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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. What is going on, everybody? How are we doing?
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the mail bag and I'll do a big one tomorrow.
Other than that, not today. We talk a little arch Manning.
He had a great quote today that his grandpa tells
him every time before he hangs up up Jerry. I
watched the Cowboys documentary. Highly recommend that it is fantastic.
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A couple of takeaways from there. Anthony Richardson's agent is
not happy, Joe Burrow, some thoughts on the Bengals. So
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next week. I'm going to Hawaii, and I actually never
took my wife on a honeymoon, and so we're doing
a honeymoon baby moon slash, just kind of relaxing for
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four or five days before football season starts and our
lives get crazy and then we have a baby. So
taking a deep breath, but the only only flight I
could get home. Was there's red Eyes leaving Maui, and
I was like, okay, I'll get one. We'll go for
the week and i'll come back Friday, and we'll touch
down Saturday morning at about six thirty am. Then I realized, well, Texas,
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Ohio State is at nine o'clock. I can't be sleepy, disoriented,
potentially all out of whack like I want to be
well rested. So I changed our trip to leave a
day earlier and come back a day earlier. Don't tell
my wife, because I need to take in and experience Texas, Oklahoma,
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but more specifically Arch Banning. Let's face it, I don't
ever remember a more hyped guy who has never played
in my life watching football. If I just think about
the last fifteen to twenty years of college stars in football,
it was all based on their play right when I
was in college. Matt Lioner, Reggie Bush, Vince Young like
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that group, that era of players. It was over a
period of time of them making a ton of plays
that their hype grew and then they won Heisman trophies.
If you think about the last six seven years, Joe
Burrow and Cam Newton were two guys that I wouldn't
say were on everyone's radar going into the season. By
the middle of the year, they were superstars. Baker Mayfield
had three years of building up his collegiate production, winning games,
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becoming a star. Kayleb Williams won the Heisman Trophy his
first year at Oklahoma, so by his second year, which
was his junior year in college because he transferred tom Oklahoma,
the hype was Trevor Lawrence won a national championship as
a rookie, Andrew Luck with Jim Harbaugh resurrected Stanford of football.
Arch Mannings like played two games against nobody's but because
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of his name, because of the hype. I just don't
think we've ever seen anything quite like this. I mean seriously,
and I don't you know. There was hype behind Tua,
but he became a star once he got thrust into
the game and made plays. Arch did not create this
hype his family, As Colin says, the Mannings are football royalty.
And it's true. We're just not gonna see a family.
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I mean, his dad was a superstar. The two sons
want to combine four Super Bowls. Peyton's one of the
greatest quarterbacks ever Eli beat Belichick and Brady Choice and
Arch isn't even their son. But Archie Manning, who is
a legend for a certain era, obviously had a rough
NFL career because he played on terrible teams, was dominant
college player, gives his grandson advice every time they talk.
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And Arch Manning, who was giving a press conference, and
he hit on a couple of things like Field Yates,
who just has great hair. Field, I am jealous of
your flow. Some people, like you know, whenever I get
people talking shit, they're like, oh, grow some hair, you
bald bastard. It's like, yeah, this isn't by choice. I
didn't choose this life. Sometimes when you're on TV two
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and you're just around a bunch of people with great hair,
you're like, I'm a little jealous. And Field I'm jealous
of he's got good flow. But he had a not
too early mock drafting and arch Manning going number one
and a couple of weeks ago as Grandpa's like, he's
gonna be in Texas for a couple of years, and
then arch was asked, He's like, I don't know where
Graham's got that one. I'm taking this day by day
but every time that his grandpa hangs up with him,
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right before he signs off, he says, get down or
get out of bounds. And it's funny. And when Arch
told the media that comment, every I would imagine most
people in the press conference room laughed. But it's actually
pretty true and there is a lot of wisdom behind that,
because I think anytime that you have a lot of
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hype and you haven't done much, people are gonna come
after you. And everyone in the SEC is going to
want to make a name for themselves by lighting this
kid up when they get their chance. And unlike these
other sports, in practice, in football, the one thing you
are one hundred percent never allowed to do is to
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hit the quarterback. Scout team one's on one's, eleven on eleven,
you name it. You can't touch that player. Even on
your own team, the third stringer, you're not allowed to
bring the guy to the ground. That's why they typically
wear different color jerseys. So when you get to the games,
defenders in general, regardless who they're playing with, gets so
excited because finally tackle. But more specifically, if you're a
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pass rusher or if you have a running quarterback and
you're a linebacker, you can hit the quarterback and you
want to hit them really, really hard. I would say
no one has a bigger bullseye on them than arch Manning.
Heading into the season, think about Ohio State feels like
they're replacing their entire defense. And for a lot of colleges,
even with the transfer portal, that's pretty difficult, not at
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a program like this because most of the backups at
the top programs and the guys they get in the
transfer portal won't just be good players. I mean they're
gonna be potential top one hundred draft picks. I mean
they're going to be countless guys on Ohio States defense
that the casual fan that's not on Rivals dot Com
twenty four to seven has never heard of, that will
be first round picks, that potentially will be like Big
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ten defensive Player of the Year, that will be superstars,
and they're gonna be badasses. And Game one. They have
been hearing about arch Manning for nine months ever since
their team won the Natty, and this is their chance
to make a name for themselves. And obviously, the SEC
and Ohio State's basically an SEC team in the North
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has the fastest, most violent and best defensive players google
the draft for the last decade. Any SEC hater, the
one thing they can never argue is this the conference
that where the most guys get drafted, specifically on defense,
and most of the NFL defensive linemen come from this conference.
Most of the NFL linebackers come from this conference. They
run the fastest, they hit the hardest, and they're just
the most violent and arch manning. To me, it's not
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his fault, but when the defensive coordinators will get in
front of their room, he is going to have a
circle around him. We're gonna want to hit this guy.
And he's a running quarterback. That's part of his game, right.
So I do think that wisdom his grandpa got it
gave him get down and get out of bounds is
very very true. Like, you gotta be very careful about
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being a hero because there are gonna be a lot
of guys on the other side of the ball against
the good teams that you play. And obviously in the SEC,
even if a team is not necessarily good record wise,
they're gonna have guys on defense. They're gonna play in
the NFL and they're gonna run really fast and hit
really hard, and he's got to be very cognizant of
Like the one thing Eli and Payton got to figure
out quick is I'm not a great athlete. I'm not running,
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so I gotta take care of my body. I gotta
get down in the pocket. If nothing's there, I gotta
throw the ball away. Well sometimes running quarterbacks and they're
dealing this with Kayleb Williams and any guy. We saw
Jayden Daniels the other night in a preseason game, started
running up the middle, was like pouncing off guys. Now
he scored touchdown, but even I saw a quote Dan
Quinn said after the game, like, yeah, you gotta go.
We gotta be careful. He's a franchise. It's like when
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Brian Kelly was like, I've always kind of defended Brian Kelly,
always thought he was pretty good, But I'm starting to
go the other way. When he a quote in that
Netflix doc. I watched like five of the episodes. I
mean it's okay on the SEC. I mean they're not
showing Alabama or Georgia. It's like I'd kind of like
to see those teams or but he's like, you know,
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my mortgage depends on eighteen, nineteen, and twenty year olds. No,
someone who works paycheck to paycheck or year to year. Yeah,
that's where their mortgage depends. You've already made one hundred
million dollars coaching football, and you sign a guaranteed ninety
million dollar contract. So whether that eighteen year old is
a number one overall pick or sucks, you're not worried
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about paying the mortgage, and you haven't been in decades.
So that's what a cheesy comment. The guy's kind of
a cheese ball. I'm out on Brian Kelly, but I'm
in on this text experience. I can't wait for this game.
I haven't been more excited to watch college football game,
you know, week one with a lot of unknowns. Maybe ever,
like we get excited for big games. I remember nineteen
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when Tua and Joe Burrow went up against each other
some Michigan Ohio State games. Obviously the playoff games or
the bowl games, or just big regular season games. Last
year Oregon Ohio State. That was sick. But this is
a game where it's like, is arn't any good? Is
Ohio State any good? No one has any clue, and
no one really cares. There are gonna be so many
eyeballs on this game, you know, being in the Fox
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studio and a lot. Obviously the NFL is king. They
take the NFL. It's a really big deal, rightfully, so
it's how they pay the bills. But college football is
a really big deal with them in this game, Like
you feel the importance. You know, obviously, big new kickoffs
is going to be there, Joe Klatt's going to be there.
I think this number. You know, some of these preseason
games have been like shattering records, right like the Sunday
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doing like six seven million people watching now. Granted like
the first quarter, if you have the starters in like
six million people watching a preseason game, this, I would
imagine this is the most watched college football game in
a long, long time. And it really shows you the
power of the Mannings. And I hope he's good because
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I watched the Jerry It wasn't it might as well
have been the Jerry Documentary. The first episode was a
lot about Jerry Jones. How you about the Cowboys? But
the Cowboys document just a big picture. I get nostalgic
about ninety stuff. I've said this before. I used to
like didn't understand why, Like my dad always listened to
the music that he listened to when he was a
teenager or in college when I was growing up. I'm like,
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this music sucks so old. Then I realized the only
music I listened to is like stuff from my childhood.
The movies I like are movies from the nineties. Like
it's just we all become our parents. And I heard
a quote the other day and it really resonated with
me because as I'm forty years old having my first kid,
you start thinking like, hey, in ten twenty years, Like
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in twenty years, I'll be sixty, my kid will be twenty.
You start, you know, not necessarily looking at your mortality
or thinking about mortality, but you just you get far
far away from your youth and you're like, God, it's like,
I'm not old, but I'm definitely not young anymore. That
the quote was the youth youth is lost on the young.
It's like, it's kind of true because when you're young,
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and I'd even argue, like when you're in your prime
of your ambition your aggression, and I'd say I'm a
pretty aggressive human being. Most people I associate with, my friends,
you know that work in different industries, tend to be
pretty aggressive. And listen, it's it's easy when you don't
have much or you want a lot to make bold
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moves to take like it's easy to bet it all.
You know, whether you're a gambler, whether you're four to
one k and be more aggressive at thirty eight than
it is at sixty eight, Right, and watching Jerry Jones.
I grew up my dad was a farmer, and I
knew a lot of people who, you know, farming could
be very fickle, like you could have one you could
have an incredible four or five year stretch and then
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you could have an awful to year stretch and lose
your ass. But he knew a lot of just because
there are a lot of successful farmers in northern California
and the Valley from basically Sacramento down to Bakersfield. There's
basically three parts of California. There's the Bay Area, there's
Southern California, there's the Valley and forever Southern California, you know,
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was known as Hollywood and the movie world, the entertainment
world obviously Northern California, Silicon Valley, and then the Valley,
then the you know, the the valley from Sacramento to
Bakersfield was kind of the farming area. And a lot
of these farmers, the successful ones. You know, some of
these people didn't have college degrees, but what they did
have and I see some of this when I see
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the young version of Jerry is they just had big balls,
they had stones, and I think a lot of successful
people still to this day, but it's it's a little
different now then back then, where you could just do
it all on guile, you could if you had a
personality and you had some stones and you were willing
to do things that most people weren't like, you could
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have some big hits in whatever world or industry you
worked in. And obviously Jerry, i mean claimed who knows,
you know, some of these stories as you age become
stuff a legend. But he had turned an eight hundred
thousand dollars oil well into a hundred million dollars and
because of that move, he was able to buy the
Cowboys when the owner, you know, was in the banking
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industry and we must have hit a big recession. George W.
Bush was in this and he was talking about a
big recession hit and the owner had to sell and
Jerry was able to buy the Cowboys because then he
had to borrow another fifty million dollars. But you're just
watching Jerry, like this guy had just huge balls and
he was just willing to do things that most people
were not willing to do. And it started with immediately
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gets rid of a legendary coach and brings in his
guy now, Jimmy Johnson was a star coach at Miami,
but Jerry didn't give a shit blowback. Everyone hated him.
Everyone thought he was just, you know, some redneck from Arkansas,
and Jerry was just came in guns blazing. And you
watch the Jerry now because I think about this sometimes,
like I want my son to see a guy who
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is not afraid. And I don't mean like i'd step
in the ring with Chuck Lydel. I just mean the
way we approach life. We got some balls, We're willing
to take some swings, and we're not always going to
get it right, but we're not afraid to fail. And
that was watching this why the Cowboys hit it big
as Jerry didn't care and Jerry believed in something. He
got the coaching higher right, and the Cowboys within a
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couple of years were winning Super Bowls and everyone that
was a hater became a lover. And I think you
see the guy now, You're like, what happened? Is it
just he's too rich? Is he have way more to lose? Now?
Just when you get older, even though his egos as
big as ever, he's just on the Jerry Jones in
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the nineties wouldn't have hired Brian Schottenheimer in a million years.
Say what you want about Barry Switzer. Barry Switcher was
winning huge games at Oklahoma, like had a huge resume
as a head coach, and I just think that, Like,
if I'm a Cowboy fan and I'm watching that, you
realize what a far cry this franchise. Obviously it's much
more glamorous now there's much more money, but who cares.
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None of that actually matters. So what Jerry, Stephen and
Charlotte have better offices, or that Dak Prescott's meeting room
is pretty cool. It's like, yeah, we just don't win
any meaningful games anymore. And one of my favorite quotes
of all time is from the movie Blow with Johnny Depp,
where he plays a big cocaine dealer. Fantastic movie, by
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the way, and at the end of the movie when
he's in jail after basically Pablo and all these guys
have gone down and we've tried to take out the
cocaine trade in America. And Johnny Depp's character, for anyone
that's seen it, obviously was the main reason cocaine was
coming into America was he said that I've always said
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that my ambition outweighed my talent, and that always resonated
with pop because, like I said, my dad, like most
of the farmers I knew or grew up knowing that
were friends of my dad or my dad's kind of ecosystem.
I always thought that these guys were just they were
just ambitious rest of businessmen. But they weren't like the
smartest guy in the room. You know. They couldn't walk
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into like Stamford and just blow people away intellectually, but
they would put their nuts on the table when it
came to business. And you watch Jerry and you're like, God,
this guy had balls, And you watch them now, it's
like you're hiring Brian fucking Schottenheimer. Like that's what you're doing.
And listen. I know the Dallas Cowboy fans or did people.
A lot of people hate Dallas because how often people
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talk about him. But the reason people talk about him
a lot is because they have a lot of the
huge fan base. No different talking about the Lakers or
the Yankees a lot. It's just a numbers game. But
it's pretty embarrassing when you think about it. It's like,
I know, Mike McCarthy took a lot of crap. I mean,
the guy was a winning coach for the Green Bay
Packers and won a Super Bowl to go to Brian Schottenheimer,
who no one was gonna ever make their head coach.
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I mean, will Brian Schottenheimer have become an offensive coordinator anywhere?
And obviously everything that's going on with Micah, like how's
he gonna overcome this? But like what a far cry.
You watch that documentary with Jimmy Johnson, which what a
throwback time. I mean just kind of a different world
that there's something pure when you see some of these clips,
like this wasn't the sixties with Bear Bryant. This was
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the nineties, like nineteen ninety two, which doesn't sound that
long ago, but when you do the math that's well
over thirty years ago. It looks like they're just practicing
on a field that I would have gone to recess,
you know, and played at Pioneer Elementary. I mean the
field doesn't look great. It's like, I don't even know
if this is a facility. It's like Troy Aikman throwing
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passes to Michael Irvin on a field that looks like
at any moment someone could roll their ankle in like
you know, some little indentation that an animal had dug,
and it's just where. Now these fields are perfectly manicured.
They're either turf or their mode every day, like it's
you know, Yankee Stadium, Like I've been to the Niners
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practices the Eagles. I mean, they're just pristine. And you
look back at these clips of like Jimmy Johnson roam
in the sideline. Even when I grew up watching some
of the clips of Bill Wallash, She's like, where are
these teams practicing? I laugh because in this doc a
huge element, it's stuff of legends to this day is
like when Jimmy Johnson traded herschel Walker, And nowadays, when
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your team sucks in any sport, it's like, why do
I need this great player? If my team sucks, I
should trade them right, I'm going nowhere. This guy has
a lot of value. It's the easiest way to reset
my franchise. The Cowboys were winning no games. I think
they were like oh and six or zero and seven
at the time, and they traded herschel Walker and everyone's like, wait,
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you're telling me he'll fire Tom Landry and trade our
best player. It's like your team sucks, and your team
has sucked for several years. Who cares how good this
player is. But it makes you realize back in the day,
the way these teams made a lot of money was
getting you to show up at the game. This wasn't
I think about. Like when I was a kid and
I watched you know, I grew up. Our local games
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were for basketball, were the Sacramento Kings. And I didn't
have cable TV because where I lived, you either had
we didn't get basic cable. You had to get either
the satellite or nothing. And we didn't get the satellite
till probably like two thousand, so like my freshman year
in high school, and we used to just have basic channels, right, ABC, NBCCBS,
Fox and like our local channel. And the Sacramento Kings, who,
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like any NBA team, plays eighty two games. I'm pretty
sure we got like twenty five or thirty games. Like
that was the local TV deal. You got a quarter
of the games, and that wasn't that long twenty five
years ago. And nowadays everything is predicated on the television numbers.
So whether you come to the game or not, like
no one would just suck and just not trade herschel
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Walker for a wle. So I think the world has
changed so much in sports, So why I say with
Miles Garrett, Jimmy Haslam was given a get out of
jail free card. He asked for a trade. Your team sucks.
He's an all time great player. You could just press
the pivot button trade them for a whole But it's like, no,
we got to keep them, do you really? No, you don't.
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The right move would have been to trade them. But yeah, man,
I just I get a little nostalgic watching that documentary.
I'm excited to watch the rest of I highly recommend it.
This is not a paid advertisement. This is just a
lover of football that there's something too. And we were
talking about this this morning in the pre show meeting.
You know, now we know so much about guys social media.
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Guys have their own YouTube channels, so many guys have
their own like documentaries, and I just there's not a
mysterious element to basically any famous person anymore. And back
then you're like, wait, these guys have a home where
hookers and cocaine just wait for them after practice, Like
this is really going on? Like some of these stories
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with Michael Jordan, no one actually knows if it's true
or not because we just don't know. You know, it's like,
is this true? Maybe did he really slam an eighteen
pack and then score forty five? No one's ever tweeted
about it, no one's ever shown me video about it.
It's just stuff of legend. It might as well be true.
And sometimes when you hear these stories, you like want them.
It's like, this is badass, and now we have the NBA.
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The Oklahoma City Thunder just won the championship and half
their guys never had a beer. Meanwhile, Michael Irvin was saying, yeah,
we were all doing blow ecstasy and hookers. So it's
just different time, fun times. It's almost like a movie.
Remember when ESPN got shipped from the NFL for playmakers,
It's like, guys, it's kind of like the mid nineties cowboys.
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I saw today that Anthony Richardson's agent. I think you
gotta be very careful. When you're starting quarterback and a
good player, you could say some things that pissed people off.
Your agent can say some things. I remember hearing a
story when I was in the NFL, how Tom Condon
and Bill Pollian used to get into it. Tom Condon
was Peyton Manning's agent, and basically, I mean was just
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drove a hard bargain. Peyton Manning liked his money, and
I remember hearing a story don't know if it's true
or not, want to believe it where Bill Pollyan basically
hung up on him because he was screaming like, how
do you expect me to build a team? And Tom
Condon was like more more, who knows if that's exactly
how it went down, but I want to believe it.
And Peyton Manning had that juice, so if his agent
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wanted to piss off the GM, he could. Same with
Tom Brady, same with Patrick Mahomes, same with Aaron Rodgers,
same with great players in their prime. You know, no
one ever wants to hear from really a couple of people,
the kicker, the punter, the long snapper, and the backup quarterback.
Toy most backup quarterbacks we never hear from. The Chicago
Bears just gave Tyson Badget two years, ten million dollars.
You know why they love the guy. Ben Johnson was
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singing his praises. Like a week ago. I saw Ryan
Poles during the Bills game the preseason game was in
the booth and I wasn't watching live, but I saw
the headline that he said he's the hardest working guy
on the team. But they just love the guy. And
that's how any guy. You know, Chase Daniels had a
fourteen year career as a backup, started a career five
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games in his life, played in the NFL for fourteen years.
You know why guys liked him. Guys loved him. You
know who one of Andy Reid and the Chiefs favorite
players was Chad Henny backup quarterback because you basically become
like an assistant coach. You're there to service the starting quarterback,
help him out during the week, service the defense, and
just being a good vibe guy. Yet Anthony Richardson, I
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think is gonna be tough for him come to grips.
Not Anthony Richardson. Maybe, I mean he believes. I'm sure
he's a starter, but like you're a backup, bro, that's
who you are, and honestly, there's nothing wrong with that.
You can have a long career and maybe he could
become a starter, but you went from being a starter
to now you're a backup, and let's face it, he
wouldn't start for any team in the league in twenty
twenty five. Right now, he would not start for any
team in the league. He needs a lot of work
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to be done, and hopefully for his sake, like a
Sean McVay and Andy Reid, someone like that, trades for
him and just works with him on the side while
their starter and their team plays. But his agent got
a little mouthee today. I saw some quotes on ESPN
dot com and I was like, I don't know if
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that's a great idea. Let me I had him pulled up.
And then here's what Anthony Richardson's agent told ESPN. We
have a lot to discuss. Trust is a big factor,
and that is at best questionable right now. Anthony came
back and made the improvements in the areas he needed
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to improve, and by all accounts, he had a great camp.
Schiken made a decision. That's the decision we got to
live with. But no hard feelings, nothing personal. I just
think that that was Anthony Richardson saying that Syken made
the decision, nothing personal. Meanwhile, his agent saying, by all
accounts he made the improvements. I didn't know his agent
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was on the coaching staff. I didn't know he was
the assistant GM. How the fuck would he know that?
But most importantly, sometimes you've become the company you keep
and this guy works for Anthony Richson, and Anthony Richinson
doesn't work for this guy. And Anthony said all the
right things after getting benched, but when you're the backup quarterback,
you don't want your agent saying things like this. It
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does not help your case. And to me, someone ideally
Anthony Richardson, but someone in Anthony Richmond's life would tell
him to get on the phone with his agent and say,
don't ever say that again. Don't ever speak for me
publicly again. And maybe he's speaking for him, because Anthony
Richardson is not going to say this publicly because he can't.
But this is not a good look. And this is
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what you got to be very careful of. Last year,
you had a moment that, by all accounts, based on
all the former players, the most embarrassing moment in like
the history of the NFL. He just tapped out in
the middle of a game at quarterback, unheard of, unprecedented,
just because he was tired. Now because he was injured.
He just needed a sip of water. Every player was
like fell out of their chair. They couldn't believe it.
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People are like, you know, Lamar Jackson like runs, uh,
you know, a thousand yards a game all around, and
I've never even seen him remotely been like hey, I
need a blow. But and I believe that's when his
career unofficially ended for the Colts. You gotta be careful
because if you start being viewed as a backup, developmental player.
Say this for Trey Lance, he might not be a
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great football player and never lived up to the hype
clearly for being a top pick. There's not much drama there.
There's no complaining there. There's not people bitching him moaning there.
And when you do that, it's like anything in life,
you become exhausting, you become it's like, you know those
needy friends, you know those needs. I don't really do
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needy people in my life. I think that's why me
and Colin get along really well and have a great
working relationship. Both of us are just we don't need shit,
you know, just tell me when where I'm not gonna
ask any questions. I'm very easy to deal with. I'm
not that complicated. I'm very low maintenance in the sense
of like not asking for much, and I think that's
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what I want on my backup quarterback. So I think
Anthony Richardson's agent did his clients a major disservice because
now it's like, I don't think it's a lock Anthey,
Richard's on the team come week one because you're gonna
have him as a backup. That doesn't make much sense.
Another thing I think with quarterbacks, a lot of people
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have been saying this. I got a text to day
from an NFL buddy because we did a segment on
the television show about television, I mean Collin Show that
Burrow like, is he gonna ask for a trade after
the season? Is this season gonna be the one that
breaks the Campbell's back and the floodgates open? And Burrow
goes like full NBA player, like get me the hell
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out of here. And maybe that's true because if you
watch the Monday night game, their defense looks atrocious. I
think it's easier to overcompensate for average personnel and outscheme
people on offense than it is defense. Like you can
either make open field tackles or you can. You can
either rush the pass or you can't. Like there is
a physical component of defense that like I'm dictating where
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I'm going on offense on defense, I'm just following you. Right.
It's a lot harder if my corners can't play. My
corners can't play. And the stat I mentioned this yesterday
is the Trey Hendrickson accounted for almost half the bengalsacks.
So their defense suck. Last year. This guy was dominant.
He accounted for half the sacks. You remove him, their
defense is gonna be really bad now. I think at
the end of the day, he's gonna end up playing.
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But even if this goes poorly and Joe Burrow has
another forty five touchdown season, he's remarkable. Team misses the playoffs,
fire the coach, he could go, It's time for me
to leave. Send me to a real organization. We've seen
this before. Carson Palmer was on the show today. Carson
Palmer once told Mike Brown, I'm done playing here. Trade me,
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and Mike Brown said, kiss my ass, and Carson Palmer retired.
Like that happened, You think Mike Brown twenty years later,
maybe a little less seventeen eight ten years later, older,
more stubborn is gonna be like, oh yeah, Joe, I'll
just trade to the Rams for a couple first round picks.
No chance, absolutely zero, especially after he just paid the
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wide receivers. So now the reality is Joe Burrow accepted
his contract and who knows, maybe they end up their
defense a little better and they win ten games. But
one thing with football that will never change. You can
win games with an elite offense, but you cannot beat
real teams, and especially win playoff games or bowl games
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or conference championships if your defense just blows because in
the biggest games, you're playing the best teams, and typically
the best teams are well rounded. So Mike Leach's best
teams at Washington State or at Texas Tech, their fundamental
flaw was always going to be. Offensively, they might be
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able to hang with any team, but defensively, they just
weren't going to be good enough. They had no chance,
and that's how it kind of feels, and it personnel issue.
So offensively, I think the Bengals are gonna be awesome.
I think defensively, though, they are going to have major issues.
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