January 20, 2025 • 27 mins
Optimal video game strategy has taken over sports in the NFL, NBA, and soccer. Should the NFL Playoffs played in bad weather like the Eagles vs Rams, Texans vs Chiefs, Ravens vs Bills.
TikTok is back and how it came back is hilarious display of politics with Donald Trump, the Republicans and Democrats.
Pocket passers in the NFl are done… Mobile QBs like Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hurts, and Patrick Mahomes are the future of the position. If your QB can’t move. you can’t move on to the super bowl. - 3 Black QBs in NFLconference champ….
#nfl #joshallen #lamarjackson #patrickmahomes #kansascitychiefs #buffalobills #philadelphiaeagles #jaydendaniels #washingtoncommanders #nflplayoffs #tiktok #tiktokban #unafraidshow #georgewrighster
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Unafraid Show Daily Live. Oh y'all thought y'all was just
on TikTok having a good time. Well, politics have gotten
in TikTok's way, just like they do in sports, and
optimal video game strategy has actually taken over sports. And
who knew that the kids playing the games actually had
the right idea? And should NFL playoffs be played in
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bad weather? This has been a debate. I think it
should And pocket passers are absolutely dead. Mobile quarterbacks are
the future. If your quarterback can't move, then you can't
move on to the super Bowl. And we're gonna have
a live show tonight after the National Championship. You guys
keep it locked here on Unafraid Show. Make sure that
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you like, subscribe, get notifications, and tell a friend about
the show, and most importantly share.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It amazes me how much better kids are at high
level strategy when it comes to sports than coaches are,
and how quickly that they are willing to adapt to it,
because when you look at how video games are played,
they've actually been way ahead of the curve. Like to
think about going back to going to go play NBA
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two K when you were playing Madden. I remember that
we actually had to put rules in well, we didn't
have to, but we put rules in that because people
would be so aggressive.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
On fourth down.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
They would be going for it in their own territory,
and we was like, yo, until you cross the forty,
you gotta punt the ball, because we wanted to play
some sort of regular, traditional football. And when I play
my son in NCA, this dude refused my thirty yards.
Dude refuses to punt.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Period.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He's not punting, and he's not kicking field goals, not
even to win the game. He is going for it,
pedal to the medal, going for the gust though everything.
So kids don't even understand necessarily the analytics of things.
They just understand the golden rule of sports, and particularly
in football, fortune favors the aggressive. So think about how
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many kids, or you yourself, how many times that you've seen
them playing hyper aggressive like we're going for it, going
for it, going for it. And then you think about
also in football, the past centric offense. Think about that,
the past centric offense that you are gonna sit up
there and throw the ball way more than you're going
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to run it. Now, granted you do have to be
able to run it to win. But most people just
stand up there and they're gonna toss the ball around
all over the place. Turns out that's an optimal strategy
in football. And look at basketball. Think about how in
video games, how many three pointers people chuck up in
NBA two or NBA Live or whatever NBA game that
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you play because you understood that the three was actually
more valuable than the two point game, and that you
can shoot a lesser percentage from two than you do
from three, and you can still end up being like
that you're gonna win the basketball game. And if you
can perfect your three point shooting, now you are dangerous
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because now you can drop, which is the NBA now
dunks and three pointers mid range is gone. Then that's
exactly the way that video games are played now in soccer,
same thing, passing centric soccer, same thing. So it's amazing
how video games have actually forecast how football and just
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sports in general is played. So maybe, and really how
slow the leagues and coaches have been to adapting to
that sort of philosophy. Now, granted they are bought all
into the philosophy now, but it took so long, Like
this is stuff that's been going on since I was
in college that way of playing, and then you had
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a few smart people that were like, damn, it's actually
a lot easier to play football on offense when you
act like when you call plays and you behave like
you have four downs to get a first down instead
of three downs to get a first down. Now the
Lions have implemented that strategy. You have college teams that
go for it at record paces compared to other eras
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of college football, and in the NFL the numbers support it,
and there's a reason why. So we actually have to
be keep our minds open when it comes to strategy
and gameplay. So the next time you are trying to
figure out what's next on the horizon, go watch.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Some kids play a video game.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Go watch them play, and you will find the answer
for what's going to be next in the world of sports.
All right, Speaking of football, though, the NFL playoffs were
played and we had some Obviously, all the games are
meaningful because you're playing for a Super Bowl. At that
point in time, we had Eagles, Rams, Ravens, Bills, Commanders, Lions, Chiefs, Texans,
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and three of those games were impacted by the weather
and whether it's cold, snow and win, any of that,
And then the question was asked, should football be played
in bad weather? The answer is yes, one hundred percent,
because this is how God intended football to be played.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It is literally a tough guy sport.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You and coaches will tell you all that, hey, hey,
we'll we'll line them up anywhere, We'll play in the
parking lot.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
We'll then mean it well, then mean it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Don't get to complain about the elements though the wind
bothered us, the rain.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yes, but there are three reasons, three reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Why football should played in bad weather and kind of
the impacts and things surround you.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Number one, I actulutely love football.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And bad weather, but it does not necessarily give you
the result of who's necessarily the better team. It goes
to which team is more adaptable and which team can
play more perfect If you will, because if you turn
the ball over, you're going to lose. If you can
protect the football and make a few plays when it
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matters the most and not commit penalties, you are going
to win the game. Because it is a totally different
game playing in bad weather or in cold and win,
or in the extreme heat than anything else and number two,
there is literally no difference in playing in extreme heat
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or extreme cold because both teams should actually get the
benefit of their home field advantage. Prime example, if you
go down to Miami in September or you go down
to Miami in January and it's a heat wave and
it's seventy degrees and humid, who has the advantage then,
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Miami or a team coming from Buffalo, team coming from
New England, team coming from Baltimore, like any place where
it's actually cold, Miami has an advantage right in the
beginning of the year and in the end of the
year if the elements so dictate and line up right. So,
how is that any difference than if you go up
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to Foxboro in January, you go up to Buffalo, you
go to Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
How does it matter?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yes, it's a big deal, But so is playing in
extreme heat, playing in Arizona outside.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
In college football, well, they should all play in domes.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Absolutely not absolutely not you And that's the leads me
to the third thing. And the third thing is people
always want to take the easy way out.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Suck it up. It's hard, play with your troubles.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Just like my Oregon Ducks got Ohio State in the
first round of the playoffs, and everybody's like, Oh, the
number one team shouldn't have the hardest route. Yeah, you're
probably true, but so what So what you gotta play
with the hand that you're dealt and trying to make
it more sanitized for everybody is lame?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Is lame.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh let's put everybody in dome so it's comfortable for
no man. That's actually one of the things that makes
like iconic games, or are extreme weather conditions field conde
like all sorts of things. Are the things that make
iconic days, days that you will never forget. Nobody is
gonna forget the negative thirteen degree Dallas Cowboy Green Bay game,
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Ice Bowl you got in nineteen sixty seven, you got
negative nine degrees Chargers Bengals in eighty two. You got
the Miami Dolphins Kansas City game last year negative four degrees.
Did that hurt the Miami Dolphins, Yes? Did it help
Kansas City?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Should Miami have won more games if they wanted to
host a home playoff game and have their advantage one
hundred percent? So I feel sorry for nobody. If you
want home field advantage, then win because the weather absolutely
impacted those those games, just like not playing outside impacted
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the Lions at Commander's game.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Those things matter. And now we've got after.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The the Eagles beat the Rams twenty eight to twenty two,
Ravens beat the bill Oh sorry, Bill's beat the Ravens
twenty seven to twenty five, Commanders beat the Lions forty
five thirty one, and the Texans beat the Well, the
Chiefs beat the Texans twenty t read a fourteen. So
we are now left with a couple of narratives, and
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I want to know you guys can smash it in
the comments. Which narrative are you most excited about?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
The Kansas City Chiefs three P because that is a
very real reality at this time. They got to win
two games and a three P first time in NFL history.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Do you like that narrative? The best? Or well?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And that's after they beat the Texans and the second
one Buffalo finally getting a Super Bowl ring.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
How does that feel to you?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Does that get you all excited and all titilated and
all you know, making sure that everything is happy for you?
Do you like that narrative? Josh Allen winning the Golden
Boy gets his ring. Does that make you feel good?
Or does the rookie Jadeen Daniels winning a Super Bowl ring?
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How does that make you feel Because this ain't one
of them Ben Roethlisberger's. They're winning in spite of him.
They're winning partially because, well, a big portion of that
is Jayden Daniels, his decision making, his running playmaking ability,
all of those things, or the fourth thing is and
this has to do with the Eagles, the Giants general
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manager needing to be fired Joe Showing. I saw a
video of his thirteen year old son when he was
asking this kid on Hard Knocks, Hey, who should we draft.
He's like, bro, draft Jayden Daniels and he's like, well,
I don't know if he's gonna be there. And the
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kids like, well listen, trade up, trade all your picks,
because he said, Dad, you only get this job once.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Go for it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And then he was like, well, or you can draft
malikue Neighbors, you can draft Drake May he named somebody else.
He was like, you can't miss, but he was like,
go get jade and Daniels.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Do you know what he did?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Drafted a wide receiver who is very good, but you
still are without a quarterback, and you let sa Kwon
Barkley walk and sign Daniel Jones instead of franchise tagging
Daniel Jones and paying sain Kwon Barkley. You would have
saved thirty million dollars doing the other way. This made
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no sense. So which one of those narratives feels better
to you? Kansas City three P? Buffalo finally getting the
Super Bowl, jayde Daniels as a rookiet winning a Super Bowl,
or the Giants general manager literally gifting the Philadelphia Eagles
a Super Bowl? Which one? Which one feels the best
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to you? So to me, I want Kansas City to
do the three P because I just absolutely love But
let's talk on Kansas City for a minute, because there's
a lot of people who look at Kansas City and
they're like, say, look, the refs always cheap for them.
They get the benefit of every single thing happened in
all the calls. Does Kansas City sometimes get the call? Well, actually,
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it's not even that they get more calls than everybody else,
because the numbers people have broken this down time and
time again. Kansas City is actually one of the teams
in the league that has the least amount of holding
calls called for them that like Chris Jones and the
defense get holding one of the least amount of rates
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in the entire league. Okay, so that knocks that theory out,
But it's the timeliness of the calls. And this has
to do with a few things. Number One, Kansas City
does not beat themselves. They don't hit quarterback late. They
don't necessarily get a lot of holding penalties. They are
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they They just don't do stupid stuff in general. They
don't fumble the ball too much when it when it matters,
they usually play very, very clean, which is why they
win close games. When other teams make mistakes like Baltimore
did in the game against the Bills, they don't make
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those and that's why they win those games. And that's
exactly why Lamar Jackson was upset at the end of
their game. At the end of the Ravens game, he
was like, man, we every time we get in this position,
we make mistakes and we gotta fix that. We gotta
hold onto the ball and all of that, because he
understands that that's the reason why they're not winning playoff games.
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It's got nothing to do with anything else. They have
to play, not not even mistake free football, but just
minimum mistake football.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
The other team beat you, don't beat.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yourself, particularly in bad weather when it's going to be
hard to score as well. So those things matter. And
then so Josh Allen. So Josh Allen is the man
that the league and the media they want him to win.
That's who they want to win. I'm gonna tell you
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that because he is the golden boy. He is the
guy that they've pointed to and people are like, this
could be the most talented quarterback that we've ever seen,
the greatest quarterback that we've ever seen. And I want
to juxtapos the difference between how Josh Allen's game in
the Conference Championship is viewed compared to Jalen Hurts. Let's
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talk about that. Because Jalen Hurts, who threw for one
hundred and twenty eight yards and then rush for another
seventy yards and a touchdown, right, the narrative of him is, oh,
he's just a running back playing quarterback.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He didn't do anything special and all of this.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But then Josh Allen, Oh my god, he's the hero.
Look at Josh Allen. One hundred and twenty seven yards passing,
no touchdowns, no interceptions. Oh damn, the same as damn
the same as Jalen hurts. Josh Allen another ten carries
for twenty yards and two touchdowns. Look at the way
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he led his team carried him on his back.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
M hmm, how is that different? It's not. These are narratives,
these are things, These are talking points.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
This is just like I told y'all last year with
the whole Russell Wilson sucks thing. I was like, Russell
Wilson's not as good as he was, but he didn't
suck in Denver, totally different.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Coach was against them, media was against him.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It made a bad situation look even worse because people
hold on to the low hanging fruit and that's what
they want to, you know, gravitate two. So I just
want you to point out the difference between those two
things and how Lamar Jackson is viewed versus Josh Allen
is viewed because Josh Allen was a I mean, they
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really played game manager football in this game. They've been
playing game manager all season. Josh Allen has not been
super heroing outside of running the football, which is the
same thing that he would be criticized for and have
his abilities limited.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
If that were the case.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
All right, and just the second we will talk about
how pocket quarterback passing is dead and the days of the.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Traditional pocket pass are over.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But I want to talk about TikTok for just a
second because this was hilarious. Because TikTok is back. All
content creators, including myself, got our page back, so we
are happy.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
It was hilarious to me because this is partisan politics
at its best. This is sports in politics. This is
sports and tiktoking and social media the same thing. And
I have This has almost made me want to join
not the stick to sports crowd, but nah, y'all political people. Y'all,
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y'all stick to your politics, stick to your politics. Don't
bring them over here to my TikTok. Don't bring them
over here to my sports.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It almost makes me join that, But then I remember,
hold up, sports and politics have always been intertwined, going
back to Jesse Owens and the Olympics where he was
fighting for his rights here when he got back to
the United States. Same thing with Kirk Flood and free agency,
tom Brady suing the league. You got NCAA versus everybody
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the Mitchell Report. Sports have always been involved in politics,
and now we got our.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Social media involved in politics.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And this was the reason why this was funny to me, right,
And I've told people I don't vote along party line,
So don't get to calling me, oh, he's a liberal,
he's a conservative, he's a Republican, he's a Democrat. Don't
try to guess. You will break your brain. So and
here are the two latest examples of partisan politics playing
their way into our life. And all I'm calling is
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for truth tellers. And this is not to call out
the Conservatives and Republicans know, this is just a call
because the Democrats do it the exact same way. So,
but these are the latest two examples that we've had.
So we have now President trump inauguration deck. You go
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back to twenty twenty, he was calling for a ban
of TikTok literally, and now that TikTok actually, now that
everybody actually got on board with what he was talking about.
Now he's the new president. Now he's gonna come back
on board and save today.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
He's the hero.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Literally, that's no different than out here in California a
fireman starting a fire and then going to go putting it,
putting it out, and then getting a medal being like
see look I put it out.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
And this ain't even see. This isn't about Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
This is just about the way that our media portrays
these things and how partisan politics. And you can find
a million examples of Democrats doing exact same same thing,
and we have very few political people who are actually,
you know, really trying to be honesty brokers and stand
on something regardless of whether it's for their party or
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against their party. And then the second thing that we
had happened was all the talk this week Michelle Obama
is gonna miss the President Trump's inauguration. This is bad,
this is terrible. She's not good, peaceful transfer of power,
all of this stuff. President Trump didn't even go to
President Biden's. So why is this even a big deal?
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Just shut up about it. She didn't want to go.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Who cares? Who cares?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So you want to make Trump the bad guy or
you want to make Michelle Obama the bad guy?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Dude, they both have missed, So what move on your
own time? Everybody gets to make their decisions. Sick of
tary to hearing about it. And this is why I
said I want to get to the stick to politics.
Stack y'all, stick to politics. Let us TikTok, let us YouTube,
let us sports, and y'all mind y'all your own business,
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because because we we don't like it over there, all right.
Last thing that we got up today is that pocket
quarterbacks are dead. The traditional pocket passer is dead. If
your QB can't move, your team cannot move on in
the NFL playoffs, they cannot. Just look at going into
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the last game yesterday, the NFL quarterbacks and their rushing
yards this season. You had Lamar Jackson nine hundred and
fifteen yards coming into the game, Jaydon Daniels eight ninety one,
Jalen Hurts over six hundred yards, Josh Allen over five
hundred yards, Patrick Mahomes almost of four hundred yards. And
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that was going into the last game yesterday. And you
know who didn't move on, Jared Goff, Matthew Stafford, as
you did not move on those days of Stafford, golf cousins,
even Russell Wilson now where he doesn't run like he
used to. Those days are over. And that's the difference
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between Aaron Rodgers now and Aaron Rodgers ten years ago.
Aaron Rodgers was a mobile quarterback. And do not dismiss
or or mistake mobile with a runner. Those two things
are completely different because Aaron Rodgers was a mobile quarterback.
And don't think that a mobile quarterback means that you
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are Jayden Daniels or Jalen Hurts or Josh Allen with
the way that they're doing. No, no, no, no, no.
You know who's mobile. Bo Nicks, you know it's mobile.
Even Baker Mayfield, you know it's mobile. Kyler Murray, even
brock Party rested with three hundred and twenty three yards
this year. This is the new wave of football. And
it's so funny because we were told for so long
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traditional pocket quarterback and now we are watching we have
three black quarterbacks that are going to be in the
conference finals and Josh Allen, but all of them have
the same thing in common.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
They are mobile quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
And there was so long that the position when athletes
were playing the position and they would get moved out
of the position because they didn't know how to deal
with their athleticism outside of the running back wide receiver
dB positions, and now offensive coordinators like, oh damn, it's
actually a little bit easier when my quarterback can move
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and there's a threat to run. Oh, it freezes everybody
else up because now the defense has to account for
the quarterback on run plays. They always have to account
for him escaping out of the pocket. Gotta leave a
spy on him. That's one more person who can't be
in past defense. Just the reality of it. This is
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the way that the game is built now. The game
has changed. All them statue quarterbacks, mandon fools are done.
It is the it is boised men into the road
for them and anybody. And I remember, and I was
just telling telling the story to my boy the other day.
There was a guy that I played with and this
is the perception of quarterbacks in general. There was a
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guy that I played with when I was in the
UFL in Vegas, Black guy dB. And this is how
far did we've come in terms of quarterback play and
the perception of quarterbacks and how quarterbacking is supposed to look.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I remember this dude told me.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
We were at a friend of mine's birthday party and
he said, hey, and we were talking about quarterbacks and
he was like, man, I don't want a black quarterback
if I'm trying to win a Super Bowl, Give me
a white quarterback.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It was shocking, mind blowing to me.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
He was like, he was like, yeah, because all them
black guys, they they they all they all want to
run and we need somebody to stand back there and
throw it. Am I you This is probably like eight
nine years ago so, and I was like, what are
you talking about? He was like, black quarterbacks don't win
Super Bowls. It was like Russell Wilson just won. He's like, yeah,
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but that's that's different. He combs his hair and started
brushing it. I'm like, bro, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
With this dumb shit.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
And then I'm like, do you not understand that for
so long the position was forced to be that of like,
that's where they put people that couldn't move but wanted
to play football but could process information. That's where they
put them at quarterback. And then at that point in time,
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you had so many black quarterbacks in college football. Who
do you think is then going to become your NFL quarterbacks?
And then once you have the college system trickling up
to the NFL because they realized quarterbacks can play earlier.
As they're learning the past game in the NFL, everything
else life has changed in football, and we have to
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acknowledge that. And this is the mobile quarterback era, not
just the running quarterback era.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
And do you know what, it.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Will never ever ever go back, just like the three
yards in a cloud or dust is never coming back
in football. This is the way football will be played
from here on out. So if you are a high
school football coach, or if if you are a college
football coach NFL court, do not go looking for your
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Kirk cousins, do not go looking for your You know
what Aaron Rodgers is now compared to what he was.
Don't go look for your Matthew Staffords. Are there gonna
be some guys that trickle in every now and then
that are just that good? Yes, but you know what,
they're not gonna have success unless they can move.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
This is just the truth.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well Tom Brady, Tom Brady's a unicorn. This man is
the second greatest quarterback of all time behind Patrick Mahomes.
Just Sam and you guys, that's the Unafraid Show Daily Live.
Make sure that you guys come back tonight after the
National Championship.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Peace out, Catch you guys later.
Unafraid Show Daily Live. Oh y'all thought y'all was just
on TikTok having a good time. Well, politics have gotten
in TikTok's way, just like they do in sports, and
optimal video game strategy has actually taken over sports. And
who knew that the kids playing the games actually had
the right idea? And should NFL playoffs be played in
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bad weather? This has been a debate. I think it
should And pocket passers are absolutely dead. Mobile quarterbacks are
the future. If your quarterback can't move, then you can't
move on to the super Bowl. And we're gonna have
a live show tonight after the National Championship. You guys
keep it locked here on Unafraid Show. Make sure that
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you like, subscribe, get notifications, and tell a friend about
the show, and most importantly share.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It amazes me how much better kids are at high
level strategy when it comes to sports than coaches are,
and how quickly that they are willing to adapt to it,
because when you look at how video games are played,
they've actually been way ahead of the curve. Like to
think about going back to going to go play NBA
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two K when you were playing Madden. I remember that
we actually had to put rules in well, we didn't
have to, but we put rules in that because people
would be so aggressive.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
On fourth down.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
They would be going for it in their own territory,
and we was like, yo, until you cross the forty,
you gotta punt the ball, because we wanted to play
some sort of regular, traditional football. And when I play
my son in NCA, this dude refused my thirty yards.
Dude refuses to punt.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Period.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
He's not punting, and he's not kicking field goals, not
even to win the game. He is going for it,
pedal to the medal, going for the gust though everything.
So kids don't even understand necessarily the analytics of things.
They just understand the golden rule of sports, and particularly
in football, fortune favors the aggressive. So think about how
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many kids, or you yourself, how many times that you've seen
them playing hyper aggressive like we're going for it, going
for it, going for it. And then you think about
also in football, the past centric offense. Think about that,
the past centric offense that you are gonna sit up
there and throw the ball way more than you're going
(02:40):
to run it. Now, granted you do have to be
able to run it to win. But most people just
stand up there and they're gonna toss the ball around
all over the place. Turns out that's an optimal strategy
in football. And look at basketball. Think about how in
video games, how many three pointers people chuck up in
NBA two or NBA Live or whatever NBA game that
(03:03):
you play because you understood that the three was actually
more valuable than the two point game, and that you
can shoot a lesser percentage from two than you do
from three, and you can still end up being like
that you're gonna win the basketball game. And if you
can perfect your three point shooting, now you are dangerous
(03:25):
because now you can drop, which is the NBA now
dunks and three pointers mid range is gone. Then that's
exactly the way that video games are played now in soccer,
same thing, passing centric soccer, same thing. So it's amazing
how video games have actually forecast how football and just
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sports in general is played. So maybe, and really how
slow the leagues and coaches have been to adapting to
that sort of philosophy. Now, granted they are bought all
into the philosophy now, but it took so long, Like
this is stuff that's been going on since I was
in college that way of playing, and then you had
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a few smart people that were like, damn, it's actually
a lot easier to play football on offense when you
act like when you call plays and you behave like
you have four downs to get a first down instead
of three downs to get a first down. Now the
Lions have implemented that strategy. You have college teams that
go for it at record paces compared to other eras
(04:31):
of college football, and in the NFL the numbers support it,
and there's a reason why. So we actually have to
be keep our minds open when it comes to strategy
and gameplay. So the next time you are trying to
figure out what's next on the horizon, go watch.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Some kids play a video game.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Go watch them play, and you will find the answer
for what's going to be next in the world of sports.
All right, Speaking of football, though, the NFL playoffs were
played and we had some Obviously, all the games are
meaningful because you're playing for a Super Bowl. At that
point in time, we had Eagles, Rams, Ravens, Bills, Commanders, Lions, Chiefs, Texans,
(05:13):
and three of those games were impacted by the weather
and whether it's cold, snow and win, any of that,
And then the question was asked, should football be played
in bad weather? The answer is yes, one hundred percent,
because this is how God intended football to be played.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
It is literally a tough guy sport.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You and coaches will tell you all that, hey, hey,
we'll we'll line them up anywhere, We'll play in the
parking lot.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
We'll then mean it well, then mean it.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Don't get to complain about the elements though the wind
bothered us, the rain.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yes, but there are three reasons, three reasons.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Why football should played in bad weather and kind of
the impacts and things surround you.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Number one, I actulutely love football.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And bad weather, but it does not necessarily give you
the result of who's necessarily the better team. It goes
to which team is more adaptable and which team can
play more perfect If you will, because if you turn
the ball over, you're going to lose. If you can
protect the football and make a few plays when it
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matters the most and not commit penalties, you are going
to win the game. Because it is a totally different
game playing in bad weather or in cold and win,
or in the extreme heat than anything else and number two,
there is literally no difference in playing in extreme heat
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or extreme cold because both teams should actually get the
benefit of their home field advantage. Prime example, if you
go down to Miami in September or you go down
to Miami in January and it's a heat wave and
it's seventy degrees and humid, who has the advantage then,
(07:14):
Miami or a team coming from Buffalo, team coming from
New England, team coming from Baltimore, like any place where
it's actually cold, Miami has an advantage right in the
beginning of the year and in the end of the
year if the elements so dictate and line up right. So,
how is that any difference than if you go up
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to Foxboro in January, you go up to Buffalo, you
go to Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
How does it matter?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Yes, it's a big deal, But so is playing in
extreme heat, playing in Arizona outside.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
In college football, well, they should all play in domes.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Absolutely not absolutely not you And that's the leads me
to the third thing. And the third thing is people
always want to take the easy way out.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Suck it up. It's hard, play with your troubles.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Just like my Oregon Ducks got Ohio State in the
first round of the playoffs, and everybody's like, Oh, the
number one team shouldn't have the hardest route. Yeah, you're
probably true, but so what So what you gotta play
with the hand that you're dealt and trying to make
it more sanitized for everybody is lame?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Is lame.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Oh let's put everybody in dome so it's comfortable for
no man. That's actually one of the things that makes
like iconic games, or are extreme weather conditions field conde
like all sorts of things. Are the things that make
iconic days, days that you will never forget. Nobody is
gonna forget the negative thirteen degree Dallas Cowboy Green Bay game,
(08:54):
Ice Bowl you got in nineteen sixty seven, you got
negative nine degrees Chargers Bengals in eighty two. You got
the Miami Dolphins Kansas City game last year negative four degrees.
Did that hurt the Miami Dolphins, Yes? Did it help
Kansas City?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Should Miami have won more games if they wanted to
host a home playoff game and have their advantage one
hundred percent? So I feel sorry for nobody. If you
want home field advantage, then win because the weather absolutely
impacted those those games, just like not playing outside impacted
(09:37):
the Lions at Commander's game.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Those things matter. And now we've got after.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
The the Eagles beat the Rams twenty eight to twenty two,
Ravens beat the bill Oh sorry, Bill's beat the Ravens
twenty seven to twenty five, Commanders beat the Lions forty
five thirty one, and the Texans beat the Well, the
Chiefs beat the Texans twenty t read a fourteen. So
we are now left with a couple of narratives, and
(10:06):
I want to know you guys can smash it in
the comments. Which narrative are you most excited about?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
The Kansas City Chiefs three P because that is a
very real reality at this time. They got to win
two games and a three P first time in NFL history.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Do you like that narrative? The best? Or well?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
And that's after they beat the Texans and the second
one Buffalo finally getting a Super Bowl ring.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
How does that feel to you?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Does that get you all excited and all titilated and
all you know, making sure that everything is happy for you?
Do you like that narrative? Josh Allen winning the Golden
Boy gets his ring. Does that make you feel good?
Or does the rookie Jadeen Daniels winning a Super Bowl ring?
(11:04):
How does that make you feel Because this ain't one
of them Ben Roethlisberger's. They're winning in spite of him.
They're winning partially because, well, a big portion of that
is Jayden Daniels, his decision making, his running playmaking ability,
all of those things, or the fourth thing is and
this has to do with the Eagles, the Giants general
(11:26):
manager needing to be fired Joe Showing. I saw a
video of his thirteen year old son when he was
asking this kid on Hard Knocks, Hey, who should we draft.
He's like, bro, draft Jayden Daniels and he's like, well,
I don't know if he's gonna be there. And the
(11:46):
kids like, well listen, trade up, trade all your picks,
because he said, Dad, you only get this job once.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Go for it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And then he was like, well, or you can draft
malikue Neighbors, you can draft Drake May he named somebody else.
He was like, you can't miss, but he was like,
go get jade and Daniels.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Do you know what he did?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Drafted a wide receiver who is very good, but you
still are without a quarterback, and you let sa Kwon
Barkley walk and sign Daniel Jones instead of franchise tagging
Daniel Jones and paying sain Kwon Barkley. You would have
saved thirty million dollars doing the other way. This made
(12:32):
no sense. So which one of those narratives feels better
to you? Kansas City three P? Buffalo finally getting the
Super Bowl, jayde Daniels as a rookiet winning a Super Bowl,
or the Giants general manager literally gifting the Philadelphia Eagles
a Super Bowl? Which one? Which one feels the best
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to you? So to me, I want Kansas City to
do the three P because I just absolutely love But
let's talk on Kansas City for a minute, because there's
a lot of people who look at Kansas City and
they're like, say, look, the refs always cheap for them.
They get the benefit of every single thing happened in
all the calls. Does Kansas City sometimes get the call? Well, actually,
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it's not even that they get more calls than everybody else,
because the numbers people have broken this down time and
time again. Kansas City is actually one of the teams
in the league that has the least amount of holding
calls called for them that like Chris Jones and the
defense get holding one of the least amount of rates
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in the entire league. Okay, so that knocks that theory out,
But it's the timeliness of the calls. And this has
to do with a few things. Number One, Kansas City
does not beat themselves. They don't hit quarterback late. They
don't necessarily get a lot of holding penalties. They are
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they They just don't do stupid stuff in general. They
don't fumble the ball too much when it when it matters,
they usually play very, very clean, which is why they
win close games. When other teams make mistakes like Baltimore
did in the game against the Bills, they don't make
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those and that's why they win those games. And that's
exactly why Lamar Jackson was upset at the end of
their game. At the end of the Ravens game, he
was like, man, we every time we get in this position,
we make mistakes and we gotta fix that. We gotta
hold onto the ball and all of that, because he
understands that that's the reason why they're not winning playoff games.
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It's got nothing to do with anything else. They have
to play, not not even mistake free football, but just
minimum mistake football.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
The other team beat you, don't beat.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yourself, particularly in bad weather when it's going to be
hard to score as well. So those things matter. And
then so Josh Allen. So Josh Allen is the man
that the league and the media they want him to win.
That's who they want to win. I'm gonna tell you
(15:23):
that because he is the golden boy. He is the
guy that they've pointed to and people are like, this
could be the most talented quarterback that we've ever seen,
the greatest quarterback that we've ever seen. And I want
to juxtapos the difference between how Josh Allen's game in
the Conference Championship is viewed compared to Jalen Hurts. Let's
(15:48):
talk about that. Because Jalen Hurts, who threw for one
hundred and twenty eight yards and then rush for another
seventy yards and a touchdown, right, the narrative of him is, oh,
he's just a running back playing quarterback.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
He didn't do anything special and all of this.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But then Josh Allen, Oh my god, he's the hero.
Look at Josh Allen. One hundred and twenty seven yards passing,
no touchdowns, no interceptions. Oh damn, the same as damn
the same as Jalen hurts. Josh Allen another ten carries
for twenty yards and two touchdowns. Look at the way
(16:26):
he led his team carried him on his back.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
M hmm, how is that different? It's not. These are narratives,
these are things, These are talking points.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
This is just like I told y'all last year with
the whole Russell Wilson sucks thing. I was like, Russell
Wilson's not as good as he was, but he didn't
suck in Denver, totally different.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Coach was against them, media was against him.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
It made a bad situation look even worse because people
hold on to the low hanging fruit and that's what
they want to, you know, gravitate two. So I just
want you to point out the difference between those two
things and how Lamar Jackson is viewed versus Josh Allen
is viewed because Josh Allen was a I mean, they
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really played game manager football in this game. They've been
playing game manager all season. Josh Allen has not been
super heroing outside of running the football, which is the
same thing that he would be criticized for and have
his abilities limited.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
If that were the case.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
All right, and just the second we will talk about
how pocket quarterback passing is dead and the days of the.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Traditional pocket pass are over.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
But I want to talk about TikTok for just a
second because this was hilarious. Because TikTok is back. All
content creators, including myself, got our page back, so we
are happy.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
It was hilarious to me because this is partisan politics
at its best. This is sports in politics. This is
sports and tiktoking and social media the same thing. And
I have This has almost made me want to join
not the stick to sports crowd, but nah, y'all political people. Y'all,
(18:24):
y'all stick to your politics, stick to your politics. Don't
bring them over here to my TikTok. Don't bring them
over here to my sports.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
It almost makes me join that, But then I remember,
hold up, sports and politics have always been intertwined, going
back to Jesse Owens and the Olympics where he was
fighting for his rights here when he got back to
the United States. Same thing with Kirk Flood and free agency,
tom Brady suing the league. You got NCAA versus everybody
(18:55):
the Mitchell Report. Sports have always been involved in politics,
and now we got our.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Social media involved in politics.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And this was the reason why this was funny to me, right,
And I've told people I don't vote along party line,
So don't get to calling me, oh, he's a liberal,
he's a conservative, he's a Republican, he's a Democrat. Don't
try to guess. You will break your brain. So and
here are the two latest examples of partisan politics playing
their way into our life. And all I'm calling is
(19:29):
for truth tellers. And this is not to call out
the Conservatives and Republicans know, this is just a call
because the Democrats do it the exact same way. So,
but these are the latest two examples that we've had.
So we have now President trump inauguration deck. You go
(19:51):
back to twenty twenty, he was calling for a ban
of TikTok literally, and now that TikTok actually, now that
everybody actually got on board with what he was talking about.
Now he's the new president. Now he's gonna come back
on board and save today.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
He's the hero.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Literally, that's no different than out here in California a
fireman starting a fire and then going to go putting it,
putting it out, and then getting a medal being like
see look I put it out.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
And this ain't even see. This isn't about Trump.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
This is just about the way that our media portrays
these things and how partisan politics. And you can find
a million examples of Democrats doing exact same same thing,
and we have very few political people who are actually,
you know, really trying to be honesty brokers and stand
on something regardless of whether it's for their party or
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against their party. And then the second thing that we
had happened was all the talk this week Michelle Obama
is gonna miss the President Trump's inauguration. This is bad,
this is terrible. She's not good, peaceful transfer of power,
all of this stuff. President Trump didn't even go to
President Biden's. So why is this even a big deal?
(21:08):
Just shut up about it. She didn't want to go.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Who cares? Who cares?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
So you want to make Trump the bad guy or
you want to make Michelle Obama the bad guy?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Dude, they both have missed, So what move on your
own time? Everybody gets to make their decisions. Sick of
tary to hearing about it. And this is why I
said I want to get to the stick to politics.
Stack y'all, stick to politics. Let us TikTok, let us YouTube,
let us sports, and y'all mind y'all your own business,
(21:39):
because because we we don't like it over there, all right.
Last thing that we got up today is that pocket
quarterbacks are dead. The traditional pocket passer is dead. If
your QB can't move, your team cannot move on in
the NFL playoffs, they cannot. Just look at going into
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the last game yesterday, the NFL quarterbacks and their rushing
yards this season. You had Lamar Jackson nine hundred and
fifteen yards coming into the game, Jaydon Daniels eight ninety one,
Jalen Hurts over six hundred yards, Josh Allen over five
hundred yards, Patrick Mahomes almost of four hundred yards. And
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that was going into the last game yesterday. And you
know who didn't move on, Jared Goff, Matthew Stafford, as
you did not move on those days of Stafford, golf cousins,
even Russell Wilson now where he doesn't run like he
used to. Those days are over. And that's the difference
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between Aaron Rodgers now and Aaron Rodgers ten years ago.
Aaron Rodgers was a mobile quarterback. And do not dismiss
or or mistake mobile with a runner. Those two things
are completely different because Aaron Rodgers was a mobile quarterback.
And don't think that a mobile quarterback means that you
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are Jayden Daniels or Jalen Hurts or Josh Allen with
the way that they're doing. No, no, no, no, no.
You know who's mobile. Bo Nicks, you know it's mobile.
Even Baker Mayfield, you know it's mobile. Kyler Murray, even
brock Party rested with three hundred and twenty three yards
this year. This is the new wave of football. And
it's so funny because we were told for so long
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traditional pocket quarterback and now we are watching we have
three black quarterbacks that are going to be in the
conference finals and Josh Allen, but all of them have
the same thing in common.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
They are mobile quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
And there was so long that the position when athletes
were playing the position and they would get moved out
of the position because they didn't know how to deal
with their athleticism outside of the running back wide receiver
dB positions, and now offensive coordinators like, oh damn, it's
actually a little bit easier when my quarterback can move
(24:11):
and there's a threat to run. Oh, it freezes everybody
else up because now the defense has to account for
the quarterback on run plays. They always have to account
for him escaping out of the pocket. Gotta leave a
spy on him. That's one more person who can't be
in past defense. Just the reality of it. This is
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the way that the game is built now. The game
has changed. All them statue quarterbacks, mandon fools are done.
It is the it is boised men into the road
for them and anybody. And I remember, and I was
just telling telling the story to my boy the other day.
There was a guy that I played with and this
is the perception of quarterbacks in general. There was a
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guy that I played with when I was in the
UFL in Vegas, Black guy dB. And this is how
far did we've come in terms of quarterback play and
the perception of quarterbacks and how quarterbacking is supposed to look.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
I remember this dude told me.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
We were at a friend of mine's birthday party and
he said, hey, and we were talking about quarterbacks and
he was like, man, I don't want a black quarterback
if I'm trying to win a Super Bowl, Give me
a white quarterback.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
It was shocking, mind blowing to me.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
He was like, he was like, yeah, because all them
black guys, they they they all they all want to
run and we need somebody to stand back there and
throw it. Am I you This is probably like eight
nine years ago so, and I was like, what are
you talking about? He was like, black quarterbacks don't win
Super Bowls. It was like Russell Wilson just won. He's like, yeah,
(25:46):
but that's that's different. He combs his hair and started
brushing it. I'm like, bro, get out of here.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
With this dumb shit.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
And then I'm like, do you not understand that for
so long the position was forced to be that of like,
that's where they put people that couldn't move but wanted
to play football but could process information. That's where they
put them at quarterback. And then at that point in time,
(26:14):
you had so many black quarterbacks in college football. Who
do you think is then going to become your NFL quarterbacks?
And then once you have the college system trickling up
to the NFL because they realized quarterbacks can play earlier.
As they're learning the past game in the NFL, everything
else life has changed in football, and we have to
(26:35):
acknowledge that. And this is the mobile quarterback era, not
just the running quarterback era.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
And do you know what, it.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Will never ever ever go back, just like the three
yards in a cloud or dust is never coming back
in football. This is the way football will be played
from here on out. So if you are a high
school football coach, or if if you are a college
football coach NFL court, do not go looking for your
(27:04):
Kirk cousins, do not go looking for your You know
what Aaron Rodgers is now compared to what he was.
Don't go look for your Matthew Staffords. Are there gonna
be some guys that trickle in every now and then
that are just that good? Yes, but you know what,
they're not gonna have success unless they can move.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
This is just the truth.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Well Tom Brady, Tom Brady's a unicorn. This man is
the second greatest quarterback of all time behind Patrick Mahomes.
Just Sam and you guys, that's the Unafraid Show Daily Live.
Make sure that you guys come back tonight after the
National Championship.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Peace out, Catch you guys later.
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