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Eagles have a Jalen Hurts problem, Puka Nacua seeks help, Rams-49ers in Australia · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on? Everybody? John middlecop three
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Speaker 1: and Out podcast. How are we doing everybody? Hopefully you're
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Speaker 1: doing great. I'm doing great because I woke up to
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Speaker 1: the Eagle story, which was really the talk of the combine.
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Speaker 1: Now it is public and out there. We will dive
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Speaker 1: into that something that broke this afternoon. Poka Nakua has
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Speaker 1: checked himself into rehab like Tiger Woods, though his is
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Speaker 1: in Malibu. All reports Tiger's like going out of the country.
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Speaker 1: A lot of other stuff going on. Kyle Shanahan had
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Speaker 1: some thoughts on McVeigh forcing them to go to Australia,
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Speaker 1: the running back position making a comeback, And someone had
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Speaker 1: asked me because we talked about the coaches photo. We
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Speaker 1: talked about the GM photo. They're like, could you break
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Speaker 1: down the coaches happy hour at the pool? I said,
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Speaker 1: can I ever? I've watched that video like fifteen times,
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Speaker 1: fascinated by it, had a million thoughts about it, wrote
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Speaker 1: some of them down, so we will u We'll do
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Speaker 1: We'll have another podcast out tomorrow, and then next week.
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Speaker 1: I think the game Plan will probably have a master's
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Speaker 1: And let's just dive right into the Eagle story. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's go big picture. I don't think the timing of
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Speaker 1: this story was random. It's the first thing I thought
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Speaker 1: about when I clicked on it, and I read it,
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Speaker 1: and I saw pro Football talk. Me and Florio. We
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Speaker 1: might not be aligned on everything, but he was thinking
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Speaker 1: the same thing. This story drops the day after the
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Speaker 1: owner's meetings. What happens at the owner's meetings, Siriani is
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Speaker 1: obligated to talk how he runs a media session, as
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Speaker 1: most general managers do with their local media. There this
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Speaker 1: story was not available, at least publicly for any of
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Speaker 1: those situations. Now, for those of us that are I
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Speaker 1: don't even want to say in the loop because I've
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Speaker 1: never I've actually never talked to Howie about Jalen Hurts.
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Speaker 1: Never had one conversation with him. Honestly, most of my
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Speaker 1: conversations about where he should go eat in a certain
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Speaker 1: town or bsing with him about something stupid. But I've
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Speaker 1: never discussed Jalen Hurts. So I had no inside information
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Speaker 1: from Howie. I don't know Sirianni, but it was well
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Speaker 1: established at the combine. And I've admitted to this as
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Speaker 1: well that I felt like, you know, your typical media
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Speaker 1: guy piling on AJ Brown during the season, and I
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Speaker 1: heard some things that obviously AJ's not the easiest guy
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Speaker 1: to deal with. Welcome to wide receivers, but when it
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Speaker 1: came to like if you pulled that locker room, if
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Speaker 1: you said, hey, guys, if we could choose one of
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Speaker 1: the two guys, which one would you choose? I heard
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Speaker 1: it was unanimously aj Brown. Now, because of the contract,
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Speaker 1: they're stuck with Jalen Hurts and it's not easy to
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Speaker 1: find another quarter back. But one thing is clear. The
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Speaker 1: bat signal was sent out today. And here's what we
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Speaker 1: know about the Philadelphia Eagles. Their owner spends a shitload
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Speaker 1: of money over the course of like twenty one, twenty two,
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Speaker 1: twenty three, and twenty four. I think only Jimmy Haslam,
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Speaker 1: which is kind of ironic because they were terrible for
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Speaker 1: most of it. They didn't make the playoffs one time
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Speaker 1: with Flacco spent more actual cash. Right. We've been talking
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Speaker 1: a lot about this because a GM was like, John,
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Speaker 1: you talk so much about the salary cap, you don't
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Speaker 1: talk enough about cash that they're two separate things, and
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Speaker 1: it separates a lot of these teams. It's like this
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Speaker 1: one was the crazy part about like the Belichickian run
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Speaker 1: and even the last five or six years with the
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Speaker 1: New England Patriots. Relative to the rest of the league,
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Speaker 1: they don't spend as much cash. Same thing with Jerry Jones.
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Speaker 1: You know, certain teams spend more actual of their own
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Speaker 1: money relative to the salary cap because you can manipulate
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Speaker 1: it than others. And Jeffrey Lewie always has. And the
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Speaker 1: one thing we know about that offense, it is highly
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Speaker 1: paid wide receivers. Offensive Wneman. I mean how he's given
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Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley multiple contracts forever Goddard was making a ton
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Speaker 1: of money. I think he's making a little less now
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Speaker 1: that they resigned him, but that they are paying premiums
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Speaker 1: for the group. And they gave Jalen Hurts a five year,
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty five million dollar contract. And typically
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Speaker 1: when you are a top i don't know, ten twelve
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Speaker 1: ish quarterback, the guaranteed money is kind of a fugazi
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Speaker 1: cause you're gonna see every fucking penny on the contract.
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Speaker 1: You see it all. Dak Prescott has never not seen it.
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Speaker 1: I'm not even talking about Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson,
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrows. I'm talking that next year, the Cousins, the Daks,
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Speaker 1: the Jared Goffs, they see every penny guaranteed and non
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Speaker 1: so when they signed these enormous contracts. It has to
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Speaker 1: be a absolute train wreck. Russell Wilson to Watonga bai
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Speaker 1: Loa Kyler Murray for teams to eat and get rid
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Speaker 1: of you, because one it obviously crippled your cap, which
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Speaker 1: is important because then you can't, you know, maneuver other
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Speaker 1: players underneath. When a guy like Tua's taking up a
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Speaker 1: ninety nine million dollar dead cap hit or Kyler Murray's
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Speaker 1: taking up fifty million, you don't want to do that
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Speaker 1: next year, Jalen Hurts. Let's just say this year is
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Speaker 1: a disaster. Is sixty seven million dollars? I saw someone
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Speaker 1: say that's manageable, true, because you could spread it out
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Speaker 1: over two years. They don't want to do that. They
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Speaker 1: just want him to play well. They just want him
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Speaker 1: to be a consistent quarterback. The Eagles are cutthroat. They
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Speaker 1: are a throwback Bill Walsh. Cut you a year before
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Speaker 1: you start diminishing instead of waiting a year too late.
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Speaker 1: Belichick did it forever. Andy Beside Kelsey has made a
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Speaker 1: career off doing that because that's what it takes to
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Speaker 1: sustain a good organization. And how he did it with
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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. They signed him to this massive contract relative
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Speaker 1: to the salary cap and the money and the signing
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Speaker 1: bonuses at the time. Within a couple of years they
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Speaker 1: were pivoting and Jalen Hurts was out of there. It
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Speaker 1: goes back to the Tom Brady thing with Belichick. Why
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Speaker 1: he was always on pins and needles, because even though
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Speaker 1: he was the greatest quarterback of all time by like
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Speaker 1: the mid twenty fifteen, you know tens, by like fifteen
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Speaker 1: and sixteen, he had seen all of his friends get
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Speaker 1: traded or cut that first ten plus years of his career.
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Speaker 1: When they rattled off three Super Bowls, they went to
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Speaker 1: multiple other you know, in two thousand and seven, in
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Speaker 1: twenty eleven and lost. Think of how many high end
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Speaker 1: players Hall of famers he saw either drafted, cut, drafted, traded.
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Speaker 1: Happened to them all, Logan Mankins, Randy Moss, Mike Vrabel,
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Speaker 1: these guys, Wes Welker, they were all discarded. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: the NFL. This is some of these stories. When a
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Speaker 1: guy in baseball or basketball gets cut, it's like, whoa
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Speaker 1: fucking happens every day in football, happens all the time
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Speaker 1: with bad organizations, let alone the good ones, because they
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Speaker 1: do not tolerate when your play starts going like this,
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Speaker 1: and when you leave the league in three and outs,
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Speaker 1: you can blame the offensive coordinator. Jeffrey Lowrie's like, we
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Speaker 1: fired a couple of these guys. It can't just be them.
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Speaker 1: It can't just be aj Brown or Devonte Smith or
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Speaker 1: the questionable offensive line. And you start talking to people
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Speaker 1: like the quarterback frustrated a lot of people. And I
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Speaker 1: think the Eagles are doing this as like it's on man,
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Speaker 1: either shape up or you shape out. And here's the
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Speaker 1: thing about Jalen Hurts. It's not like you know, you
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Speaker 1: see some of these stories about something. He's not like
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Speaker 1: a bad guy. He is always in shape, he works hard,
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Speaker 1: He's extremely serious. But as you could see in there,
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Speaker 1: quarterback is a very nuanced situation. They have a lot
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Speaker 1: of juice because even if they don't have carte blanche
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Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage, they could if they want,
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Speaker 1: they can change a play whenever they want. Think about
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson started driving the Seattle Seahawks nuts and for
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Speaker 1: a couple of years, like you know, what are we
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Speaker 1: really gonna say? We're winning? Things are going well. It's
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Speaker 1: like we kind of kept our mouths shut and then
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Speaker 1: by like twenty eighteen and nineteen, theme started coming out.
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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, John Snyder was ready to trade him
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Speaker 1: to the Browns and draft Josh Allen. You're like what
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Speaker 1: and then you're like, what's really going on? And it
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Speaker 1: turns out he was driving them nuts because it typically
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Speaker 1: with a quarterback is about two things. Do you play
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Speaker 1: well and what we want you to do? And we
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Speaker 1: think you excel at because most guys are not like
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers in their prime, like
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Speaker 1: could succeed in most schemes, can handle fucking everything. Most
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Speaker 1: guys are pretty scheme specific and have specific straits that
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Speaker 1: are traits that you need them to excel at. And
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Speaker 1: that is Jalen Hurtst throws a really good deep ball,
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Speaker 1: is a great athlete, is a great scrambler. Well, what
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Speaker 1: will he no longer do? He won't run. So Jalen
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Speaker 1: Hurts when he became a really good player, was a
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Speaker 1: dual threat quarterback. Well he's not a dual threat quarterback anymore.
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Speaker 1: He's just a passer. And we've seen him as a
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Speaker 1: pocket passer. It's not great. And they led the league
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Speaker 1: in three and outs like that's not just the play caller,
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Speaker 1: that's not just the right guard. That's the quarterback who's
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Speaker 1: clearly just not great from within the pocket. And I'll
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Speaker 1: defend Jalen here in a second, but I think they
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Speaker 1: want it to be known of, like this isn't just
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Speaker 1: idiot coaches and aj Brown. Some of it's on him.
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Speaker 1: And he refuses to go under center, and we've had
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Speaker 1: to talk to him like going under center one can
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Speaker 1: help you out, and two helps our running back out,
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Speaker 1: who I don't know, just had one of the greatest
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Speaker 1: seasons in the history of the league. And when you
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Speaker 1: go go under center and a guy goes, no, what's
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Speaker 1: the coach gonna do? What's honestly, what's how we gonna do?
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Speaker 1: I'm making fifty to fifty five million dollars, sirih Nick,
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Speaker 1: what are you making? Ten? How? What are you making? Ten?
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Speaker 1: I five X you. I don't have to listen to you.
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Speaker 1: And that's the thing about Jalen is it kind of
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Speaker 1: became a little NBA ish like, yeah, I don't know
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Speaker 1: I need to listen to anybody. I'll do what I
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Speaker 1: want to do. I think I know what my strengths
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Speaker 1: and weaknesses are, which he clearly doesn't because part of
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Speaker 1: his strength is the move. I kept saying in the
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Speaker 1: forty nine er game, and listen, I wanted the forty
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Speaker 1: nine ers to win. Was like if Jalen just ran
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Speaker 1: like fifteen times, they would have no answer. They have
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Speaker 1: backup defensive linemen, they have backup line, they have like
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Speaker 1: seven string linebackers. They had a guy that was like
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Speaker 1: out of the league and they ran one if I
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Speaker 1: remember correctly design quarterback run. It went for like twenty yards.
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Speaker 1: Now there's a holding, so was called back. I would
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Speaker 1: run that play every fucking play. The forty nine ers,
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Speaker 1: Robert Tollkind had the greatest game plan of all time.
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Speaker 1: They would have no shot to stop it. None. They
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Speaker 1: didn't have the athletes on the field, but they couldn't
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Speaker 1: call it because he wouldn't run it. And so part
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Speaker 1: of being a great player is being a great teammate,
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Speaker 1: and part of being a great teammate is being good
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Speaker 1: with the coach, Like what do I need to do?
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Speaker 1: And that's what has made Josh Lamar Obviously, Patrick Lick,
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Speaker 1: what do you need me to do? You need me
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Speaker 1: to jump this way, I'll jump this way. You need
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Speaker 1: me to run backwards this way. I'll run backwards this way.
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Peyton Manny did it forever. It's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: you're just gonna allow me to do dump offs and
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Speaker 1: wheel rats his entire game. I will do that every
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Speaker 1: fucking play because it's not about me. It's about how
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Speaker 1: do we get the ball down the field, get first downs,
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Speaker 1: score touchdowns, and win the game. That's the only thing
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Speaker 1: that matters. And I do think that's pretty clear. And
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Speaker 1: this is what I've heard that the money has changed
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Speaker 1: the relationship. How could it not, because if you don't
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Speaker 1: handle money well and you become that rich and not like,
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Speaker 1: well that he's lazy, he doesn't work. He does all
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Speaker 1: like he's in shape. He tries, but like when it
12:48
Speaker 1: comes to the scheme, he pushes back against it. And
12:52
Speaker 1: here's the one thing that like a lot of other quarterbacks.
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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan Aaron Rodgers two great examples. Matt ryan Is
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Speaker 1: first year with Kyle Shannan and Atalanta did not go well,
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Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers' first year with Matt Lafleur. They were
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Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship game, but anyone who watched that
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Speaker 1: team was a little weird and part of it was
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Speaker 1: both guys weren't that comfortable turning their back to the defense.
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Speaker 1: They didn't like it. Aaron Rodgers liked being in the shotgun,
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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan liked being in the shotgun, but in that offense,
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Speaker 1: a lot of the play action is turning your back
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Speaker 1: to the defense. And Kyle told Matt like, you have
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Speaker 1: to do this for this scheme to excel, and you
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Speaker 1: will excel. He listened what happened. Matt Ryan won the
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Speaker 1: MVP and they were up twenty eight to three in
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Obviously, Aaron Rodgers, they kind of hybrided it,
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Speaker 1: but he went to win multiple MVPs. And one thing
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Speaker 1: that said in that article is and listen, this goes
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Speaker 1: for anybody, most of us human beings. If we try
13:51
Speaker 1: something new, if we go a week or two, especially
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Speaker 1: in this modern day society, or it's not working, we'll pivot.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes you have to think big picture and like,
14:01
Speaker 1: you got to get worse before you get better. And
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Speaker 1: they will try new things. And this is what was reported.
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Speaker 1: And if it doesn't go well, Jalen like will refuse
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Speaker 1: to do it. And here's the problem this new scheme
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Speaker 1: hiring Sean Manning, here's the other part I think about
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Speaker 1: this article for those of you that haven't ready to
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Speaker 1: go check it out on his spin dot com. One
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Speaker 1: thing that had to really embarrass Jeffrey Lurry, who has
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Speaker 1: spent a boatload of money on this team over the
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Speaker 1: course of his ownership. And Howie Roseman, who thinks that
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Speaker 1: you know, he's built one of the best teams in
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Speaker 1: the league talent wise, especially on offense. They couldn't get
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Speaker 1: anyone to take the job. They have a roster with
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Speaker 1: I mean, multiple offensive linemen that are good under contract,
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Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley, multiple wide receivers, whether they want to keep
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Speaker 1: aj or not, he's a big time asset. You know
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Speaker 1: that they will draft another wide receiver if need be,
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Speaker 1: and more than likely that guy will be good. They
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Speaker 1: got firepower on offense and they have an elite defense,
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Speaker 1: so as an offensive coordinator, it's a pretty good spot.
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Speaker 1: Multiple coaches, Shane Steichen and Kellen Moore became head coaches
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Speaker 1: off the gig. No one would take the job because
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Speaker 1: I say this all the time about football, it's a
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Speaker 1: lot like high school. Word gets around really fast. Everyone
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Speaker 1: knows everybody, and word spread. That's not easy to deal with.
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Speaker 1: This guy. He won't listen, and he has his beliefs
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Speaker 1: on what should work and not that open minded. And
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Speaker 1: I think the Eagles, you know, ended up with Sean Mannon,
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Speaker 1: who clearly wasn't their first pick and who knows it
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Speaker 1: might work. But he's going to run the Kyle Shanahan offense,
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Speaker 1: which again is predicated like Rogers like Matt Ryan, on
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Speaker 1: getting under center and turning your back to the defense, which,
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Speaker 1: in fairness to Jalen, if most of your career you
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Speaker 1: had been in the shotgun, it wouldn't be you wouldn't
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Speaker 1: be that comfortable doing it. But what he's doing currently
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Speaker 1: is not only not working, it's a fucking disaster. So
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Speaker 1: for them to try this, I think they're putting this
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Speaker 1: out there because I don't know the date the Eagles report,
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Speaker 1: but my guess is typically a week or two before
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Speaker 1: the draft, so within the next fourteen ish days they
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Speaker 1: want it to be known like this is not gonna
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Speaker 1: be tolerated anymore. And like, I know, you're making a
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Speaker 1: lot of money, but you've seen before we got rid
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Speaker 1: of a guy to put you in there. If you
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Speaker 1: don't think we will do this again, you're dealing with
16:23
Speaker 1: the wrong people because we will not hesitate this organization
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Speaker 1: fired fucking Andy Reid. We do not care. We will
16:31
Speaker 1: get rid of you if you do not produce. And now,
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Speaker 1: to me, the pressure is all on Jalen and Sirianni
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Speaker 1: because he's got to handle this. He's got this young coordinator.
16:41
Speaker 1: And this is where Jeffrey Lurie sings the praises of Sirianni.
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Speaker 1: Great with people, great handling stuff. This is why this
16:47
Speaker 1: job is so intense. This is not an easy place
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Speaker 1: to work. That the roster is highly paid. This team
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Speaker 1: is treated like it's an SEC football team like LSU, Texas,
16:58
Speaker 1: Bama George. It's in a fish ball of intensity of football.
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Speaker 1: And now you have this issue of Jalen. Not that
17:07
Speaker 1: he didn't know like these issues, it's all been discussed
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Speaker 1: with everybody. You know. This is one of those maybe
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Speaker 1: all the public knows. Me and Cowardice have talked about
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Speaker 1: this before. This is not something that I didn't really
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Speaker 1: learn much from it, just because I'm privy. This is
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Speaker 1: the world I'm in. But I could see Rita God,
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Speaker 1: I got some issues and this is part of his job.
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Speaker 1: And this is where if you wanted to defend sirianni
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Speaker 1: as one of the top coaches. Basically at every turn,
17:33
Speaker 1: he's handled a lot of crap. This is not a
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Speaker 1: gig for just random guys that can't handle the pressure.
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Speaker 1: It will eat you alive. But also I think they're
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Speaker 1: going of If he plays like that again, it could
17:46
Speaker 1: be an even bigger disaster and more than likely the
17:49
Speaker 1: Giants are gonna be better with John Harball. The Cowboys
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Speaker 1: have multiple first round picks. They already beat us last year.
17:57
Speaker 1: If their defense is just solid, like, they could be
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Speaker 1: a problem. The Commanders have Jayden Daniels, who had one
18:02
Speaker 1: of the great rookie seasons of all time. If he's
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Speaker 1: just healthy, they could be a problem. Like this is
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Speaker 1: not just gonna be as easy of like, even if
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Speaker 1: we have a weird season, we're locke to win the division.
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Speaker 1: So to me, the bat signal went out to Jalen
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Speaker 1: in his camp, like this will not be tolerated anymore.
18:18
Speaker 1: So you either do it our way or not at
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Speaker 1: our our way anymore, Because it does feel like it's
18:23
Speaker 1: shaping into the Russell Wilson situation a little bit. And
18:27
Speaker 1: you know, Russell was a better player than Jalen Hurts.
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Speaker 1: When it started getting weird. He just was. But to me,
18:35
Speaker 1: Jalen can be a good player again. If he's willing
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Speaker 1: to go, I'll do whatever it takes to win. And
18:41
Speaker 1: his legs are a great attribute for his game. Part
18:45
Speaker 1: of what makes Lamar great when he's humming is you
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Speaker 1: can do everything. Throw it within the pocket, he could
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Speaker 1: throw on the movie. He can run. But it's like, bro,
18:53
Speaker 1: you know, remember Russell's big things like I'm gonna play
18:55
Speaker 1: like Tom Brady. It's like, no, you're not, and he
18:58
Speaker 1: never could. And I think I think Jalen kind of
19:00
Speaker 1: got in that mode of like that's how I want
19:03
Speaker 1: to play. Well, it's like you're not good enough to
19:04
Speaker 1: play like that. Most people aren't so and you specifically
19:09
Speaker 1: or not. So we're not doing that anymore. And I
19:13
Speaker 1: think this was I think they were very strategic about this.
19:17
Speaker 1: You know, Jeffrey spoke and he was the opposite, just
19:20
Speaker 1: praising him left and right. But the contract came up.
19:23
Speaker 1: They're like, well, what about a contract extension because after
19:25
Speaker 1: next year it'd be like could they get ahead of it.
19:27
Speaker 1: He's like no, he's just on the new contract. Like
19:30
Speaker 1: right now at contract extension. If you're a betting man.
19:33
Speaker 1: If this keeps getting weird, he will not be the
19:35
Speaker 1: quarterback for long of the Philadelphia Eagles, which is crazy
19:39
Speaker 1: because the guy was just Super Bowl MVP has been
19:42
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback in multiple Super Bowls. But isn't that
19:44
Speaker 1: the great part about the NFL? And this is how
19:47
Speaker 1: fickle the sport is. You could be hoisting the Lombardi
19:51
Speaker 1: Trophy on a duckboat down Broad Street and two years
19:55
Speaker 1: later them saying if you don't improve, we will cut
19:58
Speaker 1: you or trade you. He will not hesitate to do
20:01
Speaker 1: so we've done it before, we'll do it again. And
20:05
Speaker 1: if you don't believe us, call our bluff because we've
20:09
Speaker 1: seen him that they one hundred percent will because I'll
20:12
Speaker 1: promise you this. There's really one made man in that organization.
20:17
Speaker 1: It's not the quarterback, it's not the coach, it's the
20:20
Speaker 1: general manager. So I just think that this was something
20:25
Speaker 1: they felt like they needed to do. And now this
20:27
Speaker 1: scheme running the Shanahan thing, It's one thing I talked
20:29
Speaker 1: to a lot of people about at the combine. It's
20:31
Speaker 1: like that offense is like, you gotta be pretty accurate,
20:35
Speaker 1: quick decision maker. Jalen's game is much more kind of
20:40
Speaker 1: playmaking you know the good His good version is like
20:43
Speaker 1: what Deshaun Watson was when he was UH in Houston
20:49
Speaker 1: and what Russell was like kind of scramble get without
20:51
Speaker 1: the pocket, make plays down the field, throw a good
20:54
Speaker 1: deep ball, make plays with your legs. Try to transition
20:58
Speaker 1: into something he's not, and that's a good life. Less like,
21:00
Speaker 1: we all have certain strengths and weaknesses. Most people aren't
21:05
Speaker 1: just like super good looking, tall, super smart, great socializer, loving,
21:11
Speaker 1: empathetic person, great athlete. Can play the piano, can play
21:15
Speaker 1: the guitar, can run a company like. Most of us
21:18
Speaker 1: have one or two really strong strengths. It's no different
21:22
Speaker 1: with players. Most people are not like you know, Lawrence
21:26
Speaker 1: Taylor or Aaron Donald or Trent Williams. Most players in
21:30
Speaker 1: the league, even the good ones, have weaknesses, and the
21:33
Speaker 1: key to making those players excel is to try to
21:36
Speaker 1: avoid those weaknesses. Right, some guys, some wide receivers like
21:40
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, never ran that fast. You know what, didn't matter.
21:45
Speaker 1: You're not asking him to run go routes all day long.
21:47
Speaker 1: If you did, it wouldn't really work because's not gonna
21:50
Speaker 1: get away from anybody. But if you do slants, if
21:53
Speaker 1: you do out routes, if you do stuff across the
21:55
Speaker 1: middle red zone, utilize the guy's talent, and I I
22:00
Speaker 1: just think that that's what they're trying to do. And
22:02
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to do this with this new scheme
22:04
Speaker 1: and I I don't know, it's gonna be fascinating. But
22:09
Speaker 1: here's what we know. The Eagles offense will be one
22:12
Speaker 1: of the biggest stories in terms of a unit next
22:16
Speaker 1: year in the NFL. I mean, they're always covered like
22:19
Speaker 1: one of the primetime teams because they are. But now
22:23
Speaker 1: that this story, now that you can't even hide from it,
22:27
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be It's gonna be fat. I love it.
22:31
Speaker 1: It's what I've been saying about Josh Allen and the
22:33
Speaker 1: Bills and Joe Brady Mentor and Lamar Jackson. I love it.
22:37
Speaker 1: When the pressure goes up to one hundred, that's when
22:39
Speaker 1: it's the most fun because sometimes you answer it's like,
22:43
Speaker 1: I hate the Lakers. They're one of the only teams
22:46
Speaker 1: that I truly like, truly hate, yet I gotta respect it.
22:50
Speaker 1: I mean, they've kind of figured it out. They look fantastic,
22:53
Speaker 1: and sometimes like, listen, you play for the Lakers, you
22:56
Speaker 1: got Lebron, James J. J. Reddick. Everything became such a
22:59
Speaker 1: big deal, right. The pressure is immense. The same thing
23:03
Speaker 1: with the New York Knicks, same thing with the New
23:05
Speaker 1: York Yankees. Like when Aaron Boone goes to the yard.
23:08
Speaker 1: It's a little different being the manager of that team
23:11
Speaker 1: than it is like the Anaheim Angels or the Texas Rangers.
23:16
Speaker 1: It's a fucking pressure cooker. And that's what it's like
23:19
Speaker 1: for the Eagles players and coaches. So and listen how
23:23
Speaker 1: he's won multiple Super Bowls. His resume surely probably get
23:26
Speaker 1: him in the Hall of Fame one day, but that's
23:29
Speaker 1: how he operates. He's intense. The pressure in that organization.
23:32
Speaker 1: Everyone's on pins and needles. And I listen, I talked
23:36
Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Leury five times in my entire life, and
23:39
Speaker 1: the conversations probably lasted combined less than a minute. Maybe
23:43
Speaker 1: he likes it like that, Maybe he enjoys that. That's
23:46
Speaker 1: kind of football culture. Belichick was like that for twenty
23:48
Speaker 1: plus years they went to nine Super Bowls and won
23:51
Speaker 1: six Saban was like that for fifteen years they won
23:53
Speaker 1: seven titles. Urban Meyer was like that his entire career.
23:57
Speaker 1: Bcsutah National Championship Florida and Ohio State. This is not,
24:04
Speaker 1: you know, Beer League softball, does not high school soccer.
24:08
Speaker 1: This is intense heads roll. You either get it done
24:10
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24:13
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Speaker 1: officially checked himself into a rehab facility in Malibu, which
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26:41
Speaker 1: Tiger and Puka. We don't have all the details on Tiger,
26:45
Speaker 1: but the moment Tiger's car flipped, my first take was
26:50
Speaker 1: it is inevitable that he is in rehab within the week.
26:54
Speaker 1: Really for two reasons. One, it's Florida. They're not messing around.
26:59
Speaker 1: He's already got multiple DUIs who was in a residential area,
27:01
Speaker 1: could have killed people. They will drop the hammer. I
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Speaker 1: don't care how much money you got. So he had
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Speaker 1: to do that to get ahead of it. Like he
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Speaker 1: wasn't gonna be at the Master's dinner. He wasn't gonna
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Speaker 1: be teeing it up on the par three. That wouldn't
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Speaker 1: looked good in the judicial you know, group's eyes. So
27:20
Speaker 1: like Tiger checking into rehab to me felt like a
27:22
Speaker 1: lock just from that standpoint and to just his respectability.
27:26
Speaker 1: It's like Tiger, we all know, like you had multiple
27:29
Speaker 1: pills in your pocket. No one thinks you're drinking Tito's
27:32
Speaker 1: and sodas at lunch, Like we know what you're doing
27:36
Speaker 1: and we want you to get help, bro, But listen,
27:39
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't have an addictive personality. Been around
27:41
Speaker 1: some addicts, known a few that didn't make it, and
27:44
Speaker 1: if you don't want to get help, it doesn't matter. Obviously,
27:47
Speaker 1: in some of these situations, there are a lot of
27:49
Speaker 1: people around you that profit off you, and Tiger, unlike Puka,
27:54
Speaker 1: has way more money billion, well past a billion dollars.
27:57
Speaker 1: He got a lot of people on the payroll, and
28:00
Speaker 1: if those people have a sense of reality, they would
28:03
Speaker 1: push him that way to try to keep the money
28:05
Speaker 1: train rolling. Now, who knows, he gets out, maybe gets
28:07
Speaker 1: rid of some of them. But some of these pukin
28:10
Speaker 1: Nakua videos and listen, I'd be a hypocrite, like I've
28:14
Speaker 1: been blacked out my fair share of times. But and listen,
28:19
Speaker 1: I've tried to avoid Bin's drinking in my late thirties
28:23
Speaker 1: early forties. I still like having a few cocktails. When
28:26
Speaker 1: you have two, sometimes it leads to four or five.
28:28
Speaker 1: So I'd be lying if I said I don't enjoy
28:32
Speaker 1: drinking when I socialize, I do a lot. Don't love
28:35
Speaker 1: the mornings and have had to be a little more
28:37
Speaker 1: careful because I just I can't function hungover. But I
28:41
Speaker 1: do like having cocktails when I am interacting with other
28:44
Speaker 1: human beings. But and I've been young, I've done supid
28:48
Speaker 1: stuff like many people listening. I'm sure if you were
28:51
Speaker 1: a high profile person and people had video cameras on
28:54
Speaker 1: you when you were in your early to mid twenties,
28:57
Speaker 1: it would be something. I got very lucky in college
29:00
Speaker 1: and in high school. Mean I started drinking like sophomore
29:03
Speaker 1: year high school. There were camera phones didn't exist. We
29:07
Speaker 1: had dial up internet, So the iPhone, I don't even
29:10
Speaker 1: think came out till well after I graduated college. So
29:15
Speaker 1: it's easy for a lot of people to talk about
29:18
Speaker 1: Puka's situation. Many of us could have been caught in
29:22
Speaker 1: situations that if a video got out, we would be
29:27
Speaker 1: thoroughly embarrassed in something we would want our children never
29:29
Speaker 1: to see. But when I was his age, I didn't
29:33
Speaker 1: have a Jackson Smith and Jigbit contract on the line.
29:38
Speaker 1: And when I saw the story today that he checked
29:41
Speaker 1: himself into rehab, I went, we's got one hundred million
29:44
Speaker 1: dollars plus reasons to figure this thing out. Because the
29:48
Speaker 1: videos that had surfaced one from being a pain in
29:51
Speaker 1: mcvay's ass. With the streamers which listen, that would have
29:56
Speaker 1: been something that they could have got past. Right, You're
29:58
Speaker 1: just with some people that most people my age. Me
30:01
Speaker 1: and Sean are the same age. We don't even know
30:03
Speaker 1: who these people are. Couldn't point him out of the lineup.
30:05
Speaker 1: I don't even understand what's going on. Honestly, I don't
30:07
Speaker 1: even give a fuck. But to me, when you get
30:10
Speaker 1: in situations where you're stumbling outside of cars and then
30:14
Speaker 1: the lawsuit comes, I know it gets you know, she
30:18
Speaker 1: backs out of it like I don't want to deal
30:20
Speaker 1: with that. And my best players Matt Stafford, Aaron Donald
30:25
Speaker 1: now Trent McDuffie. Every night when I am Sean mcvah,
30:29
Speaker 1: let's need and I lay my head down on the pillow.
30:33
Speaker 1: I know the last person I'm ever going to get
30:35
Speaker 1: a call about doing something ridiculous or outrageous, something that
30:40
Speaker 1: they could control, would be my leaders on my team.
30:44
Speaker 1: It would never happen. And with Pooka that couldn't be
30:48
Speaker 1: said anymore. And here's what I brought up a couple
30:51
Speaker 1: quotes from the day that they did the press conference,
30:55
Speaker 1: Mike McDonald and Jackson Smith and Jigma and John Schneider.
30:59
Speaker 1: One thing John said is when you go to ownership
31:02
Speaker 1: and ask for an investment like this, you have to
31:06
Speaker 1: be cognizant of the of who the person is. His
31:10
Speaker 1: parents did a great job raising him. Mike McDonald. One
31:15
Speaker 1: of the great things that paints a great picture about
31:18
Speaker 1: Jack's means to us being a foundational piece of our
31:22
Speaker 1: football team and our organization is we've got a full
31:26
Speaker 1: house here. This is pretty awesome. I just want to
31:30
Speaker 1: emphasize how excited we are he's gonna be here, and
31:34
Speaker 1: he's a foundational piece. He's a cornerstone to our team.
31:39
Speaker 1: Another quote Mike had is he's a superstar who doesn't
31:43
Speaker 1: act like one. When you invest these contracts and now
31:47
Speaker 1: wide receivers, tackles, pass rushers, corners are getting one hundred
31:51
Speaker 1: plus million dollars guaranteed. They just gave him a thirty
31:55
Speaker 1: five million dollar check the day they signed him. Like
31:57
Speaker 1: I said, a couple weeks, you know, whenever that direct
31:59
Speaker 1: to positive through two week pay periods. They did it
32:03
Speaker 1: because of the guy. Obviously, he's an elite player and
32:07
Speaker 1: has a chance to be a Hall of Fame level guy.
32:09
Speaker 1: But they would not have given him that contract if
32:12
Speaker 1: he was a slap off the field. They just would
32:15
Speaker 1: not have. But when you have a guy who is
32:18
Speaker 1: everything you want, team captain, leader, tone setter, incredible human being.
32:24
Speaker 1: You can't wait to do that. You went, I drafted
32:26
Speaker 1: this guy. He's an all pro, Pro Bowl level guy.
32:30
Speaker 1: I want to invest in him because my name as
32:32
Speaker 1: a general manager, as a coach, I wanted to be
32:35
Speaker 1: associated with that guy, Ashean McVay would. It's like to
32:38
Speaker 1: be associated with Aaron Donald or Matt Stafford. It's a
32:42
Speaker 1: big deal those guys. He's synonymous with those guys. No
32:45
Speaker 1: different than you know, Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes,
32:49
Speaker 1: Alex Smith, like takes a lot going back to all
32:52
Speaker 1: the guys with the Eagles, takes a lot of pride
32:55
Speaker 1: in guys being good guys, good people, and great players.
33:01
Speaker 1: And the stuff that was going on with Jack Smith,
33:04
Speaker 1: Like there was no way on God's green Earth going
33:08
Speaker 1: the way it was going. They could give him that money.
33:11
Speaker 1: It wasn't going to happen. And I would imagine the
33:14
Speaker 1: Rams told him. I'm not saying they told him to
33:16
Speaker 1: go to rehab, but they just said, like, we're not
33:19
Speaker 1: having contract extensions with you. It's just not happening. Sometimes
33:23
Speaker 1: just business, right. David Mulgeta could called Nick Cassario and
33:27
Speaker 1: be like, hey, you know, CJ is going into year
33:29
Speaker 1: four one hundred and seventy five million dollars guaranteed, two
33:33
Speaker 1: hundred fifty million dollar deal, five year deal. That's kind
33:36
Speaker 1: of the going rate for Yeah, buddy, you're gonna need
33:39
Speaker 1: to call us later, right, And that's just business. That's
33:47
Speaker 1: not we like the guy or whatever not playing well enough.
33:50
Speaker 1: And then you get these situations like Puka, where I've
33:52
Speaker 1: been watching football for thirty plus years. I love football.
33:56
Speaker 1: I've made my living my adult life talking about football literally.
34:02
Speaker 1: And I told one of my closest friends in the league,
34:05
Speaker 1: who's a wide receiver coach, We've never seen a player
34:08
Speaker 1: like him, and he's been doing it a lot longer
34:10
Speaker 1: than me. He's a unique dominant. He's one of the
34:13
Speaker 1: more fun players to watch in the league. And the
34:16
Speaker 1: Rams who drafted the guy not like not like Jackson
34:19
Speaker 1: Smith in the first round, not even second round, like
34:24
Speaker 1: he was a later round pick. I want to say third.
34:28
Speaker 1: I don't want to mess this up, but Pooka Nikua,
34:32
Speaker 1: what round was he drafted in? For some reason? I
34:35
Speaker 1: want to say fifth, fifth round pick. Pookaa cool is
34:38
Speaker 1: a fifth round pick for some reason. I think third. Honestly,
34:41
Speaker 1: that's even a bigger feather in less need. In mcveigh's cap,
34:45
Speaker 1: we drafted a guy who in the fifth round that
34:49
Speaker 1: his rookie season, he was a pro bowler. His rookie season,
34:53
Speaker 1: he was a second team All Pro and last year,
34:55
Speaker 1: without a doubt, one hundred and twenty nine catches, seventeen
34:59
Speaker 1: hundred yards and ten touchdowns, First team All Pro. That's
35:04
Speaker 1: something you take pride in. Like, think about in life,
35:09
Speaker 1: what you take pride in. Right, I just have a
35:11
Speaker 1: young son. If he becomes a good person, has success,
35:15
Speaker 1: gets a's in the classroom, even though I think about
35:18
Speaker 1: sometimes like after they teach him to read and write, like,
35:21
Speaker 1: what's he gonna learn in school? That's gonna be any
35:23
Speaker 1: use to him in the world he's going to grow
35:25
Speaker 1: up in with technology and the ability to literally get
35:28
Speaker 1: a hold of everything. But that's a conversation for another day.
35:31
Speaker 1: But you know, if he hits home run in a
35:32
Speaker 1: little league, or you know, wins a golf tournament, makes
35:36
Speaker 1: a tackle in peewee's. When my peewe's were called midgets,
35:42
Speaker 1: and this was Davis was like a hippie liberal town
35:46
Speaker 1: back in the nineties. I would imagine they've renamed that.
35:48
Speaker 1: But we had midgets, junior midgets before you got to
35:52
Speaker 1: like JV football. But there's nothing more than you would
35:58
Speaker 1: take pride in as a general manager than landing a
36:02
Speaker 1: fifth round pick and having that guy that's Pete Carroll,
36:05
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch, George Kittle, Like
36:09
Speaker 1: it doesn't get any better than that fifth, sixth, seventh
36:11
Speaker 1: round picks become Pro Bowlers, all pros, Hall of Famers.
36:16
Speaker 1: It's one thing. It's like, hey, we drafted U. You know,
36:19
Speaker 1: even Patrick Mahomes drafts him in the first round. Trade
36:22
Speaker 1: it up to get him. Hope he's good. Caleb Williams,
36:25
Speaker 1: like we drafted him number one overall. We drafted this
36:28
Speaker 1: guy in the fifth round. But I've that video of
36:33
Speaker 1: him on the bus. It was like, this is if
36:35
Speaker 1: I'm less need Like I'm telling his agent, like, you
36:39
Speaker 1: guys need to figure it out because this other thing
36:41
Speaker 1: like this is these are grown ups. This isn't Alabama
36:45
Speaker 1: football where you get in trouble and nick you have
36:47
Speaker 1: seven people hold your hands. Most people are not the Eagles.
36:50
Speaker 1: We're big doms around. It's like you gotta figure it
36:53
Speaker 1: out because if you don't, like, we'll just figure it
36:56
Speaker 1: out with someone else who's not gonna be as good
36:59
Speaker 1: as this guy. But we're not dealing with this, and
37:01
Speaker 1: we for damn sure are not talking about him currently,
37:05
Speaker 1: like they're talking about Jackson Smith, who are kind of
37:08
Speaker 1: on the same trajectory. Two guys who are due contract
37:11
Speaker 1: extensions that had enormous years who were great players, but
37:16
Speaker 1: one guy's been a lead off the field and the
37:19
Speaker 1: other has turned into a major pain in the ass.
37:22
Speaker 1: So whether he did this on his own, whether people
37:26
Speaker 1: pushed him to do this, I don't know, but I
37:28
Speaker 1: give him credit because if he did not change, it
37:31
Speaker 1: was not gonna end well because he wouldn't have stayed
37:33
Speaker 1: on the rams for long. It just wasn't gonna happen.
37:36
Speaker 1: They wouldn't do it. Look at the guys they invested.
37:39
Speaker 1: When's the last time they made a mistake with investing
37:42
Speaker 1: in a bad guy. It's pretty rare. Like they're pretty
37:45
Speaker 1: dialed in with the character stuff. It feels like I
37:48
Speaker 1: think we might have touched on this a little bit.
37:50
Speaker 1: But Kyle Shanahan yesterday, him and Lafleur were both like
37:55
Speaker 1: wearing the same suit and Lafloor kind of egged him on.
37:59
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, floor are oh you know the Rams
38:01
Speaker 1: that they wanted these guys to Uh, they wanted to
38:05
Speaker 1: play the Niners in Australia. I'd never I'd never heard that.
38:09
Speaker 1: I just assumed the league just wanted to put a
38:11
Speaker 1: good game there. And then Kyle's like, oh yeah, they
38:13
Speaker 1: they requested us that they wanted they're Australian. There was
38:17
Speaker 1: gonna be the Rams Australian home game. They said, we
38:20
Speaker 1: want to play the forty nine ers. Kyle's like, of
38:22
Speaker 1: course they do. We sell out their stadium. I went
38:26
Speaker 1: to a Rams Niner game at so Far twenty twenty one. Uh,
38:33
Speaker 1: it was probably seventy five Niner fans. It was so
38:37
Speaker 1: loud in there. And as Kyle said, they have to
38:39
Speaker 1: go on silent count. And here's the thing. When you
38:41
Speaker 1: move a lot, like the Rams were in LA, then
38:44
Speaker 1: they went to Saint Louis and they came back. The
38:46
Speaker 1: Chargers were in San Diego. They come to LA. The
38:49
Speaker 1: Raiders have gone to LA. They go to Oakland, they
38:51
Speaker 1: go to Vegas. You're not gonna have a home field advantage.
38:55
Speaker 1: The Saint Seattle were my entire life. The Seattle Seahawks
38:58
Speaker 1: have been in Seattle. My entire life. The forty nine
39:01
Speaker 1: Ers have been in the Bay Area my entire life.
39:03
Speaker 1: The Chicago Bears have been in Chicago. When you just
39:06
Speaker 1: stay somewhere, your fan base just gonna grow. It becomes
39:10
Speaker 1: more passionate, especially when you're good. But all these teams
39:13
Speaker 1: that move a lot, like what do you think you're getting,
39:16
Speaker 1: Especially in a place like la which got a million
39:19
Speaker 1: teams a lot going on, it's like, yeah, your fan base.
39:23
Speaker 1: I was at Low's today my dryer that when I
39:27
Speaker 1: bought this house, we remodeled it, but we left the
39:31
Speaker 1: washer and dryer from the previous guy, and you know,
39:34
Speaker 1: they're probably a ten years plus old, right. I was like,
39:37
Speaker 1: I'm not buying any washing dryer. They were fine. Well,
39:40
Speaker 1: last night the dryer snaps and it was like, I'm
39:44
Speaker 1: not paying some guy four or five hundred dollars to
39:46
Speaker 1: fix it. The dryer's probably not even worth that. So, like,
39:49
Speaker 1: you know what, We've been talking about it forever. I'm
39:51
Speaker 1: just gonna go get a new washer and dryer. So
39:53
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, first thing in the morning,
39:54
Speaker 1: I'll do a little husband duty. I'm gonna fire off
39:56
Speaker 1: the loas. Sometimes you just feel like a man walking
39:59
Speaker 1: into Lows. I'm a podcaster, but this is fucking where
40:03
Speaker 1: working men show up at seven eight in the morning
40:06
Speaker 1: with a coffee in their hand just to get some
40:08
Speaker 1: stuff to go do work. I'm just buying a washroom
40:11
Speaker 1: dryer that I'm gonna pay someone to install and remove mine.
40:14
Speaker 1: But that's neither here nor there. So you go in there,
40:19
Speaker 1: and as I'm walking, you know, you ask the lady
40:21
Speaker 1: the thing's enormous. I Low's home deeply. Sometimes you go
40:24
Speaker 1: in there and if you're not used to going in there.
40:26
Speaker 1: A lot some of you guys that are in like
40:27
Speaker 1: construction World or the do the DIY projects, you kind
40:31
Speaker 1: of know where to go. I don't go there that often,
40:33
Speaker 1: so I get in there a little overwhelmed. It's like
40:35
Speaker 1: where do I even walk? So you just first person
40:38
Speaker 1: you see with a vest on, You're like, where is
40:40
Speaker 1: whatever you're looking for? And they kind of point in
40:41
Speaker 1: that direction you go. And as I'm walking, there's a
40:44
Speaker 1: section with these golf carts and they're not like your
40:47
Speaker 1: normal golf cart. They're the golf carts that kind of
40:49
Speaker 1: look like a you know, almost like a mini car.
40:53
Speaker 1: I mean, they got like three rows of seats. They're huge.
40:56
Speaker 1: They actually look pretty sweet. If I had a bigger garage,
40:58
Speaker 1: I honestly i'd probably buy one. But the first one
41:02
Speaker 1: I see is just a forty nine er logo golf cart.
41:06
Speaker 1: I'm in North Scottsdale, Arizona, where the Arizona Cardinals are.
41:10
Speaker 1: They're building a new practic facility in the next couple years.
41:12
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be ready in like twenty eight
41:15
Speaker 1: is I mean a ten minute bike ride from where
41:19
Speaker 1: I'm sitting right now. And the forty nine ers stranglehold
41:25
Speaker 1: on the West coast, specifically southern California and Arizona speaks first.
41:29
Speaker 1: When they play the Rams and they play the Cardinals,
41:32
Speaker 1: they are forty nine er home games. So the forty
41:34
Speaker 1: nine ers have their home games. And then then when
41:36
Speaker 1: they play the Cardinals, and when they play the and
41:38
Speaker 1: they play the Rams, they get two home games. When
41:40
Speaker 1: they play Seattle Seahawks, and Seattle it is not a
41:42
Speaker 1: home game. It is a disadvantage. It is hard. So
41:46
Speaker 1: it's true road game. And I understand Kyle being like
41:49
Speaker 1: this sucks, And you know, Sean McVay is not really
41:53
Speaker 1: complaining about it. You know why, because he goes I
41:56
Speaker 1: would rather get on a flight nineteen hours and play
42:00
Speaker 1: these guys, even if it's kind of a neutral field.
42:03
Speaker 1: Then what I have to deal with. They lost last
42:05
Speaker 1: year to mac Jones because one advantage of the forty
42:08
Speaker 1: nine Ers have in these games is the other team
42:11
Speaker 1: has to go on silent count. And honestly, it's worse
42:13
Speaker 1: for the Chargers that every time they play the Broncos,
42:16
Speaker 1: every time they play the Chiefs, every time they play
42:18
Speaker 1: the Raiders, every time they play any fan base like
42:21
Speaker 1: the Vikings, the Bears, any group of people that have
42:23
Speaker 1: gravitated out, you know, to the southern region of Arizona, Vegas,
42:28
Speaker 1: in southern California, they're at a huge disadvantage. It sucks.
42:33
Speaker 1: I don't feel any sympathy though. That's what happens when
42:35
Speaker 1: you're a nomadic franchise. You New doesn't have that problem,
42:38
Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs, you do, doesn't have that problem. The New
42:42
Speaker 1: York Knicks, the San Franco Giants, the LA Dodgers don't
42:46
Speaker 1: fucking move. When you're not moving to different cities, you're
42:49
Speaker 1: not crossing state lines, your fan base will be loyal.
42:53
Speaker 1: The Steelers, the Packers, the Bear. None of these teams
42:55
Speaker 1: deal with it, you know, because they've just been in
42:57
Speaker 1: the same place forever. But someone actually hit me on
43:04
Speaker 1: on a DM that said for Fugazi Friday, we'll do
43:09
Speaker 1: this a day early. This guy must live in Australia.
43:12
Speaker 1: These tickets to the Rams Niner games are a joke.
43:17
Speaker 1: Ninety thousand people in Q in the pre sale three
43:21
Speaker 1: hundred dollars Australia plus. I don't know. That must be
43:25
Speaker 1: like they have different They must have a different currency
43:28
Speaker 1: for standing room only tickets, not even a seat GA
43:33
Speaker 1: is six hundred plus. I don't know the conversion rates,
43:36
Speaker 1: but clearly this guy lives there. Think is pretty crazy.
43:39
Speaker 1: Not to mention hotels flights to Melbourne are getting skyrocket
43:43
Speaker 1: better off grabbing a few bevies and smashing a bucket
43:46
Speaker 1: of wings with the mates at a local then watching
43:49
Speaker 1: the game of football on a cricket pitch. So yeah,
43:56
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not behind this Australian game, not
44:00
Speaker 1: because I didn't even know, or if I was the Rams,
44:03
Speaker 1: I would do the same thing. I just think this
44:05
Speaker 1: whole thing is ridiculous. But to now know that the
44:07
Speaker 1: Rams part of the reason they were begging to play
44:11
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers is because they get a disadvantage.
44:15
Speaker 1: Fine is one thing Kyle's gonna have to do is
44:19
Speaker 1: snap out of it. And even he said, he's like,
44:22
Speaker 1: I have till the summer and then once we start
44:25
Speaker 1: training camp, I will never talk about it again. But
44:27
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45:38
Speaker 1: was watching this show on Netflix where these young chicks
45:43
Speaker 1: and dudes date older people. It's like they don't know that.
45:48
Speaker 1: It's kind of like love is blind, but they're trying
45:51
Speaker 1: to set up someone in their twenties with someone in
45:52
Speaker 1: their fifties or sixties. And I was watching it last
45:56
Speaker 1: night and this girl who's probably like twenty two, two
46:00
Speaker 1: twenty three is dating this dude it's like forty, and
46:03
Speaker 1: she's wearing these tiny little sunglasses. And I looked at Maria.
46:06
Speaker 1: We're in bed, and Jack's sleeping last night was one
46:09
Speaker 1: of his greatest nights of sleep yet. It was like
46:11
Speaker 1: his Tom Brady moment. Slept from like nine to six
46:14
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. It was incredible. If he keeps
46:17
Speaker 1: that up, I don't even know what I'll do. I'll
46:20
Speaker 1: give him more milk, but oh, I don't give him
46:22
Speaker 1: any I'd give him littles, but she she creates the milk,
46:24
Speaker 1: you know, what I mean. I'll give him a standing
46:26
Speaker 1: ovation and I go wire a glasses so small and
46:31
Speaker 1: she's like, that's in. Now. I started thinking think about
46:36
Speaker 1: younger people, right, if you're twenty, you don't want to
46:39
Speaker 1: look like people that are forty five. And fashion is
46:43
Speaker 1: a great example. Like I was cool with the baggy jeans.
46:46
Speaker 1: I was glad they were gone. Well guess what, they're
46:48
Speaker 1: not back. It's all anyone wears more women than men.
46:52
Speaker 1: But it's like, the baggy jeans are back in style.
46:55
Speaker 1: You know why because things ebb and they flow, so
46:58
Speaker 1: you think something's gonna go out. But then all of
47:00
Speaker 1: a sudden, little glasses that I used to remember like
47:02
Speaker 1: twenty years ago people wearing are kind of coming back.
47:05
Speaker 1: Baggy jeans are back. That's the way fashion works. Something
47:09
Speaker 1: is cool, then it's not cool, and then it's cool again.
47:13
Speaker 1: And not that long ago, the running backs were jumping
47:16
Speaker 1: on zoom and they were it felt like all gonna
47:19
Speaker 1: strike the NFL, not like with a fist, but just
47:23
Speaker 1: like refuse to play because none of them are getting
47:25
Speaker 1: paid and getting screwed. Now, last year we had a
47:28
Speaker 1: five to seven running back. They played a Boise Steak
47:31
Speaker 1: at drafted six overall this year. It would be shocking
47:35
Speaker 1: if Jeremiah Love makes it out of the top five.
47:39
Speaker 1: I was in the car listening to uh John Eric Sullivan,
47:42
Speaker 1: who's impressive guy, and they were asking him like, are
47:48
Speaker 1: you know you just traded Jalen Waddle? Are you gonna
47:50
Speaker 1: trade a Chan? He said, not only are we not
47:53
Speaker 1: going to trade a Chan, We're talking to his agent.
47:55
Speaker 1: We're trying to give him a big extension. We think
47:58
Speaker 1: he's a foundational piece here. One of the best running
48:00
Speaker 1: backs in the league. Saquon Barkley got a contract from
48:05
Speaker 1: Howie and then got an extension the next year. Christian
48:09
Speaker 1: McCaffrey assigned multiple massive extensions. Alvin Kamara makes a ton.
48:15
Speaker 1: The running back is back as long as you can
48:18
Speaker 1: do it all catch and run. But that position, we thought,
48:22
Speaker 1: oh it was dead. No one's messing with him. It's
48:24
Speaker 1: all about the quarterback. And now find me a good
48:29
Speaker 1: Andy Reid, who is probably one of my best habvy
48:33
Speaker 1: coaches in league history, just gave a running back three
48:36
Speaker 1: year contract forty five million dollars. The guy had like
48:40
Speaker 1: nine good games, great college player, but a little risky.
48:44
Speaker 1: But he's like, we need a really good running back.
48:46
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker, come on down, eight Chan. I wanted to
48:51
Speaker 1: call him ETN, but he said his name was eight Chan.
48:53
Speaker 1: Saints gave him a bunch of money. The running back
48:56
Speaker 1: everyone thought was dead. Just shows you football is very
49:00
Speaker 1: fickle things that like, obviously you're always gonna need tackles
49:04
Speaker 1: and pass rushers. Those are those are never gonna go
49:07
Speaker 1: out of, go out of, you know, style. But it
49:11
Speaker 1: felt like the running back was just dime a dozen,
49:16
Speaker 1: find three guys off the street. Not really the case.
49:20
Speaker 1: Three years ago, Christian McCaffrey best player forty nine or
49:23
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Last year in the Super Bowl, didn't win it.
49:27
Speaker 1: Last year, two years ago, Saquon Barkley best player on
49:31
Speaker 1: the Eagles, Super Bowl champion. Last year Kenneth Walker went
49:35
Speaker 1: on an incredible hot streak and as John Schneider said,
49:39
Speaker 1: made enormous plays in our big games and got a
49:44
Speaker 1: huge contract. After running back matters, always has, always will,
49:49
Speaker 1: and it's it really matters now. What I wanted to
49:53
Speaker 1: do before I got out of here is someone had
50:00
Speaker 1: had said, you know, you broke down the coach's photo.
50:05
Speaker 1: You broke down the GM photo. How about you give
50:10
Speaker 1: some thoughts on the Jay Glazer video on them drinking
50:16
Speaker 1: at the pool. I've seen pictures of this before. I
50:21
Speaker 1: didn't know this was an annual thing that as they've
50:25
Speaker 1: talked about. Mike Tomlin Glazier put this on. They wanted
50:29
Speaker 1: to get all the coaches in the league out for
50:31
Speaker 1: basically a happy hour. Where I come from happy hour
50:35
Speaker 1: starts at about four, This happy hour starts at one. Never
50:38
Speaker 1: opposed suns Out Pool happy hour going on all four.
50:42
Speaker 1: It this builtmore hotel where they stay at the first
50:48
Speaker 1: long weekend. My wife, she wasn't even technically my girlfriend.
50:53
Speaker 1: Then we had on like our third night of just
50:57
Speaker 1: having a lot of fun. We like, what are we
50:59
Speaker 1: gonna do to It's like, you know Arizona, and I wasn't.
51:02
Speaker 1: This was like twenty twenty one or two. She's like,
51:06
Speaker 1: you could just go to pools and pay for a
51:08
Speaker 1: day pass and they're just sweet. I'm like, that's not
51:11
Speaker 1: I didn't really do that in the Bay Area. Why
51:13
Speaker 1: would you. That doesn't really exist, Like, oh, let's do that.
51:16
Speaker 1: It's like she's like, it's like twenty bucks, you know, random,
51:19
Speaker 1: especially like a Sunday, We'll go to this historic hotel
51:22
Speaker 1: and you just drink and get food. So we just
51:24
Speaker 1: went there, got blasted on like a Sunday, I don't
51:28
Speaker 1: even know when it was, probably May, and just had
51:30
Speaker 1: a good time at the Billbore Hotel exactly at the
51:32
Speaker 1: pool where they were. So it was kind of nostalgic
51:34
Speaker 1: seeing these guys sitting around. But Jay Glazer just gets
51:39
Speaker 1: all these guys together and they just kick it. And
51:43
Speaker 1: right when I saw it, like, I had like seven
51:44
Speaker 1: thoughts and the first thing I thought of, the first
51:48
Speaker 1: thing you see. I mean, anyone just needs to go
51:51
Speaker 1: to Jay Glazer's Twitter, needs to go to his Instagram,
51:54
Speaker 1: and you can just watch this video. You just see
51:57
Speaker 1: Brian Schottenheimer and Robert Sawa just kind of hanging. They're
52:02
Speaker 1: kind of in no man's land because there's this long table.
52:05
Speaker 1: You got a bunch of guys at both ends, and
52:08
Speaker 1: they're just kind of in the middle, probably making some
52:12
Speaker 1: small talk, not sure they know each other that well.
52:16
Speaker 1: They don't want to dive into other people's conversations. They're
52:18
Speaker 1: kind of you know, Robert Solid, this good looking bald guy,
52:20
Speaker 1: gives up a peace sign, but then as he scrolls,
52:24
Speaker 1: he immediately goes to this crew of Shanahan Matt Ryan
52:30
Speaker 1: and Lafloor, not Matt Lafleur, but Mike telling them, and
52:35
Speaker 1: you could hear him say Whisper Rock which is one
52:38
Speaker 1: of the coolest golf country clubs here, which is where
52:41
Speaker 1: all the pro athletes and all the former pro athletes
52:43
Speaker 1: and all the sticks, all the pro golfers go. It's
52:46
Speaker 1: just a cool hay and him telling them about that,
52:49
Speaker 1: and you can see Matt Ryan and Kyle holding their
52:51
Speaker 1: cocktails just like shaking their head like this place is sweet.
52:55
Speaker 1: And then he pans a little bit more. And the
52:58
Speaker 1: first guy you see, Dan Campbell, but sitting next to
53:02
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell is Michael Phelps. And first and like, honestly,
53:06
Speaker 1: when I first saw Michael Phelps, I thought it was
53:08
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni. But then you do a double take, a
53:11
Speaker 1: little too skinny for Sirianni. And then Jay Glazer said,
53:13
Speaker 1: look that's Michael Phelps. I'm like, that's kind of weird,
53:16
Speaker 1: and then you realize Michael Phelps, Michigan guy. They're probably
53:19
Speaker 1: telling stories. And then he pans a little bit more.
53:22
Speaker 1: I think it's Kurt Menafie is just they're hanging as
53:24
Speaker 1: well with John Lynch. So what is Dan Campbell and
53:28
Speaker 1: Michael Phelps talking about My guess would be Dan as
53:31
Speaker 1: fascinated when Michael was training the diet. Look at Dan,
53:37
Speaker 1: I mean, he this dude likes to eat. And you
53:39
Speaker 1: got John Lynch just chiming, and I can see Dan
53:41
Speaker 1: Campbell just wanting to know about big hits in like
53:43
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, and Michael Phelps just taking it in
53:47
Speaker 1: and then he pans a little bit more. And this
53:49
Speaker 1: is the only time I felt just a little sorry
53:52
Speaker 1: because I like this guy. I think he's smart. I'm
53:54
Speaker 1: actually think he's gonna be a good coach. But anytime
53:57
Speaker 1: you're the new guy to the group, and that's the
54:00
Speaker 1: advantage from Michael Floor. His brother's been a head coach forever.
54:03
Speaker 1: He's worked with all like seven of these head coaches. Right,
54:07
Speaker 1: known Kyle for like twenty years. Buddies with Sala just
54:11
Speaker 1: knows this crew, Kubiak, you got Jeff Haffley. It's kind
54:15
Speaker 1: of a no man's land, who's just kind of sitting
54:17
Speaker 1: by himself, like not probably quite confident enough to just
54:21
Speaker 1: go kick it with Phelps and Dan Campbell, not quite
54:25
Speaker 1: cool enough to just go hang out with McVeigh and
54:27
Speaker 1: Sean Payton can't just go like sit there with Matt
54:31
Speaker 1: Ryan and Kyle Shanahan. So he's kind of doing what
54:35
Speaker 1: if they put me or you in this situation and
54:37
Speaker 1: they just say, Hey, we're gonna take you to this
54:40
Speaker 1: drinking situation with all these coaches, it's just gonna be
54:44
Speaker 1: all the NFL head coaches, kind of the younger, cooler ones.
54:47
Speaker 1: Where would you sit. You would kind of just sit
54:50
Speaker 1: in a weird spot by yourself and probably not talk
54:53
Speaker 1: to anybody. That's what Jeff Haffley was doing, just kind
54:56
Speaker 1: of sitting there like, God, I hope I win and
54:58
Speaker 1: I'm pretty good, and these guys like me in a
55:00
Speaker 1: couple of years, like I'm in one of these conversations.
55:03
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, you see Sirianni sitting
55:05
Speaker 1: there too, with Todd Munkin. That's Sirianni's won a super Bowl.
55:10
Speaker 1: You got Munkin, who's I bet on being one and done?
55:14
Speaker 1: You got half lou just not trying to ruffle any feathers.
55:17
Speaker 1: And then Sirianni's sitting there, Who's like, oh, this this
55:21
Speaker 1: story's coming out about Jalen, I better buckle up. And
55:24
Speaker 1: then my favorite part of this drinking session of this
55:28
Speaker 1: is like this is where the young hotshots sit. You
55:32
Speaker 1: got Joe Brady, You got Sean McVay, who's wearing just
55:36
Speaker 1: a skin tight blue like probably like Rams undershirt. You
55:41
Speaker 1: got Liam Cohen, you got Lafloor's hair just perfect. You
55:45
Speaker 1: got Mentor who's not quite that cool, definitely not that
55:49
Speaker 1: cool looking, but he's really good at his job, so
55:51
Speaker 1: they kind of invited him over. And you got just
55:54
Speaker 1: holding court with just a full crisp beer in his hand,
55:59
Speaker 1: of just talking NonStop. I think he might be wearing
56:01
Speaker 1: a Sunday Red shirt. Is Sean Payton, and he is
56:05
Speaker 1: just telling stories. Joe Brady's laughing, Laflora's laughing. McVeigh standing there,
56:10
Speaker 1: just waiting when he can tell stories. But I can't
56:13
Speaker 1: even imagine what Sean. I mean, Sean Payton just guy
56:17
Speaker 1: likes talk, you know. And honestly, if I was there,
56:21
Speaker 1: I would have, if I was half lee, I would
56:22
Speaker 1: try to work my way over to Sean Payton just
56:26
Speaker 1: so I could listen. Because that's the key. When you're
56:28
Speaker 1: in one of those environments and you're not really supposed
56:32
Speaker 1: to be there, well, maybe you are supposed to be there.
56:34
Speaker 1: But you're not really welcome, right. It's like a club
56:38
Speaker 1: that you're in, but like you haven't really paid the
56:41
Speaker 1: dues yet to sit with where you kind of want
56:43
Speaker 1: a one day sitting. You just got to position yourself
56:47
Speaker 1: to kind of the crew that, especially in that situation,
56:49
Speaker 1: is gonna be the most entertaining. So I felt bad
56:52
Speaker 1: for Halfley. Hell is that John Harbaugh? Yes, John Harbaugh,
56:56
Speaker 1: But Sean Bae. I think it's safe to say that
56:59
Speaker 1: Sean Payton is uh, you know, he'd be a great podcaster.
57:02
Speaker 1: He likes to talk the volume mm hmm,