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[Assistant] What's the, what if the Giants are going to Dallas? What's that spread? Cause that spread might be a plus number for the home team. No way. Did you see how those teams played in week 18?


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, I mean, so they, they would play, they would play the Eagles in round two, most, almost likely. Ooh boy, that Billy's getting nervous. I mean, that's every time.


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[Assistant] I'm shaking my head because of this Buccaneers thing. I want to say Buccaneers minus three and a half and I'm going to take the Buccaneers all day long.


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[Assistant] Look man, if Tom Brady has to go to San Francisco for your, whatever revenge game you'll come up with, they're going to get.


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[Assistant] I can't help but cowboy stick. You're so petrified of this. I'm not at all. I don't mind my, I don't, I'm not a Buccaneers hater or Buccaneers fan. I covered the NFL for instance. I'm also a junior draft analyst. So I covered the NFL draft. This team also has a losing record, I believe. Is that true?


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[Assistant] Breach, would you take the Buccaneers at the Williams over Wilson number of minus three and a half or not?


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[Assistant] The Buccaneers can't score points, but I mean, when you see Dak Prescott play the way he played in week 18, I got a lot of questions.


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[Assistant] I'm picking the 49ers, I'm picking the Giants and I'm picking the Buccaneers. Welcome to the Tom Brady Bear Wagon.


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[Assistant] Uhm, straight up, but I don't remember what the number, what I say for the Vikings. So I think the Giants, if the Giants win, they'll cover. So uhm, I think that the 49ers actually win by double digits, so they, they hit the win over Wilson number two.


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[Assistant] Apparently he had had a lot of conversations in recent uhm, days with Cal McNair, the owner, and no one knew what the...


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[Assistant] He wouldn't typically do the things that he did on, on Sunday had this team been in contention to, to win an early season game or maybe, uh, to win a playoff spot, which, you know, on some level I find annoying because Dan Campbell seems to do the opposite, but whatever. Uh, the way, this was,


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[Assistant] Arguably the most exciting game, maybe outside of how the Seahawks won at the end there, the most exciting game of week 18. And it was partly Davis Mills storing as many interceptions as possible and then coming back and throwing as many crazy touchdowns as possible. And then the decision by Lovey, as you mentioned, to go for two, uh, to instead tie it.


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[Assistant] Uh, instead of tying it going for the win, and they, they converted that. And after they scored the touchdown, and I, I think this is the timing, before they went for two, you see Calvin Nair coming down for the, from the, from his sweep to the field. And part of me was like, is he running down there to try to fire Levy as quickly as possible so he, he doesn't lose the number one overall pick? But uhm, that's not how it worked out.


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[Assistant] And I, I give a ton of credit and people talk about tanking all the time. It's hard for, for everyone to get on the same page of tank because players are inherently wired to, to, to win because you can tank if you want to, you may not be there next year. So it's sort of a hard thing to pull off. Now owners, and we know the Steven Ross thing about how he,


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[Assistant] Reportedly tried to not really tried to tank. I think that's a different conversation. But uhm.


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[Assistant] For me, the bigger issue breaches now that the Texans have gone back to back years firing their one and done coach. And it makes you wonder like what this means for GM Nick Casario, because I've actually heard that he's not on a solid footing as perhaps.


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[Assistant] Some might think in general, and that's concerning for another patriots guy who, you know, has yet to turn things around.


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[Assistant] Bridge, you mentioned the 4th and 20. A few plays before that, they converted a 4th and 12 as well to Brandon Cooks on the sideline, I believe, to keep that drive alive. So they had a couple of 4th and forevers that they somehow managed to pull out. Uh, and a 3rd and 13. Or no, they didn't. That was...


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[Assistant] And again, we haven't even brought this up because Lovey Smith is unfortunately the loser for winning, but I think you mentioned this in our little pre-podcast conversations. The biggest loser was on the other side of the field with the headset on.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, I'm glad you asked because you can, uh, watch with the first pick podcast tomorrow at 2pm and we'll go through those things, uh, today on Monday, uhm, with my buddy Rick Spielman, but for the purposes of this podcast, and I'm off, Jeff.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'll give you a thousand names. Don't ask questions you don't want her to answer to. I'll give you a thousand names to ask and you can start with some of the worst people in human history. We'll go from there. We'll work our way from the bottom.


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[Assistant] So anyway, so here's the thing, as always on this podcast, I got a text from a scout that said, the bears are not taking Jalen Carter number one. I said, yeah, I think they're going to trade down, but I don't do trade downs on the podcast.


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[Assistant] They're not taking a quarterback. They're not trading Justin Fields. So, uh, as we sit here though.


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[Assistant] As we sit here, number one, I have the Bears taking Jalen Carter, although they'll almost certainly look to trade down because there will be teams will be looking for quarterbacks. Uh, number two of the Texans taking Bryce Young, which is, I hadn't taken Bryce Young anyway.


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[Assistant] Which feels like a huge get. Although, you know, for instance, mentioned Justin Fields' future. Who knows what Kyle Murray's future is? His ACL is currently, uh, I don't think he's had surgery yet. Uh, and if he has, so he's nine or 10 months away.


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[Assistant] So, number four, the Colts, C.J. Stroud, which feels like another Jim Ursay falling ass backwards into a quarterback situation. Because, uh, C.J. Stroud absolutely balled out the game of his life against Georgia last weekend, and that was, uhm,


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[Assistant] That was even a needle move for some NFL teams, because they, they had, uh, not very many questions, but some questions, and I think he answered those in that game script for him.


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[Assistant] Uh, at number five, the Broncos should be on the clock where they could draft a quarterback. They are not on the clock. That pick went to the Seahawks and they're taking Miles Murphy, the edge rusher out of Clemson. Lions are at six via the Matthew Stafford trade. Uhm, they take an edge rusher as well. Tyree Wilson out of Texas Tech, another, he and Miles Murphy both are long.


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[Assistant] You know, it's going to be interesting to see the comps with Justin Herbert as well because Justin Herbert's thing was being, uh, physically everything you want. Had a tough senior season, but nowhere near as terrible as Will Leves is last year in Kentucky. It was not even, it's night and day, but teams...


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[Assistant] Teams I've talked to absolutely are all in on Will Lovis, which is curious. At 8, I have the Falcons taking Joy Porter Jr., the first cornerback off the board over Keely Ringo.


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[Assistant] Nine, the Panthers are now out of the quarterback conversation of the top three guys because they keep winning games.


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[Assistant] So at nine, David Tepper's gonna have to trade up cause I would, uh, Brenton, I think you would agree David Tepper's out of the free agent quarterback market. Look, I don't feel like their car is going to be an answer in Carolina.


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[Assistant] So, that means that David Tepper is gonna have to trade up if he wants one of these top three quarterbacks, and that's good news for the Bears, although if they get, if they go from nine to one, that's...


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[Assistant] Ooh boy, but that's something to watch out. Uh, Tim, the Eagles have the, the Saints pick from all the crazy things the Saints did last draft. They take an office tackle pair of Johnson Jr. Titans take Jordan Addison, the wide receiver at USC, formerly a pit, who is awesome. Um, I don't know if he solves all the Titans issues. They could be in the quarterback market, I suppose.


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[Assistant] That's right, 31, 32 is the Steelers pick. I think Stace Claypool. But the 13th pick is the Jets. I'm taking a quarterback, Anthony Richardson out of, um, Florida. He may not go that high and no teams are a little nervous about him, but he, he has a chance to be special down the road.


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[Assistant] So breach out of all these teams. I had the Panthers taking Quentin Johnson, by the way. Sorry. Um, why big Jordan? The tall wide receiver to TCU. So


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[Assistant] Yeah, I can see that. But coming from him though, I think it depends on who delivers that joke. You're kinda like, okay, that's pretty funny. Coming from me, not so funny.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, but that's not your style of joke. Like, I don't think you'd lay down that joke either. So, I get it.


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[Assistant] Should we talk about like what just happened or did you guys already do a breaking news pod?


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[Assistant] So there's a lot of different ways we can break this down. Like yes, Derek Carr leads the league in interceptions, but I also look at the fact that it's a new offense and what Derek Carr was wanting previously in Las Vegas and with the Raiders,


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[Assistant] Far different. You know, as far as the verbiage of a West Coast offense compared to Josh McDaniel's system, entirely different. What he's asked to do before the snap of the football, entirely different.


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[Assistant] There were gonna be some growing pains. You know, I got traded to Denver in 2010.


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[Assistant] When I got there, that was Josh McDaniel's second year. I remember talking to Kyle Orton about what he went through in 2009 and how big of an adjustment it was for him. And he had the most interceptions in his career that year with Denver and then probably a large part to adjusting the new personnel, a new system and all of that. But that being said,


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[Assistant] It's a system that is very quarterback friendly once you get ahold of it. It's just really tough to do it in one year's time. So I do think he was up against it considering what he's had in the past, even though he's played a lot of football and the fact that they go get Devontae Adams. There's a lot of things on the wide receivers too, as far as route adjustments and what you're asked to do, the way you can move within that offense. So it's surprising that he had such a short leash.


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[Assistant] But it also, I think it gleams a few things. Uh, for starters, Joshua Daniels obviously was a previous head coach with Denver. Maybe he learned a little bit from his experience then and thought, all right, I'm taking this job though. I'm making sure Mark Davis knows that if things don't go well, I'm going to bench


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[Assistant] Derrick Carr, and I'm gonna make sure that we sit him out. He's not even active. Because of that guarantee with his contracts, we can make sure we can trade him, move him.


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[Assistant] Or release them, depending on how they view his contract, if they can't get the right trading partner, and move on from him without having to pay, what, $40 million, I believe.


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[Assistant] He would be due if he couldn't pass the physical come, uh, the beginning of the new league year. So it makes some sense from a business standpoint, but this is also a move to tank, right? They're currently drafting the top 10. They have six wins and they lose the next two to have to think they're safely probably in the top eight.


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[Assistant] Will Wevis or CJ Stroud, who I think will be the first three quarterbacks that are taken in the first round, probably in the top 10.


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[Assistant] I don't have to go back. It's a $40 million that kicks in, I believe, so.


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[Assistant] You're seeing this with the Colts and Matt Ryan too. It has a lot to do with why they're putting him on the bench at this point and he's inactive. So, I get the business side of things.


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[Assistant] I just think, alright, are you gonna find someone that's a rookie quarterback of the three I mentioned that's gonna come in right away and be able to play as high of a level? Maybe Raiders fans are saying, well he's throwing 14 interceptions.


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[Assistant] I get that, but you know, they also play in arguably one of the tougher divisions. You got the Chiefs who are, you know, maybe the best team in football next to the Bills and the Eagles, but you've got that team sitting in your division every single year. The Chargers are now a playoff team as well. And look, you're,


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[Assistant] You're, you're better than the alternative, I guess, when you look at the Denver Broncos. I mean, look at that disaster. So you got that going for you at this point, I guess.


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[Assistant] I think it has to be one of those destinations that he's looking at. People who keep thinking he's going to go back to New England, it's like, I don't know that I foresee that either.


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[Assistant] What are they just going to patch things up and you'd need to probably change who the offensive coordinator is. Probably change the offensive coordinator.


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[Assistant] Yeah, either way though I think if you look at the three guys I mentioned.


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[Assistant] With Bryce Young, your concern is the size. Like, will he be able to stay healthy? Now his film is the best of anyone.


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[Assistant] He checks every box. Like I love this guy. I think he's one of the best prospects we've seen probably the past couple of decades. Like to me, he's right up there.


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[Assistant] He's got a really, really high football IQ. The way he can manipulate the defense, he really does do things that you don't see many college quarterbacks do. I mean, he's way ahead of his time.


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[Assistant] Uh, as far as moving defenders, anticipation throws, it's just a size and you're kind of walking away to going.


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[Assistant] You know, how big is his arm? His arm is good enough, but it's not Will Wevis. It's not Anthony Richardson. It's probably not even CJ Stroud for that matter. But it's enough. It's plenty enough. And he makes some of the most unique throws.


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[Assistant] From off platform, awkward body positions too. When most guys can't. I mean, literally, it's almost like, remember Wayne's World? When, like, uh, he sees Cassandra and he starts just kind of floating through the crowd.


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[Assistant] That's how, that's how Bryce Young kind of just floats around and they just like throws. Like it's almost like he's got this uncanny ability or just to throw like off platform. I haven't seen that in a while.


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[Assistant] He just floats through the crowd like towards her. Hey, that's how he like floats in the pocket. They just spits the ball out and it's on a dime across his body, opposite side of the field.


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[Assistant] I like, I love his tape. Maybe that's their target here because maybe some other people are too concerned about his size and if he can stay healthy, but clearly he's been able to stay healthy enough in Alabama. Uh, the Will Levis tape is not that great. And it's funny that people are like, well, yes, tape was so bad, but go back and look at last year.


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[Assistant] How different were his stats last year versus this year? They just had better team success. Uhm, he was banged up. That was a big piece of it. You know, in a walking boot, put out a sling on at times. By the way, as was Bryce Young at times this season.


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[Assistant] Nick Saban told me during a couple of their losses, their only two losses, you know, that was that entire month. He wasn't practicing.


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[Assistant] So he was playing through a bunch of injuries. So I think both those guys will be interesting to see how they're evaluated and how they're looked at. CJ Stroud is surgical from the pocket. Maybe, you know, he's got a high football IQ as well.


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[Assistant] But when he's under duress, it doesn't work out quite the same. The Raiders offensive line play hasn't been great this year. And I know Josh McDaniels is one of the brightest minds in the NFL, so he can figure out ways of scheming up protection for CJ Stroud.


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[Assistant] Uh, but it all depends on really what I think him and Ziegler are looking for out of that quarterback position. Because to me, like Bryce Young kind of makes a lot of sense here.


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[Assistant] But maybe it's not, maybe it's not any of them. Maybe it's what we're talking about. It's offering that top 10 pick.


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[Assistant] Unless Aaron Rodgers wants out, you know, I don't know what, uh, the Green Bay Packers are going to decide to do with him. And obviously Jordan Love, who has to factor into that decision as well, you know, he'd be the top.


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[Assistant] But outside of that, I'm not sure whether team is blatantly saying right now we're ready to move on from this guy outside of the Raiders that you would say this is probably the top quarterback in the trade market, at least that I can think of. Uhm, now it could be some other.


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[Assistant] Organizations that start sniffing around or poking around that have a guy that you might feel like is better. I mean, look, Matt Ryan's been an MVP in this league before he's been to a Super Bowl. So maybe you feel like.


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[Assistant] He might be better even though this year did not look anywhere close to that.


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[Assistant] But Derek Carr would be, in my opinion, I think the most probably sought after, you know, at least from a, from a trade standpoint, not including the guys you're looking at, like a Tom Brady, uh, like a Jimmy Garoppos, said to be a free agent and other quarterbacks who fall into that category.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that is an interesting commercial. I mean, of all the places, like I'd want a Chipotle, that's just me. Sure. Uhm, wouldn't be a Taco Bell.


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[Assistant] Well, we'll think about this. Remember, it's a 20,000 square foot house with four bedrooms, alright? You've gotta make sure you've got multiple bathrooms, places to go to the bathroom. You don't have to worry about where you're sleeping. Cause in a house that big, you'll probably forget where you're at half the time. But you have to have all the bathrooms so you can make sure you can take care of your business.


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[Assistant] Is there a possibility one of the bedrooms is so big, you have two bathrooms in one bedroom? I think not like a separate like his and hers, like literally.


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[Assistant] Like your east wing of that room has one bathroom and the west wing has another bathroom. I think that's entirely possible. I mean it's possible, but like have you heard of a house that has that? I have not.


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[Assistant] But again- I would guess that they're counting- Well, that's advertised. You think they're counting two half baths as a full bath? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Look, here's the deal. If you're that rich and give a 20,000 square foot house,


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[Assistant] Bathrooms need to be full. Just in case there's an accident, then just go shower off quick. Put on whatever clothes you've got remaining.


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[Assistant] Again, when you're in a house that big, you're probably eating like ridiculously rare foods that most people's bodies are not accustomed to. So they're gonna have an extremely adverse reaction to that. And it's most likely gonna come in the form of some near accident of number two. So because of that, again,


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[Assistant] That's more of the issue, not fast food. I mean, that stuff has been running through our bodies for years. In fact, it probably doesn't stay in our body long enough before we pass it to even have any sort of impact. But if you're talking about like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think that thing's coming out pretty, you know, normal. I think you're worried about like some of the rare foods like, oh, this, this came out of the rainforest. We've never seen this specimen of animal before, but in this 20,000 square foot house.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's a tough one. Cause he's actually created a number of systems. Who are you saying? I'll say the Panthers.


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[Assistant] Ooh, you like that, huh? You like that. I mean, they gotta figure out their head coach first.


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[Assistant] And did you feel like Steve Wilkes is going to be burnt by like drafting a quarterback and Josh Rosen and say, I don't want to go that route. I need a veteran. We can, we got a running game. We got a good defense. I feel like he'll come in right away and make us competitive if it's Steve Wilkes.


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[Assistant] That'd be really disappointing though considering the lift he's given him and the raw deal he got in Arizona in the first place. I agree completely. He should get a look at it. David, David Teppers, David Teppers, who knows?


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[Assistant] That is true. David Tepper is David Tepper indeed. I was gonna say the Jets, like if you're the Jets, I think you need a veteran guy to come in.


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[Assistant] Garoppolo, like, don't you have so many concerns about his injury history? Even though he fits the system, Salo has been around.


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[Assistant] I think it'd be perfect for it. And that's another team that I think you say.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that'd be one you'd look at, but like, what's the deal with Trey Lance? And maybe they'd be in the runnings for Tom Brady, you know, or Aaron Rodgers for that matter. Like, I feel like you might have two other veteran guys you might look at if that's the case.


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[Assistant] Right, the Jets that moved on from Zach Wilson, which I tried to explain to people early in the season, that was probably going to take place, may have thrown that out there, really upset some Jets fans, I have not heard much from them.


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[Assistant] Well, 5,000 actually in donations, right? Unless they win another game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know if it was that so much, but either way, here's what's really surprising to me. You just went on this...


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[Assistant] Rant about that, someone's gotta be the scapegoat. Obviously Nathaniel Hackett is in this case. You tease whether or not it's Russell Wilson.


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[Assistant] How does George Payton get off the hook is what I want to know. And then it's empowered by, is it Greg Penner? I believe is the acting CEO now. So he's empowering.


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[Assistant] He's empowering George Payton now to take over the next head coaching search, yet...


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[Assistant] It was George Payton who selected Nathaniel Hackett in the first place. Who traded for Russell Wilson?


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[Assistant] Who also traded for Russell Wilson, but I'm not gonna fault him from that. No one knew that was gonna take place, right, until we got into the season. But let's just go through as Nathaniel Hackett was hired, who was George Payton's decision before the ownership took over, and then all that came with that, okay?


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[Assistant] So you hire a guy who's never been head coached before. Okay, that's fine. Comes with good recommendations. You probably want to surround them with some other guys who've got some experience at their positions, right? Yeaah. Their defensive coordinator. First year defensive coordinator calling the defense. Their offensive coordinator.


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[Assistant] First year calling the offense. Now, Nathaniel Hackett was obviously calling the offense, but first time at that, at that spot as an, as an OC and it ended up calling the plays which really had no impact on helping to improve the offense. So you've got first time head coach, first time OC, first time DC. What about the O-line?


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[Assistant] Also a first time offensive line coach who actually got dismissed as well with Nathaniel Hackett. So at no point in time, if you're George Payton, you're not like,


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[Assistant] Hey man, uhm, maybe we would've surrounded ourselves with a few veteran guys we sprinkle in there just to help us out with figuring everything out. Or what about someone for like game management? It's like, oh yea, George Payne is taking credit for Jerry Rosberg, who he helped Nathaniel Hacken figure out after week 2.


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[Assistant] What about the entire offseason? Figuring out that maybe you have a head coach who needs this, or you should have somebody who oversees this.


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[Assistant] And then I think the worst thing to me is Mike Munchek, who has played in almost every single style of system in offense.


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[Assistant] Yet, you didn't want to go that route. And at no point in time do you want to tap and say, hey, why don't we call Mike Munchax, see if he can help us out offensively, doing some things with our running game, protection for Russell Wilson, all of that, right? Don't bring him in.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's crazy to me that George Payton has, even though he's been public and taken some blame with all this, he survives. And then he's empowered to hire the next coach, which is interesting because whoever the next coach is, you'd think that he's got power over that head coach. And so it's a new ownership group that I think is already


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[Assistant] Making mistakes and stumbling over themselves for not being able to reevaluate how this whole entire mess started. It started with George Payton.


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[Assistant] So it's just, it's interesting to me, like that's where we are right now. As the Broncos look for a new head coach that they want to partner, obviously get the most out of Russell Wilson, it makes sense. And we can get into that, you know, whether or not Russell Wilson has that same fast twitch and escape ability and things that we saw during his time in Seattle, how you build that offense around him and the personnel for that matter.


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[Assistant] But no matter how you look at it, like, why should we trust if you're a Broncos fan, George Payton, in figuring out who that guy is and then constructing a coaching staff?


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[Assistant] that he's going to rely on your expertise in helping this next head coaching search.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't, I mean, you could, you could manipulate this thing to direct them to a guy who, Hey everybody, I'm the one who got you in here as the head coach. Like that guy's not gonna throw him under the bus. The odd thing not to make a transition to Sean Payne because it seems like he's very open about the fact that


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[Assistant] You know, he wants to get back into coaching and he's building this all-star coaching staff. That's great. That's not surprising, right? He's one of the best offensive minds, great head coach.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, yeah, I mean, that's, that's where I'm kind of interested to see where this goes. Uhm, anyway, but.


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[Assistant] It is interesting that Sean Payne's been so outspoken about it, and you're almost like, dude, there's some spots that you might be tabbed at that aren't even open right now, and doesn't the Saints have the rights to them?


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[Assistant] Then people start speculating whether or not he'd come back to coach the Saints. And especially, you know, maybe reunite him with Tom Brady, who's a free agent. And we already know that they had plans to potentially both be in Miami together. Why not New Orleans then with that roster, given how much talent they have, if you could keep some of those guys together.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you just start looking, I go, well, how fair is that to Dennis Allen? Not fair at all. No, and so I, I don't know. The whole thing is a bit bizarre that you kind of take a year off and now want to immediately get right back into it.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I mean maybe there's not as much interest in all that. I think most people...


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[Assistant] When they get in the TV, the real reason they get in the TV is because they want to be able to apply leverage and stay visible. Right? And leverage in the sense of


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[Assistant] If they end up enjoying TV, they can always go back and pay me a little bit more and I'll stay and I won't leave. And most networks would be like, okay, we'll probably do that, but they have a point to which they'll say,


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[Assistant] We know eventually you'll want to come back. And so go, go coach, go back into the thing you love. When you're done with that, come right back to us. We'll be here for you and waiting. That's usually how it goes. Like they're not going to be held at gunpoint and say, yeah, we'll pay you whatever you want.


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[Assistant] And so that's what's interesting about this is, is obviously it's, it's a year off. It's to go to Fox for a year. And then out of the, he, what goes somewhere else? I mean, that's the hard thing is given that they still have his rights.


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[Assistant] It was almost just what he needed a year off to be able to just, I don't know, recharge, recharge or refresh how he sees himself as a coach or where he wants to be. And he gets a year away and maybe Dennis Allen does well enough where it's okay for him to move on somewhere else. I don't know. It's all a bit bizarre.


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[Assistant] That was awesome. I think, you know, it's great for him. It's great for Bethune Cookman. Obviously he's hiring him.


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[Assistant] The only thing I kind of when I heard the news was thinking, wow, uhm, he's the type of guy that I thought would have risen up the ranks at Miami if you wanted. Now granted, he was hired originally under Manny Diaz, so maybe when Mario Cristobal got there, he's like, ah, this isn't really working out the way I'd hoped.


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[Assistant] Uh, or I'd rather do my own thing. And then if Cristobal doesn't work out, now I've got some head coaching experience. So hire me back as the head coach. But I also thought like the NFL, I mean, who would be, people would be a fool not to hire him and have him at a minimum as your secondary coach and not eventually as a defensive coordinator. Now I know it's a completely different skill set.


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[Assistant] To play the game, and arguably in my opinion, he's the best safety I've ever played.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but also then be able to call a defense. Like, that's two different skill sets. For sure.


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[Assistant] But I still would love to see it. And I think, you know, most teams in the NFL would probably give him a chance to see if he is capable of doing it. So that was the way interesting thing is.


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[Assistant] Or just wanting to kind of get that head coaching like right away and start doing things your own way to kind of find your way and how you go about doing it.


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[Assistant] That is done though, right? I mean, look at Hugh Jackson right now at, at Grambling State, right? Like he goes down there and they're, what, three and eight or whatever they are. I mean, it's not helping.


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[Assistant] Because I think he was what, 1 in 31 and then he won 2 the next year before he got fired. So he's acquitted of that at least, but.


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[Assistant] The point is this, it's like, it's still given that he's gonna go to Bethune-Cookman and build up the program to be what Jackson State was with Deion Sanders. Like, it helped, by the way, that Deion Sanders just happens to have a son who's a studded quarterback, and then he gets a five-star guy who can play both ways, spot receiver, and DB to come there. It's like, well, that'll change a lot. That'll help the program a lot.


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[Assistant] Let's see how this works out now versus Utah, who by the way, they got a bunch of big old dudes, Polynesian dudes, guys who are looking to smash your face in every single play. We'll see if that works out and how that transition goes at Colorado.


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[Assistant] To make a run, in my opinion. Like, I think Carson Wentz has a higher ceiling.


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[Assistant] Then Taylor Heinecke, who probably has a higher floor though than Wentz, right?


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[Assistant] I don't imagine Taylor Heineck is going to throw a left hand interception. We've seen Carson Wentz do that before, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, but so I just don't see that happening. So I think you have to take the good with the bad. And I think if you're watching, you look at your situation right now and go, still got a shot for the playoffs. Are we getting the playoffs? We need someone who can really push the ball down the field. He brings that and you traded for him. So.


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[Assistant] Go give him, go give him every opportunity right there to prove otherwise that he can do it. So there's our Jonathan Jones all over it.


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[Assistant] I don't doubt that, but didn't he just say he was bored last week and then some teams started inquiring?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was just gonna say, it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. Uh, and by the way, he's what, 33?


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[Assistant] The Bucks could use him. I mean, I'm not going to lie, the Bucks could use him. The Bucks could use him, especially to make a playoff run. Like he be that guy you go, okay.


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[Assistant] Bring him in for a playoff run. I think him and Tom Brady would be just fine. Or what about a reunion in Vegas? I mean, I just think that is the play. Like if Tom Brady ends up going to Vegas.


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[Assistant] Grog's gonna be there, he's gonna have his own club, he's gonna have his own merch, like everything else. It'll go wild if he goes there for a year and then kind of makes some roots and they have any sort of success there. And then Josh McDaniels will just have to sign on for it.


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[Assistant] He said he's not gonna make things the Patriots way. Well, guess what, buddy? If you get Tom Brady, you're getting Rob Grigowski too.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so uhm, I wasn't aware this was even possible, but...


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[Assistant] Apparently, you know, when you tell your significant other, your spouse,


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[Assistant] You're one of your loved ones, especially if you happen to cohabitate with them. All right.


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[Assistant] If you're going Christmas shopping for them, it could buy you a lot of time around the holiday season, which can be stressful at times for some people, right? Yeah, so my buddy tells me he's like, Hey,


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[Assistant] Here's the plan. We go over to this mall, which was a nice mall by the way. And by the way, I haven't been in a mall in like 15 years, like probably before college. Cause I used to work at one. I worked at Hollister back in high school. I just, something about that whole experience. I was like, this is just, I don't want to go back into a mall. I spent enough time there. So, uh, he's like, here's how we set this up. Tell the wives we're going to be going to, he's, he's got a Southern accent now, so you can appreciate it.


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[Assistant] No, no, he's got southern accents. He's like, tell your wives you're gonna get them something nice at the mall. He's like, and this is the plan. We start off at Capital Grill, alright? We get a few drinks there, you know, have ourselves a nice lunch for about an hour, maybe two hours, alright? Then from there...


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[Assistant] We try to hit up all the department stores, but don't forget all the department stores have a bar in each of them. They do? So we first go to the bar. Oh yeaah. Nordstrom's, Neiman Marcus, you just gotta find it. Sometimes they're tucked away, but they have a bar. They've wised up to all this.


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[Assistant] So we went in there, had a drink or two before you try to go peruse around and it kind of makes like sifting through all the stuff and people who are rude and all that a little bit more easier to take. Yeah. And so we, you know, hit up Nordstrom's, go have a few drinks, maybe have a little appetizer.


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[Assistant] Do a little bit of shopping, go back to Neiman Marcus, go to the bar, have a few more drinks, a little bit of an appetizer, a little more shopping. We were probably there for about six hours, alright?


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[Assistant] An hour of actual shopping to get what we needed done.


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[Assistant] And then there was like five hours of just like kinda perusing around, having a good time. This sounds incredible. This is, this is a cheat code.


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[Assistant] So here's, here's the key. Here's the key. This is what like blew my mind. I was like, he really does have it all figured out. Alright, my buddy Nick. He goes,


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[Assistant] I should actually probably not say the rest of this in case his wife sees this, but he goes, I'll probably get her two bags, make her pick one.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, alright, that makes sense. Like both nice bags. Like that way you kinda, you can't miss if you're getting her a gift that she really wants, she gets to pick. It looks like you can double the shopping.


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[Assistant] No, it's not that. Here's the catch. You take the other one back, you get a refund back for it.


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[Assistant] No, not even the bar for yourself. And you go back and get all those Christmas discounts.


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[Assistant] So literally he's figured out the entire process of why he's a genius. That's what I'm saying. Like he's got this whole thing planned out. He's an absolute genius.


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[Assistant] From this point moving forward, I'm hoping that my wife never sees this.


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[Assistant] And anyone else who watches this, their, their wife never sees this. I mean, honestly, it probably works the other way.


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[Assistant] Look at you right now, man, the hair is looking amazing at the- My hair is all over the place, bro.


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[Assistant] You look like either a frat guy from the 90s or you look like a mountain man, one of the two, maybe a combination, who knows. Well, that's...


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[Assistant] That helps us segue into our first topic of conversation, which is of course, a big, if you look at the rundown.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, there's a number of reasons for that, right? Is there a consensus, true, number one, can't miss prospect at the quarterback spot?


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[Assistant] There's probably reservations with every one of the quarterbacks in this year's draft class. So, you don't have a Trevor Lawrence, you don't have a Joe Burrow, uhm, you don't have a Caleb Williams like you'll have next year. So there's some questions. Now, I will say this. If Bryce Young was a little taller, a little heavier,


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[Assistant] He would be that guy. He is that guy to me. It's just, you know, you gotta put him in a position.


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[Assistant] Uh, where he's able to excel within a system that...


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[Assistant] Is he gonna do things that, that don't help the fact that he's not the biggest guy? Uhm, but...


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[Assistant] No, clearly not. I'm not sure, I'm not even sure the Bears want Justin Fields running as much as Justin Fields runs.


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[Assistant] But the thing about it that's always funny to me is Bryce Young has been this size for a while now. He's won the Heisman. He's excelled to be one of the best, not the best quarterback during his tenure in Alabama in college football. He was one of the best coming out of high school at that size.


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[Assistant] And you can say, what's the NFL level now? Things change, things are different. You're right.


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[Assistant] Guys are even bigger. It's even harder to find passing lanes.


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[Assistant] But, you know, he, he knows how to do all of those things. I think the thing that impresses me the most about him is his football IQ, you can tell in regards to him being such a good decision maker, his anticipation, and the way he's able to manipulate a defense, and he also protects himself.


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[Assistant] I'm not as concerned about the lack of size because


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[Assistant] Kind of similar to Russell Wilson getting back to his time at NC State than Wisconsin.


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[Assistant] He moved around a lot too, but he also was able to get down and protect himself from some of those big, big hits. Uh, it's different than some of the other core backs you see that tend to be more mobile. So, uh, I got Bryce Young at the top of this draft class. You know, how does he rank compared to, uh, or how's this draft class ranked compared to last year's? I think it's better than last year's. Uhm, I'm trying to think of those.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't say this draft class is better than two years prior.


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[Assistant] Right? Like, if you're kinda looking at how these classes stack up.


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[Assistant] I don't know that there's a big drop off. You know, I, I think Herbert was one that you looked at and you said he's got the size, he's got the arm strength, he's got the athleticism. Super smart kid. Everything you love about him.


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[Assistant] Well, and now I think in retrospect you say, yea, it was the Oregon offense. You couldn't figure out what exactly to put your finger on. You're like, it was the Oregon offense. But even then, even despite the Oregon offense, he got better year after year after year after year. So uhm, that was kind of the one where you're like, alright, like, you know, hopefully he gets in the right situation and people can, you know, allow him to push the football down the field, do what he's capable of doing.


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[Assistant] Which clearly, uh, you know, the charges move on from Joe Lombardi, so.


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[Assistant] They don't even think that Joe Lombardi was allowing him to do that. So uhm, hopefully Frank Wright gets that position. He'd be perfect for Justin Herbert. I digress. Uhm, I'm trying to think, you know, here's the list I had.


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[Assistant] He would, to me, be ahead of, he'd be after Burrow ahead of Lawrence.


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[Assistant] Like, he does things on tape that you just don't see other quarterbacks do. You just don't see them do.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm telling you, the throws he can make at every single level, short intermediate downfield, the way he layers throws, he's got the fastball, he doesn't have to have his body aligned to a throw. He's, now maybe it's not so much his arm that's like whippy like Patrick Mahomes.


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[Assistant] But he's got this really incredible ability to have like his feet kind of the wrong way or twisted the wrong way and spit the football out incredibly accurately. I mean, it is, it is one of the most unique things to watch in Bryce Young watching film. The only thing I can say is like, I genuinely enjoy it.


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[Assistant] Like if I'm having a bad day, I'll put on Bryce Young film, and I'll just sit back and smile. Because you don't see many people play the game the way he does. He's playing at a different level. Uhm, as for a guy who burst on the scene his first year won the Heisman.


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[Assistant] He was doing things that you don't see guys do in their first year starting. He's just wise beyond his years. He's a humble kid. He just, he checks every box you're looking for. The one thing people are going to hold against him is his size. And that's, that's it.


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[Assistant] But I think he'll be able to overcome that. I think the league's at a different point now, too, when we look at smaller quarterbacks. Kyler Murray, for example, you mentioned number one overall. You know, Kyler was one of those guys that, you know, when you're starting,


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[Assistant] And in that one year, he was phenomenal. Dynamic athlete, all of that. But when you looked at the offense itself that Lincoln Rowley runs, it's kind of feast or famine. It's like quick screens, quick passes, RPO, you know, or shot downfield. And you're going, okay, how's that exactly going to translate to the NFL?


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[Assistant] You can't just throw to the outside. And a lot of times shorter quarterbacks have problems throwing over the middle because they can't see quite as well, right? Especially if you're sitting for the pocket.


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[Assistant] So there's all those things that kind of concern you and you look at, but uhm, to me, Bryce Young, based on the tape, would be sitting right there amongst that group. You know, CJ Stroud compared to Justin Fields is an interesting one because if you looked at Fields as a passer out of Ohio State, you know, I would say Stroud's more accurate, Fields has a stronger arm.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I obviously feel it's demonstrated the ability to take off and run and I don't even think he even used it to the extent that he's doing it right now in the NFL.


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[Assistant] And we didn't think Stroud couldn't, that he did it in his final game. You're going, okay, he's capable of doing that if he needs to.


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[Assistant] So those two I'd have kinda, I was like neck and neck, even though I do think, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, Justin Fields has a different type of leadership quality, and maybe I feel that way about him more now after the fact. Uhm, cause, cause it's not like CJ Strong didn't show that or display that to an Ohio State. Uhm, but, but I think those two would be tough. I'd probably give the slight edge to Justin Fields, at least coming out of college. Uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, we talked about Trevor Lawrence, talked about Kyle Murray, kinda touched on everyone for the most part. Uhm, who was the guy again?


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[Assistant] Loved his game, just the injury concerns were really big, uh, for me coming out of it, uh, his game, how it would translate. You saw times him be able to fit throws into tight windows, make some special throws. And again, you saw that kind of that sense of timing and all of it.


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[Assistant] But you also saw the way he would extend plays, you're like, that's not going to work at the NFL. Like you can extend plays to a degree, but even amongst that play, once you break out of the pocket, you got to throw a run. You know, you can't be moving around too much. And in his case, in college, he got hurt and even the NFL, he still sustained some of the same injuries. So that's how I kind of categorize some of those guys.


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[Assistant] By the way, he's a part of an offense that was led by Bill O'Brien, a former offensive play caller and head coach in the NFL. It's an NFL system. Like, he walks in, and I'm telling you, anyone who gets around this kid, who has a chance to interview this kid, who gets him in their board, puts him off the board, he's gonna crush it. He's gonna, I mean, he's just...


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[Assistant] He's such a unique talent, uhm, and it just comes down to whether or not an organization is able to get over the fact that when you shake his hand, he's not going to be like Trevor Lawrence, he's not going to be like Justin Herbert, who has this huge Adonis effect as a player. You know, he looks small when he's out there, but the way he sits the ball around...


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[Assistant] I don't know if we're calling it that, but uhm, it's a, he's a very, very unique talent. Hey, you're a, you're a tall strapping lad.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and look, some people feel like you have to have that.


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[Assistant] And look, I think you see smaller guys, and we've seen that. Like you mentioned to us, still has injury issues. Zach Wilson, injury issues. Calla Murray, injury issues. Like, you start going through it, and you look at the smaller size guys, like yeaah, like, they're gonna suffer more injury issues.


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[Assistant] Especially if they can't figure out how to get rid of the football quick and I can't utilize that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, look, you had a Hall of Famer and Drew Brees that, uh, I think helped somewhat pave the way for them.


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[Assistant] There are some other guys you can throw into that conversation probably, but.


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[Assistant] You know, after, you know, the Super Bowl in New Orleans, and then you saw


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[Assistant] He was prolific, man. I mean, he was a good player. He was a good player at Wisconsin. He had all those tools and intangibles that you're looking for.


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[Assistant] The only thing was the size, and it still forced him to be, ended up falling into the third round. Literally, just because of the size.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, and look, with Kyler Murray, I think it's really interesting had it not been Cliff Kingsbury, who was the head coach, who had a prior relationship with him, who could have won an offense that plays to his skill set.


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[Assistant] You gotta wonder, you know, would, would he have been the first overall pick? Would Steve Keim have kind of convinced Michael Bidwell to sign up for that?


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[Assistant] Partnership, if you will, now concerning the fact that you're not...


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[Assistant] You don't have any of that. You don't have Steve Kalimer as general manager. You don't have Cliff Kingsborough as your head coach, but you still have Kalimer in the contract.


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[Assistant] Well essentially that's what you do with Patrick Ricard, right? The fullback of the Ravens. He's big enough to be an offensive lineman almost. So, uh, it almost looks like that's the intent.


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[Assistant] I've got a question that I don't really don't have many answers from it. I mean, obviously the rule has changed. You should not be able to help aid a ball carrier, you know, moving forward. You couldn't push, couldn't pull. Now you're able to push them and now it's getting to the point where


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[Assistant] You know, you see teams doing it, and they're getting two, sometimes up to three yards from it. And they're picking guys up and like carrying them. Which, I, it just, to me, I'm looking at going, okay.


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[Assistant] I understand the intent of why they initially had outlawed it, and now they are allowing it, but you look at it, and it kinda seems like it's venturing into a dangerous play.


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[Assistant] We've got everyone down around the line of scrimmage and they're boxing them all together and you've got 300 pound dudes in the backfield. We're just shoving your multi-multi-million dollar quarterback forward through the other 300 pound men into the other 300 pound men who are there to stop them. It just seems like a recipe for disaster.


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[Assistant] And yet, we, we, we, we then compare it to there or contrast it with roughing the passer. Where an edge rusher or a D tackle sniffs or sneezes on a quarterback and he's called for a penalty. It's like.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'm not so worried with the way the defender takes the guy down to the ground. I'm more worried with the 300 pound guy who's lifting and carrying the guy that's the quarterback into the other guy that's 300 pounds into the other guy preventing him behind more guys trying to prevent him and that whole mosh pit of people.


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[Assistant] Isn't this going to end poorly for a quarterback at some point? And maybe the NFL goes, huh.


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[Assistant] We didn't think about this. Maybe we should, uh, maybe we should just move back.


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[Assistant] On top of that, isn't this a passing league? Like aren't we trying to entice teams to throw the football?


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[Assistant] If you outlaw that, maybe teams are throwing more on third one, fourth one, whatever the case is. Some sort of simple, easy completion or screen. I just, it seems like now, and the Tyler Huntley play is the one that stands out.


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[Assistant] Because it basically gave Cincinnati the game, right? The Sam Hubbard return for a touchdown. But they were trying it from the two, dude. Like, they were, and the best was, this kind of leans into another question, but.


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[Assistant] You know, they were what, .6 yards away from the goal line. Cause apparently there's chips in footballs, which I was unaware of.


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[Assistant] But still, it was .6 yards away. That means, think about that. It was more than a foot, like that's not even close. But they tried to run a quarterback sneak from there, like what the hell?


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[Assistant] I don't like- I think the age old debate with this is, and I've always said this to Matt and Reggie, it's like,


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[Assistant] It was illegal then, yet they get away with it and they get a win from it.


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[Assistant] But then, now that it's legal, they feel like it's justified. And I'm like, hold on a second.


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[Assistant] So if you're, if you're speeding, all right, you're going over 60 miles an hour and you get a speeding ticket because you're driving 74. Okay. And let's just say hypothetically, you know,


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[Assistant] 8, 9, 10 years later, they changed that highway to 75 miles per hour. And you're like, well, I'm gonna contest this ticket. I was going onto the speed limit now. That doesn't make it right back then.


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[Assistant] So that's more of, that's, it's not triggering at all. It's more of the logic that like people try to use behind it or like, oh, I was taking money back in college. Now it's legal for NIO. Well, it wasn't legal then.


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[Assistant] It doesn't make it right, like in retrospect now. It's like, uh, I mean, that wasn't how it was supposed to be working. I don't know. Maybe I'm a stickler for the world.


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[Assistant] Well, I always explain, yeaah. I mean, again, there's your definition. By the way, um, kudos to them though, like that was on what the one, I think the ball was spotted, you know, and they're trying to quarterback sneak. So it's kind of crazy.


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[Assistant] He tried to sneak, he got, yeaah, he got blown back and then he spun and then Reggie just bench pressed him basically into the side of the line in the end zone.


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[Assistant] I will, I will, I want to see if Billy can find a screenshot of the touchdown I had before this to put us up.


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[Assistant] Because there is a stark contrast, and Billy, I'll try to vamp, you can try to work fast to find maybe a screenshot or a grab of it, but there's a stark contrast between these two plays.


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[Assistant] There's this one where Reggie is pushing Matt, who initially got, you can see the surge by the way by our D line and everyone up front.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then he spins off and Reggie pushes him in. If you contrast it with my touchdown, it's the exact opposite. I've actually got like a USC defender that's on my back that I'm like dragging into the end zone. I think it was Keith Rivers.


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[Assistant] I'm known for my quickness, not known for my, my speed down the field, even though I did have.


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[Assistant] Uh, couple of our longest runs, I think, my last two years in college. But no, this is not triggering in any way. It's just more of, uh, it's interesting that the NFL has changed the rule. I just, I'm waiting for there to be an injury where someone goes. I mean, Mahomes doesn't even do it anymore, by the way, because he got injured doing it. Yeah. But see, very stark contrast, right? Between the quarterback.


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[Assistant] The chain, the chain is tangled up. We gotta unchangle the chain. It's gonna be a minute. It's gonna be a minute.


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[Assistant] You only have one side of it. I mean, we've advanced to like the digital ones, right? I think they have like the laser or something. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I mean, would that one speed up the process of determining first down?


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[Assistant] We didn't, no one wanted to tell us there's chips in the football. So like, what do these things look like? How much do they weigh? Maybe they played an impact in Brett Maher's kicks that kept sailing right. Like maybe it was the chip in the football.


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[Assistant] So what's the map on that? Hold on. It's at 96 people, right? So let's just say all 32 teams are playing at 16 games times 6. We've got 96 people who are employed by the NFL. They're too concerned about cutting out that portion of their labor force and not providing


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[Assistant] I've seen that South Park. And by the way, that was the robots one. There was plenty of other ones where they took our job. They took our job.


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[Assistant] I'm more of a Family Guy kick of late. I feel like Family Guy has now taken over for South Park as far as pushing the boundaries.


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[Assistant] Well, which is more of the issue, right? Like anyone who uses any sort of GPS tracking device or wearable when you work out, like I was just doing this because, you know, the people have the whoop bands and people have like the aura rings or whatever it's called and


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[Assistant] I got a watch, like there's the Apple watch, there's a Garmin watch, and I'm not gonna say like what I've been using or how I've been trying to compare them, but I'm always for like, alright, I'm here to kind of track some calorie counts and


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[Assistant] All that stuff. The sleeping stuff, I'm like, okay, I don't need a wearable device to tell me if I didn't sleep well. Cause I'm pretty sure, right? Like if you get blasted at a dinner,


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[Assistant] Guess what? I know I'm probably not going to sleep all that night, so I don't need my phone with an app to remind me that I'm hung over right now and I did not sleep well the night before. I got that message loud and clear when I woke up to take a pit, take a, you know, go to the bathroom.


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[Assistant] At 2 AM. Okay. I realized then while I was still intoxicated that it's not going to be a good morning.


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[Assistant] Uhm, back to the, the wearables. Like, so even in that, obviously, like I'll go on a run.


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[Assistant] And I can do like the Google Maps version of point to point and get an estimation and then the run and get an estimation. Uhm, and it's just like, it's always a little bit off, whether it's like the calories burned, the distance, like.


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[Assistant] There's even a setting where if you're running on a treadmill, it'll calculate the distance that you're running on the treadmill. How long? Based on the pace, and I'm assuming my arm's swinging the movement, right?


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[Assistant] The treadmill had me going at a pace where it was like, I don't know, an eight and a half minute mile. I was done with the mile in seven minutes. And I was like, part of me wanted to be like, yup. My watch said I'm done. I'm done. That was a mile. Even though the treadmill was like.


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[Assistant] No, you lazy ass, you still have like another minute and a half of running to equate to that mile.


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[Assistant] Oh, we just touched down? They're like, no, the dude, the guy, they fell down on 20, like the ball's way back there.


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[Assistant] That's, uh, you know, there's actually, so there's actually ways of counteracting that. Uhm, and I won't go too in-depth in this because I don't want to be a D-bag. Uhm, and like for example, tweet something and then...


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[Assistant] Uhm, applaud my own tweet and like pat myself on the back. But I do have a, well I'm just, it's, it's, there's someone out there who did that uhm, recently. Uhm, we'll explain after the show.


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[Assistant] There was a company that I was able to invest in, or they were putting chips in the basketballs.


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[Assistant] So, and you're kind of thinking to yourself, alright, there's multiple basketballs in a basketball game, not as much as footballs.


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[Assistant] But they also had wearables, uhm, and they've also had the ability to, based on each net, be able to track that, which I assume you just kind of could figure that on uprights, depending on the distance, or other portions of the field, to then figure out which football it is, right? Because you're not going to have all those footballs moving around that much, you're going to have one that's going out in the middle of the field, where it's going to be moving.


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[Assistant] So you either have static, uh, cameras or devices that are able to track that particular chip that's active.


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[Assistant] Uh, or you tap into some of the GPS trackers that are already within some of the equipment players are wearing.


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[Assistant] So if you, for example, looked at that Sam Hubbard play,


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[Assistant] You're saying, oh, well, how are they able to track Sam Hubbard's, you know, speed when he's running? Because he's got the football with him. No, it's because they're already wearing GPS tracking devices, right? And that's why they knew Mark Andrews at 250 pounds almost hit 21 miles per hour, which side note, ridiculous, like absolute gazelle for a guy who's 250.


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[Assistant] So that would, that's where you would get all of those to work together in unison, much like this particular piece of, uh, technology.


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[Assistant] They were able to determine, like, what was an assist, who shot, who, you know, who rebounded the ball. If it was a steal, they were able to track all that because the wearable device in the player, but also the chip in the ball, and then using that all together.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, this is the reason. You know, it's our data. You know, it's our bodies, it's our data, and you can imagine, like, that stuff could be used for and against you based on, you know, how you work over the course of the season, everything else.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, this guy needs more rest. Like he was running at 22 miles per hour throughout practice or in a game, maybe 22 or something like that. But then now in a week, whatever, he's at 20, right? Like what's the drop off? Is he hurt? Is he not resting up? Is he not recovering?


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[Assistant] But, you know, there's a number of issues why that stuff never really worked because really coaches, they say they look at it, they don't really look at it. What happens is you practice and you go hard and all that. And then the guy who gets shafted is the strength coach.


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[Assistant] I saw how much you ran a practice. You really needed rest. So I guess we're just going to do nothing now for your strength training. Uhm, just go recover, do this, you know, foam roll, whatever.


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[Assistant] That's usually how that ends up working out. Because, and the other thing is, as a player, like as a quarterback, for example, if you've got a new concept and you're working with a guy who hasn't run that route that often or the timing of that particular play,


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[Assistant] You throw it a couple times, you don't feel as confident. Hey, run it a couple more, run it a couple more.


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[Assistant] The player's gonna do it, you're gonna do it, so you feel good about that. You know, if, if, you know, you're being asked then to go condition or do something extra in the weight room.


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[Assistant] That's probably the part where you're like, ah, I'm going to miss that. So I ensure that I get the reps I need to practice.


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[Assistant] Look, it's like this in the business world, you know this, having control of the data is one of the biggest things so that you can figure out what you want to do with it and take from it.


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[Assistant] And that was one of the biggest stopping points I think at that point is they just weren't really sure how it was going to be used and they didn't want to give away something without getting something back. Uh, and so clearly the union want to protect their data, especially


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[Assistant] That to me is the dumbest thing that would never hold up. Like, hey bud, you agreed to it.


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[Assistant] Uh, where would you go with your one-way ticket? I don't know. I'm trying to think about some places of, of...


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[Assistant] Never been that I'd want to go see. I mean Australia seems awesome. I would love to maybe go tool around there. Uhm, it's so far away that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm kind of curious to see that too. You know, I mean, I guess you could probably just configure a toilet to go the opposite way here, but maybe not. Could you? I don't know. I'm sure you could figure out a way of doing it, Will.


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[Assistant] It's cause the majority of the human population is right-handed. Yeah, cause all those freaks- But by the way, what do you consider the ones where it's like right behind you in the middle? What do you consider that? That's neither left or right.


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[Assistant] Alright, when you drink too much, you're a little concerned about passing out in that spot.


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[Assistant] You just use the toilet backwards, and that's where you rest up top, so you can just flush whenever you want. It's right, it's right there. You're resting here on the top of the toilet, and it's right there. You have a big week or something? What? I'm just kidding. Billy's left-handed. Like I said, the left-handed freaks.


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[Assistant] So Billy, do you feel discriminated against because there aren't many left handed toilets besides the one that's like right behind you in the middle, which I guess is as left handed as it gets.


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[Assistant] That is true, like, I'll be honest with you too, I heard a coach once, I'd be like, huh, when I drafted that guy, who wants to draft a left handed guy? You gotta flip all the play sheet and all that stuff around, I was like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I never really thought of that. That would probably, uh, that would probably be a little more difficult. Then like all the guy you invested all the money and it left tackle. Now it's not quite as important.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I think in the end, like, you're just a heightened individual compared to the rest of us because you had to like go against the grain to learn everything. So you're definitely like more, more of a, uh, you know, Renaissance man, most likely.


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[Assistant] Hey dude, you can't just go to a continent. And then I was just like, that's it. Going to Europe. Going to Europe. Asia.


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[Assistant] That's your one-way ticket. The British version. I'm sure they're really nice. Let me know if people, but like, my God, that's your one-way ticket to a place that like you could probably find right now. Billy cruise to the British Virgin Islands. See if you could find an all-inclusive trip for like five 99 for like a three night, four day deal. The airplane.


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[Assistant] I mean, it might be like a thousand now because traveling on airplanes is so expensive to get there. But seriously, Billy, look up an all-inclusive trip to Bebeata Cruz. There has to be one that's like really cheap.


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[Assistant] Catholic school Irish people, I bet, do you? They're the kind, they're the kindest people there. And by the way, like, they know how to go to have a good time. They know how to like have conversations, talk to one another. I love, I love it.


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[Assistant] You're so cheap, that's where you want to go? Look at that, is that 7 nights?


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[Assistant] Yeah, great cruise line. See? Look at that. That's where your one-way ticket is. Whatever. Uh, now I want to go to like Bali or somewhere like remote.


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[Assistant] So relatable, so ro- all my parents have been to Bali.


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[Assistant] Can you say goodbye to the media? I mean... He's out, he's down in Tampa, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean that press conference and especially the way he left it off.


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[Assistant] It might lead you to think that. I don't know. I mean, there's rumors that Byron left, which they might move on from him.


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[Assistant] From some folks, he wasn't, you know, overly impressed with the direction the offense went with Byron calling the plays. And I guess it just goes to show you too, like for people who thought, oh, when Bruce kept, Bruce Arians kept saying, oh, it's all Byron, it's like, no, it's not. Like clearly Bruce Arians had an impact, not only in that offense, but the play calling and the way the plays were called, what plays were being called, um,


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[Assistant] Because if you ask Tom Brady at 45, he's not going to go out there and just sort of run the football. Like I'm like, hey dude, I'm not, he's going to throw the football as much as humanly possible. And just so happens the last two years and this year in particular, threw the ball more than ever. So, um,


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[Assistant] You know, maybe with Byron Leftwich, if he's not there and they bring in someone who he'd be more of a fan of, maybe that entices him to come back. It's just...


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[Assistant] You know, I think you look at what options are out there for you. And I don't know how many there are. I mean, obviously the Raiders are one of the teams. Everyone wants to connect the dots with Josh McDaniels. They have Devontae Adams. They've got some pieces.


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[Assistant] But what's the point then? Is it doing a Super Bowl? Because I don't know that their roster is any better than the other three teams in the division.


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[Assistant] Obviously not the Chiefs. And then you gotta deal with the Chargers and the Broncos who I think shouldn't be improved.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's not the case. So uhm, that's not an easy spot. You know, I, I do wonder if like the Miami ship has sailed. A, because of how well Tua played. They made a commitment to him too for next year. Take that for what it's worth.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but also because like once all that stuff came out about Sean Payden and Tom Brady and the meddling, it was like, well, they found out, we can't do this anymore.


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[Assistant] Hold on a second. Like, you can't do this. Like, we already found out about this elaborate scheme. Like, Brian Flores already told us about this. Like, you can't just do it now like a year later. Like, everyone forgot about it.


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[Assistant] So, I don't know that Miami's an option, and then it's like, alright, where else are you looking? The Jets? I can't, I just can't see him going to the Jets. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And so, I don't know, I mean, you look at some of the places, like Carolina, is he gonna go there?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's kind of odd. And even then, like, is it about money? I mean, like, if you're Tom Brady, is that, if he pays you $50 million a year, like,


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[Assistant] Let's finish this thing out, give you a two year deal, give you 50 million a year. Is that enough to go, oh, okay.


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[Assistant] I don't know how all that's gonna work out. He's got some personal, you know, stuff going on, so.


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[Assistant] I think if that was holding up in the past, it's obviously not now. So, you know, it opens things up to where it could go. People have shot around Tennessee.


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[Assistant] Uh, cause of his relationship with Mike Raible, maybe that's a potential shot. You got Derek Henry still there, so takes the pressure off, but it kind of goes back to what I said a moment ago, like.


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[Assistant] You're Tom Brady, are you really gonna keep playing this game at this age, put your body through all of it to turn out a handoff to Derek Henry?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so he comes out of like what his motivation is, what he's looking to get out of the experience.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they obviously are in a much more winnable division than the AFC, but like, you'd almost rather go to the NFC if you could, considering, like, look at the, I mean,


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[Assistant] If you looked at the quarterbacks coming to the wild card round, you're like, alright.


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[Assistant] Tom Brady's in it, like he should be able to find his path through. It didn't work out, but I don't know.


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[Assistant] It's crazy. I mean, when you looked at, was it coming into the wild card round? I think there's that list of quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] I mean, the NFL has always found themselves in a good position when you have some legends move on who are going to be first ballot Hall of Famers. And right now, like just look at right now in the playoffs in the divisional round.


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[Assistant] You've got all these young quarterbacks who...


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[Assistant] Have played really well and seem to be the faces of these franchises moving on.


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[Assistant] Uh, and it has to be the youngest average age that we've ever seen for quarterbacks in the, in the divisional round, right? 25.3 or points, you know, something like that. Uh, it's absolutely nuts.


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[Assistant] Putting it down in the universe. I think this is a trying year.


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[Assistant] They really never found that true groove. I think as the season wore on, obviously, Christian Watson got better and kind of stepped into a better role.


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[Assistant] And a lot of the people and the things that the organization did were on account of him. They're the things that he wanted.


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[Assistant] And he wasn't able to replicate, you know, the past couple seasons as MVP.


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[Assistant] So I'm sure it was stressful, it was frustrating, it was exhausting, and he probably just wants to, you know, try to find some clarity in how he feels.


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[Assistant] I ultimately think that he comes back as part of the Packers.


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[Assistant] In part because, like, they're not gonna move on from him. I think it'd be hard to do that.


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[Assistant] So I feel like a trade at this point probably is unlikely. They've already made their bet and agreed to this contract with them. But even more than that, if you're him,


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[Assistant] You know, what other place if it's about winning a Super Bowl and trying to get that second Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Is there a team that's rosters better suited than the Packers that you could go to?


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[Assistant] I mean, we just talked about destinations for Tom Brady. Let's go back over to Las Vegas. How's that a better destination for you?


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[Assistant] Uhm, maybe you could say San Francisco, like that's the one that I think both Todd Brady and Rogers might come in and look at.


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[Assistant] But they've got a young guy on his rookie deal with Mr. Irrelevant that's playing really well for them. Maybe they see a young Tom Brady at Brock Party. I don't know.


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[Assistant] They still have Trey Lance's hanging around. I mean, Grabo's a free agent, so it kind of clears that up, but.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, you gotta figure out, you gotta give up assets to get Rogers under contract. Brady, you can get for, you know, not free, but you gotta sign up to a deal.


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[Assistant] So there's all the different nuances to how that would work. I think both Brady and Rogers probably look at San Francisco as like, yeah, dude, everybody who plays for Kyle Shanahan just puts up yards, points and wins. So why would I want to be a part of that at the end of my career? And especially for two guys who are NorCal guys. Um, it makes all the sense in the world.


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[Assistant] I just think it'd be hard for the Packers to wanna trade him to, uh,


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[Assistant] In the conference opponent that you're going to probably see if you want to make a run to the playoffs at some point.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just, I can't see it, I can't see it playing out any other way other than Roger's coming back to Green Bay if he comes back.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I just think it's interesting, you know, he was able to watch what Brett Favre did down towards the end to him. And he's very different from Brett, obviously, in how he discusses things with the media and handles himself, but he's kind of doing the same thing now to Jordan Love.


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[Assistant] And it's just interesting that I'm sure he didn't appreciate it. I'm sure joy love doesn't appreciate it. And yet we're seeing history repeat itself. So.


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[Assistant] That's the one kind of takeaway that I have on it. And I look far, you know, he's not gonna be like Farvery draws out a training camp.


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[Assistant] Comes in and a bunch of like mud boots and some of the fishing poles like, well, I was down at Mississippi fish and I was like, you know what? I want to come back and play.


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[Assistant] Wanna come back and play. It is tantalizing though to think that the Jets, which aren't in the NFC,


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[Assistant] And obviously Woody Johnson's already said like, Hey, I'll do whatever it takes, pay whatever it takes. If they bring him in.


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[Assistant] Now you're starting to say, alright, that's a good roster, he can win with that roster.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's New York, not sure how he'd look at that, and the media there.


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[Assistant] But that would be a team that would immediately become a contender.


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[Assistant] And, and I think has the personnel around the quarterback position to do so.


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[Assistant] I have no idea what the Nathaniel Hackett interview was a part of, I mean...


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, they didn't work too well in Denver, if that was a thought or that part of the conversation. Uh, and I'm not sure that's easy to sell to your fan base, so.


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[Assistant] Robert and I. Which is part of the package deal because that's when...


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? Welcome to the Pixix Podcast, CBS Sports Daily NFL Podcast. I'm Wilbur Centeno. Monday night football, week 16 recap. Congratulations to the Los Angeles Chargers.


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[Assistant] Clenching a playoff spot for the first time with Justin Herbert as a quarterback, which seems, I don't know, like malpractice, but they finally made it. Winning 20 to three against the Colts on.


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[Assistant] Monday night, the day after Christmas. Congratulations to me for finally winning my home league fantasy football title for the first time in like five years. Maybe longer.


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[Assistant] I don't care what you think, Wilson. Ryan Wilson, John Breeze, joining me. I won and I'm happy about it.


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[Assistant] Let's dive in and talk about the AFC playoff picture first and foremost. So now we have.


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[Assistant] Three seeds at the top that are, we have three teams that have clinched their.


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[Assistant] Their playoff burst. The all, well actually, I should probably do this one. The top two teams in the AFC, the Bills and the Chiefs have clinched a playoff berth and their division.


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[Assistant] We also have the Chargers who have clinched a playoff berth and then the Bengals and the Ravens have clinched a playoff berth. So we have two spots remaining in the AFC.


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[Assistant] Currently Jacksonville resides in the four spot there.


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[Assistant] They are battling Tennessee in a game in week 18 that will determine who.


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[Assistant] gets to go to the playoffs. Week 17 doesn't matter for either team. The Dolphins at eight and seven are currently holding


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[Assistant] The final wild card spot, final wild card spot in the AFC with the Patriots at 7 and 8, the Jets at 7 and 8, and I guess technically the


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[Assistant] Uh, there. I guess, I guess you, I guess the only, I guess actually, you know, the only path would be as the division winner because you'd get to.


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[Assistant] So what do we think about? I, I, for one, I'm glad the chargers are in the playoffs. I think.


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[Assistant] While they sometimes fall short of what you want them to do in certain spots, they also manage to.


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[Assistant] Do some, like, Keenan Allen, when they have Justin Herbert, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, and Austin Eckler, and like,


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[Assistant] They are now one game back of Baltimore.


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[Assistant] They have a better conference record at seven and four versus six and four. The Ravens still have to play the Steelers at home and then at the Bengals.


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[Assistant] And the Chargers get a much friendlier schedule I believe, right? Rams and Broncos. Rams and Broncos, right. Thank you. The Chargers should finish 8 and 4 in the division.


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[Assistant] And it stands to reason that the Ravens could quite easily finish.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think a one and one, they would be, uh, eight and five, which is, I guess, oh no, they'd be seven and five, excuse me.


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[Assistant] And if that happens then the Chargers have the tiebreaker and they would be the 5 seed.


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[Assistant] And the huge, the difference would be the five seed and the six seed in the AFC. And this is my larger point is enormous because you will play either the Jaguars or the Titans. Now.


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[Assistant] Don't get me wrong. A team like the chargers who's been bad against a run most of the year and most of the brand new series tenure there doesn't want to see Derek Henry, but it seems.


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[Assistant] Fairly unlikely that Ryan Tannehill could be back or that we talked about it on Sunday night. Maybe he does return.


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[Assistant] And then the Jaguars, they've been hot, but you're talking about Trevor Lawrence's first appearance in the playoffs. So Justin Herbert, same thing. I just think you would so, so, so much rather be.


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[Assistant] Sure, sure. It sounds like he'll be back by week 18 maybe? Well, you need to rush his ass back in week 17.


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[Assistant] And they beat whoever comes out of the AFC South, which is, I think they would probably be favored against that AFC South team.


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[Assistant] And this, and I guess the point of that, the larger point of that is that it's such a stark contrast from the NFC.


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[Assistant] That if the, if things fall the way we think they could in the AFC, the pathway that one of these wild card teams to make it to the Superbowl involves going through like.


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[Assistant] Kansas City, Buffalo and Cincinnati, potentially likely just two of them. Whereas in the NFC, it's like, man, I mean, you could.


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[Assistant] You know, you could end up with a pretty easy path depending on jail and hurt status and what happens with Philly.


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[Assistant] The youngest ever, Philip Rivers, of course, the greatest quarterback in Chargers history.


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[Assistant] 25 years, 37 days. Jack Kemp next. Wow. 25 years, 172 days. John Hadle, 25 years, 314 days. And then Drew Brees 25 years, 359 days. Justin Herbert will break that record at 24 years old when the playoffs begin.


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[Assistant] You know, he has the chance to be the second greatest Chargers quarterback of all time if everything breaks right for him. That's exciting.


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[Assistant] Uh, look, Herbert's awesome, man. I mean, like he's, he's, he...


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[Assistant] Just looking back at it, I mean, you know, we're talking about this game a little bit. I mean, he, I mean, my God, he's.


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[Assistant] He just has a cannon. It does feel like a lot of times they misuse him. To say the least.


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[Assistant] By the way, Austin Eckler, friend of the, friend of the podcast, of course, as everyone knows who listens to the podcast.


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[Assistant] I guess I thought, I thought that I wouldn't really boxcore watching a ton because I was, I was watching with my dad and brother.


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[Assistant] But to me, I feel like Herbert played better than his final stat line. He didn't have a passing touchdown, didn't have that interception. Those two turnovers are back breaking and maybe it's more about.


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[Assistant] The cults just freaking suck. I mean, Nick Foles got sacked seven times and threw three picks. Like.


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[Assistant] I don't know that team's any better with Matt Ryan, but understand it. I think it's just the Colts aren't very good. Uhm, it was.


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[Assistant] Like a good, a really good team. I think that's a bingles tonight. Joe burrow beats them like 45 to 30.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's. Or Mahomes just comes in and just is like, listen, this is not really close.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's take a quick break. And when we come back, who is number seven in the AFC in terms of the playoffs? And do you trust the Chargers to actually win the playoff game next?


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[Assistant] So we all agree that Jaguars, we think will win the four seed, even Breach did reluctantly, um, in his blackout state. He's been blacked out repeatedly over the past 48 hours.


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[Assistant] Breach has been blacked out like seven times in the last 24 hours. At least probably, maybe more.


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[Assistant] This rolling blackout's ridiculous.


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[Assistant] ChargersTV has been playing much better. Do we, do we all think it's Miami for the seventh seed?


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[Assistant] You got Mike white in the jets, Mac McCorkle Jones and the pats, Kenny packet and the Steelers.


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna take week 17. Patriots beat the dolphins. The Seahawks beat the Jets.


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[Assistant] So only one of them can be 9 and 8 and whoever is 9 and 8 or 8 and 9.


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[Assistant] So whoever it's just, whoever wins week, that's why that's going to be Sunday night football.


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[Assistant] Right. So anyway, back to the, so the scenario is dolphins lose at the Patriots where they won't be favored without two, uh, the two and a half point underdog, right?


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[Assistant] The Jets lose at the Seahawks where I don't think they'll be favored.


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[Assistant] Yes. And the Steelers has an underdog win at Baltimore. Now, if that happens, then in week 18,


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[Assistant] Okay. Then the dolphins have to lose at home in week 18 to the


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[Assistant] Okay, but here's the week, yea, yea, they've upgraded the quarterback from the fat corpse of Ben Roethlisberger to candy.


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[Assistant] Then in week 18, the jets have to win at Miami, which we don't, I don't know if Tua can play again this year. The Steelers have to win at home against Cleveland and the Patriots have to lose at Buffalo.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, actually my parents, you know, it's a ranch house story. But if I jumped on the back, it would be three stories technically. I think because of the, it's, it's, it's a severe slope down to the pond.


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[Assistant] We actually thought we had a bird that was frozen, stuck frozen with his legs in the pond last night.


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[Assistant] I was out there trying to break ice to help this blue heron out of the pond. I don't know what to say. Blue-collar guy. You don't find that suspicious? You don't find that suspicious?


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[Assistant] I'm not going to mention any numbers. You ask Wilson what he thinks. I'm going to plug you into the 538 thing. Okay. I got the two losses.


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[Assistant] Okay. Well, if they win, obviously if they win both games, they, they're in. Well, that means the Jets are Wilson's pick.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the other thing. I'm not buying, this is the ultimate Geno Smith revenge game in week 17 against the Jets at home.


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[Assistant] Angle is first in the Steelers in the wild card round.