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Aaron Rodgers BACK with Steelers, NFL needs NEW Preseason game strategy + NFL Offseason Mailbag · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on? My people? How are
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Speaker 1: we doing? John Middlecoff Three and Out podcast Back at
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Speaker 1: it again. Hopefully everyone is doing well. And today we're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk football because that's what we do here. Aaron
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Speaker 1: Rodgers isn't just signed sealed? And the Liberties on the
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Speaker 1: field opening day Wednesday games could be here to stay.
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Speaker 1: Joint practices are they the new preseason game? And obviously
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Speaker 1: Down Thunder and yeah, let's just dive into the show.
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Speaker 1: Let's just start with Rogers and McCarthy. I saw a
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Speaker 1: video clip today from you know, basically all these teams
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Speaker 1: now for the next three and a half four weeks
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Speaker 1: will be full go on the field, practicing veterans, rookies altogether,
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Speaker 1: installing plays, running plays. Obviously, if guys are injured, they
1:46
Speaker 1: will be rehabbing. I know it's it's voluntary, but the
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Speaker 1: overwhelming majority of players show up to get the reps.
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Speaker 1: They're working out anyway. A lot of guys have workout bonuses.
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Speaker 1: It's why it's such a huge story. Like the last
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Speaker 1: couple of years, Lamon or Miles Garrett, most guys go
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Speaker 1: maybe a guy of a super old guy misses time
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Speaker 1: here and there for little stuff. Most players are very
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Speaker 1: active over the course of the next month because then
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Speaker 1: they get forty forty five days off until training camp starts.
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Speaker 1: Where they're working out anyway. It's not like you can
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Speaker 1: just go chill on a beach and drink beers for
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Speaker 1: forty days and play golf. You know, these guys are
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Speaker 1: training in some form or fashion. Maybe the older you get,
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Speaker 1: you just it's more of a maintain like you know,
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Speaker 1: a Trent Williams type or Alane Johnson trying to stay healthy.
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Speaker 1: But most guys in their prime late twenties, early thirties
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Speaker 1: like it's this is a full time job. Honestly, I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of these coaches in front offices tell
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Speaker 1: these guys to pull back. So Aaron Rodgers signs his contract,
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Speaker 1: gets a race rightfully, So you could argue he should
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Speaker 1: be making thirty to thirty five million dollars based on
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Speaker 1: his production. I get he's a little older and there's
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Speaker 1: a little bit of an injury risk, but he had
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Speaker 1: it was clear it was all about money. The longer
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Speaker 1: he waited, the more pressure it put on them. What
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Speaker 1: were they gonna do? Role with Drew Aller and Will Howard.
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people were high on Will Howard.
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Speaker 1: You just don't start six round picks who have never
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Speaker 1: played when your owner says we plan on winning. So
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers had the momentum or excuse me, how the leverage,
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Speaker 1: and as we got closer and closer to the guys
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Speaker 1: being on the field, they're gonna want him there. They
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Speaker 1: have a new wide receiver, they have a couple of
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Speaker 1: new wide receivers, so it was inevitable. You could see
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Speaker 1: where this was coming. Last year. I think close to
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Speaker 1: fifteen million probably make, you know, give or take some incentives.
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Speaker 1: Twenty five million feels like good deal, win win both sides.
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Speaker 1: I think it's fair to assume this will be Rogers
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Speaker 1: last year, but you know, we saw Tom Brady play
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Speaker 1: till forty five. We see other contemporaries of Aaron Rodgers.
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Speaker 1: I don't think Peyton Manning and Drew Brees wanted to quit,
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Speaker 1: that their their shoulders stopped working, their arms stopped working.
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Speaker 1: Cam Newton he was a little younger in those guys,
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Speaker 1: but again, same type deal. So I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of guys' bodies betrayed them. Specifically, they're throwing ability. Aaron
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Speaker 1: Rodgers throwing ability has not changed. Now. Where it's changed
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Speaker 1: is he's older, doesn't move as well, can't avoid you know,
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Speaker 1: the hits that he used to be able to avoid,
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Speaker 1: and he definitely doesn't scramble as well behind the line
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Speaker 1: of scrimage. But the big story here is McCarthy and
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Speaker 1: Aaron getting back together, and Colin and I talked about
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Speaker 1: this on Sunday Night, was that the relationship when it
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Speaker 1: ended was not good. Right. McCarthy got fired in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the season as the season was falling apart
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Speaker 1: and Aaron was not playing well, and by then Aaron
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Speaker 1: was entrenched as not just one of the stars in
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Speaker 1: the league, but by far the most important person in
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Speaker 1: that building. So he had a lot of juice. And
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Speaker 1: while I don't think he went full lebron and got
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Speaker 1: the guy fired, I think Mike McCarthy would have been
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Speaker 1: fired if Aaron Rodgers wanted him to stay. Now here's
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Speaker 1: the thing, like in any relationship, what happens even if
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Speaker 1: it is contentious, because whether it's a personal relationship or
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Speaker 1: a professional relationship, you can be at each other's throats,
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Speaker 1: especially in a high pressure environment. Whether you're in sales,
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Speaker 1: whether you're in the construction business, or whether you're in football,
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Speaker 1: high pressure environment where money or job or production is
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Speaker 1: on the line. You could really like a guy or
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Speaker 1: respect a guy, and that can fray when things go bad.
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Speaker 1: That's the history of time. It's happened a lot, and
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Speaker 1: I think they can say whatever they want. It clearly
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Speaker 1: got really ugly at the end, But they say a
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Speaker 1: memory is often tied to the good times. Like as
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Speaker 1: I get older, I think about some of my family
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Speaker 1: moments with my father, who's been gone for a while now,
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Speaker 1: I don't think about it of the times he yelled
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Speaker 1: at me. I don't think any of the times I
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Speaker 1: got in trouble like you think about the fun things
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Speaker 1: you did together. You think about the life lessons or
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Speaker 1: the positive things that he instilled in you. And if
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Speaker 1: you truly hate somebody that you were with personally, romantically
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Speaker 1: or obviously professionally, that never changes that. There are I've
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Speaker 1: never dated anybody in my single days that I hate
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Speaker 1: or that I hold a grudge against or anything. But
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Speaker 1: there are definitely some people that I work with or
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Speaker 1: worked with that I despise. Howie Roseman once called me
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Speaker 1: and essentially fired me. Not only do I have no
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Speaker 1: issues with him, I consider him a friend, like why
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Speaker 1: And I think this is a huge part of life
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Speaker 1: when you break up in especially in a work setting.
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Speaker 1: What happens when you take off? What happens when they
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Speaker 1: take off? And if you look at Aaron Rodgers and
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Speaker 1: you look at Mike McCarthy, Aaron went on to win
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Speaker 1: multiple MVPs. Aaron went on to not only cement himself
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Speaker 1: as one of the greatest players, his legacy improved financially.
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Speaker 1: He made bank over the next five or six years
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Speaker 1: in Green Bay, and even with the Jets, took a
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Speaker 1: pay cut. Gaame seventy million dollars. He played one season,
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Speaker 1: you know, like life went pretty well, McCarthy had to
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Speaker 1: take a year off, and then he became the head
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Speaker 1: coach of the fucking Cowboys, where I'm pretty sure he
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Speaker 1: signed a five year deal for like thirty five or
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Speaker 1: forty million dollars, went won the division two of three years,
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Speaker 1: and went to the playoffs three straight years. Now, it
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Speaker 1: didn't end up in a conference championship for the super
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Speaker 1: Bowl or anything, but was pretty successful. Was definitely successful
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Speaker 1: enough to the for the Pittsburgh Steelers did not hesitate
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Speaker 1: hiring him this offseason. So when you break up with
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Speaker 1: somebody or you get fired by somebody. I remember when
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Speaker 1: I left for radio, I kind of took joy that
7:53
Speaker 1: this radio station, and granted it was just the industry
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Speaker 1: kind of fell apart, like I remember enjoy, but it
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Speaker 1: was I was not happy when I left, and not
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Speaker 1: that I necessarily wanted to be there anymore. I rooted
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Speaker 1: for their demise, they probably rooted for mine, And ten
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Speaker 1: years later, I haven't thought about him in years. Why
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Speaker 1: Because life's gone pretty well, and you lose grudges unless
8:17
Speaker 1: you're really wired that way. When things don't go well,
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Speaker 1: because when things are not going well, you're just gonna
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Speaker 1: sit and most people are gonna wallow in the negative.
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Speaker 1: But when you go a separate path and things go well,
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Speaker 1: like it did for Aaron and like it did for McCarthy.
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Speaker 1: In hell, where's McCarthy right now? He's the head coach
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Speaker 1: of the Steelers. Told Coward last night, find me many
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Speaker 1: guys in the history of pro sports. It's like pat
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Speaker 1: Riley Lakers, Nick's heat pretty unreal, Phil Jackson, Bulls, Lakers,
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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, Packers, Cowboys, Steelers. He ain't picking up the
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Speaker 1: phone with the Jags call promise you that, Like he's
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Speaker 1: not taken the Cincinnati Bengals phone call. Like he gets very,
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Speaker 1: very prestigious jobs that are some of the biggest brands
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Speaker 1: in like the history of sports in the world. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't get much bigger than the Cowboys, Packers, and
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Speaker 1: Steelers in the NFL specifically. And if you're getting biggest
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Speaker 1: brands in the NFL, you got the biggest brands in America,
9:20
Speaker 1: right You're talking Yankees, Lakers, Nicks, you know, Chicago Cubs.
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Speaker 1: Like it's on a very Dodgers, it's on a very
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Speaker 1: very short list and Rogers' life's gone pretty well. So
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Speaker 1: when I see them today, it's like, maybe they don't
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Speaker 1: even think about the bad times. They probably don't think
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Speaker 1: about twenty eighteen. It's probably easier to bs about fourteen,
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Speaker 1: about ten, about eleven, and about their other successes. Since
9:44
Speaker 1: how many times have you met somebody or know somebody
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Speaker 1: that gets in a bad breakup and they're down and
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Speaker 1: out and then they're like, I just saw she's dating
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Speaker 1: this guy, he owns his company, he's got multiple homes,
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Speaker 1: he's crushing it like that hurts. That's when you've got
10:01
Speaker 1: nothing going on. But if life's going well for you,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't bother you as much. So I don't disagree
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Speaker 1: with anyone that says we can't act like these guys
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Speaker 1: have always been buddies, because that simply was not a
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Speaker 1: fact when it ended. And think about this, when Lafleur
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Speaker 1: got hired, remember Aaron Rodgers vetted him. So Rogers had
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Speaker 1: NBA level juice in that organization at the time, and
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Speaker 1: rightfully so. But time heals wound. Sometimes when both guys
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Speaker 1: have made millions of dollars, like, life's treated him pretty
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Speaker 1: well since. So I don't think this is gonna work.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna bet against the situation. I would say, best
10:42
Speaker 1: case scenario, we see the same thing that we've seen
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Speaker 1: the last several years with Tomlin, and ironically, I think
10:48
Speaker 1: Tomlin and McCarthy are basically the exact same coach in
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Speaker 1: terms of the results. Yet Mike Tomlin's gonna get a
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars next year when he comes back, and McCarthy,
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Speaker 1: as the branding coward, said it like a Milwaukee you know,
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Speaker 1: he just does Pittsburgh cop. There's nothing wrong with that,
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Speaker 1: but like you don't talk about him like some genius
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Speaker 1: on the grid iron. And I look at him, I
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Speaker 1: go I think he's a pretty good offensive coach. I
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Speaker 1: watched him do wonders with Dak and win games with
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Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, do great things with Aaron Rodgers. I think
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Speaker 1: McCarthy is better than the branding and the narrative in
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Speaker 1: which the way he's discussed where Aaron you know, probably
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Speaker 1: gets discussed properly all time great player, little Moody. I
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Speaker 1: think just a factual statement right now is talking about
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Speaker 1: a guy forty one, forty two years old that the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years have had two major injuries, right
11:39
Speaker 1: if you think about most of his career in Green Bay.
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Speaker 1: I mean, some of you packer diehard Packer fans have
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Speaker 1: a better memory about this than me. I can remember
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Speaker 1: the one collar bone that he broke. I think was
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Speaker 1: on Monday night football and missed a bunch of games.
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Speaker 1: They lost a bunch of games, came back and they
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Speaker 1: made that wild card and then they made the run.
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Speaker 1: But relatively healthy guy, and part of that was he
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Speaker 1: was so athletic he could avoid hits, and then when
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Speaker 1: he was scrambling around, he was just so accurate when
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Speaker 1: you watch him, you know post Achilles, how many times
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Speaker 1: do you meet someone that tears an achilles when they're
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Speaker 1: in their forties? You never moved the same. So when
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Speaker 1: you think about athletes like Rogers' movement ability is never
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Speaker 1: gonna Klay Thompson towards Achilles has never moved the same.
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Speaker 1: And that he was in his you know, early thirties.
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Speaker 1: So Rogers never gonna move the same. Last year he
12:28
Speaker 1: broke his arm because he no longer can just avoid
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Speaker 1: sacks and he's more likely to get sacked. Now. I
12:34
Speaker 1: think the bigger question is is Aaron Rodgers gonna be
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Speaker 1: able to stay healthy all season. I would probably bet
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Speaker 1: against it, not rooting for it like I would love.
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Speaker 1: I hope he's good. He's good. They're interesting, better for business,
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Speaker 1: more interesting for me to talk about. But I don't
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Speaker 1: think that's gonna happen. One thing that's clearly here to
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Speaker 1: stay for the uh NFL is in one of their
13:02
Speaker 1: Rogers right hand guys said that midday games opening week
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Speaker 1: are not going away. Obviously, the Thursday night game of
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Speaker 1: the team that is hosting the you know, the defending
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl champ like Seattle this year, like Philadelphia Eagles
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Speaker 1: last year, like the Chiefs before, that has become a staple.
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Speaker 1: But they're definitely going to doubleheader during the week. And
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Speaker 1: because of a rule that it has to be the
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Speaker 1: if it's past the first Friday of September, second Friday,
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Speaker 1: third Friday, fourth Friday, the NFL can't play game on
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Speaker 1: Friday night, but they can't play a game on Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: And because this year is pushback, I mean, I didn't
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Speaker 1: quite realize it, but the start of the NFL season
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Speaker 1: is a week later. Super Bowl is now running, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the middle of February. That that is the reason
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Speaker 1: they're playing on Wednesday, and Thursday instead of Thursday and
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Speaker 1: Friday this year because the second week of September and
14:02
Speaker 1: Friday is not an available day for them. And the
14:06
Speaker 1: other thing that was mentioned by the NFL is that
14:08
Speaker 1: Netflix is going to have a game week one moving
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Speaker 1: forward that's going to be part of their package. So
14:14
Speaker 1: it's pretty clear that Netflix is getting the Wednesday or
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Speaker 1: Friday game moving forward. And this got me thinking. I
14:22
Speaker 1: said that it wouldn't shock me if Amazon got it
14:26
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night Football. Now, Netflix, brad partner of mine,
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Speaker 1: has their CEO has been adamant like, we're not really
14:34
Speaker 1: looking to get a full time package. That's not what
14:41
Speaker 1: we're looking to do. We're looking to get events. Well,
14:44
Speaker 1: you know what's funny is Wells Fargo called me recently
14:47
Speaker 1: and I do my business through Chase, and I do
14:50
Speaker 1: a lot of personal and stock stuff through Wells Fargo,
14:54
Speaker 1: and they just said, you know, you're not getting the
14:58
Speaker 1: proper U like you should be a higher tier in
15:03
Speaker 1: our bank and we can take care of you, X,
15:05
Speaker 1: Y and Z and stuff that not. Like I'd even
15:07
Speaker 1: been seeking it out. I went and met at the
15:10
Speaker 1: local branch and I realized, do you know what I
15:12
Speaker 1: should have done, I should have said, and I did
15:15
Speaker 1: this a couple of years ago, like set up my
15:17
Speaker 1: business through them. So she told me all the stuff
15:20
Speaker 1: that I am I have access to now. And I
15:25
Speaker 1: went to Chase today and I basically just said, hey,
15:29
Speaker 1: do I need to upgrade my business account? Do you
15:32
Speaker 1: give me access? And I just basically use the numbers
15:35
Speaker 1: they were given me and the guy looked at me
15:37
Speaker 1: like no. So I wasn't planning on moving my business.
15:41
Speaker 1: But I went back to Wallis Fargo today and I said,
15:44
Speaker 1: how do I move my corporation over to you? Under
15:47
Speaker 1: your umbrella? That's how fast things change? Why? Because she
15:51
Speaker 1: wetted my beak and she enlightened me to go, damn,
15:55
Speaker 1: this is a pretty good opportunity. And I think the
15:57
Speaker 1: NFL knows that you keep giving Netflix these sweet games,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna want more. How could they not? They are
16:05
Speaker 1: no dummies the NFL. It doesn't get any bigger in
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Speaker 1: these NFL games, and they've done these other events. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna see the numbers. So who's to say that they
16:14
Speaker 1: can't convince to get Netflix to be like do you
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Speaker 1: want Sunday Night Football? Do you want to have Sunday
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Speaker 1: Night football, which is an event which is appointment viewing.
16:27
Speaker 1: Part of CBS and Fox right is they have a
16:30
Speaker 1: ton of games on Sunday, Sunday morning and Sunday afternoon
16:34
Speaker 1: that they have on any given day three four games
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Speaker 1: going at one time on their networks regionally throughout the country.
16:42
Speaker 1: And I would imagine they want more of that. Netflix
16:45
Speaker 1: does not want that. It doesn't look like Amazon has
16:47
Speaker 1: wanted that so far either. But you like what this
16:52
Speaker 1: opening week would do? Well, what if we gave you
16:54
Speaker 1: the number one television show in America? Starting thinking in
17:00
Speaker 1: a day like I think the NFL is desperately trying
17:04
Speaker 1: to do everything humanly possible to pivot from And this
17:09
Speaker 1: is why the broadcast the traditional broadcast networks have to
17:14
Speaker 1: be really nervous right now. Is they're going above and
17:17
Speaker 1: beyond to take care of the streamers because they know
17:19
Speaker 1: the streamers have more money. And if I was in
17:21
Speaker 1: the NFL shoes, I would do the same thing, because
17:23
Speaker 1: it's just business. It's no different than you know, I've
17:27
Speaker 1: been a long time Chase ann Wells Fargo guy, and
17:29
Speaker 1: I realized, like, none of these people give a fuck
17:31
Speaker 1: about me, So why don't I just take that This
17:34
Speaker 1: isn't nineteen eighty seven in Davis, California, when my dad,
17:37
Speaker 1: as a farmer, knew the people in the first Northern
17:41
Speaker 1: Bank and Davis like all their names, knew where they lived.
17:45
Speaker 1: I think he would consider some of them friends. Those
17:47
Speaker 1: days are done. We're all just widgets. So it's like, hey,
17:50
Speaker 1: they're gonna give me three x a rate on a
17:53
Speaker 1: savings account, see a peace out. Because I'm unemotional about this.
17:57
Speaker 1: I say this all the time about my generation. We're
17:59
Speaker 1: just very unemotional about purchases where you used to just pressing,
18:03
Speaker 1: pressing buttons, having things delivered. If you do a job
18:06
Speaker 1: for me and it sucks, I'll find someone else to
18:08
Speaker 1: do it. Where my parents stayed very loyal to the
18:11
Speaker 1: same people in every walk of life their entire life.
18:15
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty loyal when it comes to restaurants. But
18:17
Speaker 1: if your food sucks, I'm not gonna keep going back
18:20
Speaker 1: just because I know you the owner. I'm not gonna
18:22
Speaker 1: do that, right, know your food's good. Even if I
18:25
Speaker 1: know you or don't, I'll come back. Hell, I'd come
18:28
Speaker 1: back three days a week, my wife would let me.
18:31
Speaker 1: And I think the NFL has become a lot like that.
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Speaker 1: They are very unemotional about all this stuff. It's gonna
18:37
Speaker 1: come down to the power of the almighty dollar, and
18:41
Speaker 1: we know who has more money than this moving forward.
18:43
Speaker 1: So this has been a huge topic of conversation. Is
18:45
Speaker 1: these games on a bunch of different networks. The day
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Speaker 1: and age of us just sitting on our couch flipping
18:51
Speaker 1: channels and be like, oh, there's Shawshank, you know Shaw
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Speaker 1: Shanks on or you know Blue Chips is on con Airzon.
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Speaker 1: Those days died a long time ago. I watch as much.
19:04
Speaker 1: I literally watched television for a living. I haven't done
19:07
Speaker 1: that in years. So, my son, how many of you
19:11
Speaker 1: that have younger children, they'll never even know what cable
19:15
Speaker 1: TV is? Think about that, they'll never know what cable
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Speaker 1: TV is. And the NFL, I think is slowly, slowly
19:24
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19:29
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21:22
Speaker 1: New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia. You know, for a long
21:32
Speaker 1: period of time, preseason games they would be a ramp up,
21:36
Speaker 1: right like preseason Game one. You know, you'd see Aaron
21:40
Speaker 1: Rodgers and Ben Roethlisberger and Peyton Manning first series, preseason
21:43
Speaker 1: Game two, you might get a quarter preseason Game three,
21:47
Speaker 1: the first half. If it was two good teams, you
21:50
Speaker 1: would see their starters. Now they might not be running
21:53
Speaker 1: complex stuff, but you would see It would feel like
21:56
Speaker 1: an actual NFL game. And then Sean McVay and the transition.
22:03
Speaker 1: Over the last five years no one played and everyone
22:07
Speaker 1: copied him, and now the preseason is mainly just twos
22:10
Speaker 1: and threes. Because even if you're a good rookie, I'm
22:14
Speaker 1: probably not putting you in those environments with people trying
22:18
Speaker 1: to you know, I'm not saying Johnny Tryhard's because there
22:22
Speaker 1: are a lot of guys playing in preseason games. They're
22:24
Speaker 1: gonna go on to have NFL careers, but it's a
22:27
Speaker 1: lot of backups trying to impress. And when you're trying
22:29
Speaker 1: to impress, especially in a violent sport, you're willing to
22:33
Speaker 1: do whatever it takes to, you know, catch the eye
22:35
Speaker 1: of the people on the sidelines and the people that
22:37
Speaker 1: matter up in the in the press box. So those
22:41
Speaker 1: days are done, and the NFL is clearly gonna go
22:45
Speaker 1: to twenty games, you know, in sometime very very soon.
22:49
Speaker 1: So we're gonna get two preseason games. And if you
22:51
Speaker 1: think the preseason sucks now, it's gonna get even worse,
22:54
Speaker 1: especially because training camp is gonna be the same amount
22:56
Speaker 1: of time. But there's not gonna be that much. Say
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Speaker 1: what you want about a preseason game. At least you
23:01
Speaker 1: go off, you know, the Raiders are playing the Seattle
23:05
Speaker 1: and it's just some football on television, Like that's gonna disappear,
23:08
Speaker 1: and the league is not gonna start in the middle
23:10
Speaker 1: of August. They're they're gonna start in the middle of
23:12
Speaker 1: September because they want to go probably to the end
23:14
Speaker 1: of February. These joint practices have become the old school
23:19
Speaker 1: preseason games, and I saw headline after headline after headline,
23:24
Speaker 1: Raiders playing the Texans, the Ravens playing the Eagles, the
23:28
Speaker 1: Niners playing the Bronco It's just joint practices all over
23:33
Speaker 1: the league, and the majority of teams will do multiple
23:37
Speaker 1: sets of joint practice based around their preseason games. I
23:42
Speaker 1: do think that the NFL should strongly consider a way
23:47
Speaker 1: to package some of these practices and just put them
23:51
Speaker 1: at night, and they could be some version of thirty
23:54
Speaker 1: minutes an hour of guys miked up, coaches miked up.
23:58
Speaker 1: It doesn't even need to be gin given away state secrets.
24:02
Speaker 1: All these teams have access to the film, and now
24:05
Speaker 1: once you joint practice, all these people know each other
24:08
Speaker 1: like that. There aren't any secrets anymore. So I do
24:12
Speaker 1: My guess would be that within the next five years
24:17
Speaker 1: they do some version of joint practices on primetime television.
24:22
Speaker 1: That's where I think we're headed, because the preseason games
24:25
Speaker 1: are only going to get worse and worse, and the
24:27
Speaker 1: joint practices are legit starters going against other starters. And
24:32
Speaker 1: let's face it, football has become our crack, and we
24:35
Speaker 1: got a lot of crack addicts all over America. So
24:38
Speaker 1: my guess would be keep an eye on joint practice
24:41
Speaker 1: coming primetime television in the relatively near future. Let's get
24:47
Speaker 1: to dad diaries. I do want to start on a
24:50
Speaker 1: sappy one for those of you that if you follow golf.
24:54
Speaker 1: If you don't, I'm sure you saw that Aaron Raie
24:57
Speaker 1: won the PGA Championship over Rom Rory, a bunch of stars,
25:01
Speaker 1: kind of a no name guy. I didn't see his
25:05
Speaker 1: exact number on hard Rock bet, but I think most
25:07
Speaker 1: places he was over two hundred to one. He was
25:11
Speaker 1: the biggest underdog to win a major in a long,
25:14
Speaker 1: long time. I mean, the majority of guys that have
25:17
Speaker 1: won majors lately have been like Scottie Scheffler, Rory McElroy,
25:21
Speaker 1: Xander Schoffley. You're talking five to one, ten to one,
25:24
Speaker 1: fifteen to one, like heavy favorites. You're talking about a
25:27
Speaker 1: guy two hundred and fifty to one that that is
25:30
Speaker 1: a massive, massive, no name coming out of nowhere. But
25:35
Speaker 1: for most of us that like golf, he's had this
25:39
Speaker 1: thing called iron covers. Like you put head covers on
25:42
Speaker 1: your woods, and you put head covers on your putter
25:46
Speaker 1: to you know, keep them to not have them get
25:49
Speaker 1: nicked up. And it looks good, right, I mean famously,
25:52
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods had had the tiger on his driver forever,
25:57
Speaker 1: but he put them on his irons. And let's face it,
26:00
Speaker 1: most of us that followed the sport were like, what's
26:03
Speaker 1: up with this fucking loser? And then you hear his
26:07
Speaker 1: explanation why, and you almost are like moved that this
26:14
Speaker 1: guy grew up with no money. And in the UK
26:18
Speaker 1: it's part of the reason he wears two gloves because
26:20
Speaker 1: his dad, who used to help train him, he didn't
26:23
Speaker 1: have any money for a coach. Would you know in
26:26
Speaker 1: the UK and the winter it's freezing cold. Well, they
26:29
Speaker 1: would practice every day and his hands would be freezing,
26:32
Speaker 1: so he would wear two gloves and he became comfortable
26:36
Speaker 1: with it and he's has done it ever since. But
26:38
Speaker 1: the reason he wears iron covers is because when he
26:40
Speaker 1: was in like junior high or high school, his family
26:44
Speaker 1: did not have the means to purchase clubs. But somehow
26:48
Speaker 1: his dad threw enough money together to get a really
26:50
Speaker 1: really nice set of golf clubs, and his dad used
26:54
Speaker 1: to clean the irons after he would play throughout the
26:57
Speaker 1: day with like a bobby pin every night because it
27:01
Speaker 1: was such a big deal to go above their means
27:03
Speaker 1: to buy these clubs for his son. And he treated
27:06
Speaker 1: him like the family's price possession. And he wears the
27:10
Speaker 1: iron covers to remind himself of how important it is
27:15
Speaker 1: to have like gratitude of how far he's come and
27:18
Speaker 1: how like he shouldn't take for granted having nice stuff.
27:23
Speaker 1: And I started thinking, like, you know, people have to ask, like,
27:26
Speaker 1: what are you gonna teach your son. I'm like, wow,
27:27
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get out of a four month
27:30
Speaker 1: regression before I can teach about life lessons. But you
27:34
Speaker 1: just go whatever that father did to instill his son
27:38
Speaker 1: to have the perspective who is now? Before he won yesterday,
27:43
Speaker 1: he was a multi millionaire. Yet yesterday he changed the
27:46
Speaker 1: course of his life. He literally won in the tournament
27:49
Speaker 1: three point seven million dollars, but in terms of sponsors,
27:52
Speaker 1: in terms of being a major champion, set himself up
27:56
Speaker 1: for life, He's gonna be worth millions upon millions of day.
28:01
Speaker 1: But to have that mindset of like, you know, most
28:05
Speaker 1: guys in golf, for example, like would I want my
28:09
Speaker 1: son even think about like Tiger Woods, when I want
28:12
Speaker 1: my son to look up to Tiger Woods, When I
28:14
Speaker 1: want my son to look up to Phil Mickelson, who
28:17
Speaker 1: people have always told me they kind of know he's
28:19
Speaker 1: kind of followed himself. Not the greatest guy, great player,
28:22
Speaker 1: you know, hard worker, but like, I don't know if
28:24
Speaker 1: that's exactly the character of what you'd want, what a
28:26
Speaker 1: little selfish like yeah, I don't think I would. And
28:30
Speaker 1: then you see something like that, like that's every father's
28:33
Speaker 1: dream to just have the most basic element of like,
28:37
Speaker 1: don't take this for granted. This is something like someone
28:41
Speaker 1: worked hard for this. And especially in a sport where
28:44
Speaker 1: a lot of these kids come from rich families, grew
28:47
Speaker 1: up on country clubs. It was like, damn, man, I
28:50
Speaker 1: I whatever secret sauce that guy's father taught his son,
28:56
Speaker 1: which is clearly carrying him to this day. In terms
28:59
Speaker 1: of a mind set, is all you really want is
29:02
Speaker 1: a dad because when you have the mindset like, yeah,
29:05
Speaker 1: work hard, keep your head up, never quit, like most
29:08
Speaker 1: people worth their salt or teaching their son that right,
29:11
Speaker 1: the overwhelming majority of people with a fucking brain are
29:16
Speaker 1: teaching their kids to like try to work hard, try
29:20
Speaker 1: to like handle you know, tough times, keep battling through,
29:24
Speaker 1: keep your head up, don't get too discouraged, but like
29:27
Speaker 1: to truly have the perspective of like this is awesome,
29:34
Speaker 1: Like this this did not come easy, and even because
29:39
Speaker 1: I could throw away these clubs and have my sponsor
29:41
Speaker 1: give me five hundred sets, like I don't ever want
29:45
Speaker 1: to forget where I come from, and I don't want
29:47
Speaker 1: to ever forget like how how hard my parents work
29:50
Speaker 1: to put me in this position. It's like, God, damn,
29:53
Speaker 1: that's that's fucking awesome. Well, speaking of my morning, we've
29:57
Speaker 1: been trying to get in a little rotation where my
30:00
Speaker 1: wife goes to the gym, Like between seven and eight,
30:04
Speaker 1: I play a little daddy daycare, take him out of
30:07
Speaker 1: his little snoow like six thirty feet him, hang out
30:09
Speaker 1: with them, put him back to a nap. She comes home,
30:12
Speaker 1: then I go to the gym. So this morning we're
30:16
Speaker 1: on a little rotation. She takes off probably seven thirty
30:19
Speaker 1: seven forty five. I grabbed the little man, he already
30:24
Speaker 1: ate throw him in the in a scroller, grabbed the
30:27
Speaker 1: dog take her to her grass where the other dogs
30:29
Speaker 1: are hanging out, and I said, let's go for a
30:31
Speaker 1: little stroll. So we go there. We have a good time.
30:33
Speaker 1: Jack doesn't even cry because Luly has a rule there's
30:36
Speaker 1: no crying at the grass. And then we're headed home.
30:40
Speaker 1: And right before I turned down to my street, I
30:43
Speaker 1: look at the dog and she has her paw up.
30:46
Speaker 1: Now where we live, right in Arizona Desert, you can
30:51
Speaker 1: get a lot of prickly stuff, cactus type things in
30:55
Speaker 1: a dog's paw and she will stop. She will raise
30:59
Speaker 1: the paw, all go down, and I'll yank whatever is
31:02
Speaker 1: in her paw out. So she raises her paw. I
31:06
Speaker 1: look down and I see a gigantic bee, which pretty
31:11
Speaker 1: sure a bee dies when it stings. Yup, it's just
31:13
Speaker 1: kind of dead and the stinger's in there. So I
31:16
Speaker 1: flick the bee off her pop I can see the stinger.
31:18
Speaker 1: I yank it out. She's clearly in some pain. She's
31:22
Speaker 1: like thirty five pounds. Pick her fat ass up and
31:24
Speaker 1: I walk her home. Then when we kind of get home,
31:27
Speaker 1: I put her down. Maybe it's adrenaline. She kind of
31:29
Speaker 1: seems fine, and I start making like a piece of
31:33
Speaker 1: toast and some peanut butter before I'm gonna go get
31:34
Speaker 1: my swollen. And then all of a sudden, I see
31:38
Speaker 1: her come back into the room after getting some SIPs
31:41
Speaker 1: of water. She does not look good. She starts throwing
31:45
Speaker 1: up everywhere. Jack is in like the little bouncy thing.
31:50
Speaker 1: He starts screaming, crying. So I got a dog which
31:55
Speaker 1: I feel like is having an allergic reaction that might die.
31:59
Speaker 1: Jack is Maria's at the gym, and she pukes a
32:03
Speaker 1: couple more times, then she lays down. Honestly, I thought
32:07
Speaker 1: this allergic reaction is her heart about to stop. Jack
32:11
Speaker 1: is getting louder and louder and louder, and I just
32:15
Speaker 1: kind of look up at this guy, like God, I mean,
32:19
Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? Right? Because the first
32:22
Speaker 1: thing you think about is like, we why gotta get
32:23
Speaker 1: this dog to the vet? Text Maria gym's on that
32:26
Speaker 1: far away. She comes home, take her to the vet,
32:29
Speaker 1: and a couple hours later she's okay, she needs some benadryl.
32:34
Speaker 1: Heartbreak came down and everything. But first, what second? Because
32:38
Speaker 1: you can't just leave your kid and take him. I
32:41
Speaker 1: couldn't really take him, I guess I could have if
32:44
Speaker 1: I really had to, but it wasn't like It's like
32:47
Speaker 1: she gonna be okay. And then she's lying there, looks
32:50
Speaker 1: like she's barely breathing, and you went, this is life.
32:53
Speaker 1: You know, hopefully one day my son like Aaron Raye,
32:58
Speaker 1: will remember these moments of like, do whatever it takes
33:01
Speaker 1: to keep your dog alive. And she lived, and four
33:04
Speaker 1: hundred dollars later, the vet gave her a little benadrill.
33:08
Speaker 1: She came out with a smile and yeah, we're here
33:11
Speaker 1: this afternoon, so you never know how the day is
33:14
Speaker 1: gonna start. But that that day, the puke was, I mean,
33:20
Speaker 1: unlike anything I'd ever seen. So Lowly's tough. She beat
33:26
Speaker 1: an autoimmune disease a couple of years ago. Now she
33:29
Speaker 1: beat a beast thing. Let's do some male bad questions
33:32
Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff. At John Middlecoff, firing those dms, get
33:36
Speaker 1: your questions answered here on the show. We'll start with Baylor.
33:42
Speaker 1: It's an absolute tragedy that the New York Jets are
33:45
Speaker 1: not in a primetime spot. You're telling me Washington or
33:48
Speaker 1: the Giants are where twenty fucking primetime games and the
33:50
Speaker 1: Jets not worth one Jets always have great story lines,
33:53
Speaker 1: one of the biggest fan bases and lots of young pieces.
33:55
Speaker 1: Who is it is the Jets, the Raiders, the Titans,
33:58
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. I think I'm missing one more team. I
34:02
Speaker 1: tend to agree with two teams. I do think you
34:04
Speaker 1: could get away with a Jets gam that there's always
34:07
Speaker 1: enough drama. They could be a little better than people think,
34:12
Speaker 1: but even when they're bad. Maybe it's the Dolphins as well.
34:17
Speaker 1: I also think you could have got along or got
34:19
Speaker 1: away with the Raiders, right Fernando Mendoza Kubiak Brady. I
34:27
Speaker 1: think the Raiders and the Jets are big enough stories
34:32
Speaker 1: where you could have got away with one game. But
34:37
Speaker 1: this is where the NFL is really pivoted. They don't
34:40
Speaker 1: even want to risk it. They go, Hey, if Kansas
34:43
Speaker 1: City has the Year from Hell, so fucking be it.
34:46
Speaker 1: We'll watch Mahomes games with them losing all day long
34:50
Speaker 1: because we know people will watch. I think they're just
34:52
Speaker 1: afraid that the Jets and the Raiders, who have been
34:54
Speaker 1: really bad, will just be unwatchable. But I don't know
35:00
Speaker 1: with you, I would have put him on. I think
35:02
Speaker 1: a lot of people underestimate how that Broncos lost impacts
35:06
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's legacy. The path was right there to the
35:09
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and he melted down against the Broncos. Also
35:12
Speaker 1: to four against Mahomes and Owen one against Burrow. There
35:16
Speaker 1: was a reason he was in tears. It was a
35:19
Speaker 1: devastating loss because for the first time of their run,
35:24
Speaker 1: the defense had let him down. In the past. McDermott
35:27
Speaker 1: had let them down in the past. This felt like
35:30
Speaker 1: it was truly on him. He had played bad, he
35:32
Speaker 1: had turned the ball over, he had missed the wide
35:35
Speaker 1: open late throw in regulation. But he's twenty nine, thirty
35:40
Speaker 1: years old. I don't think the story's written, but it's
35:44
Speaker 1: gonna be hard. There's no guarantee that he ever makes
35:47
Speaker 1: it a Super Bowl. I mean, look, there's no guarantee
35:50
Speaker 1: he ever wins one. For sure. I think him and
35:53
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson back to back years just or maybe it
35:59
Speaker 1: was Lamars was two years ago when they were the
36:03
Speaker 1: number one seed and it was just like at home
36:05
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs, right in this one, like you're playing
36:09
Speaker 1: the Broncos bow knicks, like this is a game to win.
36:12
Speaker 1: And then clearly I would have picked them to beat
36:14
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Now would they beat Seattle I don't know,
36:18
Speaker 1: but yes, it's football man, it's Peyton Manning shipped the
36:23
Speaker 1: bed in a lot of playoff games. Trust me, I
36:26
Speaker 1: was a huge paidon Manning fan. And then he finally
36:29
Speaker 1: didn't and then he went to then he won one
36:32
Speaker 1: and went to three more Super Bowls. So you just sports.
36:36
Speaker 1: It's that's why they play the games. I mean, it's
36:40
Speaker 1: fucking Shit's hard mail back question, who do you think
36:46
Speaker 1: would win the Greatest Show on Turf? Rams or the
36:49
Speaker 1: current day McVeigh Stafford squad. I've had this thought about
36:53
Speaker 1: a hypothetical game knowing the two offenses would shine, but
36:58
Speaker 1: I think it would come down to the defenses. Puka
37:01
Speaker 1: versus Nis Williams, Tory Holt, Isaac Bruce for Jalen Ramsey,
37:05
Speaker 1: Stafford versus London Fletcher. Well, Jayalen Ramsey hasn't been on
37:08
Speaker 1: the team in a while, so you're talking like the
37:11
Speaker 1: best versions of both. To me, it depends the what
37:18
Speaker 1: rules were we playing, because I would take the Greatest
37:23
Speaker 1: Show on Turf if we're playing the old school rules.
37:27
Speaker 1: If we're playing the new school rules, then I think
37:29
Speaker 1: it's more of a coin flip. But the names you're
37:32
Speaker 1: listing Tory holt Aneas, Williams, London Fletcher, Orlando Pace, Marshall Falk.
37:41
Speaker 1: Team's pretty good. I mean that team's pretty good. And
37:45
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner was like in his athletic prime because he
37:48
Speaker 1: was like the older backing grocery guy. Uh. If you
37:53
Speaker 1: told me Stafford was like thirty two instead of thirty eight,
38:00
Speaker 1: I'd give him a better chance. I think that this
38:03
Speaker 1: older version of him versus the younger version of them,
38:07
Speaker 1: that's good question. I mean that team won a super Bowl.
38:09
Speaker 1: This team if you include like Jalen Ramsey, you know Pooka.
38:15
Speaker 1: Did Pooka play with Jalen Ramsey maybe for a year.
38:19
Speaker 1: Say what you want about saying, but Ty Simpson went
38:22
Speaker 1: thirteen gms. Don't see what you see. There's a reason
38:25
Speaker 1: you got fired. Coaches will fall in love with saying
38:29
Speaker 1: unteachable pass traits and he's mild ahead of a CJ.
38:33
Speaker 1: Carr arch Car Dante and all your jokes. Dante had
38:37
Speaker 1: five turnovers versus Indiana? How much saying? Have I talked
38:42
Speaker 1: to multiple teams that had Ty Simpson the third round?
38:45
Speaker 1: So I mean I stand by what I said. And
38:48
Speaker 1: these are teams where guys got rings on their finger
38:51
Speaker 1: over the years. So I just think this notion that
38:54
Speaker 1: Ty Simpson, if you polled the league, obviously Lesnead thinks
38:59
Speaker 1: he's fucking Brett Farv. But if you just pulled the
39:04
Speaker 1: other whatever thirteen playoff teams, what do you think the
39:07
Speaker 1: average round Ty Simpson was in like two and a half, saying,
39:14
Speaker 1: I don't know, he just looked he looked like Ty
39:16
Speaker 1: Simpson two point zero. You guys should know quarterbacks to
39:19
Speaker 1: what I will state you like you've had c J.
39:21
Speaker 1: Stroud had good players. Question. Could you ever see a
39:25
Speaker 1: scenario where a superstar is bad enough to sign an
39:27
Speaker 1: Otani type deferred contract to help with the cap potentially
39:31
Speaker 1: offset rate and taxes with the heavy state U heavy
39:34
Speaker 1: tax date. I know it goes against the conventional wisdom
39:37
Speaker 1: of getting as much up for money time value money.
39:40
Speaker 1: What was your favorite spot to eaton Davis? That's easy.
39:43
Speaker 1: I mean right now it's Dose Coyotes. It's the only
39:46
Speaker 1: place that I eat at when I go home beside
39:48
Speaker 1: my house. I doubt it. I I don't see it
39:54
Speaker 1: because one, you know part of Otani that he could
40:00
Speaker 1: do that was he knew he could sign that contract
40:04
Speaker 1: to help bring his Buddy the following year Yalmoto, and
40:09
Speaker 1: two he was so filthy rich with Japan endorsements it
40:14
Speaker 1: didn't matter. So, I mean, the guy's bigger than Babe Ruth.
40:19
Speaker 1: I just think in the NFL you just kind of
40:21
Speaker 1: got to take it away. You can, plus the players
40:24
Speaker 1: union I have. I just have a hard time seeing
40:28
Speaker 1: it now. One thing I think baseball does a better
40:32
Speaker 1: job than football is sometimes when they sign their contracts
40:36
Speaker 1: that like they get the signing bonus of like fifty million,
40:40
Speaker 1: and it gets tax in the state the guy lives in,
40:43
Speaker 1: if he's like in Florida, even though he's playing for
40:45
Speaker 1: the Dodgers or whoever. It just feels like the NFL
40:49
Speaker 1: is just pretty above board on that. Maybe there are
40:51
Speaker 1: rules that I don't know about, but I have a
40:55
Speaker 1: hard time seeing a deferred contract Bobby Bania get paid
40:59
Speaker 1: for the next like twenty five years. That'd be sick.
41:02
Speaker 1: Mahomes kind of did that. I mean, you could argue
41:06
Speaker 1: Mahomes signed one of the more team friendly deals in
41:08
Speaker 1: the history league, and I don't think he regrets it
41:11
Speaker 1: because he's made so much off the field. Mahomes a
41:13
Speaker 1: good example. Could Mahomes have got more or could Mahomes
41:17
Speaker 1: be one hundred million dollar Richard right now just from
41:20
Speaker 1: the football team. But do you know what winning does?
41:24
Speaker 1: It changes your brand. Tom Brady got three hundred and
41:27
Speaker 1: seventy five million dollars from Fox because Fox wants to
41:31
Speaker 1: be viable for the NFL, so they don't leave him.
41:34
Speaker 1: But because of his brand, if Tom Brady was Philip Rivers,
41:39
Speaker 1: they wouldn't have done it. Michael Jordan got paid a
41:42
Speaker 1: ton of money to do an hour interview with Mike Turico.
41:45
Speaker 1: An NBC told me Mike Michael Jordan was gonna be
41:49
Speaker 1: on the broadcast all the time. We got nothing of
41:52
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. But the brand of mj is so big
41:56
Speaker 1: that it was a Tiger Woods. I mean, the brand
41:59
Speaker 1: of winning in America is second to none. And Patrick
42:04
Speaker 1: Mahomes believed in them and it worked out and they
42:08
Speaker 1: have they won more since, won multiple other Super Bowls
42:12
Speaker 1: and it changed the course. Like if Patrick Mahomes never
42:14
Speaker 1: wins another Super Bowl? Like how many? How many Super
42:16
Speaker 1: Bowls have been doing five one? Three of them made man.
42:34
Speaker 1: My question for the bag is what are some rule
42:37
Speaker 1: changes you'd propose the NFL at college to make the
42:40
Speaker 1: game better? For fans. Also, what is some life advice
42:43
Speaker 1: for US guys who are twenty three to twenty five
42:45
Speaker 1: one to three years out of college? Thanks for Reid.
42:48
Speaker 1: I would say one rule change I do for college
42:52
Speaker 1: is I think I do two feet down or I
42:58
Speaker 1: do one foot down in the pros. But I would
43:00
Speaker 1: make that a universal rule. Remember when college baseball, I
43:05
Speaker 1: guess they still do it. It's like they don't use
43:07
Speaker 1: wood bats the base you know the pros use wood bats.
43:12
Speaker 1: I would just try to do universal, like some rules
43:15
Speaker 1: holding past interference like those are universal. College I would
43:19
Speaker 1: definitely rescind you get tossed out of the game, which
43:22
Speaker 1: I actually think they did recently. I don't know, that's
43:30
Speaker 1: a good question. The ejection for targeting in college is
43:38
Speaker 1: it's just unfair. You know, these guys are most of
43:43
Speaker 1: them have a short career. The majority of them aren't
43:45
Speaker 1: going to be ed reed or running a lot. So
43:47
Speaker 1: if I'm a safety or linebacker and I hit somebody,
43:51
Speaker 1: you tossed me out. I might only play two years
43:53
Speaker 1: as starter in college football, so and I can get
43:57
Speaker 1: injured at any moment. That rule was just too punitive.
44:01
Speaker 1: It always has been. It's really really bothered me in
44:05
Speaker 1: a sport now that like, these guys aren't as violent
44:08
Speaker 1: as they used to be. Why because it's been coached
44:10
Speaker 1: out of them. These guys aren't head hunting. I grew
44:13
Speaker 1: up on head hunting and I enjoyed it. I'm never
44:15
Speaker 1: gonna apologize for it. Kind of miss it sometimes. I
44:19
Speaker 1: think the NFL's base that they expanded on was people
44:22
Speaker 1: like us that love the violence. But that violence is
44:25
Speaker 1: kind of gone. It's still a violent sport, but it's
44:29
Speaker 1: not as barbaric as it used to be. Just throw
44:31
Speaker 1: in some nineties highlights. You watch that Lway documentary of
44:34
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty football, You're like, how can Joe Montana and
44:39
Speaker 1: John Alway and Dan Marino fucking walk? I mean that
44:44
Speaker 1: with all the elite players on defense in the league,
44:48
Speaker 1: shocking more guys didn't just have their entire body snapped.
44:51
Speaker 1: It's crazy that how tough Joe Montana, John Elway, Dan
44:54
Speaker 1: Marino and that kind of crew of eighties quarterbacks were.
44:57
Speaker 1: Jim McMahon, you had to be so tough to play then,
45:01
Speaker 1: not saying you don't have to be tough to play now.
45:03
Speaker 1: Toughness is always a big part of court, but you
45:05
Speaker 1: don't have to be as tough as them. You just don't.
45:08
Speaker 1: It's not like I'm not being an old guy. Get
45:10
Speaker 1: off my lawnch Just throw on a YouTube game from
45:13
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six and tell me that is similar to this.
45:18
Speaker 1: It's no different like bare knuckle fighting or boxing gloves.
45:22
Speaker 1: You still get hurt at your josh shadow of the
45:24
Speaker 1: boxing glove. It's a little different bare knuckle, you know.
45:27
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just and I feel like the NFL
45:30
Speaker 1: used to be bare knuckle in like the seventies, eighties,
45:32
Speaker 1: even the nineties start changing in the two thousands. My
45:36
Speaker 1: life advice, and again I can only go off my
45:40
Speaker 1: own personal plight in post college, is when you're young,
45:48
Speaker 1: be willing to sacrifice stuff to set the foundation professionally
45:53
Speaker 1: that will make life easier when you're forty and fifty.
45:57
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people struggle with sacrificing
46:00
Speaker 1: in their twenties and then their life professionally doesn't really
46:05
Speaker 1: change as they get older. And I sacrifice a lot
46:09
Speaker 1: in my twenties, from financially to friends, to life, and
46:15
Speaker 1: it's paid off as I got older. And you have
46:20
Speaker 1: the least amount of responsibility you can follow a quote
46:27
Speaker 1: unquote passion or something you're good at and attempt to
46:29
Speaker 1: see if you can make a living on it, depending
46:32
Speaker 1: where you live. You know, even if you live in
46:36
Speaker 1: a place that is more expensive to live, especially as
46:39
Speaker 1: a single guy like you don't need that much. You
46:42
Speaker 1: should be able to function pretty well off kind of
46:44
Speaker 1: the bare minimum. I did for a long fucking time,
46:47
Speaker 1: and I'm a pretty boogie dude. So it's like I
46:51
Speaker 1: would just think sacrifice professionally to set yourself up through
46:57
Speaker 1: latter years in life. Now you got to be around
47:00
Speaker 1: the right people and be doing the right things. But
47:03
Speaker 1: don't get caught up about this. You know, it's harder.
47:07
Speaker 1: I mean, social media is a much bigger part of
47:10
Speaker 1: your life now than it was my life at twenty five.
47:14
Speaker 1: But try not to get jealous of what other people
47:16
Speaker 1: are doing, you know, stay focused on yourself. Don't let
47:22
Speaker 1: you know. Comparison is the thief of joy. Like, don't
47:25
Speaker 1: try to compare yourself to other people how they're doing.
47:28
Speaker 1: We all run different races, so some people get to
47:31
Speaker 1: places faster than you. And don't let social media fool you.
47:35
Speaker 1: Some people are fucking miserable and they take pictures of
47:38
Speaker 1: what their spouse and they're like, we love each other,
47:40
Speaker 1: it's like you can't stand each other. So to just
47:43
Speaker 1: spend less time on social media and more time in
47:46
Speaker 1: the real world, that'd be something I believe strongly and of.
47:50
Speaker 1: Don't let social media dictate your happiness or you know
47:56
Speaker 1: how you think things are going. Focus on yourself, focus
47:59
Speaker 1: on your job, focus on doing everything possible to like
48:03
Speaker 1: build the build the foundation that you're going to live longer.
48:07
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're younger now technology and modern medicine,
48:11
Speaker 1: you know you could have sixty seventy years healthy left.
48:15
Speaker 1: So just just grind because it can change your life.
48:21
Speaker 1: And you never know who you'll meet. Like when you
48:25
Speaker 1: get the opportunities to do things or get asked to
48:27
Speaker 1: do things, say yes more than you say no, because
48:32
Speaker 1: it's easy to like, ah, I don't need to make
48:33
Speaker 1: this or I don't need to go to this, and
48:36
Speaker 1: you just never know who you'll meet. Question for the mailbag,
48:39
Speaker 1: what are some things you missed from your radio days
48:41
Speaker 1: and what are some things I think podcasts could adopt
48:45
Speaker 1: from radio? If anything, I would say nothing. I mean,
48:51
Speaker 1: the commute sucked, the amount of people I got, more
48:57
Speaker 1: people listening now have a much broader audience. I have
49:03
Speaker 1: much more freedom to say whatever I want, make way
49:08
Speaker 1: more money, work with just higher level people. Beside, like
49:15
Speaker 1: just in terms of you know, management, well I had
49:19
Speaker 1: good I obviously had a good partner in radio, and
49:21
Speaker 1: good we had good producers. But just in terms of
49:24
Speaker 1: management is night and day different, much more front You know,
49:28
Speaker 1: one thing that in our world is we have we
49:32
Speaker 1: have no ties to like what worked forever because podcasting
49:37
Speaker 1: is so new. You just do whatever works, and if
49:38
Speaker 1: something new works, you change and just kind of be yourself, right,
49:43
Speaker 1: just you don't have to worry about you know, in radio,
49:46
Speaker 1: you play this game of like every quarter hour to
49:50
Speaker 1: try to get a rating. Like I don't give a
49:52
Speaker 1: shit about any of that, So I would say there's
49:55
Speaker 1: literally zero I miss about radio. I guess besides like
50:00
Speaker 1: being a community like early on I worked with some
50:04
Speaker 1: other cool hosts, so like you kind of around each
50:08
Speaker 1: other every day in the office, but then like getting
50:10
Speaker 1: on Barton, going under the Bay Bridge, and I mean
50:14
Speaker 1: at our community, Like I don't miss any of that.
50:16
Speaker 1: So I I don't know. I think they're just two
50:20
Speaker 1: way different mediums. Like I'm not playing me and radio
50:24
Speaker 1: don't have much in common besides just trying to entertain
50:28
Speaker 1: in terms of the way their business is built and
50:30
Speaker 1: the way my business is built. I would just say
50:33
Speaker 1: are polar opposites when you talk about traditional radio. But
50:40
Speaker 1: I've always loved the audio medium, which forever was radio,
50:46
Speaker 1: and for me now I don't listen to any radio
50:49
Speaker 1: besides serious radio, and I've never listened to more stuff
50:53
Speaker 1: because a podcast books on tape, Like I'm just always
50:57
Speaker 1: listening to stuff. My wife thinks I'm nuts, but I
51:00
Speaker 1: just I'm an audio guy, grew up on sports talk radio,
51:05
Speaker 1: grew up on just music radio, and still to this day,
51:10
Speaker 1: I listened to a ton. I just I probably listen
51:13
Speaker 1: to stuff the majority of the day. Sometimes you'll just
51:17
Speaker 1: be in the mood for music and you'll throw on Pandora, Spotify,
51:19
Speaker 1: or just i'm in the mood for something different, I'll
51:22
Speaker 1: listen to a book. So I love audio, and I
51:27
Speaker 1: think the one shift, and I think this goes like
51:30
Speaker 1: why TV news and some of the broadcast stuff has
51:36
Speaker 1: died is because it all feels fake. And one thing
51:40
Speaker 1: I don't do is fake. I don't have to agree
51:42
Speaker 1: with you, right, whether it's sports, whether it's politics, whether
51:46
Speaker 1: it's life. But I think you're being real and you're entertaining,
51:49
Speaker 1: Like I fuck with you. I just think about so
51:52
Speaker 1: many times, like watching TV as a kid, and like
51:57
Speaker 1: Dan Rather would come on. It's just like it's all
51:59
Speaker 1: just performing. If you know, I'm not saying he wasn't
52:02
Speaker 1: talented as his job, but like, and I'm not even
52:05
Speaker 1: trying to pick on him, but it's just you know,
52:08
Speaker 1: when you see it's like an SNL spoof looking back,
52:12
Speaker 1: and I just think people, it's why I turned off
52:14
Speaker 1: my generation. I don't think any of these People's why
52:18
Speaker 1: most people I know despise politicians. We think they're all fake, right,
52:23
Speaker 1: we think every word that comes out of their mouth
52:25
Speaker 1: is bullshit. And that's where I think podcasts have really shined.
52:30
Speaker 1: It's just people talking, whether you agree or disagree with them.
52:33
Speaker 1: Most people have given their opinion on whatever whatever genre
52:36
Speaker 1: you're listening to. And that's where I think radio can
52:43
Speaker 1: be tough because a lot of the big stations are
52:45
Speaker 1: in bed with the teams and it's pretty rare that
52:53
Speaker 1: those people have no guard rails of what they're allowed
52:57
Speaker 1: to say and not to say I have no I
53:00
Speaker 1: can say whatever I want now, I also try to
53:03
Speaker 1: like get a little older, you get a little more mature.
53:05
Speaker 1: It's like, I need to just talk unlimited shit. Like
53:08
Speaker 1: I said, I met Brandon Staley at the combine, I'm like, hey,
53:10
Speaker 1: you know, felt bad a little. I mean, he seemed
53:14
Speaker 1: pretty nice. Who knows. Maybe he was complete fake to
53:18
Speaker 1: my face. That's how he is with everybody. But it's like,
53:20
Speaker 1: for a split second, it was like a kind of
53:22
Speaker 1: regret it. Not all of it. I don't regret what
53:27
Speaker 1: I said about him not being good, but it's like,
53:29
Speaker 1: did I take it a little overboard? Yeah, sometimes you
53:33
Speaker 1: take it overboard. I took it overboard sometimes on radio
53:36
Speaker 1: I got in trouble. Shit, I got fired. Question for
53:40
Speaker 1: the bag, do you think the Patriots should move on
53:42
Speaker 1: from Rabels sooner than later? This story won't die. After
53:46
Speaker 1: hearing you talk about Friday about them on the boat
53:49
Speaker 1: when she said them on Pregnant, I lost respect for
53:51
Speaker 1: the man and her. Loved the show. I appreciate it
53:55
Speaker 1: had to get Netflix because of you, but I found
53:57
Speaker 1: it hilarious. Shane Gillis show called Tire So thanks. I
54:01
Speaker 1: tried to watch Tires one. I thought it was pretty terrible.
54:04
Speaker 1: Season two I had some pretty funny moments. Season two
54:09
Speaker 1: was kind of right up my alley. Yeah, man, I
54:16
Speaker 1: I don't know it dies see, Like right, it feels
54:20
Speaker 1: like for the last several days I've heard nothing. If
54:23
Speaker 1: you told me by Wednesday something else drops, I'll believe you.
54:26
Speaker 1: If you tell me just goes away for a month,
54:28
Speaker 1: I'll believe you. It's just it's one of those things.
54:32
Speaker 1: It's like always lurking, you know, at any moment. Sometimes
54:36
Speaker 1: I walk around here, if I'm ever on a walk
54:38
Speaker 1: in Arizona at night, you just never know. Mountain Lion, Bobcat,
54:42
Speaker 1: You're just you just head's kind of always on a swivel,
54:44
Speaker 1: you know. And that's how I would imagine Rabel feels
54:47
Speaker 1: when it's just he gets a text message like oh shit,
54:50
Speaker 1: who could Oh thank god. It's definitely something not gonna
54:56
Speaker 1: go away now. It was always gonna be in the forefront. No,
55:00
Speaker 1: what's gonna be interesting is on opening night against Seattle, Like,
55:03
Speaker 1: how do they avoid talking about that? How's that possible?
55:08
Speaker 1: It'll be a test case does it come up in
55:10
Speaker 1: the broadcast, Because if it doesn't, that's a Fugazi Friday,
55:15
Speaker 1: cause it's gonna be a story that's gonna be discussed.
55:18
Speaker 1: I would imagine up until the season, especially if more
55:21
Speaker 1: pictures come out. I'm a Saints fan and wanted to
55:23
Speaker 1: get your thoughts on Shuck. What are your expectations? Wide
55:26
Speaker 1: Receiver duo of the Lobby Entyson. Also, my wife is
55:29
Speaker 1: seven months pregnant, due in mid July. What advice would
55:33
Speaker 1: you give to prepare for a new first time dad? Sleep, Homie, sleep, sleep,
55:40
Speaker 1: Enjoy your sleep like Aaron Rye with the golf club
55:44
Speaker 1: and putting a cover over it every night. Look at
55:46
Speaker 1: your bed and just just do not take it for granted.
55:51
Speaker 1: Do not like on a Sunday when you can just
55:54
Speaker 1: wake up at whenever you want, get out of bed
55:57
Speaker 1: at seven am if you want to go, get a workout,
55:59
Speaker 1: a sleep until ten and no one's gonna give a shit.
56:03
Speaker 1: Do not take that for granted, because those days will
56:05
Speaker 1: go away, and they'll go away fast. My wife said
56:08
Speaker 1: the other day, she's like, all these moms claim they
56:11
Speaker 1: nap all the time with their baby. Like She's like,
56:13
Speaker 1: I haven't taken one nap in four months. You don't sleep?
56:16
Speaker 1: Is just I mean, I've just loved a couple of
56:20
Speaker 1: times because I've traveled, but she is not. So yeah,
56:24
Speaker 1: I would say that, I would say the bead thing.
56:25
Speaker 1: I would say. The other thing is I know your wife.
56:27
Speaker 1: You know, as you get a little more pregnant, there's
56:29
Speaker 1: less you can do. I mean, you guys could go
56:30
Speaker 1: on a boat like we're seeing Vrabel, but you can
56:34
Speaker 1: do a couple of fun things like maybe go out
56:36
Speaker 1: to dinner or something a couple of times if if
56:38
Speaker 1: that's not something you would normally do, like in the
56:41
Speaker 1: middle of the week, because you it's even when you
56:45
Speaker 1: can go out to dinner, It's like, do I want
56:46
Speaker 1: to go to dinner in like four month old that
56:48
Speaker 1: at any moment could shit all over the place, could
56:51
Speaker 1: throw up all over the place, could just start crying.
56:53
Speaker 1: It's like, it's not even fun. Sometimes I see some
56:56
Speaker 1: of these people, which which I respect, and I'm more
56:59
Speaker 1: of a homebody like you are who you are. Some
57:02
Speaker 1: people go out a lot, like with their young kids,
57:04
Speaker 1: Like is that even Is that enjoyable? That's my thing?
57:07
Speaker 1: Is that enjoyable? Because I do understand. Someone gave me
57:10
Speaker 1: advice this weekend. They're like, just remember as your kids
57:13
Speaker 1: get older, they came into your life, so you don't
57:19
Speaker 1: like just have to change your entire life the rest
57:21
Speaker 1: of your life when they're you know, as they get
57:24
Speaker 1: older and teenage like around them, like you can still
57:27
Speaker 1: do things, like still do things for yourself, still do
57:29
Speaker 1: things with your wife, But when they're in like the
57:32
Speaker 1: infant baby stage, it's like going to dinner is fucking miserable.
57:41
Speaker 1: We tried to go to an Easter thing and he
57:43
Speaker 1: was actually pretty cool. He was pretty chill, but like
57:46
Speaker 1: at any moment, there could just be shit everywhere. U.
57:53
Speaker 1: I like Tyler Shuck. I'm in on the saying I'm
57:55
Speaker 1: gonna pick them and win the division. So I'm high
57:57
Speaker 1: on you guys. Defense probably needs a little work, but
58:03
Speaker 1: I think the offense could be fantastic. Again, we're betting
58:06
Speaker 1: on this twenty six year old finishing or continuing like
58:09
Speaker 1: he finished. But I think you guys are gonna be good.
58:14
Speaker 1: Heard you talking the other day about the Eagles. I
58:15
Speaker 1: was fortunate enough to see them at this fear unreal question.
58:19
Speaker 1: If Tom Brady came back today for a one year deal,
58:21
Speaker 1: where would he rank as a quarterback? Well, he's definitely
58:24
Speaker 1: in great shape. His arm strength probably is exactly the same.
58:32
Speaker 1: I just don't think he'd want to get hit. He
58:34
Speaker 1: didn't want to get hit four or five years ago,
58:37
Speaker 1: he would definitely not want to get touched. Now he
58:40
Speaker 1: could never move, so he can't move. There's never been
58:45
Speaker 1: less good offensive linemen consistently coming into the draft in
58:50
Speaker 1: terms of like the early middle rounds. How many quarterbacks
58:55
Speaker 1: like Tom Brady are there in the league. They just
58:57
Speaker 1: can't move. Goff Cousins. Now, he's got a better arm
59:03
Speaker 1: than both those guys. But yeah, if he was all in,
59:09
Speaker 1: he could probably be somewhere between like seven to ten.
59:12
Speaker 1: But I think his days of being a lead it
59:14
Speaker 1: was hard at the end. He just can't move and
59:17
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to stay in there, which I don't
59:18
Speaker 1: blame him. So it obviously depend on the team. If
59:23
Speaker 1: you put him on a bad team like he would
59:25
Speaker 1: look shitty or in his prime, I think he would
59:27
Speaker 1: elevate it. If you put him on a good team, yeah,
59:30
Speaker 1: I think he could be a playoff quarterback. I'm a
59:35
Speaker 1: high vaulted substation worker in Pennsylvania Go Birds. The forty
59:40
Speaker 1: nine ers claim that injuries are caused by a substation
59:44
Speaker 1: near practice field. Might be the biggest fugazi I've ever
59:47
Speaker 1: heard of. Before I continue, the forty nine ers do
59:50
Speaker 1: not claim that. The forty nine ers vehemently deny that.
59:55
Speaker 1: Most of the players go, ah, it's kind of weird,
59:58
Speaker 1: but we don't totally believe it. Some of them think
1:00:00
Speaker 1: they never know. But the forty nine ers, this story
1:00:04
Speaker 1: did not come from them. This story came from this
1:00:07
Speaker 1: investigative reporter or scientists or something on Twitter. So this
1:00:12
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers do not believe that. They claim
1:00:15
Speaker 1: they got an independent guy out and he denied it. All.
1:00:18
Speaker 1: We are surrounded by electricity in every major US city.
1:00:22
Speaker 1: There is high voltage underground networks. If there was a
1:00:26
Speaker 1: shred of evidence to the claim, my fellow utility workers
1:00:31
Speaker 1: would cash in, like the CTE lawsuit was to the
1:00:34
Speaker 1: NFL players. Here's the difference, though they are claiming as
1:00:41
Speaker 1: a utility worker or as me or who my neighbor like.
1:00:46
Speaker 1: I am not taking violent athletic moves throughout the day.
1:00:50
Speaker 1: Today I lifted. I would say the most violent thing
1:00:54
Speaker 1: I did would be like the rowing stand up machine,
1:01:00
Speaker 1: and then just a lot of other just free weights
1:01:02
Speaker 1: and stuff. But I am not trying to make a
1:01:04
Speaker 1: guy miss in the open field. That is six five
1:01:07
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty pounds. So the claim was that
1:01:12
Speaker 1: it diminishes the strength of soft tissues, which leads to
1:01:16
Speaker 1: pulled hamstrings toward acls. Well, as a utility worker, as
1:01:22
Speaker 1: other people that live in major you know, US cities,
1:01:28
Speaker 1: where are they gonna tear acls? Like, if you don't
1:01:30
Speaker 1: play pick up basketball, you're not gonna be in that
1:01:34
Speaker 1: many compromised positions, Like I guess some people play tennis.
1:01:38
Speaker 1: Like it's the claim that during football is really unlike
1:01:44
Speaker 1: anything most of us do, even if we're really active,
1:01:48
Speaker 1: if you like to hike or go on long runs, like,
1:01:50
Speaker 1: you're not really gonna tear stuff. So I hear what
1:01:55
Speaker 1: you're saying. But as a utility worker, where are you
1:02:01
Speaker 1: gonna pull your hammy or tear your achilles? Right? Because
1:02:06
Speaker 1: even if you're climbing a ladder like you're, you're probably
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Speaker 1: doing it at like a slow, steady kind of safe pace.
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Speaker 1: It's not like you're trying to win a race or
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Speaker 1: George Kittle blew his achilles trying to explode up the field.
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Speaker 1: How often do you try to explode in your everyday life,
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Speaker 1: even if you're more of a blue collar guy, like,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't happen as much as you think in terms
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Speaker 1: of your lower extremities. But I hear you. My take
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Speaker 1: on the Niner thing with the substation is the hardest
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Speaker 1: Silicon Valley. The substation has clearly grown over the years,
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Speaker 1: and we use more power now than ever, And I
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Speaker 1: totally the Jed York has no choice but to deny.
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Speaker 1: As someone mentioned into me at the Super Bowl, who's
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Speaker 1: kind of in the loop. If the forty nine ers
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Speaker 1: for a split second ever said yeah, there's some validity
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Speaker 1: to this, what number would amount to what they would
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Speaker 1: be sued for by all the former players who have
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Speaker 1: been injured and cut or traded or disregarded, number would
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Speaker 1: be fucking high. So, whether it's true or not, the
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers can never say anything. But it's not true,
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Speaker 1: and like you said, it's probably who knows. I saw
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Speaker 1: Delandy Walker say the trees were always dead. I don't really.
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Speaker 1: I mean I walked by it all the time when
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Speaker 1: I used to go to the practices and camps. I
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Speaker 1: just don't even remember paying attention to it. And I
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Speaker 1: think now at these practices they kind of like corral
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Speaker 1: these guys in a different area for the media. Uh,
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Speaker 1: I'm an Iron fan. I'm from Lake Tyle. My dad's
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Speaker 1: a Berry native, so I was born into it and
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Speaker 1: I love the team. Go Niners. Do you think the
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Speaker 1: history between Morris and Kyle gave Raheem more draft autonomy
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Speaker 1: this year than coordinators typically get every defensive player they took.
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Speaker 1: Feels like a Raheem pick career. I'm a commercial photographer.
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Speaker 1: I shoot the greatest skier of all time, Mikila Shariffin.
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Speaker 1: Schiffrin might be saying that name right or wrong. I
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Speaker 1: want to break into the NFL. Is there one person
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Speaker 1: or door you'd point to toward getting started at the
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Speaker 1: shooting level? I honestly don't even know where you'd start.
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Speaker 1: If that's through the individual team, if that's through like
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Speaker 1: the stadium ops, I truly have no fucking clue. Be
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Speaker 1: a pretty cool gig, though. You get field access, and
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Speaker 1: I remember meeting the guy that you see the Niners games,
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Speaker 1: legendary guy had been there since, like Bill Walsh. But
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Speaker 1: I would say on your first question, this gets back
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Speaker 1: to the forty nine ers issue in the drafts. Their
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Speaker 1: coaches have way more juice than other teams. Other teams
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Speaker 1: include the coaches at different levels Some get very very involved,
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Speaker 1: some just get some reports. Whatever, we're gonna do, what
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do. But all coaching staffs are involved in
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Speaker 1: the draft process throughout the league. The forty nine ers
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Speaker 1: assistants sure feel like they picked the players if they
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Speaker 1: can convince Kyle to like the guy. Robert Salah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say, and we'll find out
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Speaker 1: if these guys turn out to be good. Was a major,
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Speaker 1: major reason that they made their first two draft picks
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Speaker 1: last year. Now, would you have taken Michael Williams, a
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one year old from Georgia the six, five
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Speaker 1: to eighty no matter what, Probably, but that was the
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Speaker 1: guy he won. Collins, the second rounder from Texas, was
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent of solid pick because even Saulo on
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Speaker 1: his way out, so that guy's gonna be a great player.
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Speaker 1: He fucking loves him. So I I just think they're
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Speaker 1: their coaches have a lot of juice and if you're
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Speaker 1: able to convince, you know, sala is very close friends
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Speaker 1: with Kyle and Raheem's even better friends with him. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I I just think that you know, that's
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Speaker 1: not how it works most places, you know, and I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying your coordinators shouldn't have jews. For example, I
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Speaker 1: would imagine Spags really like the guys they drafted. I
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Speaker 1: Delayanne Woods and Mason the Oklahoma Bassa Rush, the three
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Speaker 1: defensive players they draft in the top forty in Kansas City.
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Speaker 1: But here's the thing, Spags, you've won super bowls with
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Speaker 1: him and he's not going anywhere. The thing with the
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers is like you let Sala pick your
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Speaker 1: players and then a year later he's gone. It's my
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Speaker 1: issue with letting assistants dictate the draft. If I'm a
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Speaker 1: GM or a head coach, there's no guarantee they're gonna
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Speaker 1: be on the staff next year, so you need to
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Speaker 1: have conviction. Like Saban was dictating recruiting. His assistant might
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Speaker 1: love a guy or not love a guy, but if
1:07:14
Speaker 1: it was Saban's decision, I think when you let the
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Speaker 1: assistants make decisions, can get a little wonky. Good question,
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