John opens up the Middlekauff Mailbag to answer your questions. He dives into a range of topics including what it would take for Zac Taylor to keep his job, whether Matthew Stafford’s injury could derail the Rams season, whether Odell Beckham’s career is over and the top 10 QB/Coach pairings in the league
Timeline:
4:45 - What does Zac Taylor need to do to keep his job?
10:45 - Favorite Sublime songs?
12:45 - Stafford injury
25:00 - Success for Nix, Daniels and Williams?
28:00 - Cam Ward or Trevor Lawrence?
29:00 - Rookie RB outlook
33:00 - Cowherd’s WNBA obsession
36:00 - Will Richardson or Jones win starting job?
38:00 - Will travel schedule hurt Chargers?
48:00 - Biggest NFL draft bust?
54:40 - OBJ’s career over?
55:30 - Now or never for Jordan Love?
1:03:00 - Any hope for the Jets?
1:09:00 - Top 10 QB/Coach combos
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The volume. What is going on everyone? How are we doing?
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let's start with. Let's start with this question. Zach Taylor.
He's entering his seventh season as the coach of the
Cincinnati Bengals. His record, if you include the playoffs is
fifty one fifty four and one. What's the bare minimum
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he needs to achieve to ensure he returns in twenty six.
It's a good question. I watched an interview of Shamarsh
Stewart's agents with some local podcasters that look like it
actually made the Bengals look a lot better. This guy's
an idiot. I mean, I can't even imagine negotiating with
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this individual. Obviously he lost because he was negotiating. Uh
something that has slotted and I just can't even You
got to look it up yourself. I think his name's
like Zach Hiller or something. I actually sided with Mike
Brown when watching this, and Shamar Stewart's obviously a practice
now and on the team we got Trey Hendrickson back.
(03:18):
Hold in, nothing's changed. Mike Brown is like not budging
in these negotiations. But there's a lot going on with
the Bengals, a ton of pressure on this team. Obviously,
the quarterback is a star. So anytime you have a
star quarterback, not making the playoffs as a fire ball offence,
and I think if they were to miss the playoffs again,
I think he's a one per lock to get fired. Now,
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Can they make the playoffs as a wild card and
be one and done and him keep the job. It
happened to Marvin Lewis for a long long time. He
made the playoffs, would lose in the first round and
kept his job forever. So I wouldn't say he'd be
a lock to be fired. Would he get an extension?
I don't know. There's a lot of the line this
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year with this team. He just hires out Golden from
Penn State. You know, the offense clearly wasn't the issue
last year. So can the offense just maintain and their
defense be better and you would think they're gonna win double
digit games, But I don't know. I mean, it's hard
to get a feel for how this organization works. Mike
Q keeps growing with every time I tune in. Must
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have a low IQ just kidding, just kidding. Uh grew
up in Green Bay and still a big Rogers fan.
I had an epiphany the other day when thinking about
the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game. All of
the all time greats had Hall of Fame coaches in
the front Brady Belichick, Mahomes, Reid, Montana Walsh, Breeze, Peyton Manning,
on and on and on. McCarthy was a great offensive coach,
but he's not a Hall of Famer, and Laflour is
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another good offensive mind, but not even the best coach
from the Shanahan tree. My question is, do you think
Rogers would have been more successful in the postseason with
a Belichick or Reid in his prime. I think it's
fair to assume that after they won the suit, because
they won the Super Bowl right in twenty ten, but
then their teams were healthier, were better in years moving forward,
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and I do think it's fair to say that they
get over the hump in how many NFC Championship games
they lose. They lost to Seattle, they lost to Tampa,
they lost the forty nine ers, they lost to I
think Dallas is a really high seed. They lost the Falcons,
but that was a year they kind of made a run.
They lost a lot of playoff games, where you go,
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if they had a better coach, could that have been
the difference? I mean, some of those McArthur years. The
defense was terrible when the Niners and Kaepernick ran all
over him. Wasn't Rogers fault. But I do think it's
fair to look at the Lafleur lost to Tampa was
pretty bad. At home, they lost to Seattle was pretty bad.
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So yeah, I mean, I think it's fair to assume
that if you gave Rogers in the peak of his
powers those four or five years, I mean when he
was from like twenty ten to twenty fifteen sixteen, could
they have won two or three Super Bowls if they
had Belichick or Andy Reid or Bill Walsh one. I
think it's fair to ask yourself that question. Texans fan here,
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and you're you're a high IQ guy, I'm curious and listen.
Most Hall of Fame coaches have Hall of Fame quarterbacks
and vice versa, right, most great coaches have a great quarterback.
The exception is Parcels, and he had the equivalent at
quarterback on defense in Lawrence Taylor. But in the last
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forty five years, every quote unquote great coach that you
know won multiple Super Bowls had Mike Shanahan, Elway, obviously,
Andy Mahomes, Bill Brady. They all had dynamic quarterbacks. I mean,
all time great quarterbacks chose you McCarthy. You could argue underachieved,
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and I think his Dallas kind of run. McCarthy's McCarthy
is not bad, but like where is at what level?
Would you rate him being really good? You know? I
mean there is a cutoff where you're like, yeah, I
wouldn't put them above ten of these guys. Texans fan,
I'm curious how you should go about handling their upcoming
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cap situation with CJ and Will Anderson due to extensions
and now we know both are top five picks in
the same draft class. I think I've already answered this question.
I did a couple of weeks ago. I do think
sometimes and we're all guilty of this, especially in football,
like how are they going to handle the next three years?
Who cares? It's twenty twenty five, right, so, like, what's
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going to happen in twenty twenty seven with the cap?
To me, as an NFL fan, you should never be
worried about that. It is on your organization to manipulate
the cap and figure it out. But like, once you
get to the start of the season, worrying about future
years is kind of a waste. I mean the Eagles,
the forty Niners, They've shown like you can pay a
bunch of people. You can figure this out if you
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want to, if you choose to, like if the Texans
want to get really aggressive, they can pay a lot
of people and really take advantage of this. If those
guys are stars, Congratulations on life. I remember you talking
about how Sublime was one of your favorite albums. I
would love to hear your thoughts of your favorite songs
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from that album and your musical taste in general. When
I was probably I mean, when did Bradley die mid
ninety six, ninety seven, ninety five range, I would say
what I got when that hit the airways on the radio,
back when radio really mattered, that was a really really
big deal. Now, you know, I would say, they have
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several songs that I would put up near the top
doing Time Santa Ria or are pretty good bangers. Yeah,
I mean, I'm a big I'm a big musical fan.
I mean I grew up what I'd say is the
greatest musical run in the history of America. The nineties.
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Elite rock, elite country music, hip hop was really the
foundation of greatness of rap you know, R and B
is something that doesn't really exist anymore, was thriving in
the nineties. So I feel I never understand people that have, like,
you know, I don't really like that type music. I
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can understand if it's like classical music, right, but like,
if someone's talented, I can listen to anything, so I
would I lean. I tend to lean like kind of rock,
grunge country as my go to. But I put on
fifty cent Pandora the other day and it has been
(09:50):
jamming to that working out the last couple of weeks
for the mailbag. I don't understand why Matt Stafford isn't
being talked about more. Dway McVeigh talks about injuries. Feels
like twenty twenty two elbow issue that he downplayed and
the the Jackson situation. It's their offensive lineman. Feels like
the Rams season could fall apart very quickly. How concerned
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should they be with Stafford's injury. I mean, anytime an
older player is just weak to weak, especially when he
didn't tweak it at practice, it's one thing. It's like, uh,
I'm this didn't happen, But like you know, Lane Johnson
rolled his ankle We're just gonna give him some time off,
and a couple of days turns into a week like
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he's gonna be okay, okay, fine, Like that's not that weird.
I just used him as his example. Could be TJ. Watt,
could be Trent Williams go round the league, an older
veteran player. If they tweak something in practice, you're like, listen,
we're not it's August second. Take a deep breath. Guess
this guy wasn't playing in the preseason anyway. When you
show up after the summer, it's like, yeah, I can't go,
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and then and then you say like, hey, he's gonna
he's gonna go soon, and then you have to come
back and be like, yeah, you know, he's just gonna
be weak to week. I kind of over I overspoke.
Oh yeah, Jimmy Garoppolo best backup quarterback. I go massive
red flag. So I think it's very, very concerning because
even if if you were told me, hey, you gotta
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bet one thousand dollars today, does Matt Stafford start Week one?
I would lean yes, even though I have no more
information than anyone else, but just I'd be like, yeah,
I bet he's able to try to go week one.
Even worst case scenario, what if this pops back up
in the season and this is not like anytime you
get like sore elbow or back or some of these
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guys that get sore achilles, like to me, soreness. I
would rather have like, you know, he just broke two
fingers or you know what, he he broke his leg,
you know. So it's like a very concrete Hey, this
is five weeks. This is what it is. We fix it,
we move on, right, Hey he broke his clavical stuff
like that sucks. But it's like, okay, I can see
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the light at the end of the tunnel when it's like, yes,
niece is really sore. It's like his achilles is a
really sore. So I heard of mccaffre, you know, achilles, achilles, achilles,
and all of a sudden, it's like he played three
games in the season. It's like, what the hell just happened.
So that type of stuff makes me nervous, and I'm
pro trust me. I want the Niners to win the division.
But like I enjoy the Rams being good, and I
want to see Stafford play. I really like watching him play,
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and I want the Rams to be a playoff factor
as well. Like I don't root against their situation. I'm
a big McVeigh fan, but I am very concerned. I'm
gonna I was gonna bet on the Niners to win
the division anyway. Obviously the value actually is probably with
the Cardinals the in Seattle. But have a hard time
pulling the trigger on that though. My guy John Schneider,
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fan of the pod, UH frequent guess now he's I
guess one time he got an extension, so congrats to him.
Mail back. When do you think players improve the most?
Is it during the offseason, training camp or during the season. Well,
I don't think you can really improve during the off
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When you say the off season, Like I was taught
and I do believe this. This guy's got to improve
his strength. It's like guys usually don't get stronger. They
might get weight stronger. Maybe instead of benching this or
squatting this, they now added fifty seventy five pounds, But
that doesn't equate like an offensive lineman or a defensive
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lineman's strength. When they're at Georgia Alabama USC in like
five years, they're usually not really like they couldn't shove
guys then and now they're shoving guys. So to me,
sometimes the weight room training stuff is a little overrated. Obviously,
you've got to stay in shape. I think where you
really improve is from year one, where you're just drinking
out of a fire hose. You get drafted, you try
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to learn the plays. If you're playing, you're just trying
to survive, get in shape. A lot's going on. Think
how much easier in this relatable in any one of
our jobs, whatever you do for a living, Once you've
been doing it for a while, you become much more comfortable.
You don't have to think as much. Whether it's just
like where do I go to lunch? Where you know
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I don't need to be there today. I really need
to take care of this. And when you're new to
a job, when you're new to a situation, especially a
pressure packed one, it's a lot going on. Well, by
year two, you don't have to worry about all these
things because they just become second nature. Where you live,
the route to the FRAX facility, what it's like to
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get ready for a game week, how a game plan
works in the NFL different from how you did in college.
So you can just play football instead of thinking and
playing football. So the game in theory should slow down
a lot for you as a second year guy, and
you can just quote unquote play fast and you especially
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if a coach is you know, a position coach, defensive coordinator,
your offensive coordinator is returning, you have all the information,
like you already kind of know the answers to the
tests that they're going to give you. So think how
much easier a training camp is when it's like we're
gonna sall in our place. Well, if I'm Jalen Carter,
it's like, well, I know the plays with Vic Vangil,
so I can just play. So it's really just on
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me to be in shape, stay healthy, and boom, I
should be able to kick ass because I know exactly
what they're going to ask me to do and then
just figure out how do I adjust from my opponents.
So I think most people in the league would tell
you the biggest jump would be from year one to
year two because it's just way easier in terms of
all the external stuff that we're a huge factor in
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year one are just more second nature. And then I
think you should always be improving, right, whether that's I
think the percentage becomes smaller and it's more of like
an incremental gain year three to your four year, five,
year six. But I think if you got with like
DeVante Adams right now now, or you got with you know,
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some of these older players Tyron Matthew before he retired,
He's like, I can always improve on little things, but
I think your greatest jump is probably early in your career.
So why most guys like Jason Kelsey is a huge outlier,
a guy that didn't start making Pro Bowls in All
Pros until he was like five or six years into
the league. Most guys really established themselves in the first
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couple of years of their career, year two or year three,
and sometimes it's year three as well. You know, depending
on the team, are you playing, are you on the rostery,
on the practice squad, Because if you're on the practice
squad or you're a backup, you're not getting a lot
of reps once the season starts. So if you're not
playing that much, if you're just like a special teams guy,
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you actually are probably doing scout team reps, so you
probably not as improving as much. Like when I was
at President State, coach hill On Sunday nights would take
all the guy's red shirting and ever one on the
big roster that doesn't really play or as a backup,
and they would have full on scrimmages. So like in
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college football, you play on Saturday, I don't even know
if it's allowed anymore, and on Sunday night after you know,
basically you don't really have a practice in college football
on Sunday. Sometimes you just run gasers to get the
like lactic acid and the soreness, and they have a lift,
but they would pad up basically the twenty thirty guys
red shirting and then maybe fifteen more twenty more that
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are on the big roster but they don't really play,
and then they would just play a scrimmage. I forget
how many plays it would be, but it would like
you would get to work on it, because that guy,
once the season is going, doesn't really get to work
on his craft, which that definitely does not happen in
the NFL. So it's hard. It's hard to improve. It's
why in college, you know, spring practice is in paths,
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so you can take huge jumps. You can only take
so many jumps in the pros in OTAs which I
think most of these coaches. I think if you've got
Andy Reid or Pete Carroll or some of these guys,
they would say what OTAs have become is just like
a metal walkthroom. I expectations for each team change each season.
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Success can vary a lot depending from the perspective that
we look at it. Making the playoffs as the fourth
seed and winning a wild card game before being bounced
on the divisional round would be great for the charger
of the Broncos. The Chiefs would see that as a letdown. Similarly,
each quarterback has held to different standards. My question is
how would you define success for each of the year.
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Each of the year two quarterbacks who started Week one
for their team, Williams, Daniels and Knicks. I would say
for Kleb, it would be to establish himself as a
really good player, right and if he established him as
a really good player, they should be a team above
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five hundred. Now, I think if you if Ben Johnson's
first year, Caleb is just good. Let's say he throws
thirty touchdowns, ten picks and they win nine games like
that would be a successful year. And it's like, Okay,
Caleb's a franchise quarterback. This guy's a really good player.
Has some down moments as any Patrick Mahomes as bad games,
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but as some games we're like, oh shit, this guy
can this guy can play a couple of big upsets
throughout the year. I think for Knicks and Daniels, I mean,
I think it's fair to say the expectations fair or not.
It's like, can Jayde Daniels compete to win the MVP?
You know? Patrick Mahomes won an MVP in his first
year starting, which was year two. Lamar Jackson won the
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MVP in a second year. It's like, can if he's
going to be that great of a player, can he
win the MVP. We were talking about that with CJ.
Stroud last year. It's like, this guy gonna win the
MVP year two and obviously did not. He didn't play
very well last year for me Bo Knicks, as a
lot of Bronco fans will tell you, look at the stats,
they're better or just as good as Jayden Daniels. They're
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gonna play real teams this year, so it's like, can
you beat some people that matter? You know? Last year,
as a lot of people have pointed out, I don't
think they've beat that many good teams, so it's like,
can he outplay Justin Herbert obviously, Joe Burrow. I'm looking
at their schedule, Jalen Hurts, Dak Prescott's c J Stroud,
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Jayden Daniels, Jordan Love. Their schedules is harder now. I
think the Bronx is gonna be pretty good. And if
he's good and you have an elite defense, they're gonna
win eleven twelve games. A question for the bag. If
you were GM right now and had to pick one
quarterback to start your franchise with, would you rather have
cam Ward or Trevor Lawrence. I know you've never seen
cam play an NFL game, but we've also seen the
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highs and lows of THEW It wouldn't even be a
question for me. I take cam Ward. I just don't
think Trevor Lawrence that good. Now, like you said, I
don't know about cam Ward, but I would one hundred
percent take the especially. I mean, one thing you have
to do. I'm getting a guy on a rookie quarterback
on a rookie contract, so if it does fail in
a couple of years, three years, I can pivot out
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of it. Trevor Lawrence. He gave two hundred million dollars
to I wouldn't even hesitate. The unknown of cam Ward
is dramatically better than the known from what we've seen
of Trevor Lawrence. I can't imagine there'd be many gms
in the league that would you got a factor in
the contract, would choose any different haven't missed a show
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in two plus years? Kind of like this guy, Jared
question a couple of running rookie running backs. I'm excited
about Henderson, Hampton, Harvey. Do you have a favorite out
of that group to make the biggest impact this year?
How do you see contributing in the run in the
past game topics suggestion, It is always difficult to know
how college players translate to the NFL. Big names don't
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pan out unless recognize names are studs. Who is one
rookie second year player from each team or division that
you or your buddies around the league then could make
a big impact this year. I think this is the
hard thing on your topics suggestion. One thing I've learned
over the last fifteen years of being around the NFL,
going to these practices, just talking about this league. For
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a living is I don't get that excited beside you
first round picks, but I have seen so much hype
on a third rounder, and by the end of camp,
an undrafted free agent is way better in that guy.
And I think the underrated part is most people don't
put that much stock in six to seventh and undrafted
free agents, and every single year, on the majority of teams,
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those guys not only make teams, they end up starting,
they end up becoming good players. So it's honestly impossible
to even guess. So honestly, I don't really talk about
most guys got drafted in the top like fifty until
the season starts, because I got no clue. It's a
complete guess. I know it's kind of a fun exercise,
but I don't follow the draft close enough to even
take educated guesses on fifth, sixth, seventh rounders. I would
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say this, I don't know how good the Patriots offense
is going to be. Henderson's a home run hitter, you know.
I read something Josh McDaniels like, I don't know if
this was ai or fake, but I kind of believed
it that after he got fired from the Raiders, he
like found a deep spiritual he found God or something again,
(23:32):
could be fake, but like kind of tried to change
his personality because for the second time in his career,
becoming a head coach, everyone hated him and like watch out.
He thinks his offense can be pretty dynamic this year.
I don't know if that how great their offensive line
is going to be. I think the other two guys,
Najee Harris, did he blow out his eyeball? I mean,
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I know they tried in his agent who I know,
Doug tried to underplay like, hey, it's not that serious.
It's clearly pretty seriously camp practice. And I think he's
a great unknown. Now. I've always thought Nase as a player,
and I falled him since high school and I was
really excited when he went to Alabama. I you know,
I think it's easy to be like, ah the Steelers.
I think he's a little overrated in terms of a
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guy that was drafted in the first round. You know,
I think if you could redo a draft, he's like
a third round pick. So Hampton was gonna start over
him regardless now that he's not even gonna be a factor.
Who's even splitting carries with assuming that who knows. Maybe Naje,
you can't really, maybe starts the season on Pop. So
I think Hardball would ride Hampton like a like secretariat,
and their offensive line has two sweet tackles a sweet guard.
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I would think Hampton is going to be really good.
I was watching Sean Payton's press conference for some reason.
It comes up on my YouTube feed. Sean Payton all
the time he had a comment would have been like Tuesday,
he's like r J Hampton busted out or not RJ Hampton,
but RJ Harvey had a run in practice, or he's
like we kind of looked at each other and he's
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either talking about the quarterback coach or you know, his
offensive coordinator or whatever. I know Sean's technically the offensive coordinator,
but one of his other coaches like holy shit. So
two things Harbaugh and Sean Payton like the team's there, baby,
like they're in complete control. And Harbaugh drafted this guy
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in the first round to play running back, and Sean
Payton drafted this guy where was RJ taking the second round?
Clearly loves the player. I think both those two guys,
if you're into fantasy football, if you're gambling this year
on like prop bets those guys have heart ons for
those two guys. So Harbaugh loves to run the football.
He just drafted guy in the first round, and Sean
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Payton talks about this guy like he fucking loves him.
He talked about him when he was when they drafted him.
Huge fan. I've been a big fan of colin the
past twenty years, and I've found you threw his podcast.
I'm curious if you could give any insight into his
obsession with the WA I'm a huge sports fan and
I've never met one person who has ever watched a
(26:04):
WNBA game. He never talks about hockey or golf and
rally baseball because he says that people don't listen for
those sports, but he talks WNBA almost daily. The Tiger
Woods and Kaitlin Clark comparisons are ludicrous. Where I agree
with that, it's like, now that she's injured, she is
where they are fair is she is a transcendent name
(26:25):
that took a sport that didn't have as many eyeballs
and created I mean, they had one hundred thousand people
watching a couple of years ago. In her draft, I
think like three or four million people watched so Colin
does a television show and I'm just curious if he's
trying to buy a WNBA team or another reason. He
has the metrics of who's listening and who's not listening.
(26:47):
So when you turn on these television shows and people
are talking about the Cowboys and people are talking about Lebron,
they're not doing it randomly. They have all the metrics.
The reason they've never talked about the w NBA is
because absolutely no one gave a shit. And do you
know what Caitlin Clark has done. I've probably watched in
her WNBA career, I mean start to finish one of
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her games. But I feel like I follow her career
relatively closely, like I know what's going on with her.
She's created, like people just casually follow her. The reason
you can talk about the NFL every single day through
sixty five if you want to, because people casually follow
football like Lebron James or Steph Curry. I don't have
to watch Lebron James play a game in basketball, like
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I don't watch that many Laker games right throughout the
course of the season, but like if something happens to him,
people casually follow Lebron James. They kind of know why
because he's like this really famous guy, and that's what
she became. She became really famous. So like when he's
talking about her on the television show, are most people
that are interested in Kaitlyn Clark watching all of her games?
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No fucking chance, right, So it's like she has become
She's just a pretty transcendent individual like Tiger. Like you said,
Tiger went pro in ninety six, in nineteen ninety seventy
won that he won the Masters. Within a couple of years,
he had like five or six Majors and was beating
the shit out of everybody. It's Caitlin Clark Tiger Woods.
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In terms of on the court or on the course, no,
she's not as good as him, But in terms of
moving the needle, I do think she has proven she
can move the needle. Because people, no one's ever watched
WNBA games in the history of the league. It was
a dog shit product that the NBA subsidies and still does.
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Now they have a lot of people watching, and she's
the main reason. Because she got injured, their ratings went
in the tank. So like, for whatever reason, you can
hear a million people argue a million things. To me,
she's just kind of interesting and she's fun to watch play.
But no one talks anything on television without knowing that
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this is working in twenty twenty five and really for
a long time. They have the information, I have the
metrics of what kind of works and what doesn't work
for us. You mentioned earlier that you thought dj would
win the starting job because they gave him fourteen million dollars.
From what I've seen so far in training camp, Ar
looks like he's out playing Jones. He's taking the layups
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and making some tight window throws, and is more explosive
overall in both arm strength and running. Daniel has played okay,
but given that they've invested a fourth overall pick in
Anthony Richardson, I believe Jones would need to clearly outplay
Ar to win the job. Has your opinion changed at
all on Richardson versus Jones going into the season. I'll
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be honest, I haven't followed the camp of the Indianapolis
Colts that carefully, so I can't speak to like who's
split in ramps, who's made plays. I saw McAfee posted
some clips of Ar that look kind of sweet. He's
always been a highlight. I'm with you. If he is
like hitting the layup throws and hitting wheel routes and
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stays healthy, he should win the job. But it's July thirtieth,
so yeah, I mean, you have more information than me
in terms of how things have gone the last week.
I honestly, I don't even I haven't even seen that
many headlines on the Colts I feel like, so I
will stick with what I said. I think Daniel Jones
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gonna be the starting quarterback. Can Anthony Richardsons stay healthy
for a month in training camp? How does he look
at some of these preseason games? Or are they even
gonna play him in the preseason games? I don't know.
I might as well stick with my opinion until I'm
proven wrong, mainly because I just haven't seen or heard anything.
But you're more dialed in than me. If Anthony Richinson's
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making sweet plays where I do agree with you, if
like if he is, if it's close and he's like better,
like Ty's gonna go to Anthony Richardson. I just felt
like there was no way that he would be that
good given everything that happened. But maybe I don't know,
Maybe you finally figured it out, which would change their trajectory,
which usually doesn't happen that way. But all I've been
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hearing is how this year is the Charger to Broncos
are going to take the AFC West, And honestly, I
love it. Keep fueling the fire. My question is almost
for the Chargers. I saw they have the furthest distance
travel schedule in the league this year. Curious that actually
has an effect on the rest and recovery of players. Meanwhile,
the Bengals have the shortest distance traveled. Is this the
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most irrelevant or is this something to take into consideration.
How do you think if you looked at the history
of travel, most teams that are on the coasts, right,
if you're the Dallas Cowboys, are never going to lead
the league in travel. The Houston Texans are the Green
Bay Packers, right because their travel is always kind of
cut half. Where if you draw, do I have the
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Denver Broncos, Let's pull up the Chargers. So the Chargers
even factoring in the I mean, they're playing an extra
preseason game in cand Ohio, but they have games at
New York, at Miami, at Tennessee, at Jacksonville. Yeah, I
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mean it's just when you play certain divisions, you just
have to travel a little bit farther. So they got
they drew the East and two of their games are
the Giants and the Cowboys, which isn't terrible. Listen, I
think it can be a little overrated on the aggregate. Right,
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he had a private plane. It's not even a price.
You charter a massive jet. The amount of food, recovery stuff,
I mean, you have everything for you. You get to the hotel,
you can take care of your body. Where it does
impact you is on the shorter weeks. So if you
have I think past like the first couple of weeks,
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you're a Thursday night game if you're the Chargers or
the Broncos and you gotta play the Dolphins or the Giants.
I'm just making these up. That to me is a
huge disadvantage if you have a road short week game
that is a far travel. If you're the Chargers and
your short week is playing the Niners, not that crazy, now,
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it's never ideal to have to get on a plane.
The other thing where it does impact you is like
if you play Monday night football or Sunday night football
on the road, far away that to me is more
if you have a ten am kickoff and you're the
Chargers against like, let's see how their schedule starts. Chiefs
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at home are Chiefs in Brazil. I forgot about the
Brazil game. That sucks, but that sucks for the Chiefs too.
Broncos like at the Giants nine to twenty eight, but
that's a morning game. Even the Chiefs game in the
Brazil game sucks, but they don't play again till Monday
Night football ten days later. They get Thursday night football
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at home against Minnesota. They get the Steelers Sunday Night Football,
but that's at home. They get the Eagles Monday Night Football,
but that's at home. They have a lot of eleven
o'clock kickoffs. I guess Mountain time ten o'clock, Like they
have a lot of morning kickoffs in Arizona. We go
from ten to eleven. Is kind of weird. Okay, congrats
on the kid. Well, I don't have the kid yet,
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but the kids growing by the day. Maria showed me
a picture of what the kid my son looks like today,
so he's a grown boy. Not the actual picture from
the ultrasound, but like a computer version of like how
big he is. I have a six month old son,
and it's a great honor making him a Cleveland Brown
fan and having a full life of pain. My question
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with your son are you gonna let him pick his
own teams or will you influence him to a certain team.
I will have no influence. He can root for and
whoever he wants. Who knows. Maybe listen, what if he
doesn't like sports, what if sports aren't part of his world?
He can do whatever he wants. Now, if he ends
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up watching a lot of games with me, which I'm
sure he will do, I'm sure he'll gravitate to someone.
But you know one thing about like the way I
grew up loving the Niners and the Giants is I
lived in northern California, so I would go to Giants games.
I went to Candlestick to watch Barry Bonds in Matt
Williams play baseball in nineteen ninety three, in nineteen ninety five,
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in nineteen ninety six, right before they ever built Oracle.
I never went to a forty nine er game as
a kid. But there wasn't a human being that I
was around that wasn't watching Steve Young and Jerry Rice.
When I was kind of coming into my own at nine, ten,
eleven years old. So my son is going to grow
up in Arizona, so who knows. I mean, the impact
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of the teams is going to like the Cardinals, I
hope not, but or he likes Cowboys. Who is the
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biggest draft bust of all time? My vote is Trey Lance.
He's playing in the Hall of Fame game for the Chargers.
Not the Niners or the Cowboys, but the Chargers. They
spent three first round picks to get him. My dad
is a big Niner fan, couldn't accept that answer and
said it had to be JaMarcus Russell. What is your opinion?
There's a good question, and I think here's the key.
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I'm not putting Trey Lance and JaMarcus Russell in the
same lane. JaMarcus Russell played at LSU, had big time talent,
didn't try, was on the purple drink, didn't study, didn't
give a you know what, and was terrible. It was
out of the league in a couple of years. But no,
no one disputed, especially back then the way the league was.
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His physical attributes and his ability to play. He just
did not care. He did not try, but he guy
had played at LSU, he had won big games in college.
Like this guy was a real prospect. Trey Lance, to
me a little bit of a Fugazi prospect. Played at
a small school, did not have Division one offers to
play quarterback, and I'm not talking to small school. Played
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in D one Double A at North Dakota State, and
he was a backup to other guys that played in
the NFL. Started for one year in twenty nineteen. They
did not lose a game because their ability they dominate
that level. Well, twenty twenty happened. He did not have
a season because in D one Double A with the
Wuhan lab and the Rona ripping, they canceled football. This
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is not the SEC or the Big Ten. This was
D one Double A that canceled it. So he did
not play. He actually played one game and it was
a joke. So I do think if he had played
more D one Double A, what he really have gone
on the top five. Because he's just not very good.
And like you said, he's playing in the Hall of
Fame game starting Harbaugh's actually throwing him a bone. He
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can't win the backup job anywhere. He can't be a
backup in the NFL. But that's not his fault. He
just wasn't that good. And I think in a normal
circumstance in twenty twenty five, a guy that played multiple
years in d one to blame. I don't know if
he would have been drafted that high. Like a huge
part of the reason the Niners drafted him weird year.
They were desperate. They loved his character, but physically I
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was going to practices early on in his career not
very accurate. His athleticism doesn't really translate. Like I put
his failure on the forty nine ers and just twenty twenty,
like JaMarcus Russell failed, not because the Raiders because of
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JaMarcus Russell. Like some guys just you know Johnny Manzel,
like he just didn't try. If you watched his documentary
in Netflix, he's like, yeah, he didn't give a shit.
This is getting wasted, went to Vegas. He's like quit,
Trey Lance is trying. Treil Lance just really tried. Trail
Lan's like a high character guy. People like him. He
just isn't good enough like that to me is more
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on the team. So when I think the word draft bust,
I think of a guy that like did not live
up to his potential. Like some guys like that guy
should not have been drafted there, like Solomon Thomas. The
forty nine ers drafted him third overall. Solomon Thomas should
have been like a third round pick and he would
have like a he's gonna have a twelve thirteen year career,
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but he just never should have been drafted that hy
Mis Trubisky like it is he a bust? He was
a number two overall. He's not that good, kind of
like Trey Lance. I put that more on the Bears.
He has no touch, he's not very instinctive. So it's
like he never was gonna be that good. Where it's
like JaMarcus Russell could have been good. That there are
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players that could have been good that if you do
not try and that's the reason you live up to it,
Like are you a bust if you're if you get injured,
that one's hard for me. But I do think when
you literally just don't try like that to me is
a bust on the player. Good question. I'd put JaMarcus
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Russell Ryan leif like Ryan Leaf was a real prospect,
right that was he was a real talent Trey Lance
was not at the at the level in which he
was traded for and drafted. I mean he's a he's
an NFL you know, fringe, third string practice squad guy.
Question for the pod, with the possibility of Netflix being
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a part of the NFL TV rights deal, is it
safe to assume Netflix stock with Skyrocket? Why? That's a
good question. Let's check in on a Netflix stock right now.
One of my great regrets is never going all in
on this like five years ago. Netflix. So it's fifty
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two week low is five hundred and eighty seven dollars.
It's fifty two week high is thirteen hundred dollars. It's
currently sitting at a shade under twelve hundred dollars a share.
So it has gone up in a five year period
one hundred and fifty percent, in a ten year period
almost well over nine x. So is buying the NFL
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going to dramatically change the amount of people that subscribe
to Netflix? It would definitely help. I do wonder Let's
just say, let's say Opening Night Chiefs not Chiefs Chiefs
Chargers play Week two. I actually think that's a good example.
It's on YouTube. What is the difference in terms of
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the amount of people that watch Opening Night, which I
would imagine Cowboys Eagles is on NBC Thursday night, and
the YouTube Game two in Brazil on Friday. Because it
is different, you gotta subscribe to Netflix. But I do
think there is anyone will tell you in the business
being on Fox, being on CBS, being on ABC, NBC
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is a game changers. There are still people that don't
I guess, have the Internet or cable or whatever. I
just don't know any human being in my life, any
human being that includes my mother who's in our mid
late seventies, who does not have Netflix Slash watch it.
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So I don't know what that it won't hurt, But
I don't know if it's like a thirty percent increase.
Do you believe Odell Beckham's junior's career is over? If not,
what organization and roster can you believe he can contribute to?
How would you assess his career. I think he underachieved
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given the talent that he had, and part of that
was the Giants. They fell apart when they traded him
to Cleveland and that thing did not work out. But
if you go a YouTube, the first couple of years
of Odell Beckham. He was an elite talent, hunt returner,
deep threat, could break tackles, his play speed, he was
pretty special. Like it wasn't just some flash in the pan.
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It was like, this fucking guy can play. Then he
gets injured and he's quit. Never quite the same. But
I do think Cleveland, you know, over the internet era,
has been a place where people's careers can go to die,
and I do think that really really derailed his career.
Is this now or never for Jordan Love? Will Packers
fans see the controversial draft pick and ousting of Rogers payoff?
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It's a great question. I don't think it's now or
never for the guy, but there is tangible pressure on
this franchise. New president, he did not hire the coach
in the GM. The coach in the GM's futures are
tied to this quarterback or they paid a lot of money.
Who's coming off a weird season that was banged up.
Are they going to be good enough on offense to
take the next step? You know? Is this a team
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that went one in five in the division. So I
don't think it's now or never, but I do think
it's kind of now. Okay, it's time. It's time for Lafleur,
it's time for Jordan Love, It's time for this team.
Like this is a good year for them to win
twelve thirteen games and be a major factor in the playoffs.
So desperate for football, I'm watching the Brady and Mahomes
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AFC Championship. How long until NFL teams adopt adopt the
golf like simulator on the sideline for kickers? Right now,
the guys kick into a net with no feedback. Is
track man like technology on the sideline against the rules.
It's a great fucking question. I don't see how it
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would be given that they have iPads on the sidelines. Now,
if you told me ten years ago, you know, whatever
the year was that they started allowing like technology on
the sideline, I don't see why you can have an
iPad and look at the plays on offense or defense,
but I can't have a track man for to kick
to know where it would go. I'm totally with you.
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Why can the kicker not have the ability to go? God,
I'm missing that a little left. And honestly, I don't
know is there track man technology that could do it
with a football? Because if there is I think we
should institute that immediately, and there would be some owners
like I don't want to pay for this because they
ain't cheap, but I'd be interested if there are kickers
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in the league that utilize any sort of technological advances
like that, either in the offseason or with their team.
But that's never thought about. That great question. What are
your expectations for Omarion Hampton in year one in Harbaugh's
version of the Chargers with nij with Nase can't even speak.
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We talked about this a little earlier. I don't think
it's outrageous to go offensive rookie of the year. Could
Hampton be a thirteen hundred yard rusher and have ten
plus touchdowns because he's it's pretty freaking good. So I
would say offensive Rookie of the Year would be on
the table for sure. In a recent interview at the
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Manning Passing Academy, Arch Manning said Burrow and Josh Allen
are his favorite quarterbacks to watch. Even with the small
sample size we've seen so far of Arch, do you
notice any similarities in their style of playing? Showing up
in his game, I've noticed that his footwork is crisp
and he throws a nice accurate deep ball, and he's
got nice speed. But other than that, I'm curious to
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hear your take. I maybe I'm being too harsh. I
thought his arm. You know, Josh Allen has an elite arm.
Burrow does not. But Burrow's such a natural player and
his motion is kind of over the top to me.
Arch again, I have to study it. A little stronger,
feels a little lower than Burrows. Similar like Burrow doesn't
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have a hose but has a good enough arm. One
thing that Arch has, it's probably closer to Joe different
from Joe's. He can really move. He's a really really
good athlete, which makes sense his dad Cooper. I forget
the exact disease or sickness he got, but he was
going to Old Miss to play wide receiver. So I
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think Arch is like a trying to think who a player.
I mean, Josh Josh Allen is a superb athlete. I
think Archs is a really good athlete. You know, maybe
a young Aaron Rodgers who could really really move and throw.
But he doesn't have the arm of Aaron. I'm trying
to think of like physical comps. He's taller than that.
I don't know. I got a I don't have a
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comp right now. That makes sense in my head. And
yesterday Jimmy Haslum said and he knows the Mannings really well.
He said he expects Arts to play multiple seasons of Texas.
I would imagine Arch who what year is he now?
It's gonna be a red shirt sophomore. I think he's
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gonna graduate from college, would be my guess. So part
of staying two years would be like, I want to
be a two year starter and I want to graduate
from college. John Mailbag question, John Dorsey. I've been following
this guy because of his personality and second because of
how little credit this guy gets from drafting some of
the best players in the NFL Baker Kelsey, Tyreek, Nick Chubb,
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Mahomes even was the head scout for Aaron Rodgers. His
ability to draft players early in late rounds is undeniable,
But the fact he can't keep a job as a
GM doesn't make sense. Every time he can, he's hired
the next day as a head advisor or scout to
another team. Now, I understand he failed badly with coaches,
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but most of the time that's not a GM's decision.
He drafted the first Chief Super Bowl team, but nobody
talks about that. What are your thoughts on him? And
did you ever know John never met the guy? Maybe
I have met him at the combine, like really briefly
when I was young. But there is no disputing John
Dorsey's ability to evaluate football players. There was a reason
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when Andy went to Kansas City and he's like, I'm
not going to be the GM anymore. Hire John Dorsey
and said, you run the personnel department. And the only
guy they took from Kansas City was or from Philly
was Veach. He's like, I'm not stealing any of the guys.
Give me one. Beach is my guy, and took them.
But I think Veach and and Dorsey are similar in
the sense of like they're very very good at evaluating players.
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Now part of being a GM, it's like, is John
Dorsey good enough with the finances? Is John Dorsey good
enough at dealing with the owners? Is John Dorsey good
enough at dealing with the agents? You know, being a GM,
the reason John Schneider is going to have a twenty
year career in Seattle, the reason Howie Roseman is unreal,
the reason Jason light Nick Cassario. These guys have to
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do a lot of things. You know. One problem with
Trent Balke is, you know what Trent Balke wanted to do,
close the door, turnumph like to watch film twenty four seven,
three sixty five, and then he realized I kind of
got to play the politician. But he wasn't good at
working with coaches. He was terrible at working with staffs.
You got to be good at everything. And I do
think and again I'm projecting a little bit. You know,
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the reason he was fired in Kansas City was financially,
he wasn't good at managing the cap and the owner,
who is a money guy finance major, was like, you're fired.
I can't speak to what happened in Cleveland, But like
just picking players, John Dorsey's good at that, but football
is about a lot more than just picking players. I've
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been a Jets fan since nine. I'm twenty six. We
haven't made the NFL playoffs since I was in middle school.
I'm in the minority, and I'm not buying Aaron Glenn
at all. A brilliant owner just hired a good DC
out of SF. The last hire in his first NFL
head coaching gig and how did that go. I'm not
forgetting they needed something different. Glenn is talking hot to
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the media, and that's what these guys all do. They
say they can handle it, but everyone's a hot shot
till they get their ass kicked. I'm an OSU grad,
so I'm excited to see fields in Wilson this season.
But other than that, my question is why would I
have any hope this year? We are the worst franchise
at sports uh. I would say this about Aaron Glenn.
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That's different than Robert Sala. You know, Aaron Glenn was
a high level player, scouted, became a position coach, and
then became one of the best defensive coordinators. Robert Sala
did not play in the NFL for fifteen twenty years.
I mean Aaron Glenn's career. I think it was like
fifteen sixteen years playing playing. I do think last year
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was kind of a masterpiece. Him winning that game with
the random guys to win the division was remarkable to watch.
So his ability to deal with players is pretty impressive.
You know, Robert Sala had like two good years honestly,
one twenty nineteen for the forty nine ers. The team
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was not good in twenty twenty. It's hard to even
judge twenty twenty now. Robert sala is a good defensive coordinator,
but was completely over his head with a lot of
stuff and hadn't really been in a high level position
for long in the NFL. I mean, he wasn't that
far removed from being like a quality control assistant Aaron Glenn. Like,
look google his resume. It's pretty impressive. Ben with Sean Payton,
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been with Dan Campbell. You know, Robert sala is not
that far removed from like working for Gus Bradley. Kyle
hired him because he couldn't get Vic Fangio. So I
think Aaron Glenn is much more prepared for this job.
That being said, I don't think you can win games
with justin fields like I do not expect the Jets
to be good on offense. I just don't think. I
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think he's kind of he's kind of proven, Like he
just struggles in just a normal passing attack like Garrett Wilson.
It's how's that gonna go? I don't know. Now he
got so much money, he might not care as much anymore,
but most wide receivers want the rock. I'm interested in
your thoughts on the trajectory of Jalen into his career,
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you would be a fool to put two above Jalen
in any quarterback ranking. But not too long ago they
were on the exact same team and it was Jalen
being benched and had a transfer in favor of to
Tua looked like clearly the better quarterback, at least in
my eyes, I was saying, in everyone's eyes, including Nick Sabans.
Do they are completely different paths at this point? Surprise you.
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It's just a matter of where they landed to his
injuries or is there something about Jalen's game that makes
him a better fit in the NFL. Well, Tua one
is just a small, bad athlete, so that doesn't always
translate to the NFL. Right, Tua can be accurate, but
he's not super dynamic player. Like, what is Tua's best
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skill getting rid of the ball really quickly accurately? I mean,
so it was a decent d ball. But like Jalen
is an elite. Elite would be strong. That's like Michael Vick.
But he is an excellent, excellent NFL athlete and runner
of the football. He is a dynamic player with the
ball in his hands, and he is an exceptional deep
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ball thrower. Then he plays on a team like obviously
a quarterback. Who are your teammates? He has better teammates,
but he has way more physical skills than Tua right,
and Tua like, okay, you know, pick you apart like
the left handed Drew Brees. We've seen him. He can't
really do that. So I actually think Jalen has more
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physical attributes to have a higher ceiling than Tua right.
Even though at the same time, like I struggle with
this because I don't respect many people that like love
talking about the past, because I think it's easy to
be like, well, in twenty fifteen, you know, I was
doing really well. My dad was a farmer in like
the seventies and eighties and nineties, and like economic recessions
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back in the day would cripple people. So I knew
a lot of people through my dad that had had
great times were crushing it and then would go bankrupt.
Some people would be unfazed, and they would just battle
back and keep keep kicking ass and keep making money.
And there were some people that, like if I say,
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like a family dinner, these names, they just resonated, like
still hold on to like what you did in nineteen
eighty eight. It's like it's twenty twenty five and they're
still talking about this, and I think I'm not saying
to us that way. But my point is this, we
all get to a point in life where you might
be with someone that that person is better than you.
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There's no guarantee that they're still going to be better
than you in five or ten or twenty years. Right,
all of our professions are a little bit different. But
like Jalen didn't let that moment when two was better
than him define him. Now part of that team specifically,
Alabama had the best roster in the league, right in
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the country. They had dominant offensive lines and elite wide receivers,
so Tua was a way better passer those couple of years.
It was a no brainer for Nick Saban to transition
to Tua. But some guys get better. Listen, I didn't
think Jalen. I thought how he was insane for taking
him in the second round. I would have taken him
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on like the fourth or fifth round and moved him
to running back. I would have been wrong. Guys improve,
and why a lot of people miss on players in
the pros because they go, this guy's not good enough.
Yeah he's not good enough right now, but what can
he be in three or four years? And if you
get to the right place, you get with the right coach,
you just naturally improve. All of a sudden, you're a
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nine year starter. It's like, God, I didn't realize this
guy was gonna be that good. Part of the business
if there wasn't NFL draft of current coach quarterback combo
packages taking into account only for two years, twenty five
and twenty six to try to go on a run,
given that all the teams have equal rosters, which tandem
would be the first ten off the draft board. The
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purpose of this exercise that my buddies and I had
to take into account both value of quarterback and head
coach together and not separated. Well, I think you would
just find guys with track records, because if everything's equal,
it's advantage the coach, right, Like one disadvantage a quarterback
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would have is if my team is not as good, right,
but a coach can overcome guys because I can scheme
you open. So if everything's the same, huge advantage for
Andy Reid, huge advantage for Kyle and Sean McVay. Right,
huge advantage for Jim Harbaugh. Right, it's not a big
as big of an advantage for average coaches. Right. And that's
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where you know it's clear who would go one. But
I think like Sean McVeigh or excuse me, Sean mcdermot's proven,
like he's been a pretty good coach with random guys
with Josh, so how would they not be two? Same
thing with John Harbaugh, Like, I think those would be one, two, three,
those three combos, it'd be Josh Lamar Mahomes. Obviously Mahomes
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would be one. But like, do you trust Dak Taylor
if you don't have Jamar Chase? I don't. I like Burrow,
but I don't trust Zak Taylor. I'll tell you who'd
go higher than you think would be like, well, everything's equal.
I like my chances with Sean Payton, and he loves
his quarterback. I'd say the same thing with Kyle and Purdy.
He'd be like, well, there are big guys better than perty, Okay,
but everything's equal. Like I've seen Dak when he doesn't
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have a stack team, like I'm out on that. I've
seen Jared Goff when he doesn't have the best offensive
line in the league. Out on that, you know, Jalen's
a good sample if he knows AJ fucking Brown and
DeVante Smith. What would he look like if he had
a couple of random guys and Sirianni don't like that
as much I see. I think Dan Campbell and Goff
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wouldn't go as high in this exercise. McVeigh and Stafford,
assuming Stafford's back was good, would go high. Dan Quinn,
Jayden Daniels probably go high too. It's a good question.
We're gonna end on that. That is, that is a
good question. Tell you who would go near the bottom
would be like day Ball, Russell, Wilson, Kellen Moore, whoever, Oh,
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Demico and CJ would go high. Harbaugh Herbert would go high.
Two of McDaniel would go low, Colts would go low.
Titans would go low. I think the biggest swing would
be the Lions, just because I like Dan Campbell, motivating whoever,
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but like Jared Goff. If everything's equal, don't love can't
move Jared Goff on a stacked team excellence. I'd say
the same thing for Jalen, which again they I'm not
bitching and moaning like, well, his team's his team. We
won the Super Bowl. Jared Goff's teams his team. They
win a bunch of games these last couple of years.
But if you put one of these guys on, you
know you put Jared Goff on. The Jags don't like
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him as much. The volume
The volume. What is going on everyone? How are we doing?
Hopefully everyone is doing well. We have a football game
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on the Lions in cand Ohio. So, uh listen, I'm
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unglele A will play for the Chargers. Hard Boss said,
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let's start with. Let's start with this question. Zach Taylor.
He's entering his seventh season as the coach of the
Cincinnati Bengals. His record, if you include the playoffs is
fifty one fifty four and one. What's the bare minimum
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he needs to achieve to ensure he returns in twenty six.
It's a good question. I watched an interview of Shamarsh
Stewart's agents with some local podcasters that look like it
actually made the Bengals look a lot better. This guy's
an idiot. I mean, I can't even imagine negotiating with
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this individual. Obviously he lost because he was negotiating. Uh
something that has slotted and I just can't even You
got to look it up yourself. I think his name's
like Zach Hiller or something. I actually sided with Mike
Brown when watching this, and Shamar Stewart's obviously a practice
now and on the team we got Trey Hendrickson back.
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Hold in, nothing's changed. Mike Brown is like not budging
in these negotiations. But there's a lot going on with
the Bengals, a ton of pressure on this team. Obviously,
the quarterback is a star. So anytime you have a
star quarterback, not making the playoffs as a fire ball offence,
and I think if they were to miss the playoffs again,
I think he's a one per lock to get fired. Now,
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Can they make the playoffs as a wild card and
be one and done and him keep the job. It
happened to Marvin Lewis for a long long time. He
made the playoffs, would lose in the first round and
kept his job forever. So I wouldn't say he'd be
a lock to be fired. Would he get an extension?
I don't know. There's a lot of the line this
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year with this team. He just hires out Golden from
Penn State. You know, the offense clearly wasn't the issue
last year. So can the offense just maintain and their
defense be better and you would think they're gonna win double
digit games, But I don't know. I mean, it's hard
to get a feel for how this organization works. Mike
Q keeps growing with every time I tune in. Must
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have a low IQ just kidding, just kidding. Uh grew
up in Green Bay and still a big Rogers fan.
I had an epiphany the other day when thinking about
the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game. All of
the all time greats had Hall of Fame coaches in
the front Brady Belichick, Mahomes, Reid, Montana Walsh, Breeze, Peyton Manning,
on and on and on. McCarthy was a great offensive coach,
but he's not a Hall of Famer, and Laflour is
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another good offensive mind, but not even the best coach
from the Shanahan tree. My question is, do you think
Rogers would have been more successful in the postseason with
a Belichick or Reid in his prime. I think it's
fair to assume that after they won the suit, because
they won the Super Bowl right in twenty ten, but
then their teams were healthier, were better in years moving forward,
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and I do think it's fair to say that they
get over the hump in how many NFC Championship games
they lose. They lost to Seattle, they lost to Tampa,
they lost the forty nine ers, they lost to I
think Dallas is a really high seed. They lost the Falcons,
but that was a year they kind of made a run.
They lost a lot of playoff games, where you go,
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if they had a better coach, could that have been
the difference? I mean, some of those McArthur years. The
defense was terrible when the Niners and Kaepernick ran all
over him. Wasn't Rogers fault. But I do think it's
fair to look at the Lafleur lost to Tampa was
pretty bad. At home, they lost to Seattle was pretty bad.
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So yeah, I mean, I think it's fair to assume
that if you gave Rogers in the peak of his
powers those four or five years, I mean when he
was from like twenty ten to twenty fifteen sixteen, could
they have won two or three Super Bowls if they
had Belichick or Andy Reid or Bill Walsh one. I
think it's fair to ask yourself that question. Texans fan here,
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and you're you're a high IQ guy, I'm curious and listen.
Most Hall of Fame coaches have Hall of Fame quarterbacks
and vice versa, right, most great coaches have a great quarterback.
The exception is Parcels, and he had the equivalent at
quarterback on defense in Lawrence Taylor. But in the last
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forty five years, every quote unquote great coach that you
know won multiple Super Bowls had Mike Shanahan, Elway, obviously,
Andy Mahomes, Bill Brady. They all had dynamic quarterbacks. I mean,
all time great quarterbacks chose you McCarthy. You could argue underachieved,
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and I think his Dallas kind of run. McCarthy's McCarthy
is not bad, but like where is at what level?
Would you rate him being really good? You know? I
mean there is a cutoff where you're like, yeah, I
wouldn't put them above ten of these guys. Texans fan,
I'm curious how you should go about handling their upcoming
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cap situation with CJ and Will Anderson due to extensions
and now we know both are top five picks in
the same draft class. I think I've already answered this question.
I did a couple of weeks ago. I do think
sometimes and we're all guilty of this, especially in football,
like how are they going to handle the next three years?
Who cares? It's twenty twenty five, right, so, like, what's
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going to happen in twenty twenty seven with the cap?
To me, as an NFL fan, you should never be
worried about that. It is on your organization to manipulate
the cap and figure it out. But like, once you
get to the start of the season, worrying about future
years is kind of a waste. I mean the Eagles,
the forty Niners, They've shown like you can pay a
bunch of people. You can figure this out if you
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want to, if you choose to, like if the Texans
want to get really aggressive, they can pay a lot
of people and really take advantage of this. If those
guys are stars, Congratulations on life. I remember you talking
about how Sublime was one of your favorite albums. I
would love to hear your thoughts of your favorite songs
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from that album and your musical taste in general. When
I was probably I mean, when did Bradley die mid
ninety six, ninety seven, ninety five range, I would say
what I got when that hit the airways on the radio,
back when radio really mattered, that was a really really
big deal. Now, you know, I would say, they have
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several songs that I would put up near the top
doing Time Santa Ria or are pretty good bangers. Yeah,
I mean, I'm a big I'm a big musical fan.
I mean I grew up what I'd say is the
greatest musical run in the history of America. The nineties.
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Elite rock, elite country music, hip hop was really the
foundation of greatness of rap you know, R and B
is something that doesn't really exist anymore, was thriving in
the nineties. So I feel I never understand people that have, like,
you know, I don't really like that type music. I
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can understand if it's like classical music, right, but like,
if someone's talented, I can listen to anything, so I
would I lean. I tend to lean like kind of rock,
grunge country as my go to. But I put on
fifty cent Pandora the other day and it has been
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jamming to that working out the last couple of weeks
for the mailbag. I don't understand why Matt Stafford isn't
being talked about more. Dway McVeigh talks about injuries. Feels
like twenty twenty two elbow issue that he downplayed and
the the Jackson situation. It's their offensive lineman. Feels like
the Rams season could fall apart very quickly. How concerned
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should they be with Stafford's injury. I mean, anytime an
older player is just weak to weak, especially when he
didn't tweak it at practice, it's one thing. It's like, uh,
I'm this didn't happen, But like you know, Lane Johnson
rolled his ankle We're just gonna give him some time off,
and a couple of days turns into a week like
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he's gonna be okay, okay, fine, Like that's not that weird.
I just used him as his example. Could be TJ. Watt,
could be Trent Williams go round the league, an older
veteran player. If they tweak something in practice, you're like, listen,
we're not it's August second. Take a deep breath. Guess
this guy wasn't playing in the preseason anyway. When you
show up after the summer, it's like, yeah, I can't go,
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and then and then you say like, hey, he's gonna
he's gonna go soon, and then you have to come
back and be like, yeah, you know, he's just gonna
be weak to week. I kind of over I overspoke.
Oh yeah, Jimmy Garoppolo best backup quarterback. I go massive
red flag. So I think it's very, very concerning because
even if if you were told me, hey, you gotta
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bet one thousand dollars today, does Matt Stafford start Week one?
I would lean yes, even though I have no more
information than anyone else, but just I'd be like, yeah,
I bet he's able to try to go week one.
Even worst case scenario, what if this pops back up
in the season and this is not like anytime you
get like sore elbow or back or some of these
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guys that get sore achilles, like to me, soreness. I
would rather have like, you know, he just broke two
fingers or you know what, he he broke his leg,
you know. So it's like a very concrete Hey, this
is five weeks. This is what it is. We fix it,
we move on, right, Hey he broke his clavical stuff
like that sucks. But it's like, okay, I can see
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the light at the end of the tunnel when it's like, yes,
niece is really sore. It's like his achilles is a
really sore. So I heard of mccaffre, you know, achilles, achilles, achilles,
and all of a sudden, it's like he played three
games in the season. It's like, what the hell just happened.
So that type of stuff makes me nervous, and I'm
pro trust me. I want the Niners to win the division.
But like I enjoy the Rams being good, and I
want to see Stafford play. I really like watching him play,
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and I want the Rams to be a playoff factor
as well. Like I don't root against their situation. I'm
a big McVeigh fan, but I am very concerned. I'm
gonna I was gonna bet on the Niners to win
the division anyway. Obviously the value actually is probably with
the Cardinals the in Seattle. But have a hard time
pulling the trigger on that though. My guy John Schneider,
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fan of the pod, UH frequent guess now he's I
guess one time he got an extension, so congrats to him.
Mail back. When do you think players improve the most?
Is it during the offseason, training camp or during the season. Well,
I don't think you can really improve during the off
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When you say the off season, Like I was taught
and I do believe this. This guy's got to improve
his strength. It's like guys usually don't get stronger. They
might get weight stronger. Maybe instead of benching this or
squatting this, they now added fifty seventy five pounds, But
that doesn't equate like an offensive lineman or a defensive
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lineman's strength. When they're at Georgia Alabama USC in like
five years, they're usually not really like they couldn't shove
guys then and now they're shoving guys. So to me,
sometimes the weight room training stuff is a little overrated. Obviously,
you've got to stay in shape. I think where you
really improve is from year one, where you're just drinking
out of a fire hose. You get drafted, you try
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to learn the plays. If you're playing, you're just trying
to survive, get in shape. A lot's going on. Think
how much easier in this relatable in any one of
our jobs, whatever you do for a living, Once you've
been doing it for a while, you become much more comfortable.
You don't have to think as much. Whether it's just
like where do I go to lunch? Where you know
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I don't need to be there today. I really need
to take care of this. And when you're new to
a job, when you're new to a situation, especially a
pressure packed one, it's a lot going on. Well, by
year two, you don't have to worry about all these
things because they just become second nature. Where you live,
the route to the FRAX facility, what it's like to
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get ready for a game week, how a game plan
works in the NFL different from how you did in college.
So you can just play football instead of thinking and
playing football. So the game in theory should slow down
a lot for you as a second year guy, and
you can just quote unquote play fast and you especially
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if a coach is you know, a position coach, defensive coordinator,
your offensive coordinator is returning, you have all the information,
like you already kind of know the answers to the
tests that they're going to give you. So think how
much easier a training camp is when it's like we're
gonna sall in our place. Well, if I'm Jalen Carter,
it's like, well, I know the plays with Vic Vangil,
so I can just play. So it's really just on
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me to be in shape, stay healthy, and boom, I
should be able to kick ass because I know exactly
what they're going to ask me to do and then
just figure out how do I adjust from my opponents.
So I think most people in the league would tell
you the biggest jump would be from year one to
year two because it's just way easier in terms of
all the external stuff that we're a huge factor in
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year one are just more second nature. And then I
think you should always be improving, right, whether that's I
think the percentage becomes smaller and it's more of like
an incremental gain year three to your four year, five,
year six. But I think if you got with like
DeVante Adams right now now, or you got with you know,
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some of these older players Tyron Matthew before he retired,
He's like, I can always improve on little things, but
I think your greatest jump is probably early in your career.
So why most guys like Jason Kelsey is a huge outlier,
a guy that didn't start making Pro Bowls in All
Pros until he was like five or six years into
the league. Most guys really established themselves in the first
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couple of years of their career, year two or year three,
and sometimes it's year three as well. You know, depending
on the team, are you playing, are you on the rostery,
on the practice squad, Because if you're on the practice
squad or you're a backup, you're not getting a lot
of reps once the season starts. So if you're not
playing that much, if you're just like a special teams guy,
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you actually are probably doing scout team reps, so you
probably not as improving as much. Like when I was
at President State, coach hill On Sunday nights would take
all the guy's red shirting and ever one on the
big roster that doesn't really play or as a backup,
and they would have full on scrimmages. So like in
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college football, you play on Saturday, I don't even know
if it's allowed anymore, and on Sunday night after you know,
basically you don't really have a practice in college football
on Sunday. Sometimes you just run gasers to get the
like lactic acid and the soreness, and they have a lift,
but they would pad up basically the twenty thirty guys
red shirting and then maybe fifteen more twenty more that
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are on the big roster but they don't really play,
and then they would just play a scrimmage. I forget
how many plays it would be, but it would like
you would get to work on it, because that guy,
once the season is going, doesn't really get to work
on his craft, which that definitely does not happen in
the NFL. So it's hard. It's hard to improve. It's
why in college, you know, spring practice is in paths,
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so you can take huge jumps. You can only take
so many jumps in the pros in OTAs which I
think most of these coaches. I think if you've got
Andy Reid or Pete Carroll or some of these guys,
they would say what OTAs have become is just like
a metal walkthroom. I expectations for each team change each season.
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Success can vary a lot depending from the perspective that
we look at it. Making the playoffs as the fourth
seed and winning a wild card game before being bounced
on the divisional round would be great for the charger
of the Broncos. The Chiefs would see that as a letdown. Similarly,
each quarterback has held to different standards. My question is
how would you define success for each of the year.
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Each of the year two quarterbacks who started Week one
for their team, Williams, Daniels and Knicks. I would say
for Kleb, it would be to establish himself as a
really good player, right and if he established him as
a really good player, they should be a team above
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five hundred. Now, I think if you if Ben Johnson's
first year, Caleb is just good. Let's say he throws
thirty touchdowns, ten picks and they win nine games like
that would be a successful year. And it's like, Okay,
Caleb's a franchise quarterback. This guy's a really good player.
Has some down moments as any Patrick Mahomes as bad games,
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but as some games we're like, oh shit, this guy
can this guy can play a couple of big upsets
throughout the year. I think for Knicks and Daniels, I mean,
I think it's fair to say the expectations fair or not.
It's like, can Jayde Daniels compete to win the MVP?
You know? Patrick Mahomes won an MVP in his first
year starting, which was year two. Lamar Jackson won the
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MVP in a second year. It's like, can if he's
going to be that great of a player, can he
win the MVP. We were talking about that with CJ.
Stroud last year. It's like, this guy gonna win the
MVP year two and obviously did not. He didn't play
very well last year for me Bo Knicks, as a
lot of Bronco fans will tell you, look at the stats,
they're better or just as good as Jayden Daniels. They're
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gonna play real teams this year, so it's like, can
you beat some people that matter? You know? Last year,
as a lot of people have pointed out, I don't
think they've beat that many good teams, so it's like,
can he outplay Justin Herbert obviously, Joe Burrow. I'm looking
at their schedule, Jalen Hurts, Dak Prescott's c J Stroud,
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Jayden Daniels, Jordan Love. Their schedules is harder now. I
think the Bronx is gonna be pretty good. And if
he's good and you have an elite defense, they're gonna
win eleven twelve games. A question for the bag. If
you were GM right now and had to pick one
quarterback to start your franchise with, would you rather have
cam Ward or Trevor Lawrence. I know you've never seen
cam play an NFL game, but we've also seen the
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highs and lows of THEW It wouldn't even be a
question for me. I take cam Ward. I just don't
think Trevor Lawrence that good. Now, like you said, I
don't know about cam Ward, but I would one hundred
percent take the especially. I mean, one thing you have
to do. I'm getting a guy on a rookie quarterback
on a rookie contract, so if it does fail in
a couple of years, three years, I can pivot out
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of it. Trevor Lawrence. He gave two hundred million dollars
to I wouldn't even hesitate. The unknown of cam Ward
is dramatically better than the known from what we've seen
of Trevor Lawrence. I can't imagine there'd be many gms
in the league that would you got a factor in
the contract, would choose any different haven't missed a show
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in two plus years? Kind of like this guy, Jared
question a couple of running rookie running backs. I'm excited
about Henderson, Hampton, Harvey. Do you have a favorite out
of that group to make the biggest impact this year?
How do you see contributing in the run in the
past game topics suggestion, It is always difficult to know
how college players translate to the NFL. Big names don't
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pan out unless recognize names are studs. Who is one
rookie second year player from each team or division that
you or your buddies around the league then could make
a big impact this year. I think this is the
hard thing on your topics suggestion. One thing I've learned
over the last fifteen years of being around the NFL,
going to these practices, just talking about this league. For
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a living is I don't get that excited beside you
first round picks, but I have seen so much hype
on a third rounder, and by the end of camp,
an undrafted free agent is way better in that guy.
And I think the underrated part is most people don't
put that much stock in six to seventh and undrafted
free agents, and every single year, on the majority of teams,
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those guys not only make teams, they end up starting,
they end up becoming good players. So it's honestly impossible
to even guess. So honestly, I don't really talk about
most guys got drafted in the top like fifty until
the season starts, because I got no clue. It's a
complete guess. I know it's kind of a fun exercise,
but I don't follow the draft close enough to even
take educated guesses on fifth, sixth, seventh rounders. I would
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say this, I don't know how good the Patriots offense
is going to be. Henderson's a home run hitter, you know.
I read something Josh McDaniels like, I don't know if
this was ai or fake, but I kind of believed
it that after he got fired from the Raiders, he
like found a deep spiritual he found God or something again,
(23:32):
could be fake, but like kind of tried to change
his personality because for the second time in his career,
becoming a head coach, everyone hated him and like watch out.
He thinks his offense can be pretty dynamic this year.
I don't know if that how great their offensive line
is going to be. I think the other two guys,
Najee Harris, did he blow out his eyeball? I mean,
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I know they tried in his agent who I know,
Doug tried to underplay like, hey, it's not that serious.
It's clearly pretty seriously camp practice. And I think he's
a great unknown. Now. I've always thought Nase as a player,
and I falled him since high school and I was
really excited when he went to Alabama. I you know,
I think it's easy to be like, ah the Steelers.
I think he's a little overrated in terms of a
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guy that was drafted in the first round. You know,
I think if you could redo a draft, he's like
a third round pick. So Hampton was gonna start over
him regardless now that he's not even gonna be a factor.
Who's even splitting carries with assuming that who knows. Maybe Naje,
you can't really, maybe starts the season on Pop. So
I think Hardball would ride Hampton like a like secretariat,
and their offensive line has two sweet tackles a sweet guard.
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I would think Hampton is going to be really good.
I was watching Sean Payton's press conference for some reason.
It comes up on my YouTube feed. Sean Payton all
the time he had a comment would have been like Tuesday,
he's like r J Hampton busted out or not RJ Hampton,
but RJ Harvey had a run in practice, or he's
like we kind of looked at each other and he's
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either talking about the quarterback coach or you know, his
offensive coordinator or whatever. I know Sean's technically the offensive coordinator,
but one of his other coaches like holy shit. So
two things Harbaugh and Sean Payton like the team's there, baby,
like they're in complete control. And Harbaugh drafted this guy
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in the first round to play running back, and Sean
Payton drafted this guy where was RJ taking the second round?
Clearly loves the player. I think both those two guys,
if you're into fantasy football, if you're gambling this year
on like prop bets those guys have heart ons for
those two guys. So Harbaugh loves to run the football.
He just drafted guy in the first round, and Sean
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Payton talks about this guy like he fucking loves him.
He talked about him when he was when they drafted him.
Huge fan. I've been a big fan of colin the
past twenty years, and I've found you threw his podcast.
I'm curious if you could give any insight into his
obsession with the WA I'm a huge sports fan and
I've never met one person who has ever watched a
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WNBA game. He never talks about hockey or golf and
rally baseball because he says that people don't listen for
those sports, but he talks WNBA almost daily. The Tiger
Woods and Kaitlin Clark comparisons are ludicrous. Where I agree
with that, it's like, now that she's injured, she is
where they are fair is she is a transcendent name
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that took a sport that didn't have as many eyeballs
and created I mean, they had one hundred thousand people
watching a couple of years ago. In her draft, I
think like three or four million people watched so Colin
does a television show and I'm just curious if he's
trying to buy a WNBA team or another reason. He
has the metrics of who's listening and who's not listening.
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So when you turn on these television shows and people
are talking about the Cowboys and people are talking about Lebron,
they're not doing it randomly. They have all the metrics.
The reason they've never talked about the w NBA is
because absolutely no one gave a shit. And do you
know what Caitlin Clark has done. I've probably watched in
her WNBA career, I mean start to finish one of
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her games. But I feel like I follow her career
relatively closely, like I know what's going on with her.
She's created, like people just casually follow her. The reason
you can talk about the NFL every single day through
sixty five if you want to, because people casually follow
football like Lebron James or Steph Curry. I don't have
to watch Lebron James play a game in basketball, like
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I don't watch that many Laker games right throughout the
course of the season, but like if something happens to him,
people casually follow Lebron James. They kind of know why
because he's like this really famous guy, and that's what
she became. She became really famous. So like when he's
talking about her on the television show, are most people
that are interested in Kaitlyn Clark watching all of her games?
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No fucking chance, right, So it's like she has become
She's just a pretty transcendent individual like Tiger. Like you said,
Tiger went pro in ninety six, in nineteen ninety seventy
won that he won the Masters. Within a couple of years,
he had like five or six Majors and was beating
the shit out of everybody. It's Caitlin Clark Tiger Woods.
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In terms of on the court or on the course, no,
she's not as good as him, But in terms of
moving the needle, I do think she has proven she
can move the needle. Because people, no one's ever watched
WNBA games in the history of the league. It was
a dog shit product that the NBA subsidies and still does.
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Now they have a lot of people watching, and she's
the main reason. Because she got injured, their ratings went
in the tank. So like, for whatever reason, you can
hear a million people argue a million things. To me,
she's just kind of interesting and she's fun to watch play.
But no one talks anything on television without knowing that
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this is working in twenty twenty five and really for
a long time. They have the information, I have the
metrics of what kind of works and what doesn't work
for us. You mentioned earlier that you thought dj would
win the starting job because they gave him fourteen million dollars.
From what I've seen so far in training camp, Ar
looks like he's out playing Jones. He's taking the layups
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and making some tight window throws, and is more explosive
overall in both arm strength and running. Daniel has played okay,
but given that they've invested a fourth overall pick in
Anthony Richardson, I believe Jones would need to clearly outplay
Ar to win the job. Has your opinion changed at
all on Richardson versus Jones going into the season. I'll
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be honest, I haven't followed the camp of the Indianapolis
Colts that carefully, so I can't speak to like who's
split in ramps, who's made plays. I saw McAfee posted
some clips of Ar that look kind of sweet. He's
always been a highlight. I'm with you. If he is
like hitting the layup throws and hitting wheel routes and
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stays healthy, he should win the job. But it's July thirtieth,
so yeah, I mean, you have more information than me
in terms of how things have gone the last week.
I honestly, I don't even I haven't even seen that
many headlines on the Colts I feel like, so I
will stick with what I said. I think Daniel Jones
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gonna be the starting quarterback. Can Anthony Richardsons stay healthy
for a month in training camp? How does he look
at some of these preseason games? Or are they even
gonna play him in the preseason games? I don't know.
I might as well stick with my opinion until I'm
proven wrong, mainly because I just haven't seen or heard anything.
But you're more dialed in than me. If Anthony Richinson's
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making sweet plays where I do agree with you, if
like if he is, if it's close and he's like better,
like Ty's gonna go to Anthony Richardson. I just felt
like there was no way that he would be that
good given everything that happened. But maybe I don't know,
Maybe you finally figured it out, which would change their trajectory,
which usually doesn't happen that way. But all I've been
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hearing is how this year is the Charger to Broncos
are going to take the AFC West, And honestly, I
love it. Keep fueling the fire. My question is almost
for the Chargers. I saw they have the furthest distance
travel schedule in the league this year. Curious that actually
has an effect on the rest and recovery of players. Meanwhile,
the Bengals have the shortest distance traveled. Is this the
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most irrelevant or is this something to take into consideration.
How do you think if you looked at the history
of travel, most teams that are on the coasts, right,
if you're the Dallas Cowboys, are never going to lead
the league in travel. The Houston Texans are the Green
Bay Packers, right because their travel is always kind of
cut half. Where if you draw, do I have the
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Denver Broncos, Let's pull up the Chargers. So the Chargers
even factoring in the I mean, they're playing an extra
preseason game in cand Ohio, but they have games at
New York, at Miami, at Tennessee, at Jacksonville. Yeah, I
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mean it's just when you play certain divisions, you just
have to travel a little bit farther. So they got
they drew the East and two of their games are
the Giants and the Cowboys, which isn't terrible. Listen, I
think it can be a little overrated on the aggregate. Right,
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he had a private plane. It's not even a price.
You charter a massive jet. The amount of food, recovery stuff,
I mean, you have everything for you. You get to the hotel,
you can take care of your body. Where it does
impact you is on the shorter weeks. So if you
have I think past like the first couple of weeks,
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you're a Thursday night game if you're the Chargers or
the Broncos and you gotta play the Dolphins or the Giants.
I'm just making these up. That to me is a
huge disadvantage if you have a road short week game
that is a far travel. If you're the Chargers and
your short week is playing the Niners, not that crazy, now,
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it's never ideal to have to get on a plane.
The other thing where it does impact you is like
if you play Monday night football or Sunday night football
on the road, far away that to me is more
if you have a ten am kickoff and you're the
Chargers against like, let's see how their schedule starts. Chiefs
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at home are Chiefs in Brazil. I forgot about the
Brazil game. That sucks, but that sucks for the Chiefs too.
Broncos like at the Giants nine to twenty eight, but
that's a morning game. Even the Chiefs game in the
Brazil game sucks, but they don't play again till Monday
Night football ten days later. They get Thursday night football
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at home against Minnesota. They get the Steelers Sunday Night Football,
but that's at home. They get the Eagles Monday Night Football,
but that's at home. They have a lot of eleven
o'clock kickoffs. I guess Mountain time ten o'clock, Like they
have a lot of morning kickoffs in Arizona. We go
from ten to eleven. Is kind of weird. Okay, congrats
on the kid. Well, I don't have the kid yet,
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but the kids growing by the day. Maria showed me
a picture of what the kid my son looks like today,
so he's a grown boy. Not the actual picture from
the ultrasound, but like a computer version of like how
big he is. I have a six month old son,
and it's a great honor making him a Cleveland Brown
fan and having a full life of pain. My question
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with your son are you gonna let him pick his
own teams or will you influence him to a certain team.
I will have no influence. He can root for and
whoever he wants. Who knows. Maybe listen, what if he
doesn't like sports, what if sports aren't part of his world?
He can do whatever he wants. Now, if he ends
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up watching a lot of games with me, which I'm
sure he will do, I'm sure he'll gravitate to someone.
But you know one thing about like the way I
grew up loving the Niners and the Giants is I
lived in northern California, so I would go to Giants games.
I went to Candlestick to watch Barry Bonds in Matt
Williams play baseball in nineteen ninety three, in nineteen ninety five,
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in nineteen ninety six, right before they ever built Oracle.
I never went to a forty nine er game as
a kid. But there wasn't a human being that I
was around that wasn't watching Steve Young and Jerry Rice.
When I was kind of coming into my own at nine, ten,
eleven years old. So my son is going to grow
up in Arizona, so who knows. I mean, the impact
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of the teams is going to like the Cardinals, I
hope not, but or he likes Cowboys. Who is the
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biggest draft bust of all time? My vote is Trey Lance.
He's playing in the Hall of Fame game for the Chargers.
Not the Niners or the Cowboys, but the Chargers. They
spent three first round picks to get him. My dad
is a big Niner fan, couldn't accept that answer and
said it had to be JaMarcus Russell. What is your opinion?
There's a good question, and I think here's the key.
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I'm not putting Trey Lance and JaMarcus Russell in the
same lane. JaMarcus Russell played at LSU, had big time talent,
didn't try, was on the purple drink, didn't study, didn't
give a you know what, and was terrible. It was
out of the league in a couple of years. But no,
no one disputed, especially back then the way the league was.
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His physical attributes and his ability to play. He just
did not care. He did not try, but he guy
had played at LSU, he had won big games in college.
Like this guy was a real prospect. Trey Lance, to
me a little bit of a Fugazi prospect. Played at
a small school, did not have Division one offers to
play quarterback, and I'm not talking to small school. Played
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in D one Double A at North Dakota State, and
he was a backup to other guys that played in
the NFL. Started for one year in twenty nineteen. They
did not lose a game because their ability they dominate
that level. Well, twenty twenty happened. He did not have
a season because in D one Double A with the
Wuhan lab and the Rona ripping, they canceled football. This
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is not the SEC or the Big Ten. This was
D one Double A that canceled it. So he did
not play. He actually played one game and it was
a joke. So I do think if he had played
more D one Double A, what he really have gone
on the top five. Because he's just not very good.
And like you said, he's playing in the Hall of
Fame game starting Harbaugh's actually throwing him a bone. He
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can't win the backup job anywhere. He can't be a
backup in the NFL. But that's not his fault. He
just wasn't that good. And I think in a normal
circumstance in twenty twenty five, a guy that played multiple
years in d one to blame. I don't know if
he would have been drafted that high. Like a huge
part of the reason the Niners drafted him weird year.
They were desperate. They loved his character, but physically I
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was going to practices early on in his career not
very accurate. His athleticism doesn't really translate. Like I put
his failure on the forty nine ers and just twenty twenty,
like JaMarcus Russell failed, not because the Raiders because of
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JaMarcus Russell. Like some guys just you know Johnny Manzel,
like he just didn't try. If you watched his documentary
in Netflix, he's like, yeah, he didn't give a shit.
This is getting wasted, went to Vegas. He's like quit,
Trey Lance is trying. Treil Lance just really tried. Trail
Lan's like a high character guy. People like him. He
just isn't good enough like that to me is more
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on the team. So when I think the word draft bust,
I think of a guy that like did not live
up to his potential. Like some guys like that guy
should not have been drafted there, like Solomon Thomas. The
forty nine ers drafted him third overall. Solomon Thomas should
have been like a third round pick and he would
have like a he's gonna have a twelve thirteen year career,
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but he just never should have been drafted that hy
Mis Trubisky like it is he a bust? He was
a number two overall. He's not that good, kind of
like Trey Lance. I put that more on the Bears.
He has no touch, he's not very instinctive. So it's
like he never was gonna be that good. Where it's
like JaMarcus Russell could have been good. That there are
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players that could have been good that if you do
not try and that's the reason you live up to it,
Like are you a bust if you're if you get injured,
that one's hard for me. But I do think when
you literally just don't try like that to me is
a bust on the player. Good question. I'd put JaMarcus
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Russell Ryan leif like Ryan Leaf was a real prospect,
right that was he was a real talent Trey Lance
was not at the at the level in which he
was traded for and drafted. I mean he's a he's
an NFL you know, fringe, third string practice squad guy.
Question for the pod, with the possibility of Netflix being
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a part of the NFL TV rights deal, is it
safe to assume Netflix stock with Skyrocket? Why? That's a
good question. Let's check in on a Netflix stock right now.
One of my great regrets is never going all in
on this like five years ago. Netflix. So it's fifty
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two week low is five hundred and eighty seven dollars.
It's fifty two week high is thirteen hundred dollars. It's
currently sitting at a shade under twelve hundred dollars a share.
So it has gone up in a five year period
one hundred and fifty percent, in a ten year period
almost well over nine x. So is buying the NFL
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going to dramatically change the amount of people that subscribe
to Netflix? It would definitely help. I do wonder Let's
just say, let's say Opening Night Chiefs not Chiefs Chiefs
Chargers play Week two. I actually think that's a good example.
It's on YouTube. What is the difference in terms of
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the amount of people that watch Opening Night, which I
would imagine Cowboys Eagles is on NBC Thursday night, and
the YouTube Game two in Brazil on Friday. Because it
is different, you gotta subscribe to Netflix. But I do
think there is anyone will tell you in the business
being on Fox, being on CBS, being on ABC, NBC
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is a game changers. There are still people that don't
I guess, have the Internet or cable or whatever. I
just don't know any human being in my life, any
human being that includes my mother who's in our mid
late seventies, who does not have Netflix Slash watch it.
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So I don't know what that it won't hurt, But
I don't know if it's like a thirty percent increase.
Do you believe Odell Beckham's junior's career is over? If not,
what organization and roster can you believe he can contribute to?
How would you assess his career. I think he underachieved
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given the talent that he had, and part of that
was the Giants. They fell apart when they traded him
to Cleveland and that thing did not work out. But
if you go a YouTube, the first couple of years
of Odell Beckham. He was an elite talent, hunt returner,
deep threat, could break tackles, his play speed, he was
pretty special. Like it wasn't just some flash in the pan.
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It was like, this fucking guy can play. Then he
gets injured and he's quit. Never quite the same. But
I do think Cleveland, you know, over the internet era,
has been a place where people's careers can go to die,
and I do think that really really derailed his career.
Is this now or never for Jordan Love? Will Packers
fans see the controversial draft pick and ousting of Rogers payoff?
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It's a great question. I don't think it's now or
never for the guy, but there is tangible pressure on
this franchise. New president, he did not hire the coach
in the GM. The coach in the GM's futures are
tied to this quarterback or they paid a lot of money.
Who's coming off a weird season that was banged up.
Are they going to be good enough on offense to
take the next step? You know? Is this a team
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that went one in five in the division. So I
don't think it's now or never, but I do think
it's kind of now. Okay, it's time. It's time for Lafleur,
it's time for Jordan Love, It's time for this team.
Like this is a good year for them to win
twelve thirteen games and be a major factor in the playoffs.
So desperate for football, I'm watching the Brady and Mahomes
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AFC Championship. How long until NFL teams adopt adopt the
golf like simulator on the sideline for kickers? Right now,
the guys kick into a net with no feedback. Is
track man like technology on the sideline against the rules.
It's a great fucking question. I don't see how it
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would be given that they have iPads on the sidelines. Now,
if you told me ten years ago, you know, whatever
the year was that they started allowing like technology on
the sideline, I don't see why you can have an
iPad and look at the plays on offense or defense,
but I can't have a track man for to kick
to know where it would go. I'm totally with you.
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Why can the kicker not have the ability to go? God,
I'm missing that a little left. And honestly, I don't
know is there track man technology that could do it
with a football? Because if there is I think we
should institute that immediately, and there would be some owners
like I don't want to pay for this because they
ain't cheap, but I'd be interested if there are kickers
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in the league that utilize any sort of technological advances
like that, either in the offseason or with their team.
But that's never thought about. That great question. What are
your expectations for Omarion Hampton in year one in Harbaugh's
version of the Chargers with nij with Nase can't even speak.
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We talked about this a little earlier. I don't think
it's outrageous to go offensive rookie of the year. Could
Hampton be a thirteen hundred yard rusher and have ten
plus touchdowns because he's it's pretty freaking good. So I
would say offensive Rookie of the Year would be on
the table for sure. In a recent interview at the
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Manning Passing Academy, Arch Manning said Burrow and Josh Allen
are his favorite quarterbacks to watch. Even with the small
sample size we've seen so far of Arch, do you
notice any similarities in their style of playing? Showing up
in his game, I've noticed that his footwork is crisp
and he throws a nice accurate deep ball, and he's
got nice speed. But other than that, I'm curious to
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hear your take. I maybe I'm being too harsh. I
thought his arm. You know, Josh Allen has an elite arm.
Burrow does not. But Burrow's such a natural player and
his motion is kind of over the top to me.
Arch again, I have to study it. A little stronger,
feels a little lower than Burrows. Similar like Burrow doesn't
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have a hose but has a good enough arm. One
thing that Arch has, it's probably closer to Joe different
from Joe's. He can really move. He's a really really
good athlete, which makes sense his dad Cooper. I forget
the exact disease or sickness he got, but he was
going to Old Miss to play wide receiver. So I
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think Arch is like a trying to think who a player.
I mean, Josh Josh Allen is a superb athlete. I
think Archs is a really good athlete. You know, maybe
a young Aaron Rodgers who could really really move and throw.
But he doesn't have the arm of Aaron. I'm trying
to think of like physical comps. He's taller than that.
I don't know. I got a I don't have a
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comp right now. That makes sense in my head. And
yesterday Jimmy Haslum said and he knows the Mannings really well.
He said he expects Arts to play multiple seasons of Texas.
I would imagine Arch who what year is he now?
It's gonna be a red shirt sophomore. I think he's
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gonna graduate from college, would be my guess. So part
of staying two years would be like, I want to
be a two year starter and I want to graduate
from college. John Mailbag question, John Dorsey. I've been following
this guy because of his personality and second because of
how little credit this guy gets from drafting some of
the best players in the NFL Baker Kelsey, Tyreek, Nick Chubb,
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Mahomes even was the head scout for Aaron Rodgers. His
ability to draft players early in late rounds is undeniable,
But the fact he can't keep a job as a
GM doesn't make sense. Every time he can, he's hired
the next day as a head advisor or scout to
another team. Now, I understand he failed badly with coaches,
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but most of the time that's not a GM's decision.
He drafted the first Chief Super Bowl team, but nobody
talks about that. What are your thoughts on him? And
did you ever know John never met the guy? Maybe
I have met him at the combine, like really briefly
when I was young. But there is no disputing John
Dorsey's ability to evaluate football players. There was a reason
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when Andy went to Kansas City and he's like, I'm
not going to be the GM anymore. Hire John Dorsey
and said, you run the personnel department. And the only
guy they took from Kansas City was or from Philly
was Veach. He's like, I'm not stealing any of the guys.
Give me one. Beach is my guy, and took them.
But I think Veach and and Dorsey are similar in
the sense of like they're very very good at evaluating players.
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Now part of being a GM, it's like, is John
Dorsey good enough with the finances? Is John Dorsey good
enough at dealing with the owners? Is John Dorsey good
enough at dealing with the agents? You know, being a GM,
the reason John Schneider is going to have a twenty
year career in Seattle, the reason Howie Roseman is unreal,
the reason Jason light Nick Cassario. These guys have to
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do a lot of things. You know. One problem with
Trent Balke is, you know what Trent Balke wanted to do,
close the door, turnumph like to watch film twenty four seven,
three sixty five, and then he realized I kind of
got to play the politician. But he wasn't good at
working with coaches. He was terrible at working with staffs.
You got to be good at everything. And I do
think and again I'm projecting a little bit. You know,
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the reason he was fired in Kansas City was financially,
he wasn't good at managing the cap and the owner,
who is a money guy finance major, was like, you're fired.
I can't speak to what happened in Cleveland, But like
just picking players, John Dorsey's good at that, but football
is about a lot more than just picking players. I've
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been a Jets fan since nine. I'm twenty six. We
haven't made the NFL playoffs since I was in middle school.
I'm in the minority, and I'm not buying Aaron Glenn
at all. A brilliant owner just hired a good DC
out of SF. The last hire in his first NFL
head coaching gig and how did that go. I'm not
forgetting they needed something different. Glenn is talking hot to
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the media, and that's what these guys all do. They
say they can handle it, but everyone's a hot shot
till they get their ass kicked. I'm an OSU grad,
so I'm excited to see fields in Wilson this season.
But other than that, my question is why would I
have any hope this year? We are the worst franchise
at sports uh. I would say this about Aaron Glenn.
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That's different than Robert Sala. You know, Aaron Glenn was
a high level player, scouted, became a position coach, and
then became one of the best defensive coordinators. Robert Sala
did not play in the NFL for fifteen twenty years.
I mean Aaron Glenn's career. I think it was like
fifteen sixteen years playing playing. I do think last year
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was kind of a masterpiece. Him winning that game with
the random guys to win the division was remarkable to watch.
So his ability to deal with players is pretty impressive.
You know, Robert Sala had like two good years honestly,
one twenty nineteen for the forty nine ers. The team
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was not good in twenty twenty. It's hard to even
judge twenty twenty now. Robert sala is a good defensive coordinator,
but was completely over his head with a lot of
stuff and hadn't really been in a high level position
for long in the NFL. I mean, he wasn't that
far removed from being like a quality control assistant Aaron Glenn. Like,
look google his resume. It's pretty impressive. Ben with Sean Payton,
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been with Dan Campbell. You know, Robert sala is not
that far removed from like working for Gus Bradley. Kyle
hired him because he couldn't get Vic Fangio. So I
think Aaron Glenn is much more prepared for this job.
That being said, I don't think you can win games
with justin fields like I do not expect the Jets
to be good on offense. I just don't think. I
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think he's kind of he's kind of proven, Like he
just struggles in just a normal passing attack like Garrett Wilson.
It's how's that gonna go? I don't know. Now he
got so much money, he might not care as much anymore,
but most wide receivers want the rock. I'm interested in
your thoughts on the trajectory of Jalen into his career,
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you would be a fool to put two above Jalen
in any quarterback ranking. But not too long ago they
were on the exact same team and it was Jalen
being benched and had a transfer in favor of to
Tua looked like clearly the better quarterback, at least in
my eyes, I was saying, in everyone's eyes, including Nick Sabans.
Do they are completely different paths at this point? Surprise you.
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It's just a matter of where they landed to his
injuries or is there something about Jalen's game that makes
him a better fit in the NFL. Well, Tua one
is just a small, bad athlete, so that doesn't always
translate to the NFL. Right, Tua can be accurate, but
he's not super dynamic player. Like, what is Tua's best
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skill getting rid of the ball really quickly accurately? I mean,
so it was a decent d ball. But like Jalen
is an elite. Elite would be strong. That's like Michael Vick.
But he is an excellent, excellent NFL athlete and runner
of the football. He is a dynamic player with the
ball in his hands, and he is an exceptional deep
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ball thrower. Then he plays on a team like obviously
a quarterback. Who are your teammates? He has better teammates,
but he has way more physical skills than Tua right,
and Tua like, okay, you know, pick you apart like
the left handed Drew Brees. We've seen him. He can't
really do that. So I actually think Jalen has more
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physical attributes to have a higher ceiling than Tua right.
Even though at the same time, like I struggle with
this because I don't respect many people that like love
talking about the past, because I think it's easy to
be like, well, in twenty fifteen, you know, I was
doing really well. My dad was a farmer in like
the seventies and eighties and nineties, and like economic recessions
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back in the day would cripple people. So I knew
a lot of people through my dad that had had
great times were crushing it and then would go bankrupt.
Some people would be unfazed, and they would just battle
back and keep keep kicking ass and keep making money.
And there were some people that, like if I say,
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like a family dinner, these names, they just resonated, like
still hold on to like what you did in nineteen
eighty eight. It's like it's twenty twenty five and they're
still talking about this, and I think I'm not saying
to us that way. But my point is this, we
all get to a point in life where you might
be with someone that that person is better than you.
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There's no guarantee that they're still going to be better
than you in five or ten or twenty years. Right,
all of our professions are a little bit different. But
like Jalen didn't let that moment when two was better
than him define him. Now part of that team specifically,
Alabama had the best roster in the league, right in
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the country. They had dominant offensive lines and elite wide receivers,
so Tua was a way better passer those couple of years.
It was a no brainer for Nick Saban to transition
to Tua. But some guys get better. Listen, I didn't
think Jalen. I thought how he was insane for taking
him in the second round. I would have taken him
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on like the fourth or fifth round and moved him
to running back. I would have been wrong. Guys improve,
and why a lot of people miss on players in
the pros because they go, this guy's not good enough.
Yeah he's not good enough right now, but what can
he be in three or four years? And if you
get to the right place, you get with the right coach,
you just naturally improve. All of a sudden, you're a
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nine year starter. It's like, God, I didn't realize this
guy was gonna be that good. Part of the business
if there wasn't NFL draft of current coach quarterback combo
packages taking into account only for two years, twenty five
and twenty six to try to go on a run,
given that all the teams have equal rosters, which tandem
would be the first ten off the draft board. The
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purpose of this exercise that my buddies and I had
to take into account both value of quarterback and head
coach together and not separated. Well, I think you would
just find guys with track records, because if everything's equal,
it's advantage the coach, right, Like one disadvantage a quarterback
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would have is if my team is not as good, right,
but a coach can overcome guys because I can scheme
you open. So if everything's the same, huge advantage for
Andy Reid, huge advantage for Kyle and Sean McVay. Right,
huge advantage for Jim Harbaugh. Right, it's not a big
as big of an advantage for average coaches. Right. And that's
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where you know it's clear who would go one. But
I think like Sean McVeigh or excuse me, Sean mcdermot's proven,
like he's been a pretty good coach with random guys
with Josh, so how would they not be two? Same
thing with John Harbaugh, Like, I think those would be one, two, three,
those three combos, it'd be Josh Lamar Mahomes. Obviously Mahomes
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would be one. But like, do you trust Dak Taylor
if you don't have Jamar Chase? I don't. I like Burrow,
but I don't trust Zak Taylor. I'll tell you who'd
go higher than you think would be like, well, everything's equal.
I like my chances with Sean Payton, and he loves
his quarterback. I'd say the same thing with Kyle and Purdy.
He'd be like, well, there are big guys better than perty, Okay,
but everything's equal. Like I've seen Dak when he doesn't
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have a stack team, like I'm out on that. I've
seen Jared Goff when he doesn't have the best offensive
line in the league. Out on that, you know, Jalen's
a good sample if he knows AJ fucking Brown and
DeVante Smith. What would he look like if he had
a couple of random guys and Sirianni don't like that
as much I see. I think Dan Campbell and Goff
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wouldn't go as high in this exercise. McVeigh and Stafford,
assuming Stafford's back was good, would go high. Dan Quinn,
Jayden Daniels probably go high too. It's a good question.
We're gonna end on that. That is, that is a
good question. Tell you who would go near the bottom
would be like day Ball, Russell, Wilson, Kellen Moore, whoever, Oh,
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Demico and CJ would go high. Harbaugh Herbert would go high.
Two of McDaniel would go low, Colts would go low.
Titans would go low. I think the biggest swing would
be the Lions, just because I like Dan Campbell, motivating whoever,
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but like Jared Goff. If everything's equal, don't love can't
move Jared Goff on a stacked team excellence. I'd say
the same thing for Jalen, which again they I'm not
bitching and moaning like, well, his team's his team. We
won the Super Bowl. Jared Goff's teams his team. They
win a bunch of games these last couple of years.
But if you put one of these guys on, you
know you put Jared Goff on. The Jags don't like
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him as much. The volume
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