January 15, 2025 • 30 mins
Philadelphia Eagles fan Ryan Caldwell has been FIRED from his job at BCT Partners due to the altercation he had with a Green Bay Packers fan at last week’s game, which has been playing all over the internet. Is that ok?
The Dallas Cowboys are a Dynasty of attention, just like Jerry Jones wants them to do. They will never win a Super Bowl under his leadership, but they will be the most popular. Now, there is consideration to hire Deion Sanders as the new head coach. What could go wrong?
Quinn Ewers and Jalen Milroe declared for the NFL draft and this makes NO sense at all. Who is advising these guys?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Unafraid Show Daily Live.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We got a lot to talk about today, and first
of which is Eagles fan Ryan Calwell got fired on
his day off.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Is it fair or is it foul? All?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We got a lot to talk about there. And the
Dallas Cowboys are an absolute dynasty, an absolute dynasty with
what they're doing right now. And I'll explain why Jerry
Jones is actually doing all the right things right now.
And there's been a bunch of quarterbacks from college football
that have declared for the NFL Draft. Some of them
are making some bad decisions and I'll explain why here on.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
An Unafraid Show.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Make sure that you like, subscribe, get notifications and you're
here every single day, so in case you've been under
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a rock since this last weekend, Eagles fan Ryan Caldwell
actually got fired from his job at a place called
BCT Partners due to the altercation that he had with
Green Bay Packers fan over the game at the game
over the weekend. It was with a woman and he
was calling her all sorts of names. I'll show you
the video in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
But Homeway got fired on his day off, and I.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Want to explain the level of craziness that this is
and how we actually need to be viewing this because
in life there are things that you need to identify
as things that you are willing to step over the
line for. I'm willing to step over the line from
a wife, for my kids with their protection and whatever
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the definition of that means. I'm willing to step over
the line take whatever consequences come from that. Obviously I
can't be out here acting the ass and doing things ridiculous,
but there's a certain amount of that, right So you
got to understand what you are willing to step over
the line for in life, because a lot of people
they're in jail because they'll step over the line. Could
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you scuff my puma over some pride over something like that?
But you gotta be willing what am I willing to
step over the line for? Are you willing to step
over the line over a Packers game? I understand that
you are a die hard Eagles fan, but are you really.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Willing to step over the line for this?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We got to break all of this down because this
man has lost his job, been banned from the stadium,
from the team permanently for the team that he says
that he loves and cares about and is a national embarrassment.
Now was that worth it though? Because now, on one hand,
Philly fans they have a reputation. And I actually thought
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about this, I was like, I wonder how much Philly fans,
because I'm not a philadel Foria fan, that they feel
like that they have to uphold that reputation of being
hard nos where the people who booed Santa Claus, Like,
I wonder how much that they feel that they actually
have to uphold that. But one thing that fans always
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have to realize, and this is probably a hard realization
because it takes a little bit of the passion out
of the situation.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You are not on the team like that.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's the first thing that you have to understand, is
that you are not on the team. And I'm a
person that lives with Like, the team I'm most passionate
about is my Oregon Ducks where I played college football.
Most passionate about them, And yes, when they lose, it's
hard to show up here on the Unfrayed show. Sometimes
when they got beat up on the Rose Bowl, had
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to do a show after that was hard.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It hurt me. But at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I know I can't go kick my dog, can't slap
my wife, can't go do ridiculous things just because my
team lost.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Do I care? Absolutely, But you're not on the team.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And pay attention to what players do after games, After
they have put their blood, sweat and tears, years of investment, injuries,
everything else on the field, what do they do They
come out after the game, They shake hands with their opponent,
they take pictures, do jersey swaps, everything else. Now, are
some people upset going straight to the locker room, yes, right,
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But as you get older, you understand that at the
end of the day, this is a vocation, this is
a job. This is not a This is not life
or death for the players in terms of the actual game,
right because the players they go out there, they are
literally putting their life on the line every single day
because you can break your neck, you could die anything
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when you are playing professional sports, particularly a contact sport
like football. So if the players can comprehend that, why
is it so hard for the fans to understand this?
Because we've seen videos of fights at stadiums all over
the place because they want to cheer boo and everything else,
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and this got me to thinking even more so. Here's
the video of Ryan Calwell in the stadium with the
lady because he got fired for this, and also there
was more videos of the affairs.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Was short of the goal on they got one more
they got one more yard though they're close. Okay, don't hunt,
he said, lovely jump.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Now, the irony of this entire situation is is BCT Partners,
the place that he works for, is a place that
is supposed to help companies with diversity, equity and inclusion
and making safe workplaces for people, and he's out here
doing this.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That's the irony of it. And I want us to.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Take a look at this as it relates to our
fandom in sports, because think about the video that we
saw this last week. We see President Trump President Obama
sitting at Jimmy Carter's funeral. They look like they're having
a friendly conversation. Right they're sitting there. It looks friendly.
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We don't know exactly what they're talking about, but it's
definitely not contentious in that moment. And think about how
many people were willing to off family members, cut off
lifelong friends over politics, and these dudes can sit right
next to each other and have a peaceful conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
But you had to cut off your friend, had to
cut off your.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Dad because he was touting the Trump line about Obama
being from Africa and his birth certificate and all that
stuff back in twenty fifteen. So you cut your family
member off because of that. But these two dudes can
sit peacefully at a funeral and have a seemingly jovial
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conversation whatever it was about.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And it seems.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That fans think that all players have an allegiance to
a team, like you might see with Ray Lewis, Michael Irvin,
Brian Dawkins, guys who had long careers in a certain place,
and but that's not the case. I played six years
in Jacksonville, went up to New York, had a cup
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of coffee with the Giants. I'm like most players. Yeah,
it's cool if Jacksonville does well, but I'm not gonna
lose sleep over it, because the older and older that
you get in this business, whether you stayed in in
a very long time and you moved around a bunch
of teams like most people do, or you were a
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player that had a short period of time for one team,
you don't have no allegiance, like that you're looking at
football as a job, as a means to an end
to take care of your family. Like do you think
that Kevin Durant in the NBA cares what happened? I mean,
of course, on some level he cares about the people there,
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But do you think that this dude actually cares what
happens with the Brooklyn Nets, Phoenix Suns, Golden State, will Years,
Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You think he's losing sleep over that?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
No, because that's what most players experience is but the
fans are more invested in it in terms of the
logos than the actual players are. So why would you
be willing to lose your job, lose your livelihood over
that moment? So back to the question, should this dude
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have been fired? One hundred percent? Because because I own
a company, and if there is somebody out there that
is not representing the morals or the or the the
things that my company stands for, he can't work here.
She can't work here. Because there are so many companies
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that actually, when they define their mission statement and the
things that they are about, they make sure that they
try to hire people that align with that. So yes,
you're going to have somebody in the company, and a
lot of times it's not even necessarily the company that
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wants to fire them.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So bad.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Imagine if you own a company, right, and man or woman.
Let's say that the husband run runs the company, and
his wife sees wife, mother, sisters, everybody sees a video
of this dude who works for you calling this lady
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see you next Tuesday. How do you think that's gonna
play at home?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Hey? Yo, husband, are you gonna do anything about this?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
So now you've caused him a problem, which now it
becomes then your problem. That's why I look at stuff
and like, if you cause me a problem by causing
my kids, my wife, anybody like that a problem, Now
you got a problem with me. It's not even just
the direct it's the fact that you're causing me a
problem by your actions. Or if the wife runs the
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company or she's in charge, and she's married to somebody
of certain ethnic background Jewish, Black, Indian, Chinese, whatever it is,
and you see somebody on video that works for your
wife saying derogatory things about your culture and everything else,
it probably ain't gonna play very well. Right, So I
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know that there's a lot of people, and there is
somebody in the comments because I put it on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
They said, oh man, what if this.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Guy if he goes to go kill itself and this
and that, and that would absolutely suck because he would
be publicly embarrassing and he would have taken the route.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
But the other part of it.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Is is this is, yes, people do make mistakes out
in life. But what do we tell kids in college
all the time when athletes get get in trouble when
they make must say all their consequences for your actions.
Should this dude have a route back in life to
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redeem himself.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
One percent?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
But when you make mistakes as an adult, it costs.
It either costs money, it costs your time, which is
your freedom, or something else. So I got no problem
with the consequences that the Eagles doled out because the
league is saying, we have to stop fighting in the
stands and we have to make a safe place for
our fans to be because the NFL is stadiums have
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become unsafe for a lot of people and a place
and if you and the fans are saying, you know what,
I'm not gonna take my family there. I'm not even
gonna go there because I don't like the environment, or
it doesn't feel safe, or if you're like me, bro,
if you say and see you next Tuesday to my sister,
my mom my wife.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I am going to.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Make sure that that stops because you are not going
to abuse her in front of me. Yes, I'm going
to take the the grown up mature route.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
First. Excuse me, sir, I'm gonna need you to stop.
Stop that.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You can, you can say whatever it is that you
want to say about the game everything else, but that
that crosses the A line, then I'm probably going to
There's probably gonna be a level of aggression and escalation
until it until it stops.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
That's just the truth.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So so as a grown mature person, I'm like, I
want I don't want to put myself in that position
where we end up there and now we got legal bills.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I'm just sam all right. Next thing up is the
Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
They are an absolute dynasty, a dynasty for what is
going on right now. And you might be like, George,
what the hell are you talking about? Four playoff wins
since the year two thousand. How does that equate a dynasty?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
George? How is it a dynasty?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
If the Houston Texans have more playoff wins since their
inception in you know, in the mid nineties than the
Dallas Cowboys. So if they have more playoff wins than
the Dallas Cowboys, how is this a dynasty, George, Well,
the Dallas Cowboys are a dynasty of attention. That's exactly
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what people want. If you own a business and you
end up with the most valuable franchise in the world,
well in all of football, aren't you gonna be happy?
That's what Jerry Jones wanted. He wants a spectacle. He
wants the Dallas Cowboys to be the most talked about team.
The Dallas Cowboys are not even in the playoffs, and
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do you realize how many people care about what's going on.
You can talk about some Tampa Bay Buccaneers news right
now and you ain't gonna get no heat off of it.
But you talk about Jerry and them Cowboys and what's
going on there, you know it's going It's gonna hit
every single time. And they don't even need to dominate
to be a dynasty of attention.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
They are literally the show dynasty. It is a soap opera.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And yesterday on the Unafraid show Daily Live talked about
how Jerry Jones is on the no Plan Plan, No
Plan Plan. The dude didn't get Mike McCarthy re signed,
wouldn't let Mike McCarthy interview for another head coaching job.
So what are you doing now? You're taking interviews with
Dion Sanders. And yes, he might do a good job.
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They ain't no knock on Dion in no type of way.
I talked about this yesterday, but and also I didn't
say it on the Live yesterday, but I do believe
that Dion Sanders, from what I've heard, that this whole
flirting with the NFL thing, it really ain't even what
he want to do. He's in contract negotiations with Colorado
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and wants every penny and piece of power possible. So
if you think that there's a chance he might leave,
oh yeah, yeah, you know, the school is going to
bend over backwards. And that's what I believe that Dion
Sanders is doing at this point in time. So you
got Jerry Jones, who the word I described Jerry Jones.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Is is a tinkerer.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He's a guy who has his hand in every single
aspect of the Cowboys Now, on one hand, you on
the franchise, you one one hundred percent have that right
in that prerogative. But the results that you have been
getting say that something else needs to change. And when
you look at the successful organizations, teams that are winning
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championships out in the world, what are their owners doing.
What has Robert Kraft been doing up there in New
England silently doing whatever he's doing behind the scenes. Look
at the Hunt family in Kansas City, same thing. The
owners of Tampa Bay because they just won recently. They
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hire people and let them do their damn job. Jerry
Jones overstepping the head coach because he got a talk
after every single game, then being the media coordinator, the
damn the damn trainer, the general manager.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Sign it.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's too many jobs for one man, and especially for
an eighty something year old man. You got too many jobs, Jerry.
You gotta let your kids, who you have hired and
put in place, do their job. And here's a prime
example of a guy who an organization who has changed
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their ownership and changed the philosophy, and now all of
their fortunes are different. And Magic Johnson illustrated this, and
Jerry Jones needs to take a page out of the
Washington Commander's playbook.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
This man right here.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
No, no, this is serious. You said, what does it take,
new vision, new owner, with a strategy, picking the right
people first, our coach, coach Quinn Adam Peters, and then
we all step out the way and let them do
their job.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Town culture and people, Town culture and people. So that's it.
Don't make this about of us. It's about those guys.
Did you envision it happen happening in this fast two years? Quarterback?
How could you? You got to get him quarterback?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Let's see you guys in try make it about those guys.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
They literally turned what was the most disfunctional franchise in
all of the NFL with with Snyder at with Dan
Snyder as the owner, into functional competent you know, like
get out of the way work.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Magic.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Johnson has been a part of the Dodgers. He's been
a part of now the Washington Commanders other situations where
they understand, yes, we are the owners, Yes we can
make decisions, Yes we are going to you know.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The buck stops with us.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
But you build good culture, you have good people around,
and you have good processes, and I learned this from
watching Marcus Lamontis, and I remember I got a chance
to spend some time with him down at in Austin
at south By Southwest a few years ago, and his
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motto is people people process and yeah, people process product.
So if you have that going on, you have a
chance to be successful. You hire good people, you create
a good environment, have good processes in place, you are
going to have success. And that's exactly what the Washington
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commanders are enjoying, which is the complete opposite of the
success that the Dallas Cowboys are having at this point
in time. So something has to change. If Jerry Jones
wants to see a super Bowl in his lifetime, he
has to give up some of that power, give up
some of that control and cat and hand it to
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competent people, whether that's your kids or that somebody else.
If you want a super Bowl, but I'm not sure
if he wants to win a super Bowl aside from
his way, and if you want to keep doing it
your way, that's fine. It is within Jerry Jones's it
is in his right, it is within his duty, and
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he's getting what he wants. The most valuable, the most
talked about franchise. But are you going to get the
most winning franchise. That's a whole different question. Are you
willing to give up power or do you want to win?
We all got choices. And speaking of choices, though, I
remember when I was at the NFL Combined well, at
the NFL Rookie Symposium, where they send you after you
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get drafted, all the draftees they go and they come
talk to you about all the things and that you
should and should not do. And one of the things
that they talk to us about it was this thing
that they do, choices, decisions, consequences, and your choices and
your decisions their consequences to it. Sometimes those consequences are
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really good, some of them are positive, and sometimes they're
really bad. And that's what's happening and going to happen
to a bunch of quarterbacks who have declared for the
NFL Draft. And I'm talking about guys like like Quinn Ewers,
Jalen Milrow, even Jackson Dark who declared for the draft
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but probably could have put and Kyle McCord who could
have petitioned for another year and might they have got it?
Sure right, I have said this time and time again,
if you are not a sure fire first round pick
as an NFL court, as a quarterback coming out of
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college and you still have eligibility left, do not leave.
Take your ass back to school. And now that the
transfer portal in NIL is available, that further, that only
further makes the decision an easy when if you are
not a first round pick and people are saying, oh, George,
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you look at Jalen Hurt's success story. Yes, he was
out of eligibility though, your opportunities in the NFL as
a non first round pick are completely different. First thing,
your guarantees are different. You got a fifth year option.
These things are positive. Yes, yes, if you ball out,
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yes that can be a little bit problematic, but getting
more guaranteed money, fully guaranteed money is never a problem,
never a problem. And the statistic show that first round
picks on average, regardless of whether they're good or bad,
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are going to get five years in the NFL five
on average five And we know how many guys don't
pan out in the NFL for whatever the reason, don't
even matter five years or more. And the rate of
seventh round picks and undrafted guys making it to year
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five is extremely low compared to sixth round picks, fifth
round picks, fourth, third, second.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And so forth.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Because the team has so much invested in you, they
are going to give you every single opportunity. Let's take
a guy like Bryce Young didn't have a great start
to his career, ranted. A lot of that was the
team's fault they bench him. Imagine if you give that
chance to a third round pick or a fourth round pick,
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if because of injury, he gets an opportunity to start
and play, if he doesn't play well, do you think
the team is like, oh, oh my god, we gotta
give this guy another chance. We gotta find a way
to fix them.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
If Sam Darnold was a sixth round pick, do you
think that he even gets to Minnesota after what happened
with the Jets? Hell, he may not have even gotten
on the field with the Jets to get to the Panthers,
to then get to San Francisco and then get to Minnesota.
Do you think Trade Lance would have gotten traded for
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a third or fourth round pick to the Dallas Cowboys
when it wasn't working out in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Absolutely not. This is the way it works.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
So for these quarterbacks coming out like a guy like
Jayalen Milroe, guy like quinn Ewers.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Neither one of these guys is gonna.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Be first round picks from what I have talked to
NFL scouts about and quarterback evaluators, not first round picks
right now.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So if you still and they were both.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Juniors, so if you have eligibility left, why are you
leaving now? Granted, quinn Ewers was not going to be
able to stay at Texas because Arch Manning is going
to be their starter for next year. But look at
Carson Beck. If the reports are true that Carson Beck
was offered four million dollars and got four million dollars
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to go to Miami, what do you think a healthy
quinn Ewers who was just in the National semifinals was
going to get for a quarterback desperate team at least
three four million dollars, which is going to be more
than whatever his signing bonus is going to be in
the NFL, and he gets another opportunity to be a
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first round pick. And the same thing with Jaln Milroe.
Did anything that Jalen Milroe put on tape this year,
say oh my god, that dude's gonna be really good
in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
No, I know that people are trying to project him
to be.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Either Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen, but that's not the
comp that's not the comp. And yes, he started for
two years now, but there needs to be some refinement
of his game to be able to be successful in
the NFL. Anybody be like Oh, Lamar, Lamar, Lamar, okay,
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Lamar Right, Lamar was a Heisman Trophy winner. He had
two years of passing the ball well in college. Jaln
Milroe didn't throw the ball well this year. Was there
some mechanical things that Lamar needed to work out?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yes, But Lamar was not a bad decision maker. And
there have been times where you questioned Jalen Milroe's decision maker.
And because he is such a good athlete, people are
going to look at him and say, oh, oh my god,
what can how can we do this? But the problem
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is when you are not a first round pick and
you get buried on the the bench. Look at Milton
up in New England. Look at the other Tennessee quarterback
hooker over there in Detroit. Will they ever get an
opportunity to be an NFL starter? Maybe not the history
says no. People are like, well, you can go be
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a backup quarterback for a while.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That's good money.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, it is until it's time for your contract to
be up, because you may get those three years in
the league right as a backup because you have a
starter in front of you. But then when that's up,
do you know what they're doing. They're drafting another guy
because you cost too much to be a backup and
you haven't been on the field and proven anything, so
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you are probably going to be out of a job.
That's the way backup quarterbacking works. So and I said
from a joke that Jalen Milroe Quinn e Or's bad decision,
same way I said about Carson Beck. When Carson Beck
initially dec player for the NFL draft, I was like,
this is a horrible decision.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
You didn't play well this year.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You're not gonna be a first round pick, and you're hurt,
so you're not gonna be able to do anything in
the pre draft process. Transferring is your best option because
he was gonna have to compete for his job at
Georgia next year, and he's like, I need a guarantee
start somewhere, so he ends up in Miami. Good decision
by Carson Beck. And then you got guys like John Materier,
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Garrett Nussmeyer, Kate Klubnick, Drew Aller, who all were like, let.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Me stay in school.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
And do you know who's gonna be the businest biggest
beneficiary from that. It's gonna be Kate club Nick, It's
gonna be Drew Auler, and it's gonna be Garrett Nussmart.
That's what's gonna because there's gonna be two quarterbacks that
are drafted in the first round this year, Shador Sanders
and Cam Moore. That's it now, regardless whether I would
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draft them dudes in that spot. I got Shadure at
the top, and then you got Jackson Dark who could
have appealed for another year. But here's what your draft
class pretty much looks like this year. Shadoure, cam Ward
quinn Ewers. And this is in no particular order. After
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those two quinn Ewers, jayaln Milroe, Kyle McCord, Jackson Dart Riley, Leonard,
Dylan Gabriel, Will Howard, Curtis Roykie, and Tyler Schuck. That's
what you got. This is not the outstanding draft and
because we've seen so many quarterbacks drafted very highly over
the last few years. There's a mistake that's going on
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and think, oh, yeah, we're all going in the first round. No,
you're not. This is probably going to be more like
the Kenny Pickett draft year or the EJ Manual Draft.
Here one or two guys in the first round and
then you're gonna have, you know, a long break until
the probably third or fourth round before the rest of
these guys come off the board. And that's just the
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reality of the city situation. Choicest decisions consequences. And you guys,
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Speaker 1 (30:28):
Peace Out.
Unafraid Show Daily Live.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We got a lot to talk about today, and first
of which is Eagles fan Ryan Calwell got fired on
his day off.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Is it fair or is it foul? All?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
We got a lot to talk about there. And the
Dallas Cowboys are an absolute dynasty, an absolute dynasty with
what they're doing right now. And I'll explain why Jerry
Jones is actually doing all the right things right now.
And there's been a bunch of quarterbacks from college football
that have declared for the NFL Draft. Some of them
are making some bad decisions and I'll explain why here on.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
An Unafraid Show.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Make sure that you like, subscribe, get notifications and you're
here every single day, so in case you've been under
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a rock since this last weekend, Eagles fan Ryan Caldwell
actually got fired from his job at a place called
BCT Partners due to the altercation that he had with
Green Bay Packers fan over the game at the game
over the weekend. It was with a woman and he
was calling her all sorts of names. I'll show you
the video in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
But Homeway got fired on his day off, and I.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Want to explain the level of craziness that this is
and how we actually need to be viewing this because
in life there are things that you need to identify
as things that you are willing to step over the
line for. I'm willing to step over the line from
a wife, for my kids with their protection and whatever
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the definition of that means. I'm willing to step over
the line take whatever consequences come from that. Obviously I
can't be out here acting the ass and doing things ridiculous,
but there's a certain amount of that, right So you
got to understand what you are willing to step over
the line for in life, because a lot of people
they're in jail because they'll step over the line. Could
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you scuff my puma over some pride over something like that?
But you gotta be willing what am I willing to
step over the line for? Are you willing to step
over the line over a Packers game? I understand that
you are a die hard Eagles fan, but are you really.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Willing to step over the line for this?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
We got to break all of this down because this
man has lost his job, been banned from the stadium,
from the team permanently for the team that he says
that he loves and cares about and is a national embarrassment.
Now was that worth it though? Because now, on one hand,
Philly fans they have a reputation. And I actually thought
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about this, I was like, I wonder how much Philly fans,
because I'm not a philadel Foria fan, that they feel
like that they have to uphold that reputation of being
hard nos where the people who booed Santa Claus, Like,
I wonder how much that they feel that they actually
have to uphold that. But one thing that fans always
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have to realize, and this is probably a hard realization
because it takes a little bit of the passion out
of the situation.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
You are not on the team like that.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's the first thing that you have to understand, is
that you are not on the team. And I'm a
person that lives with Like, the team I'm most passionate
about is my Oregon Ducks where I played college football.
Most passionate about them, And yes, when they lose, it's
hard to show up here on the Unfrayed show. Sometimes
when they got beat up on the Rose Bowl, had
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to do a show after that was hard.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It hurt me. But at the end of the day.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I know I can't go kick my dog, can't slap
my wife, can't go do ridiculous things just because my
team lost.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Do I care? Absolutely, But you're not on the team.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And pay attention to what players do after games, After
they have put their blood, sweat and tears, years of investment, injuries,
everything else on the field, what do they do They
come out after the game, They shake hands with their opponent,
they take pictures, do jersey swaps, everything else. Now, are
some people upset going straight to the locker room, yes, right,
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But as you get older, you understand that at the
end of the day, this is a vocation, this is
a job. This is not a This is not life
or death for the players in terms of the actual game,
right because the players they go out there, they are
literally putting their life on the line every single day
because you can break your neck, you could die anything
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when you are playing professional sports, particularly a contact sport
like football. So if the players can comprehend that, why
is it so hard for the fans to understand this?
Because we've seen videos of fights at stadiums all over
the place because they want to cheer boo and everything else,
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and this got me to thinking even more so. Here's
the video of Ryan Calwell in the stadium with the
lady because he got fired for this, and also there
was more videos of the affairs.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Was short of the goal on they got one more
they got one more yard though they're close. Okay, don't hunt,
he said, lovely jump.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Now, the irony of this entire situation is is BCT Partners,
the place that he works for, is a place that
is supposed to help companies with diversity, equity and inclusion
and making safe workplaces for people, and he's out here
doing this.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
That's the irony of it. And I want us to.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Take a look at this as it relates to our
fandom in sports, because think about the video that we
saw this last week. We see President Trump President Obama
sitting at Jimmy Carter's funeral. They look like they're having
a friendly conversation. Right they're sitting there. It looks friendly.
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We don't know exactly what they're talking about, but it's
definitely not contentious in that moment. And think about how
many people were willing to off family members, cut off
lifelong friends over politics, and these dudes can sit right
next to each other and have a peaceful conversation.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
But you had to cut off your friend, had to
cut off your.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Dad because he was touting the Trump line about Obama
being from Africa and his birth certificate and all that
stuff back in twenty fifteen. So you cut your family
member off because of that. But these two dudes can
sit peacefully at a funeral and have a seemingly jovial
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conversation whatever it was about.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And it seems.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That fans think that all players have an allegiance to
a team, like you might see with Ray Lewis, Michael Irvin,
Brian Dawkins, guys who had long careers in a certain place,
and but that's not the case. I played six years
in Jacksonville, went up to New York, had a cup
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of coffee with the Giants. I'm like most players. Yeah,
it's cool if Jacksonville does well, but I'm not gonna
lose sleep over it, because the older and older that
you get in this business, whether you stayed in in
a very long time and you moved around a bunch
of teams like most people do, or you were a
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player that had a short period of time for one team,
you don't have no allegiance, like that you're looking at
football as a job, as a means to an end
to take care of your family. Like do you think
that Kevin Durant in the NBA cares what happened? I mean,
of course, on some level he cares about the people there,
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But do you think that this dude actually cares what
happens with the Brooklyn Nets, Phoenix Suns, Golden State, will Years,
Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You think he's losing sleep over that?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
No, because that's what most players experience is but the
fans are more invested in it in terms of the
logos than the actual players are. So why would you
be willing to lose your job, lose your livelihood over
that moment? So back to the question, should this dude
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have been fired? One hundred percent? Because because I own
a company, and if there is somebody out there that
is not representing the morals or the or the the
things that my company stands for, he can't work here.
She can't work here. Because there are so many companies
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that actually, when they define their mission statement and the
things that they are about, they make sure that they
try to hire people that align with that. So yes,
you're going to have somebody in the company, and a
lot of times it's not even necessarily the company that
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wants to fire them.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So bad.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Imagine if you own a company, right, and man or woman.
Let's say that the husband run runs the company, and
his wife sees wife, mother, sisters, everybody sees a video
of this dude who works for you calling this lady
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see you next Tuesday. How do you think that's gonna
play at home?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Hey? Yo, husband, are you gonna do anything about this?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
So now you've caused him a problem, which now it
becomes then your problem. That's why I look at stuff
and like, if you cause me a problem by causing
my kids, my wife, anybody like that a problem, Now
you got a problem with me. It's not even just
the direct it's the fact that you're causing me a
problem by your actions. Or if the wife runs the
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company or she's in charge, and she's married to somebody
of certain ethnic background Jewish, Black, Indian, Chinese, whatever it is,
and you see somebody on video that works for your
wife saying derogatory things about your culture and everything else,
it probably ain't gonna play very well. Right, So I
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know that there's a lot of people, and there is
somebody in the comments because I put it on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
They said, oh man, what if this.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Guy if he goes to go kill itself and this
and that, and that would absolutely suck because he would
be publicly embarrassing and he would have taken the route.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
But the other part of it.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Is is this is, yes, people do make mistakes out
in life. But what do we tell kids in college
all the time when athletes get get in trouble when
they make must say all their consequences for your actions.
Should this dude have a route back in life to
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redeem himself.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
One percent?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
But when you make mistakes as an adult, it costs.
It either costs money, it costs your time, which is
your freedom, or something else. So I got no problem
with the consequences that the Eagles doled out because the
league is saying, we have to stop fighting in the
stands and we have to make a safe place for
our fans to be because the NFL is stadiums have
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become unsafe for a lot of people and a place
and if you and the fans are saying, you know what,
I'm not gonna take my family there. I'm not even
gonna go there because I don't like the environment, or
it doesn't feel safe, or if you're like me, bro,
if you say and see you next Tuesday to my sister,
my mom my wife.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I am going to.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Make sure that that stops because you are not going
to abuse her in front of me. Yes, I'm going
to take the the grown up mature route.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
First. Excuse me, sir, I'm gonna need you to stop.
Stop that.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
You can, you can say whatever it is that you
want to say about the game everything else, but that
that crosses the A line, then I'm probably going to
There's probably gonna be a level of aggression and escalation
until it until it stops.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
That's just the truth.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So so as a grown mature person, I'm like, I
want I don't want to put myself in that position
where we end up there and now we got legal bills.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
I'm just sam all right. Next thing up is the
Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
They are an absolute dynasty, a dynasty for what is
going on right now. And you might be like, George,
what the hell are you talking about? Four playoff wins
since the year two thousand. How does that equate a dynasty?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
George? How is it a dynasty?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
If the Houston Texans have more playoff wins since their
inception in you know, in the mid nineties than the
Dallas Cowboys. So if they have more playoff wins than
the Dallas Cowboys, how is this a dynasty, George, Well,
the Dallas Cowboys are a dynasty of attention. That's exactly
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what people want. If you own a business and you
end up with the most valuable franchise in the world,
well in all of football, aren't you gonna be happy?
That's what Jerry Jones wanted. He wants a spectacle. He
wants the Dallas Cowboys to be the most talked about team.
The Dallas Cowboys are not even in the playoffs, and
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do you realize how many people care about what's going on.
You can talk about some Tampa Bay Buccaneers news right
now and you ain't gonna get no heat off of it.
But you talk about Jerry and them Cowboys and what's
going on there, you know it's going It's gonna hit
every single time. And they don't even need to dominate
to be a dynasty of attention.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
They are literally the show dynasty. It is a soap opera.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
And yesterday on the Unafraid show Daily Live talked about
how Jerry Jones is on the no Plan Plan, No
Plan Plan. The dude didn't get Mike McCarthy re signed,
wouldn't let Mike McCarthy interview for another head coaching job.
So what are you doing now? You're taking interviews with
Dion Sanders. And yes, he might do a good job.
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They ain't no knock on Dion in no type of way.
I talked about this yesterday, but and also I didn't
say it on the Live yesterday, but I do believe
that Dion Sanders, from what I've heard, that this whole
flirting with the NFL thing, it really ain't even what
he want to do. He's in contract negotiations with Colorado
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and wants every penny and piece of power possible. So
if you think that there's a chance he might leave,
oh yeah, yeah, you know, the school is going to
bend over backwards. And that's what I believe that Dion
Sanders is doing at this point in time. So you
got Jerry Jones, who the word I described Jerry Jones.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Is is a tinkerer.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
He's a guy who has his hand in every single
aspect of the Cowboys Now, on one hand, you on
the franchise, you one one hundred percent have that right
in that prerogative. But the results that you have been
getting say that something else needs to change. And when
you look at the successful organizations, teams that are winning
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championships out in the world, what are their owners doing.
What has Robert Kraft been doing up there in New
England silently doing whatever he's doing behind the scenes. Look
at the Hunt family in Kansas City, same thing. The
owners of Tampa Bay because they just won recently. They
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hire people and let them do their damn job. Jerry
Jones overstepping the head coach because he got a talk
after every single game, then being the media coordinator, the
damn the damn trainer, the general manager.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Sign it.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It's too many jobs for one man, and especially for
an eighty something year old man. You got too many jobs, Jerry.
You gotta let your kids, who you have hired and
put in place, do their job. And here's a prime
example of a guy who an organization who has changed
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their ownership and changed the philosophy, and now all of
their fortunes are different. And Magic Johnson illustrated this, and
Jerry Jones needs to take a page out of the
Washington Commander's playbook.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
This man right here.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
No, no, this is serious. You said, what does it take,
new vision, new owner, with a strategy, picking the right
people first, our coach, coach Quinn Adam Peters, and then
we all step out the way and let them do
their job.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Town culture and people, Town culture and people. So that's it.
Don't make this about of us. It's about those guys.
Did you envision it happen happening in this fast two years? Quarterback?
How could you? You got to get him quarterback?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Let's see you guys in try make it about those guys.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
They literally turned what was the most disfunctional franchise in
all of the NFL with with Snyder at with Dan
Snyder as the owner, into functional competent you know, like
get out of the way work.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Magic.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Johnson has been a part of the Dodgers. He's been
a part of now the Washington Commanders other situations where
they understand, yes, we are the owners, Yes we can
make decisions, Yes we are going to you know.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
The buck stops with us.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
But you build good culture, you have good people around,
and you have good processes, and I learned this from
watching Marcus Lamontis, and I remember I got a chance
to spend some time with him down at in Austin
at south By Southwest a few years ago, and his
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motto is people people process and yeah, people process product.
So if you have that going on, you have a
chance to be successful. You hire good people, you create
a good environment, have good processes in place, you are
going to have success. And that's exactly what the Washington
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commanders are enjoying, which is the complete opposite of the
success that the Dallas Cowboys are having at this point
in time. So something has to change. If Jerry Jones
wants to see a super Bowl in his lifetime, he
has to give up some of that power, give up
some of that control and cat and hand it to
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competent people, whether that's your kids or that somebody else.
If you want a super Bowl, but I'm not sure
if he wants to win a super Bowl aside from
his way, and if you want to keep doing it
your way, that's fine. It is within Jerry Jones's it
is in his right, it is within his duty, and
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he's getting what he wants. The most valuable, the most
talked about franchise. But are you going to get the
most winning franchise. That's a whole different question. Are you
willing to give up power or do you want to win?
We all got choices. And speaking of choices, though, I
remember when I was at the NFL Combined well, at
the NFL Rookie Symposium, where they send you after you
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get drafted, all the draftees they go and they come
talk to you about all the things and that you
should and should not do. And one of the things
that they talk to us about it was this thing
that they do, choices, decisions, consequences, and your choices and
your decisions their consequences to it. Sometimes those consequences are
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really good, some of them are positive, and sometimes they're
really bad. And that's what's happening and going to happen
to a bunch of quarterbacks who have declared for the
NFL Draft. And I'm talking about guys like like Quinn Ewers,
Jalen Milrow, even Jackson Dark who declared for the draft
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but probably could have put and Kyle McCord who could
have petitioned for another year and might they have got it?
Sure right, I have said this time and time again,
if you are not a sure fire first round pick
as an NFL court, as a quarterback coming out of
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college and you still have eligibility left, do not leave.
Take your ass back to school. And now that the
transfer portal in NIL is available, that further, that only
further makes the decision an easy when if you are
not a first round pick and people are saying, oh, George,
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you look at Jalen Hurt's success story. Yes, he was
out of eligibility though, your opportunities in the NFL as
a non first round pick are completely different. First thing,
your guarantees are different. You got a fifth year option.
These things are positive. Yes, yes, if you ball out,
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yes that can be a little bit problematic, but getting
more guaranteed money, fully guaranteed money is never a problem,
never a problem. And the statistic show that first round
picks on average, regardless of whether they're good or bad,
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are going to get five years in the NFL five
on average five And we know how many guys don't
pan out in the NFL for whatever the reason, don't
even matter five years or more. And the rate of
seventh round picks and undrafted guys making it to year
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five is extremely low compared to sixth round picks, fifth
round picks, fourth, third, second.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And so forth.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Because the team has so much invested in you, they
are going to give you every single opportunity. Let's take
a guy like Bryce Young didn't have a great start
to his career, ranted. A lot of that was the
team's fault they bench him. Imagine if you give that
chance to a third round pick or a fourth round pick,
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if because of injury, he gets an opportunity to start
and play, if he doesn't play well, do you think
the team is like, oh, oh my god, we gotta
give this guy another chance. We gotta find a way
to fix them.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
No.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
If Sam Darnold was a sixth round pick, do you
think that he even gets to Minnesota after what happened
with the Jets? Hell, he may not have even gotten
on the field with the Jets to get to the Panthers,
to then get to San Francisco and then get to Minnesota.
Do you think Trade Lance would have gotten traded for
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a third or fourth round pick to the Dallas Cowboys
when it wasn't working out in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Absolutely not. This is the way it works.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
So for these quarterbacks coming out like a guy like
Jayalen Milroe, guy like quinn Ewers.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Neither one of these guys is gonna.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Be first round picks from what I have talked to
NFL scouts about and quarterback evaluators, not first round picks
right now.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So if you still and they were both.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Juniors, so if you have eligibility left, why are you
leaving now? Granted, quinn Ewers was not going to be
able to stay at Texas because Arch Manning is going
to be their starter for next year. But look at
Carson Beck. If the reports are true that Carson Beck
was offered four million dollars and got four million dollars
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to go to Miami, what do you think a healthy
quinn Ewers who was just in the National semifinals was
going to get for a quarterback desperate team at least
three four million dollars, which is going to be more
than whatever his signing bonus is going to be in
the NFL, and he gets another opportunity to be a
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first round pick. And the same thing with Jaln Milroe.
Did anything that Jalen Milroe put on tape this year,
say oh my god, that dude's gonna be really good
in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
No, I know that people are trying to project him
to be.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Either Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen, but that's not the
comp that's not the comp. And yes, he started for
two years now, but there needs to be some refinement
of his game to be able to be successful in
the NFL. Anybody be like Oh, Lamar, Lamar, Lamar, okay,
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Lamar Right, Lamar was a Heisman Trophy winner. He had
two years of passing the ball well in college. Jaln
Milroe didn't throw the ball well this year. Was there
some mechanical things that Lamar needed to work out?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yes, But Lamar was not a bad decision maker. And
there have been times where you questioned Jalen Milroe's decision maker.
And because he is such a good athlete, people are
going to look at him and say, oh, oh my god,
what can how can we do this? But the problem
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is when you are not a first round pick and
you get buried on the the bench. Look at Milton
up in New England. Look at the other Tennessee quarterback
hooker over there in Detroit. Will they ever get an
opportunity to be an NFL starter? Maybe not the history
says no. People are like, well, you can go be
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a backup quarterback for a while.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
That's good money.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, it is until it's time for your contract to
be up, because you may get those three years in
the league right as a backup because you have a
starter in front of you. But then when that's up,
do you know what they're doing. They're drafting another guy
because you cost too much to be a backup and
you haven't been on the field and proven anything, so
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you are probably going to be out of a job.
That's the way backup quarterbacking works. So and I said
from a joke that Jalen Milroe Quinn e Or's bad decision,
same way I said about Carson Beck. When Carson Beck
initially dec player for the NFL draft, I was like,
this is a horrible decision.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
You didn't play well this year.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You're not gonna be a first round pick, and you're hurt,
so you're not gonna be able to do anything in
the pre draft process. Transferring is your best option because
he was gonna have to compete for his job at
Georgia next year, and he's like, I need a guarantee
start somewhere, so he ends up in Miami. Good decision
by Carson Beck. And then you got guys like John Materier,
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Garrett Nussmeyer, Kate Klubnick, Drew Aller, who all were like, let.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Me stay in school.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
And do you know who's gonna be the businest biggest
beneficiary from that. It's gonna be Kate club Nick, It's
gonna be Drew Auler, and it's gonna be Garrett Nussmart.
That's what's gonna because there's gonna be two quarterbacks that
are drafted in the first round this year, Shador Sanders
and Cam Moore. That's it now, regardless whether I would
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draft them dudes in that spot. I got Shadure at
the top, and then you got Jackson Dark who could
have appealed for another year. But here's what your draft
class pretty much looks like this year. Shadoure, cam Ward
quinn Ewers. And this is in no particular order. After
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those two quinn Ewers, jayaln Milroe, Kyle McCord, Jackson Dart Riley, Leonard,
Dylan Gabriel, Will Howard, Curtis Roykie, and Tyler Schuck. That's
what you got. This is not the outstanding draft and
because we've seen so many quarterbacks drafted very highly over
the last few years. There's a mistake that's going on
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and think, oh, yeah, we're all going in the first round. No,
you're not. This is probably going to be more like
the Kenny Pickett draft year or the EJ Manual Draft.
Here one or two guys in the first round and
then you're gonna have, you know, a long break until
the probably third or fourth round before the rest of
these guys come off the board. And that's just the
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reality of the city situation. Choicest decisions consequences. And you guys,
make sure that you guys like subscribe, get notifications for
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pop up here and there on big games. So you
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we need you. We are continuing to grow and we
will be here all year long.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Peace Out.
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