John dives into the latest with Shedeur Sanders and why getting a speeding ticket for going over 100 MPH is not the reason why he won't work out in Cleveland. Next, John discusses the new commissioner of the PGA Tour and how it connects with the NFL and is a great thing for the Tour. Later, John talks about the Buss family selling the Lakers for 10 billion dollars.
4:32 - Sanders gets pulled over
11:29 - PGA Tour and the NFL
25:30 - Lakers sell for 10 billion
30:01 - Fugazi Friday
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The volume. What is going on everybody? How are we doing?
John middlecop three our podcast? If we're having a beautiful
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Friday and have a good weekend, wanted to do a podcast.
We got a lot going on. Shador Sanders screaming down
the road getting a ticket, everyone freaking out. You need
to relax a little bit. Rogers once said it R
E l A X. I will dive into that situation.
Is the next commissioner of the NFL running the PGA
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Tour and the Lakers sell for ten billion dollars. So
some thoughts overall on just sports valuations and uh why
I think we over complicate some things when it comes
to winning and losing. Uh Fugazi Fugazi Friday. I watched
a documentary on Netflix. It just made me shake my head.
So we'll dive into that. I was gonna do a
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mail bag, but somehow your boy has like a wicked
like head cold and I don't know science infection or something,
but my voice I don't think is really working. So
I will save that for next week. I'll record, I'll
do something on Sunday for a Monday, for sure, So
no mail bag today was kind of keep a shorter pod.
But other than that, you guys know the DRW If
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to start with you do or Sanders now before we
dive into the ticket incident. Overall, I don't think it's
gonna work. Not because I liked him as a player.
I thought he was like a top fifty pick in
most drafts. But I will bet against people going to
the Browns. Not because I don't think their coach is
not good. I think Stefanski is good. I think their
(02:53):
GM is clearly a dynamic, smart guy, but their owner's
nuts and he's proven it. And it's not like a
cheap He's spent more cash over the last thing four
or five years than any team in the NFL. It's
not like he lacks money. I think he's one of
the richer guys in the league, but he's proven over
and over that he gets in the way of progress.
And anytime you're the boss, whether it's you're the dad
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in a home, whether you're the boss of a mom
and pop shop, whether you're someone like Jimmy Haslam and
you own an NFL team, you can do whatever you want.
And at any moment, when the GM and the coach
go we just drafted Dylan Gabriel in the third round,
he goes, I want you to draft him in the
fifth round. So it's just it's a bizarre place, it
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really is. So I don't think it's gonna work, because
most things don't work in Cleveland when Jimmy Haslam has
been in control. But when it comes to the situation
of getting pulled over to one hundred miles an hour,
I saw Coward go on like, I'm out right judgments
a huge thing when it comes to quarterbacks. Coward, I'm
(03:57):
gonna see him next week. That his big deal was
always you know, the backward half thing, and you know,
a lot of younger people always laughed at that. I
was in Tahoe a month ago and I was playing
golf with this guy who owns a construction company, really
high level, impressive, successful guy. And when I told him that,
(04:17):
you know, I work with Colin and do the volume
and everything. The first thing that came up was the
backwards half thing and how he loved that take. And
this was a guy probably fifty five plus, and that's
something that resonates with older people. Well, doing one hundred
miles an hour. When I was a kid, and I
was born in eighty four, so I got my license
late nineties, maybe two thousand or ninety nine. If I
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would have got pulled over doing one hundred miles an hour,
my dad would have beat the shit out of me.
That was the day and age when you know you
could lay hands to children. I don't think that's quite
allowed anymore. But I grew up on cars like most
people my age and definitely older, that when you hit
about eighty miles an hour, the entire car rattled nless
(05:00):
you had like a Corvette or a Ferrari or something.
If you're driving a Ford, Bronco, a suburban, a van,
you get to eighty, you felt it. So when you've
told someone when I was a kid you were doing
one hundred miles an hour, that would have been like
telling someone you knew someone with a million dollars cash.
It was like, damn, that's incredibly fast. And I told
(05:23):
the story when I went to Reno and I rented
that Tesla and I drove the thing around and I've
been telling everyone since I can't get over how fast
the fucking car is. That if I own that car
and I had a sixteen year old, there is no
chance I would let him drive that car. He would
kill himself because I know at sixteen, when I drove
a Ford Explorer that I would say, once you went
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above seventy, the whole thing shook, rattled and rolled, and
You're like, is this isn't gonna blow up when I'm
on the middle, when I'm in the middle of the freeway,
And I think most people listening to this, if you're
of a certain age, you couldn't dream of going one
hundred miles and ninety percent of the cars now basically
any new car, and I'm not even talking Tesla's. I'm
(06:06):
talking for trucks. My mom has like an SUV Lexus
that's probably four or five years old. I drove that
thing to Tahoe a couple of years ago, and I
remember going ninety miles an hour, thinking, God, this is
really smooth. You don't even realize how fast you are going.
And that number resonates with older people when one hundred
(06:27):
miles an hour now speed isn't relative, right, one hundred
miles an hour in twenty twenty five is the same
speed as it was in nineteen forty. The difference is
the ability to get to those speeds in all these
new cars. Like, I'm gonna give him a little bit
of the benefit of the doubt. Now, if you want
to be critical, I'd be a hypocrite. Like young people
(06:49):
go out, stay up late at night, fun shit happens. Then,
I mean I would be a raging hypocrite if I like,
why aren't you in bed at twelve thirty at night?
Like at twenty two, twenty three, twenty four years old,
I was up a lot of the time too, and
I didn't have a lot of money. If you gave
me a lot of money and a lot of free time,
I didn't have a job, nothing to do for the summer,
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I would be out rocking and rolling too. But I
think people being critical of the speed it's easy to
be because that number still resonates with a certain demo.
I just think anyone with a newer car can relate, like,
it's pretty easy to hit that speed now and not
realize it. How often when you get a new car,
or if you drive a new car, because you're running
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that car and you're with your wife, you're with your friend,
they go, man, you need to slow down, and you
look you like, I didn't even realize I was going
that fast. So I think a lot of people are
gonna have takes like this is crazy. This is a reflection.
I think a lot of people in souped up cars now. Listen,
there is a line. You know, Henry Ruggs just gave
(07:53):
a speech at some prison thing that he killed someone
doing one hundred and fifty miles an hour. And I'm
pro you know, people having their ability to do what
they want. Buy a car. I'm as pro gun as
any young person in media. I'll promise you that. But
there are certain things that you should be trained for.
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I'm a big believer in that. And there are certain
cars that I'm sorry, a twenty five year old, a
sixty year old, I don't give a shit how old
you are, you should have to take some training to
get behind the wheel of that bad boy has too
much power. If you're not Dale Earnhard Junior, if you're
not Lewis Hamilton, like you shouldn't be able to drive
this thing, but like he's driving a supercharged ram truck.
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A lot of people have those trucks. They haul ass,
and a lot of cars now haul ass and getting
to one hundred miles an hour is pretty easy to do.
So when I see him say like, I didn't even
realize I was going that fast, I actually think it's
pretty believable. I do that shit all the time. Now.
Do I think this is a reflection of a decision maker,
I don't do. I think he's going to be a
(08:57):
good quarterback for the Browns. I don't because most people
are not. It took Joe Flacco having a little short run.
They ran Baker Mayfield out of town. Now he's the
top ten quarterback after they drafted the number one overall.
So I would just bet against the brown situation. But
I think everyone overblowing one hundred miles an hour like
that was way crazier when I was young. I don't
(09:18):
think one hundred miles an hour given these cars that
are on the road right now. I think you, especially
younger people, be surprised how often people go way faster
than they even realize they're going. There was a moment
that happened this week with the PGA Tour that I
think has big implications to the NFL. I'd never heard
(09:39):
of this guy. Now, I'm not super locked into who
Roger Goodell's team is, right Like, you could ask me
who are the coordinators for basically every team in the league.
I couldn't get all the special teams coaches, but I
get the OC's and DC's probably of ninety percent of
the league. In hell, I could give a lot of
like position coaches. When it came like who are Roger
(10:00):
Gazelle's top three henchmen, I have no clue. Well, it
turns out Brian Rollap was a very very important guy
for Roger Goodell in the NFL, and he was just
hired to be the CEO of the PGA Tour and
before it was called the commissioner, but for tax purposes,
they had to change because of this live thing and
a lot of different variables that I don't even understand.
(10:21):
I honestly don't even care. But he's officially been named
the CEO. And when you go to Brian Rollapp's LinkedIn page,
do you know what you see? You see a very
very ambitious person and do you know what ambitious people do.
They try to climb that ladder, and when they feel
stuck on that ladder, they will do anything in their
power to get to that next rung. And Roger Goodell's
(10:43):
sixty six years old, and it came out I think
over the course of the Tush Push Owners meetings that
like some people internally are like Roger, we need you
to kind of have an answer to when you're gonna retire,
and kind of the pushback was like, I'm not plan
on going anywhere. Don't totally blame I've been making sixty
five million dollars a year. He probably he has a
position that I don't know. It's definitely like a top
(11:04):
ten CEO, commissioner, whatever, you know, that role, someone that
doesn't actually own the thing in American business. I mean,
the guy's a member at Augusta National. I mean, he's
kind of a big deal with his position, and I
wonder if you're Brian Rolapp and you want that job.
And for the last I think decade plus, he has
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been in charge of the media slash business rights and
he was a key guy in negotiating the last television
deal that obviously has given historic returns, and he would
have been the guy to negotiate this next television deal.
And who knows, maybe he's back in the mix in
twenty twenty nine when it's time to negotiate that deal.
Because Brian Rolapp knows this. If you want to get
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a girl to like you, bring another girl around. She'll
show more interest. I promise. If you want to raise
have another company offer you a job, and you'll find
out how much the company you work with likes you,
and if they do, how much they're willing to pay
for your services. So Brian Rolapp, by all accounts, and
I've listened to some golf podcasts on this, A lot
(12:09):
of people in the golf world in that kind of
the main crew of the Tiger Woods and the Jay Monahans,
and I don't even count him, but you know, Arthur
Blank and some of these other venture capitals, they didn't
even know if he was going to accept their job.
So this was like a long, full court press to
try to land this individual to run the business operations
(12:30):
for golf. And if he proves, because listen, when I've
been lucky enough to know a lot of these coaches
and guys that are coordinators and then become head coaches.
And the one thing they'll say is like, I want
to run my own operation. I want to show everyone
that I can do it. It's why position coaches take
coordinator jobs, like wait, you just left being the running
(12:51):
back coach or wide receiver coach. For Andy Reid to
take the coordinator job for the worst team in the NFL,
it's like, yeah, I want to be a coordinator. I
want to show that I can call plays, and if
I do a good job, I will become a head coach.
And every single time, for the most part, like Ben
Johnson last year when he hung up on the Washington
Commanders as they were flying, like that's an outlier situation.
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Most guys jump at opportunities and they become a head
coach immediately when that opportunity or coordinator presents itself. It's
no different in the corporate world. And so when you
see Brian Rollapp take this job, he knows if you
can fix Golf's problems, not just unify them, but expand
their business. And who's he rolling with and rubbing elbows
(13:35):
with in that business a lot of NFL people. Where
are probably the majority of NFL owners associated with they're
probably members of country clubs, and some of the country
clubs they're members at host these events. So he's going
to be around them in a different capacity where he's
in charge, where he's no longer walking into the four
(13:56):
Seasons in whatever city it's a meeting behind Roger, he's
not the boss. Tiger Woods stands next to him when
they're walking into the meeting. So I see this guy.
If it goes well, he's going to be the next
commissioner of the NFL. Because he's not a golf guy.
He doesn't even have a registered handicap. He just admitted
the other day I play less than ten rounds a year.
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So he's not getting into this because he's some golf junkie.
He's getting into this to prove like I'm ready for
the bright lights. And here's the thing with the NFL,
because I look the last couple commissioners. You know, there
were basically three over the last seventy years. P Roselle,
Paul Tagliaboo, and Roger Goodell. Hard to really put anything
(14:38):
in context with Roselle. Back in the sixties, completely different world.
Radio and newspapers was much bigger than television. But when
you go to Tagliaboo. In the late eighties, he was
the lead lawyer for the NFL, and obviously when Roger
Goodell was named the commissioner in whatever the mid two thousands,
he was one of tag Laboo's underlinks. They're not hiring
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from outside, Like when Starbucks needed a new CEO, they
hired chipotlece That's not happening in the NFL. Too many
bodies are buried everywhere and there's too much on the line.
They're not going outside the family. It's kind of like
the mob. So Brian Rolapp has been in this world
for twenty years. He kind of in a weird way. Obviously,
the PGA Tour is a lot different than football, but
(15:25):
a lot of similar people. The owners are involved, they're
involved with country clubs and obviously big money people. So
he's involved when media rights deals, gets to be the
lead dog on those, and I would expect if all
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Speaker 1 (18:37):
The Lakers they sold for ten billion dollars, They actually
didn't because the guy that owns the Dodgers that is
now the majority owner already owned twenty five twenty eight percent,
so he only he's not paying ten billion dollars, but
he obviously is paying billions of dollars to own more
to become the majority shareholder. And listen, I would say
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two franchises, you could argue three now with the Dodgers
are truly like the elite NFL franchises, and that would
be the Lakers and the Yankees. And I think you
could factor in the Dodgers now as well, that they
are the equivalent of the Dallas Cowboys, the Philadelphia Eagles,
the New York Giants, San Francisco forty nine Ers, like
they are there franchise. I mean, I think Vegas, I
(19:21):
if Mark Davis decided to sell at this point in time,
when you factor in the stadium, when you factor in
the area, would go for a lot despite their lack
of success. But my point is that the Lakers are
somewhat of an outlier. I mean, look at the Boston
Celtics historic franchise went for six billion dollars, which again
shitload of money. But the Lakers are worth, you know,
forty percent more and they are so I think a
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lot of conversation in pro sports is like does your
owner have enough money? And in baseball that really matters.
I was with a buddy yesterday playing golf on Wednesday
who scouts in Major League Baseball, and it's safe to
say that the team he works for doesn't spend as
much as some of the big ducks, and it can
(20:06):
be frustrating and there are limitations at times, even though
his team has had success at different points in time.
But it's he's not competing with the Dodgers and the
Yankees and the Mets. Right, they're at a huge disadvantage.
Where in football, the Bengals, if they chose to, they
can give Burrow, they can give Jamar Chase, they can
give to Higgins, and if they want, they give Trey
Hendrickson one hundred million dollars. They have the money, they're
(20:29):
just choosing not to. And we can argue till we're
blue in the face whether that's correct or wrong or whatever.
But it's not from the lack of cash like the
Oakland A's or the Tampa bay Rays legitimately don't have
the money to pay Shoe Heeo Tani like. They do
not They do not generate that type of revenue, They
don't have that type cash reserves. They do not have
they do not have the capability to pay. Where in basketball,
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the Minnesota Timberwolves or the Phoenix Suns or you name
any team can max out a guy for two hundred
and fifty million dollars, every single team. So this notion
that the Lakers have been some big disadvantage because the
Bus family was much more mom and pop. They just
happened to have this clamorous asset. Well, there's some truth
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to that. I mean, they low balled Tyron Lou once
upon a time. It hasn't stopped them. They pay as
I think there was like three or four more teams
over the last ten years that have paid more in
luxury tax that they have the money. I heard Brian
Winhorse say that someone leaked the league's financials to him.
I kind of vaguely remember this, but he remembers looking
and seeing that the Lakers in a week made more
(21:35):
than the Grizzlies did in a year on their television deal.
So obviously they got revenue platforms. But I think sometimes
we overcomplicate sports because all I hear is like, to
look at what the money has done to the Dodgers. Well, yeah,
they hired Andrew Friedman, who's widely considered one of the
great baseball executives we've ever seen. Like, how did the
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Cubs and the Red Sox resurrect their franchises? They hired
theo Epstein. I've seen it with the A's they had
a guy named Billy bean Hell. Look at the Lakers,
when did they become dominant in their early eighties when
they hired a guy named Pat Riley and his general
manager was named Jerry West. And then when they got
Kobe and Shack, what did they do? They hired Phil Jackson.
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Management has always mattered. Now, if you want to argue
that management, you know, in any of these sports, especially
football and basketball, there is no salary cap, so that's
when you can separate yourself. So I agree with that.
But you are not winning in sports, whether your owner
is flushed with cash or whether he's not, if you
do not have the right people running your teams. Jeffrey
(22:45):
Lurie is really really rich right now in Philadelphia. The
Eagles have made a lot of money over the course
of the Internet era, but especially the last fifteen years.
Why do you think they've been to three Super Bowls
since twenty seventeen. Why do you think they've won two
of them? They have an elite general manager many would
consider one of the best gms in the league. Look
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at the Seattle Seahawks. They just had on John Schneider,
their owner who's passed away now and his daughter's run at.
Paul Allen was as rich as any. He was, like
Steve Balmer of the NFL, flush with cash for a
long time when he owned the team, they weren't that good. Well,
when did they turn around the franchise when I don't
know they hired Pete Carroll and John Schneider. I've seen
(23:27):
it forever with the Raiders. They could never get it
right and their owner always lacked the funds because a
lot like the Bus family, they didn't have anything else.
All they have is the team. And while the team
does generate them money, they are not flushed with cash
like they would be with Stan Cronk or know, the
Glazier family like they just don't have the same amount
(23:48):
of disposable cash to throw around. There are different levels
to this, but the Raiders have struggled not because Mark
Davis has lacked cash because they've hired poorly. I mean
they hired The reason that John Spytech and Pete Carroll
are there is because Tom Brady and the crew of
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big money people came in and Mark Davis allows them
to have a huge influence and before like Antonio Pierce
was their head coach last year, of course they sucked,
you know, so I think sometimes we factor in money
and obviously it matters and having big, great infrastructure and
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the best training tables and the best you know jets
when you're flying around. I understand that. But the Oklahoma
City Thunder are good because their general manager is elite,
So if you want to dominate, and the Lakers wanted
to dominate, and obviously the Bus family was over their
head because once doctor Buss died, their kids just aren't
(24:52):
that good at their job, right, even if their heart's
in the right place, even if they love the Lakers,
they just don't really know what they're doing because knowing
what you're doing. I mean, we just talked about Jimmy HASLM.
Jimmy Haslam has unlimited money and it's like he can't
figure it out. David Tepper same thing, guys, fucking stock
trading genius and his team has sucked constantly since he
(25:14):
got the job. Why he can't figure out how to
hire the right people. And when you do figure out
how to hire the right people, usually your franchise doesn't
mean you're gonna dominate, doesn't mean you're gonna become a
rocket ship, but you're gonna be way better than you were.
And that's how you win in sports, and that's how
you up the value of a franchise, because most franchises
aren't the Lakers, whether they're winning or they're losing. Now
(25:37):
we can get into a whole different conspiracy theory on
over the last six months, Lucas trade in the middle
of the night, Dallas gets their backscratched and gets the
number one pick, and then sale happens when no one
saw coming. So who knows. But I think sometimes we
talk so much money, money, money, money. Let's be real,
Hire the right GM and coach and you'll win.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Other than that, I do want to get out of
here on this fugazi Friday about I can't really relate
to adrenaline junkies. I don't get I never have felt
like I want to jump out of a plane and
go skydiving, never felt like I want to get into
a cage and swim with great white sharks. There are
just certain things that I just kind of stay away from.
(26:22):
But I get it some people get their kind of
rocks off doing stuff like that, even helicopter skiing and
just doing crazy stuff. Well, I was watching this documentary
on Netflix called The Titanic, and it's about that submarine
that essentially exploded a couple of years ago. Trying to
look at the Titanic. Remember they couldn't find him forever.
(26:43):
I get individuals who are a little crazy, like the
guy that ran this project. His name was like stocked
in Rush. And this guy was actually in it for
the wrong reasons. He just he was in it for
selfish ego reasons, like he wanted to be known as
like a legendary human, like he wanted to be known
as like an Elon, a Bezos, like a guy that
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everyone had to respect and know and build like this
billion dollar business. He actually didn't really just do it
for the pure nature of going really deep underneath the
sea in a summarine that clearly should never have been
that deep because it was destined to fail if you
check out the documentary. But what I do not get
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is why these super rich people want to go on
these excursions. Like my generation misss space. It is hard
for me to relate to the guy, even if everyone
sells me that it's going to be really safe. Bezos Elon,
whoever get in that spaceship and go up to space,
Like I don't even need to think about it. It's
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an immediate no no interest. The Titanic thing of these
rich billionaire guys that a couple of them that got
in there and see they all died. I don't get
the need to do this stuff, and especially with technology,
like can't you just YouTube it? So I just watching
this thing and listen. I I've always really respected I
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love to swim in pools, really respect the ocean, you know,
having gone to a school where a lot of surfers,
because we are basically at cal Pauly, there's basically half
Northern California, half Southern California. And one thing that binds
that Southern California kind of guy is, especially if you're
from you know, Newport down to San Diego, it's like
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a love of surfing. They like being in the water.
And I just like and when you surf, especially up
at cal Pauly North, like toward the Bay Area, like
that's one of the great concentrations of great white sharks
and they are legitimately out there. It's like they don't
even care. It's like if we see one, we see one.
I can't even like my heart would be pounding. Obviously,
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surfing is just challenging to begin with. I was like,
why do you I feel no knee to go out there,
especially like northern California. The water's fucking freezing. So it's
like water's freezing. These waves are pretty big, and they're
just eighteen foot great white sharks under me with seals
swimming around that are essentially like you know, their they're
Filet Mignon swimming around my heir. I count me out.
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I just don't quite understand these adrenaline junkies that need
to do this stuff. I can't even begin to relate.
And you know, watching this special, I mean it was
kind of it was kind of riveting just because how
crazy this guy was. But man, just sad deal. Welcome
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gonna work. Not because I liked him as a player.
I thought he was like a top fifty pick in
most drafts. But I will bet against people going to
the Browns. Not because I don't think their coach is
not good. I think Stefanski is good. I think their
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GM is clearly a dynamic, smart guy, but their owner's
nuts and he's proven it. And it's not like a
cheap He's spent more cash over the last thing four
or five years than any team in the NFL. It's
not like he lacks money. I think he's one of
the richer guys in the league, but he's proven over
and over that he gets in the way of progress.
And anytime you're the boss, whether it's you're the dad
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in a home, whether you're the boss of a mom
and pop shop, whether you're someone like Jimmy Haslam and
you own an NFL team, you can do whatever you want.
And at any moment, when the GM and the coach
go we just drafted Dylan Gabriel in the third round,
he goes, I want you to draft him in the
fifth round. So it's just it's a bizarre place, it
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really is. So I don't think it's gonna work, because
most things don't work in Cleveland when Jimmy Haslam has
been in control. But when it comes to the situation
of getting pulled over to one hundred miles an hour,
I saw Coward go on like, I'm out right judgments
a huge thing when it comes to quarterbacks. Coward, I'm
(03:57):
gonna see him next week. That his big deal was
always you know, the backward half thing, and you know,
a lot of younger people always laughed at that. I
was in Tahoe a month ago and I was playing
golf with this guy who owns a construction company, really
high level, impressive, successful guy. And when I told him that,
(04:17):
you know, I work with Colin and do the volume
and everything. The first thing that came up was the
backwards half thing and how he loved that take. And
this was a guy probably fifty five plus, and that's
something that resonates with older people. Well, doing one hundred
miles an hour. When I was a kid, and I
was born in eighty four, so I got my license
late nineties, maybe two thousand or ninety nine. If I
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would have got pulled over doing one hundred miles an hour,
my dad would have beat the shit out of me.
That was the day and age when you know you
could lay hands to children. I don't think that's quite
allowed anymore. But I grew up on cars like most
people my age and definitely older, that when you hit
about eighty miles an hour, the entire car rattled nless
(05:00):
you had like a Corvette or a Ferrari or something.
If you're driving a Ford, Bronco, a suburban, a van,
you get to eighty, you felt it. So when you've
told someone when I was a kid you were doing
one hundred miles an hour, that would have been like
telling someone you knew someone with a million dollars cash.
It was like, damn, that's incredibly fast. And I told
(05:23):
the story when I went to Reno and I rented
that Tesla and I drove the thing around and I've
been telling everyone since I can't get over how fast
the fucking car is. That if I own that car
and I had a sixteen year old, there is no
chance I would let him drive that car. He would
kill himself because I know at sixteen, when I drove
a Ford Explorer that I would say, once you went
(05:45):
above seventy, the whole thing shook, rattled and rolled, and
You're like, is this isn't gonna blow up when I'm
on the middle, when I'm in the middle of the freeway,
And I think most people listening to this, if you're
of a certain age, you couldn't dream of going one
hundred miles and ninety percent of the cars now basically
any new car, and I'm not even talking Tesla's. I'm
(06:06):
talking for trucks. My mom has like an SUV Lexus
that's probably four or five years old. I drove that
thing to Tahoe a couple of years ago, and I
remember going ninety miles an hour, thinking, God, this is
really smooth. You don't even realize how fast you are going.
And that number resonates with older people when one hundred
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miles an hour now speed isn't relative, right, one hundred
miles an hour in twenty twenty five is the same
speed as it was in nineteen forty. The difference is
the ability to get to those speeds in all these
new cars. Like, I'm gonna give him a little bit
of the benefit of the doubt. Now, if you want
to be critical, I'd be a hypocrite. Like young people
(06:49):
go out, stay up late at night, fun shit happens. Then,
I mean I would be a raging hypocrite if I like,
why aren't you in bed at twelve thirty at night?
Like at twenty two, twenty three, twenty four years old,
I was up a lot of the time too, and
I didn't have a lot of money. If you gave
me a lot of money and a lot of free time,
I didn't have a job, nothing to do for the summer,
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I would be out rocking and rolling too. But I
think people being critical of the speed it's easy to
be because that number still resonates with a certain demo.
I just think anyone with a newer car can relate, like,
it's pretty easy to hit that speed now and not
realize it. How often when you get a new car,
or if you drive a new car, because you're running
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that car and you're with your wife, you're with your friend,
they go, man, you need to slow down, and you
look you like, I didn't even realize I was going
that fast. So I think a lot of people are
gonna have takes like this is crazy. This is a reflection.
I think a lot of people in souped up cars now. Listen,
there is a line. You know, Henry Ruggs just gave
(07:53):
a speech at some prison thing that he killed someone
doing one hundred and fifty miles an hour. And I'm
pro you know, people having their ability to do what
they want. Buy a car. I'm as pro gun as
any young person in media. I'll promise you that. But
there are certain things that you should be trained for.
(08:13):
I'm a big believer in that. And there are certain
cars that I'm sorry, a twenty five year old, a
sixty year old, I don't give a shit how old
you are, you should have to take some training to
get behind the wheel of that bad boy has too
much power. If you're not Dale Earnhard Junior, if you're
not Lewis Hamilton, like you shouldn't be able to drive
this thing, but like he's driving a supercharged ram truck.
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A lot of people have those trucks. They haul ass,
and a lot of cars now haul ass and getting
to one hundred miles an hour is pretty easy to do.
So when I see him say like, I didn't even
realize I was going that fast, I actually think it's
pretty believable. I do that shit all the time. Now.
Do I think this is a reflection of a decision maker,
I don't do. I think he's going to be a
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good quarterback for the Browns. I don't because most people
are not. It took Joe Flacco having a little short run.
They ran Baker Mayfield out of town. Now he's the
top ten quarterback after they drafted the number one overall.
So I would just bet against the brown situation. But
I think everyone overblowing one hundred miles an hour like
that was way crazier when I was young. I don't
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think one hundred miles an hour given these cars that
are on the road right now. I think you, especially
younger people, be surprised how often people go way faster
than they even realize they're going. There was a moment
that happened this week with the PGA Tour that I
think has big implications to the NFL. I'd never heard
(09:39):
of this guy. Now, I'm not super locked into who
Roger Goodell's team is, right Like, you could ask me
who are the coordinators for basically every team in the league.
I couldn't get all the special teams coaches, but I
get the OC's and DC's probably of ninety percent of
the league. In hell, I could give a lot of
like position coaches. When it came like who are Roger
(10:00):
Gazelle's top three henchmen, I have no clue. Well, it
turns out Brian Rollap was a very very important guy
for Roger Goodell in the NFL, and he was just
hired to be the CEO of the PGA Tour and
before it was called the commissioner, but for tax purposes,
they had to change because of this live thing and
a lot of different variables that I don't even understand.
(10:21):
I honestly don't even care. But he's officially been named
the CEO. And when you go to Brian Rollapp's LinkedIn page,
do you know what you see? You see a very
very ambitious person and do you know what ambitious people do.
They try to climb that ladder, and when they feel
stuck on that ladder, they will do anything in their
power to get to that next rung. And Roger Goodell's
(10:43):
sixty six years old, and it came out I think
over the course of the Tush Push Owners meetings that
like some people internally are like Roger, we need you
to kind of have an answer to when you're gonna retire,
and kind of the pushback was like, I'm not plan
on going anywhere. Don't totally blame I've been making sixty
five million dollars a year. He probably he has a
position that I don't know. It's definitely like a top
(11:04):
ten CEO, commissioner, whatever, you know, that role, someone that
doesn't actually own the thing in American business. I mean,
the guy's a member at Augusta National. I mean, he's
kind of a big deal with his position, and I
wonder if you're Brian Rolapp and you want that job.
And for the last I think decade plus, he has
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been in charge of the media slash business rights and
he was a key guy in negotiating the last television
deal that obviously has given historic returns, and he would
have been the guy to negotiate this next television deal.
And who knows, maybe he's back in the mix in
twenty twenty nine when it's time to negotiate that deal.
Because Brian Rolapp knows this. If you want to get
(11:49):
a girl to like you, bring another girl around. She'll
show more interest. I promise. If you want to raise
have another company offer you a job, and you'll find
out how much the company you work with likes you,
and if they do, how much they're willing to pay
for your services. So Brian Rolapp, by all accounts, and
I've listened to some golf podcasts on this, A lot
(12:09):
of people in the golf world in that kind of
the main crew of the Tiger Woods and the Jay Monahans,
and I don't even count him, but you know, Arthur
Blank and some of these other venture capitals, they didn't
even know if he was going to accept their job.
So this was like a long, full court press to
try to land this individual to run the business operations
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for golf. And if he proves, because listen, when I've
been lucky enough to know a lot of these coaches
and guys that are coordinators and then become head coaches.
And the one thing they'll say is like, I want
to run my own operation. I want to show everyone
that I can do it. It's why position coaches take
coordinator jobs, like wait, you just left being the running
(12:51):
back coach or wide receiver coach. For Andy Reid to
take the coordinator job for the worst team in the NFL,
it's like, yeah, I want to be a coordinator. I
want to show that I can call plays, and if
I do a good job, I will become a head coach.
And every single time, for the most part, like Ben
Johnson last year when he hung up on the Washington
Commanders as they were flying, like that's an outlier situation.
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Most guys jump at opportunities and they become a head
coach immediately when that opportunity or coordinator presents itself. It's
no different in the corporate world. And so when you
see Brian Rollapp take this job, he knows if you
can fix Golf's problems, not just unify them, but expand
their business. And who's he rolling with and rubbing elbows
(13:35):
with in that business a lot of NFL people. Where
are probably the majority of NFL owners associated with they're
probably members of country clubs, and some of the country
clubs they're members at host these events. So he's going
to be around them in a different capacity where he's
in charge, where he's no longer walking into the four
(13:56):
Seasons in whatever city it's a meeting behind Roger, he's
not the boss. Tiger Woods stands next to him when
they're walking into the meeting. So I see this guy.
If it goes well, he's going to be the next
commissioner of the NFL. Because he's not a golf guy.
He doesn't even have a registered handicap. He just admitted
the other day I play less than ten rounds a year.
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So he's not getting into this because he's some golf junkie.
He's getting into this to prove like I'm ready for
the bright lights. And here's the thing with the NFL,
because I look the last couple commissioners. You know, there
were basically three over the last seventy years. P Roselle,
Paul Tagliaboo, and Roger Goodell. Hard to really put anything
(14:38):
in context with Roselle. Back in the sixties, completely different world.
Radio and newspapers was much bigger than television. But when
you go to Tagliaboo. In the late eighties, he was
the lead lawyer for the NFL, and obviously when Roger
Goodell was named the commissioner in whatever the mid two thousands,
he was one of tag Laboo's underlinks. They're not hiring
(15:02):
from outside, Like when Starbucks needed a new CEO, they
hired chipotlece That's not happening in the NFL. Too many
bodies are buried everywhere and there's too much on the line.
They're not going outside the family. It's kind of like
the mob. So Brian Rolapp has been in this world
for twenty years. He kind of in a weird way. Obviously,
the PGA Tour is a lot different than football, but
(15:25):
a lot of similar people. The owners are involved, they're
involved with country clubs and obviously big money people. So
he's involved when media rights deals, gets to be the
lead dog on those, and I would expect if all
goes well, you're looking at the next commissioner of the NFL.
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The Lakers they sold for ten billion dollars, They actually
didn't because the guy that owns the Dodgers that is
now the majority owner already owned twenty five twenty eight percent,
so he only he's not paying ten billion dollars, but
he obviously is paying billions of dollars to own more
to become the majority shareholder. And listen, I would say
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two franchises, you could argue three now with the Dodgers
are truly like the elite NFL franchises, and that would
be the Lakers and the Yankees. And I think you
could factor in the Dodgers now as well, that they
are the equivalent of the Dallas Cowboys, the Philadelphia Eagles,
the New York Giants, San Francisco forty nine Ers, like
they are there franchise. I mean, I think Vegas, I
(19:21):
if Mark Davis decided to sell at this point in time,
when you factor in the stadium, when you factor in
the area, would go for a lot despite their lack
of success. But my point is that the Lakers are
somewhat of an outlier. I mean, look at the Boston
Celtics historic franchise went for six billion dollars, which again
shitload of money. But the Lakers are worth, you know,
forty percent more and they are so I think a
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lot of conversation in pro sports is like does your
owner have enough money? And in baseball that really matters.
I was with a buddy yesterday playing golf on Wednesday
who scouts in Major League Baseball, and it's safe to
say that the team he works for doesn't spend as
much as some of the big ducks, and it can
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be frustrating and there are limitations at times, even though
his team has had success at different points in time.
But it's he's not competing with the Dodgers and the
Yankees and the Mets. Right, they're at a huge disadvantage.
Where in football, the Bengals, if they chose to, they
can give Burrow, they can give Jamar Chase, they can
give to Higgins, and if they want, they give Trey
Hendrickson one hundred million dollars. They have the money, they're
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just choosing not to. And we can argue till we're
blue in the face whether that's correct or wrong or whatever.
But it's not from the lack of cash like the
Oakland A's or the Tampa bay Rays legitimately don't have
the money to pay Shoe Heeo Tani like. They do
not They do not generate that type of revenue, They
don't have that type cash reserves. They do not have
they do not have the capability to pay. Where in basketball,
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the Minnesota Timberwolves or the Phoenix Suns or you name
any team can max out a guy for two hundred
and fifty million dollars, every single team. So this notion
that the Lakers have been some big disadvantage because the
Bus family was much more mom and pop. They just
happened to have this clamorous asset. Well, there's some truth
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to that. I mean, they low balled Tyron Lou once
upon a time. It hasn't stopped them. They pay as
I think there was like three or four more teams
over the last ten years that have paid more in
luxury tax that they have the money. I heard Brian
Winhorse say that someone leaked the league's financials to him.
I kind of vaguely remember this, but he remembers looking
and seeing that the Lakers in a week made more
(21:35):
than the Grizzlies did in a year on their television deal.
So obviously they got revenue platforms. But I think sometimes
we overcomplicate sports because all I hear is like, to
look at what the money has done to the Dodgers. Well, yeah,
they hired Andrew Friedman, who's widely considered one of the
great baseball executives we've ever seen. Like, how did the
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Cubs and the Red Sox resurrect their franchises? They hired
theo Epstein. I've seen it with the A's they had
a guy named Billy bean Hell. Look at the Lakers,
when did they become dominant in their early eighties when
they hired a guy named Pat Riley and his general
manager was named Jerry West. And then when they got
Kobe and Shack, what did they do? They hired Phil Jackson.
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Management has always mattered. Now, if you want to argue
that management, you know, in any of these sports, especially
football and basketball, there is no salary cap, so that's
when you can separate yourself. So I agree with that.
But you are not winning in sports, whether your owner
is flushed with cash or whether he's not, if you
do not have the right people running your teams. Jeffrey
(22:45):
Lurie is really really rich right now in Philadelphia. The
Eagles have made a lot of money over the course
of the Internet era, but especially the last fifteen years.
Why do you think they've been to three Super Bowls
since twenty seventeen. Why do you think they've won two
of them? They have an elite general manager many would
consider one of the best gms in the league. Look
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at the Seattle Seahawks. They just had on John Schneider,
their owner who's passed away now and his daughter's run at.
Paul Allen was as rich as any. He was, like
Steve Balmer of the NFL, flush with cash for a
long time when he owned the team, they weren't that good. Well,
when did they turn around the franchise when I don't
know they hired Pete Carroll and John Schneider. I've seen
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it forever with the Raiders. They could never get it
right and their owner always lacked the funds because a
lot like the Bus family, they didn't have anything else.
All they have is the team. And while the team
does generate them money, they are not flushed with cash
like they would be with Stan Cronk or know, the
Glazier family like they just don't have the same amount
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of disposable cash to throw around. There are different levels
to this, but the Raiders have struggled not because Mark
Davis has lacked cash because they've hired poorly. I mean
they hired The reason that John Spytech and Pete Carroll
are there is because Tom Brady and the crew of
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big money people came in and Mark Davis allows them
to have a huge influence and before like Antonio Pierce
was their head coach last year, of course they sucked,
you know, so I think sometimes we factor in money
and obviously it matters and having big, great infrastructure and
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the best training tables and the best you know jets
when you're flying around. I understand that. But the Oklahoma
City Thunder are good because their general manager is elite,
So if you want to dominate, and the Lakers wanted
to dominate, and obviously the Bus family was over their
head because once doctor Buss died, their kids just aren't
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that good at their job, right, even if their heart's
in the right place, even if they love the Lakers,
they just don't really know what they're doing because knowing
what you're doing. I mean, we just talked about Jimmy HASLM.
Jimmy Haslam has unlimited money and it's like he can't
figure it out. David Tepper same thing, guys, fucking stock
trading genius and his team has sucked constantly since he
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got the job. Why he can't figure out how to
hire the right people. And when you do figure out
how to hire the right people, usually your franchise doesn't
mean you're gonna dominate, doesn't mean you're gonna become a
rocket ship, but you're gonna be way better than you were.
And that's how you win in sports, and that's how
you up the value of a franchise, because most franchises
aren't the Lakers, whether they're winning or they're losing. Now
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we can get into a whole different conspiracy theory on
over the last six months, Lucas trade in the middle
of the night, Dallas gets their backscratched and gets the
number one pick, and then sale happens when no one
saw coming. So who knows. But I think sometimes we
talk so much money, money, money, money. Let's be real,
Hire the right GM and coach and you'll win.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Other than that, I do want to get out of
here on this fugazi Friday about I can't really relate
to adrenaline junkies. I don't get I never have felt
like I want to jump out of a plane and
go skydiving, never felt like I want to get into
a cage and swim with great white sharks. There are
just certain things that I just kind of stay away from.
(26:22):
But I get it some people get their kind of
rocks off doing stuff like that, even helicopter skiing and
just doing crazy stuff. Well, I was watching this documentary
on Netflix called The Titanic, and it's about that submarine
that essentially exploded a couple of years ago. Trying to
look at the Titanic. Remember they couldn't find him forever.
(26:43):
I get individuals who are a little crazy, like the
guy that ran this project. His name was like stocked
in Rush. And this guy was actually in it for
the wrong reasons. He just he was in it for
selfish ego reasons, like he wanted to be known as
like a legendary human, like he wanted to be known
as like an Elon, a Bezos, like a guy that
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everyone had to respect and know and build like this
billion dollar business. He actually didn't really just do it
for the pure nature of going really deep underneath the
sea in a summarine that clearly should never have been
that deep because it was destined to fail if you
check out the documentary. But what I do not get
(27:29):
is why these super rich people want to go on
these excursions. Like my generation misss space. It is hard
for me to relate to the guy, even if everyone
sells me that it's going to be really safe. Bezos Elon,
whoever get in that spaceship and go up to space,
Like I don't even need to think about it. It's
(27:51):
an immediate no no interest. The Titanic thing of these
rich billionaire guys that a couple of them that got
in there and see they all died. I don't get
the need to do this stuff, and especially with technology,
like can't you just YouTube it? So I just watching
this thing and listen. I I've always really respected I
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love to swim in pools, really respect the ocean, you know,
having gone to a school where a lot of surfers,
because we are basically at cal Pauly, there's basically half
Northern California, half Southern California. And one thing that binds
that Southern California kind of guy is, especially if you're
from you know, Newport down to San Diego, it's like
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a love of surfing. They like being in the water.
And I just like and when you surf, especially up
at cal Pauly North, like toward the Bay Area, like
that's one of the great concentrations of great white sharks
and they are legitimately out there. It's like they don't
even care. It's like if we see one, we see one.
I can't even like my heart would be pounding. Obviously,
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surfing is just challenging to begin with. I was like,
why do you I feel no knee to go out there,
especially like northern California. The water's fucking freezing. So it's
like water's freezing. These waves are pretty big, and they're
just eighteen foot great white sharks under me with seals
swimming around that are essentially like you know, their they're
Filet Mignon swimming around my heir. I count me out.
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I just don't quite understand these adrenaline junkies that need
to do this stuff. I can't even begin to relate.
And you know, watching this special, I mean it was
kind of it was kind of riveting just because how
crazy this guy was. But man, just sad deal. Welcome
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We just saw Schador get pulled over. Obviously, we have
instances over the years of catastrophic situations happening on July fourth.
I remember one vividly that involved fireworks. This is a
time when this is not college football. You know, in
the NFL, not only you know college players now have
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disposable income, but in college, you basically get a week
or two away from your program. As a college football player,
you are constantly with your strength coach, living in that community.
In the NFL, hellf your team barely shows up for
the voluntary stuff, and then when you finally break for
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the summer, you're getting five or six weeks to do
whatever you want, to go wherever you want. And it's
one thing a thirty four year old that's married with
three kids. But a lot of these younger players, especially
these rookies, you know, their friends maybe still be in college,
may still have some of their college teammates. They're just
in different situations and decision making is extremely important and
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finding a way to stay communicate with these young players,
there's a balance, right, you got to let them be
grown up. But this is a time when you really
can derail your upcoming season with a bad decision. So obviously,
time plus discretionary income can be a dangerous combination for
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young people, especially famous young people that are public figures.
And making the right decision is something that the coaches
and these gms that just drafted these players. This is
where you pray your scouting department, the information you had
on their character, on their maturity kind of comes to
fruition because it's the first time it's really tested. Right
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when you draft them, they immediately come for rookie minichamp
and then there's just kind of a round until now.
And now they're away from you and you're this football.
You're going to be depending on young players, not just
first round picks. A third rounder could be starting, a
sixth rounder could be starting, an undrafted free agent could
be starting. So you need them to take care of
this time, not just working out and staying in shape,
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but at night, whatever they're doing for fun, to do
it in a responsible manner. And that's this week for
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