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Is this a real conversation or just Internet only because if this is a real conversation, maybe I'm out of the loop on like the way fans think. Do people really think this? You seeing the team they're rolling out, they're going to trade a first round pick? Well, Veach I guess was getting some similar heat on the Interweb about not trading. You know, it was reported today that he didn't trade a. They were talking to the jets about Breeze hall and the jets were adamant. We want a third round pick and the highest Veatch would go as a fourth rounder and he wouldn't budge. And I saw chief fans like, what are we doing? Why aren't we living in the now? And I was like, is this serious? Have you guys watched Andy Reid coach? You think he's going to give Breeze hall who won? To me, talented guy, little overrated. The hype given what he's brought to the NFL. Again, a little hard to judge because of the jets, but like this isn't trading for Christian McCaffrey or Bijan Robinson here. And who knows, maybe he will end up that way next year when he's on a better team. But one, he's a free agent. So you're trading A fourth round pick on a team that's very expensive, that's going to need picks that I'd even argue that's like kind of bold for a team that historically isn't exactly handing the ball off to one individual 15 to 20 times a game, not really how he calls plays. But to me, most importantly, why you can't give up a third round pick one. Patrick Mahomes is going to need a quote unquote restructure of his contract. I promise you that one's coming. Chris Jones makes a ton of money. Carloft has just got a big contract. Trent McDuffie is going to need a contract. Obviously Travis, even if he retires, I bet if we look some of that signing bonus got prorated is going to hit the cap. They are going to need to be careful about their top picks because over the last couple of years like why don't the Chiefs just get aggressive and trade a first rounder for so and so? Well, who did they use a first rounder on this last year? They're starting left tackle. So when you have a high priced team, the first two days of draft picks are really valuable. So if you are going to use those, it would be on someone that wouldn't be a rental, it would be a guy you want to resign. Like Howie Roseman goes and goes in trades for Jalen Phillips, a third round pick. Well, they're basically giving this Jalen Phillips a two if they go long in the playoffs, a three month trial run to give you a contract extension. But even if they let Jalen Phillips walk, let's just say it blows up in their face and he's not good, it doesn't work out and it's underwhelming. Do you know what Howie Roseman has in his back pocket this off season? He can trade A.J. brown. So it's like oh yeah, he lost a third round pick. Well, what do you think he'd get for A.J. brown this off season? At minimum a second and a third because he makes a lot of money and you know, who knows, maybe he can dictate where he wants to go. I don't know if you know, at his length time in the NFL if they get a 1, but he would get, I would say minimum a second potentially if you told me a second and a fourth probably. So he has that in his back pocket and I would say stop talking about trading AJ Brown. I watched Howie's press conference two days ago after the trade deadline and when he was asked about it, he didn't just Come out and say, like, yeah, we never thinking about it. We would never do that. He kind of gave me, yeah, we're just. We're into keeping our good players. But he didn't. It wasn't like, if you would ask him, hey, why didn't you trade Jalen Carter? Why didn't you trade Jalen? Hurts. He would have gone. He would have lost it. He would be like, what are you guys, idiots? That's not the way he took it. Promise you this. A.J. brown's getting traded this offseason. That's going to happen, and that's how they're going to recoup picks. Well, who are the Chiefs trading? They need that third round pick. So if you want to say, hey, why weren't the Chiefs involved in trading for some defensive guys, okay, I can hear that. But drawing a hard line on a price point for a running back that's a free agent that I don't know hasn't exactly taken the league by storm. I don't have a big deal with. Let's talk about Daniel Jones, because I actually think his agents are about to get in the zone. If you remember, in 2023, Daniel Jones was coming off a career year where I think he accounted for like 20 touchdowns. Not exactly. Like, he threw 45. Giants went nine and eight. They beat Kirk Cousins in the Minnesota Vikings, and it was like, we're in love with Daniel Jones again. How about like two years, 50 million? His agents laughed in their face and they proceeded to dominate the Giants in negotiation. Joe Shane even said, he's like, this negotiation was crazy. And they got $80 million the moment he signed that contract. A year and a half later, he was released in the middle of the season. Well, you can't argue that he has been a big part of resurrecting the Colts. Right? They had a quarterback situation that was a debacle. He immediately comes in and now they're probably headed toward, what, 12 and 5? Like, they're not only headed for a good record, they're going to the playoffs. And for the first time in Chris Ballard's tenure, they're more than likely going to win the division. I think his agents have to be licking their chops after this week because that Sauce Gardner trade basically sent out a signal we are ready to win now, this year, next year. Our time is now. Well, when do you think that. When you have a quarterback. Why did Jerry Jones trade for Quinn and Williams? Why see people call him. He's got Dak Prescott, he's paying him $60 million. He's like, you get Quinn and Williams got two ones next year we'll add to our defense and we'll make the playoffs. That's what he's thinking. If he would have traded for Quinn and Williams with no quarterback, it would have been the craziest trade in the history of the league. But I said like, I don't even think it's that nuts. We could argue the price, but like he plans on, on filling up that defense next year and winning 10 plus games next year with Dak Prescott, whether it comes true or not. But like he could make that argument. It's possible because he has a quarterback. Well, when you trade for Sas Gardner for two first round picks, what teams trade two first round picks, teams think they can win, teams that believe in their quarterback. And I think Daniel Jones now is looking at if he got $80 million at signing three years ago, depending on, I mean, if he has some good games and they win a playoff game, are we talking $150 million? And this is where I think the Colts are going to sign one of the more controversial quarterback contracts in recent memory because his agents have already proved they don't take discounts. His price point was basically cousins three years ago. You know, cousins just made $90 million in two years. That's what Daniel Jones did. Right? So you factor in inflation, you factor in these new deals. I can imagine Chris Ballard will send his agent Sam Darnold's contract three years, $100 million, 55 million. And they'll laugh, they'll like wipe their ass with the facts or paper. I guess no one faxes anymore, but, well, they used to in the NFL contracts. And I just think that the Colts now have backed themselves up into a corner, that this is their guy. No one franchises a quarterback or very rarely because the price, I haven't even looked at the number, but my guess is, I don't know, minimum, low 40s. And all that money goes on your cap. So you try to avoid that at all costs. And you want to sign them to extension and the extension is going to be really expensive. So the Colts and Daniel Jones, I would say haven't officially gotten married yet. That will come when the big contract is signed in February. But they got engaged the moment that Sauce Gardner trade went down. Okay, Fugazi Friday I got to give myself a little bit of a round of applause. I made it through 60 minutes of hot yoga. Now I took a different tactic. Last time I went, I went at 6 in the morning. So I definitely didn't hydrate enough. I didn't quite know what I was getting into and I quit after 40 minutes today they had a class at 8:30. And my days on Thursday, because the game's at night and I don't record no stuckey till 11 o'. Clock. I got a little more time in the morning. So instead of going to the 6:00am class, I went at 8:30. You know, I got up at like 6:30. I slammed a big Stanley. I felt hydrated, felt healthy. And I went in there and this class was packed today. But the thing that, because again it crossed my mind that probably about I made a mistake. I went to the center of the class, that's where the heater is. And the heat was just coming right at me. I was like, I don't know, this is because it crossed my mind again, but there was probably triple the amount of people. But what motivated me my, the whole time was right next to me was like this 65 year old, like Laird Hamilton. This guy was just jacked, gray hair and he was dominating. I'm like, there is no way I'm like one. When I'm this guy's age. My kid will be like 20. I'm like, this guy's in 10 times better shape than me and he's got me by multiple decades. I cannot be a puss and leave. And I just kept looking at him like I can't go. And then finally you just looked up and I tried not to. Every time you look at the clock, you're like, God, this clock feels like it's going backwards. But it finally got there. And even the yoga, yoga teacher said great job. I'm like, yeah, thank you. But God damn, that's, that's really, really hard. But I did want to end on this Fugazi is there have been a lot of reports. Kind of sweat and it's hot in here is the golfing with the college coaches, Hugh Freeze, Brian Kelly, that they were like addicted to golf. And one thing with Hugh Freeze is a report came out that in college, right, you play on Saturday. So unlike the NFL, their workweek starts like a normal human's work week on Monday. College football coaches and just college football operations. Sunday is a big work day, right, because you have six days till your next opponent. You try to grade that game. Some teams practice or at minimum do some sort of workout to get the lactic acid. You meet as a team, you go over the film and then I would say the majority of teams probably let the players go and then they Start diving into the game plan on the next opponent. But it's a very long day, right? Especially if you have traveled. If you're on the road playing Florida or something, you get back late. Like, you're in the office relatively early in the morning, and you're there till very, very late. And reports came out that Hugh Freeze, these SEC golf programs are like, they travel on private jets when they play in tournaments, if you're into that. Probably a lot of people watching this or not. If you go to YouTube and you just go to Alabama golf, Auburn golf, Georgia golf, Vanderbilt golf, their facilities are at country clubs that are really nice, yet their facility. When I got married in Nashville, we played the Vanderbilt course because my brother is a member at a club in the Sacramento area and it's owned by the same management company, so you can get a tee time there. So we went and played it. And Vanderbilt's, it's their home course. Their clubhouse is just for the players on a golf team. There's less than 12 guys. Is bigger than the actual clubhouse at the country club that has 218 holes. When we were leaving, Peyton Manning was in the Vanderbilt area, I think with his young son Marshall, just chipping and putting. It's. It's incredible. So all these people in the SEC have setups like it's the fucking PGA Tour. It doesn't get any better. So Auburn's home course, who I actually think I have a good buddy that went to watch a Cal Auburn game years ago and they played it and said it's really nice. So all these teams have, you know, the nice country club is ran by the golf team. Well, if Sean McVay or let's use Kenny Dillingham in Arizona if he wanted to sneak out of the office early on a Sunday, like, I'm just kind of over it. Need a break. I'm going to go play some golf. There are 7 million golf courses here. He could play anywhere, and honestly, he'd get away with no one noticing him. When you're Brian Kelly and you're playing Baton Rouge Country Club, or you're Hugh Freeze and you're playing Auburn's country club, it's the only nice golf course in town. And where do you think the rich people that are funding your program that live in the general facility hang out? And a country club is like a high school, Everyone knows each other and everyone talks. Well, who's the most famous guy beside, like the billionaire rich guy funding the football program in the town? It's the football coach. So if it is true that Hugh Freeze was going and playing golf on a weekly basis or oftentimes after losses at 1:30 in the afternoon on Sunday. That's insane. And I started thinking like, Brian Kelly, Hugh Freeze. I do wonder if you get to the point, especially these older guys. I get Lane. He's still trying to prove himself. He wants to win a national championship. And like, he's, he's kind of, you know, been drugged through the mud throughout his career. So he's still like, trying to prove it. But a guy like Brian Kelly. Now, granted, he's still trying to win a national championship, but he's been making so much money for so long. I don't care who you are unless you're wired like, Nick Saban's a one of one. He is not normal. And even him, you saw once he retired that video that went viral of Ms. Terry bringing him the, the cake dudes on the La Z Boy with, with the, with the, with the blanket over him like he's Grandpa Saban. Leave me alone. I want to watch this game. I can appreciate that. I want to watch this game by myself in a room. Don't leave. I want to watch the Chiefs and the Bills. Do not talk to me. He ain't coming back. I saw the new LSU ad Said, who's good friends with them, said, we talked to Nick. He's not coming back. Not that we talked to him about the job, because he laughed. He just was never coming back. My point is that these guys were playing golf thinking that, like, that's not going to get back. And I kind of got to the point where maybe they didn't care. And I do wonder if some of these older coaches that are taking these astronomical amounts of money, do they still have the same fire? Do they even give a shit? Because any human being that was trying to prove anything would never put themselves in a position where you're playing golf during the season after losses on a Sunday afternoon. That is fucking insanity. But that's what these guys were doing. And I really think it gets back to when you start handing out this type money. If they, if something's a little off, if they don't quite have the same fire, what do they care? Because what do they have to prove to that? Like, you have to pay me to leave. So you want to fire me, fire me. Send me those checks, because I got a lot coming. Even Hugh Freeze like, send me that $18 million. Brian Kelly's like, send me that 50 million. I don't care. I'll do Whatever I want, I'm actually untouchable. And it's human nature. Right. I think most people like the whole point of, like, striving. Obviously, you want to win championship, but these guys want to make money. Like, that's. And for a lot of these guys, early in the career, you don't make that much. I saw Matt Rule telling a story. They're playing UCLA. He's like, When I coached at UCLA in 2001, I was making no money. So you're just kind of driven to be a head man and also comes with the head man and a lot of cash. But once you've been doing it for so long, like Brian Kelly, I do wonder if you just lose your fastball to care. And I think we look at Nick Saban, and even Urban Meyer would have to tap. I was like, I just can't keep up this competitive stamina. And you have to wonder how many guys in college football are probably not working as hard. You know, if they're. If they were making a million dollars, maybe they'd work a little harder, but they're making 10. I don't. I have no problem with how much money anyone's making. But if you pay enough people $10 million, you're going to get some people tapping out early on a Sunday afternoon, headed to the golf course. 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