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Hour Three | LSU's Next Business Move, NFL Contracts & Ask the Bench · Off The Bench

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  Speaker 3: at home.
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  Speaker 2: This feels, this feels the last couple of weeks have
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  Speaker 2: not been.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just like it's familiar. And we are very
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  Speaker 3: thankful to all the people that have stepped in for Taylor,
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  Speaker 3: stepped in for myself and I was gone, and thanks
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  Speaker 3: you Chris for jumping in for Jake, and and we
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  Speaker 3: uh into summer. People are traveling, people are doing different things.
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  Speaker 3: People are having children, people are having babies everywhere. I
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  Speaker 3: can't get those takes.
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  Speaker 4: Looking back on it, pretty convenient time actually, sports wise.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's not a lot going on. That's actually
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  Speaker 3: pretty good time. Not really convenient for like me with
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  Speaker 3: Jake being gone and you know, you know, you can
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  Speaker 3: talk about anything for hours, like not a lot of
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  Speaker 3: sports to talk about, you just missing.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, convenient time for you and not for us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, pal, I mean relas.
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  Speaker 4: Philibuster, like Taylor, nurses heard it, guys, it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure the nurses know what's going to be happening.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't get to pop off to anybody, really, I
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  Speaker 4: was I was depressed a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: For those of you that are like, you know, listening
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  Speaker 3: out there, like I can't believe that, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: don't talk about like the hard hitting news and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that about what's going on we're on LSU. Like,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, you don't listen a lot. But I
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  Speaker 3: would do what I will mention because probably deserves to
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  Speaker 3: be mentioned that there is a lot of like, yes,
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  Speaker 3: we do understand that l s U and its donors
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  Speaker 3: and the people that run LSU Athletics are in high
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  Speaker 3: level discussions right now about something that is so out
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  Speaker 3: of my league and that we aren't going to be
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  Speaker 3: able to shine a lot of give you a lot
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  Speaker 3: of color context to it. So we are as interested.
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  Speaker 3: I'm as interested as anybody is on what the outcome
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  Speaker 3: of all of that stuff is. And there are shows
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  Speaker 3: on the station that are going to be way better
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  Speaker 3: at explaining the minute details and the minutia of how
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  Speaker 3: everything is. I will I'll just say this, and this
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  Speaker 3: is just from outside looking in now. I know everybody
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  Speaker 3: was up at arms. I was one of those people
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  Speaker 3: when like you first saw the news of like going
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  Speaker 3: private equity and all this whatever. Nobody knows until we
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  Speaker 3: all know at the same time, when when they decide
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  Speaker 3: to tell us exactly what's happening. I'm assuming because it's
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  Speaker 3: a public institution, that information will all be public, all
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  Speaker 3: that good stuff. But what I will say is you're
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  Speaker 3: trying to do something innovative, and I applaud that you
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  Speaker 3: have to. You have to be ever changing in this
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  Speaker 3: ever changing world of college athletics. You got to be creative.
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  Speaker 3: You got to find ways to gain a competitive advantage,
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  Speaker 3: especially in this world where everything's murky, everything's muddy. There
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  Speaker 3: is really no rules. People are setting the rules, so
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  Speaker 3: you want to set them if you can. If you
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  Speaker 3: can be strategic enough, if you can be forward thinking enough,
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  Speaker 3: if you can be smart enough, you can create the
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  Speaker 3: rules to give yourself an advantage. But you have to
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  Speaker 3: be very careful, careful for what you wish were. You
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  Speaker 3: got to be careful trying to be groundbreaking. You got
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  Speaker 3: to be careful, like trying to be the first person
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  Speaker 3: to do everything. We saw it. I'm not even gonna
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  Speaker 3: say it's a backfire, but like with the Jersey Patch,
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  Speaker 3: we were the first to do that, right, But Okay,
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  Speaker 3: people got the game plan and they did it better.
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  Speaker 3: They found ways to get more money. Always be careful
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  Speaker 3: being the first. Anything you don't. Being the first isn't
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  Speaker 3: always the best. It's about doing it the best. So
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it is, and I'm totally talking
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  Speaker 3: like over my skis right now because I have no
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  Speaker 3: clue about the details of what's going on. All I
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  Speaker 3: can say is be careful of creating the game plan
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  Speaker 3: and then letting other competitors of yours in the college
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  Speaker 3: landscape see your game plan and do it better. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: And that's usually what happens with the people that come first.
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  Speaker 2: So the good thing about this is that LSU wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be the first people that would be going quote unquote
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  Speaker 2: private equity. But from what I understand is they're not
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  Speaker 2: trying to do private equity. They're trying to become an
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  Speaker 2: ll so instead of giving a yeah, that part of
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  Speaker 2: it is new, but I think that that's what they
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  Speaker 2: learned from, like Utah has a private equity partner, and
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  Speaker 2: like instead of selling a piece of LSU ten percent
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  Speaker 2: of LSU to somebody else, they just want to be
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  Speaker 2: an LLC so that other people will invest into it
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  Speaker 2: but will still be like the owner or like LSU
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  Speaker 2: will still own LSU.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't know, Like.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's always been kind of headed in
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  Speaker 2: this direction, especially after the ANIL stuff and pay for
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  Speaker 2: play and everything. And I think that if you are,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's something that you do have to adapt to,
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  Speaker 2: Like this is fully NFL junior at this point, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Like yeah, I always thought that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I just felt like this was always
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  Speaker 2: the direction that I was gonna it was gonna head
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  Speaker 2: in because it's not the current way that people are
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  Speaker 2: doing an IL and pay for play is not sustainable
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  Speaker 2: at all, especially have the rate that LSU is doing it,
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  Speaker 2: Like just to be honest, like, yes, l s U
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  Speaker 2: donor fatigues a real thing. Yes, l s U has
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  Speaker 2: a lot of donors and a lot of money. But
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  Speaker 2: at this rate that we are spending, it's not sustainable.
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  Speaker 5: So you have to find something.
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  Speaker 3: To make it work.
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  Speaker 2: And I just feel like they're adapting to what there's
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  Speaker 2: the current lands.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're trying to be And I think the
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  Speaker 3: who was it that Matt interviewed yesterday, like like I
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  Speaker 3: read some of the quotes and listen to it and
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  Speaker 3: just said like they being innovative and they feel like
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  Speaker 3: for the first time that Louisiana might be ahead of
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  Speaker 3: the curve. The first do it. Yeah again, awesome, Right,
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  Speaker 3: that's great, but you do always have to be careful
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  Speaker 3: with being the first.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I don't disagree with that. Yeah, but I
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  Speaker 2: do kind of like being part of the pioneer.
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  Speaker 3: I won't like it if we do it and some
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  Speaker 3: year later the Texas Longhorns do it, and it's like
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  Speaker 3: they have the game plan now.
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  Speaker 4: They watched LSU, they worked out all the kinks. They're
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  Speaker 4: finally tuned.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, LSU's got a lot of people with a lot
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  Speaker 3: of money and a lot of smart people. Other colleges
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of smart people and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people with a lot of money as well, so they
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  Speaker 3: can take something to improve it. But we'll see. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: we want LSU to be the best at everything. Sadly
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  Speaker 3: that we are in the state of college athletics to
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  Speaker 3: where we're having to rewrite the rules in this business way,
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  Speaker 3: that does feel. Honestly, it does feel slimy. I maybe
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  Speaker 3: I'm in the minority on that it does. It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: really matter. Like the product on the field is gonna
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  Speaker 3: be awesome, I will I can't wait to watch college football,
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  Speaker 3: but everything else, Like when you start talking about PE
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  Speaker 3: getting involved and you start talking about investors and potential
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  Speaker 3: like kind of owners and creating LLCs for college like
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  Speaker 3: it all just like feels, yeah, it is, but it's
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  Speaker 3: like it isn't slimy, but it just like.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of feels that way because it's never been.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's people, we all fear change, right, I fear
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  Speaker 3: this the spirit in the heart of college athletics and
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  Speaker 3: college sports going away which kind of already has. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and every step that we take to further go down
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  Speaker 3: that rabbit hole. It loses a little bit more and
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  Speaker 3: more and more. But football fans like, the football's never
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  Speaker 3: been better. Yeah, there's a there's a give and take here.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I don't disagree that it feels slimy. But
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  Speaker 2: what really felt slimy to me back in the day
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  Speaker 2: was the NC DOUBLEA making a bunch of money off
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  Speaker 2: of kids, and the kids seeing absolutely none of them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so like, which slime do you want?
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  Speaker 3: Do you want?
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  Speaker 2: Like these people that are sitting in a room making
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  Speaker 2: all this these decisions for these kids, and the kids
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  Speaker 2: are working their asses off for all, like the fans,
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  Speaker 2: the school, the NC double A, and they don't see
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  Speaker 2: a dime off the money that people are making off
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 5: Like, I can see both sides to it.
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  Speaker 3: It's great, it's a great point. It's the it's the
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  Speaker 3: one hundred percent the best argument out there. Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 3: we over no one ever looked because no one like
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  Speaker 3: dove into the amount that they were making without sharing
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  Speaker 3: it with anybody. So I get all that, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: it's just different. It's changed, and we all got to
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  Speaker 3: get used to it. And hopefully LSU is on the
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  Speaker 3: right side of history on this new deal. But it
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  Speaker 3: sounds like everybody's positive enough. And you know, what's the
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  Speaker 3: what was the quote?
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  Speaker 4: Just shy of a great a genius plan to use
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  Speaker 4: that a lot over use that, like, can we put
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  Speaker 4: that on a shirt? The should just a genius plan?
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  Speaker 4: A great quote?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? Was that what she was offense last year? Just
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  Speaker 3: shy have a decent plan? All right, we're gonna sho
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna shift away from that because again, there are
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  Speaker 3: losing a sports net, other shows in the station that
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  Speaker 3: are really going to be tuned in. I'm sure more
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  Speaker 3: information will come before this aftern like that are going
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  Speaker 3: to give you way better like details if you want
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  Speaker 3: to look at it in a magnifying glass a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more. So we can just react. That's what this
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  Speaker 3: show's about. Reacting. Give you are just like really kind
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  Speaker 3: of thoughts off the cuff and what we think about
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  Speaker 3: I'll just say, just always be careful being the first,
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  Speaker 3: because that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to do it
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  Speaker 3: the best. All right, let's shift over to the football
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  Speaker 3: side of things, Tayite, while you were gone just having
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  Speaker 3: babies and everything.
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  Speaker 4: Just a launder, just one, just one, yeah, just one baby.
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  Speaker 4: We know if I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Elandia. Chris and I gave had a chance to talk
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  Speaker 3: about kind of the sec going into the season. Different
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  Speaker 3: teams with different expectations, tons of new coaches, tons of
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  Speaker 3: new faces, a lot of question marks, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: QB battles out there. Uh, teams that you know, might
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  Speaker 3: know who their quarterback is kind of they have good
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  Speaker 3: idea but don't necessarily know. There's a lot of teams
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  Speaker 3: with a lot of expectations and some teams with zero expectations.
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  Speaker 3: So I want to start with a team for you
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  Speaker 3: that might not have enough enough people talking about them, somebody,
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  Speaker 3: a team that you think might outplay the preseason expectation
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  Speaker 3: that is being put on, at least by the national media.
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  Speaker 3: So I always like to try to be different.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like to take anybody, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: because a Lauder told me during breaks she chose Auburn,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that's the perfect choice. Big Byron Brown's
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  Speaker 4: a hell of a quarterback. He was awesome at South Florida.
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  Speaker 4: He follows his coach, alex A. Golosh and like, look
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  Speaker 4: what Auburn's been and look at the misses they've had.
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  Speaker 4: At head coach their last two coaching stints. Like, nobody
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  Speaker 4: expects Auburn to do anything. I'm not saying they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: go out there and win eight or nine games, but
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  Speaker 4: that could be a scrappy group. That's a that's a
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  Speaker 4: team that a lot of people are gonna overlook on
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  Speaker 4: the schedule. It's a trap game for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: You said it was a trap game a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks or whenever we were talking about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yea, yeah, it's I think that first game is
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  Speaker 3: going to be a big one. And I do like
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  Speaker 3: I do like a cocky. He is the coach. I
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  Speaker 3: love the post game, giving them the business of the
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  Speaker 3: old head coach. I would say, I always forget his name.
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  Speaker 3: I blank on his name the other head Sure the coach,
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  Speaker 3: he was the coach he was uh that he went
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  Speaker 3: after after the game?
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  Speaker 5: Goalis went after someone.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, but I like Alex. To your point,
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  Speaker 4: I like Alex. I mean I think he's I think
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna be good. Auburn's Alburns had a lot of
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  Speaker 4: missus a head coach. I think there's a chance they
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  Speaker 4: hit with this one.
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  Speaker 3: I just remember last year watching Hugh Freeze give US
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  Speaker 3: press conference SEC media days. He had the reddest space.
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  Speaker 5: Red mega energy.
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  Speaker 2: Though I don't really understand what Auburn was thinking with
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  Speaker 2: that higher just.
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  Speaker 3: Looking at the past too much.
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  Speaker 5: I guess that's just what would have made me not
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  Speaker 5: hire him.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it was strictly offense.
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  Speaker 4: Their offense was so bad under Brian Harson for so
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  Speaker 4: long and even even towards the end of the Malason era.
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  Speaker 3: Like think about people thought bow Knicks was a bad.
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  Speaker 4: Quarterback for two and a half years. Both Knicks is
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  Speaker 4: a really good quarterback. It'll organ in the NFL. Your
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  Speaker 4: offense was that bad, they probably hired him saying hey,
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  Speaker 4: he's won in the SEC before. I wouldn't have made
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  Speaker 4: the higher, but they probably nick.
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  Speaker 3: It was a very popular take, especially like in the
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  Speaker 3: LSU world. He was always good. He maybe he had
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  Speaker 3: some bad games, bad game plans. But I don't think
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  Speaker 3: anybody's arguing if Bonix is a good quarterback or not.
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  Speaker 3: But you're right. It had people arguing then when he.
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  Speaker 4: Was well, it had people arguing, oh, man, Dan Lennon
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  Speaker 4: in Organ, they're geniuses. They're making bow Nicks look good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: like no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no. Alburn
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  Speaker 4: made anybody look bad. Look at the quarterbacks after bo Nicks.
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  Speaker 4: They weren't doing nothing either. He hitched his wagon to
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  Speaker 4: Peyton thorn of Hole.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like like he was playing ten years ago
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  Speaker 3: at Auburn. Was he playing against Max Johnson?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, he was a He was a He was a
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  Speaker 4: freshman in nineteen so yeah, he would have been playing
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  Speaker 4: with Max Johnson. Max Johnson. By the way, Georgia Southern
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  Speaker 4: year seven, yeah or get it, yeah, year seven. At
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  Speaker 4: least I saw that picture of him.
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  Speaker 3: The Georgia Southern picture has individual picture looked like looked
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  Speaker 3: like a man, looked looks like a man. Okay, I
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  Speaker 3: want to get what team you think is a little
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  Speaker 3: most overrated team going into the twenty twenty sixth season.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously earlier I said A and M, and
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  Speaker 4: that's my answer. Every year, I'll go a little bit different.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of people out there that like them.
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  Speaker 4: From Tennessee into Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 3: This year, I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Confused about the Tennessee High.
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  Speaker 4: The thing about Tennessee two really good receivers coming back,
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  Speaker 4: Mike Matthews eight hundred yards a year ago, Braylan Staley
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  Speaker 4: eight thirty seven. And then you have Deshaun Bishop coming
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  Speaker 4: back who ran for a thousand yards and sixteen touchdowns.
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  Speaker 4: That's great. Josh Iipel's a good offensive play caller. They
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  Speaker 4: don't know who their quarterback's going to be right now.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's George McIntyre, the red shirt freshman. He
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: was highly recruited out of high school. That you got
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  Speaker 4: true freshman Faison Branton. That's kind of your two. You
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  Speaker 4: didn't bring in a big time established quarterback from the portal,
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  Speaker 4: like you brought in Ryan Stall, who's probably gonna be
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  Speaker 4: a third team guy. Their biggest hit in the transfer
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  Speaker 4: portal was Chas Coleman, the Penn State ed.
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  Speaker 3: Rusher everybody wanted.
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  Speaker 4: He left the team before the season even started. He's
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  Speaker 4: not even on the rouster anymore.
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  Speaker 5: Like he was like posting pictures of money spread.
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  Speaker 4: Right, like he wanted to do anything but play football
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: at Tennessee. And you know they spent top dollar to
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: get him because everybody wanted him. I like josh I
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: boy that he's a really good coach. It's all going
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: to depend on the quarterback position. The weapons are there offensively.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: I just I don't know right now. This could be
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: one of those where at the end of the season
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: I could have a completely different opinion if one of
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: these quarterbacks develops. Just going into the year, there's a
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: lot of people riding that hypel train and there's a
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: complete unknown a quarterback.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm looking at to that point. Tennessee ranked eighteen,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: LSU ranked thirteen. That game is a pick them on
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: LSU Tennessee. It's pick him right now, and it's at Tennessee.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: And my first response was you're gonna beat LSU with
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: what quarterback? But again that game is later in the season,
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: which is which is what concerns me the most, because again,
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: if if back at tire Brandon figure it out, they
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: have weapons on offense. I just it's tough to be
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: a starter in the SEC is a freshman and you
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: got a red shirt freshman and a true freshman battleader
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: for that spot.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I think their offense is still gonna be good.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's quite as explosive as years past.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: All right there. He is Tennessee overrated, Auburn underrated. Who
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: wins a game? Auburn durst Tennessee. Who's winning that one?
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Neutral sight? Tennessee is more talented. It's up the bottom.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: What quarterback they beaten him with? Though? But I trust
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Byron Brown. Byron Brown's a gamer. That's that's a good game.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: That's a good game. You wore eagle this year. Both
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: are kind of worried.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: It's more eagle to Chris was more eagling too.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Can't tell his friends family, Well, she went to Auburn.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: That's one of his five schools. Matt, that's true. He's
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: a fan of every ready.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wait, so I was telling you that I said
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Arkansas was set out for failure. I just remembered that
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: we did say an overrated one, and I said, all miss.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, I don't disagree. I think that they may
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: have the best duo in college football. Yeah in Trinidad,
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Shambliss and Kawan Lacy. Great, you replacing both your tackles
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: from a year ago and the Devin Harper who was
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: going to compete for a job. So two and a
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: half starters if you will, on that o line. You
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: lost five. Those six receivers I mentioned that all had
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: four hundred yards or more. You lost five of them.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: One of them was a freshman a year ago. He's
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: coming back. I think those two guys are great. I
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: worry about the weapons around him. And John David Baker,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: good play caller at East Carolina, struggled a little bit
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: against some of the better defenses they played, and everybody's
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: going to say, well, people said that about Charlie Wise junior.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: John David Baker doesn't have Lane Kiffin in that matters.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: So I like and the Coaches Bowl, they're ranked number ten,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: and I think that is absolutely fair.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: That feels reasonable.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Don't kick them out of the top ten because they
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: are returning the best quarterback and because of the success
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: that they had. But they're but again, ten is also
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: telling you there's a lot of question marks and they
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: are going to have to answer those, and they got
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: to answer good.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Defense, great quarterback, weapons around them on the offense is
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: my concern.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: And there's a there's a real chance that they start
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: this season with a couple you know, so like they
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: got a sneaky one on a neutral site versus Louisville
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Week one, so don't look ahead the issue.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Are we gonna dismiss the fact that their offensive coordner
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: us three first names, John David Baker.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Well, and so here's the thing about say that. What
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: we say about guys with three names? They're all smart?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: No, they're all good because we were like Jonathan.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: He's surfaced. I saw a picture of him yesterday, really yes, him?
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: And what was this? What was the younger brother? The
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: character is young Mark Mark? Was a picture Randy Mark? Yeah,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: so it was. It was Randy Mark and the mom
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Jill took a picture of some little I saw it
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: and doing okay, it's doing okay. Good for him? Three names,
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: so the office porter, it must be a good looking fellow.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, stick of this. We got a lot
• 20:11
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back here off the bench Wednesday morning,
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: twenty four a m. We appreciate you tuning and joining
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: the show with us today. Stoctorable SEC. I want to
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: change our sites to the NFL, the National Football League.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: We got two guys yesterday in the NFL getting paid paid,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: serious contract negotiations happening. Let's start over in Baltimore. Zay Flowers,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: wide receiver, guy in his going into his fourth year,
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: signs a four year, one hundred and forty million dollars contract,
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: one hundred and eight million guaranteed, and that ties him
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: with Justin Jefferson as the fourth highest paid wide receiver
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: annually in the NFL. I don't know if he's a
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: top four wide receiver, but he is now being paid
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: like that, and it's following the trend. It certainly this
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: comes on the heels of Chris Olave getting paid, so
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: we'll examine kind of a comparison between those two. But
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: also another contract being signed yesterday, rightfully, so, Jon Robinson.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: John Robinson's becomes the highest paid running back in the
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: history of the NFL with a three year, seventy five
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: million dollar contract. Fifty one of that is going to
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: be completely guaranteed, and he gets thirty seven million just
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: for signing his name. That's a pretty nice little signature.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: I was I was always every single time, every time
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: someone gets paid paid, always look at what state they're
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: in and how much they're gonna pay in taxes. Zay
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Flowers in paying sixty five point five million to the
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: US government in taxas d Jon Robinson thirty five point
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: two million straight to the tax to the tax man.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: So it's better to live in Georgia than Maryland. Uh yeah,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I had that pulled up. What was there state tax? Right, Yeah,
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: it's a little bit. It's like the difference swaying five
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: and six. Maryland actually wasn't as bad as I thought.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I thought Maryland was gonna be like eight or nine percent,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: and it was around six. Georgia is a flat tax.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I was flat great state income tax, which I was,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: which I was a little surprised at. But anyway, a
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: lot of taxes there. But certainly this comes on the
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: hills Zay Flowers sign comes on the hills of Chris
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Alave getting signed. Now similar I would say, very similar
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: player play styles now because of Chris A. Lave's injuries
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: and he hasn't had the average annual production that Zey
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: has had over his over Jay's first three years, but
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: certainly a similar type of player and they're not too
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: far off of Nick on Our Hills on the show yesterday,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: and I think the original reports from the agent was
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: something like thirty three million per year for a Lave.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Now Nick kind of said that, well, that's what the
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: incentives kicked in and the escalator, so it's really more
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: like thirty one from a base salary with a chance
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: to get up to thirty three. And Zay Flowers is
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: right ahead thirty five million, so it's probably agent talk too.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: It's probably a little bit similar where some of those
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: are incentive based to get to that thirty five, but
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: certainly similar contracts. Anybody have any thoughts, like when you
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: saw that news come over yesterday, like a day or
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: two after, well a week after Chris Lave signs his contract,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: was there any this shocking to you all that he's.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Getting a little bit more than in a lot of
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: I think Saints fans should feel better about the Alave contract,
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: like they're wasn't what numbers wise, Like, yeah, Lave's got
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: the injury history, like I like to always point out, look,
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: he missed eight games in twenty twenty four, he only
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: played half the season. Since then, Chris Olave's missed four
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: games in three years, So like take Away twenty twenty four,
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: I understand it happened, But outside of that, he's he's
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: been relatively healthy. He's say Flowers one game in three
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: years he hasn't played, so say Flowers has been healthy
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: a little bit smaller, but I mean, dude, their numbers
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: kind of went what save Flowers a thousand yards twice
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: in three years, a lave three times in four years,
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: and again the only time he didn't have it was
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: the eight games. Flowers' yards have gone up every single year,
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: eight fifty one thousand, last year twelve hundred. They're kind
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: of and what it's it's what we talked about. Why
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: this thing's waited so long to pay a loave was
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: my concern. Whoever pays last pays most in the NFL.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: So if you would paid him a little bit early, you'd
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: feel even better. But I mean, if you're thinking, I
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: can get a lave for this, or I can get
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Zave Flowers for a little bit more, you're probably taking
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: a lave because there kind of what.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: What I so I was telling you, I don't remember when.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: It was, probably last week after after a lave got
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: re signed. Is that as somebody that has been very
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: vocal about like I don't think that we should pay
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: him that much or whatever, and I don't think that
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: he's like a true.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Like wide receiver. One.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I told you that Ross kind of changed
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: how I thought about it. And this actually kind of
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: goes with what Ross said where Drake London completely reset
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the market. So what Crystal Lave is gonna end up
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: being paid isn't going to be like top six. It's
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: going to be like lower than that once everybody else
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: starts getting paid more too.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: So I'm okay with it. I don't I don't think
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: anything about like.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: The zay Flowers thing. It doesn't make me feel no,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: it really doesn't. It just confirms what Ross said to me.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: It does kind of confirm that. And that's that's the
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: market right now now. I said it when Chris Olave
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: did get signed that, like, do I think it's an
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: overpayment for kind of like you said, like what you
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: would traditionally look at on paper and say that's a
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: traditional number. One. Do I think that's an overpayment? Yeah?
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I do, But I also agree with
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: them signing. I like it's a good signing it. You
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: had to do it. Like you could be the Bucks
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: and not sign anybody. It's really the dumbest statement ever
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: for me to say that. Do I think he's ever paid?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: But I also agree, like.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: I think in this situation two things could be true.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: The market got reset, yes, and I think it's fair,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: and I think Saint Fans should feel really good about
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: the contract now seeing another one fall after him, that
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: is a little bit more for pretty like basically the
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: same type.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: You want to talk about Drake London reset in the market. Look,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: I understand Drake Leonard's big, he's a physical presence. You
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: look at raw numbers, a lot of pretty favorably.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Pretty favorably about that whenever we were doing the tierless.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Right, And that's so like you got a lave.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Like if you throw all these guys numbers up there
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: with no names, nobody's gonna be able to tell the difference.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: And a lave is the least paid of the three.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: So like, yeah, overpaid, matter of opinion. But like, if
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: you look at these three guys, you do got to
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: kind of feel good because you're like, we got similar
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: players for a little bit less, right.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: It's the it's the it's the wow factor. I think
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: with with the Lave and also like Zay Flowers as well,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: like kind of the similar type of player, similar body style,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: movement like five nine yeah, a lot smaller, right, So
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: when you it's been hard to put our finger on
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: like why we don't think like the traditional number one,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: like put your finger on that kind of like why
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: doesn't Brian Kelly fit it? Elis you try to put
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: your finger on that, like and try to explain that,
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I get he was better at it last year, but
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: for me, it's the contested catches.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the Yeah, it's and that those with like
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the wow play the difference making plays. And my best
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: way to explain it was the defensive coordinator is he
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: is he a Monday morning guy? So is the defensive
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: coordinator coming in and talking about him first, like we
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: got to stop that guy. Maybe they are, maybe they're not.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: It's just it's just on the coff. But it makes
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: no difference. Like the stats are the stats, like he
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: has outplayed, like he has played so well and he
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: is your number one and he got paid like it
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: well deserved and I'm excited about that. I'm excited about
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: the receiver room and excited to see him work and
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: he's done everything the right way. So Kudo's hats off
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: to a lave And I think for Saints fans as well,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: they should feel really good after seeing the ze Flowers
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: contract about what they got and what they have in
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Chris Lava and somebody else that should feel really good
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: about themselves. Jamier Gibbs, Yeah, Jamiir Gibbs, this was kind
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: of like a waiting game. Who's gonna go first? Which
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Jon or Jamiir like, can't really argue with it? Well,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I guess you everybody can argue best two running backs
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: in the NFL Jamiir Gibbs, Jean Robinson. And I think
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: that's pretty consistent when you ask other players in the
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: NFL and other coach in the NFL, they say that,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: now there's some other awesome running backs. I got that,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: But these are two guys that are a little bit different.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: They do different things, they have a different skill set,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: they present different problems, uh, just outside of just running
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: in the A and B gap. That's so it's they
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: JAMRIGI is about to get paid, and I'm assuming he's
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: gonna want just a touch over a million more. He's
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: gonna want just a touch over seventy five million over
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: three years. Jake's not here.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: I know you like to piss them off with these conversations,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: but what are your thoughts on them paying bijon that deal.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: I'm normally good with it. In this case, I'm actually
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: not twenty five million. I would rather pay Bjon twenty
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: five million a year than say, Flowers thirty five. Sure,
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: but I just look at it. They've paid Drake London
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: top five receiver money. You just made Bjeon Robinson your
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: highest the highest paid running back. Great, but you don't
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: have a quarterback. And the fact that you don't have
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: a ton of cash as much as other people like
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: I feel like it's almost easier to find a quarterback
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: when you're bad, right, you gotta hire your draft pick.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: You got a lot of cash left over. You just
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: paid a receiver and a running back top to your
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: money with your lead with no one, no, with no
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: one to get them the ball. Like I'm always of
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: the opinion, pay the running back absolutely if the quarterback's
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: already in place Jamiir Gibbs with Jared goff yep, pay him.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: It's not be Jon's fault.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: But I just I don't know the strategy for Atlanta
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: to don't to pay the QB last as well.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Always jack the quarterback.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Did I just have to google that?
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, maybe maybe so. But he is you can't
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: judge him like other runner and I'm always on your side.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: I said about Jordan Love and the drafts overdrafted, like
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: just don't don't take him that early. And I always
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: think that about the running backs. But him and Jamiir
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: are a different They are running back slash just playmaker right.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: They they're they're different again, They're out there more than
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: just running the A gap and running zone right, zone left.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: They are more than that. And and twenty five million
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: for potentially the best offensive player in the NFL is
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: a discount.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Well remember Le'Veon Belled a couple of years ago said
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: I want to be paid like a number one running
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: back and a number two receiver because that's what I am.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: I'm the number two option.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: That's kind of accurate when you look at a Bijon Robinson,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: like they don't have a ton outside of Drake London
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: as far as out why. I think it's some weapons,
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: but no big name guys Like Yeah, my complaint with
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Atlanta's I don't think they used Bijon. I thought Zach
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Robinson did, which I think the loss of him is
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: oc is bigger than a lot of people realize.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean I totally see your point. Is
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: just side a quarterback, who's the best offensive player in
• 32:36
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  Speaker 3: Robinson and get them for ten million less than Za
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is Jon Robinson's hair. So this is Jon
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  Speaker 5: like if you see and they slow it down at.
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  Speaker 3: Some point too, Oh why God?
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  Speaker 5: And then he gets the ball right after.
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  Speaker 3: It really is questionable hair do.
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  Speaker 2: The hair stands straight up and it does look like
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  Speaker 2: it's a little hand at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, No, not only does it stand up, it defies
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  Speaker 5: And it really did look like it was calling for
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  Speaker 3: Almost two seconds. Oh crazy, Well that guy's name, so imagine, like, look,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: twenty five million a year is so much money, so
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: much Okay, it's so like we're talking. We're talking, like
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• 38:24
  Speaker 3: the break. He is so he is so good in
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: that running back position. He's different. He needs to be
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: valued differently. It is unfair to him. The status of
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: player that he is to get paid that much less
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: than top wide receivers in the NFL, because I promise
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  Speaker 3: the number two. They are going to come in Monday
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: morning before the game and the defensive coordinator is going
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  Speaker 3: to be like, hey, guys, b Jeon Robinson, Jeon Robinson.
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  Speaker 3: They're not going to say then, and then they'll talk
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: about Drake. They're not gonna say Drake London before Bijon
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  Speaker 3: when they're talking about their prep. We cannot let this guy.
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  Speaker 3: We have to contain this guy. And you know what
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: defensive coordinator is also going to say, He's like, he's
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: gonna make his plays. He's gonna make him, so go
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: on to the next play. He just can't make too many.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: He can't make the big one. He can't make the
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: game changeing why. And that's how you know you are
• 39:24
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  Speaker 3: When a defensive coordinator is conceding to you in a
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  Speaker 3: meeting to his own team where you're supposed to talk
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  Speaker 3: him up and hype him up and give him over confidence,
• 39:36
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna make your plays. He just can't make like
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: the play that counts, and so that's how you know.
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  Speaker 3: And so to be able to get him for twenty
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: five million, which is what eleven million dollars less than
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: what Drake London is getting paid out as crazy to me,
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: valuable should be paid forty million a year, Like are we.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Just paying Drake London that much because he's a wide receiver?
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Because it's the market, because and it is unfair, and
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: I hate to give Jake this credit for the running back,
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: but that's why Jamiir and Bijeon are different animals. And
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: I would put McCaffrey in that as well. He's a
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: little bit of different animal as well. So it's just
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: it's a weird market for them. They've created a different
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: type of position, different type of market, and to be
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: kind of pigeonholed into that running back market is certainly
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: he becomes the highest paid running back obviously, but like
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: it's still a discount.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: I'll say this, I'm normally good with paying running backs.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: The only reason I brought it up is because like
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: they're gonna have to pay a QB at some point,
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: But everybody always says if you pay a running back,
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: you can't win.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: You go back and look at the teams that have
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: won the Super Bowl. It's kind of the receiver position.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: You have a high paid wide receiver.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: Like look at the two teams that were in the
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl this year, Patriots had nobody Jackson Smith and
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: Jigba hadn't gotten his big deal yet. Cooper Cup hadn't
• 40:56
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• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Jamar was still in his rookie salary when they got that, Like,
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  Speaker 4: you pay your receiver big time money.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: That's kind of when the winning is not quite as frequent.
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  Speaker 4: Look at Tom Brady, you never had a top light
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  Speaker 4: wide receivers for a contracts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we would have to examine the list
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  Speaker 3: for sure, But the off the cuff, I don't really
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  Speaker 3: have a great argument for you. But let's do that.
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  Speaker 3: Let's let's go through the list tomorrow. We'll do that
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