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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Wild Card Round.
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You've also got the college football semi finals coming up
on Thursday and Friday of this week.
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So tons of football.
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This coming a weekend, all right, Sean patience level, you
tease it in a six o'clock hour, Yep, what we got?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
All right? And I don't. This isn't because I have
an answer for it. I have my opinion, and it's
all just opinion. So everybody's entitled to it, and I
love it. Hence why we do this radio show. Think
about your gig and think about it. My point is
the patience level of let's just talk about folks on
the offense this year at this time last year, what
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were you saying about Bobby slok you think what do
you think the majority people were saying slow it, Dmiico,
Ryans and C. J. Stroud put them all in one pile. Man,
This is unbelieved. They are so good together. We've got
the best young coach in the NFL, best young quarterback
in the NFL, who's a top five or six guy,
and we're in Bobby slowk will be a head coach
in the next two years, and he's as good as new
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offensive coordinators as on the planet at this time last year.
That's exactly what the narrative was at this time this year.
I've heard this is to meet Olryan. Has he lost
the team? I've heard that, so, I mean it's been
It's not been one person a lot, which is absurd.
But that two is the coaching sucks on the roster
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on this team. I've heard. I'm just talking about stuff
on the periphery you've heard, not said on here, but
do you hear. And I'm not saying it's right or wrong.
I've heard that, Demiko. I mean that the CD shot
of taking a major step back playing scared doesn't look
the same. All those and that Bobby Sloan is in overset.
I want a new offense coordinator. He should be fired.
I've heard that. If you've heard it once, I've heard
of a thousand times. So in twelve months, two back
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to back ten win teams and they haven't lived up
to our expectations and probably not their own in the
building this year. So with that, now take your job,
or take if you're a salesperson, if you're in oil
and gas, if you're a marketing person, and all of
a sudden you have a great they hire you and
you kick ass. You just got out of your master's program,
making a buck and a quarter and bam you you're
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the rookie of the year at your at your job.
And then they make a change in some management areas
or whatever it is, and you come back and now
all of a sudden, you know you're in an election year.
I'm just you use it. And the sales aren't coming
as good, the marketing people aren't spending as much, but
whatever it is, and your bosses are like, what's going on?
And you have you did everything the same with some
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adjustments your plan, your formula, and at the end of
the year you fell seventy five thousand dollars short of
your goal. And your boss is, well, you did the
same thing, and you had the same people, and you
extended deals and all that, but there was a couple
that you missed out on because well they just weren't
ready to pay yet, and they may do it in
twenty twenty five. And then now you're starting to question,
and then some of your your middle manager, your boss
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saying well, why weren't you just productive? Well? I did everything,
just a couple of things along the way, you know,
we had that was I was sick for two of
the weeks. Well you know, I had the flu. It
came all those things and the expectations, what's the difference?
And then the boss is starting to question you. Point
is is it simply because we see how much money
athletes and players make do we not allow them leeway?
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I don't know if we did, because we're critical, we're complimentary,
and they deserve both at times. But see how almost
absurd it is for us to say fire him now? Yeah,
I mean our expectations is it's simply because well, hey
Stroud makes all this money and he was he played
great last year. Why isn't it the same now and
were we reserve the right to do that judgment? My
point is, and I'm trying to are we too quick
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to do it? On the good side, we had CJ.
Stroud in the Hall of Fame last year yea. And
on the bad side this year, man, do we really
have the quarterback of the future. You've heard that people
want slowly fired? Yeah, we're And you're in the playoffs
with ten wins. After two years ago you were you
were a three win team. So and that's okay to
feel that way. My point is, at your job after
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one year in the next one, would you sit back
if people were in The difference is you don't have
people hovering over other than people in your building. People
aren't watching you on TV every week, so it heightens
it and hyper sensitive. So my point is, are we
absurd to sit here and say, come on, man, back
to back ten win teams, back to back playoffs and
because they took a step back, it could be the
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other teams got better. Yeah, you took a step back.
I mean maybe you didn't prepare the way you wanted to.
Now you're just in survival mode and next year you'll
be different. My point is do we are we really
at the point that you want coaching major coaching changes now? Yeah?
I think is it because they're on TV and they
make collect Are we judging this by money and expectations
or by think? Like I said, if it's your job,
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you're an oil and gas let's just say that, right,
And you had a different year, but you did, you
prepared just as hard all and it just didn't fall
the way you wanted.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You came up short this time. So what were the
circumstances on wide didn't get it?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I just told maybe the economy is down, maybe it
was an election year in your job, and to maybe
get the prices, you know how they set the gap
how much you want per barrel? Where the perfect price
is up and down and it fluctuates you. And then
all of a sudden the guy that you've had a
huge account with, that's it's a half a million dollar count.
And all of a sudden the see o retired and
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then his men manager left because somebody else hired him away. Yeah,
but that's football every week. It's football every freaking week.
Why is it one year that Justin Thomas and golf
is on the verge of a Ryder Cup guy of
being he's a top five player in the world, and
then this this past year and the year before couldn't win.
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Colin Markle went majors and majors and he hasn't won
a tournament five years. But he's been second great player,
and he's he's in the playoff and in FedEx Cup,
and he's on your Ryder Cup team or President's Cup team.
But but he had one he can't quite he can't
quite make that one putt that he made doesn't mean
he's not a good player. Are we ready to say
guy sucks? Now? He hasn't won in five years, yet
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he's hovering around there, and who's beaten Scheffler when he's
at his game? So my point is, in your gig
those circumstances, he did everything the same, and the guy
that it was your guy at that left and you
made up for it to four hundred thousand dollars with
somebody else. Yeah, but you came up one hundred thousand dollars.
Should should we replace you? No? You?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
You?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
You? You'd beg for one more year to say, well,
I'm gonna turn that around this year. That's out of
my control though, But is it isn't isn't a referees
call out of your control? And injuries injuries out of
your control?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I think, I think with personnel sometimes out of your
control as a play call. If you have a dumb
if you have a about I almost said dumb ass, yeah, no,
dumb mess.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
If you have a not so good roster, how is
that in your control? You're not the GM right then
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So good? There's a personnel, right, and a good coach
is supposed to elevate.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yes, average, it's not gonna take one year, exactly, It's
gonna take more than one year, right, So I think Sean,
you played in the NFL for ten years, like, you
know the pressure. You're the quarterback. You know the pressure,
you know the expectations, you know that you're at the
highest level. Like so, I think that comes into play
for normal people like you and I.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
If we're an oil and gas or even what we're
doing here. The fact that it's on TV and they
make more money, we have different at hestays all that money.
Of course, in the way, all money doesn't equal success all.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
The time, No, it does not, And society wants that
instant gratification and you're ready to move on. Rod Mayo
fired after one year, right, right, and their roster sucked,
right and Buill didn't leave him well and you know
that that team didn't leave him with much.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
That that's my point. And it's okay, I'm not saying
it's wrong for you to question, because I question. I
think Sloak's really good, but I questioned some of the
I think his aggressiveness has got stalled a little bit
this year. That it's like and maybe inside in the
practic field, in the media, and he says, I just
we don't have as much as fans may think we do,
and I got to work around it. So that that's
for them to figure out. But it is true those
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things and like Stroud last year, and yes, he's taking
a step back, but is it just is it him?
Is it taking the hits? Is it the fact that
maybe the cumulative effect and he's got to get over
it because if he does this three years in a row,
he'll want a new quarterback. Yeah, But also there's that
part of you know what last year, the throw that
he threw a whole shot that just got over the
corner's head. The corner jumps two inches higher and gets
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a tip ball pick. And I'm not this is an
excuse for the player or the coach, because we all
reserve the right to sit back and say, well, I
don't like that, and we all have different We see
it from a differ kaleidoscope, right, so for me in
a different magnifying glass. So I just I think we're
so quick to do it, just like we're way too
quick to say, why isn't that guy play like Mahomes?
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Are we really? I mean, what bo Nicks and Jayden
Daniels and Stroud did last year, that's not normal for
rookie quarterbacks. What Caleb Williams did this year, and what
Bryce Young did that that's about normal. Yeah. Again, when
people say it's absurd, well, Alabama Georgia could compete or
Texas could compete with the worst team they have, the
worst team in the NFL would destroy them. They beat
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him down. They make them look like a Division three
team in a National championship game against the best team
in Division one. That's what it would be like. So
that that doesn't So my point is is that we
are so what happened. What happened is they we're inconsistent
into ten wins. Well, they're lucky they're in the division.
You're exactly right, but they are in the division. So
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now it's a new tournament. How they deal with it, and
we're going to be critical, we're going to be complimentary.
I'm just curious what the fans think if you apply
when you start to put things to your real life
compared to theirs. I'm not even talking about money. It's
all relative to what would you expect from you and
your boss for you, just like you expect from them.
They're not doing anything different other than their job happens
to be on TV, and they got a skill set
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that most of the world doesn't have. Just like if
one of them walked off and walked into an accounting meeting,
most of us you sit there and say, or are
a science where they've got science where the guys up
there doing for me, You'd be like, that's my prayer,
grade I can learn it, but you've done right Now,
there's a there's a curve. The problem is they're their
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own worst enemy. Why because they improved seven wins in
one year a bat on an average roster, and now
they've turned it around, they could very well, come back
the Vikings a year ago. People, well, what's going on?
Cousins is leaving fourteen and three? And I read after Donald,
Do you realize after this game against Detroit that I
read because I go on in Minnesota and I sit
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on the feed and all that, do you realize they
want to bench Donald? The fans want to bench Arnold.
He's in the Pro Bowl in the fourteenth on the
road against the best team in football, arguably in the
Detroit Lions. You can make the argument that they are
the best in either conference. And after this game, because
it was on TV, there's people who want to bench
him for who, Yeah, who's gonna play Danny Jones? Not
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that he can't play, but Daniel Jones. Stop it they
want to do That's my point.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Are they going to try to bench Jonathan Nard and
Blake Cashle because they got cooked?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Yeah? Cooked? They got pushed around? Dude? At what point? Yeah,
whoever supposed to tackle Jamiir gives in, let's bench him too. Yeah.
My point is is that That's what I'm saying is
that the exit, when we raise expectations, we expect him
to live there and everybody's not. Mahomes and Andy Reid, Right,
that's and unfortunately we always compare him to those guys
as opposed to where good You could be a really
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good player and not have Mahomes rings exactly. So it's
just I'm just curious where the fans, yeah, where they
sit on the patient's part and why are you ready
to move on from some guys already?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well, I think the biggest, the hottest name as far
as fans losing their patients is Bobby Sloke. So where's
your where is your patient's level? With Bobby Slokes? Seven
one three, two one two five seven ninety call in,
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