymarket and Fantasy. Okay, these two
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: games are legit. I'll save the best for last, but
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I think this game's good. I mean, Vegas at New England.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, based on the first four games, but
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: specifically that Chiefs game, you go, Vegas can make the playoffs.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Vegas 100% can make the playoffs. I'd say they win
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: a game like this, you'd be like, that's a playoff team. Now,
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: that being said, they have a three-game stretch here at
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: New England. The Bills... and the Rams. Now, the Bills
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: are playing the Rams this Monday night, so I would
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: guess they stay in the Bay Area. They come to Scotts.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know where they stay on the West Coast,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: but they're clearly going to stay on the West Coast
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Monday night game and then play the Raiders. So you
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: get a little bit of an advantage given you've got
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: to have a long flight, but the team you're playing
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: doesn't play until Monday night. But obviously, that's going to
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: be a hard game for the Raiders, and the Rams
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: game is going to be really hard. I think if
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: they win one of these three games and you tell
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: me they are four and three, they're feeling pretty good
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: about themselves. If they win two of these and they're
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: five and two with either wins over the Pats and
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: the Bills specifically, if they could choose the two wins,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: it would be those two teams because you get toward
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: the end of the season, the wildcard tiebreakers, conference records,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: it's really, really important. But the one thing when you
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: don't know about a team right and like there's still
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: a lot of unknown in new england but like based
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: on their track record like we saw them would you
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: know string together good games last year i saw josh
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: mcdaniel say today that and listen i think he's trying
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: to like downplay everything he's like there was no difference
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: in any of the plays we called or installed or
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the way we operated from week one week two week
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: three week four which to me is kind of telling
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: like okay you're kind of just a roller coaster team
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: but To me, New England, you could forget pretty quickly
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: about how ugly it was if Drake looks like that again.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: And you just win your 3-2. And to me, by
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: no means is this discount. If Vegas goes and loses
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: by a touchdown, it's not a terrible loss. Long road trip,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: west to east, morning game. You're just coming off a huge,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: huge emotional letdown losing that thing the way they did.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: They had a late lead and then obviously it unraveled.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: But I find the Raiders as one of the more
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: fascinating unknowns in the league. If you told me that
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: they end up 10-7 or 11-6, there is a pathway there.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: But also if you told me that it kind of
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: comes apart. Their wide receiver issue kind of rears his
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: ugly head. You know, Cousins kind of comes back to
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: earth and they end up 7-10 or 8-9. Also very believable. Which, again,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: I think every Raider fan in America would have been like, hey,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: you're going to be 8-9 and you're going to look
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: good and you're going to have promise going into the
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: offseason as you transition to Fernando Mendoza. Everyone signs up
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: for that. But the reality is once you get a
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: little taste, you know, we talk about in this country
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: a lot, greed, greed, greed. Well, where does greed come from?
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Because once you get a little money, you want more.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: Most human beings, at least most people I know, you
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: don't rarely contend. So it's like once you get a taste,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: you want a little bit more. Once like, hey, you're
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: not supposed to be that good, all of a sudden
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: you're 6-3, you just naturally start thinking about the playoffs.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: How could you not? So I'm really... I think Vegas, again, I...
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: The sample size is so small. I mean, two of
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: their wins obviously came against crappy teams. But, I mean,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: I think the Saints, when it's all said and done,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: will be better than they've looked. But who knows? Maybe
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: they beat three crappy teams. That Chiefs game, to me,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: was more impressive than the losses. The Pats, it's like,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Drake may have looked so bad. Does he just get
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: his confidence back like that? Like, is his confidence just back?
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: Because if it is, then they're going to be a problem.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: If he's going to play like that. Now, I would
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: also say this. Crosby, like, he's going to be heard from.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's a fucking monster. Best game of the
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: morning by far is the 106-year-old rivalry. Think about this.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears haven't been favored in a game in
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Lambeau in 20 years. And if you think about 2006
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: and kind of that era, what did they have? They
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl. They had one of the
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: best defense in the league. I think statistically they might
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: have been the best defense in the league They had
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: incredible players on every level. Hall of Famers, Ryan Urlacher.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: His running mate, Lance Briggs. I was just talking to
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: someone about this the other day. Is it Tommy Harris,
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: the defensive tackle? Buddy that I talk to about the
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Bears all the time at the gym. He's like, that year,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: he got banged up, but he was the best or
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: one of the best interior pass rushers in the league.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Pena Tillman, they had Devin Hester. They were just, they
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: had Rex Grossman. But that team was, you know, Literally
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: played Peyton Manning in the Super Bowl. And actually took
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: an early lead. So I read an article today on
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: The Athletic that Ben Johnson, I think, I think he
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: was a psychology major in North Carolina, plays a lot
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: of mental head games on purpose. And you could say
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: sometimes he kind of takes it overboard, like the Case
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Keenum starting thing. Whatever, it doesn't bother me. But when
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: he took the job and he took the jab at LeFleur,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: And reading that article, LaFleur was extremely offended. I don't
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: even know this guy. Yeah, he doesn't give a shit.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: To me, he clearly understood. I don't think he's doing
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: that if it's a Harbaugh brother or a Dan Campbell
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: or a Kyle Shanahan or Sean McVay or even like
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: a Kevin O'Connell or Mike McDonald. I think he saw
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: weakness in LaFleur, which is kind of the knock. Kind
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: of a pretty boy. His teams are kind of soft.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Can't build toughness. I think he found a weakness in
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: an individual and he pounced. Because psychologically, he realized he
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: could rattle the guy. And let's face it. It does
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: feel like going into this game, the Bears are what
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: the Packers have been for the last 30 years. I
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: swear to God, I meet more Bears fans. And I've
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: had a couple over the course of the last month
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: come up to me to watch me and Colin. They are... Like,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: the pep in their step and the happiness in which
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: they talk about their franchise, it's just cool to see. One.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: And two, it's like their confidence comes from the head coach.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: And they carry themselves now like Packer fans have my
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: entire life. Because they are now the Packers. And they
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: have the Packers against the ropes. And it feels like, now,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Menungai is hurt. You know, he messed up his hand,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: and I read today he's got turf toe. So let's
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: assume he's not going to play. Swift is back at practice.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: You know, Caleb's still out. That being said, I think
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: the Packers are atrocious. And I think Ben and their
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: operation knows, like, it almost feels like a UFC event
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: where they got him on the ground, and those guys
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: do that kind of elbow to the face, and then
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: the referee has to grab him and pull him back.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: and you're just elbowing the guy's nose. I'm not uncomfortable
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: with it, but when I watch it, you're just like, oh, oh, ref,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: stop it. It feels like Ben Johnson has a chance
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: to do that. And if you're a Packer fan, and
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: you already, let's face it, I would say if you
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: polled 95% of Packer fans, they would trade LaFleur for
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson yesterday. And there are a couple percent that
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: are just holding out hope. Listen, this guy's been good
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: to us. This feels like a moment where you can
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: end him. You know, for those of you that grew
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: up in my era, Mortal Kombat, finish him. And it's
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: one thing to get beat, fully healthy team, Caleb Williams
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: lighting you up. It's like, okay, we're just down a
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: little bit. They're better. It's another thing to come in
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: with Tyson Bajent and, you know, some random guys because
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: of injuries and beat the shit out of you. And
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: I think this would be, if you're a Packer fan
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: and you want LeFleur gone, someone asked me this recently
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: in a mailbag. It's hard to watch. We've all lived
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: through it watching our teams. I think you almost got
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: to root for just an annihilation. Like 38-7. Something that
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: is just like, what just happened? You need for it
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: to get ugly. LeFleur, a lot of people have been
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: talking about this because he said at the beginning of
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: the week, it's about players, it's not about me. Matt,
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: your franchise is in a position where you kind of
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: got to be the general right now. Your fucking home
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: is falling apart. Sometimes, I don't care what position you're in,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: whether it's, you know, what industry you work in, your
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: own home, you got to be a grown-up and you
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: got to be a leader for everyone to watch. You
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: got to set the tone. And I just watch him
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I know he's probably setting the tone
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: or attempting to do in the meeting. Sometimes you got
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: to do it publicly because none of your fans believe
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: in you right now. And this is a game where
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: I go, I don't like, I love the Bears. I
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: think I would take them if you told me, Ben
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Johnson called me tomorrow and said, I want to sign
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: you and you're going to be my starting running back.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take five of your listeners and I'm
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: going to sign them and they're, I'm like, fuck, let's go.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: That wouldn't go well. We'd all get hurt. But you
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. I think the Packers are an
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: absolute disaster. And I think the shittiest part is It's like, okay,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: every once in a while you just implode. This happened
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: to the Rams a couple years ago. They didn't have
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: their pick. And the Jets, more than likely because the
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Cowboys should be pretty good, are going to get their pick.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: So it's like, what's this all for? Like if we
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: end up with the sixth overall pick and the Jets
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: get it, kick me in the you-know-what. That blows. And
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: then the afternoon slate, I mean, we hit on Denver, right?
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Chargers are a big dog at home. Chargers, I'm done with.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: This is a heavyweight matchup. Seattle hosting the San Francisco 49ers.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: They played twice in the last three weeks. They played
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: week 18 and then they played two weeks later in
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: the divisional round. The Seattle Seahawks won a combined 54-9.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: And I'll promise you, it felt more like 150-9. That
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: score does not reflect what we all witnessed. it was
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: the 49ers got massacred. They got destroyed. Now, in fairness,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: the second game, Kittle had just torn his Achilles, and
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: we all see, I mean, George is one of the
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: greatest 49ers of all time. Like, he's an all-time great player.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: And Fred wasn't playing. I mean, those two guys are
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: kind of the heart and soul of the 49ers offense
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: and the 49ers defense. But I think if you ask
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: most 49er fans right now, Even though they're feeling pretty good,
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: it's an incredible start. You're 4-0. You're dominating offensively. It's
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: been awesome. I mean, I would have guessed if I
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: went to the standings, is there a team with a
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: better point differential than the 49ers? There is currently not.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: The 49ers are the best point differential in the league.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Most 49er fans would be like, I'm a little nervous
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: about this because of Mike Ramos. And Seattle, like, listen,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: anytime you have players-only meetings, that is typically reserved for
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: bad teams or teams that are going through rough stretches.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Seattle just won, and they had a defensive player-only meeting.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: To me, it shows how high their standard is. In theory,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: they should be one of, if not the best defense
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: in the league, and right now they're giving up points.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: I do think some of those against the Chargers were hollow,
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: but regardless. I actually think this is a big game
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: for Seattle. Because if you lose, the 49ers are already
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: in an incredible position. They beat the Rams and Seattle
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: on the road. Now the Rams game was on Australia,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: but still it was the Rams home game. So they
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: play the Cardinals. The only game they haven't played on
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: the road is the Cardinals. They've already played the Cardinals
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: at home. But you would say two of their toughest
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: games every season, if you didn't know there was an
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: international game, you would say at the Rams, even if
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: it's their home game, but just because you're going to
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay, and definitely at Seattle, which most years you'd
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: say would be their toughest game. Now, last year they
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: won it and ultimately it didn't matter because, you know,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Seattle and the Rams got them back at home. So
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: there's no guarantee these divisional games are crazy. To me,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: the key would be is like, the 49ers would be
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: 5-0 and you'd be 3-2. And the Rams play the
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Bills on Monday night and who knows, like, They could
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: lose two and they'd also be, you know, two and three.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: So all of a sudden you'd look at these teams.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: And the other thing is Seattle and the Rams haven't played.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: So you would do a coin flip of like, probably
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: they're splitting those two games. I don't think, if you're
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: the 49ers, I think the key to this game is
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: less about obviously you want to win but I think
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: you got to prove to everybody that you can play
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: with this team like because right now that week one
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: game Sam Darnold's first start felt a little fluky you
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: know Purdy hit Jake Tonjes in the corner of the
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: end zone and Which, again, felt a little fluky at
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: the time. A win's a win. But, like, and last
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: year I think people would argue, well, they were missing
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: all their players. Totally true. But if you go back
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: to when the 49ers were fully healthy, a little bit
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: different team. But still, when they face Mike on defense,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: he punked Kyle. And there have been, there's one individual
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: that really stands out of, like, Jim Schwartz owns Kyle Shanahan.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: For whatever reason. And sometimes there's just a matchups, like
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: styles make fights. There are certain teams that own other teams.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: For whatever reason, you know, Georgia Bama, assuming it happens
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: with the hurricane, like Kalen DeBoer in the two regular
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: season games against Kirby Smart has beat him twice. You know,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: you would think, you know, it's gone kind of weird
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: for DeBoer. Like, yeah, they played three times. If you
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: just said, hey, it's going to be a little weird.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: How many times do you think DeBoer beat him? Like
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: max once, probably get swept. And that's not the case.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: So sometimes, for whatever reason, a guy just has you
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: figured out. It happens sometimes in the NFL. It kind
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: of goes like that with Kyle and Spax and Kyle
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: and the Chiefs. For whatever reason, the 49ers who play
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs this year, too, have not done well against them.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: Regular season and clearly the Super Bowl. So I think
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: there's a confidence thing here. Win or lose, I think
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: you could easily hold your head high if you're the
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: Niners and you lose this game. If it's like 20,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: you know, they kick a game-winning field goal. It's like, 23-22.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: You know, something would just, hey man, you went toe-to-toe
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: with them, they're at home, the place was going fucking bananas, whatever.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: I do think that if you were to get kind
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: of controlled again, which it's a tough matchup, because Purdy
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: hasn't been sacked, but I don't know, their defensive linemen
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: the last couple weeks against the 49ers, Looked like it
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: was a JV versus Varsity game. So I don't have
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: a good feel for this. No cash for me going
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: on this game. Just going to enjoy it. Just going
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: to put it on my big TV. I ain't even
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: doing four blocks in the afternoon. Chargers-Denver, you get a second.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck about watching the Chargers anymore.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: Who else is even playing at that time? I mean,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: this is... They kind of get to sit by themselves,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: which is nice. That's the one nice thing about a
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: couple less games. If you get a sweet game. Detroit
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: at Arizona. Like... Give me a break. I'll put them
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: and the Chargers on the other TV. And this game's
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: getting the big TV. I'm very, very excited. So, yeah.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: That's a Lions game. Lions better start playing some defense.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Arizona can score. I will say that. Other than that,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: I guess before we get out of here, a couple things.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: So let's just, a couple quick predictions with my friends
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: at Polymarket. I mentioned this earlier. I'm taking the Jags.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: And if you take the Jags to cover the 7.5,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: $ 100 pays $ 193. I could see the Jags blowing this game.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Just them out. I'd be stunned if this thing is close. Now, again, NFL,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: I said this before a couple weeks ago with like,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs when they played the Dolphins and it was
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: kind of weird. Seattle, Washington, things get weird. I just
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: think that the negativity around Philly, maybe it'll be better
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: for them. Just get out of the country. Maybe we see,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: and for those I say we, I mean, am I
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: going to set my alarm for 625 to get up
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: to watch the kickoff on this? Which in theory I should.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: And then I could see watching a team go three
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: and out, three and out, three and out, three and out,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: three and out. It's like, why am I doing this
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: to myself? They are such an awful watch. I hate watching...
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: It's the best part as the season goes on. Some
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: teams just become completely irrelevant. They're destined for nothing. Their
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: games don't matter. The Eagles are still in the spot
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: where they still matter. But there is a scenario where
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: they win five or six games. That is definitely on
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: the table right now. It's also they have enough good players.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: They have a clearly good enough defensive coordinator where it's like...
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: They can still go 9-8. But things are both on
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: the table. I would say, we talked about this game.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: The Mnungi thing gives me a little pause. But Dennis
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: Allen's defense has played a lot better. That offensive line
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: for Green Bay has been, from the eye test, as
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: bad as any other in the NFL. And I just
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: think there's a drive and an edge to Ben Johnson there.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: that when it comes to this game, the confidence all
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: of you guys have to beating them last year, especially
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: in the playoff game, I think the Packers are down
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: and down bad. I mean, I really do. I mean,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: Tucker Kraft has stepped in it multiple times about the booing,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: about the effort and a bunch of different stuff. I
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: think there's something just off. You talk about a team
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: that feels like they just need a fresh perspective. that's
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: how everyone could be thinking if the Bears cover the 1.5,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: which I'm saying, yes, $ 100 pays $ 197. And last but
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: not least, I don't feel great about this, but I've
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: been really impressed. I'm going Raiders. If you take the
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Patriots to not cover the 3.5, no, $ 100 pays $ 195. Partly,
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: I just want to see a good game, and I
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: hope that game's tight. Something special, kind of, you know,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: going back to my youth about Raiders-Pats, the Tucker Rule game,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: but Remember last year, Raiders beat them week one, Pete Carroll?
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: Didn't age well. A couple other things before we get
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: out of here on college football is, I guess two
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: things are connected because Nebraska, Rayola, but let's just start
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: with Nebraska. They're definitely in the NIL era, and we'll
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: see how long. Does it kind of resort back if
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: they do cap the earnings, if it changes the landscape
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: a little bit? I don't know. We'll have to see
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: how it all plays out. But we do need a
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: couple more, because right now, I've heard a couple people
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: say this, and I don't disagree. If I was Fox,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: and I was the Big Ten, like, we need to
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: have a powwow. We can't have Michigan not be good. Like,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: we understand they might not be Ohio State, and really
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: they weren't beside those couple years with Jim Harbaugh for
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: the past however many years. Like, Ohio State is separated.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: But we would like you to be closer to the
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh than whatever's going on right now. We need
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: that brand. We need you for the business. And I
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: would say the same thing for USC. Like we're paying
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: premiums here and we are not getting the ROI from
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: our two of our biggest brands. So like when Ohio
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: State says Portnoy gone, he's gone because we are very
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: dependent on them. And Indiana has stepped up to the plate.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: The problem is the first month of the season, they
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: play Davis High School, Chaparral High School, Basha High School,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: and Perry High School, and no one gives a fuck
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: about their games. And Cignetti can say it's preseason or whatever.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: That's his prerogative. But from a consumer standpoint, from a
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: television standpoint, no one needs to watch any of those games.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: So Nebraska, who also hasn't really played anybody, but like
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: is a brand that people of my age and older
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: remember being awesome. Like Miami, Florida State, and they just
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: haven't been good for a while. And they're 5-0. They're
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: hosting Indiana. Like I actually think it's probably good for
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: the conference if like Nebraska were to win this game.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: Because Indiana is still good enough to knock off other
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: teams as the season goes on. But like I think
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: the Big Ten's kind of in shambles. And I'm going
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: to assume, like, I'm a big Bob Chesney guy. My
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: guy Derek Ray is the general manager there. They're crushing it. Rayola,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: it's way harder. I heard Danny Cannell say this. I
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: listened to their podcast on, I don't even know what
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: it's called, but I subscribed to it on YouTube. It's
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: got Bud Elliott and Tom Fornelli. It's a good, meaty,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: just nerdy football podcast. And he's right. He's like, listen,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: I was a backup. once I got to the pros.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: And it's sometimes easier to come in in the middle
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: of the game because you don't think you just play.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Then when you're the backup and you're named the starter,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: there's a different pressure on you that you don't feel
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: when you're just like, on the sideline, eating sunflower seeds,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: knowing the game plan to like, hey, he's down, get
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: warmed up. And then you just can't even think, you
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: just go. You just react. So I'll be fascinated, like
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: the way Riola played, he was just kind of letting
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: it loose playing free, which forever in Nebraska, and I
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: get it, his team's better now. He just looked, he
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: never looked right, you know? And that was to me,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: and I didn't watch every snap he played in Nebraska,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: felt like the best game he ever played, especially given
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: like what was on the line. Now, can he bring
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: that as the full-time starter? Which, who knows how long
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: he's going to start, but if he keeps rolling, it's
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: kind of a cutthroat business. Like, if they start kicking ass,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: they didn't look that great, you can tell me Dante Moore,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: and I know he makes a lot of money, but
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: you just never know. You just never, and who knows,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: maybe Dante Moore, how long he takes to get cleared,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: if he's right, could just start for weeks. But, if
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: Oregon's a real national title contender, which we all thought
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: they were at the beginning of the season. Then Oklahoma
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: State beat them. I think Oklahoma State's going to go
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: like 10-2. That game's going to age fine. Boise State's
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: going to go 11-1. They're beating the shit out of
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: everyone they're playing. Those two games, one's a win and
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: obviously one's a bad loss, might not look as bad
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: when the dust settles. But UCLA, which is going to
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: be a fantastic program, they should lose this game by
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: 20 if Oregon's real. This is one of the hardest
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: places to play in the country. You can't hear yourself.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: There's a talent discrepancy here. So the Nebraska thing, if
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: you're the Big Ten... If Indiana wins this game and
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Oregon takes care of business, you're probably a three-bit league.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: It's Ohio State, Indiana, Oregon. And these people that have
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: pushed back... And listen, Big Ten has separated over the
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: last couple of years because they've won these national titles.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: The SEC is going to get in five or six teams.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: Someone's got to make up for the difference. But you
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: just look around the Big Ten. USC's down. Michigan's a joke.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: Where else are the other teams coming from? I actually
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: think if you are root for the Big Ten... I
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: think Nebraska winning this game and having a path to
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: get to 10-2 would be your best case scenario to
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: get four teams in. And then UGA, Alabama. Hopefully the
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: tornado or hurricane. I guess there's no tornado in Alabama.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: I guess there could be. But just misses and we
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: just get a normal football game. Here's the problem. Georgia
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: plays nobody. Oklahoma looked like a game, but John Mateer
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: made some plays that you wouldn't see on a high
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: school field. And their non-conference is a joke. And Bama
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: beats the shit out of Mississippi State, which I think
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: we watched that game. It makes us reevaluate how good
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: Mississippi State is. Both are clearly really good. I think
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: the sad part of all this is, And this goes
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: for Indiana. This goes for Georgia. If they just played
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: real teams, you'd still be awesome. You're still way better
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  Speaker 1: than everybody else. We've got to watch these games. Well,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: not really, because you just look for a competitive game. Like,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: no one wants to watch 60-0 games. Because I have
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: no clue what that means. It doesn't happen in the NFL.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: And so even when you play bad teams, like, you
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: still get pushed. So you still can, like, these strengths
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: and weaknesses. And what I think is so great about
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: this game is, like, This rivalry that when Nick left,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: you just went, God, Kirby's going to have just the
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: massive upper hand. And then DeBoer beats him a couple times.
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  Speaker 1: And I know last year he loses in the SEC
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: Championship game, but now DeBoer, you know, we'll see. I mean,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: Georgia has this linebacker. I saw some, Jackson sent me
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: some clips. He looks like Ray Lewis meets Lawrence Taylor.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, they got some dudes on defense that are like,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: holy shit. And when you watch Keelan Russell play, I
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: heard McShay say this, I need to reevaluate the way
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: we look at quarterbacks because of the combination athletes. The
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen types feel really rare to us
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: because we, for so long, watched, like Aaron Rodgers was
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: viewed as really, really mobile. But most guys were like
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: true pocket quarterbacks. Well, those guys are dead. We are
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: going to see more and more versions of Keylon Russell
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: types I mean that's what Bryce Underwood was supposed to
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: be just turns out he stinks which happens some guys
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: just aren't that good I even heard Urban Meyer was
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: like yeah I was on the sideline and the only
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: like blue chip NFL looking guy that I went like
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: that's a first round player body wise not talking play
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: is Bryce Underwood I'm like that's a problem you know
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: and that's the thing with Bama and UGA you know
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: this is where people push back like the The draft stuff,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: there are so many NFL players in this game. And
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: not all of them are draft eligible. Some of them are,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: you know, redshirt freshmen and sophomores. And this is when
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: we learn about these two teams. Because I think when
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: you get in these type games, like, you know, I
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: think we have, what's next week? Is it Indiana, Ohio State?
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: You get these play out, like the Bills-Rams, Niners-Seattle. You know,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: it just... but the thing in the NFL, those games
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: happen immediately. Like we got to wait for conference play.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: And then that was like, and here's the thing. If
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: this game is good, assuming this hurricane misses and it's
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: just a fantastic blow for blow game. I, it does
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: feel like the sec, not just taking the oxygen, like
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: their games are just easier to watch. Their games feel
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: more exciting. This goes back to LSU Ole Miss. This
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: goes back to, uh, Even just watching Bama, Mississippi State,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: they're enjoyable to watch. Watching Washington, USC last week was like,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: why am I doing this to myself? Why am I
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: so invested in this? This is terrible. They're paying Desmond
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Williams Jr. $ 3. 5 million. This guy, this is what they're
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: paying for? I don't... If I was some super loaded
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: guy who loved my school and wanted to be a
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: big booster, I would definitely be involved. But If we
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: had an experience where we were paying a guy and
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: I thought he was just a scrub or just not
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: even remotely close to be good enough, it would be
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: hard for me to take, if we didn't have like
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: a Saban Kirby type coach, if it was like a
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: Jed Fish, if I'm cutting this check to Jed Fish,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: it's like, what? How is this good enough? And the
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: answer is it's not. It's why he loses a lot.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: And it's why I have a lot of respect for
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: programs like Minnesota that are like the Tampa Bay Rays.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, they're not spending that much. Well, how
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: are they beating these teams? Well, they're just developing guys, well-coached, tougher,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: just better operation. That's the great part about Kalen Dubor
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: and Kirby Smart. It's like, think about this, and I've
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: been watching Kalen since he was the OC at Fresno State.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: Then he became the head coach, then he went to Washington.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: Anytime you're judged against Nick Saban, I mean, this documentary...
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: is basically just Saban yelling at people the entire time.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's holding staff meetings at 7.30 in the
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: morning the day after a national championship. He's a one-of-one.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: It's not going to happen. Him and Belichick, their personalities,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: they don't exist, really, with people under 50. Vrabel, and
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: even Vrabel is way more loose and a bullshitter. Those guys,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: they don't even feel like they'd be fun to go
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: to dinner with. That's a miserable SOB. Now listen, you
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: can't argue their track record. DeBoer's personality is the polar opposite.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: But Google's resume in terms of wins and losses, all
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: he's done is won. Even last year, which was a
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: disastrous season for them. They were in the SEC championship game,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: and they went to Oklahoma and won a playoff game.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: If that's your shitty season, that's pretty good. And clearly
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: they look poised, and this is where he gets a
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: lot of credit, is like, this was part of my
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: pushback on Ty Simpson. And Dan Orlovsky going, he's the
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: number one quarterback, he's a first-rounder. It's like, the Alabama
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: Crimson Tide have not seen this five-star backup play a down,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: and they are 100% want Ty Simpson out so he
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: can play. They've never, like, he's never played. And hell,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: he kind of had to, I guess, kind of compete
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: for the job. But he did. I mean, he competed
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: for the job in the offseason and won it. But
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: it's like, they were done with Ty Simpson. Like, he
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: was not going to be their starting quarterback this season.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: This guy knows what he's doing. But he's like, I
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: remember a guy that played for him at Fresno State
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: told me, I just assume, like this former lineman from
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: the Dakotas, I'm like, he's just, he's just a fiery SOB,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: isn't he? I just assume he's like a Kirby, like
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: an Urban, Lanning, like a lot of edge and fire.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: He's like, no, actually, he's pretty mellow. He's much more
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: analytical than you would think. He's not like a hooter
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: and hollerer. This isn't Kirby Smart. This isn't Dan Lanning.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: This isn't Urban Meyer. You're not getting that type of
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: person out. One thing when you watch Kirby, it's like
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: he's on tilt 24-7, 365. We've talked about this before.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: There are these stories, you can Google it on the internet,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: of just his F-bombs echoing throughout campus because he walks
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: around practice with a microphone so the whole place can
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: hear him. You know, coaching guys up, screaming at guys.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: He's nuts. I want my coach to be nuts. But
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: sometimes guys aren't as nuts from a personality standpoint, and
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: they're still really good. And this gets back to DeBoer,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: like his offense is going back to Fresno State with
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: Jay Kaner, going to Washington with Penix and that crew,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: and now what it looks like with this operation with
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: this young quarterback, Keelan Russell, and they have awesome wide receivers.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: They take big bombs. That's the thing with Georgia. It's
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: like if these teams are evenly matched, Gunnar Stockton's one
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: of those guys that you're like, that guy had an
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: excellent college career. Gunnar Stockton, an NFL player. I said
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: this about Stetson Bennett. Incredible story. Bounce back, walk on,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: junior college. That's awesome. Nothing but respect for the guy.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: Clearly had some demons when he got to the pros.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: Looks like he fixed it. He's McVay's backup. It's impressive.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: Is he an NFL quarterback? If Stafford broke his leg
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: tomorrow and Stetson Bennett had to start the next month,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: I would bet against the Rams in every fucking game.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: So would you. Assuming, who knows, after a game or two,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: they might just throw Ty Simpson in there. But I
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: think when you have those type guys, you're very predicated. Like,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: they had to play under control. I heard someone give
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: the stats like Stetson Bennett, or excuse me, Gunner Stockton,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: his stats in the fourth quarter throughout his career have
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: been really good. So I think in a weird way,
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: you know, if you look back at some of the
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: pictures from Kirby, Kirby was a safety at Georgia. I
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: don't think anyone was comparing him to Ed Reed. You know,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: I would imagine Kirby would describe himself as like an overachieving,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: try hard, super smart, tough guy. So I think sometimes
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: you hate that guy, and sometimes you like that guy.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: And you kind of have a soft spot deep down.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: So this is the box office. Hopefully our weather avoids
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: and we just get to sit there, eat some food,
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: drink some cocktails, and enjoy the game. So roll tide.
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  Speaker 1: The Volume