In this episode, John looks at JJ Watt signing with the Cardinals and why he thinks they overpaid, why Washington doesn't deserve blame for parting ways with Alex Smith, why Russell Wilson doesn't have it as bad as he thinks, why there's no excuse for Jim Harbaugh's compete incompetence in recruiting QB's, and answers listener questions in the Middlekauff Mailbag. Follow John on Twitter and SUBSCRIBE now to get all the latest content!!
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going on? Everybody? John middlecop Three and Out Podcast, Welcome
to the show. Go subscribe right now if you haven't
a three and Out podcast. And we got a lot
going on, A lot is happening in the football world.
We actually had breaking news on Monday, a guy named
Jay Jay Watt has a new team. Some thoughts there,
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Alex Smith not happy, a couple more thoughts on the
Russell Wilson situation. The free agent market. Seventeen games is
basically unofficially official. It was like all sixteen AFC teams
will host the week seventeen next year. And Jim Harbaugh
saw something today that just made me shake my head.
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in and not winning. He has a quarter back problem.
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let's dive into the news, the breaking news of the day.
J J. Watt signs with the Arizona Cardinals. And I'll
be the first to admit I was shocked, stunned. I mean,
I'm rarely jaw open, but when I saw that, I
had to do a double take. I had to see
if he was playing with people. I didn't believe it
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at first. Clearly it's official, he's going to the Arizona Cardinals.
Two things jump out to me immediately. What the Cardinals
vastly overpaid. They're somewhat desperate. They haven't made the playoffs
for a while. They should have made the playoffs last year.
They fell apart. Their defense isn't very good. They gave
an older player that no other team would have. Sometimes,
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when you're desperate, what do they say in business? Desperate
people usually make the worst deals. Usually want to make
deals from the position of you know, security of not
have you where you can always walk away. The Cardinals
clearly overpaid. Here the JJ Watt angle as someone who
aspires to move to the Scottsdale Tempe area and who
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plans on moving there in the next eighteen months, for
a lot less than twenty three million dollars. I can't
blame him. That's a boatload of money. He was scheduled
to make seventeen and a half billion dollars. I don't
think most good teams wanted to pay him more than
five six million dollars and then incentivize the rest. The Packers,
the Bills teams like the Chiefs and the Bucks were
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never ever giving them this type of money. I don't
care what it gets leaked. There's a reason the Cardinals
had to pay this much because they're not a winning
team and they have to overpay for a guy like this.
And listen me personally. Part of being super rich is
you can make decisions not based strictly on money. JJ's
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made a hundred on the field, probably made twenty to
fifty million off it. I mean he's made a ton
off it. Fifty maybe high, but twenty five, thirty forty.
He's made a ton of money. Money is not he
has generational wealth. It's really quick. The media throws around
that term. You don't need to have one hundred million
dollars to have generational wealth. If I give a smart
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guy at ten million dollars generational wealth. Can invest in
a couple of real estate deals, put some money away,
earn the interest off a couple of million dollars. It's
not that complicated, Like you can gain generational wealth from
way less money than JJ Watt just signed for let
alone that he's already earned. He has an unlimited amount
of money. He made more. I understand it because if
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his best offer was five to eight million dollars, they
offered four times that. Listen, who am I to tell
a man to turn down that type money? And I'm
not now I would say, JJ, You're not gonna win here.
They don't win. They have a coach that does not win.
The evidence is in Cliff Kingsbury cannot win. It's not
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even disputable. Nice guy, good looking guy, hard worker, spread
offense just ain't working this franchise. I think the moment
JJ Watt officially signed and I saw he tweeted out picture.
Bidwell is also a pilot, took his private jet which
he flew to pick JJ and his wife up, probably
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pretty cool. I actually kind of like Michael Bidwell. People
always kind of shit on the Bidwell family growing up
because the Cardinals were a joke. I think it was
his dad. Bidwell. Feels like a very very smart, high
level guy. It feels like a pretty good owner. They've
had a lot of success under him. Right, went to
the Super Bowl with Ken wizen Hunt and Kurt Warner
and Larry Fitzgerald. Years later they hired come and they
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get Bruce Arians. They start winning again, like that franchise.
When I was growing up out here on the West coast,
laughing stock, complete joke, viewed as cheap. This guy's not,
this guy's impressive. Now, I think the moment JJ Watt signed,
the clock and the pressure is on on two individuals,
Cliff Kingsbury and the general manager, Steve Kahn. If they
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do not make the playoffs this year, I think both
guys get fired because you look at what they've accumulated
and acquired the last couple of years. Right, they draft
Kyler Murray Boom. They had a top ten pick last year.
They chose to take Isaiah Simmons over several players who
are sweet. They get a gift because Bill O'Brien's crazy,
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and they get DeAndre Hopkins for a second round pick.
Now they have JJ Watt. They're going we need to
make the playoffs. That's what this signing says. I'll give
you extra money to give probably way too much money
to an older player, but his leadership is veteran presence,
all that stuff. I get it. You bring them in
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high level guy. Playoffs are bust because you're still like
you have the worst coach in the division, Pete Kyle
McVeigh not arguable. But other than that, like you have
as much talent as all these other teams, Like the
talent on the Cardinals is really really good. If I
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told you that Kyle Shanahan or Sean McVeigh was the
coach of the Arizona Cardinals, we go, oh, they'll they'll
win nine games, they'll win ten games, they'll be in
the playoffs. Yet it clips their coach. We go, h,
I don't see it. And that is back to the
amount of money they had to give JJ Watt so
much money because listen, we all have a price. Even
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back to what I was saying about the best part
about being super rich is being able to say no
to things. But even when you're super rich, people bring
you offers or bring you opportunities. It gets to a
point where you're almost stupid saying though, because let's say Hypothetically,
the Packers had said, listen, JJ, we want you to
come home, try to win a ring with Aaron Rodgers,
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and you'll be a legend. You'll be an absolute legend.
You will be You'll be considered the missing piece that
helped the Packers get over the hump. But he goes awesome,
I want to play with Rogers, I want to play
with Davante. I want to be a Green Bay Packer.
How much? And they go, well, JJ will give you
a one year deal, five million dollars guaranteed, and we'll
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incentivize it. If you play in sixteen games, if you
make a Pro Bowl, if you get double digit sacks,
we got no problem problem paying you market value. That
number will go up to you another ten to twelve
million dollars in guarantees. So basically get back to your
seventeen million dollars number that you would have made in
Houston this year. That's what we are prepared to do,
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because if I was putting myself in the winning organizations,
that would be what they were thinking about. They would
never in a million years thinking about giving him twenty
three million dollars guaranteed. A guy that before twenty twenty
had been missing games in every single season, many of
those seasons a ton of games. Now, good player plays
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hard on the wrong side of thirty, but still is
a very very productive player. The Cardinals. When you're desperate team,
you give him twenty three million dollars guaranteed. So there's
a chance that the good teams were offering him, you know,
five to eight, right, guaranteed, guaranteed millions and with a
ton of incentives, and he basically took three, four or
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five times that to go to a team that he's
probably not gonna win at Now you can argue, listen,
you're never guaranteed to win a Super Bowl. He'd go
to the Packers and they could go nine to seven.
Rodgers would get hurt. Nothing is guaranteed in life. So
even if he had gone to the Packers or the Bills,
it would have been applauded by fans and social media
and people have been like, god, he's in a winning environment.
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There's no guarantee he's going to the playoffs next year,
even on a team that looks dramatically better than the Cardinals.
And you could put the argument that, like, the Cardinals
have enough talent to make the playoffs. But like I've
talked about pretty consistently, I'm betting against their head coach.
I'm betting against their defensive coordinator and even their quarterback
who it's not. You can't argue that his physical attributes
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work in the NFL. He's incredibly fast, his arm strength
is fantastic. When he's in rhythm and playing well, he
looks awesome. He's a legitimate NFL quarterback. You can win
with him. But the size, which twenty thirty years ago,
no one would have taken him number one overall because
he was, you know, could argue like a shade over
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five eight. He's tiny for NFL standards. Russell Wilson's tiny
by NFL standards, and he's got Kyler by a couple inches.
And if you've ever stood around Russell, Russell is thick.
He's built like a little tank. Kyler's slender. Now he's
way faster than Russell, and he's got the elite speed.
But we saw this year, I think it was Seattle
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on Thursday night when Kyler got slammed into the ground.
He was never the same the rest of the sea.
And I'm I'm not a Kyler hater. I think he
works in the NFL, but I do question if he
can sustain play because of his eyes. So there's just
a risk, like a big part of it. JJ goes,
I think Kyler can be a really good player. Well
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what if he gets hurt and he's a guy you
would say is more inclined to get injured just because
of his stature. That makes me a little nervous. There's
a risky move for the Cards in the sense that
they paid an over you know, an older player. This
is an I guess, a no brainer for JJ if
being the you know, getting the most amount of money
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was his number one decision. Like I said, I never
judge anyone on words. Because he kept I want to
go where you win. I want to win. I want
to win. And then he goes to the Cardinals like
I listen, I judge you on your actions. I love
money as much as the next guy, So I'm not
I get it. But no one can cry for this guy.
If they go six and ten, he's really he's gonna
be a really rich six and ten player. I think
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that's I think that's fair to assume. And if that happens,
if the Cards are not in the Playoffs next year.
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I saw some clips with a Graham Bessinger. I think
you say his name. He's always interviewing famous people. Good looking,
skinny dude. He's got great interviews. He had a good
interview with Alex Smith where Alex was talking about the
dysfunction in just his time with Hardball before Hardball, with
the Niners getting traded to the Chiefs, and anyone's seeing
Alex ASZ sixty it is one of the most heart wrenching,
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gut wrenching and inspiring all in one documentary type things
with an athlete you'll ever see and listen. Having followed
his career very closely, what he went through with the
Niners before hardbo get here with Bozo like Mike Singletary,
who's the worst coach maybe ever? I mean, honestly, like
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Hugh Jackson, Tom Sula, those guys are better than single Singletary,
As Mayoko said, Matt Mayoko covers the forty nine ers
because I remember asking him, like driving the Tom Sula year,
I'm like, have you ever seen anything like this? He's like,
oh yeah, this isn't even close. The Singletary year tops
at all. And Singletary was dropping his trousers at halftime
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to inspire. Was like calling out Alex Smith on game
day in front of the team for toughness. I mean
it was crazy, complete disaster Alex toughness. No one can
ever take away Alex His grit, his determination is second
to none in the history of sports. Right, his leg
almost fell off. He went to rehab where wounded warriors go,
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had to have the Pentagon and people high up in
the government sign off on him to go there, and
he went and it was It's an incredible If you
haven't seen it, I highly recommend going to watch him.
But I think sometimes a story and a headline can
draw us all in. Right, we are all suckers is
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the wrong word, but we all have a. I think
every single human being, unless you're just a complete psychopath
and nut job, has part of our body that has
immense amount of compassion for anyone who's been in some
sort of accident that they have. They had no control
over car accidents, falling accidents, an accident like Alex had
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where he got this bacteria in his leg playing football.
I think the overwhelming majority of human beings. I always
say this is about human beings in general. I think
we've gone through this last year where a lot of
people get talked about like they're being bad people. The
overwhelming majority of people are good people. Like most people
that you come across in life, any socio, whether you're rich, poor,
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middle class, whatever, are just normal good people. I believe
that to my core, and I think we all when
we see something with Alex, most of us, the overwhelming
majority of people have the same reaction, like, God, I'm
pulling for this guy. Were naturally pull for this guy.
He's the easiest story to pull for. It's like you're
gonna get universal agreements right and everyone when he came back.
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And I'm someone who after watching that thought like Alex,
just think of this in my head, like you're crazy, man,
Just retire. You have more money than you know what
to do with. What are you doing this for? But
who am I to tell that to someone? Who am
I to tell someone to stop playing? Right? Who are
any of us to tell anyone to stop playing? Now?
I think sometimes if you're like Peyton Manning, like an
all time great player, it's like Peyton, I don't want
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to watch you throw balls in the dirt. And ultimately
he retired. Right, Drew Brees like, why is he retiring
because he's not as good as he once was? I
think it's easier with great players. But any fringe player
you should have, they should drag you off the field.
What because your career is gonna end at thirty two
instead of thirty four? You got the rest of your
life to you. So I'll never tell anyone to stop playing.
But I think the Alex Smith's story has become better
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than the Alex Smith the player. And Alex Smith said
a bunch of things. Did GQ how the Redskins? Excuse me?
The Washington football team didn't want them. They never really
wanted them. Even though it's kind of bs because I
read Albert Breer reported and he's right that they had
him mentoring Dwayne Haskins. Ultimately, when they benched Dwayne Haskins,
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Alex came in like they had paid them the last
couple of years as they should have. I'm not saying
they like they deserve a cookie for that, but they
did a lot of things well. For all, we can
crap on the organization all we want, and trust me,
they get drugged through the mud just about more than
any organization all the sports. I think the way they
handled this Alex Smith situation, at least from my perspective,
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was very commendable and was very high level, especially this year.
They even gave the opportunity for him to come back.
He ended up playing, starting multiple games, and this is
where I'm saying his story then became better than the
play because he's not any good anymore. Why he never
had a great arm. A huge part of Alex's success
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with Andy in Kansas City, when he really took off,
like he became a solid starter, Hardbaugh got like the
train back on the tracks. Andy then created a high
level NFL starter, you know, probably somewhere between like eight
to twelve, but you could definitely if your team was
good enough, you go to the playoffs every year, and
a big part of that was not because of his arm.
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His arm is average now he's really accurate, but he's
also really athletic. That was a huge part of Alex.
He was big, and he was athletic. He could move
because he was never throwing bombs hell. He was never
throwing at like twenty five yards down the field. But
athleticism was a huge part of his game. And then
this leg injury that he came back from, he cannot
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move anymore. He was a liability when you watched him play. Honestly,
I remember the game that Haskins or I can't even
remember the quarterback got KOed. It was Kyle Allen. He
comes in in the second half. They're playing the Ramps
and he got sacked a bunch and Aaron Donald's jumping
on his back, and I remember sitting on my couch,
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you know, the middle of the season or early mid
you know, week six, seven, eight, somewhere in there, thinking like,
I feel bad, Like Aaron Donald, do not hurt this guy.
That's What's going through my head. Because he could not move,
he could not avoid pressure, and that's a huge part
of his game. So when the Washington Football Team released him.
To date, they're not the bad guy because listen, once
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you take the onion back on the incredible story and
the incredible comeback. This is a bottom line business like
most industries, and there comes to a point it'd be
one thing, right if they're paying him a million dollars, like, oh,
keep him around, scheduled to make nineteen million dollars. Not
only is he not a starter, I don't even view
him as a backup. I saw somewhere on social media
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to day someone put out his advanced analytics, like you know,
yards per play, effectiveness per play, all some of the
advanced stuff. They were terrible. He was god awful, And
I think you can separate the person the player that
was pre injury, incredible story, incredible, high level guy, Man
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of the year type. I know the Chiefs guy. Andy
loves Alex Smith to this day. Patrick Mahomes still mentions
him when talking about his success. It shows you the
impact he had on people there and any forty nine
er fan will say what he did the first year
of Harbot leading them to the AC or the NFC
Championship game. Now, he didn't complete a third down in
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that game against the giant, but nothing but respect for
the guy. He is a certified badass. I'm watching that
E sixty as I'm sure if any of you that
listened had to had to be thinking yourself. I don't
know if I could do this, I might have just
thrown in the white flag. I don't know how we
got through this. We're all thinking the same thing because,
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like I said, most of us humans have the same
reaction to this stuff. We have compassion when it comes
to these accidents and these injuries. We all do. It's
something we all share. But then when you get back
to kind of the reality of Okay, is he starting quarterback?
Is he even worth having on a roster? Then I
think we get up for debate and you got to
separate the two because this is a very polarizing individual
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because everyone just naturally is going to root for him.
And the problem is, even as I bet Ron Rivere,
Ron Rivere just beat cancer, the dude literally coached the
season with cancer, was going to get treatments during the season,
would be so exhausted some games he'd take a nap
in the locker room before they get couldn't even go
out on the field in pregame warm ups too tired.
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So and I've met Ron, and anyone knows Ron way
better than I do. In the league. I mean, he's
like the highest character guy in the league. This guy's
not kicking him to the curb. He's just simply not
even close to being good enough anymore. You can't play
with him. As sad as this sounds, I don't even
know if he's an NFL quarterback anymore. Now, who am
I to tell Alex that he should keep trying to play?
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And he will. I do believe, though, this guy's not
going to be in the league come this fall, because
I think when you watch him, you question canny protect
himself because a huge part of his game was moving.
So I know this gets shape some time if you
see this story that the Washington football team, who historically
have been the bad guy have been the idiots, have
been the low level operation. Not here. Honestly, I think
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since Ron's been there, they've been pretty impressive. Just the
way they handled Haskins, the way they kicked Haskins to
the curb, Like that's what high level organizations do. It's
not easy to do something like this with Alex. And listen,
I can't speak clearly. He came out with some pretty
bold words and maybe he's really mad, and I don't
blame him, put a lot into it, but he just
he's simply not good enough anymore. Okay, let's let's touch
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on a little really quick. Russell Wilson and I heard
watching the YouTube or maybe someone I followed on Instagram.
It was an Instagram you know, I follow some Instagram follows.
I bet if we broke down everyone's Instagram follows, mine
would be outrageous, like everything from pro athletes to former presidents,
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to business leaders to just chicks that are naked, to
inspirational quotes from successful people. I mean, it's all over
the map. Like you, you couldn't if you were trying
to figure me out from my Instagram follows, you'd have
a hard time because I got a little bit of everything.
And I think most of you listening, if I really
dove into your Instagram follows, that you would be very similar.
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But I think I saw I follow I don't even
know some business Instagram account and it's it had this
guy talking, and it gave me some perspective because sometimes,
like anyone, right wherever you live, you're like God, I
need to move. And obviously I want to move more
like tax reasons or whatever. But I'm just talking about
the individual place, Like I'm tired of living in this condo.
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Need to go buy a house? Right, think about that
all the time. Need to go. It's like this plus
place sucks you. Just if you're in a bad frame
of mind, It's easy to think that unless you live
in some sweet ass house, you can always upgrade, right.
I think I have those thoughts every day. And on
this like Instagram account, it had this guy saying, if
you think about your life from the perspective of wherever
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you live, if you live in a condo, an apartment,
at home, whatever, and you go, do you know the
amount of people in this country or this world that
would die to be living in this place, that would
do anything to have what you have? I think how
often you get mad at your job? Right, You're like, God,
this job sucks. You make ninety five thousand dollars. Do
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you know how many people in America would die to
make ninety five thousand dollars? Right, and just listen, I
say whatever you want. Like, sometimes just having a little
perspective can just get you in a better frame of
mind because I'll be honest, I'm naturally negative. The first
thing I think about when I get up tends to
be negative thoughts. I think it's genetic dad a little negative. Two.
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I have to force positive thoughts sometimes in my head
because it's way healthier. I can be way more productive,
get way more things done. I'm way more successful when
I'm thinking, not just clearly, but thinking positively. Now, you
can get mad, and negative thoughts are natural to come
at you when things happen. That's human. But I think
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when you get obsessed with the negative thoughts, which is
easy to get into a rust, especially this last like
twelve months, and it can consume you. And if you
can get back to positive thinking, and sometimes that's where
some of the motivational stuff just helps me, just like okay,
I can just flip my mind. When you just think
about it like that, You're like, yeah, you know what,
my place isn't that bad. I'm lucky to own this place.
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You know, you pay for it. I'm not lucky. I
pay for it. But you get what I'm saying. And
I think all of us can have a little perspective
in our life. And I saw that Russell Wilson in
the story that came out and we all saw him
at the Super Bowl, is like when the camera's panned
to him and his wife, Sira Sierra never get her
name right with Roger Goodell because he was the man
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of the year. She was happy, Roger was happy, and
they were having a conversation, and then it looked like
Russell was pissed off. And stories have come out he
was very, very angry watching the Super Bowl. They definitely
wanted us to know that. Right People have leaked that
he did not enjoy watching Tom Brady win. Why because
he's watching Tom Brady have success. And if your success
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or your excuse me, if your happiness is tied to
comparing your life, your lot in life, to the success
of others, you're never gonna be happy. And right now,
a big kind of elephant in the room with Russell
is that, like he's comparing himself to Tom Brady. I
got news for you, Russell Wilson. That's moronic because there's
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never been a Tom Brady and there probably will never
be another Tom Brady. Patrick Mahomes when it's all said
and done, it's not out of the round possibility. He
only wins one Super Bowl. I think we'd all bet
against it, but we said the same thing about Aaron
Rodgers a decade later, He's got one. Like Aaron Rodgers
has been really successful, Russell Wilson has been really successful.
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Obviously Tom runs circles around him. Both. Now, I have
no problem aspiring to be like that individual, right, You
always want to aspire to be someone, whether it's personally, professionally, whatever,
something that you're not right, something that you believe can
better yourself, whether that's money or whether it's being a
better person. So I understand professionally, Russell Wilson spires to
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be like Tom, spires to have that type of success,
which is normal. But of his happiness, which it feels like,
you know, he's getting mad at the Seahawks because they're
not listening to him. He thinks Tom Brady's dictating personnel moves.
I don't think he is right, like he's not. They
brought in Gronk like that, is that really tom Brady
dictating any team in the league, if they would have
signed Tom Brady would have happily taken Gronk, So that
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really wasn't like Tom. Tom's pulling strings like, no, not really.
Jason Lights like yeah, well, thank Gronkowski. So would all
the other thirty one teams, including Belichick. So I think
the big difference. Here's another thing, and here's just I
think sometimes when you judge yourself against other people, you
act like you are the same. And there is a
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major difference in Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, or excuse
me and Russell Wilson. Tom Brady was never ever babied
or placated too in New England for two decades. For
two decades, Belichick made it hard on him, coached him hard,
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held him the same high standard as everyone else. We've
all read those stories of like all his former teammates.
I remember Brian Hoyer his first ever meeting team meeting,
like the first you know, they're going through ota practices
or maybe it was training camp practices, and belichicked his
lights into Tom. It might have been Castle. It was
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either Hoyer or Castle, and their quote was like, holy shit,
if they're doing that to Tom, wait till they get
to me. And that was a team full roster ninety
men at the time in that room. That's how it
happened for two decades with Tom Brady. Yet all the
stories with Russell, it was Pete telling the guys not
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to be mean to Russell. At practice, it was Pete
trying to get Russell the MVP. The Seattle Seahawks have
somewhat treated Russell like you would an only child. Tom
was treated like he was in a family ten and
when the food came out, you better get to the
dinner table quick because the food's gonna disappear, and they
don't care if you go to bed hungry. It was
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the opposite with Seattle. With Russell, they did everything that
he wanted. They constantly tried to get him help. They
constantly told all the defenders that never shut up. I
don't know, because they were dominating to treat Russell better,
to not be so mean to him. I think Albert
Brery wrote about that today, or maybe it was Peter King.
Pete Carroll had to have a meeting with his defensive
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guys be nicer to Russell. Do you think Bill Belichick
ever in a million fucking years, would have had that
meeting with anyone with the Patriots. Well, first, he wouldn't
have had to, but even if someone was talking to Tom,
Tom would have handled it on his own. So Russell's
comparing himself to Tom. Tom doesn't have that much in
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comra Russell. Tom likes to get yelled at. Tom's used
to it. Tom one for twenty years went his coach
actually cut corners. They didn't spend that much money. They
would only take guys on cheap contracts, where Seattle was
actually doing the opposite of everything Tom always wish the
Patriots would do, spending big money on guys, trading for
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guys doing crazy things. It just shows you when you
compare yourself to someone else, you usually don't parallel them.
And also when your happiness is based on, well, look
how good it is for them, is stupid because you
don't usually have that much in common with them. Now,
I get Russell wants to win a Super Bowl, So
does every quarterback worth their salt in the league. Don't
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you think Aaron Rodgers wants to win a Super Bowl?
Tom Brady, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, all these guys, what
do you think they? Kirk Cousins, Derek Carr, Drew Brees,
the amount of work all these guys. You don't think
Dak Prescott was trying to win a Super Bowl with
every inch of his being like I just I think
we need to take a step back and go. People
need to stop comparing themselves with Tom. Right, You're not Tom.
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You're never gonna be Tom. We really don't have that
much in common with Tom. Now, I'm not saying Russell.
Maybe you don't like Pete Carroll, maybe you're over the management.
Maybe you want to go somewhere else. That's not abnormal.
I can relate to that, so can most people listening.
We all get tired of working with certain people. We
all get tired of being in a certain situation. No
matter how much money you have, life is hard with
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or without money. Now it's easier to purchase homes and
purchase cars, and send your kids to private schools and
stuff with money. Life is easier once you have money,
but your happiness does not change with the cash. Russell
has unlimited money. He's already want a super Bowl now.
He's trying to chase all these like legacy stuff. One
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thing I've never heard Tom talk about, and clearly Russell
has been pretty open about this last couple of years.
Legacy stuff. You know what Tom talks about, the next
super Bowl winning the next year. He's just obsessed with
that because his legacy dwarfs every quarterback in the league.
Right now, let's just pick the top three Mahomes, Russell
in Rodgers in whatever order you want. I'd personally go
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based on this last year. I'd go Rogers slightly above
Mahomes and then Russell. And obviously Roger's been doing it
longer than Mahomes. But those two guys, Rogers Mahomes are
better than Russell Wilson, but Russell's better than everyone else.
So I'd take those three guys. If you combine those
three guys legacies, they do not equal Toms if you
combine their Super Bowl really even their Super Bowl appearances, right,
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Mahomes been to two, Russell's been to two, and Rogers
been to one. It's five total. Tom has been a ten.
So it just shows you like he's just in a
different world and he didn't get what you wanted for
twenty years and it worked. And I think sometimes in
pro sports because the amount of money these guys make.
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When you start making thirty five plus endorsements, fifty sixty
million dollars a year, well, do you know what a lot?
What happens a lot? People want to get involved in
that because if I had a business right now making
fifty million dollars a year, I'd have to hire a
ton of people, and people could profit off the business
that I had. That essentially what athletes become. And then
you get a lot of people involved with their own ideas.
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Their own ideas may not be John Schneider's ideas or
Pete Carroll's ideas. They're gonna be four pro Russell Wilson.
But this is a team game. And back to Tom
what is he known at the greatest teammate ever. So
I think Russell needs to look at a situation goes
you know what, I got it pretty fucking good here.
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I've never in my career won less than nine games,
and I remember after that season John Schneider's they went
nine and seven. John Schnyder after the season said it
felt like we went we won two games. You know why,
because the standards are so high. They're a powerhouse organization
right now. Now are they perfect? Of course not. Beside
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the Belichick Patriots and the Brady Patriots. Most teams don't
go to Super Bowl every year. Russell is killing it.
The Seattle's killing it. They just won the Division, a
division that is loaded at the rams. Kyle Shanna and
the Niners. You got Cliff and looking sweet and all
those you know Kyler run around they want it would
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Jamal missed a bunch of games, their offense didn't even
work at the end of the season, and they still
won the division. So I just think we all need
to take a deep breath. And maybe it's not fixable.
I don't know. I don't know all the details just
from what I'm reading, but I do think Russell might
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over and over about the sports leagues, the NFL, the NBA,
in Major League Baseball, nothing they do is a quote
unquote money grab. They are in the business of generating revenue,
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so everything they do involves money. That's the point of
their business, to generate cash and throwing away a little bit.
The corona. We're still in it right because some of
these teams aren't allowed to have fans, but it seems
more and more that fans are going to be there
in the summer. I think Major League Baseball is going
(37:52):
to crush is absolutely. Think how many people once they
open up, like you know, baseball is allowed to have fans,
old stadiums. This summer. People are gonna want to get outside.
People are gonna want to go hang out with their friends.
People are gonna want to drink in the sun. I
think baseball is really gonna benefit and obviously football, if
all things go as planned, will crush it. The NBA.
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This NBA top shot thing, I'm sure many of you
have seen it. You basically buy a jiff It's like
an electronic poster, but it's on the internet, blockchain, crypto, whatever,
I don't pretend to know, and I don't. My first
reaction and I try to always be careful with this
is not like that's stupid, that'll never work, because that's
what losers say. Now, it might never work, it might
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be a massive bubble that's a disaster, but clearly they're
onto something. Just supply demand, and there's a lot of
demand for this stuff. Now. The NBA, for the top
Shot thing, owns it so they get the revenue, so
it's good for their league. If a ton of people
buy it, it generates a ton of money that gets
them money that they split between the owners and the players.
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And I'm pro finding new revenue streams, so I give
them credit on that one, even if I don't pretend
to quite understand it. But I don't really understand crypto.
And I just dabbled in a little ABA over the weekend,
and I plan on dabbling a little more because if
it is a bubble, I want to ride that bad
boy and make a little cash off it. But I
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also can think, like, yeah, crypto is kind of weird.
Is it gonna work? Is it gonna disappear? I don't know.
I don't pretend to have the answers to this, but
I know it's something. And the point of these leagues
is to keep growing, just like any business you're at
if you're a sales guy, right, once you hit a number,
right if you if you were supposed to get five
hundred thousan dollars in new business, and that's your quota
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or whatever, that's where you're supposed to hit. Once you
hit it, the following year, getting three fifties not cool. Hell,
they might want five fifty the following year or six.
People only grow. We only, you know, move the finish
line the goalposts, as they say, because you never want
to go backwards. And it's why the biggest thing the
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NFL has been pushing now for years is the seventeenth game.
Because games in the NFL, and we've talked over, they
don't make any money from practice, they don't make any
money from workouts, they don't make any money during the week.
They make all their cash on Sunday, and it makes
so much freaking money that it makes all these players millionaires,
makes these coaches millionaires, and make these owners billionaires. It's
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incredible partnership. Everyone is getting filthy rich. And the seventeenth
game is clearly a money grap But like I said,
there's those this thing as a money grap there's just
additional revenue. And then there was also reports today that
they are going to put a Monday night football game
in the playoff in the wildcard round. Of course they
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are because it would get huge ratings. It will work. Now,
like the crypto stuff like the Ada that I purchased,
you never know what the future Holts. Is it possible
that seventeen games is bad for the league over a
five ten year span. It creates more injury, more wear
and tear. Is there ever diminishing returns of football? Because
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right now football isn't just king, it's running laps around
everything else, not just in sports, but in entertainment. It
gets the most viewsed by a mile. Does that? Are
they ever nervous about that coming back to earth? Probably
a little, But you can't think about the worst case
scenario when your foot's on the pedal. You just got
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to keep doubling down. And so far I think the
NFL would say is like we've hit a recession in
the late two thousands. We crushed it, we Corona, we
navigated through it. It will just keep firing through because
that's their mindset, and it's been very successful. I understand
why they're doing it. Do I get nervous, as just
a lover of the game, a lover of the league,
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that it could ever hurt a sport, of course, because
I'll be you know, we already know the NFL is
not gonna be on top forever, no chance, because I've
seen in my lifetime multiple sports dominate. When I was
born in nineteen eighty four, baseball was by far the
biggest sport in America. Then in the nineties Michael Jordan came.
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The basketball was huge. Maybe the NBA as a whole
wasn't as big as baseball or football, but Michael Jordan
was equally bigger, if not bigger than all of them.
Then he went away and basketball came back to Earth,
even though they still had stars that carried him, but
nothing like when Michael was with the balls doing like
thirty million people watching NBA finals games. And then football,
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which I always say, I think Tom Brady and Peyton
Manning were the magic. Johnson and Larry Bird in the
two thousands took the leagues of New Heights and then
it just naturally they benefited from the Internet, they benefited
from society having short attention spans. They benefited from low
inventory only once a week, easy to consume on an
off day Sunday, a lot of factors. They've just kept
doubling down, and we're gonna see if this works. Now initially,
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of course it's gonna work. More football people will watch,
they'll be fine. I just wonder big picture, you just
ask the question extra playoff teams if we ever, because
there is a point I think in anything in life
where you hit like a breaking point where it's just
like as too much, right, Like I think we've realized
baseball on hundred six two games too much. It just
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it is eighty two games in the NBA way too much.
Sixteen games in football feels, you know about right. You
could argue they'd probably be final forty games create even
more urgency, but they would make way less money. And
like I said, they and animal making less money. So
they're kind of at this point where the only way
to keep making cash is more games. They added playoff teams,
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extra playoff games, Well, what does that mean? Way more cash?
Added a week, way more cash. Let's do a primetime
game in the playoffs on Monday Night Football, more cash
Thursday Night Football. I heard Colin say it's a it's
a money loser for Fox. I have to text him.
I'm fascinating how they lose money for that, but clearly
they do because Fox doesn't want there's a night football anymore.
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You know what Jeff Bezos says, I'm in, I got cash.
We're interested in what did Amazon do last year? They
had Daniel Jeremiah, Bucky Brooks. I did reads for it
on this show. Watch Amazon, watch Amazon Prime feeds. Because
what were they doing. They were preparing showing the NFL
that they had the infrastructure. We know they had the money,
but they had the capabilities of hiring the right people
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to do this, and they did seamless transition. So I'm
just it's gonna be interesting over this next decade, Like
did the NBA, did the NFL peak? Like well, I
tell my kids, you know the NFL peaked from like
twenty fifteen to twenty twenty five, or did they go
on another twenty thirty year run of dominance. I don't
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have the answer, but I'm gonna be fascinated watching it
play out. I saw something today that alerted me to
a potential disaster. Now, you could argue that this situation
has already been far from ideal, given the hype that
when the University of Michigan hired Jim Harbaugh, it felt
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like maybe he wasn't gonna be like Nick Saban or
Urban Meyer, but he'd be competing to go to the
playoffs every year. That clearly has not happened, and Michigan underachieved.
Is not fair because they were shitty when he got there.
He's been fine. He's done better than they were doing
before he got there, but that wasn't the expectations when
he was hired. They hired him the great applause because
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they thought he was gonna win bick like he had
just done in San Francisco, going to NFC Championships into
a super Bowl. He didn't have to win the national
championship in Michigan. Hell, if he just would have got
to the playoffs a couple of times and got blown
out in the first round, that'd be fine. But as
we know, he hasn't sniffed the playoffs. And the biggest
thing in his biggest issue right now is the number
one thing we talk about in football NonStop. Do you
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have a quarterback, and today I saw a story that
this guy named Alan Bowman. I'll be honest, I don't
watch a lot of Texas Tech football though Matt Wells,
who did he still he get fired? Follow each other
on Twitter damned a little bit. I like the guy.
He was at Utah State. Big fan of the guy.
It's a tough text text tough job. Alan Bowman, who
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has thirty three career touchdowns and seventeen interceptions, who was
a three star recruit and had offers from places like
Columbia and Missouri his best offers, like Ole miss is
now transferring to the University of Michigan. Here's what I
do not understand because I'm not like necessarily anti transfers.
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Kyler was a transfer, Baker was a transfer. Justin Fields
was a transfer. You can get good players who are
transfers at quarterbacks, but eventually I need you to recruit
a good player like Oregon they recruited Justin Herbert. Clemson
they recruited Trevor Lawrence. You can go, Trevor Lawrence is
the number one player, Okay, Justin Herbert was not. Nick
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Saban recruited Mac Jones, who, unlike Tuah, was not some
highly towed guy at Ozeron got Joe Burrow when a
lot of people could add Joe Burrow. Jim Harbaugh cannot
find a quarterback. He can find other positions that go
to the NFL because a lot of guys from Michigan
get drafted. But if he continues to have to go
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to this well of transfers who are not future NFL players,
but what's he even doing? This is not going to
get better. You cannot put a band aid on a
bullet hole. For whatever reason, he keeps recruiting these guys
and they do not work out. McCaffrey, Milton, he cannot
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land a quarterback for the life of them. Now with
the San Franco forty nine ers, and even let's go
back to the Stanford Cardinal, Andrew Luck was not that
big of a recruit. And Stanford, who was had some
momentum at the time, is a unique institution because it,
you know, attracts the academic elites in athletics who are
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also great at sports. And as we know, Andrew Luck
is just kind of a unique person. He might have
gone to Stanford whether Jim Harball was the coach or
whether I was the coach. You could argue maybe he
lucked into that. He gets the Niner job Alex he
inherits Alex Smith, and then the following year they draft Kaepernick,
but he wasn't the gem. Balky had the juice. Now
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I do think Harball wanted Kaepernick, but like that would
be the one guy that you could argue that he
chose over the time. Now I get that he okayed
giving a scholarship to Luck, but like I said, with
Luck have gone to Stanford, whether he was there or not. Possibly,
but regardless of any of this information, he now has
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been like there is no one arguing he's in charge,
he's the general manager, and he cannot find a quarterback.
He keeps having to take these transfers of guys that
will never sniff the NFL. I'm not even asking him,
and I know I brought this guy up. Trevor Lawrence,
Justin Fields, Justin Herbert did Land a top five pick.
Can you just recruit a guy that we talk about,
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Mike get in the second or third round of the draft.
How can you not do that? You're the University of Michigan,
you coach in the NFL, had had success, You coached
Luck and had success. You were a quarterback played in
the league for fifteen years, Like, how can you not whoever,
just the top ten quarterbacks are in the country, how
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can you not go to like two of them and
land one of them? It doesn't feel like he's doing that.
And now again, like a couple of years ago, he's
going back to the well of getting this guy from
a tiny little school to transfer to Michigan. I've never
watched Alan Bowman throw a pass. Here's what I do know, though,
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no circumstances should Hardbob be relying on a guy like
this to be his quarterback. And until Michigan fixes this problem,
which clearly doesn't look like it's getting fixed anytime soon.
One time, when I was in high school, my dad
worked for this guy who was a big, big farmer,
and he had this barge and he had some land
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on this thing called the Delta, and it's like this river,
you know, this water kind of is basically a river
that flows all the way to the Pacific Ocean. And
he got this barge that also had a crane, and
the crane the barge was from World War two. And
there was a famous story that in like the forties,
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right during World War Two, the crew on the barge
got a bad batch of moonshine and everyone died, and like,
I don't know if the US government owned the barge
or something, but they didn't have anything to do with
the barge. So he got it, you know, like twenty
thirty years later at like a complete discount, you know,
for fifty thousand bucks or whatever, and he just put
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it in the delta. Well, one day there were leaks
in the barge and we had gone out there because
they used to go out there to duck hunt past
where the barge was, and they saw oil was all
in the delta and it was gonna be a problem.
So we realized we gotta get some pumps and get
the barge back elevated. So we tried to use these
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little pumps and it didn't do a thing. The barge
was sinking the irony. Then this dude went off the levy.
The coastguard randomly had to come save them. They drove
by the barge bunch of oil. It was a disaster
because no pump, especially handheld pumps, were gonna save the barge,
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just like no transfers are gonna save Michigan do you
know how Michigan won in the past. They recruited elite players,
they developed them, and then they won. That's what Ohio
State is doing right now. That's what Wisconsint is doing
right now. That's what Penn State is trying to do
right now. Michigan kind of feels like they don't have
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any direction because they keep trying to band aid these
problems at the biggest, most important position. I hate to
say it, but I think this Jim Harbaugh thing could
get even uglier. Okay, let's get to the Middlecoff mail
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you're watching this on YouTube, give your thumbs up. Hey brother,
We'll keep it short this time, thank you. Shouldn't wood
Cam Newton consider playing a position outside of quarterback. Haven't
heard this one before, but I fucking like it. You
cannot tell me that he isn't more athletic than Taysom
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Hill and alike. Obviously, a few teams run those type
of packages, but the idea of Cam lining up wide
is a scary thought. He's massive and still got wheels.
I like what you're thinking here. If Cam Newton cannot
throw anymore, and clearly if you watch him last year
with the Patriots, there would be games they just rode
him like a horse. He's secretariat. There is not a bigger, stronger.
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Might bee some faster athletes, but pound for pound, he
might be the fast athlete in the league. That I'm
with you. I don't know what position. I just think
kind of hybrid quarterback? Pay him? I Taysom Hill. Could
he make two years twelve million dollars six million a year?
He made a million dollars last year? Why wouldn't he
take six to be a hybrid player? Now? Does he
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want that pounding? He's already really rich. But I'm with you.
The one thing you'd say about Cam Newton, because remember,
like Tebow, I'm only a quarterback and Cam obviously is two.
But would Cam be more open to just doing stuff
like that? I don't think that's nuts at all. Would
a good team, you know, just get him people like him.
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He works hard. I'm not against that at all. I
don't know what the position basically, I think you would
still consider him a quarterback. You just ask him to
play a Taysom Hill roll. I love that you're a genius. Honestly,
I like what you're doing there. Hello, John, this is
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hear your take on JJ Watt. Based on previous takes
on Vance, Joseph and Cliff Love the Pod, guess you
can't blame him for taking the money, but he did
say he wanted to win a ring. I think we
all say a lot of things in life, and if
someone presents you with and I've never been had the
difference of well, you want to work for five million
or you want to work for twenty three million, because
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I think and I saw someone tweeted out from Arizona
that he had similar offers from you know, the Titans
and the Colts. Bullshit. I don't believe that. Of course,
the Cardinals want that out. I don't think any good
team would be in that stratosphere. But listen, I'll never
tell a man they should take less money. But I'm
also like, when your career ends and you have one
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career playoff victory, I don't necessarily feel bad for you.
What up, Coff, keep up the work. Do you think
that there's a possibility the Niners roll back Jimmy like,
there's a legitimate chance. Any inside chatter about it? If so,
what are some legitimate alternatives with the twelfth pick? Also,
an in depth Middlecoff Niners mock draft would be cool.
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You know, I'm a big first and second round guy.
I give the rest of the rounds, four, fifth, sixth,
I give that to the to the draft nick community
on Twitter. I'll just play the hits. Oh, I have
no problem. I'll talk first round till you're you know,
till your ears fall off. I think there's a chance
that Jimmy Garoppolo's a quarterback. Yes, Because they don't control
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this right The forty nine ers want Deshaun Watson right now,
he's not available. They're not willing to trade him, so
the nothing they can do. They would obviously take Russell
Wilson's Seattle would never trade them Russell Wilson. That's not
even an option. And Russell has a no trade class,
so that's not even an option. Deshaun Watson their number
one target. I don't think the Texans will trade him
to the Niners could just be me. If they do
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trade him, he's going to the Jets, He's going to
the Dolphins because they're picks. I do think a viable
possibility is they keep Jimmy and they sign some backup,
like a like a Andy Dalton type Trubisky, maybe for
like three or four million dollars, have that guy and
Jimmy on the team as they go to the draft.
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Then on draft Day, because they do not control right
they're drafting twelve, there are a ton of teams above them.
By then, we would know the Dolphins, the Texans, slash,
the Jets, what that little group was doing. But we
don't know like a Falcon's gonna take quarterback or the
Eagles is gonna take a quarterback. We know the Jacksonville
Jaguars are gonna take a quarterback, the Lions probably not Cowboys.
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I don't know. There's a lot of unknown now. I
do think it's possible that the Niners could jump up
in that draft take a quarterback, let's say justin fields.
Then if the Patriots don't have a quarterback, take Jimmy Garoppolo,
send them to the Patriots, and basically their quarterback room
would be justin Fields and mister Bisky or Andy Dalton.
I think that's a possibility. So just because they don't
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make a quarterback change in the middle of March when
free agency and all these trades become official, does not
mean that they're not still looking and that change is
not I don't even say inevitable, but possible, which is
fun right now. There's a lot of hypotheticals out there.
Great show, keep up the work. Heard you say the
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Tiger winning the Masters about I heard what you said
about Tiger winning the Masters and fully agree with the
emotional connection. I'm one year older than Tiger, so it's
pretty interesting to follow these guys TV twelve other dudes
in the same age bracket. Follow up question to Tiger's injury,
what do you think about his chances to come back
in the Senior PGA? And as a football fan, I've
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been a Bears fan since Walter Payton send me an
autograph eight by ten when I was in fifth grade.
What should be done in Chicago to get back to
the playoffs consistently? Do you know what's cool is clearly
when you were growing up, Clay and when I was
growing up even I'm a little younger than you. You
could send a note from your class to like Jerry Rice,
Walter Payton, Emmett Smith, Brett Farve, Steve Young, whoever, Elway,
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and they would have days where the PR guy would
clearly give them a bunch of stuff. They would sign stuff,
and they'd send it back. I love technology, and I'm
glad to be living at the time we're living in.
It's great for my personal business. I think it's great
for anyone's business. It's a lot of opportunities to grow.
There are pretty cool things, though they get lost. Now.
You could argue that players can tweet or instagram comment
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and stuff. For sure, that's true, but there still was
nothing like getting I remember had a friend that had
a frame picture of Jerry Rice send him, just signed
it and send it back to him. That's pretty cool. Uh.
I don't think Tiger was Tiger healthy, was never gonna
play on the Senior PGA Tour too rich, doesn't need it.
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Um Yeah, I can't. I can't see it. Maybe he
play an event or two. I also don't see Tiger
playing golf in his fifties like his body, Like Phil's
gonna play till he can't walk Tiger might not be
able to walk, and obviously the car accident. But I'm
just saying, like the path he was on with all
his injuries, he was not gonna be a healthy fifty
sixty year old, like watching some of the guys that
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play like Phil's gonna be a healthy Tiger is just
Tiger broke down before the car accident, let alone the
car accident. We don't we don't know for sure the
extent of all these injuries. Like if you read Tiger statements,
they've been pretty mum. They've been positive, but they have
not made like concrete statements about the situation about hey,
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his legs are stable, he's gonna be able to walk again,
or there's no infections, or it's been you know, pret
Just they've given you as much information as as little
information as they can by also acting like they're giving
you a lot, because they're not really. So I've just
keep my fingers crossed. Knock on wood that the guy
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comes out and he's able to walk again. Who knows.
The Bears, they just need to get a quarterback, for
the love of God, the franchise has never had a quarterback.
Just get a quarterback, You get a quarterback, you got
a chance. Look at the team in your division agreement, Packers,
you've been playing for three decades. Far off Rogers, because
every year for almost thirty years they've had a quarterback.
It really changes things. Look at the Patriots for twenty years,
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they had Brady. For the Colts fifteen years they had Manning.
The Seahawks for a decade, they've had Russell. It's for
fifteen years. The Saints head Drew Brees help for the
Falcon's head, Matt Right, you just need to get some
consistent quarterback play that's above average. You don't even need
Roger's best case scenario. You just take Matt Ryan right.
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You would give anything from Matt Ryan, twenty three year
old Matt Ryan, just for a decade. You're like, oh
my god, so so our soul for that. I don't
know how you do that, though it's good who your
options are. I would appreciate it if you could fucking
please stop Apoula's apologizing for saying your curse words. Your
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profanity is why I love you and listen to your podcast.
If you keep apologizing or hold back, I'm gonna have
to fucking stop listening to you. I appreciate it. I
do it more as a joke, but also in fairness.
I know some people listen with their kids in the car.
Yeah that's I'm being sarcastic over it. Obviously, I don't
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really care, but I don't want, you know, I don't know.
I just I try to be respectful, you know, But
I talk like I talk. I'm gonna cut to the chase.
Why don't the Niners pull out their big dicks and
start swinging for the fences and go after the show?
Watson see my listeners stock Like I talked too. I'm
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tired of this half ass Jimmy g having bullshit winners clothes.
John and Garoppolo isn't going to close. I'm with you, bro.
I think I think they're trying. I've told by very
good sources they would they would be very very aggressive
for Deshahn Watson. But I just don't think it's an option.
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And if Deshan truly if the Texans go, he's available,
the Jets and the Dolphins just have things to give them,
like the second and third pick in this draft. I'm sure,
as Casario they're putting their draft board together, they're evaluating
these quarterbacks. I mean, the Dolphins will just be giving
them their pickback. Pick three is way better than pick twelve.
And if you're the Texans, you would rather have picks
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than like even if the night I wouldn't do this
if I were the Niners. Fred Warner, George Kittle, you're
not trying to win, You're trying to reset your franchise.
I want picks. You give me three first rounders and
one of them is picked three, and I can draft
a quarterback and start over. That's where I think Niners
are in trouble because if I'm the Texas, I don't
want your players. I'd rather have second in first round picks.
I want picks. I want to reset. I want to
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blow this bad boy up. That's what I think they're doing.
They're blowing the bad boy up. That's it. I appreciate
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going on? Everybody? John middlecop Three and Out Podcast, Welcome
to the show. Go subscribe right now if you haven't
a three and Out podcast. And we got a lot
going on, A lot is happening in the football world.
We actually had breaking news on Monday, a guy named
Jay Jay Watt has a new team. Some thoughts there,
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Alex Smith not happy, a couple more thoughts on the
Russell Wilson situation. The free agent market. Seventeen games is
basically unofficially official. It was like all sixteen AFC teams
will host the week seventeen next year. And Jim Harbaugh
saw something today that just made me shake my head.
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It's pretty understandable why he's in the predicament that he's
in and not winning. He has a quarter back problem.
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let's dive into the news, the breaking news of the day.
J J. Watt signs with the Arizona Cardinals. And I'll
be the first to admit I was shocked, stunned. I mean,
I'm rarely jaw open, but when I saw that, I
had to do a double take. I had to see
if he was playing with people. I didn't believe it
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at first. Clearly it's official, he's going to the Arizona Cardinals.
Two things jump out to me immediately. What the Cardinals
vastly overpaid. They're somewhat desperate. They haven't made the playoffs
for a while. They should have made the playoffs last year.
They fell apart. Their defense isn't very good. They gave
an older player that no other team would have. Sometimes,
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when you're desperate, what do they say in business? Desperate
people usually make the worst deals. Usually want to make
deals from the position of you know, security of not
have you where you can always walk away. The Cardinals
clearly overpaid. Here the JJ Watt angle as someone who
aspires to move to the Scottsdale Tempe area and who
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plans on moving there in the next eighteen months, for
a lot less than twenty three million dollars. I can't
blame him. That's a boatload of money. He was scheduled
to make seventeen and a half billion dollars. I don't
think most good teams wanted to pay him more than
five six million dollars and then incentivize the rest. The Packers,
the Bills teams like the Chiefs and the Bucks were
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never ever giving them this type of money. I don't
care what it gets leaked. There's a reason the Cardinals
had to pay this much because they're not a winning
team and they have to overpay for a guy like this.
And listen me personally. Part of being super rich is
you can make decisions not based strictly on money. JJ's
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made a hundred on the field, probably made twenty to
fifty million off it. I mean he's made a ton
off it. Fifty maybe high, but twenty five, thirty forty.
He's made a ton of money. Money is not he
has generational wealth. It's really quick. The media throws around
that term. You don't need to have one hundred million
dollars to have generational wealth. If I give a smart
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guy at ten million dollars generational wealth. Can invest in
a couple of real estate deals, put some money away,
earn the interest off a couple of million dollars. It's
not that complicated, Like you can gain generational wealth from
way less money than JJ Watt just signed for let
alone that he's already earned. He has an unlimited amount
of money. He made more. I understand it because if
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his best offer was five to eight million dollars, they
offered four times that. Listen, who am I to tell
a man to turn down that type money? And I'm
not now I would say, JJ, You're not gonna win here.
They don't win. They have a coach that does not win.
The evidence is in Cliff Kingsbury cannot win. It's not
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even disputable. Nice guy, good looking guy, hard worker, spread
offense just ain't working this franchise. I think the moment
JJ Watt officially signed and I saw he tweeted out picture.
Bidwell is also a pilot, took his private jet which
he flew to pick JJ and his wife up, probably
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pretty cool. I actually kind of like Michael Bidwell. People
always kind of shit on the Bidwell family growing up
because the Cardinals were a joke. I think it was
his dad. Bidwell. Feels like a very very smart, high
level guy. It feels like a pretty good owner. They've
had a lot of success under him. Right, went to
the Super Bowl with Ken wizen Hunt and Kurt Warner
and Larry Fitzgerald. Years later they hired come and they
(05:56):
get Bruce Arians. They start winning again, like that franchise.
When I was growing up out here on the West coast,
laughing stock, complete joke, viewed as cheap. This guy's not,
this guy's impressive. Now, I think the moment JJ Watt signed,
the clock and the pressure is on on two individuals,
Cliff Kingsbury and the general manager, Steve Kahn. If they
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do not make the playoffs this year, I think both
guys get fired because you look at what they've accumulated
and acquired the last couple of years. Right, they draft
Kyler Murray Boom. They had a top ten pick last year.
They chose to take Isaiah Simmons over several players who
are sweet. They get a gift because Bill O'Brien's crazy,
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and they get DeAndre Hopkins for a second round pick.
Now they have JJ Watt. They're going we need to
make the playoffs. That's what this signing says. I'll give
you extra money to give probably way too much money
to an older player, but his leadership is veteran presence,
all that stuff. I get it. You bring them in
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high level guy. Playoffs are bust because you're still like
you have the worst coach in the division, Pete Kyle
McVeigh not arguable. But other than that, like you have
as much talent as all these other teams, Like the
talent on the Cardinals is really really good. If I
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told you that Kyle Shanahan or Sean McVeigh was the
coach of the Arizona Cardinals, we go, oh, they'll they'll
win nine games, they'll win ten games, they'll be in
the playoffs. Yet it clips their coach. We go, h,
I don't see it. And that is back to the
amount of money they had to give JJ Watt so
much money because listen, we all have a price. Even
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back to what I was saying about the best part
about being super rich is being able to say no
to things. But even when you're super rich, people bring
you offers or bring you opportunities. It gets to a
point where you're almost stupid saying though, because let's say Hypothetically,
the Packers had said, listen, JJ, we want you to
come home, try to win a ring with Aaron Rodgers,
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and you'll be a legend. You'll be an absolute legend.
You will be You'll be considered the missing piece that
helped the Packers get over the hump. But he goes awesome,
I want to play with Rogers, I want to play
with Davante. I want to be a Green Bay Packer.
How much? And they go, well, JJ will give you
a one year deal, five million dollars guaranteed, and we'll
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incentivize it. If you play in sixteen games, if you
make a Pro Bowl, if you get double digit sacks,
we got no problem problem paying you market value. That
number will go up to you another ten to twelve
million dollars in guarantees. So basically get back to your
seventeen million dollars number that you would have made in
Houston this year. That's what we are prepared to do,
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because if I was putting myself in the winning organizations,
that would be what they were thinking about. They would
never in a million years thinking about giving him twenty
three million dollars guaranteed. A guy that before twenty twenty
had been missing games in every single season, many of
those seasons a ton of games. Now, good player plays
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hard on the wrong side of thirty, but still is
a very very productive player. The Cardinals. When you're desperate team,
you give him twenty three million dollars guaranteed. So there's
a chance that the good teams were offering him, you know,
five to eight, right, guaranteed, guaranteed millions and with a
ton of incentives, and he basically took three, four or
(09:28):
five times that to go to a team that he's
probably not gonna win at Now you can argue, listen,
you're never guaranteed to win a Super Bowl. He'd go
to the Packers and they could go nine to seven.
Rodgers would get hurt. Nothing is guaranteed in life. So
even if he had gone to the Packers or the Bills,
it would have been applauded by fans and social media
and people have been like, god, he's in a winning environment.
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There's no guarantee he's going to the playoffs next year,
even on a team that looks dramatically better than the Cardinals.
And you could put the argument that, like, the Cardinals
have enough talent to make the playoffs. But like I've
talked about pretty consistently, I'm betting against their head coach.
I'm betting against their defensive coordinator and even their quarterback
who it's not. You can't argue that his physical attributes
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work in the NFL. He's incredibly fast, his arm strength
is fantastic. When he's in rhythm and playing well, he
looks awesome. He's a legitimate NFL quarterback. You can win
with him. But the size, which twenty thirty years ago,
no one would have taken him number one overall because
he was, you know, could argue like a shade over
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five eight. He's tiny for NFL standards. Russell Wilson's tiny
by NFL standards, and he's got Kyler by a couple inches.
And if you've ever stood around Russell, Russell is thick.
He's built like a little tank. Kyler's slender. Now he's
way faster than Russell, and he's got the elite speed.
But we saw this year, I think it was Seattle
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on Thursday night when Kyler got slammed into the ground.
He was never the same the rest of the sea.
And I'm I'm not a Kyler hater. I think he
works in the NFL, but I do question if he
can sustain play because of his eyes. So there's just
a risk, like a big part of it. JJ goes,
I think Kyler can be a really good player. Well
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what if he gets hurt and he's a guy you
would say is more inclined to get injured just because
of his stature. That makes me a little nervous. There's
a risky move for the Cards in the sense that
they paid an over you know, an older player. This
is an I guess, a no brainer for JJ if
being the you know, getting the most amount of money
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was his number one decision. Like I said, I never
judge anyone on words. Because he kept I want to
go where you win. I want to win. I want
to win. And then he goes to the Cardinals like
I listen, I judge you on your actions. I love
money as much as the next guy, So I'm not
I get it. But no one can cry for this guy.
If they go six and ten, he's really he's gonna
be a really rich six and ten player. I think
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that's I think that's fair to assume. And if that happens,
if the Cards are not in the Playoffs next year.
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I saw some clips with a Graham Bessinger. I think
you say his name. He's always interviewing famous people. Good looking,
skinny dude. He's got great interviews. He had a good
interview with Alex Smith where Alex was talking about the
dysfunction in just his time with Hardball before Hardball, with
the Niners getting traded to the Chiefs, and anyone's seeing
Alex ASZ sixty it is one of the most heart wrenching,
(14:06):
gut wrenching and inspiring all in one documentary type things
with an athlete you'll ever see and listen. Having followed
his career very closely, what he went through with the
Niners before hardbo get here with Bozo like Mike Singletary,
who's the worst coach maybe ever? I mean, honestly, like
(14:26):
Hugh Jackson, Tom Sula, those guys are better than single Singletary,
As Mayoko said, Matt Mayoko covers the forty nine ers
because I remember asking him, like driving the Tom Sula year,
I'm like, have you ever seen anything like this? He's like,
oh yeah, this isn't even close. The Singletary year tops
at all. And Singletary was dropping his trousers at halftime
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to inspire. Was like calling out Alex Smith on game
day in front of the team for toughness. I mean
it was crazy, complete disaster Alex toughness. No one can
ever take away Alex His grit, his determination is second
to none in the history of sports. Right, his leg
almost fell off. He went to rehab where wounded warriors go,
(15:10):
had to have the Pentagon and people high up in
the government sign off on him to go there, and
he went and it was It's an incredible If you
haven't seen it, I highly recommend going to watch him.
But I think sometimes a story and a headline can
draw us all in. Right, we are all suckers is
(15:33):
the wrong word, but we all have a. I think
every single human being, unless you're just a complete psychopath
and nut job, has part of our body that has
immense amount of compassion for anyone who's been in some
sort of accident that they have. They had no control
over car accidents, falling accidents, an accident like Alex had
(15:54):
where he got this bacteria in his leg playing football.
I think the overwhelming majority of human beings. I always
say this is about human beings in general. I think
we've gone through this last year where a lot of
people get talked about like they're being bad people. The
overwhelming majority of people are good people. Like most people
that you come across in life, any socio, whether you're rich, poor,
(16:15):
middle class, whatever, are just normal good people. I believe
that to my core, and I think we all when
we see something with Alex, most of us, the overwhelming
majority of people have the same reaction, like, God, I'm
pulling for this guy. Were naturally pull for this guy.
He's the easiest story to pull for. It's like you're
gonna get universal agreements right and everyone when he came back.
(16:39):
And I'm someone who after watching that thought like Alex,
just think of this in my head, like you're crazy, man,
Just retire. You have more money than you know what
to do with. What are you doing this for? But
who am I to tell that to someone? Who am
I to tell someone to stop playing? Right? Who are
any of us to tell anyone to stop playing? Now?
I think sometimes if you're like Peyton Manning, like an
all time great player, it's like Peyton, I don't want
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to watch you throw balls in the dirt. And ultimately
he retired. Right, Drew Brees like, why is he retiring
because he's not as good as he once was? I
think it's easier with great players. But any fringe player
you should have, they should drag you off the field.
What because your career is gonna end at thirty two
instead of thirty four? You got the rest of your
life to you. So I'll never tell anyone to stop playing.
But I think the Alex Smith's story has become better
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than the Alex Smith the player. And Alex Smith said
a bunch of things. Did GQ how the Redskins? Excuse me?
The Washington football team didn't want them. They never really
wanted them. Even though it's kind of bs because I
read Albert Breer reported and he's right that they had
him mentoring Dwayne Haskins. Ultimately, when they benched Dwayne Haskins,
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Alex came in like they had paid them the last
couple of years as they should have. I'm not saying
they like they deserve a cookie for that, but they
did a lot of things well. For all, we can
crap on the organization all we want, and trust me,
they get drugged through the mud just about more than
any organization all the sports. I think the way they
handled this Alex Smith situation, at least from my perspective,
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was very commendable and was very high level, especially this year.
They even gave the opportunity for him to come back.
He ended up playing, starting multiple games, and this is
where I'm saying his story then became better than the
play because he's not any good anymore. Why he never
had a great arm. A huge part of Alex's success
(18:27):
with Andy in Kansas City, when he really took off,
like he became a solid starter, Hardbaugh got like the
train back on the tracks. Andy then created a high
level NFL starter, you know, probably somewhere between like eight
to twelve, but you could definitely if your team was
good enough, you go to the playoffs every year, and
a big part of that was not because of his arm.
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His arm is average now he's really accurate, but he's
also really athletic. That was a huge part of Alex.
He was big, and he was athletic. He could move
because he was never throwing bombs hell. He was never
throwing at like twenty five yards down the field. But
athleticism was a huge part of his game. And then
this leg injury that he came back from, he cannot
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move anymore. He was a liability when you watched him play. Honestly,
I remember the game that Haskins or I can't even
remember the quarterback got KOed. It was Kyle Allen. He
comes in in the second half. They're playing the Ramps
and he got sacked a bunch and Aaron Donald's jumping
on his back, and I remember sitting on my couch,
(19:31):
you know, the middle of the season or early mid
you know, week six, seven, eight, somewhere in there, thinking like,
I feel bad, Like Aaron Donald, do not hurt this guy.
That's What's going through my head. Because he could not move,
he could not avoid pressure, and that's a huge part
of his game. So when the Washington Football Team released him.
To date, they're not the bad guy because listen, once
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you take the onion back on the incredible story and
the incredible comeback. This is a bottom line business like
most industries, and there comes to a point it'd be
one thing, right if they're paying him a million dollars, like, oh,
keep him around, scheduled to make nineteen million dollars. Not
only is he not a starter, I don't even view
him as a backup. I saw somewhere on social media
(20:15):
to day someone put out his advanced analytics, like you know,
yards per play, effectiveness per play, all some of the
advanced stuff. They were terrible. He was god awful, And
I think you can separate the person the player that
was pre injury, incredible story, incredible, high level guy, Man
(20:36):
of the year type. I know the Chiefs guy. Andy
loves Alex Smith to this day. Patrick Mahomes still mentions
him when talking about his success. It shows you the
impact he had on people there and any forty nine
er fan will say what he did the first year
of Harbot leading them to the AC or the NFC
Championship game. Now, he didn't complete a third down in
(20:59):
that game against the giant, but nothing but respect for
the guy. He is a certified badass. I'm watching that
E sixty as I'm sure if any of you that
listened had to had to be thinking yourself. I don't
know if I could do this, I might have just
thrown in the white flag. I don't know how we
got through this. We're all thinking the same thing because,
(21:20):
like I said, most of us humans have the same
reaction to this stuff. We have compassion when it comes
to these accidents and these injuries. We all do. It's
something we all share. But then when you get back
to kind of the reality of Okay, is he starting quarterback?
Is he even worth having on a roster? Then I
think we get up for debate and you got to
separate the two because this is a very polarizing individual
(21:43):
because everyone just naturally is going to root for him.
And the problem is, even as I bet Ron Rivere,
Ron Rivere just beat cancer, the dude literally coached the
season with cancer, was going to get treatments during the season,
would be so exhausted some games he'd take a nap
in the locker room before they get couldn't even go
out on the field in pregame warm ups too tired.
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So and I've met Ron, and anyone knows Ron way
better than I do. In the league. I mean, he's
like the highest character guy in the league. This guy's
not kicking him to the curb. He's just simply not
even close to being good enough anymore. You can't play
with him. As sad as this sounds, I don't even
know if he's an NFL quarterback anymore. Now, who am
I to tell Alex that he should keep trying to play?
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And he will. I do believe, though, this guy's not
going to be in the league come this fall, because
I think when you watch him, you question canny protect
himself because a huge part of his game was moving.
So I know this gets shape some time if you
see this story that the Washington football team, who historically
have been the bad guy have been the idiots, have
been the low level operation. Not here. Honestly, I think
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since Ron's been there, they've been pretty impressive. Just the
way they handled Haskins, the way they kicked Haskins to
the curb, Like that's what high level organizations do. It's
not easy to do something like this with Alex. And listen,
I can't speak clearly. He came out with some pretty
bold words and maybe he's really mad, and I don't
blame him, put a lot into it, but he just
he's simply not good enough anymore. Okay, let's let's touch
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on a little really quick. Russell Wilson and I heard
watching the YouTube or maybe someone I followed on Instagram.
It was an Instagram you know, I follow some Instagram follows.
I bet if we broke down everyone's Instagram follows, mine
would be outrageous, like everything from pro athletes to former presidents,
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to business leaders to just chicks that are naked, to
inspirational quotes from successful people. I mean, it's all over
the map. Like you, you couldn't if you were trying
to figure me out from my Instagram follows, you'd have
a hard time because I got a little bit of everything.
And I think most of you listening, if I really
dove into your Instagram follows, that you would be very similar.
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But I think I saw I follow I don't even
know some business Instagram account and it's it had this
guy talking, and it gave me some perspective because sometimes,
like anyone, right wherever you live, you're like God, I
need to move. And obviously I want to move more
like tax reasons or whatever. But I'm just talking about
the individual place, Like I'm tired of living in this condo.
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Need to go buy a house? Right, think about that
all the time. Need to go. It's like this plus
place sucks you. Just if you're in a bad frame
of mind, It's easy to think that unless you live
in some sweet ass house, you can always upgrade, right.
I think I have those thoughts every day. And on
this like Instagram account, it had this guy saying, if
you think about your life from the perspective of wherever
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you live, if you live in a condo, an apartment,
at home, whatever, and you go, do you know the
amount of people in this country or this world that
would die to be living in this place, that would
do anything to have what you have? I think how
often you get mad at your job? Right, You're like, God,
this job sucks. You make ninety five thousand dollars. Do
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you know how many people in America would die to
make ninety five thousand dollars? Right, and just listen, I
say whatever you want. Like, sometimes just having a little
perspective can just get you in a better frame of
mind because I'll be honest, I'm naturally negative. The first
thing I think about when I get up tends to
be negative thoughts. I think it's genetic dad a little negative. Two.
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I have to force positive thoughts sometimes in my head
because it's way healthier. I can be way more productive,
get way more things done. I'm way more successful when
I'm thinking, not just clearly, but thinking positively. Now, you
can get mad, and negative thoughts are natural to come
at you when things happen. That's human. But I think
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when you get obsessed with the negative thoughts, which is
easy to get into a rust, especially this last like
twelve months, and it can consume you. And if you
can get back to positive thinking, and sometimes that's where
some of the motivational stuff just helps me, just like okay,
I can just flip my mind. When you just think
about it like that, You're like, yeah, you know what,
my place isn't that bad. I'm lucky to own this place.
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You know, you pay for it. I'm not lucky. I
pay for it. But you get what I'm saying. And
I think all of us can have a little perspective
in our life. And I saw that Russell Wilson in
the story that came out and we all saw him
at the Super Bowl, is like when the camera's panned
to him and his wife, Sira Sierra never get her
name right with Roger Goodell because he was the man
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of the year. She was happy, Roger was happy, and
they were having a conversation, and then it looked like
Russell was pissed off. And stories have come out he
was very, very angry watching the Super Bowl. They definitely
wanted us to know that. Right People have leaked that
he did not enjoy watching Tom Brady win. Why because
he's watching Tom Brady have success. And if your success
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or your excuse me, if your happiness is tied to
comparing your life, your lot in life, to the success
of others, you're never gonna be happy. And right now,
a big kind of elephant in the room with Russell
is that, like he's comparing himself to Tom Brady. I
got news for you, Russell Wilson. That's moronic because there's
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never been a Tom Brady and there probably will never
be another Tom Brady. Patrick Mahomes when it's all said
and done, it's not out of the round possibility. He
only wins one Super Bowl. I think we'd all bet
against it, but we said the same thing about Aaron
Rodgers a decade later, He's got one. Like Aaron Rodgers
has been really successful, Russell Wilson has been really successful.
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Obviously Tom runs circles around him. Both. Now, I have
no problem aspiring to be like that individual, right, You
always want to aspire to be someone, whether it's personally, professionally, whatever,
something that you're not right, something that you believe can
better yourself, whether that's money or whether it's being a
better person. So I understand professionally, Russell Wilson spires to
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be like Tom, spires to have that type of success,
which is normal. But of his happiness, which it feels like,
you know, he's getting mad at the Seahawks because they're
not listening to him. He thinks Tom Brady's dictating personnel moves.
I don't think he is right, like he's not. They
brought in Gronk like that, is that really tom Brady
dictating any team in the league, if they would have
signed Tom Brady would have happily taken Gronk, So that
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really wasn't like Tom. Tom's pulling strings like, no, not really.
Jason Lights like yeah, well, thank Gronkowski. So would all
the other thirty one teams, including Belichick. So I think
the big difference. Here's another thing, and here's just I
think sometimes when you judge yourself against other people, you
act like you are the same. And there is a
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major difference in Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, or excuse
me and Russell Wilson. Tom Brady was never ever babied
or placated too in New England for two decades. For
two decades, Belichick made it hard on him, coached him hard,
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held him the same high standard as everyone else. We've
all read those stories of like all his former teammates.
I remember Brian Hoyer his first ever meeting team meeting,
like the first you know, they're going through ota practices
or maybe it was training camp practices, and belichicked his
lights into Tom. It might have been Castle. It was
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either Hoyer or Castle, and their quote was like, holy shit,
if they're doing that to Tom, wait till they get
to me. And that was a team full roster ninety
men at the time in that room. That's how it
happened for two decades with Tom Brady. Yet all the
stories with Russell, it was Pete telling the guys not
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to be mean to Russell. At practice, it was Pete
trying to get Russell the MVP. The Seattle Seahawks have
somewhat treated Russell like you would an only child. Tom
was treated like he was in a family ten and
when the food came out, you better get to the
dinner table quick because the food's gonna disappear, and they
don't care if you go to bed hungry. It was
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the opposite with Seattle. With Russell, they did everything that
he wanted. They constantly tried to get him help. They
constantly told all the defenders that never shut up. I
don't know, because they were dominating to treat Russell better,
to not be so mean to him. I think Albert
Brery wrote about that today, or maybe it was Peter King.
Pete Carroll had to have a meeting with his defensive
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guys be nicer to Russell. Do you think Bill Belichick
ever in a million fucking years, would have had that
meeting with anyone with the Patriots. Well, first, he wouldn't
have had to, but even if someone was talking to Tom,
Tom would have handled it on his own. So Russell's
comparing himself to Tom. Tom doesn't have that much in
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comra Russell. Tom likes to get yelled at. Tom's used
to it. Tom one for twenty years went his coach
actually cut corners. They didn't spend that much money. They
would only take guys on cheap contracts, where Seattle was
actually doing the opposite of everything Tom always wish the
Patriots would do, spending big money on guys, trading for
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guys doing crazy things. It just shows you when you
compare yourself to someone else, you usually don't parallel them.
And also when your happiness is based on, well, look
how good it is for them, is stupid because you
don't usually have that much in common with them. Now,
I get Russell wants to win a Super Bowl, So
does every quarterback worth their salt in the league. Don't
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you think Aaron Rodgers wants to win a Super Bowl?
Tom Brady, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, all these guys, what
do you think they? Kirk Cousins, Derek Carr, Drew Brees,
the amount of work all these guys. You don't think
Dak Prescott was trying to win a Super Bowl with
every inch of his being like I just I think
we need to take a step back and go. People
need to stop comparing themselves with Tom. Right, You're not Tom.
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You're never gonna be Tom. We really don't have that
much in common with Tom. Now, I'm not saying Russell.
Maybe you don't like Pete Carroll, maybe you're over the management.
Maybe you want to go somewhere else. That's not abnormal.
I can relate to that, so can most people listening.
We all get tired of working with certain people. We
all get tired of being in a certain situation. No
matter how much money you have, life is hard with
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or without money. Now it's easier to purchase homes and
purchase cars, and send your kids to private schools and
stuff with money. Life is easier once you have money,
but your happiness does not change with the cash. Russell
has unlimited money. He's already want a super Bowl now.
He's trying to chase all these like legacy stuff. One
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thing I've never heard Tom talk about, and clearly Russell
has been pretty open about this last couple of years.
Legacy stuff. You know what Tom talks about, the next
super Bowl winning the next year. He's just obsessed with
that because his legacy dwarfs every quarterback in the league.
Right now, let's just pick the top three Mahomes, Russell
in Rodgers in whatever order you want. I'd personally go
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based on this last year. I'd go Rogers slightly above
Mahomes and then Russell. And obviously Roger's been doing it
longer than Mahomes. But those two guys, Rogers Mahomes are
better than Russell Wilson, but Russell's better than everyone else.
So I'd take those three guys. If you combine those
three guys legacies, they do not equal Toms if you
combine their Super Bowl really even their Super Bowl appearances, right,
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Mahomes been to two, Russell's been to two, and Rogers
been to one. It's five total. Tom has been a ten.
So it just shows you like he's just in a
different world and he didn't get what you wanted for
twenty years and it worked. And I think sometimes in
pro sports because the amount of money these guys make.
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When you start making thirty five plus endorsements, fifty sixty
million dollars a year, well, do you know what a lot?
What happens a lot? People want to get involved in
that because if I had a business right now making
fifty million dollars a year, I'd have to hire a
ton of people, and people could profit off the business
that I had. That essentially what athletes become. And then
you get a lot of people involved with their own ideas.
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Their own ideas may not be John Schneider's ideas or
Pete Carroll's ideas. They're gonna be four pro Russell Wilson.
But this is a team game. And back to Tom
what is he known at the greatest teammate ever. So
I think Russell needs to look at a situation goes
you know what, I got it pretty fucking good here.
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I've never in my career won less than nine games,
and I remember after that season John Schneider's they went
nine and seven. John Schnyder after the season said it
felt like we went we won two games. You know why,
because the standards are so high. They're a powerhouse organization
right now. Now are they perfect? Of course not. Beside
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the Belichick Patriots and the Brady Patriots. Most teams don't
go to Super Bowl every year. Russell is killing it.
The Seattle's killing it. They just won the Division, a
division that is loaded at the rams. Kyle Shanna and
the Niners. You got Cliff and looking sweet and all
those you know Kyler run around they want it would
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Jamal missed a bunch of games, their offense didn't even
work at the end of the season, and they still
won the division. So I just think we all need
to take a deep breath. And maybe it's not fixable.
I don't know. I don't know all the details just
from what I'm reading, but I do think Russell might
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over and over about the sports leagues, the NFL, the NBA,
in Major League Baseball, nothing they do is a quote
unquote money grab. They are in the business of generating revenue,
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so everything they do involves money. That's the point of
their business, to generate cash and throwing away a little bit.
The corona. We're still in it right because some of
these teams aren't allowed to have fans, but it seems
more and more that fans are going to be there
in the summer. I think Major League Baseball is going
(37:52):
to crush is absolutely. Think how many people once they
open up, like you know, baseball is allowed to have fans,
old stadiums. This summer. People are gonna want to get outside.
People are gonna want to go hang out with their friends.
People are gonna want to drink in the sun. I
think baseball is really gonna benefit and obviously football, if
all things go as planned, will crush it. The NBA.
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This NBA top shot thing, I'm sure many of you
have seen it. You basically buy a jiff It's like
an electronic poster, but it's on the internet, blockchain, crypto, whatever,
I don't pretend to know, and I don't. My first
reaction and I try to always be careful with this
is not like that's stupid, that'll never work, because that's
what losers say. Now, it might never work, it might
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be a massive bubble that's a disaster, but clearly they're
onto something. Just supply demand, and there's a lot of
demand for this stuff. Now. The NBA, for the top
Shot thing, owns it so they get the revenue, so
it's good for their league. If a ton of people
buy it, it generates a ton of money that gets
them money that they split between the owners and the players.
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And I'm pro finding new revenue streams, so I give
them credit on that one, even if I don't pretend
to quite understand it. But I don't really understand crypto.
And I just dabbled in a little ABA over the weekend,
and I plan on dabbling a little more because if
it is a bubble, I want to ride that bad
boy and make a little cash off it. But I
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also can think, like, yeah, crypto is kind of weird.
Is it gonna work? Is it gonna disappear? I don't know.
I don't pretend to have the answers to this, but
I know it's something. And the point of these leagues
is to keep growing, just like any business you're at
if you're a sales guy, right, once you hit a number,
right if you if you were supposed to get five
hundred thousan dollars in new business, and that's your quota
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or whatever, that's where you're supposed to hit. Once you
hit it, the following year, getting three fifties not cool. Hell,
they might want five fifty the following year or six.
People only grow. We only, you know, move the finish
line the goalposts, as they say, because you never want
to go backwards. And it's why the biggest thing the
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NFL has been pushing now for years is the seventeenth game.
Because games in the NFL, and we've talked over, they
don't make any money from practice, they don't make any
money from workouts, they don't make any money during the week.
They make all their cash on Sunday, and it makes
so much freaking money that it makes all these players millionaires,
makes these coaches millionaires, and make these owners billionaires. It's
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incredible partnership. Everyone is getting filthy rich. And the seventeenth
game is clearly a money grap But like I said,
there's those this thing as a money grap there's just
additional revenue. And then there was also reports today that
they are going to put a Monday night football game
in the playoff in the wildcard round. Of course they
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are because it would get huge ratings. It will work. Now,
like the crypto stuff like the Ada that I purchased,
you never know what the future Holts. Is it possible
that seventeen games is bad for the league over a
five ten year span. It creates more injury, more wear
and tear. Is there ever diminishing returns of football? Because
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right now football isn't just king, it's running laps around
everything else, not just in sports, but in entertainment. It
gets the most viewsed by a mile. Does that? Are
they ever nervous about that coming back to earth? Probably
a little, But you can't think about the worst case
scenario when your foot's on the pedal. You just got
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to keep doubling down. And so far I think the
NFL would say is like we've hit a recession in
the late two thousands. We crushed it, we Corona, we
navigated through it. It will just keep firing through because
that's their mindset, and it's been very successful. I understand
why they're doing it. Do I get nervous, as just
a lover of the game, a lover of the league,
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that it could ever hurt a sport, of course, because
I'll be you know, we already know the NFL is
not gonna be on top forever, no chance, because I've
seen in my lifetime multiple sports dominate. When I was
born in nineteen eighty four, baseball was by far the
biggest sport in America. Then in the nineties Michael Jordan came.
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The basketball was huge. Maybe the NBA as a whole
wasn't as big as baseball or football, but Michael Jordan
was equally bigger, if not bigger than all of them.
Then he went away and basketball came back to Earth,
even though they still had stars that carried him, but
nothing like when Michael was with the balls doing like
thirty million people watching NBA finals games. And then football,
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which I always say, I think Tom Brady and Peyton
Manning were the magic. Johnson and Larry Bird in the
two thousands took the leagues of New Heights and then
it just naturally they benefited from the Internet, they benefited
from society having short attention spans. They benefited from low
inventory only once a week, easy to consume on an
off day Sunday, a lot of factors. They've just kept
doubling down, and we're gonna see if this works. Now initially,
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of course it's gonna work. More football people will watch,
they'll be fine. I just wonder big picture, you just
ask the question extra playoff teams if we ever, because
there is a point I think in anything in life
where you hit like a breaking point where it's just
like as too much, right, Like I think we've realized
baseball on hundred six two games too much. It just
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it is eighty two games in the NBA way too much.
Sixteen games in football feels, you know about right. You
could argue they'd probably be final forty games create even
more urgency, but they would make way less money. And
like I said, they and animal making less money. So
they're kind of at this point where the only way
to keep making cash is more games. They added playoff teams,
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extra playoff games, Well, what does that mean? Way more cash?
Added a week, way more cash. Let's do a primetime
game in the playoffs on Monday Night Football, more cash
Thursday Night Football. I heard Colin say it's a it's
a money loser for Fox. I have to text him.
I'm fascinating how they lose money for that, but clearly
they do because Fox doesn't want there's a night football anymore.
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You know what Jeff Bezos says, I'm in, I got cash.
We're interested in what did Amazon do last year? They
had Daniel Jeremiah, Bucky Brooks. I did reads for it
on this show. Watch Amazon, watch Amazon Prime feeds. Because
what were they doing. They were preparing showing the NFL
that they had the infrastructure. We know they had the money,
but they had the capabilities of hiring the right people
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to do this, and they did seamless transition. So I'm
just it's gonna be interesting over this next decade, Like
did the NBA, did the NFL peak? Like well, I
tell my kids, you know the NFL peaked from like
twenty fifteen to twenty twenty five, or did they go
on another twenty thirty year run of dominance. I don't
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have the answer, but I'm gonna be fascinated watching it
play out. I saw something today that alerted me to
a potential disaster. Now, you could argue that this situation
has already been far from ideal, given the hype that
when the University of Michigan hired Jim Harbaugh, it felt
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like maybe he wasn't gonna be like Nick Saban or
Urban Meyer, but he'd be competing to go to the
playoffs every year. That clearly has not happened, and Michigan underachieved.
Is not fair because they were shitty when he got there.
He's been fine. He's done better than they were doing
before he got there, but that wasn't the expectations when
he was hired. They hired him the great applause because
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they thought he was gonna win bick like he had
just done in San Francisco, going to NFC Championships into
a super Bowl. He didn't have to win the national
championship in Michigan. Hell, if he just would have got
to the playoffs a couple of times and got blown
out in the first round, that'd be fine. But as
we know, he hasn't sniffed the playoffs. And the biggest
thing in his biggest issue right now is the number
one thing we talk about in football NonStop. Do you
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have a quarterback, and today I saw a story that
this guy named Alan Bowman. I'll be honest, I don't
watch a lot of Texas Tech football though Matt Wells,
who did he still he get fired? Follow each other
on Twitter damned a little bit. I like the guy.
He was at Utah State. Big fan of the guy.
It's a tough text text tough job. Alan Bowman, who
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has thirty three career touchdowns and seventeen interceptions, who was
a three star recruit and had offers from places like
Columbia and Missouri his best offers, like Ole miss is
now transferring to the University of Michigan. Here's what I
do not understand because I'm not like necessarily anti transfers.
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Kyler was a transfer, Baker was a transfer. Justin Fields
was a transfer. You can get good players who are
transfers at quarterbacks, but eventually I need you to recruit
a good player like Oregon they recruited Justin Herbert. Clemson
they recruited Trevor Lawrence. You can go, Trevor Lawrence is
the number one player, Okay, Justin Herbert was not. Nick
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Saban recruited Mac Jones, who, unlike Tuah, was not some
highly towed guy at Ozeron got Joe Burrow when a
lot of people could add Joe Burrow. Jim Harbaugh cannot
find a quarterback. He can find other positions that go
to the NFL because a lot of guys from Michigan
get drafted. But if he continues to have to go
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to this well of transfers who are not future NFL players,
but what's he even doing? This is not going to
get better. You cannot put a band aid on a
bullet hole. For whatever reason, he keeps recruiting these guys
and they do not work out. McCaffrey, Milton, he cannot
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land a quarterback for the life of them. Now with
the San Franco forty nine ers, and even let's go
back to the Stanford Cardinal, Andrew Luck was not that
big of a recruit. And Stanford, who was had some
momentum at the time, is a unique institution because it,
you know, attracts the academic elites in athletics who are
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also great at sports. And as we know, Andrew Luck
is just kind of a unique person. He might have
gone to Stanford whether Jim Harball was the coach or
whether I was the coach. You could argue maybe he
lucked into that. He gets the Niner job Alex he
inherits Alex Smith, and then the following year they draft Kaepernick,
but he wasn't the gem. Balky had the juice. Now
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I do think Harball wanted Kaepernick, but like that would
be the one guy that you could argue that he
chose over the time. Now I get that he okayed
giving a scholarship to Luck, but like I said, with
Luck have gone to Stanford, whether he was there or not. Possibly,
but regardless of any of this information, he now has
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been like there is no one arguing he's in charge,
he's the general manager, and he cannot find a quarterback.
He keeps having to take these transfers of guys that
will never sniff the NFL. I'm not even asking him,
and I know I brought this guy up. Trevor Lawrence,
Justin Fields, Justin Herbert did Land a top five pick.
Can you just recruit a guy that we talk about,
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Mike get in the second or third round of the draft.
How can you not do that? You're the University of Michigan,
you coach in the NFL, had had success, You coached
Luck and had success. You were a quarterback played in
the league for fifteen years, Like, how can you not whoever,
just the top ten quarterbacks are in the country, how
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can you not go to like two of them and
land one of them? It doesn't feel like he's doing that.
And now again, like a couple of years ago, he's
going back to the well of getting this guy from
a tiny little school to transfer to Michigan. I've never
watched Alan Bowman throw a pass. Here's what I do know, though,
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no circumstances should Hardbob be relying on a guy like
this to be his quarterback. And until Michigan fixes this problem,
which clearly doesn't look like it's getting fixed anytime soon.
One time, when I was in high school, my dad
worked for this guy who was a big, big farmer,
and he had this barge and he had some land
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on this thing called the Delta, and it's like this river,
you know, this water kind of is basically a river
that flows all the way to the Pacific Ocean. And
he got this barge that also had a crane, and
the crane the barge was from World War two. And
there was a famous story that in like the forties,
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right during World War Two, the crew on the barge
got a bad batch of moonshine and everyone died, and like,
I don't know if the US government owned the barge
or something, but they didn't have anything to do with
the barge. So he got it, you know, like twenty
thirty years later at like a complete discount, you know,
for fifty thousand bucks or whatever, and he just put
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it in the delta. Well, one day there were leaks
in the barge and we had gone out there because
they used to go out there to duck hunt past
where the barge was, and they saw oil was all
in the delta and it was gonna be a problem.
So we realized we gotta get some pumps and get
the barge back elevated. So we tried to use these
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little pumps and it didn't do a thing. The barge
was sinking the irony. Then this dude went off the levy.
The coastguard randomly had to come save them. They drove
by the barge bunch of oil. It was a disaster
because no pump, especially handheld pumps, were gonna save the barge,
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just like no transfers are gonna save Michigan do you
know how Michigan won in the past. They recruited elite players,
they developed them, and then they won. That's what Ohio
State is doing right now. That's what Wisconsint is doing
right now. That's what Penn State is trying to do
right now. Michigan kind of feels like they don't have
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any direction because they keep trying to band aid these
problems at the biggest, most important position. I hate to
say it, but I think this Jim Harbaugh thing could
get even uglier. Okay, let's get to the Middlecoff mail
bag at John Middlecoff is the Instagram handle, and you
guys know the drill slide up in the direct messages
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and you get read here on the podcast. Also gonna
start posting it on YouTube. John Middlecoff YouTube channel. If
you're watching this on YouTube, give your thumbs up. Hey brother,
We'll keep it short this time, thank you. Shouldn't wood
Cam Newton consider playing a position outside of quarterback. Haven't
heard this one before, but I fucking like it. You
cannot tell me that he isn't more athletic than Taysom
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Hill and alike. Obviously, a few teams run those type
of packages, but the idea of Cam lining up wide
is a scary thought. He's massive and still got wheels.
I like what you're thinking here. If Cam Newton cannot
throw anymore, and clearly if you watch him last year
with the Patriots, there would be games they just rode
him like a horse. He's secretariat. There is not a bigger, stronger.
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Might bee some faster athletes, but pound for pound, he
might be the fast athlete in the league. That I'm
with you. I don't know what position. I just think
kind of hybrid quarterback? Pay him? I Taysom Hill. Could
he make two years twelve million dollars six million a year?
He made a million dollars last year? Why wouldn't he
take six to be a hybrid player? Now? Does he
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want that pounding? He's already really rich. But I'm with you.
The one thing you'd say about Cam Newton, because remember,
like Tebow, I'm only a quarterback and Cam obviously is two.
But would Cam be more open to just doing stuff
like that? I don't think that's nuts at all. Would
a good team, you know, just get him people like him.
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He works hard. I'm not against that at all. I
don't know what the position basically, I think you would
still consider him a quarterback. You just ask him to
play a Taysom Hill roll. I love that you're a genius. Honestly,
I like what you're doing there. Hello, John, this is
from looks like a spam porno. I can't wait to
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hear your take on JJ Watt. Based on previous takes
on Vance, Joseph and Cliff Love the Pod, guess you
can't blame him for taking the money, but he did
say he wanted to win a ring. I think we
all say a lot of things in life, and if
someone presents you with and I've never been had the
difference of well, you want to work for five million
or you want to work for twenty three million, because
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I think and I saw someone tweeted out from Arizona
that he had similar offers from you know, the Titans
and the Colts. Bullshit. I don't believe that. Of course,
the Cardinals want that out. I don't think any good
team would be in that stratosphere. But listen, I'll never
tell a man they should take less money. But I'm
also like, when your career ends and you have one
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career playoff victory, I don't necessarily feel bad for you.
What up, Coff, keep up the work. Do you think
that there's a possibility the Niners roll back Jimmy like,
there's a legitimate chance. Any inside chatter about it? If so,
what are some legitimate alternatives with the twelfth pick? Also,
an in depth Middlecoff Niners mock draft would be cool.
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You know, I'm a big first and second round guy.
I give the rest of the rounds, four, fifth, sixth,
I give that to the to the draft nick community
on Twitter. I'll just play the hits. Oh, I have
no problem. I'll talk first round till you're you know,
till your ears fall off. I think there's a chance
that Jimmy Garoppolo's a quarterback. Yes, Because they don't control
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this right The forty nine ers want Deshaun Watson right now,
he's not available. They're not willing to trade him, so
the nothing they can do. They would obviously take Russell
Wilson's Seattle would never trade them Russell Wilson. That's not
even an option. And Russell has a no trade class,
so that's not even an option. Deshaun Watson their number
one target. I don't think the Texans will trade him
to the Niners could just be me. If they do
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trade him, he's going to the Jets, He's going to
the Dolphins because they're picks. I do think a viable
possibility is they keep Jimmy and they sign some backup,
like a like a Andy Dalton type Trubisky, maybe for
like three or four million dollars, have that guy and
Jimmy on the team as they go to the draft.
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Then on draft Day, because they do not control right
they're drafting twelve, there are a ton of teams above them.
By then, we would know the Dolphins, the Texans, slash,
the Jets, what that little group was doing. But we
don't know like a Falcon's gonna take quarterback or the
Eagles is gonna take a quarterback. We know the Jacksonville
Jaguars are gonna take a quarterback, the Lions probably not Cowboys.
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I don't know. There's a lot of unknown now. I
do think it's possible that the Niners could jump up
in that draft take a quarterback, let's say justin fields.
Then if the Patriots don't have a quarterback, take Jimmy Garoppolo,
send them to the Patriots, and basically their quarterback room
would be justin Fields and mister Bisky or Andy Dalton.
I think that's a possibility. So just because they don't
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make a quarterback change in the middle of March when
free agency and all these trades become official, does not
mean that they're not still looking and that change is
not I don't even say inevitable, but possible, which is
fun right now. There's a lot of hypotheticals out there.
Great show, keep up the work. Heard you say the
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Tiger winning the Masters about I heard what you said
about Tiger winning the Masters and fully agree with the
emotional connection. I'm one year older than Tiger, so it's
pretty interesting to follow these guys TV twelve other dudes
in the same age bracket. Follow up question to Tiger's injury,
what do you think about his chances to come back
in the Senior PGA? And as a football fan, I've
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been a Bears fan since Walter Payton send me an
autograph eight by ten when I was in fifth grade.
What should be done in Chicago to get back to
the playoffs consistently? Do you know what's cool is clearly
when you were growing up, Clay and when I was
growing up even I'm a little younger than you. You
could send a note from your class to like Jerry Rice,
Walter Payton, Emmett Smith, Brett Farve, Steve Young, whoever, Elway,
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and they would have days where the PR guy would
clearly give them a bunch of stuff. They would sign stuff,
and they'd send it back. I love technology, and I'm
glad to be living at the time we're living in.
It's great for my personal business. I think it's great
for anyone's business. It's a lot of opportunities to grow.
There are pretty cool things, though they get lost. Now.
You could argue that players can tweet or instagram comment
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and stuff. For sure, that's true, but there still was
nothing like getting I remember had a friend that had
a frame picture of Jerry Rice send him, just signed
it and send it back to him. That's pretty cool. Uh.
I don't think Tiger was Tiger healthy, was never gonna
play on the Senior PGA Tour too rich, doesn't need it.
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Um Yeah, I can't. I can't see it. Maybe he
play an event or two. I also don't see Tiger
playing golf in his fifties like his body, Like Phil's
gonna play till he can't walk Tiger might not be
able to walk, and obviously the car accident. But I'm
just saying, like the path he was on with all
his injuries, he was not gonna be a healthy fifty
sixty year old, like watching some of the guys that
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play like Phil's gonna be a healthy Tiger is just
Tiger broke down before the car accident, let alone the
car accident. We don't we don't know for sure the
extent of all these injuries. Like if you read Tiger statements,
they've been pretty mum. They've been positive, but they have
not made like concrete statements about the situation about hey,
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his legs are stable, he's gonna be able to walk again,
or there's no infections, or it's been you know, pret
Just they've given you as much information as as little
information as they can by also acting like they're giving
you a lot, because they're not really. So I've just
keep my fingers crossed. Knock on wood that the guy
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comes out and he's able to walk again. Who knows.
The Bears, they just need to get a quarterback, for
the love of God, the franchise has never had a quarterback.
Just get a quarterback, You get a quarterback, you got
a chance. Look at the team in your division agreement, Packers,
you've been playing for three decades. Far off Rogers, because
every year for almost thirty years they've had a quarterback.
It really changes things. Look at the Patriots for twenty years,
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they had Brady. For the Colts fifteen years they had Manning.
The Seahawks for a decade, they've had Russell. It's for
fifteen years. The Saints head Drew Brees help for the
Falcon's head, Matt Right, you just need to get some
consistent quarterback play that's above average. You don't even need
Roger's best case scenario. You just take Matt Ryan right.
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You would give anything from Matt Ryan, twenty three year
old Matt Ryan, just for a decade. You're like, oh
my god, so so our soul for that. I don't
know how you do that, though it's good who your
options are. I would appreciate it if you could fucking
please stop Apoula's apologizing for saying your curse words. Your
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profanity is why I love you and listen to your podcast.
If you keep apologizing or hold back, I'm gonna have
to fucking stop listening to you. I appreciate it. I
do it more as a joke, but also in fairness.
I know some people listen with their kids in the car.
Yeah that's I'm being sarcastic over it. Obviously, I don't
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really care, but I don't want, you know, I don't know.
I just I try to be respectful, you know, But
I talk like I talk. I'm gonna cut to the chase.
Why don't the Niners pull out their big dicks and
start swinging for the fences and go after the show?
Watson see my listeners stock Like I talked too. I'm
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tired of this half ass Jimmy g having bullshit winners clothes.
John and Garoppolo isn't going to close. I'm with you, bro.
I think I think they're trying. I've told by very
good sources they would they would be very very aggressive
for Deshahn Watson. But I just don't think it's an option.
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And if Deshan truly if the Texans go, he's available,
the Jets and the Dolphins just have things to give them,
like the second and third pick in this draft. I'm sure,
as Casario they're putting their draft board together, they're evaluating
these quarterbacks. I mean, the Dolphins will just be giving
them their pickback. Pick three is way better than pick twelve.
And if you're the Texans, you would rather have picks
(01:02:46):
than like even if the night I wouldn't do this
if I were the Niners. Fred Warner, George Kittle, you're
not trying to win, You're trying to reset your franchise.
I want picks. You give me three first rounders and
one of them is picked three, and I can draft
a quarterback and start over. That's where I think Niners
are in trouble because if I'm the Texas, I don't
want your players. I'd rather have second in first round picks.
I want picks. I want to reset. I want to
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blow this bad boy up. That's what I think they're doing.
They're blowing the bad boy up. That's it. I appreciate
everyone firing in those dms. Once you have a great week,
stay positive and see you a little bit later this week.
See me on YouTube. I'll have some content up there
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