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Maxx Crosby to the Ravens, Eagles Questions, Kelce’s Future & NFL Contract Boom · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on everybody, John Middlecoff three
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Speaker 1: and Out podcast. Hopefully everyone is doing well out there
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Speaker 1: in the real world. And today we're going to react
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Speaker 1: to a trade that is now. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you're listening this on Monday. It's a couple of days old,
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Speaker 1: but the Raiders have traded Max Crosby to the Baltimore
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Speaker 1: Ravens for a hul pick fourteen pick twenty twenty seven
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Speaker 1: to one, which on paper right now is more than
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Speaker 1: what the Cowboys got for Mike Parsons. So we will
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Speaker 1: dive into every angle, starting with Max the person, the player,
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Speaker 1: his loyalty to the Raiders, spy tech pulling the trigger,
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Speaker 1: the Ravens doing something that's a little have normal from historically,
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Speaker 1: they've never traded a pick that high the Eagles. There
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Speaker 1: are some rumors right now about Jalen Carter. Travis Kelcey
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Speaker 1: is potentially gonna sign with another team not named the
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Speaker 1: Kansay Chiefs. Khalil Mack has re signed with the Chargers,
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Speaker 1: so we will have the next couple of days the
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Speaker 1: free agent frenzy. The free agents aren't great, but I'm
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Speaker 1: sure we will get more trades. We will get more action.
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Speaker 1: So this is a busy, busy time for GMS assistant
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Speaker 1: GMS pro scouting directors, coaching staffs. This is fun, so
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Speaker 1: buckle up. We will have you covered all week long,
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Speaker 1: talking football, talking free agency, and love this time of year.
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Speaker 1: So it gives us a little couple of weeks to
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Speaker 1: you know, react to stuff before we get in to
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Speaker 1: the stretch of the draft, which is fun too. But
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Speaker 1: you know, by the time we get to the middle
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Speaker 1: of April, we're ready for the draft. So this is
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Speaker 1: this kind of sets the tone for what teams like,
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Speaker 1: Oh maybe they won't pick, you know, a running back,
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Speaker 1: or maybe they won't pick a linebacker. So it's fascinating
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Speaker 1: team building exercise. Obviously, a lot of teams have money
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Speaker 1: and some teams don't. So we will dive into it
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Speaker 1: dive into the pod and I want to start a
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Speaker 1: big picture on the player because I do feel for
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Speaker 1: Raider fans. This is a franchise, especially if you are
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Speaker 1: an older fan, that will once as good as it got.
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Speaker 1: I mean, historically they've had John Madden, They've had countless
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famers, they had one of the most legendary
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Speaker 1: owners in the history of sports. They won Super Bowls
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Speaker 1: in the eighties, they resurrected the franchise with John Gruden,
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Speaker 1: and then once they made the trade. Over the course
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Speaker 1: of the last twenty three years, after they made the
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl in two thousand and two, it has not
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Speaker 1: been good. And in twenty three years they have made
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Speaker 1: the playoffs twice and obviously have not won a playoff game.
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Speaker 1: It has been a lot of ugly and during that time,
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Speaker 1: especially during the you know, Postyle Davis era, which was
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Speaker 1: like twenty eleven twenty twelve, I thought they had two
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Speaker 1: guys who were just all in who the Raiders meant
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Speaker 1: everything to and you know, Khalil Mackamari Cooper were both traded.
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Speaker 1: But to me, Khalil not that he wasn't passionate about
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Speaker 1: a Raider, but listen, he's a modern day athlete who
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Speaker 1: was gonna pay him the most. The Raiders weren't see
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Speaker 1: you later audios Amari Laissez Fair didn't give a shit,
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Speaker 1: But Derek Carr was all in. Now we can argue
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Speaker 1: if he was good enough. I do think in twenty
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Speaker 1: sixteen before he hurt his ankle, you know, he was
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Speaker 1: competing to you know, win the MVP that year. They
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Speaker 1: were going to be the number one seed, and after
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Speaker 1: that happened, it was kind of hit or missed for
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Speaker 1: the rest of his Raider tenure obviously ended weird with Josh,
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Speaker 1: but I Derek was a very solid player for the
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Speaker 1: Raiders for a long time. Max to me's a Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame level guy, and his passion for the brand,
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Speaker 1: his passion for the team. If you haven't got a chance,
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Speaker 1: His ten to twelve minute goodbye is one of the cooler,
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Speaker 1: more genuine things I've ever seen. I mean, the modern
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Speaker 1: day athlete just has their agency or their manager take
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Speaker 1: some picture of them, put it on some cool backdrop,
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Speaker 1: and then write words in the middle of thank you
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Speaker 1: and goodbye, and I love you, and it's somewhat hollow
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Speaker 1: and listen, in fairness, maybe those guys don't care. They're
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Speaker 1: just businessmen, which I'm tol okay with. It did feel
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Speaker 1: that Max was much more. He loved being a raider.
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Speaker 1: It meant everything to him, the organization, the effort. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: not to get sentimental here, but I'll just be sitting
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Speaker 1: there in silence, looking at my eight week old or
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Speaker 1: seven week old or whatever old he is. I'll just
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Speaker 1: be staring at Jack and I'll think, God, I got
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of pressure on me to teach this
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Speaker 1: guy some just core value life lessons in life. And
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Speaker 1: you spend a lot of time, and any father knows
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Speaker 1: thinking of, you know, what are the things that I'm
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Speaker 1: going to instill in this human? What are going to
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Speaker 1: be some of his core values that are not negotiables?
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Speaker 1: And I do think Max kind of encapsulates a couple
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Speaker 1: of things that I am one hundred percent which I
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Speaker 1: would have done this, whether I was thinking about it
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of weeks or not. Of like
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Speaker 1: passion for what you do. And I think most of
5:53
Speaker 1: us are walking to rooms with smart people and are
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Speaker 1: never going to be the smartest guy in the room,
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Speaker 1: and you can go a long way. I can only
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Speaker 1: speak to America, but in this country, all in the
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Speaker 1: world that we live in, by just giving all out
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Speaker 1: effort in what you do all the time, consistently, go hard,
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Speaker 1: and in football that means physical energy. In some of
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Speaker 1: our professions it could be mental energy. But give all
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Speaker 1: you have when you're gonna do something, go all in.
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Speaker 1: What did they say in what was the movie called
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Speaker 1: with Mark Wahlberg, It's I want to say American Sniper,
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Speaker 1: but it's not. It's Lone Survivor. That moderation is for cowards.
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Speaker 1: Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. And I think Max
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Speaker 1: Crosby represents what every coach really values in a guy
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Speaker 1: whose effort is just great all the time. And to
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Speaker 1: have great effort, you've got to be in great shape,
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Speaker 1: you got to be prepared. This was a guy that
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Speaker 1: after his rookie year, checked himself into rehab, and anyone
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Speaker 1: that's followed his career, you're just like, this guy's just
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Speaker 1: a certified badass, changed his life, cleaned up his life,
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Speaker 1: and absolutely dominates on the field for mostly an awful organization.
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Speaker 1: So if I totally understand Raider fans even if you go,
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Speaker 1: which will dive into the compensation being bummed, because this
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Speaker 1: guy wasn't just a badass on the field. He wanted
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Speaker 1: to play for your team. I mean, how many players
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Speaker 1: in football and basketball and baseball cosmic stinks force trades
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Speaker 1: want somewhere else. I do believe that up until the
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Speaker 1: end of the year, the Max would have been very
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Speaker 1: cool being a Raider for life. And I think when
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Speaker 1: he said it, he meant it, and when they benched
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Speaker 1: him or forced him to get knee surgery like it
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Speaker 1: was the right move. It was the proper business move.
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Speaker 1: And I think it also represents why Max Crosby is
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Speaker 1: who he is that he was like, fuck you, I
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Speaker 1: don't give a shit about the number one overall pick.
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Speaker 1: I want to play because in this team, it's not
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Speaker 1: like we're playing a lot of playoff games. The only
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Speaker 1: thing I have to hang my hat on is our
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Speaker 1: regular season games, whether we're winless or whether we're gonna
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Speaker 1: win eight games. I'm giving everything I have and you
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Speaker 1: taking that away from me. And he was pissed off,
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Speaker 1: and I think the respect around the league even went up.
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Speaker 1: And I've been saying this over and over and over again.
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Speaker 1: They were gonna get two first round picks. I did
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Speaker 1: not understand when people like I don't think they're gonna
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Speaker 1: get the Micah Hall. I'd argue right now, they got more.
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Speaker 1: Now both teams have picks in twenty twenty seven. I
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Speaker 1: think the Cowboys traded one of them. It's gonna be
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Speaker 1: the higher version that's gonna go to the Jets for
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Speaker 1: Quinn Williams, so they might end up with the Packers pick.
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Speaker 1: But the Cowboys got picked twenty this year for Micah Parsons,
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Speaker 1: and let's be real, they are lucky as shit to
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Speaker 1: have that pick. If Micah doesn't get injured, if they
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Speaker 1: don't imply in that playoff game, that picks like twenty
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Speaker 1: four to twenty five, Hell could be twenty eight, twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: The Raiders just got pick fourteen in two months pick fourteen.
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Speaker 1: If you were a betman, you'd say the Packers and
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Speaker 1: the Ravens more than likely will have similar seasons next year.
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Speaker 1: I can see both their picks being in the middle
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Speaker 1: of twenty of the twenties. But you would rather have
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Speaker 1: pick one and fourteen than you rather than pick seven
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Speaker 1: and eight. I mean getting the fourteenth overall pick, when
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Speaker 1: you have the number one pick and also the top
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Speaker 1: pick in every round is a very very powerful thing.
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Speaker 1: I think Warren Sharp tweeted this out. He's the analytic
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Speaker 1: gambling guy. This is the most draft capital a team
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Speaker 1: has ever had, just because of the power of that
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Speaker 1: fourteenth pick along with their top picks in every round,
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Speaker 1: and they have multiple picks in some rounds as well.
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Speaker 1: But this was there were other teams sniffing around, right
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Speaker 1: like the Cowboys, the jag some of these teams, it's
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Speaker 1: like they were not gonna get this type haul from
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Speaker 1: anyone else because all the good teams, either the Lions
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Speaker 1: or the Bears or the Niners or some of these
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Speaker 1: other teams that would be interested their picks are gonna
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Speaker 1: be in the twenties. So they got to the point,
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Speaker 1: and this is why I think this trade was announced
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Speaker 1: so far ahead of free agency, where it's like, there's
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Speaker 1: no way we could do better than this. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: some people offered a one in two two's, maybe potentially
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Speaker 1: two first round picks, but they were in the twenties. Like,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't get any better than pick fourteen, even if
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Speaker 1: next year is pick thirty. I mean you have the chance.
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Speaker 1: Kyle Hamilton was once the fourteenth overall pick. That is prime,
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Speaker 1: prime real estate. So I think John Spytek deserves a
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Speaker 1: lot of credit. I do believe that they weren't just
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Speaker 1: dead set on trading Max Crosby, given what he brings
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Speaker 1: to their team on and off the field, but they
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Speaker 1: got an offer they couldn't refuse. No different when the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs traded McDuffie. I don't think there was any other
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Speaker 1: team in the league that would have thought even contemplated
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Speaker 1: for more than a second giving the Chiefs the first
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Speaker 1: round pick for Trett McDuffie. Then if you look in
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Speaker 1: the second round, you know, bad teams, if you're drafting
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Speaker 1: in the thirties, aren't gonna give up their pick thirty
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Speaker 1: for Trett McDuffie, and they give them thirty million dollars,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be the good teams, well, their picks don't
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Speaker 1: come till like the fifties. So you could argue that
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs probably went into this okay with like there
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Speaker 1: might be a chance. The best we can do is
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Speaker 1: like pick forty nine to get rid of Trt McDuffie,
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Speaker 1: and then a couple of weeks later, they they're a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks past the combine, they get picked twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: When John Spytech and they had the meetings at the
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Speaker 1: end of the season. Once Max causes stick like, hey
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Speaker 1: we might have to trade this guy. At the combine,
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Speaker 1: you're they probably thought, hey, what's are our goal is
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Speaker 1: going to be two first round picks. Then once you
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Speaker 1: get enough teams involved, probably gonna happen. You probably think
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be two picks in the mid to late twenties.
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Speaker 1: And then when the dust shittles, you have a pick
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Speaker 1: fourteen for a team that kind of needs everything. Is
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Speaker 1: an incredible haul. I mean it truly is. And as
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Speaker 1: someone that thought they would get two first round picks,
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Speaker 1: I never, for a million years, thought that that one
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Speaker 1: of the picks, especially the pick going into this draft,
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Speaker 1: would be this high. Now it's also an outlier situation.
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Speaker 1: You know, the Ravens had never given up a first
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Speaker 1: round pick for a player, and they historically have acquired
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Speaker 1: a lot of good veteran players, most recently Roquan Smith
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Speaker 1: when I was younger, you know, Steve Smith Senior and
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Speaker 1: Kwon Bolden. They've done it with countless players. Kalays Campbell,
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Speaker 1: but Shannon Sharp once upon a time. You know, Ozzie
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Speaker 1: Newson's big thing was play like a raven. That they
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Speaker 1: have a certain type, and Max Crosby falls right under that.
12:46
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry falls right under that. But I think they
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Speaker 1: had to have these long conversations like this is a
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Speaker 1: bold move, this is going to be a big swing.
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Speaker 1: And I appreciate anyone in life, and this is one
12:59
Speaker 1: of the those other things you think about teaching your
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Speaker 1: son of Like sometimes in life, most people the action
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Speaker 1: is on the edges. The reason the fruit grows at
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Speaker 1: the edge of the branch. The most sturdy part of
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Speaker 1: the tree is the middle. So you want to get
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Speaker 1: the fruit, you kind of got to climb out there
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Speaker 1: a little bit to do it. You got to put
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Speaker 1: yourself out there and listen. Just because you take big
13:21
Speaker 1: swings doesn't guarantee anything. Chris Ballard went all in for
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Speaker 1: Sauce Gardner. It blew up in his face immediately. We're
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Speaker 1: all gonna make mistakes, and I'm not trying to shit
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Speaker 1: on Chris Ballard here. He made a calculated move. It
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Speaker 1: was a calculated risk and it did not pay off.
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Speaker 1: And it is something I think clearly today, several months
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Speaker 1: away from the move, he regrets doing given the information
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Speaker 1: that he has. But that's not how life works. You
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Speaker 1: make decisions based on the information you have at the time.
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Speaker 1: You don't get to go six months in advance and go,
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Speaker 1: what's this going to look like that this could be
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Speaker 1: a disaster, This could be a problem eventually for the Ravens.
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Speaker 1: But for a team that I would say mostly has
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Speaker 1: been extremely conservative with their draft picks, been extremely conservative
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Speaker 1: with how they do business. They have notoriously let guys
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Speaker 1: walk over and over in free agency because they love
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Speaker 1: these cop picks that they get and they are draft
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Speaker 1: and developed franchise. Well, their owner put us you know
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Speaker 1: what on the table and said, you know what, John Harbaugh,
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Speaker 1: You're gone fired as coach, and something that I honestly
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Speaker 1: I thought was a pretty shocking move. But it does
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Speaker 1: feel like he's kind of given some life to this
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Speaker 1: organization of like, let's put our nuts on the table
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Speaker 1: a little bit more here, let's stop being so goddamn conservative.
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Speaker 1: We have a two time MVP winner at quarterback. We
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Speaker 1: have one of the best players in the league on
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Speaker 1: defense at Kyle Hamilton. We have one of the best
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Speaker 1: cultures in the league, in our locker room, in our facility,
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Speaker 1: where the Baltimore freaking Ravens go for it. And this
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Speaker 1: is a go for it move. And Max Crosby to me,
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Speaker 1: when you close your eyes, you go, what type team
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Speaker 1: does he feel like? He feels like a Baltimore Raven
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Speaker 1: feels like he could have been on the Pittsburgh Steelers
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Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. That that's the type player that he is.
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Speaker 1: And I commend the Ravens for making a bold move.
15:18
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing I said when they made the
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Speaker 1: Dj Moore trade that the Bills are AFC championship or bust.
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Speaker 1: The Ravens making this trade is the same thing. And obviously,
15:29
Speaker 1: if you make the AFC Championship at either one of
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Speaker 1: those teams not being in the Super Bowl as a disaster.
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Speaker 1: So I think both the Bills and the Ravens, who
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Speaker 1: were the betting favorites last year in August to win
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. The Ravens didn't make the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 1: or I mean didn't make the playoffs clearly and win
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Speaker 1: eight games, and the Bills lost in the second round.
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Speaker 1: Both of them should can their coach because it was
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Speaker 1: like the expectations couldn't have been any higher, and the
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Speaker 1: Chiefs didn't make it. So I think they're both well
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Speaker 1: run organists. They both have Hall of Fame quarterbacks. But
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Speaker 1: it's now or never and these moves like you're living
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Speaker 1: in these next short windows. Why did the Rams make
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Speaker 1: their move because they've been living, you know, year to
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Speaker 1: year with Matt Stafford, so last year when they booted
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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup and went to get DeVante Adams that they're
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Speaker 1: not thinking five years from now that there's no guarantee
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Speaker 1: they're going to figure out their quarterback. There's no guarantee
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Speaker 1: McVeigh might not take a couple of years off. Like
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Speaker 1: you're living in the now, and that's the way the
16:29
Speaker 1: NFL is like, especially when you're good, you got to
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Speaker 1: take advantage of every single year. And I think people
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Speaker 1: that have been critical of the Bills of like they
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Speaker 1: haven't been aggressive enough, you know the Ravens. That's never
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Speaker 1: been their style. And it kind of backfied this year
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Speaker 1: because they didn't feel quite as talented and they made
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Speaker 1: a massive move. There was a ton of pressure. And
16:50
Speaker 1: this is what is cool about the NFL. You know,
16:52
Speaker 1: Sean McVay, they have a super Bowl level mindset, and
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Speaker 1: you could argue a super Bowl level team, but if
16:59
Speaker 1: they don't win it, Sean mcvan's, Matt Stafford have one right.
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Speaker 1: They have a ring. They're champions, So whether they win
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Speaker 1: it or not this year, you can never take that
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Speaker 1: away from now. If they win a second one, you
17:14
Speaker 1: go from being viewed as a champion to being viewed
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Speaker 1: as a legend, to being viewed as a historic individual
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Speaker 1: in the history of this sport. The Ravens and Josh,
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Speaker 1: or the Ravens and Lamar and the Bills and Josh
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Speaker 1: are looking to just throw their hat in the ring.
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Speaker 1: In history, we've seen a lot of guys win MVPs
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Speaker 1: and never win a Super Bowl. Hell, in recent memory,
17:38
Speaker 1: Stafford did it, Cam Newton did it. These guys had
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Speaker 1: great individual seasons. Now I think Lamar Jackson and Josh
17:45
Speaker 1: Allen are better than those guys, But like, are you
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Speaker 1: gonna put a ring on your finger? Are you going
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Speaker 1: to get to a Super Bowl. The Ravens had an
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Speaker 1: incredible opportunity two years ago when they hosted the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: and they blew it. They shit the bed. This year,
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Speaker 1: the Bills they're playing bo freaking Knicks. You gotta win
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Speaker 1: that game, and they didn't do it. Josh had a
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Speaker 1: weird game, their defense didn't come through. Coach got fired
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Speaker 1: because of it. So I think the Bills and the Ravens,
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Speaker 1: all their chips are in the middle of the table. Well,
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Speaker 1: they play in the same conference. Well it's not like
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Speaker 1: they both can win the conference. And you would say,
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Speaker 1: historically the conferences is really good at the top. It's
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Speaker 1: going to be very difficult. But I do respect both
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Speaker 1: teams doing everything possible, even if trading all this for
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Speaker 1: a twenty eight to twenty nine year old guy that's
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Speaker 1: had some injuries. Like, I get the skepticism, but I
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Speaker 1: also can overlook that for the type guy doesn't booze.
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Speaker 1: All he does is football. All he wants to do
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Speaker 1: is win, plays his ass off, will immediately be a
18:53
Speaker 1: plug and play guy in big games. Is Taylor made
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Speaker 1: for this stuff? And like I understand because like what
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Speaker 1: about four years from now? What about four years from now?
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Speaker 1: Who cares? What about twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven.
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22:13
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22:15
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22:28
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22:58
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23:06
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23:14
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23:17
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23:21
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23:24
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23:32
Speaker 1: And then they extend Jordan Davis, and you go, would
23:34
Speaker 1: they be better off if they're uncomfortable doing this giving
23:37
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23:41
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23:43
Speaker 1: off the field than one of the biggest wild cards
23:46
Speaker 1: in the league. And then there have been some stories
23:47
Speaker 1: that Jeremy Fowler, who has taught the combine super nice
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Speaker 1: guy report. They're already getting calls about Jalen Carter. Here's
23:54
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23:58
Speaker 1: general manager and you were talking to Howie Roseman on
24:02
Speaker 1: the phone about Jalen Carter, hang up the phone. You
24:07
Speaker 1: should not be interested in acquiring Jalen Carter, because you
24:12
Speaker 1: tell me, it's one thing if you can't afford a player.
24:15
Speaker 1: That's why Khalil Mack was traded. Once upon a time.
24:17
Speaker 1: The Raiders did not have the financial wherewithal to give
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Speaker 1: him the signing bonus. It was a financial situation. It
24:26
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the player or the person.
24:29
Speaker 1: It was one hundred percent money. Well, I know money's
24:33
Speaker 1: not an issue with the Eagles. Their owner fucking gives
24:35
Speaker 1: it out like it's grown on trees. So you go,
24:39
Speaker 1: is Howie not into sweet defensive linemen? That's definitely not
24:43
Speaker 1: the case. Never forget he felt to nine for a reason.
24:47
Speaker 1: He was the best player in his draft by a
24:48
Speaker 1: country model. We've seen him when he's healthy on the field.
24:51
Speaker 1: He is a dominant NFL player, So why wouldn't they
24:55
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25:01
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25:05
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25:09
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25:12
Speaker 1: if Howie is able to unload Jalen Carter for a Hall,
25:17
Speaker 1: he is, He's truly one of the great general managers
25:20
Speaker 1: in the history of league. And I get it, talent
25:22
Speaker 1: Trump's all, but these teams, I just think most of
25:27
Speaker 1: these teams would have no shot with the infrastructure to
25:30
Speaker 1: handle what they'd be getting in business with, especially given
25:34
Speaker 1: that part of trading for him, which would not be cheap,
25:38
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25:41
Speaker 1: you to give him a historic NFL contract. So I
25:48
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25:50
Speaker 1: to offload him, that should tell you everything you need
25:54
Speaker 1: to know. It really should. I mean, I mean, look
25:58
Speaker 1: look at what the Eagles do when you're good. They
26:02
Speaker 1: retain you meet Obviously, if they draft you Lane Johnson, Kelsey,
26:08
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith, you know, Jordan Davis, they will Quinn and
26:12
Speaker 1: Mitchell and Cooper dejen will both get big contracts if
26:16
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26:18
Speaker 1: sweet like the Linebackers Act. Bond immediately give you a
26:22
Speaker 1: sweet extension, Saquon Barkley, give you throw more money at
26:26
Speaker 1: you as a thank you. They take care of their
26:28
Speaker 1: guys that ball. So if they are open to trading
26:32
Speaker 1: you and your bawling man red flag some stories coming
26:40
Speaker 1: out right now because Travis Kelsey is a free agent
26:42
Speaker 1: for the first time, a true free agent, like going
26:45
Speaker 1: to free agency in his career, that he is going
26:49
Speaker 1: to talk to multiple teams. And I talked to Colin
26:52
Speaker 1: about this. The NFL is very difficult. It's a salary
26:58
Speaker 1: cap league. Even when you have legendary players like Ronnie
27:01
Speaker 1: Lott did not finish his career on the Joe Montana,
27:05
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, like Peyton Manning was cut the NFL. The
27:11
Speaker 1: Seattle lob led by Sherman in that crew are still
27:14
Speaker 1: bitter about the way it all ended, like guys, welcome
27:17
Speaker 1: to the NFL. Like that's just kind of the way
27:19
Speaker 1: it goes. Most people do not go out like John Elway,
27:23
Speaker 1: you know, on the stage winning his back to back
27:26
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and retire. That's not usually the way it works.
27:29
Speaker 1: Usually people play on another team. That's the way sports work.
27:33
Speaker 1: It's very very rare for a guy to just run
27:36
Speaker 1: it out. Michael Jordan played on the Wizards, So Travis
27:41
Speaker 1: is not only gonna get his number retired one day
27:44
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, he along with Mahomes and Andy Reid
27:48
Speaker 1: and Chris Jones, like these guys are gonna get like statues.
27:52
Speaker 1: He's one of the most legendary figures on the field
27:56
Speaker 1: in the prime of his career, in the history of
27:58
Speaker 1: the league. I think he's the greatest pass catching tight
28:02
Speaker 1: end I've ever seen and big game player. He's just
28:06
Speaker 1: he's the ultimate winner. But there comes a point we
28:09
Speaker 1: saw this. It's different because Cam hasn't had the same
28:12
Speaker 1: level of success, but Cam Jordan missed two games and
28:15
Speaker 1: fifteen years for the New Orleans Saints, two games and
28:18
Speaker 1: fifteen years. He's given him everything he's had on and
28:21
Speaker 1: off the field from a leadership standpoint, team captain standpoint,
28:24
Speaker 1: production standpoint. Comes a point in time like listen, we
28:28
Speaker 1: appreciate everything you've done, but we got to move in
28:30
Speaker 1: a different direction. And I think the Chiefs it's one
28:32
Speaker 1: of those like listen, Travis, here's our number, which is
28:37
Speaker 1: gonna sound like a you know, a slight to you,
28:41
Speaker 1: right three four five million dollars, which we basically know
28:45
Speaker 1: you're gonna say no to. So essentially what you do
28:49
Speaker 1: is like you almost don't even offer him a contract.
28:52
Speaker 1: And I do think that Travis. One team that makes
28:55
Speaker 1: a ton of if I was a betting man right now,
28:57
Speaker 1: a team that I'd be stunned if he not only
28:59
Speaker 1: is you know, there was a story today that at
29:02
Speaker 1: the start of free agency, or the tampering period, in
29:05
Speaker 1: the middle of Monday, you are allowed to have five
29:09
Speaker 1: zooms because before you could just talk to the agent
29:11
Speaker 1: and negotiate the contract, but you couldn't talk to the
29:13
Speaker 1: player until the free agency officially started a couple of
29:18
Speaker 1: days later. You're allowed to do up to five total
29:21
Speaker 1: zooms with players, so you can get your head coach,
29:25
Speaker 1: your GM, your coordinators, and zoom a guy, almost like
29:29
Speaker 1: a pitch meeting like you would do in college. One
29:32
Speaker 1: team to me that makes a ton of sense is
29:35
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. They have a young corps of
29:38
Speaker 1: offensive guys quarterback, wide receiver, running back. You bring in
29:43
Speaker 1: a guy with pelts on the wall rings on his
29:45
Speaker 1: finger who knows the offensive coordinator. Naggi has known this
29:50
Speaker 1: guy since he was drafted and then spent the last
29:53
Speaker 1: however many years around him, you know, winning these Super Bowls.
29:57
Speaker 1: So the coordinator knows him who's calling the offense. The
30:00
Speaker 1: head coach really really values championship mentality, championship habits. Well,
30:06
Speaker 1: one thing about Kelsey is a fantastic practice player. To me,
30:09
Speaker 1: if you're the Giants, like, is it worth overpaying? Now,
30:12
Speaker 1: it's a little risky for Kelsey, right, You're going to
30:15
Speaker 1: a team that is not guaranteed to be good next year,
30:18
Speaker 1: especially if there are talented teams like playoff contenders or
30:24
Speaker 1: teams that are locked to be in the playoffs that
30:25
Speaker 1: are interested in your services. Like what if the Chargers
30:28
Speaker 1: call and you're like, hey, I could live in LA,
30:30
Speaker 1: play at golf, play for hardball. But I do think
30:34
Speaker 1: New York, especially a factor in Taylor, has an operation there.
30:37
Speaker 1: I think she lives there. Technically, when you have a
30:40
Speaker 1: jet as big as hers you can, it's like I
30:43
Speaker 1: just drove two hours somewhere. That'd be the equivalent of
30:46
Speaker 1: me flying from Scottsdale to Dallas. So it's like when
30:50
Speaker 1: you have jets, you driving three or four hours is
30:54
Speaker 1: no different than me hopping in the planet, going across
30:55
Speaker 1: the country, Like we're operating at different levels and we're
31:00
Speaker 1: not caring about the fake tree planning thing that Kawhi
31:03
Speaker 1: invested in. We're just hopping in that jet and doing
31:05
Speaker 1: what other fuck we want to do. And I think
31:09
Speaker 1: that Travis and the New York Giants make a lot
31:11
Speaker 1: of sense. Now. I do wonder if some of the
31:14
Speaker 1: good teams would be interested, but usually the good teams
31:17
Speaker 1: you don't have as much money to deal with. There
31:19
Speaker 1: are price points on how much you can spend. Some
31:22
Speaker 1: of the teams with a lot of cap space, even
31:24
Speaker 1: like a Seattle and it's like, are you gonna give
31:27
Speaker 1: Travis Kelce two years twenty million dollars or something? Probably not.
31:31
Speaker 1: Would Travis want to go live in Seattle? A little doubtful.
31:34
Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it, it's kind of a celebrity.
31:36
Speaker 1: He's kind of like a you know, famous NBA players.
31:39
Speaker 1: Like the market kind of matters. That's where I think
31:41
Speaker 1: the Giants make a ton of sense. And if I
31:44
Speaker 1: was a betting man, I have no inside information, I
31:46
Speaker 1: would say, if Travis Kelce is not a chief, which
31:49
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31:51
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31:53
Speaker 1: and I also listen. It's not like Veach or Andy
31:55
Speaker 1: would ask advice for me. I just think it's time,
31:58
Speaker 1: and that's sometimes just time to move on. And it's hard,
32:02
Speaker 1: it's not easy, but it's when you get to the point,
32:06
Speaker 1: like you have to make tough financial decisions, and this
32:09
Speaker 1: is a tough financial decision given that his play is
32:13
Speaker 1: not quite the same. And I also think sometimes with
32:15
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32:20
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32:24
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32:27
Speaker 1: if you're having a lot of success in a job
32:29
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32:32
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32:38
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32:42
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32:46
Speaker 1: quite describe it, but there's like an edge brought back
32:49
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32:52
Speaker 1: And I think it's no different with players, especially older
32:55
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32:57
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33:00
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33:06
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33:09
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33:10
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33:14
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33:17
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33:20
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33:22
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33:25
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33:27
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33:30
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33:33
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33:35
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33:37
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33:43
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33:45
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33:49
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33:51
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33:55
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33:59
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34:03
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34:10
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34:13
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34:16
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34:19
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34:21
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34:23
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36:54
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36:58
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37:01
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37:04
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37:07
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37:09
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37:14
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37:16
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37:18
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37:21
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37:22
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37:25
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37:28
Speaker 1: an astronomical amount of money. Khalil mack at the end
37:33
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37:35
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37:37
Speaker 1: will have made almost two hundred and twenty million dollars. Now, granted,
37:42
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37:45
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37:48
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37:51
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37:54
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37:57
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38:01
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38:04
Speaker 1: those first several years he didn't make any money. But
38:06
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38:08
Speaker 1: thirty five. If you assume that Max Crosby can maintain
38:11
Speaker 1: a high level play till he's Khalil's age, he'll make
38:14
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million dollars. So the timing of
38:18
Speaker 1: being a good player Khalil Mack pretty sure is a
38:21
Speaker 1: little off the cuff here. I didn't do my research
38:25
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38:26
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38:31
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38:34
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38:37
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38:39
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38:42
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38:45
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38:49
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38:53
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38:58
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39:01
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39:03
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39:05
Speaker 1: isn't basketball where you can be Lebron James even you're
39:09
Speaker 1: playing with scrubs in the prime of your career. You're
39:11
Speaker 1: gonna your team's gonna win fifty games. But I just
39:15
Speaker 1: some of the money getting thrown around, and you're gonna
39:17
Speaker 1: see this like the center. Historically, getting a guard center
39:22
Speaker 1: you wouldn't unless they were like an all time great player,
39:25
Speaker 1: you wouldn't give a huge contract to because it was
39:27
Speaker 1: easy to find those guys. You could always find a Kelsey,
39:31
Speaker 1: he's best case scenario. But a guy like that in
39:33
Speaker 1: the fifth round, a good guard in the sixth, a random,
39:37
Speaker 1: you know, seven year starter in the fourth. That has
39:41
Speaker 1: become a lot more difficult with the spread offenses in college,
39:45
Speaker 1: with the transfer portal, it is much more difficult to
39:48
Speaker 1: find guards and centers who are going to translate to
39:51
Speaker 1: the NFL, which I think has led to a lot
39:54
Speaker 1: of guys, once they established their decent NFL players getting
39:57
Speaker 1: overpaid in free agency. I mean, last year, the forty
40:00
Speaker 1: nine ers let Aaron Banks, the guard from Notre Dame,
40:04
Speaker 1: who had been you know, he had started the whole time.
40:07
Speaker 1: I think he was pretty marginal at best, get a
40:09
Speaker 1: big contract from the Packers. I was like, God, that's
40:12
Speaker 1: that's pretty bold. And I think a year in they
40:14
Speaker 1: clearly regret that deal. So, but you got to be aggressive,
40:19
Speaker 1: and that's part of free agencies. You typically have to
40:21
Speaker 1: pay a tax, right, a premium to acquire a player
40:27
Speaker 1: in free agency. This is back to the Crosby thing. Well,
40:31
Speaker 1: why do you have to do that because typically you
40:32
Speaker 1: have multiple teams bidding on a guy services Right, if
40:37
Speaker 1: I said, hey, is the tenth pick in the draft,
40:39
Speaker 1: and whoever has the tenth pick, the eleventh pick, and
40:42
Speaker 1: the twelfth pick all have access to that tenth pick,
40:47
Speaker 1: and whoever wants an individual player can get the tenth pick.
40:51
Speaker 1: They just have to give up other ones of their
40:53
Speaker 1: picks in the draft. Well, teams would get aggressive and
40:57
Speaker 1: be like, hey, we'll give we really want this guy ten.
40:59
Speaker 1: We'll willing to give up our fourth round pick to
41:01
Speaker 1: make sure we get him at ten if we have
41:04
Speaker 1: to bid against these other two teams because we all
41:06
Speaker 1: get this slot. But when you just have to pick
41:09
Speaker 1: and you don't have to bid against anybody, you can
41:11
Speaker 1: just pick wherever you want. It's no different when you're
41:13
Speaker 1: negotiating with the guy and extending him early on your team. Well,
41:19
Speaker 1: some guys have the balls and the nutsack and the
41:23
Speaker 1: agent to kind of convince him like, hold out for
41:25
Speaker 1: a couple more years, we can get you the biggest
41:27
Speaker 1: contract in the history league or the team throws Hey listen, yeah,
41:32
Speaker 1: that could go that way, or in the middle of
41:35
Speaker 1: the season you could shatter a limb. Never be the same,
41:39
Speaker 1: never play in the NFL again. I'm currently offering you
41:42
Speaker 1: seventy eight million dollars guaranteed and total value of a
41:46
Speaker 1: contract worth one hundred and thirty million dollars. And if
41:49
Speaker 1: things go well, more likely you will see every penny
41:52
Speaker 1: of this contract, or we'll negotiate in a couple of
41:55
Speaker 1: years and extend the thing again. So listen, I know
41:59
Speaker 1: you're a third on pick. I know you've banked two
42:01
Speaker 1: and a half million dollars in your career. We're offering
42:03
Speaker 1: you close to eighty million dollars the moment you put
42:06
Speaker 1: pen to paper. So if you if you got this,
42:08
Speaker 1: if you got the stones to hold out a couple
42:10
Speaker 1: of years to maybe make that number be one hundred
42:13
Speaker 1: and five, you got balls, kid. But if you want
42:18
Speaker 1: to do business, We're willing to do business right now
42:20
Speaker 1: and make you the richest man in the history of
42:22
Speaker 1: your family and a guy that you know set yourself
42:28
Speaker 1: up and your kids up for life, which I always
42:30
Speaker 1: push back against now having a child. You know, it's
42:33
Speaker 1: not like my dad left me a big pot of gold.
42:36
Speaker 1: But if he did, like let's just say my dad
42:38
Speaker 1: had left been some super rich guy, it just left
42:40
Speaker 1: me fifty million dollars when he died. Would I be
42:43
Speaker 1: doing this right now? Would I be working on a
42:47
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon, well my eight week goals? Inside my my
42:51
Speaker 1: wife's just hanging out, like eating some snacks, watched TV.
42:54
Speaker 1: Or would I be in there with them? So I
42:56
Speaker 1: never quite understand of like this generational wealth to give
42:59
Speaker 1: my you're just gonna give your kids a bunch of
43:01
Speaker 1: free money. It's always it's like a little pet peeve
43:03
Speaker 1: of mine because everyone celebrates it on social media, like
43:06
Speaker 1: isn't part of it? But then they also like crushing nepotism.
43:09
Speaker 1: Don't we want to teach our family members, our our children,
43:15
Speaker 1: like the proper way to you know, be ambitious, to
43:19
Speaker 1: go your own path. You just give people free money? Fuck,
43:21
Speaker 1: why are you doing anything? I've never quite understood that.
43:24
Speaker 1: But when you're making this much money, it's like you
43:27
Speaker 1: can spend it all in a lifetime, so you're gonna
43:29
Speaker 1: give a bunch of your kids, and if you have
43:30
Speaker 1: pretty good financial advisors and the market keeps ripping over
43:33
Speaker 1: the course of the next twenty thirty years, you're gonna make
43:36
Speaker 1: that decent amount of money, which is a lot of money,
43:39
Speaker 1: into a lot more money, but fascinating times. It's one
43:44
Speaker 1: thing that this has always stood out to me because
43:46
Speaker 1: the media, who in this weird way like hates business
43:50
Speaker 1: right like politically, like they're on the side very anti business,
43:53
Speaker 1: anti big money people. Yet anytime that an athlete makes
43:58
Speaker 1: like some huge deals, like generational wealth for this guy
44:01
Speaker 1: and his family, So you're just telling me, like his
44:03
Speaker 1: great grandkids aren't gonna have to do dick, Like there's
44:06
Speaker 1: what are they gonna contribute to society just sitting at
44:09
Speaker 1: home cashing their dividends? You know? Like is that is
44:12
Speaker 1: that good? Uh? That's just random rant, but it's something
44:16
Speaker 1: that is really kind of I've noticed this for a
44:19
Speaker 1: long time. It's always stuck out to me, and I've
44:21
Speaker 1: always wondered, Uh, listen, I I wouldn't have turned down
44:24
Speaker 1: if my dad would have been like, you know before
44:27
Speaker 1: before I passed you. I just want to let you know,
44:30
Speaker 1: got seventy five million dollars, uh with with Billy at
44:34
Speaker 1: Wells Fargo. So just you go to you go tomorrow
44:37
Speaker 1: and it's all yours. I would have been like, damn, thanks,
44:41
Speaker 1: but I'll promise this. That probably wouldn't have done much since, right,
44:44
Speaker 1: I wouldn't some of these guys that have made just
44:47
Speaker 1: I mean, especially in basketball or baseball, like what are
44:50
Speaker 1: they gonna do with it all? What are their children
44:52
Speaker 1: gonna do? Listen, I've seen Tom talk about this. You know,
44:56
Speaker 1: Tom clearly grew up like his dad was a successful businessman,
44:59
Speaker 1: but I don't. I think he was multi millionaire as
45:02
Speaker 1: a kid. It's like, you know, it's a challenge raising
45:05
Speaker 1: my children, try to teach them to kind of be
45:07
Speaker 1: normal humans in society when they just all they know
45:10
Speaker 1: is like they don't know what Southwest or American Airlines is.
45:15
Speaker 1: That they won't know what that is. Think about that
45:18
Speaker 1: you just don't know what American Airlines is. It'll humble you.
45:23
Speaker 1: Right when I was flying back from the combine and
45:26
Speaker 1: I missed my flight and had to like change the
45:29
Speaker 1: next flight, and they threw me on the back of
45:32
Speaker 1: the bird. I'm in the middle, middle seat with two
45:36
Speaker 1: smelly kind of one guy's kind of fat. I'm like,
45:39
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm hungover, i haven't slept. But sometimes
45:43
Speaker 1: you gotta just put a little shock to the system,
45:45
Speaker 1: like John, just don't get fat and happy. Here, buddy,
45:48
Speaker 1: this is this is it baby, NFL free agency, it's here.
45:55
Speaker 1: Let's go the volume.