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NFL Annual League Meeting Reaction + NFL Offseason Mailbag · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The volume.
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  Speaker 2: What is going on? My people? How are we doing?
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  Speaker 2: John middlecop Three and Out podcast. We have the owners
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  Speaker 2: meetings going on down the street at the Biltmore Hotel
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  Speaker 2: in Phoenix, Arizona, which you know, if Jerry and Craft
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  Speaker 2: and Rodge asked me, I might have some other options.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a historic hotel. Presidents from back in the sixties, seventies,
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  Speaker 2: eighties used to stay there, so it probably has some
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  Speaker 2: nostalgic qualities to these guys. And it's big. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's cool, cool pool scene. But here's the thing. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to react to some of the comments today from McVeigh,
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  Speaker 2: Shanahan's to fans, key some McCarthy. We had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of good stuff coming out because all these coaches talked.
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  Speaker 2: At least the NFC guys. Did the AFC guys talk
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow and uh yeah, and we'll do We'll do some
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  Speaker 2: we'll just keep on ripping. So, uh, let's talk some football.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just start with Sean McVay, who admitted today that
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  Speaker 2: the story that broke several weeks ago that they were
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  Speaker 2: shopping Davante Adams wasn't just true, but he had told
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  Speaker 2: Davante Adams where they stood and if they made a
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  Speaker 2: move I eed to trade for aj Brown, that Davante
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  Speaker 2: Adams would not be on the team because clearly they're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna have Aj Brown. Make it twenty nine million,
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  Speaker 2: Davante making close to twenty five million, and Pooka Nakua, who,
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  Speaker 2: even though he hasn't signed a new contract yet, if
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna keep him around. We just saw the number
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  Speaker 2: that that that bears, so they were gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: choose one. And to me, that kind of symbolizes the
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  Speaker 2: NFL because Davante last year and listen, I'm a DeVante guy.
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  Speaker 2: I've been following his career since he was a senior
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  Speaker 2: at Pally High School in northern California. Obviously, is his
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  Speaker 2: career at Fresno State speaks for itself, and to me,
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  Speaker 2: he's been had a hall of fame level career in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, but he led the league last year in touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: Let me repeat that, DeVante Adams led the NFL in touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: Is his resume of winning at the highest level and
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  Speaker 2: excelling in the playoffs is well established at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Yet the Rams came up short and they went can
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  Speaker 2: we upgrade? And you could argue AJ Brown is younger,
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  Speaker 2: and listen, last year the quarterback situation was not clearly.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't play well. AJ Brown doesn't like him personally,
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  Speaker 2: and their rapport and connection was really off. We're on
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  Speaker 2: the flip side. Davonte dealt with some hamstring issues, which
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  Speaker 2: he's had over the course of his career, but his
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  Speaker 2: connection with Stafford, especially in the red area, was second tont.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you score fourteen touchdowns in a season, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't get much better than that. But he only had
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  Speaker 2: sixty catches. He only had eight hundred yards, and I
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  Speaker 2: wonder if McVeigh and Les snead are looking at it, like, listen,
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  Speaker 2: could we short term upgrade, get a younger player and
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  Speaker 2: go from there. And you know, aj had seventy eight
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  Speaker 2: catches in a thousand yards, so not one of his
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  Speaker 2: great seasons. And half as many touchdowns as Davante. But
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  Speaker 2: the reason that they didn't pull the trigger on the
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  Speaker 2: AJ Brown trade was kind of like Max Crosby, except
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  Speaker 2: they had never agreed to terms because they saw what
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  Speaker 2: they needed to see on the information that the Eagles
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  Speaker 2: sent over in terms of his MRIs and said, we're
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  Speaker 2: not comfortable with this because they're not going to trade
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  Speaker 2: an older player who I think one of the reasons
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  Speaker 2: they would be trading him is they're not quite comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Can he stay healthy, can he be consistent? Is he
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  Speaker 2: still the same level player? And then go with another
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  Speaker 2: guy who has some injury concerns. But isn't it just
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  Speaker 2: the NFL? Because my first take would be like, why
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  Speaker 2: would you mess with something good? Like clearly DeVante from
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  Speaker 2: a leadership standpoint, from a production standpoint, from a scoring
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  Speaker 2: point standpoint, doesn't get much better. Yet that's not how
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  Speaker 2: NFL front offices think, That's not how forward thinking aggressive organizations.
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  Speaker 2: What can we do better? Can we upgrade here? Does
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  Speaker 2: this upgrade make sense? Is it worth it? And clearly,
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  Speaker 2: if AJ Brown's medicals would have been better, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's safe to say that AJ Brown would currently be
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  Speaker 2: a RAM and who knows where DeVante Adams would be.
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  Speaker 2: But here's where I give McVeigh credit because several years ago,
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  Speaker 2: when the Jared Goff Stafford thing happened, he did what
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  Speaker 2: coaches have always done. He went through the media, through
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  Speaker 2: Mike Silver specifically, and other guys and just kind of
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  Speaker 2: shit on Jared Goff and it got really ugly, which
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  Speaker 2: has happened forever, Still happens in baseball, still happens in basketball,
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  Speaker 2: still happens in the NFL, And I think he learned,
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  Speaker 2: like it was kind of embarrassing when he's like, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, I could just talk to a man de
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  Speaker 2: man and I can tell you that, like, yeah, we're
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  Speaker 2: having some differences or yeah we are exploring some different
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  Speaker 2: upgrades here. And ever since then, he's been an open book, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we told Davante that this might go down. We were
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  Speaker 2: fully transparent. If you go back to last year during
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  Speaker 2: the offseason, Sean McVay was like, listen, this is uncomfortable,
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  Speaker 2: but we have a price point because the way our
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  Speaker 2: team is built with Matt Stafford. He knows how we
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  Speaker 2: feel about him, and he knows that what he will
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  Speaker 2: sign if he wants to keep playing for US will
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  Speaker 2: be less than he's actually worth. All this is on
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  Speaker 2: the table. We're not running from it, we're not hiding
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  Speaker 2: from it, and we're not playing these fucking games through
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  Speaker 2: these reporters. We're talking man demand business partner to business partner,
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  Speaker 2: because ultimately, in football, it's no different than any of
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  Speaker 2: our industries. You are in business with these individuals if
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  Speaker 2: you're a coach and they're a player, if you're a
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  Speaker 2: GM and they're a coach, like, you're all in this together.
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  Speaker 2: And the difference of a lot of our jobs is
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  Speaker 2: so public, and you know, people get very sensitive. Yet
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  Speaker 2: they have a lot of takes, they have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of opinions. It's why I've always said when people get
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  Speaker 2: mad at me, like, listen, everything I've ever said since
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing this is on record. Get the majority
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  Speaker 2: of these guys in the league, the comments they give,
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  Speaker 2: and it's one thing to like, listen, not everyone's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be open to talk about trades or whatever. I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: The shit they talk through these reporters that then go
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  Speaker 2: into the articles in the Athletic like you ain't putting
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  Speaker 2: your name on it, which listen, it's your probative to
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  Speaker 2: do whatever you want, but until you're putting your name
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  Speaker 2: on everything, like come on, bro like and Sean McVay
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  Speaker 2: over the last couple of years has put his name
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  Speaker 2: on everything, and I think he's done a really good job.
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  Speaker 2: The guy he's become, you know, at forty years old,
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  Speaker 2: is clearly a lot different than the guy a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years ago. I saw a quote today he had
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  Speaker 2: with Florio and he said this over the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of years is like in twenty twenty two, if he
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  Speaker 2: just would have quit after that bad season and gone
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  Speaker 2: into the media, which would have paid him a ton
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  Speaker 2: to be Al Michael's right hand guy. I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: would have made as much, if not more to do
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  Speaker 2: that working one day a week than working one hundred
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  Speaker 2: hours a week coaching the rams. He's like, I essentially
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  Speaker 2: would have quit and tapped out. I would have been
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  Speaker 2: a quitter. And everything I was about to have a child,
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  Speaker 2: everything I would try to teach them, I would have
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  Speaker 2: been a hypocrite. Because the number one thing we all
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  Speaker 2: want to teach our children at you know, at least
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  Speaker 2: anyone with you know, any sense of you know, desire
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  Speaker 2: to have that children go on the right path in life,
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  Speaker 2: is we don't quit. You know, when times get tough,
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  Speaker 2: we kind of battle through it. And when you start something,
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  Speaker 2: you kind of got to finish it. Like that should
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  Speaker 2: be a pretty consistent lesson that was definitely given to
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  Speaker 2: my generation. Off to find out as my son gets
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  Speaker 2: older on around other people, like if that's still a
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  Speaker 2: message that goes through society, but that is definitely gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a message in my home when we start. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean you have to do everything, but if you
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  Speaker 2: are going to start something, you got to see it
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  Speaker 2: through and just because it doesn't go well doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: you can just quit. And I know that's very in
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  Speaker 2: vogue in this modern day world, and this is the
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  Speaker 2: pushback in college sports when times get a little tough,
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  Speaker 2: people tap out a lot of different variables there because
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  Speaker 2: there's money involved. But I just I have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of respect for the way Sean McVay has done business,
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  Speaker 2: even though I don't even necessarily agree with this, Like
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  Speaker 2: are you sure that you want and listen to AJ
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  Speaker 2: Brown when he's on is an elite player, but he's
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  Speaker 2: battles some injuries, he can be a little emotional. He's
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  Speaker 2: not cheap, you know, and it's not like whatever you
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  Speaker 2: would have traded for him, would have cost you a
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  Speaker 2: decent amount. It would have been a pretty risky move.
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  Speaker 2: But one thing I will always say, I don't have
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  Speaker 2: to agree with your moves, but I do agree with aggression.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're gonna make aggressive moves, I have to
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  Speaker 2: respect it. Now, there are aggressive moves that like are reckless,
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  Speaker 2: Like when they gave to a huge contract, when they
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  Speaker 2: gave Kyler Murray a big contracts, you didn't need to
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  Speaker 2: do that. You actually didn't need to get that aggressive.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't let it play out. It's where Daniel Jones
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  Speaker 2: always gets these guys by the balls at the end
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  Speaker 2: of his contracts, like, well, you're either gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: franchise me or it's gonna cost you a hundred million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: And for whatever reason, people always you know, capitulate is
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  Speaker 2: the bands. But the one thing with the Rams, they
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  Speaker 2: did it with McDuffie. They just take fucking swings. They
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  Speaker 2: honestly operate and it doesn't obviously work. I mean all
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  Speaker 2: the time. They've only won one super Bowl during his
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  Speaker 2: nine years as the head coach. They've been to a
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  Speaker 2: couple they were right on the precipice this year of
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  Speaker 2: getting back to another. But I just think the way
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  Speaker 2: that they operate is listen, I'm around Lions fans here.
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  Speaker 2: They get very I would say frustrated with Brad holmes
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  Speaker 2: lack of aggression. You know, every team you know has
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  Speaker 2: been some teams lean like Howie Roseman, very aggressive guy.
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  Speaker 2: I think people are like John Schneider, why aren't you
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  Speaker 2: more aggressive? It's like, well, I just got to pay
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  Speaker 2: a wide receiver one hundred and thirty million dollars guaranteed
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  Speaker 2: and give him forty million dollars as a signing bonus.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say that's pretty aggressive, but you can't make everyone happy.
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  Speaker 2: And ultimately, DeVante's coming back, and I think it's easier
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  Speaker 2: to welcome these guys back when you're in these positions
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  Speaker 2: where you have been honest and transparent with the guy,
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  Speaker 2: even if he doesn't agree. And that's the one thing
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  Speaker 2: football still has because it's it's an aggressive, contentious environment
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  Speaker 2: on a daily basis in the facility, you know you're
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  Speaker 2: getting pushed, you're getting yelled at, you're getting coach tard.
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  Speaker 2: So I think these guys are actually more open and
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  Speaker 2: understanding to hear some tough conversations because they've had to
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  Speaker 2: have him, you know. So I think that more and
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  Speaker 2: more organizations now you need some equity, especially established high
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  Speaker 2: priced players to really tell them what you think. But
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  Speaker 2: I think it's made Sirianni and how he dealing with
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  Speaker 2: aj Brown situation much easier. They can be open and
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  Speaker 2: honest with the guy, which they clearly have been on
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  Speaker 2: the same page as he's a member of the Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: He's a member of the Eagles and honestly, at this
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  Speaker 2: at this pace, maybe he stays a member of the
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  Speaker 2: Eagles because they don't feel inclined to trade him anymore
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  Speaker 2: than they did over the last couple of weeks. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't seem like a lot of teams are lined up
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  Speaker 2: to do the deal. The other thing, I didn't see
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  Speaker 2: mcveigh's comments on this, but Kyle was asked about the
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  Speaker 2: Australian game and he basically said what we alluded to
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  Speaker 2: last week, like this is what are we doing? He's like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know if we're gain end of the
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  Speaker 2: day losing today. I mean, he's kind of being tongue
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  Speaker 2: in cheek because he's pissed off. I mean, we're playing
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  Speaker 2: a game in a market that we're not broadcasting too,
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  Speaker 2: because our broadcast partners are based here in the States,
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  Speaker 2: so we have to kick off at ten thirty in
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  Speaker 2: the morning after a nineteen hour flight when we're playing
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  Speaker 2: a team that is separated by a forty ish minute
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  Speaker 2: plane flight. So I am not against international games. I
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  Speaker 2: do think there is a line, and it does feel
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  Speaker 2: and I'm very pro Australia, like Great Sports Town, it
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  Speaker 2: does feel like this is one of those that it's like,
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  Speaker 2: are we kind of crossing the line here? Not that
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  Speaker 2: Roger cares, not that the front office cares, not that
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  Speaker 2: you know. This is why Belichick used to always be
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  Speaker 2: a pain at these events and never be in the
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  Speaker 2: coaching photo and would always you know, piss people off
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  Speaker 2: and raise these different ideas because he always felt that
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  Speaker 2: the people Roger and that crew in New York City
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  Speaker 2: couldn't relate to the coaches in the they had never
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  Speaker 2: run a team, they had never coached a team, most
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  Speaker 2: of them obviously never played in the NFL, and that
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  Speaker 2: there was a disconnect of all you care about is
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  Speaker 2: the business, even if it goes against what makes the
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  Speaker 2: sport of football. Coaching football, the players of football, makes
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  Speaker 2: what goes into their job easier or it makes it
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  Speaker 2: more difficult on them, and they clearly didn't care. And
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  Speaker 2: that's where the owners are kind of caught in this
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  Speaker 2: weird spot. They're kind of playing both sides because the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, they're always going to side with
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  Speaker 2: the league office if it's bringing in more revenue. But
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  Speaker 2: this Australian game, this is gonna be a point of
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  Speaker 2: conversation up until kickoff because these guys, whoever lose that
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  Speaker 2: game is gonna be bitching and moaning. Had a kickoff
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  Speaker 2: early nineteen hour flight home, huge divisional rivalry with two
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  Speaker 2: teams who by the time we get to Week one
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  Speaker 2: are going to be two. You know, the Rams might
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  Speaker 2: be legitimately favored the number one Fire to win the
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl. And depending on how this Niners draft goes
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  Speaker 2: and over the next couple of months, who they add
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  Speaker 2: saw Mike Lafleur, who uh they had on the coaching photo,
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  Speaker 2: Mike and Matt next to Jim and John and anyone
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  Speaker 2: that's been around Jim. I mean, he's just he's in
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  Speaker 2: alpha 's Alpha. So you put those two guys a
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  Speaker 2: little smaller net next to Jim. You know, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of it's tough. You know, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought Mike, on his Kyler Murray comment, said,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes changes are good for everyone involved. And
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of truth to that, you know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: and like, listen, not all divorces are awful sometimes, Like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: guys don't like each other. You want the health of
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  Speaker 2: your your future relationship as parents to your children. Like
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  Speaker 2: you guys shouldn't live together anymore. You guys don't want
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: to sleep together anymore. Like divorces can be healthy. I've
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  Speaker 2: been fired twice, best thing that ever happened to me,
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  Speaker 2: And I understand when you get relieved of your duties
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  Speaker 2: or when someone dumps you, it can be very, very emotional.
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  Speaker 2: But looking back and listen, I've had time to think
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  Speaker 2: on this. Why would you ever want to work for
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  Speaker 2: some place or person or company that doesn't want you there?
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  Speaker 2: You would never want that. Why would you ever want
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  Speaker 2: to be in a relationship with someone who doesn't like you?
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  Speaker 2: So the Kayler Murray thing had run its course. It's
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: like the Tuatanga Bailoa thing had run its course. We
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: see it happen every year, where people break up and
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: guys get a new lease on life. Now I listen,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: we'll dive into tua here in a second. I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe this is gonna work, but we've definitely seen crazier
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  Speaker 2: Ie Sam Donold a couple of years ago. No one
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: saw that coming Now, I do think it's going to
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: be more difficult for ky to just go to Minnesota
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: and thrive. They got Jefferson, they just picked up Jordan
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Adison's fifth year option. They're gonna have offensive pieces. They got,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you know, an offensive play caller who's obviously excellent. But
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: the difference of him and Sam is like, Sam's a
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: pocket quarterback. Sam is fucking enormous. I saw him at
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: the gym two years ago at the Super Bowl, him
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: and Jared Goff walked right next to each other. It's
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: like those guys are like basically six or five each.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: It's much easier to see over the line of scrimmage
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: when you're that or five to nine. I'm very similar
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: height to Kyler Murray. If you put me behind Trent
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Williams or Lane Johnson or Pinay Suwl, much more difficult
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: for me to see than a guy that's six foot four.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: And I just think that this notion that he's gonna
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: go there and it's gonna go well, I don't see it.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: But I also understand that when you get thrown in
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: the mud and you're told you're not good enough, it's
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: you know, you get two choices in life. You either
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: got a fight or flight. Now it's a little different.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: It's not like he's fighting for his NFL career. In
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: terms of money, He's being paid thirty six million dollars
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: this year, so it'd be one thing. I like, he's
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: only making a million dollars and he has to prove
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: that he's still, you know, a fifteen to twenty thirty
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: million dollar quarterback. He's rich this year. Same thing with Tua,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: like their their direct deposits are enormous. So we'll see
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: how it goes. But I think for any player that
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: when a new administration shows up there and you get cut,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: like if that doesn't motivate you, nothing will. Ta Tonguo
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: i Loow is going to be the starter a week
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: one for the Atlanta Falcons. Stefanski said this morning that
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: the quarterback competition is no different than any other positions.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Everyone's competing for every job. He also, you know, prefaced
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: by saying, obviously the quarterback competition is impacted by the
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: health of Pennix who is currently injured, which I actually
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: think is even a bigger advantage for Tua. I would
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: stake my claim right now now the two is going
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: to be the starting quarterback Week one. And I also
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: think Stefanski, who comes into this new organization, he has
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: no equity. If Tua just starts and looks bad, he's
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: gonna take a lot of shit because people are gonna
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: go I get tools cheap. But do you have any
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: clue what a good quarterback looks like? Do you? Because
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: we just saw you draft this little left hand or
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: a year ago who most people thought was an undrafted
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: free agent at best in Tua, who most people think
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: hasn't been able to play for a couple of years
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: since he got his seventeenth concussion. You immediately gravitated toward
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: because you think those guys can excel in your offense.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Where it's like this is still pro football. So even
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: if you know where to go with the football, and
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: you know like one, two, three, get rid of the
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: ball and if my first read is not there, I
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: get to my second read. If your arm strength stinks,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: if you can't move like this thing, like the Kindler thing,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I don't believe in it, but there's definitely a scenario
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: where I can see that I could see where it
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: being a little bit electric and them being decent. I
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: don't think they'd be as good as they wore a
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago with Sam Darnold. But I can
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: see them being decent. I can't see Tua and the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons and Stefanski in twenty twenty six working out
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: at all. It is funny that, speaking of the Falcons,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: everyone just thinks Cousins is shotfighter Old Guy Achilles can't
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: play anymore. Gudakins today were like, we would love Kirk
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Cousins to be our backup. Sean McVeigh looked in the
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: camera at ESPN that he was sitting with Schreger and
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: was like, Kirk, if you're listening to this, we want you.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: The Raiders are clearly campaigning to make Cousins the backup
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: for Fernando Mendoza. It shows you as you age, and
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: this is I I think I alluded to Derek Carr
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: about this a little bit. Cousins has made three hundred
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: million dollars, but he could have now like a three
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: or four year career and bank another twenty thirty million dollars.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: The real world places aren't paying that even if you're
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: like a high up dude, and some of these banks
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: in these finance worlds, like you ain't getting a W
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: two job that's paying the eight million dollars. You know.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: So I think Cousins has an incredible opportunity right now
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: because all these guys, think about it started with Shanahan,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: then he went to McVeigh, then he went to Stefanski
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: last year, you know, the last couple of years in Atlanta,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: they their play caller was his name escapes me right now,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: but he was a McVeigh guy running that offense. Well,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: think about the NFL now, it's like fifty percent running
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: that offense. So Cousin knows it. High character guy, smart
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: guy can help you learn. Future broadcaster. Probably a pretty
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: tough decision because if your cousins you go. If I
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: agree to let's say a two year, fifteen million dollar
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: deal with the Raiders, I'm basically just going there to
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: mentor Fernando Mendoza, but more than likely this year. You know,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: even if things go well, we'd probably win seven eight games.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: The next year we'd have some hopes to try to
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: compete for a wild card. So it's like I'm taking
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the money, but we're not gonna win even as a
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: backup if I go to the Packers, right, I think
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: he is he from Wisconsin obviously played at Michigan State.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: He played it obviously, the Vikings, you know, has has
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: connections to that part of the country. They could be
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: pretty good and you could be part with Lafleur, you
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: know the offense. He's been your quarterback coach before Sean McVay,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: who was basically begging you to come there as the backup.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: A little bit of a culture change, right, he spent
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: so much time Minnesota, Washington, now Atlanta, going across the
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: country in Los Angeles. But I would imagine there are
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: other options for him as well. So it's pretty crazy
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: how you can go from everyone making fun of you
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: to what feels like the number one backup. And I
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: also think when McVeigh is going, Kirk, come give me
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: a call, because like, hey, Jimmy Garoppolo, your contract offers
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: on the table, either fucking sign it or we're just
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: gonna rip it up. Robin Is he can't say that
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: because he doesn't have any other options, and he's basically
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: telling you, like they don't believe in Seedson Bennett, who
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I still think is one of the crazier draft picks
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: in the fifth round that I can remember. Jimmy Haslam
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: for whatever reason, a couple of years ago, I think
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: it was a year ago, he called the Deshaun Watson
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: trade a swing in a miss, which was clearly factual.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: They'd given a bunch of first rounders, they paid him
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: a historic contract, and DeShawn Watson, who at the time
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: was injured but even before that, was objectively terrible, who
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: had went from a really good player with the Texans
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: who then got in trouble for the uh massage Robin
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Tuggs to becoming the worst quarterback in the NFL. Well,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: now he's changing his tunes saying he'd go from a
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: swing and a miss to a home run with Todd Munkin,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: and I think they got to this point where they
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: just refused to eat the money almost where he was
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: so stubborn. He's like, I spent all this money on
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: this guy. I'm not gonna send them backing like the
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Denver Broncos did with Russell Wilson, changed their franchise, like
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: the Miami Dolphins are trying to do with Tua, hoping
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: to change their franchise. And for whatever reason, he was
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: just so headstrong because he's probably mad at himself because
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: he was the guy that okayed it and then signed
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: the contract because no one would have given a fully
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: guaranteed contract as a GM or a coach. The owner
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: was the guy leading the charge that he's just held
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: on for so long, and I do think it could
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: get worse now. He might also say, well, I'm paying
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: the guy. We don't have any other options. We saw
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Shador play last year that didn't go well, and we've
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: seen Todd with the more mobile quarterback, even though DeShawn
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: over the last couple of years hasn't really played that
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: mobile of a gay and now he's coming off of
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: torn Achilles. I feel for Browns fans it's gonna be
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: really ugly. I saw McCarthy, who listen, I love to
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: eat McCarthy for a guy that like takes Usually when
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: a guy takes a year off, it's like you see
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: him again, Like God, I got slim down a little bit.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: He's been he's been eating healthy, he's been getting good
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: night's sleep. Mixed in a couple of sounds, McCarthy gets
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: bigger when he takes his year off. I mean, you
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: see him. I saw him on the set with McAfee.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: He big boy man. He's gotta be pushing like three
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: point fifty. But he said that he talks to Aaron
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Rodgers all the time, that Aaron Rodgers been talking to
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: the coaches. I'm recording this, you know, McCarthy's gonna talk
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: on Tuesday morning. But I do think it's fair to say,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: did they're pretty confident like last year that Aaron Rodgers
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: gonna be the quarterback? Now? Does that impact them to
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: draft a guy in the third or the fourth round
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: to go then get Will Howard, Garrett nus Meyer and
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers and just have some options and let you know,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Garrett nus Meyer and Will Howard battle it out and
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: train a camp. That would probably be my guest. But
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: watching McCarthy talk today, I think it's fair to assume
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: that Aaron Rodgers is going to be there some other
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: things going on. Dan Campbell essentially said that Pinasules moving
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: to left tackle, which I mean, it is really really
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: nice to have, and that the Chargers have this with
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Joel a guy that can play their position, and once
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: you go to left tackle, you probably never go back.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: But having the ability to start those guys at right tackle,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: having them be Pro Bowl, all Pro level players, and
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: just knowing in your back pocket, if you've got to
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: make changes, if a guy retires, if you've got to
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: cut somebody, if you've got to move things around, that
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: guy can always swing around. Because that's not always the
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: case for everybody. Not everyone can play both sides right.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Not every left guard can play right guard right. Not
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: every right guard can also mix in and play center.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: And having positioned versatility, even as a great player, which
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Sewell is a great player, is the reason you draft
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: him really high in pay him a bunch of money.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Kyle Shanahan said that we need to lessen the wear
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: and tear on Christian McCaffrey. It's like, Kyle, you're the
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: one that never takes him out. It's like, well, Christian
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: never wants to come out of the game. He's not
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: the coach. You're the one that rides that guy like
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: a secretariat in the fourth quarter of a game that
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: you're up twenty points or down twenty points. You're the
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: guy that rides them. Which I understand. You love them,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: you love the running game. He's by far your best
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: running back. But there is not a position in the
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: league that is easier to find just a rotational backup
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: than a backup running back. I mean, there are a
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: ton of teams in the NFL who's backup running back
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: could be a starter, let alone the majority of teams
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: in the NFL that just like their backup running back
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: just a solid player. And for whatever reason, since McCaffrey
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: has got there, the forty nine ers do out fucked
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: with the number two. Give him a carry here, carry there.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: But even if he has a big moment, that guy
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: never has a game where he's getting fifteen catches when
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: McCaffrey is also healthy and playing. So I don't know
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: if if Kyle's gonna change. You know, historically Leopards don't
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: really change their spots, right, Kyle's been doing this for
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: a long time. And when you watch he runs, you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: a running back like this guy, he runs him into
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: the ground. But he's not wrong. You know, McCaffrey a
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: bunch of injuries, older player, even going back to college,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Like between the tackles, this guy's taking a lot of hits,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of pounding, and we've seen a lot of
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: guys over the course of the last ten to fifteen
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: to twenty years. That drop off can happen quick. So
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: if I'm the forty nine ers, I think long and hard.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: If I'm not comfortable with any of the running backs
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: on my roster, I draft a guy in the second round,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: draft a guy in the third round, and just but
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: you got to play him. It doesn't make sense to
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: draft a running back, you know, in the th round,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: and then the guy gets you know, six touches in
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: a month. So if you are gonna do that, you
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: do have to commit to that. And it always gets
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: back to, well, Christian never wants to come out of
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the game. Well, no, shit, he doesn't want to come
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: out of the game. I don't blame him, and I
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: respect it, but it's kind of on you because you
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: can just tell him, Christian, you're out. So and So's
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: in the proposal for the draft picks being five years out.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: I think the Browns threw that out there. Sean McVay
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: said that has a zero chance of passing. I think
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: that's been yanked because it was clear no one who's
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: going to vote for it, which I think makes less
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: sense in the NFL than it does in the NBA. Right,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: if I'm an NBA team and I have a star
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: guy who's under twenty eight years old, unless he has
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: a major injury, in a given season. I'm never going
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: to be that bad. We're in the NFL, like Patrick
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Mahomes towards acl the end of the season and they
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: went six and eleven, Like you just never know. Two
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: years ago the forty nine ers went six and eleven.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: You just have weird shit happening all the time. It's football.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: The Patriots won four games and the next year they
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: were the two seed. Football's very fickle even without injuries,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: let alone with the injuries. So if I was an owner,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't even want to give us the options because
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: you could be sitting there in the offseasons like, hey,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: you know they said in four years, give it your
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: number one and number two picks, and you could have
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: so and so player. You're like, fuck it, do it,
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: and then that season, all of a sudden, you win
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: five games. You're like, I regret that one, and that
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: player is not even in your team anymore. That's the
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: other thing is because these contracts. I mean last year
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: the Rams signed DeVante Adams to like twenty five million
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: dollars a year. He scores fourteen touchdowns and they try
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: to trade him. Like the football, the pace in which
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: the roster transaction and turnovers. It's just faster than any
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: other league. But I did want to hit on a
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: couple things. The coach's photo. For those of you listening
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: on the audio, you might need to pull this up.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I'm always fascinated by the positioning typically the alphas for
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: a long time. You know, I think Coach Reid when
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: he was winning Super Bowls. It's like, I run this
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: league now as Bill was getting phased out, and he's
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: kind of chill now, Like he's in the back. He's
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: standing next to Shanahan and Zach Taylor and behind Joe
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Brady like he's got nothing to prove he's got a
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: bad knee. He's just like, I'll come for this photo
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: that I'm out. I'm not trying to sit in front
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: and center. I will let the Hardbob brothers and the
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Lafloor brothers have the front of this photo. Which is cool.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: You get the two sets of brothers. That is cool.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald. Most of these guys are wearing like some
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: sort of nicer button up, maybe like a Viory Travis
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Matthews type pullover slash collared shirt. Even like Sala has
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: on like a nice kind of well fit hoodie. Some
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: guys like John Harbaugh has a Giants Nike polo. Mike
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: McDonald is just wearing jeans, tennis shoes and a T shirt.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Like Mike McDonald if this was nine o'clock at night,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: could easily go to the Circle of Death, where all
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: the nightclubs are in old town Scottsdale, and buy a
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: booth and hold it down buying bottles. Rabel looks much
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: more like I'm ready to go to a major, like
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: very important meeting. He's got your classic loafers, no socks,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: well fitting pants. Just kind of looks like an alpha
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: sitting next to Sean Payton, who's wearing shorts. But I
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: think Rabel wants to show them like if you're gonna
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: spread your legs, I'm gonna spread my legs a little
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: bit wider. Halfley, well put together guy. Not ideal when
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: you're smaller to sit next to Rabel mintor who. For
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: whatever reason, I didn't really know what he looked like
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I saw him at the combine. Typically, when you think
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: defensive guys, you know, you think like Demiko, you think Vrabel,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: you just think like tough Sala, you know, just like
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not fucking with that guy. You know, even Dan
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Campbell and Harbaugh there they were tight end and and quarterback,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: but like they're kind of defensive minded guys. You know
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: it's big alphas. Mintor looks like like a computer science nerd.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: That's what he looks like. Yeah, he's a great defensive coach.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Liam Cohen has this vibe like kind of too cool
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: for school, don't really want to be here. McCarthy just
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: listen again. I'm not trying to rip on fat people.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I can become very fat and very quickly. He just
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: needs to mixing some healthy foods like you can't. Charles
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Barkley has been saying this forever. They just aren't fat.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Old be In Macarty ain't forty eight. So you get
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: into your mid sixties, Like if you look at coach Reid,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: he looks dramatically slimmer, because as you get older, like
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: you want to maintain this, you gotta be careful about
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: what you throw in there. Shane Siken's hairline is just
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: you know, receding faster, you know by the year. Kevin
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: O'Connell ain't far behind him there. Dan Campbell felt like, hey,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I gotta go professional. He's probably wearing like a four
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: x collared shirt just because I mean, Dan Campbell's normal
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: size is probably two or three Sirian. He looks like
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: he's ready to go play golf. Ben Johnson just looks miserable.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: One thing I appreciate about Ben Johnson. I've been working
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: on this myself. I told my wife, like, I just
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: wake up. I'm not happy when I wake up. It's
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: not a reflection of you, but like once you have
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: a child, you gotta be very cognizant, Like you can't.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I thrive in a bad mood, but those around you,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: they feed off me. I kind of set the tone
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: for the house, and it's like I really wore wake
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: it up happy, Like just trying to be a happy
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: person in the morning. I don't know. I just I
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: do better work when I'm just angry in the morning.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: And when I say angry, I'm just I'm not always
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: gonna smile at six thirty in the morning. But like
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: your personality, your personality, and Ben Johnson just hasn't really
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: faked it. You just look at that photo. It's like,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I'm here, I kind of have to do this, but
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: this is not really my social scene. Joe Brady sneaky
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: bigger than you think when I saw him. I don't
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: know if you would have asked me what size do
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: you think Joe Brady was, I would have been like
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: five to eleven, a buck eighty five, like just a
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: normal looking, kind of athletic white dude. Look at this
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: picture of him next to Stefanski and little Lafloor. I
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: mean he looks like he's Ray Lewis compared to those
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: guys in terms of size, so underrated. How big Joe
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Brady is and uh, Brian Schottenheimers got a big smile.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: I appreciate a guy with a big smile. And that's
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: where if you go to the general manager photo, there
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: is not a bigger smile. You would think, biggest smile,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: John Schneider got a good smile, John Snyder's happy. The
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: biggest smile is Howie Roseman. You'd think, like, oh, they
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: just lost in the first round. He's gotta say, Harry
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Roseman's got the vibe of I'm the best in the league.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: And if for whatever reason my organization ever turned on
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: me and like wanted to get rid of me, half
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: these guys in this photo with me, their owners would
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: fire to hire me, and I know it. They know it.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: We all know. I mean how he's just He's like
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: a big and shit man. Just huge smile. John Lynch.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: There are guys in this photo. Again, I do this
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: for a living. Most of my friends in the NFL
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: are personnel people, our scouts or you know, assistant gms.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: There are people in this photo. I have no clue
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: who they are. Like, there is a guy between Brett
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Veach and Adam Peters, this bald guy. I do not
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: know who. I have no clue. There's a guy standing
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: next to Ballard at the end. It goes Ian Cunningham
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Chris Ballard. I have no clue. There's a guy we
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: got Brandon Bean and Joe Shane who worked together, you
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: know in Buffalo, standing next to Joe Ortiz. Another guy
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: at the end of the next to them. I don't
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: know who it is. I have no clue. Nick Cassario,
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: the Houston Texans GM, I'd be fascinated to see his
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: diet because there is no way he's eating fried foods.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: He's not eating processed sugars. He's not even sneaking in
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: a dorito here and there. This guy is eating grilled chicken.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: This guy's eating brown rice. This guy's eating greens, this
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: guy's eating green shakes. This guy's eating like high quality proteins.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: I am much closer to the body types of the
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: two guys you see next to him, Mike Borganzi and
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Brian Gudikins, who to me just have like the ideal
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: male body in your late forties. And the thing I
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: appreciated about Gutikins, my dad loved to fish, love to
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: fly fish. That was like my version of playing golf.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: He liked to fish. I got. I don't. I'm not
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: a big fisherman, too bored and like I've gone deep
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: sea fishing a couple times in my life. I get
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: you sick. So it's just not a sport hobby for me.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: But my dad used to wear, you know, sunglasses, the
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: polarized one so we could see the trout with the
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: with the string connected and typically you know, you see
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: it like an older gentleman. Gudigins is rocking that thing
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: at the GM photo. He just got the string behind
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: his glasses, which shows you like, I'm all about business.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: I'm just here to try to improve the Green Bay Packers,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: which I appreciate it. You got spy tech kind of
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: right behind Eric DaCosta that at any moment maybe wants
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: to give him a quick shove. You got Ryan Poles
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: who just kind of looks like, you know, former tackle
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Dan Morgan kind of understated I was, by far beside Lynch,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: the biggest badass in this photo. Ian Cunningham, big smile,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Joe Shane sneaky, big smile, like, hey, I kept my job, motherfuckers,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: none of you thought I would. I am still here.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Do not sleep on my survival instincts. Uh yeah. Other
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: than that, you got you got Gladstone next to Beach
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: at the end that are like, I'm not a big socializer,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: like I don't. I'm awkward in these situations, which which
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: I can appreciate. We're all sometimes more comfortable in certain environments. Gladstone,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: the Jags GM, feels the most comfortable in his office,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: door closed, seven monitors going statistics, all sorts of shit
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: going on the different screens. You put Gladstone in a
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: situation where everyone's you know, conversating, everyone, maybe having a cocktail,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: everyone just talking about life and their family and their teams.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Not where he thrives. This guy became a GM and
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: didn't even work at the office. He lived in a
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: different state, worked at home. This is your classic millennial
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: work from home. You put in the environment. You know,
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: the Howie's, the John Lynches, the john Snyders. Those guys
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: came up when you worked around other people. Gladstone thrived
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: in this new environment where no one could point him
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: out of the lineup because no one ever saw him.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: He never showed up at the office. And now he's
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: in charge of a playoff team. But you get him
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: in this environment, you can just see very awkward, just
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: not comfortable with it and doesn't quite know what to do.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: You know, you got Elliott Wolf and Andrew Berry. Everyone
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: tells me Andrew Berry's really smartest team is just guy.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I feel for him. I mean, you're just the head coat,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: You're the gentle manager of the Browns. Maybe it's just
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: a no win situation. Da Costa, I'm telling you, just
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: not the happiest, go lucky guy. I mean, he's just
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Da Costa, which I which I could appreciate. Like sometimes
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: you just like I can't even fake it. I'm just
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: not a happy individual, a little awkward. Spike Deck's gonna
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: want to grab me after this, and just kind of
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: go over some things. So he said he heard rumors
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: out there on the streets, and again back to John Schneider.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: I just won the fucking Super Bowl, motherfuckers. That's me.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: I fired Pete a couple of years. I'm in charge.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I'm the champion. And yeah, see you guys later at
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• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Key, let's bang out a couple quick mail bag questions
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: at John Middlecoff. At John Middlecoff is the Instagram. Fire
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• 43:57
  Speaker 2: the show, I said I was gonna do a Dad Diaries.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: My mother in law was in town last week, and
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, I fly around whatever she wants to go.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: As Jennifer, you tell me when where you want first class,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: you want a PJ, I'll do whatever it takes. We
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: need you here. And she's the best. And so she
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: was here and Jacket had been like a lot of
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: young kids, I guess, or young babies. Young infants have
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: like reflex So you feed the milk and then it's
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: sometimes like he seems fine, and like thirty minutes later
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: he'll start kind of like he's got stuff in his throat.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: And that's why you gotta burp them. And they have
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: all these different techniques where you kind of put them
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: on the bed, you bend them around, You can put
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: them on your knee and go up and down and
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: you will get the gas if you use gas drops
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: and you get these big burps, and then if he
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: burps a couple of times or he has a fart,
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: he then is a huge smile and he's completely fine.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: So we were burpling him. We had a couple of
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: weeks stretch where it was just bad and at night
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: sometimes you would feed him, you know, at three in
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: the morning, and he couldn't go back to bed because
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: he had this crazy reflex. So she's with him from
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: like three in the morning to five in the morning,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: just trying to get him down because he can't lay
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: on his back because he's got stuff coming out all
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: the different ends. And my mother in law comes here
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: and she has no issues. She's like, put him in
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: my room. He can sleep through the night, like, well,
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: he hasn't been sleeping that well, he's had this crazy
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: reflex back to back night. It's no problems. And then
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: we started watching her the way she burped him. We
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: were attacking him. It was almost like you were beating
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: your child, because you're you're hitting him on the back
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: really hard, trying to get these burps out and kind
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: of working them up, and she just did these subtle
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: little taps like I'm telling you, very very light on
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: his back, and he would just have these enormous belches.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: I'm like, this is muscle memory. You came and just
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: immediately touched his back and got burps. Where we have
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: been almost mentally breaking down here because we couldn't figure
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: it out. Probably hitting him too hard. It not only
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: not working, it was probably driving the gas bubbles into
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: a spot that couldn't go out either end. God, that
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: was genius. So over the last since he's left, over
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: the last four or five days, it's doing light, little
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: pit taps. He's burping left and right and no issues.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: So word of the wise, you don't have to hit
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: very hard on their back to get them to burp.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: A question for the pod diehard Minnesota fan with the
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Vikings firing, QUESSI for poor drafts? Why should I? Why
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: should I be excited for the upcoming twenty sixth draft
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: when his whole scouting department is still in the building
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: with love a breakdown? How you think the next month
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: plays out? It's always you know that one's tricky, right,
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: because I would imagine their scouting staff has little to
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: no juice. The guys who are gonna pick the players
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: in this upcoming draft are Kevin O'Connell and Brian Flores.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Even the guy that got elevated to become the GM
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: wasn't he just the contract negotiator so he's basically just
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: there to run the meetings where Ryan Grickson, who was
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: the number two in charge, I mean, his history of
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: draftings kind of speaks for itself. So in in defense
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: of him, you know, by all accounts, QUESSI just wasn't
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: that big on draft meetings, wasn't that big on you know,
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of things, and clearly wasn't listening to anybody.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: But I would say that you just got to hope
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: and pray that Kevin O'Connell and Brian Flores know how
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: to evaluate, because I think you are going to get
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: a heavy dose of their influence in this draft. I
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: think it's less about the scouts than it is about
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: who's pulling the trigger on your first, second, third round pick.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Am I not for thinking the Bengals will make the
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl next year. The Ravens and Bills have first
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: year coaches. Mahomes are returning from a serious injury. There's
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: lots of question marks around Stroud. The Broncos and the
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Pats will have a harder schedule in twenty six and
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: the Chargers can't stay healthy. Surely the Bengals defense is
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: ranked like seventeenth best. That could be good enough to
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: win the ANFC. To me, I would need to know
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: two things. How many games does Joe Burrow play? And
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: who do they draft with the with the twelfth pick
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: or whenever they have the tenth they have the tenth pick,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: like who's their first round pick? If you tell me
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: those two things, I'd be like yeah, because if you
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: say Joe Burrow, if you like, he plays ten games,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, they're not. If you tell me he
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: plays seventeen or sixteen and you tell me they pick
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: a player, They're like, damn, they got Ruben Bain or
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: they got Caleb Downs. Yeah, they're def could be dramatically better.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: But to me, it all comes down to how many
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: games a borough play, because I mean last year he
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: just disappeared for the majority of the season. It's no
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: one's fault. I mean, freak injury, but it's happened before.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Previous year was the wrist or guys that was two
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: years ago now came keep up. I mean he's just
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: he's had a lot of injuries and defensively, like do
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: they add a defensive lineman with the high pick or
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: they had a corner, they had a defensive back. I
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: don't know. Do you think the Colts would sign Cousins
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: in case Daniel Jones isn't ready to start the season.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: I feel like the best situation for Cousins left. Yeah,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: I mean I I think he's got a lot of options.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: I think he has a lot of options. Shane Stikett
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: in that bald head of his I don't know who
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: they're backup court. I guess they have Riley Leonard. I
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: would imagine there's going to go into the season with
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Daniel Jones. Riley Leonard would be my guest. Do you
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: think garretts Smeier might end up being the steal of
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: the draft? He had a rough twenty five but apparently
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: was playing through several injuries. What round would you feel
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: comfortable drafting him if you were a GM? Well, clearly
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: he had the I think it was the abdominal injury
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: last year because coming into the season, Listen I had
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: watched a lot of his career up to that point,
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: which was basically the one year because Jayden Daniels was
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: the quarterback the previous year, but he was good in
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: twenty four, but the injury. I mean, he just didn't
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: play that well. And he's not to me, his skill
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: set is kind of Kirk Cousins. Not a very mobile guy,
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: timing rhythm, pocket quarterback right, He's he's kind of a
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: throwback of the Cousins Jared Goff, like those players don't
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: really exist. So once he gets an abdominal injury, his
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: accuracy is off. He's not mobile to begin with. Their
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: offensive line was kind of hit or miss, which is
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: crazy because they've had some, you know, high draft to
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: players and they couldn't run the ball under Brian Kelly.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: That's what doesn't make sense to me at LSU and
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: at Alabama, Like you can't run the ball like typically
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: you guys should both have a running back who's going
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: to be drafted in the first two rounds and a
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: ton of NFL offensive linemen and an NFL tight end,
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Like you should dominate in the run game. That should
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: be like your specialty. You're not Texas Tech or Mike
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: Leach at Washington State. What are you doing? I don't
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: quite understand it. But in specifically Brian Kelly like the
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: boor wants to pass Brian Kelly like you look back
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: at Notre Dame like they were a running offense, run
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: the ball, play defense. My guest is Garrett nus Meyer
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: go somewhere third or the fourth round. I would be hesitant.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: In the NFL, We're living in two draft quarterbacks who
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: can't move like I would be pretty pro like. I
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: need athletic guys. Not talking Lamar Jackson or Kyler Murray,
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: but you've gotta be at most of these offensive linemen
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: can't really block right and there if all these teams
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: have a ton of pass rushers, I need my gott
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: to be able to move around. So I he's not
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: really my type quarterback, though I do appreciate and I think
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: he's a pretty solid player. I hear this house of
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: cards logic from Coward and Klatt when they slurp the
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Big Ten as the superior conference to the SEC. But
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: if you do a simple research of the past three years,
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: the SEC dominates head to head regular season in college
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: football games against the Power four twenty three and through
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: twenty five data the SEC versus the ACC, the SEC
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: versus the Big Ten, twelve and six, the SEC versus
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: the Big twelve, eight and five. I'll give you the
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: Big ten may have the singular best team the past
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: two seasons for sure, but the conference as a whole.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Oh please. And for the people crying about bowl games,
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: go wake your mom to tell her you wet the
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: bet again. I do think it's fair to say these
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: bowl games are very hit or miss, and you have
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: to take it like. There's context in the non playoff
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: games because if half your team opts out, like, what
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: do you even? You know, the when Georgia beat the
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: shit out of Florida State in the game a couple
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: of years ago, when they got left out of the playoff,
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: what was that three years ago? Their entire team opted out.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: And it works for the SEC too, Like all these players.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: If I'm playing in the random Stanley Bull or the
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: Reef Sandals Bowl, I know most of these guys are
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: not playing anymore. So I don't put as much stock
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: in the bowl games as I do the regular season.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: For sure, I would say this. They have won three
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: straight National champions Chips with three different teams. It's what
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: I was like, Michigan, Ohio State. Okay, those are two
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: best historical programs right in Ohio State is I would say,
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: I know they don't win it every year, but to me,
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: they're currently the bar for college football. I mean, just
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: year in year out there, I feel like the best
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: team in terms of roster doesn't mean they're always gonna
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: win it. But now you've got Indiana just went sixteen
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: to h and beat the shit out of Alabama, which
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: should be one of your best teams. So I would
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: say at the top, I mean, they've three straight years,
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: three different teams, and that doesn't even count Oregon, who
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: has been a top minimum seven team in the country
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: for twenty years and definitely the last the NIL era,
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: they've been a top five or six program, maybe even higher.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: They just they just kind of underwhelm Underlanding in these
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  Speaker 2: big games. But they are fucking they ain't going anywhere.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: So you got Ohio State, you got Oregon, You now
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: have Indiana, who's the defending champs. You got Kyle Whittingham
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: at Michigan. My issue with the SEC is their teams,
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: Like Kirby Smart's a stud, but his team roster wise
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: clearly isn't the same as it was. Pren I l.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Alabama just has not been the same the last couple
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: of years with debor. They can't run the ball, their
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: talent doesn't quite look as same, you know, as dominant.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: Now maybe that changes next year. We'll see, you know,
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: LSU has been down, which is a problem. Florida's been
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: really down, which is a problem. So Alabama no longer
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: is a dominant program. Georgia is your best program, but
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: they're not nearly as good as they were three or
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: four years ago. Texas and soccerre just kind of unreliable,
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: and it's like, can you trust their offense? No one
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: with the brain thinks the SEC isn't completely lotal. I mean,
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: the Big twelve Football Conference isn't even in the same
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: universe as the other two. But like part of what
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: the SEC had was we have the most guys getting
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: drafted and we're winning all the national championships. Well, now
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: the Big Ten has won three straight national championships. And
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: what's the draft gonna look like this year? I don't
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: know if it's gonna be as SEC heavy now, maybe
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: it's just an off year, but it's gonna be pretty
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: Big Ten heavy, you know, think about the Top ten.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: Fernando Mendoza, how many Ohio State guys are gonna go.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: You have Reese, you have Sonny Styles. You know, Caleb
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Downs is probably a top fifteen pick. So that's three
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: of their guys going in the top fifteen. So that's
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: four ten players. And my missing doesn't Penn State have
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: a guard who's probably gonna go in the top twenty.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're gonna have eight nine big ten players
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: go in the top twenty. So now their high end
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: talent is Oregon's tight end. Oregon is a safety that
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: might go in the first round. It's like, well, who's
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: Bama's best players. You're gonna tell me Ty Simpson, Procter
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: or the offensive lineman. It's not quite the same. LSU's
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: talent isn't quite as deep. It's not like they're going
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: six guys they're gonna go in the top forty. Florida's
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: been a disaster, so I think it has changed a
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: little bit with the nil. And again, no one's acting
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: like the SEC just sucks now, But the nil changed
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: the game. We have to acknowledge that nil change the game.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: This week, you stated winning in college is kind of overrated.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: I e. Tim Tebow. Let me phrase this correctly. I
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: don't think it's overrated. It is always important to win, right,
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: But just because you don't win doesn't make you a
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: less of a prospect for a guy that's winning. Because
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: in college historically, if you played for one of the
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: top programs, even if you were average, you were gonna win.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Or if you were a quarterback playing for Mike Leach,
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: you were gonna put up the best stats. Or Hawaii
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: in the run and shoot. So you got to be
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: The way you evaluate quarterbacks in college isn't just about
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: wins and losses or stats. Would that same apply to
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: stats in Bennett? His college resume is kind of wild,
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: but he's struggling to retain his backup position. I would
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: say he's not their backup the way Sean McVay talks.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: He's begging Kirk Cousins to take his job because Jimmy
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Garoppolo won't sign the contract. Stetson Bennett if you would
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: have put on Baylor or Arizona or just some random
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Division I power for college team. Not only is he
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: not drafted, I don't think anyone's ever heard of him.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: He played on Georgia, who was I mean, just guy
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: for guy will go down as one of the most
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: talented teams with the Internet era, Like you could go,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: just their talent is like Miami when I was a
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: kid level. I mean it was stupid. Every guy on
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: defense is like a first or second round player. The
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: amount of money their defensive players are going to sign
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: second contracts is gonna be like historic. Oh and they
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: got lab mcconkeey and Brock Bowers with countless guys on
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: their offensive line drafted. Again, that's taking nothing like sets event.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: It's a really good college player. To me, like, I'm
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: not into those type NFL quarterbacks. I'm just not for
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Why don't they just start Will Howard
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: all year, win five or six games. We get asked
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: this a lot. They're not gonna do that. It's like
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: I stopped talking. You know, Tomlin and the Steelers over
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: the last couple years should get a divorce. That conversation
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: just died with me because it was clearly not gonna
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: happen until Tomlin finally said, like, I'll give you the
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: divorce papers. I'm out peace. But until he did it,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: like I was done talking about that conversation. The Rooneys
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: told us when Tomlin quit and I don't know if
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: that was the press conference before they hired McCarthy or
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: when they hired McCarthy, Like, we don't we don't rebuild here,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: we just we we try to win. We don't tank,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: we don't take a year off organizationally. They just they
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: don't think like that and they're not going to do it.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: I might be a little too generic, but what about
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: calling the followers the Maleman since you rely on them
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: in the mail back? I don't hate it. I mean
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: the male man. Karl Malone is one of the better
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: sports nicknames of my youth basketball. Actually, I had, I
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: mean incredible ones when I was a kid. The glove
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: the male Man was pretty good, though, I don't hate that.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: Here are some other listener name ideas the threes, Audis,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: I don't hate the threes. Maleman's not bad. Again, I
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: still haven't when I if I ever heard it, I
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: would know it, and I just I feel like I've
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: never heard it. He's like, that's the one not football related,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: but I recently joined the bald Brotherhood. I can't grow
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: a full head of hair, but the hair I do
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: have rows fast. Sick fucking joke, right, I feel your Doug,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: do you have any personal recommendations for head shavers. I
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: used to just trim it like with a one probably
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: the first year. The problem is, like you said, if
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: your hair is growing relatively fast, every three or four days,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: you gotta do it, and you're like heads over the
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: toilet or the sink. It's like, this kind of sucks.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: So I mean, I've just transitioned to doing it with
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: the mock five or mocked I use the five blade one,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: So I just do it every couple of days. Now again,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: I can go like four or five days without it
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: because I can just wear a hat. But if I
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: if I had people I was meeting with or stuff
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: I had to do in person, I have to shave
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: because I can't have a cul de sac. So I
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: just do in the shower. I go shaving cream all
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: over my head and just let it rip ideally there
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: there's I mean a lot of people do just at
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: my gym in this in the steam room, they have
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: razors outside. That's a that's a pretty orgasmic shave. Not
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: gonna lie. But for the most part, ninety five percent
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: of my shaves probably even higher in that or just
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: in the shower much easier to shave your head, like
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: for me after I work out and I'm sweating, than
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: just to dry shave it in the morning, Like if
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: you have to do something like when I do Coward
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: Show and I just my alarm goes off at five fifteen,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: you just go right in the shower, shave your head
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: and then go. It's not as comfortable of a shave
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: and depending like I have thicker, coarse hair, so I
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: don't even think I could shave like every day. I
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: have to give it at least like eighteen twenty four
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: hours or I mean thirty six, forty eight hours, thirty six.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of pushing it, so like that two day
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: window is probably ideal the earliest.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: There's been a lot of debate whether the Giants at
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: five should take either Jeremiah Love or Sunny Styles, given
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame careers of Erlocker also converted safety
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: and Ladanian Tomlinson having played out, who would you have
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: chosen to me taking a running back that high when
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: his success depends on the offensive line as shown with
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: Saquan the linebacker is the pick. If you told me,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: as the Giants, I could have Brian Urlocker or Ladanian Tomlinson.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: I would take er Locker and LT's one of my
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: favorite players of all time. The reason being is it's
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: much easier to just find functional running backs. I saw
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: Dan Campbell asked about the Texans. Reporter asked him about
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: David Montgomery, and he's like, I love David Montgomery, and
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: he's like, the Texans got themselves a badass, the ultimate pro.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: He deserves a chance to be the starter again. And
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: he's like, I'm as big as fan. Well, my point
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: is like you can just find all of a sudden,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: Remember it's like DeAndre Swift any good? And then he's
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: like watch him on the Bears, like, god, DeAndre Swift's
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: not bad. Oh, and this other guy that they drafted
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: in the seventh round not bad either. Where it's like
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: it's rare that he's like, who's that linebacker? Because most
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: linebackers are kind of average. But when you do get
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: Fred Warner or just whoever Patrick willis just Brian Urlocker,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: especially in this day and age where the teams pass
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: a lot to tight ends and running backs, so that
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: like ten yard passed the line of scrimmage sideline, the sideline,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: like can you cover it. Erlocker actually is tailor made
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: for today's dan age. So if you told me I
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: got the best version of a running back or a
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: middle linebacker, I'm taking the middle linebacker every day of
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: the week. Now. If you just tell me, like Jeremiah
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: Love is going to be Ladanian Tomlinson, and we don't
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: know what Sonny sal is gonna be, then I would
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: take Ladani and Thomson. But if you told me best
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: like he's gonna be ear Locker, I think you'd have
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: to do that. I mean, but I'm a defensive first guy.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: I can manipulate the running back guy. I just believe that.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: And they already have. Tracy's not bad, and you know
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: Scatboy's coming back from major injury. But you can put
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: together three or four running backs. Matt Naggie comes from
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: Andy Reid. He's gonna pass new name idea, the Chain Gang.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: That's it. That's all I got. I appreciate it. Okay,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: we will talk tomorrow, audios, and these coaches are talking
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: bright and early in the morning, and we'll see what
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: the AFC guys say. Hopefully everyone has a great day.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: Talk to you soon.
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