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We are all right, There's there's a million things to
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get to, but let's start here. Aaron Rodgers has an
extension on his deal. Ray Jersey is gonna get a
fourteen point seven million dollars in salary six point eight
million dollars in roster bonus, which again seems like pennies
on the dollar compared to the money other guys are making. Like, oh,
he's only making twenty one million dollars Like look, dude,
he got all a ton of money up front the
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past couple of years twenty one point five million compensation
minimum based salary like a million dollars, which means the
rest is a signing bonus. They added two voidable years
that will create sixteen point three four million in cap space. Basically,
they did what they you know, there's still a big
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dead cap money number at the end of next year,
so they're not going to trade him at the end
of next year, and they gave him more guaranteed money
and there's more dead cap money on the back end
of this deal. That's how it looks. That's how it looks,
and to me, it's simply signifies what we thought, which
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is Aaron Rodgers gets, you know, a little bit more security.
He's earned the right to have two years instead of one.
Because the way it was written was at the end
of next year, they probably could have moved on if
they wanted to, and they don't want to. Why should
they want to, you know, so it was it was
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changed some. Uh, the deal basically the following year is
million dollars in base salary and eleven point five in
signing bonus, which means instead of the thirty nine million
dollars in cap hit in order for him to stay
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in future years, they'll redo the deal. Again. This is
kind of this is the new age of the NFL
and the new type of finances. So that's the that's
the deal. That's where we are with this thing, which
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is Aaron Rodgers simply got more time to figure out
what they want to do, and they got more money
to spend elsewhere. And I'm sure what he said is, hey,
look I'm gonna move this into a signing bonus. This
will push more deadcap money down the road. What I
need you to do is go, let's go get better players.
Let's go for it. Let's go for it. I'm in, Urine,
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who's in. We're all in. It's like the ice cream
you scream, We all scream for ice cream. That's what
it feels like to me. That's what that's what it
feels like to me. So we're all acting like like
Aaron Rodgers isn't gonna age, He's gonna play forever. He
wants to play forever. I don't know if that's actually
the case. You just don't. Aaron has been a guy
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who he likes, somebody that he doesn't like, somebody he
wants to play forever that he doesn't, or he wants
to quit early that he wants to play forever. So
you gotta protect yourself from that. It's a reasonable protection
and I don't think that changed anything at all in
terms of everybody's thoughts on what on where the packers
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where the Packers are fairly you know, are a fairly
conservative crew um. But there's a simple restructure to that deal,
and it's a middle middle ground. Two sides settle on.
Team gets a little help on the cap and player
gets some guaranteed money on the cap pushed in the future.
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It's not perfect, but it's probably the best thing. An extension.
You kicked that until next year when you see what
the salary cap is gonna be and you see how
well he plays. You know, Aaron Rodgers didn't want it
to be a lame duck season, and I don't blame him,
so it's not going to be. You know, some people said, hey,
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they haven't restructured. They haven't restructured it. What they're doing
is they're they're they're gonna fix it. And I think
that's a very reasonable thing to do in order to
create a little bit more guaranteed money, a little bit
more cash space, and a little bit more freedom for
the for the Packers to go get more players, to
keep more players. All of that makes a ton of sense.
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They signed Mercedes Lewis today. That's enough, right, not enough? Um,
I won't say that I would never see I could
never see Aaron Rodgers playing in a different jersey, because
we've seen you name it, you know, in in our lifetime.
Dan Marino and John l a and I guess Ben
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Roethlisberger are like and Eli Manning like the three guys
that haven't switched jerseys. It feels like almost everybody else does.
And the only other one I can think of recently
is Matt Ryan, who is an m v P. But
if you look at the quarterbacks who are m v ps,
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even of the of the NFL, these are the guys
that had the best of the best of the best years.
And Drew Brees switched teams right. Obviously some of it
was because of injury, but a good portion of it
was because they drafted Philip Rivers. Philip Rivers switch teams,
so I don't think it becomes an absolute that he
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switched his teams, but Farve did, Peyton did, Brady did,
Johnny Unitis did. Um heck you go back, and obviously
Joe Theisman didn't because he heard his leg I don't
think he came back as anything other than a than
uh than a Washington football to Washington redskin. Damn Reno didn't.
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John Elway didn't, but Joe Montana did, Steve Young absolutely,
far absolutely, Kurt Warner did, Rich Gannon did. These are
all vps of the league. Tom Brady has, Peyton Manning has,
Aaron Rodgers hasn't, Cam Newton has, Matt Ryan hasn't. Patrick
Mahome hasn't and might not. And Lamar Jackson obviously has
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only been in the league for three years, so not
crazy to think he ends his career elsewhere. But I
would say it's crazy to think that the Packers haven't
reassessed where they are with Aaron Rodgers after the season
he had last year and thought, how can we fix this,
free up some money, make everybody happy, and make Aaron
Rodgers think we're gonna keep him around for um for
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a little bit more time. Makes sense. The division got interesting,
right like the Lions feel like they're gonna rebuild. We don't.
The Bears haven't fixed the quarterback spot as of yet,
like Andy Dalton doesn't make them defineably that much better.
And the Vikings had to rework things last year because
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the cap and they don't feel much better. I I
I'm if if somebody said, hey, the time is now
for the Packers to stop being conservative and go for it,
I think they're right. It's interesting because when you look
at at the Buccaneers, who resigned two of their starters,
including a Dominican suit earlier. Today, the Buccaneers are a
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team who, Hey, the Falcons are new coach, new style.
The Panthers they still know their quarterback is gonna be
They thought they were gonna get to Shaun Watson, they're
not now, and the Saints are gonna have a new quarterback.
It's not crazy to think that the Buccaneers go from
an afterthought in that division to far and away the
best team in that division. The problem there is we
don't know how much Tom Brady has left. And as
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in some of the playoff games, there were other throws
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Charles Barkley says, um this about the best offensive players
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in NBA history. To Lebron or Janice or anybody, James
Harden might be the best basketball player in the world period. Listen,
James has made something that's stalin Houston was never going
to win, but he has adapted and changed. I think
he is a little bit better defensively, but for them
to win games without k D and without Kyrie, you
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gotta get that man some credit. And like I said,
he is the most awesome offensive player I've ever seen.
Unlessen Michael and Kobe were better players from the guards standpoint,
but as far as offensively, they couldn't shoot threes like him.
They were not as great as dribbling the basketball, going
to the basket, getting fouled. But we gotta get that
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guy credit. Man. He is an offensive machine playing a
simple He is an offensive machine. That's that's for sure.
I think he's great. I personally, I would say Durant
when he's healthy, because Durant has an almost unblockable shot.
But James Harden's unbelievable that. This is what I have
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always said. And Gavin, you're new to this show. Ramos
is sitting there going like I'm just gonna get annoying,
and here in this again, I think James Harden is
an incredible basketball player who when he was in Houston,
I couldn't watch him play. He was just just too much,
too much. But he's ridiculous. He's ridiculous, ridiculous in terms
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of an offensive player. Yeah, I'm not sure Charles is
wrong either, and Charles didn't say he's absolutely positively he's
a as good or better pastor than anybody in the game.
Lebron included. Okay, he is a room and now he's
a remarkable shooter, finisher below the rim creativity wise, and
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he's like he's not getting a great open shooter, but
he his ability to create space. Like people talking that,
people talk about about Steff and how step has changed
the game, and kids copy Steph and they do. Do
you know who else they copy? They copy James Harden.
They that you can't copy Durant because he's seven ft
tall and he's got so much game. You can't really
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copy Lebron because Lebron's six eight to sixty plays bullyball
and he shoots that funky, weird sidestep step back whatever.
James Harden is probably the most replica, has the most
replicated moves in the NBA, more than Steph Curry. Because
that dude isn't crazy explosive and yet or crazy quick
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and yet he gets he creates space, gets shots, draws
fouls in new age basketball. I'm I'm I'm more in
Charles Camp than I am against Charles Camp. So um, yeah,
I think it's a reasonable discussion to have reasonable discussion
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the Segre where are you on on James Harden, because
part of it is it was hard to get over
how tough it was to watch them play in Houston
with all the dribbling and all the one on one
and so when you're like, no, no, it's different now,
I'm like, yeah, I don't believe it. So it's a
really tough thing to do. But it was hard to watch,
and nothing more so than how they bombed out of
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the playoffs at one time where they just kept shooting
threes and it kind of like the Celtics that way,
because I recall, but yeah, things are not exactly the same,
and the talent it's just at the silly level. It's ridiculous.
It's really ridiculous. Still listed as questionable by the way,
for tonight Brooklyn at Utah with the sore neck you
were mentioning the name of Bill Russell earlier. By the way,
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when you're talking about great defense, I always bring up
the fact of Russell did face Wilt Chamberlain head to
head a lot about a hundred times, and there were
a lot of miss shots to be had in the
high scoring games back then. But the rebounding numbers. Bill
Russell averaged twenty three rebounds a game head to head.
Will Chamberlain eight rebounds per game in his career against
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Bill Russell and the Celtics talk about silly numbers and
thirty points a game. And remember there was no block
shot stats. So people are talking about defense. You rightly
framed it in more of a recent NBA history. But
if people are actually going to talk about all time defenders,
you can't start when Okay, now I can look and
see how many you know, X number of block shots
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this guy got a keym for example, The said didn't
exist back in Russell and chamberlainferent defense. No, No, it was.
It's just like it does a different sport. I don't
think it pays to incorporate them into our discussion. It's
like the NFL quarterback discussions. You're right, it's like so
and so has more passing yards than Troy Aikman. Well,
it doesn't mean he's better than Troy Aikman. It was
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completely different. It was a completely different sport. And in
the NFL the number of snaps is different, the number
of passes are different, the officiating is different, everything is different.
The same goes to the NBA. It was completely different.
Just was It's not It's not worth the end. Most
most people, you didn't see him play, if you didn't
sit down and see them play and be able to like,
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you know, So for for me, once you get past
eighties six, eighties seven, you know, like I'm eleven years old,
it's still it's still very young in watching, but I
I know enough to know and recall uh Bird and
Magic and Jordan and Isaiah and that group, and then
you know the the ones that came after Jordan's that's
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really my era. Those guys are my around my age
or even younger. So, reading between the lines, you're saying
Mark Eaton did deserve to have his jersey retired in Utah.
I would not say market his jersey jersey. I believe phone. Yes,
I like marketing is a good guy, but I don't
do that one. I don't know about. I'm not gonna
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I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't I don't
know about that one. That one seems like a stretch
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hundred thousand? Yes? Is that the Iowa Game? Uh? There
was only one list at nine pm Eastern window, and
I think it was the Iowa Game. She's the best
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players outstanding. Um, that was my first women's hoop. I
I really watched this year. We're gonna be joining a
second by Mike Daniels. Of course he was. He was
drafted by the Green Bay Packers and that was back when,
um when when Dom Capers was their defensive coordinator and uh,
you know, dude became one of the top hundred players
in the NFL. I was voted on by his peers,
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played in the Pro Bowl, and of course then he
went to the Lions. Um, he went to the Lions
and now with the Bengals after you know, playing for
them last year. Of course, he had an elbow injury
last year, and then he had the COVID nineteen lest
it was a crazy, crazy season. Mike Daniels joined us
in the Doug Gotlip Show on Fox Sports Radio. Mike,
(16:32):
how are you um after that end? You know I'm healthy? No?
I know, I know I was gonna get into the
healthy man. No COVID nothing, Man, How would you how
would you character how would you characterize your year in Cincinnati?
You know what, man? It was? You know what I'm saying, Um,
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definitely got to get some so a lot lot a
really good production and limited playing time and godly, man,
I I like last year really let me. I knew it,
but sometimes you gotta go through it and let me
know that I have so much more left in the tank.
I mean, I can't wait for this season to begin,
you know what I'm saying, Like, that's how I thought
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about last year. It really was like, alright, let's keep
this thing rolling, man, I keep on building, like we're
doing great right now. Yes. So, so you're the first
time you set eyes on Joe Burrow right like, and
look you you spent you spent the first bit of
your career drafted by the Packers. So you've been around greatness,
and you're around Stafford when you're in Detroit, you get
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to Since and they draft a number one overall pick
and it's Joe Burrow. What do you think the first
time you met him? The guys, the pro I didn't
know if I was looking at a rookie or a
four year vet who's already dealt through the the the
the the tum wild being the NFL franchise quarterback. I mean,
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this is the way the kid cares us over. Your
first game as a Bengal was the most Bengals game ever,
right where you guys are really good and you're right
there with the Chargers and you get right and there's,
all of a sudden, you miss a miss a kick.
At first, there was I think a terrible offensive past
interference call in the end zone that would have won
(18:20):
you the game, and then you miss a kick that
would have sent to overtime. And this is like you've
been a part of winning teams most your entire career,
going back to college in Iowa. You won. Was there
when you when you join the Bengals. I'm sure there's
other some of your boys in league like, yeah, hey man,
it's great, but good luck winning there did did that?
Did it set into any sort of mental negativity that? Man,
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we gotta how do we get away from this finding
ways to lose games we should win? Oh? Man, no, no, see,
I'm an overcomer, have an overcoming, my entire career overcoming,
right now, That's what I do, right, And I in
fact that effect that attitude towards my team right with
all my buddies in the locker room and everybody, uh
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even the coaching staff is me be right, And that
showed up that Monday night game, came in, gave the
team speech, got us all going, man like, hey, let's
let's tell more about it. Kind of went on Monday
night against the team who's win eleven wins straight. Right,
We're no longer a little brother. Let's let's get after
these guys, man. And that's just what I bring. So
no matter where I'm at, I'm going to bring that
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type of attitude you mentioned the first game, you know,
you said the most Bengals game. I don't necessarily know
what what that means, you know, because playing green Baby Troy,
so I didn't really know the type of things that uh,
what a typical of Bengals game looks like but here
you describe it. I haven't eve really thought about it
like that before, because as I saw it, the defense,
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our last player of the game, believe it was third
and one or fourth and one. They ran right to me,
played the tackle, got us, got us the ball back right.
And that's my mentality, is like, I don't care what's
going on. We're going to make sure we play our
absolute bests in all situations and and that's going to
give our team a chance to win. Whether we win
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or not, we'll get there. We'll get to that point.
But it's all about when your doctor the best you
can do to put this put this team in the white,
put this in the win, give a chance to win.
And that's why I try to bring it every That's
why I do bring every You know, anymo going men,
how how far away is this is? This team? It
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seems very close. Team is very close, and you have
the quarterback like we have, you can definitely go around that.
When we see the pieces that are being put together
here in free agency, I mean, it looks it looks
very very very promising. Um. Even you in posting some
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of your your workout videos on on social media and
I mean like, look, you get after it, but a
lot of the stuff you're doing is sports specific, position specific.
Your boys in the locker room, you're boys in the league.
They give you any business about your postings, you know,
doing your bar rolls and and and your squats against
the wall. My first day in Cincinnati, Carlo has done that.
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Call lost in Sam Huber Andrea Atkins said, those workouts
you got. That's give us a call next time you
go to do that, man, because they they look pretty impressive. Man,
Then we haven't seen anything like that before. You know, Um,
I'm to the pool workout and I didn't know they're
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passing the video around. This is one our off day.
I'm a little pool workout in the hotel I'm staying
at during camp. I'll come in the next day. After that.
The video is getting circulated. They want to locker room.
Everybody saying, man, Mike, so you're gonna take us women
and do some d lone work in the pool too,
And I'm just like wow. So the guys like it.
People are impressed, and um, there's definitely um something invoitation
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going on there. Even one of those are strength training
and the facility I trained that he really talk to
the and I posted this, I'm doing the exact same
body position athletics. It's not to say rotational dumbbell crows
that I did. He's you know a lot of people
are taking to the workhouts. Yeah, no, it's it's it's
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it's man's infecting with the right things, right. No, No,
there's no, there's no question about it. Um, some of
the stuff you developed? Did did you develop yourself and
say hey, I'm gonna take some of the strength stuff
I learned even when I when I you know, I
read shirt year and training at Iowa and training along
the way and developed my own or is just somebody
else who has guided you and put in these kind
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of sports specific twists to what what a kind of
more traditional historic workouts. It's definitely um my own touch
to it. I've made the take a note to learn
from all the great weight lookings. Since that, I've had
uh closing old Coach Slovakia, Coach Guzzy, Coach nash Um
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and coach Joe and Cincinnati for my trainer. You know,
I have a trainer abile work with saying technique coach
rather and every everything we do is so you know.
You say it's position specific, but it's really audio positioning,
not football positioning, because when I look at him trained
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guys at other positions, I see, For my goodness, I
didn't know that defensive linement and wide receivers have similar motions,
similar feat uh motionaries, quick twitch hand motionaries in different
parts of the game. I had no clue. I'm watching
him trains Ronald Allison and I'm saying, Wow, that looks
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like we've playing defensive line. But I see how applicable
it is as a receiver. So now let's you know
that that's not position specific, it's just body movement, body technique.
Mike Dane is our guest on the Doug Ot Lip
Show on Fox Sport Trader Cook. Do you meant is
Chris Doyle? Okase? He was the legendary strength coach at Iowa.
You read shire there. You went from a two star
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prospect to a fourth round traffick and an absolute stud
at Iowa, and obviously you've had an outstanding career. He
was going to go to Jacksonville, but then the accusations
of what went on at Iowa and the feelings in
that locker room causing to have to resign before he
really worked today on the job. In your experience with him,
just yours, what was your reaction to what's led to
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kind of his career's downfall. My experience there is exactly
what you said. But from a two star, two hundred
seven pound uh running back in two a three hundred
ten town towards town well at the time of Iowa
twards of ninety pound All Big ten Draft the ball
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defensive tackle stud That perfectly sums up my experience at
Iowa with the way with coach Coach Faris, coach consisty everybody.
But but you're also like you're a black man from
New Jersey. You come into to Iowa right like it's
it's a different environment. Was there was there a time
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in which you didn't feel comfortable in that environment? Football's football,
and hey, whatever environment we in, we won't get the
job done. And that's the attitude that I take. Like
you mentioned, um, you know one of the different lockers
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are guys looking at my videos. Like I said, I'm
bringing the attitude of improvement, dominance and winning no matter
where I go, high school, college, whatever, professional football team.
I'm mat That's why I'm inflicting and instilling all of
those around me. Doug gotlib show here on Fox Sports Radio. Um,
(25:57):
when you are a former Packer, you watch their success,
how does it sit with you? You'd like to see
your guys do well? Happen for everybody to guys get
the contracts. Two guys who I played lined up against,
lined up with two highest paid players in the league
or in the in the history of position. God receiver
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going to coballs out there first court and I've been
a four He's these guys are doing great. They're doing great,
But unfortunately know as well as go on the NFL
the only way that a team can crowd themselves as
successful about winning the Super Bowl. Mike listening in the
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world when when you when you see Tampa a team
that all they needed was a little hope. They had
struggled for so long, right and and also you see
the longevity of a lot of those guys, right like
and Dominican has been doing it a long time as well.
But you see Tom Brady's longevity granted different positions, different
level of explosiveness needed. Does that change your perspective on
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how long you can do this thing? It just proves
to me what I already knew, and that's you'll play
as long as you want to. Granted, you do all
the right things, taking care of your body, screening properly,
eating properly. Those things will make sure you last as
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long as guys like James Harrison, Tom Brady you know.
And I think the Buccan is sold the great example
that he doesn't matter how old you are, You've got
guys doing the right things you want to win. It's very,
very very true. Mike Man, love your energy, love the videos,
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keep them coming. Thanks so much for joining us on
Fox Sports Radio. Yep, thanks for having me, Mike, Mike
Dane's course at Bengals Defensive Tackle joined. Just be sure
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Call Farmers Day for a quote. Let's get to the press,
(28:15):
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All right, Steve Disagrey me with the press. Let's start
with the item from Lindsay Theory l a football reporter
for ESPN, that Jared Goff's relationship with his Rams coach
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Sean McVeigh began to worsen in twenty when the Rams
missed the playoffs and the quarterback showed signs of regression
from the year before. McVeigh, a majority of the time,
backed Golf publicly, but quote something different was going on
behind the scenes. McVeigh frequently yelled at Golf on the
sidelines and called him out in front of players and coaches.
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After a loss to the nine ER's last season, a
league source told the writer, Sean lost touch with how
much he was breaking Jared down. But there's got to
be the build back up. McVeigh was either unaware or
disinterested in protecting Jared Goff's confidence. He was done, he was,
he was done. If y'all got a crew, you got
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to have. If y'all got a crew, he was, he was.
He was done, and he un done, you know, And
I'm sure it built up. I think some of it,
by the way, some of it was the fact that, um,
you know he I think that they were disappointed at
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the lack of work ethic and accountability, and so you know,
you can you just you can't pull players. They know
if you're if you're not totally bringing it, and they
feel like he was totally bringing it. And when Sean
McVeigh got completely out coached by Belichick in the Super Bowl,
did he get called out in front of players and
coaches after the loss? Um? Well again again if you
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go back, I mean McVey publicly has always taken full
accountability with with the San Francisco game for when things
went wrong, and he has said he got out coached there. Um,
But I'm guessing that deep down in his heart he's like,
if I had a better quarterback, it wouldn't have mattered
or running game. Yea in that one. As by the way,
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correct me if I'm wrong. What didn't Michael Brocker's who
was Rams defensive lineman. Didn't he say when they made
the deal getting rid of Golf that when they acquired
from Detroit Stafford, Oh, we that's that's an upgraded quarterback.
And then Brocker. Now Brockers is now Detroit. He's just
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made Now okay, thanks for playing well. We have a
story today. Outstanding Service Awards were given to a couple
of guys in Arizona one and NFL lineman Patriots Justin Herron,
described as a hero by police in Tempe, coming to
the aid of a woman who was being attacked in
a public park. A man had pushed the seventy year
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old one woman to the ground. Heats in Arizona here
and do an offseason training. Happened to be walking through
the park at the time, he told twelve News and Tempe.
I was in shock. Eleven am, middle of the day,
very open field. The fact that had happened there at
that time very shocking. Herron is six five three oh four.
He grabbed the assailant, held him there until police arrived.
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Four assailants like, please send the cops. This guy is
much bigger and batter than the cops. We have the
update on the March Madness TV ratings. The Monday stuff
is incomplete, so these are the ratings through Sunday. It's
only not going to It's only down three percent so
far compared to the comparable period of a couple of
years ago. And remember they had Zion, Williamson and Duke
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getting Baffo ratings back then, so this is not so bad.
So far, the Windows are getting an average of a
combined eight point five million if you add up the
four channels. As for Sunday, it was very good. The
Loyalist Chicago upset of Illinois that was six million viewers,
then Baylor Wisconsin seven point seven million, and then the
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most watch game of the tournament so far, Syracuse West
Virginia Sunday was seven point eight million viewers. That makes
it the largest non football sports audience on TV since
the Dodger playoff games last October. It's good, that's good.
Let's let's let's let's let's see what happens on Monday. Man. Look, look,
I'm a fan. I loved it. I watched every game.
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I'm not really the guy that to ask. Do I
think the ratings will suffer because so many of the
name teams are out? Absolutely? Do I do. Uh. Syracuse
helps that their name school, Michigan helps, Gonzaga helps some. Um,
but you know, I mean we we we end up
with like Baylor, Gonzaga Bama and I don't know in
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the in the four in loyal Chicago whatever not Hio
State out as well. That's a lot of eyeballs. So
Ohio States lost by the way to Oral Roberts Friday
afternoon was just to pet the highest rated, one of
the highest rated first round games of the last decade.
And this from Duxbury, Massachusetts. Today high school fired its
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successful football coach and hired an outside consultant to assist
an investigation into reports that the football team used anti
Semitic language in its on field play calling during a
game recently, including a mention of Auschwitz. They have severed
ties with head coach Dave Memorn and canceled this Friday's game.
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The coach is a special needs teacher at the school.
He releases a statement saying he apologizes for the insensitive, crass,
inappropriate language used in the game. He called it careless, unnecessary, hurtful, inexcusable.
This state's football teams have won five state championships at
Duxbury since two thousand five. I'm reading this story, can't
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you just say Razor or Bronco like everybody else in
their play calls, these are not being used against What
is the matter with this dude? Exactly what is going on? Like,
what is the how does it get to that level?
Who's the adult? He's adult. He's also like a special
need teacher. He knows what it's like to be, you know,
at least in terms of kids making made fun of.
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But you don't have to be especially just be human
being any any sort of brain. And and look, I
am like, I'm I'm a Jewish. I'm a Jewish guy
right raising a perform Jewish household. I am like the
least overly sensitive person you guys know this, Like at
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some point, I don't need sensitivity training. I need like
some sensitivity just even for my own from for myself,
Like I don't. I've had my chops busted for years.
I'm good with it. Right. So when people say like,
oh that you stop being a not you and like,
I'm like, oh, that's offensive. But even as a high
school athlete, wouldn't it. But when you when you use
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and I'll shoot, it's reverence. Yeah, what's the upside for that? Exactly,
there's no upside. There's no upside. They're simply like you're
an idiot, You're you should not be allowed and the
kids are idiots, but there's not their fault because they're
being led by an idiot that's suppressed. I get out
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there impressed. That was the press. You know the problem
is Steve, Yes, it's the adults. Yes, this goes without
saying that we eliminate this type of thing by adults
being adults and not being passed on to other generations
like say high school footballers. I mean, just just dumb.
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You can't it was you can't fix stupid. That's really
what is. You can't fix stupid? And yeah that's I'm
I'm dumbfounded. I can't. I can't believe it. But okay,
whatever happened today, this firing. I know I'm reading this
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time like reading the story. My jaw is a gape
because it and it's also like a good football preyer.
They and this just happened, Like the administration said, it
was horrifying and disappointed. The outrage is real and warranted
and we hear it. Yeah, well, I mean I don't
even I can imagine, like you're just sitting there, liked
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double did they just say what they say? Nah? In
no way. No. Keep in mind there's spring football, because
there was no fall football for the pandemic. So this
is your high school football season going and one of
the best teams in the state and they just won
thirty one nothing. Wow, I don't even I mean, what's
the matter with people? You know? Here, here's a good
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starting place, right, let's not make references on slavery. Um
uh what was it called genocide? Right? Slavery genocide? And yeah,
let we just started there, weren't and and overked sexual
references like we're good at the most minimal level. How
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lazy do you have to be as a coach concocting
play calls? I don't know. I don't know. I mean
usually what you do is you you credit whoever wherever
you got the play from, and that's where the credit
goes from. Or then you go through you know, fire blasts,
you know whatever. There's there's a million different ways to
do it that I don't know. Um. My new All
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Ball podcast has Paul Mills on it. It's great. He's
the head coach of Oral Roberts. His rise to prominence
is amazing and he's a charming dude. I think you'll
love it. That's All Ball on the Herd Podcast Network.
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