May 14, 2026 • 48 mins
Before the full 2026 NFL schedule releases tonight, hosts Chad Millman and Simon Hunter are joined by longtime producer Matt Mitchell for a special NFL Mailbag episode. Together they discuss the new contract extension for Miami Dolphins running back De'Von Achane, the Pittsburgh Steelers' drama surrounding Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers, along with Kyler Murray as a Minnesota Viking.
We also hear about John Harbaugh's expectations with the New York Giants, an NFL Thanksgiving Day that includes the Philadelphia Eagles, Chicago Bears and Buffalo Bills, plus Chad's fear of "dead small- to medium-sized animals." #Volume
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Sharper Square, presented by hard Rock that we
are part of the Volume and Podcast Network. This is
the show that makes the squares sharper and makes the
wise guys pay attention. I am Chad Noulman. I am
joined as always by my co host, my bff, my companion,
my Comfadre Professional Better, Simon Hunter Ello.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Soymon, shot, how are we doing?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You know we had a kitch shalel on the other day,
the author of the book Lucky Devils, all about sort
of the age of algorithmic betting and the people who
led us into it, Bill Bner, the horse Racing better
who's literally made billions of dollars going back to the seventies,
(00:46):
Billy Walters and the Computer Group, And you know it
might take away from that whole show was what's up?
He complimented my English accent when I said hello, Simon.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, nah, you definitely liked that opener he did?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
He did. I thought that was I thought he was
fascinating and the stories are great. But what was interesting
to me about that show was I've gone back to
think about it was the level to which technology is impacting.
Like we talked about computer assisted wagering, and you talked
about some of the AI stuff, like it is just
(01:25):
going faster and faster and faster, and you see it
every day between sports betting markets and prediction markets. Like
a prediction markets, there are people who are wagering millions
of contracts in a day because they're able to do
it with technology to assist them moving as quickly as possible.
(01:48):
It's it's unreal, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And as it better, you have to stay up on
today's trends, like you just said, or else you truly
get left behind. And I remember it on you. Last year,
I was gonna take an AI modeling class and it
was like even myself, I'm like what am I doing?
Like is this really gonna help me in any way?
And it did, like it just change your perspective, open
your mind to different possibilities, and you know it's it's
(02:12):
something that you are in this betting market and you
want to do this professionally. You have to even if
you don't understand it at first, you have to at
least put the research and the time into it and
talk to people that know what they're talking about with it,
because it's all you're looking for our edges like we
talk all the time, that's what we're looking for. So
can you find an edge and AI? Of course, I
mean there's there's tons of edges to find an AI
(02:34):
well that you know last you multiple years, probably not
like you just talked about, everything is moving so fast
now that's gonna be the biggest difference to me is
sometimes edges could last you three to five years. I
think the books are going to be so on it
now with all of this going on. I think maybe
a year, maybe a season in your individual sport betting,
that's when you'll find your edge with AI. So, like
(02:56):
we talked about you there, we're gonna have to do
more shows on it. But I think we both agree
like this is it's such early days right now. Mean
you neither of us can really wrap our heads around
what it's going to be like five ten years from
on the betting in the world. Like it's just things are
just changing so much, especially in the last five ten.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Years from legalization. AI is just a whole nother world. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, it's interesting to me, tell me what you think
about this because I've been thinking about a lot about
this because you know, I'm wrapping up this book and
trying to figure out how AI fits into it. And
if everybody who's a professional better has access to AI,
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then it doesn't necessarily mean that a professional better is
getting an edge on another professional better because everyone is
using the technology. So it just means that whatever they're doing,
they're doing it faster, more efficiently. It's not necessarily going
to make them better against the competition. Or am I
misinterpreting that?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, you're interpret because you can't even think about what
they're using it for, right, because you don't know what
they're doing with it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So that's that's the hardest part, is like I would.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Love to tell you more secrets, but it's like there's
nothing to gain here for me. There's if I just
tell you what what we're really using a lot of
it for. What's like you're right, then all of a sudden,
I lose that edge that you know, some other people
might view not even have as happy one. Right, It's
like you just said, I don't think people understand yet
what the total uses of AI is because some people
(04:32):
just go on AI and they chat, you know, chat
GBT how to make an omelet salad or whatever they're doing. Right,
That's how they're using it, they're not thinking about how
to compute different data or trends. Like for someone like me,
it loves trends. I don't need to spend hours looking
through different trends and sites. I can just simply go
on chat, gbt now or Claude or whatever and ask
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these questions.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
So I'm with you. It's the people using it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I don't know how much they're going to give up
on give up information on it right now, but I
do think, like you know, you go into that Sloan conference,
I do think in the next year or two you'll
have professional betters that have moved on to different things
that will give information what they're using AI AI on
two three years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And again you're saying that's not gonna help people.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I think it is because it's going to show you
different ways you can use it to find an advantage
with the sportsbooks.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm a big clod guy, big clod guy, love Claude.
Use it constantly, use it, honestly for almost everything.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I used it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yesterday I was baking chicken breasts I put into claud
I have marinated chicken breasts in a honey Dijon mustard marinade.
They are half an inch thick. How long do I
want to cook these for? And I know I can
(05:54):
look that up on Google too, but Google, I'm gonna
get eighty five different recipes. I'm going to get that
tell me you know how to do it? And I
got to read half the blog I had, like it's
it's just amazing. And that's just one use case. I
use it for more complicated stuff too, But I am
all in on claud. I'm paying like two hundred bucks
a month to use Claud. I want the fastest, most
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powerful Claude I can have that can process the most
information at all times, no matter what I'm going to
be asking it, whether it's baking chicken or reading an
entire manuscript for a book and giving me feedback, like
I want it for everything.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
And if you're doing that right now, project out ten
years from now. And that's what I'm trying to break
down to people. It's going to get in so insane.
You came and really wrapprehend around it, And I'm the
other way. Where've already seen all the weird parts of AI,
especially in the dating world, where like I'll have a
gir respond to me and you'll leave in the questions
you put into AI. No, yeah, that's happened, and I'm
(06:53):
just like, my god, can we just have an authentic
conversation here? I don't I don't need you to be
perfect or where you think the best response is.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But yeah, brother, it's getting weird.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well right right like this, This, by the way, is
not the topic of the show. Today is going to
be a mailbag show and we're going to bring Matt
Mitchell in in a second, and a lot of it
is based on NFL questions we've been getting because the
full schedule release is tonight. But hold on one second.
What are the questions? And Matt Mitchell, maybe you want
(07:22):
to jump in for this. What are the questions that
your dates are asking Chet, GPT or Claude that then
they are sending to you accidentally in a conversation.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
This was just a one off. This is only happened
one time.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But it was just so shocking because I couldn't believe
it actually happened, which I get. If you're a guy
out there and you have zero game, I cannot fault
you for using this.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
A woman doesn't need game as a guy.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'm just happy if a woman talks and let alone,
you know, put three censuses together via text mester.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So yeah, hers was.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I asked her what she was doing this weekend and
what her favorite part was of some town, and she
sent me back the best parts of this town in Yeah,
that's what I mean. It was like, it was like,
just tell me your own favorite things. I don't need
to know the computer's favorite part of this town. But yeah,
it's just it's people use it for every little thing
I have. Buddies will literally ask questions to it before
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they ask their wives certain questions, like that's we're getting there, chats.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's a wild time.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
That well, listen. I have plenty of buddies who are seasoned,
talented veteran executives who have role played negotiations on Claude,
and they're they're pulling it up for the big stuff too,
and they are getting like incredible feedback and running their
(08:48):
employment contracts through Claude, and Claude is catching things that
they otherwise would not have caught on. These are people
who have like they are playing for big stakes and
they're still doing it. Like with Claude, it's those things
are amazing. We're not telling anyone who's listening anything they
don't know about AI and Claude and chatgypt like everyone
(09:09):
knows that these large liquid models are superior intellect to
everything we are doing. Matter you using Claude.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Uh, First of all, it's incredible that Simon Hunter is
going on so many dates when it looks like he
has a coonskin cap on the top of his head.
You're supposed to get haircuts during the off seats and
that's like the deal, and then you don't during the season.
It's like it's it's so much hair, it's like shadowy
on your face. And Simon, I think we bobbed.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
The chat's using this this technology for stuff like like
entering is BMI. Claude is am I skinny? Am I
in good shape?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Form? Mind?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I'm not gonna lie. Yes you are hand too.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I'm not gonna lie. I have used it to gauge
if like my Peloton Killo Killer jewels are like good
for my age all like all of that, I have
one hundred percent asked Claude.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
That, yeah, that's that. You're definitely using it as the
automatic praise machine, so that's perfect. That checks out.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I do I do like the very positive feedback.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You're definitely someone that thanks thank you, Claude. No problem, Chad, yep,
So that are.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You in my Claude because you're basically repeating what Claude.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Says to me. I feel like one of those old
detectives put my cigarette out. I've seen in a million.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
So now you know what today is, Chad, Spring mail
bank day.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh you want a transition? That's what? Is that what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah, it's hard enough to keep you guys kind of
on the on the road as is, and I want
to use this opportunity to feel so many of the
questions we receive that I can't insert into or normal
episodes because it is it's hard enough to get you
guys to focus on any one thing on any given day.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, you're such a good producer, so let's let's let's do.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
It' That was a compliment from a human voice, not
a computer, so I will accept it and relish it.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I'm not sure I prefer the humans to the computers.
So let's let's get to it, all right.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Question number one is about my least favorite franchise in
all professional sports, the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins, as you
are aware, are engaged in a much needed rebuild under
new coach Jeff Haffley and GM john Eric Sullivan. They
got rid of Tua, they traded Jalen Waddle, So why
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are they giving running back Devon a Chan a huge
four year, sixty four million dollar contract extension?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Simon, you want to go first?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, I'll start with saying I always love that we
are sponsored by hard Rock. And again I'm not the
biggest Twitter guy, but if I'm seeing hard Rock troll
the Bills fans constantly on Twitter, Matt Mitchell must hate it.
I love it so much. But yeah, Miami, it's a
poorly run organization. So then paying him all that money,
it's all part. Does he deserve it?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
A Chan's a freaked talent, a great running back. But
I think this puts him out in the top three
or top four highest paid running backs.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
In the league. And we've me and Chat have talked
a Nashima about it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's the last position to fill when you're building out
an organization, you're building out a team.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
That's not something you want to start off with, right.
You want to.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Build the other piece. You want to build the offensive line.
You want to build the defensive line, and we get
the quarterback. You want to get receivers, and then you
can go get the running back and pay them because
we've seen in this league you can find star running
backs in the second, third, fourth, fifth round. Like that
happens at the other positions, it just does not happen.
So if I was Miami, I wouldn't mind it because
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he's such a talent and you're so bad. It's like, Okay,
our goal this year is to be the worst team possible. Right,
they want the number one, number two pick. This is
a great draft class for quarterbacks come out. So to me,
everything Miami's done this offseason is on part right. They're
they're adding players that they think could help them two
three years down the road, right, not so much this year.
(13:18):
And that's kind of what they need to be thinking. Right,
they're going to be absolutely terrible this upcoming season.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I thought it was interesting to me not to punt
on a chan but that Malik Willis signed in Miami.
He was a pretty sought after free agent quarterback going
to Miami with a team that is an entire rebuild.
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How is that going on a relatively short term contract.
How is that going to benefit him? Because he's not
the guy who's going to be the quarterback who can
make them win immediately, and he doesn't have the talent
around him that can make them win a meeting, my
mind immediately flashes to, all right, is this a commitment
to h Chan and their new quarterback that they are
(14:10):
going to be building around these And this is a
not a promise they made some elique wills, but like,
this is the commitment they had made to building around
getting him some talent. It doesn't make any sense to me.
They have so many needs.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, they got remember.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Right, so they don't have anything else.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, they're not doing that at all. He's just a
stop gap quarterback to me. As good as he did
play for Green Bay, I think he got hurt after
one or two starts.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Like, I think even there in their back of their minds,
we're like, Okay, he he might win us a winner
game or two, and maybe all of a sudden we
hit gold and this guy is legit, like we think
he could be.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's great, that's a win win for them.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But otherwise I think they're in the same mentality as
we have hear of just one year star. They draft
a guy and they have a battle in camp next
year and if you know, he wins out that game,
that starting job next year. I let the rookie sit
for another season. But I think it would be naive
to think unless he gets the eight or nine wins
this year, I just don't see them having a long
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term playing with him as their quarterback.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Maybe it'll be devineationing.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
My assumption is that they have no plan because they
are poverty franchise, and I wish them nothing but the worst,
no disrespect to our beloved sponsor, Hard Rock Bat Florida's sportsbook,
Push them all the best. Question Number two. You two
have briefly discussed John Harbaugh's moved from Baltimore to New York,
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But what do you see as the likeliest outcome for
him and this Giants franchise over the next three years?
Is GM Joe Shine Dustin to be replaced? And as
kind of a framing like last year, their preseason win
total was five and a half, this year at seven
and a half, kind of what do you read the
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tea leaves on the New York Football Giants as a
franchise over the next few seasons.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I got this one, you ready, Simon Joe Shine out
before next year's draft. This team goes very much under
the seven and a half win total. Jackson Dart doesn't
make through the season, Cam Scataboo doesn't make it through
the season. Next year, they are evaluating their entire situation
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and just hoping against hope in a quarterback deep draft,
they're going to be lucky enough to be drafting high
so they can get one of the guys they need
who can truly be the game changer for their franchise.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, it's it's already off to a rough start.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I think I just saw Neighbors had to go back
in for surgery to get his knee cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Which that's a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
This is your star receiver now getting a second cleanup
on his knee. You know, Giants, it's just crazy to
think what the organization is, right. I think it's them
and the Jets. The Jets, I think we're thirty second.
They were thirty first in the last ten years and
wins in this league, so they've they've been going through it.
They've been absolutely terrible at bottom of the pit. Dart
(17:14):
showed promise. I think me and Chad were both surprised
in some dark games where it's like, Okay, this kid
obviously has a ton of talent. He just Kenny, Kenny
stay healthy, Kenny stand in the field, and you know, they've.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Obviously gone out.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
They've tried to address some stuff to help this kid.
But yeah, I still I'm with Chat. I still think
they are a year or two away. And it's been
interesting seeing people in media kind of pushing them up,
being like, well, I think this is the team that
could win this division or go over their win total,
where it's like this isn't the NFC South, Like this
is the division with Dak Jaden and Hurts, Like you know,
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who knows how Washington commander is going to be. But
I expect the Cowboys to be a little better. I
expect the Eagles to be a little better than they
were last year. So if I'm projecting out three years
from now, best case scenario, Dart becomes a full time
Pro Bowl or stays healthy, plays sixteen games a year,
and he's your franchise quarterback. Worst case, there's still a
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bottom feed of the league still drafting d Lineman D
NZ in the top three every year for the next
three years, like they're just right now. As a fan
of football, I literally view their franchise as a joke,
like it's just completely turned to shambles after the Eli
Manning run. And it's just bizarre to see that organization,
which had such great ownership just kind of fall off here.
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It is very bizarre to watch where it's like we
expect the Browns or.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
The Lions or the Jets to have bad ownership.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
The marv family has been great, So it's just very
bizarre how bad these last ten years have been. And
even in that, you know, behind the scenes, look right Chad,
we saw him in there saying he'd be sick. I'm
going to sleep in night if Saquan goes to the Eagles.
I still can't believe he didn't fire him right right
after that. So very very bizarre that organization right now.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You know what's interesting to me is why is there
so much optimism and confidence that just having John Harbaugh
is going to make this team so much better when
the guy has had the best player in the NFL
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for the past eight years, a guy who's won multiple MVPs,
a team that has achieved to the level of its
talent during the regular season and had a defense that
would dominate with a caliber of talent in Kyle Hamilton,
who was equal to everything Lamar Jackson was doing as
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an offensive player, he was doing it on defense. And
every year it would be coaching mishaps that keep them
from advancing. And I don't mean just like strategic mishaps.
He's not hiring the right coordinators. You could see it
with Zach Orr. You could see it when he had
offensive coordinators in Baltimore. They are not making the right
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calls with their talent, and he's going into the Giants
doing the same exact thing, bringing the same guys.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I'm interested in Simon's point that it's a very intimidating
division of quarterbacks. A trio of quarterbacks they face and
they have one, they have Jackson Dart so that there's
nothing they're going to do about that. But it is
not widely considered a murderer's row of coaches in Schottenheimer, Quinn,
and Sirianni. I have no opinion about that, but I'm
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wondering if well, they can't revamp the entire roster overnight,
but what if we got on paper the best coach.
Would that matter? I don't think he's the best coach
because he lost to Sean McDermott twice in a playoff game.
That basically is an elimination factor for me for being
considered a great coach. But it will be interesting to
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see how it plays out, because it does. You're right,
it does seem like expectations. Are they get a little
over their skis question number three? Okay, here we go. Yes, Yes,
our boss, Colin Cowherd has been lighting up the Pittsburgh
Steelers recently, particularly about the Aaron Rodgers situation. And I
will play one of my favorite clips right.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Now Pittsburgh said, Yeah, I know you are probably at
the Coachella, but I'm the coach, Fella. It's gonna be
the way I want it. I want my quarterback burning
man to man, not a tending burning man. You're not
a hippie. You're a quarterback, the smartest guy in the room.
Thing wears everybody out, darkness retreats. Isn't that something you
(21:29):
do like three years out of college with your friends
Chad and Mary. Here you're an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Wow, By the way, taking a little sniper fire on that,
Chad Mory.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'm not gonna lie, Chad.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Every time I hear your name now, I think of
this comedy sketch which I don't know if you've even't
seen it, but it's basically, guys as you won't say
any African country except Chad because it's the whitest country.
And I always think of you now every time I
hear that line, I think of Chad, the whitest africa
in country.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I used to tell when I was growing up, Ah, friends,
if they asked me about the country of Chat, I
used to tell them that, uh, my parents owned it and.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Hold on, I have something for that, and that there
there's more, oh keep going.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And that they and you would love it. The jury.
Have you heard of that?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, with James Marston, who's funny. Yes, yeah, I told
him that they owned it and that the country was
named after me.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Moving right along. Uh. Coward says that the days of
seeing the Steelers as a model franchise are now long gone,
and with our dear dear friend of the show, Mike
Tomlin now gone, do you think we will see the
Steelers actually bottom out under Mike McCarthy or is this
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simply more of the same. Another continued era of general mediocrity.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Has to end.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It just we talked all the time, the voodoo of
Tomlin was something that even the numbers, you would look
at the numbers on paper, you would have an Abrams
come and read all the trends.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It was insane.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Every time this guy was left for dead, this team
was an underdog, they had Duck Hodges as their quarterback,
They'd win. It was the most bizarre thing I've ever
seen with football. This just this has not happen in football. Right,
maybe for one year you can do it, but for
twenty years, Tomlin got away with it. And like you know, yes,
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the playoffs, the playoff thing made sense. They needed to
They needed to move on, right, being five hundred or
right above it, being the seventh seed every year and
this getting smoked in the playoffs, I'm sure as a
fan base was exhausting.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
But yeah, they're about to hit it really hard.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The truth of you're you're you haven't had a quarterback
since Big Ben, You're an a defense and you haven't
drafted well, and it's it's gonna catch up to Pittsburgh
at some point.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
So if it is, it this season.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I feel like me and chat are probably gonna be
on their under right like we I feel like we
have to go against them now that Tomlin's gone and
Aaron Rodgers stuff. I honestly agree with what Anon Rodgers
is doing. This is a man that is in his forties,
that he's been there, he's done all that. Does he
really need to be there in their spring mini camps?
And you know, I know Pittsburgh fans are upset because
they want him to tell him that he's coming back.
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Everything you've seen between the NFL schedule makers and everything else,
it looks like Aaron Rodgers can be the quarterback right then,
getting these primetime games. The way the organization has treated
the offseason right they I think they drafted Drew Aller,
just another white quarterback. They'll be out of the league
in four or five years. Like Pittsburgh's doing all the
things they normally do. That's that's gonna be to me,
Aaron Rodgers coming back and playing for them. I just
(24:51):
think right now, maybe he's a little upset about the money,
whatever it is. He's taking his sweet time, and that's
that's life. When you're kind of being held hostage by
a quarterback who's wayne retirement or coming back to maybe
get you to be a seventh seed.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So I go back to something before Aaron Rodgers, which
you knew was going to happen. And it doesn't matter.
It's really about Mike McCarthy. You look at the Pittsburgh
Steelers since nineteen sixty nine, the hier Chuck Noll, as
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a relatively unknown coach who was very young, had very
specific ideas about how to build a team that was
completely in line with that era. Chuck Noll wins multiple
Super Bowls. The hier Bill Kawer, who was a relatively
unknown assistant, has very specific ideas for that era and
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his perfect match for the city and the kind of
football that they want to play in Pittsburgh. He wins
a Super Bowl. Mike Tomlin, this is Mike Tomlin. They
got three coaches since nineteen From nineteen sixty nine to
twenty twenty six, they got three coaches. What is that
fifty seven years? And so to me, the issue is
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Mike Tumbel, by the way, relatively unknown assistant comes in,
perfect guy to steer a team that was at the
end of a great run and then to keep a
team that was motivated in a new era of football.
Mike McCarthy's a sixty something year old retrap. Mike McCarthy's
a guy who underachieved despite winning a Super Bowl in
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Green Bay. He's a guy who underachieved despite having an
incredibly talented quarterback in Dallas and having multiple years where
he was winning big. And we're not knocking Mike McCarthy
as a play caller, like he did a great job
when he was in Dallas. He did a good job
when he was in Green Bay. Although Aaron Rodgers went
into decline and by the way, didn't they partially fire
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Mike McCarthy because they weren't getting him and Aaron Rodgers
weren't getting along anymore. So the whole thing, to me
just feels like a mismatch. It feels like a mismatch
for sort of the way Pittsburgh does its coaching searches
and the kind of coaches they ultimately hire. They didn't
hire a guy that they're thinking, Okay, he's going to
be here for fifteen years. He's not young enough to
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be there for fifteen years. So it all feels very stopgappy,
not forward thinking, not long term Pittsburgh Steelers franchise philosophy.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
To me felt a little bit like when the Bills
hired Dick John But like a it was a strange choice,
strange retread choice, despite him being from the beautiful city
of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
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Speaker 4 (29:29):
All right, we're back. We're now play a briefer speed
round with Chad and Simon. Gentlemen. First up with Kyler
Murray now in Minnesota. What the hell happens to JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It's over right, It's just I would be shocked if
he does beat out Kyler. You know they're going to
give him the opportunity to beat beat out Kyler. But
Kyler's we all know Kyler. He's such a great athlete.
If you can just figure out the mental stuff right,
if you just can be more, you know, coach smarter
on the field. We expecting to flourish as Kevin O'Connor,
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like we've seen quarterbacks go through that offensive flourish. And
you know, JJ is talented, but as he's as talented
as Kyler. No, Kyler's been a league longer, he's seen
it all. He's still a greater athlete. So yeah, if
you're a Vikings fan, I mean, it's it's tough pill
to swallow. It's like it's it feels like it's over right.
It's just basically the way the football is to give
you one year to prove it.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
If you don't see flashes or anything to.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Build on to kind of move on and you'll you
always have that stupid mean of JJ. But yeah, to me,
it's it's Kyler's job to lose here.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt. I think this
is a great opportunity Kevin O'Connell. Kevin O'Connor, I think
is an NBA writer for Yahoo, Kevin O'Connell. This is
a great opportunity for him to burnish his bona fides
as the true quarterback whisper in the NFL. He did
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it with Daniel Jones, he did it with Sam Darnold,
he did it with Kirk Cousins. He continued to win
and develop quarterbacks and the JJ McCarthy match did not
work right. And you can't tell me that. There were
multiple times last year where JJ McCarthy continue to have
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lingering injuries when he probably could have played because they
just had no confidence in his ability to move the
ball downfield and lead the team to winning. Kyler has
been a guy who everybody, like Simon just said, his
entire issue of his career hasn't been talent. It's been
doing the right things as a play caller consistently over
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the course of a season. If Kevin O'Connell can get
him to reframe how he approaches football and that actually
turns into a really good match, that becomes a dangerous,
dangerous team.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Also, I just want to put it out there, he
has zero playoff wins head coach, So I don't want
to I don't want to give him too many flowers here.
I know Chad loves this guy, and he says his
name perfectly right, and I say it wrong every time
zero playoff winds.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
So just just got to throw that in there.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Listen, I didn't give him his flowers as a great coach.
I gave him his flowers as a quarterback whisper. That's different.
That's Matt, don't roll your eyes at me. That's different
regular season whispering. Only it's a distinction with difference after the.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Holidays, no more whispering, got it. I will say we're
the most literate sports pending podcast, not the most detail oriented.
So of all the people that reach out about getting
names wrong, which happens all the time. Listen, you know
there's only so much I can control and add it around.
Thanks for listening, all right, continuing right along, What is
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one thing each of you is genuinely afraid.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Of, oh, small to medium sized dead animals like dead birds,
dead raccoons, dead squirrels, any of those things, dead possums,
any of those things on my yard genuinely, Like I
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feel it deep deep in my stomach. I cannot Like
my mother in law has had to pick up dead
birds that are on our walkway. Our neighbor has come
over to pick up dead birds that like are on
our grass. I like, we had a dead possum in
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the backyard one year, and I was like, we call
animal control, Like it's so big, what do you do?
And like our neighbor came over and just you know,
picked it up with a shovel, put in a garbage bag,
Like it's a they got spirits and I don't want
my spirit mixing with their spirits. Number one. Number two,
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it's the weight. It's like literal dead weight in the shovel.
It just makes me, it makes my skin crawl it Honestly,
when I've done it when I've had to do it
and like Stacy sleeping or the boys aren't home, and
I like walk in, and I like I'm a champion
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because I did it.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
It scares me a couple of things really quick. One,
I'm not going to make fun of you about that.
I mean I will, but I'm not going to make
fun of you about it immediately. Because my direct extraor
neighbor who I'm just feet away from, who runs a
very successful business here in the beautiful city of Milwaukee,
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feels exactly the same way. And his wife will text
me if anything has died on their property, and I
come over because I'm a grown man, I'm a real man.
I'll put on the same gloves I wear to eat wings,
and I will dispatch of that animal without a second thought.
It's happened quite frequently. And then he'll like give me
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a case of beer or something. I tell him, I
wish you had a thousand dead animals and your property,
because it's good. It's a good thing. I've never considered
the spirit angle, though, so I suppose congratulations and always
finding a new wrinkle. Yeah, simon, what about you?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I mean, my number will probably be the commitment to
the opposite sex.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
That's fine my number one.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Number two I think me and Matt Mitchell have talked
about I get horrible sleep paralysis during the NFL season
just from the stress. And it's always a giant spiders
on the ceiling and that's will.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Always be the worst to me. Like a little spiders.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
I'm not affected by out his vacuum it or crushing
whatever or let him outside. But the giant spider of
my horrible dreams that I can't move out of my
bed to get.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's the worst.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
It is the worst thing seeing these imaginary spiders coming down.
I I don't know if it's from Iraq of Thebia,
the movie from back in the day, whatever it is.
I watched some movie as like a five year old.
That just literally ruined me for the rest of my life,
as most things do. So yeah for me, stuff with
the spiders, and every.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Would have guessed that, Yeah, we've discussed that because it's
it's happened to me a few times and by now,
because it would freak me out so much. I'd wake
up then and tell my wife to get out of bed.
There's a giant animal or spider or bees. A lot
of bees. I suppose it also dates back to I
used to be an exterminator many many many years ago,
and that's why I don't care about the dead animals.
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Are really any of these these pasts, they're nothing to me,
but that now it's happened so often that my wife
will be like she won't have been opened her eyes,
like there's not any goddamned spiders go to bed. Oh yeah, sorry,
like kind of get me out of my spell.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Here's some good material for you, Matt Mitchell. Uh, one
time my wife opened the door in our house that
leads to the garage, and when she opened it, it
did not smell great, and there was like definitely a
dead mouse somewhere in the garage. And she says to me,
(37:01):
what are we going to do? I go close the
fucking door, and then uh did not go back into
the garage for like a week.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
That's Chad's leadership style. That's definitely your boys. Sounds like
that door doesn't work anymore. Moving on to my exotic oils.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Just ignore it. Yeah, we can, by the way my
leadership style, ignore it or manage it, but don't bring
it back to me.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Don't bring it back. Yeah, I don't want to hear
about the I don't want to hear about the smell again. No,
all right, next question, Ah, goodness gracious, all of our
favorite teams, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Chicago Bears, and the
Buffalo Bills are playing now officially on Thanksgiving Day, going
around the horn here. How do you feel about it? Terrible?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Terrible because the Bears always end up playing early, and
I hate the early game for Thanksgiving. It just feels
like you're not in the flow yet. It feels like
your like disconnected from the rest of the country. And
I my team is going to be playing on Thanksgiving
Day like on an off day. I need it to
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be in prime time, like I need to build up
to it over the course of the day. And the
Bears always end up early. It's going to be the Lions,
and it's going to be even earlier than one o'clock.
It just feels like you're playing football too early in
the morning. It's slow and quiet. I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I love it. It's I don't know why I love
it so much. I always have whenever my team is
one of the teams picked to play on Thanksgiving, and
I guess it's just the excitement of it right the
night before, especially out drinking with everyone. That's what we're
all talking about the game tomorrow and not really talking
about our family and friends, right, You're talking about with
football game that's coming up the next day. And yeah,
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for me, it's obviously huge rivalry with the Cowboys, and yeah,
I love it.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I mean it's.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Obviously with our job and what we do for work.
I've never been able to go to a Thanksgiving game.
I always wanted to go to Dallas and go to one,
and this year my breakrate, I might try to figure
out how to go to it because it's it's not
the early game obviously, it's the four o'clock game, and
I just think it would be a cool experience. But
I'm with you, it's it's there's nothing worse than your
team losing on Thanksgiving because it just ruins the whole holiday.
So that is the negative side of it. But I
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just love it. It's just so cool having your team
be the team that gets picked the play on Thanksgiving.
IVE always enjoyed that experience.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
I also hate it, Chad. And while I'm not out
the night before talking about my you know, fear commitment,
or the spirits that live inside small animals, small to
medium sized animals. I don't like it. I love Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is my favorite day of the year. It's so fun.
It combines all of my favorite things. And I want
to be making a nine leg SGP on, you know,
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lions receivers and eating my weight and stuffing. I don't
want to think about how much, you know, the Bill's
lack of a defensive backfield is ruining my life. I'm
supposed to get a respite from that, so I especially
playing at eight thirty at night. I'm with my dad.
He's trying to go to bed at that time, not
share a special Buffalo Bill's moment with me, and we're
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playing the Chiefs. It's going to be horrendous. I can't.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Oh yeah, Patrick Mahomes will be back.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
It's ripe.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
You know what it is for, right, for indigestion?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Yeah, it's supposed to be consuming an entire untouched can
of cranberry sauce like a duck, just letting it slide
right down my gullet. I'm not supposed to be thinking
about is Dalton Kincaid's nie can explode really quickly because
We've gotten some questions about this, and we've never had
a chance to do it. Simon, we were just talking
right before the show began about the mischief of a
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certain animal that lives in your house. Could you just
describe the situation and the and the animal, because you
have something that's like the size of a large badger
that lives with you.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
I have a massive Maine coon cat, which if people
don't know, it's basically like a small dog.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
They're massive.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
They're literally so big. I couldn't just get a cat
litter box. I had to buy like a little kid's
small sandbox for to be it's cat litter box.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
And yeah, they the guys know.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
I'm I have a place that's a studio, but I'm
not here often. So i'm here, say three to four
times a week. I usually do bring her with me,
depends where I go, but sometimes I do leave here
for a day or two by yourself. So when I
come here to do shows, she's walking all across my equipment.
She's knocking over them like she's knocking to rear lights.
And that's just life with a cat. I love her,
but I joke to them. I can see why people
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put their their cats up for adoption. It's just you
really gotta love cats to love them, and they're just
so mischievous and bad. But like, right now she's chill,
but a minute ago she La knocked over a whole
basically a whole wall of collections I have, like during
their show, and it's just like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I can't even matter if she's just just being a cat.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Uh what's the name of this cat again?
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Uh? Indigo? I call her Indy though incredible.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
It is an upsettingly enormous cat.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
It is.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
It's wild to say, all right, really quickly, of all
the NFL teams today in the middle of May, what
team would you least like to be a fan of?
Speaker 1 (42:16):
I mean, I know Simon wants to take the Cardinals,
so I don't want to take that from him. So Simon,
do you want to talk about the Cardinals?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Are we If we're talking strictly football, it actually would
not be the Cardinals because I think they're they're they're
doing what I think they should be doing, which is
just burn it all down. Like that's the first step.
You have to admit your mistakes and then just burn
it all down. Then in Miami, I like what they're
doing right now. Honestly, if I had to pick one franchise,
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I know it's going to sound crazy to people we
talked about, it would be the Giants. I just I
hate their way the organization is going. I hate the
direction of the organization, and there's just other teams, tams
where I rather be at their starting point than this
Giants team, which I think at the best they could be. Yes,
they could be this incredible contender, but I just think
they're always either going to be a middle level team
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or drafts at the bottom of the draft. They just
they don't have organization in a direction right now where
it feels like, at least Miami, Arizona the Jets, they're
kind of taking a direction of all right, we're gonna
sign our best players, our best assets, and we're getting
rid of everything else right bare bones, And that's what
you need to do in the NFL, Like you just
you can't try to reset on the fly, like these
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organizations aren't good enough. So yeah, for me, I know
it's a chakra probably gonna call off as a hater,
but it's just I hate what the Giants have done.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
So I was leaning Bengals or Jets because both of
them have historically bad ownership. One is cheap, one can't
get out of the way. The Jets really don't have
a quarterback. The best case scenario was that they're terrible
this year and they can get a top five pick
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and a quarterback deep draft next year, but that still
means you're two or three years away and you're hoping
against hope. The flip side is the Bengals never really
seem to get their free agent signings right. They've got
a quarterback who, as good as he's been, can't finish
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a season. He did it once and they go to
the Super Bowl. But their guys are aging and they
continue to stick with the same coaching, the same philosophy.
So I feel like I might go with the Bengals
before I would go with the Jets.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
My answer is absolutely the New York Jets re signing
Gino Smith is an under discussed part of the offseason
and one of the most genuinely hilarious things that's happened
in the NFL in the last ten years. I'm absolutely
dumb struck that they would do that, despite the fact
that they're clearly trying to get the number one pick,
which is great and very savvy. There's so many other
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less hysterical choices for that franchise specifically to have chosen
as a vehicle to get there. So I give them
full credit, but I definitely wouldn't want to wake up
a Jets fan. Many blessings to all the Jets fans
listening to this final question, Chad. As you mentioned at
least six hundred times, the Indiana Hoosiers are the reigning
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college football national champions in an unbelievable turn of events
based on kind of what life was like three to
five years ago, what would be the next most unbelievable
thing to happen in your lives compared to that? Now
that you've seen that promise.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Land confirmation of extraterrestrial life here on Earth, I believe it.
I want to believe it. I think they're here. I
got to believe that there's extraterrestrial life potentially right now
living among us.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
As a known member of the Illuminati, Chad, I'm glad
that you could finally let us in.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
For all I know. Oh it's one of you.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
Maybe maybe it's Indigo, because you don't have freaks Simon.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
Yeah, I would say, to truly blow my mind that
I could never see coming would just be people living
on Mars, like in our lifetime if that actually happens,
people living on Mars, because the Moon will be cool.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
I think that's the starting point.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
But Mars, you can't wrap her head around how far
away it is and how horrible it is the life.
It's just this hospital place that just nothing can survive, right,
and the fact that humans we can figure it out
get there with this crazy South African guy and Elon Muskin,
he's building these rockets that can land and take off
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from the Moon and then go to the Mars, like
the whole thing. If it happens, it will blow my mind.
And I've told you guys, I will be one of
those people. I will buy that one way ticket and
I will happily die on Mars, just because that's that's
the ultimate experience. I just don't think humans can even
wrap their heads around to the fact that, you know,
what was the airplane invented one hundred years ago, but
potentially in forty years, thirty years, who knows, we'll have
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people living on the Moon and.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Living on Mars. It's just that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Right, What is the point of all of this if
it's not to explore the universe and expand other planets.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (47:15):
I could see myself, you know, interviewing one of the
reptile people that lives among us as they take me
on their rocket to their tasteful mid century modern on
Mars before I could see the Buffalo Bill's winning a
Super Bowl. So I'm just going to let that be
the thing that blows my mind personally.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
We go to Mars because it's there. All right. That's
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Speaker 5 (48:06):
Last year was like that Costco free sample year, and
now Aaron's saying, Okay, this year, I need you to
buy in bulk and the Pittsburgh Steelers. They treat quarterback
like it's a slot corner or an off ball linebacker.
We may get to it at the trading deadline.
Welcome to Sharper Square, presented by hard Rock that we
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the show that makes the squares sharper and makes the
wise guys pay attention. I am Chad Noulman. I am
joined as always by my co host, my bff, my companion,
my Comfadre Professional Better, Simon Hunter Ello.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Soymon, shot, how are we doing?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
You know we had a kitch shalel on the other day,
the author of the book Lucky Devils, all about sort
of the age of algorithmic betting and the people who
led us into it, Bill Bner, the horse Racing better
who's literally made billions of dollars going back to the seventies,
(00:46):
Billy Walters and the Computer Group, And you know it
might take away from that whole show was what's up?
He complimented my English accent when I said hello, Simon.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, nah, you definitely liked that opener he did?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
He did. I thought that was I thought he was
fascinating and the stories are great. But what was interesting
to me about that show was I've gone back to
think about it was the level to which technology is impacting.
Like we talked about computer assisted wagering, and you talked
about some of the AI stuff, like it is just
(01:25):
going faster and faster and faster, and you see it
every day between sports betting markets and prediction markets. Like
a prediction markets, there are people who are wagering millions
of contracts in a day because they're able to do
it with technology to assist them moving as quickly as possible.
(01:48):
It's it's unreal, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
And as it better, you have to stay up on
today's trends, like you just said, or else you truly
get left behind. And I remember it on you. Last year,
I was gonna take an AI modeling class and it
was like even myself, I'm like what am I doing?
Like is this really gonna help me in any way?
And it did, like it just change your perspective, open
your mind to different possibilities, and you know it's it's
(02:12):
something that you are in this betting market and you
want to do this professionally. You have to even if
you don't understand it at first, you have to at
least put the research and the time into it and
talk to people that know what they're talking about with it,
because it's all you're looking for our edges like we
talk all the time, that's what we're looking for. So
can you find an edge and AI? Of course, I
mean there's there's tons of edges to find an AI
(02:34):
well that you know last you multiple years, probably not
like you just talked about, everything is moving so fast
now that's gonna be the biggest difference to me is
sometimes edges could last you three to five years. I
think the books are going to be so on it
now with all of this going on. I think maybe
a year, maybe a season in your individual sport betting,
that's when you'll find your edge with AI. So, like
(02:56):
we talked about you there, we're gonna have to do
more shows on it. But I think we both agree
like this is it's such early days right now. Mean
you neither of us can really wrap our heads around
what it's going to be like five ten years from
on the betting in the world. Like it's just things are
just changing so much, especially in the last five ten.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Years from legalization. AI is just a whole nother world. Now.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Well, it's interesting to me, tell me what you think
about this because I've been thinking about a lot about
this because you know, I'm wrapping up this book and
trying to figure out how AI fits into it. And
if everybody who's a professional better has access to AI,
(03:39):
then it doesn't necessarily mean that a professional better is
getting an edge on another professional better because everyone is
using the technology. So it just means that whatever they're doing,
they're doing it faster, more efficiently. It's not necessarily going
to make them better against the competition. Or am I
misinterpreting that?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, you're interpret because you can't even think about what
they're using it for, right, because you don't know what
they're doing with it.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So that's that's the hardest part, is like I would.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Love to tell you more secrets, but it's like there's
nothing to gain here for me. There's if I just
tell you what what we're really using a lot of
it for. What's like you're right, then all of a sudden,
I lose that edge that you know, some other people
might view not even have as happy one. Right, It's
like you just said, I don't think people understand yet
what the total uses of AI is because some people
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just go on AI and they chat, you know, chat
GBT how to make an omelet salad or whatever they're doing. Right,
That's how they're using it, they're not thinking about how
to compute different data or trends. Like for someone like me,
it loves trends. I don't need to spend hours looking
through different trends and sites. I can just simply go
on chat, gbt now or Claude or whatever and ask
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these questions.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
So I'm with you. It's the people using it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
I don't know how much they're going to give up
on give up information on it right now, but I
do think, like you know, you go into that Sloan conference,
I do think in the next year or two you'll
have professional betters that have moved on to different things
that will give information what they're using AI AI on
two three years ago.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And again you're saying that's not gonna help people.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I think it is because it's going to show you
different ways you can use it to find an advantage
with the sportsbooks.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I'm a big clod guy, big clod guy, love Claude.
Use it constantly, use it, honestly for almost everything.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I used it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yesterday I was baking chicken breasts I put into claud
I have marinated chicken breasts in a honey Dijon mustard marinade.
They are half an inch thick. How long do I
want to cook these for? And I know I can
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look that up on Google too, but Google, I'm gonna
get eighty five different recipes. I'm going to get that
tell me you know how to do it? And I
got to read half the blog I had, like it's
it's just amazing. And that's just one use case. I
use it for more complicated stuff too, But I am
all in on claud. I'm paying like two hundred bucks
a month to use Claud. I want the fastest, most
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powerful Claude I can have that can process the most
information at all times, no matter what I'm going to
be asking it, whether it's baking chicken or reading an
entire manuscript for a book and giving me feedback, like
I want it for everything.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
And if you're doing that right now, project out ten
years from now. And that's what I'm trying to break
down to people. It's going to get in so insane.
You came and really wrapprehend around it, And I'm the
other way. Where've already seen all the weird parts of AI,
especially in the dating world, where like I'll have a
gir respond to me and you'll leave in the questions
you put into AI. No, yeah, that's happened, and I'm
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just like, my god, can we just have an authentic
conversation here? I don't I don't need you to be
perfect or where you think the best response is.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But yeah, brother, it's getting weird.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well right right like this, This, by the way, is
not the topic of the show. Today is going to
be a mailbag show and we're going to bring Matt
Mitchell in in a second, and a lot of it
is based on NFL questions we've been getting because the
full schedule release is tonight. But hold on one second.
What are the questions? And Matt Mitchell, maybe you want
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to jump in for this. What are the questions that
your dates are asking Chet, GPT or Claude that then
they are sending to you accidentally in a conversation.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
This was just a one off. This is only happened
one time.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But it was just so shocking because I couldn't believe
it actually happened, which I get. If you're a guy
out there and you have zero game, I cannot fault
you for using this.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
A woman doesn't need game as a guy.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I'm just happy if a woman talks and let alone,
you know, put three censuses together via text mester.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So yeah, hers was.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I asked her what she was doing this weekend and
what her favorite part was of some town, and she
sent me back the best parts of this town in Yeah,
that's what I mean. It was like, it was like,
just tell me your own favorite things. I don't need
to know the computer's favorite part of this town. But yeah,
it's just it's people use it for every little thing
I have. Buddies will literally ask questions to it before
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they ask their wives certain questions, like that's we're getting there, chats.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's a wild time.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
That well, listen. I have plenty of buddies who are seasoned,
talented veteran executives who have role played negotiations on Claude,
and they're they're pulling it up for the big stuff too,
and they are getting like incredible feedback and running their
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employment contracts through Claude, and Claude is catching things that
they otherwise would not have caught on. These are people
who have like they are playing for big stakes and
they're still doing it. Like with Claude, it's those things
are amazing. We're not telling anyone who's listening anything they
don't know about AI and Claude and chatgypt like everyone
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knows that these large liquid models are superior intellect to
everything we are doing. Matter you using Claude.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Uh, First of all, it's incredible that Simon Hunter is
going on so many dates when it looks like he
has a coonskin cap on the top of his head.
You're supposed to get haircuts during the off seats and
that's like the deal, and then you don't during the season.
It's like it's it's so much hair, it's like shadowy
on your face. And Simon, I think we bobbed.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
The chat's using this this technology for stuff like like
entering is BMI. Claude is am I skinny? Am I
in good shape?
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Form? Mind?
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I'm not gonna lie. Yes you are hand too.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I'm not gonna lie. I have used it to gauge
if like my Peloton Killo Killer jewels are like good
for my age all like all of that, I have
one hundred percent asked Claude.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
That, yeah, that's that. You're definitely using it as the
automatic praise machine, so that's perfect. That checks out.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
I do I do like the very positive feedback.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
You're definitely someone that thanks thank you, Claude. No problem, Chad, yep,
So that are.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
You in my Claude because you're basically repeating what Claude.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Says to me. I feel like one of those old
detectives put my cigarette out. I've seen in a million.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You know.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
So now you know what today is, Chad, Spring mail
bank day.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh you want a transition? That's what? Is that what
you're saying.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Yeah, it's hard enough to keep you guys kind of
on the on the road as is, and I want
to use this opportunity to feel so many of the
questions we receive that I can't insert into or normal
episodes because it is it's hard enough to get you
guys to focus on any one thing on any given day.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, you're such a good producer, so let's let's let's do.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
It' That was a compliment from a human voice, not
a computer, so I will accept it and relish it.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I'm not sure I prefer the humans to the computers.
So let's let's get to it, all right.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Question number one is about my least favorite franchise in
all professional sports, the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins, as you
are aware, are engaged in a much needed rebuild under
new coach Jeff Haffley and GM john Eric Sullivan. They
got rid of Tua, they traded Jalen Waddle, So why
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are they giving running back Devon a Chan a huge
four year, sixty four million dollar contract extension?
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Simon, you want to go first?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Yeah, I'll start with saying I always love that we
are sponsored by hard Rock. And again I'm not the
biggest Twitter guy, but if I'm seeing hard Rock troll
the Bills fans constantly on Twitter, Matt Mitchell must hate it.
I love it so much. But yeah, Miami, it's a
poorly run organization. So then paying him all that money,
it's all part. Does he deserve it?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Of course?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
A Chan's a freaked talent, a great running back. But
I think this puts him out in the top three
or top four highest paid running backs.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
In the league. And we've me and Chat have talked
a Nashima about it.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's the last position to fill when you're building out
an organization, you're building out a team.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
That's not something you want to start off with, right.
You want to.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Build the other piece. You want to build the offensive line.
You want to build the defensive line, and we get
the quarterback. You want to get receivers, and then you
can go get the running back and pay them because
we've seen in this league you can find star running
backs in the second, third, fourth, fifth round. Like that
happens at the other positions, it just does not happen.
So if I was Miami, I wouldn't mind it because
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he's such a talent and you're so bad. It's like, Okay,
our goal this year is to be the worst team possible. Right,
they want the number one, number two pick. This is
a great draft class for quarterbacks come out. So to me,
everything Miami's done this offseason is on part right. They're
they're adding players that they think could help them two
three years down the road, right, not so much this year.
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And that's kind of what they need to be thinking. Right,
they're going to be absolutely terrible this upcoming season.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I thought it was interesting to me not to punt
on a chan but that Malik Willis signed in Miami.
He was a pretty sought after free agent quarterback going
to Miami with a team that is an entire rebuild.
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How is that going on a relatively short term contract.
How is that going to benefit him? Because he's not
the guy who's going to be the quarterback who can
make them win immediately, and he doesn't have the talent
around him that can make them win a meeting, my
mind immediately flashes to, all right, is this a commitment
to h Chan and their new quarterback that they are
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going to be building around these And this is a
not a promise they made some elique wills, but like,
this is the commitment they had made to building around
getting him some talent. It doesn't make any sense to me.
They have so many needs.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, they got remember.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Right, so they don't have anything else.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, they're not doing that at all. He's just a
stop gap quarterback to me. As good as he did
play for Green Bay, I think he got hurt after
one or two starts.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Like, I think even there in their back of their minds,
we're like, Okay, he he might win us a winner
game or two, and maybe all of a sudden we
hit gold and this guy is legit, like we think
he could be.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
That's great, that's a win win for them.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But otherwise I think they're in the same mentality as
we have hear of just one year star. They draft
a guy and they have a battle in camp next
year and if you know, he wins out that game,
that starting job next year. I let the rookie sit
for another season. But I think it would be naive
to think unless he gets the eight or nine wins
this year, I just don't see them having a long
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term playing with him as their quarterback.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Maybe it'll be devineationing.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
My assumption is that they have no plan because they
are poverty franchise, and I wish them nothing but the worst,
no disrespect to our beloved sponsor, Hard Rock Bat Florida's sportsbook,
Push them all the best. Question Number two. You two
have briefly discussed John Harbaugh's moved from Baltimore to New York,
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But what do you see as the likeliest outcome for
him and this Giants franchise over the next three years?
Is GM Joe Shine Dustin to be replaced? And as
kind of a framing like last year, their preseason win
total was five and a half, this year at seven
and a half, kind of what do you read the
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tea leaves on the New York Football Giants as a
franchise over the next few seasons.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I got this one, you ready, Simon Joe Shine out
before next year's draft. This team goes very much under
the seven and a half win total. Jackson Dart doesn't
make through the season, Cam Scataboo doesn't make it through
the season. Next year, they are evaluating their entire situation
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and just hoping against hope in a quarterback deep draft,
they're going to be lucky enough to be drafting high
so they can get one of the guys they need
who can truly be the game changer for their franchise.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Yeah, it's it's already off to a rough start.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I think I just saw Neighbors had to go back
in for surgery to get his knee cleaned up.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Which that's a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
This is your star receiver now getting a second cleanup
on his knee. You know, Giants, it's just crazy to
think what the organization is, right. I think it's them
and the Jets. The Jets, I think we're thirty second.
They were thirty first in the last ten years and
wins in this league, so they've they've been going through it.
They've been absolutely terrible at bottom of the pit. Dart
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showed promise. I think me and Chad were both surprised
in some dark games where it's like, Okay, this kid
obviously has a ton of talent. He just Kenny, Kenny
stay healthy, Kenny stand in the field, and you know, they've.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Obviously gone out.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
They've tried to address some stuff to help this kid.
But yeah, I still I'm with Chat. I still think
they are a year or two away. And it's been
interesting seeing people in media kind of pushing them up,
being like, well, I think this is the team that
could win this division or go over their win total,
where it's like this isn't the NFC South, Like this
is the division with Dak Jaden and Hurts, Like you know,
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who knows how Washington commander is going to be. But
I expect the Cowboys to be a little better. I
expect the Eagles to be a little better than they
were last year. So if I'm projecting out three years
from now, best case scenario, Dart becomes a full time
Pro Bowl or stays healthy, plays sixteen games a year,
and he's your franchise quarterback. Worst case, there's still a
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bottom feed of the league still drafting d Lineman D
NZ in the top three every year for the next
three years, like they're just right now. As a fan
of football, I literally view their franchise as a joke,
like it's just completely turned to shambles after the Eli
Manning run. And it's just bizarre to see that organization,
which had such great ownership just kind of fall off here.
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It is very bizarre to watch where it's like we
expect the Browns or.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
The Lions or the Jets to have bad ownership.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
The marv family has been great, So it's just very
bizarre how bad these last ten years have been. And
even in that, you know, behind the scenes, look right Chad,
we saw him in there saying he'd be sick. I'm
going to sleep in night if Saquan goes to the Eagles.
I still can't believe he didn't fire him right right
after that. So very very bizarre that organization right now.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You know what's interesting to me is why is there
so much optimism and confidence that just having John Harbaugh
is going to make this team so much better when
the guy has had the best player in the NFL
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for the past eight years, a guy who's won multiple MVPs,
a team that has achieved to the level of its
talent during the regular season and had a defense that
would dominate with a caliber of talent in Kyle Hamilton,
who was equal to everything Lamar Jackson was doing as
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an offensive player, he was doing it on defense. And
every year it would be coaching mishaps that keep them
from advancing. And I don't mean just like strategic mishaps.
He's not hiring the right coordinators. You could see it
with Zach Orr. You could see it when he had
offensive coordinators in Baltimore. They are not making the right
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calls with their talent, and he's going into the Giants
doing the same exact thing, bringing the same guys.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
I'm interested in Simon's point that it's a very intimidating
division of quarterbacks. A trio of quarterbacks they face and
they have one, they have Jackson Dart so that there's
nothing they're going to do about that. But it is
not widely considered a murderer's row of coaches in Schottenheimer, Quinn,
and Sirianni. I have no opinion about that, but I'm
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wondering if well, they can't revamp the entire roster overnight,
but what if we got on paper the best coach.
Would that matter? I don't think he's the best coach
because he lost to Sean McDermott twice in a playoff game.
That basically is an elimination factor for me for being
considered a great coach. But it will be interesting to
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see how it plays out, because it does. You're right,
it does seem like expectations. Are they get a little
over their skis question number three? Okay, here we go. Yes, Yes,
our boss, Colin Cowherd has been lighting up the Pittsburgh
Steelers recently, particularly about the Aaron Rodgers situation. And I
will play one of my favorite clips right.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Now Pittsburgh said, Yeah, I know you are probably at
the Coachella, but I'm the coach, Fella. It's gonna be
the way I want it. I want my quarterback burning
man to man, not a tending burning man. You're not
a hippie. You're a quarterback, the smartest guy in the room.
Thing wears everybody out, darkness retreats. Isn't that something you
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do like three years out of college with your friends
Chad and Mary. Here you're an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Wow, By the way, taking a little sniper fire on that,
Chad Mory.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'm not gonna lie, Chad.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Every time I hear your name now, I think of
this comedy sketch which I don't know if you've even't
seen it, but it's basically, guys as you won't say
any African country except Chad because it's the whitest country.
And I always think of you now every time I
hear that line, I think of Chad, the whitest africa
in country.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I used to tell when I was growing up, Ah, friends,
if they asked me about the country of Chat, I
used to tell them that, uh, my parents owned it and.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Hold on, I have something for that, and that there
there's more, oh keep going.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And that they and you would love it. The jury.
Have you heard of that?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Yeah, with James Marston, who's funny. Yes, yeah, I told
him that they owned it and that the country was
named after me.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Moving right along. Uh. Coward says that the days of
seeing the Steelers as a model franchise are now long gone,
and with our dear dear friend of the show, Mike
Tomlin now gone, do you think we will see the
Steelers actually bottom out under Mike McCarthy or is this
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simply more of the same. Another continued era of general mediocrity.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Has to end.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
It just we talked all the time, the voodoo of
Tomlin was something that even the numbers, you would look
at the numbers on paper, you would have an Abrams
come and read all the trends.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It was insane.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Every time this guy was left for dead, this team
was an underdog, they had Duck Hodges as their quarterback,
They'd win. It was the most bizarre thing I've ever
seen with football. This just this has not happen in football. Right,
maybe for one year you can do it, but for
twenty years, Tomlin got away with it. And like you know, yes,
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the playoffs, the playoff thing made sense. They needed to
They needed to move on, right, being five hundred or
right above it, being the seventh seed every year and
this getting smoked in the playoffs, I'm sure as a
fan base was exhausting.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
But yeah, they're about to hit it really hard.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The truth of you're you're you haven't had a quarterback
since Big Ben, You're an a defense and you haven't
drafted well, and it's it's gonna catch up to Pittsburgh
at some point.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
So if it is, it this season.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I feel like me and chat are probably gonna be
on their under right like we I feel like we
have to go against them now that Tomlin's gone and
Aaron Rodgers stuff. I honestly agree with what Anon Rodgers
is doing. This is a man that is in his forties,
that he's been there, he's done all that. Does he
really need to be there in their spring mini camps?
And you know, I know Pittsburgh fans are upset because
they want him to tell him that he's coming back.
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Everything you've seen between the NFL schedule makers and everything else,
it looks like Aaron Rodgers can be the quarterback right then,
getting these primetime games. The way the organization has treated
the offseason right they I think they drafted Drew Aller,
just another white quarterback. They'll be out of the league
in four or five years. Like Pittsburgh's doing all the
things they normally do. That's that's gonna be to me,
Aaron Rodgers coming back and playing for them. I just
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think right now, maybe he's a little upset about the money,
whatever it is. He's taking his sweet time, and that's
that's life. When you're kind of being held hostage by
a quarterback who's wayne retirement or coming back to maybe
get you to be a seventh seed.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
So I go back to something before Aaron Rodgers, which
you knew was going to happen. And it doesn't matter.
It's really about Mike McCarthy. You look at the Pittsburgh
Steelers since nineteen sixty nine, the hier Chuck Noll, as
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a relatively unknown coach who was very young, had very
specific ideas about how to build a team that was
completely in line with that era. Chuck Noll wins multiple
Super Bowls. The hier Bill Kawer, who was a relatively
unknown assistant, has very specific ideas for that era and
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his perfect match for the city and the kind of
football that they want to play in Pittsburgh. He wins
a Super Bowl. Mike Tomlin, this is Mike Tomlin. They
got three coaches since nineteen From nineteen sixty nine to
twenty twenty six, they got three coaches. What is that
fifty seven years? And so to me, the issue is
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Mike Tumbel, by the way, relatively unknown assistant comes in,
perfect guy to steer a team that was at the
end of a great run and then to keep a
team that was motivated in a new era of football.
Mike McCarthy's a sixty something year old retrap. Mike McCarthy's
a guy who underachieved despite winning a Super Bowl in
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Green Bay. He's a guy who underachieved despite having an
incredibly talented quarterback in Dallas and having multiple years where
he was winning big. And we're not knocking Mike McCarthy
as a play caller, like he did a great job
when he was in Dallas. He did a good job
when he was in Green Bay. Although Aaron Rodgers went
into decline and by the way, didn't they partially fire
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Mike McCarthy because they weren't getting him and Aaron Rodgers
weren't getting along anymore. So the whole thing, to me
just feels like a mismatch. It feels like a mismatch
for sort of the way Pittsburgh does its coaching searches
and the kind of coaches they ultimately hire. They didn't
hire a guy that they're thinking, Okay, he's going to
be here for fifteen years. He's not young enough to
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be there for fifteen years. So it all feels very stopgappy,
not forward thinking, not long term Pittsburgh Steelers franchise philosophy.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
To me felt a little bit like when the Bills
hired Dick John But like a it was a strange choice,
strange retread choice, despite him being from the beautiful city
of Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
How did you like the answer I gave? Because mainly
it was from Claude.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
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Speaker 4 (29:29):
All right, we're back. We're now play a briefer speed
round with Chad and Simon. Gentlemen. First up with Kyler
Murray now in Minnesota. What the hell happens to JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It's over right, It's just I would be shocked if
he does beat out Kyler. You know they're going to
give him the opportunity to beat beat out Kyler. But
Kyler's we all know Kyler. He's such a great athlete.
If you can just figure out the mental stuff right,
if you just can be more, you know, coach smarter
on the field. We expecting to flourish as Kevin O'Connor,
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like we've seen quarterbacks go through that offensive flourish. And
you know, JJ is talented, but as he's as talented
as Kyler. No, Kyler's been a league longer, he's seen
it all. He's still a greater athlete. So yeah, if
you're a Vikings fan, I mean, it's it's tough pill
to swallow. It's like it's it feels like it's over right.
It's just basically the way the football is to give
you one year to prove it.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
If you don't see flashes or anything to.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Build on to kind of move on and you'll you
always have that stupid mean of JJ. But yeah, to me,
it's it's Kyler's job to lose here.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Yeah, I don't think there's any doubt. I think this
is a great opportunity Kevin O'Connell. Kevin O'Connor, I think
is an NBA writer for Yahoo, Kevin O'Connell. This is
a great opportunity for him to burnish his bona fides
as the true quarterback whisper in the NFL. He did
(31:01):
it with Daniel Jones, he did it with Sam Darnold,
he did it with Kirk Cousins. He continued to win
and develop quarterbacks and the JJ McCarthy match did not
work right. And you can't tell me that. There were
multiple times last year where JJ McCarthy continue to have
(31:22):
lingering injuries when he probably could have played because they
just had no confidence in his ability to move the
ball downfield and lead the team to winning. Kyler has
been a guy who everybody, like Simon just said, his
entire issue of his career hasn't been talent. It's been
doing the right things as a play caller consistently over
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the course of a season. If Kevin O'Connell can get
him to reframe how he approaches football and that actually
turns into a really good match, that becomes a dangerous,
dangerous team.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Also, I just want to put it out there, he
has zero playoff wins head coach, So I don't want
to I don't want to give him too many flowers here.
I know Chad loves this guy, and he says his
name perfectly right, and I say it wrong every time
zero playoff winds.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
So just just got to throw that in there.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Listen, I didn't give him his flowers as a great coach.
I gave him his flowers as a quarterback whisper. That's different.
That's Matt, don't roll your eyes at me. That's different
regular season whispering. Only it's a distinction with difference after the.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Holidays, no more whispering, got it. I will say we're
the most literate sports pending podcast, not the most detail oriented.
So of all the people that reach out about getting
names wrong, which happens all the time. Listen, you know
there's only so much I can control and add it around.
Thanks for listening, all right, continuing right along, What is
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one thing each of you is genuinely afraid.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Of, oh, small to medium sized dead animals like dead birds,
dead raccoons, dead squirrels, any of those things, dead possums,
any of those things on my yard genuinely, Like I
(33:14):
feel it deep deep in my stomach. I cannot Like
my mother in law has had to pick up dead
birds that are on our walkway. Our neighbor has come
over to pick up dead birds that like are on
our grass. I like, we had a dead possum in
(33:35):
the backyard one year, and I was like, we call
animal control, Like it's so big, what do you do?
And like our neighbor came over and just you know,
picked it up with a shovel, put in a garbage bag,
Like it's a they got spirits and I don't want
my spirit mixing with their spirits. Number one. Number two,
(33:56):
it's the weight. It's like literal dead weight in the shovel.
It just makes me, it makes my skin crawl it Honestly,
when I've done it when I've had to do it
and like Stacy sleeping or the boys aren't home, and
I like walk in, and I like I'm a champion
(34:17):
because I did it.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
It scares me a couple of things really quick. One,
I'm not going to make fun of you about that.
I mean I will, but I'm not going to make
fun of you about it immediately. Because my direct extraor
neighbor who I'm just feet away from, who runs a
very successful business here in the beautiful city of Milwaukee,
(34:40):
feels exactly the same way. And his wife will text
me if anything has died on their property, and I
come over because I'm a grown man, I'm a real man.
I'll put on the same gloves I wear to eat wings,
and I will dispatch of that animal without a second thought.
It's happened quite frequently. And then he'll like give me
(35:01):
a case of beer or something. I tell him, I
wish you had a thousand dead animals and your property,
because it's good. It's a good thing. I've never considered
the spirit angle, though, so I suppose congratulations and always
finding a new wrinkle. Yeah, simon, what about you?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I mean, my number will probably be the commitment to
the opposite sex.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
That's fine my number one.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Number two I think me and Matt Mitchell have talked
about I get horrible sleep paralysis during the NFL season
just from the stress. And it's always a giant spiders
on the ceiling and that's will.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Always be the worst to me. Like a little spiders.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
I'm not affected by out his vacuum it or crushing
whatever or let him outside. But the giant spider of
my horrible dreams that I can't move out of my
bed to get.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's the worst.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
It is the worst thing seeing these imaginary spiders coming down.
I I don't know if it's from Iraq of Thebia,
the movie from back in the day, whatever it is.
I watched some movie as like a five year old.
That just literally ruined me for the rest of my life,
as most things do. So yeah for me, stuff with
the spiders, and every.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Would have guessed that, Yeah, we've discussed that because it's
it's happened to me a few times and by now,
because it would freak me out so much. I'd wake
up then and tell my wife to get out of bed.
There's a giant animal or spider or bees. A lot
of bees. I suppose it also dates back to I
used to be an exterminator many many many years ago,
and that's why I don't care about the dead animals.
(36:24):
Are really any of these these pasts, they're nothing to me,
but that now it's happened so often that my wife
will be like she won't have been opened her eyes,
like there's not any goddamned spiders go to bed. Oh yeah, sorry,
like kind of get me out of my spell.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Here's some good material for you, Matt Mitchell. Uh, one
time my wife opened the door in our house that
leads to the garage, and when she opened it, it
did not smell great, and there was like definitely a
dead mouse somewhere in the garage. And she says to me,
(37:01):
what are we going to do? I go close the
fucking door, and then uh did not go back into
the garage for like a week.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
That's Chad's leadership style. That's definitely your boys. Sounds like
that door doesn't work anymore. Moving on to my exotic oils.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Just ignore it. Yeah, we can, by the way my
leadership style, ignore it or manage it, but don't bring
it back to me.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
Don't bring it back. Yeah, I don't want to hear
about the I don't want to hear about the smell again. No,
all right, next question, Ah, goodness gracious, all of our
favorite teams, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Chicago Bears, and the
Buffalo Bills are playing now officially on Thanksgiving Day, going
around the horn here. How do you feel about it? Terrible?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Terrible because the Bears always end up playing early, and
I hate the early game for Thanksgiving. It just feels
like you're not in the flow yet. It feels like
your like disconnected from the rest of the country. And
I my team is going to be playing on Thanksgiving
Day like on an off day. I need it to
(38:11):
be in prime time, like I need to build up
to it over the course of the day. And the
Bears always end up early. It's going to be the Lions,
and it's going to be even earlier than one o'clock.
It just feels like you're playing football too early in
the morning. It's slow and quiet. I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
I love it. It's I don't know why I love
it so much. I always have whenever my team is
one of the teams picked to play on Thanksgiving, and
I guess it's just the excitement of it right the
night before, especially out drinking with everyone. That's what we're
all talking about the game tomorrow and not really talking
about our family and friends, right, You're talking about with
football game that's coming up the next day. And yeah,
(38:48):
for me, it's obviously huge rivalry with the Cowboys, and yeah,
I love it.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
I mean it's.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Obviously with our job and what we do for work.
I've never been able to go to a Thanksgiving game.
I always wanted to go to Dallas and go to one,
and this year my breakrate, I might try to figure
out how to go to it because it's it's not
the early game obviously, it's the four o'clock game, and
I just think it would be a cool experience. But
I'm with you, it's it's there's nothing worse than your
team losing on Thanksgiving because it just ruins the whole holiday.
So that is the negative side of it. But I
(39:15):
just love it. It's just so cool having your team
be the team that gets picked the play on Thanksgiving.
IVE always enjoyed that experience.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
I also hate it, Chad. And while I'm not out
the night before talking about my you know, fear commitment,
or the spirits that live inside small animals, small to
medium sized animals. I don't like it. I love Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is my favorite day of the year. It's so fun.
It combines all of my favorite things. And I want
to be making a nine leg SGP on, you know,
(39:46):
lions receivers and eating my weight and stuffing. I don't
want to think about how much, you know, the Bill's
lack of a defensive backfield is ruining my life. I'm
supposed to get a respite from that, so I especially
playing at eight thirty at night. I'm with my dad.
He's trying to go to bed at that time, not
share a special Buffalo Bill's moment with me, and we're
(40:06):
playing the Chiefs. It's going to be horrendous. I can't.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Oh yeah, Patrick Mahomes will be back.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
It's ripe.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
You know what it is for, right, for indigestion?
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Yeah, it's supposed to be consuming an entire untouched can
of cranberry sauce like a duck, just letting it slide
right down my gullet. I'm not supposed to be thinking
about is Dalton Kincaid's nie can explode really quickly because
We've gotten some questions about this, and we've never had
a chance to do it. Simon, we were just talking
right before the show began about the mischief of a
(40:39):
certain animal that lives in your house. Could you just
describe the situation and the and the animal, because you
have something that's like the size of a large badger
that lives with you.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
I have a massive Maine coon cat, which if people
don't know, it's basically like a small dog.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
They're massive.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
They're literally so big. I couldn't just get a cat
litter box. I had to buy like a little kid's
small sandbox for to be it's cat litter box.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
And yeah, they the guys know.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
I'm I have a place that's a studio, but I'm
not here often. So i'm here, say three to four
times a week. I usually do bring her with me,
depends where I go, but sometimes I do leave here
for a day or two by yourself. So when I
come here to do shows, she's walking all across my equipment.
She's knocking over them like she's knocking to rear lights.
And that's just life with a cat. I love her,
but I joke to them. I can see why people
(41:29):
put their their cats up for adoption. It's just you
really gotta love cats to love them, and they're just
so mischievous and bad. But like, right now she's chill,
but a minute ago she La knocked over a whole
basically a whole wall of collections I have, like during
their show, and it's just like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
I can't even matter if she's just just being a cat.
Speaker 4 (41:48):
Uh what's the name of this cat again?
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Uh? Indigo? I call her Indy though incredible.
Speaker 4 (41:54):
It is an upsettingly enormous cat.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
It is.
Speaker 4 (41:58):
It's wild to say, all right, really quickly, of all
the NFL teams today in the middle of May, what
team would you least like to be a fan of?
Speaker 1 (42:16):
I mean, I know Simon wants to take the Cardinals,
so I don't want to take that from him. So Simon,
do you want to talk about the Cardinals?
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Are we If we're talking strictly football, it actually would
not be the Cardinals because I think they're they're they're
doing what I think they should be doing, which is
just burn it all down. Like that's the first step.
You have to admit your mistakes and then just burn
it all down. Then in Miami, I like what they're
doing right now. Honestly, if I had to pick one franchise,
(42:49):
I know it's going to sound crazy to people we
talked about, it would be the Giants. I just I
hate their way the organization is going. I hate the
direction of the organization, and there's just other teams, tams
where I rather be at their starting point than this
Giants team, which I think at the best they could be. Yes,
they could be this incredible contender, but I just think
they're always either going to be a middle level team
(43:10):
or drafts at the bottom of the draft. They just
they don't have organization in a direction right now where
it feels like, at least Miami, Arizona the Jets, they're
kind of taking a direction of all right, we're gonna
sign our best players, our best assets, and we're getting
rid of everything else right bare bones, And that's what
you need to do in the NFL, Like you just
you can't try to reset on the fly, like these
(43:31):
organizations aren't good enough. So yeah, for me, I know
it's a chakra probably gonna call off as a hater,
but it's just I hate what the Giants have done.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
So I was leaning Bengals or Jets because both of
them have historically bad ownership. One is cheap, one can't
get out of the way. The Jets really don't have
a quarterback. The best case scenario was that they're terrible
this year and they can get a top five pick
(44:02):
and a quarterback deep draft next year, but that still
means you're two or three years away and you're hoping
against hope. The flip side is the Bengals never really
seem to get their free agent signings right. They've got
a quarterback who, as good as he's been, can't finish
(44:23):
a season. He did it once and they go to
the Super Bowl. But their guys are aging and they
continue to stick with the same coaching, the same philosophy.
So I feel like I might go with the Bengals
before I would go with the Jets.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
My answer is absolutely the New York Jets re signing
Gino Smith is an under discussed part of the offseason
and one of the most genuinely hilarious things that's happened
in the NFL in the last ten years. I'm absolutely
dumb struck that they would do that, despite the fact
that they're clearly trying to get the number one pick,
which is great and very savvy. There's so many other
(45:02):
less hysterical choices for that franchise specifically to have chosen
as a vehicle to get there. So I give them
full credit, but I definitely wouldn't want to wake up
a Jets fan. Many blessings to all the Jets fans
listening to this final question, Chad. As you mentioned at
least six hundred times, the Indiana Hoosiers are the reigning
(45:25):
college football national champions in an unbelievable turn of events
based on kind of what life was like three to
five years ago, what would be the next most unbelievable
thing to happen in your lives compared to that? Now
that you've seen that promise.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
Land confirmation of extraterrestrial life here on Earth, I believe it.
I want to believe it. I think they're here. I
got to believe that there's extraterrestrial life potentially right now
living among us.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
As a known member of the Illuminati, Chad, I'm glad
that you could finally let us in.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
For all I know. Oh it's one of you.
Speaker 4 (46:01):
Maybe maybe it's Indigo, because you don't have freaks Simon.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
Yeah, I would say, to truly blow my mind that
I could never see coming would just be people living
on Mars, like in our lifetime if that actually happens,
people living on Mars, because the Moon will be cool.
Speaker 2 (46:18):
I think that's the starting point.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
But Mars, you can't wrap her head around how far
away it is and how horrible it is the life.
It's just this hospital place that just nothing can survive, right,
and the fact that humans we can figure it out
get there with this crazy South African guy and Elon Muskin,
he's building these rockets that can land and take off
(46:40):
from the Moon and then go to the Mars, like
the whole thing. If it happens, it will blow my mind.
And I've told you guys, I will be one of
those people. I will buy that one way ticket and
I will happily die on Mars, just because that's that's
the ultimate experience. I just don't think humans can even
wrap their heads around to the fact that, you know,
what was the airplane invented one hundred years ago, but
potentially in forty years, thirty years, who knows, we'll have
(47:04):
people living on the Moon and.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
Living on Mars. It's just that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3 (47:08):
Right, What is the point of all of this if
it's not to explore the universe and expand other planets.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (47:15):
I could see myself, you know, interviewing one of the
reptile people that lives among us as they take me
on their rocket to their tasteful mid century modern on
Mars before I could see the Buffalo Bill's winning a
Super Bowl. So I'm just going to let that be
the thing that blows my mind personally.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
We go to Mars because it's there. All right. That's
been our show. Thanks for all the questions for the mailbag.
This has been Sharper Square, part of the Volume podcast Network.
I want to thank Matt Mitchell for joining us on
the show today. Great producing. Catch us next week. We
got a lot of NFL schedule stuff to discuss, including
week one lines we're going to want to talk about.
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Speaker 5 (48:06):
Last year was like that Costco free sample year, and
now Aaron's saying, Okay, this year, I need you to
buy in bulk and the Pittsburgh Steelers. They treat quarterback
like it's a slot corner or an off ball linebacker.
We may get to it at the trading deadline.
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