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Massive Mailbag Part 2 · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on my people, John Middlecoff
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  Speaker 1: three and out podcast? How are we doing? Here's the
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  Speaker 1: game plan today mail Bag Part two. We will have
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  Speaker 1: a master's preview out tomorrow. And because I'm recording this
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend, I'm not exactly sure the schedule for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the week. We got some things in flux,
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  Speaker 1: but might have some big later the week, later in
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  Speaker 1: the week, but as of right now, we had a
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  Speaker 1: mail bag yesterday, part two of the mail Bag. Today,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have a master's preview and some thoughts going into
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  Speaker 1: uh going into the weekend, and uh yeah, appreciate everyone
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  Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff firing those dms. You guys know the drill.
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  Speaker 1: and you'll you'll never miss an episode video version, and
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  Speaker 1: let's dive right in. Let's start with the Marina. I'm
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  Speaker 1: representing your female audience. Listen every day Big Bills fan.
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  Speaker 1: Why are the Bills your pick to win the Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 1: They have an unproven head coach, a defense that still
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  Speaker 1: need work. Where do you see them drafting in the
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  Speaker 1: first round. I think they need some help with a
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  Speaker 1: linebacker or dtackle. Congrats on being a dad. Good job, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good joby. I don't know. They're just my pick right
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  Speaker 1: now in April. Could always change obviously, draft injuries. I
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  Speaker 1: just think, listen, man, they have been so close. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you need a spark, you need to change something up,
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  Speaker 1: And that's why the Ravens and the Bills did what
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  Speaker 1: they did. They had proven coaches that could get them
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  Speaker 1: double digit wins and in the mix every single year,
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  Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, it felt like both of them installed.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Bills obviously last year were closer than
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens, but I think you can look at it
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  Speaker 1: the same way, and I think sometimes new blood and
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  Speaker 1: new message. They have one of the best quarterbacks I've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen, so to me, if he's healthy, they have
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  Speaker 1: as good of a shot as anyone. Obviously, defensively has
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  Speaker 1: really let him down in big spots. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Leonard was, I don't know, He's just he's a
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  Speaker 1: high level guy. So I'm betting on Jim lud Leonard
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  Speaker 1: in that defense being good. I'm betting on Joe Brady,
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  Speaker 1: who I'm a fan of like. I was impressed with
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  Speaker 1: his press conference, which obviously a press conference being good
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  Speaker 1: or being bad doesn't determine anything. But I've already seen
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  Speaker 1: him being offensive coach. He's excellent. Some question marks first
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  Speaker 1: time head coach, but I'm buying stock. Your podcast has
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  Speaker 1: been a stressed reliever. Do you think there is a
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  Speaker 1: place for spring football leagues? I'm watching the UFL game
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  Speaker 1: and it's just not a great product. I don't see
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  Speaker 1: how these could ever be profit But does the NFL
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  Speaker 1: benefit at all from these leagues? Is there any universe
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  Speaker 1: where we see a minor league system draft and Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Richson and let them play spring for extra reps? I'm
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  Speaker 1: with you. I mean, you've watched more than men. I
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  Speaker 1: don't watch that, as you can see. I'm sure if
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  Speaker 1: you like google the ratings, not a lot of people watch,
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  Speaker 1: but I still think they get five six, seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand people, which is more than the majority of non
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  Speaker 1: like you know, NBA, Major League Baseball, PGA golf tournaments,
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  Speaker 1: NASCAR like it still does relatively well regardless, like what
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  Speaker 1: else are you gonna put on there? You know, running
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  Speaker 1: a football team in high school college even at the
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote minor league level is still expensive, right, But
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  Speaker 1: so I'm not a consumer when you work in the league, though,
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  Speaker 1: you're evaluating these players. A lot of these guys have
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  Speaker 1: got a cup of coffee in the league. Some of
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  Speaker 1: them have played in the league for a while. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of them were former draft picks, played at Good college.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't looked at all the rosters, but I actually
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  Speaker 1: flipped it on the other day for like five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: AJ mccerrn's team, which again I'm with you, it was
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  Speaker 1: a hard watch. The score was like seven to nine
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  Speaker 1: at one point in time. I think mccaren's team ended
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  Speaker 1: up winning. He's Birmingham Stallions or something, and Matt Carrau
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  Speaker 1: was his quarterback, the former role Miss quarterback who was
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  Speaker 1: drafted Carolina. Yeah, I think Carolina drafted him, spent a
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  Speaker 1: cup of coffee on the Patriots and like didn't show
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  Speaker 1: up or something weird happened. But you will definitely have
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  Speaker 1: individuals in that league get a shot. The thing you
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  Speaker 1: said with Anthony Richardson, you would never because the NFL
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  Speaker 1: teams don't run the scheme or the coaching for those
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  Speaker 1: that you would never put a guy in those spots
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  Speaker 1: though there is an argument to be had, should they
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  Speaker 1: all work together utilize some of your practice squad guys
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  Speaker 1: in those reps. The problem is in football, it's not
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  Speaker 1: like basketball or baseball, where you know, you get injured
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  Speaker 1: really easily. Playing tackle football. You only got so many
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  Speaker 1: any you know, bullets in the gun in terms of
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  Speaker 1: just your body. So I don't think it's realistic at all.
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  Speaker 1: And let's face it, it's the one league. I heard
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  Speaker 1: Gottlieb say this about the G League. I do think
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  Speaker 1: that league's the same. Is it's like a league where
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  Speaker 1: nobody wants to be there. All the coaches want to
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  Speaker 1: be in the higher league, all the trainers want to
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  Speaker 1: be in the higher league. Obviously all the players want
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  Speaker 1: to be in the higher league. So it's just it's
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  Speaker 1: a tough deal. I don't know if there's a great answer. Beside,
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  Speaker 1: I don't watch it. Most people don't, but NFL personnel
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  Speaker 1: definitely evaluate it. This is my wife's account. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have social media props to you anyway. Been listening to
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  Speaker 1: three and Out since the beginning. It's pretty incredible how
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  Speaker 1: far you've come, guys, guessing me up. Started in the
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  Speaker 1: mud here. This is the best NFL podcast got. This
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  Speaker 1: is too many compliments. I don't mean to read those.
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  Speaker 1: I just read what I screenshotted. Don't have a question,
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to get. Yeah, this is too much positive
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  Speaker 1: reinforcement for your boy. Mail back question. I appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: kind of words Leanne's husband. Mail back question. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think any of the wide receivers currently in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: can surpass Rice? That'd be Jerry Rice as the goat.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I think one thing. Jerry's got two things
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  Speaker 1: going for him. One, he's an all time great wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver who was on a winning team, so he was
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  Speaker 1: like rattling off super Bowls, right. He was part of
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight, eighty nine, ninety four. He went to another
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl at forty years old, where I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 1: he caught a hundred balls for Gruden and the Raiders.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess Gruden would have been gone on Tampa,
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  Speaker 1: but that year he was there. Two years he's there
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  Speaker 1: roone with Gruden, in the next year with Callahan and
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  Speaker 1: had a great year when Gannon won the MVP. I
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  Speaker 1: just think his longevity, his winning, it's just really really difficult,
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  Speaker 1: Like there wasn't real his only downturns were injuries. I
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  Speaker 1: remember being a kid, he broke his leg on Monday
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  Speaker 1: night football, or maybe he broke his leg in a
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  Speaker 1: Sunday game, tried to come back on Monday night football
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  Speaker 1: and rehurt him. But like, he never didn't have weird
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  Speaker 1: stuff happened to him. Besides, like played till he was
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  Speaker 1: fifty years old on Seattle, which was a little weird.
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's impossible. I think he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: cemented it, just kind of maybe his highs. Like physically
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  Speaker 1: he's not Randy Moss or Terrell Owens, but in terms
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  Speaker 1: of production and longevity and winning and being a contributing
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  Speaker 1: player on some of the best teams of all time,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a lot of things going for him. So
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  Speaker 1: I would say no, because you're like, who's your best
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  Speaker 1: players right now? Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, Justin Jefferson's quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, Jerry Rice, played with rich Gannon, Steve Young,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Garcia, Joe Montana. I mean it's like Jamar Chase,
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  Speaker 1: he's with Burrow, but they don't win enough, and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: are those guys going twenty plus your careers? Big fan
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  Speaker 1: been listening since since the pandemic days. You and Colin
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  Speaker 1: helped me get through them hard days. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're doing well. I know you're doing a
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  Speaker 1: football show, but I enjoy your takes on other sports.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not an NBA guy at all, but do you
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the content when you're talking about other stuff? With
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  Speaker 1: the three point issue in basketball, I have thought about
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  Speaker 1: this from an outsider's point of view. What if each
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  Speaker 1: team is allotted, say, thirty three point shots per game.
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  Speaker 1: Teams would have to strategically use them so they can't
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  Speaker 1: just keep chucking them up. This is a way you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to modify the court, but defenses will have
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  Speaker 1: to hone in in more and offenses would have limited
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  Speaker 1: amount to use during the entire game. My issue with
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  Speaker 1: things like this, I'm not a believer in limiting what
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  Speaker 1: you can do. You're either allowed to do it or
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  Speaker 1: you're not. Like I'm not as dialed in on baseball
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  Speaker 1: as I was ten years ago, but like the shift
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  Speaker 1: that they banned. The shift, right, it's not like you, well,
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  Speaker 1: you can shift five times during the game, five abs.
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  Speaker 1: That'd be stupid, right. You either can do it or not.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be like, well, you can only throw six go
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  Speaker 1: routes in a football game. You can only shoot so
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  Speaker 1: many threes. Either outlaw it, modify it, but you can't
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  Speaker 1: put a limitation on a number. To me, in sports,
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  Speaker 1: it just can't like that's I understand we're getting more
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  Speaker 1: replay involved. One day we'll have AI robots as referees
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  Speaker 1: and umpires, but you either are allowed to do what
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  Speaker 1: is there or you're not. So I don't know. It
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  Speaker 1: kind of is what it is. So unless they modify
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  Speaker 1: the three point, like, to me, it's not realistic to
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  Speaker 1: see them ever go, well, you're only allowed x number
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  Speaker 1: three pointers a game like that would never happen in
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  Speaker 1: any other sport challenge. You'd be like, well, you could
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  Speaker 1: only get so many challenges. That's a coaching decision to me.
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  Speaker 1: In the in the field of play, like part of
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  Speaker 1: shooting threes sometimes might not even just pass shoot not
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  Speaker 1: even thinking about it. Obviously, there's a conscious effort in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of games to chuck a lot of threes.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't I'm not I don't support that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't support anything that limits like you're only allowed four
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  Speaker 1: of these in the playing surface on the court, on
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  Speaker 1: the field. I'm out on that, not a not a supporter,
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  Speaker 1: which listen, I'm not shitting on your idea. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people have brought that up. I just not for me.
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  Speaker 1: The Kaufman this was a recommendation. Middlemen seems to be
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  Speaker 1: the leader in the clubhouse. As an Eagles fan, I
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: got to ask, when you say AJ's not the problem
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  Speaker 1: and that he's beloved in the locker room, are you
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  Speaker 1: confirming that Hurts has become Russell Wilson two point zero?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for everything. What I say beloved in the locker room,
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  Speaker 1: that might be a little st I just know Aj
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  Speaker 1: from the outside we go malcontent. This guy is just
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: beating to his own drum. From what I've been told,
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  Speaker 1: that is not the case people like Aj Brown. This
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: isn't a Torrello in situation Philadelphia, early two thousands. That's
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  Speaker 1: not this now? Is it? Probably? Unnecessarily some of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff he does? For sure? To me, I Russell and
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  Speaker 1: Jalen like to me, it's not two point zero because
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  Speaker 1: Russell's personality in Jalen's personality are a lot different. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen to me feels like much quieter where Russell's going
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  Speaker 1: up to everyone like let's be great like that type
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  Speaker 1: stuff to me, I always found kind of cheesy, especially
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  Speaker 1: like you're gonna tell some thirty year old veteran that,
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  Speaker 1: like they don't need to hear it every day. It
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  Speaker 1: just rubs people the wrong way. Now, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the football stuff, I think there are some similarities.
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  Speaker 1: They have a false sense of what their strengths and
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  Speaker 1: weakness is are, and I think any anyone in any
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  Speaker 1: field understanding what you're good and not good at matters
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Right. Think about the greatest quarterback of all time,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady. He didn't try to run around like he
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  Speaker 1: didn't try to do things he wasn't capable of doing.
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  Speaker 1: He would throw check downs all game long if you'd
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  Speaker 1: give it to him. He didn't care. He was an
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  Speaker 1: equal opportunist. He wasn't trying to prove anyone wrong on
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  Speaker 1: individual plays. If this play worked, we're gonna run it.
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning same way. Aaron Rodgers could do more because
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  Speaker 1: he was more physically gifted. Like Russell and and Jalen,
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  Speaker 1: their greatest strength is scrambling around and making plays. They
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  Speaker 1: are elite athletes right at the quarterback position, and unique
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  Speaker 1: because they're smaller, but they're stronger. And Russell just didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to run anymore, and clearly Jalen doesn't either, which
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  Speaker 1: I'd somewhat understand if this was like nineteen ninety six
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  Speaker 1: and you get killed. You can't even get hit, so
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  Speaker 1: I and what a Jalen's superpowers is like avoiding hits
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  Speaker 1: like I don't even remember that many times where he
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  Speaker 1: takes big shots beside on the Toush push, Like if
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  Speaker 1: you told me he's like, I don't want to do
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  Speaker 1: the Toush push, it hurts too much, I'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: totally understand. I wouldn't want to do it either. Right
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  Speaker 1: kills his back, but it seems like he has no
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  Speaker 1: issue with that because maybe it doesn't hurt him. But
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  Speaker 1: he clearly is uncomfortable doing some things in the scheme
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  Speaker 1: which the coaching staff believes that he would be capable
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  Speaker 1: of doing. And that's part of football is like doing
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  Speaker 1: things you're uncomfortable. That's part of life. You do some
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  Speaker 1: things that you're uncomfortable to do. To take a step
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  Speaker 1: back or to take three or four forward. I use
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  Speaker 1: the example, which is gonna be fascinating this year to me.
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  Speaker 1: Part of that article was was basically you know, putting
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  Speaker 1: out the bat signal to me of like, this is
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  Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. Like it or not, there's no
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  Speaker 1: looking back. We're running some version of the Shanahan offense
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  Speaker 1: which forces you to go under center a lot. So
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  Speaker 1: we're not having these conversations anymore. And like this, it's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna run the spread offense here in running that.
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  Speaker 1: But like I said, Matt Ryan and most notably Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Rodgers had some pushback with that, cause it is an
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  Speaker 1: uncomfortable feeling if you're not used to it and you're
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  Speaker 1: a shotgun guy putting your back to the defense, which
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  Speaker 1: I supported him, like I understood, But it works. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the offense has has been thriving for thirty I mean
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  Speaker 1: I don't know decades. And here's the number one key,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great running offense. Well what did they do
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: when they won the Super Bowl? They had one of
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  Speaker 1: the great rushing attacks we've ever seen. So I think
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: it's a little different. I wouldn't say it's apples to
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  Speaker 1: apples because they're just way different people. Even though I'm
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: more of a three and out listener, I have a
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: question about golf. I'm curious your thoughts on simulators and
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: if you've played or played much in the indoor golf
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: space with tg Allen simulators popping up everywhere, Just curious
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on what this does to the golf space.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this is a positive? I guess that's
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  Speaker 1: my overall take would be one if you are desired
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  Speaker 1: the game of golf to be bigger, it can't hurt
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  Speaker 1: to make it easier for people that live in cities.
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  Speaker 1: When when I got married to Nashville, right across from
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  Speaker 1: the hotel we stayed at was this brand new indoor
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  Speaker 1: facility in downtown Nashville, I know, New York City. When
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: we went out for the Ryder Cup. The party we
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: went to for the guys we were locking down the
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: zone pouches was at an indoor facility. And I'm not
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: great with my New York City geography, but relative might
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: have been still Manhattan, close to Manhattan. But it was
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. I mean, it was a sweet like bar.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pro those things, but to me, which is cool,
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  Speaker 1: like I'll never turn down if I'm there. But part
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: of golf, it's kind of like baseball. You go to
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: a baseball game to get outside and get some son.
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  Speaker 1: You play golf to get outside, like that's I played
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: golf to do really due to the things one. I mean,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: obviously I like it. It's one of the only things
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  Speaker 1: I'm decent at. But it's a socializing aspect for me,
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  Speaker 1: for someone that talks into a computer by themselves for
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  Speaker 1: a living, and so it not only forces me to socialize,
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  Speaker 1: it's just I've gained a lot of friends through golf.
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  Speaker 1: I played golf when I first moved here a ton
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  Speaker 1: of times, just met random people. I've had people that
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  Speaker 1: listen to the show invite me out to different clubs
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  Speaker 1: or to meetium to play golf and type stuff that
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  Speaker 1: just wouldn't happen right without that. And part of that
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  Speaker 1: is like you get outside, you're in a cart with someone,
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  Speaker 1: you have a couple, you know, cocktails and bruskies and
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  Speaker 1: just kind of enjoy yourself. So the ultimate goal is
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  Speaker 1: to get outside. But I'm definitely pro simulator. And if
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  Speaker 1: I had a different house set up, hopefully one day
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  Speaker 1: if life keeps going well, I would for sure get
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  Speaker 1: an indoor simulator. But actually maybe not because part of it,
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  Speaker 1: especially you know, having young kids like I live in
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  Speaker 1: an area, part of you know if you got money.
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  Speaker 1: If you live in a sunny place that get outside
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  Speaker 1: and go hit golf balls at the Today's show is
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• 19:01
  Speaker 1: it's changed sports coverage. Personally, I get zero enjoyment from gambling,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: so I know that bias is my perspective, but it
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: feels like a lot of NFL coverage now leans heavily
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: into betting. What I love about football is the physical
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: aesthetics of the game, the strategy, and individual excellence. Gambling
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: doesn't really add to that for me. If anything, it
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: takes away from what could be deeper analysis. You've been
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: around the league in media long enough to see the shift.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: How has the explosion of gambling changed the way you
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: relate to the game, and do you think it's ultimately
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: been a positive or negative for fans. It's a good question.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I've personally gambled since I was sixteen seventeen years old,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: sneaking into the Indian casino called I want to say Shoemash,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: but that was in Fresno called I don't know why
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I'm blanking on this. It's where cash creak. It's probably
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: like fifty minutes maybe less forty five minutes away from
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: where I grew up. Forty minutes and played blackjack, and
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: I was hooked. I enjoy gambling, but I liked football,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and I got into football because I mean, I've loved
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: it since I played high school football and I sucked.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: It was just there was nothing like being in one
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: hundred and seven degree day out in Davis, California, doing
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: double days with your friends and getting throttled, or game
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: day or you know, practices they sucked, but you were
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: just kind of there as a group and then working
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: in it. It was just there was no I've never
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: been a part of anything, you know before or since.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: It has like the team camaraderie element, and there are
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: similarities whether it was in college football in the NFL.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: You're kind of all in it together and you just
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: all can kind of relate to people when you've been
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: on the same team as them because you're kind of
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: in the trenches. And that's like I talk about football
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: just like I always have, but like I do gamble
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: on the games, and we're partners with gambling, I think
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: some people in the space, and gambling has always been
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: a huge part of the sport, you know, going back
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: to the I mean, gambling has been a huge part
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: of sports forever. Now that it's legalized in this huge
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: business and they're involved, I do think it's added a
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: lot of people that probably could not have survived pre
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: this boom because I can't really talk about anything beside
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: like the lines, which again I like the lines, like
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I enjoy talking about that as well, but for me,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: like I don't even think about it, I guess, but
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: part of it, I have no issue with it, like
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I enjoy it, but I'm I don't sit down on
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: my couch and watch a game if I don't have
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: money on it. Even if I have money on well,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: if you got money on it, it does just change
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: your perspective because you're basically on one of the two teams.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: That's what it feels like. But if you don't, like
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I can thoroughly enjoy a game, like I didn't have
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: any money on Yukon Illinois. Just there. I was glued
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: up until my wife said we need to eat and
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: then so I was like, well, I don't want a
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: podcast after dinner, so I came out. But it's like
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I still really enjoy sports, Like I enjoyed watching the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic. I enjoyed looking on ESPN dot com
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: on my phone today and seeing the box scores from
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Yokichen Wemby, Like that's that's what I did when I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: was ten years old. Cause most people, when you get
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: into sports at a young age, it's not like can
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I put a hundred? Maybe that's gonna change now, Like
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: can can I throw a hundred dollars on Roy McElroy
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to win the Masters? Can I throw one hundred dollars
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: on the Bills to win the Super Bowl. So I
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I'll say this, I don't think
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: we're looking back, But if you've listened to this show
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: long enough, I think we just talk about it pre organically,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: because again, like I don't have to fake it like
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I do enjoy gambling, so I'm not gonna act like
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I don't. But I can kind of separate the two,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and even when they are connected. I can separate the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: two when I have to talk about a game. But
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I hear you. I mean, I if you're not into
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: it and you turn on some of this stuff, you're like, geez,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: been a Jets fan for twenty five years? Is there
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: a future? What is the plate? This guy's lost. This
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: guy's lost to see help. I need reassurance. I don't
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: really know what to say. I don't I saw Big
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Cat does this right up on the coaches picture. He
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: does it every year, he blogs it, and I thought
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: his his blog about Aaron Glenn was pretty good that
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: he was the only guy. Maybe Harbaugh John had his
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Giants poll on, but Glenn had this Jets pull over on,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and his take was essentially like he wanted to show
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: everyone I'm still employed guys, because typically when you're that
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: bad and you're that atrocious, and the Jets really were,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you get fired. You won and done. I think Aaron
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Glenn is in major trouble going into this season, Like,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: if you tell me he's making it by thanks that
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: they could be awful. I mean they were bad last
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: year early in the season, they had players. Now they
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: traded some of the players, and now they're gonna be
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: dependent on young guys. The division's hard. I guess Miami's
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: gonna be worse, but the Bills and Patriots are gonna
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: be good. Football's we don't need to overthink this. The
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: most important thing you can do in football is really
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: not the quarterback. It's getting a good coach, because if
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: you get a good coach, they figure that out and
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: they will make things happen. And then once they get
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a good quarterback, it's off and running. But you have
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: no chance. The Lions had Matt Stafford for like almost
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: fifteen years. Matt Stafford, look at what on the rams,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: He's fucking incredible. Aaron Rodgers for fifteen years was like,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: this guy's so good, but everyone's out of Lions. They
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: suck the coaching in football matters so much, and you'd
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: have to go back since Rex Ryan, when you had
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Rex and running the d with Petton and Schottenheimer was
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator and they were just a buttoned up,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: well put together operation. They've really just been really bad.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And listen, I grew up in Sacramento, or I grew
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: up in Davis, which is right by Sacramento, and watching
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Paige's kid on Illinois, it kind of brings me back
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to my childhood. When you know, Robert or hit that
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: shot in Game five that sucked. But the Kings are
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: a joke organization, I mean a joke and that's what
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: it feels like. The Jets are. The Browns kind of
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: feel like that too. It's like, well, you had a
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: good draft class. It's like the point of the sport
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: is not to draft well or make trade literally to
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: win and lose games, Like every team now makes money.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Winning and losing is how you determine, like do you
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: have a well run operation. And it's like, god, the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Jets are just bad. I don't know what tell you
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not great at that because in my world, like
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I just don't have to watch the god awful teams
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: as the season goes on, because I'm not really gonna
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: talk about it unless they're a big story, right involved,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: like Shadora with the Browns. To me, the Jets pretty
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: unwatchable product. How do you not have an interception? It's
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: not even possible tip balls, I mean the likelihood of that.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: That's a record. I think like lou gerrig or cal Ripken,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you know some of these baseball records that are never
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: gonna get touched now with now steroids, no one's ever
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: breaking home run records. No one's ever not having an interception.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I mean random teams have, like a d lineman that
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: has two picks. There's a difference between that, oh kind
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: of randomness and like that. I can't get past that.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: That is one stat that is like you can't get
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: past you can't Bill's fan. I wonder why people are
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: bringing up the offensive problems lack of wide receivers, for example,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: when our main issue was McDermott and it's always been
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the defense, the offensive showed up in the playoffs. Well,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the defense is allowed over twenty seven points. There. There
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: are a lot of similarities with the with the Bills
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: runs with Josh and Sean over the last four or
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: five years as the post Super Bowl. Now, the difference
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: is McCarthy and Aaron won a Super Bowl and the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: McCarthy led Packers with Rogers for like that seven year
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: run where the defense was just getting shredded. I mean
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: just had some games where you're like Jesus and really
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: let them down. I mean really really let him down.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: So and the difference is, like Mike could fire the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator or a guy could retire because he was like,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I'm an offensive guy. It was Shawn's defense, you know,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and listen, I'm pro Sean McDermott. I think he'll get
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a job next year. I think he's a good coach.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: But you convinced me it was time, and I'm not
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: gonna argue with you. You're the only reason I kept
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Netflix after the Christmas Day games. I just don't know
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: people that don't have Netflix. I've had Netflix for like
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: ten years and I love it. I watching all the time.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I'm not even saying that because they're paying me. I
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: legitimately have been a consumer of it for a long
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: long time, and now with my wife, I watched probably
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: even more of it. Question for the Dad Diaries, I
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: actually showed my wife this question. I'm like, are you
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: cool with me? Kind of answering this, She kind of
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: gave me some guardrails. The pass fall buddy of mine
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: had his first kid, and he recently told me that
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: he and his wife have it at sex in over
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: six months. I'm not gonna read this guy's name to
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: give him away so his buddy could out him. I
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: was pretty shocked and didn't know what to say. He
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and his wife are both healthy, and he told me
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: it's just because the kid is taking too much focus,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: not trying to be weird. But is this normal? Doesn't
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: seem very healthy to me, since the bedroom is a
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: pretty big part of a healthy marriage in my opinion,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: What advice would you give me or my buddy? I
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: would say, well, first and foremost, and I learned this
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: when you have a baby. We had a C section,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and if you have a normal birth, she's on injured
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: reserve for like a month and a half CE section,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: like six weeks. You've got stitches in there. You're not
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: you're not allowed, right, And I can't speak to the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: other way, but I'm pretty sure it's kind of saying
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: four to six weeks. So the first month is a
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: pretty big rollwind. You're just trying to survive. Feels like
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Navy Seal boot camp. Never been in the Navy Seals.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Gotta be some similarities though not much sleep. You gotta
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: keep it mentally together, and you're just trying to get
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: step by step, you know, like day by day, you're
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: just trying to make it like minute by minute. To me,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: after a month and a half, two six months, like
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: my first reaction is like, something's a little off. Something
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I got that one red flact that to me is
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: beyond degregious. I can understand a couple of months, six months,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. I mean, a huge part of a relationship,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: especially once you have kids, is like I remember my
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: mother in law at our wedding said, like, never stop dating.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: It is the first again, I will give any couple,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: especially their first child, a little bit of a pass
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: a couple of months. It's a lot depending on how
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: much help you have, you don't have family. You're both
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: ready to tap out. But like after a while, you
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: get in a little groove. And I don't want to
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: say life. Your previous life is never the same, so
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: your life before which I mean I questioned, like were
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: they that active before? Like, were they you know, it's
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: not exactly Bonnie Blue over there, but yeah, I would
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: say that's a little week. That's insane to me. That's
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: insane to me. So advice, I don't know what advice Like.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: You guys can't find like five minutes, so you got
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: six months. You might only need like thirty seconds. I mean,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the baby's not awake twenty four to seven, you're in
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: bed together. A little weird. That's a weird one. My
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: wife is don't you dare give details? Like Murray, I'm
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: not going this isn't this isn't summerhouse. My guy West
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: who I met at the UH I met at the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl party. I felt like I already knew him
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: because I had been watching. He was awesome. I'm a
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: big fan. Obviously. He UH in the news right now
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: if you haven't seen. That has nothing to do with
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: UH babies and just has to do with sex. UH.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: North Dakota wide receiver Bryce Lance is getting overlooked as
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: a prospect. This guy is a freak four to three speed,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: great ball skills. Kid could be the best wide receiver
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: in the class. Mark my words. What goes into the
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: NFL team scouting smaller school guys like the FCS side question.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: North Dakota State is moving to the Mountain West. Can
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: they compete right away? I had a coach at the combine.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: We might have been four or five course lights in.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I'm just pepper animal questions. Combine is the best. Once
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: you start drinking, you can just you can just empty
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the roll of deecks on prospects, on you know gossip,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: what's this player? Like, what's this coach? Like? You work
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: with this guy? What's his deal? And he brought this
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: guy up out of the blue. He's like, you know,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: one wide receiver I love, And he's like people aren't
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: talking about him? Is he called him Trey's brother? But
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: my guess is this guy goes in the second round.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: That's my guess. I haven't watched a snap, don't know
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: anything beside my buddy liked him. My buddy's on guys,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: so four to three speed, big time athlete. Remember almost
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: said to Shaun Watson, you know, I'm a little I
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: feel like, you know, you just you get farther away
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: from football, your mind's not firing at the same level.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: The Watson on the Packers that ran like four to
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: three speed where he gets drafted top of the second round,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and if you remember his stats, it wasn't like he
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: was you know, DeVante Adams in college. So my guess
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: is he's a lock second day pick. My my issue
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: was like when you say going to the Mountain West,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: who's even in the Mountain West? Because isn't like Fresno
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: State and Sandy. Aren't they all going to the PAC twelve?
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: So I honestly, I don't even know who's in the
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Mountain is like UC Davis and Sack State. I would
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: say North Dakota State is going to compete wherever they're at.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Unless they're in like the SEC or the Big ten,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: they will be pretty good. You mentioned on last Friday's
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: pod when you're on the Herd, there are days that
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you're finished by seven thirty am. If the show is
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: pre recorded, do you still have to stick around until twelve? Also,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: when Colin moved to Chicago, did J Mack and the
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: rest of the crew relocate? What I mean we're done
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: by seven thirty? I mean the preparation for the show.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: So you know, I walk into this meeting room at
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: like six five. Anytime between like five p fifty five
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and six oh five, and typically if I walk in
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: at six oh five, the room is packed, and usually Colin,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: they're on a big screen. Because I'm in Los Angeles,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: he's in Chicago. He's got three of his crew members, Ryan,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: a couple other producers. One guy's actually cal Paul Guy.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: And it feels like, you know, some of those scenes
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you see in the movies, like or like the Presidents,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: how they sit in the situation room and you can
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: you can communicate. It's that it's just incredible technology. And
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: there's this big table of I mean a decent amount
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: of people. And when we're done at seven thirty, the
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: show is still live. So like the show you see
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: from nine to noon Pacific standard time, that's not pre recorded.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: So when I maybe I misspoke, nothing is pre recorded.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: We're just going over time segments, takes, angles. It's like
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: a think tank of takes. It's people. Honestly, he could
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: charge for fans to be able to see the an
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: hour of the meeting. It's it's the first time I
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: ever did it. I'm like, this is pretty cool. This
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: is pretty cool. Nice walk in coffee, pop in a
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: pop in a lipper and just kind of enjoy it,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: and every once in a while they asked me a
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: question and I try. You know, it's these guys deal.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I'm just kind of there along for the ride. But
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: it's cool. It's it's a it's a high functioning operation,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: but nothing's pre recorded. So then from seven thirty or
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: seven forty go down in the dressing room. You know,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I usually just show up in like a pair of
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: jeans or shorts and like a T shirt. You change
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: in a nicer clothes and you get a little little
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: powder on your face. They have this lady who hits
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: me Erica. She's like, what do you need anything? I
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: need smoothies, breakfast, lunch. It's it's pretty cold, bruise, just
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: get delivered whenever I need them. It's fucking awesome. So
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: when nine o'clock hits, he's the colin you see on
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: television is live. Thanks for helping me get through the
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: grind at work. After the trade for wattle, it's pretty
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: clear the Broncos are all in considering it's probably the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: biggest trade they've made since Russell Wilson. It definitely is
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: the biggest trades since Russe Will's probably one of their
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: biggest trades in the history of the franchise, Like, how
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: many first round picks have they traded for players. I'm
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: not a diehard Bronco fan, but just thinking off top
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: of my head, it feels like Russell and Waddle. I
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: don't remember that many during the Peyton Manning time they
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: were using those picks on players. Maybe something happened in
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the Shanahan era, but I can't remember off the top
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: of my head. My question is about Davis Webb. I
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: had no idea there was a major market for him,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: especially as a head coach. What do you think he
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: accomplished to gain interest from other teams. I also feel
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: like the transition to having him call plays could be risky.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: The Broncos are essentially in the Super Bowl window. Someone
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: explained this to me when I was at the combine
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: and I talked about this on the pod. Davis Webb
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: it became the play caller because clearly, if he wasn't
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: going to be a head coach, people were gonna pay
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: him a lot of money to be their offensive coordinator
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: and call plays, and Sean Payton wouldn't have been able
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: to keep him, so basically fired people to do this
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: to keep Davis Web but as a coach again, over
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: a couple of cocktails, was like, John, do you think
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: this the offense? Literally, the offense is means as much
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: as Sean Payton as like his daughter does that in
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: a game, if they're just down ten to the Chiefs
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: or the Chargers on like Sunday Night Football, He's gonna
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: be like, I just keep letting it rip Davis. So
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: it's Sean Payton has been calm plays his entire career
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: and especially this Broncos thing with Bo Nicks. It's gonna
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: be interesting. It's not an easy spot for Davis Web.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I definitely think he had a lot of interest to
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: be a coordinator. I don't know if he was a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: lock to become a head coach because it would have
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: been pretty risky. Let's say the Raiders. In what world
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: would Davis Web be a better option than Kubiak. Kubik's proven,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: He's called plays for multiple years with multiple quarterbacks. He
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: just had a fantastic year in sell obviously win the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but just his play calling start to finish,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: and I I don't know if he was gonna become
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a code now would he have become the Cardinals head coach.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone wanted the Cardinals' job. I think
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Lafleur took it because, like, how do you turn down money?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: That That's what I feel like happened. He just couldn't
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: turn down the cash. It's like, wollw I'm gonna get
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: fired in a couple of years. I'm curious, do your
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: review listen to every episode you release and or guest
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: appearance on other podcasts like reviewing game film to self
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: critique look for ways to improve. Would would think no way,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: since you put out so much content when I first
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: got into the space, I would definitely listen back to
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: like when I would do I remember the first like
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: probably ten podcasts I did. This was like twenty fourteen fifteen.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: I would listen to him. I haven't listened to a
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: podcast back in a long, long time. I don't have time.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I mean I spend several hours getting ready, several hours
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: putting the thing together and then doing it. I mean,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I have a life. So I just said no, I
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: don't anymore. I have a pretty good idea. I'm like, eh,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: wasn't that great of a show? We're like, ah, that
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: was kind of a fire topic that one's gonna work,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I just I don't do it anymore. Sometimes
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: if I do something, you know, before I send it
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: off to my guy Adam to post or my guy
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Shane for the video side, I will like listen back
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: to some of the audio to be like, did I
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: am I allowed? Can I say that? But that that's
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: pretty rare, And sometimes I will slip up, like the
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: other day spy Tech had text me about remember it
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: kind of went viral. I heard coward Tech talking about this.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know what happened that Fernando Mendoza ran
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: his pro day and I started texting around him like
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: had that ever happened? I take like ten people and
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I looked, and spy Tech was one of the guys
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: that responded. He's like, I've never seen that happen. And
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: I said that on a podcast, and that'd be an
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: easy one to like post on social, you know. I
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: was like, you know, I didn't ask him for permission
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: to say that. Now I don't. It's it's pretty well
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: documented that it never happens. Like everyone's been talking, no
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: one's ever seen that. But it's like, I'm more conscious
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: of that stuff than the overall show. I'm gonna slip up,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna mispronounce people's names, I'm gonna say the wrong things.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: It's part of doing what I do. Kind of numb doo,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I would say, the uh worrying if I also think
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: you can overh edit right or you can overthink things.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Part of this podcast is like what you hear from
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: me is what I what I said, you know, and
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: that's what thrives I believe and what I enjoy when
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I listen to like authenticity, Give me your take, give
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: me your thought. I don't have to agree. Do you
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: think the Raiders are a playoff bound with the recent
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: signings and Fernando Mendoza, I would say that's feels a
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: little bold. I do think they're one of the teams
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: that could be you know, the double your wind total
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: right go from first to would shock me. If they're
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: drafting like fifteenth and be a competitive team. We'll have
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: to see, like who's their starting quarterback? Does Cousin start
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: week one? It's Fernando just a starter week one and
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Cousin backs them up. I don't know how it's gonna
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: play out, but the Raiders listen. It's hard to not
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: respect Pete Carroll for what he did for USC and Seattle.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: But I don't know what that was last year that
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: was that was bad. Almond milk is horseshit, brother, don't
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: drink it, and don't let Jack either. Well, trust me,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Jack is not. The difference is I've never drank almond
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: milk until I got the allergy test and it said
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I'm a lactose intolerant, so I try to avoid dairy. Obviously,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: I still eat some dairy or drink some dairy, but
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I try to avoid normal milk. It's not good for
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: my stomach feels messed up. I don't I'm not on
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: my high horse here because I think almond milk is
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Whatever about the cows, I know a bunch of Derrek farmers.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: It's just simply because it's not good for me or
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: my body doesn't process it. Trust me. My son is
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: plowing down breast milk right now. My buddy is a
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: huge Niner fan, and because of him, I watched the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: team closely. My question is about the tight end position.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Considering Kittle's age and coming off injury to go with Tonjes,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: would you trade for, say, Michael Mayer with the Raiders,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: or draft a guy. I followed him in college and
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: he was a stud. But he's behind Bowers and in
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas he hasn't seemed to get going. I actually
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: think Kubiak is gonna like multiple tight ends. They don't
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: have any who's the wide receivers on the Raiders. If
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I was the Raiders, you got two guys on rookie contracts.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Mayer was a second round pick. He's cheap. I would
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: keep him. I think I think Jake Tanja is a
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: pretty solid player, so I wouldn't be shocked if the
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: if the Niners, I don't know if it's a great
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: tight end draft beside the Oregon guy's pretty elite. But
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I was talking to someone yesterday, what if the Chiefs
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: draft like Baine at nine and trade their twenty seventh
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: or twenty seven first round pick and move up like
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: fifteen spots. You get aggressive and end Thursday night with
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Bain in Sadik. You're like, damn, the Chiefs. Keep an
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: eye on the Chiefs for using twenty nine to come up.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: It takes two to tango. But if I wonder if
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: they're I think they're gonna be aggressive. Bud to me,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: I would keep mayor if I'm because Bowers is a
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Bowers is essentially a wide receiver. I kind of mentioned
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: this earlier. Coward picks a team to double their wins
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: and go from worst to first the following year. Curious
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: to hear what teams you would be double their wins
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: this upcoming season. I actually think I have two teams
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: really high in the draft. I would say, let's go standings.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I would say the Raiders. Three wins to me, the
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Raiders can easily win seven, and same with the Titans.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: I can see both those two teams being three to
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: seven or eight. They would be my two. Now, worst
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: to first, you would say the Titans. That feels a
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: little strong because the Texans are so good and the
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Jags are good, but the Jags lost some players. Browns
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: no chance, Jets, no chance. Vegas. The division is just
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: too good. The Giants would be the sexy pick. I
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: might go with Detroit. You know, actually I'm gonna go
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: with the Saints. I'm picking the Saints to make the
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: playoffs next year. Saints are definitely a playoff team for
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: me next year, and that's before they draft, and they
• 44:51
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• 46:16
  Speaker 1: thoughts on Drake May Do you think he can stay
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  Speaker 1: in the MVP conversation this year exceeding my wildest expectations
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: and coming from back to back dumpster fire four win seasons,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll take losing the Super Bowl in
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: the chin. I mean, I would say his future, it's
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: hard to have a much brighter future than his third
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: year guy right now. Injuries, you never know year to year,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Like most people don't just go on to have twelve
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: year All Star careers. It's very difficult. A lot of
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: players have had good seasons. He's got a couple of
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: things going for him. One, he's obviously a big time talent. Two,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: he's got a coaching staff like Mike Rabel's going nowhere
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: and where's Josh McDaniel's going. So in theory, his offensive
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: coordinator and his offensive scheme should stay for a long time.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Like I would say, it'd be a little studying of
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Josh isn't there for the next five years. He's not
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: gonna get a head coaching job in the NFL. I
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: guess he could always take a head coaching job in
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: college that definitely does not feel like Josh McDaniels. And
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: he's getting paid a bunch of money. Hell, the Raiders
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: are still paying him. So my guess is that Drake
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: It just is a Pro Bowl level guy for years
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: to come. Now, this year they still got some question marks.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: You know, they signed Romeo Dobbs. They're gonna need Kyle Williams,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: the wide receiver from the Washington State, to step up.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: They're gonna need Hendrickson Henderson to become like more of
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: a complete back and utilize him to become like a
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: key guy. They're gonna need the offensive line clearly to
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: be better. But I would be very bullish if Drake
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: May was a stock, I'd continue to buy. I'm thirty
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: years old, just got engaged, and have a good career.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: My question for you is this, outside of sports, career
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: pursuit and the gym, what advice would you give to
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: someone starting their thirties for individual growth. I started reading
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: a lot, traveling to different countries, and made an effort
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: to reach out to friends on a more consistent basis.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: You got a lot going for you, buddy, traveling to
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: different countries and reading a lot well rounded individual. I
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: actually thought about this because I looked at these questions yesterday.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I would say one thing, and I actively try to
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: do this. Put your self in situations to just be
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: around other people. And however, for me, a lot of
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: that is through golf. But through golf, I get to
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: meet all these people, Like a lot of people I
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: play golf with are business owners. And it doesn't have
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: to be like Jeff Bezos to be like, yeah, this
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: guy owns an HVAC company or this guy runs a
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  Speaker 1: financial company their own and I would never have met
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: these people without that, and I wouldn't I wouldn't be
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: that social without golf. So I use golf. It's a
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: big key for me to meet other individuals, and it's helped,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: I would say, keep me well rounded and force me
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: to meet other people. So one key as you get older,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: because it's pretty easy to kind of stay insulated with
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: the people you know, especially when your career and you're
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: making money and everything's going the right way. The growth
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: you can get from meeting new people is something that matters.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Talk to people, put yourself in rooms with other people. However,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: I don't have a great, you know, plan for how
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: to do that, but I think that is extremely healthy
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: and through that you can organically meet and become friends
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: with people. You know, I never want to be someone
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: that just says like I stopped making friends when I
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: was like thirty five years old. You know, I think
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: it's cool that I've moved here, didn't know anyone, have
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: met people that I would call friends, and hopefully that
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: list and number just gross. Now your relationship as you
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: get older, some of these people are not going to
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: be like the people you've known since you were ten
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: or fifteen or twenty. But to me, that is very,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: very important cause it just expands, I would say, your
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: perspective on life, and they can give you, they can
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: help you out. It just expands your network of people
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: to lean on with questions for everything, you know, like
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: what do you think about, what should we do with
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: the baby? What should we do? Hey, I'm thinking about
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: doing this, you know, rental property or whatever. I don't know.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: I think it's extremely important to the pursuit of continuing
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: to meet new people, ideally organically, you know, however you
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: go about doing that. I've been talking the shit out
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: of people in this My gym got a new infrared sauna,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: which is insanely hot. I mean, the old sauna was
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: just your run of the mill sauna for probably the
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: history of saunas. After you do it for a while,
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  Speaker 1: like I could sit there no problem for thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: This one you get to fifteen and you're like I,
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  Speaker 1: every ounce of sweat is out of my body. You
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: have great conversations in the sauna, not necessarily meeting friends
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: in the sauna, But that was just a side tangent.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Avid Packer fan, what's best? In worst case scenario? Do
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: you see the Packers next season? I know we won't
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: be highlighted as a super Bowl favorite, but one and
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: done trip to the playoffs I think could be disappointment,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: regardless of injuries. Also curveball question, I see reels of
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: new college coaches out with their teams, Kiffin, Campbell, what
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: do you think the barrier of Jimbo Fisher getting another opportunity?
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: You know what's funny about Jimbo. I listen to college
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: radio sometimes I'm sirious, you know, I'll just I flip
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: around between the serious sports channels sometimes when I'm driving
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: around the afternoon and Jimbo has a channel and he's
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: really good and engaging, and you just think, like, now
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: he got paid seventy million dollars to go. He was
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: already rich before that. But his career is just over.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I don't think he has I don't think he's getting
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: another job. I really don't. And now this influx of
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: younger guys, I just think people will not view him highly.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: And then also especially a job that he would take
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: at this point in time. Elko comes to A and
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: M and he's immediately good and they're in the playoffs.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: So it's like, Jimbo, what were you doing? So I
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: would say, Jimbo, I don't think he's I don't think
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: he's coming back. Man, who knows. Maybe he doesn't want it,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: but he's honestly, he's not bad on radio. I find
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: him pretty entertaining, especially his voice. He's got just just
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: stink southern draw. The Packers, I mean, they were my
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl pick this year. They he's got a lot
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: of new players, so and Lafloor clearly didn't love whatever
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: the vibes were. So I would like the Lions and
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Bears more than the Backers, I would say, sitting right now,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: but you know they've proven historically just don't sleep on him.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: I think they'll be solid lose Halfley, which was pretty
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: important there, see I early April. I'm just not as dialed.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: It's like, who's their defensive coordinator? Thinking? Honestly right now,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I do know, but just currently on
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: a Saturday afternoon, I don't know though. I just think
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Halfley he was good. How about Juwan Jennings and the Bears.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Ben can get him open and he's one of the
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: best blockers in the wide receiver position. Seems like a
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Ben Johnson kind of guy. I think all those type
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: teams would like Juwan Jennings, but he's just not gonna
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: go to the Bears for like four million dollars. Well,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: he might eventually, but that ain't happening for a while.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Because if you're dugging this much on whatever he thought
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: his value was, he's pretty in deep. So what to
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: me if his market or what he's willing to sign
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: for changes to a manageable number. I think a lot
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: of good teams are going to be interested, but for
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: him to be still available early in April shows you that,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: like whatever his price is, no one is interested. And
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: the only reason I bring that up because It's clear
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: he had an issue last year with the forty nine ers,
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: thought he was underpaid. So the money aspect, and he's
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: a guy that hasn't made I mean, relative society's made
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. But you know, in his mind
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: he was around like Brandon Ayuk. He saw the guy
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: get thirty million dollars a year, and he's thinking to himself,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: I can't get fourteen. I'm trying to see his career.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: What are his career earnings? So he made twenty four
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: million dollars, so I think, you know, twenty eight years old,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: so I'd say he's doing pretty well. But you see
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: somebody's guys already made a one hundred, and again he's
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: not to me. Depending on the team, he's probably a
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: five or six million dollars wide receiver and I like him.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Can you please talk about the NFL's refusal to award
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: the Bears third round conference compens story draft picks Free
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: and Cunningham. It seems like a weird hill for the
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: NFL to die on, especially for a rule that is
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: supposed to promote diversity. The Bears did everything right and
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: he still got screwed. Here's where I think the NFL
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: is caught up with I'm not I don't know much
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: legal jargon, but it's pretty clear that like precedent is
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: a big thing in the courtroom, right, this is based
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: on precedent. I think the NFL is uncomfortable because I'm
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: with you, he's the GM, he's picking the players, he's
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: running the draft meetings, he's running free agency. But when
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: they hired Matt Ryan, they go, well, we've seen this
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: role filled before, like a John Elway, like a John Lynch,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: And I understand Matt Ryan's titles a little different, and
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: those guys were truly the guys picking the players with
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: the coaches. But I think they're just hesitant. If Matt
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Ryan didn't exist and it was just obviously they would
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: get them. But I think that role they're uncomfortable with, saying, like,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know, that's my only guess that they don't
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: want to set precedent that there can be a guy
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: above you that is clearly a football guy, even if
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: you're picking the players, but like technically you answer to him.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just kind of this weird ground. Again,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: I'm with you, they should get the picks. If I
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: was the Bears. I'd be pissed. I saw someone said
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: they should sue the league. It's fucked. But the reason
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: they're not getting them, and it's not his fault, like
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: he obviously he would probably be the first say I
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: give him the picks, because again, you're not taking these
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: picks from someone else. These picks do not exist. They're
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: just created from thin air that they're not like, well
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: you get their No, they just add picks at the
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: end of the round, third round, fourth round. Whenever the
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: picks are slotted for this it would be the third round.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. It's not happening because the NFL
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: denied their appeal. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: this little tidbit about the Jalen AJ relationship. Did you
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: know Hertz is the godfather to Brown's daughter. I find
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: that to be incredibly hilarious given their dynamic. What are
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: your thoughts there? Was clearly because several years when they
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: traded for Aj Brown, one of the big selling points
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: besides he's a really good player, was like him and Aj.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: Jalen and Aj had a very close relationship, and that
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: was like, oh damn. And then immediately worked something happened.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: I'm not proving to all those details that stuff that
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: Howie Sirianni dom and obviously those guys and the team knows,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: but something broke. You get in fights and spats with
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: your family, You get in fights and spats with your
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: wife for significant other business oers like, it's part of life.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: And to me, the question is because if you're Howie,
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: you can think like, if we're not getting can we
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: just can these guys figure it out? Is there a
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: common ground? Or is it too far gone? And only
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: the people with the Eagles truly know that answer? What
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: do you think of the idea of a transfer fee
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: in college football? For example, soccer clubs have to pay
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: a club they are buying a player from in order
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: to keep the smaller club competitive. I went to a
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: MAX school and our kicker got posted by Bama and
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: we got nothing. Here's my issue with that. I think
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: you should one. I saw I didn't click on the article,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: but Trump put pushed some executive order you get one transfer.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: I'd be fine with one true transfer at the powerflour level,
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: like if you sign with Iowa, you're allowed to transfer
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: one time to another Power for school. If you're sweet.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: You go to Bama, Ohio State wherever, or you start
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: at USC and you want to transfer to Oregon or
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: or vice versa. Whatever. I'm cool with that, but you
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: get one to me when you're at the lower level.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: You never would have gone like that kicker at the MAC.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: He never would have gone to school there if Alabama
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: liked him and knew about him in high school. Right. So,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: I'm a small school guy. My football career started at
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Fresne State. We would have lost all of our team.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: But the reason those guys were at Fresno State is
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: because USC, UCLA, Oregon, those schools didn't offer. If they had,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't have gone to Fresno State. So I never
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: have any issue with the small school guy going to
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: the Power Forward program because their dreams are playing college
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: football at highest level, just like most people's dreams are
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: doing whatever they're doing at the highest possible level. And
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: sometimes you're a late bloomer, you get overlooked, you're just
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: not that good at the time, and you get way better.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I don't believe the transfer fee. I got no issue
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: with a big school stealing from the little school because
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: that's kind of making the kids dreams and he's getting paid.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: You mentioned a lot about AI taking over. However, I'm
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: an airline pilot, and I'm wondering your take is on
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: the profession as far as AI. Would you ever be
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: comfortable flying in an airplane with no human pilot or
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: maybe only a pilot? Obviously my other pilot buddies are
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: biased in their opinion. Curious someone with no ties obviously not.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: And when I say, I actually don't think I'm pounding
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: the table like AI is taking over all these jobs.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: It is gonna take over jobs, Like eventually, when you
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: call these companies and I start with the automated and
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: then I get to a human, you will be able
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: to And I've heard some people tell stories of they've
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: been on the phone with an AI agent and it
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: sounds just like a human being. Stuff like that, or
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: the entry level positions of like data pushers and excel
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: people at law firms or wherever can get overtaken. But
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: there are some jobs like I one percent would not
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: get on a plane with no pilot. I've never been
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: in a way MO, I've never been in a WEIMO,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: So like, yeah, I don't believe trust me anytime. Fear
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: is pushed. It's always overblown and stuff like this, every
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: job is gonna be gone. I've never bought into that,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: but I've used it enough and seen some of its
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: abilities to go. Yeah, some of the stuff is gonna
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: go away. I'll tell you one thing that might go
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: What about the classroom. I'm just baffled by what my
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: son is gonna learn in class? Like the stuff I
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: learned in school feels so irrelevant. Besides basic stuff, reading, writing,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: basic communication. But like a lot of the stuff and
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: the tests looking back, how does this have any relation
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: to what's gonna happen in real life? And that speaks
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: for college too. Some of the college courses, some of
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: the fields do My guy flying to the moon right now,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: No big deal? Cal Poly Grand was like an aerospace engineer,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: fucking genius, badass. What's his name, Victor Glover? No big deal?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: Learned by doing. But a lot of the classes I
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: took CAW PAULI were useless. You're good. That'd be my take, pilot,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: You're good. I feel pretty comfortable for a while. Could
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: be wrong, but I wouldn't. I wouldn't lose too much
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: sleep about it. Plus, don't you guys have a Union. Okay,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: we'll end on this. I watched the interview with Great
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: co Sel and he said the Eagles ran a collegiate
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: style offense. I was surprised they traded for Dalton, but
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: I was wondering, is he supposed to be the teacher
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: for the West Coast scheme? To hurts? He's not that
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: good anymore, and I thought it was crazy they traded
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: for him. Also, they don't have a good backup since
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: McKee looked pretty bad last year and McCord is on
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: the Packers. Do you think the Dalton trade is connected
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: to the story. I hadn't thought about that, actually, but yeah,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: probably some you know, i'd have to look at all
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: dalton schemes, but I mean, he's been around for twenty years.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: I would imagine some of that is to teach and
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: to help out. Uh. Yeah, I think it's less about
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: I saw the quote how he said that I sleep
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: better know it. We got three quarterbacks, you know, who
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: could function. Dalton hasn't looked good in a while. The
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: m key thing. He looked good in preseason, looked bad
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: at the end of the year. But weren't they playing
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: a bunch of backups in that game? I don't. The
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: game was out against the Commanders, the last game. I
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: mean he was bad. I mean I had on one
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: of these TVs. It was not good. But I does
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Dalton have any history with Manion or maybe some of
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: their new offensive coaches potentially, So there's probably that happens
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: a lot in the NFL. The backup quarterback, his cohesion.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: You know, look at Kubiak and Cousins. If Kubiak had
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: never been around Cousins, they probably wouldn't have been active
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: and given him ten million dollars guaranteed in twenty seven.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: But he spent three years with the guy, two of
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: the years he was the quarterback coach. So I again,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: I have to look at the coaching staff and the connections,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: but that that plays a massive role for backup quarterbacks.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: I know you know the scheme. We got a guy
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: learning a new scheme, so you might be onto something.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: You probably are. Have a great day. We will talk soon. Peace.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: The volume