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5 NFL Teams under MAJOR PRESSURE in 2026, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers + NFL Pre-Training Camp Mailbag · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on? My people? How are
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  Speaker 1: we doing? John Middlecoff three Now Podcast. Hopefully everyone's doing well.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully everyone's living life, everyone's enjoying themselves. Today we got
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  Speaker 1: to talk about two people that might be going in
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  Speaker 1: opposite directions, and I got a little theory. We got
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  Speaker 1: Brady who's uh doing some what many consider off the
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  Speaker 1: wall stuff, and we got Aaron Rodgers, love is in
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  Speaker 1: the air reuniting with his family. So we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: these two quarterbacks as well as the top five. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, we're heading to training camp, all the
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  Speaker 1: rookies are reporting, people are gonna be on the field
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  Speaker 1: this week. Let's do a little pressure rankings top five
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  Speaker 1: teams heading into training camp. We'll also do some mailback
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  Speaker 1: talk some football. It's talk a rut, just talk Brady.
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  Speaker 1: But let's talk to these star quarterbacks, Aaron Rodgers reuniting
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  Speaker 1: with his family after a decade plus of a strange relationship,
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  Speaker 1: and Tom Brady making just people go, what is going
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  Speaker 1: on with this logan? Paul wwe Gimmick and I have
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  Speaker 1: a theory when it comes to just athletes in general,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it relates to us normal people in society,
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  Speaker 1: is that at one point in time, if you play
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  Speaker 1: sports growing up, you come to grips or you're at
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  Speaker 1: peace with I can't do this anymore. I'm not good enough.
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  Speaker 1: And for most of us, that happens in high school.
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  Speaker 1: For a small percentage of people that happens in college,
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  Speaker 1: and then a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of guys they
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  Speaker 1: realize that in the pros Remember the average lifespan of
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  Speaker 1: an athlete or a pro football player is under four years.
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  Speaker 1: Guys that we talk about that have these long, illustrious
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  Speaker 1: careers make a bunch of money. They are the outliers
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  Speaker 1: in the sport. So myself, it was pretty clear at
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  Speaker 1: a young age, like I'm never going anywhere playing football
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  Speaker 1: and then you get to high school football, you see
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  Speaker 1: some Division I players, You're like, that's a different beast
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  Speaker 1: than myself, right, And when you look at pro athletes,
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  Speaker 1: think about Peyton Manning his final season for the Broncos,
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  Speaker 1: his arm stop working. I watched him live, actually twice.
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  Speaker 1: I watched him play the Raiders that season, a regular
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  Speaker 1: season game, and I attended the Super Bowl. He struggled
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  Speaker 1: to throw the ball twenty yards. He previously four years earlier,
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  Speaker 1: there were question marks if his neck would ever work.
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  Speaker 1: So in his thirties, Peyton Manning had to do at
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  Speaker 1: times come to grip with this might be it. Before Denver,
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  Speaker 1: he came to grips and he battled through it, and
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  Speaker 1: he made his way on the other side. But then
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  Speaker 1: when that final season, I don't care who you are,
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  Speaker 1: you got to look in the mirror and go, I
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  Speaker 1: don't got it anymore. Aaron Rodgers with the New York
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  Speaker 1: Jets the most hooplaw hype I can ever remember. I
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  Speaker 1: was listening to Robert Sala He said, it's the craziest
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  Speaker 1: pregame atmosphere for a regular season game He's ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: Tear's achilles four or five plays into the game and
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  Speaker 1: it's better ridden and then tried to battle back through
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  Speaker 1: like dolphin semen or whatever. He was taken to fix
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  Speaker 1: his achilles injury. But I don't care who you are.
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  Speaker 1: When you're laying on a hospital bed and you can't walk,
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  Speaker 1: it brings into just perspective your athletic mortality. Tom Brady
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  Speaker 1: never wanted to retire. Tom Brady did a fake retirement
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  Speaker 1: because clearly his wife was pressuring him. In a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days later, it's like I'm coming back. Even his
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  Speaker 1: final season, well, Tom didn't really want to get hit.
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  Speaker 1: His arm strength was still top five in the league.
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  Speaker 1: I bet right now if you gave him a couple
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  Speaker 1: weeks to warm that thing up, he'd have a top
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  Speaker 1: ten arm in the league. And from an accuracy standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: he's probably one of top two or three most accurate
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks still on this planet. Tom Brady was forced to
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  Speaker 1: retire because he's forty five years old, doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: get hit. Not worth. But like I don't think Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady ever came to grips with I'm done playing football.
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  Speaker 1: And for most people think about this, like Warren Buffett
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  Speaker 1: is still thriving in his ninety He's doing his gig
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  Speaker 1: The Rolling Stones. Metallica still can sell out shows playing
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  Speaker 1: in their seventies eighties. I don't know how old James
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  Speaker 1: Hatfield is, probably in his sixties. You can play till
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  Speaker 1: your voice stops working or you don't have the energy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm lucky to be in a business where ideally I
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  Speaker 1: keep getting better and better and can do this for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. A lot of you guys listening, if
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  Speaker 1: you're in sales, you were going to be way better
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  Speaker 1: at landing a client in your fifties than you were
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  Speaker 1: in your twenties or your thirties. Why you know, tricks
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  Speaker 1: of the trade. Most of us have a long runway
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  Speaker 1: for our professional career were athletes. For even the best,
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  Speaker 1: it comes fast and furious. Tom's one of the unique
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  Speaker 1: ones where it's like he could have kept playing, but
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  Speaker 1: it was like, what am I doing this? You can't
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  Speaker 1: convince me in this situation with Logan Paul that there
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  Speaker 1: is not a void that he's never going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to replicate by money by owning the team. Even
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  Speaker 1: the juicy gets calling a football game for Fox, no chance.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same as being down five points with three
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  Speaker 1: minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Think about him
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  Speaker 1: and Bill Belichick. When I was with Coward last week,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick came on the show. He was actually fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: He had a great mood, incredible interview, just gave stories
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  Speaker 1: about Gronkowski, Brady football, I mean Belichick actually, when you
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  Speaker 1: loosen them up, can be you know, pretty engaging. He
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  Speaker 1: was one of the best interviews I've ever seen him have.
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  Speaker 1: But you can't convince me he gets the same high
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  Speaker 1: walking out the tunnel, even though let's say they're better
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  Speaker 1: this year playing Duke or Boston College as he would
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  Speaker 1: playing Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers or Big Ben Roethlisberger in
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  Speaker 1: a game watched by thirty forty to fifty million people
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Think about this Bill and Tom and
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  Speaker 1: both of them. Like, Tom's in a weird spot right
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  Speaker 1: His the relation with his wife start fracturing because clearly
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  Speaker 1: she wanted to retire earlier. Then she leaves him for
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  Speaker 1: Karate Kid. They have a child, I mean, kind of
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  Speaker 1: miraculously in her mid forties. Meanwhile, Tom is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most famous people in our country. You know, It's like,
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  Speaker 1: how's he gonna meet a normal person? So he starts
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  Speaker 1: sleeping with twenty year olds, kind of in this no
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  Speaker 1: man's land, and he's boys with Ruben doing all this
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  Speaker 1: weird stuff. But you can't convince me, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: blame him. The thing he misses the most is the
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  Speaker 1: thing he loved is the most beside his children and
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  Speaker 1: his parents, that's playing football, and he's never getting that back.
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  Speaker 1: And there's no way to fill that void, no amount
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  Speaker 1: of money he can make doing this stunt with the
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  Speaker 1: Paul brothers in WrestleMania or fighting on whatever, if they
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  Speaker 1: fight on Netflix, which I would watch, so would a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you, even as stupid as it may be.
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  Speaker 1: And let's say he gets a nine figure check in
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  Speaker 1: his bank account, it is not the same as trying
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  Speaker 1: to break down a Vic Fangio defense. And I believe
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  Speaker 1: the same with Bill Belichick, who was basically shunned from
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  Speaker 1: the NFL and the Patriots, who's someone he should be
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  Speaker 1: historically synonymous with and have a great relationship with. They
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  Speaker 1: hate each other, they despise each other, and he's currently
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  Speaker 1: coaching at beautiful school. But when I say North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: I don't exactly think football. So I think you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at a guy that has avoid the fill that is
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  Speaker 1: never gonna be filled and now he's a single guy
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  Speaker 1: with a ton of money time on his hands. Weird
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  Speaker 1: shit is happening. And I think when you look at
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  Speaker 1: the Rogers brand, who will get into in a second,
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  Speaker 1: and the Brady situation, they're kind of going in opposite
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  Speaker 1: directions where one guy is very at peace with his
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  Speaker 1: where he's at athletically, and I think came to grips
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  Speaker 1: with that years ago. I think that you know, Tom's
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  Speaker 1: the most accomplished and gonna go down as the best
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  Speaker 1: quarterback unless someone can pass him some of the records
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  Speaker 1: and obviously the Super bowls. Rogers to me is easily.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I'd put him right there with Peyton Manning
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  Speaker 1: as the best player, like Post the l Way, kind
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  Speaker 1: of crew of player I've ever seen play the position.
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  Speaker 1: I loved Brett fav in the nineties and that's when
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  Speaker 1: I was a huge forty nine Er fan and he
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  Speaker 1: was beating him. He was fucking incredible. Rogers is better,
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  Speaker 1: and I think Rogers is much more comfortable with giving
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  Speaker 1: up football than Tom ever was. And let's face it,
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  Speaker 1: Tom was much more of a football addict. It not
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  Speaker 1: only defined his life, I mean it was part. He
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  Speaker 1: was part of a culture where being all in having
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  Speaker 1: no balance comes with the territory and in fairness, like,
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  Speaker 1: you can't be really good in the NFL and have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of balance. It's not like I know the
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  Speaker 1: media always argues during draft time, he's why do the
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  Speaker 1: scouts carry us too many interests? Because to be a
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  Speaker 1: good football player, like to be a good coach, it
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  Speaker 1: takes all your energy basically like ten months a year,
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  Speaker 1: and during the season, especially at quarterback and some other positions,
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  Speaker 1: you can't really have much else going on beside your family.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's just the nature of the beast. It
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  Speaker 1: also pays, depending on your position, thirty to fifty million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to have balance, you can find
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  Speaker 1: another industry. I'll promise you this. The direct deposits don't
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  Speaker 1: hit his ord. So I look at Tom. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: like everyone thinks that he's just throwing away his brand.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we forget things and come and go, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's that big a deal. But I
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  Speaker 1: do think we have seen signs and it just put
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  Speaker 1: yourself in his shoes. Even if you can't stand your
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  Speaker 1: ex wife, I don't know why I follow Gizelle on Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: Like she's always posted with that guy and then the baby.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's, you know, meanwhile, you're hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: some twenty seven year old podcaster, even if she is
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  Speaker 1: a you know, a bomb shehell, it ain't quite the same,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting Barrios's you know seconds. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: your time for freaking Brady. But I think when you
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  Speaker 1: look at Aaron Rodgers, like I think about this a
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  Speaker 1: lot about myself. I was extremely selfish. Like when I
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  Speaker 1: look back at the guy I was in my twenties
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  Speaker 1: or even a early thirties, I don't really like that person.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I was like a low character human or
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  Speaker 1: my morals and standards for the way you treat people
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  Speaker 1: orerever has ever changed. But you're just tunnel vision all
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  Speaker 1: about you, and you can be really selfish. And I
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  Speaker 1: think Tom and Peyton and some of these other quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: you know they got married pretty young. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: who you are now that I have a child. There's
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  Speaker 1: humility that there's a somewhat of like a structure and
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  Speaker 1: a life changing moment when you get married and have kids,
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  Speaker 1: there just is you lead a completely different life than
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  Speaker 1: someone that's single, whether they have money and a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on or not, because that person can do whatever
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  Speaker 1: he wants to do whenever he wants to do it,
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  Speaker 1: and that's just not the case for most of marriedety
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  Speaker 1: with children, you were on other people's time. And let's
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  Speaker 1: face it, Aaron Rodgers he's dated around, but he was
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  Speaker 1: always known as a single guy. That was kind of
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  Speaker 1: unique to all these other quarterbacks that were kind of
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  Speaker 1: had this stable at home life. Now I'm not pretending
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  Speaker 1: to know all their lives were perfect at home. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just saying they had wives and they had kids who
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  Speaker 1: they went home to. Aaron Rodgers did not. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: will say this, the story with his family became extremely public,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been associated in my own family, not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: me personally, but parents, uncles, aunts. I've seen people have
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  Speaker 1: fractures in relationships. I would imagine a lot of you
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  Speaker 1: in your families have seen fractures in relationships with uncles, aunts, brother, sisters,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it comes with the territory. I remember being a kid.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you always like aspire, like I wish I
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  Speaker 1: had more of a normal life, and then you realize
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: that there's no such thing. Like everyone complains about their
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: home environment in some form or fashion. But it was
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: a little bizarre that they simply just did not talk,
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  Speaker 1: and it felt like Aaron hated him and almost felt
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  Speaker 1: like that relationship was never gonna come back. Now, I'm
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: not a huge Bachelor Bachelorette guy, but if you live
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  Speaker 1: on this planet, we've all seen the highlights of when
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  Speaker 1: they're filming the show and they leave empty seats like
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  Speaker 1: I don't care who you are. That was fucking bullshit
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  Speaker 1: and that was loser behavior by the parents and the brother.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Colin used to have this line back.
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  Speaker 1: I remember him saying in an ESPN radio that holding
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: a grudge is like chainsmoking hate. And I do think
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  Speaker 1: the older you get, it's easy to become nostalgic about
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  Speaker 1: things from your youth. I know, I was at a
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  Speaker 1: wedding several months ago and was around some of my
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  Speaker 1: really good friends from high school that I just don't
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  Speaker 1: talk to anymore, And you just find yourself since then
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  Speaker 1: thinking about them and the good times you had, and
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: life comes and people's past take people different directions and
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  Speaker 1: you live in different states or whatever, and you just
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  Speaker 1: you just lose contact with certain people. But I think
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  Speaker 1: the older you get, sometimes you can look back at
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  Speaker 1: things and not necessarily like want to go back, but
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  Speaker 1: just become nostalgic about certain things and remember the good times.
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  Speaker 1: And you know the famous line that time heals all wounds.
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  Speaker 1: Is I do wonder if you're Aaron Rodgers and you
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  Speaker 1: know you're married now, still yet to see her, but
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  Speaker 1: there would come with some closure to your career that
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't want to involve. I don't know your parents,
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  Speaker 1: because I can't imagine going down. That's the one thing
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  Speaker 1: Tom has always had, right, the one thing, one defining
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  Speaker 1: attribute of the Tom Brady story is how close he
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: is with his mom and dad, with how close he
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  Speaker 1: is with his sisters, how important his family is to him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, hell, he got shit on for kissing his kid,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know what age, you know, it becomes
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  Speaker 1: questionable to kiss him on the list. But hey, you
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  Speaker 1: know I come from a family where me and my
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  Speaker 1: dad didn't even hug, we shook hands. So I say,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard for me to go crazy of Tom kissing
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  Speaker 1: his child. But like family, when you thought of Tom Brady,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: especially his parents, he it became synonymous with Tom Brady
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: when you think the Manning brothers, Eli and Peyton, their
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  Speaker 1: father is an integral part of their life still to
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  Speaker 1: this day. And I do wonder if you're Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 1: you get to the point where it's gonna be his
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  Speaker 1: last season, you're not gonna include them in this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't ready in a Connor's book. I've seen excerpts
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  Speaker 1: and talk to people that have read it. I actually
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: might download that thing in the next week. About some
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: of the moments, like he's at the American Century Tournament
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  Speaker 1: in Lake Tahoe, which obviously has blown up and become
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  Speaker 1: a really big deal, and he looks over and he
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: sees his dad, who he hasn't talked to in years,
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  Speaker 1: and essentially just says, hey Dad. And as someone who
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: lost his father years ago, I was thinking about it
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: today of kind of getting ready to talk about this,
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  Speaker 1: like it's I'm we're probably less than two years away
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  Speaker 1: from that being ten years. Like my dad's never gonna
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  Speaker 1: never got to see me have really success in life,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean to a certain point, but most importantly,
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  Speaker 1: like he's never gonna meet his grandchildren, my brother's kids,
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  Speaker 1: my kids never meet my wife. Same goes for my wife.
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  Speaker 1: I never got to meet her father. He didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to walk his daughter down the aisle. He didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to ever meet Jack. And I think the older you get,
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  Speaker 1: like you don't think about those things unless you're a
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  Speaker 1: mature individual, and a lot of us aren't when you're younger,
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  Speaker 1: and I do wonder I'm basically Aaron's age, one year
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  Speaker 1: younger than him coming out of high school. But you
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  Speaker 1: start being able to take bigger picture of things and
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  Speaker 1: put things into perspective. And I have no problem hating
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  Speaker 1: certain individuals and cutting them out of your life. People
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  Speaker 1: that wrong you, that cross the line something you can
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  Speaker 1: ever go back to, you know, whether you're in business
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  Speaker 1: with them, whether they're your friends. I do think there
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  Speaker 1: is a unique place your parents hold going through it
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  Speaker 1: right now simply like wiping your ass for two years,
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  Speaker 1: simply doing everything to keep you alive when you were young.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing talking about seeing some of my
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  Speaker 1: former friends, that gets difficult as you get older, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't live where I grew up, so
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  Speaker 1: most people I meet now are people that I did
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  Speaker 1: not know, uh for the first thirty five forty years
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  Speaker 1: of my life. That you just starting new relationships. You
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  Speaker 1: always wonder if there's you know, some it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to meet someone in just a pure form.
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  Speaker 1: And people you grew up with that you become that
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  Speaker 1: are your high school friends or even your college friends,
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  Speaker 1: or people you date when you're young. There's like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a pureness to it, and there's nothing really more
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  Speaker 1: pure than the love your parents have for you and
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  Speaker 1: the love you have for your parents. And it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: revolve around you know, if you're someone like Aaron Rodgers,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fame, the money or whatever. At the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day. Now, maybe they had issues with some
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: of that, clearly some of it stemmed from his previous girlfriend.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: But I do think that the importance of that relationship
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: if those people are around, is something you have to
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: work through. And I give him a lot of credit
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: for figuring out a way. And listen, you can never
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: judge anyone just on an Instagram post, but there is
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: no debating that that relationship was one of the defining
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: parts of his career. When you talked about Aaron Rodgers
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and the story in which he became this polarizing figure,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: even though some of the things that made him polarizing,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I think would be especially in NFL circles, would be
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: universally agreed upon. Like he was right, and I'm jealous
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I didn't make that decision. But your parents not being
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: able to come to games and you being a part
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: of their experience your final year when you're going to
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: go down is I mean, in my mind, I'd have
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: to really think about it, But I don't know, top
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: five to six quarterback of all time playing for this
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: historic organization, for your former coach Mike McCarthy on a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: team on offense where they actually could be sneaky good.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: You know, DK's an incredible like to me, he's not
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: a true one, but he's probably better than a lot
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: of two's. He's kind of just this unique weapon, but
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: you need other things to kind of balance his skill
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: set out. Will they add Pittman? They draft the Alabama
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: wide receiver in the second round. They already have tight ends,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: so it's like they actually got some functional pieces. It
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: could be and he knows Mike and they'll work together
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: on the scheme. Could be kind of a successful operation.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: But the one thing I think you've seen with Aaron
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and really over the last couple of years is he's
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: just very it feels very at peace. Whatever. Maybe that's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the ayahuasca, Maybe that's the marriage. I mean, being him
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and marrying someone and not having her be photographed is
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: got to be one of the greatest accomplishments of all time.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: It's so crazy that it's it's not crazy to be
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: like does she exist? Like how's that? Even? That's a
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: normal conversation. I think most people that like fall football
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: would have like does she exist? Is it real? Right?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Because there's just been no pictures. He's wearing a wedding ring.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: He stays he got married. Uh, so props to him,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: props to him. You want, I just think you get
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: to a point. I'd even say this with brothers and sisters.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just have one brother and we have
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: a good relationship. But you know, I've seen this throughout
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: my family, people that don't talk. It's like what are
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: we doing this for? Like what's what a way to live?
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: And my mom actually recently said this to me because
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I kind of called her out on something she said
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: when I was home over fourth of July, and she's like, John,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: I only remember the good times. I don't even know
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: what we were talking about. And me and my wife
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: have joke that's actually a pretty good mindset, you know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: especially you know she's in her late seventies now, Like,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: what's the point of just sitting there in anger, in negativity?
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: And I think Aaron's in a great spot. Honestly, seeing
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: those pictures make me think that he can have a
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: big season. You know again, health permitting, which is always
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: going to be a question mark when you talk about
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a guy, you know, being forty. I also wonder the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Tom thing, like owners do a lot of shady shit.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are doing who knows what, but
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: they do it behind closed doors and it's not a
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: public thing. I'm talking with women, business whatever. This is
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: one of those things that's like, you know, Fox may
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: not care, but some of the other owners and rods like, hey, Tom,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: let's we got kind of a standard way of doing
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: business here, Like this is a business. It's probably worth
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know, two hundred billion dollars. Can we just
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: rent it in a little bit, buddy. Again, I don't
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: personally care, but I do understand people trying to psychoanalyze
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: what's going on, and I don't think there's necessarily one
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: specific thing. I do think it gets back to not
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: being able to just close. Who's the chapter of like
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I'm just done playing football and could like I just
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: don't believe he is. How could he be? How could
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: he be? Look at Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods is pumping
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: percocets and who knows what else? Just to try to
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: keep playing golf. Why because he will never be better at
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: anything the rest of us, the guys worth billion dollars
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: got a fucking compound in Jupiter. He's you know, he's
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: had a jet for thirty years. He could do whatever
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: he wants. He just go hang out with Charlie, watch
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: him play golf. All he wants to do is play golf.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: How could he not? That's the defining attribute of the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: guy's life. And I think it can be very very
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: difficult for guys. Hell, it's difficult for like random players.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: How would that not be for the greatest quarterback of
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: all time? And that's where I think the ayahuasca the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: kind of introspection some of the weird shit, Like listen,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I'm probably never doing ayahuashka. I'm afraid to have a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: crazy trip and like jump off a bridge, but Aaron's
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: much more equipped to handle that and clearly it's kind
• 23:56
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• 25:49
  Speaker 1: a list. We've got training camps starting, and I think
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: there are some teams, which is what makes the league great.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: With just a massive amount of pressure, right, you could
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: argue there is no tea. They literally just sold. I
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: don't ever remember a Super Bowl champ flying more under
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the raider in Seattlecyhawks, like no one's really talking about him.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: We kick off the season there on Wednesday night at home,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: and it's like pretty incredible for Mike McDonald. He can
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: kind of play like I don't think anyone believed in us,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Like coach, we just won the fucking super Bowl. We
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: just blow him out. He's like, yeah, turn on TV,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: see anyone's talking about you. People think you're just like average.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: People just don't even care about you. I actually think
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: it's pretty incredible if you're Seattle. But I made a
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: little list top five teams with the most pressure entering
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: training camp, and uh, number five, this is hard. I
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: mean there were some omissions I probably left out. I
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: was thinking the Bears, but it's like they just won
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the division. Ben Johnson's like the best coach I feel
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: like they've ever had Minnesota. It's like, is there that
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: much pressure? Their quarterback room is Kyler Murray, Carson Wentz
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: and JJ McCarthy. So even if they do take a
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: huge step back in the sense like they don't make
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the playoffs again and they need to find a new quarterback,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, Bryan Flores aren't going anywhere, right, I say,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, like the Detroit Lions most of my
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: life sucked. Dan Campbell's gonna get a contract extension if
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: he hasn't already got one. So there were some teams
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that I kind of rustled around with. It's like, well,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: what about the Chargers, justin Herbert Jim Harbaugh. It's like
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the Spano says, aren't exactly George Steinbrener, like he not
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: going anywhere. Nothing's happening pressure how because it's like, oh,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: they gotta be better, okay, like nothing's really gonna change.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I do think at number five, this one was pretty
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: easy for me. The Indianapolis Colts. They have not made
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the playoffs since twenty twenty. If you look at their
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: records starting in twenty one, twenty was a fugazi season,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: no fans in the stands in twenty one. For the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: next five years nine wins, missed the playoffs, four wins, disaster.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Then they took Anthony Richardson. Then Shane Steichen was hired.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Nine wins, eight wins, eight wins, and I think last
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: year when the season ended, a lot of Colts fans won.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Chris Ballard gone, I'm a Chris Ballard apologist. Might be
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: too strong, but I'm somewhat of a defender. I think
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: he's pretty good at his job. But at the end
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: of the day, his job is pretty simple. It's like
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: you run a fortune five hundred company, do I make
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: money for the shareholders? Like that is the gig. ESPN's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: firing a bunch of people, and I just read that
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Pixar is going to fire a bunch of people. Dizzey
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: is a massive company. Their only goal is the bottom line.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Every single human is a widget. Every fucking human's a widget.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I promise you that any one of you guys that
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: work in big companies, you all know that it's all
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: about the Excel spreadsheet. What are you making? What revenue
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: can you generate? What revenue can I attribute to you?
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: If I can't, you're in trouble, especially the more money
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: you make. That's the way the real world works. I've
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: been fired. When I got fired in radio. My show
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: clearly wasn't making enough money, because if it was, I
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: would have been untouchable. It's the way the real world works.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: And I was given that lesson in my early thirties
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and I've never forgotten it. And typically in the NFL,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: when you do not win games as a coach or
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: a general manager, meaning you don't make it to the playoffs,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get fired. Help John Harbad missed the playoffs
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: what felt like in the first time forever on a
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: fucking kick that you know, historically the Ravens make that
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: kick in their sleep and was fired like forty eight
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: hours later, and he had made the playoffs twelve at
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: eighteen years. Two years ago, they hosted the AFC Championship Game.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Shane Sikins nine wins, eight wins, eight wins, and Chris
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Ballard has been the GM there forever now. And they
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: just went all in on Daniel Jones. They gave him
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: eighty million dollars essentially guaranteed, So they are betting on
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones the next couple of years being able to
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: be the guy that looked like the guy that was
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: gonna take him to the playoffs when they were eight
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and two. Here's the problem. That was by far the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: best stretch of Daniel Jones's career. Daniel Jones also is
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: you'd have to consider him an injury risk. He got
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: injured with the New York Giants. He obviously had multiple injuries,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: broken leg in achilles last season. Pittman, who you know,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: has been declining a little bit relative to the way
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: that they'd kind of ridden him in Indianapolis, they got
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: rid of. So they go all in on Alex Pierce.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: They give him a bunch of money, who battle. I
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: think some injuries and no tas Jonathan Taylor. There are
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: some questions like does he still look quite as fast
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: or was it just the end of the season whatever
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: happened Defensively, there are always some questions here. To me
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: is the biggest issue with the Colts. You're depending on
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones in a division that probably gonna be pretty good.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Like to me, the Houston Texans got a chance to
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: be the best team in the league. Major question market quarterback,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: like how good CJ. Stroud is And there's only one
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: way to find that out. He's gonna play the games.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know the answer. It's my only hesitancy to
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: making an enormous wager on the Houston Texans is him,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: because there's no disputing all the other positions. Their offensive
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: line has improved, their defense has literally every guy returning,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: but that's who they gotta play. And the Jags, who
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: might take a little bit of a step back from
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: being like thirteen to fourteen win team, they're still gonna
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: be pretty good. Like Liam Cohen's pretty well established now.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: We saw him as an offensive coordinated him as a
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: head coach, pretty dynamic offensive play caller, and their defensive coach.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: That Italian dude who I always forget and can't say
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: his name looked to be pretty good too. So the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Jags this is no longer like the Gus Bradley operation.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: This is a well run team with a lot of
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: good players. So and the Titans, who were anemic and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: a joke last year, have like a real coaching staff.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: So I just think they kept him last year. The
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: owner clearly likes him a lot and is extremely loyal
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: to them. But you get to the point, like if
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: you win seven eight games again, you gotta wonder if
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: everyone were to get fired. Number four. This one's weird
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: because a couple of years ago this team won the
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. A couple years before that, they were in
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. Last year they won the division. They
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: were in the playoffs. But I equate the Eagles, and
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: having lived in Philadelphia a lot to some of the
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: crazy college football teams, like the pressure Alabama and LSU.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: They have it every year twenty four to seven, three
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: sixty five. I think Ohio State is a lot like that.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: It is a pressure cooker. The standards are sky high,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and a lot comes with that incredible passionate, intense fan base,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of money if you're a GM or you're
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: a coach, a lot of publicity, a lot of people
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: talking about you. But you can't embarrass yourself. And there's
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: no disputing that the Eagles embarrassed themselves last year. The
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: offense led the league in three and outs. Their offensive
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: coordinator was getting his house egged. Which listen, I've egged
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: a few houses, you know, in my day. And if
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I had lived in Philadelphia and this was the equivalent
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: back when I was growing up and the offensive coordinator
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: lived near me, I probably would agg his house too.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: So now, at forty one years old, it's easy for
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: me to act like the old man on a cloud,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: like those loser, fucking kids. I've done it. I've actually
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: did my house ever get ag got tpe'd a couple times,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: but regardless they I was just reading an article that
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Nick Sirianni talked to one of
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the local media guys and he was singing Sean Mannon's praises.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Loves the guy and I never met him, but have
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, I've followed his career since he was a player.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: By all accounts, very very impressive. He does not run
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the offense in which they've run for years with Jalen Hurts,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: which I think would be considered more like modern college
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: style shotgun. What Jalen thrived with Lincoln Riley doing. The
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: problem is is Jalen as a player stopped running, so
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: he became a kind of a passing only quarterback and
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: a huge part of his game was a dual threat quarterback. Well,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: they're now going to run the Shanahan offense. And several
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: years ago I was flying to the Super Bowl and
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: we got deplaned because a guy died entering the plane.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Like we sat on the plane for like an hour.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: The plane is like half full. We're like, what is
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: going on. All of a sudden they deplane. Everyone turns
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: out a guy died. I think he had a heart attack.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I mean he must have been two steps away from
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: just entering the plane. This was when the Super bowls
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: in New Orleans and there was a prominent player who
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: plays in the Shanahan offense and I just sat next
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: to him. We start talking football and we started talking
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: about the Shanahan offense. We start then we started talking
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: about Jalen Hurts, and I'll never forget and it is
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: not a big he didn't like the Eagles, but he
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: said there's no chance Jalen Hurts could run the Shanahan offense.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: It is a it's very predicated on touch, timing, accuracy, rhythm.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: That's not really how Jalen plays. I'm not saying he
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: hasn't made those throws in the past, and I'm not
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: talking about he can make all the throws, but as
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: a quarterback, he's like a shittier version of what Russell
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Wilson was back in his heyday. And there are a
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: lot of question marks internally around the league about Russell
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Wilson as a player. Help Pete Carroll had it's like,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: stop just trying to play in the pocket. That's a
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: huge part of the Shanaan offense. Now. The one way
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: that it works is when you can just run the
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: ball down people's throat. The play action stuff leads to
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: passes where guys are wide open me and you could
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: make those passes. So if the Eagles, if this is
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: going to work, I would guess the Eagles are a
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: top three running team in the league. But last year
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: they really struggled to run the ball their offensive line
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: throughout the year. Guys got injured, they weren't playing as well.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: And I think no running back was hit more behind
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage or within the first three yards
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage. I forget the exacts that,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: but then Saquon he was just hit. Nowhere to go.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: So if you tell me they're a top three rushing offense,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, they're gonna be good. If you tell
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: me their rushing offense struggles again, this has a chance
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: to be a disaster. Now their defense is gonna be
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: really good. They got Vic Fangio, they got a lot
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: of good players. They'll be fine there. But they were
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: good last year and the offense was a knemic. And
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: here's the other thing they I mean, there's no disputing it.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: They chose Jalen Hurts over A J. Brown, as any
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: team's gonna choose a quarterback over the wide receiver. And
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I know AJ had a weird season last year, but
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: over the totality of their success under Sirianni, AJ Brown
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: was a star for them all pros, Pro Bowls, like
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: real ones, five thousand yards, I think, thirty two touchdowns,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: enormous plays and big games. And now they're depending on
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: kind of a committee, they draft this young guy in
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the first round, Lemon from USC trade for Wix. They
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: got I think Hollywood, like they have a bunch of bodies.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: But DeVante Smith's a really good player once upon a time,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: he won the Heisman. When I hear he's like a
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: number one wide receiver, like I don't know. I to me,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: he's like kind in that DK class like AH one
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: B two And they're not wrong with that, Like there's
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: some fucking really good twos and if you're great too,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: you can make a lot of money. But can you
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: just ride him? Can you just ride him in the
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: NFL like Justin Jefferson or Jamar Chase or a CD Lamb.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I'm not so sure. So my point is if the
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: other guys step up and it kind of blends in,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: he'll be fine. He was a really good player playing
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: with one of the more physically dominant players in the
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: league in Ag Brown. And I think it all gets
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: back to the run game because the pressure on this
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: team when things get weird. I never understand. It's like
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: they're booing the Eagles. They're defending super Bowl champs. Well, yeah,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Sly and James in row two ten just paid five
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a pop for tickets, and they just watched
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: the first half where they gained thirty yards. You want
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: him to stand up and cheer because nine months ago
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl. I always defend fans that way,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Like when they boo it's week six, they are defending
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl champs. They're usually not booing when the team's
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: up twenty one to six. But if you attend the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: game and it's seventeen to nothing, your team's getting killed,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: you wanted to give a thumbs up, like, what are
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: the fuck are they supposed to say? So? I think
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: the Eagles this year is specifically Sean mannon which in
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: turn Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts Like we've seen Ali guys,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: cut throat man. He's he's wired like a Wall Street guy.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: He ain't just gonna hold on if things go south.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: He's he's on scholarship this year. But I thinks could
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: get weird if this offense looks like last year. It's
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: gonna look different schematically, but just in terms of the results,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I just think are a major major question. Number three.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I look this up. Sean McDermott. His career record was
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: ninety eight and fifty and he was eight and eight
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: in the playoff, which isn't bad. Has a lot of
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: similarities less games to guys like Tomlin and Harbaugh. Obviously
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl, but he's ninety eight and fifty.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: He did go six and ten in a second year
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: when they got Josh Allen ten and six, thirteen and three,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: eleven and six, thirteen and three, eleven and six, thirteen
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: and four, twelve and five and four. Of his one, two, three, four,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: five six. Four of his seven playoff appearances with Josh
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Allen he lost to Patrick Mahomes, two of those in
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: the conference championship game. Now one of those the thirteen
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: second game. Put it all on him, no issue. You
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: typically don't get fired in the In basketball, it happens right.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: You can make the playoffs and get fired. In the NFL,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: it is pretty rare to consistently make the playoffs, to
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: win a playoff game most years, sometimes two, and get fired.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Now once you miss miss the playoffs like Andy Reid
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: miss the playoffs couple years, fired in Philly, John Harbad
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: missed the playoffs, fired in Baltimore. Jim Harbaugh one year
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: the Niners missed the playoffs. Fire like you missed the playoffs.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Anything's fair game his leagu's cut through. But if you
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: just make the playoffs every year, typically win the division,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: which obviously McDermott did a lot, and have success in
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: like look pretty good. I mean they were a couple
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: stupid Josh Allen plays away from winning that game in Denver,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: so pretty rare. That's why I think it was controversial.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Might be the wrong. Yeah, I guess a little. When
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: he got fired, people like what wait, what now? Sometimes
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: you are looking to upgrade, you think you he's not
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the guy to take you to the next level. When
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I was living in the Berry, it happened with Mark
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Jackson and Steve Kerr. Here's the thing. Though Steve Kerr
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: didn't work for Mark Jackson. Steve Kerr was colling games right.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Steve Kerr was an outside voice. Joe Brady was off
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: as the coordinator, which is an advantage which I actually
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: think the Ravens aren't on this list because I don't
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: think there's as much pressure pressure on Jesse Mentor as
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: there is on Joe Brady because of the internal dynamics,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Like Joe was essentially Seawn's right hand guy. Right, If
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Shawn's the defense is his baby, well, Joe's calling the offense,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: so you place him there. Which I'm high on Joe Brady.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I think he's really impressive. I think he's gonna do good.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I think they got it as good of a chance
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: as anyone to win a Super Bowl. But what if
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: they don't, Like, what if the same thing happens. They
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: win the division, they win a first round playoff game
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: as the three seed, and then they lose in the
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: second round. It's like, you guys made no progress. That's
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: where I think it gets. And listen, you have a
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: quarterback who is just taking a lot of wear and tear.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Lamar is the same thing because they run around been
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: banged up, Like, how many years are you gonna get
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: guys like that in the peak of their athletic powers,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: because he's gonna get better in terms of understanding defenses,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: where to throw, all that type stuff. But when you
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: can mesh the mind and the body, like if not now,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: then win. So I think the pressure on Buffalo is
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: big time now. One advantage they have is from a
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: division standpoint. I think a lot's going on with the
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Patriots this year. I think they are the clear favorites
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: to win the division. You know, the Dolphins are gonna
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: stink and the Jets don't have a quarterback. But playoff
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: games are hard, man, All of a sudden, you know,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: round one, you're playing the Houston Texans and it's like
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: we got to block to Neil Hunter and will Anderson help.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: We saw the Bills play the Texans last year. Was
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: it Thursday night or Monday night or Sunday night. It's
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: a fucking bloodbath. They got destroyed. So I think the
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: pressure on this team is just insane. Now all these guys,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: like indie people could get fired. You know, in Buffalo,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: the GM and the coach aren't getting fired unless they
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: were to win like four games, and then maybe they
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: would get blown up. In the eat with the Eagles.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: You know, things get weird, like Doug Peterson has been fired,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Andy Reeve's been fired, Chip Kelly was Dom has scored
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: his ass out of the building. You just never know,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: you know now how he made man made man in
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: the in the Philly Mob. But everyone else, you know,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: head on a swivel. This next team, which I ranked
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: higher in all those teams, no one's getting fired. Sean
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: McVeigh has a lifetime contract if you want to stay
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: with the Rams. Same with less sneed like these guys.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Both of them have long term contract extensions. But neither
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: of these guys' jobs are in jeopardy. But just in
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: terms of a pure pressure standpoint, this was kind of
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: like when the Warriors got Kevin Durant. It's basically like
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: championship or bust, which I always say is pretty rare,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Like if you told me the Buffalo Bills made it
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: to the super Bowl or the Ravens made it to
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the super Bowl, Like, I'm sorry, that's successful. It just
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: is how many teams in the NFL right now could
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: just make it to the super Bowl and then lose
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and say that's not success. I think the only team
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: is the Rams. I mean I really do, because a
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: huge variable here is their quarterback, who has taken a
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: ton of just you know, big hits over his career.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Last year, going into the training camp, he had the
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: kind of mysterious back injury that we didn't know how
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: it was going to play out. You trade for Trent McDuffie,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: you trade for freaking Miles Garrett, Aaron Donald might return.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: You just were a player two away from winning the
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: NFC Championship last year on the road. They to me
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: are the only team in the league that's truly super
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Bowl or bust because if they just get back to
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game, which would be a very successful
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: season for like ninety percent of the NFL, Well, we
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: just did that last year. You know, we literally added
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: these guys to not really win this game, but to
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: win the whole thing. So I think the Rams are
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: in one of those positions like the Miami Heat the
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: first year they got Lebron back in the day when
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: he made the decision. I think when Kevin duran it
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: happens a lot more in basketball or it's like anything
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: less than the having a ring on your finger is
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: a disappointment, and that's just pretty rare air in pro sports,
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: it truly is. The Dodgers are kind of like that now,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Like if they don't win the World Series, it's a
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: disappointing year in the NFL. Even in college football, Like,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: how many college football programs could say I lost in
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: the National Championship Game and it was a disappointing year.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's one program they could say that,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Like I don't think Oregon couldn't say that they never
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: won a national championship. If Miami got back, it would suck.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: But it's like Mario Christobal has got the Miami Hurricanes
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: to back to back national championship games. Ryan Day's already
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: won one, so if he got there, Kirby smart like
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: all these guys. If Kaylin Duboor got Alabama back and
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: was winning playoff games, I'm sorry. There's just not a
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: program in the country. Texas, they're spending one hundred million
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: dollars or whatever on the roster. If you told me,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: arch mannings in the National championship game. So it's like
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: it's pretty rare to be like championship or bust. The
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Rams are truly championship or bust. And to me number one,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: because I think all the different variables, it's Cincinnati Bengals,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow said in OTAs, this is the best team
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I've ever been a part of. They've basically capitulated all
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: his demands. On offense, they paid both wide receivers, which
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I would say most general managers like if you got
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Howie Roseman or John Schneider on the phone during that
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: negotiation period. I think they would say, you know, we
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: probably better off flipping this guy using some of this
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: money get another. We got the best wide receiver in
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: the league, arguably in Jamar Chase. I think we can
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: make it work with some other pieces at different costs.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Utilize his asset. But it's like, no, Joe loves them
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: and listen, I like to Iggins as much as the
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: next guy. But that is not a move that most
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: teams would have made. That felt more like an NBA move.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Your star player wants this guy to stay stand and
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: then the defense in return got diminished. Well, now the
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: defense on paper looks pretty good. Use a tenth pick
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: on Dexter Lawrence, which a couple of years ago was
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: viewed as one of the best players, not just like
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: defensive lineman, not defensive best players in the league, an
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: immovable object. They've added a bunch of pass rushers over
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Here's the other thing. For
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: the first time in a while, you know under Harbaugh,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: especially a couple years ago when they had Mike McDonald,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: like the Ravens were just a better run operation. Well,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: now you got a brand new staff. They've lost a
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: bunch of players. We have no clue like Jesse Minter
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: is a good defensive coordinator, but I've seen Brandon Staley
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: was a good defensive coordinator. Just because you're a good
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator doesn't mean you're gonna be Mike McDonald's a
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: head coach, a lot of question marks, and even Mike
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: McDonald's fst years a head coach, like they didn't make
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Now, I'm not saying the Ravens aren't as
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: good as the Seattle team, but in Lamar Jackson's better
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: than Gino Smith. But my point is this just anytime
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: you get a new coach is unknown, especially a guy
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: that's never coached, like we have a much better understanding,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: like Mike McCarthy. The offense is gonna be good, but defensively,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about the Pittsburgh Steelers like TJ looked
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: old last year, I said, and this is no shade.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for TJ. Watt. He's
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: a bad mother, you know what. But that's a contract
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: they would like back. They're probably, I think, if you
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: had to guess, are gonna trade high Smith during the
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: preseason sometime and start her big. So I think they got,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: you know, new schemes, new coaches. They have consistently been
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: like a nine to ten win team anyway, and the
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Browns are just the Browns. So there is pressure on
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: the Bengals because I think big picture, I've pushed back
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: on this the last couple of years, like could he go?
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying to think Joannis technically didn't. But
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: it happens again in basketball a lot like demand a
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: trade and a lot of people like he's going to
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: demand of trade to the Rams, which would now struggle
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: to make trades for him because they don't have the picks.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I think if they were to
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: be underachieved and missed the playoffs like they did a
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago when they were nine and eight,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: and their defense let him down, won the coaches for
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: sure getting fired, and then the question mark will be
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: what would Joe Burrow do? Now? Big picture of Joe Burrow.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: You gotta stay on the field, you know. But if
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: you tell me right now, did Joe Burrow plays sixteen
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: plus games? If you told me right now Joe Burrows
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: playing sixteen plus games, I would put a large wager
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: on the Bengals. The only thing that holds you back
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: is like, can't you stay on the field. There is
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: a guy that's battled some injuries and miss some time.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: And listen the turf toe injury, it's a freakis injury.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Like it's not one of those where it's like he's
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: told he his ACL twice. You know, if it happens
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: again in career over it's like it happened to Purty
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: last year, it happened to Joe Burrow. It could probably
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: happen to anybody but a couple of years ago. The
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: risk thing you just never know. I personally, on paper,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: I love the Bengals. It's like, well, John the coach
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: is kind of average. Well, in fairness to their coach,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: he was the guy that took him to the Super Bowl.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Now I know he didn't actually take him a super Bowl,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: but he was the head coach on the year that
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: they beat the Chiefs and they played the super Bowl.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: So it's like he's been in a bunch of playoff games.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: So this is not a guy with no experience. Like,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: if you want to push back on my love would
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: be strong, but my bullish nisch bullishness on the Dallas Cowboys,
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: you'd be like, is Brian Schottenheimer a good coach, and
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't really be able to counter that. I like him.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: I think he's good on offense. But if they actually
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: are seven and four, what does he look like in
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: these high pressure games on Monday night football, Sunday night
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: football with the division on the line, with the wildcard
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: spyn line. I don't know. I've seen Zach Taylor in
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: these high pressure games and I've seen his team win.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: So even if we nitpick some of his play calling
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: and get a little pass happy, that's true. I have
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: seen him be the head man for teams at won games. Now,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Sirianni gets a lot of credit on that. If you
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: gotta give Sirianni credit, you gotta give Zack Taylor some
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: credit because the other thing Zach Taylor's calling the offense,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Sirianni's just given raw Ross Beach is like New Rockney
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: in the locker room and making sure Dom keeps guys
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: out of trouble. And that's not even trying to shit
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: on Sirianni. I'm just saying he gets treated like CEO
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: head coach, where Zach Taylor actually is the play caller.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Where I think a lot of people argue with But
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: I do think the Bengals have been pretty aggressive for
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Joe these last couple of years. And I defended him
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: on the Trey Hendrickson thing because like, I'm not given
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson a thirty two year olds one hundred million
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: dollars and we'll see, like the Dexter Lawrence thing. And
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: I like to gamble as much as the next guy.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: I like to take big swings. That's a pretty big swing.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: But when you take big swings, like sometimes you hit
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: an Aaron Judge four hundred and fifty foot home run,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: sometimes strikeout like there's I mean, last year injured, out
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: of shape. He's already said all the right things. He's inspired,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: he's got a chip on his shoulder. If he comes
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: to play and plays like he did in the past,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: for some of those early day ball teams, it's impossible
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: for the guys around him. What's his name, Stewart who
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: they drafts from A and M a couple of years ago,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Howell Mafey that they've added some guys to not look
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: decent because he's that good in that big So I
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: think the Bengals, you could tell me they win the AFC,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: or you could tell me the entire coaching staff gets
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: fired and there are rumors by the combine that Joe
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Burrow might push them to trade him. I think it's
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: all on the table. And that's the only team where
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: it's like all on the table, and that's that's what
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: makes it fun. You know, the rams like chips are
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: all on the table. Right. The Eagles are like that
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: most years. They're really really aggressive and even when they
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: got a pivot, they're still aggressive. It's one of how
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: he's to me, how he's defining attribute. I always tell
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: people this is his ability to get information because the
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: entire league is one big marketplace, and he just finds
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: out information to understand the marketplace, whether that's the contracts,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: whether that's the draft, whether that's you know, coaches. He's
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: like a fucking detective and he's just aggressive one hundred
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: miles an hour all the time. And he's got a
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: lot of other trades like he will never like, oh,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: trade aj Brown. One team might all just figure it out.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Like he's not a we'll figure it out guy. He'll
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: draft a guy, he'll trade for a guy, and he'll
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: sign another guy, and he'll just give himself more opportunities
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: to fill that void because there's no guarantee which guy
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: is gonna fill that void, but he's gonna give his
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: team the best chance to do that. And the Rams
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: have consistently always tried to do that. And I think
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: for the Bengals, the first time in at least in
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: my adult life, they have really tried to do that.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: They have operated much more like the Eagles or the
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: Rams over the last i'd say eighteen months now. Is
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: their coach good enough? Is bur gonna stay healthy? I
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: don't know, but I think they are. I'm gonna bet
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: on him to win the division. I'm gonna pick him
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: to win the division. I don't feel great about it. Obviously.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: The Ravens have the culture. I think the Steelers if
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: you tell me TJ. Watt gives them fifteen sacks and
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: their defensive solid, which I think is a major question mark.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I think their offense could be again, and the Steelers
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: could be feisty, and even the Browns, like on given
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: weeks when their quarterback plays decent, They're gonna have a
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: bunch of good players on both sides of the ball. So, yeah,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: they lost Miles Garrett. They did replace him with a
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: pro bowler. He's not gonna, you know, be Miles Garrett
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: coming off the edge in terms of just speed. But
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: he's a mother like, he's a fucking beast. You try
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: to double team Jared versus you know, on a down block.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: See how that goes, you know, because most offensive line
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: coaches would be like, good godspeed, I mean, that's that's
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: no easy task. Try to block them with a tight end.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Watch that guy again tossed like a rag doll. So
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: it's not like they replaced him just with nobody or
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: the hope of some draft pick. Like they replaced him
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: with a ready made ass kicker. And uh yeah, that's
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• 56:26
  Speaker 1: a couple of mail bead questions. What the hell are
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the chiefs supposed to do with Rashi Rice? Obviously, with
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: everything so far, no way they can give him an extension.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: But what if he has a crazy year franchise tag
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: tag in trade? What do you think? I don't even
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: think you looked that far ahead. I think you just
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: looked at training camp. Try to get him on the
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: straight and narrow. Try to like bro this is kind
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: of your last chance. You've been in trouble multiple times.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: You literally just spent thirty days in the fucking clink.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: You had to rehab. Rick Burkholder had to give you
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: a rehab breakdown when you were in jail. Do you
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: know how embarrassing that is? The opportunity you have to
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: play in the NFL with one of the best quarterbacks
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: and coaches in the history of the league. You're in
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: a great scenario, and you just can't get your acts straight. Like, Bro,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: here's the other thing. I would guess he's gonna get
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: spended unless I unless I wasn't paying attention during fourth
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: of July or so. I haven't seen him get spended yet,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: but my expectation would be he's gonna miss some games.
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: So it's like, we're not talking extension, we're not talking franchise,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: tag and trades, Like, can you just be a reliable
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: player for us? Can you just be a good human being?
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: Can we just work on making progress as a man?
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: I think that's the only thing you're really worried about
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: right now. I don't even think you get ahead of yourself.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: Why do people complain about the NFL playing on different
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: days so much like Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Saturday, Black Friday.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Why does it matter, We the consumer are gonna watch
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: the product regardless. Same for overseas games. People complain about
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: that as well, but it's it's a business and makes
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: the league money because people around the world want to
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: watch football and it fills up stadiums. Only bad thing
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: is the travel. But I love nine thirty games. Longtime listener,
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: keep with the good work. I got no problem with
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: the coaches and players complaining about, you know, flying to
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Australia or when they end up playing in Japan or
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: going to Brazil. Like that's you're allowed to complain if
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: you're in it, right, But like the Australia game, for example,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: which I have no issue with the forty nine ers
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: being pissed off, right they the rams requested them because
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: when they go to LA it's a forty nine er
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: home game, and requested them to fly to Australia, Like
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: that sucks, But like does it matter for me or you? No,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: The game's on Thursday night at five thirty Pacific Center time,
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: eight thirty Eastern for you, clearly, and we're all gonna
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: watch it international game for us on the West Coast.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: Like I don't want to get up at six thirty
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: to watch, you know, the the Dolphins play the Panthers. Now,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: do I want to watch that game at ten Pacific
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Standard time? Not really? But I do this for a living,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: and I got multiple TVs and I got quad boxes,
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: and they'll be in one of the boxes, and if
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: the game is good, I'll pay attention. But like, I
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: don't know, I have no issue with people on my
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: time zone complaining about the six thirty am kickoffs on
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: the holiday stuff. Yeah, I don't know. I do people
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: complain about the Black Friday game. I remember sitting on
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: my couch last year watching the Eagles and Bears. It
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: was awesome Wednesday. What are most people doing on Wednesday
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving? At home or out at a bar getting
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: some drinks? Games on? So now the one I don't know.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: I've never been in the in the bar business, but
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: haven't there been some issues with some of these games
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: on some of these platforms that the bars can't show.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: That would be I guess the only pushback. The media
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: naturally just complains about stuff. I mean, it's in their
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: nature to complain. But I have no issue with any
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: of those games. Now, I think where it would get
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: tough if I had my kid. I almost said, kids,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: we only got one now, but we've probably got another
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: one coming down the pike. Here, we'll see. We're debating timelines.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: It like, you know, people do spend some time outdoors
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: with their family. Not everyone lives in frigid conditions. Maybe
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: people leave the home if your team's playing, But I mean,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: it doesn't really impact me as much right now. The
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: numbers speak for themselves. People consume these games and just
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: historic numbers. Any hope of going live for immediate reactions
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: after NFL games. That's how I found you and became
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: a fan. Didn't want to wait until the next day.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: We have love the Dad Diaries, personal stories. Battle against
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: the Wasp. I think I fixed my WASP problem. I
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: the wast nest that was in the front of my
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: house above my front door has just impacted the I
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: just don't see them. It might have just been that
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: and they were utilizing my front door as a home
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: And now I granted I haven't been swimming, but just
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: looking at the pool, there's no wasp. So once you
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: find once you find their home base, you blow that
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: shit up. They disappear and maybe they tell their buddies,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: like these guys whatever that pest man was spraying, you know,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: you don't want to touch that because it killed them immediately.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: It's some powerful stuff. What was your question? We have
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: been I was just actually talking to one of our
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: guys today. Heavy negotiations. I don't know negotiations, but I
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: think you know you deal with these big companies. It
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: was in writing about the live we are pushing it
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: hardcore to be able to go live on net at
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: minimum a couple nights a week after the Thursday Monday games.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: And obviously I guess I technically don't go live with
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: Colin on Sunday, but that gets posted usually during the
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Sunday night football game. But we are all my chips
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: are in the middle of the table and being able
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: to go live on Netflix for multiple games a week.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: Quick comment on your rant that embraced UFC in football
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: being violent and not a place to go for moral guidance.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: My wife's brother was close to a Big ten program
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: enjoying a lot of success a few years back, and
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: the coach was quoted off the record as saying something
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: to the effect you need two or three criminals on
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: your team to be competitive. I'd like to think that's
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: not strictly true. But there are some players who's place
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: style suggests you really don't want to be on a
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: street corner with them when their career is over. Obviously,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: there are a lot of great players like J. J.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: Watt and Will Anderson Junior who are also solid citizens
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: and whom fathers dream about their daughter marrying. You get
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: involved in violent activities, you are gonna have some people
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: involved with screw looses. Uh, it's just part of the deal.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Not everyone is gonna be an upstanding citizen, and it takes. Uh.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: You know, you got to have god given talent to
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: play in the NFL, you obviously gotta have I you know,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: the UFC, you gotta have immense talent. And you also
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: gotta have the mindset of just a crazy person, because
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: most sane people are not stepping in the octagon. And
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: I just I don't understand when people get so worked
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: up when guys get in trouble. It's like, what do
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: you think? Like I I don't care, Like I watch
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: if the movie's good, Like I don't care what my
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: actors do, Like it doesn't bother me. You know, I'm
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: just watching this for entertainment, right. If we worried about
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: every single human that it has entertained us in our life,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: whether it's musicians, whether it's actors, whether it's athletes, and
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: tried to hold them to some unattainable standard, then we
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have any entertainment at all or very little. Check
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: this out, Venode, the new owner of the Seattle Seahawks
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: can now take a tax right off of six hundred
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: and forty million dollars per year over the next fifteen years,
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: so he gets an appreciating asset and never has to
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: pay taxes. Must be nice. Do you think an owner
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: like this would be good or bad for the football product?
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: He obviously is not a hobbyist that wants to meddle
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: with the team, but also is a financial play firm.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: He has no ties to the area, and his actual
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: interest in football is unclear. Paul Allen had both rip,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: so he sent me this massive tax loopings the Under
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: the US tax law, sports team owners can utilize a
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: unique mechanism known as the Admortizable Franchise Mitigation IRS Section
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: one ninety seven. When someone buys a sports team, they
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: can treat almost the entire purchase as an intangible asset
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: and deduct the value over a fifteen year period. Koltchia
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: is potentially right off of roughly six hundred and thirty
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: million per year. Let's just say this, if you or
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: I bought the team, or Paul Allen was alive and
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: he had just purchased the team for the first time,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: every single human would. I don't pretend to no tax law,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: but it's why I pay an account in Dustin. He's
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: a stud badass to know these rules and utilize them
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: to your benefit. I did something at a completely different
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: number value with the office I'm sitting in. I'll do
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: the same thing with the car purchase this year through
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: the company that I'm paid through for this podcast, which
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: I created to take advantage every way possible financially. It's
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: why you work in business to keep as much money
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: as you can. Now, obviously we're talking much bigger, different
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: numbers than these guys, but I have zero issue with
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: them literally following the law. I also think this guy
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: bought the team. Asking around, I think there are a
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: lot of people that don't really know much about this guy.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: The more and more I've heard people that report on
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: the league. People around the league think you bought it
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: for a son, which I think you could argue if
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: that is truly his the reasoning behind the purchase. Maybe
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: I talked about this on another part is that the
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: greatest gift if you love football, the greatest gift ever
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: given from a father to a son. I actually did.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: I remember going on the rent, Dad, what'd you get me?
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: I got you the defending Super Bowl champs. Son. Oh
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: my god, my dad would be like, he got you, uh,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: some underwear, socks and a couple couple of Polos, Like thanks, pops.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: He's like, I got you John Schneider, Mike McDonald, the twelve's,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: and Darnald under contract for the next three years. Let's
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: go get him son. That's that's that's a gift. That's
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: that's a gift. But to think that these guys, anyone
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: that doesn't take advantage of the tax laws to their
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: own benefit, I think it's a moron. It's literally written
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: in the law like you can do this, Like why
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: would you not. It's no different than like not putting
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: something in a step ira and just giving that money
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: to the government. I remember when I first, like a
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: decade ago my accountant was trying to It's like you
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: have to this money either goes away or you can
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: keep it. It's like it's it's pretty black and white here.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: It's like no different, like you can do this. If
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: you make this purchase, you can do this with it.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: You're not making this up. So I I never have
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: an issue where it's like this guy doesn't want the
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: fucking law. If you don't like it, change the law.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: He doesn't get to change the law laws written. He
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: didn't create it. He's honestly an incredible success story immigrant
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: I think from India, came over with nothing, not a
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: pot to pisson, went to Stanford, created the company. I
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: watched some YouTube videos on him. He's he's pretty, he's
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: pretty cocky, which I kind of I don't blame. I mean,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: we're billions of dollars, but sptimes, he's tech guys. I
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: think you think they're like nerdy, which they are. I
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: mean a lot of them at their core, But like,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: I don't care how nerdy you are once you get
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: that much juice and that much power. Like these guys
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: got big bugging egos, big bugging egos, and I saw
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: an node tweeting about charities and stuff. You get in
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: the one thing. Live in the Bay Area and around.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: I got friends that work in Silicon Valley. You get
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: in between any of these guys money, they will come
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: for your throat. They and their competition. They want to
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: put him out of business, They want to ruin people lives.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: They want him on the street. It is one of
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: the the way that a lot of these guys portray themselves,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: like just kind of these altruistic figures and the way
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: they actually live it's like completely different. But you just
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: you can find this guy given talks in interviews on YouTube.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: He's he's confident in himself. I don't blame him. I
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: would be too. What's your prediction on the Chiefs record schedule?
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Is pretty tough having to play at the NFC West,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: hearing lots of different opinions from even the local media.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: I think they win double dig games. If I had
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: to bet, I'd probably say ten and seven best case scenario.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's the big unknowns are like they draft
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: these three guys in the top forty what's his name?
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: What I mean? It shows you a bet on vacation
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: the corner from LSU Woods from Clemson and R. Mason
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: from Oklahoma. If two of those guys, one's got to
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: be the corner and one of the two defensive linemen
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: or impact guys, then their defense could be solid immediately.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: I mean they have spags. He's one of the best
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: defensive coaches in the league. Mahomes to me, you know
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: this is all these quarterback rankings, Like his resume relative
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: to everyone else in the NFL is the best. No
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: one has a better resume than Patrick Mahomes, just like
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: no one in NBA history. Maybe some people in NBA history,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: like Bill Russell, but like no modern day player has
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: a better resume than Lebron the MVPs, the scoring, the passing,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: the fucking going to the finals, winning the finals, being
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: as like the longevity of his career. But Mahomes wasn't
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: very good last year, again relative to the standard of
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: great players. Sometimes guys rogers have down year, the year
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: McCarthy got fired. FARV had some down years. Uh, you know,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: players have down years, and I think there's they just
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: need him to be much more consistent. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: questions on the Saints, Louisiana native wondering your thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: the Saints. I'm picking them with vision. I think they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be good. I think Tyler Shuck, I think he's
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  Speaker 1: got a chance to be a really good quarterback. I
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  Speaker 1: think their offense is gonna be excellent. Uh, say what
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  Speaker 1: you want about my guy, Brandon Staley, but defense kind
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  Speaker 1: of looked pretty good towards the end. I'd have to
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  Speaker 1: look at their roster on paper. On defense, but that
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  Speaker 1: division is like, you know Tampa, Now Baker was hurt
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  Speaker 1: last year. We found out in this in the series,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, Mike Evans was such a staple of
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  Speaker 1: that offense. Uh, and the leadership aspect of that, Lavonte
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  Speaker 1: David retired. They're just gonna have a lot of new
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  Speaker 1: blood there. You know, Todd Bowles is kind of coaching
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  Speaker 1: for his job. You got Carolina who who actually looks
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  Speaker 1: pretty good on paper, even though I saw who just
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  Speaker 1: went on non injury football list with j C. Horn
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  Speaker 1: cut his foot, So might not be that big a
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  Speaker 1: deal or was that someone else? You always that's the
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  Speaker 1: other thing. If you're a GM, you come back from vacation,
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  Speaker 1: you got a good tan on you, You're feeling good.
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  Speaker 1: You've either gotten really good shape or you didn't do much.
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  Speaker 1: You just had beers hung out. You show up at
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  Speaker 1: the office and then people start checking in, and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, the trainer comes. It's like, we got
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  Speaker 1: a problem. What uh so and so got injured riding
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  Speaker 1: to jet ski and has two broken toes and won't
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  Speaker 1: be able to practice for three weeks. You're like, what.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thing if guy gets hurt on the field,
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  Speaker 1: nothing you can do. It's another thing when you show up.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, you know, I was. I was rock
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  Speaker 1: climbing with my girlfriend and I fell fifteen feet and
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  Speaker 1: I have a deep bruise on my shoulder and I
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  Speaker 1: can't out throw right now. Like those you're always you
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  Speaker 1: just have no clue what's coming. Obviously, the worst one
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  Speaker 1: ever was the JPP firework instance. I read that Nick
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  Speaker 1: Saban has been pushing the Protect College Sports Act to
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  Speaker 1: bring nil standards and crack down on pay for play.
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  Speaker 1: From what you heard talking to people around college football,
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  Speaker 1: does the proposal actually have any real transtraction in Congress?
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  Speaker 1: You know, there are certain stories. It's like, when I
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  Speaker 1: see all these guys going to Congress, I just I
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  Speaker 1: do not give a shit. I can't even pretend to
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  Speaker 1: tell me when there's a when the result happens, however,
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  Speaker 1: this comes, but like the back and forth of the
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  Speaker 1: argue on social media, it's like, I got a life,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go hang out with my kid. The one
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  Speaker 1: thing a college coach told me during the spring was
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  Speaker 1: he was confident that the conferences we're gonna cap have
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  Speaker 1: a salary cap, Like you can spend fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 1: on your team and also put a salary cap on coaches.
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  Speaker 1: So like the most you can pay a coach in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC is twelve million dollars, but you can also
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  Speaker 1: pay a guy five, but you can't. Like the market
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  Speaker 1: value with players and coaches keep getting bigger and bigger
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  Speaker 1: and bigger, and they basically just outbitting each other. It's like, there,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have like a universal conference cap number, and
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna include the coaches so the players can't get mad.
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  Speaker 1: But that hasn't happened yet, So that that was a
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  Speaker 1: rumor I heard during like spring recruiting. I think the
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  Speaker 1: Congress stuff, I I I don't know. I would doubt
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  Speaker 1: that the Congress ends up like mandating certain things that
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  Speaker 1: would be my guess. I would say it feels a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more like a dog and pony show then
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  Speaker 1: something that's gonna be tangible in the next twelve months.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Sankee today at the SEC Media Days or maybe
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  Speaker 1: it was yesterday, said they're gonna leave the NC double
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  Speaker 1: A or they could. It's a real thing, which I
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  Speaker 1: don't blame them. I would too, NC double A. What's
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  Speaker 1: the why would you be in business with them? What's
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  Speaker 1: the point now? You'd still want to be associated with
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  Speaker 1: the school? You know, It's like, do your kids not
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  Speaker 1: go to class? Then? Do they not have to go
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  Speaker 1: to class? Are they going to class? Now? Does class
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  Speaker 1: even matter? But we could have a deeper discussion, like
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  Speaker 1: what is a college degree in twenty twenty six? Is
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  Speaker 1: it going to be completely meaningless in like a decade.
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  Speaker 1: We already know like half the degrees you get most
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  Speaker 1: of these colleges don't equate to shit. But that's a
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  Speaker 1: conversation for probably a different podcast. I mean, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: to an act business major who's about to talk about
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  Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett. What's your opinion on Jacoby Brissett in Arizona?
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  Speaker 1: Should Jacoby shut up and get paid peanuts to deal
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  Speaker 1: with Seattle Rams and Niners defense. No. I the going
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  Speaker 1: rate for someone in Jacoby Brissett's shoes, a guy that
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  Speaker 1: is a bridge quarterback, I would say, is well over
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  Speaker 1: ten million dollars. And I looked earlier today that Jacoby
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  Speaker 1: was making a scheduled to make according to this website,
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  Speaker 1: five point four million dollars. I don't think. And he's
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  Speaker 1: also I was reading someone said he's his own agent,
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  Speaker 1: which I expect. Plus Chad Gibt can help you out
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  Speaker 1: that last year Jacoby Brissett was sixty five percent twenty
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  Speaker 1: three touchdowns and eight interceptions. I would say the equivalent
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  Speaker 1: of that guy for a team like Arizona that is
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  Speaker 1: looking for you just to get them through a season
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  Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars. Now, if Jacoby's asking for like thirty,
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, okay, we'll just cut you, go find
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  Speaker 1: another gig. I do think what if I was Jacoby's advisor.
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  Speaker 1: I think it would be fair to start at twenty
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  Speaker 1: and be willing to go somewhere like fourteen to fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think it's I don't think it's crazy
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  Speaker 1: to go under no circumstances. Am I doing this for
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  Speaker 1: five million dollars? Because that is not the going rate
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  Speaker 1: for this job. Now, is it unfair to twenty three
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  Speaker 1: and eight? I could ask I pay me thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: million dollars? Like we're not paying you thirty eight million dollars?
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  Speaker 1: Could I get seventeen? Like what I bring from a
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  Speaker 1: leadership standpoint, just from a functionality standpoint, I'm actually a
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  Speaker 1: pretty solid player. The problem is new offensive coordinator, new scheme.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Laflorida doesn't like him as much. Probably doesn't because
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  Speaker 1: the one thing in the Shanahan offense you kind of
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  Speaker 1: like your quarterbacks to be mobile. I mean, look around
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  Speaker 1: the league. Perty can move Stafford Camp, but their offense
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  Speaker 1: a little different. And it doesn't matter. He's so good,
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  Speaker 1: you know, cousins like they always want to Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 1: gave them mobility. That's why they drafted JJ McCarthy. He
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  Speaker 1: went and got Kyler Murray, Rogers can move, Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: can move. Last year Darnald in Seattle. You know C J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud with the guys in Houston has mobility. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need you to be Lamar Jackson, but like Jacoby is
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  Speaker 1: like Philip Rivers, you know, he ain't moving, so there
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  Speaker 1: might be a push and pull because on paper, doing
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  Speaker 1: his gig, he's worth ten million dollars more than what
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  Speaker 1: he's making. Right, be the equivalent of like you're doing
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  Speaker 1: a job for one hundred grand, you're the going rate
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  Speaker 1: for what you're bringing the table, even though there are
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  Speaker 1: some people at your job that make five million dollars,
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  Speaker 1: you could easily argue for four hundred grand. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: doing the job for one hundred grand. You might not
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  Speaker 1: pay me five million dollars, but I'm looking for like
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  Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars, and that's where I think is
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  Speaker 1: fair for Jacoby. The problem might be is the new boss, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even think he's that valuable to us. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna be that good in our offense
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  Speaker 1: which might be taking place. So it's probably pretty complicated.
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  Speaker 1: I feel for Jacoby again, underrated season, best season of
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  Speaker 1: his career. Here's the problem. It's not all his fault.
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  Speaker 1: In the twelve games he started. We'll end on this.
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  Speaker 1: Do you want to guess the Arizona Cardinals record? It
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  Speaker 1: was one and eleven, so tough, tough way to go.
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  Speaker 1: But we're pulling for you, Jacoby. And the best part
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  Speaker 1: about being your own agent, and you just pay yourself audios,
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  Speaker 1: the volume