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NFL Week 3 Reaction: Broncos STUN Rams on SNF, Raiders UNDEFEATED, Brock Purdy early MVP? · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The Volume. What is going on, my people? How are
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: we doing? John Middlecoff, Three and Out Podcast. That's me.
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  Speaker 1: That's the show. The Rams kind of implode. The referees
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  Speaker 1: aid in that implosion. And the Denver Broncos... Win at
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  Speaker 1: mile high, 30-26. We will dive into that game. The Broncos,
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  Speaker 1: it did not look good. It did not look good
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  Speaker 1: at all. But the Rams are 1-2 and now staring
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  Speaker 1: up at Seattle and the 49ers. We'll do the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: The Las Vegas Raiders are 3-0. Massive game coming up
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  Speaker 1: against Kansas City. I wrote down something today that just
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  Speaker 1: says we got problems. And just I'll fire through some
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  Speaker 1: of the teams. We got some issues. Some positive stories
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  Speaker 1: as well. Minnesota's 3-0. Flores is dominating. I mean, absolutely
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  Speaker 1: dominated today. Purdy, young fella's balling. Gibbs, he looks decent.
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  Speaker 1: The Browns are 2-1. USC did not win. Florida did, though.
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  Speaker 1: So congrats to John Summerall. How about UCLA Bruins? Bob Chesney, 4-0.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of football talk. That's what we will do today.
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  Speaker 1: I've been firing out some videos that don't make the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: You can find those on YouTube. And let's just dive
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  Speaker 1: into some football. But let's start with the game. I
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: was recording with Colin, and when we got off and
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  Speaker 1: I finished wrapping up some stuff, it was 10-0. And
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  Speaker 1: went in, started making dinner, and it was just 16-0
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  Speaker 1: at half. And at the time, that felt enormous because
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  Speaker 1: Denver had played, I'm thinking to myself, beside the second
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  Speaker 1: half against Jacksonville, they had played 10 quarters, and eight
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  Speaker 1: of them were atrocious. And I was like, something is off.
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  Speaker 1: They came back from halftime. And Collinsworth, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: not never going to say the negative, but he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: go like Aikman or me. I mean, I would say
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  Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth is like more of an uplifter. He tries
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  Speaker 1: to build guys up. He tries to see things kind
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  Speaker 1: of more in a– You know, more of a glass
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  Speaker 1: half full type of light. And when he said, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much longer this can go. And
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  Speaker 1: he laid it out. The reason Davis Webb became the
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  Speaker 1: play caller is because he was going to be a
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  Speaker 1: play caller somewhere else. Whether he got a head coaching
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  Speaker 1: job like with the Cardinals or the Raiders or whether
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  Speaker 1: someone made him the offensive coordinator. But a team was
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  Speaker 1: going to hire him to call plays. So Sean Payton
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  Speaker 1: had to make a decision, and he did, and he
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  Speaker 1: gave him the play calling. And it was a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously it's ebbed and flowed. I mean, Bo Nix,
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  Speaker 1: this goes back to last year, can look horrendous. Like
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  Speaker 1: Matt Stafford throws a pick six. He broke an NFL record.
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  Speaker 1: He's done that a time or two. And he's another guy,
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  Speaker 1: like one thing I respect a lot about Stafford It's
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  Speaker 1: just like that button in Men in Black. He can
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  Speaker 1: press it and completely forget. It's like my son. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he remembers minute to minute, right? And
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  Speaker 1: that is a good quality to have as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good quality to have in football. In a
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  Speaker 1: weird way, Bo Nix has that quality. They can have
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  Speaker 1: an atrocious performance. Like, it can't look any worse. I
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  Speaker 1: think he was like 6-12 at halftime for like 50 yards.
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  Speaker 1: The eye test from what I saw, just a couple
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  Speaker 1: drives in the second quarter... It's like, what is this?
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  Speaker 1: How is this happening? And it's one thing to happen
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  Speaker 1: on the road during the day at Kansas City. It's
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  Speaker 1: another thing at night, prime time, mile high, places going bananas.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's got to be looking around like, what is happening?
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  Speaker 1: How is this happening to our franchise? Now, if I
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  Speaker 1: want to fast forward to the end of the game,
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  Speaker 1: I used to be much more doom and gloom when
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  Speaker 1: it came to officials. And I just hate that conversation.
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  Speaker 1: It can kind of get repetitive because you can kind
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  Speaker 1: of complain in most games, depending on who you're rooting for,
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  Speaker 1: depending on where your cash lays. I get it. I've
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  Speaker 1: been there, put holes in walls, thrown remotes at TVs,
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  Speaker 1: regretted my actions after the referee screwed us. But for
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  Speaker 1: a game, when the game ends, and you go, who
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  Speaker 1: decided that? Sean Payton, Bo Nix, Jalen Waddell, Matt Stafford,
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  Speaker 1: Devontae Adams, Sean McVay? Like, no, Bill Vinovich and his homies.
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  Speaker 1: They kind of did. I mean, some of the officiating
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  Speaker 1: at the end of that Broncos drive, which ended up
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  Speaker 1: being the decider, was pretty nuts. I mean, it was
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  Speaker 1: clearly an interception. The problem is, and this happens all
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  Speaker 1: around the league, and clearly this comes from the league office,
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  Speaker 1: is their over-insistence on over-officiating contact of these defensive backs. J.J. Watt,
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  Speaker 1: who is Wally Pipp, Tony Romo. I've been saying this
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  Speaker 1: now for a couple weeks. I think most people probably
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  Speaker 1: agree at this point. Tony Romo's never coming back. J.J.
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  Speaker 1: Watt is going to keep that seat. He is going
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  Speaker 1: to be Jim Nance's partner for the foreseeable future, would
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  Speaker 1: be my guess. I guess CBS could put someone else there,
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  Speaker 1: but Tony Romo's never coming back. That's not happening. But
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  Speaker 1: he mentioned something today, and listen, J.J. Watt's a Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame-level defensive lineman. who kind of could play every position.
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  Speaker 1: Put him over tackles, guards, line him up three technique,
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  Speaker 1: defensive end. Hell, he could probably stand up. He could
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  Speaker 1: do it all. And even he's like, hey, beside quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: hardest position to play in the NFL is corner. It's
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  Speaker 1: totally true. You can't touch him. You don't know what's coming.
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  Speaker 1: Even on the hands of the face, if you tap them,
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  Speaker 1: they throw a flag. It's gotten pretty egregious, and it
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  Speaker 1: comes from the league. And I just think that you're
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  Speaker 1: at such a disadvantage that even when you play good defense,
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  Speaker 1: they're just so inclined to throw the flag. It's like, guys,
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  Speaker 1: let them play football. This is tackle football. This is
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  Speaker 1: not powder puff. This is not flag. This is not
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  Speaker 1: even high school level where it's like, hey, man, let's
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  Speaker 1: just work on our techniques. These are guys playing for
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  Speaker 1: a ton of money. Most of them do not have
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  Speaker 1: great job security. One or two plays can be decided. Like,
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: is Sean McVay and Sean Payton deciding these games? Is
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  Speaker 1: Bo Nix and Matt Stafford deciding these games? Kinda. But
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  Speaker 1: the officiating has such a huge impact. This is a
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  Speaker 1: massive game. The Niners are now 3-0. The Chiefs and
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders are 3-0. Whoever loses this game will now
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  Speaker 1: be two games back in their own division. So this
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  Speaker 1: was huge. And obviously, I don't want to say the
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  Speaker 1: officiating cost the Rams the game totally. And listen, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people call me a Rams hater. But it
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  Speaker 1: was fucking horrendous at the end of the game. It
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  Speaker 1: really was. Now, they also... There were series on the
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  Speaker 1: last couple drives where it's like, hey, Chris Shula, I
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  Speaker 1: don't pretend to be a defensive coordinator here. I don't
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  Speaker 1: pretend to have gone to the school of the Belichick family.
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  Speaker 1: Not recently, the drugs. I'm talking the football stuff back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, in their heyday. But I know this.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have a defensive back 17 yards off the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage when you're trying to hold on to
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  Speaker 1: a lead. I'm not saying you've got to bump and run,
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  Speaker 1: but there's got to be some middle ground. If you're
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  Speaker 1: just going to give up, I can just dump it
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  Speaker 1: off and the guy walk for 10 yards. That's just
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  Speaker 1: bad defense. But the Rams, and you can feel it happening.
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  Speaker 1: The momentum is so real. Once they scored, and it
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  Speaker 1: felt like, and Collinsworth said this, kind of feels like
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  Speaker 1: this is one of the biggest moments of Davis Webb's life,
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  Speaker 1: of his career. The offense was anemic. They couldn't move
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  Speaker 1: the ball. And then they lead that touchdown drive. Bo
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  Speaker 1: Nix makes the great play in the back of the
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  Speaker 1: end zone. God, he gets a lot of balls batted down.
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  Speaker 1: And then he makes one of the more beautiful throws
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  Speaker 1: of the day on the two-point conversion and everything flipped.
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  Speaker 1: And then they just started playing defense. They started sacking Stafford.
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  Speaker 1: They did a good job tonight on the broadcast. There's
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  Speaker 1: a small percentage of guys that start I don't see any.
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  Speaker 1: I watch football all day Saturday for four straight weeks.
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  Speaker 1: There's none that can't move. None that can't move. Not
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  Speaker 1: all of them are elite athletes, but none that can't move.
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, Matt Stafford, and Jared Goff cannot move relative
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  Speaker 1: to their peers and definitely relative to the high-end athletes
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  Speaker 1: at the position. If you can move those guys, it
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  Speaker 1: throws them off. I would say Rodgers is trending toward
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  Speaker 1: them now. He's 42. He historically has nothing in common
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  Speaker 1: with them, but now he does. And the key is
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  Speaker 1: with a stack. at quarterback is to get them off
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  Speaker 1: the spot. They don't want to move within the pocket.
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  Speaker 1: They just want to step up and deliver. And no one,
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  Speaker 1: when he can step up and deliver, has a better
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  Speaker 1: arm than Stafford still at his age. And they got
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  Speaker 1: him moving, and it completely threw him off. And they
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  Speaker 1: really started storming back, and then their offense showed life,
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  Speaker 1: and they hit a bunch of big plays. Started to
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  Speaker 1: run the ball. They just made plays. They had that
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  Speaker 1: one end around a waddle when it looked like it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be a loss of five. Broke a tackle,
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  Speaker 1: got a first down. Their guys just started doing shit
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  Speaker 1: on offense. And Bo makes some great plays. You never
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  Speaker 1: really trust him, even when he's humming. Because again, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of those balls get batted down. and Stafford throws
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  Speaker 1: that pick six, and they take the lead, and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: immediately stormed right down the field. Throws a touchdown to
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  Speaker 1: a guy I had to Google. Now, I'm not super
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: locked in on the depth of the ACC, so I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that familiar with Mumfield. Seventh-round pick, started his career
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  Speaker 1: at Akron, and honestly, by the end of that drive,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, God, he's a pretty good seventh-round pick. Pretty
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  Speaker 1: feisty little guy. But the massive win for Denver, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to say resurrects their season, but it did
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  Speaker 1: feel like everything that happened in that second half of
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville is all for naught if you're just going to
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  Speaker 1: play like shit on Sunday Night Football at home. And
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  Speaker 1: Bo's going to be just the majority of this year
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  Speaker 1: look worse than he ever did last year? What is happening?
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  Speaker 1: Is Sean Payton, who desperately doesn't want to do it,
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  Speaker 1: Because part of making Davis Webb the play caller was
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  Speaker 1: obviously to keep him, but he's been adamant. I've had
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  Speaker 1: this happen to me when I was a young hotshot.
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  Speaker 1: And guys took away my play calling. And listen, that
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: was in a time when social media didn't exist. It
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  Speaker 1: was like Chris Mortensen reported on a Monday afternoon for ESPN.
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  Speaker 1: It was a different world. This would have been everything's
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  Speaker 1: a bigger story now because of the way information flows.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone knows immediately. And they were kind of mentioning,
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  Speaker 1: could he do it in the middle? He wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to do it in the middle of the game. But
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  Speaker 1: I do believe him that he's trying to ride this
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  Speaker 1: out and just get it fixed. And clearly, he's helping
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  Speaker 1: him out and giving him advice, but he's trying to
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  Speaker 1: mold someone under his tutelage. It's a big kind of
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  Speaker 1: feather in your cap as a coach to have a
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  Speaker 1: guy when you're in your 60s to tutor and learn
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  Speaker 1: under you And then teach them the ways. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: young guns around the league aren't going to give it
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  Speaker 1: up because they're all 38 to 45 years old. The
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  Speaker 1: oldest play caller of the bunch is Kyle, and he's, what, 46,
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  Speaker 1: 47 years old? McVay's my age. Ben Johnson's younger. LaFleur,
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  Speaker 1: who knows how much longer. But all these guys are young.
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  Speaker 1: That's their baby. For Sean, it's like, I've been doing
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  Speaker 1: it for decades. But it has to work. Because he'll
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: eventually get shit from above him. The owners who are
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: having a godly amount of money will be like, hey, Sean,
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: we're paying you $ 20 million. We're cool with you doing
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: it however you want to do. It's probably a great
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  Speaker 1: place to work. I saw the facility. Remember we mentioned
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: that when they did the drone shot. It looks incredible.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: Probably got to be one of, if not the best
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  Speaker 1: facility in the league. But like, hey, can you call
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  Speaker 1: some plays? Like, how would that not happen? What do
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: you think happens in businesses like Walmart? Yeah, I'll give
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: you some latitude and some leeway for you to manage
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: how you want to manage. But if something's not going well,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: the powers that be come in and kind of put
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: their hand down and go, well, this is actually going
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  Speaker 1: to happen now. And you as middle management, which in
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: a weird way, Sean kind of is, he ain't the boss.
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  Speaker 1: Like ultimately, if the Penner family slash Walton family ever
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  Speaker 1: wanted something, he'd have to do what they say. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they probably never tell them to do anything, but how
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  Speaker 1: much longer were they going to watch this? Because if
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  Speaker 1: I was them, there would have been a meeting tomorrow. Like, hey, Sean,
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  Speaker 1: can I grab you for a minute? Even if the
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  Speaker 1: respect level is a 10 out of 10, you love them,
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  Speaker 1: you're glad he's your coach, it would have gotten bad
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  Speaker 1: because it would have gotten really ugly in Denver. And
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: then now the conversation, I don't want to say it's over,
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  Speaker 1: it's still going to be something to monitor, but it
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  Speaker 1: definitely gets... You know, the fire extinguisher got put out
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  Speaker 1: and the fire's simmering down. Because, God, that was ugly.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, I'm a huge Hufunga fan. Have been since
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  Speaker 1: he was at USC. The guy is just a player.
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  Speaker 1: He's got some flaws. You know, he's like a shittier
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: version of Paulo Malu, right? Two SC guys. Paulo Malu's like,
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  Speaker 1: what position really is he going to be? Is he
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  Speaker 1: too small? It's like one of the great safeties of
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  Speaker 1: all time. but he was very instinctual. That was the
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  Speaker 1: thing with Troy, right? He just had a knack for
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  Speaker 1: making plays. And Hufunga, never been the fastest guy, not
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  Speaker 1: going to lock you down on one-on-one coverage, but that
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  Speaker 1: fucking dude comes through in big-ass moments. And today, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the pick six, you know, I would say, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they score on that drive. Denver would have been in
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: major trouble. I mean, it was a huge moment. I
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: can't even imagine how loud that place was. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: pick at the end of the game was, but he just,
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  Speaker 1: he's an impact player, and he always has been since
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: he came into the league in San Francisco. As one
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: of the executives told me with the Niners early on
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: in his career, and I've told this story before, and
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  Speaker 1: this happens. When you go into these programs that have
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: draftable players, and they are losing, and things are getting ugly,
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  Speaker 1: and that happened at USC when he was there because
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  Speaker 1: it was Clay Helton. And they were losing a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of games. There's a lot of negativity. Like if you
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  Speaker 1: went to Oklahoma or you went to South Carolina or
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  Speaker 1: you went to USC tomorrow, it can be a negative vibe.
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  Speaker 1: It can just be like, ooh, keep your head on
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  Speaker 1: a swivel here. And negativity kind of breeds on itself.
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  Speaker 1: And most players, just like most assistant coaches, they all
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  Speaker 1: kind of follow. And it's human nature. Anyone... Who's been
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  Speaker 1: in a professional setting where things are going really bad
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  Speaker 1: and you work in an office setting and there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people like people start pointing fingers and
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: everyone starts making excuses. And this executive told me the
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  Speaker 1: one guy that I couldn't find. And it's, you know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: when it comes to scouting, it's where you get people
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  Speaker 1: to kind of bad mouth players and because their experience
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: at the time is usually not great. And I remember
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  Speaker 1: him telling me, I couldn't find one person in the
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  Speaker 1: building that had one negative thing to say about Hufanga.
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  Speaker 1: Football on the field or off the field. And they
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  Speaker 1: were bad-mouthing every guy in the program. Other coaches too.
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  Speaker 1: And they're like, Hufanga was incredible. And you're like, that's
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  Speaker 1: the type of guy you want on your team. And
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  Speaker 1: he obviously turned out to be an excellent player and
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  Speaker 1: excellent signing for Denver and just a fucking PTP or
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: a sticky V you would say. Because that was a
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  Speaker 1: PTP play. I mean, prime time, lights are bright. MVP
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  Speaker 1: driving the field, slinging that pill around. You sit on
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  Speaker 1: that route and you take it to the house. And
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: that was awesome. And I will say this about the ramps.
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  Speaker 1: One and two, obviously, slow start, giving up all the hype.
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  Speaker 1: When you are missing Puka Nakua, who has been one
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  Speaker 1: of the best players in the NFL for the last
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  Speaker 1: couple years... and Miles Garrett, who you traded Jarrett, like,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: you don't have Vers or Miles Garrett. You just have
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  Speaker 1: an empty there. And tonight, there were moments where it's like, God,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: could kind of use a little more pass rush. What
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  Speaker 1: happened the one time when Turner got through? Hit Bo
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  Speaker 1: Nix's arm, caused an interception. Well, what do you think
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Vers slash Miles Garrett would be doing in this situation?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Helping their edge pressure a lot, which I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say feels non-existent, but... It's clearly not the same
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: because you just have a zero there right now. And
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the story that came out this morning that, which I
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: would say is a little scary. Like, I think it
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: could be six weeks, like six could turn into eight.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's just, he's an older player, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of miles on that body. But like, I give him
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a pass of like, yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: underachieving a little bit. They're missing two of the best
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  Speaker 1: players in the league. They're missing two of the best
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: players in the league. There's only so much. And Devontae,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: how many yards does this guy have the last two games?
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Like 500 yards? He looks incredible. There's nothing more he
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: could do. And for the most part, Stafford's played pretty well. Now,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: last week, once Jackson Dark goes out, the corpse of
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Jameis Winston, who I think threw for like 120 yards
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: today or something. Granted, it was wet. But it's like, okay,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: that's whatever. You should blow them out. Tonight was a
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: real game. And the Rams showed up to play. The
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Rams showed up to play and kick ass. And they were.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: And even when they started storming back, they came right back.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: They made a big play. They get a pick. And
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: just something feels a little off. Something just feels a
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: little off. Well, it should. You're missing Myles Garrett and
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Puka Nakua. Now, you would guess Puka Nakua comes back
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: relatively soon. But the Miles Garrett thing, like, who knows?
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I said this last week, or a couple weeks ago,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: whenever it got announced that he needed surgery. I guess
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: right after they got back from Australia. That ain't good.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: You just never know with these things. Older player. He's
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: been relatively durable. At least what I think about it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I don't view Myles Garrett as a guy that's banged
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: up all the time. And you go back to that
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: game against the Niners. Something was really, really off. And
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: on top of that, to me, he just, like one
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: thing when I think about Miles Garrett is I think
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of like a Greek god, just this chiseled 6'5, whatever
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: he weighs, 270, no body fat. I thought it kind
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: of looked heavy. Well, of course he does. He hasn't
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: been able to practice or work out because his leg
• 20:24
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• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to take longer than they expected. And how does he
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: maintain to get back in shape and ready to go?
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: And Aaron Donald's made a couple plays, but He took
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: two years off. He's 35 years old. You think he's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: just going to come back and just be swimming, doing
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: his knife drill, and getting three sacks a game? That's
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: not how it works. So, I mean, they're big-time players.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: They're making plays. They've got some random guys stepping up.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: But you're missing guys of that level. I just– I
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: understand it. You know, if I just take away two
• 21:02
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• 21:06
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• 23:03
  Speaker 1: bad were the Bills uniforms today? Were they like Pepsi-Cola? What?
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I don't get too into the discourse when, I don't
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: even know why I just used that word, too into
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the conversation, the comments or whatever. Like when a team
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: posts new unis. You know, in the offseason, it'll be
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: like the Titans, new unis, the Chargers, the Bills. I
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: think I might have seen like the Bills post the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: unis in the offseason. But I'm like, you know what?
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not weighing into this. Who cares? Also, when you
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: guys are just standing there, you know, like the practice facility,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: it's not quite the same. And it's kind of easy
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: to be like, losers, what shitty uniform. And listen, they
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: look the same as they did when they got posted.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: There's another thing to just watch them play a game
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and be like, What's going on here? Whose idea was this?
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: This does feel, and I wonder how often this happens when,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: and I've heard stories from GMs and people that work
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: for teams that like, you'd be surprised how often the
• 24:06
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• 24:09
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• 24:12
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• 24:16
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• 24:19
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• 24:20
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• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Even for some of these guys who don't love playing politics,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I would say the overwhelming majority of humans on the
• 24:30
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• 24:34
  Speaker 1: have someone signing their check. And even if you're the boss.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Even if you're some of these guys like these Fortune
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: 500 CEO founders, a lot of them have boards. And
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: they can be a pain in the ass. Unless you
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: write it a specific way. I think Zuckerberg did that
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: where he has all the voting shares. So I don't
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: even know if his board matters. But let's start with this.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Because I do want to start with a cool story.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I saw this stat that no team has ever drafted,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: had the number one overall pick, and then started that
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: season 3-0. Or, let me rephrase that. It has not
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: happened since 1959. You know that, and the Raiders just
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: have accomplished that feat. They're 3-0 after drafting Fernando Mendoza, whatever, five,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: six months ago. The team in 1959 was the Green
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Bay Packers, and they were led by a guy named
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Vince Lombardi. Regardless how sustainable this is, and I think
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the Raiders look pretty solid, and Cousins is throwing multiple
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: touchdowns every game. Three touchdowns, three touchdowns, three touchdowns. Bowers
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: is back. He looked awesome. Gentry's good. Their defense looks solid.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, the guys, N'Kobe Dean's making plays. They got
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: that fifth rounder from Cal. The corners, awesome. Crosby fell
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: on a fumble today that shifted the whole game. Trust me,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I had the Saints. It is just a cool story.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: That the Raiders, who were so bad last year. I
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: was on with Colin earlier and I mentioned this. The
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: guy had a legendary career. What he did at USC
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: in the 2000s was incredible to watch. What he and
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: John created in Seattle was as badass a football as
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you can see. They were the best scoring defense in
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the league for four years. They literally put people on stretchers.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Not in the cheap way, in the football way. You
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: come over the middle, we are going to kill you.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: They were so mean and violent, they literally hated their
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: own quarterback. I mean, these guys were nuts. It was
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: a joy to watch the Seattle Seahawks play football, Pete
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Carroll resurrect that franchise. But last year, he was an
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: all-SKIMAS team. Like, what he and Chip Kelly and they
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: did in that building, from the stories I've heard, were
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: embarrassing to the profession. Some of the stuff that went on,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and just how, like, unfunctional the whole thing was. It
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: was a joke. Now, I'm not acting like if Bill
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Walsh or Andy Reid had been the coach, the Raiders
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: would have won 10 games. But they were unwatchable. And listen,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: there were some unwatchable teams. You know an unwatchable team
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: pretty early in the season. Sometimes you get an injury
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and nothing you can do, like the Giants. Without Dart,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: they have become unwatchable, but they're not like a low-level
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: franchise now with Harbaugh. Like, they know what they're doing.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: and they're going to do things the right way. Pete
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: was a joke. And to get Kubiak, and all of
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a sudden, today's a good example. I'm on the Saints.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I'm feeling pretty good. They got the ball 27-22, and
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the defense makes a play,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and then it flips, and you look up, and it's 35-27.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: They're hitting two-point plays. You're like, who is this team? Now,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: they are playing the Kansas City Chiefs, for the supremacy
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: in not just the AFC West, in the AFC. And
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I think on first glance, you'd be like, oh, the
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Chiefs are ending up winning. It's not going to be easy.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: It's not going to be easy. And I got a
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: DM about, is Kirk Cousins the Jim Plunkett 2.0? A
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: lot of people that are way too young to know
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: that reference. I would be too if I hadn't spent
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: some time around the Raiders. Jim Plunkett, Heisman Trophy winner,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: gets drafted really high. He's kind of a bust in
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the NFL. I think he got drafted by the 49ers.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: This is like early 70s, late 60s. Had played at
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Stanford and was a disaster. Then bounced around, got to
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Al Davis, and then won a Super Bowl in the
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: early 80s and resurrected his career with Tom Flores as
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: his coach. I'm not going to go that far, but.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: One thing they are doing a really good job of
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: is like Cousins just kind of gets rid of the ball.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: And Cousins, like when they get down to the red area,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: is like making some plays. Hitting guys. He knows this
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: offense really well. And I got another DM about the Mendoza.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Like a lot of people said, like you drafted number
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: one overall. Why wouldn't you just play him? And it's
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: kind of always been a theme of mine. Where I
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: went to college, the motto is learn by doing. That's
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: how I learned. I got decent grades because I cheated,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: but I never learned in a classroom. Because if you
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: just show me something on the big screen or give me...
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a book to read and take notes, that's not how I...
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I have to do it. And when I do something,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: that's how I figure it out. And I think a
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: lot of players are like that. Not every player. Some
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: players are visual learners. You could teach them in a
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: classroom and they could remember. But a lot of guys,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: it's why when you hear the term walkthrough... A lot
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: of reason walkthrough is a big deal is because players
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: pick up the information, even if it's not full pads tackling,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: through just, hey, walk this route, walk this, this is
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: how we want it to look. And you're like, okay,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I get it that way. You do a walkthrough in
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: front of a scout team, offense or defense, you can
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: visualize it while you're standing and doing the things at
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: your position. That's a huge reason for the implementation of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: that in the history of football because that's how guys
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: pick up on stuff, right? And I just think that
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza, like he currently would not be as good
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: as Kirk Cousins because there's no way for him to
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: understand and know this offense as well. And historically in
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the NFL, you know, going back to when Gary Kubiak
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: came into the NFL, that's who he learned through. Think
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: about like, my dad's been dead for almost 10 years.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: But there are some things, non-negotiables, the way I operate
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: in life, that go back to things that I was
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: taught when I was probably 8 to 14 years old.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And those stick with you forever. So think about the
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: base of Kubiak's football philosophical outlook. It all comes from
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: his father and being around his father and Mike Shanahan.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: That is like 1980s football. That's where those guys were taught.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Coming up as coaches, coming up as players. And you go, listen,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: we don't want to throw this guy. And Tom Brady
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: was also clearly behind it because Tom Brady didn't start
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: early on either. And then, typically, even if that is
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: your plan, it's hard to stick to it because if
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: you're the number one team that is drafted number one overall,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: you usually suck. But now you're 3-0. You'd have to
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: lose three straight games to even be. 500. So you
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: have this huge buffer, everyone can take a deep breath,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: and no one's clamoring for them. You just keep working
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: with them, keep getting them better, and do what they
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: ultimately did with Patrick Mahomes. Now, big picture, are the
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Raiders a playoff team? We got a long way to go.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: But they definitely have signs of, like, I don't know
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: if they're really going away to, like, end up six wins. Like,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I definitely think they could hover around nine, ten wins.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: They got two really good tight ends. They got an
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: explosive running back, and their defense makes plays. So once
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: they start playing Denver and Kansas City, that'll be a
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: good way to judge them. But looking at their schedule,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: even if I give them an L at the Chiefs,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: they play at New England here in two weeks. The
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Patriots blow. Their quarterback right now is in shambles. Then
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: they got the Bills, the Rams. Obviously, you could lose
• 32:55
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• 32:59
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• 33:04
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• 33:09
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• 33:14
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• 33:18
  Speaker 1: like they're comfortable playing those two teams. So I definitely
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: think they could win one of those three games, if
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: not split, and all of a sudden you're looking at
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: a 9-10 win team. So, incredible start by the Raiders,
• 33:31
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• 33:35
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  Speaker 1: wrote down this list that just says we got problems.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of them. And I watched a
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: lot of the Tampa Bay-Minnesota game. Tampa is in shambles.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: They cannot block anybody. Baker Mayfield was sacked six times today.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I swear to God it was 20. He was running
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: for his life like every other play. Some of that,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I think, after the game kept going, he just kind
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: of starts freaking out. He starts seeing ghosts. I watch football.
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  Speaker 1: I've watched, I don't even know how many games this year.
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  Speaker 1: A lot. Bits and pieces of probably 200 games. You know,
• 35:35
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• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and guys call blitzes, and guys are coming from all angles,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and I feel like more than half the time, the
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: offense shreds the blitz. Dumps it down to a running back,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: hits a tight end really quick, and he scampers for 10,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: 15 yards, no problem. Or call a great screen play
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: with the blitz and go for 30 yards. Flores calls
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: these blitzes. Schefter, I think, put it out there this
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: morning like 80% of the time. It feels like every play.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the percentage was today. It felt
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: like literally every play. And he is just swarming the
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: offensive line and the quarterback. And they just are engulfed. Listen,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: if you're going coordinator, like non-head coach, if you do
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: coach of the year, which is a head coach, you
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: do coordinator of the league, it is him in a
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: runaway right now. They have not sniffed 200 yards passing Minnesota.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: And they're 3-0. And it's like you watch him today.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Jefferson got hurt. Hopefully it's not a terrible injury, but
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: he went in the locker room, never came back foot ankle.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I didn't see what Kevin O'Connell said after the game,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: but clearly it's concerning. First game, 132 yards, second game,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: 143 yards. And today record on the season, 168 yards.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: And at least little Kyler will push it down the field.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: But There's 200 yards. They haven't even got to– they
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: haven't sniffed 180 yet. I mean, and they're just 3-0.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: And they made Tampa– and I was on Tampa today,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: home dog. They made Tampa look awful. And Tampa's broken.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles, it's over. Like, I don't know who else
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: on the staff they'd fire in the middle of the year,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: but my prediction is Mike Tomlin's their coach next year.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: It's like, well, what about Tomlin at Green Bay? What about– like,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: he's not coaching– negative 10 degrees you know in in
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: december tolman makes 20 million dollars a year is green
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: bay paying that probably not is green bay for sure
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: even firing the floor i i we'll see we'll see
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: how this plays out definitely possibility but like tampa warm
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: weather low taxes got some core guys got a good
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: gm uh i i you can see that coming from
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: he's already coached there got a start of his career
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: there with tony dungy and john lynch and some of
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: those guys so that would be my prediction Drake May.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: You talk about problems. Drake May is a broken player
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: right now. What we're witnessing out of Drake May is
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: one of the most precipitous fall-offs in play you will
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: ever see. And you can say he was a schedule
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: merchant and he ate alive scrubs. There's some truth to that.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: But he still was pretty solid. And you could watch
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: him play scrubs. Just watch him move around. You're like, guys,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: this is someone I would invest in. I remember he
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: had John Gruden talking about on social media, he's like,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: might be my number one pick in the league for
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: young players. I was like, you know, that's not that crazy.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: You watch him now, it's like, toxic, can't touch. Vrabel,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels, I don't know what they do. But this guy,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: you know, It's just confidence gone, touch gone, playmaking gone,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: decisions horrendous, throwing the ball to the other team, leads
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: the league in turnovers, picks, fumbles, no touch. Some of
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: his incompletions, guys are wide open and he's just air
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: mailing them. The Jags are good. So I, nothing but
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: props to the Jags. Liam Cohen, sucking down GLP ones.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: If I hear everyone, my mother-in-law just came for this
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: week and she was telling me these couple of people,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: she was at this party. She's like, oh, they all
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: look so great.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: They're all in, they're all sucking down glp1s i'm like
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: god all these people are doing this hack should i
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: just should i just do it but liam cohen every
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: week he gets skinnier he liam cohen's liam cohen's got some.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Swag right now his outfit is like i don't even
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: know it's like softball like night beer league softball mixed
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: with like uh you know, Division II football. It just works.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I'm jealous. Liam Cullen looks cool. And he is a
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: great play caller. And he took Mike Vrabel to the
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: fucking woodshed today. He's got Trevor Lawrence looking like Elway,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: just slinging that thing around. His play calling, their physicality. Now,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: they got good players. I mean, they're just better. They're
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: just better than the Patriots. I didn't like the Patriots
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: that much coming into the season. I didn't pick them
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. I didn't think their quarterback was
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: going to look like this. I got this DM about
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Cam Ward because he's bad. If he was a mid-round pick,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: he would get benched. Question for you. You may have
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: already done this, but I want to hear your take.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: on Cam Ward and the situation that Berganzi has to
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: deal with. He's just not cutting it. Do you bring
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: in a veteran quarterback next year, spark some competition, treat
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: it like Bryce Young, Andy Dalton situation, or just ride
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: it out and potentially lose your job? What would you
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: do if you were the Titans GM? I would say
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: one huge key in life, whether it's football or whether
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: it's any of you guys listening, any of your industries,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: whether it's a relationship. When you know something is wrong,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: when you know something is not going to work, you
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: have to move on. You have to separate from that.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: If it's someone you're in business with, you go, this
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: person's shady, you can't do business with them anymore. If
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: something is really off about the girl you're dating, you
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: don't trust her, something, as the kids would say, gives
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: you the ick, whatever it may be, you got to
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: go your separate ways. When you watch your quarterback and
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: he cannot play game after game after game after game,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: you have to move on. Now, I don't even know
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: who their backup quarterback is. I'm not saying like next week.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying you have to start preparing people, and
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: it starts with the ownership. I fucked up. Now, there's
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a balancing act of like, you still need them to
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: like you so they keep you employed. You got to
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: work with Sala and Brian Dayball. But coaches will pivot
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: on a player once they can't play. Like coaches, especially
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: with a quarterback, will only hold on for so long.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: They'll pivot because they have to. They can't speak with
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: the rest of the team and not lose the locker
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: room without being honest because they do it with all
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: the other positions and treat the quarterback with kid's gloves.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: There was a play today that kind of went viral
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: of him doing this thing like in the pocket. It
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: wasn't even in the pocket because there was no one
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: even around him. He's way behind the line of scrimmage.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: He's like backing up, taking his drop. And he just
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: stands there and he kind of walks like just a
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: normal human would walk. And then he kind of throws
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: like a pass. I don't know, for maybe like a
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: three or four yard gain. I would say the play
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: would be cool if it was like Lamar Jackson or
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen. That is honestly one of the biggest red
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: flags I've ever seen. He today, did I write down?
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: They lost to a quarterback today that threw for 118 yards.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: That's what Jameis Winston threw for today. 118 yards. The
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: final play of the game where he throws the interception, well,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: it technically wasn't the final play of the game, but
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: the Titans' final offensive play of the game, I don't
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: know why sometimes I'm watching Cam and he like rolls out.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: I have this belief like, oh, something cool is going
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: to happen. Then every time the same result happens, something
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: bad happens. And I got to shift my thinking of
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: like when he drops back, think negative. And when he
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: just threw it right in, I mean, he hit the
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: defender right in the hands. It's like, bro, one, he
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: could have ran. I don't know. He could have ran
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: for a touchdown, but he definitely could have ran for
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: a positive gain. He just can't play quarterback based on
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: what we've seen. And it's not five games. He's had
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of starts now. And it feels like it's
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: getting worse. And the offensive coordinator is the guy that
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: loved him coming out. So this isn't one of those situations, well, actually,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: you know, the guy hates him. No, Brian Daybolt loved him.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: And this ain't working. So if I'm the general manager,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I start working with Robert and be like, listen, I
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: messed up. I thought this guy was Patrick Mahomes. I
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: think that's what he's told people. We all make mistakes.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: We've all said things. I say things every day I regret. Okay.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: And I've been known to be hyperbolic and excited. So
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: you said something that didn't age well. Fine. Pivot. You know,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Bill Walsh drafted Gio Carmazzi. I mean, Belichick missed on
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: a lot of picks. Andy Reid's probably got some regrets.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Welcome to life. Welcome to football. But if you hold
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: on to this thing and act like this guy's going
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: to figure it out, you deserve to get fired. So
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: you are now staring down of like, we have made
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: a major mistake. This isn't one of those like, you
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: could argue CJ Stroud. Like if you want to argue
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: like there's something there, I'm not giving up. Okay, I
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: could hear you out. Hell, you could do what Daniel
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: Jones do. There are certain players I wouldn't be confident.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't take that lane. But if you did, I'm
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: not going to call you a crazy person. And who knows?
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: If things go right, maybe you will look like a genius.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: This thing is a wrap. This got no shot. None.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: If you told me, is he in the league in
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: like four or five years, I'd say, fuck, no chance.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: He's got bad quality, can't play, and he thinks he's good.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: He carries himself like he's like Lamar or Patrick Mahomes
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: or Josh Allen. It's like, bro, you're getting benched for
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: most teams, but they can't because they draft you number
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: one overall. Then speaking of bad, I mean, the Texans–
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: This is back-to-back 0-3 starts. I mean, this is tough.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, to lose to the Colts at home, that's
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: pretty horrendous. They had 223 yards of offense. That was
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: a tough game to watch all the way around. Willie Anderson, Hunter,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: they made some plays. DB's made some plays. I saw
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: the Texans' defense. This is a team back-to-back years I
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: thought was going to be the number one seed. Back-to-back years. Money,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: number one seed. My own, hard-earned cash on them being
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: the number one seed, on them winning the division. 0-3.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, they were favored in this game. Colts were
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: a home dog. Rightfully so. I don't think I've ever seen...
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: I feel for D'Amico. I love D'Amico runs. You just
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: see it on his face. He's like, I don't think
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: we're bad. And it's like, we're not. You know, there's
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: 0-3 teams that you're like, okay, Dolphins, they stink. Titans,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: they stink. I don't think the Texans stink, but they
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: clearly offensively, now back-to-back years, just something... I don't know.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: It's just not working. And I get you have injuries.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: You know, CJ can be a little hit or miss. But, man,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: this is 4 of 11 on third down. They're just
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: not an explosive offense. Obviously, you know, the Chargers, you know,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: it's funny. Like, negativity stills, right? The shows you will
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: listen to over the next couple days will be a
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: lot of the Chargers are imploding. Drake May. It won't
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: be a lot of like, Minnesota, what a story. Or
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy. Like, is Brock Purdy going to win the MVP?
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: We've got a long way to go. And he had
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: a chance a couple years ago. It was definitely in
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the mix. Him and Christian McCaffrey. And then they played
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: the Ravens and got demolished on Christmas. And then I
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: think a couple games later, Lamar's the MVP. And rightfully so.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: I've got no issue with it. But like, right now
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: he's got nine touchdowns, one interception. He's 80% completion percentage.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: You watch the fucker run He had a touchdown run
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: call back today. He kind of looked like Lamar Jackson.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: He is playing out of his mind. They play Denver
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: next week, Seattle the following week. He is, you know,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: he's a very polarizing player. And this gets back to, like,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: where you're drafted. Like, if Cam Ward was a fourth-round pick,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: he would have been benched last season. Right? Right. and
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: it goes vice versa once you're a mid-round pick and
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: you start being good. I watched Dak Prescott, who imploded
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: at the end of the game today. What was that?
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Him and Brian Schottenheimer should be ashamed of themselves. I'm
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: rooting for the Cowboys. I'm sitting here rooting for the Cowboys.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: They drive right down the field and have one of
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: the worst, I don't know, goal-line, three-down plays you'll ever see.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Mismanagement of the clock, wasted a play. I mean, it
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: was embarrassing. It really was. But, you know, part of
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: the reason Dak or Brady early on in his career, like,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: I remember the discourse around Tom Brady. I have used
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: that word a second time. It was like, ah, he's
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: not better than Peyton Manning. He's carried by his defense.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: If Tom Brady had been the number one pick and
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: done what he did, everyone would have loved him. So
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: where you're drafted really impacts the conversation around you from fans,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: from people in the league. Like Purdy's is good. Purdy's
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: really good. Now who's not good is the training staff,
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: the strength and conditioning staff and the substation because they're
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: dropping like flies. Um, Cleveland Browns 2-1. Congratulations. You know
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: what's funny about Deshaun? After the first week, they get
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: shellacked like 700-0 by the Jags. Most people in Cleveland,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: if you just casually follow the NFL, you're like, God,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: this team's a joke. He's kind of played well the
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: last couple weeks. Made some big plays today. Panthers got
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: some issues, but Jameer Gibbs is on pace for 34 touchdowns.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: So if you took him in fantasy, you're probably pretty pleased.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Anything else? A couple quick college things. I think people
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: have wanted, and Colin liked USC back 20 years ago.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: And people forget, because if you're not old enough to remember,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: they were the equivalent of, they were like, even the
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Saban Alabama, it was so much like Nick Saban. He
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: took all the oxygen for that. It was like the
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: Chicago Bulls. It wasn't really Michael Jordan anymore. You know,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Michael takes all the oxygen, right? USC was like this movement.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: It was like Hollywood meets porn meets fucking college football.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: It was crazy. I mean, it was the stories coming
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: out of there. It's like, is this real? And they
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: beat the shit out of everybody. And ever since they
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: fell off and Pete took off to Seattle... They're not
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: only not a powerhouse, they're not even remotely close to
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: being a national title contender. And what happened the other
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: night was something you just don't forget. And to me,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: after that game, I don't ever want to hear about
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: USC being a playoff team this year. They are not
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: a playoff team. They don't deserve to be in the conversation.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: We can't fabricate it. They have some good offensive players.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: They can score some points. You wouldn't trust them against
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: another good team under any circumstances. Under any circumstances. And
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: to lose to Dylan Raiola, who had to come off
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: the bench once more, got KO'd. And the kid, you know,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: jumped around and smiled. And Lincoln didn't make him leave.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: And just an embarrassing moment they spent on him today.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: That's just a stain on Lincoln's resume that people had
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: kind of forgotten the last couple years because, like, This
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: is a new guy. This is a new person. This
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: is a new program. This is their year. No, it's not.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Same program. You just don't get credit for playing nobodies anymore. Listen,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I watch Indiana Friday. I'm a little nervous. Not that
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: they're going to go back to being a bad team,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: but this ain't a 16-0 Indiana. Indiana's losing a game.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Their defense isn't as good. Their quarterback's not as good.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: They're just not as good. How could they be? They
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: just lost a ton of players. I don't know, the
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: number one overall quarterback, a first-round wide receiver, a third-
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: or fourth-round wide receiver, their best corner, a running back
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: who plays for a 3-0 49er team, backs up McCaffrey. Like,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: they lost a lot. They lost a tackle who now
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: plays left tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs, who's also 3-0.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: This is the thing, like, It is really, really hard
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: to replace players year in, year out. You're going to
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: have a year with kind of dips. Like Georgia kind
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: of had a couple dip years. Not that bad, but
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: not as good as they were three or four years ago.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: And then they hit on some guys and they get back.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: So I think the Big Ten is just not as
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: good as the SEC. The problem is the SEC is like,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I don't think Texas is that good. I don't think
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Arch is very good. He's not bad, but he's not good.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: You know, he's not John Mateer bad, but he's not
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambliss good. You know, he's not as good as
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Dylan Raiola. And one thing that does bother me, and
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I'll end on this, is I'm a small school guy.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: I didn't go to USC. I didn't go to Ohio State.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: I didn't go to Texas. And I don't blame anyone
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: that went to those schools when it comes to, like,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: talking about the program, having, like, an arrogance, being cocky,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: because it's cool. You know, it's like if you went
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: to Duke, like I'd be cocky as shit about basketball. Like, yeah,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: we kick ass. Well, you do. You know, but when
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: you go to smaller schools, there's an envy in the
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: athletic program of the bigger schools. And all the conversation
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: is about the quarterback in Mississippi State is where's he
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: going to go next? Where's he going to go next?
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: And that's going to be the conversation around a lot
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: of players as they're They either have success and they're
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: at a smaller program, or they're at a middle-tier Power
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: 4 program, and that program starts crumbling. Is Oklahoma going
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: to lose guys? Is South Carolina going to lose guys?
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: If USC loses a game or two, could they lose
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: some guys? And that's the part of college football that
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: just kind of sucks now. And I get it. I
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: got no issue with it. I saw people online, because
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: Saban's big in this Protect Sports Act, And then he's
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: also on game day saying that if he was coaching Alabama,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: he'd be all over Kamario Taylor trying to steal him
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: from Mississippi State next year, being his DMs or having
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: people talking to him. It's like, is he talking out
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: of both sides of his mouth? It's like, well, guys,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: I'll promise you this. That act, whatever the verbiage or
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: the language is in that fucking thing, which you'd have
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: to put a gun to my head to get me
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: to read that thing, they do not care about Mississippi State.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: They do not care about Rutgers. They do not give
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: a crap about Boston College. That is to protect the
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: big boys. The ones making all the cash for their conferences.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: That's for the Oregons, the Ohio States, the Texases, the Georgias,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: the Miamis. It's for the elites. And one thing that
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: would suck is you get a sweet player, all of
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: a sudden you're good, and it's like, Are we going
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: to lose this guy? That's the worst part about it.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: And this is a program that has a bunch of
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: guys in the NFL. I mean, Dak Prescott, Chris Jones,
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, all sorts of guys. They had a run
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: in the mid-2010s where they were pumping out dudes. Darius Slay.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: And it's like, we're just going to lose a guy
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: once they become a star? It's like, yeah, kind of, probably.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Or at least that's going to be all the comments.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: It's kind of got that NBA thing. of like, we
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: just have to give up our star player because he's
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. It's whenever a guy's in a smaller market,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: it's like, you got to trade him to the Lakers
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: or the Knicks or maybe the Heat. It's like, well,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: what if Jokic just likes playing in Denver? It's like,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: trade him to the Lakers. Fuck you. We're not going
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: to trade him. And the best part about at least there,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: you don't have to. Here it's like, how's Dylan Raiola
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: the backup at Oregon? I was texting with a buddy
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: that went to school there, won a national championship in golf,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: loves Oregon. He's like, it's kind of sweet having the
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: highest paid backup in the country. I'm like, what do
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: you think they're paying him? I mean, honestly, if we
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: were just taking guesses. I first thought last night like
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: 500 grand. But I'm like, I think that's too low.
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: Because even for as bad as it went at Nebraska...
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: You've seen way crappier guys get seven figures to go
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: start other places. Someone would have paid him. If you
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: told me Oregon is paying someone a million dollars to
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: be their backup, think how crazy that is. When Baker
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Mayfield dislocated a sum today on the final play of
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: his game, the backup came in. He's an undrafted free agent,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: I think, from Kansas. There is, I would say, a
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: very high likelihood, if not just a fact, that Dylan Raiola,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: the backup, the backup at Oregon, makes more than the
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: backup for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. What a great time
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: if you can play. And I give credit for Dylan
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Raiola probably took a little bit of a haircut based
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: on what he could have got started somewhere else. Might
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: change the course of his career. Because again, if you
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: just watch that game, and I get SC's defense isn't
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: good and Tennessee's defense probably is not bad. But like,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Dylan Raiola is a better player than Arch Manning. He
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: just is. And I feel like I'm shitting on Arch.
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: Arch never told us he was good. The media all
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: told me that. It's like, are you guys just gassing
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: him up because you want to hang out with Peyton
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: and Eli? I would love to hang out with Peyton
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: and Eli too. I love those. I'd probably pay to
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: hang out with those guys, play golf with them, kick it,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: have some beers. But I'm not going to pretend their
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: nephew's good when it's like I'm watching the game and
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: he's just not that good. All-time celebration, pulling it out.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Pissing all over the quarterback. I think if you are
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: going to have a day where you get that celebration,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: I saw people were like, why didn't you pull him
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: out of the game? So guys, did you watch him play?
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Did you see him sack the quarterback play after play?
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Colin Simmons. That's why. What would Bill
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: Parcells say? When Belichick told him LT was sleeping in
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: the meeting, Bill said, don't wake him up, let him sleep.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor gets treated differently than the practice squad guy.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: It's like Colin Simmons gets treated differently than the rotational
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: defensive tackle. If the backup... had pulled out his fake
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: penis and pretended to piss all over the quarterback, guess
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: what happens? Sark yanks him out of the game. When
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: a guy that, like, in my opinion, based on the
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: two best draft-eligible players, non-quarterback, and honestly, they might be
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: two of the best players, even with, who's the best
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: draftable quarterback? Jeremiah Smith and him. If that's how that
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: guy's going to look, I hadn't really watched that much
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: of Colin Simmons. But given that environment, I mean, Tennessee's
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: got five-star tackles. He looked like Abdul Carter meets Micah Parsons.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: And obviously, Jeremiah Smith looks like Julio Jones meets Jamar
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Chase meets Justin Jefferson meets Jerry Rice. I mean, geez, Luis.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: I like the celebration. I think we need more celebrations.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Like dudes pulling down their pants, pretending to take a
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: crap right on the quarterback's face. You know, just outrageous stuff.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, just go nuts. What are they going to do?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: 15-yard flag? What's... How do you decide a 15-yard flag?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Because I peed on the... What if I had to pee? Like,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: what if I really had to pee? Am I supposed
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: to pee in my pants? So congrats to Texas. Another win.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Stay the number one team in the country. And I'll
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: talk to you tomorrow. See ya. The Volume.