3 & Out - Mahomes Gets Paid Again, Cousins & Mendoza, Brendan Sorsby Update & Mailbag

On this episode of 3 & Out, John Middlekauff reacts to Patrick Mahomes landing another contract extension and breaks down what the deal means for the Kansas City Chiefs, the quarterback market, and the future of the NFL’s biggest dynasty.

John also dives into the situation involving Kirk Cousins and Fernando Mendoza, discussing reports that Cousins has no interest in serving as a mentor and what that dynamic could mean for the quarterback room moving forward. How should teams balance veteran leadership with competition, and is mentoring really part of a quarterback’s job description?

Plus, the latest developments surrounding Brendan Sorsby and the ongoing story that continues to make waves in the football world. John shares his thoughts on where things stand and what the situation could mean going forward.

To wrap things up, it’s the Middlekauff Mailbag, with John answering your questions and covering a wide range of NFL and college football topics.

From blockbuster contracts and quarterback dynamics to the latest headlines around the sport, it’s all covered on this episode of 3 & Out.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. What is going on my people? How are
we doing? Hopefully you're doing well, living life, enjoying life.

(00:22):
That was the twenty six is flying by. We're not
that far away from July fourth, and once July fourth hits,
football is kind of right around the corner. So it'll
it'll creep up on us quick and trust me, we'll
be ready. But we got a lot going on football wise.
Mahomes basically going to be a chief for life, be
really rich. Cousins had some comments on mentorship when it

(00:44):
came to Fernando Mendoza. Ben Johnson said, I'm a better
coach now than I've ever been. Some thoughts there just
with the coaching profession, something with Soresby. You know, his
lawyers are pushing just kind of bothering me. Uh not.
It's kind of different than what all the media is
talking about. This theme is just something that I see
a lot now when people get in trouble and it's

(01:04):
just like that's bullshit. We'll lose some mailback questions at
John Midlecoff At John Middlecoff, is the Instagram fire in
those dms? You guys know the drill. We're gonna need
you the off season is here, and you guys can
help carry me as times get a little slow. We'll
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(01:25):
That's like classic radio move, but hell, we might have
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(01:46):
all around, so we got you covered. But let's let's
dive into some football. But let's just dive into the
Mahomes thing because we talked about this yesterday with players
that are holding in you know, George Pickens currently right,
or Christian Gonzalez, these guys that want new contracts, and

(02:08):
the contracts for Pro Bowl level players non quarterback at
non offensive tackle or pass rusher, I mean a corner
is going to easily get over one hundred million dollars
guaranteed in thirty plus a year. These wide receivers are
making thirty to thirty five million dollars a year, So
the amount of money you're paying them that aren't ever

(02:28):
going to be the most important guy on your team.
Is astronomical at this point. And while football is much
bigger in terms of basketball with their cap, just because
the numbers are bigger, you have more players to deal with.
The top five or six guys that you pay on
your team, including your quarterback, dictate the way you can
build a bad boy. It's why you're at such a

(02:50):
big advantage when it comes to a rookie quarterback. But
when you get into business with people in pro sports,
it's not that much different than the world's were in
The numbers are typically way bigger, But like, once you
get into business with someone, the key is you have
to trust them. Obviously, you got to bring some to

(03:13):
the table of value depending on what you do. You
got to make money for your partner, for the company
you're working for, regardless where you're at. But like, once
you prove you can produce, you're gonna have options, and
it's like, do I want to stay here? Because one
thing Patrick Mahomes has proven is his trust level in

(03:35):
the chiefs is incredibly high. Right, he could bend them
over for more money. He could definitely sign contracts or
extensions that weren't crazy long. His original extension I think
was ten years, four and fifty million dollars. No agent
would advise doing that. Why because if you sign a

(03:56):
shorter term deal, you come back to free agency earlier
and you can break your off again. Why most of
these quarterbacks signed four and five year extensions. Patrick Mahomes
essentially assigned two extensions, you know, over the course of
fifteen years. Because he trusts the ownership He clearly trusts
with all of his soul, Brett Veach and Andy Reid.

(04:19):
Why would he not. Everything they have done for him
has created, you know, a mini dynasty. He's become one
of the biggest stars in all of sports. The power
in football. It doesn't matter where you play. Right, Josh
Allen just led the league in jersey sales this past season. Right,

(04:39):
Josh Allen sells more jerseys than anyone else. I've never
been to Buffalo, but by all accounts, it's not one
of our major markets. Kansas City. Once Patrick Mahomes began
playing in twenty eighteen, over the course of the next
six or seven years, based on television ratings, became the
Dallas Cowboys overnight, and starting in twenty twenty when Patrick

(05:00):
Mahomes surpassed I don't know the greatest quarterback of all time,
Tom Brady in jersey sales. He held that for the
next five years, and I would say I read the
day that he was six in this rating where Allen's won,
probably because a lot of those kids have already bought
the jersey. So the NFL, unlike basketball, which this series
is doing huge numbers. Guess what series did not last

(05:22):
year Indiana, OKC. I didn't watch why. I didn't feel
it mattered. I watched Game seven. But this series culturally
feels big. Why because the New York Knicks are involved,
and that actually elevates Victor Webman Yama if he was
playing the Cleveland Cavaliers. I'll promise you this, twenty three
million people wouldn't watched Game three of the NBA Finals,
and it's not It's always been that way with the NBA,

(05:42):
and obviously baseball market size matters. The Yankees being involved,
the Cubs being involved, the Dodgers being involved, the Knicks,
the Lakers, they impact our viewership. We're in football. If
you are good, you can become an absolute superstar and
your team can move the needle for the league, whether

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you're the forty nine Ers, the Dallas Cowboys, the New
York Giants, or whether you're the Kansasite Chiefs or the
Buffalo Bills, which right now are two of the biggest
rated teams in the entire league. They're the equals with
the Cowboys. Obviously, the Cowboys are somewhat of an outlier
a lot like baseball and basketball, they haven't won anything
meaningful in three decades. Ye know, when they're on TV,

(06:24):
a lot of people watch, you know, I mean it's
They're a polarizing franchise for a reason. They got a
lot of people to care about them, and the Chiefs
have proven this and Patrick mut like a business partnership
goes both ways. Lebron James is an incredible player, and
if he was on your team for the majority of
his career l even this year, your team's gonna be

(06:45):
good in the prime of his career, You're gonna be
in the NBA Finals. But it wasn't the easiest business
partnership to be involved in. You had to do everything
he wanted to do, which sometimes would work and sometimes
would not. And sometimes you didn't know if he was
gonna stay or lead, and he wanted you to trade everything,
and you're like, eh, you know, can this be a
little back and forth, Like we got no problem trading
everything if you can just commit to us in other years.

(07:07):
I can't do it, won't do it. You know. Patrick
Mahomes is probably the easiest business partnership in when it
comes to the NFL since Tom Brady for twenty plus
years for the Patriots when he was taking major discounts.
And you know, I know a lot of guys there.
The number one thing they always say about the guy,
and this goes back to twenty eighteen, was his work ethic,

(07:29):
was his dedication. Was how he operates as a teammate,
how he operates in the locker room, how he sets
the tone. From a work ethics standpoint, think about this.
He tears his ACL not week one towards ACL late
in the season and he's already taken reps in seven
on seven. You cannot do that if you don't hit
the rehab like you're a practice squad player afraid for

(07:51):
your spot. Yet this guy, I googled it before I
jumped on here, has already made two hundred and thirty
million dollars and that's just from the Chiefs last night. Checked.
Whenever I look up on the television, seems like he's
in a lot of commercials, so financially he's made so
much money he doesn't even know what to do with.
And I've never like some of these if you're only

(08:13):
gonna be a one contract guy, or you just never know,
or you kind of come out of nowhere. I got
no problem being greedy. But once you become a great player, Like,
what the hell's the difference of having a career earnings
of four hundred and fifty million and five hundred and
twenty million. It's literally nothing. Your life changes zero, especially
when you become a marketable star and you're making probably

(08:35):
a similar amount off the field or off the court.
You're so filthy rich it's stupid. So once you find
a place that will support you, that you feel comfortable with,
that your family enjoys, right, that there is something to
be said. You know a lot of people, we get
a lot of dms at young people asking career advice,

(08:58):
people going through tough decisions, and these are something that
only you personally, truly can know about all the different variables.
But once you find something that's working, you find a
place that you like to live, a community, a friendship group,
a company, whatever. Like, you don't always need to be
really greedy, because moving and jumping around and taking another

(09:22):
job for a little bit more money isn't always the
answer and sometimes backfires in your face. Right now, I
never fault anyone. For most people in the real world.
If you're making eighty K and like, I don't really
want to go work for this guy, but he's tripling
my salary, well it's like, yeah, you got no choice.
But the difference between making forty five million and fifty million,

(09:42):
if it adds to your ability to win more. When
you win more, you become more marketable off the field.
So yeah, Tom Brady is never especially in ten more years,
won't even be in the top fifty of career earnings
in the NFL. But over the course of his life,
because of the dynasty he was a part of and
he helped facilitate, because of his cap management, he is

(10:05):
going to make way more money post football than he
ever did playing and the value of that. There's a
reason any of you guys that live in these cities
with championship players, whether it be basketball, football, or baseball.
There's a reason those guys come back around. Why because
they profit off it. They profit off their name, image
and likeness of being a champion. Hell, some of these

(10:27):
guys don't even win a championship in this city or
a city. Look at the Knicks. Patrick Ewing didn't win
a championship. John Starks didn't win a championship. You become
part of this community in a city, and you can
build businesses around your name. So I give Patrick a
lot of credit for just kind of understanding that, Like

(10:49):
he's got it pretty fucking good, you know, you know it.
There's not some better situation out there where maybe he
could get a little bit more money, or he could
take advantage of the Chiefs and try to get a
little bit more money. Like he understands. This is as
close to football heaven as I'm gonna get. Speaking of quarterbacks,

(11:09):
Kirk Cousins rejected the notion that he's gonna mentor for
Nando Mendozo, and I thought about it for a second,
I'm like, I actually kind of agree with him. You know,
Joe Flacco a couple of years ago or over the
last couple of years, toward the end of his career ride.
He's technically still in the league, but has pushed back

(11:31):
against that as well, like I'm being paid to play quarterback.
I'm not a dick or an asshole. I'm gonna help
people out. But my job on a daily basis is
not to just be a father figure. And I thought
about it from my own personal experience. You know, the
best advice I think I've ever gotten professionally from all
the different people I've worked with, whether it goes back

(11:53):
to Fresno State with Pat Hill or Andy Reid and
Howie to being around Colin, is just being able to
watch them and take mental notes of like this is
what it takes to be at the top of your profession.
And I've obviously been pretty lucky to be around some
people that would be viewed as, you know, pretty special

(12:14):
in their individual industries. But even if you're working for
a company with a guy that no one could point
out of a lineup outside of your own company, if
he's damn good at his job and you're a young person,
take mental notes. That's really where you come the farthest.
I would imagine if you had some course lights with
Patrick Mahomes and they've talked about this before. The best

(12:37):
thing Alex Smith ever did for him was just show
him through his actions how to be a pro. What
a Monday through Friday looked like, what time to get
to the office, what time it took after practice to
grind on, how to study film, what it looked like
in the weight room, what it looked like to prepare
a diet, what it looked like to take your profession

(13:01):
seriously for six plus months during the season, and how
to interact with coaches, What type questions to ask. I
don't even think over the course of my decade plus
of knowing Colin, I've truly asked him that many questions
for professional advice. But what he has taught me just
from my time going down to the herd and watching

(13:23):
how they operate with Fox is worth more than any
advice he ever could have actually told me, and getting
a front row seat to that. And I think one
famous interaction from football is the Farvan Rodgers and the
problem with Farvin Rodgers is Farv was just a royal
asshole to him, right, And Aaron's talked about this, and

(13:43):
he's tried to be different as his age with some
of the younger quarterback It's why his relationship with Jordan
Love and then his guys over the last couple of
years have seen pretty solid because he saw firsthand what
you don't want to be like. But the greatest gift
that he could have given Zach Wilson that he can
if Will Howard or any of the guys with the
obviously Drew Aller who they just drafted, is just by

(14:07):
doing what he's always done. His work ethic is preparation,
and if those guys understand like where they want to go,
they would take the most incredible either mental notes or
physical notes that will change the course of their life
because whether it's football or whether it's something they don't
last long in football and they go to the real world,

(14:29):
it will be invaluable to them. So Kirk Cousins wasn't
paid to just tell Fernando Mendez everything to do. The
reason that I bet Spytech and Clint Kubiak would reiterate
this behind closed doors. It was just so Fernando had
someone to be around so we could look up to.
This is always the knock of like the Sam Hinky Sixers.

(14:50):
It's like they tanked forever and then they just had
this losing culture and they're like, well, now it's time
to win. Well, who the fuck did some of your
young core studs have to look at and go, that's
what I want to do. That's the way I want
to operate. When you just basically attempted to lose every

(15:11):
game for years on end with those guys in the building,
so shocking. The history of your franchise once those guys
got into prominent roles has been an underachievement because that
shouldn't be tolerated, and with good organizations, that is never tolerated.
So I think you know, Garrett Nssmyer, who is just

(15:33):
drafted to the Kansasite Chiefs, however long he stays there,
being around Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and Eric Bienemy
and their offensive staff should change the course of his life,
whether he ends up creating a finance company or insurance
company or a restaurant or plays in the NFL for
fifteen years, just being able to watch their actions on

(15:57):
a daily basis. So Cousin's mentorship isn't through just holding
the guy's hand on a daily basis. Obviously he's a
good human being. If Fernando Mendoza ask questions, he's gonna
tell him, he's gonna help him out. But the best
thing he can do, just like the best thing any
veteran quarterback can do for a young player, is just

(16:17):
operate how you're supposed to at a high level. And
then if those guys aren't idiots, they just watch and
then they kind of follow, and then they kind of
put their own spin on it. But like most human
beings that show up at any company, you don't really
know what you're doing. And I would imagine many people listening,

(16:38):
whether it's a big tech company or whether it's a
smaller firm, you know, the the onboarding process. Most people
after a while aren't just gonna hold your hand every day.
There's a private sector you're fucking paid to produce. You
kind of got to figure it out on your own.
So you it's upon you as the young person to
ask questions and just kind of watch and pay attention

(17:01):
of what needs to be done. And by all accounts,
Fernando Mendoza is the type person to do that, take
good notes, figure out the way to operate, the way
not to operate. And then again we're all different. It's
like when you hear someone a great band or a
great singer do a cover, even if it's an incredible cover,

(17:22):
it sounds a lot different than the original. Why it's
a different person. So Patrick Mahomes probably operates different than
Josh Allen, who probably operates different from Lamar Jackson, who
probably operates different Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, but there
is probably a similarity to the way Monday through Friday works,
or a lot of parallels between all of them, and Cousins,

(17:45):
who's not as good as those guys, probably the same thing.
And if anything, he might go above and beyond because
physically he has to because he doesn't have the capability
to run away, because he doesn't have the capability to
make up for, you know, a ball that he's a
little late on because his arms not as strong as
some guys. So he's actually a great person for a
young quarterback to just watch. Honestly, that could be whether

(18:09):
I'm starting or whether early on in the season I'm
the backup. Kind of irrelevant, because I would imagine Kirk
Cousins has approached a Tuesday at Wednesday at Thursday, whether
he was the starting quarterback or not the starting quarterback
the same way for a decade plus, So I agree
with Kirk Cousins mentorship when it comes to quarterbacks a

(18:29):
little overrated. I saw Ben Johnson. He did another press
conference today. They must have their mandatory mini camps going
right now, and he was talking about how he's a
much better play caller than he was when he originally
started in twenty twenty two, and I thought, well, I mean,
I would imagine most coaches there is no shot at him.

(18:50):
I mean, he was just asked the question how he's
evolved and understanding situations better. You're going to get better
as you get older as a coach, whether you're a
CEO head coach or whether you're a play calling coach.
But the one thing about football, like think how much
better marketing is in twenty twenty six than it was
twenty five years ago. Before you know, Budweiser or any

(19:12):
no free ads here. Any big company would just pay
for spots where they thought a lot of eyeballs would come.
They didn't necessarily know exactly what the ROI was on
that investment. They just know they needed to be involved
in some pro sports and some big moments. It's some
big television shows a lot of people were watching Seinfel.

(19:32):
You're like, hey, fifty million people are watching this show.
The advertising rate on that ad goes up and probably
hard to quantify. You know, you could tell there was
a little bump, but it's like, was it really worth it? Well,
now we do promo codes. Now, you know, in the
podcast world, we know exactly through tracking how many people
come from me. It's why, you know, it's all a

(19:55):
testament to you guys why this show has done pretty
well over the course of a half decade since we've
you know, really kind of turned it up business wise,
because they can track who goes, but per individual who goes.
It's a big part of these gambling companies, right how
many gamblers do you funnel or how many promo codes
do they use? And how many sign ups do you

(20:17):
that's the business. Twenty years ago, they just would have
given you a blank check or whatever the same check
is and keep their fingers crossed. People came through you,
but they didn't know. And the thing with football that
will never change is so much as out of your
control as a coach, so much is Andy Reid is

(20:40):
probably better now than he ever has been in his
entire career when it comes to situations. When it comes
to dealing with players, when it comes to understanding of offense,
understanding of defense, it's there's no way. I mean, it's
literally impossible. He's never seen more football than he has
today relative to what he was with the Philadelphia Eagles

(21:01):
or early on in his Kansasy Chiefs tenure. He won
six to eleven last year. And that's the thing with
football that is so much different than a lot of
these businesses that like, once you figure it out, it's
like a borderline lock, it's going to work for a minute, right, Obviously,
things can change. You've seen golp ones impact the booze business.
They've impacted some fast food businesses like but that's out

(21:24):
of nowhere. I don't think anyone kind of saw that
one coming five plus years ago. But clearly the health
kick over the course of the last ten five years
has kind of changed society a little bit, and we'll
change with it, and more companies will come and people
will have success in that kind of area, which they
already are. But in football, if you have a couple

(21:49):
of major injuries or players that you were depending on,
either through a free agency signing or draft picks, don't hit.
You could be better now than you've ever been and
not have success on a given year. I like the
Bears this year. There are clearly some question marks on defense,
but there are also some question marks, and I would

(22:10):
say Ben Johnson is the least doublem. Ben Johnson is
the least of their questions. He could be better now
than he was last year, and they could not win
the division if things got weird. Hell, they could not
make the playoffs. And this just isn't about him specifically.
I mean two years ago, Kyle Shannon, they went six
to eleven, last year the Chiefs six and eleven. Football's
fucking weird because over all the sports right, maybe hockey,

(22:34):
but I don't know that quite well enough. The injury factor,
in the injury variable can just creep up at any moment.
You can lose a guy to the shattered leg the
first day of training camp. You can lose a guy
to a torn peck lifting in July. You can lose
a guy to getting in trouble. I don't know where.
I mean, look at this week. The Rams have a

(22:56):
great week. Oh and then their tackle gets in big
trouble and reads the details doesn't look fucking great. He's
a guy who's already been suspended as well, so that's
one to keep an eye on. Last time I checked
Matt Stafford, this is not twenty twelve. He's not running
away from pressures anymore. Protecting him is pretty important because

(23:17):
his mobility relative to what it once was is basically zilch.
He's essentially now in which I respect a lot. He's
kind of morphed into this version of much more like
Peyton and Tom, where historically he was like the shittier
version of Rogers, huge arm, could move around and throw

(23:38):
and was just this big time talent. And now he's
much more upstairs still with the big arm, and he's
like a true just dominant pocket quarterback. But with a
dominant pocket quarterback, if your offensive line sucks, it can
get weird, and it can get weird fast because you
can't create anything out of nothing. So I think that's
what makes football so fun is the variables with all

(24:00):
these teams of like, hey, you just never know. You
know Kevin O'Connell last year better than he's ever been
as a coach in terms of knowledge understanding offensive acumen,
and they missed the playoffs and at one point time
they're four to eight. Why because they drafted JJ McCarthy.
Turns out he sucked and it derailed their season big time.
So I'm excited for football. I'm excited for the Bears,

(24:24):
but I just think no sport quite brings into question
of like any year, things go off the rails quick.
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Brendan Soresby, Let's just get right to the point. I
think using mental health in this situation is a fucking joke.
We've all made bad decisions. And when are bad decisions

(26:56):
and we at cot doing them, there are typically repercussions
and you get in trouble. He got caught red handed.
I've said over and over, I don't really care, Like
whether they suspended it for the year, kick him out
of college football, I'm the losing any sleep. Whether they
let him play, I'll pay attention. I'm kind of I
don't give a crap. But he bettered his own team

(27:19):
when he was on the team, Redschird freshman, and got
caught like there are consequences to your actions right. You
can be an alcoholic and need help. If you get
behind the wheel and hit someone, cause damage, kill someone,
you're gonna get in fucking big trouble. Whether you got

(27:39):
mental health issues and need work on yourself and go
to AA, that's fine, but that doesn't get you dissolve
you of responsibility. And I this is not just a
Brendan Soresby thing. This happens now in so many different instances.
When you get caught doing something, you know mental health,

(28:00):
it's like, yeah, we get it, but you did that,
and you don't get to just distance yourself from it
because of that. And I saw the Texas tech ad
go on a long, long RNT and one of his
main points was, first and foremost, we are not funding
this this lawsuit. We have nothing to do with this

(28:23):
is this individual. And I talked about this the other day.
This is really only possible in a day and age
when these football players are all millionaires, right, they asked
RVL Reese. I saw a clip today on social media.
They're like, what have you used to buy? Like, have
you used anything with your you know, new NFL money? Like, no,
don't really need anything. It's like, yeah, guys, Ohio state.

(28:47):
These guys are making millions. I say, it's a fifty
million dollars payroll, and their best players make the most money.
So like, this guy's been rich for a couple of years.
Maybe he's richer now, but like if he wanted that
g wagon, he was like counting down the days until
he signed the Giants contract. Times have changed, and I
think the one thing that has definitely changed in this

(29:08):
time is when you bring that up, it's like, well,
that's kind off limits. You need some help. So yeah,
we get it, you need some help, but you still
got caught. So if their consequences to those actions with
whatever you did, that's separate from whatever the fuck you
gotta work on. And like people think I'm pro Brennan

(29:28):
Soresby again, I don't care that much. I true, this
is one of those stories where it's like maybe because
it's Texas Tech, and if, like they won five games,
it will not change my joy for college football at all.
Hell I'm rooting for I'm an asu Kenny Dillingham, big
twelve guy, But I just think them using that which

(29:49):
they're not alone. Everyone uses that, It's like, give me
a break. It'd be like me complaining to someone right now, like,
I just I can't think straight. I'm really tired from
the newborn. So, yeah, welcome to lif you have a baby,
which in the history of civilizations, there's been a lot
of guys that have dealt with newborns. Suck it the
fuck up, you know, it's just part of the deal.

(30:10):
Like Brent, you got to face the music, buddy, and
I you know, I saw Colin going on the ran
about some of these other programs, Georgia specifically that has
a problem with players getting arrested constantly. Uh So a
lot of these people going on their moral high ground,
and I understand where he's coming from there. To me,

(30:32):
it's more on the Soresby camp of claiming that like no,
let's call let's call as bait. You're claiming that so
you can play on a team that you think can
make a playoff run and then you can turn into
a top ten quarterback, Like that's why you're claiming, Like,
let's let's be real. I've known a lot of people

(30:53):
that have gambled a lot that you call degenerates, and
if they got caught up into something, they could also
claim that, but they knew what they were doing. While
they were doing it. And I just think that this
situation to me, and I listened to a Jay billis
go on this rant, he thinks and again he's, you know,
a lawyer. I guess technically he is a basketball analyst

(31:14):
by trade, lawyer by by through academics. He knows what
he wanted to be originally. And then I think he's
still my practice a little bit. He was pretty confident.
He's like, you know, you read through the details, this
will be overturned when it goes to the Texas Supreme
Court where there are three Dutch judges at a five.
He's like, a similar thing happened with that G league

(31:35):
guy that the Alabama signed, and everyone's like the G
League's gonna take over college basketball. He played one game
that it got overturned. He couldn't play anymore. So it's like,
I he was pretty confident based on the language. He's like,
there's no way this stands. But I think them using
that feels like a pretty big cop out. And I
get most of the media is terrified to ever touch

(31:56):
these topics. They always like, oh, just be nice to
the guy. It's like, yeah, yeah, you got fucking cot man.
I've done a lot of stupid shit in my life,
and after you get caught, you feel like crap and
you go into the tank. It's happened to all of us.
But to play that card when the reason you're playing
that card is to get out of trouble, he's kind
of chicken shit. Let's just be real. I saw this

(32:19):
guy in front of the Knicks game was asking people
how much they paid for tickets going into Game three,
and one of the guys he went up to was
Juan Soto. He might not have known who it was
one was with. Some might've been his wife. And you know,
probably of all the people are asking saying like forty K,

(32:40):
sixty K, one hundred K. Some of the guys were douchey,
but then they asked him, and he might have been
the richest of all the people they asked. You know,
he's not a seven hundred million dollar contract. Oh you
gott ask the Knicks basically, like the next game of
the tickets, think about a lot of free tickets for
prices they could sell for a lot. Let's do a
couple mailback questions at John Middlecoff. At John Middlecoff is

(33:03):
the Instagram fire in those DMS and get your questions
answered on the show. What is going on with the
Brandon Ayuk? Are the Niners really that petty to hold
on until the last second just to stick it to
him for a Measley seventh round pick? Why would the
Commanders want him after seeing how toxic he is? Does
Jayden really have that much juice over Adam Peters to

(33:25):
get BA at the risk of messing up the culture there.
I've met a lot of people text me like friends, like,
did you ask Adam about BA? I was like, now,
I never came up. You know, he had to run
at the end, and we just besked a little bit
before we jumped on. I don't see how anyone would
take him. And once you know, listen, contract issues and

(33:49):
coaches and players, there have been a lot of petty
moments in the history of sports. Once you are constantly
going on your phone and posting on Instagram and TikTok
blatantly talking shit, I'd be petty too. So it's like
I'd go to war with him. I find them I
have no intention to trade him, and I have no

(34:10):
intention to pay him. I am going to make it.
You're gonna show up to trading camp, you're under contract.
You know you're making fun that we paid you fifty
million dollars and you just quit on us. Are you
gonna show up to our first team meeting? Because if
you don't, we'll find you and we'll suspend you indefinitely.
I think he's doing enough. I mean, we've seen this
happen with wide receivers in the past, where you just

(34:33):
suspend and you just basically go double middle fingers and
you go to war with the NFLPA, And this is
one of those that it's like, are other players thinking
the team's crazy because they're petty? Who is advising like Bah,
just be quiet, don't get rid of you. But he's
making it worse and worse and worse. I don't know

(34:55):
the details where this truly went wrong. I don't remember
a guy getting what he wanted in this enormous contract
and then just turning into this like villain. Quite like him.
I always thought he was a pretty high level guy.
But I don't know what's going on. I mean, there
are a lot of jokes online that BA is short.

(35:18):
You know, you reverse it, you get ab, but I
don't know. It's kind of weird to see. But if
I'm the Niners. I'm ready to go to war. I'll
make it worse. I try to. I'm not just cutting him.
I make him show up a training camp and if
he doesn't, then nice to spend him indefinitely. And I
wonder if that's on the table for them now. You

(35:40):
can make the argument like just move on, get rid
of it, and I would agree. But these videos, if
I'm Kyle, if I'm John, any coach would start taking
these pretty personally. Kyle Shanahan, everyone in the building wanted
to trade him. Kyle Shanahan was the guy that pounded
the table to John Lynch and the money guys like

(36:00):
we had to and made sure the deal got done. Question.
I read that James Pierce could have charges dropped against him.
He stocked and harassed a woman, rammed his car into hers,
took police on a high speed chase, injured officers, but
gets to sit in a little daycare program to talk
about his feelings for six months and boom, charges are forgotten.

(36:22):
Can you explain to me how this works? No clue, bro,
Absolutely no clue. You see things on the internet every
day when it comes to people getting out of trouble
that just makes shake your head. But I know this,
when you get double digit sacks, even if you are

(36:42):
one of the biggest red flags in the league. I
bet he's starting Week one if he's available, which by
all accounts he will be. Falcons won't care. Are you
going to tune into the UFC White House Card this Sunday?
It's on Sunday to watch your boy Josh hoke It
whose former Fresno State full back. Pretty sure he played

(37:04):
for a little bit for the forty nine ers fight
Derreck Lewis. I'll check it out. Is that just on
the ESPN Plus or is that pay per view? I'm
just not as dialed in on the UFC as many
of you. But is it Sunday like night. The one
thing my wife I don't understand is she will watch
these murder documentaries of like a serial killer who killed

(37:28):
seventeen people, dismembered every arm and leg for them, and
hit them all over seven states, and then I'll like
throw on boxing or UFC. She's like, got, it's too violent,
it's too violent. Like Maria, you just watched eight murder
documentaries of the most heinous, disgusting humans to ever walked
the earth and you won't watch Jake Paul get punched

(37:49):
in the face or Bob Menery get body slamm by
Johnny Manzel because it's too violent. I guys don't like
watch fighting, but you watch murderers all the time. She
doesn't even really like action movie and I'm a big
action movie guy. Any war movie just shooting movie. There's
a lot of shooting in the movie. I mean like,
she doesn't really into that. And honestly that the killing

(38:13):
documentaries to me, I just don't even want to know
about it. I don't even want to know these humans exist.
Listen to your take about the NCAA having no juice
and it being the wild West. Do you see the
inevitability of a team like Oregon who has Nike backing

(38:33):
them and saying fuck it and will build an unreal dynasty?
Think the college version of having Mahomes as your starter,
Josh Allen is your backup, red shirting, lamar, etc. I mean,
these teams already kind of are right. Ohio State is
spending the most money, they're paying the most for coaches,

(38:55):
and they're dominating. Now, it's football, It's hard to win,
you know. Even when the Yankees were buying all the right,
you know, players in the in the two thousands, like,
it doesn't guarantee you to win. I think Oregon is
spending a boatload of money. But here's the thing. As
a player, if I'm going to make millions of dollars,
like you said, stack my team, like a lot of

(39:16):
guys want to start. So that's where it gets difficult
at quarterback. Like one of the stories they kind of
did that isn't Dylan Royola at Oregon? Think about that?
Dylan Riola went from the starting quarterback at Nebraska to
the Do I have that right? Is he at Orgon
right now? Dylan La He's at Orgon? Think about that?

(39:41):
So they're I mean, they're kind of doing it. That's
where the haves and the have nots. It's like they's
got a guy that started for multiple years to come
and be their backup quarterback. I think how crazy that is.
Now again, I'm not acting like Dylan Royola is Fernanda
Mendoza here, but he committed to Oregon, So I would
imagine they're playing Dante more clearly millions of dollars. They're

(40:04):
probably paying Ryola millions of dollars. So these teams are
and that's where the big ten. Oregon obviously, Indiana Ohio
State clearly is the leader. Michigan's going to do this.
They're kind of doing that. Curious to hear your opinion

(40:28):
on the Seahawks new offensive coordinator. I've never met him personally,
but when I used to go to forty nine or practice,
he was the tight end coach and where the tight
ends would practice. I think they've kind of messed with
the fields there, but you would be like five feet
away from those guys warming up, and him and Kittle
are very very close. So you know, obviously George his career,

(40:52):
Georgie was not some superstar in college like he was.
He fell at the fifth round one because I will
kind of crush them, and two, there was a lot
of question marks with like what you know, he wasn't
that productive in college. He obviously got a lot bigger
and stronger in the pros. But the George Kittle that's
the NFL knows was not the guy that was coming
out of college. And he's been a big part of

(41:14):
I think George has even said it his growth, but
there's a big and in last year I think he
became the run game coordinator. He'd been with with Kyle forever.
I'm gonna see how long let's bring up Brian Flurry
is his name. Kind of a crazy career, a little Belichickian.

(41:35):
He got into the NFL as a defensive guy because
it looks like he was. I don't know what position
he played in college, but he must have played defense
because he broke into the NFL in twenty thirteen. He
is a linebacker coach. Linebacker coach started with the forty

(41:59):
nine defensive quality control under Robert Sola, and then he
moved to offensive quality control in twenty and twenty one.
So maybe George is already really good by the time
he really took over, but tight ends, but George loves
him basically the last four years. And then the run
game coordinator. I mean, pretty crazy rise. You don't see

(42:20):
many guys in football. I think Rohie Morris Belichick used
always do it with the josh Is, the Patricias, the Flores.
They would work kind of both sides of the ball
early on in their career. But this guy has been
an outside linebackers coach in the NFL and now he's
an offensive coordinator. There can't be many offensive coordinators in
the NFL that have ever coached on defense. I'm pretty

(42:47):
sure Clint Kubiak was a safety in college. I thinka
Colorado State he played safety, Have that right? Yeah, he
played safety at Coloro State, which when I was a
GA at Fresnel State, we played that Colorado State team
in the New Mexico Bowl. You know, Albertquerque not the

(43:10):
ideal places to have a bowl game. I'll be honest.
It doesn't suck, but you'd probably rather go to Hawaii
or San Diego. Did you have any teams that you
hated growing up? I don't think the Niners had any
big rivals, but is there a particular team you hated. Also,
one of the biggest food guys he's in America right

(43:30):
now has to be cable news. I was at the
gym on Sunday at four pm and the news was on.
I once went at ten pm and somehow the news
was still on. Who on Earth is watching this? I
can honestly think anything more lame than watching cable news
all day. I think a lot of older people watch
cable news. So I think if you go, you know,

(43:52):
typically if you go to the gym early in the
morning and you go to the cardio area, A lot
of the older people will have cable news on. You know,
I think as you go through the day that you know,
with my gym on the big TVs beside the ones
on the cardio equipment, it's usually ESPN, Fox Sports, Won,

(44:15):
you know, during the weekend, if games were on, they'll
change it or Peat. You know, Golf the golf channels
on a lot. Uh. Do I hate anyone growing up
from a football standpoint? Not really, because when I really
came in, the Niners and the Cowboys were going at it.
But I don't really hate the Cowboys. They had a

(44:37):
cool ass team, uh, I would say. Then they became
big rivals with the Packers. Farvar was like the coolest
guy in sports beside Michael Jordan in the nineties. So
it's like I wanted the forty nine ers to win
when I was a kid, but I didn't hate Brett Farv. Baseball,
you know, the Giants didn't really have any rivals. They

(44:58):
played the Braves in the nineties, I guess. But it's
like I like Maddix and Glavin and the Crime Dog,
the team I truly hated as a kid, and I
still kind of root against her the Lakers, But being
in this business long enough, I do appreciate the bank,
the brand, the fan base. Now they got this new ownership.
I mean, let's face a genie and a brother's fucking clowns.

(45:20):
I mean they were fucking losers. Doctor Buss was clearly
operated in a high level. But the family, I mean,
what a joke. So this guy's gonna They're gonna be good.
Lakers probably be the only team. I yeah, I go
through stretches where I like root against Ohio States or

(45:42):
I don't know. I I think as I've gotten older
in this business, I just kind of root for stories,
you know, on the three and out text. The other day,
I was like, I want Brennan Swordsby to play this
year from a content standpoint, you know, if he just
doesn't play like text text on at INCH. We didn't
really talk about text tech last year, and even though
they were one of the best teams in the country.

(46:04):
What are you gonna say about David Bailey weekend week out?
What are you talking quarterbacks? The offenses? I talked more
text to tech when they like Patrick Mahomes and Cliff Kingsbury.
But speaking of Cliff Kingsbury. This guy sent me this
screenshot the Cardinals with Kyler and without Kyler. With Kyler

(46:25):
they were thirty eight forty eight and one. Without him,
they were five and twenty five. Sam Donald with the Jets.
That's a bad example. I mean, Kyler was a way
better player than Sam Donald was with the Jets. They
were bad with Sam and without him. I know you're
betting against Minnesota this year. However, all that I hear

(46:46):
in the sports media when making a case against Kyler
is that his record with them was terrible. But I've
never heard anyone say it with context, that being their
record when he was playing was significantly worse. If Kyler
stays healthy, do you think it's real the Vikings win
less than eight games. I'm not the Cardinals lose all

(47:07):
the time. They've lost my entire life beside a couple
of years. My issue more with him as an individual
player and the way that Kevin O'Connell has played with
Cousins and Sam Darnold and Kyler's style and you know,
physically he's kind of diminished over the years. Kyler can
have games and series and halves where he looks like

(47:28):
a fucking All Star and he can dominate. I remember
a couple of years ago against the Eagles and the Raiders,
he had an incredible comeback. He's had moments where he's
just like cheese. He looks like Lamar Jackson. I just
don't know if over the course of the season he's
gonna be able to drop back thirty forty times a
game and just sling that pill. I don't know. That's

(47:49):
Is he good enough? That's my question? Is he good enough?
And defensively, like, are they gonna be as good? Their
coach is good flores but like they just got rid
of Gerard who over the course of Floresa's time there,
you know, back to back years where we had twelve
and a half sacks. So I hear what you're saying.

(48:11):
Kyler's a big wild card. I will give him this
part of and I'm sure I'm biased on this is
I just didn't take him that seriously. I just don't
take people that in sports they're really immature who aren't
good enough to be that way and think they're like
it comes easy, because it doesn't. And the way he's

(48:31):
talking now feels like he's a lot different guy. So
if he's dramatically matured. Maybe Kevin can coach around some
of his deficiencies. But part of Kyler too early on
some of these injuries was he could scoot around. That's
the thing with Lamar. Like Lamar five years ago is

(48:53):
like couldn't touch him. Then last year it's like, well,
is he kind of injured or is he just slowing
down a little bit. It's hard to kind of maintain
your speed when you're that fast. Terry rose Year took

(49:17):
a seventy thousand dollars payment to bet and leave a game.
His career earnings are over one hundred and sixty million dollars.
I saw that. If it's just purely I'm paying you
seventy K, I saw one hundred K. But regardless, and
you're making twenty five million dollars a year, you're the

(49:40):
biggest idiot of all time. Now, if I have dirt
on you and I'm black bailing you and you don't
have a choice, you know, I I don't understand it.
But like if you told me that was the reasoning
and be like okay, because it makes no sense. You
make way more than one hundred K a game, So
in what world it's why It's like it's hard to

(50:01):
buy the players now, why because they're all multimillionaires. Who
do you buy referees? You know, it's like in college
who could you buy it? Back in the day the
players and weren't making any money. How could I buy
a quarterback or a star college basketball player if they're
making money? If you see most of these scandals now
beside you know Indiana and Indiana was terrible. But when

(50:23):
you see some basketball scandals, usually at a small school,
I can't buy a guy Kentucky, congrats on the kid.
I'm currently expecting number four in the Winner. Do you
think that Buffalo actually wanted Brady or was it the
best of a bad situation. I know Josh probably advocated,

(50:44):
but I can't help but think they made a change
just to make a change. Second question, my birthday was Saturday,
and I want to know where I can get one
of those sweet three and out hats or helmets. Maybe
that gets some made This was you know, the volume

(51:08):
made one and just sent it to me. So I
maybe maybe we should give some of those away during
the season or something. I gotta look into that. That's
a good idea. I don't I didn't do it on
your first question, I do think the owner overreacted a
little bit to going in that locker room and they
were all crying. You know, I think it was pretty clear.

(51:28):
Let's use Sean mcgermo and John Harbaugh. It was clear
Steve Bushatti was over it and he was getting fired.
I don't think they went into the playoffs thinking Sean
mcdermomy was gonna get fired. But I think the way
they lost that game, then the owners walking around the
locker room star players in tears, he gets he just
kind of gets worked up and makes a decision. Well,

(51:49):
once you fire the guy, and this happened with the Ravens,
it happened with a lot of teams. It's like, you
got to interview some people, so you don't. You just
interview as many people as you can. And he got
Josh Allen, so you're interviewing from Philip Rivers to you
name it, and you felt the most comfortable with him.
I think I saw Brandon Bean say that they were

(52:12):
blown away even though they had spent a lot of
time with Joe Brady when they actually interviewed him talking
about some of the bigger picture stuff. I'm not trying
to be biased here, because when I met him briefly
at the Combine and I went up to him and
I told this story back then, and I just told him,
like he doesn't know me from Adam. I just went

(52:33):
up to him in the JW. Marriott at the bar
wherever people were drinking, and you know, you kind of
walk to your room and you kind of go back
and forth between these two bar areas. He handled this
press conference in the Sean McDermott situation as well as
humanly possible, because he went above and beyond not only
thanking him, but just saying like how that guy changed
his career, And that was a pretty difficult spot to

(52:57):
be in for a first time head coach. This guy
had kind of thrown you a lifeline when your career
was in shambles after Carolina and then elevated. And then
you're I mean, Joe Brady's not the head coach of
the Bills if it's not for John McDermott. So I'm
buying right, he's bigger than it. Thinking person two, I

(53:18):
think Joe Brady's gonna be good. I hope everything's going well,
baby Jack. Well, that depends on the day. Everyone with
the microphone seems to be picking the Giants to double
their win total and to basically be a playoff team.
To me, that seems a bit optimistic. My question, what
would be a reasonable expectation for the Giants. The Vegas

(53:39):
over under is somewhere around seven to eight wins. Let's
just look at their division, if all the quarterbacks are healthy.
Their quarterback has by far the most question marks because
even Jalen can be weird. They can win games easily
with Jalen Hurts because they can run the shout of
the ball. He can make enough place even when he's

(53:59):
playing bad. And their defense is a big time Dak
Prescott's pretty well established, prett damn good player, and we
saw Jaydon Daniels as a rookie dominate b way. We've
seen Jaydon Daniels be dramatically better than Jackson Dark. Now
they have some high end defensive players, but like, who's
stopping the run? That to me is a big quin.

(54:20):
They've signed some defensive tackles post draft, but like, can
you run on them? Because I know last year the
Cowboys show they can run the ball. Eagle's definitely gonna
try to run the ball. I would imagine the Commanders
want to run the ball, those big kind of butting
heads with Cliff Kingsbury, who just wants to pass every play.
I would say their roster in theory should be better

(54:41):
in the Commanders definitely not better than the Eagles, and
I don't think he's better than the Cowboys at this point,
so I might go I might actually pick the Cowboys
to win the division. But to me, it's Dallas or
the Eagles. I think Dallas is so dramatically improved on defense,
and Caleb down to the type guy that like immediate

(55:02):
impact rookie. So I I think best case they win ten,
I think improvement. If they are winning seven or eight,
but it looks like they're going in the right direction,
you'd be pretty fired up. Anything under eight would probably
feel like a disappointment because if you're winning eight, you're
probably in the mix down the stretch of the season,

(55:22):
which is all that matters. I mean, they haven't even
had a chance last couple of years. The other big
curve are variable for them is Milik Neighbors Because if
you told me Milik Neighbors was just one hundercent healthy,
I'm like their offense could be that's not an ideal situation.

(55:42):
Major knee injury, kneed, second surgery. They're kind of being
cloak and dagger, you know, we think week one he's
a guy that is explosion physicality, kind of scary, which
sucks because he's as talented as anyone in the NFL
when he's right. Wondering if I could ask you advice

(56:03):
slash opinion. Flying into Phoenix from UK in December for
a week or so on with my uncle in the barrier,
big golf fan is TPC Scottsdale worth a visit. Won't
get time to play, but wondered at the clubhouse Pro
Shop would be nice to visit. Just got back from
South Carolina and went to the RBC Heritage for eighteen

(56:24):
and lunch. Well worth the visit. I would say it'd
be worth the visit. There's a restaurant in there that's
like partnered with a hotel chain restaurants hit or miss,
but that by December they will have a lot of
waste management slack. The pro Shop's legit. There's a lot
of stuff in the Pro Shop. If you were going
to eat at a restaurant that overlooked a golf course,

(56:46):
by then It does overlook the eighteenth Toll, which is
pretty cool, and all the stuff will be up. You
could go to Kierland there's a bar slash restaurant that
kind of overlooks the golf course. That's pretty cool. Yeah.
For coming to North Scott's, I think you can go wrong.
I can't compare it to the Harbor Town, but it's not.

(57:06):
It's not the most memorable clubhouse. I wouldn't say. But
if you got you're there for a week, swing by,
get lunch, have a midday. Bruskie was listening to the
Jim Harbaugh question the other day. My spin on the
question would be, if the Chargers have a repeat of
the last two years tennis wins embarrassing playoff loss, who
do you think takes more heat or blame. Would the

(57:28):
media or fans say Harbaugh's lost as fastball as a coach,
or would they blame it on Herbert Curious whether they
side with the quarterback talent or the coach's track record.
You have to understand, this is the Chargers, so they're
not treated like the Eagles. This is not you know,
Kyle Shannon, the forty nine Ers. This is not gonna
be the fucking Dallas Cowboys. They're not really a huge

(57:50):
national talking point. They're just not. The other thing is,
you know, the ownership group gets a lot of credit
for moving them to LA. He pays dollars in rent,
so building this huge practicability, It's like, yeah, Dean's at
least you can do. You don't have to pay for shit.
I saw this in an athletic article and we've mentioned

(58:11):
this on the podcast. Is I think they're second to
the last this upcoming season in cash spent. So if
you go to contracts NFL cash so teams salary total cash,
the Chargers are clearly are currently thirtieth. They're spending two

(58:31):
hundred and eighty two million dollars. To put that into perspective,
the Houston Texans this year will spend three hundred and
seventy eight, the Pittsburgh Steelers three hundred and seventy, the
Ravens three hundred and seventy, the Chiefs three hundred and
sixty five, the Broncos three hundred and sixty six, the
Bills three hundred and sixty. So teams in the AFC

(58:53):
that are all playoff teams are spending eighty million dollars
more than players. So you can get mad at Herbert
who has not played well in the playoffs. You can
get mad at Jim who's never won a Super Bowl.
We talk about this a lot. It starts at the top.
They don't spend as much cash as some of these
other teams. They just don't. Frugality is a disease when

(59:15):
you're rich. It really is, totally get it. If you
don't have any money, you gotta pinch pennies called life.
We've all been there, hopefully less time than needed. But
you can get out as quickly as possible because not
having money when you get especially, I can't imagine this
time when rents are through the roof, foods expensive shit

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these last five years. I mean, homes are outrageous. But
if you're owning an NFL team and you have hundreds
of millions and you pay nothing for the stadium and
you have a star coach, it's like, wow, they're paying
a lot now for coaches. Well they never did. They
were always like right there with Mike Brown, they paid

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nothing for coaches. Jerry's same way. It doesn't pay big
money for coaches. Mike McCarthy was probably making I bet McVeigh, Shanahan, Tomlin, Andy.
Those guys were double and tripling his salary. Remember he
was making seven million dollars a year, which is an
incredible amount of money in Dallas. But these other guys

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are making fifteen to twenty. Tom was making twenty five.
So if you if you're gonna get well, they're paying
a lot for coaches, now, well, yeah they should. Welcome
to the NFL. Welcome to football your coaches last time
I checked. Kind of important. But how about this? How
about we buy some players? You know, and historically they've

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always had kind of knockdown, drag out contract negotiations. I
remember being young with some of their core teams. A
mail bag. Do you feel a division winner parlay of
the Bills, Cowboys, Saints, Bengals, Chargers is a good bet.

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I actually plugged this bad boy in. It was like
twenty five dollars on this parlay would pay close to
forty five hundred dollars. I do think the charge Like
the Bills, I'm pretty confident they're gonna win it. I'm
pretty confident the Bengals are gonna win it too. The Saints.
That division get weird, but I like that bet. A lot.

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Cowboys a little bit of a flyer, right. I think
the safe bet would be the Eagles. The kind of
curveball would probably be the Giants. But I think the
Cowboys are very live to win that division. Especially their
defense dramatically improves and they stole the defensive coordinated from
the Eagles. The Chargers, I liked them until I looked

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at the schedule, all the schedules for those teams that
are hard that division. Right, Denver won it last year, clearly,
but I think the Chiefs are gonna be back in
the mix. That could probably go three different ways. I
think you could change it in I did for you
from the Chargers to the Texans, and it twenty five

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dollars pays like thirty four hundred dollars. But I like
the Texans there more than the Chargers, just because I
mean Sean Payton, Andy Reid, like, is anyone gonna be
shocked if the Broncos win it again? Is anyone to
be shocked if the Chiefs are good this year, if
my home's healthy. So it's just in. The Chargers historically
just kind of let you down. So I would probably

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remove the Chargers there for the Texans if you wanted
to go higher units, little less return. I think of Bills, Bengals, Saints, Texans.
That's pretty good. I'm gonna have to keep that up
here in the mental rolodex and play that one later on.

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Have a great day, see you tomorrow. Fugazi Friday, The
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