May 1, 2025 • 7 mins
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Chris critiques the NFL Draft, focusing on Shedeur Sanders’ slide due to his self-focused “legendary” brand and lack of leadership. He dismisses race claims—noting the top pick, black quarterback Cam Ward—as nonsense, emphasizing attitude and work ethic (e.g., Tom Brady’s grit) over distractions like tattoos or rap videos. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com
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Watch on: https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured
Chris critiques the NFL Draft, focusing on Shedeur Sanders’ slide due to his self-focused “legendary” brand and lack of leadership. He dismisses race claims—noting the top pick, black quarterback Cam Ward—as nonsense, emphasizing attitude and work ethic (e.g., Tom Brady’s grit) over distractions like tattoos or rap videos. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast, explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I have been kicking around whether or not I was
going to talk about this. Yes, we're doing Watchdog on
the NFL Draft. Yeah, all work and no play make
the Watchdog very dull. But anyway, I don't really follow
football as much as I used to. I go to
a couple games a year a best friend or countant
(00:39):
counting to many of our clients, say season ticket holder
for some time. But you know, again, I enjoy watching,
I enjoy the tailgate. I love the game. Okay, I do.
I do love the game. I don't necessarily like what's
happened to it. And I could talk about the NFL
and the rules and the fact that you can't hit
the quarterback anymore. Again, being in a linebacker, I don't
(01:03):
find it very fair. But I got to talk a
little bit about the draft. Okay. I'm not one of
those people that follow these things like everyone else does.
I really don't not to mention the fact that kind
of gave up on college football. I don't care. It's
not college football anymore. It's a lie. I want to
just call it what it is. It's pro professional football
(01:24):
players without contracts that bounce from team to team to
team to team to team. What's the point that old
Seinfeld skit about rooting for laundry has never never been
as true as it is today with college sports? And
again I lost interesting no interest in college basketball either.
(01:45):
But anyway, came home from dinner on Friday evening and
turned on the draft and I couldn't believe what I saw.
They were talking about some player and they had his
bio underneath him, and rather rather than give the kids
(02:09):
major like what he studied in college and what his
GPA was like they used to back in the day,
they gave a discree. This is what they had. There
has tattoos that represent this, this, this, this, and this.
(02:30):
I couldn't believe it. But anyway, I have to comment
on the uh shodoor Sanders Dion Sanders kid dropping in
the draft ole causing all sorts of problems as race involved.
Oh you get all the race hustlers out of the woodwork.
Race The number one pick in the draft was a
(02:52):
black quarterback came on from Miami. How was his race? No,
it's attitude. It's attitude, it's leadership. I do love that
Oliver Stone movie Any Given Sunday. Al Pacino had a
great role in that, and again trying to teach Willie
(03:16):
Beeman the fact that you're a gen D quarterback and
you can understand you're the top guy, and explain it
to him what it involves being quarterback. This Sanders kid
made it about himself. He developed his own brand, legendary
(03:37):
and made it about his brand. Did you see the
videos that he took prior to the draft with cam Ward? Oh,
let's make a rap video? Cam Ward said, No, I'm
about football. I want to be a football player. If
you want to be truly want to be the best
(03:58):
in something. I've talked about this in terms of priorities.
There's no such word technically as priorities. With an S,
you can only have a priority. Kobe Bryant talked about
this and spreading yourself all over the place and the
(04:19):
fact that if you want to be successful, you better
be laser focused. Laser focus and what you want to do.
Quarterback position is not easy again, it can be mastered
if you put the work in. You take a look
(04:40):
at Tom Brady, arguably the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Wasn't that athletic? Go back on YouTube, take a look
at his combine videos. I'm fifty four years old. I'm
faster than he is. He is now that I mean,
I can run faster, not okay now that he did
(05:02):
back then when he was twenty two, twenty one years old.
For crying out loud, wasn't that strong? He willed it
through hard work. See the offseason workouts he would do,
the type of training he would do with his arm.
I mean, that's that's what it takes. Not to mention
(05:24):
the fact you're playing a true gladiator esque sport. You're
gonna walk into a locker room with that type of
attitude that he's been carrying around. How do you think
that's gonna sit with the veterans. They've been there, they've
(05:47):
done that, they've seen they've seen top round quarterbacks come
and go. There's time when you just shut your mouth
and you put the work in and you go into
it say yeah, okay, I'm a you know, if I
was a top directress, I am I'm nobody until I
(06:09):
prove myself. It's that type of humility that one needs
to carry himself with in the NFL, or for that matter,
I'm gonna be honest with you in business and everything
else in life. Do you do that you know that
that's someone you know and put the work in, someone
(06:31):
you're gonna want to hire. They're gonna want that person
all of this extra baggage and stuff. You think that
any head coach, any NFL owner is gonna want any
of that nonsense at all. They are a laser focused
on winning. They're not laser focused on building your brand.
(06:54):
And you have to demonstrate that you're willing to do
whatever it takes, especially in a league like the NFL,
where make a wrong choice you make, you make a
wrong choice when it comes to a top guy, to
a top quarterback. It can set you back years and
years and years. That's how important that this is. And
(07:18):
if they have any misgivings in regards to your type
of attitude of what you're going to bring to the team,
you're gone. No, No, it wasn't Race Suedur, it was
you Watchdog on Wall Street dot Com
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast, explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact it we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst, and trader Chris Markowski.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I have been kicking around whether or not I was
going to talk about this. Yes, we're doing Watchdog on
the NFL Draft. Yeah, all work and no play make
the Watchdog very dull. But anyway, I don't really follow
football as much as I used to. I go to
a couple games a year a best friend or countant
(00:39):
counting to many of our clients, say season ticket holder
for some time. But you know, again, I enjoy watching,
I enjoy the tailgate. I love the game. Okay, I do.
I do love the game. I don't necessarily like what's
happened to it. And I could talk about the NFL
and the rules and the fact that you can't hit
the quarterback anymore. Again, being in a linebacker, I don't
(01:03):
find it very fair. But I got to talk a
little bit about the draft. Okay. I'm not one of
those people that follow these things like everyone else does.
I really don't not to mention the fact that kind
of gave up on college football. I don't care. It's
not college football anymore. It's a lie. I want to
just call it what it is. It's pro professional football
(01:24):
players without contracts that bounce from team to team to
team to team to team. What's the point that old
Seinfeld skit about rooting for laundry has never never been
as true as it is today with college sports? And
again I lost interesting no interest in college basketball either.
(01:45):
But anyway, came home from dinner on Friday evening and
turned on the draft and I couldn't believe what I saw.
They were talking about some player and they had his
bio underneath him, and rather rather than give the kids
(02:09):
major like what he studied in college and what his
GPA was like they used to back in the day,
they gave a discree. This is what they had. There
has tattoos that represent this, this, this, this, and this.
(02:30):
I couldn't believe it. But anyway, I have to comment
on the uh shodoor Sanders Dion Sanders kid dropping in
the draft ole causing all sorts of problems as race involved.
Oh you get all the race hustlers out of the woodwork.
Race The number one pick in the draft was a
(02:52):
black quarterback came on from Miami. How was his race? No,
it's attitude. It's attitude, it's leadership. I do love that
Oliver Stone movie Any Given Sunday. Al Pacino had a
great role in that, and again trying to teach Willie
(03:16):
Beeman the fact that you're a gen D quarterback and
you can understand you're the top guy, and explain it
to him what it involves being quarterback. This Sanders kid
made it about himself. He developed his own brand, legendary
(03:37):
and made it about his brand. Did you see the
videos that he took prior to the draft with cam Ward? Oh,
let's make a rap video? Cam Ward said, No, I'm
about football. I want to be a football player. If
you want to be truly want to be the best
(03:58):
in something. I've talked about this in terms of priorities.
There's no such word technically as priorities. With an S,
you can only have a priority. Kobe Bryant talked about
this and spreading yourself all over the place and the
(04:19):
fact that if you want to be successful, you better
be laser focused. Laser focus and what you want to do.
Quarterback position is not easy again, it can be mastered
if you put the work in. You take a look
(04:40):
at Tom Brady, arguably the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Wasn't that athletic? Go back on YouTube, take a look
at his combine videos. I'm fifty four years old. I'm
faster than he is. He is now that I mean,
I can run faster, not okay now that he did
(05:02):
back then when he was twenty two, twenty one years old.
For crying out loud, wasn't that strong? He willed it
through hard work. See the offseason workouts he would do,
the type of training he would do with his arm.
I mean, that's that's what it takes. Not to mention
(05:24):
the fact you're playing a true gladiator esque sport. You're
gonna walk into a locker room with that type of
attitude that he's been carrying around. How do you think
that's gonna sit with the veterans. They've been there, they've
(05:47):
done that, they've seen they've seen top round quarterbacks come
and go. There's time when you just shut your mouth
and you put the work in and you go into
it say yeah, okay, I'm a you know, if I
was a top directress, I am I'm nobody until I
(06:09):
prove myself. It's that type of humility that one needs
to carry himself with in the NFL, or for that matter,
I'm gonna be honest with you in business and everything
else in life. Do you do that you know that
that's someone you know and put the work in, someone
(06:31):
you're gonna want to hire. They're gonna want that person
all of this extra baggage and stuff. You think that
any head coach, any NFL owner is gonna want any
of that nonsense at all. They are a laser focused
on winning. They're not laser focused on building your brand.
(06:54):
And you have to demonstrate that you're willing to do
whatever it takes, especially in a league like the NFL,
where make a wrong choice you make, you make a
wrong choice when it comes to a top guy, to
a top quarterback. It can set you back years and
years and years. That's how important that this is. And
(07:18):
if they have any misgivings in regards to your type
of attitude of what you're going to bring to the team,
you're gone. No, No, it wasn't Race Suedur, it was
you Watchdog on Wall Street dot Com
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