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Power Two Podcast: The NFL Combine Preview
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Who will shine at The NFL Combine? DJ and Jordan discuss the NFL Combine invitees. They also discussed the new concept of General Managers in college sports, as well as the recent meetings between the Big 10 and SEC.
Recorded: 02/24/2025
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Transcript
Introduction to Power 2 Podcast
00:00:02
Speaker
What's good, everybody? Welcome in to another episode of Land Grant Podcast Network's Power 2 Podcast. As always, I'm your host, Jordan. I'm here with my co-host, DJ. Yeah, you are.
00:00:12
Speaker
Hey. What do?
Nostalgia in Sportswear and History
00:00:15
Speaker
Look you. Are you wearing an Ohio State jacket, jersey situation? What is this? It's a vintage pullover. Come on, vintage.
00:00:24
Speaker
Yeah. From the 1997 Rose Period. Period. it Did y'all win that role? i'm not um I think so. I can't remember exactly. I'm going to say yes because of the fact that jacket was made, but I was two.
00:00:41
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so
00:00:44
Speaker
And i'm I'm not a football historian. Like, I like, I care about the present. I know like there's some people like no matter when they were born, they go back and like, they remember every single thing that's ever happened for their team and can tell you anything. and i don't, I don't do that.
00:01:05
Speaker
You know, love that for you. We did win though, which was sort of what I expected again, but the anyway but ah yeah, we won, we won to over Arizona state.
00:01:18
Speaker
Oh, Arizona State. They just, they are just casually a part of the moments. I love that for them. And it, uh, it, because they lost, it stopped Arizona State from winning their only national championship ever.
00:01:34
Speaker
Dang. Yeah. Well, anyway, that's a fun factoid for you at the beginning of the show. um If you're not watching, Jordan is wearing a very varsity-esque looking polo. Polo, that's not a polo.
00:01:48
Speaker
Pullover. And it's cute. And it's, is this you know, like, I'm glad kind of sort of vintage is coming back. But it's just like you look at the videos and the pictures from like the 80s and 90s specifically.
00:02:02
Speaker
And the sideline gear and the jackets and it was just so much better. Like bring that back. like i my gosh, the designs. And I love Nike and everything like that. but like everything is just so like bland now.
00:02:12
Speaker
Yes. like Like they couldn't make this. And this this is thick. like i don't need like quality yeah like it's like it's a essentially like a light jacket which is why i had it on because you know i went out the house because it was 50 degrees the one that's been for a while and all i had on was this like this this is like a light jacket it's thick quality 97 so this is 28 years old looks great like yeah i'm not making it like this no more I do love the vintage stuff. I love the big puffy jacket vibe. That's my favorite thing from the 90s is the big puffy jackets. The two-tone color block. Yes, the two-tones. And now the color blocking, even when they do it, they just don't do it well. It just doesn't hit the same. How did you lose the ability to color block?
00:02:55
Speaker
ah why Everything else gets recycled. You lost the ability to color block? like how did Color block effectively because they're color blocking. It's just not... It's just not giving. I know like that's the thing now is like the neutrals and the simple and the minimalistic and whatever. But i don't know, man, the way we use color in the 90s.
Reflections on Turning 30
00:03:16
Speaker
hello Oh, oh. Anyway, um how are you? I'm all right. I'm good. it was ah It was a solid weekend.
00:03:27
Speaker
Period. um And now we're going into the week. I got my hair cut so I don't look ah look like a mess anymore. um So that's always a boost.
00:03:38
Speaker
I too got my hair done. Get a nice haircut, you know what I'm saying? Although this angle is not the best because as I am officially a month away from 30,
00:03:53
Speaker
I'm slowly but surely starting to lose my corners, which is fine. All right. I'm okay with that because I knew I was going to be somebody's bald-headed father. You know what saying? Ball-headed father. First all. Like I knew was going to be somebody's ball-headed father when that time came. Are you going to be someone's father?
00:04:09
Speaker
Not actively, but eventually. Oh, okay. I don't know. excuse so loud It all just, you know, it all happens at the same time. You start to lose your corner and that's like the signal. like All right, yeah, it's time to have a kid. you know I'm saying?
00:04:19
Speaker
Although in this economy in this economy, who knows if that's going to happen? I might just be bald. way You know, in this economy. might just be bald and childless. it's fine It's fine. I'm sorry if you're bald and childless, but that's just not the same.
00:04:33
Speaker
you know Right. Okay. Anyways, but further unpacking one month away from 30, how do we feel? do we feel like we're almost 30?
00:04:45
Speaker
I can't wait. Honestly, i too am chomping at the bit. I am halfway to 30 in April. And then I'll be obviously fully at 30 in October. And I'm just like, sometimes I'm like, wow, I'm getting old. And then I realize that 30 is not old. And then i'm like, wow, I'm getting wise.
00:05:01
Speaker
not But it's not only that. It's just like, how do I say this in a way that doesn't sound awful? And let's just say,
00:05:15
Speaker
If the twenties were my, were the best years of my life, I don't have much to look forward to. That is so fair. i agree. Because I'm choosing not to believe that I'm looking forward. Like, you know, I'm entering my thirties. I have ah a good job, married, that kind of stuff.
00:05:33
Speaker
My career's on the up, right? Like, the right guys you know. Nobody I know alive is in the best place they are financially, but even that I'm better than I had been previously.
00:05:45
Speaker
I would actually have some money if inflation wasn't putting this foot down my throat. like Oh my gosh. And these taxes is out of control. But no, so it's just like, yeah, I'm ready for 30. I think it's going to, it's got to be better than my twenties.
00:05:57
Speaker
And if it's not. We can stop.
00:06:04
Speaker
ah We can stop. No, I feel the same way because I'm just like, but I also have never really heard people say that your 20s are the best time of your life. They just say that it's a very like pivotal time in your life, which I would agree. Like there's a lot that you learn and that you see. My 20s are the best time my life.
00:06:22
Speaker
And that just means that y'all didn't do y'all's 20s correctly. If the 20s is the best that it can get. See, and i've it's always been weird to me, but then as I got older, I'm just like, my life is getting better. It's getting better as I get older. Yeah. Like I can pay to do things.
00:06:40
Speaker
I have more wisdom when making decisions. I don't feel as lost or as blind anymore. Like I feel like I've, you know, i've got, I've seen a couple of things. I felt a couple of things. I know a couple of things. Like, yeah, i feel like it's crazy that it's been five years now. Cause again, about to be 30, but like, I'm fully on board with the fact that I wasn't an adult until I was 25.
00:06:59
Speaker
I was not an adult until I was 77, dead ass to me. And here's the thing. I've been living on my own since I was 18. So I was technically an adult. I was paying all my bills, doing all my things, working my jobs. I had two jobs during college. I had all of it. That's what it was.
00:07:15
Speaker
I still wasn't adult until at least 25, 26. like Looking back, I'm like, 23, 24-year-old? I had a master's degree and a full-time job. and I was ah wasn't adult. So yeah, no. 30 is going to be good to me.
00:07:29
Speaker
I'm excited. And if it's not, I'm going to need more than some antidepressants. I'm taking care of. my gosh. Okay. So let's talk about the news because now we're getting,
00:07:41
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now we're getting crazy. um
00:07:46
Speaker
I don't know why I just blanked. So we won't talk about this for much because i do have a second podcast. If you didn't know that. And yeah we talked about it. I promote this one too. One, the other one.
00:07:59
Speaker
If you listened. if you listened Okay, so I just exposed that I don't listen and that's fine. but Crazy. that Big time ICC meetings. We won't talk about it in depth because we went in on it for a while. But I do just in case someone doesn't listen to that podcast like my co-host.
00:08:16
Speaker
just want to run down briefly and then also get your thoughts. So essentially, if you all don't remember or don't know. There is no governance in college football.
00:08:28
Speaker
And so the Big Ten and the SEC decided like, hey, we're not going to be aligned on everything. We're still competing with each other, but nobody else is running the sport. We have the 30, the 44, 16 plus 18 the forty four sixteen plus eighteen is 34? I don't know. 40 came from the 34. I was like, what number are you seeing? have 34 of the biggest and the best brands in the sport.
00:08:52
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um Also, we're selfish and need to do sort of what's best for us financially. So they started meeting. I think this is the second time that they've met and they had plans for some other ones just to kind of talk about some shared issues and make sure that they're aligned on things that they can be aligned on. Because again, going aligned on everything. still in competition. So Out of this most recent one,
College Football Playoffs Debate
00:09:10
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there are a couple of things that came out.
00:09:12
Speaker
um One, they are still trying to push the playoffs from 12 to 14, which I like 14 better than 12 and 16, because 14, you get two buys, two teams get a buy.
00:09:25
Speaker
And then everyone else plays. It's essentially what the NFL does. So team one and two would get buy. Everyone else would play. Instead of four teams getting a buy, four buys is insane. And if you did 16, nobody would get a buy.
00:09:36
Speaker
So they're trying to go to 14. They're trying to get both teams, both leagues to have four automatic bids, which I don't really love. But... If they get the four automatic bids, they've essentially hinted at these are the three things that they'll do.
00:09:52
Speaker
One, the SEC will go to nine conference games instead of eight, which they should have been at, but they're scared to compete. Two, the Big Ten and SEC are going to do some sort of scheduling agreement, which means we're going to get more Big Ten and SEC games in the regular season than we currently have now.
00:10:08
Speaker
And three, they're considering a play-in. The ACC outside of this is also considering a play-in, but essentially if they get four bids, ah the the two teams in the championship game, which is going to be that way anyways, they're going to get into the playoffs because they were going to get into the playoffs no matter what.
00:10:25
Speaker
But then instead of just kind of like taking the third and fourth best team, they are considering a three through six play-in tournament where three plays six and four plays five. And the winner of those games get the last two spots.
00:10:39
Speaker
So when you put all that together, it sounds a little bit more interesting than just saying we want four bids. Yeah. What is your thoughts on 14 play in tournament, um ah big can I see scheduling any, any, any of that?
00:10:56
Speaker
I mean, I'm always down for more football. Like, i'm I'm always down for more football. I'm always down to make it more interesting. um i've I love the play-in concept when they introduced it on the and NBA side.
00:11:08
Speaker
I just like the idea of, like, okay, you're almost there, so, like, you may as well play to prove that you actually deserve to be there sort of vibes. So I'm here for the play-in. Yeah.
00:11:20
Speaker
As far as like the buys and stuff. Yeah. I mean, the less buys, the better to me because the buys were also kind of proven to not be an advantage, especially in the way that the playoffs went this year.
00:11:30
Speaker
So, um, yeah, but I'm here for it. I'm here for more football, for more interesting football, for games with more stakes. I feel like sometimes, I mean, this year it felt a little different because we had more like top 10 matchups and top five matchups and stuff like that. So the games felt like there was more stakes at the beginning, but like sometimes the games don't be feeling like they have any,
00:11:50
Speaker
real consequences into your own game like 11 and 12. So I'm here for it. I love it. And I love the idea of being able to capitalize on the grit of the underdogs.
00:12:05
Speaker
You know, because i feel like we are kind of getting into a space with college football where it's like the same cast of characters every year. Like, as you're always going to see a Georgia at the top. You're always going to see a Bama. You're always going to see Ohio State. You're always going to see, you know, the same team. So, like, capitalizing on the grit of those teams that are right on the edge, I feel like that's going to be super, super fun.
00:12:26
Speaker
Yeah. And honestly, like, especially like last year and different things like that, I definitely was not pro- um you know, for automatic bids and things. But the other thing is like, there was the, essentially they did a report that said like, if we had this structure for all the last 11 years and a 14 team structure, ah the big 10 and sec would have averaged over four and a half teams, which means some years that they would have gotten five and 16 league, 16 bid structure.
00:12:56
Speaker
they both would have averaged over five teams. So they could argue that we're just asking for what we would have no matter what. Whatever, yeah. hour One less than what we would have if they went to 16.
00:13:09
Speaker
The big issue with it is essentially like, it's one of those things where it's like, you know, that you're going to get these teams no matter what, asking us to put it in writing is like- It's a totally different thing....growing us in public, you know what saying? Yeah. so it's sort of like a, like a, like, I mean, essentially you're just little growing them and you're putting it in writing that you are better than them instead of just letting that happen, like, like de facto, because that's what would happen. So there's definitely some like sort of pushback with that. But my kind of thing is just like,
00:13:42
Speaker
I don't think everything will happen no matter like, and that's the thing. It's just like, it's not great, but if it's going to happen, no matter what, I really don't know if it's that big of a deal as people are making it, but only if they actually go through with the three things that we just talked about.
00:13:56
Speaker
Like if they go to eight, if they give them the four bids and then we don't get the ninth game, we don't get any more big 10 sec in the, in the non-conference and we don't get the play in, then it's just kind of like, what'd you do that for?
00:14:10
Speaker
That was ah not necessary. Yeah. Yeah. So, okay. ah The next piece of news, which is something you wanted to put on here. i think last week or the week before we talked about. It was last week. We talked about. ah No, was it wasn't.
00:14:23
Speaker
It was. Yes, it was. We talked about- I was there. Yeah, we talked about women's flag football being recommended for the emerging women's sports program. ah Soon after that, or around the same time, Alabama State became the first HBCU to sanction flag football.
00:14:41
Speaker
First one D1 level period. Oh, I think I saw was HBCU. It's D1 period. It's the first d one flag football program period. Yes.
00:14:53
Speaker
Really? Did I read that long? It says Alabama State University is set to pioneer for women's flag football at the D1 level. First women's flag football coach in the history of D1 athletes is ah Coach Jennifer Constable.
00:15:07
Speaker
Okay, are you looking at something different? I'm looking at, yeah, their local news. Okay, I got you. Because the post that you sent says specifically First Division one h bcu
00:15:21
Speaker
i feel I feel like there's got to be other division one teams already, but either way, it doesn't matter. Whatever. Whether it's the first division one ever, or it's the first division one HBCU, either way is cool. And I love to see it. And I hope to continue to see this. And I hope as we sort of discussed last week that. Oh yeah. did the first one yeah that that That flag football ah continues to grow.
00:15:43
Speaker
And we we sort of see these things. Yes. I'm excited. I also live for the fact that at HBCU is the first one to pick this up. um Just because I feel like HBCU so many times get little brothered out of conversations when it comes to athletics.
00:15:59
Speaker
So I love that they're like taking that chance and being like, we're going the first ones to do this. So I'm very excited. I will be keeping an eye on that. show um all right we're gonna take a break and when we get back we are gonna get into the show we're gonna we're gonna you know talk about a new development that's going sort of all over college football and we're gonna talk about the nfl combine so shall be right back after the ads what's good everybody welcome back into the power to podcast where we are here to discuss the power of
00:16:37
Speaker
That's crazy. The power of the long pause. Yeah, see, I love a long pause. I do. I can't say that everyone loves a good long pause.
00:16:48
Speaker
um i I can probably say confidently that a lot of people don't, but sometimes sometimes i think about my answer. ah people People think that I don't have a filter and I have to remind them Or teach them or or learn them, you know, tell them that the thing that I say actually went through. Was thought out.
00:17:11
Speaker
ah Exactly. Same. I had a filter. It may not be as fine as yours, right? my mate Mine may be a Dollar Tree filter. The holes may be a little bit bigger.
00:17:24
Speaker
You may have like a mesh filter, right? You know I'm saying But it is a filter nonetheless. Right. Wow. Okay. It may be a colander. You what I'm saying? It may be a colander.
00:17:35
Speaker
ah You know, it may not be, you know, but it is it still exists. So sometimes you need a long pause. ah Anyways. Wow. Okay. So there there's this thing that's been sort of going around that I just thought would be fun to talk about um because maybe people haven't like noticed that they're paying attention.
00:17:53
Speaker
And, like, it's been happening sort of in quiet for a little bit. Like, Ohio State's sort of had this for a while. But...
Rise of General Managers in College Sports
00:17:59
Speaker
Now it's just like out there and you're like really, really starting to see it. And this new phenomenon is general managers in college football.
00:18:08
Speaker
um So as college football is growing, as the calendar is getting rough, as you know, there's now NIL and there's contracts and eventually at some point, potentially this year, they're supposed to be able to pay athletes and all of these kinds of things.
00:18:25
Speaker
College football finally realized that, Hey, your head coach is probably not the best. ah game planner, play caller, recruiter, staff developer, staff recruiter, financial manager, and from manager a person that talks to the boosters, fund raiser, You finally realize that, you know, maybe your head coach can't do all of these things.
00:18:53
Speaker
And so it's becoming more common now. You're starting to see it like Notre Dame had a GM. USC just hired one. I think Wisconsin, maybe Ohio State already had one. ah But essentially, football programs are hiring general managers ah to essentially assist the coaches.
00:19:08
Speaker
um specifically with, again, like NIL, when the payments come in, i'm recruiting, roster management, things like that, to to where essentially, yes, the head coach is still the figurehead and they still make most of the decisions. But ultimately, the the thing that you want your coach to be the best at is coaching football right and so when that then when their mind is being pulled in so many different places it's easy for them to miss things and so like the gm is someone that can remind the coach like hey this is our recruiting strategy you have to recruit i can't recruit they like this our recruiting strategy we're losing this many seniors there's a chance that this player goes to the nil it goes to the chance reporter there's this there's that just to sort of focus they're the ones working with the players I mean, and every role is slightly different, right? It's not exactly like the NFL GM where like there's like more defined, but essentially they're handling kind of what we talked about. NIL, paying players, roster management, recruiting visits, that kind of stuff.
00:20:04
Speaker
And then just taking something off the coach. um The interesting thing, because it's new, the structure is different. So like there's like one or two programs where the general manager actually report, at the general the head coach actually reports to the general manager.
00:20:18
Speaker
That is not going to be common. I don't know that. One of the programs that does it is Stanford, and the GM is Andrew Luck. It's Andrew Luck, yeah. And so, like, it's Andrew Luck.
00:20:29
Speaker
He's the boss. Andrew Luck is, the like, the greatest football player to ever come through Stanford. They don't give a fuck about their coach. And that one I get. It's like, you got Andrew Luck. Right, right. He's the boss. you know I'm saying? He's the boss.
00:20:40
Speaker
I don't think you can do that everywhere, but, like, It's Andrew Luck, dog. that's that's a particular yes That's a particular situation. Yeah, yeah. yeah But then other ones, the other i guess the two other common structures is the GM reports to the coach, right?
00:20:54
Speaker
And they just started paneling the non-football field side of it. And then the third one is, you know, just everyone, the head coach and the GM um ah report to the athletic director.
00:21:06
Speaker
So have thoughts. I have thoughts. Number one, Is this GM position only in reference to college football?
00:21:16
Speaker
Because that... Because the athletic director is the GM of the others. but Of the rest. Right, right. But if you have other revenue generating sports besides football, like at LSU, for instance, like you're going to need a GM for the other revenue generating sports too, like, or something like that. Like, it's interesting. You know what I'm saying?
00:21:41
Speaker
Sort of, but there's a, you know, we talk about this all the time. There's like 134 FBS programs. and i would say twelve ish have a gm so right because not all of them are going to need one yeah so it's just not even common in the football level to where like in five or ten years right you may see it in but men's and women's basketball or something like that but it's so uncommon even in football right now because it's so new that like i can't if half of the school like i don't know if lsu has a gm yet right like and you mentioned them with others they have a whole they actually have a whole division that manages nil like they they're a little bit different too that's Well, so a lot of a lot of schools do have that because it's in their compliance department.
00:22:23
Speaker
But this is sort of like that still manages NIL for everyone. But like yeah football is still sort of unique in that. And so like in five or 10 years, I could definitely see there being a little bit more of that. But this is brand new. And so it's starting with football. They're the ones that have the money. And ah and honestly, they are the ones still with the most pressing concerns.
00:22:41
Speaker
Because even if you're dealing NIL, dealing with it with 14 people is different than 105. Because that's where the, and that like starting, I believe it's this year, the roster limit for college football is 105 and all of them have to be on scholarship where previously it was 85 scholarships. And then you could have as many walk-ons as you wanted.
00:23:01
Speaker
As you want, yeah. Now it's 105 hard cap, but all of them are on scholarship. So essentially the majority of them are going even if it's just basic, you know, bare minimum, that all of them are going to want an ideal of sorts. You have to deal with your Jeremiah Smith, your Trudor Sanders, your, you know, first round pick type players, that sort of stuff. So, I mean, who knows? yeah We don't know where it's going to be in five, 10 years, but as of now, I mean, this again there's, again, maybe 10 or 12 teams that have,
00:23:30
Speaker
And it's your Ohio State. I mean, Stanford's interesting because most schools at that level don't have one yet, but it's your Ohio State. It's your Notre Dame. It's your, like said, I think Wisconsin. Ole Miss has one? Wouldn't surprise me. yeah Yeah. Their collective does. Their collective does.
00:23:45
Speaker
Yeah. So... Yeah, I just thought that was it's an interesting thing that's that that specifically this offseason. I've seen more and more schools specifically hire a GM, a couple of teams. I think Notre Dame being one of them hired someone from the NFL.
00:24:01
Speaker
Like what I think maybe with Notre Dame hired a cap guy from the NFL, which is interesting, right? Because the cap person is the money person. And so these schools are all trying to figure out how to divvy up. that $20 million dollars that they're going to be doing plus NIL. So it's just kind of wanting to get out in front of it because if it's successful for these programs, next off season is going to be more and there's going to be more until where it's maybe 80 or, you know, at least at bare minimum, every big 10 and SEC school is going to have one. And then you're probably going to like your bigger schools, like Florida State, Clemson probably will get one eventually too. So.
00:24:35
Speaker
I think it makes the most sense. I mean, the rest of ah the sports industry is organized this way. So it makes sense. Like when I worked at Learfield, which is a marketing company that works with over 200, maybe even 300 now ah colleges and universities on many, many different things, ticket solutions, sponsorships, all that other stuff, look them up. Anyways, the point is the way that they're structured is like at each university, they have a general manager of just like business development where like their sole job is just to make sure that all of the deals that they have for sponsorship like actually gets closed and managed so this is like and this is a very like granular thing but like that's that's a lot of people's jobs is to just manage the money so i think that makes the most sense for a college football to have their own like gm it's just interesting like how that structure because to me the structure that makes the most sense is reporting to the ad that's the structure that makes the most sense to me i don't see why a gm would need to report to a head coach or why a head coach would need to report to a gm
00:25:35
Speaker
So i actually disagree with that because the ADs don't make any decision for the football program. And unless you think that like, I guess so i guess it depends, right?
00:25:49
Speaker
um But like, for example, the Ryan Day, that's his program. The GM should be like an AD, like if the GM is reporting to the AD and the AD is saying we need this, this, this, and this, and that's against what the head coach wants, that's division.
00:26:03
Speaker
Like the head, like the, in college football in particular, the GM role is essentially to take duties away from the head coach. They're not taking duties away from the athletic director.
00:26:14
Speaker
And so in that it should still be the head coach's program to run, which then means, in my opinion, everyone in the football department should be. Reporting to the head coach.
00:26:25
Speaker
That's very interesting. Like, yeah. So, i'd like, again, you know, Stanford, Andrew, like, that makes sense. But for me, in most cases, I think the head coach should be the head of the football program. That is how it was before the GM to create this position and change the entire structure. doesn't make sense to me.
00:26:42
Speaker
And because all of it is, like... It's dealing with specifically football money, football roster, player retention. all like How are you going to retain a player that the coach doesn't want? You know what I'm saying? like You have to go to the coach. You got to get the coach's input. Yeah.
00:27:00
Speaker
Of course we're going to pay Jeremiah Smith, but do we want to pay insert other player? And it's like, you know what I mean? Like, if this player says he's leaving, do we want to match this? Like, the GM's not going to know better than the coach on that because ultimately all of these things still do affect the on-the-field performance.
00:27:18
Speaker
And that's one of those places I think it needs to stay different than the NFL. Yeah. Because of the NFL, the GM is making that decision based on all those. and Yeah, of course. Yeah. If the GM doesn't want to pay that player, the head coach just does. I mean, we just talked about in basketball.
00:27:33
Speaker
ah Jason Kidd didn't want to trade Luca. You know what I'm saying? Right, right. Luca would have been there. And so it's different where it's just like your coaches has to deal with it in pros. Like if they don't want to pay that player, he's gone.
00:27:46
Speaker
if If the Bengals decide not to play T Higgins, that coach don't got no say in that. He just has to deal with it. And that shouldn't be how college football runs. So no absolutely I think should report to the coach.
00:27:59
Speaker
Wow. Love it. Well, apparently, ah as I was continuing to look at this, because y'all know I'd be researching while I'd be talking, there was there are basketball GMs, and the first ever program to have a basketball GM was Texas, actually. Interesting. Interesting.
00:28:14
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But theirs is obviously a little bit ah more complicated. um But yes, they have a they do have a GM for basketball. Which, I mean, my question was just more so about, like, obviously, like, hopefully, if we're looking at this being a structure for all revenue-generating sports, it would definitely be more than just football. But I understand why football did it first. Obviously, they... they generate the most but but yeah and i also just think like again i think the biggest thing is roster right if you're a head coach you can manage your 14 players right yeah like you can yeah you honestly i don't know if and not and then but but when you're talking about that though typically if you're if especially we're talking about basketball they're probably also like pulling in more money individually though
00:28:59
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with their different NIL deal, even though it's only 14 players, that's, that's still more contracts and money and those sorts of things to manage because theirs are usually going to be a little bit, they're more recognizable than most football players.
00:29:12
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Like, yeah, a lot of quarterbacks and stuff have like the big NIL deals, but you know what i'm saying? I disagree with that. Except like I would, I would venture that women's basketball players the top of them make more than anyone.
00:29:26
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I agree. well Players sure as hell do not. I agree. It said basketball GM. So I'm assuming they're doing it for both men's and women's. And that's what I would say. If they're going to have a basketball GM, it should be combined.
00:29:39
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I would hope so. That makes no sense to have two separate ones. Yeah, no, that makes no sense. that And that's a little bit different. But yeah, ultimately, like, especially like, and I don't know if baseball is revenue generating for like everyone, but honestly, I could see ah GM of baseball and softball before basketball because the rosters are just much higher.
00:29:56
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And baseball in particular and softball, they're finally going to get scholarships. Where, like, baseball for the long time was, like, splitting 15 scholarships amongst, like, 30 players. And your best players would get full rides and everyone else would get partials. And now I don't know what the number they went to, but, like, they're getting full scholarships and there's going to more players. So, like, it's just basketball is just – it's not that it's not hard. And it's there's definitely a benefit to it especially with the travel. Like, I think basketball is just – it's coming.
00:30:23
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But it's just – For the the specific reasons football is doing it, that stuff is easier on a basketball coach to manage because there's 80 less players, 90 less players.
00:30:38
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And then of course the staff is smaller and and all that. ya I mean, football now has like 30 coaches like Ohio state just hired three people to work with the offensive line.
00:30:49
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And that didn't include the offensive line coach. Why do y'all need three people for the offensive line? it The offensive line is only five people. They hired three analysts on top of their off offensive line coach. There are four people working with the off offensive line. That just seems excessive.
00:31:03
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I'm not going to get into why it's not, but write this down because that's another good topic to talk about. that Why are coaching analysts, the rise of analysts and what staffs are going to look like now that there's no longer staff numbers and they can coach on the field.
00:31:19
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Maybe next week. Yeah. We definitely need to talk about that because I have lots of questions and I'm sure the viewers, listeners will also have lots of questions. Maybe next week. We'll add it to the show plan. um Shout out to GMs in college football. I'm sure it'll be incredibly successful on the first go round.
00:31:36
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Isn't everything? Oh my gosh. In today's power sweep, the NFL combine starts literally the day that you are listening to this.
The NFL Combine's Relevance
00:31:45
Speaker
It starts today, February 24th, and it goes for, what is that, a week?
00:31:50
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March 3rd? um um Something like that. Before we hop in, do you watch the combine? Are you a combine watcher? no I am also not a combine watcher. I'm a combine highlight watcher. I will i love to watch a little 40-yard dash that pops up on Twitter.
00:32:06
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But um underwear Olympics, the underwear Olympics is
00:32:15
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i actually can't. that
00:32:21
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Anyway, anyways, we just wanted to talk about. ah Who got invited to the combine this year and what our thoughts were on the invitees. You have me screaming with underwear Olympics, but yeah, I also do not watch the com combine, um but I love the highlights. Those are my favorites.
00:32:41
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Well, so here's the problem with the combine. I have two problems with the combine. Right. One problem one, and this is a good way to talk about some news that happened. Oh, quarterbacks are scared to compete and no longer throw at the combine.
00:32:55
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and hint, hint, Shador Sanders. And I'm sorry, personally, when your dad is Dion and you pretend like you're also Dion in the way that you talk and you act and you you flash the role, you do all these things, you gonna be scared to compete. And don't care what no one says.
00:33:11
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They can say it's not scared they're not scared to compete. There is no reason for a quarterback not to throw at the combine except that they're scared to repeat to to compete. And you wanna know why i say that specifically? I'll tell you why. Because at the combine- You're throwing to randomly see because you have no chemistry.
00:33:28
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And they tell you as you go up to throw what route you're running. So you have no excuses. Not only are you throwing to someone you don't know, you don't really know how fast they are, et cetera, their breaks, things like that.
00:33:42
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You also don't know the route beforehand. So you just have to be able to throw anything. And instead what they're doing is they're doing, they're throwing at their pro day where it is scripted.
00:33:53
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And they're throwing to receivers that they know. So they know that the first throw is going to be a slant. And the second throw is going to be a five yard out. And the third throw is going to be a slant. And then they're going to work their way deeper and deeper and get into a rhythm with receivers that they already know. Sidor is going throwing to Travis Hunter and things like that. And it's just, it's scary to compete.
00:34:11
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Like you can't go up. You're trying to get to the NFL. You want, you're talking about, you're going to be the first round, the first draft pick and you can't throw to anybody. You can't go and say, Hey, we're going to th throw a dig route and you need to throw it to this stranger.
00:34:23
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It's annoying. Scared to compete. That's childish. I don't like it. And it's becoming a trend. And I think it's lazy. I think they're scared to compete. You want to be the first pick in the draft and you won't throw at the combine.
00:34:34
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I think that's stupid.
00:34:37
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Thank you for coming Jordan's TED Talk. I agree, though, actually, because you here for? Everybody else is doing it. What are you here for? receivers, like, yeah, I think it's dumb. Like, don't show up. At that point, don't show up. Especially quarterbacks, because other, like, right I get, like, right, like, Saquon was out again and he was still Saquon, I get him not doing the combine.
00:34:58
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Because the drills that running backs do, you can pull something. Yeah. You're just throwing. Okay, fine. Don't do the four-yard dash where you can injure yourself. Totally fine.
00:35:09
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You can't throw. Throw. Fuck out of here. Which what you are meant to do. Get out of here. um Well. The second reason that I don't like the combine is because I think there are very few drills at the combine that mean anything.
00:35:26
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i agree. Especially because sports science is too good. So when you give anybody a month to prepare and all they're doing is running the 40, doing a 225, all of these other kinds of things, they excel at these drills and then it doesn't translate to the field, which is why I like that Marvin Harrison Jr., again, a wide receiver who knew he was going to be a top 10 pick And didn't want to get injured.
00:35:53
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He said, I'm not doing the combine. i sure went it yeah Because the things that wide receivers do at the combine aren't related. i want I'm going to go practice to play in the NFL.
00:36:04
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And I'm not going to waste a month of my development. On the combine. On the combine. Trying to be the fastest person run the for And you can say, oh, you know you're splitting hairs, you're you know you're being indifferent, like you're you know picking one side, not the other.
00:36:20
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But I think that's different. One is doing it to, like I want to be the best NFL player. If I take a month out of my training program to practice the 40 and 225, which doesn't matter for actual field, I'm losing development. i want My dad's a pro football Hall of Famer. I want to be NFL ready immediately.
00:36:37
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And I think more people should do that because the combine is stupid. But to go to the combine and to do other things and just not throw because you're scared to compete. That's insane. That's craziness. I mean, I agree with you. I see both sides to it, too.
00:36:51
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I don't know. the The combine, I feel like more and more is becoming more like of a glamour um pageant sort of. vibe And so it's just kind of like... I'll get with an underwear.
00:37:02
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Yeah. So it's just kind of like like, what purpose is it serving like at this point? Um... I don't know, but I definitely haven't watched it because like I'm just the type of person that like I just don't care about who you are until you get your NFL jersey on. and I hate to say that. But now, granted, like I wasn't a college football fan either, so I was just like, whatever, put your jersey on, and then I'll see what you can do once you get here sort of vibes.
00:37:25
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Whereas now, like obviously, I know who most of these guys are, but I still don't know if I would sit there and watch them run the 40 and throw the football at Nets.
00:37:35
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like I don't know. Sometimes it's like watching like a practice. so Yeah. But it's happening. It is.
00:37:45
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We're totally selling it to you guys right now. It's happening. At this point, either you watch it or you don't. we not You either do or don't. Yeah. It's very like you either watch the draft or you don't watch the draft. like There's just certain people who just are into it and who are not. I'm telling you oh right now, not watching that damn draft. I will watch part of it.
00:38:01
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but I will watch, and you know, I hate to i hate to you know promote another podcast, but let's be honest, we are not competing with them. they they They're in a totally different lane. They have press passes and studios and all these things.
00:38:16
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I will be watching the NFL, the the athletics NFL show. Oh, period. Yes. Oh, we talked about this. Yes. They do a live sort of like following of the draft and it's not the um Depression Olympics and it's actually like a real analysis of the players and people who are like fans and excited and it's not ah his mama and uncle's daddy's cousin sold drugs and he was doing heroin at three and now he's a first round draft pick. Right, right. He doesn't know his dad, his dad's in jail.
00:38:48
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Yeah. yeah Yeah. His dad is wrongfully imprisoned on death row. It's just very dramatic all the time. But yes, to to the NFL combine, I just found it very interesting that there is a particular collection of schools that has quite a high number of invitees to the combine. Obviously Ohio state being number one with 15 individuals,
00:39:09
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invitees seven of them being on the offensive side and eight of them being on the defensive side notably you know quencha on judkins will howard um denzel burke and make a ah ah mecca and buka and mecca egg buka it's actually it's his name is african and 90 percent yes names are pronounced exactly how they're spelled exactly exactly how they're spelled it is it's egbuka like and how you think it sounds is how it sounds there's There's some other names that don't, that'd be a lot harder. And it's like silent letters. And and my thing is, if I can say Arike Agumbawale, I should be able to say Emeka Agbuka.
00:39:48
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Agbuka. Agbuka. I can say Kiki Irifin. Like, I can do it. I got y'all. I'm doing my best. But one thing I'll say is, of Ohio State, so here's the thing. Typically, typically, typically, typically, if we get if you get invited to the combine, you get drafted.
00:40:06
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Yeah. And so this means that if all of these players get drafted, Ohio State is going to tie the NFL record for most people drafted. And if one extra person gets drafted who is was not invited to the combine, which does happen, they'll break it.
00:40:24
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Period. Like all time? Yes. Period. Ohio State. In one draft. the number I do feel like the reason why I even knew what who or what Ohio State was was like watching football as a kid. And when they do the talking heads, I'm like, how many of these people are going to say the Ohio State? like Did everybody go to Ohio State on this team? It feels like it.
00:40:44
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and so that's that makes perfect sense um number two surprised me but the second team with the second most players only down from Ohio State by one is Texas they have 14 players that are going to be at the combine this year notably obviously Quinn Ewers Matthew Golden Kelvin Banks Jadet Jadet Brown Jadet I can't say these kids names um john jade yes jade i'm very um curious about quinn ewers during the combine i don't know why like he just gave the vibes like he would be like sort like above it like he'd be like no like i'm just gonna let them draft me sort of vibes yeah so the problem with quinn is that a lot of people in the nfl wanted him to come back for another year yeah so which we'll talk about in a second um
00:41:36
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Texas being number two surprises me, but it doesn't surprise me. The reason why it surprised me is, again, and I think maybe I mentioned this, maybe didn't, don't remember. We just watched Michigan. ah two years ago, bring back their seniors and win a championship.
00:41:52
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Just watched Ohio State bring back their season and their seniors and win a championship. The last two years and two different playoff formats, Texas made it to the semifinals. So I thought a lot of these guys would come back for a final year to try to win a championship. And almost all of them left.
00:42:10
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And I was like, that's interesting. Like, people are saying, like, Texas is going to be one of the best teams and they're going to win championship. I'm just like, don't know. I think they lost a lot more than you realize. There was a lot of underclassmen that I think, and that I was surprised didn't try to come back for a championship. For the senior season.
00:42:32
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And we'll, you know, what we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll. Later in the offseason, we'll talk about Texas and we'll talk about teams and and who we think is going to be good next year and things like that. And I'm not saying that they're not going to be good, but they lost a lot of players that I thought may have considered to come back. So, like, I'm surprised because I didn't think all of their underclassmen would go to the draft.
00:42:49
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But then when they go to the draft, Texas did have one of the best rosters in the country, which is why they've been in the semifinals two years in a row. Right. And so, yeah, they're tied for second with Georgia. th Exactly. They are tied with Georgia. Georgia has 14, but seven of the 14 are defenders and six out of the seven are linemen or linebackers. So, I mean, just pumping out defensive players like nobody's business.
00:43:14
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um We saw that in ah the the Super Bowl match. I feel like everybody on the defensive line for, for i'm for eaglegos I don't think I feel like, I i think everybody on the defensive line for the Eagles is from Georgia. You do know I'm going to Google that now.
00:43:29
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and so It's three for sure. It's Jordan Davis. It's ah who's the other defensive tackle? Who's the better one? Oh, my gosh. ah Can't think of his name right now, but he's the better one. He was killing Patrick Mahomes.
00:43:43
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And then the edge rusher, Nolan Smith, is also Georgia. Ah, geez. What is the defensive tackle's name? of ah I'm looking...
00:43:57
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Jalen Carter, stud. So it's ah it's three for sure. It's Jordan Davis, Jalen Carter, and Nolan Smith. But I think there may be a fourth one.
00:44:10
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You know? There may just be a fourth one. i there's i don't see anybody. on the the tip the the The defensive side. Oh, Keely Ringo. No?
00:44:22
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No. He's not on the defensive line, but he is. is on the defensive side, yes. Yeah, he's a, he's a um but go okay. The person that I'm missing is linebacker Nekobe Dean.
00:44:35
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There you go. So they have linebacker N'Kobe Dean, defensive lineman Jordan Davis, defensive lineman Jalen Carter, cornerback Keely Ringo, pass rusher Nolan Smith. And ah the three names that I said at first are on the defensive line. They are the ones that were ah murdering Patrick Mahoney in front of his family and Donald Trump.
00:44:56
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um and then And then the linebreaker as well. ah So yeah, yeah. Georgia does pull out defensive linemen and linebackers. If nobody else does, Georgia will do it. Georgia will do it. oh Oregon is next with 13 players um going to the combine. Lots of offensive players. Their quarterback, Dylan Gabriel, will be going. Tez Johnson, wide receiver.
00:45:22
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um And then a couple of linemen, obviously. um i felt like I felt like Dylan Gabriel had a pretty good enough season. So this is interesting um that he's going to the combine because I feel like he has ah pretty good amount of draft stock, but maybe because Oregon didn't make it very far in the playoffs. I don't know.
00:45:41
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but So yeah, I think that's one of the the misconceptions that you have with the combine. Everyone goes to the combine. That's so interesting because it's like, but if you're going to go and barely do stuff, which I know is not everybody's story, but like. Which that's the problem, but they still go.
00:45:56
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They still go. it's it's been word that It's been newer that certain players haven't like been like, you know, so quarterbacks won't throw or like the Marvin Harrison Jr. thing was very rare, but like 90, if you get invited to the combine, you're going, whether you're going to be pick one or you're going to be pick whatever.
00:46:16
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but but Not the pause. Another pause. but But yeah, most of them go. But now we're starting to see certain people who are afraid to compete like Shador Sanders, not throw. But the other thing with the combine is it's not just the drills.
00:46:31
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It's also the interviews. It's the whole experience. yeah The most important part of the combine is the physicals because that's where teams find out if you're healthy or not and the interviews with the teams.
00:46:41
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ah Most like if the if you know if you have three people, you're like if you're trying to get a corner and you have three of them, you want to interview all three of them. And the interviews a lot of time help determine if you drafted. So they still go for that because you it's essentially their job interview.
00:46:55
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But then they also don't compete like Shador Sanders. Who thinks he's Deion Sanders, but I bet you Deion would have competed. But whatever. Anyways, Ole Miss and South Carolina are tied for fourths with 11 players coming from each team.
00:47:11
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Eight of the 11 players from South Carolina are defensive players. um So South Carolina is also pumping them out, apparently. um I don't have anything to say about any of these people, but shout out to Ole Miss and South Carolina.
00:47:26
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Miami has 10, Cam Ward obviously being one of them. um And eight of them being offensive players. So shout out to Miami.
00:47:38
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And then at the bottom, Bama. Obviously, Bama's going to make this list. Duh. Bama's going to make this list with nine people, most notably Jalen Milrow, obviously, and then Florida with nine people as well.
00:47:50
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But it is notable that Bama's not number one. It is notable that Bama's not number one, which I'm sure is the first time in a while that Bama has not been the top contributor to the combine.
00:48:02
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Yeah, for sure. um So I would just say before we move on, before we end this podcast, this is, you know, off season show. We're not going to do an hour and a half today.
Evaluating the Quarterback Class
00:48:14
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But
00:48:17
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I would like to say that this year's quarterback class is booty cheeks. I'm going to read i'm gonna more it cheese every name that was invited to the combine who are considered the best quarterbacks because they were invited to the combine.
00:48:33
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And anyone, you on this show who has a ah hello was a microphone, but then also anyone else, you can just say out loud. yeah To yourself. may You may think you're crazy if you answer this out loud.
00:48:48
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ah You could say it in your head or you could DM us and tell me if you disagree, but I would like to know and of any of these quarterbacks who people think is good. So here's the list.
00:48:59
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ah Max Brosner, Minnesota. Brady Cook. I'm sorry. That being the first name is crazy. Well, it's alphabetical It's an alphabetical order, I know. Jackson Dart, Mississippi. Quinn Ewers, Texas. Dylan Gabriel, Oregon.
00:49:11
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Seth Hannigan, Memphis. Let me know if you've ever heard that name before. Will Howard, Ohio State. Riley Leonard, who can't throw the ball. Notre Dame. Kyle McCord, who can't throw the ball without throwing it to the other team. Syracuse. right Graham Mertz, who...
00:49:25
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has been injured for like three straight years from Florida. Jalen Milrow, who I don't care what anybody says, is not a quarterback from Alabama. Curtis Rourke from Indiana. Chador Sanders from Colorado. Tyler Shuck.
00:49:37
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And yes, his name is Shuck. Are you looking at this list? I am. Okay. Because you remember when we were talking about African names are pronounced how they're spelled? Yeah, this is. Tell me how that's Shuck.
00:49:49
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That's his name. That's Shuck. I can tell you. But it's Shuck. There's no K. Or C, but it's Chuck. um and then People can pronounce that, but they can't pronounce my first name. That's crazy. And and then Camelwood's from Miami.
00:50:06
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ah ah Straight cheeks. Surely that's not the best we have to offer. That is the best we have to offer. Some of them are going to get drafted in the first round. This corner class sucks.
00:50:18
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It's awful. I know. i will say. Go ahead.
00:50:25
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there are some who ah who are, who have like a little bit of promise. Booty cheeks. It's like the whole, the whole pot is, but it's a whole pot of, but there's some, there's some sparkly bits in there.
00:50:41
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That sounds disgusting. Yeah, the thing that I was about to say, was like, you know what? I'm not going say that on the podcast. I'm going just tell you afterwards. Oh, my God. That's crazy. Now that I'm looking at this full list, though, shout out to Broussard Smith from SMU for getting invited ah as a running one of the running backs. Love that for him.
00:50:58
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I'm so proud. i think he's the only person from SMU. that was invited to the comm one of our d linemen jared harrison hunt also was invited to and elijah elijah roberts yeah they were also invited to look at us all up and through the combine also a mustang a mustang did become a super bowl winner he is a i don't know what he is tight end something for the eagles um who anyways oh my gosh you're asking me to know these people's names i don't know i just started watching college football this year like yeah but you okay what do you want from me like you would like i just when you said it i thought you would know his name well yeah like we celebrated it we were like oh my gosh shout out to this person from smu and i was like wow that's great and then i didn't i don't heard you
00:51:53
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um All right. Well, as we as we wrap up this. Oh, Grant Calcaterra. Calcaterra. Yeah, he's a tight end. Number 81. He's on the team.
00:52:04
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He's three years into his career. Anyway. As we wrap the show with our two-minute warning, our chance to talk about anything that is not college football related and under two minutes.
00:52:19
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And this is our two-minute warning. This is not our two-minute drill. So this is not the longest two minutes. This is an actual two minutes. This is an actual two minutes. i Do you want and want me to be I don't care.
00:52:32
Speaker
Mine is. I always say mine is short and it don't be short, but this one's actually short. So I have been on ah a sports documentary tear. I have been watching all of the sports documentaries. So this week, the sports documentary that I highly, highly recommend is called The Inside Story. If you are a fan of basketball, such as myself, you have probably heard of a TV show called Inside the NBA. It is a show that features Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, and Shaquille O'Neal.
00:52:58
Speaker
It is one of the most iconic television shows, period. But especially when you're talking about sports, they just celebrated 30 years of their existence. And they did a documentary about the show and how the show came about. It's four episodes.
00:53:12
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It's really, really good. You can watch it on like a weekend. But if you're interested in like that show and how it was developed and everybody who was involved and all the hosts and stuff, it was a really good documentary. And it's on Max.
00:53:28
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left Apparently max Max has all the good sports documentaries. So I'll just be working my way through those. I am watching the next documentary that I'll be watching is the one about the Lakers. It's called The Winning Spirit or something like that, but it's on Max as well. And that one will be my next one.
00:53:45
Speaker
Okay. Well, that's funny. We are... on a similar train of things to watch. um i feel like that i did I feel like somehow i have become
Netflix and Original Content
00:54:05
Speaker
Netflix's biggest defender okay ah Okay. there your corporation That's gross. But I contend.
00:54:14
Speaker
And honestly, I don't do this for Netflix. I do this for the people that I'm talking to. I want you to get out your bubble. I want everyone in the world to stop only watching things for nostalgia.
00:54:25
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I think if everyone stopped only watching things for nostalgia, we wouldn't have ah insert movie part four hundred thousand reboots. Yes. 30 years ago. We won't have 17 reboots like literally like there's a new Watson show.
00:54:41
Speaker
Right. And it's literally like it's funny. My wife would just like, so this is House. Like they took Watson from Sherlock Holmes and then made it to where Watson learns all this detective stuff from some Sherlock Holmes, but then goes back to being a doctor. If you don't know the history and the lore or whatever of Sherlock Holmes, Watson was a doctor, not a doctor anymore. Like there's a medical doctor. And then they go and work with Sherlock Holmes and essentially becomes like a pseudo detective.
00:55:07
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So the the spin of this new show is that Watson worked with Sherlock, did all this detective stuff and then goes back into the hospital. And it's essentially house. It's essentially using the detective skills to solve like medical mysteries or some bullshit.
00:55:21
Speaker
And it's just like, maybe it's good. I'm not saying it's not. I can't remember the actor right now, but it's the black actor that's playing Watson. It's like, that's sort of interesting. But it's just like, Please. Could we? Or we could we could just create a new story.
00:55:35
Speaker
Right. And so the the reason why ended up becoming Netflix's Biggest Offender, because i do this as a service to other people. Netflix is one of the only ones that, in my opinion, is actually making original stories, original shows, especially as I've said before and will continue to say.
00:55:53
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if you're willing to watch things with subtitles or oh yeah or English dubbed, you get into some of the Spanish TV shows, you get into some of the French TV shows, you get into some of the other ones.
00:56:03
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you You really can like expand your mind. You know what I'm saying Like it's fine. You could do that. Anyways, this weekend, last week and this weekend, I watched three new things on Netflix. All of them were amazing. So i just want talk about them'm very quickly. One black doves.
00:56:16
Speaker
One of the things that I think Netflix is doing better than most is if you are not going to give me a show with 22 episodes, was please, for the love of God, bring it back. If you're not going to give me a show with 22 episodes in a season, I don't want 12. It just doesn't feel right.
00:56:30
Speaker
It's too long, but not long enough. And so Netflix, they started doing this thing. They're not the only one that does it. i just think they do it the best. But they essentially drop series that are just long movies. It's six episodes and it's start to finish. There's no season two. The whole show is a short series. It's one episode, one episode six, and it's just enough time.
00:56:50
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It's essentially just like a long movie. It's like, it's like the Harry Potter, Harry Potter shit, right? If you put all the Harry Potter, well, no Harry Potter is too long, but like, it's it's just like, it's like a movie that it's like a trilogy, right?
00:57:01
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Right. Yeah. you yeah trilogy it's movies like two hours long it's six hours worth of content that's essentially what they're doing they're giving you that in six episodes start to finish and i think there's a lot of them that are really good especially if you like thrillers uh and the one that i watched is called the black dove it has jeez i'm so not good with people's names but people will know this person which is why i want to say her name um what is this lady's name what is this lady's name
00:57:32
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What is your name? Keira Knightley, for those of you who know people. Keira Knightley, my goodness. I haven't heard that name in a yet in millions of years. Right? It has Keira Knightley in it. And ah so essentially, long story short, she is a spy and her lover, not her husband, her lover gets killed.
00:57:50
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And she said, i want it back in blood. Oh, John Wick. Right now. You are going to, tell but john wick ah John Wick was like, I know who did it and I'm going to kill everybody. She was like, I don't know who did it and I'm going to kill everybody to find out who did it. And then when I find out who did it, I'm killing them too.
00:58:09
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All of them. ah Period. All of them. Period. All of them. All of them. All Tria, y'all. Everybody. and Anybody can get it. And there's some other things in the story. i i don't want to tell you anymore because, then i but it's six episodes. It is excellent.
00:58:22
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Very good. The other thing that I watched is a movie. It's called To Catch a Killer. This is about... Essentially, it's another thriller. a lot of my stuff thriller. Whatever, you'll get over it. It's about this cop who is essentially like a little troubled, you know, a little depressed, a little sad, a little, you know, stress end depression right yeah maybe when they were growing up, maybe a little suicidal.
00:58:42
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And essentially, there's a person who did the largest mass shooting ever, according to this movie. And it's about this cop who is essentially trying to fight her personal demons to get into the head of this serial killer to catch the person.
00:58:56
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Oh! ah really okay And then the last one that I watched is a movie with one of the spouse sprs twins. I'm not going to tell you which one. Dylan.
00:59:07
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Dylan. There you go. That one. um And i want it's it's good. If you like action, it's good. Essentially, he's a former army person and him and his sister get stuck on this bridge where these people are trying to kill people on live TV.
00:59:22
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Oh, great. He said, not my little sister. Oh, phone them grave, not my little sister. i'm I'm killing everybody. I'm killing everybody to get my little sister off this bridge. That is the entire plot. That is the plot.
00:59:33
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And it's hilarious because the whole movie happens on a bridge. That's it. The whole movie's on a bridge. And it's literally him just like, my look I don't know about y'all, but my little sister's going home. Period. Okay.
00:59:45
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But I also thought it was funny because him and his brother don't act that much because why would you act when you made multiple millions of dollars? They act a lot, actually. who They act quite a bit for for, given what they're iconic for.
01:00:00
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Dylan has been in several movies and Cole obviously was on Riverdale for seven years. I've never heard of that show. Cole was on Riverdale for seven years. He played Jughead. If you guys... go speak Coming back to the reboot conversation...
01:00:12
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ah Riverdale is a show that is based on the comics, Archie, on the Archie comics, the iconic comics from the 60s, 70s, 80s, whenever they came out. um Jughead is an iconic character from those comics. Archie?
01:00:25
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Cole plays Jughead. Archie Archer? Archie. Like Archie comics? Like the redhead kid? Nope, don't know what that is. right Oh my god, anyways, yes, they they do be acting is the point, but Dylan does more of like the thriller, indie sort of like vibe movies, yeah.
01:00:42
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Either way, Dylan was like, if Jason Statham can do it, if Keanu Reeves can do it, if if if if if ah Tom Cruise can do it, I can do it.
01:00:53
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Therefore, so can I. Period. It was a good movie. you know That one, not life-changing, but name an action movie that's life-changing.
01:01:02
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That's a period, obviously. But for his sister... run it get it back in blood that's the theme get it back in blood um so yeah you would like to get some things back in blood this week jordan nothing back in blood kindly Currently. Okay. Awesome. If I need to, what I'm saying? You got to do what you got to do.
01:01:23
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um I'm licensed. Anyways. Oh my God. We don't suggest that to anyone. Please don't do that. let them and We're not endorsing getting anything back in blood. i didn't. I'm endorsing you sitting on your couch and pressing play on Netflix and watching other people get it back in blood.
01:01:39
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but This is media. This is entertainment. You don't got watch them do it. All right. Thank y'all so much for listening to Power 2 Podcast because Jordan is losing it.
01:01:52
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out I don't think I'm losing it all. I'm just saying that they're good shows. And it just happened that this week in particular, the show and the two movies that I watched was literally like... Get it back in blood week. It is. All right.
01:02:07
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We'll catch you in there. We'll catch you next week. If you watch the combine, have fun. If you don't, there's three things. Or four, four things for you to watch this week until we're back to entertain you next week.
01:02:18
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We'll see you next week. Thanks for listening.