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Fernando Mendoza preps for Raiders, Dexter Lawrence requests Giants trade, Lamar Jackson attending Ravens OTAs · 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: a beautiful day down here in Los Angeles, and I
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Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I've been sitting there watching
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Speaker 1: Colin f takes and I got some thoughts and takes.
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Speaker 1: let's fire out some football takes on some of the
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Speaker 1: stories the news that happened this week, from Lamar Jackson
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Speaker 1: to Fernando Mendoza to the Giants and Robert Sala to
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Speaker 1: let's talk some ball. Let's start with Fernando Mendoza, who
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday went to Vegas and met with the Raiders.
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Speaker 1: Now a lot of times, remember when Adam Peters went
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Speaker 1: viral because he took everyone to top golf beside Caleb Williams,
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Speaker 1: but the next group of quarterbacks, and he just tried
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Speaker 1: to pick out who the alpha was, and everyone's like,
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Speaker 1: you should know. It's like, it's kind of part of
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Speaker 1: the process. I actually kind of liked that idea. And
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Speaker 1: by all accounts, I mean, a Jaden's healthy, he's an
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Speaker 1: elite player, but most of the time, if you're not
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Speaker 1: drafting one, hell, he was drafting two and he did that.
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Speaker 1: So imagine the people that are drafting five, ten, fourteen, twenty.
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Speaker 1: When you bring in these guys on visits. One you
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Speaker 1: don't know if they're going to be there, and two
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Speaker 1: you're like legitimately kind of interviewing them. What's he like,
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Speaker 1: how does he interact with people, what's he like with
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Speaker 1: the training room, how's he with the coordinator? What's his
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Speaker 1: football knowledge? You're throwing crazy stuff at him. There was
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Speaker 1: a famous story that Matt Naggy because again the Chiefs
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Speaker 1: weren't guaranteed to get Patrick Mahomes, but they really liked him,
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Speaker 1: and when they brought him in on his visit, Matt
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Speaker 1: Naggie gave him the answers to the test before Andy
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Speaker 1: started peppering him and Andy thought he was a genius.
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Speaker 1: But when you're drafting one overall and you know the
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Speaker 1: guy you're taking the visit is not can't be normal.
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Speaker 1: If anything, you are prepping him for rookie Mini caamp
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Speaker 1: and OTAs. There was a report that Brian Greasy, the
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Speaker 1: former forty nine Ers quarterback coach for two years with
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Speaker 1: Brock Perty, who obviously knows Kyle Shanahan's system at this
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Speaker 1: point in time like the back of his hand, which
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Speaker 1: is the Koubiak system because they're the same thing, is
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Speaker 1: teaching Fernando Mendoza the playbook because this is a situation
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Speaker 1: where when you get to Vegas. I think it's a
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Speaker 1: tricky situation for Clint because he said, ideally a quarterback
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Speaker 1: sits behind the veteran player. But more than likely Fernando
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Speaker 1: Mendoza is going to be better than Kirk Cousins. He's
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Speaker 1: just more physically gifted, especially this version. Kirk is there
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Speaker 1: for eleven million dollars, is costing the Raiders to kind
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Speaker 1: of just teach him what it's like playing in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: The time in the NFL, how to prep you know,
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Speaker 1: Monday through Friday in the NFL. Here's what I did.
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Speaker 1: That works for me, what works for you might be
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Speaker 1: a little bit different, Like you just want a veteran presence.
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Speaker 1: We talked about this last week. I don't care who
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Speaker 1: you are. Having someone to help show you a path
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Speaker 1: is only a positive. And I just don't see if
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Speaker 1: it's a true competition because one of Fernando Mendoza's defining
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Speaker 1: attributes is his mind in understanding of football. He's going
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Speaker 1: to pick it up relatively fast, even though it can
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Speaker 1: be a confusing system and getting comfortable with your back
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Speaker 1: to the center. So there's no guarantee that he starts.
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Speaker 1: But if he's able to pick up the offense, how
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Speaker 1: and they're just going to have a competition, how he's
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Speaker 1: not going to beat him out. And even if he
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Speaker 1: named Cousins the starting quarterback, if Fernando Mendoza was better
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Speaker 1: in training camp, there's no way you could go with Cousins,
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Speaker 1: not with what they're paying some of these veteran guys
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Speaker 1: having Crosby. So I think the Mendoza thing makes it
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Speaker 1: a lot easier on the Raiders. They know who they're picking.
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Speaker 1: They're already starting the wheels in motion. Of a lot
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Speaker 1: of times, these visits and I was a part of
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Speaker 1: them for a couple of years in Philly. They're pretty intense.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's a little on edge. The guys are really nervous
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Speaker 1: because most of us, if you go to a job interview,
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Speaker 1: you're nervous. You know there it can be intimidating. I
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Speaker 1: don't care what you do or who you are, so
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Speaker 1: you're putting that situation. It's just not the most comfortable environment.
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Speaker 1: Then if you get hired, you look back six months later,
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Speaker 1: your buddies, everyone, everyone's relaxed. It's a different deal. Where
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Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza can go into the quote unquote visit. He
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Speaker 1: already has the job. He might not officially have the
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Speaker 1: starting quarterback job, but he's he's unofficially on the team.
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Speaker 1: He's going to be the number one overall pick. They're
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Speaker 1: not talking to him about like questions they would ask
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Speaker 1: other prospects or that are big ask at all these
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Speaker 1: other places. When the Giants, when the Titans, when the Chiefs,
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Speaker 1: when they bring all these people into the building, they're
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Speaker 1: trying to get a feel for the guy. How's his
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Speaker 1: football knowledge, how much he loves it, any question marks
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Speaker 1: they have from their scouting process. So and I just
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Speaker 1: think this makes it way more seamless and Fernando can
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Speaker 1: get a jump on it. The other report is for
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Speaker 1: the first time since Trevor Lawrence that Mendoza will not
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Speaker 1: attend the draft, which everyone's different. You know, Joe Thomas
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Speaker 1: famously went fishing. Obviously, Trevor Lawrence was at home. I do,
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Speaker 1: and I get it, like you already know you're going
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Speaker 1: to Vegas, you're in Pittsburgh, long flight, you're going there
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Speaker 1: the next day. I do think it's a pretty cool experience. Now,
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Speaker 1: I've never been to one of these traveling circus drafts,
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Speaker 1: which look way cooler than the one I attended, which
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Speaker 1: was damn cool. I went to Radio City Music Hall
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Speaker 1: in the JJ Watt, Julio Jones, AJ Green, Cam Newton
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Speaker 1: von Miller. It was a star studded, fucking draft. Somehow
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Speaker 1: the Eagles ended up we ended up with Danny Watkins.
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Speaker 1: But the draft was badass. It was loaded Alden Smith,
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Speaker 1: Tyron Smith, loaded with stars. And I remember my first
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Speaker 1: time ever in New York in Manhattan and just thinking
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Speaker 1: it was really cool, and it was. It was. It's
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Speaker 1: it's a pretty special moment going up there. If anyone
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Speaker 1: asked me, like, what would you recommend doing or if
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Speaker 1: you were in that stage, I would one hundred pcent
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Speaker 1: go to the draft. Now I get it, everyone's different.
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Speaker 1: You know, there are probably some complications. You know, his
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Speaker 1: mother's in a wheelchair. Maybe it's easier at home, which
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Speaker 1: I can't fault them for that at all. So I
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Speaker 1: mean there is variables with him that may differ obviously
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Speaker 1: from other people. But I think you know the one
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Speaker 1: problem with this draft, and like I feel it in
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Speaker 1: my own excitement a couple of years ago with all
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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks like this, quarterbacks drive this sport because they
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Speaker 1: drive the conversation, They drive the way we talk about games,
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Speaker 1: even though we know offensive and defensive line play really
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Speaker 1: matters and dictates, you know, successes of teams. But like,
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Speaker 1: we're not breaking down guards at centers, even though you
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Speaker 1: better have good guards and centers, you're gonna get your
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Speaker 1: ass kicked by other good defensive tackles. And the quarterback
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Speaker 1: play in this or the quarterback buzz in this draft,
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Speaker 1: this is not great. There's one guy's going number one,
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Speaker 1: there's one guy that's up for debate whether he's going
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Speaker 1: to go in the top thirty two. And then there's
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Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of guys that are probably gonna
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Speaker 1: go in the third day of the draft. Now, one
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Speaker 1: thing I saw, I forget who broke this down by
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Speaker 1: Maybe it was Albert brew was writing about it and
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Speaker 1: he's like, well, Fernando Mendoza's comp is Jared Goff, which
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Speaker 1: I think is fair, But Fernando Mendozo is a much
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Speaker 1: better athlete. Now, is Jared Goff a better anticipatory thrower
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Speaker 1: coming out of college? Probably a little bit. They ran,
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Speaker 1: you know, Jared Goff ran like a spread sunny Dyke's offense.
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Speaker 1: But obviously he went on to have and is having
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Speaker 1: a fantastic career. Right if you draft number one and
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Speaker 1: you get Jared Goff's career, most ideally you want Brady
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Speaker 1: Manning or Aaron Rodgers, but most people would take Jared Goff.
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Speaker 1: I saw someone comped Simpson to Brock Perdy, and I went, well,
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Speaker 1: if your comp's Jared Goff. And he went number one,
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Speaker 1: and then he had a career that he's going to
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Speaker 1: make five hundred million dollars, make several Pro Bowls, be
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Speaker 1: a quarterback that started for multiple teams that went deep
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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Like that's nails. Perdy, who's now having
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Speaker 1: a great career, was the last pick in the draft.
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Speaker 1: This is what I've been saying. A draft is just
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Speaker 1: a marketplace. It's an economic exercise. And historically guys like
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Speaker 1: Purty hell Kirk Cousins, who is going to make more
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Speaker 1: money in his career than Tom Brady. Now it's you know,
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Speaker 1: Brady's money was a little bit of a fugazi because
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Speaker 1: he had you know, Robert Craft paying him here doing
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Speaker 1: some other stuff. But regardless, the point is Brock Purty's
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Speaker 1: skill set as a prospect was not a first, second,
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Speaker 1: or third round player, and he because he was the
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Speaker 1: last pick in the draft, or just anytime you're drafted
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Speaker 1: in later rounds, you might ended up on a good team.
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Speaker 1: And he really benefited from it and he took advantage
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Speaker 1: of it. But Brock perty is a prospect if that's
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Speaker 1: his comp and Brock was a fantastic player at Iowa State.
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Speaker 1: You know the clip of Dan Hurley walking off with
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Speaker 1: with what I fuck my brains. I haven't slept much
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Speaker 1: in the last like two days because I'm up early
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Speaker 1: and then I'm coming off like six weeks no sleep
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Speaker 1: caravan or you could tell Dan Hurley is like in tears,
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Speaker 1: the emotion he has for that human. He loves that player.
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Speaker 1: If you ask Dan Hurley, like over cocktails, who's your
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Speaker 1: favorite player of all time? He probably a caravan right,
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Speaker 1: just it's not his best player, but it's his most
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Speaker 1: important and the guy that he loves the most. That
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Speaker 1: clip of Brock Purty on senior day with Matt Campbell,
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Speaker 1: who's now the coach of Penn State, Matt Campbell's in tears.
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Speaker 1: It was like he was hugging his child, his brother,
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Speaker 1: his father. Like that love he had for his quarterback
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Speaker 1: is unmatched. So brock Purty wasn't just a good player,
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Speaker 1: he was beloved. He resurrected that program. Was the last
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Speaker 1: pick in the draft. So Ty Simpson off one year,
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Speaker 1: starting off a good eight game stretch, He's gonna go
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Speaker 1: in the first round and his comps brock Purty. Again,
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Speaker 1: I'm not talking Brock Party in the NFL with Kyle Shanahan.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking brock Purty the prospect, because there are two different things,
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Speaker 1: and we talk about it all the time. The reason
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Speaker 1: that when a guy runs slow he might end up
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Speaker 1: in the round is because running slow dictates where you
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Speaker 1: go It doesn't dictate whether you're gonna be a good player.
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Speaker 1: It just dictates where you're gonna go in the draft. Now,
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Speaker 1: I get quarterback inflation, but you start overpaying, especially inflationary times,
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Speaker 1: you can get burned. So I think this Ty Simpson thing,
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Speaker 1: to me feels pretty crazy. I just I don't see
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Speaker 1: it in the first round. Now. I've had buddies in
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Speaker 1: the league that are like, well, John, you're saying you
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Speaker 1: take the guy pick fifty. If you like the guy
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Speaker 1: at pick fifty, why wouldn't you just take him a
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Speaker 1: pick twenty five. He's a quarterback. This isn't you know,
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Speaker 1: rotational because all these other positions, right, I can take
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Speaker 1: a wide receiver, I can take a defensive they all
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Speaker 1: can rotate. Quarterback either plays or he doesn't. And if
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Speaker 1: you're gona take a guy in the first couple rounds,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna view him as a starter. I do think
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Speaker 1: the pressure of being a first round pick is pretty emense,
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Speaker 1: and most guys that are drafted in the first round,
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Speaker 1: they get shoved into action immediately. And if not day one,
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Speaker 1: week one, I would say by week ten, I mean
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Speaker 1: it went. I would say Penix went about as long
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Speaker 1: as possible, and the only reason it went that long
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Speaker 1: because they give just gave Cousins ninety million dollars. But
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Speaker 1: most guys, if you're drafted the top thirty two, it
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Speaker 1: is a stunning occurrence if if you do not start
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Speaker 1: games your rookie year, let alone start pretty quick, right
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Speaker 1: Jordan Love outlier situation. He had Aaron Rodgers, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: one of the five six greatest players of all time,
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Speaker 1: Alex Patrick Mahomes. They were making the playoffs every year.
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Speaker 1: Most times these guys are shoved into action. Joe Flatco
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Speaker 1: is a legendary raven by midseason, like get Lamar in there,
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Speaker 1: and most of the other guys start immediately. So you
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Speaker 1: take Simpson in the first round, no one's going to
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Speaker 1: want to see him on the batch, and you're shoving
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Speaker 1: that guy in year one on more than likely a
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Speaker 1: bad team. I just because none of the good teams
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Speaker 1: are going to start Ty Simpson. So I don't know,
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Speaker 1: I just I feel like I'm being a hater, but
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Speaker 1: New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia. You know this is what
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Speaker 1: gets interesting. A couple things would jump out to me.
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Speaker 1: The Vikings do not have a general manager, right. They
15:07
Speaker 1: have this contract guy running point on it, but he's
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Speaker 1: not gonna pick the players. The scouting department has accumulated
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Speaker 1: all this information, but the coaches are in charge. So
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Speaker 1: if this draft works or doesn't work, this is a
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Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell Brian Flores run operation. And I read that
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Speaker 1: George Peyton, who is longtime Viking executive, who is like
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Speaker 1: Spielman's right hand guy, who is now Sean Payton's GM.
15:38
Speaker 1: I just assumed years ago. I'm like, you know, Sean
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Speaker 1: Payton will want his own guy, but it seems like
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Speaker 1: they've hit it off. Denver is a fucking incredible football town.
15:45
Speaker 1: It's a great place to live. It's you know, fresh air,
15:49
Speaker 1: just beautiful scenery. If you're making GM money, you can
15:51
Speaker 1: live in the sweet Country Club Peyton Manning might live
15:54
Speaker 1: down the street. Free means it's awesome. So by all accounts,
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Speaker 1: he's not leaving. He wants to stay, which his ownership's
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Speaker 1: got huge money, He's comfortable there, their team's good. I
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Speaker 1: am kind of interested if they truly go on a search,
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Speaker 1: like is someone signing up to essentially be Kevin O'Connell's
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Speaker 1: personnel guy because no one's getting that job and just
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Speaker 1: becoming the guy picking the players, right, that's just not
16:22
Speaker 1: gonna be handed to you. It's like the argument with
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Speaker 1: Ian Cunningham, which I think the Bear should get picks,
16:31
Speaker 1: but the league said, we've seen this before. You answer
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Speaker 1: to Matt Ryan. So even if he's letting you pick
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Speaker 1: the players, you're still not the boss and big on
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Speaker 1: precedents and slippery slope. I understand it, even if I disagree.
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Speaker 1: I think the Minnesota. Situation's pretty easy because we act
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Speaker 1: like QUESSI was this Belichick right or just pat Riley,
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Speaker 1: Like no one told that guy what to do. He
16:58
Speaker 1: picked the players, and you coach the player, you do
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Speaker 1: what he no chance he's forcing players on Kevin. So
17:04
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell already had a big role in the draft.
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Speaker 1: Now it feels like it's all on him because there
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Speaker 1: is no chance anyone in that room is like, coach,
17:15
Speaker 1: I know you love this guy, but I'm telling you,
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Speaker 1: let's take my guy. And Kevin like, oh, yeah, you're right,
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Speaker 1: take him Like that's not happening. And again, I'm not
17:24
Speaker 1: not saying that he can't pick good players. We're about
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Speaker 1: to find out. Historically, in my experience, coaches can be
17:31
Speaker 1: hit or missed with that because they just view the
17:33
Speaker 1: game through a different lens when he evaluating. Some of
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Speaker 1: them are really good evaluators, and some of them who
17:37
Speaker 1: are good coaches, you're like, what did you just say
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Speaker 1: about that guy? He's called a guy a fourth rounder,
17:43
Speaker 1: he's like a top ten pick. So some of these
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Speaker 1: guys because they're like, well, he just doesn't quite understand
17:48
Speaker 1: out a two gap with his arms, Like who gives
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Speaker 1: a fuck? Is the guy been the edge? See that
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Speaker 1: guy's closing speed, it's three time All American and other
17:57
Speaker 1: guy's like you see this guy's effort. Okay, he's like
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Speaker 1: a couldn't get open on me. But it's one of
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Speaker 1: the deals. And the other thing is the Giants. This
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Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence contract. I guess you know. At the at
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Speaker 1: the draft, Joe Shane said, I don't know where this
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Speaker 1: is coming from. John Harboss called him like a foundational piece.
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Speaker 1: He's obviously coming off a bad year right now. Holdouts
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Speaker 1: typically are it's technically not a holdout because it's voluntary minicamp.
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Speaker 1: But when John Harbusch, youer coach is not a voluntary
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Speaker 1: many camp. The Ravens used to tackle in practice during
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Speaker 1: OTAs they got fined. They've got OTA's taken away. You know,
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Speaker 1: the lob did the same thing. John Harbass team, especially
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Speaker 1: brand new coach, and you've been shitty like he wants
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Speaker 1: everyone front and center, and I think Dexter Lawrence not
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Speaker 1: showing up. Devin a Chan didn't show up in Miami.
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Speaker 1: They want more money, which there's a business all for it.
18:54
Speaker 1: I think the Dexter Lawrence thing's a little complicated. But
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Speaker 1: I also think and people have written and talked to this.
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Speaker 1: In Minnesota, we know who the boss right now is.
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Speaker 1: It's Kevin O'Connell. We know who the boss is. In
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Speaker 1: New York it is John Harbad. This gave him a
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars and he gets to answer to the
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Speaker 1: coach for the first time in franchise history. But you know,
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Speaker 1: Joe Shane is the guy running point with the agent
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Speaker 1: doing a lot of this work. It's gonna be fascinating
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Speaker 1: to watch this playout. And the problem is with the
19:27
Speaker 1: guy want more money, you can't just be like, well,
19:28
Speaker 1: can you trade him and get some value and just
19:30
Speaker 1: kind of move on and pivot. Well, yeah, in theory
19:33
Speaker 1: you could shop him around, but his value is also
19:36
Speaker 1: tied to he wants a race. So if you trade
19:39
Speaker 1: him to Team X, he's like, okay, I'll see they're
19:41
Speaker 1: at Ota. No, I still want my race because I'm
19:44
Speaker 1: making twenty two million. I want my thirty five million,
19:46
Speaker 1: Like you're coming off like a sack. That's where I
19:48
Speaker 1: think it gets very, very complicated. Now, this is the
19:54
Speaker 1: advantage of having John Harbaugh as your head coach. Ben
19:59
Speaker 1: the on that I even saw a clip of him saying,
20:03
Speaker 1: this happens every single year. This is part of the deal,
20:07
Speaker 1: and having him there gives you credibility in these situations
20:10
Speaker 1: for him to say, not that big a deal. We
20:13
Speaker 1: will handle it. We will see how it plays out.
20:15
Speaker 1: Sometime every coach kind of says that, but be like,
20:17
Speaker 1: I don't know how this is gonna play out, Like,
20:20
Speaker 1: for example, the Achan thing. I didn't quite realize. I
20:24
Speaker 1: said this like a couple months ago. I didn't quite
20:27
Speaker 1: realize how good he was. I don't know about you.
20:29
Speaker 1: I wasn't super locked into every snap of the Miami
20:31
Speaker 1: Dolphins season. I knew he was a really talented player,
20:34
Speaker 1: but then you look at the stature, like, god, he
20:36
Speaker 1: was better in a thought. Then you start texting personnel guys.
20:38
Speaker 1: They're like, telling you, bro, this guy is. I had
20:42
Speaker 1: a GM telling me that they thought if they thought
20:44
Speaker 1: about trading him, which they pushed back about it. They said,
20:47
Speaker 1: at the owner's meetings, we plan on extending him. He
20:49
Speaker 1: thought they'd get the equivalent of a first round pick.
20:52
Speaker 1: And the more you look at it, he's young. He's like,
20:54
Speaker 1: running backs don't cost that much. Yeah, Like if I
20:57
Speaker 1: was John Schneider. I'd give a pick thirty two for him,
21:00
Speaker 1: and you give him an extension in that offense, he'd
21:02
Speaker 1: be incredible. But they're not going to do it. But
21:05
Speaker 1: they haven't extended him yet, so he's not gonna show
21:06
Speaker 1: up at OTA's and risk getting injured until I get
21:09
Speaker 1: my whatever fifty million dollar contract, not like total. You know,
21:14
Speaker 1: he's a running back. It's like three years, fifty million
21:16
Speaker 1: dollars or whatever he ends up getting. But it's his business.
21:20
Speaker 1: But my point is that when the Miami guys, who
21:24
Speaker 1: I feel like are impressive, they looked apart. They talked
21:27
Speaker 1: a part. They have great resumes, right, Halfley's been a
21:30
Speaker 1: stud last couple of years in Green Bay. The GM
21:34
Speaker 1: has spent twenty plus years, I don't know, one of
21:37
Speaker 1: the top five franchises in America in terms of well run.
21:41
Speaker 1: It could because they don't have an owner, but regardless,
21:44
Speaker 1: I mean they've their front office has been the cream
21:46
Speaker 1: of the crop in the NFL for decades. It's awesome.
21:49
Speaker 1: They produce great scouts, and I don't know if they're
21:52
Speaker 1: going to figure this out just because they say that
21:55
Speaker 1: they have no history of doing this right. John Harbos
21:58
Speaker 1: has done this a million times. Sean Payton's handled a
22:00
Speaker 1: million hold outs. Andy Reid's been there, done that. When
22:04
Speaker 1: you're new, you just never know. Are you trying to
22:06
Speaker 1: drive a hard bargain? Are you willing to overpay? Are
22:08
Speaker 1: you willing to take care of him? Does this guy
22:09
Speaker 1: have a little more leverage because your team sucks? What
22:13
Speaker 1: if he just all of a sudden demands a trade.
22:15
Speaker 1: You said you wouldn't trade him. Are you gonna renig
22:17
Speaker 1: on that? So it's just it's a lot going on,
22:19
Speaker 1: and this is a fun time of year with some
22:21
Speaker 1: of that stuff. Right Personally, when it was reported the
22:25
Speaker 1: other day, and I guess Orlovsky went on TV and
22:28
Speaker 1: said something about Lamar Jackson, like an hour later he
22:31
Speaker 1: shows up and had nothing to do with Orlowsky. He
22:33
Speaker 1: was just like, this guy never shows up, and then
22:35
Speaker 1: he just shows up. I do think it is important,
22:38
Speaker 1: right if you are a veteran player like Lamar is
22:41
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. I do think it's crazy.
22:44
Speaker 1: And I get he's gonna make a lot of money
22:45
Speaker 1: of his career, but when if you're making ten grand
22:49
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you go to make
22:51
Speaker 1: one hundred grand, you wouldn't just give away one thousand dollars, right,
22:55
Speaker 1: even though relative to your income, one thousand dollars when
22:58
Speaker 1: you're making ten grand, it's ten percent, and a thousand
23:01
Speaker 1: dollars when you're making one hundred grand is a percent.
23:03
Speaker 1: So it's worth way less to you in terms of
23:06
Speaker 1: the amount of money you're making, but you would still
23:08
Speaker 1: value that number when you get really rich. Five hundred
23:13
Speaker 1: grand if you're making fifty million dollars doesn't seem like
23:16
Speaker 1: that much money. Because Lamar Jackson skipped voluntary workouts the
23:20
Speaker 1: last couple of years, he gave up one point five
23:24
Speaker 1: million dollars. Now, maybe Lama said, well, over the course
23:27
Speaker 1: of those two years, I made one hundred million dollars,
23:29
Speaker 1: So it's a tiny percentage. But it's like bro, I
23:33
Speaker 1: would never just give money away, right, And part of
23:38
Speaker 1: it he'd go, I already know the scheme. I like
23:40
Speaker 1: being in Florida. I don't want to be in Baltimore.
23:42
Speaker 1: Don't blame you. I'm not gonna go full lebron Memphis
23:46
Speaker 1: because I haven't spent much time in Baltimore, but I've
23:48
Speaker 1: driven by. It wouldn't be the first place i'd stop
23:50
Speaker 1: off it wouldn't be the number one destination for a
23:54
Speaker 1: fucking vacation and a place to hang bo I would
23:56
Speaker 1: imagine it has some incredible seafood. But my point here
24:00
Speaker 1: is Lamar didn't really have a choice here, right, It's
24:05
Speaker 1: like brand new scheme. You want a new contract. Our
24:08
Speaker 1: team just sucked and we missed the playoffs. You're coming
24:11
Speaker 1: off a season where you were injured a bunch people
24:14
Speaker 1: starting to question, are you trending the wrong way? We
24:18
Speaker 1: just need to hear. And part of that fifty sixty
24:20
Speaker 1: million dollars like allows you to and hell your roster bonus,
24:26
Speaker 1: get a PG back and forth if you want to
24:28
Speaker 1: go back to Florida over the weekends, we're working like
24:30
Speaker 1: three or four days. You're literally working out anyway. But
24:33
Speaker 1: we're setting the scheme, we're setting the tone, and you're
24:36
Speaker 1: a best player, you're a leader. And in fairness, Lamar
24:40
Speaker 1: answered the valley showed up made it a non story
24:43
Speaker 1: immediately because I think a lot of people were ready out.
24:45
Speaker 1: Lamar didn't show up again on Lamar. No, he showed
24:48
Speaker 1: up because he should show up and it's the right
24:51
Speaker 1: thing to do. And the let's face it, the Ravens
24:54
Speaker 1: are going to go as far as he goes this year,
24:56
Speaker 1: because let's assume their defense gets a lot better with
24:59
Speaker 1: mentor if Lamar is awesome, they'll be good. For whatever
25:04
Speaker 1: reason he's banged up or the scheme fits a little weird,
25:07
Speaker 1: they'll have problems, but like it's him, He's the fucking
25:12
Speaker 1: engine driving this car, right, and clearly they're you know,
25:16
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, the defense it was like
25:18
Speaker 1: combo Lamar was unreal and their defense was unreal, and
25:21
Speaker 1: they were the number one seed. And if they don't
25:24
Speaker 1: shit the bed in the AFC Championship game, they're in
25:26
Speaker 1: the super Bowl and they probably win it because I
25:27
Speaker 1: watched him play the Niners on Christmas and they beat
25:30
Speaker 1: the living you know what out of them, So like
25:32
Speaker 1: they blew that moment. Lamar, there's these chances he might
25:35
Speaker 1: not play on a team the next five years. Is
25:37
Speaker 1: remotely as good as that. But if he's that good,
25:40
Speaker 1: he can take a team, even if their defense isn't
25:42
Speaker 1: as good, to the playoffs. And then if you're a
25:45
Speaker 1: great player, like you got a shot in playoff games.
25:47
Speaker 1: But it kind of starts right now, and so I
25:49
Speaker 1: give him credit. I've been thinking a lot about this
25:53
Speaker 1: because this was such a topic for a long time,
25:57
Speaker 1: and I've been critical of teams that have taken running backs.
26:01
Speaker 1: I thought when they took Saquon, if you watch Saquona
26:04
Speaker 1: Penn State, You're like, this guy's incredible, this guy is unreal.
26:09
Speaker 1: I remember talking to buddies about Beijon that scouted him,
26:11
Speaker 1: like went through Texas. They're like, John, it's one of
26:14
Speaker 1: the best players I've ever seen. I talked to a
26:17
Speaker 1: scouting buddy that's in baseball, and he does like the
26:21
Speaker 1: West Coast, Southern California, Arizona, and UCLA right now has
26:25
Speaker 1: a guy that they're shortstop who is projected to be
26:29
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick. UCLA's baseball teams like thirty
26:32
Speaker 1: and one, and this guy by far as their best player.
26:35
Speaker 1: So I text my buddy and who's seen UCLA play bunch.
26:39
Speaker 1: He's like, I've been doing this a long time, in
26:41
Speaker 1: probably a decade. He's like, this guy's easily the best
26:45
Speaker 1: prospect I've ever seen. He is a lock number one
26:48
Speaker 1: overall pick. And so every once in a while in football,
26:51
Speaker 1: like no one's saying that about Fernando Mendoza, but Jeremiah
26:54
Speaker 1: Love right now people are kind of saying that they're like,
26:56
Speaker 1: guy doesn't have a weakness. That's what they said about
26:58
Speaker 1: Bijon Robinson. Can do everything, and he's a high character guy.
27:04
Speaker 1: Total package on the field, total package off the field,
27:08
Speaker 1: which kind of matters. You know, look at what the
27:10
Speaker 1: Eagles are going through right now. Jalen Hurts not a
27:12
Speaker 1: bad guy by any means, but doesn't really listen. Has
27:15
Speaker 1: his own ideas. UH doesn't love to you know, UH
27:19
Speaker 1: change his plays as the line of scrimmage if he
27:20
Speaker 1: thinks you're an idiot, and then his plays don't work,
27:22
Speaker 1: and then it's like the coach's fault. But that's football.
27:26
Speaker 1: Happens all the time. Pukinnakua causing the Rams a lot
27:29
Speaker 1: of headaches, potentially if he's drinking too much, caused himselves
27:32
Speaker 1: from headics, even though when you're younger, you're hangovers don't
27:34
Speaker 1: hit his hard. My point is that taking running backs
27:39
Speaker 1: high used to be viewed as a saying not that
27:41
Speaker 1: crazy anymore because drafts the last couple of years haven't
27:44
Speaker 1: been that good. I disagreed because I didn't view him
27:47
Speaker 1: at the level of prospect, but spy Tik did. Spy
27:51
Speaker 1: Tek thought he was one of the best players in
27:53
Speaker 1: the draft in a draft it wasn't that great, so
27:55
Speaker 1: he took him at six. Overall, this year, the Titans
27:59
Speaker 1: are taking it four where it's pretty clear quarterback goes one, two,
28:03
Speaker 1: pass rushers more than likely go two, and three. Does
28:06
Speaker 1: the Cardinals an't gonna go running back at three? You
28:08
Speaker 1: wouldn't think, And the Titans now are going He's been
28:15
Speaker 1: the betting odds are Jeremiah loved to the Titans. But
28:17
Speaker 1: then I saw Robert Sala say the other day, like,
28:19
Speaker 1: I love my running back ground and I view defensive
28:24
Speaker 1: linemen as weapons. We go, what's Robert Sala's expertise defense?
28:31
Speaker 1: What like part of the defense? Linebacker? Front guy, Like
28:36
Speaker 1: that's his bread and butter, physicality. Shit, just look at him.
28:40
Speaker 1: Certified badass. Remember years ago two, everyone's like, Oh, you
28:47
Speaker 1: got rid of Keenan Allen, you got rid of Mike Williams,
28:49
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh, gotta take Malik Neighbors. Take Malik Neighbors. Then
28:55
Speaker 1: he takes Joe Alt and people like, I can't believe
28:57
Speaker 1: he did that. And then that night of his press conference,
29:01
Speaker 1: first ever draft pick, he goes, I view offensive lineman
29:05
Speaker 1: as the tip of the spear their weapons. I kind
29:08
Speaker 1: of think Robert Salam might be telling you, like no
29:11
Speaker 1: one disputes Jeremiah Love isn't an incredible player, but are
29:15
Speaker 1: we better off taking a defensive lineman? And the answer
29:18
Speaker 1: is probably yeah. Now if there is This is where
29:21
Speaker 1: you get in these crazy conversations. If you have Jeremiah
29:24
Speaker 1: Love as your number one overall player in the draft,
29:26
Speaker 1: let's just hypothetically say that, and the guy you'd be
29:30
Speaker 1: taking at pick four. You know you have a couple
29:33
Speaker 1: offensive players, but you want to go defensive line is
29:35
Speaker 1: like you're fifth or sixth that. I do understand that.
29:38
Speaker 1: But if you go we got him one, and the
29:39
Speaker 1: guy we're going to take his two or three, Like
29:43
Speaker 1: I kind of understand it. I guess I still think
29:46
Speaker 1: they might take Jeremiah Love. But I read Robert Sala's comments.
29:50
Speaker 1: This is I bet they are talking and debating this
29:53
Speaker 1: every single day. If they go recent Bailey in some order,
30:00
Speaker 1: we'll go two and three, who would we take it for?
30:03
Speaker 1: Is there a defensive lineman that we feel comfortable enough
30:06
Speaker 1: that is worth that pick because we know Jeremiah Love.
30:10
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Love's worth the pick. If all players you're equal,
30:14
Speaker 1: you would just take him because he'd be the hell.
30:16
Speaker 1: The Raiders might take him. They will need to because
30:18
Speaker 1: I get but you know, he's the best player in
30:19
Speaker 1: the draft widely considered. I just think these conversations are hard,
30:23
Speaker 1: and this is why drafting is so hard. There is
30:25
Speaker 1: no right answer because if they take Jeremiah Love and
30:30
Speaker 1: he becomes like an elite b Jon Robinson level player,
30:35
Speaker 1: even if the next couple picks are incredible defensive lineman,
30:39
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. But if you take the defensive lineman
30:43
Speaker 1: and he just kind of becomes a guy, and Jeremiah
30:46
Speaker 1: Love goes a couple of picks later and he becomes
30:48
Speaker 1: Sego and Barkley or be John Robinson, it's like, God, damn,
30:52
Speaker 1: we fucking knew it. And that's what's so fun about
30:55
Speaker 1: the draft is because that will be the conversation we're
30:57
Speaker 1: having in two or three years. But we as we
30:59
Speaker 1: see right now, we got no clue. I say it
31:02
Speaker 1: all the time. In football, you're dealing with human beings.
31:07
Speaker 1: Your asset acquisitions are not hotels, are not widgets. These
31:13
Speaker 1: are living, breathing people that are all different. When you
31:18
Speaker 1: have a kid, everyone tries to give you advice everything
31:21
Speaker 1: you see on the internet because our phones are listening
31:23
Speaker 1: to us when you scroll. Instagram is trying to give
31:25
Speaker 1: you advice. Yet every baby's different. Some babies never stop crying.
31:29
Speaker 1: My baby doesn't really cry that much. Some babies sleep
31:32
Speaker 1: right away. Some babies like mine don't sleep that much.
31:34
Speaker 1: You can try to get them on the schedule. You
31:36
Speaker 1: try to good luck. Just like ten year olds. You
31:39
Speaker 1: can find me five ten year olds. A couple of
31:42
Speaker 1: them have no problem if you put into a room
31:44
Speaker 1: with a bunch of adults socializing talking. We had some
31:48
Speaker 1: family come over a couple of weeks ago, had a
31:50
Speaker 1: young child, it was probably like five or six. It
31:53
Speaker 1: was like scared to talk to me. Not because I'm
31:55
Speaker 1: that scary, just it's kind of a quiet. It's just,
31:59
Speaker 1: you know, might be a little intimidated by adults. Then
32:02
Speaker 1: you get another five year old that walks right in
32:04
Speaker 1: like he's Michael Jordan, and it's like, I'm here for
32:08
Speaker 1: the party. Guys. It's talking to everybody. It's no different
32:11
Speaker 1: with these players, and it's no different with the wiring
32:14
Speaker 1: that you just don't know. You can do all the research,
32:17
Speaker 1: you can do, all the scouting, you can do all
32:19
Speaker 1: the film prep. There's so much stuff that you will
32:23
Speaker 1: learn once you have the player, and a couple of
32:25
Speaker 1: years later you'll know and you may be excited about
32:29
Speaker 1: the move you made, and the good move could get
32:32
Speaker 1: you a contract extension. But you get lucky later in
32:35
Speaker 1: the draft. Right to me, when you draft in the
32:39
Speaker 1: top five, you're not really getting lucky. You're making a decision.
32:43
Speaker 1: You're picking a guy over five or six other guys,
32:47
Speaker 1: and you're making your best educated guests, with your scouting department,
32:51
Speaker 1: with your coaching staff, with your organization, and your heart's
32:55
Speaker 1: always in the right place. No one ever drafts a
32:57
Speaker 1: player because they think the guy is going to be
33:00
Speaker 1: an overrated scrub in three years. It's why every draft interaction,
33:06
Speaker 1: typically in the first round, but definitely in the top ten,
33:08
Speaker 1: guys are really excited. Remember the viral video when the
33:14
Speaker 1: fight or excuse me, the Lions went from six to
33:17
Speaker 1: twelve and then they picked this guy named Jamiir Gibbs,
33:22
Speaker 1: and Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes went fucking berserk. They
33:27
Speaker 1: went nuts. You would have thought they just drafted Jesus.
33:31
Speaker 1: They would have done that reaction if Jamiir Gibbs became
33:34
Speaker 1: Jamir Gibbs, or if Jamiir Gibbs became a guy, that
33:39
Speaker 1: sucked because at the time you believe that Jamiir Gibbs
33:44
Speaker 1: is going to become what Jamier Gibbs came became. But
33:47
Speaker 1: a lot of times they don't. And that's what I
33:50
Speaker 1: think is the best part about the draft is on
33:53
Speaker 1: Draft night, it is exciting, it is fun. We can argue,
33:57
Speaker 1: like when trades happened, if they traded too much, they
34:00
Speaker 1: shouldn't have traded back. Like last year with James Pearce.
34:04
Speaker 1: I thought that James Peers trade was nuts, and then
34:07
Speaker 1: he got ten sacks and Raheem Morris would have been
34:10
Speaker 1: like to see that? What would I said? And then
34:13
Speaker 1: he got arrested and he may never play in the
34:14
Speaker 1: NFL game and I'd go see that. But the point
34:17
Speaker 1: is that what if James Pears never is just gets
34:21
Speaker 1: the Falcons kind of gets a shit together and can
34:24
Speaker 1: handle himself as a human being in society, the Falcons
34:28
Speaker 1: would Matt Ryan and Ian Cunningham wild probably be pretty
34:30
Speaker 1: excited say James Pears was a high character guy. Now,
34:33
Speaker 1: if he was, he wouldn't have been there twenty five
34:35
Speaker 1: or twenty six. He would have gone in the top ten.
34:37
Speaker 1: But let's just say he was a red flag and
34:40
Speaker 1: then he completely turned his life around. They'd be like,
34:44
Speaker 1: this is an incredible pick, but now he might go
34:48
Speaker 1: to jail. That's what that's the draft for. You can
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37:41
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Speaker 1: couple of months ago is helping the Dolphins with their search,
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Speaker 1: It's like, well, why wouldn't the Dolphins do that? The
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Speaker 1: Raiders can do some version of that. No one's telling
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Speaker 1: me I can't do this, And as Troy Aikman, who's
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Speaker 1: been one of the top broadcasting crews for decades at
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Speaker 1: Fox and now at ESPN, it's like, yeah, he knows
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Speaker 1: all these guys, and I'll promise you this, every coach,
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Speaker 1: every player, and every front office guy. If Troy wants
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Speaker 1: to bes in the facility, you're talking to him and
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Speaker 1: bs with them, probably enjoying it. Hell, you're picking his brain.
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Speaker 1: So he went on a podcast and said, part of
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Speaker 1: the reason that the Dolphins would have been interested in
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Speaker 1: him is because he knows things that they're not gonna
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Speaker 1: be privy to, and a lot of people like he
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Speaker 1: basically said the quiet part out loud. Well, yeah, once
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady did it, why wouldn't he do it? And
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Speaker 1: it opens up Pandora's box? Should other teams be interested
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Speaker 1: in doing this? I was telling someone the other day
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Speaker 1: if I was a college and I wanted to cause
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Speaker 1: it's like, am I just gonna watch if I'm Ohio
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Speaker 1: State or Texas or Oregon? How do I have the
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Speaker 1: time to watch every small school good player. You just
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Speaker 1: don't And I don't want to waste so much time
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Speaker 1: of like watching every dude at you see Davis, watching
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Speaker 1: everyone at cal Poly, watch everyone at President State. What
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Speaker 1: if you just on the side put like one of
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Speaker 1: you know, a college scouting director. You know what I'll
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Speaker 1: give you seventy five K on the side. Every time
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Speaker 1: you're in one of these small schools and you see
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Speaker 1: a guy that you think would play for us, shoot
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Speaker 1: me his information, shoot me his name. This feels between
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Speaker 1: me and you. If that is not happening now, it should.
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Speaker 1: And if I was a coach, I wouldn't go to
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Speaker 1: a GM because they're doing a million things. I would
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Speaker 1: go to one of the college scouting directors or one
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Speaker 1: of the top scouts and be like, I will take
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Speaker 1: care of you. What's your number? To just feed me
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Speaker 1: some information. I just thought of that idea. I hope
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Speaker 1: it's going down. If it's not, it should. But that's
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Speaker 1: kind of what's happening here. It's like, you know a
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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. Tell me who you talk to, who
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Speaker 1: you know. Think how many Packer games Traigman's done in
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Speaker 1: the last fifteen years. Think how many times he's been
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Speaker 1: around John Eric Sullivan just in casual conversations at practice,
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Speaker 1: talking ball, talking life. Probably knows him pretty well. But
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Speaker 1: here's the thing. A lot like the Raiders, the Dolphins
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Speaker 1: are probably gonna suck this year. So it's like, is
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Speaker 1: Mike Rabele or is the Buffalo Bill's that worried about Treygman.
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Speaker 1: Maybe not, But if you tell me in two years
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Speaker 1: those guys have turned it around and are trending in
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Speaker 1: the right direction. You get very uncomfortable, very fast talking
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Speaker 1: to these guys. And this is where I wonder if
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Speaker 1: it opens Pandora's box of like kind of feels like
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Speaker 1: the Raiders are decent now. Now I don't know how
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Speaker 1: many games are gonna win, but they got a bunch
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Speaker 1: of good players like they could. Am I just that
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Speaker 1: comfortable just telling Tom Brady some of my secrets that
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Speaker 1: I would never ever just casually tell someone else on
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Speaker 1: another team. Then I like, don't know that. Well, that's
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Speaker 1: where it gets weird. And this is one of those
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Speaker 1: situations where I don't know if the league could quite
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Speaker 1: put the genie back in the bottle. But why wouldn't
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Speaker 1: you if you were the Carolina Panthers of the New
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Speaker 1: York Jets, just put Craig Olsen on retainer. He's calling
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Speaker 1: all these games, he's in all these facilities. Why wouldn't
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Speaker 1: you do that? And I wonder if it happens, I'd
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Speaker 1: be stunned if another one of these guys doesn't get
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Speaker 1: one of these side gigs for several hundred thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: You're talking about pocket change to these guys, so keep
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Speaker 1: an eye on that. That'll do it for today, Audios,
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Speaker 1: have a great day. Talk soon. The volume