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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
3 & Out - Aaron Rodgers BACK with Steelers, NFL needs NEW Preseason game strategy + NFL Offseason Mailbag
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John Middlekoff
What is going on my people? How are we doing? John Middelkoff three and out podcast back at it again. Hopefully everyone is doing well and today we're going to talk football because that's what we do here. Aaron Rodgers isn't just signed, sealed and delivered. He's on the field. Opening day Wednesday games could be here to stay. Joint practices are they the new preseason game and obviously some dad diaries. We had a, an interesting morning over here at the Middle Cough Household. We'll do some mailbag questions as well @johnmittlecoff @johnmittlekopf is the Instagram fire in those DMs. Get your questions answered here on the show and other than that, you guys know the drill. Make sure you subscribe three now podcast. If you listen on Collins feed, make sure you hit the alerts on Netflix so you never miss an episode. We also got some extra content on the, on the YouTube page. You can check out stuff that just doesn't make it into the podcast. Little like a little, little fourth down Thunder and yeah, let's just dive into the show. Let's just start with Rogers and McCarthy. I saw a video clip today from you know, basically all these teams now for the next three and a half, four weeks will be full go on the field, practicing veterans, rookies, all installing plays, running plays. Obviously if guys are injured they will be rehabbing. I know it's, it's voluntary but the overwhelming majority of players show up to get the reps they're working out anyway. A lot of guys have workout bonuses. It's why it's such a huge story like the last couple years. Lamar or Miles Garrett. Most guys go, maybe a guy of a super old guy misses time here and there for little stuff. Most players are very active over the course of the next month because then they get 40, 45 days off until training camp starts where they're working out anyway. It's not like you can just go chill on a beach and drink beers for 40 days and play golf. You know, these guys are training in some form or fashion. Maybe the older you get you just, it's more of a maintain like you know, a Trent Williams type or Elaine Johnson trying to stay healthy. But most guys in their prime, late 20s, early 30s, like it's, this is a full time job. Honestly, I think a lot of these coaches and front offices tell these guys to pull back. So Aaron Rodgers signs his contract, gets A race rightfully so. You, you could argue he should be making 30 to 35 million dollars based on his production. I, I get he's a little older, there's a little bit of an injury risk. But he, he, he had, it was clear it was all about money. The longer he waited, the more pressure it put on them. What were they going to do, roll with Drew Aller and Will Howard? I know a lot of people are high on Will Howard. You just don't start six round picks who have never played when your owner says we plan on winning. So Aaron Rodgers had the momentum or, excuse me, had the leverage. And as we got closer and closer to guys being on the field, they're going to want him there. They have a new wide receiver, they have a couple new wide receivers. So it was inevitable. You could see where this was coming last year. I think close to 15 million probably make, you know, give or take some incentives. 25 million feels like good deal. Win, win, both sides. I, I think it's fair to assume this will be Rogers last year, but you know, we saw Tom Brady play till 45. We see other contemporaries of Aaron Rodgers. I don't think Peyton Manning and Drew Brees wanted to quit that. Their litter, their shoulders stopped working, their arm stopped working. Cam Newton, he was a little younger in those guys, but again, same type deal. So I think a lot of guys bodies betrayed them, specifically their throwing ability. Aaron Rodgers throwing ability has not changed now. Where it's changed is he's older, doesn't move as well, can't avoid, you know, the hits that he used to be able to avoid. And he definitely doesn't scramble as well behind the line of scrimmage. But the big story here is McCarthy and Aaron getting back together. And Colin and I talked about this on Sunday night was that the relationship when it ended was not good. Right? McCarthy got fired in the middle of the season as the season was falling apart and Aaron was not playing well. And by then Aaron was entrenched as not just one of the stars in the league, but by far the most important person in that building. So he had a lot of juice. And while I don't think he went full LeBron and got the guy fired, I don't think Mike McCarthy would have been fired if Aaron Rodgers wanted him to stay. Now here's the thing, like in any relationship, what happens, even if it is contentious because whether it's a personal relationship or a professional relationship, you can be at each other's throats, especially in a high pressure environment, whether you're in, in sales, whether you're in the construction business or whether you're in football. High pressure environment where money or job or production is on the line. You could really like a guy or respect a guy. And that can fray when things go bad. That's the history of time. It's happened a lot and I think they can say whatever they want. It clearly got really ugly at the end. But they say a memory is often tied to the good times. Like as I get older, I think about some of my family moments with, with my father, who's been gone for a while now. I don't think about any of the times he yelled at me. I don't think any of the times I got in trouble. Like, you think about the fun things you did together, you think about the life lessons or the positive things that he instilled in you. And if you truly hate somebody that you were with personally, romantically or obviously professionally, that, that never changes. There are, I've never dated anybody in my single days that I hate or that I hold a grudge against or anything. But there are definitely some people that I work with or worked with that I despise. Howie Roseman once called me and essentially fired me. Not only do I have no issues with them, I consider him a friend. Like why? And I think this is a huge part of life when you break up in, especially in a work setting. What happens when you take off? What happens when they take off? And if you look at Aaron Rodgers and you look at Mike McCarthy. Aaron went on to win multiple MVPs. Aaron went on to not only cement himself as one of the greatest players, his legacy improved financially. He made bank over the next five or six years in Green Bay and even in with the jets, took a pay cut, gave him $70 million. He played one season. You know, like life went pretty well. McCarthy had to take a year off and then he became the head coach of the fucking Cowboys, where I'm pretty sure he signed a five year deal for like 35 or 40 million dollars. Went won the Division 3, two of three years and went to the playoffs three straight years. Now it didn't end up in a conference championship or super bowl or anything, but was pretty successful. Was definitely successful enough to the, for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Did not hesitate hiring him this off season. So when you break up with somebody or you get fired by somebody. I remember when I left radio, I kind of took joy that this, this radio station and granted it was just. The industry kind of fell apart. Like I remember Taking joy. But it was. I was unhappy when I left it. Not that I necessarily wanted to be there anymore. I rooted for their demise. They probably rooted for mine. And 10 years later, I don't. I haven't thought about them in years. Why? Because life's gone pretty well and you lose grudges unless you're really wired that way when things don't go well. Because when things are not going well, you're just gonna sit and, and most people are going to wallow in the negative. But when you go a separate path and things go well, like it did for Aaron and like it did for McCarthy. And hell, where's McCarthy right now? He's the head coach of the Steelers. Told Coward last night, find me many guys in the history of pro sports. It's like, Pat Riley, Lakers, Knicks, Heat. Pretty unreal. Phil Jackson, bulls, Lakers. Mike McCarthy, Packers, Cowboys, Steelers. He ain't picking up the phone when the Jags call. Promise you that. Like, he's not taking the Cincinnati Bengals phone call. Like, he gets very, very prestigious jobs that are some of the biggest brands in like, the history of sports in the world. I mean, it doesn't get much bigger than the Cowboys, packers and Steelers in the NFL specifically. And if you're getting the biggest brands in the NFL, you got the biggest brands in America, right? You're talking Yankees, Lakers, Knicks, you know, Chicago Cubs. It's like it's, it's on a very. Dodgers, it's on a very, very short list. And Rogers life's gone pretty well. So when I see them today, like, maybe they don't even think about the bad times. They probably don't think about 2018. It's probably easier to BS about 14, about 10, about 11. And about their other successes since. How many times have you met somebody or know somebody that gets in a bad breakup and they're down and out and then they're like, I, I just saw she's dating this guy, he owns this company, he's got multiple homes, he's crushing it. Like, that hurts. That sucks when you got nothing going on. But if life's going well for you, it doesn't bother you as much. So I, I don't disagree with anyone that says we can't act like these guys have always been buddies because that simply was not a fact when it ended. And think about this. When LaFleur got hired, remember, Aaron Rodgers vetted him. So Rogers had NBA level juice in that organization at the time, and rightfully so. But time heals wounds sometimes when both guys have Made millions of dollars like life's, treated them pretty well since. So I don't think this is going to work. I'm going to bet against the situation. I would say best case scenario, we see the same thing that we've seen the last several years with Tomlin. And ironically, I think Tomlin and McCarthy are basically the exact same coach in terms of the results. Yet Mike Tomlin's going to get $100 million next year when he comes back. And McCarthy has the branding. Coward said it like a Milwaukee cop. You know, he just does Pittsburgh cop. Nothing wrong with that. But like, they don't talk about him like some genius on the gridiron. And I look at him, I go, I think he's a pretty good offensive coach. I watched him do wonders with Dak and win games with Cooper Rush, do great things with Aaron Rodgers. I think McCarthy is better than the branding and the narrative in which the way he's discussed where Aaron, you know, probably gets discussed properly all time, great player, little moody. I think just a factual statement right now is talking about a guy 41, 42 years old that the last couple years have had two major injuries.
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John Middlekoff
If you think about most of his career in Green Bay, I mean, some of you Packer die hard Packer fans have a better memory about this than me. I can remember the one collarbone that he broke, I think it was on Monday Night Football and missed a bunch of games, they lost a bunch of games, came back and they made that wild card and then they made the run. But relatively healthy guy. And part of that was he was so athletic he could avoid hits. And then when he was scrambling around, he was just so accurate. Well, you watch him, you know, post Achilles. How many times do you meet someone that tears an Achilles when they're in their 40s? You never move the same. So when you think about athletes like Roger's movement ability is never gonna. Klay Thompson towards Achilles has never moved the same and that he was in his, you know, early 30s. So Roger's never going to move the same. Last year he broke his arm because he no longer can just avoid sacks and he's more likely to get sacked now. I think the bigger question is, is Aaron Rodgers going to be able to stay healthy all season? I would probably bet against it. Not rooting for it like I would love. I hope he's good. He's good. They're interesting. Better for business, more interesting for me to talk about. But I, I don't think that's going to happen. One thing that's clearly here to stay for the NFL is in one of their Rogers right hand guys said that midday games opening week are not going away. Obviously the Thursday night game of the team that is hosting the, you know, the defending super bowl champ, like Seattle this year, like Philadelphia Eagles last year, like the Chiefs before or that has become a staple. But they're definitely going to double header during the week. And because of a rule that it has to be these if it's past the first Friday of September, second Friday, third Friday, fourth Friday, the NFL can't play a game on Friday night, but they can play a game on Wednesday. And because this year is pushed back, I mean I didn't quite realize it, but the start of the NFL season is a week later. Super bowl is now running, you know, in the middle of February. That that is the reason they're playing on Wednesday and Thursday instead of Thursday and Friday this year because the second week of September and Friday is not an available day for them. And the other thing that was mentioned by the NFL is that Netflix is going to have a game week one moving forward. That that's going to be part of their package. So it's pretty clear that Netflix is getting the Wednesday or Friday game moving forward. And this got me thinking, I said that I it wouldn't shock me if Amazon got in on Sunday Night Football. Now Netflix, proud partner of mine has their CEO has been adamant like we're not really looking to get a full time package. That's not what we're looking to do. We're looking to get events. Well, you know what's funny is Wells Fargo called me recently and I do my business through Chase and I do a lot of personal and stock stuff through Wells Fargo. And they just said, you know, you're not getting the proper like you should be a higher tier in our bank and we can take care of you. X, Y and Z. Stuff that not like I'd even been seeking it out. I went and met at the local branch and I realized, do you know what I should have done? I should have said, and I did this a couple years ago, like set up my business through them. So she told me all the stuff that I am I have access to now. And I went to Chase today and I basically just said, hey, I do I need to upgrade my business account? Do you give me access? And I just basically used the numbers they were giving me and the guy looked at me like, no. So I wasn't planning on moving my business, but I went back to Wells Fargo Today. And I said, how do I move my corporation over to you under your umbrella. That's how fast things change. Why? Because she wetted my beak and she enlightened me to go, damn, this is a pretty good opportunity. And I think the NFL knows that. You keep giving Netflix these sweet games, they're going to want more. How could they not? They're no dummies. The NFL. It doesn't get any bigger in these NFL games. And they've done these other events. They're going to see the numbers. So who's to say that they can't convince to get Netflix to be like, you want Sunday Night Football? Do you want to have Sunday Night Football, which is an event, which is appointment viewing, part of CBS and Fox, right, Is they have a ton of games on Sunday, Sunday morning and Sunday afternoon that they have on any given day, three, four games going at one time on their networks regionally throughout the country. And I would imagine they want more of that. Netflix does not want that. It doesn't look like Amazon has wanted that so far either. But you like what this opening week would do. Well, what if we gave you the number one television show in America? Started thinking today, like, I think the NFL is desperately trying to do everything humanly possible to pivot from. And this is why the broadcast, the traditional broadcast networks have to be really nervous right now is they're going above and beyond to take care of the streamers because they know the streamers have more money. And if I was in the NFL shoes, I would do the same thing. Because it's just business. It's no different than, you know, I've been a long time Chase and Wells Fargo guy and I realized like, none of these people give a fuck about me. So why don't I just take this isn't 1987 in Davis, California, when my dad is a farmer, knew the people in First Northern bank in Davis, like all their names knew where they lived. I think he would consider some of them friends. Those days are done. We're all just widgets. So I was like, hey, they're going to give me 3x a rate on a savings account. See ya. Peace out. Because I'm unemotional about this. I say this all the time about my generation. We're just very unemotional about purchases. We're used to just pressing buttons, having things delivered. If you do a job for me and it sucks, I'll find someone else to do it. Where my parents stayed very loyal to the same people in every walk of life. Their entire life and I'm pretty loyal when it comes to restaurants. But if your food sucks, I'm not going to keep going back just because I know you, the owner. I'm not going to do that right now. Your food's good. Even if I know you or don't, I'll come back. Hell, I'd come back three days a week. My wife would let me. And I think the NFL's become a lot like that. They are very unemotional about all this stuff. It's going to come down to the power of the almighty dollar. And we know who has more money than this moving forward. So this has been a huge topic of conversation is these games on a bunch of different networks. The the day and age of us just sitting on our couch flipping channels and be like, oh, there's Shawshank. You know Shawshank's on. Or you know, Blue Chips is on or Con Air's on. Like those days died a long time ago. I, I, I, I, I watch as much. I, I literally watch television for a living. I haven't done that in years. So my son, how many of you that have younger children, they'll never even know what cable TV is. Think about that. They'll never know what cable TV is. And the NFL I think is slowly, slowly going to potentially move off it moving forward or make it very, very difficult. You're going to pay a lot of money to stay involved. Today's show is brought to you by our presenting sponsor, Hard Rock Bet, Florida's sportsbook. We obviously talk a lot of pig skin on this show but the second round of the NBA playoffs is here now and you better believe we're gambling because any single night wimy can go for a triple double. How about a little same game parlay? 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John Middlekoff
You know, for a long period of time, preseason games, they would be a ramp up, right? Like preseason game one, you know, you'd see Aaron Rodgers and Ben Roethlisberger and Peyton Manning for a series. Preseason game two, you might get a quarter. Preseason game three, the first half. If it was two good teams, you would see their starters. Now, they might not be running complex stuff but, but you would see, it would feel like an actual NFL game. And then Sean McVeigh and the transition over the last five years. No one played and everyone copied them. And now the preseason is mainly just twos and threes because even if you're a good rookie, I'm probably not putting you in those environments with people trying to, you know, I'm not saying Johnny try hards because there are a lot of guys playing in preseason games. They're going to go on to have NFL careers, but it's a lot of backups trying to impress. And when you're trying to impress, especially in a violent sport, you're willing to do whatever it takes to, you know, catch the eye of the people on the sidelines and the people that matter up in the, in the press box. So those days are done. And the NFL is clearly going to go to 20 games, you know, in sometime very, very soon. So we're going to get two preseason games. And if you think the preseason sucks now, it's going to get even worse. Especially because training camp is going to be the same amount of time, but there's not going to be that much say what you want about a preseason game. At least you go off, you know, the Raiders are playing the Seattle and it's just some football on television, like that's going to disappear. And the league is not going to start in the middle of August. They're, they're going to start in the middle of September because they want to go probably to the end of February. These joint practices has, have become the old school preseason games. And I saw headline after headline after headline. Raiders playing the Texans, the Ravens playing the Eagles, the, the Niners playing the Bronco. It's just joint practices all over the league and the majority of teams will do multiple sets of joint practices based around their preseason games. I do think that the NFL should strongly consider a way to package some of these practices and just put them at night. And they could be some version of 30 minutes an hour of guys miked up, coaches miked up. It doesn't even need to be Given away state secrets. All these teams have access to the film. And now once you joint practice, all these people know each other like there aren't any secrets anymore. So I do. My guess would be that within the next five years they do some version of joint practices on primetime television. That's where I think we're headed because the preseason games are only going to get worse and worse and the joint practices are legit. Starters going against other starters. And let's face it, football has become our crack and we got a lot of crack addicts all over America. So my guess would be keep an eye on joint practices coming primetime television in the relatively near future. Let's get to dad Diaries. I do want to start on a sappy one for those of you that if you follow golf, if you don't, I'm sure you saw that Aaron Rye won the PGA Championship over Rom Rory. A bunch of stars, kind of a no name guy. I didn't see his exact number on Hard Rock Bet, but I think most places he was over 200 to 1. He was the biggest underdog to win a major in a long, long time. I mean, the majority of guys that have won majors lately have been like Scotty Scheffler, Rory McElroy, Xander Schoffley. You're talking 5 to 1, 10 to 1, 15 to 1, like heavy favorites. You're talking about guy 200, 250 to 1. That is a massive, massive no name coming out of nowhere. But for most of us that like golf, he's had this thing called iron covers. Like you, you put head covers on your woods and you put head covers on your putter to, you know, keep them, to not have them get nicked up. And it looks good, right? I mean, famously, Tiger woods had the, had the Tiger on his driver forever, but he put him on his irons and let's face it, most of us that followed the sport were like, what's up with this fucking loser? And then you hear his explanation why, and you almost are like moved that this guy grew up with no money. And in the uk it's part of the reason he wears two gloves because his dad, who used to help train him, he didn't have any money for a coach would, you know, in the uk in the winter, it's freezing cold, well, they would practice every day and his hands would be freezing. So he would wear two gloves and he became comfortable with it and he's just done it ever since. But the reason he wears iron covers is because when he was in like junior High or high school. His family did not have the means to purchase clubs, but somehow his dad threw enough money together to get a really, really nice set of golf clubs. And his dad used to clean the irons after he would play throughout the day with like a bobby pin every night because it was such a big deal to go above their means to buy these clubs for his son. And he treated him like the family's prized possession. And he wears the iron covers to remind himself of how important it is to have like, gratitude of how far he's come and how like, he shouldn't take for granted having nice stuff. And I started thinking like, you know, people often ask, like, what are you going to teach your son? I'm like, well, I'm just trying to get out of the four month regression before I can teach about life lessons. But you just go, whatever that father did to instill his son to have the perspective who is now, before he won yesterday, he was a multimillionaire, yet yesterday he changed the course of his life. He literally won in the tournament $3.7 million. But in terms of sponsors, in terms of being a major champion, set himself up for life, he's going to be worth millions upon millions of dollars. But to have that mindset of like, you know, most guys in golf, for example, like, would I want my son even think about like Tiger Woods? Would I want my son to look up to Tiger Woods? What? I want my son to look up to Phil Mickelson, who people have always told me they kind of know him, he's kind of full of himself. Not the greatest guy, great player, you know, hard worker. But like, I don't know if that's exactly the character of what you'd want, but a little selfish, like, yeah, I don't think I would. And then you see something like that. Like, that's every father's dream to just have the most basic element of like, don't take this for granted. This is something like someone worked hard for this. And especially in a sport where a lot of these kids come from rich families, grew up on country clubs. It was like, damn, man, I, I, I, Whatever secret sauce that guy's father taught his son, which is clearly carrying him to this day in terms of a mindset, is all you really want as a dad. Because when you have the mindset, like, yeah, work hard, keep your head up, never quit, like, most people worth their salt are teaching their son that, right? The overwhelming majority of people with a fucking brain are teaching their kids to like, try to work Hard. Try to, like, handle, you know, tough times, keep battling through, keep your head up, don't get too discouraged. But, like, to truly have the perspective of, like, this is awesome. Like, this. This did not come easy. And even because I could. I could throw away these clubs and have my sponsor give me 500 sets. Like, I. I don't ever want to forget where I come from, and I don't want to ever forget, like, how. How hard my parents work to put me in this position. It's like, God damn, that's. That's awesome. Well, speaking of my morning, we've been trying to get in a little rotation where my wife goes to the gym, like between seven and eight. I play a little daddy daycare. Take him out of his little snoo, like 6:30, feed them, hang out with them, put them back to a nap. She comes home, then I go to the gym. So this morning we're on a little rotation. She takes off probably 7:30, 7, 45. I grab the little man. He already ate, throw him in a stroller, grab the dog, take her to her grass where the other dogs are hanging out. I said, let's go for a little stroll. So we go there, we have a good time. Jack doesn't even cry because, Lolly, as a rule, there's no crying at the grass. And then we're headed home. And right before I turn down to my street, I look at the dog and she has her paw up. Now, where we live, right in Arizona desert, you can get a lot of prickly stuff, cactus type things in a dog's paw. And she will stop, she will raise the paw, I'll go down and I'll yank whatever is in her paw out. So she raises her paw. I look down, and I see a gigantic bee, which, pretty sure a bee dies when it stings you. It's just kind of dead and the stingers in there. So I flick the bee off her paw. I can see the stinger. I yank it out. She's clearly in some pain. She's like 35 pounds. Pick her fat ass up, and I walk her home. Then when we kind of get home, I put her down. Maybe it's adrenaline. She kind of seems fine. And I start making, like, a piece of toast and some peanut butter before I'm gonna go get my swole on. And then all of a sudden, I see her come back into the room after getting some sips of water. She does not look good. She starts throwing up everywhere. Jack is in, like, the little bouncy thing he Starts screaming, crying. So I got a dog, which I feel like is having an allergic reaction and might die. Jack is crying. Maria's at the gym, and she pukes a couple more times. Then she lays down. Honestly, I thought this allergic reaction is her heart about to stop. Jack is getting louder and louder and louder. And I just kind of look up at this guy, like, God, I mean, I. What am I supposed to do, right? Because the first thing you think about is like, why you get this dog to the vet. Text Maria. Gyms are that far away. She comes home, take her to the vet, and a couple hours later, she's okay. She's need some Benadryl. Heart rate came down and everything, but for a split second, because you can't just leave your kid and take him. I couldn't really take him. I guess I could have if I really had to, but it wasn't like, she gonna be okay. And then she's lying there, looks like she's barely breathing. And you went, this is life. You know, hopefully one day my son, like Aaron Rye, will remember these moments of like, do whatever it takes to keep your dog alive. And she lived. And 400 later, the vet gave her a little Benadryl. She came out with a smile and, yeah, we're here this afternoon, so you never know how the day is going to start. But that. That day, the puke was, I mean, unlike anything I'd ever seen. So Lolly's. Lolly's tough. She beat an autoimmune disease a couple years ago. Now she beat a bee sting. Let's do some mailbag questions at John Middlekopf. At John Middlekop. Firing those dms. Get your questions answered here on the show. We'll start with Baylor. It's an absolute tragedy that the New York jets are not in a primetime spot. You're telling me Washington or the giants are worth 20 fucking primetime games and the jets not worth one? Jets always have great storylines, one of the biggest fan bases, and lots of young pieces. Who is it? It's the jets, the Raiders, the Titans, the Cardinals. I think I'm missing one more team. I tend to agree with two teams. I do think you could get away with a Jets game. There's always enough drama. They could be a little better than people think. But even when they're bad, maybe it's the Dolphins as well. I also think you could have got along or got away with the Raiders, right? Fernando, Mendoza, Kubiak, Brady. I think the Raiders and the jets are big enough stories where you could have got away with one game. But this is where the NFL is really pivoted. They don't even want to risk it. They go, hey, if, if Kansas City has the year from hell, so be it. We'll watch Mahomes games with them losing all day long because we know people will watch. I think they're just afraid that the jets and the Raiders who have been really bad will just be unwatchable. But I don't know. I'm with you. I would have put them on. I think a lot of people underestimate how that Broncos lost impacts Josh Allen's legacy. The path was right there to the super bowl and he melted down against the Broncos. Also.04 against Mahomes and 0 and 1 against Burrow. There was a reason he was in tears. It was a devastating loss because for the first time of their run, the defense had let him down in the past. McDermott had let them down in the past. This felt like it was truly on him. He had played bad, he had turned the ball over, he had missed the wide open late throw in regulation. But he's 29, 30 years old. I don't think the story is written, but it's going to be hard. There's no guarantee that he ever makes it to Super Bowl. I mean look, there's no guarantee he ever wins one for sure. I think him and Lamar Jackson back to back years, just maybe it was Lamar's was two years ago when they were the number one seed and it was just like at home against the Chiefs, right in this one like you're playing the Broncos Bo Knicks. Like this is a game to win. And then clearly I would have picked them to beat the Patriots. Now would they beat Seattle? I don't know. But yes. It's football, man. It's Peyton Manning shit the bed in a lot of playoff games. Trust me, I was a huge Peyton Manning fan. And then he finally didn't. And then he went to. Then he won one and went to three more Super Bowls. So you just sports. It's. It's why they play the games. I mean, fucking shit's hard. Mailbag Question. Who do you think would win the Greatest show on Turf Rams or the current day McVeigh Stafford squad? I've had this thought about a hypothetical game knowing the two offenses would shine. But I think it would come down to the defenses. Puka versus Nia's Williams. Tori Holt. Isaac Bruce versus Jalen Ramsey. Stafford versus London Fletcher. Well, Jalen Ramsey hasn't been on the team in a while. So you're talking like the best versions of both to me. It depends the what rules are we playing? Because I would take the Greatest show on turf if we're playing the old school rules. If we're playing the new school rules, then I think it's more of a coin flip. But the names you're listing, Tori Holt, Aeneas Williams, London Fletcher, Orlando Pace, Marshall Falk. Team's pretty good. Team's pretty good. And Kurt Warner was like in his athletic prime because he was like the older bag and grocery guy. If you told me Stafford was like 32 instead of 38, I'd give him a better chance. I think this older version of him versus the younger version of them. It's a good question. I mean that team won a Super Bowl. This team, if you include like Jalen Ramsey, you know, Puka. Did Puka play with Jalen Ramsey? Maybe for a year. Say what you want about saying but ty Simpson went 13 GMs don't see what you see. There's a reason you got fired. Coaches will fall in love with saying unteachable past traits. And he's mild ahead of CJ Carr, Arch Carr, Dante all and all your jokes. Dante had five turnovers versus Indiana. How much say and have I talked to multiple teams that had Ty Simpson the third round? So I mean I stand by what I said. And these are teams where guys got rings on their finger over the years. So I just think this notion that Ty Simpson, if you pulled the league obviously less sneed thinks he's fucking Brett Favre. But if you just pulled the other whatever 13 playoff teams, what do you think the average round Ty Simpson was in like two and a half saying I don't know. He just looked. He looked like Ty Simpson 2.0. You guys should know quarterbacks too. At Ohio State, you like you've had C.J. stroud had good players. Question. Could you ever see a scenario where a superstar is baller enough to sign an Ohtani type deferred contract to help with the cap potentially offset rate and taxes with heavy state. Heavy tax state. I know it goes against the conventional wisdom of getting as much upfront money, time value money. What was your favorite spot to eat in Davis? That's easy. I mean right now, dose Coyotes. It's the only place that I eat at when I go home beside my house. I doubt it. I. I don't see it because one, you know, part of Ohtani that he could do that was he. He knew he could sign that contract to help bring his buddy the following year, Yamamoto. And two, he was so filthy rich with Japan endorsements, it didn't matter. So I mean, he guy's bigger than Babe Ruth. I think in the NFL you just kind of got to take it while you can. Plus the players union I have, I just have a hard time seeing it now. One thing I think baseball does a better job than football is sometimes when they sign their contracts that like they get the signing bonus of like 50 million and it gets taxed in the state the guy lives in. If he's like in Florida, even though he's playing for the Dodgers or whoever, it just feels like the NFL is just pretty above board on that. Maybe there are rules that I don't know about, but I have a hard time seeing a deferred contract, Bobby Bonilla get paid for the next like 25 years. That'd be sick. Mahomes kind of did that. I mean, you could argue Mahomes signed one of the more team friendly deals in the history league. And I don't think he regrets it because he's made so much off the field. Mahomes a good example. Could Mahomes have got more or could Mahomes be $100 million richer right now just from the football team? 100%. But do you know what winning does? It changes your brand. Tom Brady got $375 million from Fox because Fox wants to be viable for the NFL. So they don't leave him. But because of his brand. If Tom Brady was Philip Rivers, they wouldn't have done it. Michael Jordan got paid a ton of money to do an hour interview with Mike Tirico. And NBC told me, Mike, Michael Jordan was going to be on the broadcast all the time. We got nothing of Michael Jordan. But the brand of MJ is so big that it was a Tiger Woods. I mean, the brand of winning in America is second to none. And Patrick Mahomes believed in them and it worked out. And they have. They won more since, won multiple other Super Bowls and it changed the course. Like if Patrick Mahomes never wins another super bowl, like how many, I mean, Super Bowls have been he? Five. One. Three of them Made man.
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My question for the bag is what are some rule changes you'd propose the NFL or college to make the game better for fans? Also, what is some life advice for us guys who are 23 to 25, one to three years out of college? Thanks for reading. I would say one rule change I do for college is is I think I do two feet down or I do or I do one foot down in the Pros, but I would make that a universal rule. Remember when college baseball, I guess they still do it. It's like they don't use wood bats. The base, you know, the pros use wood bats. I would just try to do universal, like some rules. Holding, pass interference, like those are universal. College, I would definitely rescind. You get tossed out of the game, which I actually think they did recently. I don't know. It's a good question. The ejection for targeting in college is just unfair. You know, these guys are. Most of them have a short career. The majority of them aren't going to be Ed Reed or Ronnie Lott. So if I. If I'm a safety or a linebacker and I hit somebody, you toss me out. I might only play two years as a starter in college football, so. And I can get injured at any moment. That rule was just too punitive. It always has been. It's really, really bothered me in a sport now that like, these guys aren't as violent as they used to be. Why? Because it's been coached out of them. These guys aren't headhunting. I grew up on head hunting and I enjoyed it. I'm never going to apologize for it. Kind of miss it sometimes. I think the NFL's base that they expanded on was people like us that love the violence, but that violence is kind of gone. It's still a violent sport, but it's not as barbaric as it used to be. Just throwing some 90s highlights. You watch that Elway documentary of 1980 football, you're like, how can Joe Montana and John Elway and Dan Marino fucking walk? I mean this, that with all the elite players on defense in the league, shocking more guys didn't just have their entire body snapped. It's crazy how tough Joe Montana, John Elway, Dan Marino and that kind of crew of 80s quarterbacks were. Jim McMahon, you had to be so tough to play that. Not saying you don't have to be tough to play now. Toughness is always a big part of court, but you don't have to be as tough as them. You just don't. It's not like, and I'm not being old guy, get off my lawn. Just throw on a YouTube game from 1986 and tell me that is similar to this. It's no different like bare knuckle fighting or boxing gloves, you still get hurt and your jaw shattered. The boxing glove, it's a little different. Bare knuckle, you know, I mean, it's just. And I feel like the NFL used to be bare knuckle in like the 70s, 80s, even the 90s. Started changing in the 2000s. My life advice. And again, I can only go off my own. My own personal plight in post college is when you're young, be willing to sacrifice stuff to set the foundation professionally. That will make life easier when you're 40 and 50. And I think a lot of people struggle with sacrificing in their 20s and then their life professionally doesn't really change as they get older. And I, I sacrificed a lot in my twenties, from financially to friends to life, and it's paid off as I got older. And you have the least amount of responsibility. You, you can follow a quote, unquote passion or something you're good at and attempt to see if you can make a living on it. Depending where you live, you know, even if you live in a place that is more expensive to live, especially as a single guy, like, you don't need that much. You should be able to function pretty well off kind of the bare minimum I did for a long fucking time and I'm a pretty bougie dude. So it's like I would just think sacrifice professionally to set yourself up your latter years in life now you got to be around the right people and be doing the right things. But don't get caught up about this. You know, it's harder. I mean, social media is a much bigger part of your life now than it was my life at 25. But try not to get jealous of what other people are doing. You know, stay focused on yourself. Don't let you know comparison is the thief of joy. Like, don't try to compare yourself to other people, how they're doing. We all run different races, so some people get to places faster than you. And don't let social media fool you. Some people are fucking miserable and they take pictures with their spouse and they're like, we love each other. It's like you can't stand each other. So just spend less time on social media and more time in the real world. That'd be something I believe strongly in of. Don't let social media dictate your happiness or you know, how you think things are going. Focus on yourself, focus on your job, focus on doing everything possible to like build the, build the foundation that you're going to live longer. I mean, if you're younger now, technology and modern medicine, you know, you could have 60, 70 years healthy left. So just, just grind because it can change your life and you never know who you'll meet. Like when you get the opportunity to do things or get asked to do things, say yes more than you say no because it's easy like, ah, I don't need to make this, or I don't need to go to this. And you just never know who you'll meet. Question for the mailbag question. What are some things you missed from your radio days and what are some things think podcasts could adopt from radio? If anything, I would say nothing. The commute sucked. The amount of people I got more people listening now have a much broader audience. I have much more freedom to say whatever I want, make way more money, work with just higher level people. Beside, like, just in terms of, you know, management, I obviously had a good partner in radio and good, we had good producers. But just in terms of management is night and day different. Much more front. You know, one thing that in our world is we have, we have no ties to like what worked forever because podcasting is so new. You just do whatever works and if something new works, you change and just kind of be yourself, right? Just you don't have to worry about, you know, in radio you play this game of like every quarter hour to try to get a rating. Like I don't give a about any of that. So I would say there's literally zero I miss about radio, I guess, beside like being a community. Like early on I worked with some other cool hosts. So like you kind of around each other every day in the office, but then like getting on Barton, going under the Bay Bridge and I mean our commute, like I don't miss any of that. So I, I don't know, I think they're just two way different mediums. Like I'm not playing. Me and radio don't have much in common beside just trying to entertain in terms of the way their business is built and the way my business is built, I would just say are polar opposites when you talk about traditional radio. But I, I've always loved the audio medium, which forever was radio. And for me now I don't listen to any radio besides serious radio. And I've never listened to more stuff because of podcasts, books on tape, like, I'm just always listening to stuff. My wife thinks I'm nuts. But I, I just, I'm an audio guy, grew up on sports talk radio, grew up on just music radio. And still to this day I listen to a ton. I just, I, I probably listen to stuff the majority of the day. Sometimes you'll just be in the mood for music and you'll Throw on Pandora or Spotify or you or just. I'm in the mood for something different. I'll listen to a book. So I love audio. And I think the one shift and I think this goes like, why TV news and some of the broadcast stuff has died is because it all feels fake. And one thing I don't do is fake. I don't have to agree with you, right, whether it's sports, whether it's politics, whether it's life. But I think you're being real and you're entertaining. Like I, I with you, I, I just think about so many times like watching TV as a kid and like Dan Rather would come on. It's just like, it's all just performative, you know, I'm not saying he wasn't talented as Job, but like. And I'm, I'm not even trying to pick on him, but it's just, you know, when you see. It's like an SNL spoof looking back and I just think people so I turned off my generation. I don't think any of these people why most people I know despise politicians. We think they're all fake, right? We think every word that comes out of their mouth is bullshit. And that's where I think podcasts have really shines. Just people talking, whether you agree or disagree with them. Most people just giving their opinion on whatever, whatever genre you're listening to. And that's where I think radio can be tough because a lot of the big stations are in bed with the teams and it's pretty rare that those people have no guard rails of what they're allowed to say and not to say. I have no guard. I can say whatever I want now. I also try to like, you get a little older, you get a little more mature. It's like, dude, I need to just talk unlimited. Like I said, I met Brandon Staley at the combine. I'm like, you know, felt bad a little. I mean he seemed pretty nice. Who knows, maybe he was complete fake to my face. That's how he is with everybody. But it's like for a split second it's like, ah, kind of regret it. Not all of it. I don't regret what I said about him not being good. But it's like, did I take it a little overboard? Yeah, sometimes you take it overboard. I took it overboard sometimes on radio I got in trouble. I shit, I got fired. Question for the bag. Do you think the Patriots should move on from Brable sooner than later? This story won't die. After hearing you talk about Friday, about them on the boat when she said I'm pregnant. I lost respect for the man and her. Love the show. I appreciate it. Had to get Netflix because of you, but I found a delirious Shane Gillis show called Tire. So thanks. I. I tried to watch Tires one. I thought it was pretty terrible. Season two. I had some pretty funny moments. Season two was kind of right up my alley. Yeah, man, I. I don't know. It dies, see, like, right. It feels like for the last several days I've heard nothing. If you told me by Wednesday something else drops, I'll believe you. If you told me just goes away for a month, I'll believe you. It's just, it's one of those things. It's like always lurking, you know, at any moment. Sometimes I walk around here if I'm ever on a walk in Arizona at night. You just never know. Mountain lion, bobcat, you're just, you just heads kind of always on a swivel, you know. And that's how I would imagine Vrabel feels when he's just. He gets a text message like, oh shit, who could this. Oh, thank God. It's definitely something. Not going to go away now, is it? Always going to be in the forefront? No. What's going to be interesting is on opening night against Seattle. Like how do they avoid talking about that? How's that possible? It'll be a test case. Does it come up in the broadcast? Because if it doesn't, that's a fugazi Friday. Because it's going to be a story that's going to be discussed, I would imagine up until the season, especially if more pictures come out. I'm a Saints fan and want to get your thoughts on Shuck. What are your expectations? Wide receiver duo of Olave and Tyson. Also, my wife is seven months pregnant, due in mid July. What advice would you give to prepare for a new first time dad? Sleep, homie. Sleep. Sleep. Enjoy your sleep like Aaron Rye with the golf club and putting a cover over it every night. Look at your bed and just, just, just. Do not take it for granted. Do not. Like on a Sunday when you can just wake up at whenever you want. Get out of bed at 7am if you want, go get a workout or sleep until 10 and no one's gonna give a shit. Do not take that for granted because those days will go away and they'll go away fast. My wife said the other day she's like, all these moms claim they nap all the time with their baby. Like she's like, I haven't taken one nap in four, four months. You don't. The sleep is just. I mean, I've slept a couple times because I've traveled, but she is not. So yeah, I would say that, I would say the bad thing, I would say the other thing is I know your wife, you know, as you get a little more pregnant, there's less you can do. I mean, you guys could go on a boat like Rossini and Brable, but you could do a couple fun things like maybe go out to dinner or something a couple times if, if that's not something you would normally do like in the middle of the week. Because you, it's. Even when you can go out to dinner, it's like, do I want to go out to dinner with my 4 month old that at any moment could all over the place, could throw up all over the place, could just start crying. It's like, it's not even fun. Sometimes I see some of these people which, which I respect and I'm more of a homebody like you are who you are. Some people go out a lot, like with their young kids. Like, is that even. Is that enjoyable? That's my thing. Is that enjoyable? Because I do understand. Someone gave me advice this weekend. They're like, just remember as your kids get older, they came into your life so you don't like just have to change your entire life the rest of your life. When they're, you know, as they get older and teenage, like around them, like you can still do things, like still do things for yourself, still do things with your wife, but when they're in like the infant baby stage, it's like going to dinner is miserable. We tried to go to an Easter thing and he was actually pretty cool. He was pretty chill. But like at any moment there could just be everywhere. I like Tyler Shuck. I. I'm in on the Saints. I'm gonna pick him to win the division, so I'm high on you guys. Defense probably needs a little work, but I think the offense could be fantastic. Again, we're betting on this 26 year old finishing or continuing like he finished, but I think you guys are going to be good. Heard you talking the other day about the Eagles. I was fortunate enough to see them at the sphere. Unreal question. If Tom Brady came back today for a one year deal, where would he rank as a quarterback? Well, he's definitely in great shape. His arm strength probably is exactly the same. I just don't think he'd want to get hit he didn't want to get hit four or five years ago. He would definitely not want to get touched now. He could never move, so he can't move. There's never been less good offensive linemen consistently coming into the draft in terms of like the early middle rounds. How many quarterbacks like Tom Brady are there in the league? They just can't move. Golf cousins now he's got a better arm than both those guys. Yeah, if he was all in, he could probably be somewhere between like 7 to 10. But I think his days of being a lead, it was hard. At the end, he just can't move and he doesn't want to stay in there, which I don't blame him. So it obviously depend on the team. If you put him on a bad team, like, he would look shitty. We're in his prime. I think he would elevate it. If you put him on a good team, Yeah, I think he, he could be a playoff quarterback. I'm a high voltage substation worker in Pennsylvania. Go birds. The 49ers claim that injuries are caused by a substation near practice field. Might be the biggest fugazi I've ever heard of. Before I continue, the 49ers do not claim that. The 49ers vehemently deny that. Most of the players go, ah, it's kind of weird, but we don't totally believe it. But some of them think they're. You never know. But the 49ers, this story did not come from them. This story came from this like investigative reporter or scientist or something on Twitter. So this, the 49ers do not believe that. They claim they got an independent guy out and he denied it all. We are surrounded by electricity. In every major US city there is high voltage underground networks. If there was a shred of evidence to the claim, my fellow utility workers would cash in like the CTE lawsuit was to the NFL players. Here's the difference though. They are claiming as a utility worker or as me or who? My neighbor. Like, I am not taking violent athletic moves throughout the day. Today I lifted. I would say the most violent thing I did would be like the rowing stand up machine and then just a lot of other. Just free weights and stuff. But I am not trying to make a guy miss in the open field that is 6, 5, 240 pounds. So the claim was that it diminishes the strength of soft tissues which leads to pulled hamstrings, torn ACLs. Well, as a utility worker, as other people that live in major, you know, US cities, where are they going to tear ACLs? Like, if you don't play pickup basketball, you're not going to be in that many compromised positions. Like, I guess some people play tennis. Like, it's the claim that during football is really unlike anything most of us do, even if we're really active. If you like to hike or go on long runs, like, you're not really going to tear stuff. So I hear what you're saying. But as a utility worker, where are you going to put. Pull your hammy or tear your Achilles, right? Because even if you're climbing a ladder, like, you're. You're probably doing it at like a slow, steady, kind of safe pace. It's not like you're trying to win a race or George Kittle blew his Achilles trying to explode up the field. How often do you try to explode in your everyday life, even if you're more of a blue collar guy? Like, it doesn't happen as much as you think in terms of your lower extremities. But I hear you. I. My take on the Niner thing with the substation is the heart of Silicon Valley. The substation has clearly grown over the years, and we use more power now than ever. And I totally. The Jed York has no choice but to deny, as someone mentioned to me at the super bowl, who's kind of in the loop, if the 49ers for a split second ever said, yeah, there's some validity to this, what number would amount to, what they would be sued for by all the former players who have been injured and cut or traded or disregarded. Number would be high. So whether it's true or not, the 49ers can never say anything. But it's not true. And like you said, it's. It's probably, who knows? I saw Delaney Walker say the trees were always dead. I. I don't really. I. I mean, I walked by it all the time when I used to go to the practices and camps. I just don't even remember paying attention to it. And I think now at these practices, they kind of like, corral these guys in a different area for the media. I'm a Niner fan. I'm from Lake Tahoe. My dad's a Bay Area native, so I was born into it. And I love the team. Go Niners. Do you think the history between Morrison, Kyle gave Raheem more draft autonomy this year than coordinators typically get? Every defensive player they took feels like a Raheem pick career? I'm a commercial photographer. I shoot the greatest Skier of all time. Makila Shariffin Shifrin. Might be saying that name right or wrong. I want to break into the NFL. Is there one person or door you'd point to toward getting started at the shooting level? I honestly don't even know where you'd start. If that's through the individual team, if that's through like stadium ops, I truly have no fucking clue. Be a pretty cool gig, though. You get field access. And I remember meeting the guy that used to do Niners games. Legendary guy. Had been there since like Bill Walsh. But I would say on your first question, this gets Back to the 49ers issue in the drafts. Their coaches have way more juice than other teams. Other teams include the coaches at different levels. Some get very, very involved. Some just get some reports, whatever we're going to do what we're going to do. But all coaching staffs are involved in the draft process throughout the league. The 49ers assistants sure feel like they picked the players if they can convince Kyle to like the guy. Robert Sala, I mean, I, I think it's fair to say, and I will find out if these guys turn out to be good. Was a major, major reason that they made their first two draft picks last year. Now, would you have taken Mikel Williams, a 20, 21 year old from Georgia, the 652-80- no matter what? Probably. But that was the guy. He won. Collins, the second rounder from Texas, was 100% a solid pick because even Saul on his way out said, that guy's gonna be a great player, fucking loves him. So I, I just think their, their coaches have a lot of juice. And if you're able to convince, you know, Saul is very close friends with Kyle and Raheem's even better friends with him. So. Yeah, I mean, I, I just think that, you know, that's not how it works most places, you know. And I'm not saying your coordinator shouldn't have juice. For example, I would imagine Spags really like the guys they drafted. I, Delane woods and Mason, the Oklahoma pass rush, the three defensive players they drafted in the top 40 in Kansas City. But here's the thing, Spags, you've won Super Bowls with him and he's not going anywhere. Thing with the 49ers is like, you let Salah pick your players and then a year later he's gone. It's my issue with letting assistance dictate the draft. If I'm a GM or a head coach, there's no guarantee they're going to be on the staff next year. It's like you need to have conviction. Like Saban was dictating recruiting. His assistant might love a guy or not love a guy, but if it was Saban's decision, I think when you let the assistants make decisions can get a little wonky. Good question. That'll do it for a day. Adios. See you tomorrow. Peace.
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