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Aaron Donald is BACK on Rams, Bill Belichick & UNC gets REVENGE on TCU, USC & Florida State in TROUBLE? · 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? Middlecoff3 and Out podcast coming to you
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Speaker 1: live from a hotel ballroom in Santa Barbara. My mother-in-law
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Speaker 1: wanted to take us on vacation this fall. Obviously, it's
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Speaker 1: difficult with football season, but we got this weird week
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Speaker 1: where nothing's going on. I said, yeah, let's go somewhere
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Speaker 1: relatively close. So she picked Santa Barbara. We flew in,
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Speaker 1: and then he was asleep in the hotel room. So
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Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I got to record a podcast.
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Speaker 1: A lot going on here. And just walked around the hotel,
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Speaker 1: and there was a wedding going on. They took off
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Speaker 1: to the party, and I just set up shop in
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Speaker 1: the ballroom. That's what I'm doing right now, recording. So
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Speaker 1: we got a lot going on. Aaron Donald. undrafted free agent,
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Speaker 1: makes the Bucs as the backup quarterback. Just an incredible story.
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Speaker 1: A bunch of stuff yesterday I saw in college that
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Speaker 1: I want to hit on. Belichick, the Trojans, Florida State. Oh,
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Speaker 1: my God. But here's the plan this week. It'll probably
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Speaker 1: be this pod, and me and Jackson recorded a college
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Speaker 1: football look-ahead pod last week, and that'll come out probably
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Speaker 1: Wednesday or Thursday. And that'll probably be it. Now, if
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Speaker 1: something crazy happens, your boy's always locked and loaded here
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Speaker 1: with his equipment. You never know. A bunch of trades
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Speaker 1: today of mostly guys most people have never heard of.
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Speaker 1: But if something is worthy, we will grab our toolbox
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Speaker 1: and get to work. But the game plan right now
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Speaker 1: is this podcast, another podcast, then be back getting ready
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Speaker 1: next week, week one, and probably react to some of
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Speaker 1: these college football games as well. But that will be
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Speaker 1: the plan. And you guys know the drill. Subscribe, Collins Feed,
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Speaker 1: hit the alert button, never miss a show. And let's
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Speaker 1: just dive right in. Let's just start with the big
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Speaker 1: news of the day. Aaron Donald, he has officially returned.
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Speaker 1: It was weird. It was like we all thought he
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Speaker 1: was going to come back maybe like three weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: And now he officially comes back today with the Michael
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Speaker 1: Jordan plagiarism. I'm back. But listen, you're that good. You're
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Speaker 1: allowed to steal MJ. I mean, he's one of the
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Speaker 1: goats for defensive linemen. I've always had a weird feeling
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Speaker 1: when it comes to the word retirement. That word gives
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Speaker 1: me the heebie-jeebies. Listen, I like to relax and chill
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Speaker 1: as much as the next guy. I love golf. I
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Speaker 1: can only play a couple days in a row. Aaron Donald,
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Speaker 1: you retire in your early mid-30s. He's 35 now, so
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Speaker 1: he retired really in his early 30s. Filthy Rich, what
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Speaker 1: are you doing all day? He clearly likes to train.
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Speaker 1: We've all seen the videos over the last couple years
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Speaker 1: of him shoving some weights around. He's in great shape.
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Speaker 1: It was never one of those, like, you know, people forget,
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Speaker 1: and if you're a younger person that follows the NFL,
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Speaker 1: this probably doesn't resonate with you because holdouts have just
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Speaker 1: become about money, and they've become hold-ins. Guys just stand there.
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Speaker 1: When I was younger, that was unheard of. You didn't
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Speaker 1: show up for two things. One, you wanted a contract.
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Speaker 1: Hold-ins were not a thing. You held out. And two,
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Speaker 1: veteran players wanted no part of double-days. So you're like,
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit in 100-degree weather, wherever you're
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Speaker 1: playing in the NFL, and pound my body for not
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Speaker 1: three straight weeks, for like seven straight weeks every single day.
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Speaker 1: There were no mandatory days off. If I remember correctly,
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Speaker 1: Michael Strahan did this toward the end of his career.
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Speaker 1: Brett Favre, quarterback, it's a little easier. But definitely any
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Speaker 1: position like Aaron Doe, you're on the line of scrimmage. Pre-2011,
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Speaker 1: my first year in the NFL was 2010. Andy Reid,
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Speaker 1: who still holds one of the notoriously most intense training camps,
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Speaker 1: you can only do so much with one practice a
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Speaker 1: day and a mandatory day off every fourth or fifth day.
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Speaker 1: Then I just remember day after day after day, double days.
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Speaker 1: When I was at Fresno State in 2009 and 2008,
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Speaker 1: Pat Hill, who had learned from Belichick, I swear to God,
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Speaker 1: it was a month straight of double days. I don't
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Speaker 1: remember a day off. Maybe at the end of camp,
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Speaker 1: there was a practice in the afternoon. We took off
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Speaker 1: to go to like the water slides, but it was brutal.
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Speaker 1: So I think you look at Aaron Donald, like he
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Speaker 1: wants no part of training camp and installs and like
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Speaker 1: BS and with a bunch of, here's the other thing.
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Speaker 1: In training camp, you have a workforce that is kind
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Speaker 1: of fake. In the regular season, you have 53 guys
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Speaker 1: on a team and however many guys on the practice squad.
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Speaker 1: In training camp, you've got 90 dudes. So your defensive
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Speaker 1: line room is double. The coach is spending a lot
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Speaker 1: of time on random guys that you'll never see again
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Speaker 1: in your life. It's like, this ain't worth my time.
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Speaker 1: I would imagine Sean probably felt pretty good about this.
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Speaker 1: They clearly have a really close relationship. But I also
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Speaker 1: think it's pretty understandable why he comes back. He's still
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Speaker 1: relatively young. He's in great shape. But this team is loaded. Now,
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Speaker 1: I think historically, football is not like if you just
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Speaker 1: load up a baseball team. If I just take the
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Speaker 1: best players, you get like the Dodgers. And every single year,
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Speaker 1: they're like a lock to be really good. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's a lock in basketball when you think about it, right?
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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant is a good example. LeBron cooked the books
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Speaker 1: on his teams multiple times. You're not guaranteed to win
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Speaker 1: the championship every single year. The Warriors kind of were,
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Speaker 1: unless they tore Achilles. But for the most part, if
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Speaker 1: you load up in the NBA, you're guaranteed to be good.
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Speaker 1: In football, that's not the way it works. Now, the
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Speaker 1: Rams were, I mean, a couple plays away. They win
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Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game. They beat the shit out of
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Speaker 1: New England as well. But football, the coaches harp on this,
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Speaker 1: and they say a lot of cliche bullshit. They all
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Speaker 1: repeat some of the same stuff. But I do believe
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Speaker 1: when they say, every year starts fresh. That is so true.
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Speaker 1: There are no parallels from previous years because injuries crop up,
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Speaker 1: young players ascend, older players descend. Things change really quickly
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Speaker 1: in football. A guy can lose a step like that.
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Speaker 1: A random young guy can gain a step. And that
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Speaker 1: might not be on your team. That might be the competition.
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Speaker 1: So I think it's dramatic year to year. No one
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Speaker 1: would argue with a fucking brain that the Rams on
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Speaker 1: paper aren't excellent. But the linchpin of the whole thing
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Speaker 1: is not Aaron Donald, which it was back in the day.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was always their best player. I mean,
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Speaker 1: their best player is the MVP of the team, right?
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Speaker 1: MVP of the league and currently one of the best
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league and who's really kind of mastered
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Speaker 1: the position. But he's an older player. He had a
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Speaker 1: back injury last year. Like if you tell me he
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Speaker 1: plays 17 games, yeah, they're going to be really, really good.
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Speaker 1: But the thing is, in the playoffs, this is not
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Speaker 1: basketball or baseball. Baseball can be a little rain in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. But in basketball, like seven game series, that's
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Speaker 1: what makes the NCAA tournament so great. It's like you
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Speaker 1: have an off half. You're screwed. And that's where, to me,
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Speaker 1: the hype on this team is like, yeah, we'll see. Like,
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Speaker 1: we all think they're going to be good. Hell, I
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Speaker 1: don't even think I'm going to pick them to win
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Speaker 1: the division. And that's no slight. I mean, the team
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Speaker 1: I'll probably end up picking, which I'll do next week,
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Speaker 1: will be Seattle. I mean, they're the defending champs. They
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Speaker 1: beat this team twice down the stretch. Now, you could
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Speaker 1: say the second to last game, obviously the NFC Championship game,
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Speaker 1: it was just a great game. But the, was it
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Speaker 1: the Thursday night game? There's some luck on their side, right?
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Speaker 1: The punt return at the end. that fumble situation on
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Speaker 1: the two-pointer. But Seattle's going to be excellent this year,
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Speaker 1: and so is the Rams. The difference is, is Seattle's
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Speaker 1: got a ring on their finger based on last year,
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Speaker 1: and there's no one picking them. Like, outside of the 12s,
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Speaker 1: I don't think you could meet a soul that does
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Speaker 1: this for a living, that works in the NFL, that
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Speaker 1: likes football, that follows the NFL. It's like, ah, I
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Speaker 1: think Seattle Seahawks are going to be in the Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl again. I would say most people, especially today, and
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Speaker 1: part of this is like the buzz headlines, like, Rams
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Speaker 1: are going to win it. Rams are going to be
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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. We'll see. I've seen Myles Garrick
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Speaker 1: get 75 sacks a year on teams that struggle to
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Speaker 1: win four games. Listen, I'm not diminishing what the Rams
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Speaker 1: have done, what they've built, and how good their potential
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Speaker 1: is to be. But of all the sports, man, you
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Speaker 1: see it all the time in college football where it's
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Speaker 1: about the Jimmys and the Joes much more than the
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Speaker 1: X's and O's. Look at Clemson last year. Google how
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Speaker 1: many guys just got drafted off Clemson's team. They struggled
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Speaker 1: to win. I don't think they won a game. Where'd
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Speaker 1: they go? Seven and six? I mean, talent in football,
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Speaker 1: chemistry matters. You bring this guy in now, he's a
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Speaker 1: great teammate. But Miles Garrett now is the best player
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Speaker 1: on the defense, but Aaron Donald is clearly the alpha,
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Speaker 1: the leader. Let's face it, there was an article in
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Speaker 1: The Athletic last year when they gave Miles Garrett the extension.
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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, we need him to show up on time.
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Speaker 1: We need him to be kind of a better leader.
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Speaker 1: That's not my words. That's the article I read when
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Speaker 1: they signed him to the contract. Jimmy Haslam sat him down.
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Speaker 1: This is what our expectations are. Come with the money,
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Speaker 1: which I thought at the time they should have traded him.
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Speaker 1: But that's the opposite of Aaron Donald, who is an
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Speaker 1: all-time great player. I mean, probably one of the best
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Speaker 1: top five defensive player of all time, and like an
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Speaker 1: elite character grinder worker, you know? Honestly, he's the total package.
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Speaker 1: Because if you think about the great players in the front,
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Speaker 1: in the history of my life, I mean, LT did crack,
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Speaker 1: and Hooker's, but so does Jed. Reggie, you know, much
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Speaker 1: more religious individual, so a little more buttoned up. You know,
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Speaker 1: if you just get Warren Sapp, I would say got
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Speaker 1: some red flags. You know, Miles Garrett. I wouldn't call
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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett a red flag guy, but, you know, here's
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Speaker 1: the thing with football. It's like he's had this great
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Speaker 1: career and he's had two playoff appearances. I guess they
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Speaker 1: won the one year in 2020 when no fans were
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Speaker 1: allowed in the Steeler game. But yeah, I mean, the
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Speaker 1: expectation on this team are going to be just outrageous.
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Speaker 1: They're going to be treated like a kind of like
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Speaker 1: a rock star NBA type team, a rock star band,
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Speaker 1: you know, just a very famous operation. This team, you know,
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Speaker 1: having spent some time in L.A. over the last couple
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Speaker 1: of years with Colin and lived in California most of
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Speaker 1: my life, like, you know, Southern California is about the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Lakers. The Rams were gone for a
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Speaker 1: long time. The greatest show on turf, they were in St. Louis. So,
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Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, USC, if they ever got back to
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Speaker 1: like rolling via powerhouse, they'd probably be the biggest brand
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Speaker 1: in the area. The Rams are a much bigger national
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Speaker 1: story than they are local story in Los Angeles, which
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Speaker 1: is actually probably kind of nice for them. You know,
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Speaker 1: they live in this area with a bunch of famous people.
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Speaker 1: They can all walk around and live and no one
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Speaker 1: really fucks with you. But I'm fascinated to see how
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Speaker 1: this plays. I'm not going to pick him to win
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I just don't think it really works
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Speaker 1: like that. I mean, look, the Chiefs won back-to-back Super
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Speaker 1: Bowls after they traded Tyreek Hill. Football's a game of chemistry.
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Speaker 1: It's a game of cohesion. It's a game of battle scars.
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Speaker 1: And you just put a team together overnight. We'll see
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Speaker 1: if it works. I understand a lot of the core
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Speaker 1: guys are coming back. But you add Miles Garrett to
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Speaker 1: that mix, and then you bring back the alpha of
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Speaker 1: that side of the ball. I'm not red flagging it,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not just going to say it's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's going to be the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Speaker 1: They're going to go 17-0, and these guys are going
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Speaker 1: to combine for 80 sacks. Now, how much is Aaron Donald?
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Speaker 1: Is he ready for Australia? Is Aaron Donald– and I
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Speaker 1: don't know this answer. I saw some people kind of speculating.
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Speaker 1: Is he a lock to be in pads for Australia?
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Speaker 1: I would assume yes. You give the guy $ 20 million–
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Speaker 1: I saw the contracts like incentivized up to 30. I
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Speaker 1: would imagine sacks and Pro Bowls and All Pros and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, which if he can come back and
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Speaker 1: be like a Pro Bowl All Pro after taking a
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Speaker 1: couple years off, you might be. And if they were
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Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl, maybe you just put him
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Speaker 1: right there with like Lawrence Taylor. Yeah, he's just like
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Speaker 1: one of the best players I've ever saw. Unblockable. He
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Speaker 1: took two years off, came back. Unlike LT, probably not
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Speaker 1: doing crack, probably doing more protein shakes and just came back,
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Speaker 1: kicked ass, took names. It's going to be easier because
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Speaker 1: he's got a loaded group, a loaded group and an
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Speaker 1: offense that could score a lot of points. Before we
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Speaker 1: dive into college, I did see the cool part about football, man,
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Speaker 1: is you can. This is why I always say I
12:54
Speaker 1: don't get like after the first round where everyone kind
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Speaker 1: of knows the group of players. I don't get that
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Speaker 1: caught up like pick 50 and beyond because you just
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Speaker 1: have no clue. Guys in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh round,
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Speaker 1: they get cut every single year. I mean, you're going
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Speaker 1: to see over the next couple days, fifth, sixth, seventh
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Speaker 1: rounders getting cut. Now they'll probably get put back on
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Speaker 1: practice squad. And then a bunch of undrafted free agents
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Speaker 1: who make the team. And the best story I saw
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Speaker 1: today was Tampa Bay. They kept Jalen Daniels. I got
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Speaker 1: to be completely honest, not watching much Kansas football since
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Speaker 1: Todd Riesing and Chase Daniels were going at it probably
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Speaker 1: close to 20 years ago now. Not super dialed into
13:37
Speaker 1: the Kansas Jayhawks playing football. Some more attention is paid
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Speaker 1: to their basketball team, for sure. I would imagine the
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Speaker 1: casual college football fan has no clue who this guy is.
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Speaker 1: As an undrafted free agent, to make the team as
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Speaker 1: a backup, one is an incredible accomplishment. Because just do
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Speaker 1: the math. Like most human beings, when they get their shot,
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Speaker 1: like most of us, when we graduate college and go somewhere,
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Speaker 1: are the equivalent of an undrafted free agent. Most of
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Speaker 1: us are not the Val Victorian of our college, are
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Speaker 1: not someone coming out of college that has like multiple
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Speaker 1: companies bidding for our services, right? Because these people, even
14:22
Speaker 1: in the real world, exist, right? If you're the top
14:24
Speaker 1: of your class, certain industries, they're coming for you. Most
14:28
Speaker 1: of us are just trying to get a gig. Trying
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Speaker 1: to get a real job for the first time in
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Speaker 1: our life that is not something we do over the
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Speaker 1: summer or while we're paying for school or whatever. We're
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Speaker 1: just done. We're just in the real world in the workforce,
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Speaker 1: which sometimes I think about how old I am. I'm like, God,
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Speaker 1: I've been in these trenches now for almost two decades.
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Speaker 1: But it's an exhilarating feeling. It's scary. But also, all
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Speaker 1: of us, beside a small, small percentage, are starting in
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Speaker 1: the gutter. at wherever we start, whoever gives us an
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Speaker 1: opportunity out of college. And there are a small percentage,
15:06
Speaker 1: just like there are a small percentage of football players
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Speaker 1: who are David Bailey, who are Caleb Downs. Those guys
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Speaker 1: are the outliers. Most guys are the Purdy's and the
15:15
Speaker 1: Brady's drafted pick 199 or 279 or whatever Purdy was drafted.
15:20
Speaker 1: But once you're Brady or Purdy or any of these
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Speaker 1: guys drafted late, the reason it's so hard because practice
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Speaker 1: starts late. And they don't give you any plays. So
15:31
Speaker 1: even if they like you, like you're a high-character guy,
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Speaker 1: and they like you in the building, and you're just
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Speaker 1: a good vibes guy, and people are like, we believe
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Speaker 1: in this person, you never really get the chance to play.
15:43
Speaker 1: Because in OTAs, most of the time, the starting quarterback
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Speaker 1: is there the entire time. The backup quarterback's definitely there.
15:52
Speaker 1: And typically, they have you and another guy Especially if
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Speaker 1: you're an undrafted free agent, there are usually multiple undrafted
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Speaker 1: free agent quarterbacks who you then are splitting the reps for.
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Speaker 1: And then once training camp starts, if you're Tampa, Baker
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Speaker 1: Mayfield's getting the majority of the reps. And then when
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Speaker 1: the backups come in, Jake Browning's getting those reps. So
16:14
Speaker 1: it's got to be a couple weeks. And one, you're
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Speaker 1: two or three weeks away from the first preseason game.
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Speaker 1: So by the time you get thrown into that game,
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Speaker 1: maybe you get a half, maybe you get a quarter.
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Speaker 1: Like you get a very, very small opportunity to prove
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Speaker 1: what you can do. But the best part about football,
16:31
Speaker 1: just like the best part about life, is you never
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Speaker 1: know when your opportunity is going to come. And you
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Speaker 1: never know how long that opportunity is going to be open.
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Speaker 1: For some of us, it might be one meeting. For others,
16:41
Speaker 1: it might be a week conference you get to spend
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Speaker 1: with a guy. For some, it might be a quarter
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Speaker 1: in the second preseason game. You get three series. Have
16:52
Speaker 1: at it, kid. Good luck. And if you leave a
16:54
Speaker 1: couple touchdown drives, boom, you're on the map. If you
16:57
Speaker 1: throw a pick, a fumble, and go three and out,
16:59
Speaker 1: no one will ever remember you again. Because the thing
17:02
Speaker 1: about the games and the thing about the live reps,
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Speaker 1: just like the opportunity, you can do cold calls until
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Speaker 1: you're blue in the face. But that one time you
17:10
Speaker 1: get that opportunity to sit down with the guy and
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Speaker 1: he's like, maybe he might do business with you. You
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Speaker 1: better fucking nail whatever your pitch is. That's your shot.
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Speaker 1: That's your chance. And when you're an undrafted free agent,
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Speaker 1: every little thing matters. But when you get your opportunity
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Speaker 1: to rep it and play in these games, like that
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Speaker 1: can make or break you. And again, I'd be lying
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Speaker 1: if I pretended to know much about this guy. I
17:35
Speaker 1: just think it is one of the most incredible stories ever.
17:39
Speaker 1: You'll ever find. He played very well, including, I guess
17:42
Speaker 1: he had a strong game against Kansas City Chiefs. I mean,
17:45
Speaker 1: for you, I remember Trent Williams. I think he was
17:50
Speaker 1: on a podcast. He might have been just in a
17:51
Speaker 1: press conference. When Brock Purdy made the team, he went
17:57
Speaker 1: over to him and just sat by his locker and said, Bro,
18:00
Speaker 1: do you understand? This is a Hall of Famer who
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Speaker 1: was the fourth overall pick in the draft. So Trent
18:06
Speaker 1: can't really relate. to undrafted free agents, right? But once
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Speaker 1: you've been around a lot, you see how difficult it
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Speaker 1: is that or for late round picks to make it.
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Speaker 1: And he looked at Brock like, do you understand what
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Speaker 1: you just did? You made the team as a seventh
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Speaker 1: round pick as the last pick in the draft. And
18:23
Speaker 1: you got them to cut a player. I forget the
18:26
Speaker 1: quarterback that cut was a Kyle Allen who they had
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Speaker 1: given $ 2 million guaranteed to. And that's the thing. Part
18:33
Speaker 1: of the NFL now is the business so big you
18:36
Speaker 1: can eat some money. Because we talk about the ultimate meritocracy.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, SeatGeek. A couple other things I wanted to
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21:43
Speaker 1: having a baby. I have a buddy. We've been trying
21:48
Speaker 1: to link up, and I'm like, bro, I don't really
21:50
Speaker 1: have any time to talk. My life is chaotic. Now,
21:54
Speaker 1: part of it is, you know, where we live in Arizona,
21:57
Speaker 1: our parents don't live by. Right now, she's just been
22:01
Speaker 1: home full time. We don't have a nanny or anything.
22:04
Speaker 1: It's just us two. With this kid and anyone who's
22:07
Speaker 1: been around little babies, it's like, besides when they're sleeping
22:09
Speaker 1: and he ain't sleeping that much, there's nothing like it.
22:13
Speaker 1: They just need you all the time. It's crazy. And
22:16
Speaker 1: it can create your anxiety and emotions and the overstimulation
22:23
Speaker 1: word that all the chicks use, cortisol and everything. It's
22:26
Speaker 1: just chaotic. And when things are chaotic, at least for me,
22:30
Speaker 1: it's hard to be buttoned up. It's hard to handle
22:32
Speaker 1: my stuff. Honestly, over the last month, now granted, it's
22:35
Speaker 1: been the slowest time of the year. I've been telling Maria,
22:38
Speaker 1: football starts, we've got to dial in. We've got to
22:41
Speaker 1: dial in a routine, a set things, Monday through Sunday,
22:49
Speaker 1: as we head on to money-making time. Jack doesn't know
22:53
Speaker 1: what a fucking routine is. You think he gives a
22:55
Speaker 1: crap what a routine is? We've got to figure this out.
22:59
Speaker 1: We've got to get him to sleep. who we've brought
23:01
Speaker 1: in reinforcements. I'll get into that later on Dad Diaries
23:04
Speaker 1: in the next couple weeks. But Belichick, everyone... I mean,
23:09
Speaker 1: they were, I think, touchdown plus dog. Everyone thought they
23:12
Speaker 1: were going to get their ass kicked. They played TCU
23:14
Speaker 1: last year. They got their ass kicked. A couple years ago,
23:17
Speaker 1: Sonny Dykes had TCU in the national championship game. Sonny
23:21
Speaker 1: Dykes is a real college coach. His GM is currently suspended.
23:28
Speaker 1: And yesterday... Saturday morning, I'm up at the crack of dawn,
23:34
Speaker 1: and he's kind of napping on me at like 6.30
23:37
Speaker 1: in the morning, and I'm just scrolling around reading some
23:40
Speaker 1: articles on The Athletic, and I see the Michael Lombardi
23:43
Speaker 1: article where his lawyer calls UNC's administration how they're currently
23:48
Speaker 1: on a witch hunt. It's just like the general manager
23:52
Speaker 1: of the program's representation is just shitting on the school.
23:57
Speaker 1: Belichick's son is... Nowhere to be found. A lot of
24:01
Speaker 1: speculation in the world that in the NFL world. I'm
24:05
Speaker 1: not going to elaborate on that. Maybe one day it'll
24:09
Speaker 1: it'll come out, but he's clearly not around the program
24:11
Speaker 1: and just gone. And there's no expectation for him to
24:14
Speaker 1: be back anytime soon. So his GM, his best friend,
24:17
Speaker 1: the guy that he came there with, who's the highest
24:19
Speaker 1: paid GM in the league, has just been suspended for
24:21
Speaker 1: 30 plus days. His kid, who also is his defensive coordinator,
24:25
Speaker 1: is just gone. Hasn't even been there the whole time.
24:28
Speaker 1: He brings in Bobby fucking Petrino to call the offense. Now,
24:32
Speaker 1: in fairness, Bobby Petrino is a real offensive, especially college coach.
24:37
Speaker 1: Bobby Petrino is a high level coach, but the ego
24:40
Speaker 1: of him, a lot going on. He goes over to Ireland.
24:44
Speaker 1: It'd be one thing if TCU was playing. They fly internationally.
24:49
Speaker 1: I just assumed. I'd be lying if I told you, like,
24:51
Speaker 1: no North Carolina's roster. I mean, I clearly didn't have
24:56
Speaker 1: any players last year. Seemed like they got some better
24:58
Speaker 1: players this year. I mean, their defensive line looked really good.
25:03
Speaker 1: And the one thing Belichick had a year to study
25:05
Speaker 1: Sonny Dykes, and they came out. Like, I watched probably 85%
25:09
Speaker 1: of that game. And it felt like North Carolina was
25:16
Speaker 1: the much better team. 15-10, not the sexiest score. But, like,
25:20
Speaker 1: North Carolina looked solid. Now, I'm not going to pretend
25:24
Speaker 1: they're going to win nine, 10 games and turn it around.
25:26
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about this specific game. And to me,
25:30
Speaker 1: Belichick's like an all-time quality that I would steal from.
25:34
Speaker 1: I would pay so much money, your jaw would drop
25:39
Speaker 1: to have the skill of when chaos is going around
25:43
Speaker 1: me to just be completely normal and being able to
25:47
Speaker 1: handle my stuff. That's one thing I kind of can
25:49
Speaker 1: struggle at sometimes. And I think Belichick, is the master
25:52
Speaker 1: at that. You go back to all the Patriots seasons
25:55
Speaker 1: when they had the craziest stuff humanly possible happening. I mean,
25:59
Speaker 1: the year they got caught for Spygate, which, again, self-inflicted, unfazed,
26:03
Speaker 1: runs the table. I mean, he had a tight end,
26:06
Speaker 1: double murdering people. Didn't skip a beat. I mean, Deflategate.
26:11
Speaker 1: He's so unfazed by chaos. And is this going to
26:15
Speaker 1: work big picture? I mean, next week they play like
26:17
Speaker 1: the school of the poor, so it'll be 2-0. But
26:19
Speaker 1: once they start playing real teams, I got no clue.
26:22
Speaker 1: Virginia looks really good. Obviously, Miami's loaded. Cal's going to
26:25
Speaker 1: be good. Stanford struggled to beat Hawaii. I don't pretend
26:29
Speaker 1: to have a great gauge on the ACC. Florida State stinks.
26:31
Speaker 1: We'll get into them in a second. You do got
26:34
Speaker 1: to give Belichick some credit, though, when everybody, and I
26:38
Speaker 1: mean everybody, universally, thought he was going to get fired midseason.
26:46
Speaker 1: Thought he might not even make it to week one.
26:48
Speaker 1: And definitely in this game, didn't think he had a
26:50
Speaker 1: snowball's chance in hell. And he went over there and
26:53
Speaker 1: kind of dictated the terms of the game. And defensively,
26:57
Speaker 1: they did look pretty solid. Their defensive line looked pretty good.
27:00
Speaker 1: And Bobby Petrino and the quarterback, I mean, the difference
27:03
Speaker 1: of the two quarterbacks, I think TCU guys from Harvard,
27:06
Speaker 1: you think some non-scholarship kid is going to show up
27:09
Speaker 1: TCU and be Belichick? So Belichick's got a lot of
27:13
Speaker 1: stuff going on. And he deserves some scrutiny is the
27:18
Speaker 1: wrong word, but everyone making fun of him. Totally, totally fair.
27:23
Speaker 1: But if you think, I lived in the Bay Area
27:25
Speaker 1: with Sonny Dykes, Coach Cal. Sonny Dykes, nice guy. Wouldn't
27:31
Speaker 1: be my first hire as a college coach. But Belichick
27:35
Speaker 1: and Sonny Dykes, they shouldn't be. If you gave them
27:38
Speaker 1: the same rosters, if you gave Belichick and Sonny Dykes
27:42
Speaker 1: the same exact players, so all things were equal, like
27:44
Speaker 1: an NFL game. Well, not every NFL game is equal,
27:47
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. Not like one's Alabama
27:50
Speaker 1: and one's Oregon State. They're two equal teams. I think
27:53
Speaker 1: Belichick would beat him 99% of the time. Belichick would
27:58
Speaker 1: beat Sonny Dyches 99% of the time. And the one
28:01
Speaker 1: thing that it looked like yesterday, it was like, oh,
28:02
Speaker 1: the talent wasn't that different between TCU and University of
28:05
Speaker 1: North Carolina. And so one thing Belichick can do, it
28:08
Speaker 1: was like last year he didn't have a chance. His team,
28:10
Speaker 1: and he deserves the criticism for not having a chance.
28:13
Speaker 1: It's transfer portal. He built the team, him and Lombardi.
28:17
Speaker 1: And I'm not acting like they got, this is Georgia
28:20
Speaker 1: or Florida now. But if his team is just solid,
28:23
Speaker 1: they should win six, seven games. Because Belichick's going to
28:26
Speaker 1: go up against a lot of coaches that, again, if
28:28
Speaker 1: all things are equal, he should beat 99% of the time.
28:31
Speaker 1: Even at 75, even with his GM's lawyer going after
28:33
Speaker 1: North Carolina, even with his son, who knows where, Bobby
28:39
Speaker 1: Petrino screaming at people. So you've got to give a
28:42
Speaker 1: guy a little credit. And then after the game, the
28:44
Speaker 1: ESPN reporter, I think she was trying to interview him
28:46
Speaker 1: for the postgame. The other thing with Belichick I appreciate,
28:51
Speaker 1: It's like some people, I can be an asshole in
28:55
Speaker 1: an individual situation just because I'm like tired or not
28:58
Speaker 1: in the mood. But like for the most part, I
29:01
Speaker 1: feel like I'm a pretty upbeat, positive guy, right? Most
29:04
Speaker 1: people I know, I think tend to be like pretty positive,
29:07
Speaker 1: like upbeat people. Doesn't mean we all have our moments.
29:11
Speaker 1: And then we all know those people like, yeah, that
29:13
Speaker 1: guy's just a dick. It probably happens more and more.
29:17
Speaker 1: with the older generations like I don't know many people
29:20
Speaker 1: that like are in their 20s and 30s at least
29:22
Speaker 1: that I associate with or have been around that you're
29:24
Speaker 1: like that guy's a dick I've just I grew up
29:28
Speaker 1: around a lot of farmers construction workers old school people
29:31
Speaker 1: that you're like that guy's an asshole and it's not
29:34
Speaker 1: like just being mean to one and he's like mean
29:36
Speaker 1: to everybody he's just angry and Bella getting back into
29:41
Speaker 1: that form after that game walking off I'm like he's
29:45
Speaker 1: kind of got his swag back because I think he's
29:47
Speaker 1: at his best when he's just double middle fingers up
29:49
Speaker 1: to everybody you got Jordan Hudson showing him every single
29:52
Speaker 1: tweet everyone's ever said about their love relationship and everyone
29:57
Speaker 1: thinks he sucks and Everyone thinks he blows, and he
30:01
Speaker 1: just goes to Ireland in a game that, I mean,
30:04
Speaker 1: if I had to guess, 10 million people watched? I mean,
30:06
Speaker 1: it was the only thing on on Saturday morning, the
30:09
Speaker 1: week before college football even starts, two weeks before the NFL.
30:11
Speaker 1: I guess there were some preseason games, and that was
30:14
Speaker 1: hard to watch. Speaking of preseason, USC. it kind of
30:21
Speaker 1: hit me because I watched a decent amount of that game.
30:23
Speaker 1: I mean, they were up like that. It was 14-0
30:24
Speaker 1: before you could even blink. And some of their five-star
30:27
Speaker 1: guys look sweet. I mean, they got some legit young talent.
30:30
Speaker 1: Their quarterback looks good. But two things really stand out. One,
30:34
Speaker 1: the place was empty. The place was, I don't know,
30:39
Speaker 1: it didn't even feel half full. I saw people tweeting that,
30:42
Speaker 1: you know, L.A., I'm in Santa Barbara now because of
30:44
Speaker 1: El Nino. It's not only empty. It's the summer. It's warm.
30:48
Speaker 1: But like I guess the El Nino years, the water
30:52
Speaker 1: warms up. It brings in humidity. It's definitely the most
30:55
Speaker 1: humid I ever remember Southern California being. It's like 68
30:59
Speaker 1: degrees humidity here. And they say it's been like high 80s,
31:02
Speaker 1: low 90s. And we've been in Newport. It was like
31:05
Speaker 1: 88 degrees humidity, percent humidity, with like 90 degrees outside.
31:10
Speaker 1: That's a pretty warm day. So, okay. I don't want
31:15
Speaker 1: to sit in the hot, humid at noon. Here's the problem,
31:19
Speaker 1: and this is where I do give respect to North
31:20
Speaker 1: Carolina and TCU. We need to get away from this
31:24
Speaker 1: world where everyone's kind of playing everybody in different levels.
31:30
Speaker 1: Here's what should happen. If you're a D1AA team, the
31:33
Speaker 1: only teams you play are D1AA. If you are a
31:37
Speaker 1: non-Power 4 program, like the Mountain West or the Pac-12
31:42
Speaker 1: or the The MAAC, you name it. You only play
31:46
Speaker 1: teams on that level. And then if you're in the
31:49
Speaker 1: Power Four Conference, you know who you play? Other Power
31:52
Speaker 1: Four teams. Because you know who the Jags won't open
31:56
Speaker 1: up against? The Birmingham Mustangs of the UFL. Do you
32:01
Speaker 1: know who the Jags will play? The Colts, the Texans,
32:04
Speaker 1: the Patriots, the Bills. You know who the Rams open
32:07
Speaker 1: up against? The Niners. Other teams on their level. So
32:11
Speaker 1: I don't blame one single, and one, USC hasn't earned
32:15
Speaker 1: the benefit. This ain't, I was watching some of the
32:18
Speaker 1: Vince Young documentary and it was crazy. USC didn't lose
32:22
Speaker 1: a game for like three years almost. Pete Carroll had
32:25
Speaker 1: an NFL team and you had to be there. It
32:28
Speaker 1: was must watch. Lincoln Riley's losing to like Maryland and
32:31
Speaker 1: Illinois on the road. So let's, they have not earned
32:34
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt, even though this young talent
32:36
Speaker 1: they got looks like it's going to be pretty good.
32:39
Speaker 1: But when you play San Jose State, You can't blame
32:43
Speaker 1: anyone for not getting in their car and giving up six,
32:46
Speaker 1: seven hours of their day on Saturday at the end
32:49
Speaker 1: of August to watch you play a fucking high school team.
32:55
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. So we need to get into a world
32:59
Speaker 1: where you know who USC opens up against? Any other
33:01
Speaker 1: Power 4 team. Your non-conference just includes the other Power
33:08
Speaker 1: 4 programs. And that goes for everybody. I watch Florida State,
33:12
Speaker 1: who literally plays like they're broke. That program, the thing
33:16
Speaker 1: with USC, you know why they're landing all these five-star guys?
33:20
Speaker 1: Because they can pay high school kids in California early.
33:24
Speaker 1: They're allowed to pay them before the other schools, like
33:28
Speaker 1: all these state laws, like in Georgia, Florida, some of
33:30
Speaker 1: these other states, they can't pay a high school kid
33:32
Speaker 1: until they get on campus. At least that's how it's
33:34
Speaker 1: been told to me. California has a rule, you know,
33:38
Speaker 1: the government passed, it's like, works to USC's advantage. And
33:41
Speaker 1: they're taking advantage of it. And they got some dudes
33:43
Speaker 1: that look like they got a chance to be some dudes. But,
33:48
Speaker 1: watching Florida State play New Mexico State, that's another one.
33:51
Speaker 1: That game shouldn't happen. Right? But, they do. So, you gotta, like,
33:56
Speaker 1: I evaluate USC against San Jose State. It's hard because
33:59
Speaker 1: that's not Ohio State, that's not Indiana, that's not Michigan. Like,
34:02
Speaker 1: it's a team with probably less than two or three
34:05
Speaker 1: pros on the entire roster from 18 to 23 years old.
34:08
Speaker 1: And I know they scored a bunch of garbage time
34:10
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the fourth quarter. I'd already changed the channel.
34:13
Speaker 1: But when I watched Florida State and New Mexico State,
34:16
Speaker 1: Tony Sanchez, the coach for New Mexico State, he used
34:20
Speaker 1: to be the head coach of Bishop Gorman, the powerhouse
34:23
Speaker 1: in Vegas. At Fresno State, we used to have a
34:26
Speaker 1: high school camp when I worked there, and it was
34:29
Speaker 1: full pats. So like a 30 high schools would come.
34:32
Speaker 1: And you'd play Jamborees. It would just be on. And
34:35
Speaker 1: they were the powerhouse. They were typically, in my two years,
34:39
Speaker 1: the best team that were there. And he was cool.
34:40
Speaker 1: He had them rolling. And he went to UNLV. It
34:45
Speaker 1: didn't really work out. Now he's at New Mexico State.
34:47
Speaker 1: I thought they looked pretty good. Florida State just looks terrible.
34:50
Speaker 1: They look like a program who the world changed right
34:54
Speaker 1: before their eyes. They used to be able to get anyone, one,
34:58
Speaker 1: on Reputation. The Vince Young doc. You know where Vince
35:01
Speaker 1: wanted to go out of high school? Houston kid. He
35:03
Speaker 1: didn't want to go to Texas. He wanted to go
35:05
Speaker 1: to Florida State. Turns out they wanted him to play
35:08
Speaker 1: wide receiver, Mack Brown off from quarterback, the rest is history.
35:11
Speaker 1: But that's where he wanted to go because me and
35:14
Speaker 1: Vince are basically the same age. Most of my life,
35:18
Speaker 1: the Nick Saban Alabama was Florida State and Miami. I
35:21
Speaker 1: remember when I was a kid, De La Salle had
35:24
Speaker 1: this guy named DJ Williams. He went to Miami because
35:27
Speaker 1: he was the best player in California. And if he
35:30
Speaker 1: didn't go there, he probably would have gone to Florida State.
35:32
Speaker 1: That's where you went. And Florida State with Bobby Bowden,
35:35
Speaker 1: I don't think they won in that 20-year span as
35:38
Speaker 1: many national championships as Miami. But I think they had
35:42
Speaker 1: that record for however many years they were a top
35:44
Speaker 1: five program. And now they look like, should they be
35:49
Speaker 1: a power four program? Because in a world where you
35:53
Speaker 1: could get a kid with a brown bag of $ 10, 000
35:55
Speaker 1: and maybe give him a free car lease... Those days
35:58
Speaker 1: are over. They would laugh in your face. To get
36:02
Speaker 1: a solid right guard, you need $ 850K. To get a
36:05
Speaker 1: good wide receiver, you need multiple millions of dollars. To
36:09
Speaker 1: get a quarterback, you're talking $ 4 or $ 5 million. I
36:12
Speaker 1: was texting with a coach in college football. He said,
36:15
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Mike Norvell's not bad. He has no shot.
36:18
Speaker 1: They have no money. And I was thinking about this.
36:23
Speaker 1: One big advantage, and Colin's been talking about this for
36:25
Speaker 1: a while with these Big Ten schools and their business programs.
36:29
Speaker 1: is if you have big business programs, what happens? You
36:32
Speaker 1: have a lot of alumni working in the business world,
36:34
Speaker 1: and just on the percentage base, you're going to get
36:35
Speaker 1: some rich ones. I'm watching UVA beat the shit out
36:38
Speaker 1: of NC State. What school do you think produces more multimillionaires?
36:44
Speaker 1: What school alumni base has more money? If you just
36:48
Speaker 1: had to rank it, UVA, NC State, or Florida State?
36:55
Speaker 1: I don't know much about NC State, but it's probably
36:58
Speaker 1: a toss-up between them and Florida State fighting for last,
37:01
Speaker 1: and UVA's in a different stratosphere. Well, who's good now
37:04
Speaker 1: at football? UVA. Why do you think? This whole thing
37:07
Speaker 1: is about money. Whether we like it or not, that's
37:09
Speaker 1: a fact. And the reason Texas and USC now is
37:13
Speaker 1: going to get back and now Indiana's rolling is they
37:15
Speaker 1: have a bankroll. Ohio State, Lane is getting unlimited funds
37:20
Speaker 1: from people. They are just giving him money. His roster
37:23
Speaker 1: is a $ 50 million roster. You watch Florida State, they
37:28
Speaker 1: look like, They're not even hitting seven figures. And it
37:32
Speaker 1: pains me to say this because I grew up on
37:33
Speaker 1: that program. Who doesn't do the tomahawk chop? It's one
37:39
Speaker 1: of the coolest things in football. When that place was
37:42
Speaker 1: rolling and they would bust that thing out. That might
37:44
Speaker 1: have been the Braves one I just did. Might have
37:46
Speaker 1: fucked that up. Braves one's sweet too. But Fred McGriff.
37:51
Speaker 1: My point is, is Florida State doesn't feel like they
37:55
Speaker 1: have a chance anymore. Honestly feels much more like Are
37:58
Speaker 1: they going to survive this? And if your school is
38:02
Speaker 1: known forever, for most of my life, when they ranked
38:06
Speaker 1: top party schools, it was between like Florida State and
38:12
Speaker 1: Arizona State. Well, I've lived in Arizona now for about,
38:15
Speaker 1: I don't know, four or five years. Over the last
38:18
Speaker 1: couple of years, do you know who goes on local
38:20
Speaker 1: television and begs for money? I don't blame him. Kenny Dillingham.
38:26
Speaker 1: Because all the rich people in town, they're not even
38:28
Speaker 1: Arizona State alums. And like party schools, I wonder if
38:32
Speaker 1: there's a correlation with top party schools and revenue generated
38:37
Speaker 1: by the alumni. Because you know who's not considered the
38:39
Speaker 1: top party school? It's like Notre Dame. You know what
38:42
Speaker 1: they have? Cash. USC. You know what they have? Cash. Indiana. Michigan.
38:50
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they don't party at those schools. But
38:53
Speaker 1: when you say Indiana or Michigan... or USC. That's not
38:58
Speaker 1: the first thing you think about. Miami's a small private
39:01
Speaker 1: school with massive money behind it. I loved Bobby Bowden.
39:07
Speaker 1: I loved work done. I loved all the defensive players
39:10
Speaker 1: they had over the years. Florida State was a bunch
39:13
Speaker 1: of bad asses. I'm a state school kid. We got
39:18
Speaker 1: some successful from Cal Poly, and I don't know if
39:19
Speaker 1: you saw, we had a walk-off touchdown on my guy
39:21
Speaker 1: Tim Skipper on ESPN. But I couldn't get over just
39:29
Speaker 1: how they just looked poor. They played like they were broke.
39:35
Speaker 1: That's what jumped off the screen. They were playing New
39:38
Speaker 1: Mexico State. It'd be one thing. It's like, hey, man,
39:42
Speaker 1: you're up one touchdown in the third quarter against Appalachian
39:45
Speaker 1: State or some other smaller school that's good. Like Boise
39:49
Speaker 1: State went out there and it was a three-point game
39:51
Speaker 1: going into the fourth. You'd be like, yeah, Florida State's
39:53
Speaker 1: not that good anymore. Playing New Mexico, I can't even
39:57
Speaker 1: imagine what like a 60-year-old diehard Seminole fan thinks. It'd
40:03
Speaker 1: be the equivalent of being like a billionaire and going
40:06
Speaker 1: completely broke. I mean, and just having nothing. It's like
40:10
Speaker 1: you were used to private jets. You were used to penthouses.
40:12
Speaker 1: You were used to doing whatever you wanted to do.
40:15
Speaker 1: Because every single year when the season started, you knew
40:17
Speaker 1: you were going to dominate. And it was a coin
40:19
Speaker 1: flip whether you were going to be in the national
40:21
Speaker 1: championship game. And now you look up and you're in
40:24
Speaker 1: a ball game in the third quarter against New Mexico State.
40:27
Speaker 1: And the sad part is there aren't even that many
40:29
Speaker 1: people shocked. They're like, yeah, this is the new normal.
40:33
Speaker 1: And I think the new normal for people in college,
40:36
Speaker 1: like in the NFL, like what's the new normal? Like
40:38
Speaker 1: Mike Brown is winning now. Like, let's trade for Dexter Lawrence.
40:41
Speaker 1: Let's pay this guy. Let's pay T. Higgins, our second
40:43
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Like, don't care. And in college football, it's
40:46
Speaker 1: gotten the complete– college football is much closer to baseball
40:50
Speaker 1: now than it is the NFL in terms of financially
40:53
Speaker 1: because it just jumps off the screen like, oh, they're broke. Well,
40:56
Speaker 1: they don't have money. And this notion of, like, people
40:59
Speaker 1: are going to get fired because that's what a lot
41:02
Speaker 1: of people think, like, Norvell is going to– they can't pay–
41:06
Speaker 1: $ 30 million for players. They're going to stroke a check
41:10
Speaker 1: to pay him $ 50 million to go away. Find me
41:13
Speaker 1: that alumni. Find me that guy that exists. Because if
41:15
Speaker 1: it did, he'd already be gone. They don't have the money.
41:18
Speaker 1: They do not have the money. Also, you fire him
41:22
Speaker 1: to go away. Let's say you could pull that off.
41:25
Speaker 1: A job with no money is a terrible job in
41:28
Speaker 1: college football. Here's the crazy part. Sitting here on August 30th, 2026.
41:32
Speaker 1: Indiana is a dramatically better... Say all things are equal.
41:39
Speaker 1: Cignetti and Norvell are just gone. Both of them don't...
41:43
Speaker 1: They quit coaching football and they just did something else.
41:47
Speaker 1: And you said, hey, give me the best five candidates.
41:50
Speaker 1: Would you rather have the Indiana job or the Florida
41:52
Speaker 1: State job? You'd have to be on drugs to pick
41:56
Speaker 1: Florida State. Because you can't outbid... Think about who... One,
42:00
Speaker 1: Miami is fishing that pond. They're getting whoever they want
42:02
Speaker 1: now because they have an unlimited checkbook. Then you got Lane...
42:06
Speaker 1: Ryan Day and Kirby fish in that pond, they got
42:09
Speaker 1: way more money than you. That's the thing. No one
42:11
Speaker 1: cares about the history anymore. History doesn't matter. And you
42:15
Speaker 1: could talk, that's kind of how society works. In the
42:19
Speaker 1: way that our brains are operating now at the pace
42:22
Speaker 1: and the impatience we're all at, which isn't the healthiest thing.
42:25
Speaker 1: I'm not proud to say it, but you can barely
42:28
Speaker 1: remember like three years ago, let alone six months ago.
42:32
Speaker 1: I mean, I got married less than a year and
42:34
Speaker 1: a half ago. That feels like a decade ago right now.
42:37
Speaker 1: So this notion of like, remember what we used to
42:39
Speaker 1: be in the 90s? It's 1996, 30 years ago, Oz.
42:45
Speaker 1: There were dudes playing in college football that were born
42:50
Speaker 1: in 2009. So got to adapt or die. Got to change, baby.
42:56
Speaker 1: Because basically you need more change in that bank account.
42:59
Speaker 1: So that program, if there was a stock, It hasn't
43:04
Speaker 1: happened to me yet. I'm sure it will one time
43:05
Speaker 1: when they're like, a stock went to zero. Just hope
43:07
Speaker 1: you're not into that. It feels like Florida State is
43:10
Speaker 1: going to zero. If you told me Florida State was
43:14
Speaker 1: D1AA in like five, ten years, I'd believe it. I'm
43:17
Speaker 1: not trying to dance on their grave. You have to understand,
43:20
Speaker 1: I enjoyed watching them most of my life. But whatever
43:23
Speaker 1: we're watching now, it's over. And they play... I think
43:29
Speaker 1: next couple games, SMU, who's going to be good, who
43:32
Speaker 1: has way more money than Florida State, and then they
43:34
Speaker 1: got to go to Bama, who is definitely going to
43:36
Speaker 1: want revenge after getting their ass kicked last year, which
43:39
Speaker 1: is going to feel like one of the craziest outcomes
43:41
Speaker 1: in recent memory in all of college football. Florida State
43:44
Speaker 1: beating Alabama. I mean, that is going to age. Last year,
43:49
Speaker 1: like when the Raiders beat the Patriots, the season ended,
43:52
Speaker 1: we're like, wait, who was one of the Raiders wins?
43:54
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, they beat the Patriots week one. Yeah.
43:58
Speaker 1: In New England, yeah. What? So, yeah, that was the
44:01
Speaker 1: highlight of their season. And that's football. Sometimes it happens, right?
44:05
Speaker 1: I mean, find me the worst team in baseball. Like,
44:08
Speaker 1: they'll beat the Dodgers or the Yankees throughout the year, right?
44:10
Speaker 1: But it's less weird in baseball because you play a
44:12
Speaker 1: team 8, 10, 15 times. In football, just the one game.
44:16
Speaker 1: But think about this because I was here on the
44:20
Speaker 1: plane today. Like, some of the shitty teams in the league, Miami– Arizona, Cleveland,
44:26
Speaker 1: between the three of those teams, let's say three of
44:28
Speaker 1: those five, and Tennessee, let's say those four teams are
44:32
Speaker 1: all drafting in some order in the top five. Between them,
44:36
Speaker 1: there'll be two four-win teams and a couple others win five.
44:42
Speaker 1: Maybe one of them wins three. Awful teams win five games.
44:47
Speaker 1: If you go three wins, but you still got to
44:49
Speaker 1: beat three people, right? So if Cleveland wins four games,
44:53
Speaker 1: chances are one of those games like Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Miami
44:57
Speaker 1: wins three or four games. There's a coin flip that
45:00
Speaker 1: it's New England or Buffalo because the other advantage you have,
45:04
Speaker 1: and that's early in the season everyone's up for it.
45:06
Speaker 1: That was the crazy thing about Alabama. In the NFL,
45:10
Speaker 1: last year Atlanta, remember they rolled the Rams on the
45:13
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football game. Weren't they up 21-0 at half?
45:17
Speaker 1: we're all human beings. So if you're 10 and two
45:21
Speaker 1: and you're playing a team that's two and 10, do
45:24
Speaker 1: you think you're giving it your all that extra film
45:27
Speaker 1: study on Tuesday? It's like, you know what? Normally if
45:29
Speaker 1: we were playing the Niners or the Eagles, I'd be,
45:32
Speaker 1: I do like four hours of film study at the office,
45:34
Speaker 1: but you know, I think today I'm just going to
45:36
Speaker 1: take her on a little day date, you know, we'll
45:38
Speaker 1: go get your movie. Maybe go play golf with the boys.
45:41
Speaker 1: We're human beings. Most people aren't Nick Saban who just
45:45
Speaker 1: are wired 24-7, 365 to just be like, ambition, strive
45:51
Speaker 1: for more. It's never good enough. Like, that's not normal. So...
45:57
Speaker 1: What else? That's probably it. I like this Memphis coach.
46:01
Speaker 1: I watch... I watch a lot of college football and
46:03
Speaker 1: there are not that many good games. But Memphis is D-line.
46:07
Speaker 1: Jackson Arnold, the former Oklahoma quarterback, they beat the shit
46:10
Speaker 1: out of him toward the end. Again, props to my guy,
46:12
Speaker 1: Tim Skipper. That was... What a cool moment for Cal Poly. ESPN,
46:19
Speaker 1: country to ourselves, playing Idaho. Walk-off touchdown. Walk-off touchdown. That
46:26
Speaker 1: was sweet. That was awesome. Cal Poly's making the D1AA.
46:30
Speaker 1: Maybe Cal Poly should play Florida State. Probably be a
46:33
Speaker 1: good game. The Volume.