Belichick/Brady New Outlook; Offseason Innovation Race; Cut Cam; Headlines; Signings; Mailbag

In this episode, Middlekauff checks in from quarantine to look at why Belichick and Brady divorce won't negatively impact either of their legacies, their race against each other to reach another Super Bowl, and the organizational obstacles that teams will have to overcome if OTA's are cancelled. He also looks at some recent deals, headlines, signings and answers listener questions in Middlekauff's Mailbag. Follow John on twitter @JohnMiddlekauff and go to theherdnow.com to find the latest content. Subscribe now!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
What is going on everybody? John middlecop three and out
podcast just day. Who knows what of quarantine? And I'll
tell you this one thing I've learned about myself. I
already knew this. I can quarantine with anybody. I I
can quarantine with the best of them. Luckily, as a
podcaster and as a football guy, you know, quarantining and

(00:32):
talking ball is uh, I'm able to do that. And
I hope everyone out there stands safe listening to the rules.
If you have a small business, I hope you're keep
your head up and we're just gonna try to make
this through together. If you had a small, you know,
restaurant in my area, I'd support it for sure. So
I I got your back, at least spiritually. I'm thinking

(00:54):
about everybody, and uh, you know, I don't know what
we can do to pass the time beside, you know,
throw a couple back. I know that's what I did
this weekend, not much to watch. I was thinking about
it this weekend, the longest I've gone. You know, I'm
thirty five years old, so i'd say about ten eleven
years old. You know, I'm just watching sports at a

(01:15):
rapid rate. Football, basketball, baseball, golf, any event that was
on TV. Now. In in the mid nineties, probably toward
the late nineties, we got direct TV. Uh. In Davis
where I grew up, we were big Kings fans, so
we got the NBA package first. I remember getting ESPN

(01:36):
because when I was growing up, for a long period
of time, we didn't have cable TV. So I remember
getting ESPN for the first time, getting Sunday Night Football
with McGuire and Thizman and thinking, like, God, we made it.
Mama made it. I got football at night on Sunday,
you guys. I mean, it's it's weird to even talk
about like that. Can you imagine not having access to

(01:58):
games now? It sounds crazy, but it does kind of
bring into light, like March Matto. We have the Sweet
sixteen right now, uh, you know coming up this week.
We know who was in it, and it just didn't
happen this year, so it's it's a crazy time. I'm
just trying to listen. Quarantine with your loved ones, you know,
throw a couple back and you know, get to get
to know the people in your house. If you got

(02:19):
a girlfriend, you got a wife, you've got some kids.
This is good time. To spend some quality time. I
ended up the NFL network was replaying some games on Saturday,
and I end up rewatching a decent amount of the
Bills Texans playoff game, and two things jumped out hardcore. One,
the Bills are really good. Uh, the Bills, I would

(02:39):
imagine once, you know, hopefully knock on Wood sports kind
of comes back into our life and we start talking
gambling and the fall again, I'll be shocked if the
Bills aren't favored to win that division. Uh, they have
a big time defense. They add digs to that team
that already has some weapons on offense. If Josh Allen
keep getting better, Sean McDermott's a really good coach. I mean,
that's that's a team that I would not be shocked

(03:01):
to see in the conference championship in the next couple
of years. They're physical, they're well run. They just need
to score a little more points and they are there.
They got a chance to be really, really good. And
then the Texans, I mean, Hopkins was our best player.
Him and Sean, I mean, those two guys carried in
that game. The rest of the team was beyond average.
It was those two guys basically being like a basketball team,

(03:22):
like hop on our back. So that's what that's what
I did on Saturday. Uh, I thought a lot about
the Belichick Brady divorce. I'll dive into that some things
about O t A s. I know on Monday Colin
talked about it's gonna be really difficult for the for
the new coaches in the league, and something we've talked
about here. But I just there are some things that
I think teams are gonna be whether you have a

(03:43):
new coach or an old coach, you can be proactive
during this time that there's never if you do run
a football team and O t as do get canceled.
And I was texting with the head coach in the
league on Saturday after I had thrown a few back,
and he's like, yeah, if you you ask everyone in
like his building, he's like, every one thinks O t
as we may get a couple of weeks. He's like,
I don't think we're gonna get one week. I think

(04:04):
when football starts will be training camp. So if that
some of these teams should be preparing it and there's
a way you can, then I basically just wrote down
a bunch of stuff that happened over the last three
or four days that I didn't talk about on Friday.
That's either happened on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or today, and
we'll dive into that. And of course Middlecoff mailbag at

(04:25):
John Middlecoff is my Instagram. You guys are welcome. I
have a ton of questions. I'll try to bang them
all out at least a large percentage of them at
the end of the show. We do that. I know
we got a lot of new listeners. Uh, there's the
time to listen to podcast. Let's you know, quarantine and podcast.
They say quarantine and chill, quarantine and podcast and uh,
this is this is how we interact that the show.

(04:46):
This is your show. I mean, I'm just talking about
things that I think you guys would like. So any
question you have, you can slide at John Middlecoff, Twitter, Instagram,
handled d MS wide open. But I've been thinking a
lot about the Brady and Belichick divorce. And I've never
been married, been in some serious relationships, but when you
break up, you know, you're not entitled to anyone else's stuff.
You just go your separate ways. I know a lot

(05:08):
of people of all ages that have been getting divorced,
some smaller or some of shorter lengths, you know, under
five years, which depending on your state and how much
you make, might not be that much money. Obviously, always
kids factor in, but I know in the state of California,
when you've been married over ten years, there are different
rules that kind of clicks in about you're entitled be

(05:28):
half and and the payments. And the reality is with
Belichick and Brady, if you look at them like a
divorce couple, because that's essentially what happened, they're the equivalent
and divorced couple that had ten million ten billion in
the bank. They are so they're both got a five billion.
They're so rich it doesn't even matter their legacies if

(05:50):
neither of them did anything again moving forward, I don't
think we'll ever be touched. Belichick has eight Super Bowls,
two as an assistant for Parcels, which I ended up
watching the thirty for thirty last week with Belichick and Parcels.
Parcels even credited with Belichick for devising the game plans
to beat Bill Walsh, arguably the greatest offensive mine ever.

(06:11):
That was before he became the head coach and then
went to New England and won six. No head coaches
ever winning six Super Bowls as the head coach, And
I don't think any assistant coach slash head coach is
every accumulating eight rings. To put into context, Andy Reid,
who won his first Super Bowl as a head coach,
also had one as an assistant coach, now has two,

(06:32):
and that's a lot. Like if Andy retired tomorrow he
had one of his assistant won one as a head coach.
His resume is stacked. It's just that's that's all. Welcome
to the Hall of Fame. Coach. Read Belichick's got eight
and tom who has six as a quarterback. One thing
I know for certain, no quarterback will ever win six

(06:52):
rings as as a starter. That's never happening again. Maybe
if you played it perfectly like Robert Ory and you
bounce to the right teams as a backup, maybe you
could pull it off. But probably not either like, no
one's ever winning six rings as a coach as a quarterback.
So they had a divorce. They both basically hit the lottery.
Melinda Gates, Bill Gates. However you want to look at it,

(07:12):
they're super rich. It doesn't matter what's moving forward. And really,
when I look at it, in this divorce and listen,
like a breakup, a divorce, you always kind of hope
you do better than your significant other. I mean, at
the end of the day, we're all inherently selfish. I
know people say you root for others, and that's true,
but when you get a divorce, you know, I would
imagine you're kind of hoping that you end up on

(07:34):
the better end of it all than her or him,
depending on you know what, your guy or girl. But
the reality isn't this situation If I get a divorce
at fifty years old, she's fifty and I'm fifty, we're
both kind of at the same lot in land, right, well,
Belichick and Brady or not. Despite Belichick being way older

(07:55):
than Brady. Even as sixty eight years old, Belichick could
probably coach I mean at minimum five probably eight years.
I mean, he's a pretty young looking weather sixty eight, Like,
I don't see him going anywhere anytime soon. Brandy's holding
on for dear life right now. He's forty three years old,

(08:15):
and I know he just signed a two year deal,
but there's a chance by midyear next year. It just
looks terrible maybe it looks great, who knows, but we
know he doesn't have much longer to go. If Tom
Brady is on the putting Green on whole seventeen, I'd
say Belichick's probably a whole fourteen now. He could leave
in any moment if he wanted to, But I think

(08:36):
we have enough information to know Belichick's life is football. Now.
Tom's life is football too, But when you're the actual player,
you don't control it as much. So whether Tom wins
one game or takes his team back to back years
of the playoffs, his legacy is so set in stone
it's not even funny. Now. If he were to win

(08:56):
the Super Bowl with Tampa, that would be an icing
the cake. But I think the cake, the majority of
the icing, and the cherry is about to be put
on top. Like it just doesn't get any better if
you're Tom, Because when you think about it, there have
been other quarterbacks Joe Montana want to win a Super
Bowl with George Seffert, and with Bill Walsh, Troy Aikman,

(09:18):
one one with Jimmy Johnson, and with what's his name
the old Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer. Like it's happened before.
Hall of fame quarterbacks have won Super Bowls with multiple coaches.
I just wrote down a couple of coaches that came
to mind. Parcels won both the Super Bowls with the
same quarterback. Bill Walsh both his Super Bowls with the
same quarterback. Andy Reid, who just won with ma Homes.

(09:40):
Let's assume he wins another one in the next couple
of years, We'll win him both with Mahomes. If Sean
Payton never wins another one, it's gonna be with the
same quarterback. If Pete Carroll ever wins another one, it's
gonna be with Russell Wilson. Like typically, coaches, you're as
strong as your best player, Like look at Phil Jackson.
Is Phil Jackson one of the greatest basketball coaches of
all time? Yeah? Probably he did it all with Kobe

(10:02):
or Michael or Shack. Like if you're pretty dependent on
the player. If Belichick, like Tom Brady, if he would
have left the Patriots in the prime of his career,
could have easily won a Super Bowl with another That's
that's the reality of the sport. Top quarterbacks. Aaron Rodgers
could have won it with McCarthy if he had had
Andy Reid or Sean Payton and left. He could have
won it with those guys. We're coaches usually say, even

(10:23):
the great ones, they are pretty dependent on that star quarterback.
Just the reality of the way the league set up.
If Belichick somehow, I don't even think he needs to
win a super Bowl, but if he can get to
the Super Bowl with Gared Stidham on Andy Dalton, some
duty drafts next year, in the next five handful of years,
just get su Super Bowl. If Brady were to get

(10:45):
to a Super Bowl with Arians, and Belichick were to
get to a Super Bowl with some random guy, I
actually think it would be more impressive what Belichick did
because we've already seen Bruce Arians like. He's a big
time coach. He's coached in a conference championship game, He's
been in the playoffs multiple times. Hell, they went seven
and nine last year. The quarterback through thirty picks. I
think a lot of people like Brady. When when we

(11:07):
lean whether it's Brady or Belichick, you know, depending on
who you ask, probably be split. I would imagine the
casual football fan might lean Brady a little more than
the coach. Now the more intense football fan who's a
little more geeky in terms of X's nose and the
strategy of football might lean Belichick, but I understand both
elements of the argument. At the end of the day,

(11:28):
the combination of the two of them is really what
makes them so powerful, and both of them more than
likely would have been great independent of each other if
they would have gott never met like their roads or passed,
never would have crossed. But Brady like just back to
the quarterback thing. No one's winning six rings, Russell Wilson.

(11:48):
Think about this, Russell Wilson. The two best quarterbacks in
the league right now are Russell Wilson and Patrick Mahomes.
I know Lamar One an m v P, but until
you can't function in a playoff game, I can't put
you in that category. So Mahomes and Russell Wilson, who
are Hall of famers. Mahomes had the greatest two year

(12:09):
opening stretch probably in league history, and Russell's had one
of the special careers I know I personally have ever seen.
I think he's an all time great player. They've combined
for two Super Bowls. The likelihood if Mahomes max is
out probably wins three total. If I tell you right now,
Mahomes wins three Super Bowls. I mean, he'd probably go

(12:29):
down as the second greatest quarterback of all time. He'd
be like, well, he didn't win as much as Brady,
but he was more talented in Brady will go Brady one,
Mahomes to Montana three or something. Right, But if Belichick,
I'm telling you, if he is somehow able in the
next handful of years with some random quarterback to make

(12:50):
deep playoff runs, it'll I already think he's the I
don't just think he's the greatest coach in NFL history.
I think he's the greatest coach in sports history. Now
you could poke holes through that. I think he is
the Like we already consider Tom the greatest quarterback of
in league history. What's he fighting for? I was just
watching Catch Me if you Can with Tom Hanks and Leo.

(13:11):
It was on in the background because what there's no
sports on, and the scene once he starts working for
the FBI, when you can tell Leo is like, I
can't do this, I'm gonna become a criminal again and
take off. Tom Hanks kind of sets him up. Leo's
walking away and Tom goes, you know what, leave if
you want, because I know you're not gonna be happy
because no one's chasing anymore, Like nobody's chasing Tom Brady anymore.

(13:35):
It's cemented. He cemented it a couple of years ago,
arguably when he wants fifth, let alone his sixth super Bowl.
But I think, Belichick, you can poke holes. He's done
it all with Brady, and you know what, I'd even
listen to that argument. But if he is able, I think, honestly,
if he's able to make the playoffs this year with
Jared Stidham, Jared freaking Stidham, like I think the Bills,

(13:56):
like I said, rewatching that playoff game, they're gonna be
really good. I like Sean McDermott. I root for any
coach that I have a cell phone number in my phone, obviously,
like I root for people I know. And he's a
really nice guy. He's really high level guy. Those of
you that listen to the interview, he's impressive. You watch
his team, they're good. But is it out of the
round possibility to think Belichick like, I'm not just writing

(14:18):
the Bills into the division championship in terms of winning
the a f C East, like I would the Chiefs
or the Ravens. I would I would write them. I
think I'm gonna pick them to win the division. But
I do it in pencil because I know this, Like,
are we sure we want to bet against the Patriots
as some underdog because here's what I know. The Buccaneers
are not gonna be I don't think anyone's gonna view

(14:38):
them as an underdog. Now, maybe they won't be the
divisional pick because the Saints, who went thirteen and three
and have a loaded roster, most of will pick them.
But I think the majority of America, myself included, will
immediately put the Buccaneers in the super Bowl or not,
excuse me, the playoffs as one of the seven teams.
And I think it'll be pretty hit or miss with media,
people with sports fans be like this the year Belichick, Mrs,

(15:02):
I know what I will not do, I promise you
unless no. I just I just think there's no situation
in which I do not pick the Patriots to make
the playoffs. In the a f C one, the NFC
is dramatically better than the a f C. When you
just look at the NFC, look at the NFC West,
the Seattle and San Francisco are basically locked playoff teams.

(15:23):
The Cardinals just added Hopkins, and the Rams, who have
some issues, did go nine and seven last year. You
got the Packers who just went thirteen and three. The
Bears were had the worst quarterback play arguably in the
league beside Baker Mayfield, and they went eight and eight.
The Vikings are solid. And you look at the NFC East,
the Eagles, they're gonna be tough. They added a lot
this offseason. The Cowboys and McCarthy can get implemented stuff.

(15:47):
Cowboys should be solid. And then the a f C
South has the h Brady now and the Saints, like,
look at the a f C. I got Lamar Jackson,
who are there right now? The regular season pay aper champs,
the Bills, the Texans got worse. I mean, it's just
we got the Chiefs, the Broncos, and the Chargers got

(16:08):
a lot better. I don't know who the Chargers quarterback is.
The Broncos, I don't know how good Drew Lock is.
The Raiders, who the hell knows. They've made the playoffs
one time in seventeen years. The Jets, I mean, come on,
the Dolphins, long way to go. The Bengals stink Steelers.
I mean, Roethlisberger looks like a mountain man right now.
It's just a lot of questions. I picked the Patriots

(16:29):
to make the playoffs, and I know this, in a
playoff game with Bill Belichick, their offense couldn't have been
much worse, and they were in toe to toe with
the team that went to the n FC Championship game.
I think that Belichick has way more to gain moving
forward than Brady, because I really don't know what Brady
can gain. Okay, let's uh, let's talk about this upcoming
off season. And one thing I saw on Twitter the

(16:51):
last twenty four hours is like, and I got a
couple of these tweets and d m s in my Insta,
do you think the NFL season is gonna happen? Oh?
My guys, one, I'm not Dr Focci Fauci. I got
no clue. I'm just I got a business degree from
cal Poly. I'm just trying to make it to April one.

(17:12):
It's March. I got no clue what's gonna happen April one?
Let alone, May one, let alone, June one. We got
a long way to go. These are these are crazy
weird times. We're all in this together. But to think
that the NFL see it's so far away. We just
need to have the mindset let's basically work right now,

(17:33):
day to day, week to week. Let's all just keep
on shugging. But to even ask questions about the NFL season,
I think it's kind of pointless. I feel like a
like a football coach, a little cliche, like we're just
going day to day, trying to get better a little
bit day today. That's really kind of how I'm approaching
my life, and I hope everyone's approaching it. Just try

(17:55):
to listen to what they're telling us and make this
freaking thing go away, for the love of God, But
I I can't even stay with a straight face anything
about the season being we're so far away from that
being talked about. But the one thing we're not far
away from being talked about is O T S And
right now the off season has been indefinitely suspended. Right

(18:16):
It's just it's not gonna happen at this pace. That
is workouts. There's usually phase one, Phase two, and phase three.
There's a workout phase where you start lifting with your
with your strength coach. Then there's a second phase where
your coaches I think, can start working with you a
little bit and watch a little film. Then there's the
third phase, knows that known as practice. Right, you have

(18:38):
rookie minicamp, you have a two or three minicamps, then
you have the the mandatory O T A S. I
texted with the coach this weekend who said, you know,
depending on who you ask in his building, you'll get
a different response. He's like, in my opinion, I don't
think anything's gonna happen this offseason. So no workouts, no practices,

(19:00):
those are done. And I think most of us, if
you just can take a deep breath, would go yeah,
it makes sense when you start reading that the NBA
probably doesn't come back till June one. I don't think
these you're not gonna practice because if gatherings are still
being talked about what happens at a football practice, You've
got twenty coaches, you've got ninety man rosters, you've got trainers,

(19:24):
you have executive you got a lot of people out there.
It's not educated guests. It doesn't happen. And this is
coming from someone that runs a team. So he's like,
we're starting to get thoughts together on how to get
ahead of this. And if I ran a team right now,
I would be thinking. And the good thing if you're
an NFL team, you have access to one thing and
that's the most important thing in times of turmoil money

(19:47):
because you can adapt. You can in tough times which
none of us could have expected. I wouldn't have known
what the coronavirus. No, none of us haven't heard of
this thing like two or three months ago. The corona,
the virus is now changing the landscape of our world.
And definitely on this podcast we talked about sports. But

(20:08):
I do think if some of these coaches right now
start implementing or talking with their I T guys, they
can have a plan of attack. And I just saw
on Twitter before I started recording that Clay Helton, the
coach at USC said his strength coach developed a private
instagram that everyone on the team followed and he put

(20:28):
up workouts that they can try to do at home.
Because the one thing that would be very difficult. If
I was a general manager, what I would be doing
is I would be working with my players agents and
trying to get them in situations to set up for
individual workouts where it's just one and one other person.
And because there is a chance that the workout situation

(20:50):
gets thrown out the window and clearly all these gyms
are closed. I would imagine everyone listening, your gym's closed.
My gym's closed. Why because a gym is a place
where the corona could probably spread like wildfire, people sweating machines,
everyone were using. They're all shut down. But you might
be able to be proactive and get if not an
individual to work with someone again, not a health inspector,

(21:12):
just following the rules on television. If you're not allowed
to do that, at least set up a situation. So
maybe my strength coaches, if I'm the Cowboys, the Niners, whoever,
I tape all the lifts I want you to do.
And maybe in a situation, if you have a teammate
in that area, the two of you can get together,
the three of you whatever small groups and try to
work and maintain a level of fitness because it's going

(21:35):
to be difficult. And the other thing that I would
be doing right now if I was definitely a new
coach like Mike McCarthy, Joe Judge, Ron Rivera, and I'm
gonna be implementing new schemes because a huge part of
the off season. It's one thing if you're Andy Reader,
Kyle Shanahan, your schemes stayed the same. But part of

(21:56):
maintaining anything in life is practice. Iron sharpens iron. There's
a reason like Tiger Woods in his peak, was a grinder,
Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Steph Curry, Lebron James. Practices a
big deal. You're either getting better or getting worse. If
you just stopped doing something, you're not gonna get better
at it. Part of what the craziest part of what

(22:19):
pro athletes put themselves through is in modern day, like
back in the day, it's like, you know, I just
took the summer off. I was drinking bear and I
just used training camp to whip myself in shape. Like
those days are over. The days of taking this is
kind of a three sixty five job. Maybe occasional vacation
here after the season, in a vacation in the summer,

(22:40):
you know, so a total maybe of two to three weeks,
but not an entire off season. You talk to NFL
players or NFL strength coaches, it's a pretty intensive process
off season, long during the season. During the off season,
also physically and mentally. That's what makes football so great.
It's a thinking man's game, and part of it is

(23:02):
implementing offenses and defenses. I would be working with my
I T department and someone last week when Ship was
kind of hitting the fan, I was like, you know,
this is gonna be a big problem for the offseason,
and someone tweeted at me. I work for a company.
We do everything virtual. We've done it for years. I'm like, yeah,
just because the NFL is this billion dollar operation does
not mean my sixty three year old running back coach

(23:25):
knows how to use a computer. I've worked in an
NFL building. A lot of coaches are computer illiterate. In
fairness that in their profession they don't really have to.
They can get cut ups and videos by the video guys.
They just have to be able to teach. And I
would be using this time to get an I T
guy to teach my entire staff, and it would be

(23:46):
a little difficult, right because we're all independent. We're all
quarantining how if we get into a situation where to
get everyone's Skype or Google hangouts or whatever you're using
whatever program your team uses. And once probably after the
AFT where worst case scenario, they work out on their
own and at a specific time, we do an hour
or two of install. I see my friends on Instagram.

(24:10):
Their kids are having virtual second grade, fifth grade, seventh grade, college.
You know students. I see that I fall on Instagram
or going to online classes. You can do something similar
in the NFL. You have access to a ton of money.
Every team has high level I T guys. The The
technology is pretty easy. I would imagine a lot of

(24:31):
you guys listening whatever job you're in, have done Google hangouts,
have done Skype calls, have done whatever. We're all doing
it in some former fashion. And you can implement that
with your NFL strategy because probably not gonna have offseason.
Imagine being Mike McCarthy. You're the head coach of the
Dallas Cowboys. Well, you're gonna implement your own offense, which

(24:52):
we all watched, like Peter King and all those guys
went to see him in Wisconsin last year. How he
had like the fired football coaches of America going over tape, like,
what is Mike McCarthy's offense. It might be a little different.
So these players like the playbook. You gotta start teaching them,
because if you start July, when everyone shows up, you
will be starting even though normally when you start training

(25:14):
camp you go back over everything you did know t
A s. But at least they've already learned it. It's
like if you're gonna learn Spanish, and the language is
probably a bad example, but let's say you're gonna learn
some basic sentences of Spanish and we spend a couple
of months March or excuse me, May and June on
learning some Spanish and then we take all of July off. Well,

(25:36):
when I received August one, I probably wouldn't go past
what we learned. We might have to go over what
we've learned. And that's a huge part of the off
season for new coaches and even old coaches, just reinstalling
what you already do, adding elements to what you're already
based stuff is and expanding on everything trying to get better.

(25:56):
And that's not gonna happen. But I do think the
technology is going to allow the progressive teams to be
on top of this, and there's in two thousand twenty,
there is no excuse. Now it will be difficult if
all your coaches are at home but I still think
you'll be able to figure that out. It's gonna be
an intensive process. Your I T guys gonna need to

(26:17):
be on point. Hell if I'm if I'm a GM
and my T guys not dynamic enough, I might be
talking to my owner and thinking, do we need to
add someone who understands how to do this? Because this
is this is uncharted territory, and in any business, when
you're an uncharted territory, it can be pretty difficult. But
the good thing about March and even early April for
a lot of these teams is times on your side.

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Like the players weren't gonna report for until right around
the draft, depending on who your team is now new coaches.
I think I read last week that April six, or
maybe the first week of April was when Mike McCarty
the Cowboys could report. Well that that's out the window,
Like that ain't happening. But if you're able to do
things on the internet and streaming services, hell, how how

(27:01):
about this make And I'm just throwing out ideas, why
not have each coach record an hour worth of video
of installing certain place and every player gets it. I mean,
the options are endless tech we've never had. We've literally
never had more technology to be able to do this,
or every coach picks the basic plays if you ran

(27:22):
a new operation, if you're Joe Judge, the the fifteen
plays that are going to be the base of our offense.
You cut those up and you send it to everyone
with an iPad and they watch it, and then every
day you send them more like this is the second
option off those whatever, and maybe you do like two
minutes on each play with the coach recording a video

(27:43):
into the iPad and that place first, and then the
play goes whatever. I mean, I'm just thinking of these
off the top of my head. But I don't want
to hear about, well, we didn't have the time, we
couldn't do this. Yeah, no one can. Welcome to two
thousand twenty coronavirus. You better have another pitch, because if
your only pitch is a fastball, you're in trouble. Now,
the progressive teams and the technological the teams that embrace

(28:08):
this are gonna have a huge advantage if O t
as sure as hell looks like it's headed to be
no moss. Okay, let's go over some weekend stories. We're
just stories that are lingering out there that you know
excite me. Uh start with Cam Newton. I've said it
a couple of times on this podcast, Carolina. Cut the guy.

(28:29):
You're you're not gonna trade him. Pigs get fed, hawks
get slaughtered. You got your starting quarterback, Teddy Bridgewater. Just no,
one's trading for the guy, not mid Corona. He's injured.
Just relieve him of his duties. Just cut him and
get on with it. It's okay. Better players have been cut.
Just cut them. I know you're trying to like play

(28:51):
it down the middle. You already kind of screwed up
because you pretended that it was his call. It's not.
You're forced him to it. Just cut him and so
we can all move on. Jadeveon Clowney, he wants twenty million.
Sources are according to the Internet, Seattle might meet about
seventeen eighteen. Listen. I like Clowney, and on any given game,

(29:14):
he can be the best player on the field. I
couldn't pay him that type money. Yeah, I I pay
premium for premium players and premium players that I can
depend on, like DeAndre Hopkins is a dependable player. So
if I'm the Cardinals, and I gotta give him a
raise even though he's under contract. His resume speaks for itself.
I can't consistently depend on Clowney. He does not play

(29:35):
hard every game. Aaron Donald, Khalil Mack Hell, even Jalen
Ramsey when he's on the field plays hard. Trying to
think of the top defensive players Fletcher Cox over the
years have brought it, Luke Keikley Forever, Bobby Wagner, Richard Sherman,
like I my star guys. If I'm gonna pay star money,
I gotta be. I can't wake up on Sunday morning

(29:56):
going into a game with Jim Nance or Joe Buck
or whoever the hell we're playing and thinking is Mike
is my second highest paid player. Gonna bring it today,
like Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner bring it every game. When
you think about Seattle when they had a humming, their
guys brought their a game. Hell, Marshawn is a different cat.

(30:17):
But did you ever watch Marshawn in the peak of
his powers and think, you know what, Marshawn is just
kind of half accident today and that that's a clowney thing.
I get he's really talented, and when he cares, he's
borderline unblockable. But when's he gonna care every other week?
Only the primetime games? If we're playing the Niners Monday
night football, what about Sunday morning against Tampa Bay or

(30:41):
Sunday at ten am kickoff against you know, the New
York Giants when they're when they're one and eight. We
we care then, because when I'm paying big money, like
I need you to play all the time, I would
be very very uncomfortable paying Clowney. Interesting piece in the
Albert Brier MMQB today. It shows you how powerful technology is.

(31:04):
People were not calling the Bills about Stefon Diggs until
Kirk Cousins was extended and Diggs tweeted something, I don't
have it verbat him, but like I need a change
or time for a change. That's when all the teams
that tried to trade for him in the fall started
to reaching out to the Bills said we want in,
and it led to him getting traded. And sometimes when
you trade for a guy in the off season, you

(31:24):
get him for cheaper than when you trade for him
in season or right before the season. You look at
Jalen Ramsey Khalil Mack was trade right before the season.
They usually get paid or get traded for a bowload.
This guy went for what a first, a six and
a seventh or fifth and a six whatever. It wasn't
that much. It's not like a one and a third.
Like one thing that Albert Brier wrote was during the

(31:45):
season they wanted like a one and a two or
one and a couple of threes. He went for a
lot less than that. Now, he was never gonna be
worth that, but they can bend you over some time
in season, and I think the Bills got pretty good
value on the trade. Multi bill XFL quarterbacks got signed.
You know, the XFL, like every league shut down, so

(32:06):
there is no more XFL this year. It's indefinitely suspended
or whatever. It won't happen again till next year. But
it already had some benefits. P J. Walker, who I
just watched his highlight tape on Twitter today. He's pretty talented.
He's got a big time arm. He's really athletic, I
mean really the only knock you see when you watch
and make plays. He's small, you know, he's five eleven,

(32:27):
but in terms of arm strength, he's got legit arm
and it's not. He understands the NFL. He's been on
the Colts practice squad for a couple of years. It's
not like he's some random guy. I would expect him
to be the backup for the Carolina Panthers, for Teddy Bridgewater,
and he's he's got a better arm than Teddy. Now
is he a better player than Teddy? Probably not. But
this gets back to the first thing I said, just

(32:47):
cut Cam Newton, like Dave Tepper. I wake up this morning,
I'm scrolling through Twitter. CNBC is tweeting about your tech
stocks like you're an NFL owner? Can you can you
just cut your star quarterback? Get on with it? The
Vegas Draft is is donezo, of course it is. I
mean the draft is what I think. I think it's April,

(33:09):
a month from the recording of this marche, so we
got thirty one day till the draft. I think with
the draft will ultimately become will just be a studio show. Luckily,
the NFL has benefited greatly from the timing of Corona.
Can you imagine, uh, someone that talks about the NFL
for a living, think how much this would suck if

(33:30):
you're a die hard NBA fan. If you're a big
baseball guy, it's does suck. I mean I'm a big
all sports guy. It sucks. Right, we're not getting any sports.
But imagine if this would have hit in October instead
of February, football would have stopped. It when everything like
it it would have stopped, we would have had no
football games for the foreseeable future. So it's where I

(33:51):
keep getting back to when people keep asking me think
the football season is gonna stop? I sure hope not.
But we just need to get this, make this thing
go away, so we can just kind of get back
to normalcy. But the draft, Donzo Jane Slater, who also
hosts a podcast on Collin's Network, Boys and Girls, said,
uh that the Cowboys are interested and in doing some

(34:12):
due diligence on the Dominican sue. So that's something to
keep an eye on that. That wouldn't be a bad
little signing for the Cowboys. Brian Hoyer in New England,
because of course, Brian Hoyers in New England. This does
make a lot of sense. Like I said, oh t
A is gonna be gone. Belichicks, that playbook with him
and McDaniels is so labor intensive, You're gonna need people

(34:32):
to know what the hell is going on. It's why
Jared Sidham is gonna have a chance to be the starter,
So why Brian Brian Hoyer immediately will also be in
the mix. They just they didn't know the playbook. Cam
Brake Cameron Brad, the tight end for the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers who signed a contract extension last year. There was
talking about him getting caught this year because he made
so much money. Just restructured his contract, took a little

(34:54):
two million reduction. Smart move, because if I was Cameron
Brad's agent, I said, yeah, you know, you can let
them Releasha and you can go to a team and
get a little more money, or you can stay with
Tom Brady where all the bright lights and all the
cameras are gonna be watching you. Everyone is gonna be
talking about Tampa Bay. And look at his history, Cameron.
He likes throwing to the tight ends, and they got you,

(35:18):
and they got O. J. Howard. There's a decent chance
that you could have seven eight touchdowns and then all
of a sudden be a Pro Bowl tight end and
you're playing with Tom Brady, asked Julian Edelman asked West
Walker asked some of the guys over the years that
have played with Tom Brady what it does for their career,
changes their lives. Smart move by Cameron Brad. He I
think he's a Harvard guy. Uh, easy to see smart decision.

(35:40):
A lot of a lot of greedy pigs in the
short term would have not taken the the paid deduction
left then they probably their career would have been derailed. Instead,
this guy, I want. I would draft Cameron Brad and
no J Howard in uh in fantasy and I bet
Cameron Braid will never know butterfly effect, but he'll end
up making more money long term. By stand Well, Andy

(36:04):
Dalton have a home, Like, are they gonna cut them?
Are they gonna trade him? Is there no chance Andy
Dalton's gonna be a starter, because it sure doesn't feel
like it feels like Andy Dalton's just kind of floating around.
Nowhere to go? Jamis nowhere to go. It's kind of
kind of a crazy time, Jacoby, somewhere to go. The
culture are gonna keep Jacoby Brissett. Smart Move Rivers is
really old and really when you look last year at

(36:26):
the Colts, when we're all watching them early in the season.
They weren't great, but they were definitely a competitive wild
card type team. Jacoby hurts, his mcl hoyer stinks, uh,
and then and then and then Jacoby starts again. But
he's never the same. He can't really move around. He's
not a great athlete to begin with. If Jacoby Brissette
is your backup, you're in pretty damn good shape. Now

(36:48):
would you love paying him whatever they're paying him? It
also shows you remember last year he became the starter,
and it's like, you gotta show everyone in the locker
room he's your starter, So give him thirty million dollars.
Or you could have just had him played on his
rookie contract and you know what everyone in the locker
room would have done. Yeah, the starting quarterback. It's not
like giving him more money to his direct deposit makes

(37:08):
him that much more powerful in the locker room. The
Colts got aggressive. They tried to do right, and it
kind of backfired because they still could have had him
had a really low number. Instead, they got super aggressive.
They gave him all this cash when they didn't really
need to. Now I'd have to look back. He might
have been a free agent. But still you probably could
have got him for like he would have signed a
two year, probably twelve million dollar contract alone thirty or

(37:31):
whatever they gave him. I get it. Emotions were running high.
It's why Andrew, you know, retired. I'm not saying it
was an easy situation for Indianapolis. It does show you, though,
sometimes in a very very emotional state, if you're gonna
make a business move, if you're gonna make a big
personal move, sometimes it's best. And I struggle with this.
I'm a very very impatient human being. Take a step back,

(37:52):
take a deep breath. If the Colts had done that,
taken a step back, take a deep breath. Maybe sleep
on it. Maybe sleep on it for a couple of days.
Not Jacoby is gonna walk out on you. You probably
don't give him that contract. Nelson Aguilar, who everyone made
fun of last year when the burning building happened and
the local news reporter got the one dude on camera
saying how babies were getting dropped out of the burning

(38:14):
building and they were catching him. Unlike Aguilar who was
dropping balls. I think he had literally dropped the ball.
I forget who they were playing, but he could have
had a game winning touchdown in the corner of the
end zone. Dropped. He had a bad season. He had
a lot of drops. Just a couple of years removed though,
from him resurrecting his career. Raiders took a one year
flyer on him. Uh, you know, I like the signing.

(38:35):
I think Nelson's pretty talented. He's not a number one
or number two receiver, but if he's in your rotation,
you're you're in pretty good shape. Nice another nice, solid
signing for Mike mack. Now they don't have enough premium players,
they do have a lot of good role players though
on the Raiders. Let's go Middlecoff. Mail back at John
Middlecoff is my Instagram handle. The direct messages are wide open.

(39:01):
I got a bunch, I got like thirty right now.
I'm gonna try to bang out a bunch. Gonna go
rapid fire. Big Jets fan here. With the Jets sitting
at eleven in the draft and obviously needing O line
help for Donald but also needing weapons for him. With
all signs leading to Robby Anderson leaving, we think I
don't know, he hasn't sign anywhere. Uh, probably take the

(39:21):
last of the four tackles from what I'm seeing in mocks,
or taking a dynamic receiver like CD Jerry Judy or yeah,
Jared Judy. Well, they've added I think last I saw
like four offensive lineman over the last five or six days. Now,
it's not like they added Anthony muonio so or Larry Allen,
but they just added much improvement from the arguably but them.

(39:46):
The Cardinals had the worst offensive line in the league.
I also think that you should be able to function
in that scheme. I mean, the forty Niners did it
with backup tackles from the a F running the zone stuff.
So Adam Gates, who has ran the zone own scheme before,
can should be able to function. Or a top offensive
mind whatever offense he wants to implement, should be able

(40:08):
to get around it a little bit with not all
pro offensive lineman, but has a young quarterback you'd like
to protect him. I think there's a balance. If you
have the tackle and the receiver on the same level,
then take the tackle. But if there are two or
three tackles off the board, and for whatever your ranking is,
you have Ceedee Lamb or Jerry Judy or whatever wide

(40:30):
receiver above those guys, I think you have to take
the best player available because Sam Donald needs someone dynamic
to throw the football too. And right now, assuming Robby
Anderson leaves, which you know he has not gone yet,
his market, I don't think looks maybe as good as
he thought. Uh yeah. I think if one of the

(40:51):
top three tackles last to yet, you gotta take them.
And if it's like the fourth tackle and you're balancing
that with the wide receiver, I probably take the wide receiver.
Quick question, Can the Vikings win the Super Bowl with
Kirk Cousins? Will you have the Vikings package Diggs? This
is a question probably before free agency and some other
players get a top pick in the next year's draft
and tank for a quarterback, maybe Lawrence or Fields. I'm

(41:12):
a huge Viking fan, but I've seen this movie before,
and we're always think we fall short. I think our
best hope is landing in generational quarterback like Mahomes or
Watson because luck has seems always against us in the
biggest moments. Well, simply put, I don't think her Cousins
is good enough to win a Super Bowl. If Kirk
Cousins were to win a Super Bowl, I think he

(41:33):
would need the setup of an absolutely elite team surrounding him,
an elite offensive line, and that you guys have the
running backs. Diggs is gone now, so your weapons aren't
quite as good in your defense. Everysing Griffin's gone, Xavier Rhodes,
who hasn't been good, but he's gone, it's just not
gonna be as good. So yeah, I just don't think

(41:55):
you're good enough to win a Super Bowl now. Your
coach is good enough and your your roster is still
good if you should be a playoff team. But Kirk
Cousins in in our lifetime, it's not gonna win Super Bowl.
He's just He's probably best chance was two years ago
but their offense was all off. Then this year when
their offense was on, then they even won a playoff game.

(42:17):
I was at the Niner game. They just they can't
protect him. It's impossible to turn your offensive line around
that fast when your quarterback can't really move. He's not
a very good athlete. He's too robotic. If the plays there,
he can beat you. But that's not the way the
NFL works. You gotta be able to freelance a little bit,
and he just he can't. And I don't even just bean.
Freelance with your body, freelance with your mind, like Tom

(42:39):
Brady or Peyton Manning can't run around their mind operates
at warp speed. It's like the best Mac computer, the
Kirk Cousins operation Brain operates just like a basic computer
from two thousand four. He's just he's just not good enough.
First time, long time. We've all heard your story to
how you got here today. But what's your aspiration for
the future? Is the goal old to get your own

(43:00):
show on a panel FS one is getting back in
the league college radio where you leave the Bay, Sydney, Australia.
You know, a little bit like the coronavirus. I just
take it day by day. I think the world has
never changed faster. You know. If this was like I
want to host a national radio show, No, I mean
I I want to do. I want to be in

(43:22):
the cutting edge of technology. I like owning my own stuff.
I'd like to have a big YouTube page which I
owned the revenue. I like having this podcast with Colin.
I like having freedoms. One thing I figured out about
myself is I do best when I answer to myself,
and it puts a lot of pressure on myself to
be creative and keep finding ways to do things. But
I think I was destined to kind of be have

(43:44):
a little entrepreneurial side to me, uh, and a hustle
side to me that you know. I don't know if
I'm meant to work for a big company. Now. Would
I host a show for Fox Sports one, of course?
But could I host an internet show for him? Could I?
I don't know. I mean the world there there are
dudes on YouTube making millions of dollars the broadcasts from home.

(44:07):
So I just think the technology and the world has
never been kind of more different than it is now
and ever changing. It changes more and more every six months,
let alone every year or two cord cutting, I don't know.
I'm open to anything and everything. I mean, I have
aspirations to run other businesses, uh that aren't sports related.

(44:29):
Now we'll see how that takes off. Obviously, this is
my passion and I love doing it, and I don't
plan on changing anytime soon. I mean, I own a place.
If I didn't own a place in the Bay Area,
i'd probably move, but I own a place here. My
mom's a little older. She lives about an hour away
from me, I'm I'm a northern California guy. I mean,
I don't love the taxes, but these are my people

(44:51):
and this is this is my culture. Now I'm never
against it. You know, if if business goes really well,
could I've ever moved Jupiter, Florida or Arizona? For sure?
I'm I'm open minded. I'm never stuck or beholden to
one place. But I am a California guy probably first
and foremost. I feel most comfortable here, but sometimes you

(45:11):
gotta be comfortable with being uncomfortable. So I'm always open
to things. I'm always open to things. Business in the
world's going pretty well beside this crazy Corona, so I
you know, I'm just trying to keep adapting. That's my
number one People like what do you want to do?
You know, I think that question was easier to answer
twenty years ago. I think it's really hard to answer.

(45:32):
Like all the biggest companies in the world like barely
existed fifteen years ago. I mean, if I would have
told you in two thousand Facebook, You'll be like, what, Like, yeah,
this guy is gonna be like fifth ridge guy in
the world. Oh yeah, Jeff Bezos, that bald guy that
sells books. He's gonna run the world. Google, you know,
be the most important website ever. Website. What are websites?
I don't know. This thing called the Internet. That's how

(45:54):
the world works. So I I actually think, and I
tell people this all the time. We've only grass the
surface with technology. The Internet has really been going strong,
probably since what two thousand one, two thousand two, Like
we're it was pretty mainstream by about two thousand five,
everyone was using it in some form or fashion. So

(46:16):
really fifteen years later, it's it's the world. Our world
revolves around kind of the internet, whether you run like
you know, a local landscaping business, if you're not, you know,
advertising or involved on Facebook and Instagram or or you
know whatever the websites are too. I'm trying to think

(46:36):
of the one website where you can look up random stuff.
I never used it. I was gonna say eBay, but
it's not eBay. Uh it's I was gonna say cliff notes,
but I can't even think of it. But the reality
is is like everything is based on here, and this
is where I feel. I I thrive on the Internet,
so I I feel pretty good about whatever happens. Quarantine
for fourteen days with three people, who are you picking? Uh? Well,

(47:03):
I would go one. I would pick a chef, so
I'd go whoever, like a great chef is you know,
I'm just gonna pick it like Emerald Legassi, but that's
just the famous one that comes to my Rachel Ray. Whoever,
I would pick a sweet chef who would just make
me food. I would pick again, assuming that you know
she'd like me and we could date and kind of
hang like I'm a sucker for Cindy Crawford. I know

(47:25):
she's old, but it's hard to get much better now.
You can go j Low or whatever, but they're in relationships. Again,
it would have to be could could I have a
little short term relationship with whoever I pick? And then
I'd probably also want it either be twofold. I'd either
want someone to keep me entertained, like a storyteller, or

(47:46):
maybe like a personal trainer to get me in good shape.
So it would be it would be just some babe.
It would be a chef for sure, I'd be eating
like a king. Maybe I say, screw the personal trainer,
just get fat for those fourteen days. So pick an entertainer.
I don't know who they entertainer would be out to
think maybe maybe a musician, just someone to play me
some tunes, you know, someone with a lot of range,

(48:09):
like a Lady Gaga. They could play me upbeat stuff.
They could play me some you know, some love making music.
But could also like if we wanted to throw a
little three person party, we could. We could crack some
some cocktails and she could jam usher you know, timber Lake,
someone like that. Just I just snapped my fingers and
they just start jamming. Uh. What do the best teams

(48:35):
do differently to make the most of the twelve minutes
during halftime? Some coaches are known to be good at
halftime adjustments. But isn't the coaching staff talking constantly over
the headsets throughout the game and talking directly with players
on the sideline. That's a hell of a question. When
I was in the NFL, I was never in the
the locker room at halftime. When I was at Fresno State,
I was, And I think most locker rooms are relatively similar.

(48:57):
You split up with offensive defense, you your coaching staff
kind of gets together because you have a lot of
coaches that are in the box, and then they get
with the head coach and whoever's on the sideline, and
then the offensive defense kind of splits up. They kind
of jot down a couple of notes, and then the
position coach you usually you know, talk with their guys
or maybe they get together as a unit. I think

(49:19):
the best staffs can just identify sometimes we you know,
try we're not reinventing the wheel here. If for whatever reason,
the defense is getting pressure up the middle, then start scrambling,
you know, start getting your quarterback on the move. If
you're if the team is getting edge pressure, start chipping.
If you're one wide receiver can't get away from a

(49:40):
certain corner, run some routes for another guy. Like I
think sometimes that we think like there are these crazy
halftime adjustments. My overall take is, I I think the
best coaching staffs just realize what that team is doing.
You you come into a game with a game plan,
meaning we think this is gonna work against that, and

(50:02):
that is gonna work against this. And then you have
a halftime. Let's just assume a score is fifteen, you know, fifteen.
Let's just say it's fourteen to ten and you're losing. Well,
you go, well, they've they hit these plays if we
take that away and we can't run these plays because
they're taking this away, and then you ad just off that.
It's the I think hard headed coaches that go, we're

(50:25):
gonna we're gonna do this, and it's gonna work because
we game plan for it all week long. A game
plan is essentially think about like a war movie or
just war in general over the history of time. It's
different now because the air strikes and stuff, but like
when you had Crown troops, you come in a certain angle. Well,
if things don't work, you probably need to hang a

(50:48):
left or hang a right and attack them from a
different angle. And you don't know until your initial attack.
Well that's a football first half. Your initial attack, you
know it's either working or not working. And if if
you're hardheaded enough to think, well we just gotta keep
rammed at home that way, you'll probably lose the war.
It's why I think so many football coaches and football
players and football books and football movies parallel with you know,

(51:13):
they love Navy seals, they love talking and having generals
talk to the team, because there are a lot of similarities.
It's just basic wealth that's not working. Do this, and
I think some coaches in general can be really hardheaded
with that. I discovered your podcast and I'm enjoying the
hell out of it. Well, I appreciate it. My question is,
with the NFL going to a seventeenth game, would it

(51:33):
have made sense for the player to ask for additional
bye week in return for the seventeenth game? Yeah? I
mean I would imagine they did ask for it. Um,
maybe there are rules moving forward that it will be
your your Thursday game will be off of bye and
then you get that extra by after the Thursday game.

(51:54):
I haven't read enough about the seventeenth game to know that. Again,
if you've listened to the show for a while, you
know I had. I had tough thoughts and just I
struggled to wrap my head around of some of the
stuff they were fighting because I thought they should have
fought for the money, not necessarily that stuff were. Bye
weeks to me are more important than like no pads

(52:14):
during training camp, and I think too often they didn't
fight for the right stuff. Hey, John, I'm a former
pro rugby player now coach from Australia. I love the NFL,
but I noticed their tackle technique couldn't be tweaked tackling
a guy like Derrick Henry. Is it because you guys
are trying to stop every inch or playing at the
ball rather than focus on getting the guy down. Uh,

(52:40):
that's a good question. I think sometimes in rugby, right,
you just tackle to try to get the guy down.
In football, like my roommates in college played rugby at
cal Poly, you're not really getting a first down, right.
We're in football every ten yards keep a drive alive.

(53:01):
So when I'm coming at you and it's third and two,
jumping on your back if I'm at your side or
coming at you forward just because I know I might
not might be able to get you down doesn't necessarily
behoove my team. It's why the most celebrated plays in
football on defense, beside turnovers, our goal line stands and

(53:26):
fourth down stops because you get the ball back, where
in rugby you can always just keep moving the ball
down unless I'm able to get you to the ground,
stop it and then stop. What's it called the ruck?
Is that what it's called when you guys all get
on the ground. So I think the key is in football,
every inch, like every yard is a really big deal,

(53:46):
where in rugby It's really about more getting the ball back.
Whether you get ten yards or twenty yards, as long
as I stop you from scoring, that's okay. Well, really
every football drive is broken down for every you know,
first through fourth down. Can I stop you on a
series of downs, right, because every time you get a

(54:09):
first down, we kind of stopped back start back at square.
One's why if I'm a defender, I want to drive
you back. I think that's a huge part of the
lifting in football. When it comes to defense, everything's about power,
everything's about explosion. It's about when I hit you and
you hit me, you go backwards. That's why running backs
are taught to be you know, squat Squatting is a

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big deal. So when I meet you at whatever yard
line and I have to get an extra half yard
and you're trying to stop me from that, someone's gonna win.
We're in rugby. I don't know if that factors in
as much. Again, I haven't really thought that much about it.
Just off the top of my head, I think that's

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what are you just talking? Someone send me a video
of their dog. I said on my other podcast, it's
d of crazy how dogs can just eat drink gutter water,
like you and I would drink a Gatorade after a
run and they're just unfazed. It's like they feel so
great about it. We have gutter water. I mean we

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would get food poisoning for a week. Do players sign
contracts knowing that they're going to play the final year
or two of it? Why agents are still okay with
these structures. I'm a Niners fan, I'm so I'm glad
to work the system, but I expected some changes in
the end of in the c b A because in football,
unlike the other sports, like if you get a hundred

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million dollar contract, it's all guaranteed, so you're getting a
hundred million, you're getting twenty million over five years or whatever.
In football, the number one thing these guys fight for
is the bonus money and the guaranteed money. So if
I signed you to a five year hundred million dollar
contract like a Marii Cooper and you get sixty million
dollars guaranteed, the football player gets that sixty million dollars

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within a year. That's why you can or whatever. The
if the signing bonuses forty he gets a large chunk
of that. He might get thirty million dollars the day
he signs the contract. That's not how it works in
basketball or baseball. So the structure of it is just
a little complicated. I probably should have someone on some
time to talk about it, but because I'm a little confused.

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But they get much more upfront money in the NFL
than the other sports. It's just the guaranteed money because
of the physicality and injuries of the sport. The realities
is never gonna change. It is what it is. It
will always be complicated. Like that big New England Patriot fan.
Now that Brady has gone and New England hasn't signed

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any big free agents beside resigning some vets. Are the
Patriots taking a knee and free agency? Do you think
they unload anyone for draft picks, try to get younger
or ride this year with Stidham, saw a report that
scouts are high on Stidham thoughts, well, they didn't have
much cap room. They kept the guard on a franchise tag.
Their defense is still gonna be one of the best
in the league. If their offense is just average, why

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couldn't they win eight or nine games? I mean they
won twelve this year with a bad offense. Why couldn't
just be a deep, fensive havy. Why couldn't they just
be the Bills and win nine or ten games this year?
So yeah, I think they always kind of take a
knee on free agency, at least the first wave that
they'll sign cheaper players that they never beside Gilmore. Really
the last decade, when did they ever break the bank

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for a player? And Bill love Gilmore and it worked out.
I mean, he was Defensive Player of the Year. But
usually they wait to get a guy for you know,
when every team signing a guy for seven eight million,
they want to get that same player a week later
for three and a half. And that's really been their
point of difference. Now it gets a little tougher if
your quarterback is not the goat, and I think that's

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kind of the I don't know the new the new
England Patriots science experiment we're about to undertake. Can they
keep operating like that? Uh? The one thing we know
about Bill is he's smart and he'll adapt. You know,
he's he ain't into losing. He's been kicking the ship
out everyone for twenty years, so I don't think he'll
want to go six and ten. But I don't expect

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him to go six and ten. They're they're too too
talented of a team. Uh. I heard you mentioned the
other day that the herd rumblings that Miami wanted. Oh
I heard Colin mentioned the other day that he's heard
rumblings that Miami wanted to send a bunch of draft
picks to Since so they can take Burrow. What are
your thoughts on that and how if it all might

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shake up the next handful of picks. Does since with
the number five pick from Miami still go to quarterback?
Might they take Herbert over toa as Obama fan, I
want to see TWA end up in the best position,
so I would love to see the Chargers find a
way to get him. However it all plays out, I
see there being some trades amongst the first five picks.
Completely agree. I think Cincinnati, if they love Joe Burrows,

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should just take Joe Burrow. Now, if Miami goes, I'll
give you five, I'll give you a. I think they
have picked eighteen, and they have the Texans pick, which
is in the twenties. I don't know twenty six. I
have looked at the exact order. Would I take all
three of those picks for pick five. If I was
on the fence about Herbert or I mean Burrow and

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t I'd think about it. Uh uh well, Cincinnati their
owners too old school. I I doubt it. I think
two ends up on the Dolphins are the charters, because
if you're the Lions or the Giants and you're gonna
trade back, you're not trading back that far. You you
still want to get one of the premium players in
the draft. So I think that those two teams are

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the best equipped being that close that they could trade
a second round pick, or even if they had to
get super aggressive, they could always trade next year's one.
Miami has multiple two's, three ones and then two ones
next year, so that they're in really really good position
to be aggressive this year or next year. Uh to uh.
As of recording this, posted a video of him working

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out today. He actually looked pretty good. He looked healthy
to me. I'm not you know, I don't claim to
be Bill Walsh here, but I mean I know what
a seven step drop looks like, and just kind of
moving around the pocket and he was moving around some
cones like. He looked like healthy to us. So when
the dust settles I'd expect all three quarterbacks in some
way with trades to go in the top five. Uh.

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And Cincinnati, I just I can't see them trading a pick.
They're just too old school, too stubborn, not really their style.
I appreciate everyone listening during quarantine. If you have anything,
shoot me d MS time. I got time. I'm around,
so uh holler at me. Uh. Thanks for everyone for listening,
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let's all keep our head up and just just listen,
stay inside, try to get try to get this freaking
Corona thing to go away for the love of all
things in our sanity so we can get back to
watching sports, talking ball, and just enjoying life. Uh. Have

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a great week and talk to you. Talk to you Friday.
The same and S