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Cowboys Pay Quinnen Williams, Cousins/Crosby Fallout, Bills Stadium Backlash · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on, my people? How are
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Speaker 1: we doing? I'm John this Three and Out coming to
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Speaker 1: you live from a little Marriott couch, and uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: we got a lot going on. We got Jerry Jones.
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Speaker 1: I think he deserves a little credit. We got the
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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins doing what no team in the NFL does anymore.
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Speaker 1: Do the Commanders, you know, have a little hope with
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Speaker 1: the Laramie Tunzel injury, the Bill Stadium. Some thoughts there,
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Speaker 1: dad diaries. We'll do some mail bag questions at John Middlecoff.
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Speaker 1: dive right in. But I did want to start with
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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, and I think sometimes you know, for
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Speaker 1: a long period of time, perception, like in a lot
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Speaker 1: of walks of life in a lot of different industries,
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Speaker 1: can become reality. And because Jerry is such an outspoken individual,
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Speaker 1: their team hasn't been to the NFC Championship in a
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Speaker 1: long long time. I think universally people say like cowboys
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Speaker 1: are kind of crazy. They do wild shit sometimes they
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Speaker 1: clearly draw some of these negotiations way too far out.
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Speaker 1: They've done it with Dak, They've done it with Ceedee
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Speaker 1: Lamb long time ago, they did it with Zeke. Where
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Speaker 1: you have some of these other organizations as the money
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Speaker 1: has gotten so outrageous, you know in their own division,
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Speaker 1: like the Eagles, who try to get ahead of it
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Speaker 1: and give quote unquote big extensions early, but over the
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Speaker 1: course of a couple of years, you're like, God, they
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Speaker 1: kind of got that guy on the cheap. And countless
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Speaker 1: organizations do that. They signed guys with a year or
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Speaker 1: two remaining on their contract that they know are going
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Speaker 1: to be core pieces, so within a couple of years
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Speaker 1: those contracts look like discounts. Instead of waiting till the
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Speaker 1: last possible moment, keep them on a cheaper contract and
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Speaker 1: then pay a premium at the end when that player
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Speaker 1: has all the leverage because the Cowboys today extended Quinn Williams,
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Speaker 1: who stud top five pick from the New York Jets,
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Speaker 1: who they traded for last year. And you guys know
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Speaker 1: me not a big draft grade guy, because it's like
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Speaker 1: that was a crazy pick and three years later he's
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Speaker 1: been a two Pro Bowls or oh my god, I
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Speaker 1: love that player. You got that guy at fourteen and
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Speaker 1: then four years later he's like average. We just we'd
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Speaker 1: never have any clue. Trades are a little different because
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Speaker 1: players are established. So you know last year when the
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Speaker 1: Packers traded for Micah Parsons, they were getting a plug
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Speaker 1: and play, Pro Bowl, all Pro level guy and he
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Speaker 1: was that right, you knew when they traded for him boom,
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Speaker 1: Or when the Bears traded for Khalil Mack, no brainer,
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Speaker 1: when the Rams traded for Jalen Rams, it's clear. But
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Speaker 1: I think sometimes we judge like two first round picks,
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Speaker 1: How could you get rid of Micah Parsons. Well, the
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Speaker 1: Cowboys were not a player away that guy being Micah
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Speaker 1: Parsons from being a Super Bowl contender last year. And
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Speaker 1: because of some of their contracts that they have done,
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Speaker 1: specifically Dak, they were paying a freight for a couple guys,
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Speaker 1: and if they would have paid Micah Parsons, they basically
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Speaker 1: would have been a three or four man team. The
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Speaker 1: way they would have had to build it and been
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Speaker 1: forced to hit on basically every draft pick they made,
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Speaker 1: almost built like an NBA team. And I think Jerry
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Speaker 1: Jones made it crazy the way it all played out
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Speaker 1: last year, the roller coaster ride, a training camp that
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Speaker 1: kind of topped off by him laying on the training camp.
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Speaker 1: What Jerry would later say pissed him off, but he listen,
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Speaker 1: Jerry takes subtle shots at his agent. He's kind of
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Speaker 1: like a back and forth game, probably unneeded, but I
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Speaker 1: think we have to acknowledge like sometimes trades are kind
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Speaker 1: of win win. It's like, bab, this is a good deal,
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Speaker 1: Like for the Packers, who never feel like they put
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Speaker 1: their you know what on the table, kind of finally
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Speaker 1: did it. And if it wouldn't have been for you
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Speaker 1: know a freak non contact injury, Michaeh. Parsons look like
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Speaker 1: a missing piece to help them make a legitimate playoff run.
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Speaker 1: And that trade was really big for the Dallas Cowboys because,
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Speaker 1: like I said, they weren't a player away. They needed
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Speaker 1: like three or four guys, and because they traded away
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Speaker 1: Michael Parsons, they were worse on defense, one of the
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Speaker 1: worst defenses statistically we've ever seen. So they had a
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Speaker 1: high pick. And then because a guy doesn't play a
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Speaker 1: premium position, despite being one of the best players in
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Speaker 1: his own draft, he's sitting there when they pick, and
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Speaker 1: they get Caleb Downs, who's a plug and play guy
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Speaker 1: who listen. I feel pretty confident saying this. I'd be
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Speaker 1: stunned if the guy doesn't make multiple all teams. I
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Speaker 1: think he is going to be a consistent pro bowler.
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Speaker 1: I feel very confident saying that you don't go to
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Speaker 1: play for Nick Saban as a true freshman, go be
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Speaker 1: the heart and soul of a defense that in Ohio State.
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Speaker 1: No one would have been shocked if they would have
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Speaker 1: won it last year, and clearly they won it the
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Speaker 1: year before. Malachi Lawrence, who they draft with the Packers pick, well,
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Speaker 1: actually it was in their pick. They traded with the
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Speaker 1: Eagles because they had intel, because they know Mike McCarthy
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Speaker 1: and a bunch of guys on the staff that they
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Speaker 1: love Lemon out of USC so they were able to
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Speaker 1: get on the horn and get Howie who is just
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Speaker 1: will do a deal with the devil if he has
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Speaker 1: to to make, make a trade that he likes, gets
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Speaker 1: him to swap up so they gain more picks and
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Speaker 1: move back. They've done good business. And today extending Quentn Williams,
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Speaker 1: who is a high end player at a premium position
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Speaker 1: on the defensive line. That everyone's like, how could the
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys trade one of their first round picks when
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Speaker 1: they don't even know? Well, they got four of them
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Speaker 1: over the course of two years, so would you use
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Speaker 1: a guy once you make that trade, you have a
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Speaker 1: pretty good idea that like, if he doesn't get hurt,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna give this guy an extension, which they did.
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Speaker 1: And if you take his guaranteed money and then the
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Speaker 1: two rookies that they drafted, it basically equals Micah Parsons
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Speaker 1: guaranteed money. I think it's like six million dollars more.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you know a couple hundred thousand dollars less than that,
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Speaker 1: but it's Mike I got one hundred and forty four
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Speaker 1: million dollars last year, and if you add this up,
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Speaker 1: it's about one hundred and fifty million dollars between the
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Speaker 1: three players. And that was Dallas and Jerry even talked
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Speaker 1: about this their mindset when they made the pick, like
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Speaker 1: we need more talent. It was definitely clear as the
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Speaker 1: year went on, and they've done a good job. Now
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Speaker 1: it's gonna come down to the coach that they just hired,
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Speaker 1: Christian Parker from vic Fangio, who feels like this up
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Speaker 1: and coming rising star and if he's able to flip
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Speaker 1: this thing around, they're gonna be good on offense. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna be in really good shape, not just for this year,
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Speaker 1: but for the next couple years. And a big reason
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Speaker 1: for that is however they got to the final result,
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Speaker 1: they pulled the trigger, and most teams and most gms
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Speaker 1: would never trade a guy like Micah Parsons because, in fairness,
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Speaker 1: the whole point of a draft is to find Micah Parsons.
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Speaker 1: But once you've paid Dak made him the highest paid
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Speaker 1: quarterback in the league, paid CD a boat load, you
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Speaker 1: just realize, like, if we signed this guy, we're eventually
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Speaker 1: going to be a three or four man team, and
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Speaker 1: this is a fifty three man roster, it would have
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Speaker 1: been a problem, which is not an ideal way to
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Speaker 1: build your team. And they deserve some criticism because of
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Speaker 1: the way that they played out the contracts. Like we
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Speaker 1: talked about, I think this worked out, and I think
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys for all. And I know they drive people
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Speaker 1: nuts because the networks talk about them NonStop. Because they
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Speaker 1: draw ratings. It's no different talking about the Lakers or
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Speaker 1: the Yankees or the Dodgers. It's just a numbers game,
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Speaker 1: like they deserve a little credit. Here another team that
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Speaker 1: deserves a little credit. Jeff Hafley in the Miami Dolphins.
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Speaker 1: I saw a story today that they are tackling to
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Speaker 1: the ground, which you look around the NFL, that'd be
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Speaker 1: the equivalent of, like, you know, when you see a
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Speaker 1: guy smoking a cigarette right now, it's just like you're
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Speaker 1: kind of taking back. You can't even fathom. I grew
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Speaker 1: up in a world once upon a time where every
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Speaker 1: single car had an ash tray, where planes used to
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Speaker 1: have smoking sections. Those don't exist anymore. Honestly, it's a
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Speaker 1: little jolting when you just see a dude puffing a heater.
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Speaker 1: He's just like, ah, guy's just smoking a cigarette. Does
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Speaker 1: he know that's bad for as lung as it could cause? Canter?
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Speaker 1: But no one tackles the ground anymore. No one wants
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Speaker 1: to get anyone hurt. And if I ran a team,
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Speaker 1: I would probably do the same. I can't even imagine
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Speaker 1: tackling to the ground and losing a guy. I'm paying
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Speaker 1: twenty thirty forty million dollars laying there because I tackled
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Speaker 1: in the middle of August. Some teams need it, and
9:02
Speaker 1: I'm a West Coast guy. I grew up in an
9:04
Speaker 1: area that if we wanted to go to the snow
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Speaker 1: and the cold, we got in our car and we
9:08
Speaker 1: drove two hours. It was called Lake Tahoe. And then
9:11
Speaker 1: I got hired by the Eagles and come around November.
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Speaker 1: I'll never forget going to a game. I used to
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Speaker 1: have on a suit I had won that my dad
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Speaker 1: bought me for my college graduation. I actually still have
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Speaker 1: it in my closet, and I remember wearing it to
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Speaker 1: the game. Pregame. It might have been like a Thursday
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Speaker 1: night or a Sunday night or a Monday night game.
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Speaker 1: It was fucking freezing by kickoff. It was had to
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Speaker 1: be low thirties, high twenties, and I remember looking around
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Speaker 1: and everyone had these They had their suit on, and
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Speaker 1: then they had that big overcoat, the trench coat that
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Speaker 1: like goes down to your ankles. I didn't even know
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Speaker 1: what those were. I'd seen them in movies, but I
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Speaker 1: didn't know why you would wear them. I never lived
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Speaker 1: in a place where you would. And I remember going
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Speaker 1: to a store the next week and buying one because,
10:01
Speaker 1: like I am never I had to stand by the
10:03
Speaker 1: heaters for like two hours while warmost went on. I
10:06
Speaker 1: couldn't feel my body. And in Miami, how can you
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Speaker 1: replicate the cold? How can you prepare for getting on
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Speaker 1: a plane in November or December and going to Buffalo
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Speaker 1: or going to New England, going to Baltimore, going you
10:21
Speaker 1: pick any cold weather team, you can't because it's eighty
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Speaker 1: four degrees and you're literally sweating. Now it works in
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Speaker 1: their favor. It's a huge advantage the first couple games
10:31
Speaker 1: of the year when teams come down to the South.
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Speaker 1: It works in college as well, and it's sweltering on
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Speaker 1: the field. Remember last year was it? Notre Dame went
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Speaker 1: down to Miami and by the end they were just
10:42
Speaker 1: they were just running out of gas. Because you can't
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Speaker 1: prepare for the heat. No different how they can't prepare
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Speaker 1: for the cold. And I'm a big believer. I was
10:49
Speaker 1: thinking about this because sometimes I look at my son,
10:51
Speaker 1: it's like it's incumbent on me. Some of it's out
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Speaker 1: of my control, but like his mental toughness, his ability
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Speaker 1: to solve problems and battle through things, like I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: play a role in that. I think sometimes about my
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Speaker 1: own father, who I remember being like seventh or eighth grade,
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Speaker 1: and he just like drew a line in the sand.
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Speaker 1: He's like, you're not just gonna get to stay home
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Speaker 1: all summer. It's like, Dad, I'm just getting ready for
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Speaker 1: football season. He's like, I don't even see going to
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Speaker 1: the gym. He's like, come ninth grade, you're gonna work
11:25
Speaker 1: all summer long. And for ninth grade through I graduated
11:29
Speaker 1: high school, he made me work on the ranch. And
11:33
Speaker 1: John Anderson, who actually now runs it, used to pick
11:36
Speaker 1: me up between like six and seven am for three
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Speaker 1: months straight, and he dropped me off at one point
11:43
Speaker 1: in time between like four and six depending on what
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Speaker 1: was going on, and we would do some hard shit.
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Speaker 1: Not every day it was impossible, but there were some
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Speaker 1: miserable days. I do believe as I got into football,
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Speaker 1: it was like this sucks long hours, but this sure
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Speaker 1: beats out being in the one hundred and eight degrees
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Speaker 1: trying to trade change displays in Natomis in Sacramento. I'll
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Speaker 1: promise you that, And I look back on that and
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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe he was, but it definitely has
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Speaker 1: benefited me moving forward. And I do believe that in football,
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Speaker 1: like you're building is ultimately built on the guys that
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Speaker 1: you draft, their mindset, but you also can take them
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Speaker 1: to another level. When you hear some of these Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame speeches year after year, or some of these
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Speaker 1: great players when they retire, they talk, and I would
12:36
Speaker 1: say this for any sport, but specifically football, they talk
12:40
Speaker 1: about in college and in the pros when they first
12:43
Speaker 1: showed up an older player in college, sometimes as a
12:46
Speaker 1: junior or senior, and in the pro sometimes as established veteran,
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Speaker 1: kind of showing them the way, what it takes, what
12:54
Speaker 1: the mandate is in this place, the standard to be
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Speaker 1: a great player, and typically that come in training camp. Now,
13:01
Speaker 1: the days of double days, the junction boys, those are
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Speaker 1: a thing of the past. But the Miami Dolphins record
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Speaker 1: speaks for itself. When they play in these frigid conditions,
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Speaker 1: they're never gonna be able to get ready for a
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Speaker 1: Bills game. And practice outside in fifteen degrees. They're gonna
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Speaker 1: be in practice, the sun's gonna be out, half naked
13:20
Speaker 1: women are gonna be walking around. But I saw a
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Speaker 1: story that they tackled to the ground and I went,
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Speaker 1: you know what, that's a good start. I mean because
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Speaker 1: I've watched this franchise for a long time and there
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Speaker 1: is something missing, and maybe there'll always be something missing.
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Speaker 1: I also believe that it's going to be hard in
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Speaker 1: that market with the money guys make. Most people are
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Speaker 1: not pat riley. And let's face it, once Lebron left
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Speaker 1: and beside Jimmy Butler like, it's been a little all
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Speaker 1: over the place with the Miami heat as well, but
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Speaker 1: with the football team, it's been very hard to keep
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Speaker 1: guys focused. And they felt soft, they felt no discipline.
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Speaker 1: They've just lacked stuff. So when you hired these two
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Speaker 1: guys from Green Bay that grew up, you know, I
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Speaker 1: think that the GM had been there like two and
14:06
Speaker 1: a half decades Halfleet had only been there a couple
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Speaker 1: But you watched his defense play, he went, yeah, this
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Speaker 1: guy's a tough guy. Because being a tough guy as
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Speaker 1: a football coach doesn't mean you're Dan Campbell and can
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Speaker 1: beat you up. It's a mindset and how you practice, right, Like,
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Speaker 1: is Kyle Shanahan beating up many guys? Of course not?
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Speaker 1: Would would you say Kyle Shanahan is some tough guy.
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Speaker 1: I've been to his practice and they're probably a little
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Speaker 1: two physicals why guys drop like flies along with a substation.
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Speaker 1: But there's a physicality that's mandated. Like is Vic Fangio?
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Speaker 1: Could he just like beat up the majority of coaches
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Speaker 1: at sixty seven in a fight? No? But when you
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Speaker 1: watch Vic Fangio talk, when you watch the way he
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Speaker 1: carries himself, and then you watch his defensive his units play,
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Speaker 1: you go that fuckers guy is just a grizzly tough guy, right,
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Speaker 1: And that's a mentality. It's established right now the moment
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Speaker 1: the bats come on. So are the Miami Dolphins gonna
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Speaker 1: be any good? No? But do you eventually need to
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Speaker 1: kind of draw a line in the sand and go
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Speaker 1: this just can't be accepted because if we never change, right,
15:14
Speaker 1: what's the definition of insanity doing the same thing over
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Speaker 1: and over and over and expecting things to change and
15:20
Speaker 1: halfway's like you know what I'm looking round? Fuck it?
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Speaker 1: Buckle the chin straps, full go. McCarthy might not have
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Speaker 1: to do that. Well, yeah, you know, no no one
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Speaker 1: questions TJ. Watt and Cam Hayward's toughness. No one's ever gone.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if they got it right.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, most of us whenever we watch
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins, like post Marino, you go, I don't see it.
15:43
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. You could argue the
15:45
Speaker 1: last time they were truly tough, it was like Tony
15:48
Speaker 1: Sperano rip running the Wildcat almost twenty years ago, which
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Speaker 1: kind of makes sense, right running offense, going back to
15:56
Speaker 1: when I was in like junior high in high school,
15:58
Speaker 1: when Dave Want said Had Williams, who just like, we're
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Speaker 1: giving this guy every play running either off the center's
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Speaker 1: ass or off tackle, buckle up, leading with a full back,
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Speaker 1: and we're just gonna crack some skulls. And I credit
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Speaker 1: Jeff Hafley for at least trying something different. The other thing,
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Speaker 1: when you lose a left tackle, we talked about this, yet,
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Speaker 1: what are you gonna do, Like, if a top ten
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Speaker 1: left tackle goes down in the NFL, you were just
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Speaker 1: shit out of luck. You can't call someone I see,
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Speaker 1: you got this swing tackle who might not start, that
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Speaker 1: makes a little bit of money. Would you be interested
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Speaker 1: in training him to us? Like, yeah, but it's a
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Speaker 1: huge drop off even if we did, and most teams
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Speaker 1: would not. They're one. They're hard to acquire because even
16:47
Speaker 1: teams with good backup tackles aren't just gonna get rid
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Speaker 1: of them. And then the guys that are usually cut
16:53
Speaker 1: are cut for a reason, right, most times, great tackles
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Speaker 1: aren't cut. Here in a month when every team has
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Speaker 1: their fifty three man, you know, released as however, many
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Speaker 1: guys that is thirty eight or forty or develops the
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Speaker 1: practice squad. But if you are going to lose a
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Speaker 1: key player on your team, which I can't even imagine
17:15
Speaker 1: the vibe in that locker room, the vibe in that
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Speaker 1: front office, the coaches meetings when they're going over injuries,
17:21
Speaker 1: it has to be a pretty somber time. But eventually
17:24
Speaker 1: you got to look around and go, well, if this
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Speaker 1: is gonna happen, at least it happens early in August,
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Speaker 1: where we have the most options possible. We can convey
17:36
Speaker 1: the landscape of the league, maybe find a gym, we
17:39
Speaker 1: can see players that might be falling out of favor.
17:42
Speaker 1: We can call some of these teams that just plan
17:45
Speaker 1: on being shitty and maybe they would be open to
17:48
Speaker 1: making a move. At least you have options because if
17:52
Speaker 1: this happens like week eight, which you still probably sign
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Speaker 1: up for that because you get seven weeks of your
17:59
Speaker 1: starting left tack technically eight depending on what it happens
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Speaker 1: in the game. This does give you some wiggle room
18:07
Speaker 1: to make some decisions. And I'm trying to be optimistic,
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Speaker 1: which is not easy. But at least you got another
18:15
Speaker 1: month till the season starts and you can just work
18:17
Speaker 1: like hell as a position staff or a personnel staff,
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Speaker 1: and work with your coaching staff of maybe you got
18:24
Speaker 1: a guy that you think can do a serviceable job
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Speaker 1: as a backup. Again, I'm just trying to shed a
18:29
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18:35
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19:54
Speaker 1: you know this day and age with the Internet. I
19:57
Speaker 1: love it when like news is now just like a
20:02
Speaker 1: lot of negative reaction to this. You're just basing that
20:05
Speaker 1: on the comments. And sometimes I think with comments, it's
20:09
Speaker 1: like a separate reality from if you just get off
20:12
Speaker 1: your phone and you go to the real world. People
20:15
Speaker 1: in the real world don't talk like comments. They do
20:17
Speaker 1: if they know you, maybe, But what do we first
20:20
Speaker 1: do when we see a post, when we see something polarizing,
20:23
Speaker 1: We just go right to the comments on Twitter on Instagram.
20:26
Speaker 1: I'm not a TikToker, but I'm sure that happens on
20:28
Speaker 1: TikTok as well. Never been on Blue Sky, but I
20:32
Speaker 1: can't imagine the comments there. And I saw the bills.
20:37
Speaker 1: They built this new stadium right, and they had a
20:39
Speaker 1: day where a couple days ago, Josh Allen comes out,
20:43
Speaker 1: they got these new jerseys, and the reaction of this
20:46
Speaker 1: stadium is just this thing fucking sucks all these sitelines.
20:50
Speaker 1: It's poorly built. I've never been there, I've never stepped inside,
20:55
Speaker 1: but I remember when Levi Stadium was built, there was
20:59
Speaker 1: a huge negative pushback. I remember thinking of looking at
21:02
Speaker 1: him like kind of looks like a replica of the
21:05
Speaker 1: Link in Philadelphia, kind of similar open spots. Yeah, is
21:09
Speaker 1: it perfect? What is perfect? I love Sofi Stadium. I
21:13
Speaker 1: think it's a very new age. Some people think it's
21:15
Speaker 1: like it doesn't have the same type character. I also
21:18
Speaker 1: used to enjoy candlestick in the Oakland Coliseum that were archaic,
21:25
Speaker 1: partly because when you went there, if it was a
21:27
Speaker 1: good game and the place was packed, it was kind
21:30
Speaker 1: of pure. It was like just about football. There wasn't
21:34
Speaker 1: a great sweet setup that There wasn't like a wine
21:38
Speaker 1: and cheese club. It was just for that sixty minutes,
21:41
Speaker 1: those four quarters just about ball. Now when you go,
21:46
Speaker 1: I've only been to SOFI one time. I sat in
21:48
Speaker 1: the club level. It was like the game was really shitty.
21:51
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, let's go get some cocktails in
21:53
Speaker 1: the second quarter. Let's go hang out in the club.
21:55
Speaker 1: We can watch on some of the big screen TVs.
21:57
Speaker 1: You've lost a little bit of a you know, the
21:59
Speaker 1: luster of this. But you could post the most beautiful
22:02
Speaker 1: girl on the Internet, and if you looked at the
22:05
Speaker 1: comments after four or five hours, you would see that
22:08
Speaker 1: yeah nose a little big, oh yeah, belly fat. You
22:12
Speaker 1: notice that on their left hip. It's no one. If
22:16
Speaker 1: you're just basing it off internet comments, nothing, and I
22:20
Speaker 1: mean nothing will ever be good enough. Now, is it
22:24
Speaker 1: ideal to build a stadium where there aren't great sidelines? Yeah?
22:28
Speaker 1: Isn't that part of stadiums everywhere I've ever gone, I've
22:32
Speaker 1: seen pictures or every stadium we see this has an
22:37
Speaker 1: area or two that you're not gonna be able to
22:39
Speaker 1: see everything. You know, there's a reason like the range
22:42
Speaker 1: Rover costs more than the Honda Pilot there are certain
22:45
Speaker 1: seats that are gonna be great, there are other ones
22:47
Speaker 1: that are gonna be bad. Now, you could argue the
22:48
Speaker 1: Honda Pilot might have a be more durable and you
22:52
Speaker 1: might need to take this shop less often than the
22:54
Speaker 1: range Rover. Maybe true, maybe not. I don't know. I
22:57
Speaker 1: don't know either, but I know that like, they're gonna
22:59
Speaker 1: be seats at most stadiums that stink. Right, So this
23:05
Speaker 1: notion that the Bill Stadium is like some disaster, I
23:10
Speaker 1: am not shocked at all to see the negative reaction
23:12
Speaker 1: on the internet. And again, maybe I also think there's
23:15
Speaker 1: such a whenever a new stadium comes, there's like a
23:18
Speaker 1: nostalgia that comes with the old stadium, and certain ones
23:22
Speaker 1: should never be touched, right lambeau Field, Fenway, Rigly, There
23:28
Speaker 1: are certain places that should never be touched, but most
23:30
Speaker 1: of them it's like we're just talking concrete. Who the
23:34
Speaker 1: fuck cares? And most of these people commenting on these,
23:39
Speaker 1: you know, different sitelines, will never step foot in the place.
23:42
Speaker 1: So if you are the PSL holder that paid no
23:46
Speaker 1: problem with your bitchin, you know most of these people
23:50
Speaker 1: just ain't ever going to the game there, So who
23:53
Speaker 1: the fuck cares? Before we dive into the mailbag Dad diaries.
24:01
Speaker 1: One thing when you get out, like I've been on
24:03
Speaker 1: the road now for going on week two. Now, granted
24:07
Speaker 1: I'm we're getting up at the crack of dawn. These
24:09
Speaker 1: meetings are early, and you can want to show up.
24:12
Speaker 1: You know, the meeting starts between like five fifty and
24:15
Speaker 1: six am and it just goes. You know, this isn't
24:18
Speaker 1: like a slow intro into the thing. Take start flying.
24:22
Speaker 1: You got to be clearheaded, so you got to get up.
24:24
Speaker 1: For me, I'm a guy that needs a little caffeine
24:26
Speaker 1: going through my body. I've tried to take cold showers
24:29
Speaker 1: here at the hotel, but the water only gets so cold,
24:32
Speaker 1: so it's not like that even wakes me up. So
24:34
Speaker 1: I need like an hour to let my mind kind
24:36
Speaker 1: of get go and walk around a little bit, get
24:38
Speaker 1: there a little bit early, slam a couple you know,
24:42
Speaker 1: double espressos and I do get a quiet night though,
24:47
Speaker 1: right And on Friday night, I was like a month ago,
24:52
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, why don't I stay
24:54
Speaker 1: for the week. Once I found out I was doing this,
24:56
Speaker 1: you come down the second week. Her cut in Dimitri,
25:00
Speaker 1: who went to issues staying at our house like he'll
25:03
Speaker 1: stay at our house, take care of the dog. You
25:05
Speaker 1: get you guys, come down and enjoy yourself. But for
25:07
Speaker 1: whatever reason, we rented this place and her mom's actually
25:11
Speaker 1: down with her right now. I was like, because she
25:13
Speaker 1: wanted a kitchen. It's just so much easier and washer
25:15
Speaker 1: and dryer for the baby. So we found a place
25:18
Speaker 1: actually a pretty good deal. And I was like, you
25:22
Speaker 1: guys come down Saturday. And then we realized why didn't
25:26
Speaker 1: they just come down meet me Friday because we couldn't
25:28
Speaker 1: get into the condo until Saturday. And then they just
25:32
Speaker 1: stayed with me at the hotel on Friday down in Newport,
25:34
Speaker 1: but we didn't, so I basically got Friday in Newport
25:37
Speaker 1: to myself. I got a couple buddies down there, and
25:41
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I'm going out having
25:43
Speaker 1: a good time. So we met at this place called
25:46
Speaker 1: the Ledo House. I had never been there, just popping
25:49
Speaker 1: and you know, had a few tequila's once dinner, had
25:51
Speaker 1: a few more tequilas, went and got a nightcap. I
25:53
Speaker 1: had a couple more tequilas, just had a blast. Well, Jack,
25:56
Speaker 1: who's been sleeping much better he's been I wouldn't say
26:00
Speaker 1: a great sleeper, but definitely improved sleeps in his own room.
26:04
Speaker 1: Has nights where he goes seven thirty to about you know,
26:08
Speaker 1: five six in the morning, maybe one wake up, but
26:12
Speaker 1: he's really turned a corner. Well, she had the night
26:16
Speaker 1: from hell. So I'm out in Newport Beach just halfing
26:20
Speaker 1: the time of my life, just enjoying myself. Had a
26:23
Speaker 1: great this place called R and D Kitchen, which is
26:27
Speaker 1: in Fashion Square if you're ever down in Newport, has great,
26:30
Speaker 1: great French dip. I mean the thing melts in your mouth.
26:34
Speaker 1: That's probably on my fourth tequila. And it turns out
26:37
Speaker 1: that he got up ten times. That's what I said.
26:39
Speaker 1: You got these little things called banana. Someone asked me, like,
26:42
Speaker 1: what what baby things do you use? Like for sleep?
26:46
Speaker 1: The nanet is a go to. It's basically like this
26:49
Speaker 1: camera that looks in his crib. You have like a
26:51
Speaker 1: little iPad type monitor. And she calls me the next
26:57
Speaker 1: morning at like five thirty six in the morning. You know,
26:59
Speaker 1: I'm fucking headed. I'm just like, what is going on?
27:03
Speaker 1: She said that she never got more than forty five
27:06
Speaker 1: minutes straight to sleep, and now even she tried to
27:09
Speaker 1: bring him to our bed to maybe think it would
27:12
Speaker 1: help him sleep, But the problem is these cribs are
27:14
Speaker 1: like hard, right. He's used to sleeping on a hard
27:16
Speaker 1: service because it's good for babies. They can't like they
27:20
Speaker 1: can't suffocate or whatever. Well, he likes sleeping on his stomach.
27:23
Speaker 1: He doesn't like sleeping on his back, so in the
27:26
Speaker 1: in our bed, like, he can't really sleep on his stomach,
27:29
Speaker 1: it's too soft. So he was just miserable. So she
27:31
Speaker 1: kept putting him back and forth, and she said she
27:35
Speaker 1: felt like she was in a war. She's like the
27:37
Speaker 1: mental warfare of like hell, weak navy seals and meanwhile,
27:40
Speaker 1: your boy's out having the time of his life. And
27:42
Speaker 1: there's a guilt you feel, but there's also like you
27:45
Speaker 1: know what am I gonna do? It's out of your control.
27:48
Speaker 1: You just wasn't great. It wasn't great, but she handled
27:51
Speaker 1: it like a champ. It is what women go through
27:55
Speaker 1: in the process. Even if I was there, she would
27:57
Speaker 1: have done the majority of the work anyway. It's fucking
27:59
Speaker 1: hard the respect I have for that role. If you said, hey, John,
28:07
Speaker 1: you want to quit podcasting and just become a babysitter,
28:10
Speaker 1: You'll just rotate every couple of years, you'll have, you know,
28:13
Speaker 1: get from like early, you know, a couple of months
28:16
Speaker 1: into like they're two years old, and you'll just get
28:18
Speaker 1: new kids NonStop. What would your rate be? I'd be like,
28:21
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it for less than like twenty million
28:23
Speaker 1: dollars a year. I mean sometimes I'll have them for
28:26
Speaker 1: nine straight hours and you just start losing your mind.
28:29
Speaker 1: I don't think babysitters and stay at home moms get
28:33
Speaker 1: enough credit. When babies are really young, it can mentally
28:38
Speaker 1: break you. I mean, it's crazy. I would have just
28:41
Speaker 1: quit life if roles were reversed and she was out
28:45
Speaker 1: partying with her friends. Partying would be strong, but just
28:48
Speaker 1: hanging out, and I had to do that. I just
28:52
Speaker 1: I don't even know. I would have waved the white flag.
28:55
Speaker 1: I would have called in help. I don't know who
28:57
Speaker 1: I would have called. I couldn't have done it so her.
29:01
Speaker 1: There's the mailback questions at John midlcoff at John Middleoff
29:03
Speaker 1: as the Instagram firing those dms. Get your questions answer
29:07
Speaker 1: here right here on the podcast. Here's from Carlos last week.
29:12
Speaker 1: It looks like Cousins and Crosby got into it during
29:14
Speaker 1: a team period. Kubiak decided to hold them out of
29:18
Speaker 1: the next practice. Any chance that Cousins, Crosby, and Kubiak
29:21
Speaker 1: got together and the players decided to hold themselves out,
29:26
Speaker 1: it gives Mendoza the opportunity to get thrown in with
29:29
Speaker 1: the fire without any risk of getting fucking obliterated. If
29:32
Speaker 1: the old line is trash. We talked about this yesterday.
29:39
Speaker 1: I don't think it was a coordinated thing, like I I.
29:42
Speaker 1: My guess is the fight was pretty organic. I do
29:46
Speaker 1: wonder if it was coordinated after the fact of like, listen,
29:49
Speaker 1: you guys were gonna get a day off. Maybe if
29:52
Speaker 1: Kubiak calls them both into his office and it's an
29:56
Speaker 1: easy one to set the tone for the rest of
29:58
Speaker 1: the team that this can't be okay, Like I don't
30:01
Speaker 1: want guys fighting. We're not good enough, you know, to
30:04
Speaker 1: slow down practice to take away from the reps. I
30:09
Speaker 1: could have seen it coordinated after the fact. My guess
30:13
Speaker 1: is that Crosby and Cousins wouldn't want to take a
30:17
Speaker 1: practice off if it wasn't scheduled. But I could see
30:21
Speaker 1: them all kind of working together and coming to a
30:23
Speaker 1: solution rather than like, you guys are done, give me
30:26
Speaker 1: your helmets, give your shoulder pads to the equipment guy.
30:30
Speaker 1: You guys are out tomorrow. Remember like when Jamis Winston
30:33
Speaker 1: got suspended at Florida State and he showed up in
30:36
Speaker 1: warm ups. I forget who they were playing, maybe like
30:38
Speaker 1: Virginia or NC State, and he ran out of the
30:40
Speaker 1: tunnel in his It was like a Saturday night game.
30:43
Speaker 1: I mean, they won the national championship the year before,
30:47
Speaker 1: and it was like, isn't this guy suspended? And then
30:50
Speaker 1: Jimbo Fisher like sent him in. I don't think it was.
30:53
Speaker 1: It was like that, but wouldn't shock me at all
30:58
Speaker 1: if they worked together Team captain type guy, I mean
31:01
Speaker 1: Crosby specifically. We'll see if Cousin's even any good. I
31:04
Speaker 1: did see this video of Cousins running some gassers. I
31:07
Speaker 1: don't even know if it was gasers, just like maybe
31:10
Speaker 1: like up to the twenty and back kind of. I
31:12
Speaker 1: don't know if it was warm ups or after the
31:15
Speaker 1: after the practice cardio. He looked like he was sixty.
31:20
Speaker 1: I mean he's never been I would say Tyreek Hill,
31:24
Speaker 1: you know, with his feet, but man, he looked like
31:27
Speaker 1: someone you would see, just like if you just went
31:29
Speaker 1: to the gym just to do just kind of jogging
31:32
Speaker 1: on a treadmill. You know, it's like kind of heavy footed.
31:34
Speaker 1: I'm heavy footed, flat footed, just just kind of laboring.
31:39
Speaker 1: Like this guy isn't running away from anybody, Josh, do
31:43
Speaker 1: you think there's any chance Anthony Richardson could potentially be
31:46
Speaker 1: an interesting project for the Ravens specifically because of his
31:51
Speaker 1: similarity to Lamar's play style, making him a viable backup.
31:55
Speaker 1: If he improves, the strength of their culture and slash
31:58
Speaker 1: organization could lead them to being comfort with a less
32:00
Speaker 1: mature player, and maybe Lamar could help him learn to
32:03
Speaker 1: bridge the gap from insane athlete the franchise quarterback. I'd
32:09
Speaker 1: have to look at their cap space, but at this
32:13
Speaker 1: point in time, I would say the Colts misplayed their
32:17
Speaker 1: hand a little bit. Is last year, when he didn't
32:21
Speaker 1: win the job, they should have just traded him then,
32:26
Speaker 1: because right now they can't trade him. He has no
32:28
Speaker 1: trade value. There was a report yesterday we mentioned on
32:32
Speaker 1: the podcast that rap She'd said that that band that
32:38
Speaker 1: broke into his eye or broke his orbital, fucked up
32:42
Speaker 1: his vision. Like I do think he's struggling to see
32:45
Speaker 1: based on the reports that he's dropping a bunch of
32:48
Speaker 1: shotgun snaps. I do think if you go back to
32:52
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's, didn't he win the Heisman Trophy? Lamar needed
32:56
Speaker 1: some work. But Lamar was a much easier piece of
33:01
Speaker 1: clay to mold than Anthea Richardson, a guy who barely
33:05
Speaker 1: played in college, who had injury questions in college. You've
33:08
Speaker 1: got hurt immediately. The eye thing was a freak mistake.
33:12
Speaker 1: But even the think how often Lamar ran around his
33:16
Speaker 1: entire career, going from I'm sure in high school to
33:19
Speaker 1: Louisville to the Ravens, It's probably never crossed his mind
33:23
Speaker 1: to take himself out of a game. I mean, I
33:25
Speaker 1: think it's pretty unprecedented for a quarterback to tap out
33:28
Speaker 1: of a game. It's unpressent, maybe called time out if
33:31
Speaker 1: you can't breathe, but take himself out of the game.
33:34
Speaker 1: So I think they just had this raw piece of
33:37
Speaker 1: clay and it completely blew up in their face. And
33:40
Speaker 1: just from a asset management standpoint, he's got no value.
33:44
Speaker 1: So now you have this player who you once drafted
33:47
Speaker 1: fourth overall and has no value even JJ if Kyler
33:53
Speaker 1: wins this job, which all signs pointed that happening right now.
33:57
Speaker 1: I saw a quote from Kevin and being like, it's
34:02
Speaker 1: crazy how far Kyler's come mentally at this point in time.
34:05
Speaker 1: Did not expect it. It's like, it's like, just keep
34:08
Speaker 1: putting the piece of the puzzle there. We know where
34:09
Speaker 1: this one's headed. If they feel that they're more comfortable
34:12
Speaker 1: with Carson Wentz being the backup than JJ, like JJ
34:15
Speaker 1: still has value. You're never gonna get a first round
34:18
Speaker 1: pick for him, but you get I'm sure someone that
34:21
Speaker 1: really liked him coming out of college, give you like
34:24
Speaker 1: a fifth and he ends up starting. It goes to
34:26
Speaker 1: a conditional fourth or you know, a sixth that could
34:28
Speaker 1: go up to a fourth dependent on play time. He
34:30
Speaker 1: has some I think Anthony Richards is like, well, I
34:33
Speaker 1: don't trade just some some helmets, maybe some bag of alls.
34:39
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's a disaster sometimes when you
34:44
Speaker 1: know you just got to pivot, and some teams are
34:47
Speaker 1: good at that, other teams are not. Do you think
34:52
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones and Kittle are taking recovery peptides like BBC
34:56
Speaker 1: one fifty seven and TV five hundred, These are notorious
35:00
Speaker 1: for repairing ligaments enjoyed damage. It's insane how fast they
35:03
Speaker 1: are recovering. So I'm curious to know if athletes are
35:07
Speaker 1: taking them to recover quick quicker. Also, what do you
35:11
Speaker 1: think the NFL players? What do you think about NFL
35:15
Speaker 1: players taking peptides. I think any recovery peptide that increases
35:19
Speaker 1: recovery should be allowed. I'm pretty sure it's banned, but
35:23
Speaker 1: I'm not up to date with the drug testing policy.
35:27
Speaker 1: I'm not against it. Put yourself in a position that
35:31
Speaker 1: you had millions of dollars on the line, because if
35:34
Speaker 1: you can't play, you make less than if you can
35:37
Speaker 1: when they put you on ir There are parts of
35:40
Speaker 1: everyone's contract that, like, you don't get paid as much
35:44
Speaker 1: now based on true guarantees of the bigger contracts, Like
35:47
Speaker 1: that's guaranteed, but there's a big difference between playing the
35:50
Speaker 1: games not playing the games. I don't care what your
35:52
Speaker 1: contract is unless you're Deshaun Watson. So if I had
35:56
Speaker 1: a major injury, and if peptides are is a no brainer.
36:01
Speaker 1: If they're not, how often I'm being tested, I don't
36:05
Speaker 1: know the potency to get tested positive, but like, yeah,
36:08
Speaker 1: I would do everything humanly possible to recover, and honestly,
36:13
Speaker 1: like just full on steroids to take a guy and
36:15
Speaker 1: make them dramatically stronger. Totally get banning those in a
36:20
Speaker 1: physical violence sport, but just to recovery drug to help ligament,
36:26
Speaker 1: to help whatever injury recover. I'm not bothered by that
36:30
Speaker 1: at all. So if you told me John should peptides
36:34
Speaker 1: be banned, I would say no. Now one is CJC,
36:40
Speaker 1: which I took. Now again, I didn't take the injections.
36:44
Speaker 1: I took the dissolvables that I think are clearly a
36:47
Speaker 1: little less potent. Partly I just didn't want to inject
36:50
Speaker 1: myself every week, and it was way cheaper. But like
36:55
Speaker 1: that one to me starts going the human growth hormone
36:58
Speaker 1: starts trending a little deroid's like, But the recovery one,
37:03
Speaker 1: it doesn't bother me as all at all. Doesn't bother
37:05
Speaker 1: me at all. With Bill Barnwell coming out with a
37:10
Speaker 1: new article talking about the Hall of Fame cases for
37:14
Speaker 1: players now listing Josh Allen as the All Decade quarterback
37:19
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenties, it has me thinking I could
37:23
Speaker 1: not agree. I could not disagree more. I think it's
37:25
Speaker 1: pretty clearly Mahomes. I would say most people would agree
37:30
Speaker 1: with you. He is Alan beating almost every stat and
37:33
Speaker 1: more success than the other top five quarterbacks put together.
37:36
Speaker 1: I think the no doubters are Mahomes, Jefferson, Jamar Chase,
37:41
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, Travis Kelce, Trent Williams, Miles Garrett. My question
37:46
Speaker 1: would be on your All Decade team of the twenty
37:49
Speaker 1: twenty so far well, to me, the key to an
37:52
Speaker 1: all decade team is you got to come in right
37:57
Speaker 1: at the like the year before the decade start, so
38:00
Speaker 1: by the time you hit twenty eleven or two thousand
38:04
Speaker 1: and one, you're kind of hitting your stride as a
38:06
Speaker 1: player second or third year, and then ideally you have
38:10
Speaker 1: a long seven, eight, nine, ten year run and quarterbacks
38:13
Speaker 1: like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady get drafted the end
38:16
Speaker 1: of the nineties, the no doubt about it. Two quarterbacks
38:20
Speaker 1: all decade of the two thousands. Right then you get
38:23
Speaker 1: to the twenty tens, it'd be Tom Brady again. But
38:27
Speaker 1: because Peyton Manning's career ends in the middle of the
38:30
Speaker 1: twenty tens, you'd probably give the nod to Rogers. Why
38:34
Speaker 1: because when he really started playing in O nine, he
38:36
Speaker 1: had the whole fucking runway of ten to twenty where
38:40
Speaker 1: Manning's career kind of ends after the twenty sixteen season, right,
38:44
Speaker 1: So when you look at it, like Micah Parsons is
38:48
Speaker 1: if he hadn't gotten hurt, he's a no doubt about it.
38:50
Speaker 1: With Miles Garrett on the twenty twenties because he's just
38:54
Speaker 1: gonna be a double digousacked guy for a decade straight.
38:58
Speaker 1: But some of these guys like Aaron Donald is unreal
39:00
Speaker 1: the first couple of years of the twenty twenties and
39:02
Speaker 1: then his career ends or you know, he retires. So
39:05
Speaker 1: I think Jefferson, Jamar Chase, like Tyreek Hill. You look
39:09
Speaker 1: at the first couple of years of the decade, like
39:12
Speaker 1: in Hall of Fame numbers, and then all of a
39:15
Speaker 1: sudden it's drop off and we're in twenty twenty six.
39:18
Speaker 1: So to me, it's harder to do for the twenty
39:20
Speaker 1: twenties because we saw five years left. So like Panay
39:26
Speaker 1: Sewell will be a guy that, yeah's gonna have a
39:28
Speaker 1: pretty good argument when you look at quarterbacks Mahomes first
39:32
Speaker 1: five years, but like what if Josh Allen out plays him?
39:35
Speaker 1: He out played him last year, then every year moving forward.
39:40
Speaker 1: So I based on the information we have now it's
39:43
Speaker 1: a no brainer. I do think it's hard to make
39:45
Speaker 1: that distinction in the middle of the decade, right, I'm
39:50
Speaker 1: trying to think some other guys like Fred Warner unreal
39:53
Speaker 1: like twenty through twenty four, then last year breaks his ankle.
39:58
Speaker 1: Is he gonna have three or four more years? Be
40:00
Speaker 1: a no brainer? Right? But what if he never doesn't,
40:05
Speaker 1: then it's probably up for debate. Kyle Hamilton would be
40:07
Speaker 1: a guy like it comes to my mind, feels like
40:10
Speaker 1: he's a no brainer. Sauce Gardner would have been first
40:13
Speaker 1: two years All Pro, last couple. You know, last year
40:16
Speaker 1: was banged up the year before he kind of fell off.
40:18
Speaker 1: Does he bounce back and have three more All Pro gears?
40:22
Speaker 1: I just think it's very fluid. But based on today, yeah,
40:28
Speaker 1: I mean, Mahomes has to be your quarterback has to be.
40:32
Speaker 1: I mean there's an argument between. To me, Burrow doesn't
40:36
Speaker 1: even have an argument. He's missed too much time, his
40:38
Speaker 1: teams have been shitty. It's it's it's between. There's only
40:42
Speaker 1: two guys that would even have an argument, and that
40:44
Speaker 1: would be Lamar Jackson Josh Allen. There's no way I
40:47
Speaker 1: can beat you in the biggest games Josh multiple times.
40:51
Speaker 1: One of them was in his fault and other games
40:54
Speaker 1: when I don't play you, like last year in Denver,
40:56
Speaker 1: that's never really happened to me in the playoffs, and
40:58
Speaker 1: then lamar, you had the number one seed, one of
41:00
Speaker 1: the best defenses of the Internet era, and I beat
41:03
Speaker 1: you and I outplay you. Like so it's their arguments.
41:07
Speaker 1: He gets a trump card there, but again I hate
41:14
Speaker 1: all decade team in twenty twenty five, Like that's whoever
41:19
Speaker 1: the editor for that one probably got a half chubb.
41:22
Speaker 1: He's like, Oh, this, this is gonna get the people talking.
41:26
Speaker 1: This is gonna fucking make some waves, which is all
41:29
Speaker 1: the Internet is. Let's face it, Social media, which that
41:33
Speaker 1: article is essentially made for, is about getting you pissed off,
41:38
Speaker 1: because the more pissed off you are, the more you'll scroll.
41:40
Speaker 1: That's why I try to avoid it sometimes, especially Twitter,
41:43
Speaker 1: because like I do, I just want to get mad,
41:45
Speaker 1: Like what's the point of just getting angry? Like just
41:47
Speaker 1: getting angry scrolling? Like why am I doing this? Sometimes?
41:50
Speaker 1: Especially if I see it's like did that just impact
41:52
Speaker 1: my mood? Go, I'm acting in my house, my family
41:55
Speaker 1: because it's something I saw on Twitter? What is wrong
41:58
Speaker 1: with me.
42:01
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think some of this shit's so stupid.
42:22
Speaker 1: I work for State High School Sports Activity Association, and
42:26
Speaker 1: while I know this is not technically your area of knowledge,
42:29
Speaker 1: I do trust your judgment and overall sports culture. Since
42:32
Speaker 1: the NCAA Transfer Portal, our state has seen a number
42:35
Speaker 1: of changes to our eligibility rules, and lately it seems
42:41
Speaker 1: like some types of changes is happening for being pushed,
42:45
Speaker 1: changes happening every year, being pushed. Furthermore, our state legislators
42:50
Speaker 1: seem to insert themselves into the stadium or these situations
42:54
Speaker 1: more and more. What is your take on transfers and
42:57
Speaker 1: eligibility and high school sports? This is this just a
43:02
Speaker 1: new rule? Should the transfer portal have a place in
43:04
Speaker 1: high school sports? I'm not the most educated with this,
43:10
Speaker 1: mainly because in my own personal experience, like in the
43:14
Speaker 1: era I grew up in, unless you went to private
43:18
Speaker 1: school like where I grew up. I went to Davis
43:20
Speaker 1: High School, which was a really really big public high school,
43:24
Speaker 1: but we had some people that lived in Davis. One
43:26
Speaker 1: of my best friends who went to Sacramento to a
43:29
Speaker 1: private school called Jesuit, which was a powerhouse in sports
43:33
Speaker 1: and they could draw people a lot like Dala sau
43:36
Speaker 1: from different regions put them on scholarship athletically, and I've
43:41
Speaker 1: never had a problem with that private school stealing guys.
43:44
Speaker 1: Now I think there's an argument about this public schools,
43:47
Speaker 1: you going to schools that are better at athletics. I
43:52
Speaker 1: don't really have an issue with that. Again, you'd have
43:55
Speaker 1: to give me like an individual example with more content,
44:00
Speaker 1: because I don't have that much experience of knowing people
44:02
Speaker 1: that have done that. I just heard a story recently
44:05
Speaker 1: from someone that I met, I don't know him that well,
44:08
Speaker 1: about their child who they think has a chance to
44:11
Speaker 1: be a really good high school athlete doing eighth grade over.
44:16
Speaker 1: Like they're in eighth grade now and next year they're
44:18
Speaker 1: going to do eighth grade over again. And I've been
44:25
Speaker 1: in my life if you did a grade over that
44:27
Speaker 1: meant you flunked. We called those people like, yeah, dude,
44:31
Speaker 1: might be an idiot, right, and now you are actively like, yeah,
44:35
Speaker 1: a smart student. We just want to hold him back
44:37
Speaker 1: so he's more physically mature. Again, I'm not in that world.
44:41
Speaker 1: Like in the high school sports. It's clearly polarizing, and
44:44
Speaker 1: I kind of on the outside looking in of that conversation.
44:49
Speaker 1: I don't have the energy to truly follow it whenever
44:52
Speaker 1: I see it happening on the internet. I mean, I
44:54
Speaker 1: clearly know what's going on, and then you kind of
44:56
Speaker 1: slowly hear stories. I just and again, it's easy for
45:00
Speaker 1: me to say now, I don't think under any circumstance
45:04
Speaker 1: I would hold my child back in eighth grade or
45:07
Speaker 1: ninth grade or seventh grade to try to put them
45:09
Speaker 1: in a better like that seems crazy to me. But
45:12
Speaker 1: that's clearly something that is happening all over the place.
45:17
Speaker 1: I hope people understand the likelihood of your child playing
45:22
Speaker 1: college sports is minuscule, is extremely small. So I think
45:31
Speaker 1: it's I think the mindset of this kind of world
45:36
Speaker 1: we're in is distorted. But that's also the world when
45:40
Speaker 1: there's you know, a pot of gold at the end
45:44
Speaker 1: of the road, even if you're not actually going down
45:48
Speaker 1: that road, you think you can get that pot. And
45:50
Speaker 1: that's what it kind of feels right now, like everyone's like, oh,
45:52
Speaker 1: my kid's gonna get a million dollars to play college
45:54
Speaker 1: football or basketball. Yeah, probably not, you know, more than
45:58
Speaker 1: likely that's not going to be the case. So as
46:01
Speaker 1: their friends just go to ninth grade and your kids
46:03
Speaker 1: stays back. I hope this works out, you know, cause
46:07
Speaker 1: most people are not going to turn out to be
46:09
Speaker 1: like Tiger Woods, Peyton Manning, Lebron James. You know, you'll
46:14
Speaker 1: be like a D two or you'll be paying for it.
46:18
Speaker 1: Could be wrong, but on the overall perspective of this,
46:24
Speaker 1: like if you want to go to a different high school,
46:26
Speaker 1: I also think like does the kid want to go
46:28
Speaker 1: to a different high school or is parent making him
46:30
Speaker 1: go to a different high school. I think some parents
46:33
Speaker 1: that live through their children in high school athletics is
46:38
Speaker 1: a little weird. You know. It is like it's it's
46:43
Speaker 1: your kid's not going to the league, so just let
46:46
Speaker 1: them be a kid. What I grew up in an arrow,
46:49
Speaker 1: people just got to be kids, and some kids were
46:52
Speaker 1: just good. Like damn, this guy who's just actually in
46:55
Speaker 1: eleventh grade is getting recruited by Pete Carroll or this
46:58
Speaker 1: guy is gonna get drafted and potentially the first round
47:02
Speaker 1: of the Major League Baseball But he was actually just
47:04
Speaker 1: a junior in high school because he was sixteen years old.
47:08
Speaker 1: He wasn't actually like nineteen because his parents are held
47:10
Speaker 1: in back three years and he like throws harder like
47:13
Speaker 1: Danny al Monte in the Little League World Series. It's like,
47:16
Speaker 1: how's this kid throwing ninety three? Well, he's actually twenty
47:18
Speaker 1: seven years old mowing down twelve year olds. That's an
47:22
Speaker 1: old timer. That's what it feels like. We've got a
47:25
Speaker 1: little Danny al Monte vibes in high school sports. Now.
47:29
Speaker 1: I have a bigger issue with that than I do. Like, Hey,
47:33
Speaker 1: I live in this area, I want to go to
47:35
Speaker 1: this high school. I'm a good player, they want me,
47:37
Speaker 1: and I go. I got no issue with that question
47:41
Speaker 1: for the BOD do you think Odell Beckham will make
47:43
Speaker 1: a difference this year? I clicked on I saw Jordan
47:46
Speaker 1: Renon was doing. He covers the Giants. It was like
47:50
Speaker 1: after a training camp practice, maybe like four or five
47:52
Speaker 1: days ago. He had a couple other guys, Pat Leonard,
47:55
Speaker 1: who also covers them, and this other Giants podcaster, and
47:58
Speaker 1: I clicked I just kind of watched him for like
48:00
Speaker 1: twenty minutes talk about what they had just witnessed at
48:02
Speaker 1: Giants practice, and over the course the last couple of days,
48:05
Speaker 1: one of them brought up a point like at least
48:07
Speaker 1: in their eyes. And this was this was sometime last
48:10
Speaker 1: week that Odell's not guaranteed to make a roster spot
48:14
Speaker 1: because some of the guys he's competing against are going
48:16
Speaker 1: to play special teams, and like, is Odell gonna run
48:20
Speaker 1: down and cover kicks? So it's he's gonna have to
48:24
Speaker 1: be If you're not gonna play special teams, you typically
48:27
Speaker 1: have to be one of the top one or two
48:29
Speaker 1: wide receivers on the team because for the most part,
48:31
Speaker 1: you're three, four, five, depending on how many guys. I
48:33
Speaker 1: guess some teams cover six or hybrid guys. They're on
48:37
Speaker 1: the punt team, they're on the kickoff team, they're on
48:39
Speaker 1: the kickoff return team. Like, is he doing that now?
48:44
Speaker 1: I you know the way they were talking, you know
48:46
Speaker 1: he's not. This isn't twenty fifteen. He's not the same.
48:51
Speaker 1: He was so fast when he was young, and when
48:53
Speaker 1: he was young, he was an incredible I don't know
48:56
Speaker 1: how many years he did this, but I remember watching
48:59
Speaker 1: him do punt returns like this kind of looks like
49:01
Speaker 1: Nashawn Jackson. He was so good upon returns. Those days
49:04
Speaker 1: are over. He's probably much more like a possession wide receiver,
49:08
Speaker 1: and I think he brings I think they like him
49:11
Speaker 1: around the guys and this positive intangible aspect or impact
49:15
Speaker 1: at this point in time in his career. But if
49:17
Speaker 1: you're gonna be not the if you're not Jamar Chase
49:20
Speaker 1: or T Higgins, George Pickens or Ceedee Lamb, like, I'm
49:24
Speaker 1: gonna need to do some other shit, Champ. I've heard
49:29
Speaker 1: you say a few times that Saquan's receiving skills are questionable.
49:33
Speaker 1: I think if you go back and look at his
49:35
Speaker 1: receiving stats at Penn State for the Giants, you might
49:37
Speaker 1: rethink that maybe I've been a little harsh. I don't
49:41
Speaker 1: think he is Adrian Peterson like can't catch. I guess
49:45
Speaker 1: relative to some of his peers, I wouldn't put him
49:49
Speaker 1: in the upper echelon as a wide receiver. And maybe
49:52
Speaker 1: I'm holding it like I just vividly remember a couple
49:55
Speaker 1: key drops, but every Marshall Falk had drops, Ladanian Thomlinson has.
50:00
Speaker 1: Like when I think Saquon Barkley, I don't think those
50:03
Speaker 1: type players, right, I think Bjhon Robinson total package. I
50:07
Speaker 1: think Christian McCaffrey is an all time great receiver out
50:11
Speaker 1: of the backfield. Now, Saquon in his when he's humming,
50:15
Speaker 1: is probably the best pure running back in the league,
50:19
Speaker 1: right him or Bijon? But I just think Jamiir Gibbs
50:23
Speaker 1: like I think pass catcher. I think he's every bit
50:26
Speaker 1: as good as a pass catcher as he is a
50:28
Speaker 1: running back. So again, may maybe I'm being a little critical.
50:33
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm pro Saquon Barkley. I'd want him on
50:36
Speaker 1: my squad. With the Chiefs having an inconsistent wide receiver room,
50:42
Speaker 1: with rice off the field issues and other receivers having injuries,
50:46
Speaker 1: they reached out to signing Juwan Jennings and Stefan Diggs,
50:48
Speaker 1: but were unsuccessful. According to Schefter, do you believe they
50:52
Speaker 1: will make a trade a guy like Kaishan Boody or
50:55
Speaker 1: have you heard anything from your buddies from the Chiefs
50:57
Speaker 1: for an office regarding any additions at wide receivers? Well,
51:02
Speaker 1: I have not. I haven't, honestly, I haven't. I haven't
51:05
Speaker 1: really texted many guys during training camp so far this year.
51:08
Speaker 1: It's kind of talk about the fog a ward first
51:10
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. You're really just trying to gauge what's
51:12
Speaker 1: going on, you know, a couple of years, a long
51:16
Speaker 1: time ago. Now. Sometimes you know you you kind of canvas,
51:24
Speaker 1: other teams a position that you have a weakness, you
51:27
Speaker 1: look at other teams that might have a surplus, and
51:29
Speaker 1: you make a trade. And once upon a time the
51:32
Speaker 1: Chiefs traded the Cowboys for a guy named Tarvarius war
51:36
Speaker 1: He went on to be basically a three and a
51:39
Speaker 1: half year starter for him at corner. I'm pretty sure
51:42
Speaker 1: that was in the middle of training camp. Couldn't my dates,
51:44
Speaker 1: could be off, could be at the end of training camp,
51:45
Speaker 1: but I think I think it was in the middle
51:47
Speaker 1: of training camp, and I think you're constantly looking to
51:50
Speaker 1: do that. I forget the guy's name, but the guy
51:52
Speaker 1: they draft in the fifth round, who's having the excellent camp,
51:55
Speaker 1: who got kind of banged up herdishin came back to
51:57
Speaker 1: practice either today or yesterday. You know, the Patriots won
52:03
Speaker 1: a lot of games when Julian Edelman was the best
52:06
Speaker 1: wide receiver when you're a well coached team. They went
52:11
Speaker 1: all in this draft on defense. I mean their first
52:13
Speaker 1: three picks in the top forty were two defensive linemen
52:16
Speaker 1: and a shutdown corner. So it's like they became comfortable
52:21
Speaker 1: playing like the team that was Like, God, how did
52:24
Speaker 1: the Chiefs go fifteen and two, It's like, God, how
52:26
Speaker 1: did the Chiefs beat the Bills? Got how the Chiefs
52:27
Speaker 1: beat the Ravens? Gott How did the chief just win
52:29
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Like the Patriots did that a lot. You
52:33
Speaker 1: out coach them out, tough them out, execute him. Like
52:38
Speaker 1: the day and age of them scoring fifty points with
52:40
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce in his prime and Mahomes
52:43
Speaker 1: throwing fifty touchdowns. That's not happening this year. But they
52:47
Speaker 1: know how to win other ways. So if they were golfer,
52:51
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, they got a lot of different shots
52:54
Speaker 1: and they're they're gonna play like I would expect them
52:56
Speaker 1: to try to run the ball off this year. I mean,
52:58
Speaker 1: they currently have an undrafted free agent from Indiana starting
53:02
Speaker 1: a right tackle. Now it's August tenth. Things can change,
53:05
Speaker 1: but like, this is a little bit of a transitional period,
53:09
Speaker 1: but they've been in transitional periods before. In one bick,
53:15
Speaker 1: you know, Juwan Jennings was a seventh round pick. Was
53:18
Speaker 1: this step On Diggs a fifth round pick. For every
53:23
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald and Calvin Johnson guys drafted and Julio Jones,
53:28
Speaker 1: there are a lot of dudes all over the league
53:30
Speaker 1: drafted later rounds and to get cut and go on
53:33
Speaker 1: to have success. I'm curious about your gambling philosophy when
53:41
Speaker 1: it comes to the NFL in college football. Do you
53:43
Speaker 1: find yourself mostly going off vibes or gut field or
53:46
Speaker 1: do do you do a lot of diving into the
53:49
Speaker 1: tape in numbers? Do you find yourself live betting when
53:52
Speaker 1: the sides you go down, when the side you have
53:55
Speaker 1: goes down early? Do you like betting props or TDS
53:58
Speaker 1: scores or do you find yourself sticking mostly to spreads
54:02
Speaker 1: and totals. Well, my philosophies have changed over the years.
54:07
Speaker 1: I used to, you know, pre marriage, I would say
54:11
Speaker 1: I was a little loosey goosey. Uh it does. My
54:13
Speaker 1: expenses have gone up. I've had to get a little
54:16
Speaker 1: more direct. I am going to specifically try this year.
54:21
Speaker 1: I would say history. I'm a vibe guy. Obviously, you
54:24
Speaker 1: don't just you're not just taking the Miami Dolphins against
54:27
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills because they're plus seven hundred money line.
54:30
Speaker 1: It's like just because like I got a good feeling,
54:34
Speaker 1: you know, So it's I watched a lot of football.
54:37
Speaker 1: I literally watch all these games on Sunday Saturday. You
54:42
Speaker 1: kind of got to pick and choose because there's so
54:43
Speaker 1: many games going on at one time. But and I
54:46
Speaker 1: gamble a lot more, or have historically on the NFL
54:51
Speaker 1: than I do college. College is more just kind of fun.
54:55
Speaker 1: This year, I think I'm going to do a couple
54:58
Speaker 1: big parlays, couple teams probably three to four to win divisions.
55:03
Speaker 1: And I was looking yesterday, I think Will Anderson could
55:07
Speaker 1: be the defensive player of the year. You know, he's
55:10
Speaker 1: twenty four, entering the prime of his career. Every story
55:15
Speaker 1: I read about him, every quote one of his teammates
55:18
Speaker 1: or coaches have about him, some of these clips that
55:19
Speaker 1: come out for Houston Texas's like, this guy is a
55:22
Speaker 1: fucking killer. I look the other day as odds were
55:25
Speaker 1: like six to one. It's almost like you pick one
55:28
Speaker 1: or two and I just get really aggressive. So though,
55:31
Speaker 1: and I've never been a big future betting guy. Last
55:34
Speaker 1: year I had Broncos Packers in the Super Bowl is
55:37
Speaker 1: like two hundred bucks and it paid out like nine
55:39
Speaker 1: thousand halfway through the season. That felt pretty good. And
55:42
Speaker 1: when Micah Parsons went down, I just I cashed out
55:45
Speaker 1: for like a hundred bucks and then just because I
55:48
Speaker 1: could tell it was going to zero. I would say,
55:51
Speaker 1: on a weekly basis, maybe I pick a game or two.
55:56
Speaker 1: I try to balance emotion and trends, you know, but
56:01
Speaker 1: I'm not by no means sharp. I kind of gamble
56:05
Speaker 1: for entertainment, you know. I'm this entertains me. I'm watching
56:10
Speaker 1: the games. Gives me a little more juice to watch
56:12
Speaker 1: certain teams. I also do a lot of like I've
56:18
Speaker 1: done historically, like take ten twenty bucks and pick like
56:23
Speaker 1: five six guys to score touchdowns and maybe it pays
56:26
Speaker 1: out a couple grand and if you hit it every
56:29
Speaker 1: like I don't know, once a year, it's one of
56:31
Speaker 1: the best highs you'll ever get and it'll pay all
56:34
Speaker 1: the money you've lost. I hit one I remember years ago.
56:41
Speaker 1: It was like a one hundred dollars parlay. It was
56:45
Speaker 1: like anytime touchdowns scores. It was like seven guys and
56:49
Speaker 1: it all came down to Monday Night football. I needed
56:51
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase to score two touchdowns and he did, and
56:56
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it paid out like eighty seven hundred dollars.
57:00
Speaker 1: The second greatest parlay I ever hit first was Bryson D. Chambeau.
57:03
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago winning winning the US Open
57:07
Speaker 1: at Pinehurst with a couple guys to get top twenty
57:09
Speaker 1: paid out like eighteen grand. Those alone will keep you
57:14
Speaker 1: coming back forever. Problem for me to get juice to
57:19
Speaker 1: bet one individual game. The numbers have gotten so much
57:25
Speaker 1: higher over the course of my life that it's like,
57:27
Speaker 1: I if I'm going to go all in, ont you,
57:30
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good about it. I did a pretty
57:37
Speaker 1: good one last year. It was the Steelers, the Texans,
57:43
Speaker 1: the Broncos in Seattle, and it all came down to
57:49
Speaker 1: a field goal kick the last play of the regular season.
57:53
Speaker 1: That was I remember Maria pregnant on the couch, me
57:56
Speaker 1: pacing around. That's you know. I'm not a drug guy,
58:03
Speaker 1: but I don't know if crack and meth are bringing
58:06
Speaker 1: that high to the table, and if they are, I
58:09
Speaker 1: understand why they're so addictive. Okay, last question question for
58:14
Speaker 1: the mailback. I'm not sure if you saw Jalen Polk,
58:17
Speaker 1: the Patriots twenty twenty four to thirty seventh overall pick,
58:20
Speaker 1: retired his career stall on fourteen games, eighty seven yards
58:25
Speaker 1: and two dutchdowns. What shocks me the most is that
58:29
Speaker 1: he was the first skilled player pick of Elliott Wolf's regime,
58:33
Speaker 1: who comes from Green Bay. Yet Polk felt like another
58:36
Speaker 1: typical Patriots wide receiver megabust I. Guess my two questions
58:41
Speaker 1: are this, why do you think Polk Polk so poorly
58:45
Speaker 1: translated the NFL? And why are the Patriots so historically
58:48
Speaker 1: awful at drafting wide receivers. Anytime you draft a guy
58:52
Speaker 1: in the second round and a couple of years later
58:55
Speaker 1: he quits football after just sucking, it's hard to have
58:59
Speaker 1: a worst pick. It really is. You could argue that
59:03
Speaker 1: is the worst pick that Aaron Hernandez who murdered a guy,
59:06
Speaker 1: because at least Aaron Hernandez when he was on the
59:08
Speaker 1: field was fucking incredible. You knew you were signing up
59:11
Speaker 1: for a crazy character guy. You didn't know he was
59:13
Speaker 1: a murderer, right, This is like, that's the guy could
59:17
Speaker 1: play like a lot of character guys that are drafted
59:20
Speaker 1: can play, right. James Pierce that situation this offseason, which
59:24
Speaker 1: somehow just disappeared. It's like, hey, you know, I crushed
59:28
Speaker 1: the pick, but he got ten sacks. You know, I
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Speaker 1: get it, you know I get it. This one is
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Speaker 1: like what is going on? He was clearly the third
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Speaker 1: best wide receiver on his own college team, and I
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Speaker 1: didn't know enough about the character off the field, but
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Speaker 1: pretty evident something was missing. That's that's as bad as
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Speaker 1: it gets. Now, didn't they trade him? They trade him
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Speaker 1: with the Bucks or the Panthers. I mean I saw
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Speaker 1: the headline like when was it like three or four
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Speaker 1: days ago? But he it wasn't on the Patriots anymore.
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Speaker 1: So at least that absolves them a little bit. It
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Speaker 1: would have been way worse if you just have this
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Speaker 1: total bust who had been on the team for two
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Speaker 1: years and you're like, I saw, I'm out be like, oh,
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Speaker 1: but last year they made the Super Bowl. No one
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Speaker 1: really cares. So but I don't have if I wanted
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Speaker 1: to defend them. This is this is draft. Man. You're
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Speaker 1: dealing human capital, human emotions. You're not dealing with widgets.
1:00:32
Speaker 1: You know, you're not dealing with products. This isn't just
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Speaker 1: trying to sell iPads, iPhones and Apple computers. You know,
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Speaker 1: these are humans with emotions that the change that go
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Speaker 1: through shit. You just do the best job humanly possible
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Speaker 1: and keep your fingers crossed. I mean, that's really all
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Speaker 1: you can do. As crazy as that sounds, that's kind
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Speaker 1: of the business you're in. You take the that's why
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Speaker 1: you take the most information, and I don't know what
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Speaker 1: their information was. Draft to guy thirty seventh overall, that's
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Speaker 1: a that's a that's a big time draft pick. I've
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Speaker 1: always thought like thirty three through like the early forties
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Speaker 1: is one of the sweet spots in the draft. You
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Speaker 1: can get Pro Bowl guys for second round money. You
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Speaker 1: get them for three years, like a little over a
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Speaker 1: million dollars a year, and if they are immediate impact players,
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Speaker 1: you are cooking with gas. Or you get Polk who
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Speaker 1: just isn't good and stopped playing. From man Heavens too,
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Speaker 1: because that's part of the nature of the Beast. Audio
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Speaker 1: is talking tomorrow. The volume