May 30, 2025 • 40 mins
Brian Noe opens the 3rd hour talking about the report of the Dolphins wanting to trade Jonnu Smith & the consistency of overpaying QBs in the NFL and why it never works out in the long run + Maller Militia calls & tweets!
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I've done that before. Maybe that's a cry for help.
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very very nicely over here. So I have to get
to a sad reality for one of my absolute favorite teams,
and how it shows that there will soon be a
sad reality for.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Another proud franchise.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
We'll do that here in just a couple of seconds,
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news here is at my Miami Dolphins. Yes, I grew
up in South Bend, Indiana somehow someway. Ever since I
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can remember, I've been a diehard Miami Dolphins fan. I
don't know why it doesn't make geographical sense, but that
was the team I latched onto.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Don't know, it's just it's in my football blood over here.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
But the Dolphins are shopping tight end John new Smith.
They're possibly looking to trade him. So this is the
tweet from Adam Schefter. He just wrote, the Dolphins have
had trade discussions with the Pittsburgh Steelers about their lone
Pro Bowl selection last season, tight end John new Smith.
Per league sources, those talks came after Smith asked an
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interest in reworking his deal that is scheduled to pay
him four point eight million dollars this season. With Smith
sinking a new contract, Miami has sought a trade partner.
Smith's preference, per sources, is to stay in Miami under
a reworked deal. Okay, so lot's the unpack here. First off,
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John new Smith, let's start with this. He was unbelievable
last season. The numbers he put up, He's up there
with the top tight ends in football. This guy had
eighty eight catches for eight hundred and eighty four yards
and eight touchdowns. Eight was the magical number right there
for John new Smith. But those are numbers. Almost ninety
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catches for nearly nine hundred yards and eight touchdown grabs
for a tight end. Those are top tight end numbers.
There aren't many tight ends doing more than that. And
now the Dolphins are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, you want
more money, Like we're on the hook for eight point
for four point eight million dollars. Here's the reality. That's
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what it boils down to. When you are overpaying a
quarterback like Tua Tongue of II Looa, You're gonna have
to cut corners. And this is the sad reality for
the Dolphins. It's a sad reality for any team that
is overpaying a quarterback to this degree. And listen, I
like Tua, I like him, I want to love him,
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but I just like him because he's banged up far
too often and he's not producing to the same level
that he's getting paid. And when that happens, then you
just have these fire sales. You can't have a roster
that is good enough to get you anywhere. Because Tua
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he's a good quarterback, he's not a difference making quarterback.
He's not a quarterback where you can skimp around him.
You might not have a top tight end, you might
not have a top offensive line, you might not have
a top two one to two wide receiver punch. You
know what I mean, you gotta cut corners because you're
paying him so much. He's not a guy that's gonna
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compensate for those roster deficiencies. He's just not there. He's
not producing at that level. And that's where it goes.
And that's what the San Francisco forty nine ers are
going to find out in the not too distant future
as well. Because here's the deal, Brock Purdy is a
good quarterback. I'm never gonna sit here and tell you
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that he's just a guy. He is not even average.
He's a bum like, none of those things are true.
He's a good NFL quarterback, but he, in my opinion,
is not a difference making quarterback. He's not a special quarterback.
He's not a quarterback that when you're paying him the
huge money and have to skim at many other positions
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on the roster, that he's going to be able to
compensate for those deficiencies. He's going to be so solid
and so productive that if you can't afford the top
left tackle, or you can't have Deebo Samuel, or you
lose eight players that are starters via free agency, like
the Niners just did. He's gonna be the guy that's
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still gonna take you to the Promised Land. Spoiler alert,
he's not. He's a good quarterback, he's not a special quarterback.
And we saw a little bit of that last season.
The Niners suffered a lot of injuries.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He didn't have.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Christian McCaffrey, and he didn't have Brandon Ayyuk, and he
didn't have he didn't have and then when you had
a healthy Brock party, you had brock Purty putting up
pretty ordinary numbers. And that is a glimpse of the future. Baby,
That's the way it's gonna end up. And it's nothing personal.
I have no reason to dislike brock Purty. That's just
the truth. It's just the truth. He's a good quarterback,
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he's not a special quarterback. But when you're paying him
special money, you eventually will be screwed as a franchise.
It happens every single time my Dolphins are screwed. The
Niners are gonna be screwed. Maybe not this season because
they have a cake schedule. Their schedule is very favorable,
the easiest schedule in the NFL. Based on last season's
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winning percentages that are gonna change, but maybe not dramatically.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
So they have a very, very favorable schedule.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But the thing is, when you're paying brock Purty the
way they are, Like, does this sentence sound good when
you say it out loud?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
If you're a Niners fan, does this sound good?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Brock Purty is the highest paid player in forty nine
Ers history.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That sound right to you?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Like you could talk yourself into it and say, well,
you know, it's a quarterback. The way the market is,
he's the next guy up. Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Jerry Rice, different era, Joe Montana.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It just it doesn't sound right to me that Brock
Purty is the highest paid player in forty nine Ers history.
And a couple other things don't sound right either. One
hundred and eighty one million dollars guarantee over five years.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oof, that's like I'm trying to scratch.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The ear wax out of my ears, thinking there's a mistake, Like, e,
do I have one hundred and eighty one million dollars guaranteed?
There are a few things that don't sound right. Purty
fifty three million dollars average per year. It transforms him
from the league's biggest value to its seventh highest paid player.
He now averages more money than Justin Herbert and Lamar Jackson,
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who's a two time MVP. That doesn't sound right either.
There's a lot there. Geno Smith threw more touchdown passes
than Brock Perty last season.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Look at their contracts.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Geno Smith signed a two year extension with the Raiders
for sixty six point five million dollars. Rock Purty five
year extension one hundred and eighty one million dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Like, what WHOA? That is major money.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Tua threw nineteen touchdown passes last season in eleven games.
Perty threw twenty. He threw one more touchdown pass than Tua,
playing many more games than Tua did. That's just not
good enough production. Sorry, Sam Donald, Let's bring up Sam
Donald for a second. Sam Donald had a great season
all things considered. He put up numbers, fizzled down the
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stretch when it mattered most, but throughout the season he
put up numbers. With the loaded Vikings team around him.
He wasn't paid big money and so he had a
great supporting cast, and he threw thirty five touchdown passes
and twelve picks. Those are great numbers. He signed a
three year deal with Seattle for fifty five million dollars guaranteed. Again,
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Brock Purdy one hundred and eighty one million dollars guaranteed.
That's three times the amount more than that than Sam Darnald.
And you could sit here and be like, oh, Sam Darling.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Okay again.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Sam darl put up big numbers with a great supporting
cast last season. I'm out on him in Seattle. I
don't think he's gonna gonna do very well. He doesn't
handle pressure very well. You know, we're talking like a
pass rush. Seattle's offensive line a little leaky. I don't
like that combination. Quarterback struggles under pressure and Seattle's oh
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line leaves a lot to be desired. That is not
a good combination right there. He's got banged up Cooper
Cup and mvs Mark wez Valdez scantling to throw to.
I like Jackson Smith and Jigbub, but it can't just
be the JSN Show with Sam Darnold behind a leaky
offensive line and you're expecting to go somewhere significant.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I just don't see it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
But again, he put up big numbers, better than Perty's
best year and he got a three year deal for
fifty five million dollars guaranteed. Meanwhile, Perty gets a five
year extension for one eighty one guaranteed. That is huge money.
And to put it in perspective over here, this is
what the the salary cap space is going to look
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like for the Niners over the next couple of seasons.
So this is according to David Lombardi's twenty twenty five
projection and an assumption that the cap rises to three
hundred million dollars in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, so there's some qualifiers over here.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
But gauging it, so last season, brock Purty counted against
the Niners cap point four percent.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It was getting fade so little compared to other NFL
starting quarterbacks. It was just a point four percent salary
cap hit. It'll rise this year to three percent, and
then in twenty twenty six it rises to twelve percent.
That's an estimated thirty six million dollar cap hit. So
that's a twenty nine hundred percent increase for the forty
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nine ers, going from the biggest bargain in football, arguably sports,
with brock Purty on his rookie deal as the last
pick of the draft to the seventh highest paid player
in the NFL. That is, it's huge money. You can't
underestimate that. And I don't understand why these teams don't
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try to do what the Chiefs did. The Chiefs had
Alex Smith, who you could say Alex Smith. He was
a competent starting quarterback. He led the league in passer
rating the year that Mahomes was a rookie. And then
they transitioned to Patrick Mahomes as the starting quarterback. But
the Chiefs looked at it and said, yeah, we're good enough.
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We were in the playoffs. We can challenge to be
in the playoffs. Hey, maybe if this planets aligned, we
can make a deep run in the playoffs and we
can be in contention to win a super Bowl. They
could allied to themselves, but they were honest. They were
brutally honest and said, hey, we're good. We want to
be special, we want to be great, and in order
to do that, we have to take a big risk
and we have to trade up from twenty seventh to
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tenth and draft this guy, Patrick Mahomes. They turned out
to hit a Grand Slam. You're not gonna find another
Patrick Mahomes. But the point is, why don't more teams
try to be special like that?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Why do they get so consumed.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
With fear where they're like, we have a competent starting quarterback,
we can't rely on the draft again, and they have
nightmares and flashbacks to Trey Lance, like we tried that
already and Trey Lance was freaking terrible. Ah, let's just
pay party, and they just freak out and the fear
consumes them. Why won't they just be honest and say,
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Black Purty is good, he's not special, and we're gonna
pay him as if he's special. And if we do that,
we're screwed over the next five years. Maybe not this
next year with the cake schedule, but in time he's
not gonna be good enough to compensate for a roster
that we have to skimp on. That's the reality. But
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time and time again, teams will do it. The Dolphins, Hey,
Tua is a legit him at starter. He's not special,
but we're gonna pay him special money. Well, guess what
you're screwed. John news Smith is like I want more
money and they're like, oh, we got to trade him too.
It's a blue light special going on here with my Dolphins.
They're like, we gotta get rid of Jalen Ramsey and
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John neu Smith wants more money. What jeez, what are
we doing over here? Five million bucks? We got to
get him out. It's crazy. But Bucky Brooks says this
all the time here on Fox Sports Radio, also on
NFL Network Draft Guru, He'll say, is the player a
truck or a trailer?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I love this description.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You're either a truck and you're pulling things behind you,
like in this case you're a quarterback pulling the roster
behind you, or you're a trailer and you're being pulled.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Brock Purdy is a trailer. He is not a truck.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
He is being pulled by the great talent he has
enjoyed around him.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He is not.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Pulling a deficient r anywhere notable.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And you can be the biggest party fanboy, the most
diehard forty nine ers fan, and you could be raging
against everything I'm saying, and that's fine, go ahead. But
you saw it last year. You saw the future last year.
When players are banged up, picture the players that are
banged up going forward. Those are the players that the
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Niners just can't afford because they've gone all in with
Perdy's contract. It works out to the same thing. When
Perty doesn't have great talent around him, his numbers are
gonna be mediocre. He threw twenty touchdown passes in twelve
picks last year. Those are mediocre numbers. That's nowhere near
one hundred and eighty one million dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's just a bad deal. It's not smart.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It is just talking yourself into something and being hopeful
beyond reason. You're being hopeful beyond a reasonable outcome, which
is why we got to the Super Bowl before we
were a couple of plays away. Why were you a
couple of plays away? Oh, that's right, because Purdy isn't special.
When he's got a receiver opened in the back of
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the end zone, he can't hit him because Chris Jones
is putting some heat on him and he can't make
the special play. He didn't make the special play like
Gino Smith is throwing more touchdown passes than him when
the supporting cast wasn't great last year due to injury.
What do you think is gonna happen going forward? What
do you think is gonna happen, and especially with the Niners.
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They have Kyle Shanahan, they have a system. You know
what the Niners should do. I'll tell you around the
corner what the Niners should have done, because we're up
against it and I've been blabbing long enough.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
We'll get to the calls as well.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
But for anyone, and I would appreciate this, anybody listening
that's like, Okay, well what should they have done?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Huh? Which you got all the answers know what should
they have done?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I'll tell you what I think they should have done
around the corner because I think this will lead to
a better outcome than overpaying brock Perty over the next
five years will so I'll show that with you coming
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It's been a little while.
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Last time I was in for Big Ben Malor, I
believe was in December.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I do this every time.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I just look at my notes, like, what was what
were we talking about in mid December? And some of
it was Coop was upset about his Broncos. They had
just lost to the Chargers on a primetime game, and
he was whining about no past interference being called on
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a play. And I just got some enjoyment. I just
thumbing through that. Like you could tell he was in
an upset mood. It was Coop. I put my Coop
doesn't care about the college football playoff. Coop's just like
my Broncos got screwed. I don't care about college football.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Ah Ah. It was just like that.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
So that was funny trip down memory lane right there.
But I'll get back to the Niners. But let's get
to the militia first. Let's get to Victor in La
wants to check in here. Vic, You're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
What's going on, man, how you're doing? You know I
called that first about the NBA, but then you started
talking about a football team. But I digress. I'll leave
that alone, but I just want to remind you of something.
While you're very happy about, you know, all the future parody,
let me quote to you the last time we had
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this type of parody. That was the seventies. You know,
you had a whole bunch of semi stars that came out,
But if you go and look through our whole list
of those seventies championships, only Kareem Is, you know, like
a main thaying you have. Jerry West had to wait
for the selfis to retire for three years. The NBA
almost folded in those years if it wasn't for Magic
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and Larry coming in in seventy nine eighty. So as
much as that, you know, every city gets a piece
of the pie theory, there is no big piece because
no one gives the damn about the whole theory because
there's no real juggernaut and that's because there's nobody really
really making everybody seem like they're deficient in the sport.
You need somebody that's so good at it that they're
like damn, that has to raise the bar for everybody else.
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Even though Sga is okay, g Joker is joke. Everybody
it's like this, It's like if Jokers joker, he should
just take control of this thing, you know what I mean.
Like we as much as we hate to to cheer
on the same team over and over again, it still
gives us a lit to let us know what what what?
What is the best of the best, the best that
you can't beat, the best if everybody can come and
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win it, everybody going to the park and seeing who's hey,
you got your five? I got my five, because you
got to think the Lenny Wilkons, Superstonics, I mean, Bill
walk he's relevant. I mean, but look at all those teams,
the nixt the Knicks got the only two championships in
the seventies. Jerry Webb got is only one he had
to do fan So it's just I don't know if
it's healthy. That's all I can say. And when it
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comes to the forty nine ers, yeah, yeah, go for it.
When it comes to forty nine ers and Brock, I mean,
look how uncompetent these quarterbacks are. I mean, so the
money part we can't hackle about is the marketplace. I mean,
I swear I would love to have a certified trust
and Brock. But I don't know if Brock sucks or
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if he's good yet, because that year was a really
bad year for our whole roster. But as far as
what I've seen with him having in his hands, he's
done a good job and you got least give him
credit for that, and he's earned his money. You have
a whole bunch of quarterbacks they have not got as
far as he has in multiple seasons. And I'll leave
it at that, sir.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Well, Hey, Vick, I appreciate you checking in, man. Like,
the first thing is, look for the NBA. There's a
big difference between what I think is the most interesting
as a fan and maybe as like a sports radio
host too, and what's best for the league's ratings.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Those are two very very different things.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So what I think is the most interesting for me personally, Like,
that's just a personal take. I would personally much rather
have seven different champions over seven years. It's the first
time in NBA history this is going to be a
thing with either the Thunder, the Knicks or the Pacers.
You know, spoiler alert, it's gonna be the Thunder. Like
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the Knicks are not beating them. I don't see the
Pacers beating them either. Pacers pace and their depth, they
have a better chance. But Okac's defense is just it's
too good. Pacers don't defend like that. So it's gonna
be okay see, I'd be shocked if it's not. It
would take a you know, like a KD Game five
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type injury when he was with the Warriors for okay see.
Not to win a championship against the Pacers or Knicks,
I believe. But anyway, how it shakes out seven new
champions over the last seven years, first time in NBA
history that's ever happened.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
That's more compelling to me.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Then Hey, the Warriors are trying to win their fourth
championship in five years. I'm just like, okay, cool, you
added KD to a seventy three win team. That's not
compelling to me. That's not interesting, that's not exciting. That's
just my personal feeling on it now. If you want
to throw ratings into it and like the viabil of
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the NBA, and yeah, that can change the math for sure.
But I still think that this idea of oh no, no,
you want dominance. The thing that made the nineties so
great is that you had the dominant Bulls teams mixed
with parody, is what I would argue, because if you
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look at those playoffs when the Bulls got to the finals,
most of those are at least competitive series.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
They didn't get to a seventh game any of them.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
But if you look at those series, the two against
the Jazz in ninety seven and ninety eight, those are
really competitive series. You had the Steve Kirk game winner
in game six, close game to close it out. In
ninety seven, you had the flu game like the game
prior with MJ on the road, like, those are really
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compelling competitive series. Ninety eight you had the game winning
shot by Jordan on the road, right, So those are
close games. You think about Packson against Barkley's Sons in
ninety three hitting that three point shot in game six,
it's a close competitive series. The Sonics had that Jordan
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and both had a three lead, and you know the
Sonics won a couple of games and made it competitive.
But I just think that when you could have that's
the best mixture probably is dominance mixed with parody, because
you don't want.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Just sheer dominance.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
You don't want the nineties Bowls if you're the NBA
to be winning each of those series in a sweep
or a gentleman's sweep and it's not even close to
a competitive series. That's not what you want as the NBA.
And I also think man like, yeah, there's something to
be said about dynasties and trying to dethrone the champs
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for a number of years.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
That can be compelling.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that dynasty
these are automatically not compelling whatsoever, because that's not true.
But more times than not, if you could give me
a choice, I'll put it this way. The NFL is
the biggest league in this country by far, not even close.
And what is the thing that drives the NFL's success
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more than anything.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Parody? It's parody.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Would it be better for the NFL if the Chiefs
won a third straight Super Bowl or if the Eagles
knock them off?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It's the Eagles winning it.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
It's better that it's better to spread the wealth. The
ratings are off the charts. You're telling me that you
have to have the Chiefs going for a third or
fourth straight Super Bowl to have ratings. No, you're gonna
have ratings regardless, And when you have different faces, different champions,
more hope that your team can have a Jayden Daniels
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Washington commander's type rise. You can be plus eight and
wins from one year to the next and go from
last place to your conference championship game. Like that's compelling,
that's real hope. That's reason to buy in. That drives
the NFL's success. So if dominance doesn't work for the
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NFL and parody works for the NFL, why would it
be dramatically different for the NBA.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I don't understand why it would.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Now, it's not apples to apples the leagues, right, you
could you could play the same game with the NHL.
The NHL's ratings are not close to the NFL's ratings,
so you can't say, well, if this is good for
the NFL, why wouldn't this be good for the NHL.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Well, because there are a different dynamics.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I could understand if there's a Goliath in the Stanley
Cup Final that's going for a third straight championship, and
now you have this team they're trying to dethrone them.
If you're a complete casual fan, maybe that storyline is
interesting enough for you to watch a little bit more
than you would you can play the same game in
the NBA. Maybe, But that's the ratings consation, that's the
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relevancy conversation. I'm just talking about my personal preference, Tomato, Tomato,
I prefer different teams winning championships instead of the usual
suspects season in and season out. Where it's like, especially
when you're playing that many games. That's the other thing
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that's different with the NBA compared to the NFL. Like
you're playing seventeen games in the NFL, you're playing eighty
two freaking games in the NHL and the NBA. So
if you have dominance, you've got this Goliath going for
a third or fourth straight championship, and it's clear it's
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gonna take something herculean to knock them off. That's just
not incentive for me to buy in and be truly
compelled as if other teams could knock them off. And
we have some actual excitement. That's it's like, hey wake
me when it's Warriors Calves. I'm still watching, I'm still
paying attention, but I'm not nearly as enthused as a
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season like this one. We'll look at the seeds you had,
you know, the Timberwolves a sixth seed, take it on,
the Warriors a seventh seed.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You've got the three four.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Matchup in the Eastern Conference Finals with the Nixon Pacers,
and it's like, what is happening over here? There's a
lot more parody than what we're used to. I thought
the postseason has been really good this year, and I
get it we're gonna have different views and different preferences,
but that's my preference. I'd much rather have parody in
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the NBA instead of Hey wake me when it's the
twenty twenty five version of Cavs Warriors and you can
just write them in in penn like forget pencil, like
those are gonna be the teams.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I'm not a fan. I'm just not a fan about that.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
As much as you know, different teams, different champions, different storylines.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I like that better.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
As far as Purty and what the Niners I think
should have done, I don't think he should have done anything.
Now he's got one more year left on his rookie contract.
Let him play that final year out. You got the
franchise tag to use if needed. And what the Niners
should have done is look toward next year's draft. It's
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much deeper than this year, much more first round prospects,
and you've got Kyle Shanahan's system, You've got his offense there.
Why would you believe brock Purty is the only guy
that can make that thing go?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Why?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Why would you overpay him? It's like I've got a
Nissan Altima. I love my Nissan Altima. I'm not spending
over one hundred thousand dollars on my Nissan Altima.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
It's not worth it. As much as I love my car,
it's not worth that much money. And as much as
someone might love brock Purty, he's not worth that type
of contract.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
He just isn't.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
He's not special enough to produce on the same level
as what he's getting paid, and he's certainly not good
enough to produce on the same level he's getting paid.
When you have to pick and choose with the roster
because you're devoting so much money to him, and yeah,
like Vic said, sure, give him his props. I think
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it's a great story. I honestly do last pick of
the draft and he's played well enough these first three
years where a franchise is willing to pay him one
hundred and eighty one million dollars in guaranteed money.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
That's an awesome story. That's like almost a movie script.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Or if you saw that in a movie, you're rolling
your eyes and walking out like this is dumb who
wrote this?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And it actually happened.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Mister irrelevant turned out to be a relevant starting quarterback
in the NFL, worthy of that type of contract extension
in the eyes of the forty nine ers, not my eyes,
because I'm not just going by blind hope. And also,
I know it's scary. I know it's intimidating to resort
to the NFL Draft and oh what if there's another
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swing in a miss and we get the twenty twenty
six NFL draft version of Trey Lance all over again,
and we let Brock Purty go and now we have
a dud quarterback. Like, yeah, I get that, it's scary.
I totally understand that, but sometimes you have to make
scary decisions. And I'll tell you what else is very
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underrated and very overlooked. It is frightening to overpay a
good quarterback huge money as if he's special, and he's not.
That reality is very scary too, and teams just think
it's way more comfortable to stick with the guy that's
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not a disaster at quarterback. It's the Cowboys overpaying Dak.
Dak is good, he's not great, he's not special, and
you gotta skimp with the rest of the roster based on.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
What you're paying him.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You're not gonna go anywhere. The Dolphins, they have a
good quarterback. Tua is good, he's not great, he's not special.
You're paying him special money, and they're skimping left and right.
They're like John new Smith wants more money. Wow, no way,
get him over to the Steelers. We got to get
rid of Jalen Ramsey. We gotta do all these things
because Tua is making huge money. That's a scary reality too.
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That's a nightmare reality too. And teams just don't look
at it that way. They're like, you know, we don't
have a disaster at quarterback. Yeah, we know he's not
worth this but to pay him as if he is okay,
and watch where that goes. Man, that's the thing point
to the team that is grossly overpaying a quarterback and
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it led to big success.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I'm all yours. Where's the where's the example? Where is it?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
We had made it to the conference championship game, we
made it to the super Bowl, grossly overpaying a guy
and it had to skimp all over the place with
the roster and we still made it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I'll listen. I want to hear it. I want to
see the example. I'll eat my words. If it's out there.
Where is it? I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
It's you know, like Joe Flacco bet on himself and
they made it to a super Bowl and they won,
and then he got huge money. And then what happened
to the Ravens, Wow, they magically didn't go anywhere. Weird
how that worked out. That's what happens with the Dolphins
were really good, not that long ago.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Not everything is to his fault.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Tron Armstead retires, like, there are some things that happen
on the roster that aren't directly tied to the quarterback
making huge money. But a lot of it is my
precious Miami Dolphins were pretty good not that long ago,
and their roster is in shambles right now.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Their roster is rough. There are holes all over the place.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
So I don't know, man, I don't know why people
talk themselves into, Oh, this isn't scary at all. Just
overpay a guy at quarterback that's not worth that type
of money and it'll be great.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
No, No, it won't, it won't.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
But if that's what makes you more comfortable, Okay, I
just I don't see it working out. If you've got examples,
feel free to hit me up at the No show.
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Speaker 2 (34:52):
We'll get you on.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Appreciate Vic oh man, my guy, Jed. We got to
get to Jed. Don't flee, Jed. I will get to
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This is a small, small gripe.
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It's the yearly thing that happens where I'm not yelling
at clouds, but I'm just shaking my head at my TV, like,
why does this happen like clockwork every single year? Watch
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know Mary Mack. What are we listening to right here?
Real fast?
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Noah from one of her recent albums I dropped like
two years ago.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
It's called in Your Eyes and for all produced it.
Oh really, no kidding? Where Forecoon come in?
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Right, it reminds me of something else. I'm not sure
what it does remind me of, Like.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yes, I mean produced a track on this album too.
There you go, very nice like it. But yeah, I
went and went viral easy. It's easy listening.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I would say, you're cruising down, you got the windows down,
and it's not that humid.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You know, it's a nice day. I was listening to
it earlier today with the windows down.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
There you go, that's exactly what was happening. Low humidity,
I hope.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I mean it's the desert. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
We got Jed who fled on Real Fast here on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
What is going on? Jed?
Speaker 5 (36:54):
You dominate like pretty much for the entire second. I
love that quarterback quarterback eighth week, So.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
We wow, Jed.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I'm sorry man, the phone, Uh, the connection wasn't the greatest,
but I I did pick up that he likes our
extended intro music right there, Mary, I'm glad that he's
a fan of that. I'm sorry, Jed. It was the connection, man,
We couldn't hear you very well. So we apologize about that.
Otherwise I love hearing from you, you know. And he
was talking quarterbacks, Jed talking quarterbacks and bumper music. Come on,
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I'm in absolutely in So just a connection issue. We
apologize for that. Uh let me go out to its
funny Steve was in Sacramento for two seconds and then
he found out he had to hold and he was like,
forget that. I'm not waiting a minute to talk King's
basketball or whatever he's about to talk.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
So we've got Danny de Vito in Boston. Apparently, Danny,
what's going on man?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Fox Sports?
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Yeah, me and better friends. I go about a year
and a half, I keep salling. I call it show
a lot. I know you're Brian, know the filling guys,
but uh, I know of you too, But I always
saw Ben. I want to ask you, uh, in my opinion,
you were talking to Miami Dolphins there on the last segment.
(38:26):
I placed the bet. I placed the bet from one
of my close friends out here, and I put a
thousand dollars up against his thousand dollars at the New
England patiops, I'm gonna have more wins than the Dolphins.
You get a comment on that? Am I gonna win
win that.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Yeah, No, I sadly, I like your bet better, Danny.
I like it way better, unfortunately. And I'm a diehard
Dolphins fan and their roster man is going right downhill.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
And I think your Patriots can have a pretty good year.
I do.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
They've made a lot of upgrade and I think Drake
May he showed a lot of potential in his first year.
So yeah, dude, I think your life is your bet
is live. I think that, uh I man, I hate
to say it, but like the Dolphin season win total
is seven and a half, I would not be shocked
at all if they are under that number. So yeah,
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Pats might be the right way to go.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I like that. You're Brian know, the fill in guy.
That's what all my loved ones call me.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
You know, that's when I had the medical situation at
the beginning of the month. You know any social media. Hey, Brian,
the pill in guy. I hope you're feeling better. I'm
just kidding, but all good, man, I appreciate you check
it in. That was good from Danny. Yeah, you gotta
love a Boston accent. Man, I'm telling you. Unless it's
not a girl, I don't know what it is not
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not appealing, not unless it's what's the movie, the town
and the beautiful actress that now that that's fine, No,
who's the other a girl? We'll come up, we'll come
back with it. Something that makes me laugh on the
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Speaker 3 (00:30):
I hope your early morning hours are going smoothly, nicely,
maybe successfully. Hey, maybe you're betting foreign tennis or you
ever bet anything foreign that you don't know anything about.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I've done that before. Maybe that's a cry for help.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I'm not sure you ever watch like B League, not
even watch it. I'm following the scores like B League
Japanese basketballer, so I swear I can tell the third
quarter over is hitting and maybe it does, maybe it doesn't,
but that's anyway. Hopefully your early morning hours are going
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very very nicely over here. So I have to get
to a sad reality for one of my absolute favorite teams,
and how it shows that there will soon be a
sad reality for.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Another proud franchise.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
We'll do that here in just a couple of seconds,
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Feel free to do that at any time. So the
news here is at my Miami Dolphins. Yes, I grew
up in South Bend, Indiana somehow someway. Ever since I
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can remember, I've been a diehard Miami Dolphins fan. I
don't know why it doesn't make geographical sense, but that
was the team I latched onto.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Don't know, it's just it's in my football blood over here.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
But the Dolphins are shopping tight end John new Smith.
They're possibly looking to trade him. So this is the
tweet from Adam Schefter. He just wrote, the Dolphins have
had trade discussions with the Pittsburgh Steelers about their lone
Pro Bowl selection last season, tight end John new Smith.
Per league sources, those talks came after Smith asked an
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interest in reworking his deal that is scheduled to pay
him four point eight million dollars this season. With Smith
sinking a new contract, Miami has sought a trade partner.
Smith's preference, per sources, is to stay in Miami under
a reworked deal. Okay, so lot's the unpack here. First off,
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John new Smith, let's start with this. He was unbelievable
last season. The numbers he put up, He's up there
with the top tight ends in football. This guy had
eighty eight catches for eight hundred and eighty four yards
and eight touchdowns. Eight was the magical number right there
for John new Smith. But those are numbers. Almost ninety
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catches for nearly nine hundred yards and eight touchdown grabs
for a tight end. Those are top tight end numbers.
There aren't many tight ends doing more than that. And
now the Dolphins are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, you want
more money, Like we're on the hook for eight point
for four point eight million dollars. Here's the reality. That's
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what it boils down to. When you are overpaying a
quarterback like Tua Tongue of II Looa, You're gonna have
to cut corners. And this is the sad reality for
the Dolphins. It's a sad reality for any team that
is overpaying a quarterback to this degree. And listen, I
like Tua, I like him, I want to love him,
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but I just like him because he's banged up far
too often and he's not producing to the same level
that he's getting paid. And when that happens, then you
just have these fire sales. You can't have a roster
that is good enough to get you anywhere. Because Tua
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he's a good quarterback, he's not a difference making quarterback.
He's not a quarterback where you can skimp around him.
You might not have a top tight end, you might
not have a top offensive line, you might not have
a top two one to two wide receiver punch. You
know what I mean, you gotta cut corners because you're
paying him so much. He's not a guy that's gonna
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compensate for those roster deficiencies. He's just not there. He's
not producing at that level. And that's where it goes.
And that's what the San Francisco forty nine ers are
going to find out in the not too distant future
as well. Because here's the deal, Brock Purdy is a
good quarterback. I'm never gonna sit here and tell you
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that he's just a guy. He is not even average.
He's a bum like, none of those things are true.
He's a good NFL quarterback, but he, in my opinion,
is not a difference making quarterback. He's not a special quarterback.
He's not a quarterback that when you're paying him the
huge money and have to skim at many other positions
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on the roster, that he's going to be able to
compensate for those deficiencies. He's going to be so solid
and so productive that if you can't afford the top
left tackle, or you can't have Deebo Samuel, or you
lose eight players that are starters via free agency, like
the Niners just did. He's gonna be the guy that's
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still gonna take you to the Promised Land. Spoiler alert,
he's not. He's a good quarterback, he's not a special quarterback.
And we saw a little bit of that last season.
The Niners suffered a lot of injuries.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He didn't have.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Christian McCaffrey, and he didn't have Brandon Ayyuk, and he
didn't have he didn't have and then when you had
a healthy Brock party, you had brock Purty putting up
pretty ordinary numbers. And that is a glimpse of the future. Baby,
That's the way it's gonna end up. And it's nothing personal.
I have no reason to dislike brock Purty. That's just
the truth. It's just the truth. He's a good quarterback,
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he's not a special quarterback. But when you're paying him
special money, you eventually will be screwed as a franchise.
It happens every single time my Dolphins are screwed. The
Niners are gonna be screwed. Maybe not this season because
they have a cake schedule. Their schedule is very favorable,
the easiest schedule in the NFL. Based on last season's
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winning percentages that are gonna change, but maybe not dramatically.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
So they have a very, very favorable schedule.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But the thing is, when you're paying brock Purty the
way they are, Like, does this sentence sound good when
you say it out loud?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
If you're a Niners fan, does this sound good?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Brock Purty is the highest paid player in forty nine
Ers history.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
That sound right to you?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Like you could talk yourself into it and say, well,
you know, it's a quarterback. The way the market is,
he's the next guy up. Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Jerry Rice, different era, Joe Montana.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
It just it doesn't sound right to me that Brock
Purty is the highest paid player in forty nine Ers history.
And a couple other things don't sound right either. One
hundred and eighty one million dollars guarantee over five years.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Oof, that's like I'm trying to scratch.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
The ear wax out of my ears, thinking there's a mistake, Like, e,
do I have one hundred and eighty one million dollars guaranteed?
There are a few things that don't sound right. Purty
fifty three million dollars average per year. It transforms him
from the league's biggest value to its seventh highest paid player.
He now averages more money than Justin Herbert and Lamar Jackson,
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who's a two time MVP. That doesn't sound right either.
There's a lot there. Geno Smith threw more touchdown passes
than Brock Perty last season.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Look at their contracts.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Geno Smith signed a two year extension with the Raiders
for sixty six point five million dollars. Rock Purty five
year extension one hundred and eighty one million dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Like, what WHOA? That is major money.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Tua threw nineteen touchdown passes last season in eleven games.
Perty threw twenty. He threw one more touchdown pass than Tua,
playing many more games than Tua did. That's just not
good enough production. Sorry, Sam Donald, Let's bring up Sam
Donald for a second. Sam Donald had a great season
all things considered. He put up numbers, fizzled down the
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stretch when it mattered most, but throughout the season he
put up numbers. With the loaded Vikings team around him.
He wasn't paid big money and so he had a
great supporting cast, and he threw thirty five touchdown passes
and twelve picks. Those are great numbers. He signed a
three year deal with Seattle for fifty five million dollars guaranteed. Again,
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Brock Purdy one hundred and eighty one million dollars guaranteed.
That's three times the amount more than that than Sam Darnald.
And you could sit here and be like, oh, Sam Darling.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Okay again.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Sam darl put up big numbers with a great supporting
cast last season. I'm out on him in Seattle. I
don't think he's gonna gonna do very well. He doesn't
handle pressure very well. You know, we're talking like a
pass rush. Seattle's offensive line a little leaky. I don't
like that combination. Quarterback struggles under pressure and Seattle's oh
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line leaves a lot to be desired. That is not
a good combination right there. He's got banged up Cooper
Cup and mvs Mark wez Valdez scantling to throw to.
I like Jackson Smith and Jigbub, but it can't just
be the JSN Show with Sam Darnold behind a leaky
offensive line and you're expecting to go somewhere significant.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I just don't see it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
But again, he put up big numbers, better than Perty's
best year and he got a three year deal for
fifty five million dollars guaranteed. Meanwhile, Perty gets a five
year extension for one eighty one guaranteed. That is huge money.
And to put it in perspective over here, this is
what the the salary cap space is going to look
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like for the Niners over the next couple of seasons.
So this is according to David Lombardi's twenty twenty five
projection and an assumption that the cap rises to three
hundred million dollars in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, so there's some qualifiers over here.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
But gauging it, so last season, brock Purty counted against
the Niners cap point four percent.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It was getting fade so little compared to other NFL
starting quarterbacks. It was just a point four percent salary
cap hit. It'll rise this year to three percent, and
then in twenty twenty six it rises to twelve percent.
That's an estimated thirty six million dollar cap hit. So
that's a twenty nine hundred percent increase for the forty
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nine ers, going from the biggest bargain in football, arguably sports,
with brock Purty on his rookie deal as the last
pick of the draft to the seventh highest paid player
in the NFL. That is, it's huge money. You can't
underestimate that. And I don't understand why these teams don't
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try to do what the Chiefs did. The Chiefs had
Alex Smith, who you could say Alex Smith. He was
a competent starting quarterback. He led the league in passer
rating the year that Mahomes was a rookie. And then
they transitioned to Patrick Mahomes as the starting quarterback. But
the Chiefs looked at it and said, yeah, we're good enough.
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We were in the playoffs. We can challenge to be
in the playoffs. Hey, maybe if this planets aligned, we
can make a deep run in the playoffs and we
can be in contention to win a super Bowl. They
could allied to themselves, but they were honest. They were
brutally honest and said, hey, we're good. We want to
be special, we want to be great, and in order
to do that, we have to take a big risk
and we have to trade up from twenty seventh to
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tenth and draft this guy, Patrick Mahomes. They turned out
to hit a Grand Slam. You're not gonna find another
Patrick Mahomes. But the point is, why don't more teams
try to be special like that?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Why do they get so consumed.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
With fear where they're like, we have a competent starting quarterback,
we can't rely on the draft again, and they have
nightmares and flashbacks to Trey Lance, like we tried that
already and Trey Lance was freaking terrible. Ah, let's just
pay party, and they just freak out and the fear
consumes them. Why won't they just be honest and say,
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Black Purty is good, he's not special, and we're gonna
pay him as if he's special. And if we do that,
we're screwed over the next five years. Maybe not this
next year with the cake schedule, but in time he's
not gonna be good enough to compensate for a roster
that we have to skimp on. That's the reality. But
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time and time again, teams will do it. The Dolphins, Hey,
Tua is a legit him at starter. He's not special,
but we're gonna pay him special money. Well, guess what
you're screwed. John news Smith is like I want more
money and they're like, oh, we got to trade him too.
It's a blue light special going on here with my Dolphins.
They're like, we gotta get rid of Jalen Ramsey and
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John neu Smith wants more money. What jeez, what are
we doing over here? Five million bucks? We got to
get him out. It's crazy. But Bucky Brooks says this
all the time here on Fox Sports Radio, also on
NFL Network Draft Guru, He'll say, is the player a
truck or a trailer?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I love this description.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
You're either a truck and you're pulling things behind you,
like in this case you're a quarterback pulling the roster
behind you, or you're a trailer and you're being pulled.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Brock Purdy is a trailer. He is not a truck.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
He is being pulled by the great talent he has
enjoyed around him.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
He is not.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Pulling a deficient r anywhere notable.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
And you can be the biggest party fanboy, the most
diehard forty nine ers fan, and you could be raging
against everything I'm saying, and that's fine, go ahead. But
you saw it last year. You saw the future last year.
When players are banged up, picture the players that are
banged up going forward. Those are the players that the
(15:27):
Niners just can't afford because they've gone all in with
Perdy's contract. It works out to the same thing. When
Perty doesn't have great talent around him, his numbers are
gonna be mediocre. He threw twenty touchdown passes in twelve
picks last year. Those are mediocre numbers. That's nowhere near
one hundred and eighty one million dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's just a bad deal. It's not smart.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
It is just talking yourself into something and being hopeful
beyond reason. You're being hopeful beyond a reasonable outcome, which
is why we got to the Super Bowl before we
were a couple of plays away. Why were you a
couple of plays away? Oh, that's right, because Purdy isn't special.
When he's got a receiver opened in the back of
(16:15):
the end zone, he can't hit him because Chris Jones
is putting some heat on him and he can't make
the special play. He didn't make the special play like
Gino Smith is throwing more touchdown passes than him when
the supporting cast wasn't great last year due to injury.
What do you think is gonna happen going forward? What
do you think is gonna happen, and especially with the Niners.
(16:37):
They have Kyle Shanahan, they have a system. You know
what the Niners should do. I'll tell you around the
corner what the Niners should have done, because we're up
against it and I've been blabbing long enough.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
We'll get to the calls as well.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
But for anyone, and I would appreciate this, anybody listening
that's like, Okay, well what should they have done?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Huh? Which you got all the answers know what should
they have done?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I'll tell you what I think they should have done
around the corner because I think this will lead to
a better outcome than overpaying brock Perty over the next
five years will so I'll show that with you coming
up next. Feel free to check in. Phone lines open
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Speaker 2 (17:53):
It's been a little while.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Last time I was in for Big Ben Malor, I
believe was in December.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I do this every time.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I just look at my notes, like, what was what
were we talking about in mid December? And some of
it was Coop was upset about his Broncos. They had
just lost to the Chargers on a primetime game, and
he was whining about no past interference being called on
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a play. And I just got some enjoyment. I just
thumbing through that. Like you could tell he was in
an upset mood. It was Coop. I put my Coop
doesn't care about the college football playoff. Coop's just like
my Broncos got screwed. I don't care about college football.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Ah Ah. It was just like that.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
So that was funny trip down memory lane right there.
But I'll get back to the Niners. But let's get
to the militia first. Let's get to Victor in La
wants to check in here. Vic, You're on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
What's going on, man, how you're doing? You know I
called that first about the NBA, but then you started
talking about a football team. But I digress. I'll leave
that alone, but I just want to remind you of something.
While you're very happy about, you know, all the future parody,
let me quote to you the last time we had
(19:14):
this type of parody. That was the seventies. You know,
you had a whole bunch of semi stars that came out,
But if you go and look through our whole list
of those seventies championships, only Kareem Is, you know, like
a main thaying you have. Jerry West had to wait
for the selfis to retire for three years. The NBA
almost folded in those years if it wasn't for Magic
(19:34):
and Larry coming in in seventy nine eighty. So as
much as that, you know, every city gets a piece
of the pie theory, there is no big piece because
no one gives the damn about the whole theory because
there's no real juggernaut and that's because there's nobody really
really making everybody seem like they're deficient in the sport.
You need somebody that's so good at it that they're
like damn, that has to raise the bar for everybody else.
(19:56):
Even though Sga is okay, g Joker is joke. Everybody
it's like this, It's like if Jokers joker, he should
just take control of this thing, you know what I mean.
Like we as much as we hate to to cheer
on the same team over and over again, it still
gives us a lit to let us know what what what?
What is the best of the best, the best that
you can't beat, the best if everybody can come and
(20:17):
win it, everybody going to the park and seeing who's hey,
you got your five? I got my five, because you
got to think the Lenny Wilkons, Superstonics, I mean, Bill
walk he's relevant. I mean, but look at all those teams,
the nixt the Knicks got the only two championships in
the seventies. Jerry Webb got is only one he had
to do fan So it's just I don't know if
it's healthy. That's all I can say. And when it
(20:37):
comes to the forty nine ers, yeah, yeah, go for it.
When it comes to forty nine ers and Brock, I mean,
look how uncompetent these quarterbacks are. I mean, so the
money part we can't hackle about is the marketplace. I mean,
I swear I would love to have a certified trust
and Brock. But I don't know if Brock sucks or
(20:59):
if he's good yet, because that year was a really
bad year for our whole roster. But as far as
what I've seen with him having in his hands, he's
done a good job and you got least give him
credit for that, and he's earned his money. You have
a whole bunch of quarterbacks they have not got as
far as he has in multiple seasons. And I'll leave
it at that, sir.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Well, Hey, Vick, I appreciate you checking in, man. Like,
the first thing is, look for the NBA. There's a
big difference between what I think is the most interesting
as a fan and maybe as like a sports radio
host too, and what's best for the league's ratings.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Those are two very very different things.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
So what I think is the most interesting for me personally, Like,
that's just a personal take. I would personally much rather
have seven different champions over seven years. It's the first
time in NBA history this is going to be a
thing with either the Thunder, the Knicks or the Pacers.
You know, spoiler alert, it's gonna be the Thunder. Like
(22:02):
the Knicks are not beating them. I don't see the
Pacers beating them either. Pacers pace and their depth, they
have a better chance. But Okac's defense is just it's
too good. Pacers don't defend like that. So it's gonna
be okay see, I'd be shocked if it's not. It
would take a you know, like a KD Game five
(22:22):
type injury when he was with the Warriors for okay see.
Not to win a championship against the Pacers or Knicks,
I believe. But anyway, how it shakes out seven new
champions over the last seven years, first time in NBA
history that's ever happened.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
That's more compelling to me.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Then Hey, the Warriors are trying to win their fourth
championship in five years. I'm just like, okay, cool, you
added KD to a seventy three win team. That's not
compelling to me. That's not interesting, that's not exciting. That's
just my personal feeling on it now. If you want
to throw ratings into it and like the viabil of
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the NBA, and yeah, that can change the math for sure.
But I still think that this idea of oh no, no,
you want dominance. The thing that made the nineties so
great is that you had the dominant Bulls teams mixed
with parody, is what I would argue, because if you
(23:21):
look at those playoffs when the Bulls got to the finals,
most of those are at least competitive series.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
They didn't get to a seventh game any of them.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
But if you look at those series, the two against
the Jazz in ninety seven and ninety eight, those are
really competitive series. You had the Steve Kirk game winner
in game six, close game to close it out. In
ninety seven, you had the flu game like the game
prior with MJ on the road, like, those are really
(23:53):
compelling competitive series. Ninety eight you had the game winning
shot by Jordan on the road, right, So those are
close games. You think about Packson against Barkley's Sons in
ninety three hitting that three point shot in game six,
it's a close competitive series. The Sonics had that Jordan
(24:16):
and both had a three lead, and you know the
Sonics won a couple of games and made it competitive.
But I just think that when you could have that's
the best mixture probably is dominance mixed with parody, because
you don't want.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Just sheer dominance.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
You don't want the nineties Bowls if you're the NBA
to be winning each of those series in a sweep
or a gentleman's sweep and it's not even close to
a competitive series. That's not what you want as the NBA.
And I also think man like, yeah, there's something to
be said about dynasties and trying to dethrone the champs
(24:54):
for a number of years.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
That can be compelling.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that dynasty
these are automatically not compelling whatsoever, because that's not true.
But more times than not, if you could give me
a choice, I'll put it this way. The NFL is
the biggest league in this country by far, not even close.
And what is the thing that drives the NFL's success
(25:18):
more than anything.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Parody? It's parody.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Would it be better for the NFL if the Chiefs
won a third straight Super Bowl or if the Eagles
knock them off?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It's the Eagles winning it.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
It's better that it's better to spread the wealth. The
ratings are off the charts. You're telling me that you
have to have the Chiefs going for a third or
fourth straight Super Bowl to have ratings. No, you're gonna
have ratings regardless, And when you have different faces, different champions,
more hope that your team can have a Jayden Daniels
(25:54):
Washington commander's type rise. You can be plus eight and
wins from one year to the next and go from
last place to your conference championship game. Like that's compelling,
that's real hope. That's reason to buy in. That drives
the NFL's success. So if dominance doesn't work for the
(26:17):
NFL and parody works for the NFL, why would it
be dramatically different for the NBA.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I don't understand why it would.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Now, it's not apples to apples the leagues, right, you
could you could play the same game with the NHL.
The NHL's ratings are not close to the NFL's ratings,
so you can't say, well, if this is good for
the NFL, why wouldn't this be good for the NHL.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Well, because there are a different dynamics.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
I could understand if there's a Goliath in the Stanley
Cup Final that's going for a third straight championship, and
now you have this team they're trying to dethrone them.
If you're a complete casual fan, maybe that storyline is
interesting enough for you to watch a little bit more
than you would you can play the same game in
the NBA. Maybe, But that's the ratings consation, that's the
(27:00):
relevancy conversation. I'm just talking about my personal preference, Tomato, Tomato,
I prefer different teams winning championships instead of the usual
suspects season in and season out. Where it's like, especially
when you're playing that many games. That's the other thing
(27:21):
that's different with the NBA compared to the NFL. Like
you're playing seventeen games in the NFL, you're playing eighty
two freaking games in the NHL and the NBA. So
if you have dominance, you've got this Goliath going for
a third or fourth straight championship, and it's clear it's
(27:42):
gonna take something herculean to knock them off. That's just
not incentive for me to buy in and be truly
compelled as if other teams could knock them off. And
we have some actual excitement. That's it's like, hey wake
me when it's Warriors Calves. I'm still watching, I'm still
paying attention, but I'm not nearly as enthused as a
(28:05):
season like this one. We'll look at the seeds you had,
you know, the Timberwolves a sixth seed, take it on,
the Warriors a seventh seed.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You've got the three four.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Matchup in the Eastern Conference Finals with the Nixon Pacers,
and it's like, what is happening over here? There's a
lot more parody than what we're used to. I thought
the postseason has been really good this year, and I
get it we're gonna have different views and different preferences,
but that's my preference. I'd much rather have parody in
(28:38):
the NBA instead of Hey wake me when it's the
twenty twenty five version of Cavs Warriors and you can
just write them in in penn like forget pencil, like
those are gonna be the teams.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I'm not a fan. I'm just not a fan about that.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
As much as you know, different teams, different champions, different storylines.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I like that better.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
As far as Purty and what the Niners I think
should have done, I don't think he should have done anything.
Now he's got one more year left on his rookie contract.
Let him play that final year out. You got the
franchise tag to use if needed. And what the Niners
should have done is look toward next year's draft. It's
(29:19):
much deeper than this year, much more first round prospects,
and you've got Kyle Shanahan's system, You've got his offense there.
Why would you believe brock Purty is the only guy
that can make that thing go?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Why?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Why would you overpay him? It's like I've got a
Nissan Altima. I love my Nissan Altima. I'm not spending
over one hundred thousand dollars on my Nissan Altima.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
It's not worth it.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
It's not worth it. As much as I love my car,
it's not worth that much money. And as much as
someone might love brock Purty, he's not worth that type
of contract.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
He just isn't.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
He's not special enough to produce on the same level
as what he's getting paid, and he's certainly not good
enough to produce on the same level he's getting paid.
When you have to pick and choose with the roster
because you're devoting so much money to him, and yeah,
like Vic said, sure, give him his props. I think
(30:18):
it's a great story. I honestly do last pick of
the draft and he's played well enough these first three
years where a franchise is willing to pay him one
hundred and eighty one million dollars in guaranteed money.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
That's an awesome story. That's like almost a movie script.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Or if you saw that in a movie, you're rolling
your eyes and walking out like this is dumb who
wrote this?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
And it actually happened.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Mister irrelevant turned out to be a relevant starting quarterback
in the NFL, worthy of that type of contract extension
in the eyes of the forty nine ers, not my eyes,
because I'm not just going by blind hope. And also,
I know it's scary. I know it's intimidating to resort
to the NFL Draft and oh what if there's another
(31:03):
swing in a miss and we get the twenty twenty
six NFL draft version of Trey Lance all over again,
and we let Brock Purty go and now we have
a dud quarterback. Like, yeah, I get that, it's scary.
I totally understand that, but sometimes you have to make
scary decisions. And I'll tell you what else is very
(31:25):
underrated and very overlooked. It is frightening to overpay a
good quarterback huge money as if he's special, and he's not.
That reality is very scary too, and teams just think
it's way more comfortable to stick with the guy that's
(31:47):
not a disaster at quarterback. It's the Cowboys overpaying Dak.
Dak is good, he's not great, he's not special, and
you gotta skimp with the rest of the roster based on.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
What you're paying him.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You're not gonna go anywhere. The Dolphins, they have a
good quarterback. Tua is good, he's not great, he's not special.
You're paying him special money, and they're skimping left and right.
They're like John new Smith wants more money. Wow, no way,
get him over to the Steelers. We got to get
rid of Jalen Ramsey. We gotta do all these things
because Tua is making huge money. That's a scary reality too.
(32:25):
That's a nightmare reality too. And teams just don't look
at it that way. They're like, you know, we don't
have a disaster at quarterback. Yeah, we know he's not
worth this but to pay him as if he is okay,
and watch where that goes. Man, that's the thing point
to the team that is grossly overpaying a quarterback and
(32:45):
it led to big success.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I'm all yours. Where's the where's the example? Where is it?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
We had made it to the conference championship game, we
made it to the super Bowl, grossly overpaying a guy
and it had to skimp all over the place with
the roster and we still made it.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I'll listen. I want to hear it. I want to
see the example. I'll eat my words. If it's out there.
Where is it? I don't see it.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
It's you know, like Joe Flacco bet on himself and
they made it to a super Bowl and they won,
and then he got huge money. And then what happened
to the Ravens, Wow, they magically didn't go anywhere. Weird
how that worked out. That's what happens with the Dolphins
were really good, not that long ago.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Not everything is to his fault.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Tron Armstead retires, like, there are some things that happen
on the roster that aren't directly tied to the quarterback
making huge money. But a lot of it is my
precious Miami Dolphins were pretty good not that long ago,
and their roster is in shambles right now.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Their roster is rough. There are holes all over the place.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
So I don't know, man, I don't know why people
talk themselves into, Oh, this isn't scary at all. Just
overpay a guy at quarterback that's not worth that type
of money and it'll be great.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
No, No, it won't, it won't.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
But if that's what makes you more comfortable, Okay, I
just I don't see it working out. If you've got examples,
feel free to hit me up at the No show.
You can tweet me all night long. Hey, right after
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get off the year. Okay, the militia, you're more than
welcome to chime in here.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
We'll get you on.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Appreciate Vic oh man, my guy, Jed. We got to
get to Jed. Don't flee, Jed. I will get to
you so quickly possible. Do it right around the corner
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is your number
coming up soon?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
This is a small, small gripe.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
It's the yearly thing that happens where I'm not yelling
at clouds, but I'm just shaking my head at my TV, like,
why does this happen like clockwork every single year? Watch
it happen again this year, small gripe heading your way next.
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know Mary Mack. What are we listening to right here?
Real fast?
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Noah from one of her recent albums I dropped like
two years ago.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
It's called in Your Eyes and for all produced it.
Oh really, no kidding? Where Forecoon come in?
Speaker 5 (36:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Right, it reminds me of something else. I'm not sure
what it does remind me of, Like.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yes, I mean produced a track on this album too.
There you go, very nice like it. But yeah, I
went and went viral easy. It's easy listening.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
I would say, you're cruising down, you got the windows down,
and it's not that humid.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You know, it's a nice day. I was listening to
it earlier today with the windows down.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
There you go, that's exactly what was happening. Low humidity,
I hope.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I mean it's the desert. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
We got Jed who fled on Real Fast here on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
What is going on? Jed?
Speaker 5 (36:54):
You dominate like pretty much for the entire second. I
love that quarterback quarterback eighth week, So.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
We wow, Jed.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I'm sorry man, the phone, Uh, the connection wasn't the greatest,
but I I did pick up that he likes our
extended intro music right there, Mary, I'm glad that he's
a fan of that. I'm sorry, Jed. It was the connection, man,
We couldn't hear you very well. So we apologize about that.
Otherwise I love hearing from you, you know. And he
was talking quarterbacks, Jed talking quarterbacks and bumper music. Come on,
(37:41):
I'm in absolutely in So just a connection issue. We
apologize for that. Uh let me go out to its
funny Steve was in Sacramento for two seconds and then
he found out he had to hold and he was like,
forget that. I'm not waiting a minute to talk King's
basketball or whatever he's about to talk.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
So we've got Danny de Vito in Boston. Apparently, Danny,
what's going on man?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Fox Sports?
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Yeah, me and better friends. I go about a year
and a half, I keep salling. I call it show
a lot. I know you're Brian, know the filling guys,
but uh, I know of you too, But I always
saw Ben. I want to ask you, uh, in my opinion,
you were talking to Miami Dolphins there on the last segment.
(38:26):
I placed the bet. I placed the bet from one
of my close friends out here, and I put a
thousand dollars up against his thousand dollars at the New
England patiops, I'm gonna have more wins than the Dolphins.
You get a comment on that? Am I gonna win
win that.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Yeah, No, I sadly, I like your bet better, Danny.
I like it way better, unfortunately. And I'm a diehard
Dolphins fan and their roster man is going right downhill.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
And I think your Patriots can have a pretty good year.
I do.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
They've made a lot of upgrade and I think Drake
May he showed a lot of potential in his first year.
So yeah, dude, I think your life is your bet
is live. I think that, uh I man, I hate
to say it, but like the Dolphin season win total
is seven and a half, I would not be shocked
at all if they are under that number. So yeah,
(39:20):
Pats might be the right way to go.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
I like that. You're Brian know, the fill in guy.
That's what all my loved ones call me.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
You know, that's when I had the medical situation at
the beginning of the month. You know any social media. Hey, Brian,
the pill in guy. I hope you're feeling better. I'm
just kidding, but all good, man, I appreciate you check
it in. That was good from Danny. Yeah, you gotta
love a Boston accent. Man, I'm telling you. Unless it's
not a girl, I don't know what it is not
(39:48):
not appealing, not unless it's what's the movie, the town
and the beautiful actress that now that that's fine, No,
who's the other a girl? We'll come up, we'll come
back with it. Something that makes me laugh on the
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