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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. What is going on everybody? How are we doing?
It is a Thursday afternoon, Well, it's about lunchtime. I'm
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about to fly back in a couple hours. So I
was like, you know what, let's bang out a little
Fugazi Friday podcast, which is gonna be a mail bag only.
I got about thirty minutes in me wanted to get
something out for the weekend. There was a yeah. So
we got some final preseason games and then we will
have some clarity on rosters next week and we'll be
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off and running and obviously leading into the opening weekend
of college football. Well I consider it opening weekend week one.
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let's fire out some questions. Longtime listener, first time DM
or this is from the camera guy doesn't even have
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a real name. Been a long time Pats fan, and
it's been a while since I had the quote unquote
best team in the league Struts. That's true. The addition
of the great running back and the development of Drake
in a rebuilt offensive line, you think the Pats are
genuinely turning this bad boy around. And to me, it
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starts with a coach. Like we've seen a lot of
talented young quarterbacks become disasters in awful situations. So is
Drake may gonna be good, I got no clue. Uh. Obviously,
we've seen a lot of young quarterbacks with quote unquote
promise not turned into anything. And we've seen guys that
no one believed in become really good players. So you
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never know. But if you tell me to get Mike Rabel,
who's proven that like he can turn the Tennessee Titans
into a playoff team. Hell, he had him the number
one overall seed. If you tell me you get Josh McDaniels,
awful head coach, fantastic offensive coordinator, and you talk about
drafting the running back, who's probably the fastest, most explosive
player they've had in a long long time, who's great
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at using running backs. Josh McDaniels, him and Tom Brady
that they utilize the running back out of the backfield,
throwing him the ball, getting him the ball in space
a ton. Wide receivers are a question mark, And listen,
I think it's a little bit like probably like Denver
last year. I don't expect them to be a real contender.
But if you tell me they win nine ten games,
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like I'm betting on that, I expect them to win
nine games. I think ten is probably their ceiling. But
the nine to ten range. I don't know if they
have quite enough offensive firepower. But the Jets are holding
player only practices, but the head coach is there. The
Dolphins are in shambles, so I think division the AFC
East beside the Bills, who should beat the Pats. I
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like the Pads a lot this year. It feels like
for the first time, my excitement level for this upcoming
season is as an all time low. I don't know
if it's the game changing, too much media saturation outside
of the lines, or that the Jets haven't been to
the playoffs since I was thirteen years old. I'm sure
once Week one rolls around, I'll be watching. But do
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you have any relations into the lessened excitement level toward
the NFL. No, cannot relate to that one. My excitement
for football in general is really really high. I love
watching football, always have and probably always will. Obviously, I
talk about it for a living, so I'm glad that
a lot of people the excitement levels high. I do
think if we did a study, there is a direct
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impact on you relative to your team. And your team
hasn't just let you down. They've been a joke. So
you guys are holding player only practices. You don't how
would there be any excitement to watch justin Field skip
balls into the ground. So I think it's more of
the Jet situation than the actual league. And the thing
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with oversaturation, because I agree you could argue we're oversaturated
with everything. Just don't pay attention for a while, put
down your phone, don't click on the website or whatever
the video that pops up. That's whenever I feel like
i'm a little I've had a little much. I just
don't pay attention to something for a couple of days
and it usually helps. Is from Robert. Been a Bengals
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fan for ten years and considering the expectations, last season
has been the most disappointing so far, with the Bengals
missing the playoffs, I mostly blame the front office. I
also noticed that the Bengals front office includes several of
the owner Mike Brown's relatives. In my opinion, hiring so
many family members is a bad idea. As you've said
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it before, the open market the cream rises to the top.
Is this kind of family hiring common across NFL teams
or is it more of a Brown family thing. What
was it like with the Lurie family during your time
in Philadelphia. I love to hear your thoughts. Well, I
forget his name, but his son has taken on a
much more prominent role. I mean Jeffrey Lury. I think
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it's like seventy years old. So like, whenever he passes away,
his son is going to a Julian. When I was there,
his son was really young, so his kids were not
of age to be doing anything. So I think, you know,
Julian is just the future own owner of the team.
Like that's where it gets weird when you have like
he's the future owner of the team, but you have
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some of these situations where like six family members are
running everything. I mean, this is the way the Jones
family operates, and I yeah, can be complicated. I would imagine.
I mean, in an ideal world, my kids, if I
owned an NFL team and had some children, I'd be like,
we're owning the team. It's hard because you're trying to
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teach them life lessons and do right by them. But
we're billionaires. Like, I want to win games, and my
best chance to win games is for me to find
the next Howie Rosman and the next Sean McVay. How
do we find the next Andy Reid and the next
Bill Pollion that are thirty eight and forty two years
old and they do everything, and you know what we do.
We go to our games on our private jet, We
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take our dividends, and we fucking love life. But this
notion of like I'm sending my kid out to scout,
I just now, if the kid loves it, which maybe
he does, I have no problem with. But if he's
going to own the team whenever I die, Like, what's
the point of putting him in these roles? Now? You
could argue that's how he learns everything, and there's some
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truth to that, But I don't know. It's a complicated
situation because I think it's easy to hate on it
when you don't own the team or you don't own
the company, like you want to be around your children.
So I completely understand. I just think the NFL is
kind of unique that way of like it feels not
the most optimal way to maximize your potential to win.
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Con recently did a podcast with a dude from Meet
the Press. During the Great Discussion, both went on a
tangent about the book they both loved, written by Johnny
Carson's lawyer. After Carson died and the attorney client privilege ended,
they carried on enough for me to buy the book
and it's great. Colin mentioned he had a top ten
list of books he has read. Could you pry that
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list from Colin? On one year Sunday Pause? Also, would
you ever consider being a guest on a non sports podcast?
Your non sports tangents are nice? Yeah, I mean I'd
be a guest on. I mean if a podcast that
was important enough asked me and they weren't, I would
do it, for sure. I did. After I saw your question,
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I made a little list of things that people asked
me to ask Colin that aren't necessarily related to like
what do you think of Drake? May you know what's
Caleb's completion percentage going to be? But just life things?
And your question was near the top because I did
not hear that. And I'm gonna download that audio book
as well. Well you might be reading the actual hard copy.
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I'm more of an audiobook guy. Good question question for
the mailbag. With Rashawn Slater out for the season, how
do you think this will affect the Chargers offense? Does
it mean Justin Herbert will be forced to throw more.
Will Jim Harbass stick with the tried and tested run game.
I just think it's not I mean, it's a disastrous situation.
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There's no way around it. Because a huge point of
difference for Harbaugh in general typically is his offensive line
and this offensive line, I mean, the best tackle combination
in the league. And to lose this guy and I
haven't seen the latest, like are they gonna leave joelt
at right tackle or are they gonna move to the left.
Harbaugh's usually pretty mum about that. I don't know if
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there's a right or wrong answer. I've had some people
ask me like, what would you do well, It's like,
do you think Slater's eventually going to come back? Because
if you do, then you just try to piece mail
the left tackle, because if you move him to left
tackle and then it's a problem, then the right tackle,
it's like one of your tackles is going to be
an issue. And the reality is in the NFL, most
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teams line up their pass rushers all over the place.
If your right tackle sucks, Max Crosby will line up over.
If your left tackles a scrub, they'll they'll put Khalil
Mack over him or Miles Garrett over Like, they'll just
move their personnel based on where your weakness is. And
a lot of teams now have multiple good pass rushers,
So I don't this thing like the right answer just
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take him to left tackle. I remember saying it to
Howard Mudd. I'm like, this guy's a right tackle. He's like,
what do you mean? What does that even mean? Like, well,
he's not as good of an athlete, and he's like
when I was with the Colts with Peyton Manning, we
had Robert Mathis on one side and Dwight Freeney on
the other side. So if you're like, well, this guy's
feet sucks, he's gonna get smoked. So if Joe, if
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you feel Slater's coming back now, if you feel he's
this knee injury's going to derail his career, you might
as well just pivot him over to his blind side.
But man's that sucks question for you. It's no secret
the Rams are in the quarterback market next year. At
the same time, the Bengals are a mess, and there
is growing buzz that Burrow could look to force a
move next summer. This season doesn't go well, do you
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see it in the cards that the Rams McVeigh make
another blockbuster. Well, let's just say the Bengals go eight
to nine and Burrow throws forty touchdowns in the defense
sucks and it's like, clearly not his fault again, organization
and shambles. Of course, the Rent and Stafford retires. There's
no team they would be more willing to break the bank.
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Literally they did extend his contract, even those contracts already huge,
and give up unlimited picks to acquire Joe Burrow than
the Rams. Mike Brown is never going to do this.
I feel very, very strongly on this. Joe Burrow would
have to pull a Carson and literally retire and just
be like I quit before Mike Brown trades him next offseason.
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Absolutely no chance. I see they could win two games.
He is never trading Joe Burrow next year. Now eventually
years down the road, maybe, but I think he'd go,
I already paid you, I paid your two wide receivers.
I'll bring in a new coach. But I see under
no circumstances. Because yes, McVeigh and less need and the
Rams would want Joe Burrow one million percent, so would
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a lot of other teams. Mike Brown's not trading him,
no chance, not in twenty twenty six, maybe twenty twenty nine,
but not next year. He's already shown like he doesn't
That's not how he operates. Could you see Sean McVeagh
trading for Anthony Richardson with Stafford being hurt. I think
someone is gonna trade for Anthony Richardson. I saw today.
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I got off the set probably forty five minutes ago,
and Anthony Richardson's not going to play in the last
preseason game. It's like they've already admitted he needs a
bunch of work, he's still developing. Well, that would be
the place to play him. Well, why do people pull
guys in baseball games around the trade deadline? Why does like, ah,
they're not putting him in the game. He's not dressing
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out for this game. In basketball at the trade deadline,
you can't risk injury, can't put him in the game.
So he's not playing. You can't convince me that they
aren't fielding calls. Now. I don't think those numbers are high.
I don't think it's like, well, we've decided between a
third and two fourths. It's probably like a fifth to
six to seventh round or it's late round picks. My
guess is Anthony Richardson's traded in the next week. If
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you had to give me a pie chart percentage chance,
I'd say seventy five eighty percent chances traded, twenty percent
chances on the team, especially the way that their head
coach said, Daniel Jones is our starter for the season.
Like Daniel Jones clearly is not gonna be on the
team next year. So if you can get like it's
already kind of like it's water, unto the British, you
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spilled the milk, like it's there's no there's no going back,
like you use a fourth round the first round pick
that was fourth overall and it's over, like you missed,
so you just move on. You literally already did with
Daniel Jones. So I would expect I think a lot
of teams would be interested, like work with them in practice,
Like the Colts don't even want to change Syking and
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Chris Baller to worry about keeping their job. Andy Reid's like, yeah,
it would be a little project for me on the side, right,
Sean McVay or whoever. I think a lot of coaches
and a lot of teams, And I just use those
two example you could use you could use anybody, Sean Payton,
you know, you could say Josh McDaniel. Maybe they got
a young quarterback probably bout it example the Bucks. I mean,
you just see teams like, yeah, we'll just work with
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him on the side. He's out a starter, he's a backup.
So it's like he's not playing anyway, someone's trading for him.
My guess why do guys like Kevin O'Connell and Mike
McDaniel get labeled geniuses by the media but they never
seem to show some love to Lafloor. Leafleur is more
playoff wins than they have combined. He turned Jordan Love
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into a top ten quarterback and he only missed the
playoffs once in his career. Well, I think I would
separate Kevin O'Connell and Mike McDaniel. I think the Mike,
the bloom on the Rose, the uh, the shine on
the star that was mister Gucci and a one hundred
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thousand dollars watch and where in Capris Mike McDaniel is
done is dimmed. I mean, he's a laughingstock in the NFL.
Right now with coaches, with front office people, with his
own team like Mike McDaniel is, I would imagine there's
a fifty to fifty chance he doesn't make it to Halloween.
It could be really, really ugly. I can nitpick Kevin O'Connell.
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They can get it's a little pass happy. He's a
really good coach. And if you had a coaching draft
in the NFL, especially if you factored in age, he
would go really, really high. So I would not compare
those two. I think sometimes the Packers coach. You know,
it's weird. They're a huge brand. They win all the time,
but they also fly under the radar a little bit
nationally sometimes, especially like if Farvar Rodgers isn't doing anything
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crazy smaller market. We spend so much time talking about
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Will you be having your boy on like you did
last year? Betting and stats? Uh? I think you mean
stucky in the game. Plan? Is I need to reach out?
But yes, my plan is to have them on. He's
got a baby on the way as well a couple
football babies. Uh, we'll get to Zach. Me and my
buddy's got a new debate. Let's say I have an
NFL kicker in this example, Chris Boswell kicking off to me,
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and I have ten attempts to return it one verse
one me versus Boswell. How many times would I score
or touchdown? I'm a decent athlete six foot one hundred
and eighty pounds and do a lot of running. Recently
ran a three hour marathon. I've never ran a marathon,
But that sounds like pretty good. Would I have any
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chance of scoring? Are kickers more athletic than I'm giving
them credit for? I think it depends. I think there
would be some kickers that they played at like Texas
or I don't know where Chris Boswell went to school,
but could have been football players, like actual players at
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a lower level. But they were really good athletes, and
some of them Chris Boswell, he went to Rice, so
that might not be the greatest example, but guys that
could have played like where I went to college cal Pawly,
you know, UC Davis, McNee State schools like that, and
played a position, but they were great kickers and they
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went to a big university because they got a full scholarship.
There would definitely be kickers if you're a good athlete,
even a good high school athlete, and you stay in
shape that you could score a touchdown with or on
Now are they doing it? Like how does this work?
Are they kicking it off? Like the kickoff? So they
kind of kick it like you catch it at the
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ten yard line and they're fifty yards behind you. I mean,
there is a thing with angles. I mean, there's no
guarantee it's not like they practice their open field tackling,
and even when they do make open field tackles, they
have a bunch of guys in front of them, So
just one on one could be a little different. If
you're a decent athlete, yes, I think you could score
a touchdown on some kickers. On some kickers would blast you,
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though I think a couple kickers would shock you, and
some kickers would be marginal athletes. I'm curious if you
started to do anything to prepare for the baby. Have
you read any books or Colin drop any wisdom on you?
Great job on the hurt. You know me and after
a couple of cocktails in Chicago, talked, talked to life,
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talked relationships and the wiring of the opposite sex. But
from a child perspective. You know, most of my friends
have children aging anywhere between two to ten, so I
have a lot of I would say, saved mental notes
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over the years. I had a good buddy. It's actually
one of Maria's best friend's husband who I become friends with,
who's an awesome dude, high level to cat. He's like
kind of He told me to read or download the
Marcus Aurelius Meditations. It gives some life lessons on how
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to look at raising your young child. But yeah, I mean,
I prayed. Man, There's not much I haven't done. Maria
is so dialed in on different things, forwarding me every day.
She's like my own own personal assistant of just funneling
me information. I also think I'm a big believer on this.
There's certain things in life, like you can read all
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you want, there's no hand Like I can't give you
a handbook to your dating life or to what to
do professionally. I can kind of guide you in the
right way, but eventually, like you're in the trenches, you
gotta figure it out. And uh, that's what I'll do.
I'll figure it out and then from there I'll pivot.
But I'd be lying if I've said I've like done
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much research. I'm listening to my local sports stock on
my way to work, and I hear the radio hosts
say that stephen A had a take on Alabama's slow
start in nine and four and that Kaylin Dubor should
hand the reins to coach Prime. I'm sure you heard
this too. Being my favorite podcaster and a longtime listener,
I'd love to get your thoughts. Kaylin Duboer was in
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the National Championship Game two years ago. Let me repeat,
Kaylin Dubor was in the National Championship Game two years ago.
He beat Steve Sarkisi, and do you know he's never
lost to Steve Sarkis. Do you know he's never lost
to Dan Lanning, never lost to him. He played Brian
Kelly last year, beat his ass so Caylin Duboer, who
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inherited a roster that lost a bunch of players with
the transfer portal when Saban retired. My guy Josh Pate
thinks Alabama's gonna win the SEC. Now. I don't know
if they're gonna win the SEC. But the more I
think about it, I remember a guy texting me, like,
a couple of years ago, you went all in on
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Dubor when he was playing sark in the Final four,
And it's the biggest bet I've ever made. Still to
this day, I've never been more sure of something from
a gambling standpoint that I was willing to go all
in on it. And honestly, I should have even been
more aggressive. Now I had just sweated it a little
at the end. But it was a winter winter chicken dinner.
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And then last year, obviously he lost to Vanderbilt, which
essentially cost him the playoffs. But Kalyn d. Boor's big time.
And here's the other thing. Ryan Grubb, his right hand man,
got fired in Seattle with the Seahawks. He never coached
in the NFL and now is back with the Boor.
So most people think they have the best wide receiver
room in the conference, they have the best dB room
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in the conference. They always have good offensive and defensive lines.
So I mean, can Dehon Sanders win like eight nine
games at Colorado in the Big twelve first? And I'm
not anti Dion, but to compare to de Bor's been
one of the best coaches in the country for like
four or five years. They literally say being retired, hired.
That's who they are hired to replace him. He's been
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there one year, He'll be fine. What do you think
about the Raiders taking a chance on Anthony Richardson Gino
doesn't seem like a long term option, but there is
something to be said about I don't even need to
read the rest of the This is a great example.
Anthey Richardson, get him with Chip obviously, Gino's your starter.
Can I get him for a fifth round pick? Can
you guys work together on the side, become the backup
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or help be the third string quarterback. He's gonna get traded.
I think he's a lock to get traded. I really
do now. The one reason, like the reason I don't
do one hundred percent, he's gonna get traded. I wonder
if there's a piece of ballard that goes What if
we do send them somewhere else in the middle of
the season, Like the Raiders are a good example. Gino
gets hurt chips like I'll work with Anthony Richardson and
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then all of a sudden, Anthony Richardson's sweet for the
Raiders and Daniel Jones is a disaster for the Colts.
Everyone gets fired immediately. Now I do agree. And Collin's
take was this, like when offensive coaches, especially established ones,
punt on guys, you should be out on them too.
Kyle Shanahan said, I'm out on Trey Lance. Everyone else
is too, people like Jim Horrbaugh. I saw my guy,
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Lewis Ridick was like Trey Lance just needed a spot.
Like Jim Harbaugh, you mean to be his third string quarterback.
I can't win a backup job. So it's like some
of these quarterbacks when these coaches pivot on him, it's like, look,
who gave up on Sam Darnold, Right, Like Robert Salah,
who gave up on Baker Mayfield? Right? The Browns? You
know the Caroline matt rule. So it's like, who's giving
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up on it is Kevin O'Connell, say you suck, because
if he does, then that's concerning. Does look at the floor.
It's like, I'll play with Malik Willis. What happened? Malik
Willis is winning regular season games. Kyle Shannan has like
I like the Sam Donald guy. Kevin O'Connell's like, I
like the Sam Donald guy. Now look at him now.
You recently touched on a subject that I've been thinking
about for a number of years as a Seahawks fan.
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I love the rivalry we have with the Niners. I'm
so concerned about the fact that the Niners are hurt
more than most teams every year. Competing in an NFC
without a great Niners team just doesn't feel right. Do
you think there is something with the strength of conditioning
staff or coaching staff? Stanford which I would imagine. Their
medical team is considered one of the best in the world,
which is ten minutes away from where the forty nine
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ers offices are. Their doctors work at Stanford. They have
fired their strength and conditioning staff, their training staff over
the years because of these issues. There gets to a
point where it's like, how about this, guys. If a
guy has an injury history, we're not messing with them.
I don't think the forty nine ers practice any differently
than the good teams, Like they do have physical practices,
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but I don't think it's much different. Like why isn't
George Kittle and Fred Warner getting hurt in practice? It's
because you keep signing and drafting some of these guys
with injury histories. Like, I think there's something to the
way that they the guys that they acquire. I also
just think there's gotta be some randomness to it. Now,
you could argue that this is a long enough streak
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where something's a little weird. Something does that up here,
And I would say I kind of agree. Something doesn't
make sense. I can't put my finger exactly on it,
but something is off for sure. Enjoy listening to your
podcast My question is to talk about guys like Anthony
Richardson and Trey Lance both having a lot of college
starts and both not having a lot of college starts,
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and how that has affected their careers. Do you think
we have to worry about that with Art Manning? I
understand he's a different type prospect, and my thoughts are
he will be fine with the potential of him declaring
for the drafted for one season, But does it concern
you at all? One thousand percent? Because the more you play,
I think, here's the reality. If Anthony Richardson had been
a multi year starter, maybe he doesn't go in the
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top five. Maybe it turns out he's not that good?
What happened. The more and more will levis played, people
are like, what's this? What if Trey Lance had been
a multi year starter? Might not go in the top five,
might not go in the first round because the larger
the sample size. How many times have you seen a
guy come up from Triple A and have a two
week stretch where he hits ten home runs and then
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he never hits another home run, No one ever hears
about him again. Because the more and more you play,
you either get exposed or you excel. So anytime you're
a one year starter, there's not much data. We are
taking a strong educated guess and miss Trubisky Anthony Richardson,
Trey Lance. Now you have one breakout year Joe Burrow,
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and obviously that's who you become. But there's also no
rhyme or reason to any of this. I would tend
to lean on guys who were multi year starters who
played at a high level, but like Joe Burrow had
one incredible Cam Newton had one incredible year, and it's
like that's that was their ceiling, that was their high end.
They truly had that. So I think it's difficult. I
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think Anthony Richardson and Trey Lance had the worst combination.
They truly were projects and they hadn't played much. So
if you were looking at it from like if we
were at Goldman Sachs or you know, Bank of America
or whatever in the finance department, we were running the
numbers that there were a lot of question marks. There
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were a lot of like yeah, not quite seeing this
thing add up right, or some like you acquire you
pick a bit of Amazon, there's a lot of positives, checks,
a lot of boxes. You know these insurance companies why
they make so much money. They don't pay us and
we pay them. It's like, that's a great business to
invest in. Warren Buffett's like, hey, Berkshire, fuck quadruple down
on the insurance companies. When quarterbacks like Baker Mayfield several
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year starter a bunch of production, won a bunch of
big games, like you felt pretty good about that, right,
But when you get one year starter productions hit or miss,
you gotta be very careful about you know, you're trying,
you're trying to get it right. But the easiest way
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to get it right is to find the ways that
where you're not going to get it wrong. And where
you get it wrong is when there are a lot
of holes in the argument for a player, and there
were a lot of holes clearly in the arguments for
those players. It's like that's it. We bang that out.
I did a rapid fire there. You know, I was
thinking about this my one food Gazi. I can't out
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the hotel because it's I think Fox must have a
deal with them, must get a good rate. So I
mean it's a nice, nice hotel. It's a little old,
but I mean it's a nice hotel. I've never been
a hotel snob necessarily, but as i get older and
as I've become a professional, which I've been really for
the last fifteen plus years of my life, a lot
of times when I'm in a hotel, it's not for vacation.
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I bet I don't know. Ninety percent of my hotel
usage is work related, honestly, could be higher. Over the
last like ten years, it's like ninety five percent of
my hotel usage is work related. And if you're a
decent hotel, like, you need a desk now with the
Internet and the way people operate, like your quote unquote
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Wi Fi room or Internet room or whatever room you
have downstairs that has some desks, Like I want a
desk inside the hotel. And listen, the overwhelming ninety nine
percent of hotels I stay at, this one I'm saying
at does not have one. And it just makes you
know you're trying to get situated, Like I'm right now,
I'm in a green room. So it's like not complaining.
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I'm sitting on a couch. I've recorded my podcast from
the couch last couple of days. But it's like I'm
using I'm propping up my computer. It's like, how do
you not have a desk in your hotel room in
twenty twenty five? Moving forward the way most of your
guests are staying obviously some of these hotels, but even
like next week, for example, or going to Hawaii. Do
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you know what I'm doing. I'm going to work from there.
It's a vacation, but we also got bills to pay,
and I do a podcast where they kind of need me.
You know. It's not one of those like I'm gone
for three weeks. You guys handle it like this business
is kind of predicated on me talking into this microphone
and guess what we're saying. In a nice Marriott property
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in Hawaii, I can almost guarantee you. I mean, I've
seen picture there will be a desk in the hotel room.
But I just can't fathom, like because there was more
than enough space. There was like this nice kind of
wrap around couch. Like I'm not I don't want to
sit on the couch when I'm in the hotel sleep
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or sit on my desk, you know. I just I
would love to talk to the people at that hotel
and ask about the logic that goes behind the setup
of that hotel room because I need to work, and
while I'm still able to because I'm a podcaster, and
there's a will, there's a way, and we're gonna find
that way, and we did. It just becomes a little
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troublesome to try to get comfortable. I need to be
relaxed when I'm talking, And did not have a desk
chair in the room, did not have a desk. I mean,
it's just it's just porderline travesty. How's this happening? In
twenty twenty five, the volume