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"Better Late Than Never?" Episode 58 · DMV Mess Hall

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This is Will Montgomery. Former Washington Redskins
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center, y'all. Let's go, folks.
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This is Trey Johnson the headbanger y'all and you're
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listening to mess hall with Riley, captain, and tailgate
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Tech work. What's going on, Riley, how you
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been, man? Yo, Ted man, you brought
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something to light that, you know, this is the second week
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that we're going into that our listeners haven't heard from us
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or a week, shall I say this is haven't heard from her since so
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I've been doing all right. Just busy as heck man just just
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busy busy busy but you know I guess being busy means that
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you're alive so it's all good. I have you been, bro.
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I've been good man. I used To say I'd rather be busy
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than board. I take that back.
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I mean, granted last week, I know we didn't do a show.
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There wasn't really a lot going on other than some stuff we'll
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catch up on now. But I had a two caps games last
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week and then went out to Nationals opening day and had a
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blast out there ran into a couple of our listeners hanging
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out there in front of the green turtle.
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Where I'm be mentioned, family were broadcasting from 1267.
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The fan. Couple people walked up told me,
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they loved the show. Oh and speaking of which, I
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wanted to read a review that we got here on Apple podcasts.
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So this is from Rob, the Builder, 15 Rob.
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Great Fan's perspective, always love to hear from tailgate Ted
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and rally cap. It's great to not only stay
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updated on commanders news but to also hear from some of the
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most recognizable commanders fan and listen to their opinions of
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Team related activities will continue to Listen for a long
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time, left hand up. So appreciate it.
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Definitely man. Appreciate Rob, we set a you
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know, tweet out there asking listeners to leave some likes,
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least some reviews. Rob was one of them.
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Really appreciate that. Please do just takes a couple of
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seconds there and we'll be happy to read them on the show.
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But man, people are listening because hanging out at opening
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day, if I had a beer for every person, you know, drank a beer
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for everyone that offered to get me one.
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That was listening, I don't think it would have actually
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made it into the Ballgame because a lot of people, well
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around and it was actually, it was fun to see, man, I really
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was So, what have you been up to, man over the past couple of
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days? So past couple weeks, well, so a
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lot of people don't know, but I guess it's my time this year,
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you know, everyone always ask me, hey, man, how can you afford
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to go to all these games? Well, I grind in the offseason
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and so, you know, between working a lot to be able to
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afford to the toys that I have as well as trips that like to
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take is, As well as football, you know, a man or brothers
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behind the scenes just grinded. And so that's what I've been
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doing. And I've been trying to get
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myself prepared for the century ride that we got coming up and I
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mean the date is is fastly approaching.
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And so, you know, one thing that I am not going to do is get out
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there without ride my bicycle and so and then fall flat on my
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face. I mean a lot 100 miles is a lot
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on No, you're not. I don't know how you're doing
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that. I mean, great, you've been
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training for this. So you know what?
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You're getting into. When you do this all the time,
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I've seen the videos of you and the bike and the simulators and
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all that stuff. So no hats off to you, more
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power to you. You know that's just not for me.
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There's a zero chance you've ever seen me.
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I mean 20 miles on a bike. Fine. 100 miles Norway?
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Yeah. I mean I have a 50 mile ride
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coming up on the 22nd in a Calvert County.
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I've never been down there before.
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I've heard the Calvert County but I've never been on a before.
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So I'm looking forward to riding down.
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There's for a good cause it's for the homeless and I'm really
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looking forward to the donating my time and and my sweat.
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Hopefully, no blood but Sweat and Tears.
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There you go, man. Well, you might have to send a
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video of you riding the Martin met here because he did a press
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conference at the league owners meetings.
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Talking about players and position and it's obviously
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everyone's getting ready for the draft right now.
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And there's a lot of people coming in to talk to the team,
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couple guys coming in to interview, where the coaching
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staff. But what I took out of Martin
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mayhew's meetings, where the reporters two weeks ago was
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basically the team isn't going after Lamar Jackson, we've set
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it here on the podcast before, it's not happening.
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And Martin, Mayhew came out and said, And it's not happening.
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Now, Ron Rivera also was asked because he did some meetings
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last week at the owners meetings, about Lamar Jackson
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and Ron said that's not going to happen but one of the questions
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a reporter asked him was if new ownership does come in then,
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will you re-evaluate quarterback next?
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Yeah, we're you know, we're basically going to have to I'm
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paraphrasing but, you know, at this point they didn't want to
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go for Lamar because All of the money they have to pay them and
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the people they'd have to cut and get rid of.
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So if you guys haven't had a chance to listen to Ron's,
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presser was about 30 minutes, it's out there, you can easily
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find it, it's on the Commander's YouTube channel, but I've got a
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couple of clips from it and one clip that was kind of
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frustrating to hear. I'm not sure if you've heard
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this one yet, but one clip was kind of frustrating to hear.
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I'm not going to steal his Thunder.
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This was Ron talking about roster building, Packed those
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Dynamic playmakers, that that front that you're trying to
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build new. We are Rasta building.
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I think, for the first time and feel really good about being
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able to do the things that we're doing right now.
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She'll ever So, we're roster building for the first time.
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I you know, I was angry when I heard this clip.
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How did you feel? You know, that makes no sense.
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I mean it makes no sense and I think what's happening is he's
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been put on the spot and he's trying to formulate an answer
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and there's a part of me that understands what he's trying to
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say. But it didn't come out well and
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we know that so I guess they won.
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That you got here. You weren't building the roster.
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I mean, that doesn't I understand I think what he was
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trying to say is we're trying to get, we have more pieces in play
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than we've ever had at key positions.
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I would think that that would be the better answer to roster
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building. It's not even building.
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Its the for the first time part. He came in here with complete
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Control he is in charge of this roster up and down.
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Yeah, he's got Eminem, you know, Marty and Martin that are
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helping them evaluate while he's doing other stuff.
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But it's a Saviour Roch building for the first time is just
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dumbfounded. And if I am one of the new
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potential owners and someone plays me that clip, I'm thinking
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to myself, what the hell is this guy been doing the past Four
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Seasons? Other than not winning?
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Or not having a winning season. Yeah.
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Because right now they're looking over everything about
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him with a fine-tooth comb. And like you said, if I was an
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owner, I would put a little note to the side and then say, all
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right. What do you mean by this?
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I mean, I hear it's like I listened to clips and go
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throughout the week before we do a show and just in general I'll
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send myself text messages. So I know you know, let's bring
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this up on the show, get this for the rundown.
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If I'm one of the new potential owners, I am assigning.
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Someone to follow this team and follow the coaching staff and
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follow what they do on the draft.
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So we're not Going to get caught up when we do take, oh, we
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already have been involved along the way.
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Just kind of in the background and we understand what they just
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recently. Did it another thing that came
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out was the sale of the team is somewhat slowing down?
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What else they want to do during this free agent time period?
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I mean, they've spent a ton of money, you know, not to rehash
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old shows but they're just under three million dollars.
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The salary cap. So Ron was asked does that hurt
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you guys? And there's no we can make room
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if we need to make room but that's not a problem at all.
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But the fact that's we are now just starting to roster build.
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I thought was very interesting and Pete Haley from the Beltway
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football podcast and NBC Sports Washington.
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Actually talked to Ron about this yesterday and for those
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wondering, it's Wednesday April 5th.
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Ron Rivera was honored. Outside.
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I think it was a World War Two Memorial in downtown d.c. you
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just roll one, I believe. Okay, World War one and he did a
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kind of I don't want to say impromptu but he did media scrum
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with a bunch of the guys out there.
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This is a clip of Pete asking, Rhonda question about that
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roster. Don't in combat.
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You had that comment with these guys last week a donor we need
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about this is your first off season of True roster building,
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right? What would you describe the
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first couple Seasons as or what? Got in the way of true roster.
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But the roster Builders your building around a, a quarterback
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situation that, that, that you feel pretty good about.
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But also it's a, it's a, it's a rookie quarterback salary that
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you're working around more, so nothing else and so with that
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you know we were able to make some money spread.
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It makes them uneasy Last and be able to spread it around to to
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more than one or two guys. You know we we were we felt like
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you know we may not have been going for the upper upper
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echelon guys but we're at a pretty good tear and we're
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pretty excited about those guys. We really are and that's what
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made it exciting. Is that, you know, we were able
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to do that. You know, when you when you try
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to work around a quarter of the quarterback situation where
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you're trying to find that guy, you spend a little bit more than
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you really want to. And you put yourself in that
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position where You can't just go out and say, Hey, you know, hey,
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we like this tackle and we like this guard and that Center, you
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know, we like you know we like this linebacker now we were able
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to do that and that's what I meant by it is that, you know,
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when you're when you're dealing off of the somebody I don't know
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somebody put it out there that they showed you know what right
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now what it is like with these two quarterbacks in terms of
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what our total expenditure is for the season.
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I mean that and that's a good number for us to be able to work
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around. That's what we that's what I
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meant by that. So we trying to change what he
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said because I think it got him in hot water with the media
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around town and the fan base. And if you guys are like me and
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rally, you listen to Sports Talk Radio and you know, everyone's
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been playing the clip but talking about we finally have
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and let me go back and see what it was basically building around
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a quarterback. That we feel pretty good about
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This will be Ron's fourth season as washing head coach.
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It will be his fourth, different starting quarterback.
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Okay, so you're one. He inherited a quarterback from
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the previous regime. Yeah, you're too.
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He brought in Ryan Fitzpatrick. Hmm.
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Spitz was getting paid 10 million dollars.
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Okay. Year three they brought in
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Carson. It's we all know who's getting
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27 million dollars huge right on top of that.
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They traded for Carson and ate some of his salary that the
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Colts were willing to just dump and get rid of because they
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couldn't trade for a quarterback that actually they couldn't sign
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a quarterback that actually wanted to come here, they had to
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trade for someone that had no choice where they landed.
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So you're building your roster by bringing in this guy that you
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felt pretty good about. Out.
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Remember he saw the tape, he looked at the freaking
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analytics, he you know, blew his top on it and then now they
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brought in Jacoby percent per set, is going to be competing
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for the spot with Sam Howell but they like where they are from a
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salary situation because they can peanut butter spread it
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around because they're not investing 27 million dollars in
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a quarterback like it did with whence but Burr sets making 7 .5
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mil, right. Well, Fitzpatrick was only
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making 10. What were you doing, then?
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What were you doing with the salary that you had at that
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point in time or what the roster that you were building?
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Knowing that Fitzpatrick wasn't costing you a ton of money.
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Mmm, that's the part that frustrates me with Rivera's
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comments trying to say, well, now, we've got a rookie
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quarterback in Sam. How who's not a rookie but you
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know what I mean, is on his rookie deal.
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Not making a ton of money Lomo Gaia.
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Yeah, we're set come Being in here, that's not making a ton of
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money. Well, you had Fitzpatrick two
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years ago. That wasn't making a ton of
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money and obviously he got injured, but from a roster
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perspective you're seeing this is the first time you're ever
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building. Well, what the hell are you
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doing two years ago when you were saving money at quarterback
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where most playoff teams are spending in the high twenties,
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if not 30 or more million dollars?
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I just, I don't get it man that like, he was robbing Peter to
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pay Paul to be As with you, that's what it sounds like
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because the money went to other things and one thing that we do
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know is the organization, supposedly is cash-strapped.
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So with all the things that the repairs to the stadium, you
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know, this stuff would dies. I mean, they always talk about
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that. So now you've got to go rock,
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bottom low, Because you just paid Iran.
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Even though I know that doron is just his money isn't coming into
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area. Yeah, it's nice.
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Yeah yeah. Afterwards.
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But you've got to be able to bring guys in.
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So so basically all we going to be doing a lot in the draft
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We're going to we're going to we're going to have two things
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and you know, you're looking at Sam, want a rookie deal Colby
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Brissette. You know, that's not a lot of
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money. But one thing that bothers me is
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that tells you is that they really thought that Carson was
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the guy, they really did to pay him that much money because It
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almost feels like they thought that we were a quarterback away.
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That's what it feels like. Yeah.
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And we weren't a quarterback away, we're stand of
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quarterback, you know? But and I know that this is this
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is this is a moot point. But it's something that a lot of
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people don't understand our get a frustrate, not understand, but
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I get frustrated with when you say, you don't want Lamar
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because Lamar would take us from hypothetically, a 2 to 8, out of
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10. If you Will and I know that
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nobody wants nobody. They're not going to do that.
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Unless the new owner says, yes, you will if he's available.
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I mean, so technically, I guess from salary cap perspective,
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they don't mean, we talked about, they don't have any room
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on the cap, right? So you can't just start cutting
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players to bring in Alomar who turned down a hundred seventy
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five million dollars guaranteed. Yes, they could structure.
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His Act like the Browns did with DeShaun Watson where it's a
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small cap number this year and it not really affect the Browns
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because he was suspended. He wasn't we're doing, it's on.
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So the when I say they can't, that's not true, they can but
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the damage it would cause to would be quote, unquote, roster
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building, they're doing now would be somewhat repre below
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but They they don't have the ability to make that decision
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right now because we're an ownership, limbo we've been in
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limbo for a while. And something we talked about
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because of an article that we read from the athletic that Dan
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Schneider kicked the signing bonuses for some of its players
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contracts drawn pains contract and some of the other guys are
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just signed some May 12th. We were hoping that was going to
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be a sign that. The sales are potentially be
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done. Yeah, well, it turns out that
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during the league meetings Rivera said this is something
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that they also did when he was with the Panthers that it's not
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uncommon for NFL teams to move that out and then have it hit
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later on. So all of our hopes that this
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was going to be done in May, let's not hold May 12th as a
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date at that point in time. Maybe let's hold May 22nd the
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owners meetings Point where we think this thing might end, it's
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just we had eight wins last year.
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How many wins do you think Lamar would get out of AutoZone?
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Me, personally, I think on his own he could get us another 4 on
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top of that egg, if they weren't bringing beer, I was gonna say
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12. Yeah, I was going to say the
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exact same thing and and that will be a lot better than what
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we've had for these last couple years.
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So it would almost be a, yeah, it would almost be a worthy
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investment but it reminded me of the the RD3 trade A deal that we
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got, you know, what was it six first-round, or something like
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that? I mean, it was some astronomical
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amount that we had to give up in order to move up to get our G
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and, and, you know, realistically with was new
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owners, the repairs to the stadium, everything that's
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involved, hypothetically, would you want to go?
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Poor to have a maybe a winning one winning season.
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And I guess I really would like to say that again to potentially
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have that happen. I mean, that was, you know,
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lightning in a bottle. It was, it was great.
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But let's be honest, if I said, I don't want Lamar Jackson here
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is, I don't want us to do. And go to all of that trouble
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for a quarterback of his stature that likes to run and has a
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guaranteed contract that he wants.
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That could potentially get injured on any given play.
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And next thing you know that Holy guaranteed contract just
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screws us over for years to come.
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He is the couple like I was saying like the RG3 trade up
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that we did. I mean three first-round picks
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and the second-round yeah, that we gave up for them that that
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hurt us, you know, and we're still pulling ourselves out of
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it because of it. I think that we've done a lot of
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good things to be able. To to circumvent that.
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But here we are. And you see it is what you just
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said that you would do it though.
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I don't know. I would want to do it.
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No, I thought you said you wouldn't do.
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I wouldn't want to come here just based upon how we won't be
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able to afford to pay other guys and because of the fact that
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he's been hurt for two seasons and you know, like it or not,
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whether you believe it or not. Did he quit on us?
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Team in the playoffs, did he not want to play because of the
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contract situation? You know, I I don't want him
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here and I don't think it's going to happen and thankfully
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you know Martin said it's not going to happen.
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You know, if new ownership comes in and says, hey I want you to
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do what you can to go after this guy then know what.
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We got no control over it, so be it, but opinion wise.
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Now I don't think it's the right move at all.
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I'm good with Sam. Gotcha.
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Well, if he came, we'd be fans and I'm not fired.
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No, no I don't, I don't buy, I don't buy players jerseys
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anymore. I just don't do that Bobby
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Bobby. 36 was was the last true quarterback jersey that I
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bought? I think they're back, I bought a
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Colt McCoy jersey, where you got it, but I did buy a Colt McCoy
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jersey, so, but he was the last one.
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So I last quarterback. One I got was Robert, it was
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Upsetting. I don't know why I have that
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thing, but I didn't actually get your thoughts on Roberts.
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Comment about him potentially coming here and being part of
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the ownership group with the Harris bid.
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Now, did you hear him talking about how he wanted to be, or is
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talking to Josh Harris on the Rich Eisen show about
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potentially joining the ownership group?
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I did hear that. And I'll just say that.
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Thank God. I'm in the travel business and
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not contract business because I was screwed that all up.
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But the way I look at with the whole RG3 RG3 thing is he
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probably did have a conversation or some type of conversation in
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his mind. Hey, I'm right there with you
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guys. But I really don't think that it
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was As in-depth as possible. He may have wanted it to be, I
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could be wrong. So, before so, before I step on
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myself, I'll say that if you did hey, more power to you, Robert
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and if you, but if you didn't, you may have overstepped your
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boundaries in the conversation that you had.
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The only other person that I've heard about the team on a from a
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sports persons. Voice is Magic Johnson, he's the
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only other person, he's the only other person as far as sports
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are concerned that mentioned ownership.
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But we know that Magic Johnson has the collateral to be able to
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say something like that, you know.
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And I don't want to get inside our g3's pocket because he could
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have, you know, he made made some great Investments to be
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able to do that, but I think it was more so a conversation.
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Yeah, Roberts Roberts, comment, reminds me of Of your boy,
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right? Like you're at the bar and he's
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hanging out there and he's single.
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And the waitress says hello to her.
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And that's the entire conversation, right?
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And he's thinking he's got a chance man, I shot with her and
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they took his phone call and they had like a four minute
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conversation and then it's taken all man.
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I got a shot. I got a shot.
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Well, You know, sorry Robert I don't think you do and I don't
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think the other NFL owners want to have anything to do with him
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because he talks too much. He tweets too much, she
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tick-tocks too much and if something were to come up that
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ownership doesn't like that. The other NFL owners don't like
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even if he had a half a percent of ownership in the Commander's
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he can't stop himself from making him the center of
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attention on everything. So he'll tweet about it and got
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himself in some A hot mess. Yeah.
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And I'm just happy that I don't think it's official.
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We know that magic is official and last week Bank of America
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received, two bids for the Commander's, the first bid that
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came out was Josh, Harris, Mitchell rails, and Magic
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Johnson. The bid was nearly six billion
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dollars, it's not quite six billion, it's been reported by
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different Outlets that have But according to foreign office
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Sports, it's nearly six billion dollars for those that.
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Don't know, Harris? Also bid on the Broncos and
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ended up losing, but the good news on that is, that means the
25:24
NFL already did their due diligence into Harris's
25:28
finances. Yeah.
25:29
So he's been vetted by them and Magic Johnson was actually on
25:36
the Today Show, just this past Monday.
25:40
I think it was And a talking about that bid and this is what
25:43
magic have this. My gosh and you've got to, you
25:45
got a lot going on and say what are we hearing about you buying
25:48
the commander? So wait what?
25:53
Yes, our business in, we hope that we win.
25:57
We don't know what's going to happen.
25:59
You always win. What happened with mr.
26:08
Snyder, making that decision. So what we excited.
26:11
About. I mean, you own a lot of teams
26:12
about it NFL. I mean, that would that's the
26:14
last thing, right? Yeah.
26:16
Have the Dodgers. You have the spark?
26:19
I've seen soccer. We won the championship this
26:21
season, so that was great. Wow.
26:22
So we'll see what happens. So I'm excited that magic is out
26:30
there publicly talking about this because I would love it if
26:33
he were a part of the ownership group.
26:36
Same thing with Mitchell rails, we've got some local guys here
26:39
that know the area and what this town wants.
26:42
And like Frank said, he's a winner, he wins at everything
26:47
but the second bid that they got was from Steve apostolis
26:52
aivalis, the Canadian Greek guy that Did six billion dollars
26:58
slightly higher than Harrison rails.
27:03
But the thing about that is Apostle ovilus.
27:05
Apparently, I don't know if he cares to me, he's like that guy
27:11
that's on Tinder, right? And he's just swiping, right?
27:13
And swiping right on every sports franchise, he can buy
27:17
because he also put in a bid to buy the Ottawa Senators.
27:21
He is one of at least six groups that are in the second phase of
27:26
potentially purchasing them and I also believe that he's trying
27:29
to purchase a Charlotte Hornets. So Okay.
27:33
Yeah. How does this guy have this much
27:36
money? I don't know.
27:37
That's why front office Sports is not taking his bids,
27:41
seriously. If you will saying that Harris,
27:43
is the likely winner of it, but it may be the guys got the kind
27:48
of cash. Then more power to them.
27:51
It's just interesting. That one is six.
27:54
Bill one is slightly less than that.
27:57
But people are giving Harris kind of the leg up in that race.
28:03
And then Charles gasp Reno AKA Dan Snyder's burner account is
28:10
tweeting out there that Jeff Bezos if you want to bid.
28:15
It's okay. Well let you bid Dan's not mad
28:18
at you and obviously I'm paraphrasing but he just put out
28:22
an hour ago, Jeff Bezos, eyeing. The Commander's could make Dan
28:26
Snyder the six billion dollar, man.
28:29
And he's just been all over the place.
28:32
Trying to entice Bezos to bid on the Commander's, in my opinion
28:39
for Dan. He's just Dan's mouthpiece and
28:41
he's actually tagging Jeff Bezos on Twitter like Jeff is going to
28:45
monitor and actually reply back to that.
28:47
But curious what your thoughts are on all that?
28:51
Well ultimately like you said, the hairs group Magic Johnson,
28:55
they're vetted I'll put up a lot of skis, I butchered his name
28:59
The opp, you know you down with me.
29:03
Yes Steven you know so is he better as well because he's
29:09
tried to purchase or is he is he recently trying to purchase
29:12
these other teams? So Bank of America has got his
29:18
fully funded bid, but the NFL has to go do their due diligence
29:24
once Snyder. Accepts the bid.
29:27
No. So, that's what we're talking
29:28
about. Kind of the vet.
29:29
In process and everything else from there, I don't know if he's
29:32
vetted, I know there have been questions about Apostle appleís
29:36
and where he's getting all the money from.
29:38
So I haven't heard that he has been fully vetted in any of the
29:42
articles are seen in any articles that I'm finding out
29:45
there. So I don't know.
29:48
And the bids that he's putting on the Ottawa Senators, those
29:52
are recent, that's not old, okay, so I'm saying he's that
29:55
guy on the tenor. That's just swiping on any
29:58
franchise, he can buy. Well, you know, there's an old
30:01
saying in the hood it ain't trickin, if you got it.
30:05
So I'm not mad at him. If he can do it, get it done, if
30:09
they approve it. So be.
30:11
It also like the Bezos, do we really know?
30:17
No, we don't know. And there's going to come a
30:21
time. We're going to find out
30:23
eventually. I mean it's inevitable.
30:25
It's going to happen. Will it be sold for the six?
30:29
Million six point five, five and a half with whatever it is that
30:33
they're trying to reach here. I mean we know it's not going to
30:36
be 7, we know that but if Bezos can do it, okay if not not if
30:44
you can do it, does he want to do it?
30:46
Let that let me say that if you wants to do it because we know
30:49
he can do it. Oh yeah.
30:51
Yeah yeah. So and that's why they're trying
30:55
to say no no no we never had a problem with that.
30:58
We Just and now that you don't write the Articles you just
31:02
didn't owner. I mean and it's me.
31:04
Dan should know him being an owner how much does he did he
31:08
write or did he get someone to write for him?
31:12
So that whole that whole thing is just makes to me, makes him
31:16
look weak, you know? It really does.
31:19
He's better. Exactly.
31:22
And so just let the chips fall where they fall, where they may
31:25
man, and whoever you're hired you're going to be the highest
31:28
paid. A team, you know.
31:31
Anyway, I'll highest block team. So who's ever got the money man?
31:37
At this point, you're already overseas on your yacht, just sit
31:40
back and relax and let it come in.
31:43
You know, that that's how I feel about it.
31:46
One thing that that magic said that I think that a lot of
31:50
people maybe might have blown out of proportion is when he
31:53
said well, well well was it Rose Al Roker?
31:58
Yeah, it was real Say hello and change uniform.
32:01
And yeah, no, I don't think that's gonna happen.
32:05
I mean, one of the things that you want to gain a fan base or
32:09
you want to lose a fanbase, you change that burgundy and gold
32:13
you going to lose his fan base. I mean, I know that I probably
32:18
would not be a fan. You change from burgundy and go
32:21
to whatever it just wouldn't happen.
32:24
I can tell you that right now, you know, we all have our
32:26
breaking points and that was only My braking points before I
32:31
said you could name us the washstand pixie dust.
32:34
I'm okay with it. Just don't change the colors.
32:37
And I know that that didn't go over well with a lot of people,
32:40
but the name doesn't really bother me as much.
32:46
Don't change my colors, you know, if you're going to change
32:48
something, don't change my colors, don't do that.
32:52
And as far as a another Rebrand is concerned, Like I told you,
32:58
man, I'm a fan and ultimately what they're going to do is what
33:04
they're going to do. Will they how about this?
33:11
Well, they, if they did pipe at that Ali do a Rebrand, I would
33:15
hope that they will learn from their mistakes of this past one
33:19
and truly get fan input or don't even say you want fam input and
33:24
just shove it down our throat and be done with it.
33:27
But don't ask us for our input and then you go totally, we
33:31
left. So hopefully you learn from your
33:33
mistakes on a lot of issues that we've had.
33:36
And I am willing as well as I'm sure you're willing to sit down
33:41
with the new incoming crew so that we don't repeat the same
33:47
mistakes. I've been thinking about that
33:50
all day today and everyone's been yelling say things about,
33:55
you know, Magic Johnson said that they're going to change it,
33:58
they're going to Rebrand it. No.
33:59
It's like no people are just seeing stuff and not actually
34:02
clicking or listen the audio clips.
34:05
Al Roker just ask them a quick question and he said yes, yes,
34:07
yes, whatever it was on there. Jason run, granted whoever buys
34:11
the team can do whatever the hell they want sir?
34:13
Yeah it comes down to. You still have to get permission
34:16
from the NFL. Hmm and going through another
34:19
Rebrand at that point is going to be taxing on this fan base on
34:23
this town. Hey if you don't like the
34:24
Commander's sorry I really Care. But that's our team and if
34:29
you're not a fan because that's the name, then to me, you're not
34:33
a fan, it is what it is. That's just my opinion that's
34:35
not rallies or anybody else's but Jason, right.
34:38
Actually was asked about this and write said he expressed
34:42
skepticism that a new owner would look to Rebrand the
34:45
Commander's upon buying a franchise from owner Dan Snyder.
34:49
The decision isn't ultimately up to him.
34:51
But right, said, none of the groups that he has met have
34:55
mentioned the possibility. The of changing the team's name
34:58
and logo again. This is from an article from the
35:02
Washington Times and this is a quote from right?
35:05
No. Because their business folks,
35:08
right told the Washington Times, they're thinking about how we
35:11
can continue to grow attendance how we can continue to drive up
35:14
the value of the business, how we can invest in a championship.
35:17
It's about winning a healthy business and a new venue.
35:21
Those are the big priorities manga City and go ahead.
35:26
I would focus on the things that can fuel Championship, right?
35:29
Said, I don't know if that's one of them if it is its way.
35:33
Down the totem pole away down a list.
35:37
Here's the thing. and if I had, if I had a question magic, I
35:43
would say, So magic, would you be okay with the Lakers going
35:48
from purple and gold to blue and black?
35:53
And he probably say hell no. Bingo.
35:56
So that's not going to happen. Slow your roll everybody.
35:59
Take a breath and relax what's going on?
36:02
I was talking more so about the uniforms, not the colors.
36:06
It hasn't been brought up if they're going to change the
36:08
colors. But for me, you know, I'll be
36:12
distraught. If we go through another
36:14
Rebrand, it's been way too many names and two shorter time
36:18
period on top of the fact, you know, about the money that we
36:22
spent on gear everything else. I actually got this shirt quite
36:26
full DC doesn't say anything commanders on it but we all know
36:29
what the world it means. It's going to definitely.
36:32
I'm hesitant at this point to by commanders gear.
36:35
You know, they meant it really a little daunted.
36:37
You mean to tell me that you don't get yourself?
36:38
Donate it to you. Yeah, no I won't shoot it out
36:45
but if people knew how much money I spent on that day where
36:48
we were able to raid the team store, right?
36:51
You pay for your gear, I pay for my gear.
36:54
You know I put a tweet out there because I'm filming a TV show
36:57
next week and I want to get some original commanders gear that I
37:02
wanted to rock for the show, not knocking the stuff that the team
37:05
has but I just didn't want to buy some of that stuff from them
37:09
anymore because I'm concerned Concerned about what's going to
37:13
happen and if the team is wondering, if sales are down,
37:18
won't you know why? Because we're in ownership limbo
37:21
again, and you got all the stuff that's happening.
37:23
And to me, you've got the red wolves fan base, that is still
37:26
butt hurt. That can, in fact, that we're
37:30
not the red wolves, and sorry, I don't think it's going to be the
37:32
red wolves even if they want to change it, but knowing that
37:37
Jason, right is saying this. And who knows if Jason's going
37:39
to have a job after the fact but I hope he will.
37:41
Hello. They can come in here and just
37:45
flip up the table and just do whatever the hell they want to
37:47
do between house. That's be sure.
37:50
The fan base is going to speak up in all aspects of it.
37:53
One thing that the fanbase agrees on for the most part is
37:56
the fact that we want Dan out, We cannot agree on the name or
38:03
what should happen with it, or what it should be.
38:05
We can't agree on the colors. I just hope that whoever comes
38:08
in. We get a chance to actually, or
38:11
they do their due diligence and research, they don't hire a
38:14
company out of New York to Rebrand a Crest and get the
38:18
dates wrong when you won the Super Bowl, they don't hire a
38:21
company out of l.a. to design a wire mannequin and Sean Taylor
38:27
and get that all screwed up. You know, it's just different
38:30
stuff like that and I feel that magic just is competent because
38:35
yes, everything he touches turns to Gold.
38:39
Yeah, he has. He has his finger on the put his
38:41
finger on the pulse, so to speak.
38:43
Yeah, he really does. And this is actually another
38:45
clip from his interview with the Today, Show required realm my
38:50
flaw Washington, football fan, the prospect of Magic Johnson of
38:57
being a part owner of Football team that I've loved since Doug
39:00
Williams is quarterback in the late 80s?
39:03
What are our chances of you will come on, come on.
39:08
You don't lose magic, I do lose, you know, crazy your point.
39:12
You know, I've gotten a ring in every sport but I need a Super
39:18
Bowl ring and I would love to be the owner of the Commander's do,
39:25
not only great work on the field but the work we could do with
39:28
the city. Yes.
39:30
And I think that if they bless us mr.
39:35
Snyder. Blesses us with the opportunity
39:37
to be an owner it would be an emotional day for me.
39:41
Yeah. And my father just died so it
39:43
would be it would be a great moment for for the Johnson
39:48
family as well as Josh Harris. Who is the lead partner in this
39:51
to to take that franchise and take it to another level.
39:55
So I'm excited about it. It's correct.
39:57
And another African-American Second owner.
40:00
Yes, I said you and m.j. Sure is.
40:04
So, the question that I have is in, maybe it's a stupid
40:09
question, but I was always told that there's no such thing as a
40:12
stupid thing is to be said, why does Dan have to approve it?
40:17
I understand. This is teen.
40:19
But if you've got the bid, so let's just say apple.
40:25
Apis has Steve-O has six point five or six point two.
40:30
And the The other group has 6.1. Why is it a situation?
40:40
It why can't it be like eBay and whoever walked in?
40:44
And I always go back in there. You don't have a choice on on.
40:48
You don't know who you but he owns it.
40:54
It's his if I'm selling a car and someone wants to buy it but
41:00
then my friend comes in and says he'll buy it for less money.
41:03
Money and you know, he'll hook me up on the back and was
41:07
something else later or you know, will maybe make a trade
41:09
and do what her, but if he just wants to be less money because I
41:12
know him or because I like him better, then it's completely up
41:16
to me. It's not up to anybody else.
41:18
Remember we asked AJ Perez this, you know, Bezos can publicly
41:23
come out and this was when Snyder and it came out to you
41:27
know, it didn't come out from Schneider but it came out
41:30
through other sources that Dan would not let Bezos by 2 T.
41:36
It's since been said by Charles gasperi, no, AKA Dan Snyder's
41:40
mouthpiece that. We're OK with Bezos coming in
41:44
but we asked AJ Perez on that episode if Bezos word a bit
41:48
higher and it came out publicly that he did hire, you know, the
41:53
only thing stopping that from happening and Dan selling it to
41:57
a lesser bitter is the other NFL owners.
42:02
The other owners could say, no, we were jecht this bid for
42:05
different reasons, but then Dan can come back and sue the NFL
42:10
saying that they're not letting him, sell the team for whatever
42:13
reasons. And just all this other legal
42:15
crap. I got you.
42:17
I got you. It just it just seems as though.
42:23
That this could come down to something very Petty or
42:26
something very trivial and that's what I don't like.
42:29
It just, it just seems that way. Will you listen to the junkies
42:32
today? No, I was not those of our
42:35
listeners, don't know the sports junkies institution here in.
42:38
D.c. they're on every day for the past 25 years.
42:41
I think. And during the Magic Johnson
42:44
clip he said something about, you know mr.
42:48
Snyder and he was very respectful when And about Dan
42:52
and this and that. And I was just it kind of you
42:57
get taken aback by it because we can't stand him so much in this
43:01
area but magic knows how to talk to the camera especially on live
43:06
TV and watches every single word he's saying.
43:09
So he is following his p's and q's and making sure he is good
43:13
while he's talking about this and isn't saying anything that
43:16
could upset him because ultimately it is Dan's decision
43:20
on who he wants to accept a bid. From Bank of America is just
43:25
collecting the bids and whoever else wants to send some more
43:29
stuff in there. By the time, the date is gone.
43:31
You know, by the time, they actually want to actually close
43:33
this thing out then great, but they're just going to then give
43:37
the bids to Dan and Tanya saying.
43:39
Here you go, these are fully vetted bids.
43:42
These are fully funded Beds, which one do you want?
43:46
A B, C, or D? And I would think that he, I
43:49
would think that it's dead. He would want to go.
43:51
With the highest bid and not supposed to hook up.
43:54
So I would be think so too and that's why I feel that gasperi
43:59
know is basically begging Bezos to bid on the team, so it shoots
44:05
the value up. And a lot of people are saying
44:07
that the Harris group is worried.
44:10
The Harris rails. Magic Johnson group is worried
44:12
that Bezos is going to swoop in last minute.
44:14
Just like the Walmart group did for the Broncos when they try to
44:18
do that. It's to me.
44:20
It's It's almost like what's some of the NFL teams are doing?
44:24
With Lamar Jackson right now. None of the teams are talking to
44:27
Lamar because nobody wants to negotiate or the Ravens because
44:33
the Ravens have a chance to match with that transition tag
44:36
and come in and say, you know what, thank you for talking to
44:39
him and dealing with them will match that.
44:42
Well, everyone's worried, we're going to drive this number up.
44:47
What are we going to do is basil is going to come in and we just
44:50
going to give a number and in to me it's like you're bidding on a
44:54
house you know and you're going through that dinner's going to
44:58
take the highest amount of money he can at that point but who
45:03
knows it's all still. So up in the air.
45:05
I just hope that it does. Truly end May 22nd at the next
45:12
owners meetings because I am just tired of all this getting
45:15
dragged out in the speculation. Yeah man be great all this to
45:20
end. So to me the next step is we get
45:23
a new owner and then we immediately talk to that new
45:26
ownership group about you're going to Rebrand.
45:30
What do you do? And we figure all that out
45:33
because after that the break yeah, off the brake, get it done
45:36
yet. Then after that, what do you
45:38
want to do about a stadium? Where's it going to go?
45:41
What's going to happen? Because those discussions need
45:43
to start happening years ago. And after that, You got the
45:47
football, people still handling all the football stuff, but we
45:49
bring in a new head coach because I'm sorry.
45:52
Rivera in it for me, that's just me based upon his track record
45:55
in the fact that he is roster building for the first time ever
45:58
since. He's been here for four years,
46:01
cut the man, some slack, man, I can't come on.
46:03
I can't do it. There's just and zero slack that
46:06
he should be caught and I was actually Michael Lombardi went
46:10
on a tirade about. Why is everybody cutting Ron?
46:13
Rivera slack? I don't understand it.
46:15
I don't get it. He's had three wins.
46:17
Winning seasons in 12 years. He might be a good person but a
46:22
good person doesn't make you a good coach.
46:24
And in my opinion, he is a bad coach and a horrible just roster
46:30
management person and hopefully he's gone.
46:34
And so is Dan, come 2024? All right.
46:40
Fingers crossed. Well, I hear the music in the
46:44
background, that's lets me know that we are coming to a close
46:48
and I want to correct you on something.
46:50
You said one thing's for certain but I'm going to say two things
46:53
that for certain all the fans want.
46:56
Yes dies out and they want the stadium to be at RFK.
47:02
Those are two things that I think that all fans can agree
47:06
upon. So that's going to do it for
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