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Football #7: The NFL Mafia & the Tush Push · The Treehouse Show Podcast

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Welcome inside the Treehouse Football Podcast. I'm Daniel Malley, along with Trey Trenholm
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and Raj Sharma. I've already screwed up today. I'm meant to wear my
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Ranger shirt. I would like credit though. I would like credit though,
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for having the faith and the Rangers to actually keep a Ranger's T shirt.
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When I moved to the Island, I made a point to keep one just
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in case. And now I've got a really damn good reason to wear it.
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Yeah. I've never owned anything Rangers. I've not had a hat,
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I've not had a shirt. And then I'm not you start now, No,
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that is a bad move. I just saw the shirts. I saw
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somebody post where the shirts are now, I believe eighty five dollars while I
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was saying, don't buy it now because they're in the World series. Don't
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jinx it, and we know how you like to jinx things around here.
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Okay, I mean, it's still a shirt. What if I got a
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vintage What if I got a pre pre owned one? What if I went
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to like a thrift store and found a vintage Ranger shirt it's knock and wasn't
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mine. I didn't buy it. Knew, so it comes with the luck
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of the person that was wearing it. I don't know, Trey, should
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we allow it? I think you just I think just wait and let's hopefully
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buy a celibratory World Series Champions T shirt. I like that. Let's do
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that because I have never owned any Rangers here myself, so okay, So
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at this point then I'd say, superstition wise, you stay the course,
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you make no changes whatsoever. So if you now go purchase a shirt,
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even though it's pre owned, you've now made a change off the course.
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So yeah, everyone just maintain current course and heading, and then hopefully the
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Rangers may actually win a World Series this time opposed to magnificently disappointing us twelve
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years ago. Back to back, stop it, man, it really hurts
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the twenty ten World Series. Didn't like San Francisco was just a better team
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than us that year. It is, And if you correct, wasn't Bruce
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Bochi the manager of that team? Yes, he was the man, and
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the man is undefeated in game sevens, But it's the twenty eleven It's why
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I actually thought about this as like, if the Rangers won a World Series,
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will my hatred of Nelly Cruz subside. No, I don't think it
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will either, but mine will not. Mine, Mine absolutely will not.
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And the fact that I had heard, and this goes way way back,
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the fact that I had heard, and I don't remember if this is true
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or not, or if I'm just if I heard it somewhere and I'm just
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you know, carrying on a rumor. But I remember at some point after
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that where Nelson Cruz mishandles the fly ball and write that leads there wasn't the
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sole reason, but it certainly contributed to the Rangers eventual losing that World Series
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to the Cardinals. Is that they had contemplated taking Nelson Cruz out of the
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game for a defensive replacement, but they didn't do it because they wanted to
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be because you know, Ron Washington's like, man, I gotta trust the
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guys that got me here. Obviously, hindsight's twenty twenty. Get that man
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out of there because he's a liability in the field, and he was.
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And that was the one time it really came to bite the Rangers in the
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ass. Okay, No, well, I ever totally forgive forgive him for
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it. No, but it'll make me feel better if we win one without
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him. Now, now, how about this, because first and foremost and
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Dan, you know this, I don't know if Trey does. I'm a
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Yankees fan, so first and foremost, like, that's my that's my go
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to, that's the team I want throughout the season. Right now, what
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if I buy because I am a Yankees fan, but because it's hometown,
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I'm I'm I'm wanting to get a shirt for the hometown guys, not for
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myself. Here's what you do. Go to Rally House because they have some
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cool stuff. Yeah, go to Rally House and see if they have a
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Ranger's logo slapped on the side of a Bandwagon T shirt. That's the shirt
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for you. It's not it's not Bandwagon. I'm just supporting everybody else's love
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of the team. Yeah. But if that was the case, then your
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shirt would have a would have a would have my face on it wearing a
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Rangers shirt. What if I did Okay, Now, what if I did
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that? You can do what you want. Okay, see that now now
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that it's got you on my now that you're on my shirt, it's okay.
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Well, because now you're supporting a Rangers fan. Ah. Yeah,
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that's that's what I'm supposed to being a band wagon fan cheering for the Rangers
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just because you know whatever. Right, So that goes back to my vintage
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thrift stores of a Rangers fan. Was like, Hey, I've I've outlived
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this shirt or you know what I mean like that, I've got a new
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one. I don't need this one anymore. Let me let me sell it
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off to this little consignment store that's next to wor I was watching the game
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that I was actually going to go over to to buy the shirt before the
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game started. Now, I didn't want to go down this path, but
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because you brought up the fact that you are a Yankees fan, I need
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to address it. Raj. Are you the most basic of sports fans?
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And what I mean by that is a Yankees fan? Right, one of
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the most successful baseball franchises in the history of ever, maybe extremely an extremely
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valuable. And your football team is a Dallas Cowboys, you know Murky's success
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in the last thirty years, but still the most valuable football team in the
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NFL. So, who's your favorite soccer team is at Manchester United? What's
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the what's the tost team trade? I am a man Man you. You're
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a man, you fan, but I have been. I have been since
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I was a kid. Okay, yeah, my dad was Liverpool and so
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I was like, Who's Who's what of Liverpool's biggest rifles, Manchester United.
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So that's why I went, who's your team? I don't have a honckey
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team? I do like if I if the Stars games are on, I'll
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watch the Stars game. But I don't actively But I did. You know,
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as long as you don't say one of the basic bitch teams, then
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you're fine. Who's your basketball team matters? Okay? It said Lakers and
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then no, no, you were going to be but you're going to slap
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him right out of this tree. You can change, going to change the
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secret knock. No. It was nineteen ninety three and I wanted to buy
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a hat of the team that I thought would win the World Series. So
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I was at Champs No, No, I was at Lid's. Oh.
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So I was walking around and I was like, what calls out to me?
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This team I predict will win the World Series? So I grabbed a
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Yankees hat for the first time I've never had. Did you even know that
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it was a Yankees hat? Or you just got it just because you like
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the logo. No I did. I mean I had. You know,
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I used to click baseball cards as a kid, so I know what the
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old school logo, the old school uniforms look like. So, and then
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they went on strike. Is that ninety three, ninety four, ninety four?
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They went on strike? And I remember I bought the hat and they
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went on strike, and I was like, ah, man, but the
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cool hat. I'll just keep it. And then ESPN did a thing where
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when the strike started, statistically where every team was who would win the World
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Series based on these analytics, it turned out to be the Yankees. So
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I was like, hey, that's cool, and so I just that's how
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I got turned on the to the Yankees. Are you going to be rooting
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for the Rangers extra hard because of the Diamondbacks upsetting the Yankees in two thousand
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and one? Yes, yeah, that's what I'm saying. See, there's
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multiple reasons why I think that can own a shirt. I think I can't.
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I think I can buy one, but not at eighty five dollars if
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I can find one at a three store. But I did see that post
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where the hoodies are now like one hundred and five, which is fantastic.
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So they did what Taylor Swift did for Kelsey's jersey, the Rangers did for
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their own. So Congress, I mean, we can all agree this and
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it didn't matter you know who your your team is. It just felt good
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to stick it to the Astros. Yeah. Yeah, I love it as
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a Rangers fan watching watching Adulus Garcia in the Astros over their cheating trash cans
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charter and then that flipped it when he was done. Did you know did
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y'all know that in twenty twenty one we designated him for assignment Garcia? Yeah?
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Was the assignment get better because it apparently worked? I mean, and
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yeah, that puts him on the open market. No one wanted him,
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so we re signed him. But oh wow, that is like he I
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didn't realize his story of you we got him in the trade with Saint Louis.
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I think, you know, basically nobody wanted him because at that time,
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I think he was twenty six. Was that Saven Lewis saying we're sorry
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we beat you in the World Series even though you should have beaten us.
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Here's this guy and now and now look at what he's doing. It was
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one. I forgot who the main player in the trade was, but he
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was just one of those ancillary people. And but yeah, we do it
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was one of the players to be named later. Basically that's always my favorite
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trade. But he is going so I guess he's eligible for arbitration next year
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and he will get paid, so he's playing for the minimum. That's that
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That is to me is just absolutely astonishing. Yeah. Yeah, and he's
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evidently I've got I mean, all his stats. He's no one has done
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what he's ever done before. I think there was one and I forgot it.
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I can't even think who it was. But yeah, he tied one
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of the great baseball players of all time of you know, hitting it in
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an ALCS. Well, I know that he broke the record for most RBIs
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in the ALCS and ironically enough, the previous record holder was Nelson Cruz.
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Well, I mean, yeah, it's just a it's an exciting time here
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because it's it's it's it's I'm not I was in LA when all the last
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two happened, so I wasn't here to be part of the frenzy. It
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was definitely a frenzy. It was I remember being at Cosmo's in Lakewood watching
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a baseball game, which you've ever If you've ever been to Cosmos, which
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I know both of you have, yes, you know. It's not exactly
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a sports bar, so it always so. Two thousand and eleven, we
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were watching that World Series against the Cardinals. The whole bar is sitting at
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the bar watching a tiny ass TV. And it reminded me of Major League.
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They have the punk guy sitting next to like the normal guy in the
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red bar. That's what Cosmos looked like. I lived that. Wow,
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I lived that moment. And we're all pounding on the bar and everything,
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and then and then the bad stuff happens, and then everyone just gets deathly
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quiet, and then out of nowhere, a guy behind us all just yells
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out, son of a bitch. I have that audio somewhere on the phone.
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I'll try to find it and play it for you guys. But it
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was. It was a heartbreaking, gut wrenching, hysterical clip. Speaking of
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a gut wrenching and hysterical The forty nine ers lost again. Yeah, yeah,
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do you do? Do you now now that they've lost back to back
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weeks, do we is more? That sting taken out of our hearts.
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Given the ass whipping they gave our Cowboys just a couple of weeks ago,
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I think I have more questions. I do too. I don't about the
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forty nine ers, are about the Cowboys, all of it. Unfortunately.
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Yeah. The only team, god I hate saying this, the only team
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that I've seen that its seems to be dominant week in and week out are
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the Eagles. Yeah, yeah, very true. Well except for that loss
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against the Jets. Yeah, I mean, you're gonna you're gonna have the
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flukes. But they look really good. I mean, I Jalen Hurts who
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knew, yeah, he's uh yeah. I think when when they when they
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lost to the Jets, I think the look on Jalen Hurts face when they
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lost to the Jets was very much we're not doing this again. And the
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look on Dak Prescott's face when they lost to San Francisco is like I'm not
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drinking the night before ever again. Definitely a tale of two quarterbacks there,
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because they just looked like they all went out and got drunk. It looked
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like the scene from Varsity Blues when they get out of the Strip club at
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six o'clock in the morning, and then they go play their district game and
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then everybody just looks horrible. All right. The only thing that was really
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missing in from the Cowboys in that forty nine Ers game was them puking all
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over the field. Yeah, but it is one of those things where I
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go when I when I see the forty nine Ers lose like that, that's
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when I, like Trey is saying questions. I'm like, what did what
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were we doing? The like if that was if that's the capacity, we
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have the capacity to defeat them handily because who they're losing to now, if
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they lose to the Bengals, like, I'll have more questions. Yeah,
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now I'm with you there. So this is the way I've been looking at
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it over the last couple of weeks since the Cowboys of you know, since
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the Cowboys got their asses handed to them in San Francisco, which isn't a
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first for everybody, but for some it is the when you get beat that
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bad. What did I say? Did I say something? Where are you
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all laughing? If it's something I said, like, just raise your hand,
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tell me tell me that If that was not planned, that was the
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greatest moment in history. I think it's best that I did. I not
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tell you my secrets. Ray, Oh that was worth it one because one
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because I don't want you to see the wizard behind the wall, and also
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I want to maintain deniability. Yeah, they are going to be people that
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listen to this in their car that are going to veer off the road after
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coffee on the windshield. Anyway, as you were saying so brilliantly, was
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it really was as I was. As I was saying, what was I
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saying? Now, I've I've totally forgotten the Uh you have what the forty
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nine ers had done to the to the and the Eagles have maintained their stuff.
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But speaking of asses, the tush push has been a hot topic of
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conversation throughout the season because the Eagles have have deployed it so many times and
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pretty much every single time they've done it, it has worked so much so
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that now you've got the NFL looking at whether or not they should ban it.
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And Jason Kelsey not to be confused with Taylor Swift's boyfriend, but Jason
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Kelsey, offensive lineman for the Eagles, has said the play works. It's
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certainly it's obvious that it works, but I'm paraphrasing here, it's a bitch
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of a play because it's it's a physical thing. It's not exactly kind to
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the body for anybody, especially the offensive lineman who are up front. Where
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do you guys fall on the tush push pro or con don't, I don't
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see. I don't see the need to ban it. I don't understand,
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like what the motivation of the logic behind it is. It seems like a
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very illegal play. It's not like they invented it. They just do it
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better than anyone else ever has. Now, part of that is that Eagles
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offensive line might be the best that's ever done. I mean, they are
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so good and yeah, I don't know, you know, the push,
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the tush push is just a little bit extra that that line can pretty much
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maul anyone. So you know, I'm I don't see any I mean,
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I hate it. I hate that they do it so well. But yeah,
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but I think that's also what it is when people see something that they
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that every team does just done better by somebody else and go, well,
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we got to stop that, right, Well, they do it better,
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that's all it is. That's exactly what it is. They execute the play
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better. Than anybody else who's attempting it. And because of that, the
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other teams are like, hey, we don't like it. And I keep
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that in mind. We're all Cowboys fans and we're saying that I do like
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though that they they called it something nice, you know, they call it
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the tush push. I've also seen it referred to as the brotherly shove.
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And I'm just left guessing that Eagles fans prefer tush push because it sounds nicer
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than begging for a pegging? Am I? Am? I? You are?
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And then there's a theme to also, I would love to hear it
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called in the huddle, all right, who's begging for begging? Like what?
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We So that can't be a silent count. Can If you're listening to
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Roj, I like how you you took the conversation about the tush push and
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you open it up a little bit wider for us, So you saw the
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whole picture? Well, you know, I said, you just you just
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want to look inside and see what's what? You know? Every every now
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and again, I just give it a crack. See what I can do.
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No, you did bring up an interesting uh picture in my mind and
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trays during that break, which was what did the Eagles call that play?
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Because like in the old days when we played in high school, uh,
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the coach would tell the receiver, the receiver runs the play and tells the
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quarterback. Nowadays, in high school it's hand signals. And actually in high
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school they may even have the receivers in the helm of the quarterback the way
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they do in the NFL. I don't know whatever it is. It's a
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difference. But what's the actual physical name of the play? Like does the
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player come in and go, all right, tush push on two or or
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yeah, yeah, yeah you were saying. Or does the player come in
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and be like, can we do the thing? I want to do the
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thing? You want to do the thing? What's the thing? Then the
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quarterbacks like what the thing? Oh? The thing? Oh yeah, yeah,
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I don't mind doing the thing. You want the thing, I'll give
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you the thing. Sure. And then and somebody's like, just stop calling
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it the thing because it's the person that it's the association. Whatever you call
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it, that name is now associated with it, so you have to be
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careful what name you give it because it'll now have the negative association. On
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the other hand, the Eagles may love the play because it works, but
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at the same time, just because it works doesn't mean it feels good,
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which is basically what Jason Kelsey said. The touchbush works, but it doesn't
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feel good. Every time you have one of those moments, I have to
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remind myself we're still talking about a play in football, not something you say
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to a counselor just because it worked doesn't mean it felt good. I bet
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that is an interesting job. Philadelphia Eagles HR representative. It's just the whole
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offensive line just every Monday, just lined up, just ready, and one
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player like it did not feel good. The center is always there though,
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because he's always being groped. That may actually be the reason why the onslaught
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of the shotgun formation in the NFL is because maybe finally one center became a
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whistleblower and said, oh lord and boy was the whistler Matt. So anyway,
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the Cowboys play the Rams this week. Yeah, what do we think,
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guys? What do we uh? What do we think? The thing?
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I'm the thing I'm most fascinated by is the Rams still have a boatload
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of talent on their team. Yes, that they had when they won the
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Super Bowl. Yet for some reason they suck. Now they got the same
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coach, they got the same quarterback. They still got Aaron Donald. Now
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they don't have the same quarterback. Oh yeah they do. Isn't it Stafford
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out right now? I thought he was playing this last time I was watching
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him. I was watching a little bit of the Steelers and the Rams this
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this last week, and and I'm I thought it was Stafford that I saw
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playing. I wasn't watching that intently because I was kind of taking the Sunday
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off and enjoying the fact that I wasn't going to be disappointed by the Cowboys.
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Yes, it's still so I'm still on how how quickly the Mighty have
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fallen? It seems. Yeah, I don't like Again, it's always baffled
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me with with sports in that sense, Like there's like when it gets down
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to like the last minute and then everybody's playing with such intensity and like where
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was that the whole game? And then like when you have something like this
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where you have a team that's won the Super Bowl and then you have that
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same team with basically the same staff. Like what happens? Like, what
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do you? That's why I go, that's why my and here we go
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with my conspiracy theory. Oh boy, here we go. Roger tinfoil hat
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is being placed on its brow. I just I was. I was watching
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Run Funches uh when he was talking about conspiracies that I was like, you
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guys, don't you guys don't believe in any of them? Really is like
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you think the government is just batting a thousand telling everybody the truth. So
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my theory is it goes back to Vegas running things and Vegas baking. The
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mom still has their their their their stronghold on all things betting wise. And
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so if you, you know, you win a super Bowl and then you
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come back and you go, you have the same team, what are the
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odds of them winning a super Bowl? And all this money gets dumped on
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by diehard Rams fans and they're like, cool, we need you to throw
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this, we need you to suck now. Well here's the thing. No,
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but maybe yes. So here's the reason I say no. The NFL
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shut up, Tray. I can see your face. It's a strong take.
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Again, I'm not going to find those takes on any other sports shift
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only right here in the treehouse. I don't know anyone else that that can
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swing both ways between smart and stupid better than me. I've really got to
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start workshopping the things I say before I say them on the show. Anyways,
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the reason why I say no, Raj is because the NFL is designed
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for parry. So when you win the Super Bowl, your schedule the next
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season is, by percentage, the most difficult next year, because you're now
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going up against all those teams from the previous year. You know, with
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a couple of exceptions. I know they have to play the certain you know,
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divisions that are already preset, But your schedule is designed to be the
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most difficult of anybody's. And if you lost every single game that same season,
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your schedule the next season is supposed to be softer than everybody else's.
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Obviously, you're not playing yourself the whole time, but you get the idea.
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So the NFL is designed for parody. Now that's how the Mob doesn't
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control week to week on the game. But to expand on your conspiracy,
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it is certainly possible. I don't think likely, but it is possible the
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Mob could have influence over the NFL as a whole and have told them to
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make the league like that. Now, granted, I don't think they did.
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I don't think they have. I don't think the mafia has more power
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than the NFL mafia. Oh, I think they do. I think they
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still. There's just so much money globe the people when when it's so funny
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when people think about betting, everybody thinks of Vegas. It's the Vegas.
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It's a global market. The mom deals with international h betting and gambling.
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That that kind of money is in the billions of dollars every week. So
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do you think then at the mob, if they're the ones who are secretly
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running the NFL, even though the NFL is its own mafia. Let's be
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honest, you really think the Mob would be down for signing Roger Goodell to
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a three year commissioner extension for two hundred million dollars. That's chump change,
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That's that's nothing. That's on a weekly scale of how much money goes in
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and out of Vegas and how much Atlantic City. And then you start to
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go overseas and he's Hong Kong and you start going in Carlo. I mean,
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it's just jump change. So what that moment Roger Goodell? Then,
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I don't know, the world's least intimidating consigliary. No, he's just freido.
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Wow. Wow. Everybody thinks he's stupid, but he's smart. Yeah.
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No, I don't know. I saw I saw the story the other
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day that that Goodell was signing a contract extension for two hundred million dollars,
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which is a huge number. And then I saw that that the term of
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the deal was only three years. Yeah, my god. Yeah, and
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that's for them to go, hey, is this is how much do you
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need for you to keep doing what we tell you to do. He's like,
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let me just throw something against wall. It's like it's like Alex Rodriguez
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with the Rangers and when they're like, so we're gonna walk into this room,
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what are you gonna say? He's like a two hundred and fifty million
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dollars? Are you nuts? And the know door opens, like what you
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got? It's like two hundred fifty million dollars. Orange just went sounds good,
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Just like what the hell just happened? That's what that's what that is.
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When he's number out there. That was Tom Hicks's ego. Yeah,
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but still that was everybody in the world went what Yeah, because he wanted
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Yeah, he wanted to double what the highest baided contract was and Tom Hicks
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was stupid enough to give it to him. And this is Roger Goodell if
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you want to talk about he's you know, he's Fredo for the NFL owners.
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Now, that's a little mafia. That's what I'm getting in the NFL.
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That's That's exactly what I'm getting at when I say the NFL is a
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mafia. It's designed, it's set up in the in the very similar fashion
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as the mob is as we know it, because it has no competition.
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It's set up under it's not even text, it's it's I believe it's it's
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it's filing with the I r S. Is a non profit. Yes,
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they do have anti ruistics like they have. Yeah, they have anti trust
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exemptions which protects them. That's why they always say they call it the shield.
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You gotta protect the shield or what that shield protects is the owners,
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which are the individual you know, captains or mob bosses, and they're the
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ones that appoint the CONSIGLIERI. The NFL Commissioner as the one who is the
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main protector of the NFL. But the NFL is basically the group of owners
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that own all the teams. Yes, but they're put so. They were
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given the system by the creators of the system, and then they go,
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this is how you do this. We're going to show you how this is
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done. But then we're gonna dictate how you do things. Uh, because
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we have to be in the shadows. We have to operate in secrecy,
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and you guys do not. Yeah, two on that for a bit.
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See, you guys think my conspiracy theories are crazy. Nope, well I
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just I just gave you a new one. Yes, no, you gave
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me the same one. You're just That was my whole theory is they operate
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in secrecy while the NFL is their mob in the spotlight. Oh okay,
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I thought I was. I thought I I thought I took your kernel of
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a conspiracy and expanded it. M that's all. I got a bag of
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popcorn, buddy, I'm good. But yeah, I mean I think that's
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because I don't understand how that works. You have the same people or are
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they playing injured? Are they playing with Lomra or did some people not get
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a contract, and some people not get the money that they wanted, so
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they're not going to play as hard. I don't know how well that's that
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way. I look, I look, I can I can have fun with
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it and lean into the fact that maybe the mafia actually controls the NFL.
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But I will, I will certainly say that the NFL is run like a
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mafia style organization because of its figureheads and how it operates that I believe.
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Now whether or not it's intentional that they did that, I don't know,
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But I don't think that the players are in on it, because they're you
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know, they're they're they're stoes. That's right, That's that's right. They're
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the hired the hired muscle that that take the fall for they're captains whenever they
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need to take the phone. You see how this plays out. So well,
30:04
it's just but again, the players are unwinning accomplices because they're they're just
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playing. They're just playing the game. Now some of them maybe become aware.
30:15
Yes, you know, they always call it, oh, it's a
30:18
business. Well it is a business. And that's how once once they've you
30:21
know, sort of come to terms with that as a player, because it's
30:26
not high school where you do it for fun and love. It's not college
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where you do it for fun and love and sex and beer and some money.
30:32
If you're really really good in the NFL is all about the money and
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the other things will come with it. Yeah. Oh, they just bring
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that stuff with it from college. They just get more money that's not around.
30:44
But they're still bringing drug, sex and beer. They're they're bringing that
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to the draft. That's at the table. Yeah. I mean I had
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friends that played college football and college back and uh boosters, that's what they're
31:03
still called. I would just call them money givers. They Yeah, it's
31:08
it's impressive what they would get shoes and clothes and free tattoos, and I
31:17
mean it's just that's nothing. Go read what all the players got when they
31:19
were at SMU in the eighties. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I
31:22
mean that's what the gold trans am that was the that was the dopeness.
31:26
No, but that was given to him by A and M. That wasn't
31:27
even given to Eric Dickerson buying SMU. He just drove it into town.
31:33
That was the best one. Well, that well, that should go to
31:34
tell you something though, Is that a and M gave him the Gold trans
31:37
Am and he still went to SMU. So do you know I should tell
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you what he got from SMU was better than Gold Exam. Yes, the
31:45
story behind Craig James going to SMU is he had signed with A and M
31:52
and but he was you know, at his high school sweetheart who he's still
31:56
married to. And SMU was smart enough to give her a band scholarship.
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She had never been an instrument. Say that again. You gave her a
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band scholarship although she had never played an instrument. Oh, she played one.
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Scholarships are not free. She was a whistleblower. I think we found
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Simu's deep throat. If you're listening to this and not watching, I'm just
32:29
shaking my head left and right. I said it, but I'm ashamed.
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