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Baker Mayfield feels DISRESPECTED by Bucs, College Football Media Days, NFL Training Camp Mailbag · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on? My people? How are
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  Speaker 1: we doing? I'm John this Three and Out and uh,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully you guys are all enjoying your summer, living life,
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  Speaker 1: having a good time, working, doing whatever you do, because
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  Speaker 1: today we're having a good time. Because Baker Mayfield had
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  Speaker 1: And let's dive into the story of the day. I
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  Speaker 1: did want to start with Baker Mayfield, who went extremely
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  Speaker 1: viral on Thursday morning for a press conference in which
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  Speaker 1: he gave his thoughts, opinions, and his stance on the
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  Speaker 1: situation going on with his contract, his status with the Buccaneers,
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  Speaker 1: and how he feels about I would say currently his
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  Speaker 1: status in the organization. But before I give some opinions
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  Speaker 1: on it, why don't we And I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of you, I'm sure either saw snippets. Maybe watch the
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  Speaker 1: whole couple or listen to the whole couple of minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, you know what, let's just play Baker Mayfield's
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  Speaker 1: comments just in case anyone missed it, or if you
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  Speaker 1: were just kind of distracted while he was talking, and
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  Speaker 1: then I will react to what he said. Here's Baker.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, obviously, I've told you guys, have been
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  Speaker 2: pretty upfront and honest about my feelings about Tampa at
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  Speaker 2: being home for now. Our family were raising kids here,
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  Speaker 2: We love it here. I wanted the deal done and
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  Speaker 2: set the deadline and told them it was going to
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  Speaker 2: be all ball after that, and I did mean that.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if they thought I was just
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  Speaker 2: gonna take some of the offers that they gave. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm at the point of my career and understanding what
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  Speaker 2: I've brought to this franchise. One I'm very very thankful
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  Speaker 2: for the chance they gave me. Do not get me
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  Speaker 2: wrong on that. But I've also know I really know
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  Speaker 2: what I've brought to this franchise leadership wise and even playwise.
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  Speaker 2: It's been some of the best years of my career,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's only going to trend upwards. Just
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  Speaker 2: being comfortable and feeling that so disappointing in that regard
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  Speaker 2: to to not have, you know, to feel disrespect a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, And that's really the disappointing part, to feel
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  Speaker 2: undervalued after you know, thinking you've earned it. This is
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  Speaker 2: not a poor me things. There's a lot other people
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  Speaker 2: that have it way worse off. But I can sit
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  Speaker 2: here and look at other quarterbacks and peers and evaluate
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  Speaker 2: myself based on that and put myself in certain categories
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  Speaker 2: that I deserve to be compensated for that, and I
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  Speaker 2: become a franchise quarterback. I've been told I'm a franchise quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: It's been said publicly from ownership down here, and so
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  Speaker 2: to not have a deal done is very disappointing. But
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  Speaker 2: I said the deadline was a deadline, and I addressed
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  Speaker 2: the team to let them know I meant that it's
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  Speaker 2: all ball.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with these guys.
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  Speaker 2: I think all the guys that have been here know
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  Speaker 2: exactly who I am. The guys that are new here.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to address that because they might have had
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  Speaker 2: a notion prior to coming here about who I am
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  Speaker 2: as a person. But it's all team.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about.
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  Speaker 2: Winning here now and what we're going to do. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, hopefully Vida gets his back fixed and it
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  Speaker 2: gets his deal done. I mean, he's the second longest
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  Speaker 2: tenured Buck behind CG and Vida deserves that. He's the
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  Speaker 2: anchor of our defense and so I hope they take
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  Speaker 2: care of him. Disappointed to say the least, but it's
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  Speaker 2: all ball here and I know I'm gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: good year. I know this team. The things that we
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  Speaker 2: went through last year put us in a good spot
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  Speaker 2: for this year. Depth wise, a lot of guys have
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  Speaker 2: been thrown to the fire to be able to grow
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  Speaker 2: and learn fast, and it didn't go the way we wanted.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a new season and it's it's gonna help
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  Speaker 2: us in the long run. This year added some new
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  Speaker 2: pieces and so I'm excited about it. It's all ball
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  Speaker 2: from here, you know. After today, Like I want to
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  Speaker 2: answer a few more questions about the contract, but after today,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not not.
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  Speaker 1: Answering anymore because I'm not negotiating anymore Before I give
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  Speaker 1: my opinion on what's going on his thoughts the Buccaneers angle,
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  Speaker 1: I do just want to say it is extremely refreshing
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  Speaker 1: in a league where these older veteran quarterbacks are essentially corporations.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, most of the top twelve fifteen guys are making,
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  Speaker 1: you know, over the course of their career, make hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of millions of dollars. Most of them are pretty boring interviews,
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  Speaker 1: and I understand where they're coming from, right that they
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  Speaker 1: are basically their own corporation. They're so afraid to ruffle
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  Speaker 1: any feathers publicly that they've just become like cliche machines,
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  Speaker 1: which coaches, I'm sure like organizations definitely like, but it
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  Speaker 1: can't be pretty boring at times. It's not like you're
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  Speaker 1: getting the most raw and real version of these guys.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the one reason Baker Mayfield has always
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  Speaker 1: resonated with people whether you liked him or hated him,
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  Speaker 1: but he kind of moved you emotionally because there was
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  Speaker 1: an authenticity behind him. And you get a rant like that, which, again,
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  Speaker 1: wherever you stand, if you're a Bucks fan, you might
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  Speaker 1: have some feelings, or you're Browns fans, you got some feelings.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you are a Texas fan, you hated the guy
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  Speaker 1: since college. Like that makes you kind of like, damn.
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  Speaker 1: You know. That is not something you consistently see from
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  Speaker 1: these quarterbacks in contract situations, in other controversial situations involving
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  Speaker 1: the football team, they usually just kind of toe the
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  Speaker 1: company line because, you know what, it's just not worth it.
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  Speaker 1: And Baker's never been like that. Now, this is not
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  Speaker 1: a guy. He's made a hundred space one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty million dollars at the end of this season, right,
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  Speaker 1: he'll play out this season. He'll once Week one comes
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  Speaker 1: its contract will be guaranteed for this year. It's like
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty eight million dollars. His career earnings
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  Speaker 1: will be like one hundred and fifty eight point nine
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. So it's it's not like Baker currently is like,
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  Speaker 1: can't buy the house he wants to buy, can't do
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  Speaker 1: something he doesn't want to do. That rant to me
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  Speaker 1: was one hundred percent. It's like about the money, but
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  Speaker 1: the money represents respect. And my big takeaway is this,
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  Speaker 1: in the professional world, relationships are very conditional. My relationship
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  Speaker 1: with my son, with my wife are not conditional. Unless
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  Speaker 1: you know, crazy things happen, right, infidelities, murder, whatever, then
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  Speaker 1: you've got to reevaluate. But your family relationships, your immediate
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  Speaker 1: family relationship, definitely are not conditional. Really, in the business world,
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  Speaker 1: they one hundred percent are. I'm sure I got people
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  Speaker 1: listening to me that are top sales guys at their
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  Speaker 1: company go a year without selling anything. See how that ceo,
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  Speaker 1: that president, that board feels about you. Then I've been
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  Speaker 1: fired a couple times, honestly, fired twice by the time
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  Speaker 1: I think I was like thirty one years old. Your
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  Speaker 1: eyes will open to the real world. It is very cutthroat.
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  Speaker 1: It is very black and white. Honestly, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: why football resonates with so many people. The overwhelming majority
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  Speaker 1: of players are basically year to year guys are basically
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  Speaker 1: not that much different. Obviously, they make more money than
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  Speaker 1: the majority of Americans, but have a lot in common
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  Speaker 1: with at Will employees. They get cut, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: get traded, they get their contract not renewed. The league
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  Speaker 1: stands for not for long. It is the ultimate production
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  Speaker 1: based business. And I understand where Baker is coming from emotionally, right,
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  Speaker 1: he because when you're a quarterback. The number one thing
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  Speaker 1: they want you to do is win, produce, but there
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  Speaker 1: is a lot else that they put on your plate, leadership,
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  Speaker 1: representing the franchise. It's why Collins rant has always you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would say one of his biggest takes of all
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  Speaker 1: time is the backwards hat with the quarterback thing, because
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  Speaker 1: he valued the quarterback as representing these franchises worth six
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  Speaker 1: to ten billion dollars and they are basically in the
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  Speaker 1: C suite right next to the CEO and CFO, which
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  Speaker 1: would be the GM and the head coach. Who do
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  Speaker 1: we often talk about owner, head coach, GM quarterback. That's
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  Speaker 1: like your executive team. And Baker has asked to do that.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously, once Tom retires, he helped carry the flag
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  Speaker 1: for this organization, keep them going and clear. If you
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  Speaker 1: followed his career, if you've watched him talking, if you
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  Speaker 1: watch quarterback he's it feels like he's grown up dramatically,
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  Speaker 1: right exponentially, which I think a lot of us can
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  Speaker 1: relate to. As guys. You take huge steps at certain
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  Speaker 1: times from twenty five to thirty, you take another big
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  Speaker 1: jump from thirty to late thirties to forty. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we just grow at slower rates than most Women's just
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  Speaker 1: a fact in Baker Mayfield, to me as a person,
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  Speaker 1: feels like he's really in a great spot from a
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  Speaker 1: maturity standpoint, from a family standpoint, from a leadership standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: from a guy people want to play with. But when
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  Speaker 1: I pay a quarterback, and we've talked about this forever,
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  Speaker 1: like most quarterbacks see the majority of their contract. Unless
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  Speaker 1: you are a royal disaster, like a Tua, like a Kyler,
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  Speaker 1: then your guarantees really come in to play. But Baker Mayfield,
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  Speaker 1: for example, siting a three year, hunt undred million dollar contract,
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  Speaker 1: all of that was not guaranteed. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: this year, he will have seen every single penny of
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  Speaker 1: that contract. Sam Darnald, right, did not get every penny
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  Speaker 1: of his contract. Guess what Sam Darnald is gonna see
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  Speaker 1: of that three year whatever, one hundred and ten million
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  Speaker 1: dollar contract he signed last year, Every penny of it.
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  Speaker 1: So if you are better than like a top twenty quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: you are gonna see all your money. And obviously the
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  Speaker 1: top guys, the Lamars, the Mahomes, the josh Allens, the
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  Speaker 1: Herbert's like they never even think about not getting the
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed and the non guaranteed portions of their contract. So
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  Speaker 1: when you're a general manager and this is the tough
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  Speaker 1: spot for Jason Light, you have to become the bad guy.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you just do. And would Baker Mayfield, will we
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  Speaker 1: be having this conversation if his twenty twenty four year,
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  Speaker 1: where he threw forty one touchdowns, he was over seventy
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  Speaker 1: percent com poliction a percentage he had him in the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and obviously by the end of the season they
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  Speaker 1: were playing as well as anybody. Probably not, he probably
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  Speaker 1: would have got a big extension. But that's not what
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  Speaker 1: happened last year. Because you start thinking as the general manager,
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  Speaker 1: while your star offensive coordinator leaves, you bring in a
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  Speaker 1: new guy. Baker gets banged up, which obviously no one
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  Speaker 1: wants to get injured. Everyone that's ever played in the NFL, like,
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  Speaker 1: no one chooses to spray knees to hurt elbows. But
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  Speaker 1: it does happen. And when that does happen, front offices
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  Speaker 1: have to ask themselves, do we feel comfortable that this
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  Speaker 1: is not gonna happen again? And this is not one
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  Speaker 1: of those situations in most industries, you don't know the answer.
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  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield could go the next five years and never
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  Speaker 1: have an injury that slows him down at all. But
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  Speaker 1: you don't know that. And so Baker Mayfield when he goes,
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  Speaker 1: I feel disrespected. I give him a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't saying like poor me in the sense that
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  Speaker 1: I'm not making enough money, like this, I can't pay
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  Speaker 1: my mortgage. He laid it out there. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people in the world that have it way
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  Speaker 1: worse than me. These are first class problems. This is
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  Speaker 1: a country club issue. This is about respect. And he
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  Speaker 1: looks around and he sees he views himself. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: in the category of the Goths, the Daks, the Purties,
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  Speaker 1: and all those guys have been recently taken care of. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I look at Jared Goff and I go he has
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  Speaker 1: been much more consistent. You know. In even last year
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  Speaker 1: threw over thirty touchdowns, he only threw eight interceptions. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I just think Jared Goff's a better player, Purty, Well,
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  Speaker 1: what does he have going for him? The decision maker
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  Speaker 1: is in love with them, and he dominates the offense
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  Speaker 1: in which the decision maker it's his baby. Dak Prescott
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  Speaker 1: unique situation with Jerry Jones, So Baker Mayfield, like your
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  Speaker 1: coach is in major question. So let's say Todd Bowles
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  Speaker 1: at the end of this year gets fired if I
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  Speaker 1: lock you up to because the going rate, if you
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  Speaker 1: just made a one hundred million dollars over the last
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  Speaker 1: three years. If I'm Jason Light, what would it take
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  Speaker 1: for Baker Mayfield to sign the contract like a four year,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred million dollar deal one hundred and fifty million
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  Speaker 1: dollars guaranteed something in that world because he just mentioned
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  Speaker 1: that the two year contract was basically laughable essentially, right,
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  Speaker 1: which I would guess they offered him like two years
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  Speaker 1: ninety million, kind of like a Daniel Jones situation, and
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  Speaker 1: Baker's going, I'm not Daniel Jones, and I don't blame
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  Speaker 1: him for thinking that. That's what makes these situations so difficult.
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  Speaker 1: And Baker's clearly better than Tua or Kyler. But Jason
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  Speaker 1: has seen those situations where teams regretted the contract pretty quickly,
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  Speaker 1: and because they have some question marks at coach because
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  Speaker 1: they've had this revolving kind of door offensive coordinator. Like
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  Speaker 1: we would all agree that he's not an Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 1: He's not a Peyton Manning where whoever's calling the offense
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  Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily matter. It's gonna be elite. There are outside
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  Speaker 1: variables that are pretty important for Baker success because if
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  Speaker 1: you look at twenty twenty four, when he had by
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  Speaker 1: far the best year of his career, it turns out
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  Speaker 1: the guy calling the plays might just be a star.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the Athletic or ESPN or I forget where
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  Speaker 1: I read it. I think it was the Athletic. They
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  Speaker 1: ranked like the top ten play callers in the league.
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  Speaker 1: Out of note Liam Cohen on the list, and I
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  Speaker 1: think it was ted to win ye. I was the Athletic.
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  Speaker 1: He was talking to defensive coordinators and defensive people throughout
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Liam Cohen was ranked. It was just based
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  Speaker 1: on last year I had Andy Reid, so last I checked.
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  Speaker 1: Andy Reids go to the Hall of Fame. Now you
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  Speaker 1: can say he had a bad year or whatever, but
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  Speaker 1: still like I don't think anyone on the BINGO card
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  Speaker 1: would have had a couple of years ago. Liam Cohen
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  Speaker 1: being viewed around the league as a better play caller
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  Speaker 1: currently than Andy Reid. Now I gotta see a little
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  Speaker 1: more body of work here. But I under stand just
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  Speaker 1: based on twenty five how someone could write that list, well,
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  Speaker 1: we might not get a Liam Cohen back, so I
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  Speaker 1: have to be careful about paying because the going rate
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  Speaker 1: is kind of the going rate. And I just think
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  Speaker 1: these situations are very, very complicated, and I think Jason
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  Speaker 1: Light is doing the right thing by playing it out.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is is and Baker's saying like, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: negotiating anymore. Let's just rock and roll. Let's go Joe Flacco,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna prove you wrong because he said, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: Jason the owner. People around the building right, previous coaching
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  Speaker 1: staff has said this is one of the better quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: in the league. All these guys have said that over
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  Speaker 1: the course of the last twenty four months, especially a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago. But words in the real world
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  Speaker 1: that business don't mean shit. They don't mean a goddamn thing.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people say I love you to their
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  Speaker 1: sick signific I can other won't get down on a
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  Speaker 1: knee and propose a lot of things are said in business.
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  Speaker 1: How many of you guys have thought, like, we could
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  Speaker 1: close this deal we just and then no contracts ever signed.
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  Speaker 1: My wife said this for years. She never gets too
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  Speaker 1: excited over phone calls. About real estate stuff because until
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  Speaker 1: a contract is signed, none of it matters. Until a
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  Speaker 1: deal goes down and it wheels are in motion, you
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: can't get ahead of yourself. And we're all guilty of
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: doing that. But the older you get, you realize in
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  Speaker 1: the private sector, words are pretty meaningless. I'd argue words
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  Speaker 1: in general are pretty meaningless, like actions define everything, and
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  Speaker 1: right now the Bucks' actions are, Yeah, we got some
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  Speaker 1: question marks. How could they not because last year in
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  Speaker 1: a god awful division they couldn't make the playoffs, and
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  Speaker 1: offensively once Baker was banged up, they were just off. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: they're just bad team. But if they had gone thirteen
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  Speaker 1: and four and been the two seed, yeah, probably not
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  Speaker 1: sitting here. But isn't that the NFL? Isn't that life?
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  Speaker 1: It's what I've always said about all these coaches. It's
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  Speaker 1: about the process. It's about the process. It's about the process.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of rings hollow to me. Unless you're Nick Saban
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  Speaker 1: saying that, unless you're Kurt Signetti is saying that, unless
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  Speaker 1: you are Jeff Bezos saying that. It's easy for everyone
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  Speaker 1: to say that does your process work? Like these weren't
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  Speaker 1: a results oriented society. Football is a results oriented business,
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  Speaker 1: and you can make excuses. Well, I've had a bad shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: my left tackle was banged up, my starting wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: was out. That's great, But welcome to the league, welcome
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  Speaker 1: to life. So I have no problem with Baker Mayfield
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  Speaker 1: being pissed off everything he's heard, what he feels he's
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  Speaker 1: done for the organization. And I got no issue with
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  Speaker 1: Jason light doing it. If I was in his shoes,
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  Speaker 1: I would do the same thing. We got to play
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  Speaker 1: this out. If you prove me wrong, it's not my money,
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  Speaker 1: We'll get the owner to give you one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: seventy five million dollars guaranteed. Throw forty touchdowns, lead us
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  Speaker 1: to eleven wins. Let's win the division. But if we
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  Speaker 1: have another year like last year, how can I feel
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  Speaker 1: comfortable doing that? And that's what makes this business so difficult.
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  Speaker 1: There's gotta be a guy in every building that is
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  Speaker 1: just the bad guy. Forever, in New England, it was Belichick,
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  Speaker 1: Like everyone knew it was Belichick, right, how he often
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  Speaker 1: operates like the bad guy in Philadelphia? Right, it's just
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: a reality, like we can't pay you, we're gonna trade you,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: we're gonna cut you, and that's what Jason Light's doing
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: right now. And Baker also made the comments about you know,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: extending Vidavea. Well, it's like he's gonna be thirty two
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: years old, bigger player, Like have we seen the best
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: version of him? The going rate for him is massive.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: So if we give you the market rate on your
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: two positions, ifin a couple of years we regret it,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: we are screwed. These are not small numbers. Chris O
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Lave who in twenty four was banged up, missed a
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: bunch of time. I mean, hell, there were questions I
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: didn't think he said it. Last year it's like across
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: his mind, like do I even want to play football anymore?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Last year got his mind right. One hundred catches, nine touchdowns,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: by far, the best year of his career. Just got
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: ninety million dollars guaranteed, so certain positions, obviously a big
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: time defensive lineman and especially a quarterback. When you make mistakes,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: it is crippling. It is because their money accounts for
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: so much on the salary cap over the course of
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a couple of years, or if you want to get
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: out of it, I mean, look at what the Dolphins
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: had to do to just get out of to a
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: tongue of II LOA. The Arizona Cardinals were eating thirty
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: six million dollars just to get rid of Kyler Murray.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying comparing Baker Mayfield, but you just
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: that's how fast the league happens. Peyton Manning was once cut,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Tom Brady was once told we don't want you anymore.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Think about that. The Packers traded Aaron Rodgers. I don't
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: know if I had to think about it and my life,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Tiger Woods, Barry Bonds. I'm thinking of non football players,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Roger Federer. I mean, I would put Peyton Manning, Tom
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Brady and Aaron Rodgers in my forty one years on
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: this planet and thirty plus of being able to like
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: cognitively remember watching people play sports as three of the best,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: definitely top seven eight players in any sport. I've ever
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: seen one cut, one traded, the other told you don't
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: have a contract and you can say it well. One
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: was coming off a neck injury, one was forty one
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: years old. One was kind of I don't know, things
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: got a little weird. You give me all the excuses
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: you want. Peyton Manning left won at MVP. Tom Brady
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: left won an MVP Aaron Rodgers, you know, towards Achilles.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Even though I've been seeing the viral Hard Knocks clips
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: of that Jets year, they're camp highlights, they look like
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: they were gonna win the Super Bowl. They really did,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: or at least compete for one. I think they ended
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: up going seven to ten that year. Obviously Aaron only
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: played four or five snaps, so I think it's fair
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: to say if Aaron just plays that season with how
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: good their defense is, eleven wins easy. So things changed
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: so fast, and there's this balance in football of the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: human element.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Big.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I bet Jason Light would tell you, like, I love
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, love everything he stands for, but also the
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: business side of like, I gotta be very careful about
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: not making a mistake that we're gonna regret, And he'd go,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: we got three years of evidence. It's like, yeah, well,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the rates in which I have to pay you, I
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: don't know if I'm comfortable doing. And you could argue, well,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: if you play seventeen games and balls out, what are
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: you really learning that you didn't already know? And the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: answer is you'll never know, because year to year things
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: change so quickly, and these situations get very, very difficult.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: There's a small percentage of quarterbacks that you feel one
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: hundred percent great about paying a large amount of money to.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: It's like less than five. It really is the majority
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: of other good quarterbacks in the league. It's like, damn,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: we hope this goes well. Just keep our fingers crossed.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: That includes the Goths, the Purties, the Dacks, kind of
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: that crew guys. I mean, look at Burl last year,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden disappear. It wasn't his fault, but
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: like that boom turf tow out for the majority of
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the year. I just think this league is it's really complicated,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: and they're there were the assets are all human beings,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: and like I said, it's refreshing to see a guy
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: be a human being. And it's not because he's not
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: already rich, he's filthy rich. It's about like the respect
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: based on the guys. Money's all relative. Right, If you're
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: making a hundred grand and you go all the other
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: guys in my position in my industry are making five
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: hundred grand, you're gonna be fucking pissed off. You just are.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: We're all We're all kind of wired the same way,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: especially like competitive people, aggressive people, ambitious people, people trying
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: to do big things. And it's gonna be interesting because
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the one question mark I would have his last year
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: he played through injuries. If this year you get hurt,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: like are you willing to just lay it on the line?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna have the mentality? I'm doing it for
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the guy next next to me, right, It's like, you know,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the Army Rangers, not fighting for the general back of
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: the base. He's fighting for the guy to his right
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and to his left. But when there's money on the line,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: like yeah, no, no, if I'm gonna play through this
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: banged ub MCL, that's where it could get weird. I'm
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: root for Baker Mayfield to do well. He's like he said,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: he made Tampa Bay home. I just think that this.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: If it doesn't go that well, I'm picking the Saints
• 24:38
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  Speaker 1: today that was just fantastic. One thing we've lost, you know,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: ten years ago. It wasn't the SEC versus the Big Ten.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: It was wherever you were from, wherever you went to college,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: there was like this. The regionality of college sports really
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: resonated with me. Right when you thought the Big twelve,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: you thought big time offense. When you thought the Pac twelve,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: you thought like innovative quarterback play. When you thought the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Big Ten, you thought like physical football. When you thought SEC,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: thought the best athletes, the best NFL players. And then,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: depending on how it shook out, most time it was Alabama,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: we'd argue who the top five teams in the country were.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And then conference realignment and conference has got destroyed. Now
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Stanford and Cow played each other in a baseball the
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: conference playoffs. Stanford and Cow, which are, you know, not
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: that far away from each other as the crow fly
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: is probably twenty you know, the Crow could get there
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: in twenty minutes depending on traffic, I don't know hour
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and they played each other in North Carolina. So we've
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: lost a lot of the soul of college football. And
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: a huge part of that was everyone kind of stuck
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: their flag wherever they were from. Right if you were
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: an SEC guy, you laughed at Oregon and Washington and
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Callen Stanford. Well, now Callen Stanford played Florida State, Miami
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and Clemson. Now Oregon plays Rutgers in Maryland. So Texas
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: forever in Oklahoma were the Big twelve. Now they play
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Alabama and Georgia. And I think signetti because college football
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: has basically become the NFL, the AFC, and the NFC,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: which are essentially the big ten in the SEC. You know,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: obviously Miami, Notre Dame. There are a couple other programs,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech with the money they're spending, but the majority
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: of our energy, the majority of the viewership comes from
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: those two bad boys. And I do think we've lost
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: something that I grew up on which we're never getting back.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: So I'm not holding onto the past, even if I
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: missed it a little bit. But we do need some
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: sort of like hatred and rivalry beside just all the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: comments coming out of the SEC media day was kind
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of complaining about nine conference games and the playoffs and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the one thing with the NFL, some NOOW coaches complain
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: a little bit about like the international games, but you'll
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: never hear a coach being like, we got it easy
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: this year because we get the Titans, the Cardinals, and
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the Commanders. Like, no one talks about their schedule in
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: terms of, well, we got this easy team or we
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: got to play this. It just is what it is.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Every year, it rotates. Y'all eventually play each other over
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the course of a couple of years. Sometimes it turns
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: out a little bit easier, but things can change at
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: a moment's notice, because you could be playing the Bengals
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and Joe Burrow he get turf toe, and then all
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're playing Joe Flacco or something, which
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: actually beat Mike Tomin last year, which was actually pretty cool.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: But you know what I mean. It just there's a
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: different vibe to the NFL and college football just about
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the games because everything is so out of balance in
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: college football with the non conference you can play a
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: bunch of teams, no one's ever heard of. You can
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: kind of stack the books a little bit. I mean
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Missouri does that. Their records always like eight and four,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: nine and three, But if you look, they got four
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Patsy wins. That's why I respect Texas and Ohio State
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: playing each other. Florida State and Alabama. Again, it's very
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: you know, cyclical in terms of like you may get Alabama,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: they're down relative to Saban, but regardless, it's just all
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: out of whack. But the one thing that is very
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: clear is these two conferences now are viewing each other
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: eye to e as they got all the money, they
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: got all the players, and we got all the teams
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: going to the playoffs every year. But most of these
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: coaches aren't gonna take direct shots and talk a bunch
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: of shit like Ryan Day is at what I'd argue
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: is the best current program in the country him or
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Georgia and Kirby Smart. I would say, even Kirby, they're
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: not gonna say that much. Even if you go back
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: to Saban. Saban would go to these media days and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: he would say like big picture college football stuff, but
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: he would never like take jabs at other conferences, other opponents,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: at least that I can remember. So to me, there's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: besides some of the twenty fourteen playoffs. We need this
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: and we need that. We just on the field is
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: what I like. Like when Ben Johnson hates the Packers,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you know what, everyone goes, fuck, yeah, this is awesome.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: So when I see Signetty today, come and say, we
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: don't run a hype machine up here in the Midwest.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: We believe everything is earned, not given. When we fall short,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: we say we fall short. We don't cry a river
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: and whind and complain. All right, it's why we're the best.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: We need some of that. We need some legitimately we
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: think we're better than you. It used to happen a
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: lot when I was a kid, whether it was Jimmy
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Johnson and Lou Holtz or Joe Paterno to Steve Spurrier
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: talking a bunch of shit, and I'm not talking talking shit,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Like we need more teams in the playoffs because if
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: you look at the NFL, forty percent of their league
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: makes the playoffs and only eight percent. Like, we're exhausted
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: with that. You know, our roster, we need a salary
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: cap on nil, Like can you just play the games?
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Can you guys? Just figure it out and make the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: football aspect of it feel big, because there's Saturdays are incredible.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: A good Saturday night game in college football at Penn State,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: at Oregon, some of those SEC programs, when Michigan Ohio
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: State play each other. There's just a pureness to the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: game that is like this means a lot, but all
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the other stuff, and I'm someone who loves college football,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I get exhausted with it. I'm like I I this
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: is ole miss is suing the LSU players and like
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Laye kid, It's like, this is so never happens to
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the NFL because you can't just steal a coach. You
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: know why, because they're under contract. If I want Sean McVay,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I can't just offer him fifty million dollars a year.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Doesn't work like that. So college football is a lot
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: to figure out. But one thing that Kurt Signetti, who
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: what are you really gonna say about him? He went
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: to Indiana and in his second year played Oregon in
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Alabama on his way to the National championship and beat
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the living shit out of him. Took Kaylin du Bores,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: making one hundred million dollars, beat him thirty eight to three.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I don't have the Oregon score off the top of
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: my head. That feels like it was even bigger. And
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: then took Miami, which if you watch the draft, they
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: had how many guys go in the top twenty five
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and one of their best players a true freshman, and
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: they had a quarterback get drafted in the third round
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and won that game, which you would say Miami, at
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: least in the last forty five years is definitely one
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: of the best programs in the country, the opposite of Indiana,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: which was legitimately the worst program in the history of
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Division I Power four, Power five football. So I appreciate that.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: We just need some more of that. Like I like
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: when Ben Johnson goes fucking liked the Packers, It's like, well,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: what did Matt Lafleur do to him? Who cares he
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: doesn't like him? You know, I appreciate some people that
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: just don't like other people, because we all do. We
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: all have those feelings. Hell, I see people on the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: internet all the time that work kind of in my industry.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: I've never even met the guy. I'm like, I fucking
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: hate that guy. Right, we all have those feelings, and
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: most of these coaches gets back to Baker Mayfield. No
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: one says anything anymore. It's it's very rare. And I'm
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: not talking to the occasional like wide receiver, linebacker. I'm
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: talking the coach or the quarterback that just goes, you
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: know what, fucked that guy? I hate that guy. I
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: hate the SEC. They never shut up. We've we've dominated
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the National Championship now for the last couple of years.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: We're the best conference. I don't think there's another guy
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: in the country that would have said that, and in
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: fairness like Dan Lanning, who I like a lot, if
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: he had said that. You know, it's like Dan les
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: just when a playoff game first, But this guy just
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: ran the fucking table, beat everyone in a path, including
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: SEC team, including the best teams in the Big Ten
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: in Oregon and Ohio State and then Miami, who was
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: littered with NFL players who I you know, like Mesadora
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: and Bain and the offensive tackle the win of the Giant.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Those guys are gonna be good NFL players, honestly, like
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: those guys are gonna make Pro Bowl some of them.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: So it's refreshing because we need some just like this
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: matters a lot. When Steve Spurry used to just talk
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: shit about Florida State. That was that was fun, like
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: that was enjoyable, you know, and we just don't get
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: any of that anymore. It's everyone just whining about stuff that,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: like can we just talk about the games? And that's
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: kind of what Signetti's doing. We're just better up here.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: We don't bitch and moan, even though it's like everyone does.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: But it's just like, you know, take a shot, hopefully
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: someone in the SEC, hopefully Kirby takes a shot back.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: And we just amped this up because we know we're
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: all moving to it's eventually gonna be a two conference sport.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: What else is going on? A couple of quick things.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Social media is what it is. Some of these viral
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: clips on just different players in shorts and T shirts
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: of like AJ Brown can't play anymore, Marvin Harrison blows.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: These are just two that come to mind because I've
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: seen him on the internet today, and who knows, maybe
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: AJ's best days are behind him. Maybe Marvin Harrison will
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: be just one of the all time most overhyped prospects
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: we've ever seen. But to make these judgment calls in
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the end of July when they're not in shoulder pads.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: And this happens all over with all different positions. It's
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: gotten a little crazy. JJ McCarthy, Kyler Murray, I have
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: seen all sorts of stuff. Can we just wait till
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the pads come on? No one's playing football yet, nobody, Well,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I guess maybe a couple teams pads on the Panthers
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: And who's is it? The Panthers and the Cardinals are
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: playing in the in the uh Hall of Fame game,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I think shows you how dialed in I am on
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame game. But my point is that
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: we live in an era where back in the day,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: you could just fail through training camp. You know why,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: because it's practice and you could just get better, you
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: could improve, you could screw up and now everything. This
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: is why the NFL and they never will does not
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: allow anyone in practice beside for like fifteen minutes when
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: the season starts. Because can you imagine if we got
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the same thing during the week of, like week six
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: of just like this is what's going on with so
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: and so team so and so player, look how he
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: looks in practice. It would be exhausting. Now, don't get
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: me wrong, I mean I click on it and I
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: watch it, but it does feel like it's it's kind
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: of jumped the shark a little bit, right, Dan Campbell
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: said in a O tas We can get excited, we
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: can get fired up, but at the end of the day,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: there is a pajama party. This is not basketball. You
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: can play five on five in baseball. I can take
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: live VP against Roger Clements. You cannot play football. The
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage literally defines the sport. They cannot play
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: without pats. It's not possible, right, Or you can't run
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: the ball without pats. It doesn't it doesn't exist. It's
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: like you can call a run, but no one's blocking tackle.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen. And you could argue even in
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: a lot of these camps now that are all two
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: hand touch, it's not even real football either, Like what
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: do you tackled him? Maybe? What if he broke the tackle?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: What if he actually made a miss? You don't really
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: know until the live bullet started flying. And I just
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I feel for some of these guys that are just
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: getting shit on on the internet. For like one bet
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: rep on July twenty ninth, It's like this guy can't play.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: He's like well maybe he can't, but we definitely don't
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: know based on that clip before we dive into the mailbag. Obviously,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: my last week's Fugazi Friday on the s'mores from Kirkland,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: well from Costco, the Kirkland brand. Avoid those at all
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: costs because they're too easy to eat. And I definitely
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: a week later, I feel dramatically fatter, and I was
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: trending in the right direction. I was feeling like, get
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: my summer bod going, losing some lbs and then just
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: cast that thing in three days and it usually takes
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: a couple of days to hit and now I just,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel just terrible. One thing Kirkland does
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: provide is they're cold brew coffees. No free ads here,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: but at Costco are just are pretty powerful. I was
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: really struggling today. I had one in the morning. But
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: you know, my son is like Jocko will Nick. He's
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: up at like four forty five, five o'clock on the
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: dot every single night or every single morning, like he
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: will not make it past five am. So it's it's
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: usually in the late fours you start hearing that cry
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: and it's like, oh he's up, and now he'll take
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: retake a nap at like six fifteen, but like you're
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: getting up with him and you know, in the force,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: and uh sometimes you see the lecture juice and those
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: those cold brew coffees. Man, they got like two hundred
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: and twenty five milligrams of caffeine. I had my second one,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: so I had like four hun and fifty grams of
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Actually I had a and I had double Express, so
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I made two around lunch. So one of those days,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: you know, you're just dragging, You're like, what do I
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: need to do? Uh? Not an adderall guy. So you
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: just you just take as much caffeine as you can.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: And the second coffee definitely worked for me. Other than that,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I don't really have any fugazis. Besides one thing I
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: have noticed the last couple of weeks, this little stretch
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: from like basketball kind of ends. We got a little
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: lucky with the World Cup. I don't watch baseball anymore.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: There is no thing on television. The absolutely nothing on television,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Like what do people watch? Like I can only watch
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: reruns a Shark Tank and Guy Fieri going to some
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: sweet little you know diner that has some bomb burger
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: with an onion ring on the top and guacamole on
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the bottom of it. So many times it's like, you know,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I just I just miss watching a game and they
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: just don't exist right now, so and I don't really
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: We're still a couple of weeks from preseason games, and
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: even though you'll watch a series or two, you're like,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: this is pretty terrible. You know, this is this is bad.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: So we're still a while away from real football being played.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: And I did watch on Amazon Prime Video The Agency.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I binge that over the last like three weeks. Pretty
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: good watch, just like kind of thriller drama CIA, you know,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: undercover flipped agents, you know, kind of committing trees. It's
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: just it's pretty entertaining. I wouldn't give it like a
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: ten out of ten, but it's it's probably like a
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: seven and a half. Just an easy, solid watch. When
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: I was in Los Angeles, I Want I went to
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: the movie I had to kind of afternoon to kill.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: That's right by the mall where I stay in Century City.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Nicest mall in America. I mean, incredible food court, best
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: food court I've ever been to. It's just they got
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: a Tesla dealership in the mall. I went to see Obsession,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: which I didn't really know that much about. I was like,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to see something this is before the Odyssey,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: and I couldn't make it through a three hour movie,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: so I just kind of wanted something under two hours.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: And then I saw it. It was really good. I
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: think you can watch it now, like on either one
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: of the streaming services. Is they made it for under
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: a million dollars. This guy like created a YouTube channel
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: like within the last five years and kind of blew up,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Like I if that guy was a stock, I put
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: some cash in him that that was just an entertaining watch.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: It was easy. You know. I wouldn't exactly call it
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: a horror movie, but it can keep you on the
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: edge of your seat a little bit. It was like
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: more disturbing probably than horror. Had a little horror to it,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: but I wouldn't quite put it aggressively in that genre,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: but it was. It was pretty good. It's pretty good.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: And then you can kind of Wikipedia the guy and
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: you read about his his backstory. You're like, this is
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: a pretty cool story in a day and age where
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: it's just really hard to get things made. Not that
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: I'm some like Hollywood insider here but based on what
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: people say, to see someone have a bunch of success
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: that didn't have that much backing financially, it's just, you know,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: it's few and far between these days. Still a couple
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: of mailbag questions and get out of here. What's up? Jam?
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Question for the bod Giants fan, I really think we
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: got a steal in Mulwaga at ten in the draft.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Dude's a beast. Really wanted the Giants to take Caleb
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Downs at five. Though. I get the value in drafting Reese,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: but I think Downs would have been had a bigger
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: impact this year. My question, would you have drafted Downs
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: at five over Reese if you were the Giants. Side note,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: we also passed on Downs at ten as well. The
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: thing with the draft, you know, especially if you're John Harbaugh,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: you're not just drafting the guy for year one. Now.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: I think Caleb Downs, if he told me he's a
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, it wouldn't shock me. Rvel Reese has
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame potential as well. There is just a
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: lot of question marks right twenty years old. One, your
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: starter ceiling is as high as the sun. But it's
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: like they got to kind of create a position you
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: know what is he actually doing on a down in,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: down out basis. I haven't really read much of Giants practice,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: so if you probably know more than me. They obviously
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: have a lot of other guys at that position. But
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: like I bet in three years they go, Kevon Thibodeau
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: is not gonna be on the team, Brian Burns won't
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: be on the team any longer. Our two edge guys
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: are gonna be Carter in Reese and anytime. If you
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: can have too high end because they have high end talent,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: if we can turn them into their ceiling, we're gonna
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: be ass kickers. So the value if I can turn
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: them into what I hope he can become, is just
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: higher than a safety. So I understand why they did it. Listen,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: if Caleb Downs played tackle, played a different position that's
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: viewed as quote unquote premium pass rusher, he would have
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: been the second pick in the draft. But when you
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: are a position that just isn't value to high, it
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: just kind of is what it is. Off season mailback question,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: how do your advertising deals typically work? Feel free to
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: ignore the old sponsor names no free ads. A while back,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Blank was in your main sponsor and now at seat Geek.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: You've also had Zen and other tobacco companies. How often
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: do these deals get renewed and is it usually competitors
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: in the same general industries just trying to one up
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: each other at a time. I think it all depends,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: right that. Obviously, the more money you pay, longer a
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: deal goes, the more exclusivity you can get in terms
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: of the category, in terms of what you ask for.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: You know, we got some deals in motion right now
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: about category exclusivity. Obviously you want that. It just costs
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: more money. I mean, we can sign a deal for
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: a month. We've signed deals for six months of football season. Obviously,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Netflix multi year contract, So it just completely depends. I've
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: been very fortunate. We got an incredible sales team led
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: by Dane, my guy Terrence back in Boston, who we
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: locked up the deal a couple of years ago at
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: the Ryder Cup. Who actually I think we're redoing that deal.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: So you just they just kind of hit me up, Hey,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: would you be interested in this? I go fail, yeah.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: I mean most of the time honestly I say yes.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: So I would say I'm a pretty easy yes. The
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: only things that I'm uncomfortable doing are like, I don't
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: even know what I guess I've said no, I think
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: to some like some dick pills before, but that's usually
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: about it. And again, most of the stuff that gets
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: funneled by way are things that would I think fit
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: the quote unquote show. I mean, not everything ideally does,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: but we're pretty cognitive of that. But I would say
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: a deal could be as short as a couple of months,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: and a deal could be as long as multiple years.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: And it's just like any deal any of you guys
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: sign in whatever industries you work with, right, the more
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: you pay for, the more you get. That's really that simple.
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: And different companies have different needs. We're very lucky here
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: because of you guys. I mean, we have been a
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: very very lucrative show for brands. It's gone very very
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: well because of the people listening to the show. And
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: the other thing is football so big Because this is
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: a football show, so many people want in brands by
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: around advertising deals around the NFL, I mean, and college football,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: I mean those things I cannot It really is crazy
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: how important the fall months surrounding football has become in
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: kind of the business marketing world. It's crazy. From when
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I first got into the business to what it is now.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: That's why I always say I feel very fortunate that
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: I talk about football, heard you talk about JJ McCarthy
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: possibly getting traded, and I hear other people say he'll
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: be the next Baker Sam to go to a team
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: and blossom. The difference, I think is he had a
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: quarterback offensive coach mind, where the other two at dumpster
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: fire organizations. Do you have any faith that JJ has
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: a market for teams to go after I think one.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: B Baker was a three year starter at Oklahoma and
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: was incredible college player. Sam Darnold was physically in a
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: different kind of world than JJ to me, and like
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: I forget if it was a sophomore year was his
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: big year for USC, because I think he came out
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: maybe he played as a redshirt freshman, then came out
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: after his regro sophomore year. He had just asked to
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: do more. So there was more ceiling physically with Sam
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Darnold than JJ. And like I said, Baker had just
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: based on his college production, what they asked him to
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: do was just a different universe than JJ. I don't
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: really like those comps for JJ. To me, JJ would
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: have to kind of come in and be like an
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Alex Smith version. But you're one hundred percent right. He
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: got to play for Kevin O'Connell or the other two
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: teams you know played for the other two guys played
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: for the Browns and the Jets, and even when they
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: both got traded to Carolina, it was Matt rule and
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: he got fired. So I don't I don't think it's
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: a great comp want to hear your thoughts on what
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: you think these players will do this season. Players. I'm
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: out on Harrison Junior, Tyler Schuck, the Browns quarterback room players.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: I'm all in on Dj Moore, cam Ward, Caleb Downs.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Let's start with you all in. I agree with you,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Caleb Downs. I would expect defensive Rookie of the Year candidate,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: if not winner Dj Moore. My guess is he has
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: a big year in Buffalo'd be stunned if he is
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: not extremely productive cam Ward. How good are they gonna
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: be on offense? I think is a fair question mark
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: first year under day ball. I got some reservations there,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: clearly a very physically gifted player, but they're gonna ask
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of Carnel Tait right away. I don't know
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: if I'm all in on him yet players you're out
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: on quarterback room agree, Marvin Harrison Junior. I don't even
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: think he's the best wide receiver on his own team.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I disagree with you on Tyler Shuck. I would say
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Tyler Shuck right now throws thirty three touchdowns. That's bold.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: But I think and I think the Saints are good. Question,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: longtime listener, are you sold on the coaching staff for
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: the Giants? Harball was about to get fired for the
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Ravens before Lamar was drafted, and Naggie scares me as
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: an OC. I do think they got a lot of
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: just you got Naggie, you got Callahan. The one thing
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Harball had for the course of the last several years
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: is pretty consistent group of guys in his inner circle.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: It's just really Munkin been before that Roman, and Roman
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: was already with his brother.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: All the guys that were defensive coordinators had kind of
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: mentored under him and kind of that defensive unit. It's
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: just a lot of moving parts. And I just think
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: the roster, the culture there, there's a lot going on.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not as high as in the Giants as people
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: that are picking them to make the playoffs. I'm not
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: gonna pick the Giants to make the playoffs, so not
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: necessarily the coaching staff. I just I got more questions
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: with the personnel than I do the staff. New staff.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I think they'll be like I've known a couple of
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: guys that work for John and say he's incredible to
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: work for. Motivationally, how good he is with the staff,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: the direction I mean, Lamar Jackson will have saved a
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: lot of people's jobs. I mean that was just that
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: was a great pick. The entire league passed on them,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: so you get credit for doing that. Building the offense
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: around him, and kind of they struggled in the playoffs
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: relative how good they were in the regular season. But
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: you know, to be the number one seed twice and
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: not make the Super Bowls a little bit of a letdown.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: But I expect this here to be a little bumpy.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll change my tune by like October, but I
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: would say like seven eight wins. Question for the Pod,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: which quarterback do you think will be the next to
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: receive a contract? C J Stroud, Jalen Hurts or Baker Mayfield,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: maybe Stafford because of age, Bryce Young if he has
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: one good season. I don't think any of these guys
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: or teams are rushing to you know, I think CJ. Stroud.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, are they gonna give you know,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: if he turns into Alex Smith, which is what he
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: needs to do for them to be good. What does
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: that contract look like?
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: I don't envision them breaking him off with some crazy
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: amount of money. What you're Jalen Hurts still has multiple
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: years on his contract. Like they're not giving Jason Jalen
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: to extension. Baker is just like it's either happening or
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: it's not right. And to me, Baker would have to
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: have a disastrous season. And I have a market in
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: the off season for some of these teams that aren't
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: drafting high. So I would say Baker Mayfield is based
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: on time and if Baker Mayfield throws thirty five touchdowns
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: and the offense is good, they'll give him a contract.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: R E meaning regarding Tyreek Hill's no power comment. As
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: a former college athlete who's been through a major leg rehab,
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: that's just a normal part of the process. You focus
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: entirely on rage of motion. When you switch to strength,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: the leg literally feels useless. My impression was he'll likely
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: play again, but not ready until mid season, but it's
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: on the table. He could be a shell of in
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: the athlete that he once was. I I think when
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: I talked about the no power, I didn't mean that
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't gain some strength over the course of time.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: I do stand by, like I'm out on this. Tyreek's
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: game at his size was all about being. I mean,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: he was a Ferrari. He's one of the most unique
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: players we've ever seen. Honestly, he's one of the best
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: wide receivers I've ever seen for being that small. He
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: just he was in his heyday, he was incredible. But
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: like you have that significant of a knee injury. I mean,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: we're talking it's September, so I am I going on
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: on lim to say he doesn't play this year, and
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: I think he's just never. Really He's got a lot
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: of baggage off the field too, So to me, you
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: lose a step kind of your package. Being small, super
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: fast guy. It's not like he can just become a
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: possession wide receiver. So I hear what you're saying. And
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: if I came off like he's never he's gonna have
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: no power to the rest of his life. I didn't
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: mean necessarily that, but thanks for the clarification. But yeah,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: I mean it's I think it's I think it's probably
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: over well. End on this. I just got engaged a
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: few weeks ago to my long term girlfriend. Congratulations. Yesterday
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: we found out she was a few weeks pregnant. Things
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: are going well for my guy. I'm twenty six and
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: I make decent money living in Canada, brutal taxes. Any
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: tips for financially prepping for a baby. Also, should we
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  Speaker 1: push the wedding back and have the first kid, rush
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  Speaker 1: the wedding before having a or rush the wedding before
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  Speaker 1: having a kid. Obviously that depends on your family dynamics,
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  Speaker 1: your personal dynamics. It's different for everybody in terms of
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  Speaker 1: like rush the wedding. I've known people that have done that.
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  Speaker 1: I've known people that have found yourself in a similar
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  Speaker 1: situation and waited. It's kind of on her too, I
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  Speaker 1: mean at this point in time, like she couldn't drink
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  Speaker 1: or you can enjoy the wedding, but it's not quite
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  Speaker 1: the same of like a true party for her, which
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  Speaker 1: is it's really the day is about her, not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: you so that's personally I would push it back. My
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  Speaker 1: wife definitely, if she had been in that position, would
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  Speaker 1: have pushed it back. There was no way she was
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  Speaker 1: gonna not enjoy yourself at the wedding. But again, that
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  Speaker 1: is a very very personal situation for her. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the one thing I've noticed about having a kid, if
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  Speaker 1: you like, especially when they're really as a baby, they're
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a dog, whether you like. The dog
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really care, Like they don't even know if you
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  Speaker 1: have money or don't have money. And the baby, like,
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  Speaker 1: right when you have the first couple months is basically
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  Speaker 1: just in a couple swaddles. You need money for some
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  Speaker 1: diapers and drinking from your wife's boob. So in terms
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  Speaker 1: of money, early on, you don't need that much. Now,
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  Speaker 1: once they start like Jack, you need toys, You need
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  Speaker 1: some space for him to kind of roam around. It
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  Speaker 1: changes a little bit, But early on I remember having
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  Speaker 1: this thought like, he doesn't we could be in a
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  Speaker 1: little shack as long as it wasn't one hundred degrees inside,
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  Speaker 1: we'd be okay. So you don't really need that much.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, uh, I don't. I'm trying to think
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  Speaker 1: a couple things you know she pours breast milk out
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  Speaker 1: the bottle washer. I think you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how much it costs. We got it in our baby registry.
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  Speaker 1: I think is a must. I mean we use that
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  Speaker 1: thing ten times a day. Uh, go through a lot
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  Speaker 1: of diapers now at this point, go I mean he
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  Speaker 1: has days where he goes through seven T shirts in
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  Speaker 1: one day, pukes on him, spits on him, poops on them, shorts, clothes.
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  Speaker 1: You go through a lot of clothes and onesies. But
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  Speaker 1: if I remember, like first couple of months, you're basically
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  Speaker 1: just in a swaddle and a diaper, So you just
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  Speaker 1: need I mean a decent amount of swaddles because they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have some blowouts in those two. But you don't
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  Speaker 1: need that much. Obviously they get older. I guess they
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: need a little bit more. But again, babies a little
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  Speaker 1: like dogs. They don't really judge. They're not judgmental whether
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  Speaker 1: you live in like a mansion or whether you have
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  Speaker 1: a tiny little home. Like they just want to be
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  Speaker 1: around you, which is honestly kind of refreshing. Like guy
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  Speaker 1: likes me, not because of anything else beside, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: there holding them, which kind of makes you feel good. Um,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: so congratulations person I wanted Early on, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: let's just go to the courthouse and get married. We
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: don't need to have a wedding. And then a guy
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  Speaker 1: I went to this I forget the event, but I
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: was talking to a guy I didn't even know him,
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  Speaker 1: and we just started bullshitting because I was adamant, like
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  Speaker 1: I do not need a wedding. I didn't want a wedding.
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  Speaker 1: This was not something I'd grown up dreaming about. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to get married, but I would have been cool
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  Speaker 1: going to a courthouse, having some buddies over and doing it.
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  Speaker 1: And he told me that again, it doesn't matter, it's
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  Speaker 1: all weddings are all relative to you personally, but like
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  Speaker 1: it is something that you'll look back upon that you'll
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: want to do. So and this guy kind of sold
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  Speaker 1: me on the fact that I kind of came around,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, it wouldn't have been my call anyway.
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  Speaker 1: We were gonna have one, she was having one. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad we did. I'm glad we did. And we
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  Speaker 1: both got pretty drunk that night. But good times, audiolse
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the weekend and I will. I'll see you monday.
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  Speaker 1: See it the volume m HM