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I-80 Football Show: The Draft is around the corner + NFL Rule Changes
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We’re back after a brief break just in time to talk about the NFL’s new rule changes + review Bruce Feldman’s Mock Draft.
Recorded: 04/03/2025
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Transcript
Welcome Back & Birthday Celebrations
00:00:02
Speaker
What's good, everybody? Welcome into another episode of LandGrid Podcast Network's I-80 football show. We are back after an extended break. It's probably like two weeks. He wanted to celebrate his and stuff.
00:00:15
Speaker
You know, and as a man, I shouldn't have done that. You know what I mean? Like, as man, I shouldn't have done that. ah ah i was I was drinking green tea shots. so i Be a man.
00:00:29
Speaker
Whiskey milk. and
Drink Prices & Aging Reflections
00:00:33
Speaker
ah for he Green tea shots.
00:00:41
Speaker
Does this man want to enjoy his drink? Because those old dos do taste pretty good. For real, like I was talking to one of my friends about it. I was like, they're the perfect shot because like I can do real shots, but I don't love them.
00:00:53
Speaker
So if you if you can't do real shots or you don't love them, it's the perfect in-between because they do taste good, but they actually still have, like, real alcohol in them. So I'm like, that's one of the few shots you can be like, let's get a shot for everyone involved. And there was, like, five or six of us down there. So it's like, everybody gets a green tea shot. and You'll have to be, like... They're not even expensive for real. At least the last time I had them.
00:01:15
Speaker
No. Especially not in New Orleans. Especially not compared to New York. Oh. i was I was in New Orleans like, ooh. that jack and coke say ten dollars there's a couple restaurants it was like six boy stop playing let's i see now that is where you would get me ten dollars i'll still be like i mean i'm gonna pay for it but but but ten dollars versus 15. you right because if you do the math quick math that's three for 30 instead of two for 30. yeah so you know i'm still not going crazy but there was a couple where like the happy hours where was like six i got uh what did i do i did um
00:01:54
Speaker
I did a tequila and Red Bull and I got two of them and they didn't tell me how much it cost. My bill was $16. That's all I had. was $16. Yeah. I was like, I'm like, the did you charge me for one?
00:02:08
Speaker
I was looking pretty nice down there. Maybe, you know, maybe I got, but no, she charged me for two. It was just $8. I said, all right, damn. I should have got a third one. She's like, not that nice. This is just regular price, bro.
00:02:22
Speaker
I thought I was doing something. i um Yeah, so, you know, I was out because I decided to celebrate my birthday like ah like a like a lame, like a weirdo. I need to look in the mirror and reflect on my manhood. But it's too late. I did it. And now I'm 30. So...
00:02:41
Speaker
so Welcome to the club. My childish. Your knees will hurt
00:02:51
Speaker
hurt. Being 30 is crazy, but it's cool. I like, you know, don't know about you, but I know that for me, everybody was like, you turned 30, you turned 30, you turned 30. I said, I can't wait.
00:03:03
Speaker
Um, Because if the 20s was the best time of my life, that was an awful time. we won't have my Me and somebody got to talk about the rest of this life if that decade was the best. so I just feel like... That's supposed to be the best. we weekend can We can just not, honestly.
00:03:20
Speaker
It's
NFL Rule Changes & Player Safety
00:03:21
Speaker
supposed to go downhill? Nigga, I'm at the bottom. Where else am I going? Are we about to start tunneling? I was about to say, who's doing the digging? You need to do that.
00:03:33
Speaker
oh You don't gotta that. I'm excited for 30. I'm gonna try to celebrate mine this year, too. i don't know what I'm gonna do, but I'm gonna try to celebrate it.
00:03:45
Speaker
I apparently might be going to Philly, but let's let's see. Well, if you go to Philly, I might pull up if I'm invited. That's on the train. I was mixed since like, damn, I am inviting myself to your birthday. High school, let's go who? Like, yeah, i a pull up. Where are we going in Philly? Think about people that peaked in high school.
00:04:03
Speaker
ah I know 30, they're like, why? but Why me? You are invited. You are invited, apparently. I don't know who said that, but but a you know.
00:04:18
Speaker
Oh, all right. All right. Well, we let's, let's, let's talk about something on the show. I guess we have been requested to talk about the tush push. So ah the NFL has um ah officially ruled on their rule changes. I think we talked about some of this a couple months ago, but they're official now they have been voted on.
00:04:42
Speaker
They have, um, agreed to some things. But one thing that they i think they tabled it, i don't think they actually said no. Yeah, ah is people are trying to ban the tish push.
00:04:54
Speaker
I think the funniest thing about them trying to ban the tish push is they're lying. I love that they're like, we need to ban the tush push because of player safety. Shut up. As soon as your player twists the ankle, you be shooting them up with all kinds of drugs. You be letting them out there with concussions, outbroken bones and fingers. Are you talking about, we need to care about player safety?
00:05:17
Speaker
If it was player safety, like if it was truly about player safety, then you would just ban QB sneaks all together.
00:05:27
Speaker
You would just ban QB sneaks all together. Yeah, it's just that one. Yeah. i Also, if we're talking about player safety, for almost the same reason as the tush push, you would ban field goals.
00:05:41
Speaker
oh yeah that's another scrum that's another thing where everyone everyone's in tight and they're pushing against each other and people fall and step on each other people jump like yeah we don't have to lie you're just mad because it's it's successful and not every quarterback fucking benches i mean not uh been to squat 700 pounds and honestly there is a way to stop it. Like, it has been stopped. It's not... It has been stopped.
00:06:08
Speaker
Yeah. But, like... And I do think the dude from Washington had a good idea. You just gotta time it. When he was jumping over, you gotta to just time it. Not everybody can time it like Troy Palomaro, you know? Right.
00:06:21
Speaker
But my thing is, it just, like, it really just doesn't matter. Like, at least in my opinion. Like, I get it. Maybe they think it's unfair, or maybe it's, like, um... it's like, it's like a, a numbers game where they like the Eagles get more chances because they can do that. But my thing is, if it was that successful, they would won the Superbowl the year before and the year before, like it only does so much.
00:06:43
Speaker
And if they don't use it. They don't use it that often. Yeah. They didn't win the Superbowl this year. Cause tush push. I just think that's lame. Like this is the NFL dog. Are you mad about the tush push? You have better things to worry about.
00:06:55
Speaker
Cause if you're a good enough team, You're not giving them a chance to you be used at Tush Push. Honestly. Honestly and truthfully. You need to be worried about keeping your players out of massage parlors because clearly they can't help themselves. Why are we talking about the Tush Push, bro? like My goodness.
00:07:12
Speaker
Yeah, that's crazy. But I don't know. Maybe they'll end up banning it because, as people like to say, the NFL stands for No Fun League, and they'd just be thinking of stupid shit. it's for me it really just doesn't matter i just can't think of a true reason why to get rid of it i don't even like it but there's really no reason to ban it it's just it's a play get good at it you know what i'm like you could be good at it too like i get like you could argue that they have a slight advantage because of how like strong um jaylen is but like
00:07:44
Speaker
and ah And technically, technically, but they never really enforced this rule in the first place. It is against the rules already because you're not allowed to push your teammate from behind.
00:07:56
Speaker
But you see, here's the thing with that. They never going to enforce that rule. That's what i'm saying. they never do Because they would have to look at the momentum rules where offenses, because like, so we honor If we be honest, plays, a lot of plays should be ah called dead a lot earlier than they do, but they let offense push and shove for extra five yards, but you don't, but then you get, ah what's it called? You don't get pushed backwards though.
00:08:21
Speaker
Like if you get pulled backwards, they don't, they don't count that yardage. you get you get way of momentum stop. But if you keep pushing on any play, any kind of huddle or anything, you get all that yardage gain.
00:08:34
Speaker
So they can't they can't talk about that rule because then people will be like, okay, so when my receiver catches the ball over the middle and doesn't go down and they come up and push him, he can't do that. um When my running back gets ah you know and into three people and he's turning his feet, you can't do that.
00:08:52
Speaker
I mean, you could, in a way, see what you're saying. It's just like, if he's turning his feet and no one from his team is pushing him, that's the difference. But they're always helping. That's what saying. Especially around touchdowns, first down.
00:09:05
Speaker
If they change that rule, which it is against the rule, but if they enforce that, there would be so many times that they would have to call that. Yeah. And I mean, if if that's the case, then ah I'm okay with it because then you're just making the NFL stand on their own rules, which like even with like which I'm okay with because if it's a rule, it's a rule. like if says so I said the same thing about targeting. If targeting is a rule, it should be on both sides.
00:09:34
Speaker
But it's not. But it's not. Do you remember they they they did that crown of the helmet thing? And you talk about this all the time. I don't know why, if you remember it. They did the crown of the helmet thing on offense. And the literally the only time I ever remember them calling it is right after they did it, Trent ah trent Richardson, after he got fleeced, the coach got fleeced by the Browns, ran up the middle, lowered his head, boom, they called it.
00:09:55
Speaker
And that is the ah only time I remember calling it. I don't remember it ever being called really again. And it's still a rule. I know it is. And running backs lower their head all the time. All the time. all the Again, if that if you really, truly cared about that and if that was a real rule, Office of Linemen would be getting called for it.
00:10:16
Speaker
They don't care about it, though. They be lying. So, yeah, that's the i don't I just maybe they'll get rid of it, but I don't see any reason why they should. Also, it's not a i't they don't have a good enough reason if the reason is player safety. It's not. Yeah. reason Also, like.
00:10:33
Speaker
Not to spiral, so I don't want to really talk about this, but like they need to be careful tinkering with the game because Adam Silver is ruining basketball. And he keeps adding a rule and changing a rule and taking away a rule to the point where you don't even know it's real or not. I saw a report that he's thinking about instituting a four-point line.
00:10:52
Speaker
I don't know if that was real or not. But the problem is it was a feasible enough. like That's what I'm saying. It was feasible enough that I couldn't tell if it was real or fake. That's a dumbass rule. Like all the change, the end season tournaments and all the changes to the format. And it's so silly because...
00:11:09
Speaker
if you're goingnna If you're talking about interplaining a four-point line, you're not listening to your fans. The problem is is that it's too much offense. And now you're going to give more points.
00:11:24
Speaker
i don't i don't just A five-point play would piss me the fuck off. Like, yeah, what are we doing that for? And it's just like, this is not trick basketball. Like, this is not the Globetrotters. This is not a halftime show. Like, bro, just play basketball.
00:11:38
Speaker
And so it's just like the NFL needs to be mindful with changing dumb rules just because somebody complains about it, because that's where you get where the NBA is. Especially if you just were, what it was it, a couple years ago, you brought back celebrating and everybody was like, there you go. Like,
00:11:55
Speaker
that's what you should be doing because there was no reason to get there to be penalizing people for celebrating like they did and then gronk can spike the ball all the time so it was the celebrating the celebrating is funny though because I'm not anti-celebration.
00:12:13
Speaker
I just love when when the interception happens and you're in zone. And so you run. Run all the way. We like, bro, you can have a commercial break.
00:12:26
Speaker
By the time y'all get down there and actually do the celebration, and then the celebration is always asked because you're tired. He's like, yeah, you just ran 85 yards so you could do a dance in the end zone and take a picture. is everybody That is That is funny. The whole team does it too. The whole defense will run to the other side.
00:12:44
Speaker
If you a fumble, interception, they just run to the end zone. Yeah, and they and immediately they get tackled immediately. They got no yards. Boom, up, and they sprint 95 yards. That's i feel like i feel like just for the sake of time if uh if it's past the 50 you can do it at the 50. okay like you know i'm saying like like stop stop halfway do not yeah you know yeah like like you know like if you close to the end zone you gotta get to the end zone you can't do it but like if it's if you want like the opposite 10
NFL Mock Draft Analysis
00:13:13
Speaker
you don't gotta run 90 yards as soon as you cross the 50 because you shouldn't do it on people's logo you hit like the 45 you can take your picture
00:13:21
Speaker
I'm okay with doing it on the logo. I mean, I'm okay with it too, but people be sensitive and that then you're going start fighting because... Shitting it through the pic. All right, logo. like bring like Bring the Skycam down. like Right there. you know i'm saying like That'd be cool. involved.
00:13:43
Speaker
You're doing all this other stuff. Come on, and stop playing. Throw Spongebob in that bitch. not Nickelodeon, that one. Nickelodeon and Celebrations. Nobody care about the rest of that stuff.
00:13:55
Speaker
Patrick do be talking a little bit of shit.
00:14:00
Speaker
Oh my gosh. okay so the other rule the The things that actually did change. so They moved the touchback to the 35-yard line. Is this punch? or ah It's kickoff.
00:14:12
Speaker
Kickoff? Okay. All right. What's good, everybody? Welcome back from a forced break because somehow technology improves but also gets worse. It's worse? Yup.
00:14:25
Speaker
like I love headphones. They're fire. I can immediately sense the difference on top of the fact that like you can't see the spongy material and things like that. They sound better, the quality is better, they feel better, all of that.
00:14:37
Speaker
The problem is Why can't I just use the headphone jack without them being turned on?
00:14:46
Speaker
Old faithful, you can't. Don't admit episode. Oh, we're talking about the touchback. The fact that you still have beats working when I had my beats for maybe half a year and they stopped working. Like, the one side stopped working.
00:14:58
Speaker
Dante, I got these either, because I don't remember exactly, either freshman or sophomore year of college. Yeah, Same. They don't fully work.
00:15:10
Speaker
The right ear stopped working about six months ago. But that was six months ago. That's crazy. It was six months in. My right ear stopped working. Look, these babies see me through everything. I stopped buying Beats after that. I was like, oh, these suck.
00:15:23
Speaker
For real, I only buy Beats. Well, to be fair, that's not true because I had one pair for 10 years. So it's easy to say, I just don't buy other headphones. I might have these ones for 10 too. Like, I've i've i've had...
00:15:35
Speaker
uh more playstations than i've had beats over the time same but again just te buy because 10 years ago that's what the three four and the five right just about you know yeah in that 10 years span yes you could have three four and five and i and i you know and i had two fours so that's confused i think i've had i think i had two threes so yeah i didn't have two fours but i think i had two three because i had the regular four and then i bought the pro okay okay yeah you know these these babies held me down so i will i will now know that i need to charge my headphones before we start recording again since technology somehow reverses but anyways yeah the the touchback moved to 35 because they were like
00:16:18
Speaker
and which I feel like everyone knew this. moving from the With the statistics of how hard it is to score technically, moving the kickoff from the 25, like the touchback on the kickoff from the 25 to the 30, wasn't as punitive as they thought.
00:16:33
Speaker
So people just weren't returning kicks. yeah so now it's to the 35 that's 10 yards that's one big play away from being in the red zone that's a at least they're hoping that it's more punitive and so that there would be more but kick returns i mean i don't know
00:16:53
Speaker
i if i don't if i get pushed up another five yards i probably won't return kicks but they said they wanted the thing is is that they say the kickoff was a dangerous Was it dangerous? Well, supposedly it's less dangerous because they removed the the lead time.
00:17:11
Speaker
Because they're all right in front of each other now. They're five yards apart. So supposedly it's less dangerous because you're not running 40 yards. ah It makes, i don't know. ah Maybe i'm the thing with I'm confused about it.
00:17:22
Speaker
So what it is is like, if like. Because it's just better field position. Right. But that's what that's what they're saying. so so how am i so how are you they going to get more kickoff kick returns if it's better field position
00:17:40
Speaker
am i saying this wrong that's a good question hold on because again if if it's if if i kick though if i take a touch back i'm going to kick off in the balls oh oh oh no no sorry sorry i am saying it wrong okay
00:17:56
Speaker
So what was happening is the touchback is a penalty for the defense, not a penalty, but it's a penalty for the defense. So like if you kicked the ball into the end zone and they didn't return it, they got the ball to 25.
00:18:09
Speaker
So then they moved it to the 30, but defenses were still like, that doesn't matter. So now it's going to the 35. So it is better field position for the offense. And what they're saying is they don't want kickers to kick the ball through the end zone no more.
00:18:23
Speaker
They want kickers to the ball. But you still move the kickoff up. These pickers are strong. Not the kickoff, where the offense gets the ball. Yeah, no, but I'm saying this is like where kickers kick the ball from was still moved up.
00:18:37
Speaker
Yes. So, again, you're you're asking them not to kick as strong, even though they're stronger now. And they're like, I mean, so, again. So, they're basically just saying to finesse it.
00:18:51
Speaker
Wow. Which I do agree that the kickoff should also have been moved back. Yeah, because it didn't give me a chance to actually kick, so they have to take the ball off. Because if I'm kicking from the thirty five forty yard line, I forgot where they kick from. Some are stupid, but yeah. Yeah, that ball's going through the uprights.
00:19:07
Speaker
Yeah, so, but like, they don't like that. That's how i think it's that way. If you're going to move it up to the 34 yard line, if I kick a field goal, give me my two points. Hey, that's arena football, ain't it? Something like that, yep.
00:19:18
Speaker
Yeah. But yeah so yeah, so they're saying that the kicking team has to kick the ball in the field of play so there's a return. If there's not a return, then the offense gets the ball at the 35-yard line.
00:19:33
Speaker
it ah I'm kicking from the 40-yard line. I can't help but to kick it through the end zone. Yeah. And then even if I don't, as a returner, I'm not taking it out.
00:19:45
Speaker
We get the ball almost at the 40. But there's a but there's a there's a a penalty for the offense if they don't return it. under force of returns when they just couldn't put it back to where it was.
00:19:57
Speaker
Yeah, like, I don't remember what the penalty is, but, like, if the ball lands in the... They're making this complicated. Oh, I think what it is, so if the ball lands in the field of play and you don't return it, you get the ball at that spot.
00:20:08
Speaker
So, like, if you catch it on the three and you don't return it, the offense starts at have to return it because I'm not in the end zone, so I can't even do a touchback. Well, the old rules you could, remember? Or is that only college where wave it off?
00:20:21
Speaker
Because college, you don't have to be in the end zone. You can wave it off and it's automatically a touchdown. Yeah, I think that's college. you And and if so if I get the ball, if I receive the ball at the three, I have to return because I can't go back.
00:20:35
Speaker
Into the end zone. The reason why they do this when they're in the end zone is just to let everybody know that ball is way behind me. I'm not doing nothing. So that's the thing, right? So that's the thing. the offices If it's not in the end zone, the offense has to return it no matter what.
00:20:48
Speaker
So they're saying don't kick the ball in the end zone. If you kick the ball on the end zone, the offense is getting the ball the 35.
00:20:57
Speaker
I mean, they just made it they made it difficult for no reason. They made the kicker's job harder when it was just like all you had to do was move us back to where we were kicking the ball from um before. And you could still have that where they're like right in front of each other. Just move me back.
00:21:11
Speaker
Right. because it Because ultimately it doesn't really matter where the kicker is as long as the ball goes to the right spot. So the kicker didn't need to be moved up. Yeah.
00:21:23
Speaker
Okay. So what else did they do? they um They added replay assist, which we talked about. So now there is a quick replay. I don't think you can like, I don't know if it works with challenging. I think it just replay assist, but essentially on egregious no calls or call egregious,
00:21:41
Speaker
calls that people aren't sure if they're right, such as hitting a defensive player, face mask, horse collar, tripping, running into, and roughing the kicker.
00:21:53
Speaker
Those will be reviewed by replay assist. And if it's deemed that that didn't happen, they can remove the penalty. Is there something like the Saints thing? That's like what happened to the Saints when they got screwed over a few years ago in the playoffs? if that Is that something they're going to address?
00:22:09
Speaker
So if refs just mess up, they mess up. So wait, wait, wait. Like if they miss i mean they if they miss a call. Yes. that like That's the second thing on the bullet point. They still cannot add ah a flag on replay.
00:22:22
Speaker
They can take a flag off, but they cannot add a flag on the- Oh, you're still, they still not getting, they're still not getting it. They're still not getting it. think Yeah. So this is a step, but yeah. Does that happen to happen twice to that team? Probably, yeah. Two years in a row, something like that? Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:39
Speaker
So you cannot add. Well, so honestly, you know, I think part of the reason they, they won't add, do you know how often they would have to add, they would have to call holding?
00:22:50
Speaker
Because we know that holding it happens every play. So like if you're so like let's just say you're looking at roughing the passer, right? Almost every time you look at roughing the passer, you watch the film and you're like, that's a hold.
00:23:02
Speaker
So if they did it, they would be calling hold. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just saying I think that's a while. That I'm okay with because I think most teams and coaches and stuff like that, they understand that holding happens on every play. And they're okay when it's not getting called.
00:23:18
Speaker
But if you call me for roughing the passer and it's blatantly obvious that you're ah your offensive tackle pretty much put me into position to rough the quarterback, yes, throw the flag the other way.
00:23:31
Speaker
I'm not mad at that. then I don't think they're ever going to do it, but I'm not mad at that. yeah Because if anything, because again, my thing is, especially when you call a rough in the passer, because I bend that corner, but I had to bend extra hard because you're pulling me like this, and I end up hitting your quarterback's ankles, which is a rough in the passer. Yeah, call that holding call.
00:23:53
Speaker
Because I would have never done that. I would have him legally if he didn't do what he did. Yep. So that I'm okay with. Yeah, but they're not going to do it. I also... So... um You can't add a call. Can you flip a call? So, like, if they call a pass interference and they replay assisted and it was actually offensive pass interference, can they flip it?
00:24:16
Speaker
I think that's adding a call. Ah, okay. Also, hold on. Let me make sure I'm reading this right because I don't remember them saying pass interference. What? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:24:29
Speaker
Don't they already have replay assists for pass interference? I don't think so. Are you sure? ah So hold on, the the committee's proposal to add responsibilities to its replay assist.
00:24:41
Speaker
I think there's already replay assist for past year. Wow, they haven't used it. I think that's the first thing that they did. Now got to Google it. i have to pay Maybe I'm not paying attention, but i don't think it's been used at all. I think they have it. I just think they almost never overturn it, and it just makes people mad.
00:24:58
Speaker
Oh, you might be right, because then it's like, what was the point of this? I do remember that now. Because it's like, that's not pass interference, and they still don't overturn it. This this league is just chef's kiss.
00:25:11
Speaker
Yeah, don't know. I don't remember. But this is not... and With the way the baseball tried to promote their game not too long ago with that one video, Mike got a fan in me again.
00:25:28
Speaker
Maybe you can't. It just says, we're roughing the passer, late hit out of bounds, and intentional grounding for 2024. Oh, So maybe they don't.
00:25:39
Speaker
Yeah. ah I mean, at this point, I'm welcome to be wrong, but it looks like pass interference is not included in this. So it's defensive. it's So defenseless player, face mask, horse collar, tripping, running into and roughing the kicker on top of what was there last year, which is roughing the passer. I think I already said that.
00:25:58
Speaker
Late hit out of bounds and intentional grounding. So basically everything but holding and imp passing interference. The big ones, do you know, the the important ones. The ones that have real, real implications on the game.
00:26:11
Speaker
yeah Especially when, you know, in the NFL, passing interference is a spot file, which is still the stupidest thing ever. Like that is one of the few things that colleges have, right? Passing interference is not a spot file.
00:26:22
Speaker
And I don't even think you literally should not be able to to to like be like, all right, man, it's third and 20. Let's just throw it deep hope they foul us. Because cause even if, right, like, even if I don't foul, who's to say he catches that ball?
00:26:37
Speaker
Who's to say he catches that ball for real? If we're talking about it, that's the other thing that they don't call. They don't do the uncatchable pass. You're right. Because a lot of times that happens. That's a rule. And it's like, dog.
00:26:50
Speaker
yeah LeBron couldn't catch that. Giannis. That's an effusion. Wimby couldn't catch that. Literally. Yeah. ah They so what we don't know what they're doing.
00:27:03
Speaker
They're making rules more complicated and more vague. And that was the problem in the first place is that they were too vague. Yeah. All right. Let's let's finish this up. So they and then the last thing that they. Oh, so both teams get possession and overtime in the regular season.
00:27:19
Speaker
Right. That was so they changed that again. So what happened was they only changed it in the postseason. This is some crybaby. I'm sorry. yeah it's just so Because I really don't think you need this in the regular season.
00:27:33
Speaker
so But I don't remember what game it was. There was a really good game that everybody was watching. And then the team scored. And they were like, why is the game over? and Because the game is over. It's not the playoffs and this is not college.
00:27:48
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Yeah. so you don't get if that's um that's why i think That's why I feel like that rule makes sense for pros. Because it's ah it's a distinction from school to professional. I think it was the Eagles chiefs.
00:28:00
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Cause the Eagles, the Eagles are the ones that, um, or maybe it was the Eagles bills. i don't remember. It was Eagles somebody. Cause the Eagles are the ones that, um, brought forth the proposal, which like, y'all won the Superbowl brush shut up.
00:28:12
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Like you need an extra win. And that's how I look at it. Cause again, I look at it like this, like it's a distinction between professional and what they like to call, uh, amateur with, with college and, and whatever.
00:28:25
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not You don't get a chance. You should have never went in overtime to begin with. Yeah. Win the game. fourth game Or stop them. Yes. how ah Do your job. Do your job. If they score on their first possession, oh, well, let's go home.
00:28:38
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Especially because it's only a touchdown. you Don't let them get a touchdown. you Right. And the crazy part about it is is that you talk about player safety, and here you go making games longer. Dante.
00:28:51
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Dante. You're not allowed to be smart when you talk about NFL rules. You're right. Cut it out. Stop. We're trying to be famous. I want to be up there lying on TV like Stephen A. Smith. If LeBron hit me...
00:29:05
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Hey, if all I got to do is get a player to hate me, hold up. Let me pick one. um so i so I'm sorry to your friend, but if Jalen Hurts hit me, I'm a swing on him.
00:29:16
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Is that going to get me famous? I'll smack the shit out. itwa It's funny and because i get I get why people think he was lying, but he was saying at the same time,
00:29:27
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i might I kind of believe him cause joking because here's my thing, right? Just because LeBron's bigger means absolutely nothing to a lot of people. Yeah. To a lot of people.
00:29:38
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He's a liar. he' he he But he did say he would have got his ass kicked. He did admit to that too First of all, first of all, first of all, you can't tell me that when you were standing next to him. Like, yes, sir. Yes, sir, LeBron.
00:29:51
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Yes, sir. I do i do apologize. that was that was ah That was a real submissive-ass fucking stance. He didn't get bucked until it was behind a camera. You can't tell me you was going to swing him when you were sitting there with your head down like he was sending you to the principal's office. Again, again, I'm not even surprised that Stephen A.D.
00:30:07
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is a idiot. i It's Stephen A. Smith, man. We've been watching him do this, what, 20 years now? Maybe even more? I'm just saying, if that's all it takes, if that's all it takes, I will smack Miles Garrett right now.
00:30:23
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Especially since you a lying piece of shit. Like, if all we got to do is lie, want Miles to see me. Come on, Miles. Especially, yeah, you lying second. I'm here to win championships. Wait, huh? How much guaranteed?
00:30:38
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All right. All right. Never mind. I've never won a championship a day in life. Carmelo Carmelo's in the Hall of Fame. He was right. He was right. Carmelo is in the Hall of Fame. First ballot.
00:30:50
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Yeah. Which is congratulations. Right. Congratulations to him. It's almost just like, i don't want to get in this conversation because we're here forever, but it's hilarious when you see someone like Melo get ah in the Hall of Fame first ballot, and then you see some of the other first ballots, and you're like, uh...
00:31:05
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again i know i don't know if sammy's here or not but tracy mcgrady you know i shouldn't have brought this up nope dante i'm not gonna let you finish we're gonna be here for three hours you start talking about i could i could tell you i could give you reasons why like carmelo being the first ballot makes perfect sense three three time gold medalist but that's what i'm saying carmelo was the yeah but also you could argue that Carmelo is roughly the worst career you could have to be first ballot. yeah because some of it Because some of it's coming from the the college championship and the Olympics.
00:31:43
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Like if we're talking about MVPs, scoring titles, championships. mean, he has a couple, he has, I think four scoring titles. Yeah. Does it? Yes. But he doesn't have like, like we're talking about some of the other things. It's like, right yeah like if you're, if you're looking at his NFL, and if you're looking at his NBA resume, which I know the basketball hall of fame does. If you look at his and NBA resume, you could argue that he is like the baseline.
00:32:06
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Mm-hmm. Because then you go over him, you get D-Wade, who has some of that stuff within championships, and you go all the way up to Kobe LeBron. instead of like Like Carmelo, and I want to be mindful of this before people think that I'm saying he's a bad player. I love Melo.
00:32:18
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Carmelo is near the worst career you should be able to have to be first ballot. Mm-hmm. like should be the baseline he should be the but instead people because like he is absolutely first ballot but like he should be the cutoff like someone like him should be the cutoff yep because i could look at some first ballots and compare particular mellow but much better that's why i get very confused as to why people will be like they're not sure if dwight howard should be a first ballot what are we talking about what are we talking about ah
00:32:53
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If y'all think D. Rose should be one, why shouldn't he be one? Please stop talking to me. I will not comment on D. Rose. um The last thing that they're doing, which we already knew that they were going to do, but let's see if it works because I don't believe it's going to.
00:33:05
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um They're doing the Hawkeye technology to measure first outs. So the the chain crew will still be on there in case the technology doesn't work or for like certain things, but it'll technically...
00:33:17
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be chipping the ball. That's how they're measuring first downs. um And then the last piece of news, we've talked a little bit about GMs in college football and how Andrew Luck is the GM at Stanford, but he is one of the few GMs, if not the only, who the head coach reports to him.
00:33:38
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Most, because of just the power structure of college football, most general managers report to the head coach at Stanford. because Andrew Luck is a legend. um he The coach reports to him. there was some um There was some scandal about how the coach was treating women and talking to women and doing things in the program.
00:34:01
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And as every program seems to do, They did nothing and until it got to ESPN. And then they fired him. Because we knew about this last year, and then they kept him, and then Andrew Luck got hired, and he said he was still going to keep him, and then it went to ESPN, and now dudes should be fired.
00:34:17
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And to be clear, I'm on fire than the first time. Yeah. Not don't fire him. Like I'm all like, like it's the same thing that happened with um Northwestern.
00:34:28
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You should have fired him as soon as you found out that his team was, you know, sexy harassing players in the locker room to haze them. Not after the media found out. So or try to ah or try to like hush the ah the report, your school report. Cause it wasn't like it was like ESPN was doing the reporting or anything.
00:34:46
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It was a so news reporter on your own school. You tried to hush that. Literally, like a freaking 20-year-old. But ah yeah, so he got fired, and um Andrew Luck hired Frank Wright, ah former coach head coach.
00:35:00
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I don't know if he's the full-time coach, because they were talking about doing like a little holdover thing because of how late it was. Yeah. So I guess we'll see. Hold Orange win. What are we talking about? Next season.
00:35:11
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Oh, okay. because like ah Because basically, like, no. So they're going to see how he does and then they'll get him to the job or not? That's what I'm saying. I don't know anymore because Frank Reich has a name.
00:35:22
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But what they were initially saying is because no coach worth his salt is leaving his job right now. So they were maybe like, it was just going to be like a long-term interim. Like, you know, if you get fired in August, you're an interim through December.
00:35:35
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It was essentially going to be an interim from March to December. And then they would do a full coaching search. But because of who Frank Reich is, I don't know if this is a favor to Andrew or if it's his job. Like, that wasn't clear.
00:35:47
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But initially, they were essentially going to do, like, a nine-month interim sort of thing and then try to hire a coach when the cycle starts again because no good coach. And why, as a player, would I go to Stanford knowing that?
00:36:03
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Uh, exactly.
00:36:06
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Why would I go there? We've already took our forced break, so we'll just move into our road trip segment. This is supposed to be our longer segment on the show, and we spent 30 minutes on the news, so I think this might actually end up being our shorter segment.
00:36:25
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Hang on, let me lock it in. um Yeah, it is what it is. We are going to go through, ah because the NFL draft is this month, somehow it is already April. The NFL draft is on April.
00:36:48
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it would be nice if I did research ahead of time. April 24th through the 26th. we're about three weeks away. Okay. But it is still before Easter and stuff like that. So we're going to go on. It's after Easter.
00:37:03
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When is Easter? You said the 20th? 420? Oh, I did know that. Okay. So it's after Easter. April 24th through the 26th. That makes sense, actually.
00:37:14
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Yeah. This is one of the... ah This is one of the, like, Friday? Thursday? Thursday. It always starts on Thursday, yeah. Yeah, Thursday through Sunday. Saturday. Saturday?
00:37:25
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No, it's three days. Saturday. Three days? Okay, so those last those last four rounds are all on Saturday. Saturday, yep. Yeah. Good heavens. It's a long-ass day. People really be watching. They're like, I don't care about no six-round pick. like I usually have it up in the background and only pay attention when, they like, the Steelers pop up.
00:37:41
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And I go, all right, well, who do we pick? All right, cool. And then I stop paying the attention. i don't even do that. I just have a tracker up and like notifications on when the coach draft.
00:37:52
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I will have both. The notification still does come to my ah
00:37:58
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phone. let me read this. We are. Well, yeah, we are. um I'm going to go through this mock draft because it's three weeks away. So this is essentially not like the final final, but this guy, Dan Brugler from the athletic.
00:38:14
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Sorry. This is Bruce Feldman. Oh, I don't want to read his. He's not. It's not even let me read it, so I'm going to try it again. It's fine. It dropped today, so we'll still talk about it. But this is Bruce Feldman, who is a college reporter, and he's doing a mock draft based on intel he's gathered from speaking to dozens of college coaches and NFL sources during the past two months.
00:38:36
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um What did Kane Ward show us that he deserves to be? you know what? Never mind. umm Yeah, so um essentially this is his take on it based on his talking to coaches and things like that.
00:38:49
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He's a college guy, not an NFL guy, so maybe that affects some things, but it doesn't matter. um We're to talk about it. And to intro what you were about to say, first pick, Tennessee Titans, Cam Ward, QB from Miami.
00:39:03
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i I don't – okay. i I don't know. I don't – because
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00:39:08
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he –
00:39:11
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I mean, he had, it wow, 39 touchdowns against seven interceptions. That's actually personally on his own.
00:39:21
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And Kane's three losses this year. They only lost three games. He threw eight touchdowns and zero picks. Okay, so maybe I'm over overdoing it. I mean, personally, that's pretty decent.
00:39:33
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The team just didn't have that much success. Yeah, I just think that for the games that they say he won, he also lost them those games. And I just, I don't know. I don't know because it says in the three losses, he threw eight touchdowns and zero picks.
00:39:51
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Yeah, but I watched the games. Fair enough. He lost those games. like I understand the stats. He lost those games. The crazy thing is, though, he did win the games where he threw like three picks.
00:40:02
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like Those seven picks came in bunches, and they and then they would still somehow win those games. But like I watched the games where they lost. It was largely his fault. um and And the thing with the picks is, like, it doesn't count fumbles.
00:40:15
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For some reason, they never count quarterback fumbles. I don't know why. He fumbles the ball all the time. Like, that is his biggest, like, issue. And he was better at it at Miami than other places, but he fumbles a lot because of how he holds the ball and things like that.
00:40:28
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But at the end of the day, he's a quarterback, and a quarterback has to go first almost always in this draft because the NFL loves to be bad at drafting. So, Kim Ward. If anything, the Titans need Abdul Carter more than the Browns do.
00:40:42
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You know, but here we go. Second pick, Cleveland Browns, Abdul Carter. Doesn't he play the same side as Myles Garrett?
00:40:54
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ah I know Myles can move. so I get that, but I think he's primarily defense left side. Offense right side.
00:41:08
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No. No. Okay, I don't know. I think he moves. I do know that lot of... Of course they're going to move the rookie. Right. but no No, no, no. I'm not saying that. I'm saying even in Kajak moves.
00:41:21
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In Kajak, I think he moves because I remember when he went against Ohio State, he did a lot of reps against the offensive left tackle. So he would have been on the defense's right. um I mean, I look at this.
00:41:33
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See, if this was true, if they were to do this, you sign Miles Garrett to his contract, he gets his money, trade um yeah see honestly i thought like i i think abdul carter is a good enough pick for this but i thought the rumors with abdul carter is because they thought they were going to trade miles garrett so i guess i think they still should i still think they should you you you you gave him you gave him a contract which he was willing to sign it's pretty much a sign trade i was late much late i would trade this pick
00:42:06
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Trade back to like 10 or something? Yeah. The Browns are pretty butt cheeks, and they shouldn't be. In all honesty, they really shouldn't be. What they need? It depends on what they need. don't know what they need on their team. Quarterback.
00:42:18
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Well, yeah, outside of that. I think they need they definitely need DB help. Oh, yeah, DB. if if If it's DB, I would go to 10. If it's not DB, if it's like offensive tackle or something like that, I would trade down to like six, something like that. Yeah, five, six.
00:42:33
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And you get that, and then you keep Miles, or you trade him, keep this pick, and then you have a another. You get another first round pick somehow. Yeah, you could probably get a first this year. I think if I were trading miles, would do first this year, first next year, and a third, especially a third that turns into a conditional second because he's under contract.
00:42:54
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Yep. Like maybe you couldn't have gotten those three picks, but now that he's under contract and it just started, yeah, give me two firsts and a third. That's a conditional based on if he wins defensive player of the year again or something. Like if he has like 12 sacks. You can't put it at 10 because he's walking 10 sacks, but like 12 sacks.
00:43:12
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um Is I mean, he is, but it it take him a minute. it he gets It'd be like week 9, 10 when he gets those 10 seconds.
00:43:23
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It takes him a minute. Yeah, but if you're going to do 10, you might just give a second. You got to do something. like He may not get to 12. If he gets injured, he may not get to 12 or something like that.
00:43:34
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You can't put it at 10. That's true. Or make it like a certain amount of games or something like that. Because he does get injured. That is true. so So third pick, New York Giants, Shador Sanders. Boo.
00:43:47
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But they just... Got Russ and Jameis? Yeah. I guess he'll learn out of those two for the year. Because that's good. right.
00:43:59
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guess. Yeah. Okay, that is that is the most Holy Ghost revival quarterback room ever. But in just like such a different way. Yeah. It's hilarious. There's a there's a lot.
00:44:13
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that is that There's a lot of egos in there. and it and And it's funny that a lot of people wouldn't even recognize how many that there are three huge egos in there. But there's three huge egos if they were to pick up Shadou.
00:44:25
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Yeah. Because James Wilson has an ego. It's a modest, it's it's the most modest ego out of the three. Right. But it's, it's an ego. And Russell Wilson has a huge ego too, whether people like to admit he does anymore or not, because he had the one year with the Steelers and he seemed to be, may be more humble, but he's not, ah he's not. So I'd have the ego if I bag Sierra too.
00:44:49
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Number four, new England Patriots, Travis Hunter, quarterback, wide receiver. Cool. Cool. I still don't think he should play both sides of the ball, but we'll see. And it's funny because the Patriots need legit need both.
00:45:04
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Right. My thing is, I don't think he should want to go to the Patriots because I don't think that coach is letting him play both sides of the ball. Vrabel's not doing that. I'm sorry.
00:45:16
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i'm not like If I was any coach, I'm not letting him play. Vrabel is not. Yeah, but if I was any coach, the only coach I could see letting that happen is Mike Tomlin.
00:45:28
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Or ah like Mike McDaniel. True. Something like one of them. shannongar something like that But Vrabel's not doing that. I wouldn't want to go there. And it's only sparingly. Legit sparingly. You're probably going to play receiverly.
00:45:42
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You're a better receiver. I disagree with that. Yeah, I disagree with that. I don't think better receiver. I don't think he's getting off the press in the NFL, personally.
00:45:55
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how many How often do defenses press for real? I don't know, but I'd press his little ass, but i mean I don't know. I think he's a better... i think i think he's I think if you're talking about star potential, number four pick, I think he's a better DB.
00:46:10
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But honestly, I don't think he's a good enough DB or wide receiver to be the fourth pick. So it's crazy because you're drafting him four because he can do both, but then you're not going to let him do both. So it's kind of, I wouldn't draft him this high, if that makes sense.
00:46:23
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Yeah, I wouldn't. Am I crazy for that? i I don't think he's that good. Because again, we didn't see him. And I know we don't see a lot of receivers or players playing without anybody else. But
00:46:39
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I'll say this. I know he may he made Shador look better than Shador made him look better. I would agree with that. Yeah. So wow the that in that like while I agree with you, both of these players shouldn't be drafted this high.
00:46:55
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I think that's where I would land. ah Number five, Jacksonville Jaguars, Mason Graham, defensive tackle, Michigan.
00:47:04
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I mean, they need they need help everywhere. Yeah. um' I mean, I like him. I think I like him more than you, but I don't like him as much as they do. Yeah. um Whatever. ah Las Vegas Raiders, Jalen Walker, Edge, Georgia. I don't like this pick at all.
00:47:19
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I think, and I know... I know we're going do the revisionist history because after 17 years, they all played well for the Eagles. But Georgia defensive players don't play well, especially on the defensive line, but especially the thing that they're going to do again, which is draft someone who doesn't have sacks.
00:47:39
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He's an edge rusher and he doesn't have any sacks. Which happens all the time with Georgia. there's again, if there's, there's like, what, isn't there like two Ohio state edge rushers? There's another Penn state edge rusher.
00:47:55
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Yeah. Uh, no, that's he's a D tackle too from Michigan, but, um,
00:48:02
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I don't know. yes And that's the thing, like, sure. you could You could say, like, he's a better athlete. He's this. He's that. But if I i think if i could get Jack Sawyer the second round, I would prefer that.
00:48:16
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Because that's – you remember Trayvon Walker, I think his name? I promise you the Steelers pick him up before he gets to the second round. We love ourselves some of the Ohio State defensive players. Look. But we can't get what we need.
00:48:29
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Yeah. Yeah, you remember the dude I'm talking about? I don't remember his name, but he, Georgia, he went number one pick to the Jacksonville Jaguars, and he sucks.
00:48:39
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But he's either way, it's another guy who's, like, big as hell, and they're like, oh, I love him. He's going to be so good, and then he wasn't good. And three years... Anything possible, but... And three, again, this is a top five, six pick, and three years, he had...
00:48:55
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um
00:48:58
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12 and a half sacks and 19 tackles for loss. And three, four, has he started all three years or did he just start his first time last year? I don't know about, I don't know about starting, but he played 15, 14 and 14. Oh, that, I have to dig deep into those, like how many snaps and minutes, but.
00:49:19
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He had two sacks against Alabama. Who cares? Alabama wasn't even that good. Why we putting that in the paragraph? Alabama's offensive line was bad, too. yeah and And then he has...
00:49:29
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he has Yeah. Whatever. Okay. Who's next? Seven New York Jets. Armand Membu, offensive line Missouri. I don't have a single thing to say about him.
00:49:42
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I don't know if he would be the first tackle that I'm taking, but I'm not going to step outside. I promise you it's going to be somebody from Penn State if I was doing that. I don't think Penn State has a good one this year, but...
00:49:55
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Northwestern does. They always got an office alignment. I'm just, I, you know, I may, if he is that good, he's that good. I wouldn't know. i want to go. Maybe he probably could be the best office alignment in the SEC.
00:50:08
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And I just wouldn't know.
00:50:14
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Yeah. Yeah. Uh,
00:50:18
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I guess. Another guy, the next the next guy, Michael Williams, edge Georgia, number eight to the Carolina Panthers. Another Georgia guy with no sacks.
00:50:30
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um He had 14 sacks and 23 tackles for loss in three years. He also played 15, 13, 12 games. um i did My thing is just like, that's cool.
00:50:41
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And I know you're betting on trades. That's what the NFL does. But again, i would draft someone else and then I would get Jackson. Like you have the eight pick, right? So I would get Jackson, JT to him allow one of those guys in the second round, maybe even trade up to get the second or third pick in the second round versus drafting this guy.
00:51:00
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But he nobody learns their lesson with Georgia defensive players, and especially after the Super Bowl, where the first time ever they all played well, um they're all in. Number nine, New Orleans Saints, Will Campbell, offensive tackle, LSU.
00:51:13
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This is the tackle I would take first. I was about to say, and they need offensive line help, too. Yep. Number 10, Chicago Bears, Aston Gentile, running back. I mean, that'll help. i don't I think they need offensive line more than a running back, but that's fine. And it's the same thing. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. would pick offensive line and then get – but it's like I'd pick offensive line and then I would get one of the two Ohio State running backs in the second round.
00:51:38
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Or I would get um ah put one of Penn State's running backs. There are other running backs. I was going to say, date like
00:51:47
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he probably is the best running back. Yeah, and I love him. I get how good he is, but like, they have... see what they're doing because they they're trying to help, what's his name, have weapons around him.
00:52:00
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But he doesn't need weapons. He needs offensive line. But again, if I'm not going to get offensive line help, they're probably going to... But it's pick 10. You could get line help. I know, I know.
00:52:11
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you it's just I guess it's just like, you know what, here's your dub down. He'll definitely get you yards. As long as you actually use the dump down. That's the other problem there, too, is that will he even use it?
00:52:26
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Yeah, I don't like that one. San Francisco 49ers, 11. Jaday Garrett, cornerback, Texas. Yeah, need they need DB help. They need a lot of help, actually.
00:52:38
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Yeah, Dallas Cowboys, number 12. Omari and Hampton, running back, North Carolina.
00:52:46
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again I couldn't tell you a single thing that the Cowboys need. I'm pretty sure that's not top, but it's, it's up there. They do need running. They they don't have a running back.
00:52:56
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Okay. Yeah. But they also need a second receiver. they yeah They need DBs and they need a couple linebackers. They need help. I like this more for them than the Bears, but also Travion Henderson.
00:53:09
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like there are good like This is a super deep running back class, and I just feel like this is one of the new... They probably won't do another Ohio State. Knowing Jerry, they probably won't do another Ohio State running back. I keep saying them because they're the names that I remember, but there are other ones from other schools that ah are going to be up there in the second round as well. it's just They're the names at the front of mind.
00:53:29
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13 Miami Dolphins, Will Johnson, quarterback, Michigan. 13 is better than where they were projecting him before. I don't love him, but... I like i like it for them. I like it for them.
00:53:42
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I'm not going to lie. But does he do they play zone? He's a zone corner. like um I haven't watched Miami that intensely. to And they said he drove comparison to Patrick Sertan II. That's a lie.
00:53:57
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Patrick plays man. Yeah. it's a And it's like bump man. Yeah. Like, like, like leave him on. Okay. Jam man. Yeah. Sure. 14 Indianapolis coach Tyler Warren.
00:54:09
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hey You need somebody. You need a safety safety blanket. Y'all do need a safety blanket. I'm not. I like this. I like this for y'all. Here's the thing. Up until free agency, I hated the pick.
00:54:21
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But since they got good players on defense, I'm fine with it. I still think a tight end is whatever um when we have other holes, including the fact that they let two of our better offensive linemen go.
00:54:34
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But because of what they did on defense, new coordinator, they got a good safety. They got a good corner. We had some young players and some things. I'm okay. And I'll say Tyler Warren's a a good blocking tight end. He's a double. can do both, which is very rare.
00:54:51
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Yeah. because Basically because of what they did in free agency, I'm fine with this. So whatever. Atlanta Falcons, number 15, Jihad Campbell, linebacker, Alabama. good He's a good linebacker. He is.
00:55:04
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yeah that Atlanta needs it too. Atlanta needs a lot. Oh, yeah. He's an off-ball linebacker. I've been forgetting. I was like, I don't remember him. But, yeah, he's an off-ball linebacker. He's really good. 117 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss, five sacks.
00:55:17
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Number 16, Arizona Cardinals, Derek Harmon, defensive tackle, Oregon. I'm a big fan of him. I like him. And they need him. They would need it. They need that help. That would make sense. That makes sense.
00:55:27
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Yep, 17 Cincinnati Bengals, Mike Green, Edge, Marshall. and don't get if they If they are actually trading, what's the name? Yeah. Yeah, and he had – and that's this is the thing, right? So in 2024, I get it you're going to say it's Marshall, but in 2024, this dude had 17 sacks and 22.5 tackles for loss, and you're picking him third to two players who in their career barely had more stats than this.
00:55:55
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Yep.
00:55:58
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I'm sorry. I'm production. I want production. And it's not like he's little. He's 6'3", 250. So you can say it's at Marshall. But my thing is, if you see a player that's playing down, right, what do you want to do?
00:56:09
Speaker
Dominate. Yep. So if you think this is not a good level, 17 sacks and 22 and a half tackles for loss tells me you're probably better than this. You dominated everyone.
00:56:19
Speaker
Being at Georgia and having five sacks doesn't tell me shit, personally. But whatever. Yeah. It's not my, I'm not, I'm not drafting clearly. 18 Seattle Seahawks, Tett McMillan wide receiver. I like this.
00:56:34
Speaker
They need help with Jack and Smith. Yeah. I like him. I think he's one a really good wide receiver. Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 19, Donovan something, Boston College edge.
00:56:46
Speaker
um I don't know. he had but but I don't either, but yeah guess what? He had 16 and a half sacks and 20 tackles for loss. that's another guy that i he That's another guy I'm going to bet on outside of the Georgia players because he has the stats.
00:57:00
Speaker
Yeah. But, okay. masson Number 20, Denver Broncos, Matthew Golden, wide receiver, Texas. I don't like him, though. Yeah, I think he's overrated personally, but he ran a four to nine. And so whatever, I mean, but we've seen a lot of fast five receivers not do anything.
00:57:20
Speaker
I'm sorry. At 20, you're going to take him over to Mekka.
00:57:26
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I mean, you can helpll for me personally, like I get tech and I think there's another one that may be coming. Oh my God, what the hell? I don't think you're going to like, I'm looking at it. Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:37
Speaker
yeah And apparently we've been talking to Will Howard, too. I like Will Howard if you get him in the second round. Yeah. I don't think we need a quarterback at 21. I don't think you need Jackson Dart. He's not good.
00:57:49
Speaker
No, he's not. But i I think, again, this is just a mock draft, so. Yeah. 21, Pittsburgh Steelers, Jackson Dart, quarterback Ole Miss. That's a bad pick, and I won't say nothing else about it.
00:58:01
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Los Angeles Chargers, Colston Loveland, tight in Michigan. um This is –
00:58:08
Speaker
Jim getting his guy back. Yeah. excuse yeah Yeah. I think Koston is overrated. Like, I just don't, I don't think he's ever put up the stats that and they said that he should for how good that they say he is.
00:58:24
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I don't think he had a quarterback. Yeah. had JJ McCarthy, who was the first round pick. I don't think he had a quarterback.
00:58:33
Speaker
Yeah. That could have helped him produce the numbers that he should have produced. Yeah. ah Green Bay Packers, ah great, 23, Gray Zabel, offensive line, North Dakota State.
00:58:46
Speaker
I know nothing about him, but North Dakota State offensive lineman, I'm going to what is ah That's only like the fourth offensive lineman I've seen so far, third or fourth. yeah In the first round? Interesting.
00:58:58
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Interesting. Yep. Number 24, Minnesota Vikings, Nick Emanwari, safety, South Carolina. ah They'd be defensive held. Bad.
00:59:09
Speaker
Very bad. Yeah. um Very bad. number two even though they Even though they went, what's the name? and I think they won their division. Yeah, they definitely Yeah. ah Houston Texans, number 25, Kelvin Banks, offensive tackle, Texas.
00:59:22
Speaker
ah When you trade old boy away, you can go offensive tackle. um So this makes sense. Cleveland Browns via Rams. Is this? Oh, so in this scenario, he's saying that they're going to trade up.
00:59:34
Speaker
The Browns will up back into this the first round. 26th pick? And get Josh Simmons' offensive tackle Ohio State. I like this, especially because before he got injured, they were saying that he was in the running to be the first pick.
00:59:49
Speaker
They all would get scared away from injuries, but either way, he's going be a good player. So if they're going to trade up, I like this. You get your offensive linemen, your offensive tackle, and your defensive linemen of the future. Although you just gave Miles Garrett six years or whatever. So he's also, oh my gosh.
01:00:06
Speaker
ah yeah They're going to get Malachi Starks to the Ravens. Damn. Okay, that that's unfair. But somehow this always happens to them too. Like somehow they just always get the steal of the draft.
01:00:22
Speaker
Baltimore Ravens, number 27 pick, Malachi Stark, safety Georgia. That, I mean, he's going to be amazing there. So there's nothing else. Yeah. Detroit Lions, number 28, Nick Scowerton, edge Texas A&M.
01:00:37
Speaker
I like him. He's a pretty good player for real. Yeah. the the The hard part is like the player he was at Purdue versus the player he was at Texas A&M is not the same, but you could argue that's just Texas A&M because yeah whatever.
01:00:52
Speaker
But I think this is fine. I thought the Detroit Lions were going to get Jack Sawyer because pairing Jack Sawyer with a dude from Michigan just sounds like something that they would do. And I still think that that may be possible, especially when you consider, like, they want toughness and leaders and that sort of stuff.
01:01:08
Speaker
And I'm not sure that Nick is not that, but, like, Jack Sawyer is a Detroit Lion. Like, bite your kneecaps off. Like, that makes sense. But either way, whether it's Nick, whether it's Jack, whether it's JT, whether it's any other – um Edge, I do think they need an edge. They had negative pass rush when he went out with injury.
01:01:25
Speaker
They need a second guy. ah Washington Commanders, number 29, James Pierce Jr., Edge, Tennessee. Don't like this. I think he's overrated, but... They do need defensive help, though.
01:01:37
Speaker
Yeah, i wouldn't I just wouldn't draft him, but... I've said that a lot. So either I'm going to be really smart or I'm going really dumb. Number 30, Buffalo Bills, Kenneth Grant, defensive tackle Michigan.
01:01:48
Speaker
I don't know how he got to 30, but I think that's a solid pick. that might be a that that That could be a steal. Yeah, for sure. i don't know how he got that far either. I don't know. Number 31, Kansas City Chiefs, Samar Stewart, Edge, Texas A&M. I will never draft an Edgeman, Texas A&M.
01:02:04
Speaker
Also, at 31, the Chiefs are absolutely going to take Emeka Ibuka. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I don't know where came from. If he's there. Like Patrick Mahomes needs a pass catcher who's not going to go to jail as soon as he breaks out.
01:02:19
Speaker
Like, right. Or, or isn't at the end of his career. Yeah. Yeah. like Yeah. he which Which is funny because now they have the Las Vegas Raiders at 32 trading up with the Eagles to get a Mike Agbuka, which if he's still here, I do think this would happen because Chip Kelly's the offensive coordinator.
01:02:39
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. That would make sense. I don't think he's going to make it that far. i' He's not going to make it that He won't get past the Steelers. Yeah.
01:02:49
Speaker
We should – I don't care if we picked up dk i i would i I think he might. He shouldn't, but I think he might. Because that's the thing. iss it' like He shouldn't, but if he gets there, i feel like we should pick him up and then, like you said, get Will Howard in the second round.
01:03:04
Speaker
For sure. So to end this, teams without a first-round pick, ah Rams number 33. They have a first-round pick, but in the projection, they trade out of it. Lusset and this Rams get Azari.
01:03:19
Speaker
as Oof. Azariah? Azariah? Azariah? But if it was... Not to be like Azariah...
01:03:30
Speaker
So here's the Azariah. Azariah. I think it's Azariah. And I think I'm stuck on it because a lot of times black people do Azariah as a girl's name, but like names aren't always gendered, but it's spelled like Azariah.
01:03:44
Speaker
Azariah? as a I don't know. Okay. It might be Azariah. For real, for real. what What's the apostrophe H for? You know what? It's silent. A Thomas, quarterback, Florida State.
01:03:58
Speaker
I bet you that H is silent. What? And then because, again, trades in this projection, Philadelphia Eagles don't pick until the 37th pick, and they get Jordan Bird's defensive line, Oregon.
01:04:11
Speaker
um I hope this is wrong. like more a few. Yeah, especially for my team. I'd rather not. If we're going to get a quarterback, I'd rather it not be.
01:04:24
Speaker
Yeah. The Ole Miss quarterback. like Just take Will Howard in the second round. Yeah, because in my eyes, as we're just getting what's-the-name again. Kenny Pickett.
01:04:35
Speaker
That's how look at it. It may be worse, but that is exactly what that is. um Okay, let's wrap this up. ah We're going to do our pit stops. As always, our pit stops are the time where we take us we take a step outside of sports, sometimes outside of college football, although this entire show wasn't about college football.
01:04:53
Speaker
were just talking about something else. So... Mine is quick and then we can end on yours because it's football related. I was just talking about, I have two thoughts on true crime documentaries and one, i was told that I'm the problem and I'm the reason that they do this and I will not accept that.
01:05:08
Speaker
And the second one, not me personally, but mine, um it'll make sense when I explain it. And the second one is just an overarching statement. ah one I love, in two crime documentaries, the like acquaintance from 30 years ago that's like sitting in front the green screen and like, yeah,
01:05:30
Speaker
I saw him drop a banana and he didn't pick it up. I'm not surprised. You don't know him. You don't know nothing about him. it is like it' like It's just like, yup. You just wanted your 10 seconds to fame, brother. like, you know, ah we were when we were in third grade, he broke up with my little sister. And this i could I could see it then. I could i can see it i could see that I could see the monster then. thats like he He was a heartless kid. He would never play on the playground. He would just sit on the swing and stare. Like, come on. It's just my favorite thing. but say um ponaroto like I know you're lying.
01:06:11
Speaker
yeah It's just like, bro, I know you're lying. like you don't You don't know this person. It's just like, please, anyone. And I'm just like, how do they get to these people?
01:06:23
Speaker
I just like pull up the phone was like, Hey, what're we're talking about this guy. Do you do you want 15 seconds of fame? Like, so I didn't think that's true. Yeah. Yes, I do. yeah The other thing where they said it, like I was told it's my fault. i Again, not me personally, just me as as a collective type of person.
01:06:39
Speaker
I watched a true crime documentary the second it dropped. Right. And so that's what they're saying. They're like, you're the target market for why they do this. I think They dropped two crime documentaries too fast.
01:06:50
Speaker
I am tired of watching true crime documentaries where at the end they're like, but we don't know if he went to jail or not. Wrap up the case. Wrap up the case. Throw in the court footage.
01:07:02
Speaker
Tell me if he got life or not. He got the death penalty. Court cases take a minute. That's fine. And then by the time the documentary comes out, I forgot everything that happened. I can Google this. I know it happened. It just happened. He just got arrested. Literally at the end of the documentary, it's March. At the end of the documentary, they were like, in November of 2024, they added new charges.
01:07:24
Speaker
Duh, that shit was two weeks ago. yeah let the case let the case happen oh you're saying let it let it let everything happen before you drop the yes because I'm so tired of documentaries that at the end and the little rolling credits they're like and there's no trial date Because then they're going to try to double up the documentary.
01:07:47
Speaker
But you already told us everything that happened. And I like, it's just like, for me, there might be new information that come out because of the court case. Yeah, but you know what? They don't need new information if they wait till it's over. Fair. That's all I'm saying.
01:07:59
Speaker
Like, I like... That's why I like to watch the old documentaries. Like, tell me about Son of Sam and the stuff in the 70s and 80s, because it's over. Tell me if he's dead, right? Tell me if he's dead, right? if he If he's still in prison, you know what mean? Show the picture to him as a 65-year-old man. Like, do that.
01:08:14
Speaker
But I don't need the... This case is still happening. His trial date is set for 2027. So, but again, i was told that I'm the problem because I still watched it the first day it came out.
01:08:24
Speaker
But I don't accept that. Because... I'm watch it. You dropped it, but don't drop it. If it's not fully, if the case isn't, yeah, again which I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying. That's funny.
01:08:35
Speaker
That's funny. The only thing I got to say about two crime documentaries is that it's it's like,
01:08:43
Speaker
it's, the last one I was watching, I went to go sit visit my mom and my grandmother and I walk in the house and that's where they were watching These are two women over 50 watching true crimes. And I'm like, how are y'all not terrified?
01:08:58
Speaker
Y'all live by yourself. That's it. And y'all is watching these stories about how these women die living a alone. I'm like, okay.
01:09:10
Speaker
the The amount of fear and no fear in these women is just, it's it's astounding. It's impressive. That's the only thing I've got to say about true crime documents. So I think the other thing with that, and this also goes into my point, they feel fake when they're not like yesterday.
01:09:26
Speaker
Like when you're like, he got arrested in 2024, It's like that just happened. When it's like he was killing people in 1970, it's like, did 1970 even exist? cru Can we prove the 70s happened?
01:09:39
Speaker
That's crazy. How do I know he was really eating people? You know what I mean? But like, they just found them. So here's the other thing. The problem with this documentary, and for those of you want to know, it's The Lost Girls. It's about the Long Island serial killer.
01:09:54
Speaker
The problem with this one is they may still find some bodies. Like, they but they they're not even done looking. So why do you have a documentary? How do you have a documentary? They're not even looking. Money. for but And people like you, because you watched it as soon as it was dropped. I get where they coming from now. I do get where they coming from. Because, I mean, money. You can't tell me not to watch it, but just wait.
01:10:16
Speaker
That's all I'm saying. this But they knew there was going to be somebody that watched it, that was to watch it and get them views, which is money.
01:10:27
Speaker
Money. You know what I'm saying? I can't wait to make money. There's money to be made. wait. That's funny.
Steelers' Quarterback Situation
01:10:36
Speaker
My pit stop is – I'm going to make mine real quick because I have nothing to say about it. um Only Steelers still don't have a real quarterback, and I think it's – this is why I didn't want to be in the Aaron Rodgers running because he does stuff like this.
01:10:53
Speaker
he he He drags it out because they keep saying that we're still talking to him i and he keeps working out with our receivers and stuff like that. But no contract or nothing about it has come out. Even Mike Tomlin looks exhausted and it's only been a month.
01:11:08
Speaker
Only been a month. I just don't understand why you let both Russ and Justin leave. Like the point of having both of them was so you could sign one for the future. That's what I thought.
01:11:20
Speaker
and thought and just both I don't get it either. but hey and if we're go and And again, I don't understand why if you're if you're if it's like, well, we didn't want to keep us because he's Why are we going after someone much older?
01:11:33
Speaker
Yeah, who was actually worse last year. No, not worse than Russ. Aaron Rodgers was Aaron Rodgers was better than Russ. That's insane. Yeah. And I watched, and even not just statistically, I watched Jets game.
01:11:47
Speaker
He was better than Russ. Okay. He played better than Russ against us. We just beat him. I'm not, I, I, I, I believe you. Yeah. Um,
Closing Remarks & Next Episode
01:11:56
Speaker
All right. Well, that's the show as always. Um, thank you for listening.
01:12:01
Speaker
Uh, thank you for dealing with me, uh, disrespecting my manhood by celebrating my birthday. Uh, and we'll be back, uh, I scheduled next week.
01:12:12
Speaker
So we'll catch you later.