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Ice Cats, Report Cards and QB’s
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Fresh and Pancakes talk Kentucky Hockey, the results of the NFL Player Team Report Cards, and QB Combine reults.
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Introduction to Fresh Cakes Podcast
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Welcome back to the Fresh Cakes podcast.
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A couple of friends talking about sports.
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We'd love to just love to do it.
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Love to hear you guys' feedback on it.
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And here we go.
Spotlight on Kentucky's Hockey Success
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My name's Fresh.
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This is Pancakes.
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What do we have, Pancake?
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Oh, fresh.
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We have some hockey, but not NHL hockey to talk about college hockey and not even division one college hockey to talk about.
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So hockey club rather.
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We have the NFL player team report cards.
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You know, I remember how scary report card time was for me when I was in school.
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And now the NFL has that these teams, uh, some of them should be concerned.
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And we have QBs and the results of the combine.
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So that starting off, I'm going to start this one off, you know, if you don't, if you don't mind about the hockey.
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Yeah, fire away.
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My alma mater, Kentucky, has a hockey club.
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We're, you know, kind of in the south.
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So hockey is not that big of a deal, I would say there.
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You know, it's not a university sponsored sport.
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And they have done surprisingly well.
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Like actually very well fresh for a hockey team at the University of Kentucky.
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We're not known for our hockey.
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And they have gone 28-6-1 this year.
Funding Kentucky's Boston Tournament Journey
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And for the first time since 2008, they have qualified for the national tournament in Boston.
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You say Boston?
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You know, my ears perk up when I hear Boston.
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I know.
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I thought you would enjoy that.
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How are they going to get there, Pancake?
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Well, I'm glad you brought this up fresh because they need our help, all of our help to get there because like I said, it's a club.
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They're not sponsored by the university.
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So the university doesn't help them pay for anything.
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Get this fresh.
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They don't help them pay for anything.
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So they are entirely reliant upon themselves to pay and boosters and fans like us to help them out.
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So they have a GoFundMe up, which you can find the link to their GoFundMe on our Twitter.
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Or their Twitter.
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And you know what you'll see on the head coach's Twitter for UK Hockey Fresh?
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What's that?
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You'll see one of our tweets because the guy tweeted us.
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So, you know, you can find the link, help the boys out, help them get to Boston.
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This is a big deal for UK hockey.
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And I think it would mean a lot for the future of, you know, hockey in Kentucky if they could go and do well.
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Just to clarify.
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We are at Fresh Cakes Cast.
NFL Team Report Cards: Surprises & Significance
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Kentucky Hockey, even more important, is at Kentucky underscore hockey is their Twitter.
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I think it's such a noble cause.
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I love this, man.
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You brought this to my attention, and I think it's so cool.
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You don't necessarily associate hockey with the South.
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These guys are doing it.
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They got the invite.
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It's been, what, 15 years, you said? 08?
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Yeah, math.
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So, you know, you probably, that's 15, right?
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I think I nailed that.
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I passed the test.
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And, yeah, I'd love to see them go to Boston.
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You know, even if they lose right away, like, whatever, get them there, man.
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You know, that's a lot of plane tickets, players and coaches, a lot of hotel rooms, a lot of meals, and there's a lot more involved.
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So, like, let's go help these boys out, man.
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We donated to donate a lot, but I think it's an amazing cause, man.
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It does.
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Any little bit helps.
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So, and they, the deadline for that, they're heading up there.
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I think St.
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Patrick's day weekend is the 17th.
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So go help them out.
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Yeah.
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Let these, let these boys go see Boston around St.
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Patrick's day, man.
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They're going to love it.
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They have a time of their lives.
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Let's throw in a little extra money for beer money for him too.
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You know, if some of them are old enough.
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All right.
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Fresh now onto the NFL player team report cards.
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Yeah, this is intense.
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The NFL Players Association, I think it was 1,300 people that they asked about their team facilities and things around their team.
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Treatment of families, nutrition, weight room, strength staff, training room, training staff, and locker room.
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And I thought there were some real surprises in here.
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And we'll get into this about like, how much it means and how much it doesn't mean as far as team performance.
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I was actually surprised on a lot of those.
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But it is interesting.
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I mean, what do you think about like, the weight this holds?
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I think that it's kind of cool, and I'm sure that they do this every year and release it, but this is the first year, I'm going to be honest, I've really paid attention.
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And I think that it's great that this goes public because, you know, it's one thing for players to rate this, and, you know, obviously they have such a voice with, like, their union, but when fans come out and see this, it's almost, you don't ever want to see your team at the bottom of that list.
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So if you do, it's like, I feel like fans also can, like, hold...
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the owners a little bit more accountable and management more accountable and be like, Hey, like get our guys like a better weight room.
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Maybe that's why we didn't go to the playoffs.
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If we got an F on our weight room, you know, let's get, let's get it up to an A let's get these boys, you know, the equipment that they deserve.
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As far as I know, I'm pretty obsessive about the NFL.
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I've never seen this.
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If they have released it, it didn't catch, you know, the attention of the media like this did.
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I mean, this has been covered everywhere.
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Pretty shocking when you see things like, you know, Jacksonville Jaguars, their number one problem was rats.
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Rats in their laundry hampers and in their locker room.
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They had a rat infestation.
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We're talking about a pro team.
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I mean, I know it's Florida, but still.
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Yeah, I mean, and apparently it took like a while.
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It was like months until that got solved.
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But if that's the number one problem, you also hear instances of players' wives nursing their babies on the floor of a public restroom.
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Players' wives, right?
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The Bengals are one of those teams that don't provide a family room for...
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players' wives and like the children.
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So there have been instances where players' wives have gone in and nursed their children of, you know, their star NFL players on the floors of public restrooms because Bengals don't provide like a family or a safe room for mothers to do that, which is, it's the NFL.
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I feel like there's college stadiums that have that.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it's crazy.
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And there's 11, those they're one of 11 that don't provide that.
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So 21 do at least the majority do for fuck's sake.
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But like, yeah, it's, uh, that's pretty crazy.
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And I mean, I would like to go into my team, the Patriots, but in a little bit, but like we haven't talked about number one and that's the Cardinals.
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Um,
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They also don't offer a family room.
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They don't offer a daycare.
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And they're bottom of
Deep Dive: The Washington Commanders' Facilities
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the barrel on almost everything.
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I've always known Cincinnati was considered cheap.
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Their ownership was considered cheap.
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I was pretty surprised by the Cardinals, though.
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They had higher expectations this year, and they didn't live up to them.
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And a lot of people have been signing there recently.
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J.J.
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Watt went there to see that they're the worst players.
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as far as how the players would rank them.
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They don't even let their players have free food from the facility.
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It gets deducted out of their paycheck.
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Right, and they're the only team, I think, that does that.
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They are, which is crazy, because if you saw recently, J.J.
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Watt is in a beer-like hockey league now.
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His buddy's making him hot dogs in the locker room after the game, so you're telling me J.J.
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Watt is getting free food at a beer league hockey game from his buddy in the locker room, but he couldn't do that at the Cardinals?
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Yeah, couldn't do that to Cardinals.
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And, you know, the one I thought would be first would have been the Washington Commanders.
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Their owner, Dan Snyder, he's a fucking clown.
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Oh, they scored last overall.
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They did finish last overall.
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For every, like, if you combine all of their averages, they were last total.
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That makes so much sense.
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Had a lot of Fs, dude.
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Yeah, Dan Snyder's dealing with a lot of legal trouble.
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And who's the owner of Amazon?
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Jeff Bezos.
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Yeah.
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He's like trying to, Bezos has been trying to buy the team.
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He's like blocking him.
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The guy's just a clown and he's been like taking loans out without talking to like the, the other ownership and everything and lying to like bank of America.
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I mean, Dan Satter's like, they're getting like us across the board.
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Yeah.
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He's spending it on yachts or whatever.
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It's not going to the team.
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That's for sure.
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But if you look at what's shocking is like the Jaguars made the playoffs, won a game.
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The
Team Performance vs. Facilities Quality
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Bengals, you know, almost got to the Super Bowl.
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Arizona had pretty high expectations.
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I didn't see Kansas City in the top 10 of, I don't think, any category.
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They won the Super Bowl.
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I think Philly was in the top 10 on like a couple, but they didn't grade that well.
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So, you know, how much weight?
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really hold i don't know that like and i don't know how these questions were asked but it is pretty shocking man overall i would say what do you think i mean well this commander's card is shocking to me i'm just gonna read the grades off for everybody because it's astounding to me that an nfl team could score like this by the players ranking them so treatment of facilities f
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Food service, nutrition, D+.
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Weight room, C+.
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Strength coaches, A+.
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Training room, F-.
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Training staff, D. Locker room, F-.
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Team travel, F-.
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I don't know, Fresh is probably looking like one of your high school report cards, right?
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Like you got an A in gym, right?
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And you just failed everything else.
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Thank goodness for the strength coaches, huh?
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They got an A+.
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They might have been first in that, but like everything else is just bullshit.
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That's crazy to me.
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But then, okay, I look at...
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The Patriots, right?
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Because I grew up a Patriots fan.
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C-minus treatment of families.
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Does that put us, that might put us in one of the 11 that doesn't have that?
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I'm shocked by that.
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That's shocking to me too.
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Weight room.
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I saw that they thought the weight room was getting outdated.
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And it's weird because I remember it being Foxborough Stadium.
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And then I think in 2002 was the Patriots' first game.
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Gillette.
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So I think after they won their first Super Bowl with Brady.
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And yeah, I guess after 20 years, it probably does need an overhaul, you know, but I don't know how much that really weighs into everything.
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I'm just more shocked, I think, by and team travel, by the way, they have two personal airplanes.
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Kraft was like known for like giving his air.
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He gave his airplane to go get COVID masks and everything.
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I've seen other instances where he's like giving people his one of his private planes, which are big planes.
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I've seen pictures of him like,
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I'm a little bit shocked that they're D plus
NFL Management Reactions to Report Cards
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team travel.
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If it's leg room or whatever.
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I mean, is it just people bitching?
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I'm not, I'm not really sure, but there's teams that scored like a pluses and team travel.
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So I really want to know what that's about.
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Yeah.
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Like what are they?
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Everyone gets their own jet in that case.
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Like what makes that an A plus, you know, like,
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I'm not really sure, but I do love, again, I've never seen anything like this before, and I've always followed the NFL.
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Maybe it was harder to find in the media.
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The media just caught it this time and ran with it.
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But I love that the media did with this because I think every fan would hope that their ownership sees this, is embarrassed by it.
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And then makes the correct adjustments for this, you know, like maybe the owners didn't even know.
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I mean, what do you think about that?
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Like, you know, if you're Jerry Jones or the Cowboys and you're like, holy shit, we're ranked whatever.
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So-and-so has the almost competitively.
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They might upgrade these things.
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Right.
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I would, you would think, but then we're also, I feel like talking about,
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I guess it depends on the owner because, you know, if you look at owners like Dan Snyder or something like that, you can't really compare them to the owners that actually care.
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So part of me wonders if any of them care or they just see NFL teams as like an investment in something to make them money and don't really care.
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I yeah, I definitely dance.
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Let's maybe we can almost maybe take Dan Snyder out of this.
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Right.
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Because he's a piece of shit.
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But like, yeah.
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I also think like these are multi, multi, multi billionaires and I do think they have egos.
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I would almost in this case, hope for the Patriots, let's say, cause I'm a Patriots man that Robert Kraft has enough of an ego to upgrade the weight room based on
Minnesota Vikings: A Player Satisfaction Success Story
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this.
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You know what I mean?
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Because I think we can assume that we're going to see this every year would be my assumption.
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And I hope we do.
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I hope we do.
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You know, I don't know if it ever gets the A's across the board.
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It might not ever in Washington, Cincinnati or Arizona, but like,
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I would hope they'd improve, right?
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There's only, in fact, one team that got all A's across the board, and that was the Minnesota Vikings.
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The lowest they got was an A-, and then they have a handful of A-pluses and a couple A's, which I think is great for them.
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That's awesome that you get an A for your treatment of families and all the way down the line from your weight room to your strength coaches.
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It seems like a place where it would be enticing for players to go.
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Yeah, and in their case, that did equate.
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They had a really good season, you know?
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I mean, a lot of people had them, like, going to the Super Bowl.
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It didn't work out that way.
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But, yeah, at least their players are happy.
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I saw a video with Steve Smith visiting.
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Steve Smith is, like, an all-pro, former all-pro, I think, wide receiver with the Panthers.
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Yeah.
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visiting the Vikings and it was really impressive to like personal chefs.
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They had there, you can get whatever you want.
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I mean, they looked like a top notch facility.
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Yeah.
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And in my mind, I'm like, I remember thinking every team has this, of course, of course, every team has this, you know, how much money they make off the NFL.
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Of course, every team has this.
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So I think that was, that's the overall bigger picture for me is like, no, they don't, they don't all have this stuff.
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And it's interesting to, to, to see that.
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And I,
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more power to the players, man.
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You know, I mean, they should have everything that they need.
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I'm sure there's college programs that have better facilities than some of these pro teams and that's shock.
College vs. NFL Facilities: A Comparative Analysis
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Yeah.
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I bet Alabama's like facilities are better than the Washington commanders.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I've seen some of like Penn States, but I, I've seen Alabama where they have the, like, you can scan your foot and it just like brings up like what cleat you should wear and everything.
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I don't know if you've ever seen that video on YouTube.
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I mean, top notch type stuff.
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Um,
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an affiliation with Nike and et cetera.
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And, you know, team by team, that's going to differ, right?
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And state by state.
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But I think like on an NFL team, the worst grade you should be getting is a B minus.
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Maybe if it's like just been a while, it's been 20 years, like in Gillette stadiums case, like I think a C plus could be,
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acceptable in some scenarios like that.
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You know, like stadiums are just getting outdated and things of that nature.
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I don't think it's ever acceptable to have D's in any scenario.
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This is professional football.
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I mean, come on.
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Like the amount of money, as you said, that's made in the NFL.
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You can't be having D's, let alone F's.
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I love that they put an F minus in there too.
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It's just like
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Fuck you.
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Like, that's not good enough.
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Yeah.
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It's just like, we really need you to know this is not just an F you, you more than failed at this.
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So I think this is going to be an ongoing thing, man.
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We'll have to look in a year, but I love it.
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I love it.
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I can't wait to see what's next.
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Speaking of the NFL, new players are going to be coming into the NFL soon.
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Did anyone do okay at the combine?
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Well, you know, the quarterbacks is what I really focus on, as we kind of talked about in our last episode, because it's rare for me as a Kentucky fan, I feel like for someone to be from Kentucky and be kind of the center of discussion around the position.
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And we have that in Will Webless this year.
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And he did all right.
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You know, he wasn't the best.
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Like, he didn't even participate in, like, the 40-yard dash season.
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or anything like that.
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But, you know, he did let it rip a couple times, you know, throwing the ball.
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And that was cool to see.
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But there were definitely the person that surprised me the most out there was Anthony Richardson from Florida Fresh.
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Yeah, I saw him...
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All you had to really see, besides how high he could jump, which was shockingly impressive to watch, was when he was throwing deep balls and he was just dropping it right in the bread basket at 60 yards.
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Hit at the 30-yard line every time, way down the field.
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It didn't even look like he was trying that hard.
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And I remember during the college football season, people were like, Florida's not that good.
00:17:06
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Is he not that good?
00:17:07
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I don't think they had the personnel at Florida to let him showcase.
00:17:11
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And same with Will Levis, actually, at Kentucky.
00:17:14
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I think both of them are better than the seasons that they had.
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So we'll see what that means.
00:17:20
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Well, Anthony Richardson, he ran a 4.43 in the 40-yard dash as a quarterback.
00:17:24
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Yeah.
00:17:24
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That's insane.
00:17:26
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Did Lamar Jackson run the fucking 40?
00:17:28
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Because...
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I've heard people say that ranch Richardson had the highest 40 of all time, um, which may be true.
NFL Combine: Quarterback Surprises
00:17:36
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Maybe Lamar Jackson didn't run it, but yeah, his stock went way up.
00:17:41
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Um, and Stroud's too, right?
00:17:44
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Stroud's did, but I, if I'm going to be honest, I wasn't that surprised by it because I think, you know, as a,
00:17:52
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Somebody doesn't like Ohio State.
00:17:53
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I think that he can thrive under tests like this.
00:17:55
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I think it's when he starts getting the pressure put on him in certain situations, you know, like maybe Michigan coming and blowing them out of the water at home like that.
00:18:04
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Say that website.
00:18:05
Speaker
I couldn't hear you.
00:18:06
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What did you say?
00:18:07
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Did what happened?
00:18:07
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When Michigan came and blew Ohio State out of the water on their home turf this year that he didn't, you know, do so hot, but.
00:18:15
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I wasn't sure I heard you right, but okay, copy.
00:18:17
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I do think Keith Ryes, but despite all of that success that he had at the Combine, he said some pretty, to me, I wouldn't say shocking, but ridiculous things.
00:18:30
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If I'm a GM of an NFL team, I'm shaking my head at that because this guy said that the two QBs that he looks up to were Michael Vick and Deshaun Watson, and it's just like...
00:18:42
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Come on, dude.
00:18:43
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Like, you couldn't have picked two other quarterbacks?
00:18:45
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Okay, what did you just say?
00:18:48
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You just said the two quarterbacks he looks up to is Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes, the two Super Bowl quarterbacks?
00:18:53
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Or no, what did you say?
00:18:54
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That's what he should have said, Fresh.
00:18:55
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That's what he should have said.
00:18:56
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He said Michael Vick and Deshaun Watson.
00:19:00
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Okay.
00:19:01
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I mean, you can Google maybe what they've done in their spare time off the field.
00:19:06
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Yeah, bark, bark, bark, and cringe, cringe, cringe, right?
00:19:10
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Yes.
00:19:10
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Pretty much.
00:19:12
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I think that that would worry me from a front office standpoint.
00:19:15
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I don't actually think it'll really affect his draft stock at all because I think that he is truly talented and he did have, you know, he really did put on a show at the combine.
00:19:23
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So we'll see how that affects him overall.
00:19:27
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Like I said, I think it'll be very minimal.
00:19:29
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Yeah.
00:19:30
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I'm not going to knock a kid for, uh,
00:19:33
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not like understanding his own PR at this point in the game.
00:19:37
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You know, he's not in the NFL yet.
00:19:39
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You go to like a place like the Patriots or any NFL team, actually, let's call it any NFL team.
00:19:44
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They're going to coach you on how to talk to the media and what to say.
00:19:47
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And I don't think he would talk to two people that have been through scandals as far as saying who his idols are.
00:19:54
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But yeah, he could have handled that better.
00:19:57
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But yeah, I don't think you can, you can hold that against him in the long run.
00:20:02
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goofy, goofy answer though.
00:20:04
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And, you know, I don't know.
00:20:07
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That'll be interesting to some people.
00:20:09
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We'll see.
00:20:09
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It depends on the GM and the ownership and the coach.
00:20:12
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And maybe that means more to some people than others, but probably not if you can get a guy like that.
00:20:19
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I don't know because there's like Anthony Richardson's on the table and then you have Will Levis and even Stetson Bennett.
00:20:25
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Like Stetson Bennett actually, I will say kind of did surprise me fresh because I feel like a lot of people have been talking about
00:20:31
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how his championship with Georgia is like the last football game he's ever going to play.
00:20:35
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Cause he's like going to go and draft her or, you know, he's not going to make it in the NFL.
00:20:38
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And I actually think he stands a decent shot.
00:20:41
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I don't know where that kind of hate comes from on him.
00:20:43
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I don't either actually.
00:20:45
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And we haven't even talked about this.
00:20:46
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So this is like off the cuff, but I love that.
00:20:50
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He did so well in the playoffs and had, and he's older, he's like what, 25.
00:20:56
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So that's some sure part of it, but like,
00:20:59
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He had a swag and confidence about him that was very impressive to
Stetson Bennett's NFL Prospects
00:21:03
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me.
00:21:03
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And I think if you're an NFL team, it's like,
00:21:06
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okay, do you want the guy that's 20 that I can build up and has insane physical attributes that can't be matched?
00:21:15
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Or do I want five, six, seven, 10 years from a Stetson Bennett that's like already almost ready to do this right now and just changes our team and has been in multiple national championships?
00:21:27
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And that'll be really interesting to see, actually.
00:21:29
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I think where he goes, shockingly interesting.
00:21:34
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I can't wait to see that, actually.
00:21:36
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I agree with you.
00:21:36
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Cause I think he has the mental part of the game down.
00:21:39
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I think he has the composure, the composure because he's been in those high pressure situations and he's won two national championships back to back and didn't, you know, really win them in a close games.
00:21:53
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You know what I mean?
00:21:53
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Like they just kind of like the Georgia just absolutely.
00:21:58
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It wasn't even like a contest versus TCU this year.
00:22:02
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Yeah.
00:22:02
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And so that's the, that's the real argument, isn't it?
00:22:04
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Like,
00:22:05
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okay.
00:22:06
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Was Georgia just so much better than everyone that he just had an easy time of it.
00:22:10
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That's the big knock on him.
00:22:12
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Right.
00:22:13
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And we've seen that play out time and time again, where it's like guys just colleges.
00:22:19
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There's so many different colleges.
00:22:21
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The talent is spread out so wide that like, yeah, maybe Georgia was just that good.
00:22:26
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They're going to have a lot of guys go in this draft.
00:22:28
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They're going to have a lot of guys in every draft.
00:22:30
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Um,
00:22:31
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But at the same time, they were still in the SEC.
00:22:34
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He still played on the biggest platform in national championships in college.
00:22:39
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Handled it well.
00:22:40
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Never looked nervous.
00:22:41
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So I don't know, man.
00:22:43
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I don't know.
00:22:43
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I would probably lean towards Hudson Bennett almost.
00:22:47
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Like a guy that I feel is more proven over a guy that has the physical attributes.
00:22:52
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But still, he's a maybe.
00:22:53
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Because we've seen a lot of maybes fizzle out.
00:22:56
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Everyone says that about him, though,
Draft Picks: Physical Attributes vs. Performance
00:22:58
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dude.
00:22:58
Speaker
And I don't know where they get that from, because to me, he's he's done nothing to show me that he is a question mark whatsoever.
00:23:05
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Who, Bennett?
00:23:07
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Yeah, Stetson Bennett.
00:23:07
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That's what I said.
00:23:08
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I would lean towards him.
00:23:10
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Yeah, I would, too.
00:23:11
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And I feel like so many people are already writing him off.
00:23:14
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And I'm like, when has he shown you in his last two years as quarterback at Georgia that he can't get it done?
00:23:19
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Like he throws the ball accurately, like he makes good decisions.
00:23:23
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He just gets it done.
00:23:25
Speaker
He can move still.
00:23:26
Speaker
Like, so even if you have a team that's okay, maybe your offensive line isn't fully ready yet.
00:23:31
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You know, maybe you have one or two weaknesses on your line and you don't have the best, like, let's say it's the Patriots, even though they're not probably not looking for a quarterback.
00:23:38
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They probably are looking for the next quarterback already, but they don't have the best receivers.
00:23:44
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Like the guy seems to just have that composure.
00:23:47
Speaker
It's the eye test thing, right?
00:23:48
Speaker
It's the eye test versus like,
00:23:51
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the physical tests.
00:23:52
Speaker
And there's something about like Tom Brady that like you could put Tom Brady in the combine at any point in his career and he would do pretty shitty.
00:23:59
Speaker
No, but the eye test shows you that the Duke can win games.
Podcast Wrap-up & Future Teasers
00:24:03
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So I don't know, man, that is so interesting to me.
00:24:05
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And like, I can't wait to see it play out.
00:24:08
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You know, I'm looking forward to that for sure.
00:24:13
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So we have a lot to look forward to, man.
00:24:14
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And March madness is coming up soon.
00:24:19
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We may be introducing you guys to a new feet on the street guy, you could call it.
00:24:25
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Maybe at some hockey games.
00:24:26
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Yeah, a new man on the streets.
00:24:27
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You're going to get to meet him this coming week, actually.
00:24:33
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It'll be actually a week from today, Fresh, almost, that you'll get to meet our man on the streets.
00:24:38
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And we'll let him introduce himself, you know, although he's a man that needs an introduction.
00:24:43
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So let's say within two weeks, you might see him, you know, so that should be really fun.
00:24:47
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We have that Nate dog is his name.
00:24:49
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You'll meet him.
00:24:50
Speaker
Hopefully it goes well.
00:24:52
Speaker
And you guys are going to a hockey game.
00:24:53
Speaker
You're going to get an autograph or not.
00:24:55
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I'm going to, I'm going to try my best.
00:24:57
Speaker
It depends on how the game goes.
00:24:58
Speaker
Cause if they don't win, I hate to be that person that, you know, bugs guys after maybe they've gone through a loss and they're just like not feeling at the end of the night and they just want to like go home and reset.
00:25:09
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Yeah, totally.
00:25:10
Speaker
It's worth the effort though, isn't it?
00:25:12
Speaker
Get out there, man.
00:25:12
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See if you can get an out of go.
00:25:14
Speaker
You know, I love it.
00:25:15
Speaker
I hope you, I wish you all the success in the world with that.
00:25:18
Speaker
That's so cool.
00:25:19
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Yeah.
00:25:19
Speaker
And thanks to your buddy for that too.
00:25:20
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Gave me some great tips.
00:25:22
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Yeah.
00:25:23
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Alex gave a lot of insight on that, which I love.
00:25:27
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Yeah.
00:25:28
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So good luck, man.
00:25:29
Speaker
And I think that's all we have.
00:25:31
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A lot of things coming up here soon.
00:25:33
Speaker
So are you sending this out?
00:25:35
Speaker
Am I sending this out?
00:25:36
Speaker
I mean, what's the deal?
00:25:38
Speaker
I don't think we've hit it in a few weeks.
00:25:40
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You want me to send it off?
00:25:41
Speaker
We hit it last week.
00:25:42
Speaker
We hit it last week.
00:25:44
Speaker
Did we?
00:25:45
Speaker
I'll take another dub.
00:25:46
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That's like two out of nine now.
00:25:48
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Let's see.
00:25:48
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Well, we'll see what this one is.
00:25:50
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Send it off, yeah.
00:25:52
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Love you, everybody.
00:25:52
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Thank you for listening.
00:25:54
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We're going to keep bringing more content.
00:25:56
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We love doing this so much and we love anyone that takes the time to listen to it.
00:26:00
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So have a great week and we'll see you next time.
00:26:05
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Ready?
00:26:06
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Break.
00:26:06
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Break.
00:26:08
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That one was close, actually.
00:26:09
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That might be close with the delay.
00:26:11
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Do you want to throw one back?
00:26:12
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You want to volley back?
00:26:14
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Ready?
00:26:14
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Break.
00:26:16
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Break.
00:26:17
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That was way off.
00:26:18
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That one was way off.
00:26:19
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You think because we were close on this without the delay?
00:26:22
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Okay.
00:26:22
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I'm looking in the way, Steve.
00:26:23
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Wavemaster.
00:26:25
Speaker
Dude, how many times are we going to talk with you now?