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Have Adam Silver present Thundor to the owner.
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To commemorate it. If I'm a Thunder fan, I protest this, like how sovereign citizens, they get in court and they're like, that flag doesn't have the yellow tassels on it. I don't have to pay my speeding ticket. That game should not count as an NBA Finals loss. That was a mid-February loss.
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It's never been done before. Did we do a bad job by not bringing up – I mean, Max, cover your ears, please. All right, so Jay Wright, I like to talk about Jay Wright in front of Max. Did we do a bad job by not mentioning Dan Hurley's name? Because I've seen that. I've seen that a lot.
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Actually, we heard different reports later on in the show, so you'll have to listen to that.
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In fact, we might just cut this entire part because we already discussed it.
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Whoa. I think Cam Ward's going to set the world on fire. It's still home field. In a good way. Yeah. But roof open or closed, that's the real question. Roof open. Roof open.
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That looks golden.
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It's juicy.
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That is delicious. Do you love them while I chew? Oh, I love them so much. And the new creamy dippy dipping sauce. That stuff is amazing.
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No, they talked themselves into it. Some of them, I think any fan base probably would, but yeah, we've gone into some, there've been some rough off seasons for us where we have to convince ourselves of certain guys next year. And it, It's shocking how easy it is to do.
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So I'm sure that Pittsburgh is now – they get to be happy, excited about Aaron Rodgers, not worrying about, like, is he going to sign? How come he hasn't signed yet? What was your favorite part of the Mason Rudolph era? Assault. No, in the most recent. As the starting quarterback. OTAs. I'm sure he threw a nice spiral. I think mine was how he handled –
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The Steelers drafting Will Howard as a starter. I thought that was a textbook example in class, being a welcoming teammate. Aaron Rodgers could learn a lot from that.
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I love Chicago. What? I love this place.
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So I was going to say, what do you think was going on behind the scenes? Do you think that the NFL secretly colluded to putting the Jets as the Steelers' week one opponent to try to make Aaron Rodgers make his decision as soon as possible?
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Yeah. My favorite part, by the way, in the Fav documentary is right after they confronted him with the picture scandal and he was going to press conference. And the first thing he said was, you know, my hands are full right now. Yeah. After his hands definitely were not full. He could have picture. He could have had a, uh,
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Yeah, in his hand. But yeah, memes. Squaring off week one against the New York Jets. By the way. Is this a revenge game? I don't think this is a revenge game. People are calling it a revenge game. I think every game is probably in one way or another a revenge game for Aaron Rodgers. I think it's a double revenge game. Double revenge. I'd say it's more of a revenge game for the Jets against Aaron.
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Zach, I got a question for you real quick. Before we started taping, you said Chrome or Bing or what? I told you that I get seizures from Google Chrome and we're still using Google Chrome.
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Okay, now that's a good point because I was just making that up.
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Hank actually bought it. Yeah, Hank bought it. That was a test for you, Zach. Yo, Hank. Come on. Hank was like, wait, you get seizures from Google Chrome? And Big Cat was like, yeah, he hasn't gotten them in a while.
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Because I was ready to be like, Zach, what the fuck, man? You're going to give me seizures using Chrome. But you took it one step further and you found out that, in fact, it wouldn't unless you played an epilepsy video.
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The whole seizure thing was a lie, so don't worry about it.
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Do you think that this is going to scratch Tomlin's itch for having a crazy guy in the locker room? Ooh. I think it might. It could. I think this is what he needed.
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Yeah, but DK, he's just violent. I think there's a difference between crazy and violent.
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That's okay. He can grow his own.
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I think he's an interesting guy. He makes the NFL more interesting. The league is more interesting having a guy like that with a big spotlight.
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If he's signing a one-year contract, I would think this is the last day.
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This is the last day, a full offseason, going to a different team?
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I think Aaron's probably moved on from ayahuasca.
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I think he wanted to blow it up, and he took his ayahuasca trip. He's like, the world needs to know about this. Then he told the world about it. But now so many people are doing it that Aaron's like, this isn't cool anymore.
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2C. I don't think he's not a 2C guy. I know a 2C guy.
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Home and Home series, November 14th. New Rochelle. I just want to say, we don't get political on this show, but as an empath, today is a tough one for me. Check in on your friends. Alex Jones is having a real hard day. I've been watching his live streams. I just want to say, no matter how strong somebody appears on the outside, you never know what's happening between those two years.
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Why is he having a hard day? He's just having a rough day out there.
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And it is ugly. It's as ugly as we all expected. Yeah, I was talking to Mad Dog about how to relate this to a high school girl breakup, like when two friends break up. Is there any chance that they get back together? I think that this would be the equivalent of like your buddy cheats on your friend with another girl who's also your friend, and he gets that girl pregnant.
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There's no coming back.
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I don't think you care enough about me. The funniest part about all this is that Elon was like, you know what? I'm not going to say anything because he's being fiscally responsible.
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But then the second fiscal irresponsibility crept in, he was like, I have to... I have to speak my mind. It's fireworks.
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No. And I think this is probably a big day for Aaron Rodgers, too. He's a guy that likes to read his own headlines.
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But when this came out, he has to pencil in the next nine hours on YouTube.
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He's like, I got to get I got to do my own research for a while.
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It helps you write new chapters and creates the meaningful story that you deserve to live. I've personally used therapy in the past as a tool to help me get through some times of loss and to also help me prioritize what was important in my life and help me focus on those and create a future that I was very happy in and very confident in. Therapy has been a great tool for me.
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Second goal that was questionable for interference, which I was watching it, and I was like, I have no idea what they're going to call it. Because in the playoffs, and especially in the Stanley Cup Finals, you know what, by the letter of the law, interference is, but you don't know what they're actually going to call during the course of the game.
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No. It was actually a can't lose for Edmonton in game one based on how last year went. And so now I almost feel like it swings. The pressure is off Edmonton so much right now. I feel like the Panthers might go out there and win game two.
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We saw it for the first time. Florio, who we're going to talk to, had a little bit of that today with the NFL. He was like, actually, a team can score one point in a game. Here's how it happens. It could be a 24-1 game. Hank, you don't know that?
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You don't know about the one-point conversion?
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So it would be like if you're trying for a two-point conversion and then it's fumbled and then returned, then it could be a 1-0 game.
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1-6, yeah.
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Scorigami.
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No, but it was great watching. I love overtime in the playoffs when it's not my team playing. Yeah. And in the Stanley Cup Finals, it was incredible. I was hoping for two.
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At some point, if it went to like 10 overtimes, the team would quit, right? Well... Unless the rules say that you can't quit. That's only the eighth overtime. Ninth throw overtime rules are one team has to quit. The ninth overtime rules are written on the bottom of the Stanley Cup. Yeah, one team has to quit, but if both teams quit, then they both lose. Yeah.
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But if one team quits, then it's only one team loses.
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Mutual quitting. And if neither team quits, then it's both teams lose two games each. The tenth overtime is hidden behind Mount Rushmore. Yep.
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What pages are they looking for in the next National Treasure? I don't know. The Lost Pages. I can't wait for that movie to come out.
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Bruckheimer's going to do it again. Bruckheimer. Bruckheimer and Michael Bay. Yep.
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I think just spending three months with Kevin O'Connell is enough.
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Yeah. Yeah. But maybe spin zone, if you're Colts fan, maybe he'll stop overthrowing receivers if his shoulder's a little bit hurt.
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You do, Hank?
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I'm in the camp of I kind of like to watch him play because he's fun. Hank is in the camp of— Don't disagree on that. Hank is in the camp of I saw him play one time in college, and he was electric. Which is also fair. And I staked my reputation on him.
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Well, because you started in hot on them after like one week or two weeks, and that's after the Colts fans had a full summer of convincing them, like the Mason Rudolph thing. Yeah. They just spent four months being like, Anthony Richardson is the guy. He's going to step up this year. I think the problem is... And he was a high draft pick, so it's even more...
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I just want to enjoy Joe Milton. Yeah. Just let me enjoy Joe.
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Yeah, no, this is the life cycle of a bad owner. Usually it's the other way around. No, but what happened, I think at first, Matt Espiel was like... Awesome. I own an NBA team. I'm going to get all the best players on my team. And then he's like, I've learned that I need to rely on my basketball guys. So I'm putting them in charge. He didn't get immediate results from that.
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So now he's like, I need to just trust myself. It's got me this far in life. I need to go back. So he's just doing rapid flip flops.
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What are those things you can get tested that tells you your lifespan? You know what I'm saying? The one that Dana White got, all those rich guys get. They test some level that you have in your body.
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And then they're like, yeah, it looks like you have the body of a 40-year-old right now.
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You've got the body of a 60-year-old. You have X amount of years. That's what Reinsdorf probably got. And he's like, okay, I need to get a term sheet in place.
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Oh, that's okay. Yeah.
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But also, do you think the timing of this has anything to do with the Chicago MLS team getting the site for the stadium that the White Sox wanted?
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And then the very next day, Reinsdorf being like, I'm going to sell the team?
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Because where are the White Sox even going to be playing at that point?
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Privately funded. A billionaire paid for his own fucking stadium. Well, it's an MLS owner. A hundred millionaire paid for his own fucking stadium. Yeah, he's got some change. Yeah. He's got to. Memes, you sent something to the group chat I wanted to dive into just a little bit. The Colorado Rockies to the All-Star Game movement. Can you explain what this is about?
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I love that. So, yeah, the movement behind this is it would be funny. It would be funny. Because it's a fan vote for the All-Star Game, right?
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But doesn't every team have to have a player?
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Yeah. OK, so the premise behind this movement is it would be funny if the All-Star roster was just comprised of Colorado Rockies in the National League, despite the fact that they're the worst team in baseball history up to this point.
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So I think it's better now than it would have been if he was pitching at this level, let's say, 30 years ago or 35 years ago when people just looked at wins, losses, and being like, oh, that guy's having a tough year. That's true. But now I feel like sports fans are smarter for the most part.
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It does suck for him to be like, I'm pitching as well as almost any pitcher has ever pitched. Like, it's hard to lose those games. Yeah.
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Off the field, doing okay.
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In baseball, what do you even do if you have a superstar player like that? A generational talent. and you know that you're not going to be able to win around them because your owners won't pay for good players.
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And then you trade those guys away.
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And then you get a whole roster.
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Then you can make a run, yeah.
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He's gone full Florio. You're not getting texts during that interview, by the way.
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Yeah. But Florio, he's cooking right now. This is the time in the offseason where Florio, the mind starts to wander.
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It was a treat to talk to him.
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Yeah.
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You should go into the fourth quarter losing by six points against the Indiana Pacers, and I bet you'd win like 75% of those games. It's crazy what they've done in these playoffs. Just like Ryan Russillo said, don't count the Pacers out. He liked the Pacers, so credit to Ryan for being the only one aboard that train. It was crazy. I think when Halliburton got the ball,
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A lot of Italian Catholics in New York.
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Yeah. Has there?
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And we don't have anyone to shoot him down on the show.
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Hank, does he want to coach, though?
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Wow. Wow. That's huge. Thanks for the update.
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Is this good for recruiting? For Villanova.
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Catholic church hitting up high schoolers again.
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And then you have to live the rest of your life with that image in your head of I could have been.
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I thought it was going to go in at that point. It's just like, okay, same story. But up until that point, I was still like, surely they can't do this again. They didn't lead until .3 seconds left in the entire game. If NBA games were 45 minutes long, the Pacers would be a lottery team.
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But Hemingway wrote a story about that. Right. Pope uniform never worn. That's the saddest thing.
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Yeah. It's a good place to be, though. Rick Riley anoints you with a pen, a tap on each shoulder. You may now rise.
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Yeah, about teeth usually. So you're good friends with Seth Wickersham. That's interesting that you guys are so close because when I think of the best modern sports writers, I think about you and then Seth Wickersham when he comes out with something, you can just pretty much stamp it as gold because he's kind of like you. He gets everybody to talk to him that probably shouldn't be talking to him.
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So before you jumped on, you mentioned that you had followed around Tiger, Jordan. You've gotten to know the two of them or kind of what makes them tick. On this show, we like to elevate the discourse a little bit. So I'll just ask you, who's better, Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan?
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Go ahead. I was going to say Jake Plummer is that way. Jake Plummer started a mushroom farm out in Colorado, kind of moved on immediately and became next phase in life, completely different from the last phase. And I know that you spent some time around Coach K, dear friend of ours. Coach Krzyzewski. Is he like that in this next phase of life? I know he's still got the office at the building.
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Yeah, that stuff is fascinating. One thing I'll give you credit for that you're very good at is you make, it's men and women, but I'd say from my perspective as a man, you make men think about complex themes in life, whether it be family, where you're from, legacy, all that. But you do it through a vein of like whiskey. I'm going to write about whiskey. I'm going to write about sports.
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So you're like tricking us into becoming more emotional as human beings, which I appreciate.
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How many players do you think have more last-second game-winning shots than Tyrese Halliburton in the course of the playoffs? I believe this is since the year 2000.
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Excuse me. Since 1997, final five seconds of fourth quarter in overtime since 1997 in the playoffs. There's one guy. How many? It's LeBron James. He has eight. Tyrese Halliburton has five.
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And I think most of the time, from what I've read from you, it usually works. You usually find some level of common ground. You get access that nobody else would ever be able to get. You get answers to questions that nobody would even ask. And it turns out great.
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But then I would have to imagine that there's a second phase to that relationship sometimes when you're on good terms with a person, have great interviews, they trust you, the story comes out, and maybe there's some things in the story that they said to you that they're very upset with themselves that they said. Do you, is there a plan?
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Like, do you give a phone call afterwards being like, hey, just let you know the story came out. If you have any questions, let's talk. Or is it just always dicey afterwards when you write those types of stories?
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Yeah.
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It's like, here's the evidence right here. Yeah.
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Yeah, it was, uh, no, it was 12 points, 12 points at halftime. And it felt like the thunder could have been up. Like the thunder didn't play that great offensively in the first half. They were just incredible on defense. And it felt like the lead was way bigger than 12 points, even at that point. So, uh, I don't know. I don't know what the Pacers are doing.
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What do you think it is about Pat that he's been able to, you know, he's, he's evolved over the years. He's, you know, went from being a successful head coach to giving up the reins and moving kind of behind the scenes. But by, by most measures, he's been pretty successful as that, even as he gets older, has he changed how he operates or is he just going to be Pat until he's not Pat anymore?
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And at that point he's out of basketball.
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I don't know what Rick Carlisle is doing. I don't know what makes them so different other than the fact that they always believe that they can win until the very last second. But this must be the best thing ever to be an Indianapolis Pacers fan. It must be the best time. These playoffs have to just feel like crack, just hit after hit after hit of crack.
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Yeah. Yeah. I think it's, it's fascinating because you've, you've spent so much time around people that have excelled that, you know, they share, they share the common bond of excellence. How much time do you think, uh, how much time do you spend thinking about the commonalities of dysfunction when it comes to leadership specifically?
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Wow.
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Yeah, this is fascinating.
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Yeah, it is. Yeah. And going back to to your childhood growing up, I read that you got kicked out of school. Is that right?
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I like that. I like a little bit of edge to you.
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Yeah, PFT is the number one Cletus fan. I got a Cletus mascot uniform. Yeah, it's a football playing robot. I don't know what there's not to understand about it. It's a robot and it plays football.
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It works, though. And his name's Cletus, and it's spelled C-L-E-A-T-U-S, like a football cleat. Get it? You might not understand. That's okay. It's not for everybody.
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The way you felt when you first heard Althea, that's the way that I felt when I first saw Cletus.
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I don't think so. No, if something comes out about Cletus and it's like you've got to cancel Cletus now, like it's problematic, I might be done with sports, not just football.
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I might have to write a fan fiction about the downfall of Cletus. It sounds like a great story.
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like you can't you can't do that oh wait just wait i'll do it yeah uh in terms of uh just you as a writer i mentioned earlier how you're able to bond so closely with some people they trust you all that stuff have you thought about if there's uh the next right thompson next next uh you know young reporter able to do some of the things that you're able to do and he calls you and he says i'd like to write a profile about right thompson would you do that
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Yeah, Nembhard, he didn't play that well. He shot not great, really, but in the fourth quarter, he made – when it comes time to actually do something important, Nembhard is always there making shots.
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Yeah, I mean, that's a great way to put it. I would read a book that if you and Seth collaborated on a book about the life and times of Jim Irsay, I think that would be incredibly fascinating.
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Yeah, the guitar collection that he had is absolutely amazing. He turned down a billion dollars for his guitar collection.
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Oh, wow. No shit.
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Well, I would say, number one, if and when Aaron Rodgers is ever going to show up in Pittsburgh, that's the thing that has had Steelers fans in a tizzy because the Steelers are acting in a way they've never acted before, to be in this voluntary holding pattern while they wait for Rodgers to make a decision.
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As Cam Hayward said a couple of months ago, and this really resonated with Steelers fans, you either want to be a Steeler or you don't. And I think Steelers fans are dismayed that Rodgers has yet to accept that's still pending. Two, what's going to happen with Kirk Cousins in Atlanta? That's hovering over the NFL right now.
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Although there's no spot for him with another team to be a starter, I think this plays out. And if anybody gets injured, that may be the first call that gets made. And third, As they say, if you have two quarterbacks, you have none. If you have five quarterbacks, you're the Browns.
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And how in the hell are the Browns going to take this cluster of quarterbacks they have and carve it down into one guy who's going to be ready to go when the season starts?
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I think he does, but I'd be concerned that... that ultimately he doesn't because why hasn't he done it yet? Why hasn't he just told people, I'm doing it? Now, people think that the Steelers have been privately informed he's going to do it, but at some point he just needs to say, this is what I'm going to do.
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It becomes exhausting while we play this guessing game, and he's at the Mike Studd concert, or wherever Mike Studd is, answering questions. Put on Hank's mic. Hank has a problem with that. I'm sorry. Hank has a problem with that.
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Wait, wait. Hank, why did he drop the stud?
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Yeah. Mike out to pasture. You should be Mike Studd, Gloria.
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You are Mike Studd. Our own Mike Studd. You need to distinguish Mike. And Mike Studd is a good way to do it. I guess if it's available.
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Yeah. Yeah. You're Mike Studd. So you think that Aaron Rodgers at some point should tell somebody whether or not he plans to play? I agree with that.
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I understand his reasons. And I'm not going to question the idea that he's got personal issues. People close to him are ill. He recently told Joe Rogan in...
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a 184 minute podcast about nothing that that i don't guys i don't get it i love your show i don't consume a lot of content i watched those three fucking hours and i don't know what i heard i think my ears were bleeding by the time it was over but But anyway, he mentioned he's got some people. What a right turn. He's got people close to him who are fighting cancer.
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If that's the reason, that's fine. But you can let the world know I intend to play for the Steelers. He told everyone that two years ago. I intend to play for the Jets months before the Jets traded for him. He said, I intend to play for the Jets. Nothing stops him from saying, I intend to play for the Steelers. And at some point, he just needs to do it.
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So back to the Browns real quick. You said, yeah, if you have five quarterbacks, you're the Browns. That is accurate right now. If you had a gun to your head on this, I'm not going to pull the gun back out, but hypothetically gun to your head, if you were to pick one person that's going to start week one for the Cleveland Browns, who would that be?
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Probably Joe Flacco, just because that's the guy who you can get ready with fewer first-team reps in August. See, that's the problem. If you take four guys to camp – now, let's set Deshaun Watson aside because they've basically moved on from him. It gets very interesting if Watson shows up with a piece of paper saying, I've been cleared to practice and play.
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Then the Browns have a variety of problems. But let's set him aside. I believe, and I don't know, but I believe that they're going to try to move Kenny Pickett before the training camp opens. He was the insurance policy they traded for before they made any of these other moves. Flacco is the fan favorite.
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They couldn't bring Flacco back last year because they would have had to bench Deshaun Watson for Flacco. Now he's back. The fans are going to want him. You can get him ready easily. and you can focus your efforts on trying to figure out between Dylan Gabriel and Shadur Sanders, which guy's the most likely to emerge as your long-term answer. So I think they're going to go to camp with three guys.
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I think it's going to be Flacco, Gabriel, and Sanders. Flacco will start week one, and then once one of the other two guys is ready, they'll put that guy out there. It could be Sanders. It could be Gabriel. We'll see.
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Well... You know, Russ is the guy who back in 2012, when he was the third round draft pick at the Seahawks, supplanted Matt Flynn because he was superior to him in training camp. I think based upon where Russell Wilson is now and Russell Wilson has done great things in the NFL, but based upon where he is right now, the Steelers wanted nothing to do with him.
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Remember, the Steelers were saying before free agency, we want to bring back Justin Fields or Russell Wilson. Field signs with the Jets.
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never mind never mind we'll figure out something else and Wilson was out there for a few weeks before he landed with the Giants so the Steelers did not want him back I think his best days are fading into the rearview mirror I think in a fair competition Jackson Dart will beat him out otherwise why the hell to trade back into round one to get Jackson Dart if he's not good enough to beat out a 36 year old quarterback who can't play like he used to because he can't run away from pressure like he used to so I think that Dart should be able to beat out Russ the
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question is do they want that to happen are they willing to do that do they want to throw dart to the wolves week one you look at their schedule this year i mean last year was bad for the johns holy shit look at their schedule this year look at the team they currently have i know they're better but it's going to be a long year are we just pretending jamis doesn't exist what about jackson dart beating out jamis winston jamis winston i think is better than russell wilson right now
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I agree with you on that. And Jameis Winston's a hell of a lot more fun. And it was just weird. You know, these teams get desperate to get a quarterback and they start doing crazy things. When you sign Jameis Winston and then you turn around a few days later and you sign Russell Wilson, that makes no sense to me from the standpoint of the vibe in the locker room.
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You're either all in with the Jameis Winston experience or you're all in with the Russell Wilson experience. They're two very different things. Yep. I think Winston is a guy who could be traded before the start of training camp. Wouldn't the Saints love to have him? Yeah, you would think so.
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I mean, I think there are teams out there that would say Winston is a better number two than what we currently have, and maybe he could make things interesting and be the number one.
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Well, I think the Saints were trying to get away from him.
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It was an awkward, weird situation because he had that shoulder injury that nobody knew about. I don't want to get too deep into the contractual weeds, but the Saints owed him $40 million this year, and they weren't able to get out from under the contract before the full $40 million locked in because of the injury. So they were stuck.
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And at the end of the day, he didn't want to have the surgery and rehab and then come back and play for the Saints. He didn't want to not have the surgery and try to play at less than 100%. So they worked out a deal where he keeps $10 million that he's already gotten. He gives up $30 million in pay that he would have gotten if he'd had the surgery, and
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and gone through the motions of being on injured reserve and whatnot. And you got to respect a guy walking away from 30 million. Now he's made more than 200 million, but he walked away from $30 million. All he had to have was surgery and go through rehab. And he gets the 30 million from the saints. I just feel like they didn't want him. He knew they didn't want him. And it was a good point.
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to break apart. The question is next year, and I'm told it's highly unlikely he ever comes back. Next year, if he doesn't have the surgery, will he be healthy enough to play? Will that shoulder heal with a year off? Will he want to come back? He's only 34, which for quarterbacks, you know, he's still got five, six, seven years left.
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So I don't completely rule it out, but the way he's talking and the way he's acting, it sounds like he's done. I think he wants to try to get into the media. Him and his brother have something going on now, and I think he's hoping to maybe get someone's attention and get a gig with NFL Network or somewhere. So I think that's his next play to try to get into the media.
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Yeah, I'm sorry.
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I don't know how to turn it off.
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Okay, all good. It's probably something important. Who is it? Who's texting you?
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No, it's proprietary. Oh, interesting.
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Bill Belichick to the Bucs? Is that what it is?
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I wrote that this morning. Yeah, I read it. Because that is ultimate fan fiction. Yes. But if it happens, if it happens, remember where you heard it. All right.
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So tell me about your theory. Bill Belichick coaching the Buccaneers. How does this happen? Would Jordan approve?
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Well, that's one of the wild cards that we'd have to take into account. But, you know, last season.
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I'm sorry.
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I don't know. Let me try that. I don't know how to use this fucking thing.
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Hang on.
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How do I turn off this fucking thing? I'll just exit. I'll exit the messages.
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Force quit. All right, it's gone. Hopefully that works.
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Listen, listen, I brought my nice laptop down to the barn. So the camera, you're right. I shouldn't factor in the fucking text messages.
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Allow me to weave my fan fiction. Belichick's consigliere, Mike Lombardi, who is basically his unofficial mouthpiece and has been very quiet since all of the Jordan Hudson stuff hit the fan, which is hilarious. Lombardi wouldn't shut up until this Hudson stuff happens. And now you can't find him anywhere.
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I don't know. I think we're all confused. Nobody saw this coming.
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But he was putting out this idea that Todd Bowles would retire possibly after the 2024 season. It was like, what the fuck? Bulls isn't going to retire. Bulls count seven. What the fuck? I'm not going to retire. So I feel like Belichick has been eyeballing the Bucs.
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Maybe Lombardi was trying to speak it into existence that there'd be a vacancy there because that's one of the teams where they've got the talent. Belichick needs the talent. You give him the talent. He's the best game day coach that football has ever seen. He'll take that talent. He'll get them ready and they'll go out there and they'll find a way to win games.
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He's not so good at developing and drafting and acquiring talent. But if you give him talent, he can make it happen. And the Bucs have done some crazy ass shit when it comes to head coaches over the years. They fired John Gruden abruptly. They elevate Raheem Morris, who nobody had ever heard of. He was a defensive backs coach who goes all the way up to head coach.
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They hired Greg Sciano for crying out loud in 2012. He was on no one's radar screen as a potential head coach. They fired Lovie Smith and promoted Dirk Cutter because they were afraid Cutter would was going to parlay his one season with Jameis Winston into a head coaching job somewhere else. And then when Tom Brady unretired, they kind of gave Bruce Arians the unofficial nudge out the door.
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It was awesome. It's great. Every time I watch it, it is the same thing that happens over and over again. And every time I'm like, how the hell did they do that? Yeah. It's crazy. So, yeah. Congrats to the Pacers. Congrats. And you did it without Caitlin Clark in the building.
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So the Buccaneers are willing to do kooky things if they think it's going to make them better. And there was already some noise that, hey, maybe if they're looking for a coach, they would go in that direction at a time when You would think all the teams are saying no.
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The Bucs have a history of doing unconventional things, and it would definitely be unconventional at this point for the Buccaneers to go after Belichick. But it would make sense if you can hand him a talented team in a weak division where he could cobble together enough wins to get to the playoffs. And we know he wants to be back in the NFL. He can say he doesn't want that all he all he would like.
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He wants to catch Don Shula in the worst way possible. and the Bucs are the one team that would make sense out of all 32 franchises for next year.
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It is a good point, and I haven't really considered it. The Bucs, yeah, they have a very extremely chaotic record when it comes to how they handle their head coaches. So talk to me about the June 1st thing with Belichick because we've seen the date June 1st. That's about the extent of my knowledge about it. Does it make it easier for Bill to leave or makes it easier for UNC to part ways?
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Now, UNC would still have to buy out whatever's guaranteed in his contract. And I think he got three years, $10 million per year, so $30 million total. Now he's made about six months of it, but they'd owe him the balance of the guaranteed money if they would pull the plug. The buyout is important because that's his price tag to walk away.
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And when he first signed the contract, it was a $10 million buyout. But then, as of June 1, just five months later, it drops all the way to $1 million. And I remember when Lombardi was trying to sell the idea that Bill's committed, he's not leaving North Carolina. And the easy response is, well, then take out the buyout clause.
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Why do you have a buyout clause in there that lets somebody write a check for a million bucks? I mean, for one of these owners, if they really want to hire Bill Belichick, what's a million dollars? It's nothing. They spend less than that for a week of maintenance on their super yachts, for crying out loud. It's a write-off. It's gone. It's over. You get him. Now...
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As the opportunities for the NFL seem to fade, it shifted into whether or not this gives Bill power over UNC because he can say to them, hey, bring back my girlfriend, idea mill, creative muse, handler, publicist.
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Fine. That's fine. But let her be in the building. And if you don't, if you don't give me what I want, I'll just write the million dollars myself and I'll say, see you later. And I'll leave you high and dry without a head coach. So he's got more power in the relationship because he can walk away now for a million bucks.
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But any NFL team that wants him, if they truly want him, the buyout is no impediment whatsoever. It's a million dollar check. You write it, you move on.
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Yeah, it is good fan fiction, though. I appreciated reading that this morning. And then your team. So all those who accuse Mike of being biased, just remember he's biased. He loves the Minnesota Vikings and he will say bad things about your favorite team in service to them. How are you feeling personally about going in this season with J.J. McCarthy?
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I have no expectations whatsoever. The Vikings for the past 20 years, it seems, have been on this roller coaster where every good year is followed by a bad year. Every bad year is followed by a good year. So I fully expect them to not be very good this year. But I do agree with the approach of giving J.J. McCarthy a chance to fully develop. There was some weirdness happening.
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right around the start of free agency with Sam Darnold. Are they going to bring him back? Are they going to bring back Daniel Jones? I talked to people who were dealing with the Vikings and, And the sense I was getting is nobody really knows who's calling the shots or who's making the decisions. Is it Kevin O'Connell? Is it Kweisi Adofamensa? Is it ownership?
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Who's making these big picture decisions about who the quarterback's going to be? And they did talk to Aaron Rodgers. They admit that Adofamensa didn't close the door on Aaron Rodgers when he talked about it a couple of months ago. It could be Rodgers is still waiting to see if they look at
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the film from the OTA practices and mandatory minicamp and decide, you know what, let's just go all in with Aaron Rodgers for a year, make it like Brett Favre in 2009 and try to get back to the Super Bowl for the first time in 49 years. I like the idea, though, of giving McCarthy his opportunity to reach his ceiling.
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They haven't had a true franchise quarterback, at least since Dante Culpepper, who had a promising career cut short by injury before him, Fran Tarkenton. Maybe McCarthy can be the guy. It's the highest they've ever drafted a quarterback, I believe. It's the highest in years at a minimum. that they've drafted a quarterback at 10th overall. Let's see what this guy can do. And so far, so good.
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He throws it well. He moves well. If he can stay healthy, you know, they could win some games. The schedule is going to be harder this year, though. It's one of the things that gets overlooked. Last year, eight games played by the teams in the NFC North were against the AFC South and the NFC West in a season when the NFC West was down.
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This year, they play all four teams of the AFC North and all four teams of the NFC East. That's eight games swapped out much harder for the Lions, the Vikings, the Packers, and the Bears this year. So I think all those teams, the top teams could have a lesser record and still be better than they were last year.
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You didn't like Richard Jefferson saying that Halliburton was shooting tour dates out there?
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Absolutely. And they need to complement the passing game, which is run to perfection by O'Connell, with a running game that can balance things out a little better. And the moves they made at the interior offensive line are critical. Two Colts were signed. They used their first round pick on the Ohio State interior offensive lineman, Donovan Jackson. They need an edge. They need, you know...
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I mean, yes, there's a lot of finesse that happens in pro football, but you still need some guys that'll punch you in the mouth when someone needs to be punched in the mouth. That'll stand up to a defensive lineman who's given him grief or whatever and be physical. Pass blocking, run blocking, two different things. They need to work on their run blocking.
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They need to have tougher, harder-nosed guys on the offensive line, and they're trying to do that this year. And Jordan Mason, the guy they picked up in a trade with the 49ers, That could be one of those sneaky great acquisitions where he can come in and just explode for the Vikings in the running game.
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And if they start getting five, six, seven yards a clip, all of a sudden that passing game gets even more wide open. I'm getting excited now. Maybe I'm starting to believe.
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They've got the rookie they picked in round two who's already taken the snaps at center. I think that Ragnar was transparent. And he did him a favor by not retiring before the draft. Because if he retires before the draft, then every time the lines are on the clock or approaching being on the clock, there's a blinking red light. They're going to draft an interior offensive lineman.
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By not knowing that Ragnow was out, it allowed them to not worry about getting jumped by somebody who tries to predict, hey, you know, we kind of like that guy. Maybe the Lions are going to take him. Let's cut the line in front of the Lions and get the guy they may be looking at. So I think they knew. And this is just another example of the adversity that they're having to deal with this year.
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Both coordinators gone. Much tougher schedule. Seven games outdoors this year. They play all those teams from the AFC North, all the teams from the NFC. There's going to be some great games this year with the Lions. But when you look at their schedule, like we were looking at the first seven games before the bye week the other day. Five and two is the best case scenario.
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A team that went 15-2 last year, five and two through seven games they should be thrilled with. So they've got to forget about last year. They can't make excuses. They can't say, oh, woe is us. We've got a new offensive coordinator. We've got a new defensive coordinator. And I think Dan Campbell's the right guy to set that tone and get them to forget about last year and focus on this year.
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It's just ball all the time. Go through it, Mike. You're living the dream. Lions at Packers week one.
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Well – I feel like I give the edge of the home team in that one. I hate to do the Mike and the Mad Dog. There's a win. There's a loss.
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Hey, Packers win that game. Lions are 0-1.
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Okay. Bears at Lions.
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Well, hey, what an intriguing week, too, with Ben Johnson. Yeah. I'll give the Lions that one. I'll give the Lions that one on a late field goal.
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Okay, late field goal, three points. Okay, my metrics have it five and a half for the Lions, but that's fine. Lions at the Ravens.
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You know, we've seen road teams go into Baltimore and surprise them from time to time. It's usually like if it's a bad team, they can go in and surprise the Raiders. The Ravens will kick the crap out of them like they did to the Lions a couple of years ago. I'll give that one to the Ravens.
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Okay, Browns at home in Detroit.
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I think that if the Lions lose that one, they have a very big problem.
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Then they're going to Cincy. Now, we know that the Bengals struggle at the start of years.
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Yeah, but that's deep enough into the season, right? Okay. I'll still give that one to the Lions. I'll give that one to the Lions. What's that have them now, 4-2 or 3-2?
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You got them at 4-2 right now, yeah. Because you have – well, no, wait. You had the Packers. You had the Ravens as losses.
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Yes.
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And then the Chiefs going to Arrowhead.
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Okay.
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Columbus Day.
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The Lions did win there to start the 2023 season. Oh, it's back.
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so anyway your text message sound is like a hearing aid that's struggling to find the frequency it's not the normal it's like a sharper sound it's my attention though yeah is it it doesn't interfere with my hearing aid frequency i'll say the chiefs are gonna we're gonna rectify the week one loss from a
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Three losses there for the Lions. It's more losses in the first six weeks than they had all of last year. That's all the more reason to forget about last year. The late Vikings coach Dennis Green used to call it the valley of zero and zero. And I think that's the hardest thing for a team that had a great season. number one seed.
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You got to forget about that because now you're back at zero and zero with all of the other teams. And you know, if you start one in three, the year after the Vikings went 15 and one, they started like one in three or two and four. You just got to forget about last year. Last year is gone. You got to focus on this year.
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So these first seven games, I think will give the lions the idea that they need to, to wake it up. I'm going to, most of these are coming from. Yeah. Thanks. Now you're sending them through.
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Oh, really? You're going to do that?
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Shit. I don't know. Panthers.
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Panthers are going to make the Super Bowl this year, Mike.
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I know what you were doing, but that's okay. How many teams, and this is what the NFL loves. This time of year, between free agency and the draft, you can convince yourself, no matter how bad your team was last year, that you can turn it around. And we've had examples. The Texans were as dysfunctional and god-awful as any team we've seen over the last 20 years. And boom, in comes C.J.
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Stroud and Will Anderson and D'Amico Ryans, and they win the freaking division in the first year. The Bengals, the year that they went to the Super Bowl, they were the one team in the AFC I'd look at and say, they got no chance to make it to the playoffs.
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So some of these teams that have been traditionally bad or recently bad, the Panthers, the Jets, the Jaguars, you can turn it all around in one year. It really is amazing. And I think that's one of the things that makes the NFL special. You don't have fan bases that check out before the season begins like you do in baseball or basketball.
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Well, I don't know. Soreness in your arm that keeps you from throwing in OTAs. Like, what the hell did you do to get your arm to the point where you can't throw in the offseason? And Sims and I were talking about it the other day. And it's great to have a former quarterback on the show because he said, you know, you can go out there and overdo it.
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And you do get to a point where your elbow or your shoulder or something isn't right and you just have to rest it. But you're missing reps with a new offense. New players, you're missing the closest thing you're going to have to live reps until training camp, and this is the opportunity to get up to speed with the new offense they're installing.
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So it's a little concerning, but if he's able to go when training camp rolls around, it's nothing to really be worried about.
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I wasn't concerned until D'Amico Ryan said three times, we're not worried. Yeah. And then I got worried.
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Yeah. I love watching those press conferences, too. And you always got to watch the hands. And he did a good job. He was doing the Superman Hercules stance with his hands on his hips, trying not to like, because you always got to, because it's the, you know. And it's amazing how it works.
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When the guy is lying through his teeth, inevitably the hand will stray up at the key moment and kind of like, and that's the ultimate, that's the ultimate control of your body. If you can avoid scratching or touching your face when you're selling the bullshit, then you've got it figured out.
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Yeah, I appreciate that. So when it comes to teams, you mentioned a couple that went from worst to first, not expected to make the playoffs, ended up surprising everybody. Give us a team this year that did not make the playoffs last year that you think will make the playoffs this year, a surprise team.
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Well, I like what the Jets are doing, and I can't believe I'm saying that. I don't think I've said that at any point in the 25 years I've been covering the NFL. But they're trying to do what the Lions did. And the key is going to be the owner has to stay the hell out of the way. He was way too involved last year. Fired Robert Sala earlier than he should have.
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Got involved in things he shouldn't have been involved in. Trust Darren Mooji, the new GM. Trust Aaron Glenn, the new head coach, with that Parcells streak in him. Put the team above the individuals. They didn't have a big splashy offseason where they're in the middle of all sorts of discussion and hype and talk about the Jets and look at what the Jets are doing.
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It was a very meat and potatoes approach. They believe in Justin Fields. Justin Fields reunited with Garrett Wilson from their time together at Ohio State. I think that's a huge positive. They were in favor of keeping the tush push, and there's a thought that maybe they're going to use it. Justin Fields. ESPN Research had a nugget. Since 2021, Justin Fields has converted 11 of 12 push sneak plays.
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That is the highest rate ever. between him and Jalen Hurts and Josh Allen, and Fields is number three in the league behind Hurts and Allen. Now, Hurts did it 100 times. Allen's done it 55 times. Fields only did it 12. But I think they may be thinking about using it because, look, if you can make it work, you don't have first and 10 anymore. You got first and nine or first and eight.
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You get an automatic yard or two when you get within the range of the sticks.
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I like that take. Memes loves it.
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There's no gotcha. No, no. It's not a setup. It's not a setup. I didn't do it to pander to you. I did the fan fiction thing to pander to Hank. I didn't do that. I didn't do that because I don't think of you.
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You get them on Amazon, $14.99 for the print editions. But because I've got a fairly momentous weekend coming up where I'm going to turn 60. What?
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Yeah. I'm 40.
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This weekend, this weekend, the eBooks for father of mine. father of mine and son of mine, the sequel, I'm making them free both days.
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I'm trying to promote reading because people hate to read because they grew up having to read in school. And I hated having to read. And as an adult, it takes a while to come back to it. But I'm telling you, and I'm going to keep working on you because I'm going to get you guys, especially you, Big Cat, to read my book. I'm going to get you to read it. I know it's up there on the shelf.
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I'm going to get you to pull it down and fucking read it.
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$14.99.
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You can get it now and you can give it to dad or grandpa or your uncle or your cousin or whoever for Father's Day.
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Well, I think it'll be the Seahawks.
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One of these owners is eventually going to wake up and say, shit, I'll take $10, $11, $12 billion. I've had enough. I've done enough. And I hear different rumors from time to time, and I don't want to compromise any sources. But there could be a guy that believes, hey, I've done everything I can in this league, and these teams are worth $10, $11, $12 billion now. I'm cashing out, baby.
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I want it to feel different. I would like there to be NBA finals and script on the baseline at the minimum. That's the minimum. Minimum. And then what ideally you should have is a little logo on the wood.
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Now, they have a hard time finding people who have the money to buy a team. But they're trying to change the rules and soften it and make it a little bit easier. But these franchise values keep going up and up. I will not be surprised if somebody that we didn't expect to sell his or her team decides... I'm out. I'm good. We're moving forward, and we're taking the money.
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Yeah. Mike, I think Hank might have a last question for you.
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Big Cat removed Hank from the conversation. How? I don't know. It says today, 11.02. Thanks, dude. Big Cat removed Hank Lockwood from the conversation.
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Oh, I did it from my computer. Weird. Okay. This little guy that didn't know how to use his fucking computer?
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where the sign that says Pacor Arena, maybe on the other side of the court from that, put the NBA Finals, and have the word Finals in elegant cursive, and maybe NBA in block letters, and then the year it is.
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I saw the picture of Big Cat with the ice cream cone at 9.15 in the morning. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to eat ice cream whenever you want ice cream. It's one of the food groups. It's dairy, right? You can put stuff on it to, like, expand the horizon. I got no problem with ice cream at 9 in the morning.
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I'm waiting for a real invitation, not the phony, while he's on the air, we'll invite him up. I'm waiting for the real, hey, would you come up and hang out with us in the studio?
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You know what, Mike? I don't want to speak out of turn. We have a fantasy team. Jerry O'Connell helps to manage it. Would you like to co-manage the team with Jerry O'Connell?
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No.
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It's not your team.
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Yeah. How does Jerry O'Connell feel about that?
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Because tell you what, he really doesn't want Adam Schefter to co-own the team with him.
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So this would be you.
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If this is real.
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Yes.
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This isn't just part of one of your fucking bits to try to get me to step into it. So you can say nobody gives a shit about your fantasy team. I'm happy to help out.
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Okay. All right, we're in. But Mike, the way you just said it right there, just know that it made me want to say it in the moment, but I'm not going to.
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Because this is not a bit. Jerry, he needs a little bit of help sometimes, and I think that you are the person that can help him.
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It's not vacation. The show is off from June 13 until, I think, July 28. But profootballtalk.com is updated every day, and I'll be doing videos every day from either my Olive Garden set at my house or down here. Or wherever I happen to have a computer. I mean, there's always something. We're just shutting down PFT Live for a few weeks.
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We do it every year, but there'll be plenty of pro football talk content. No days off.
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You know, you guys have busted my balls about it.
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I used to think that sandwiches were just, you know, basic until I realized how easy it is to level them way up. It's all about starting with the best ingredients. Lately, I've been obsessed with this sandwich. Boar's Head Ever Roast Chicken, a little smoked Gouda, arugula, sliced avocado, and a drizzle of balsamic glaze on toasted ciabatta.
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Just a few simple swaps and suddenly it feels like something that I'd order at a fancy cafe. And that's why I always go for Boar's Head. The quality, the craftsmanship, the fresh premium flavors that turn an everyday sandwich into something next level. So if you're tired of the same old lunch, try upgrading with Boar's Head.
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Hank pulled me aside today. He's like, just so you know, I've got a plan, but I need you to follow through on the plan. I mean, that's fair. Yeah, he's putting some pressure on me.
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He's put together a massive plan.
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And Hank, if you have to play golf as CEO of PFT Golf Enterprises, if you have to supervise, then you have to supervise.
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You got to get out there. But nothing bad happened this week?
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Canada's elected a new pope? Ooh, red zone.
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Of doing nothing? I've had a pretty good week. It's been excellent across the board. I don't really have too much to complain about. I guess the only thing is softball has been canceled now for three weeks in a row.
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It only rains on Wednesdays here in Chicago.
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So I guess we're just going to finish the season out with the standings as is, and that's that?
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I don't know. But it's kind of a bummer. I miss playing ball.
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The great boys.
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Yeah, I guess the other Fyre Fest, it's an impending Fyre Fest that I'm working on with Nick and Brandon to buy the 20-seat stretch H2 limousine. And then we're going to figure out how to monetize that later.
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Because I know it's going to make money. It's going to make so much money. I just don't know where I'm going to park it or what I'm going to do with it. But besides that, it sounds like my best idea yet.
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It looks sick. And by my best idea, I mean, shout out to Nick for presenting me with the investment opportunity because he was like, PFT's got money, so I should just ask him to pay for it.
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Yeah, you're right. It's a fleet of black Suburbans. It's the giant Suburbans, the convoy of those. The Tahos. You got the Tahos, and then you've got the open-air party buses that people take around Nashville.
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And those are the three genres of going out with a bunch of friends these days.
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Yep. You ever worn driving gloves?
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What's that?
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What were the other two?
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Oh, yeah, me too.
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Actually, I kind of did for a little bit.
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definitely dogs better uh dogs number one trees number two cars number three i'm not really i don't know if you know this about me or not hank but i'm not that knowledgeable when it comes to cars i watched you put bring the el camino back to life last night camino looks good it does i watched pft we got wings last night little guy date and uh i watched pft pull up and i was like that fucking thing looks sick yeah it's nice and loud yeah it's pretty sweet
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I know how to do, like, three things now with a car, which is massive. I'm becoming a man. That's huge.
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Think about it, big cat. What did we have for dinner last night? Wings. Hot wings. Yeah. Cold beer. Yeah. And you feel great while you're doing it, right?
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I'll be honest. I don't really care as much about the intro videos. I don't spend a lot of time watching the pregame. That part's not important to me, but the part – I mean, wait, wait, wait, wait. Here's where I think the intro videos play. Game one kind of plays. Yes. And then in a closeout game kind of play. Besides that, I don't really give a shit about the intro videos.
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It's the same thing except for breakfast.
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But it is something that if I was nine years old and you told me, yeah, you're going to eat ice cream for lunch and then you're going to have wings for dinner, I'd be like, yeah, being an adult rocks.
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Yeah, which I love. It's a place where we can get together and talk and share stories as office mates.
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I made a mistake yesterday, though, last night. Because people were tweeting at me and I Googled Listeria.
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Okay, moving forward, I will try not to refer to it, but I'm recounting a story of what I did last night. And last night, I did, in fact, Google the L word.
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Do you have two?
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Oh, no. Do you guys have a squad name or anything?
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Just you, your brother, your boy?
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At least put the words NBA Finals on the court so that I know that the game's important because sometimes my brain is dumb and I'm seeing the Thunder and the Pacers playing on TV and I forget in the middle of it, oh, yeah, this is the NBA Finals. We're dumb. Put that on there. Remind us all the time of it. And the Larry O'Brien trophy would be nice to have. But what about this?
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This sounds brutal. Because I'm willing to go to war for you.
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I've been getting pub stomped recently.
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In the air, yeah. Yeah, one of my squadron members really went into the DMs on a popular team, started roasting them. So now they've got some developers that are on that team. Now they're just amping up the difficulty level of the bots that I play against. That can't be true. I'm getting pub stomped.
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Yeah, net ease games. All right, listen to me very clearly, net ease game. Get the fuck out of here with the Sharknado. You're ruining the game. My boy's getting pub stomped, and he's about to quit entirely. It's bad for his mentals. And figure out the Smurfs.
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Netties, rescind the new update.
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them up i hate to say it but i'll do it i mean hypothetically if you were to tweet at them it would be at net net ease games underscore en that's at net ease games underscore en yeah so or or just oh no tweet yeah tweet it marvel rivals
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What if the winner of the NBA finals, what if they get to put the Larry O'Brien trophy on their court for the entire next season?
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Yeah.
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Good work, good work.
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Maybe it would make your mom feel better if you just get vitamins, too. So you're like, hey, mom, I took my vitamins today.
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I think you've got to lie your way out of this.
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Well, tell your mom, what if you said, you know what, Mom? I'm just not eating dinner at all anymore. And then she'd be like, no, you have to eat something. Okay, yeah, good point. I'll eat dinner.
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Yeah.
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Or you could just eat lunch at 7 p.m. That's true.
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99.
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52. 55.
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44.
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No, I mean, listen, the fact that they didn't have it on the court did irritate me, yes.
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You know what? I love Thundor, recurring guest. He should have had the Larry O'Brien trophy on his body.
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Yeah, that's a good question. That's well done. I wear what they send me. If the Lions want to send me something, I'll wear it. I've gotten stuff from the Buccaneers. I've gotten stuff from the Eagles. Now, this week, I don't know if I had something from the Lions. I'm not sure that I would wear it. You know, I used to wrestle with this idea that we have to appear neutral at all times.
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But over time, I've realized that from Greeny to you, to, doesn't Berman, I don't know who Berman, Berman loves the Bills, like- What an honor to be included in that group. Yeah, but people don't shy away from whatever it is that drew them to the NFL in the first place. We're not Rob Lowe. We didn't start following the NFL because we're fans of the NFL.
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We all had a team, and mine is very deep-seated, 50-plus years. I saw those purple helmets. I didn't know what the thing on the side was, but I loved it. I love Chuck Foreman. I love Fran Tarkenton, so- The rare good years take me back to when I was like 9 or 10 years old.
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vikings would tell you they'll make their decision when they have to and that sounds like a smart ass remark but they don't have to do anything for now and they always have the franchise tag available if they would try to work out some sort of deal with now at one point i thought they would let him go see what else is out there because there aren't a lot of teams that will be definitely looking for a new starter and would pay someone starter money on the open market also i think there's a general sense that
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Sam Darnold's performance, at least as of a few weeks ago, might have been artificially boosted by Kevin O'Connell and that you can't replicate that with another team. But something happened, I'd say in the second half of the game against the Cardinals, where Darnold access to higher level of performance.
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And when you hear what Kevin O'Connell says, when you see that video where they went nuts and dumped water all over him after the win against the Packers, they can't let him out of the building. Jason Garrett turned to me at one point, I think even before that game, and said that you can't let this guy leave. Everybody's looking for a franchise quarterback.
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When you have a guy who's playing like a franchise quarterback, You can't let him leave. They can figure out whatever they're going to do with J.J. McCarthy. If they have to franchise tag him, so be it. If they can work out a contract, so be it. But you can't let him go when he's gotten as good as he's gotten in his first year in the system because he'll be even better next year.
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I think all options will be on the table if and when they decide Sam Darnold is the guy. He's only 27. I know. It feels like he's been around forever. And he turns 28 next June. So this is a guy you could have for 5, 7, 10 years. And you drafted J.J. McCarthy because you're looking for a franchise quarterback. And then one kind of stumbled into your lap.
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So if there's a team out there that's willing to make the Vikings an offer that they won't refuse, then... then you do it. If it gives you opportunities to get young players, cheap players, high draft picks, if you can do that, then it's easy to justify. And look at what the 49ers did. They gladly threw Trey Lance overboard because they stumbled into Brock Purdy. And, you know...
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There's no one to blame. Shit happens. We stumbled into Brock Purdy, and he's so good that we can't let him go. We can't bench him. We can't go with Trey Lance. So they give Trey Lance away for nothing in comparison to what they gave up to get him. And I think the Vikings get a hell of a lot more for J.J. McCarthy than the 49ers got. for Trey Lance if that's what they decide to do.
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Or they could just play it out a couple years. You could let Darnold be the starter for two more years, let McCarthy learn for a total of three years, and then flip to McCarthy at the appropriate time. What would that be? 2027, McCarthy becomes the starter. That's another option that I think is on the table.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
And there's an argument out there that the Vikings should tag and trade Sam Darnold and just go with McCarthy. But the big unknown with McCarthy is we don't know if he can play. He's like any other unscratched lottery ticket at this point. We know Darnold can play. We don't know that McCarthy can. So it becomes dangerous to move on from Darnold and hand the ball to McCarthy.
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Although I think O'Connell would do a pretty good job of getting the most out of McCarthy if he had to.
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Isn't it weird that they just refuse to use him? At one point, I thought it was a bizarre sort of, we don't want people to realize how good he is so we can sign him back to be the backup next year. But at some point, it's just ridiculous. You just put the guy out there. His contract expires after this season. He's going to be a free agent. And...
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I mean, Cooper Rush hasn't been bad and Cooper Rush has a good one loss record. But it's just odd to me that Trey Lance hasn't been able to earn playing time. And I don't know what the Cowboys ultimate motivation is. And, you know, who knows what they're going to do. And I think Jerry Jones loves the fact that we don't know what they're going to do.
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And and we talk about what they're going to do, whether it's about Trey Lance, whether it's about Mike McCarthy, whether it's about anything. He just wants to give us things to talk about.
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Jerry Jones has said that it's something that will be a topic next week, and they love to take over the news cycle if they can. I could see Jerry Jones dropping his decision on Mike McCarthy during a playoff game or right before a playoff game. Remember, the Dak Prescott contract, the news of that hit during the pregame shows before the first Sunday of the regular season.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
He knows how to commandeer the news cycle, and I think at some point next week, we'll find out whether or not McCarthy's coming back. But... because that contract expires.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
Mike McCarthy, if he wants to, when you think about everything Jerry Jones has put him through, forcing him to coach out his contract, saying, I think people work better if they're under pressure and all the other crap that he's had to deal with. Wouldn't it be great if somebody else was interested in Mike McCarthy? And he just said to Jerry Jones, I don't want your job. Go find somebody else. And
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
And Jerry would like at least the dance, at least the drama, because he loves it when the Cowboys are able to consume our attention, even in a year when they're horrible. Not horrible, but they're worse than they were expected to be. They're still commanding our attention. But McCarthy will be a free agent and could go anywhere he wants.
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They draft the contracts so that they usually expire in February or something like that. I can't imagine he wouldn't be available to talk to other teams right away, that he would need some sort of dispensation from the league. But because it happens so rarely, it's a great question, and I'm going to make a mental note to find out exactly when he's a free agent.
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We assume it's after the game, but that's a good question. Your instincts are good, BJ.
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Good question. You're making me proud of him, son, to start 2025. But I assume that he's free and clear, but he might not be because these contracts are written to expire at a certain date, usually after the regular season ends. And he may be strapped if the Cowboys want to play hardball.
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If you're done, obviously if you're still alive – He's not going to get hired out from under you in the playoffs. Right. But when you're done, does it end then? Or is there some artificial buffer that gives the Cowboys exclusive negotiating rights while all the other jobs fill up? It's like, hey, sorry, Mike, there's no other jobs out there for you. You got to take our offer.
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Right after they fired Matt Eberflus, I started poking around to figure out what the Bears would be doing, where they'd be looking, what their focus would be, would become. And I was told in no uncertain terms, their number one objective is to get the most out of Caleb Williams over the long haul. They view him as a franchise quarterback. They just need to get the most out of him.
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And the person I spoke to that caused me to say, so you're getting an offensive guy. You got to get an offensive guy because Otherwise, you get a defensive coach who hires an offensive coordinator. Things start going well. The offensive coordinator says, see you later. I'm going to go be a head coach somewhere else. Find another offensive coordinator to get the most out of Caleb Williams.
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You want a Sean Payton, Drew Brees situation. I was told they're not closing any doors when it comes to which side of the ball the coach comes from. But yeah, offensive coach seems to be the message that the Bears are sending as it relates to this desire to get the most out of Williams. But these palace intrigue questions are real. We've seen them before.
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And Ryan Poles isn't going to want to hire the guy that's going to eventually push him out the door. He doesn't want a guy that he's not going to be on the same page with who's going to come in, have success, and try to take over. And it's critical that the GM and the head coach be on the same page. They should have equal accountability.
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There should be no avenue for the GM to try to undermine the coach if things are going poorly, no avenue for the coach to undermine the GM. And that's unfortunate if – If that's true, and I saw that as well, if Ryan Poles is going to be disinclined to go after Ben Johnson because he wants to protect his own turf, that's when you have to ask the tough question. Do we just hit the reset button here?
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Well, what's harder to find? A good GM or a good head coach? What's more important? A good GM or a good head coach? I actually don't know. I don't know. I honestly... I think it's a good coach. I think a good coach goes a long way toward making up for bad personnel decisions. Look at Bill Belichick. He was such a good coach, he was able to make up for shitty personnel decisions that he made.
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Well, and that's why I think Bill Belichick ultimately had no one interested in him, because even if he comes back without final say over personnel, okay, fine. This GM who's 30 years younger than him is gonna draft a guy that Belichick doesn't want, so Belichick's gonna put him at the bottom of the depth chart.
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There's a lot of ways that the coach and the GM can butt heads if they don't have a shared vision for the players they need, the systems they run, and equal accountability. So we either both fail, or we both succeed.
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So look, if there's any truth to an idea that Ben Johnson wants to make a power play on the way through the door, or he'll make one once he gets some wins, and that creates hesitation. If there's anything other than making the Bears as good as they can be that's influencing these decisions, that's a sign of a dysfunctional team.
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Because as you said years ago, and I use it all the time, and I attribute it to as much as I can, dysfunctional teams do dysfunctional things.
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You know, there isn't like a clear, obvious list of definite openings. We've been waiting for Jacksonville ever since their bye week. And it felt like it was a done deal going into the bye week. For whatever reason, Shad Khan, the owner of the team, didn't fire Doug Peterson then. But it was such a bad season.
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Can't imagine him coming back for another year, especially after Khan in late August said this is the best team the Jaguars have ever compiled. How do you live with that statement and say, oh, it's fine that we were four and 13 or whatever the record is. So I think Jacksonville is at the top of the list. New England is one to watch, although I think Gerard Mayo is going to get another year.
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Devin McCourty was on PFT Live on Tuesday and he spent some time around that team this year and he got the impression that guys in the building aren't sure what's going to happen. So if Gerard Mayo is safe, he hasn't gotten the memo yet.
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And I don't know what the Patriots are thinking there, but they could decide in theory, they could decide to just rip the bandaid off and move on after one year and try to hire somebody like a Brian Flores. whose ship seemingly will be coming in this year, whether it's Chicago, whether it's New England, whether it's somewhere else.
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The other ones that would stand out, and I'm running through the divisions in my mind here, we look at the Giants as a place where how can you justify doing nothing if you're John Mara when they had one of the worst seasons in franchise history? What a way to celebrate your 100th anniversary as an organization with your franchise record longest losing streak.
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If they lose on Sunday, it'll be the record for the most losses in a season. And those are the big ones. The cults are another one that I think has come onto the radar screen recently. And I was asking someone today who's among the pool of candidates to take these jobs. And the message I got is there's always a few surprises.
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And that's got me wondering what people on the inside who are in the process of being interviewed at some point, whether they might know about where things are going to pop open. But we see it every year. It's a surprise when there isn't a surprise opening during that hiring cycle.
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I didn't mention the Raiders and I should have because it feels like something's going to happen in Las Vegas. But you have to factor in the owner. And Mark Davis tolerated that. losing football under John Gruden because John Gruden was his buddy.
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And if Antonio Pierce is now Mark Davis's buddy, Mark Davis will tolerate losing football because there's multiple ways to define success as an NFL team. One is how much money are you making? And the Raiders are making more money than they ever have before because they're in Las Vegas. They got that prime market and they're making a ton of money.
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Stadium's always full, even if it's not Raiders fans. So I don't know what his tolerance is for being
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perpetually a non-contender if it's high if it's higher than it seems then antonio pierce is out after one year but that one is weird especially when you throw in the tom brady influence or lack thereof and when will tom brady be more involved and mark davis says we're not going to bother him while he's still working for fox and they've got the super bowl so that one is just kind of got a weird vibe to it because you don't know what the owner really wants with the cardinals you look at 105 years they've never had a coach
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Longer than six seasons. They've had two guys, Jim Hannafin and Ken Wisenhunt made it six seasons. Nobody else made it that long. Gannon's got two years. This year was a disappointment relative to how they started. I think he gets one more year. But that's the thing with these jobs. You always have to factor in ownership because it's one group, typically one person making the decision.
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And you can have, you know, 10 people make 10 different decisions with the same set of facts.
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Well, he's one of the voters. Thank you.
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I know we live in a time where standards don't matter anymore and just do whatever you want to do. It doesn't care. Nobody cares. But when you think about this, the idea that any owner of an NFL team would have a vote on league-wide awards It's preposterous. It would never even be a conversation. No one would ever even have the guts to suggest it.
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And with Tom Brady, what I can't understand is, is he like the NFL's version of Michael Scott who has no self-awareness whatsoever? Or is he hyper aware of the fact that he can do whatever the fuck he wants and he's going to do it? I think I think that's probably that. Yeah, but there's a chance he just kind of he just kind of, you know, nobody ever tells me no.
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So I'm just going to do whatever I want to do. And I never stopped to think that there might be some ramifications here that are a bad look for me.
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It's one thing to be a fan of a team and set that aside when it's time to do the right thing. It's another thing to have a fiduciary duty to that team as a part owner who holds 10% of the equity. It's impossible. You know, when I practice law, there are two types of conflict of interest. Wait, you practice law? Shut up.
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I mean, if I just say it without the setup, people will think, what the fuck does this guy know? Shut up about the legal system. There are certain conflicts of interest that can be waived once the client understands what they are. And then there are some that just cannot be waived.
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And the idea that an owner would be voting on league wide awards, that seems to be a non-waivable inherent conflict of interest. And I think after the season, the AP will find a way to clean it up. I think it just fell through the cracks. And it wasn't until last week that they were like, oh, shit, he still has a vote. And he's officially an owner now.
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Give back to me when you buy about 300,000 more shares.
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It's not a matter of rumblings. It's just a matter of feel. And it's a matter of what patterns have we seen in the past? And it also depends on how the playoffs go. Yeah. If the... And I don't want to turn this into a bigger thing than it would be, but there have been occasions in the past where maybe it's run its course between the Ravens and John Harbaugh.
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And there's been rumblings in the past at times that maybe it's time for a fresh start for everyone. If they go one and done in the playoffs this year, would that vibe return? I wouldn't rule it out.
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Last year, Mike Tomlin, there was a lot of what's he going to do, and we reported at the time that he wasn't going to make any decisions until their playoff run was over, and when it ended, he made a pretty quick decision to come back. If they go one and out again, does he continue to renew his vows with the Steelers? I don't know.
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There isn't the same noise this year as there was last year, but you just never know when everything's going to align, and it's either the guy wants out, or the team wants to make a change. And there's only so many years that I think a guy can make it. It's amazing how long Harbaugh and Tomlin have been where they are in today's NFL.
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And sometimes you can just make the argument for both sides that it makes sense to have a fresh start. And I'm not saying it's going to happen. I'm just saying that's how surprises happen because things go on behind the scenes, unrelated to losses, unrelated to failed performance that cause people to say, we just need to do something else here.
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My read on the Browns situation is pretty simple. A couple of years ago, what was it, 2022, they got into the Deshaun Watson pursuit. There were four teams. And credit to the Texans. They took a situation where a guy hadn't played football in a year. And they created a four-team competition for his services. And they pre-qualified them for the loan when you're buying a house.
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You had to tell us ahead of time what you're going to give us in trade, and we have to say it's OK. And once we know it's OK, we'll let the four of you figure it out with Deshaun Watson as to where he's going to go. And it was the Browns, the Panthers, the Saints, and the Falcons. And once it got out that the Browns were involved, that destroyed their relationship with Baker Mayfield.
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And then Deshaun Watson said to the Browns before any of the teams, I'm not interested in you. So I think that's the moment that ownership said, forget it. We're going to make this guy. an offer that there's no way he's going to say no to it. Five years, 46 million per year, fully guaranteed. And they've been working to justify that horrible contract and trade.
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Three first round picks plus three other picks given up. Worst trade and sign deal in NFL history when you factor in what they gave up, what those guys could have been, and the money that's tied their hands and the salary cap issues. I just think it's been stubbornness that's kept Deshaun Watson under center. And I think Jimmy Haslam, who's
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I believe at the root of it, the owner of the team, I think he's he's sufficiently flexible to realize it's not the fault of Andrew Barry, the GM or Kevin Stefanski, the head coach. They were just doing what Jimmy Haslam wanted them to do. That that's happened before. And it doesn't insulate people when it's time for folks to get fired. But Haslam's already indicated back in December.
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that he's not going to change coach or GM. That's not binding. But the Browns are kind of off that radar screen because of the things Haslam had said. But dysfunctional teams do dysfunctional things. And maybe Jimmy Haslam wakes up one day next week and says, screw it. I'm going to get a clean sweep here and start over.
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Yeah, I don't know that it would be the same as if like a Mike Tomlin got fired. I think if Mike Tomlin would ever get fired or leave Pittsburgh, they'd be lining up out the door to try to hire Mike Tomlin. But two-time coach of the year, you're right. That's a misleading award. Coach of the year just means you're the head coach of the team that surprised us the most.
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And anytime the Browns do anything good, it's a surprise. So let's make him coach of the year. But still, to do well amid the dysfunction that is the Cleveland Browns is impressive.
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That's been the vibe for about a month now, that the two no brainers who will have options to coach next year are Ben Johnson and Mike Vrabel. Beyond that, we just don't know how it's going to shake out.
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And Vrabel has been linked to the Raiders because once Tom Brady is done with his season and he's whispering into Mark Davis's ear, Vrabel is the guy that Brady would want because they're friends and it goes back years. There's a point Sims has made, and I think he's right. I think Vrabel would be perfect for one of the New York teams.
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Because Vrabel's got the right personality to deal with the New York fans and the New York media. It's almost like Parcells, where he just doesn't fuck around, and he can be abrasive in a charming way. That's how Parcells was. He'd say things that were hostile, but it was kind of funny. And I think Vrabel would be good if he wants to subject himself to that. I don't know.
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Do you want to subject yourself to being the head coach of the Jets? Do you want to be the head coach of the Giants? I don't know. But I think a guy like Vrabel, and there aren't many guys like this, he would do well in that market.
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And I think both of those teams need to be considering very seriously trying to make a run at Vrabel because that may be exactly what they need to stabilize things in the eyes of the media and the eyes of the fans.
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Well, who was it? Wasn't that one of the justifications for firing him in Tennessee? It was some weird shit like that. Again, dysfunctional teams do dysfunctional things. I think Brian Callahan could be done in Tennessee just because look at how erratic they've been and look at the rash decisions they've made in Nashville with head coaches. They never should have fired Mike Vrabel.
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But I think Vrabel offended the owner in some way. And, hey, that's the reality of working for a mom-and-pop shop, multi-billion-dollar football operation that's run like a family food truck. Not just that one.
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His name has been on the fringes of the chatter for two months now. Here's the reality, though. Set aside the emails. And, you know, it's been three years and we've seen people come back from from worse than the emails. And I'm not justifying it. I'm just saying the passage of time causes things to dissipate. He still has active litigation against the NFL and Goodell.
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So what you have and we talked about the Browns earlier when they made that big contract offer to Deshaun Watson, it pissed everyone off because now we got to have more guaranteed contracts for quarterbacks. There's still an arbitration that's looming or pending over not giving players guaranteed contracts. Thanks to what the Browns did.
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If you hire Gruden, you're going to have some pissed off people at 345 Park Avenue.
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headlined by the guy that runs the show whose name's on every football so you better be damn sure that this is something that's going to work because there's going to be blowback one way or the other and maybe they settle the case beforehand i don't know but it's it's a lot there and this is the other side of it too and i love gruden i love gruden but when you start looking at his his history as a coach sounds like you don't love gruden okay i i've defended him vehemently in this litigation it's put your gun up max
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Go ahead. Hey, hey, just let me say this. Look at his regular season win percentage. Compare it to Jeff Fisher's. That's all I'm saying.
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Listen, and compare Mike McCarthy's win-loss percentage to Gruden's. That's all I'm saying. That's the difference. Fat. All right.
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Wouldn't it be something if Mark Davis hired him back? Yeah. Let me just say this, too, because I don't think people understand this. In this age of legalized gambling, somebody decided five games into a season in 2021 to peel off emails and to weaponize them to get John Gruden fired. Forget about whether it was right or wrong. Somebody fucked with the integrity of a season five games into it.
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I mean, if you had a futures bet on the Raiders to make the playoffs, although they did win the Super Bowl, whatever the case may be, they're always so big on the integrity of the season. Somebody connected the NFL and not many people had access to those emails. specifically said, I want this guy out five games in.
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And that's something that I hope his lawsuit goes forward and we find out who did it because I think there's a lot of accountability there that may never be properly meted out and hashed out because that's as wrong as it gets as it relates to the overall integrity of a given football season to take out a team's head coach five games into it.
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I don't know that it was him. I don't know. Because, look, the accusation is it was the league and that Goodell was part of it. And until we get a chance to see how the lawsuit plays out, we won't know. It shouldn't be hard to recreate who it was that took those emails and sent them to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal with the clear goal of taking out Gruden.
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It could have been Dan Snyder. It could have been Roger Goodell. I don't know that Bruce Allen even had access to those emails by then. Because what happened was they had the investigation. What's her name? Beth Wilkinson. She did her investigation. They had the emails. Somebody who had access to the 600,000 documents found those, removed those, leaked those, and took out Gruden.
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You're getting old. You're getting your turn of 50 this year.
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Happy birthday month. Thank you.
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How is it that Big Cat's going to be 50, but you're only going to be 40? I don't understand how that works.
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Mike, you're short.
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And before they had the real bad loss to Tampa Bay, 32-9 in the wildcard round, they lost all those games down the stretch. But for, what was it, the Christmas Day game against the Giants, they lost all their games after starting 10-1. And it didn't happen then. Remember that shot of Jeff Lurie sitting in the suite in Tampa Bay? Who could forget?
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It was like this perfect combination of rage and amazement and confusion all in one. And we were waiting to see whether or not they'd fire him and try to go after Bill Belichick. It didn't happen then. I think they've been good enough now that even if they get blown off the field. And do you really think – they're one of the most talented teams out there. I can't imagine that happening.
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But there's just enough weirdness that happens with Sirianni. You know, the stuff with Zach Ertz, giving the fans the business after the Browns game. What else? There was a clip after one of the games where he was trying to talk to somebody on the sidelines and they were openly ignoring him. There's just enough weird there that makes you wonder how sustainable it is.
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But then you look at the record. That's the thing. You look at the record, he's damn good. Is there a situation where they're good despite him and they'd be even better with somebody else? I don't think Jeffrey Lurie wants to roll those dice.
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It's going to be a continuous loop. It's going to be all day Christmas Eve and all day Christmas Day. Look, the numbers speak for themselves. And I don't know what the numbers would have been if the two games on Netflix had been on broadcast TV. Would they have hit 30 million? Would they have been 35 million?
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We got 38.9 or 39.8 million who watched Giants-Cowboys, a shit Thanksgiving game in that middle window. These were real games. Steelers-Chiefs, real game. Ravens-Texans, I mean, until they started playing it, real game. If those would have been on regular TV, the numbers would have been even worse. And the NFL went easy on them.
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They didn't play on New Year's on Christmas Eve, and they didn't play a game on Christmas night. I think the bottom line is Christmas football is here to stay whatever day of the week. Jerry Jones made it clear last week. We already knew. They're going to play whenever Christmas is. Wednesday is the hardest day to pull it off. The other days they're going to do it. Here's the question I have.
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Because in the past, when Christmas lands on a Sunday, they play the bulk of the games on Saturday. I wonder if the next time Christmas lands on a Sunday, and it's not for like another 10 years, will they just say, fuck it, we're doing our regular schedule on Sunday. Everybody's in the pool. It's Christmas. It's a Sunday. We're not going to shy away from that.
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We're going to completely and totally own it. That would rock.
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would probably split it evenly yeah because you want it to be like appointment television for certain games on christmas otherwise it's just your full-blown schedule think about it your full-blown schedule on a day when everybody is is home and everybody's looking for something to do let's tune into red zone let's flip on this game let's go i mean the numbers could go through the roof in comparison to what they ordinarily are but it's not like until 2033 or something like that so you know some of us will be dead by then do you
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I think it's like the old line from Mad Men when Jon Hamm says, I don't even think about you. Okay. I think that's his reaction.
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Yeah. And it's going to keep getting bigger and bigger. I mean, the NFL is by far the biggest attraction in the United States and they want to make it global. It's a hundred year thing. We'll definitely be dead by the time it comes to full bloom. But, you know, there would have been a time when people would have laughed at the idea of football overtaking baseball in the United States.
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And I'm sure deep down they'd love to overtake soccer one of these days. That'll probably never happen. But I would have said the same thing in the 70s about baseball and football.
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Well, the Eagles, the Lions, the Chiefs, the Bills, the Ravens.
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No, well, yeah, I mean... Technically, right? Chip in the chair. You've seen wildcard teams win before, Mike. Fine, I know, but it feels like... It feels like there's a cluster of teams that rise above the rest.
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You know, I've dealt with you for so fucking long. You're a smartass that just doesn't even register anymore. There's no dominant team. The Lions had some dominant wins earlier in the year. They beat the Jaguars like 52-6. They blew the Cowboys off the field. But since Thanksgiving when the Bears almost forced overtime, remember that game when the Bears like fucked up the – Timeouts.
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They're tough to deal with. They've been in close games pretty much every week since then. There is no team that's just going to show up and kick your ass like the 85 Bears. There's nothing close to that. So, I mean... You're going to have Chiefs fans, Matt.
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But they don't blow anybody out. The win over the Steelers was the most impressive win of the year by 19 points.
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Oh, absolutely. But also Joe Burrow like transforms into a next level superhero in the playoffs roll around. And he's gone toe to toe with Patrick Mahomes multiple times. He's the only active player, only active quarterback who has beaten the Chiefs in the postseason. It really is amazing, though. And the Chiefs history and Mahomes doesn't make the Pro Bowl, which is.
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laughable at one level but you look at the numbers this year and you can see why he didn't but his worst outcome since he became a starter in 2018 is losing in overtime of the afc championship that's his floor i mean for a lot of teams they haven't even done that for the vikings since 1976 their best case scenario is losing in overtime in the nfc championship once Yeah, twice.
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That's his worst outcome. It's uncanny. So I agree. It's going to be very hard to go to Arrowhead Stadium and win, but they're not dominating people. That's the point. There's no one that's just showing up and kicking your ass each and every week.
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Correct. I agree with you completely. And they might work it in a way that they avoid both of them. Maybe the Bills and Ravens end up playing each other in the divisional round, so they only have to play one of them.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
Oh, I guess if the Steelers win.
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They could end up drawing the Ravens in the divisional round. So you think Bailey Zappi is going to beat Lamar Jackson? Well, no. Is it 17 and a half points? Wouldn't it be the Browns that would fuck up the last act of a clear tank?
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The other teams, they don't care. The Browns, organizationally, top to bottom, they want it, and they've done a good job of positioning themselves for it. So you're right. You're right. They win the division.
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They won't meet in the divisional round, and it would be if the Ravens win and the Bills win in the wildcard round, they'll end up playing each other in the divisional round, and the Chiefs will get the lowest team left. You're right.
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If you can avoid the Eagles, which is doable. I want the Eagles.
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It's not crazy. I mean, you win, and you don't have to go to Philadelphia. You're going to go to LA or Tampa, right? Jaden Daniels, it feels like he's busted through the rookie wall. There was a period of time where he's either hurt or he's fatigued. Lately, he's been phenomenal. MVP chance on Sunday night.
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Well, that's all right. They're doing better than anyone expected. And they fought through that lull that they slipped into. They slipped into a spot where it's like, okay, you know, the chariots turned back into a pumpkin. It's over for the commanders. They came out the other side of it and they've been winning. And a team like that can be dangerous.
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When you get to the playoffs and you're on house money and you don't give a shit and you just go out and play and you have confidence that you can make it happen. And Jaden Daniels has been You know, better than anybody expected.
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When we were at the scouting combine and we were meeting with defensive players and we asked as many of them as we could remember to ask, who's the best guy you ever faced in college? The SEC guys all said without hesitation, Jaden Daniels, because he's there and then he's gone. And we've seen it. We've seen it come to fruition.
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So with a guy like Jaden Daniels, because when we see low seeds in the past, make a deep run. The common denominator for those teams is to have a great quarterback. And even though he's a rookie, he's already in that list of great quarterbacks.
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You know, there's a way that the team that loses on Sunday night only has one road game in the playoffs. Because those wildcard teams could go in. You get the Packers at the Eagles. the Packers could win. You get the commanders at the Bucks or the Rams, they could win. And then the five seed wins at the four seed. All of a sudden, the teams left are one, five, six, and seven.
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The five seeds host in the divisional round game. And if the seven seed upends the Vikings or the Lions, the five seeds host in the NFC championship.
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That could happen.
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Make sure you say the e-book. The print edition is at 99 cents. Paper ain't free. That was my New Year's resolution, my first one in 21 years, because I want to encourage people to read. People view reading as a chore. They view it as work. You do. I send you all my books. You never read them because you view it as work. You have association to school, and you don't want to do it.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
Okay. Father of Mine is a mob tale set in West Virginia in the earth. All right, fine. Ask me about my fantasy team.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
Well, read Father of Mine in the sequel. Once you finish Father of Mine, you'll want to read the next one. You're signing me up for another one? Wait, so what's the sequel? The sequel is Son of Mine.
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Mike Florio, College Football Playoffs, Week 18 Picks And Preview And Fyre Fest of The Week
Exactly. All right, the new Bible. Now I'm doing the next one, which I guess is essentially Revelation.
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It's a great title. Titles aren't protected by copyright law. You know how I learned that?
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Yeah, I think that would be. I think that would probably be pushing the limits of the law. That would require, what do they call that? It's a case of first impression.
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All the way to the Supreme Court. It's a little bit for a site. Legal minds from all over the world would be studying it.
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I think Aaron Rodgers doesn't want to come back to the Jets, but he wants them to be the ones that break up with him. He's been needling Woody Johnson. Every time he's on McAfee's show, he says some snarky thing about Woody Johnson. No, I might be fired by a teenager. I think he wants them to end it, and then he'll see if anyone out there really wants him.
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And if no one does, he's decided to retire. But if somebody that he deems worthy of his services wants him, and I'm fascinated by the possibility of him going to Pittsburgh. Remember that video of him and Mike Tomlin kind of making googly eyes at each other? It's like that Sopranos gif where it's Christopher and Patsy are doing this.
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I feel like that tracks with what the Steelers are currently doing at quarterback, which is we don't know how to develop one. Let's just go find a veteran and plug him in. But if he finds a team that wants him and he wants to play for them, then he'll play for another team next year. And he'll use the Jets not wanting him as motivation.
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He says it, but I don't believe that he wants to play for the Jets again. He knows what a shit show it is there.
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Yeah. Yeah, which tells you his priorities are completely out of whack. They were horrible. He was injured all of last year. They were horrible this year. How does that become the best year of your life when you won a Super Bowl and you're a four-time MVP?
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Metalhead, great people.
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No. No, that won't happen. Why not? I guarantee that won't happen. Why? I'll just say this. There are more than a few people around the league who have figured out Aaron Rodgers and want nothing to do with him.
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Oh. I didn't say that. I just said there's more than a few people who know that, you know, I don't – look, I'm – I got enough problems.
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I got enough problems. But I think there's a lot of coaches for whom it would be a hard sell, and you better be damn confident that you can coexist with this guy, and it's not going to completely fuck up your life and get you fired five weeks into the season like it did Robert Sala.
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No. Look, there aren't many guys who, once they've been the highest paid player in the NFL, who voluntarily accept being a backup. Flacco's like the only guy that's ever done that. Usually it's, hey, if I can no longer start, see you later. I'm out of here. I'm going to go count my money. The thing with Cousins, and this is why I think Rodgers might have a future, but Cousins won't.
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Both had the torn Achilles. Both have less mobility than they used to have. Then again, Cousins never had much. Rodgers still throws it 40 yards on a dime with a flick of a wrist. Look at Cousins. He's got to like he's got to like muster every ounce of energy in his body from his toes to his fingertips to try to throw the football.
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And his body eventually rebelled against him this year because he was compensating for the torn Achilles tendon. So I just it just got to the point where I just can't do it anymore. And I've talked to people who said, you know what, there's a chance it just never comes back for him. He could be done.
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Yeah, he does. He gets paid next year. He gets $27.5 million next year. He made $62.5 million this year. He gets $27.5 million next year, regardless of what happens with the Falcons. The only way he'd lose it is if he'd retire. And if he's stupid to retire, you force him to cut you and you take your $27.5 million.
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Where are we this year? It's central time zone, so it won't be quite the ass-cracking dawn.