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Football’s Unmatched Power, Aaron Donald Buzz, Baker’s Contract & Middlekauff Mailbag · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on my people? How are
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Speaker 1: we doing? John Middlecock three Now Podcasts. Hopefully you are
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Speaker 1: doing well, and hopefully you're doing as well as the NFL,
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Speaker 1: because a stat came out today that the NFL made
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Speaker 1: more money in twenty five than baseball, basketball, and hockey combined.
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Speaker 1: So we can dive into the popularity of football fire
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Speaker 1: around the league. We got stories breaking left and right,
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Speaker 1: or just coaches talking, chefter talking. We'll just hit on
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Speaker 1: some different things. We'll do a little mail bag at
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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff. At John Middlecoff is the Instagram firing those dms,
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Speaker 1: get your questions answered on the show, and that'll be it.
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Speaker 1: So hopefully everyone's doing well and getting ready for football
0:57
Speaker 1: because it's right around. You kind of smell in the air.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I smell the air and it's like really hot,
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Speaker 1: but it's always what football people say. It's like you
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Speaker 1: can smell football in the air. Definitely. When you go
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Speaker 1: to Pro Football Talk and you see you know, guys talking,
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Speaker 1: you're like, okay, it's kind of back, but well, by
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Speaker 1: next week we have a lot going on for sure.
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Speaker 1: Other than that, you guys know the drill. Subscribe if
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Speaker 1: want to watch it on video, it's on Netflix. I
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Speaker 1: kind of lost my train of thought there, but let's
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Speaker 1: just let's dive into some sports. Let's just start with
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Speaker 1: the popularity and the power of football. Some of these
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Speaker 1: numbers coming out for the World Cup are pretty eye opening,
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Speaker 1: and because like the stuff I do with Colin on
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Speaker 1: the Herd, somehow I'm on a FS one or Fox
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Speaker 1: email chain and the head boss and out a big email,
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Speaker 1: and the excitement in that building for this event was
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Speaker 1: incredible because it's shattered records. I think the final, which
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Speaker 1: is obviously it's not like America or even Mexico was
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Speaker 1: in it did like sixty million people. So you're talking
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Speaker 1: about like Brett Favus, Steve Young playoff game, right, Jim
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Speaker 1: Harbaugh versus Seattle NFC Championship game. I mean, it's it's
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Speaker 1: pretty rare for a non Super Bowl to get above
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Speaker 1: fifty million people, right, So you do those type numbers
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Speaker 1: now that they include Telemundo, It's been pretty well proven
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Speaker 1: now that if you remove football, the things that do
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Speaker 1: the best are individual events, right the hockey when America
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Speaker 1: beat Canada, that was a really big moment these World
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Speaker 1: Cup that comes around every four years, really big moment
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Speaker 1: in a couple of years in LA the some of
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Speaker 1: the big Olympic events in the summer. Obviously the basketball
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Speaker 1: will do big numbers. Lebron Curry a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 1: it was awesome. I remember being riveted on my couch,
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Speaker 1: you know, the living room, but all these other sports.
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Speaker 1: The NFL in twenty twenty five made more money than
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Speaker 1: every other league combined basketball, baseball, and hockey, and the
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Speaker 1: distribution per team is more than the other league's combined
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Speaker 1: individual teams. Now, part of it is the NFL has
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Speaker 1: a huge advantage. Their entire media deal is national, right
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Speaker 1: the basketball and baseball specifically, their television revenue has always
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Speaker 1: been very, very heavily tied to the local market. It's
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Speaker 1: the why that you have a big advantage being the
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Speaker 1: Knicks being the Dodgers, or the Lakers being the San
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Speaker 1: Franco Giants. Right, they have huge advantages over the smaller markets,
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Speaker 1: but still relative to that, they don't nearly as much
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Speaker 1: as the lowest market, least relevant NFL team. So it's
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Speaker 1: why we always talk about the preseason games is always
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Speaker 1: so awesome in the sense that you get these local
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Speaker 1: broadcasters like team propaganda. You get you know, the GM,
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Speaker 1: the team president, them pushing different things. You typically have
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Speaker 1: the radio announcer doing television, who obviously is paid by
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Speaker 1: the team. You have kind of bought and paid for
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Speaker 1: analysts that are very, very pro the team. It's just
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Speaker 1: an awesome experience because we don't get that throughout the season.
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Speaker 1: You kind of get these neutral, independent guys on Fox CBS.
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Speaker 1: You know, I know Chris collins Worth loves mahomes. But
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Speaker 1: it's a fun experience during August when not months as
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Speaker 1: much is going on. But this is going to be
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Speaker 1: the biggest NFL season in the history of the league
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Speaker 1: and for the foreseeable future. I've been beating this drum
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Speaker 1: for a while. This is not gonna last forever. How
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Speaker 1: long this goes. I keep my fingers crossed as long
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Speaker 1: as I can talk right, So hopefully the next thirty
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Speaker 1: plus years the NFL thrives. But we have seen other
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Speaker 1: examples of things EBB and flow. Baseball was massive when
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Speaker 1: I was a kid, and at one point in time
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Speaker 1: it was easily the biggest sport in America. That is
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Speaker 1: obviously no longer the case. It's you know, ESPN fires
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Speaker 1: car Ol ravage because it's like, well, they don't even
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Speaker 1: have Sunday Night Baseball. Sunday Baseball even exist. Sunday Night
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Speaker 1: Baseball when it was Pedro Martinez versus Roger Clemens. I've
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Speaker 1: gotten some Instagram highlight reels of like the late nineties
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Speaker 1: early two thousands that felt like an NFL game. Those
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Speaker 1: days are over, obviously. The NBA teams literally don't try
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Speaker 1: anymore in the regular season. Hell, the NBA champion, how
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Speaker 1: did I get average? Good season? You know, you wouldn't
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Speaker 1: say their regular season is going to be very memorable
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Speaker 1: in New York, obviously the playoff run will be. But
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, their strength has been the event model model,
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Speaker 1: and it's just based on the sport. You can't play
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Speaker 1: every day, because if you could, you would. Really, anyone
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Speaker 1: that's played high school football knows the majority of time
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Speaker 1: in the sport is not playing games. It's practice, in
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Speaker 1: film and working out. Games are actually such a small
6:30
Speaker 1: percentage of the sport of football. Now, when it comes
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Speaker 1: to the revenue of football, games pay for it all.
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Speaker 1: But in terms of a week, it's why do most
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Speaker 1: players quit? Because they're like, listen, I still can play.
6:45
Speaker 1: I still enjoy the games, the high coming out of
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Speaker 1: the locker room, the feeling you get on the field.
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Speaker 1: It's all the other stuff. It's the grind of practice,
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Speaker 1: the grind of working out three sixty five, the grind
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Speaker 1: of studying film. Ray Lewis, you pay me Monday through
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Speaker 1: Saturday Sundays for free. And because the games are fun.
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Speaker 1: I mean, everything else involved in football isn't that fun.
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Speaker 1: You're getting screamed at, you're tired, you're injured practicing. It's tough.
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Speaker 1: Were the other sports Baseball plays every day. Basketball up
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Speaker 1: until the last you know, the sports science got really
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Speaker 1: involved in half the healthy players, like, yeah, we're gonna
7:29
Speaker 1: take the day off, look at it. Somehow I ended
7:31
Speaker 1: up on Dirk Nowitzki because there was like an Instagram
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Speaker 1: highlight package of the prime of his career. He had
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Speaker 1: a stretch where it was like seventy seven to eighty
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Speaker 1: one games would look like ten straight years, and most
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Speaker 1: of these guys do now. You could argue a lot
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Speaker 1: of the guys in the eighties and the nineties their
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Speaker 1: careers weren't as long as now, and there's more money
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Speaker 1: in the line now. Like I understand it from a
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Speaker 1: financial standpoint, but you know, Lebron might go to Miami,
7:58
Speaker 1: it looks like. But there was a lot of hype
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Speaker 1: and I was kind of rooting for him to go
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Speaker 1: to Golden State, and it was like they'd be a
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Speaker 1: traveling circus. You mean, like fifty nights a year, what
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Speaker 1: would be the over under games, assuming they don't have
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Speaker 1: major injuries, that Kurry and Lebron play together, It wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be sixty, I'll promise you that. To me, the number
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Speaker 1: would hover around fifty. That means there's thirty two other games,
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Speaker 1: close to half the year where those guys would not
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Speaker 1: be on the floor one of the two of them,
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Speaker 1: and potentially some nights neither of them because they're probably
8:35
Speaker 1: definitely not playing back to backs, definitely not all of them.
8:39
Speaker 1: And that's what you just don't have in football. Guys
8:42
Speaker 1: play injury. If a guy is not on the field,
8:44
Speaker 1: we all know it's a really big deal. Something is wrong.
8:50
Speaker 1: It is concerning. It is a red flag. And by
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Speaker 1: all accounts, Roger Goodell's going to sign a new contract
8:56
Speaker 1: extension the growth of the league. You know under his watch,
9:01
Speaker 1: how much credit he directly deserves. You know, only some
9:06
Speaker 1: of the power broking owners would truly know, but he
9:09
Speaker 1: definitely has played a role in their aggressiveness of the
9:12
Speaker 1: Thursday night football package, which has changed the game. Obviously,
9:16
Speaker 1: the international package, which is only going to draw more revenue,
9:20
Speaker 1: willingness to, you know, take over some of these holidays,
9:24
Speaker 1: which is only going to benefit the NFL, and right
9:27
Speaker 1: now there has never been and this would go for
9:29
Speaker 1: all sports, but definitely football, which not that long ago,
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Speaker 1: it was hard for a lot of different positions to
9:35
Speaker 1: make a lot of money. And now you remove the quarterback,
9:39
Speaker 1: and you move the tackle, and you remove the defensive end.
9:42
Speaker 1: It's defensive tackles, linebackers, tight ends. I mean, all these guys.
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Speaker 1: If you're a big time player, you are making a
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Speaker 1: ton of money. And if you are an average player
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Speaker 1: and you make it to free agency and you're a starter,
9:53
Speaker 1: you're also making a ton of money. So it's just
9:55
Speaker 1: it's a great time. I feel very fortunate to be
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Speaker 1: involved talking about this sport because, you know, the fantasy
10:02
Speaker 1: football element of it, the gambling element of it, the
10:06
Speaker 1: cultural relevance of this sport has never been greater, and
10:11
Speaker 1: that plays a huge role that there is a fomo
10:17
Speaker 1: I don't know if it is quite the right way
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Speaker 1: to describe it, but people feel they have to be
10:22
Speaker 1: involved and keep up just with the general consensus of
10:26
Speaker 1: the big stories of the league. And then you watch
10:29
Speaker 1: your team and you also watch other teams, and that's
10:33
Speaker 1: where the primetime game Sunday Night Football, Monday night Football,
10:35
Speaker 1: Thursday night Football really really come into play, and clearly
10:39
Speaker 1: changing Thursday Night Football to having a much better schedule.
10:43
Speaker 1: I mean, Sunday Night Football this year doesn't have a
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Speaker 1: great schedule, which is borderline inevitable when you start giving
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Speaker 1: better games a Thursday Night Football, which is understandable I
10:54
Speaker 1: would want to be in If you're like, who are
10:56
Speaker 1: you picking to be in business with the next ten years,
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Speaker 1: Amazon or NBC, I think that would be a universal
11:02
Speaker 1: decision by every single human alive on this planet. And
11:06
Speaker 1: then Monday Night Football has grown because ESPN became more
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Speaker 1: football friendly. We're ten years ago they had people on
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Speaker 1: their networks calling for shutting down the league. CTE. You
11:15
Speaker 1: see that Will Smith injury. It's like, yeah, the consumer
11:18
Speaker 1: doesn't give a shit, and clearly the players don't either.
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Speaker 1: We want to watch football, they want to play football,
11:22
Speaker 1: and everyone wants to get rich that's involved with the
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Speaker 1: NFL doing it, So no one's benefited more beside the
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Speaker 1: owners than the players who have gotten filthy rich. I've
11:34
Speaker 1: always thought I heard someone Josh Brown who's on CNBC,
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Speaker 1: thought that Elon and his companies that know, active CEO
11:44
Speaker 1: has created more millionaires just in terms of stockholders, investors,
11:52
Speaker 1: obviously retirement plans than Elon Musk. You could argue, and
11:57
Speaker 1: I listen, you have to do a deep research project
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Speaker 1: on that. Maybe Chad GBT could do it. I can't
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Speaker 1: imagine any business has made more millionaires over the last
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Speaker 1: thirty years in the National Football League just based on coaches, players.
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Speaker 1: Obviously there's more players than all these other sports because
12:12
Speaker 1: you've got fifty three men on a roster, and now
12:15
Speaker 1: you know, the minimum salary for a guy's like nine
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars, so that that number is only going
12:22
Speaker 1: to continue to skyrocket. So this season is gonna be
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be awesome. I mean, there are so many
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Speaker 1: teams that are gonna have a shot, and that's really
12:34
Speaker 1: kind of what the league is. Huggin's had on, you know,
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Speaker 1: post Brady and Belichick. It feels like a lot of
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Speaker 1: teams are alive, and I would say more than ever
12:41
Speaker 1: this year, it feels like you could make an argument
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Speaker 1: for double digit teams that can win the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: And that's really the strength of the league. Beside, like
12:51
Speaker 1: you know, they're not dependent on markets. The Chiefs became
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Speaker 1: the biggest team in the league for six straight years,
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Speaker 1: and that they're not in Los Angeles, New York or Chicago.
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Speaker 1: You know, think about this. The Giants and the Jets
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Speaker 1: have sucked as the league has taken off like a
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Speaker 1: rocket ship these last ten to fifteen years. Let's fly
13:08
Speaker 1: around the league and just hit on some stuff that
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Speaker 1: I saw today. Sean McVeigh was asked I think he
13:16
Speaker 1: was on a podcast with Jason lock and fora and
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Speaker 1: asked about Aaron Donald if he's coming back, and he
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Speaker 1: went on this long kind of you know, ran about
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Speaker 1: how he's a great guy, they're great friends, he's a
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Speaker 1: great husband, he's a great son. Clearly they have a
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Speaker 1: very strong relationship. I mean, Sean, I think the Whitworth
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Speaker 1: and Aaron Donald kind of a unique relationship similar ages.
13:37
Speaker 1: Whitworth's a little older, Donald's a little younger, but like
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Speaker 1: those guys clearly mean a lot to Sean, and he
13:43
Speaker 1: means a lot to them. I think Stafford has grown
13:46
Speaker 1: into that, but he basically said, like it's up to him.
13:51
Speaker 1: What I think is fascinating here is and listen, you
13:53
Speaker 1: can manipulate the cap any way you want. I saw
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Speaker 1: someone I think I mentioned this yesterday, that he is
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Speaker 1: technically still owed thirty million dollars. So if he just
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Speaker 1: unretires and they want him, he would like, he's on
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Speaker 1: the books for thirty million dollars. Well, I googled it.
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Speaker 1: They have twenty million dollars in cap space, which kind
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Speaker 1: of irrelevant. You can cap space is of fugazi. You
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Speaker 1: can create, you can manipulate with extending. But it's like,
14:21
Speaker 1: are you comfortable because if you're the Rams, you sneak,
14:23
Speaker 1: you have some leverage, right, you don't need him. He's
14:28
Speaker 1: been gone for a while. It's not like he just
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Speaker 1: retired last year after seven straight All pros. He's been
14:34
Speaker 1: gone for years now. Now, he's incredible shape. I would
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Speaker 1: have no reservations in terms of, like my expectation of
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Speaker 1: him being still a really good player, Like is the
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Speaker 1: Aaron Donald peak of his powers twenty nine years old?
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Speaker 1: Probably not, But would he still be an impact player one,
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Speaker 1: But could you also say this, like, you know, you
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Speaker 1: haven't played in forever. When Week one one starts, your
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Speaker 1: salary is then guaranteed. Could that number actually come down
15:05
Speaker 1: and we build incentives into it to make it worth
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Speaker 1: like forty million dollars but instead of the thirty million dollars,
15:10
Speaker 1: it's more like twenty million dollars. That could double with
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Speaker 1: just basic hey, double digit sacks, Pro Bowl whatever. I
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Speaker 1: do think there would be some negotiations because one of
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Speaker 1: the cap guys on Twitter was like, he'll probably want
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Speaker 1: more than thirty million dollars if I'm the Rams, Like
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Speaker 1: I am running a business. We're paying a lot of
15:31
Speaker 1: money to a lot of people. Stafford makes a ton,
15:33
Speaker 1: Garrett makes a ton, Trent McDuffie now makes a ton.
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Speaker 1: Davante doesn't make nothing. You know. It's like, Ah, I
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Speaker 1: do wonder if there'd have to be some negotiations. Maybe
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Speaker 1: I'm being naive. Maybe they're just like, hey, we'll give
15:46
Speaker 1: you whatever you want. It's one thing to do with
15:48
Speaker 1: that to Miles Garrett or you know, a player in
15:51
Speaker 1: like the peak of their powers who's currently playing. It's
15:53
Speaker 1: another thing for guys to retire for several years and
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Speaker 1: they come back and they get a bunch of leverage
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Speaker 1: to a team. That is why I considered the best
16:00
Speaker 1: roster currently in the NFL. So that that is something
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Speaker 1: I would be interested in. Wouldn't shock me at all
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Speaker 1: if Donald is like, I'm willing to come back, but
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Speaker 1: we got to negotiate a salary and then they kind
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Speaker 1: of hash it out. But I think that might be
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Speaker 1: a little tougher negotiation than one might assume. Adam Schefter,
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Speaker 1: I think I think he was on NFL Live the
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Speaker 1: day Ryan Clark started the show, got fired and then
16:28
Speaker 1: it you know, it was originally reported he quit the show.
16:31
Speaker 1: I think I saw a TMZ headline today say that
16:33
Speaker 1: he was told he was done. Listen, you get fired
16:37
Speaker 1: typically like I've been fired. You get fired after the
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Speaker 1: show and then escorted out of the building like that,
16:43
Speaker 1: I've done that. That happened. It happens in radio, right.
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Speaker 1: They don't tell you before the show, this is gonna
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Speaker 1: be your last show, because who knows, maybe you go
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Speaker 1: score short. They typically tell you after the show. I
16:54
Speaker 1: clearly that was the plan, but it wasn't executed very well,
16:59
Speaker 1: and he was fired mid show and he either quit
17:02
Speaker 1: or was told not to quit. The other thing is
17:03
Speaker 1: like players, here's one thing. Media people get so and
17:09
Speaker 1: I get it, like listen, I've been fired twice, so
17:12
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be insensitive here, but it's like
17:16
Speaker 1: if you cover pro sports, like that's your job, you're
17:19
Speaker 1: constantly talking about people getting fired, coaches, players. I mean,
17:23
Speaker 1: we're a little over a month away from like half
17:28
Speaker 1: the roster of these NFL teams literally being told you're fired,
17:33
Speaker 1: and like everyone gets all emotional about media people getting fired.
17:38
Speaker 1: We're all we do is talk about, especially in football
17:41
Speaker 1: more than these other sports because the contracts, these guys
17:43
Speaker 1: getting fired, coaches, GMS, players, It's like it doesn't feel
17:49
Speaker 1: like no one will have any hesitation, Like he got
17:52
Speaker 1: cut whatever, so and so got fired. John Harbaugh had
17:55
Speaker 1: it coming. You know. It's like he'll be okay, I'll
17:58
Speaker 1: promise you. You know if John Middlecoff was okay, they didn't
18:02
Speaker 1: play for a long time in the NFL. Like all
18:04
Speaker 1: these people are gonna be okay, Like Tom Pelasarrow's good
18:06
Speaker 1: at his job, he'll be okay. You know. I do
18:09
Speaker 1: get like Carl Ravage, like baseball, it's like I don't
18:12
Speaker 1: know what the market is because you know, the importance
18:15
Speaker 1: of the sport has changed. But I just think it's
18:18
Speaker 1: fascinating how numb we are. And I'm guilty of this,
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Speaker 1: the way that I talked about coaches getting fired, players
18:25
Speaker 1: you know, getting cut, which is getting fired, and then
18:29
Speaker 1: we like, oh my god, how is this guy that
18:32
Speaker 1: just had a media gig where he worked three days
18:34
Speaker 1: a week making two and a half million gonna feed
18:36
Speaker 1: his family? Like, guys, can we pump the fucking breaks here?
18:40
Speaker 1: Some of the reaction is just it's like Jesus, and
18:42
Speaker 1: who's the reaction the media people? And I get why,
18:45
Speaker 1: like just it's made for social media. But Adam Schefter,
18:49
Speaker 1: who was on the show that day, he uh, he
18:54
Speaker 1: had an interesting quote about DeShawn Strippling, the guy the
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers drafted with the first pick in the
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Speaker 1: second round. He transferred around a bunch and think Washington State,
19:04
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, and finished his career at all, missed for
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Speaker 1: Langkiff and an Pee Golding. Here's what Adam said. What's
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Speaker 1: interesting about this selection is were some people that wondered
19:16
Speaker 1: if it was too early for shribbling to go, and
19:19
Speaker 1: yet there were a couple of teams that I spoke
19:21
Speaker 1: to up to the draft that felt like Stribbling was
19:24
Speaker 1: the best wide out in the entire draft. Another team,
19:28
Speaker 1: supposedly the Rams, had their eyes on him as well.
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Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers didn't just come up and pick
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Speaker 1: this guy out of nowhere. They knew that there were
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Speaker 1: other teams that were very high grade, that had a
19:39
Speaker 1: high grade on Stribling when the forty nine ers declined
19:43
Speaker 1: to trade out of the top draft slot in the
19:46
Speaker 1: second round and select him there. So I actually sent
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Speaker 1: this to a scouting buddy because I said, do you
19:52
Speaker 1: think there's any chance that a team had him graded
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Speaker 1: as the top wide receiver in their draft class? He said,
20:00
Speaker 1: best wide receiver in the draft might be a stretch,
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Speaker 1: but I had him mid second. Personally, don't think it
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Speaker 1: was that much of a reach. But there's no way
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Speaker 1: anyone would know. Uh, there's no way anyone who knows
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Speaker 1: what they're doing could watch Carnel Tait and Scribbling and
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Speaker 1: say that strib is better. I think a lot of
20:23
Speaker 1: times after the draft, like, we love this guy, we
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Speaker 1: love this guy. If the forty nine ers could have
20:29
Speaker 1: picked a wide receiver, every wide receiver in the draft,
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Speaker 1: I doubt they would have taken this guy. But when
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Speaker 1: this type stuff comes out, like a lot of people
20:40
Speaker 1: liked him. Clearly the forty nine ers liked him a lot,
20:42
Speaker 1: the league liked him a lot. It does put some
20:44
Speaker 1: added pressure on this player. The forty nine Ers signed
20:48
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, who has been one of the most consistent
20:50
Speaker 1: players in the league for his entire career, future Hall
20:52
Speaker 1: of Famer. They have this massive question mark at Ricky Pearsol.
20:56
Speaker 1: Ricky Pearsol's good when he's on the field. The problem
20:59
Speaker 1: is he's in the tent in street close all the time.
21:03
Speaker 1: If you told me Ricky Pearsall plays seventeen games in
21:06
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, I will tell you he's catching eighty
21:08
Speaker 1: or ninety balls. But I would not feel confident at
21:12
Speaker 1: all thinking that he's gonna be on the field because
21:14
Speaker 1: he hasn't proven to be on the field despite like
21:17
Speaker 1: took a gunshot wound clearly tough like that's the thing.
21:21
Speaker 1: No one questions the toughness. But he's had an issue
21:24
Speaker 1: with hamstrings, and anytime you're a hamstring guy, sometimes it's
21:27
Speaker 1: like the like the wiring of your body. It's tough.
21:34
Speaker 1: I think the expectation for this guy is to be good.
21:38
Speaker 1: But if you tell me that Mike Evans is healthy,
21:40
Speaker 1: Ricky Pearsall is healthy, and this young guy that the
21:43
Speaker 1: entire league like, like if Kittle comes back and McCaffrey
21:46
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they got pretty interesting offense. But
21:49
Speaker 1: there are a lot of question marks. KITT's coming off
21:51
Speaker 1: in Achilles, Ricky Pearsall is coming off a season when
21:54
Speaker 1: he's just rarely on the field. Evans is just an
21:57
Speaker 1: older player, and I've rookies can just be very hit
22:02
Speaker 1: or miss, But I have a hard time seeing any
22:07
Speaker 1: team as their favorite wide receiver and draft and there's
22:10
Speaker 1: also a difference of this this guy's my favorite player
22:13
Speaker 1: in the draft. I don't think he's the gonna go
22:16
Speaker 1: number one, but like he was my favorite player in
22:19
Speaker 1: the draft, like uh Rodriguez. I think the linebacker from
22:24
Speaker 1: Texas Tech who went in the second round to Miami.
22:27
Speaker 1: Player like that who just like was in the Heisman conversation,
22:30
Speaker 1: he was just a fucking baller, but he was never
22:33
Speaker 1: gonna go in the top twenty. I bet there are
22:35
Speaker 1: scouts in the league, maybe scouting directors, hell, maybe eve
22:38
Speaker 1: It's some gms like that's one of my favorite players
22:40
Speaker 1: in the draft, but you wouldn't take them like you
22:43
Speaker 1: would Roquan Smith at eight. So I think that conversation
22:48
Speaker 1: happens a lot where you get guys that go on
22:50
Speaker 1: the second day that are beloved in the scouting community
22:54
Speaker 1: and buy gms. But there's a values, you know, appointed
22:58
Speaker 1: to you when you go to the market that is Thursday, Friday,
23:01
Speaker 1: and Saturday. It's like, I'm not gonna take a guy
23:04
Speaker 1: at fourth overall if I think I can get him
23:06
Speaker 1: at thirty fifth overall. It's part of like you you
23:08
Speaker 1: wouldn't pay two million dollars for one million dollar home
23:11
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25:05
Speaker 1: sprinkle Fernando Mendoza with the ones during training camp. To me,
25:09
Speaker 1: the biggest question mark with Fernando Mendoza is just the
25:13
Speaker 1: under center stuff, because if he is comfortable under center,
25:16
Speaker 1: something he has never done and something that is required
25:20
Speaker 1: in this offense, then he'll win the job. If it
25:24
Speaker 1: is something that he is not comfortable with and he's
25:27
Speaker 1: just remember Jared Goff hard knocks his rookie year for
25:31
Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher in the Rams. It's like the fuck he
25:33
Speaker 1: was just it was a nightmare. He had played for
25:36
Speaker 1: Sonny Dike's and like the you know, the ultimate spread off.
25:40
Speaker 1: It was a tough transition. And then over a couple
25:43
Speaker 1: of years Jared Goff felt very comfortable playing under center,
25:46
Speaker 1: and he's become a consistent top ten quarterback really ever
25:49
Speaker 1: since beside you know, a year or two down. That
25:52
Speaker 1: to me is the question with Fernando Mendoza. If you
25:54
Speaker 1: tell me he picks it up fast and he's worked
25:56
Speaker 1: on at all OTAs in the summer, which I'm sure
25:58
Speaker 1: he has, but there's a big differ. Have just taken
26:00
Speaker 1: snaps wherever you live in the offseason and you know,
26:06
Speaker 1: in doing it in camp, doing in the preseason games.
26:09
Speaker 1: So that, to me is my biggest question mark with him,
26:12
Speaker 1: and it's it's cousin's greatest advantage. He's been doing it
26:15
Speaker 1: now since he came into the NFL, and honestly even
26:18
Speaker 1: back to Michigan State because they ran a pro style offense.
26:21
Speaker 1: I saw this and it bothered me. It really did that.
26:25
Speaker 1: The uh even though I get it, it's just one
26:31
Speaker 1: of those things I understand, I don't like it. Like
26:35
Speaker 1: I understand USC going to the Big Ten. I understand
26:38
Speaker 1: UCLA basically piggybacking with him. I understand then Oregon and
26:42
Speaker 1: Washington be like we need in. I get it. I
26:46
Speaker 1: totally understand it. That doesn't mean I don't hate it.
26:49
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that the PAC twelve no longer existing.
26:53
Speaker 1: You know, I know they currently call the Mountain West
26:55
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve. Like, give me a fucking break, it's
26:57
Speaker 1: not it's the Mountain West. I missed the pack. I
27:01
Speaker 1: miss Cal playing USC, I miss ASU Upsettigore. You know,
27:07
Speaker 1: I just missed those games that no longer exist. Even
27:10
Speaker 1: if I understand it, like Texas and Oklahoma going to
27:13
Speaker 1: the SEC no brainer for them, kind of missed what
27:16
Speaker 1: the Big twelve was. But we're never going back. And
27:21
Speaker 1: these teams that are in cold weather cities, they cannot
27:25
Speaker 1: host concerts, they cannot host the Final Four, they cannot
27:28
Speaker 1: host WrestleMania in the winter. It is too cold. You're
27:33
Speaker 1: not gonna host you know, the Rolling Stones February first
27:38
Speaker 1: in downtown Chicago at Soldier Field. The Arrowhead is not
27:43
Speaker 1: going to have Morgan Wallen or WrestleMania, you know, late January.
27:49
Speaker 1: It's just not possible. It's too cold, the weather's too unpredictable.
27:52
Speaker 1: So when the Chiefs post their new stadium renderings, my
27:58
Speaker 1: first reaction was like, that's a And the reason it
28:02
Speaker 1: sucks is because there's a dome and they're gonna play inside.
28:07
Speaker 1: And I get it. If you're Clark Hunt and you
28:09
Speaker 1: are the Chiefs organization financially, you can make way more
28:14
Speaker 1: twelve months a year with that. But I would say
28:18
Speaker 1: a lot like New England Patriots with Brady and Belichick.
28:22
Speaker 1: One defining attribute of the Mahomes Andy Reid run was
28:28
Speaker 1: they could win a game in Alaska. You can put
28:31
Speaker 1: them in Antarctica, and it is advantage Mahomes and the Chiefs.
28:36
Speaker 1: When Tua came there and it was over by three
28:39
Speaker 1: snaps into the game, it was like, they don't want it.
28:42
Speaker 1: It actually neutralizes your strength, you know, Green Bay when
28:47
Speaker 1: they're good, which is typical you know most years, obviously
28:50
Speaker 1: Chicago last year. It's like, if you Philly, you can
28:53
Speaker 1: play in these weather games. It's an advantage over some
28:57
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who aren't going to be as comfortable. And I
29:01
Speaker 1: hate it. I don't know what else to say, even
29:03
Speaker 1: though I completely understand it, and if I was in
29:07
Speaker 1: his shoes and I own the team, I would do
29:10
Speaker 1: the same thing. That doesn't mean it doesn't suck in
29:15
Speaker 1: all these stadiums within the next twenty years. And that
29:18
Speaker 1: also I do wonder if everything is just a dome
29:23
Speaker 1: experience in like maybe that could be the beginning of
29:27
Speaker 1: the end of football. It all kind of looks the same,
29:29
Speaker 1: Like right now, if you get Baltimore versus Pittsburgh in
29:32
Speaker 1: the middle of December, that game looks dramatically different than
29:34
Speaker 1: a game at SOFI. Was everything just gonna look like Sofi?
29:39
Speaker 1: By twenty fifteen when all these new stadiums have been built.
29:42
Speaker 1: Kind of feels that way. Demo Samuel doesn't have a job,
29:46
Speaker 1: and you know a lot of the forty nine ers
29:48
Speaker 1: players were instagram and posting on some of his like
29:51
Speaker 1: workout posts. I have nothing but respect for Deebo's career.
29:55
Speaker 1: Very unique player. One thing I noticed last year he
30:00
Speaker 1: looks low and part of with the ball in his
30:03
Speaker 1: hands because statistically, you know, from a I think he
30:07
Speaker 1: had a bunch of receptions. I don't have his stats
30:09
Speaker 1: up right now, but I'm pretty sure Debo had like
30:13
Speaker 1: eighty catches or something like just Deebo Samuel, he had
30:21
Speaker 1: seventy two catches last year, so the previous year, for example,
30:24
Speaker 1: he had fifty one. The problem is his average per
30:29
Speaker 1: catch he had seven hundred and twenty seven yards. So
30:34
Speaker 1: when you watched him, like he just lacks some speed
30:38
Speaker 1: and a huge part of Debo like he was never
30:41
Speaker 1: going to be Tyreek Hill without the ball in his hands.
30:43
Speaker 1: But when you put the ball in his hands, his
30:45
Speaker 1: play speed was elite. Might be too bold of a
30:50
Speaker 1: way to describe it, but it was pretty high end.
30:55
Speaker 1: And once you lose that, it's like, I don't know,
31:00
Speaker 1: it's tough. And by all accounts, you know, people that
31:03
Speaker 1: cover and report on the forty nine ers. I'm like, yeah,
31:05
Speaker 1: they don't really have that much interest. I'd have no
31:09
Speaker 1: problem if I was Kyle bringing him back on like
31:11
Speaker 1: just a nothing deal, but they're not gonna pay him
31:13
Speaker 1: any money. And sure, by the looks of it, it doesn't
31:17
Speaker 1: look like many teams are that interested for anything other
31:20
Speaker 1: than a contract where I can cut you and not
31:22
Speaker 1: enough to eat any cash. Albert Brewer reported that the Bucks,
31:28
Speaker 1: now the camp is getting going plan on diving into
31:31
Speaker 1: the Baker Mayfield contract. This is tough because you watch
31:36
Speaker 1: I've only watched the first two episodes of the Quarterback.
31:40
Speaker 1: Baker's the star of that show, and once you learned
31:43
Speaker 1: that he was banged up so early in the season, honestly,
31:46
Speaker 1: it gives you a little bit like, Okay, doesn't give
31:49
Speaker 1: him a pass, but you don't hold the shitty season
31:54
Speaker 1: you know next to him and like his career the same,
31:58
Speaker 1: Like I'd previously seeing the guy play for a couple
32:01
Speaker 1: of years. He looked excellent, but he's not the biggest guy.
32:05
Speaker 1: You do have to think big picture. Is this a
32:07
Speaker 1: guy that's durability. He's been injured in Cleveland, Like, do
32:10
Speaker 1: you feel comfortable giving him a contract, and the rate
32:12
Speaker 1: is kind of the rate even though I hate that. No,
32:15
Speaker 1: the rate is the rate if you want to overpay
32:17
Speaker 1: a quarterback or you're paying Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Patrick
32:21
Speaker 1: Mahomes like, yeah, we've seen you know the tuas some
32:25
Speaker 1: of these other guys get money and you're like, do
32:28
Speaker 1: not like that? Kyler Murray. Those teams like couldn't get
32:30
Speaker 1: off the guy fast enough. So my question when it
32:33
Speaker 1: comes to Baker Mayfield, there's gotta be some middle ground.
32:38
Speaker 1: Like he's never gonna be a top five quarterback, but
32:42
Speaker 1: when he's humming, he's, you know, somewhere between ten to fourteen,
32:47
Speaker 1: which means if you do a good job building your team,
32:48
Speaker 1: like you're gonna be in the playoffs and if he's on,
32:50
Speaker 1: you can win playoff games. So that to me is
32:53
Speaker 1: like three years, one hundred and twenty million, forty million
32:57
Speaker 1: dollars a year guarantee, like hundred million dollars of it.
33:02
Speaker 1: Does he go, I'm not playing for that. It's like, well,
33:04
Speaker 1: if you're not, then I'm we just gotta play this
33:06
Speaker 1: thing out, maybe prove me wrong, throw fifty touchdowns and
33:09
Speaker 1: then I don't have a choice. But I don't see
33:12
Speaker 1: how you could extend them for anything more than like
33:17
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million dollars and more like, to me,
33:21
Speaker 1: the number has to start like in the low fource
33:23
Speaker 1: for me to feel comfortable. And I'm pro Baker Mayfield
33:26
Speaker 1: been a huge fan forever, but there's gotta be some
33:29
Speaker 1: middle ground, like you give Jokic the max and you
33:33
Speaker 1: give Jalen Brown the max, like they ain't the same, right,
33:38
Speaker 1: So that that's the problem with these quarterback contracts, which
33:41
Speaker 1: is why you pay Jason Light a lot of money
33:43
Speaker 1: to figure it out. Uh. Before we dive into the mailbag,
33:47
Speaker 1: I saw they they have the SEC media Days going
33:51
Speaker 1: on this week and John Summerol, the new Florida head coach,
33:56
Speaker 1: was up at the podium speaking and I think one
34:00
Speaker 1: of the reporters phones went off and some were all
34:05
Speaker 1: kind of joking, kind of serious, was like, if you
34:07
Speaker 1: were in my meeting, I would kick your ass out.
34:09
Speaker 1: But then he kind of smiled and he's having fun
34:11
Speaker 1: with it. And a lot of people are dunking on
34:13
Speaker 1: the guy on you know, on the X in the
34:17
Speaker 1: X channels, as my mother says, And my first reaction
34:21
Speaker 1: was like, God, you can't silence your phone going into UH.
34:24
Speaker 1: I mean, how many teams are in the SEC sixteen
34:27
Speaker 1: Like when coach is talking, you would think you'd turn
34:29
Speaker 1: off your phone. And then I remembered, I think I
34:32
Speaker 1: told this story when Haberman came on last year that
34:36
Speaker 1: when I worked in radio, the Raiders were on our station.
34:40
Speaker 1: And early on when I got involved in the radio station,
34:45
Speaker 1: it was the off season probably like it was probably
34:49
Speaker 1: like May or June. So we went as a station,
34:53
Speaker 1: like all the hosts to the Raiders facility, which now
34:58
Speaker 1: I think Coach Reid told me a couple of years
35:00
Speaker 1: ago because they stayed in the UH you know, for
35:04
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl when it was in Vegas, in the
35:07
Speaker 1: Raiders facility in practiciary. He said, it's the most incredible
35:09
Speaker 1: thing he's ever seen. And you know, you talk to
35:11
Speaker 1: people that work for the Raiders, like it's fucking mind blowing,
35:14
Speaker 1: how incredible. As places. They used to be in this
35:17
Speaker 1: old bank close to the Oakland Airport, which was just shitty.
35:21
Speaker 1: It was bad, but they had this team meeting room
35:24
Speaker 1: and like we were gonna have a Q and a
35:26
Speaker 1: kind of like a relaxed environment. Dennis Allen was the
35:29
Speaker 1: coach at the time. So I go in, you know,
35:32
Speaker 1: football guy, sit in the front row, and all of
35:34
Speaker 1: a sudden, my phone starts ringing. He's mid conversation talking
35:38
Speaker 1: about dealing with us and if you guys have a question,
35:40
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of bullshitting, kind of like trying
35:43
Speaker 1: to give a little propaganda whatever. But I'm green to this.
35:46
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm kind of sitting there listening to him talk.
35:49
Speaker 1: My phone starts ringing loud. I have it on full go,
35:53
Speaker 1: and I look and it's my mom. It says mom.
35:56
Speaker 1: Sell and I must have had an older phone, because
35:59
Speaker 1: I I swear I hit you know, end or silence,
36:02
Speaker 1: and nothing happened. I accidentally hit answer, and when I
36:07
Speaker 1: hit answer, I had hit speakerphone, and all of a sudden,
36:11
Speaker 1: everyone's looking at me. Dennis Allen's staring right at me,
36:15
Speaker 1: and all you hear is John John John, And I'm
36:20
Speaker 1: fucking pounding this phone. He's staring at me. Now, granted
36:24
Speaker 1: he would get fired four games later. Gotta be top
36:28
Speaker 1: five embarrassing moment in my life in a professional setting,
36:30
Speaker 1: and there's nothing you can do. I was at a
36:32
Speaker 1: wedding a month ago. Maria's in the wedding, so I'm
36:36
Speaker 1: sitting pretty close to like where the you know, the
36:39
Speaker 1: groovesmen and the bride'smaids are second row or whatever, cause
36:43
Speaker 1: the first row or first two rows are typically family,
36:45
Speaker 1: so it's like aunt and uncle. All of a sudden,
36:48
Speaker 1: everyone's there. I don't think they're quite reading the vows yet.
36:51
Speaker 1: I think the guy officiating the wedding was kind of
36:55
Speaker 1: giving his take on life. And this phone starts ringing
37:00
Speaker 1: and this couple I look, I mean they're five feet
37:03
Speaker 1: away from me. Probably late sixties, early seventies, so I
37:07
Speaker 1: wouldn't say the smoothest operators when it comes to a phone.
37:10
Speaker 1: The phone is in her purse. It is echoing throughout
37:14
Speaker 1: this everyone that's sitting there. The bride is then glaring
37:19
Speaker 1: at her like Belichick would if you fucked up a
37:22
Speaker 1: defensive call on third down. She was like, this is
37:26
Speaker 1: a nightmare. She's rummaging through the bag, can't find it,
37:30
Speaker 1: finally finds it, and then they're struggling to turn it off.
37:33
Speaker 1: Has to just be lying out of there. I'm like,
37:36
Speaker 1: been there, honey. That sucks, but nothing worse than when
37:41
Speaker 1: the phone goes and you can't have a smooth transition
37:44
Speaker 1: to quiet it. Because if there's just like one ring,
37:47
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's is faced. It's the multiple rings.
37:51
Speaker 1: And the worst case scenarios is me if you hit
37:53
Speaker 1: answer and then and then speak her phone, and then
37:56
Speaker 1: your mom starts saying your name and it's echoing throughout
37:59
Speaker 1: a small little meeting room. Okay, let's do it. Just
38:14
Speaker 1: a couple of mail back questions. I got this because
38:16
Speaker 1: I maybe I didn't do a good enough job of
38:20
Speaker 1: describing my thoughts on why Tom Brady was doing this.
38:26
Speaker 1: I think you're off base on the Tom with Jake
38:29
Speaker 1: Paul or Logan Paul take you're getting quote worked. As
38:33
Speaker 1: they say in wrestling, Logan is a full time WWE wrestler.
38:38
Speaker 1: This is all a quote work and it's a slow
38:41
Speaker 1: build for an anticipated match at WrestleMania in Saudi Arabia
38:46
Speaker 1: next April between Logan and Tom, where Tom is most
38:50
Speaker 1: likely gonna get paid a quote shit ton of money.
38:53
Speaker 1: Probably would be the same gimmick tag team match where
38:56
Speaker 1: Tom will go over on Logan. Nothing is confirmed, but
39:00
Speaker 1: WW has their hands all over this. I'm sure Tom
39:03
Speaker 1: has previously been paid by Sadi guys with the Flag
39:05
Speaker 1: Football League. Logan has ties to the country, plus Mania
39:09
Speaker 1: is being hosted there next year. Sadi Mania is expected
39:12
Speaker 1: to bring out all the stars. Adding on to this,
39:16
Speaker 1: he honestly might not even get in the ring. It
39:19
Speaker 1: might be a situation where he manages the dude that
39:22
Speaker 1: fights Logan and gets a couple shots in. But it's
39:25
Speaker 1: really trending like he's going to be involved in sadi
39:27
Speaker 1: Mania in some capacity. Their shit talking on social flag
39:32
Speaker 1: football and now the slap isn't a coincidence. If I
39:36
Speaker 1: came off like I believed the slap and the finger,
39:42
Speaker 1: then that that's on me. But my take yesterday was
39:46
Speaker 1: not that I believed what was going on. It's that
39:50
Speaker 1: Tom would kind of get involved with what you would say,
39:55
Speaker 1: typically in my lifetime, Dennis Rodman got involved with Lawrence Tay,
40:00
Speaker 1: I think was once involved in WrestleMania. I would say
40:03
Speaker 1: those two guys, Lawrence Taylor and Dennis Rodman, they're off
40:09
Speaker 1: the field. Court brand is a little different than Thomas
40:14
Speaker 1: Edward Brady. So I do understand because people are like,
40:22
Speaker 1: why does he even need the money? He's got an
40:25
Speaker 1: expensive lifestyle and if someone's willing to pay you for
40:30
Speaker 1: twenty minutes of your time and do some stupid gimmicks
40:33
Speaker 1: throughout the next year to build up to one hundred
40:36
Speaker 1: million dollars or fifty million dollars or hell, ten million
40:39
Speaker 1: dollars for not that much work. Is it really that crazy?
40:44
Speaker 1: And I think the pushback is is like Tom was
40:48
Speaker 1: always above this stuff, Like Tom's gonna get involved in
40:51
Speaker 1: roll WWE with Logan Paul, when twenty years ago Peyton
40:58
Speaker 1: Manning was in every commercial known to man. He's still
41:02
Speaker 1: up until the last couple of years, was right, But
41:04
Speaker 1: in their playing career, Peyton there was not a brand
41:07
Speaker 1: that Peyton wouldn't do business with, and Tom was much
41:10
Speaker 1: more picky that way. And now it feels like it's
41:13
Speaker 1: flipped where Tom will do anything for money. And maybe
41:19
Speaker 1: it's I heard Albert Brier talking about this. Maybe it's
41:23
Speaker 1: resenting all the money he gave up playing. Maybe his
41:29
Speaker 1: son wants him to do this. Maybe his son and
41:33
Speaker 1: his kids think this is cool. I have no issue
41:36
Speaker 1: with that, and I don't have an issue with doing
41:38
Speaker 1: things for money. I'm just saying this is not normal.
41:41
Speaker 1: Like if you look at yesterday or the last seven days,
41:45
Speaker 1: one guy's doing a quote unquote work with Logan Paul
41:49
Speaker 1: while Aaron Rodgers reuniting with his family. Like I said,
41:52
Speaker 1: it feels like they're going the other way. And I
41:55
Speaker 1: do think, and I stand by what I said that
41:58
Speaker 1: one guy's very at peace with kind of his lot
42:01
Speaker 1: in life athletically, and I think Tom struggles with that,
42:04
Speaker 1: which I don't blame him. I don't blame him at all,
42:08
Speaker 1: but it is I think it's fair to go like,
42:11
Speaker 1: what's going on. We all know what's going on, right
42:15
Speaker 1: the work and the WWE, and no one believed the
42:18
Speaker 1: slap was real, but that was the reaction. It's like,
42:23
Speaker 1: why would you put yourself in a business deal where
42:29
Speaker 1: you gotta do stuff like this, Like aren't you above that?
42:34
Speaker 1: That's Dennis Rodman, Lawrence Taylor, Like that's kind of Gronk forever.
42:39
Speaker 1: He feels like he's doing some Gronk stuff, which listen,
42:43
Speaker 1: Gronk was never gonna have the capability to make the
42:45
Speaker 1: money Tom could off the field, So it's like I
42:48
Speaker 1: never had an issue with him doing that, and it
42:49
Speaker 1: felt like he was got a ww wrestler like George
42:52
Speaker 1: Kittle one day will probably be a WWE be understandable, hell,
42:55
Speaker 1: Travis kelce My too. Tom, Like, I don't know again,
43:02
Speaker 1: I'm not like disturbed by it. I just find it interesting.
43:08
Speaker 1: I find it fast. I like psychoanalyzing it more than
43:10
Speaker 1: like this is really turning me off. I don't give
43:13
Speaker 1: a shit. I just I truly find it fascinating. I'm
43:19
Speaker 1: fascinated by successful individuals, the mindset of those people, how
43:22
Speaker 1: they transition to different things in life. And it's been
43:26
Speaker 1: interesting watching Tom. The other thing is like a Fernando
43:31
Speaker 1: calling him for advice, Like, Hey, Fernando, can I call
43:33
Speaker 1: you back in thirty I got something with a Logan
43:36
Speaker 1: Paul here. You know, it's like what a Tom Clint
43:41
Speaker 1: Kobi X on the phone. He's got a couple questions
43:44
Speaker 1: on some second down concepts you got. I gotta call
43:48
Speaker 1: him back in an hour. Me and Logan have a
43:51
Speaker 1: photo shoot going. It's just a little weird. I don't know.
43:56
Speaker 1: I do understand the reaction. I got a theory on
44:01
Speaker 1: Sean mannon do you think there's any chance they hired
44:06
Speaker 1: him because they already see Hurts on the way out
44:08
Speaker 1: and they want to use Tanner McKee. My thought is
44:14
Speaker 1: they hired him simply because the Shanahan offense has most
44:20
Speaker 1: teams or concepts of that offense has dominated the league
44:25
Speaker 1: and it leans on running the football, which they're paying
44:29
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley a ton of money. They're paying their offensive
44:31
Speaker 1: line a ton of money. Their quarterback can run. It
44:34
Speaker 1: puts your quarterback in positions where he can scramble. I
44:37
Speaker 1: think they looked at him like, we want to run
44:40
Speaker 1: this offense, and Jalen, you're gonna have to figure it out,
44:44
Speaker 1: which I I'm not confident it's gonna work. I think
44:51
Speaker 1: there's a strong chance they can look weird. Now if
44:53
Speaker 1: you tell me they like I said yesterday, run the ball, well,
44:58
Speaker 1: it'll work, but if you don't, it could get weird.
45:04
Speaker 1: But I don't think it had to do with Jalen
45:05
Speaker 1: on his way. I just think that we want to
45:07
Speaker 1: run this offense or I mean it's you know, we're
45:13
Speaker 1: so far removed. They got turned down by a lot
45:16
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators' that's the other elephant in the room. Remember
45:20
Speaker 1: how many people they interviewed, Remember how long the Eagles
45:24
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator search went. It just kind of hit me now,
45:28
Speaker 1: Like I wouldn't say Sean Manniel was exactly their first choice,
45:32
Speaker 1: but they were getting turned down left and right by
45:34
Speaker 1: a lot of people. So I think there are a
45:38
Speaker 1: lot of variables, but it's a big change. What is
45:45
Speaker 1: your infatuation with the Texans? Their roster looks great, coach
45:48
Speaker 1: seems to be legit, but for the last two years
45:50
Speaker 1: his receivers have not been available. CJ has been super
45:54
Speaker 1: up and down, and unfortunately, as a Vikings fan, you
45:57
Speaker 1: could have a good roster. If the quarterback isn't good enough,
45:59
Speaker 1: it's simply does not matter how good the rest of
46:01
Speaker 1: the team is. Curious. What makes you confident with them
46:06
Speaker 1: when CJ is such a big question? Well, the last
46:10
Speaker 1: two years Texans records. They last year they went twelve
46:17
Speaker 1: and five, and the previous two years they went ten
46:21
Speaker 1: and seven, ten and seven, So I would say this
46:25
Speaker 1: is a team that has trended extremely. Their defense isn't
46:30
Speaker 1: their defense elite? They're the best defense in the league.
46:35
Speaker 1: And offensively, he's up and down, but when he's up,
46:38
Speaker 1: he's pretty good. And even if he's just averaged, like
46:42
Speaker 1: their defense is so good. Trendell for won a Super Bowl,
46:45
Speaker 1: Brad Johnson won a Super Bowl. Not every guy who
46:47
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl. This is Montana. Brady farv and
46:49
Speaker 1: Malmes been some randoms. Well, what are the randoms all
46:53
Speaker 1: have in common fucking great defenses, elite defenses. Even Russell
46:58
Speaker 1: Wilson when they've won the super Bow. I guess it
47:01
Speaker 1: was that the second or third year. He wasn't exactly
47:05
Speaker 1: you know what. He became a couple of years later.
47:08
Speaker 1: So when you have a dominant defense, you can ride
47:11
Speaker 1: them like Secretariat. All the guys are back. Their first
47:16
Speaker 1: round pick was the guard from Georgia Tech, but they
47:19
Speaker 1: took a defensive tackle in the second round. I just
47:24
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I think they're gonna be really good.
47:28
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be really, really good. They were
47:31
Speaker 1: really good last year. We watched them beat the shit
47:34
Speaker 1: out of people. We watched them play the Bills and
47:36
Speaker 1: Josh Allen running for his life. What was he sacked
47:39
Speaker 1: nine times? Most times he was ever sacked in his
47:41
Speaker 1: entire career. So you just can't block those guys. I mean,
47:45
Speaker 1: I think Will Anderson could be the best player in
47:47
Speaker 1: the league. Daneil Hunter is an unsolvable force. So I
47:54
Speaker 1: their defensive back room is incredible. They don't need to
47:59
Speaker 1: be the osa in Pats to win thirteen games. They
48:03
Speaker 1: just got to play a league defense. And their offense
48:05
Speaker 1: has to come through in certain games they could. They
48:10
Speaker 1: could win a ton of games like thirteen to seven.
48:12
Speaker 1: Now are they gonna win the Super Bowl that way?
48:13
Speaker 1: Obviously you would need Czy to be pretty good. But
48:16
Speaker 1: my infatuation is in a league where not many people
48:19
Speaker 1: play high level defense, if you do, your floor is
48:22
Speaker 1: still really high. The Eagles were atrocious last year on offense.
48:29
Speaker 1: Why they win the division? Why were they still like,
48:32
Speaker 1: you know, in most of these games when their offense
48:34
Speaker 1: was doing nothing, their defense was awesome. If you have
48:36
Speaker 1: a good defense like you got a chance in most games. Okay,
48:41
Speaker 1: one on this question for the Pod two parter nighter fan,
48:45
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good about the team. I think a
48:46
Speaker 1: lot of people are saying we're old in some spots,
48:49
Speaker 1: but that is uh and that's true. But looking at
48:52
Speaker 1: a roster, we have elite players all over the field.
48:54
Speaker 1: How do you think osa Adgazua will impact our defensive line?
48:59
Speaker 1: I feel feel like we have been trying to fill
49:01
Speaker 1: the Buckner spot for a few years. Number two, wife
49:04
Speaker 1: and I are looking to upgrade our house. She's thirty
49:07
Speaker 1: four weeks pregnant. Congratulations, so perfect timing, but we do
49:14
Speaker 1: want a pool to quote host our host be the
49:20
Speaker 1: host house with our friends and family here in the
49:22
Speaker 1: Central Valley. What are your thoughts on a pool. I
49:25
Speaker 1: heard you say you have one, do you use it
49:27
Speaker 1: as much as you expect? And by upgrade I mean
49:29
Speaker 1: by a new house. We'll start with number one. The
49:36
Speaker 1: forty nine ers pass rush was a knemic last year.
49:38
Speaker 1: Obviously Bosa got her. I'm pretty sure they were last
49:41
Speaker 1: in the league in sacks. They had no pressure. They
49:45
Speaker 1: haven't had inside pressure in many years. You know Osa,
49:50
Speaker 1: I think statistically the last couple of years onlike his
49:53
Speaker 1: pressure rankings from as an inside pass rusher are are
49:58
Speaker 1: going to have a dramatic impact on the forty nine ers. Now.
50:03
Speaker 1: To have a balanced defense, you've got to have multiple
50:06
Speaker 1: guys that can pass rush. So to me, Bosa who
50:09
Speaker 1: looked really good last year until he towards ACL, Like
50:12
Speaker 1: what does he look coming back off the ACL some
50:15
Speaker 1: of these other rotational pass rushers they just took like
50:18
Speaker 1: a twenty six year old from Texas Tech in the
50:21
Speaker 1: I think the third round who Raheem Morris is really
50:24
Speaker 1: high on, like he's got to be good. But I
50:28
Speaker 1: would say they got two guys last year, both coming
50:32
Speaker 1: you know, Collins, the big Texas University of Texas defensive tackle,
50:37
Speaker 1: was injured during OTA, So what's his injury status. Mikel Williams,
50:42
Speaker 1: who's supposed to be like an Armstead Buckner, is coming
50:46
Speaker 1: off an ACL injury. So they get all these guys
50:50
Speaker 1: on the field, they should have a pretty interesting defensive line.
50:53
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I think their playout you know, a lot,
50:56
Speaker 1: just a lot of question marks, but excellent coach, good quarterback.
51:03
Speaker 1: There's a lot of question marks. But my guess right now,
51:07
Speaker 1: nine ers like eleven wins. I would say the pool thing,
51:14
Speaker 1: it's cool to say you have a pool. I do
51:18
Speaker 1: not use it very often. I really don't. Now it's
51:25
Speaker 1: good for resale value, at least where I live. I'm
51:27
Speaker 1: sure where you live to, like you Central Valley, you know, Arizona,
51:31
Speaker 1: it gets really hot in the summer, like really hot.
51:35
Speaker 1: I'm just not really going to be outside in the
51:37
Speaker 1: backyard when it's one hundred and ten degrees in theory.
51:44
Speaker 1: Like it's one of those things that a lot of
51:46
Speaker 1: people like I want to pool in my backyard and
51:49
Speaker 1: depending on you know, how you know your wife's pregnant
51:52
Speaker 1: when your kid is young. Uh, but you can't just
51:57
Speaker 1: take them outside when it's one hundred degrees so you're
52:00
Speaker 1: not gonna just be hanging out outside with a young baby.
52:04
Speaker 1: But if Jack was six years old, we'd probably be
52:07
Speaker 1: swimming in there dream way more. You're also you know
52:12
Speaker 1: Jack's I would say, three four or five weeks away
52:17
Speaker 1: from crawling. We have to get a fence, so you
52:22
Speaker 1: once you know you you would be six seven, eight
52:25
Speaker 1: months away from you buy a house with a pool.
52:28
Speaker 1: You got to get a fence around it, which I
52:31
Speaker 1: mean you gotta do because you just there was someone
52:34
Speaker 1: I guess some influencer in Arizona or husband wasn't paying
52:37
Speaker 1: attention to the baby drowned. Like it's it's a really
52:40
Speaker 1: big deal in Arizona because some many who love pools.
52:43
Speaker 1: But so you got to do that again. It's cool.
52:47
Speaker 1: It makes your backyard look good. I look at it
52:49
Speaker 1: a lot, but I don't go in it very often. Uh,
52:53
Speaker 1: and maybe that'll change. But I would say this, if
52:57
Speaker 1: my family grows, you know, I would say sometime in
53:01
Speaker 1: the next five six years, we would probably have to
53:04
Speaker 1: need a little bit more space. I definitely need my
53:07
Speaker 1: own space, so we'd probably have to get a bigger
53:09
Speaker 1: home up not having a pool would not be a
53:13
Speaker 1: make or break for me. It originally was like when
53:15
Speaker 1: I was looking to buy my first house moving out
53:18
Speaker 1: to Scottsdale, it mattered, and I thought it mattered, and
53:22
Speaker 1: I've spent I mean, we redid it with the pebble
53:24
Speaker 1: deck and stuff, but I truly don't use it now.
53:27
Speaker 1: We had my brother and his kids came over for Thanksgiving.
53:31
Speaker 1: It was eighty degrees and we used it for like
53:33
Speaker 1: two straight days and David and Maddie lived in this
53:37
Speaker 1: I turned on the spot for the first time because
53:39
Speaker 1: when I bought the house. The other thing is it's expensive.
53:42
Speaker 1: So when I bought the house, my pool one was
53:46
Speaker 1: as old as a home, Like I think the house
53:48
Speaker 1: was build in the late nineties, so it was like
53:50
Speaker 1: thirty plus years old. It needed you know, it was
53:53
Speaker 1: cracked and the tiles were all ruined. It needed some
53:56
Speaker 1: tender love and care. And the spot didn't work, meaning
53:59
Speaker 1: I needed some new equipment, which is is not cheap.
54:04
Speaker 1: And then since then, you know, I had a filter
54:06
Speaker 1: go out. Just it could be a little bit of
54:12
Speaker 1: a pain when you're just not using it. If you're
54:14
Speaker 1: using all the time, like whatever you got to you
54:15
Speaker 1: gotta clean it. You gotta do whatever you gotta do.
54:18
Speaker 1: But I think the kid element matters a lot when
54:25
Speaker 1: they're young. They're not gonna use it that much now
54:28
Speaker 1: within a couple of years. Like you said, you know
54:30
Speaker 1: you have a kid, you want to host people. You see,
54:33
Speaker 1: your friends have kids, your families, brothers and sisters have kids.
54:35
Speaker 1: It makes a lot of sense because I saw when
54:38
Speaker 1: my brother's kids who were at the time five and three,
54:42
Speaker 1: but they lived in the pool. So I'm just we're
54:45
Speaker 1: just a couple of years away. And if my if
54:47
Speaker 1: Jack was in the pool, I'd be in the pool.
54:49
Speaker 1: But it's also you know, you live in the central
54:54
Speaker 1: valley like Arizona. It gets when it's hot outside, your
54:57
Speaker 1: pool gets hot. So do you want to pay to
55:00
Speaker 1: keep that thing cooler? That gets expensive? My spa is
55:05
Speaker 1: I connected to my pool? You know, I thought I
55:09
Speaker 1: would use it more often. I actually use the one
55:11
Speaker 1: of the gym way more. I think if whatever, if
55:17
Speaker 1: we ever upgrade and get the bigger home, I'd be
55:20
Speaker 1: cool with just not having a pool at the other
55:22
Speaker 1: house and just getting like an outdoor spall. That'd be
55:25
Speaker 1: fine with me. And then you know, my gym actually
55:28
Speaker 1: has a big pool, so if you wanted to go swimming,
55:32
Speaker 1: but I get it the kid, it'd be cool. Ideally,
55:36
Speaker 1: a lot of his friends have pools and they just
55:38
Speaker 1: deal with it. So I'm not trying to be too
55:40
Speaker 1: negative because it does make your house look better. The
55:42
Speaker 1: resale value matters. And now installing a pool talking to
55:47
Speaker 1: BS my pool guy a couple of weeks ago, and
55:51
Speaker 1: just the price of everything is dramatically changed, so if
55:55
Speaker 1: you can get that part as the purchase. But you know,
55:59
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those things that in theory
56:01
Speaker 1: a lot of people aspire to have because it does.
56:04
Speaker 1: You know, you see some of these like incredible homes
56:07
Speaker 1: on Instagram. You're like, how that pool looks badass. I
56:10
Speaker 1: think I saw this interview of like Kanye and Kim,
56:14
Speaker 1: this from like fifteen years ago, and I think they
56:17
Speaker 1: buy like they created this incredible pool, and Kanye goes,
56:20
Speaker 1: have you ever been in it? She's like, no, but
56:23
Speaker 1: it looks good. And I actually thought there was some
56:26
Speaker 1: like I know what she's saying. The volume