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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
3 & Out - Massive Mailbag, Can KC win out, is Drake Maye the next Josh Allen
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What is going on, everybody? How are we doing? I said, you know what? I got a I got a migraine that I don't get very often, but I was basically bedridden all afternoon on Wednesday and I was unable to do the podcast. So I was like, you know what? We had a little less content this week. Let's put out a weekend mailbag. At John Mittlekoff is the Instagram. At John Middlekopf is the Instagram. Fire in those dms. We're gonna do a little weekend mailbag. So I rattled off about probably about 30 minutes worth of worth of stuff. And that will be the game plan today. Very simple. You guys know the drill. Subscribe to the podcast. Everything's up on YouTube as well. But first, the official ticketing app of this podcast, Game Time. If you want to go to a football game, college or pro, we have you covered. Okay. It doesn't get any easier. They got flash deals. You can go to games for as cheap as a hundred dollars. Here's the best part of Game Time. 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I appreciate you. I would say winning out like it's the NFL, are they going to win out and go 14 and 3? That seems a little, little unrealistic because in the NFL, like I would say, they lose one of those Broncos games, which would probably be the one in Arrowhead, which is very understandable. You can have an excellent. You can go 12 and 5 and lose a couple division games. You know, division games are really hard, I guess. The Chiefs have already lost the Chargers. They're not going to Lose the Raiders, but I could see them splitting the division so I could see them losing one of the Broncos games. Yeah. To me, the Chiefs feel like 12 and 5 now. They got it rolling and they have a higher ceiling than I think they've had in years because the offense is much better, even though they've been going to the playoffs. Big Ravens fan here. Love the show. Keep it up. I just need to understand something. How is the media saying Drake May is the new Josh Allen and the Patriots and the Patriots are back when they clearly see their schedule has been a joke? I know they beat the Bills, but that was one game. Do you actually think they could be better? That he could be better than Allen? No. I mean, Josh is one of the more dominant players we've seen in the NFL in a long time. But, you know, sometimes I think we're very hesitant. Use Brock Purdy as an example. He became a really good player, but he was a seventh round pick, so you had to like fight to get your respect. Jordan Love, Same thing, right? Kirk Cousins and Dak Prescott forever. Russell Wilson. Took him years for people to be like, oh yeah, he's really good. When you're. It's the opposite. When you're drafted really high, it's like one good pass from Caleb Williams. Oh, he's the next great thing. It's like, let's just see if he can play the position. When you're drafted high and you start making plays, we anoint you pretty quickly. Now he's having an excellent year. Now I get they're playing bad teams. He doesn't exactly have, you know, Gronkowski and Edelman running around. I would say his weapons aren't great, but there was a lot of hype on this kid. I mean, once upon a time, Nick Saban offered him $5 million to be their quarterback. Think about that. And it wouldn't have been wrong. I remember it was a big deal when he's like, yeah, I chose to say at North Carolina and he's got a chance to be really, really good. Unless you're Ryan Polls. You thought he sucks again. I'm not making that up. He said that in the draft meeting. Do teams have in house financial advisors to help rookies make responsible financial decisions? It seems common for young athletes to blow through millions of dollars without considering that what they won't earn that the salary for the rest of their lives. I think teams, it probably varies a little team to team. I mean, most teams have some sort of developmental guy, typically former player, like high level guy. I would say like this is going to sound a little cold hearted, but that's not necessarily the NFL's problem. Right. I mean they can hold your hand, but eventually like you got to make the decisions. I would put the onus more on the agent. Right. I'm paying you, so you figure it out. Now ultimately I will help you out. You know, provide things like real estate agents, help you get a lay of the land, obviously help you around land other business deals when you're a good player with our partners. But am I worried about what you do with that money? As long as it's legal? No, not really. So if you want to buy five Lamborghinis or invest it all into one of middle cuff stocks, that's ripping. That's kind of your decision. That to me should be the number one push for an agent is hey, I got multiple financial advisors who are here to support you. I'm caa, I am David Mulgetta, I'm whoever. I have this infrastructure here to take care of you. The team's just the one paying you and they're the ones that we're going to get the money from. So I not saying the teams don't care, but like it's not really their, the least of their worries. If you are financially stable when you're 40 years old, the agent who you're literally paying should be all over that to help you out. That's, that would be my thought. I also think the reality, I've never been super rich when I was, you know, multimillionaire at 23 years old. But you're just, we're men, we're going to make them decisions. We're going to buy dumb, I, I probably buy dumb things. You buy dumb things that if we were the other person we'd be like, wait, you're spending money on that? It's part of life. Big listener mailbag Question, what do you think the Vikings will do with Kevin o'? Connell? Obviously he recently signed an extension, but numerous reports saying he's losing the locker room over how he handled the Wentz injury and how they've been babying J.J. mcCarthy. Vikings haven't won a playoff game since 2019, which was before O' Connell was hired, I believe. Not saying it's all on him, but this is a results based business. I haven't been deep on the Vikings Reddit boards or their local podcasts or radio shows to hear that. I have not seen anything. I'll take your word at it. There have been. And listen, this is part of football. When things get ugly, losing the locker room, I mean, I think a lot of people are wondering and. And rightfully so. Like, the JJ McCarthy thing seems a little sketchy. It's like he roll his ankle. Do you hurt his hamstring? What the fuck's his injury? He's healthy enough where you can put him in pads on game day if there's an emergency, but you can't start him. The whole situation has been red flagged. And when you start babying a player on a good team, I know they're technically not good right now, but a team that is, guys have won and knows what winning a lot of games look like, it can start resentment. And I think he's got to be very careful about it. The best coaches will pivot off. Okay, you like this guy two years ago in the draft. Well, we're three years later and he can't play. And if that's the case and he can't play, then you got to pivot. And if you do pivot, players will respect you. I saw Kyle Shanahan pivot so fast your head would spin. He wanted to like him. Turns out he wasn't good and they pivoted. Now, part of pivoting is you got to have another option. But. So it's like he had Purdy to turn to. But you, you cannot let a mist draft pick on a quarterback sink the ship because if you do, everyone will be fired. Now, Kevin o' Connell now is really rich. Signing the extension he's probably making, my guess, would be 12, 13, $14 million a year. But so it's at the end of the day, whether he's fired or not. Like, it's not like it's going to change the course of his just life with his family. Like, they're set for life. I think that's what you call generational wealth. It's funny, you know, on the Internet, sometimes generational wealth, it's like you got to earn $700 million. Like, no, I mean, I think you guys are a little inflated on some of your numbers. So I think Kevin o' Connell is going to be under a lot of pressure if this year keeps going south. What are we doing next year? And are we going to have loyalty to this guy if he does not play well? Because if you do, then this thing's going to get really ugly really fast. If he will be like the guy that drafted him once upon a time. Listen, you can talk a lot of shit about Belichick. He's not the greatest drafter especially down the stretch these last four or five years. But he would make cold blooded decisions and this is a cold blooded league. You get too emotional about players. I mean Andy Reid traded Tyreek Hill in the peak of his powers. Sia adios will go a different direction. You got to be willing to do that and if you're not, you will lose your locker room and games. So I, I just something to keep an eye on this year. I he'll get a little bit of a pass rightfully so they the quarterback situation which might have been his doing but regardless it happens. How are they going to pivot next year? I wanted to hear your preference on your favorite commentators. Would love to hear your thoughts for football and other sports. Personally, I'm a big Collinsworth guy. I look for a couple of things. One, I like Chris because he enjoys football and you could feel his excitement. Some people might say he's a little cheesy, a little over the top. Like I admire that my go to type commentator would be like Aikman when he's kind of on edge talking some shit. Like that's kind of what I like. You know, maybe I lean a little more negative. Like I have nothing against Tony Romo and every once in a while when I have, you know, now with these four boxes, sometimes you're not always listening to the top game. But when you listen to Romo and Nance, like Nance is a big part of my life. I watch a lot of PGA Tour golf, so I've spent a lot of hours over the last 20 years watching gymnast. So I like hanging out with Jim Lint gymnast. I do think the Romo thing is just can be a little over the top at times. But I also watch it like, yeah, it's an easy hang whether it's cheesy or not. And I would say, you know, Collins Worth is better than Romo, but I think those are easy. I think a lot of like the second and third tier broadcasts can be really horrendous. I mean I'm not going to name names, but if you just start getting anyone that has a team that's not very good, when you're watching the lower rung, like fifth games from CBS or Fox, you're like, oh my God, this is pretty bad. So I would say, I would say Aikman's my favorite. I was watching the World Series. It might have been the gummy I was on, but I was thinking John Smoltz is good. I saw Daniel Jeremiah tweet this out maybe like a Couple weeks ago, just saying how impressed he was. Like, John Smoltz's knowledge of baseball. I was like, God, this guy, if he was a football announcer, he'd be heralded as the top guy, for sure. I mean, the guy knows baseball. Like, the intricacies of the different moments and what you should do, what you shouldn't do. It's like for a guy that plays golf seven days a week, this guy's dialed. I think he's. I think he's excellent. Trying to think basketball. I always liked Van Gundy not stand. Jeff, who's fired, who got fired from tv, is now, I think, the Clippers assistant coach. But I was a big Jeff Van Gundy guy. Yeah, I would say that's. My list is relatively short of people. I would quote, unquote, good. I'm also like most. Most of you probably. I've watched so many games that I get numb to a lot of the commenters. Like, I don't even really pay attention. If anything, I'm just listening for nuggets that I can use in the podcast, like stats they might spit out. I actually like the college game. You know, I think. I think Herb Street's really good. J. Billis has been good for a long time. I think Klatt's good. I like. Yeah, I like actually a lot of the college quarterbacks. McElroy definitely like Jesse Palmer, I'll always enjoy. I feel like I've watched a lot of Jesse Palmer games. I feel like college has better ones than the NFL. Yeah, I feel actually pretty confident. I feel like college has better broadcast than the NFL. Not in terms of, like, maybe the graphics or whatever. I'm just mean actual people in the chair, they just feel a little. And maybe there's a little less pressure so they can just be normal. I just. I don't know, Might have to do a research project on that. How can you take sports gambling seriously after the new NBA scandal came out? The NFL has so many missed calls and so many questionable penalties on a weekly basis. Plus, what happens one week means nothing the next week. It's called gambling. I. The difference between basketball and football, and we've talked a lot about this, is there's always been a human element with the referees. The broadcasts are so good with the cameras now that we see a lot of these things. Like, historically, when a ball hit two people diving for it, it was clear who the ball went out of, went out on. Right. In basketball, for example, forever in the NBA, in college, in high school, pickup basketball. Now with the Slow mo replays like I went off the tip of his finger. We just know more information. It's impossible to rig NFL games now. Like you said, an official can miss a call. It's hard to be an official now. I've always said, like, if you miss serious calls, you should be fired. They never are. And maybe you could say, well, John, they're in on it. I would say, yeah. Part of not knowing what's going to happen week to week is what makes the game so interesting to gamble on where in basketball, like, you know, the bad teams, like they're going to get routed week in, week out. And Chauncey Billups was literally throwing games. I heard someone say this the other day. Like, isn't it crazy that we thought it was a bigger deal for Chauncey Billups to screw over people in a poker game than it was for him to tell someone, I'm going to manipulate the outcome of this NBA game. That was the bigger headline. Tells you everything you need to know. I think the NBA is easier to rig. I think it's harder to rig in the NFL. I also think it would have come out. I think it's just too big, too much money. People, people would have talked. Maybe I'm naive. Lifelong Browns fan and we have two first round picks. We are expected to pair them and take a quarterback. But with our O line literally having nobody coming back and no wide receivers, Judy is a two at best. You almost can't evaluate a quarterback. Dylan is short and looks blah. If Sanders plays for us, he, he has no chance. Stefanski has a bad track record. Watson looked terrible, but how much do you blame him or the organization? He didn't want to play for us, but he took the bag like miles. My thoughts is that Watson, when he comes back might be our best quarterback and we need to draft an ot, a wide receiver and an ot. If we bring a rookie quarterback into this mess, he will just look awful. Do you think this puts. Do you think put best hope. The team's best hope is to build a team around Watson and start him next year. You can never start Deshaun Watson again. That ship hasn't just sailed. You could never roll him out. His career with the Cleveland Browns is 100% done. You just, you can never do that to the fans. I do think I'm with you, you know. And I've been saying this for a while in Stefanski. It's like everyone tells me how great of a coach he is, but I watch him deal with these off these backup Random quarterbacks and the offense looks worse and worse by the week. Now you can say, well, his offensive lines terrible. I've seen a lot of teams with bad teams figure out ways to manipulate points. I do think the organization is effed up. I mean, the owner's nuts. They were given the out with Miles Garrett. He said, trade me 30 years old. You could trade him for like two ones and two twos and reset your franchise. And they refused to do it. And I just have a hard time believing the GM wouldn't have traded him. But I don't know. I do confidently believe that Watson will never play for you again and you can't, you can't play him anymore. I'm a lifelong Buckeye fan, born and raised in Columbus and have been attending games with my dad since I was 4. As you stated, you are a lifelong Ohio State hater. While I certainly can understand and have run into many with similar feelings, I am curious, what do people truly hate about Ohio State? I'm in the cult through and through. So I can't quite see the forest through the trees. Well, I think typically people like, don't hate Minnesota football. Jaguar football. The Atlanta Hawks. Right. The Chicago White Sox. Who do people typically hate? The Yankees. The Dodgers. The Chiefs. Right now the Patriots. Forever. Duke basketball. Part of what makes sports fun is like, I don't have any tangible reason to hate Ohio State. Right. I kind of do, I guess with the Lakers as a kid. But you know, it's like the, the Sacramento Kings, who I was a fan of at the time, have been the worst run franchise probably in all of American sports for 20 years. The Lakers impact them zero. But I have this irrational hate toward the franchise. When I see it, I just cringe. I don't really have a reason. I really don't. Especially now that they're bought by this new owner and Luke is on the team. I would say the same thing for Ohio State football. Like, listen, I want to act like Ryan Day, some scrub, but his resume speaks for itself. He's doing a good job. Matt Patricia hire looks good. I mean that's undisputable. Like it's kind of worked out. Brian Hartline elevated offensive coordinator working out pretty well. They're a. They are the cream of the crop in college sports. And listen, I didn't grow up going to USC football games in their prime. I went to Cal football program sucked in the 90s, wasn't any good, didn't get good till Jeff Tedford showed up there. So my point is, like, I've always. I like some favorites. Like, I've always been a fan of Duke basketball, but I also like the Red Sox with Ortiz and Manny before they could beat the Yankees, because I was kind of rooted for them because they were the underdog. So I kind of pick and choose. I don't know. I just don't like Ohio State football. I feel like I like a lot of the guys that played there. Right. Like reading all about Mangold last year. It's like this type guy. This is my type guy. Dustin Fox used to go on his radio show all the time. Former player in the mid 2000s with those guys. AJ Hawk. They seem like I got a cool crew. I never watch Cam Hayward. I never watched Ohio State guy. Especially ones that go on to do other things and not go. Yeah, guy's really impressive. I just don't root for the team. I'm just rooting for you guys to lose. I need someone to root against. And the power of sports. And this goes back to Howard Stern, when they asked him, like, well, how long do they. Do his fans listen? And then he said, like an hour. He said, well, how long do the people that hate him listen? He said that's where he gained such a big market share. They listened for double the amount of time. And that's the strong part about the Yankees, about Ohio State football, about Duke basketball, is the haters pay attention. And that's. That's the most powerful part of the Ohio State brand, beside being the elite brand, is the haters just have a strong of an emotional connection. I have no reason to hate them. I just kind of do. I don't know why. I don't really like Notre Dame football either, though. Marcus Freeman's kind of grown on me. I don't know. Some people you just don't like. I mean, I just. I think we need to get back to that part of society. You don't need to like everybody or you don't need to pretend to like everybody because clearly humans don't like everybody. 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Katie Couric
On the latest episode of Next Question with me, Katie Couric. I sat down with Bernie Sanders, who is 84 years old, has spent 34 years in Congress and he can still pack a rally with people a quarter of his age.
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John Middlekauff
Denver, 34,000 people come out. Salt Lake City, 20,000 people. You know, huge turnouts. People are really dissatisfied about the status quo.
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Katie Couric
His Fighting Oligarchy tour with AOC and other young progressives has become a movement. But is his message too far to the left? Well, he certainly doesn't think so.
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John Middlekauff
Does that sound like a radical idea? Is that too far left for you?
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Katie Couric
Okay, okay, wait, wait. I get your point, Bernie. We talk about the billionaire class, the cost of living and of course the government shutdown. Not to mention the current state of the Democratic party.
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John Middlekauff
To me, the failure of the Democratic party has been an unwillingness to recognize the real issues.
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Katie Couric
Open your free iHeartRadio app search next Question with Katie Couric and listen now.
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John Middlekauff
Question about Caleb Williams. I'm not really a Bears fan, but I've become a huge NFL fan. Do you think Ben Johnson would really consider benching him this year for badget if he keeps playing like this? Do you think the front office would doing so? I think the only way you ever bench him in 2025 if you know he's done with the Bears because there's no benching Caleb Williams In 2025, in November, December and ever coming back from it. The only way I guess you get away with it is like the last game of the season and you have six wins. It's like let's get Tyson badge at a game, maybe a showcase game. Totally get that. But if you're benching them with several games left, I mean there's just no returning from that. I love it when people say too. It's like these are the times no one has any patience. Well, yeah, there's a lot more money on the line now. This isn't 1996 where it's like, oh yeah, salary caps, 40 million salary caps, gonna be $400 million in a couple years. These media deals are huge. The amount of money between winning and losing for an individual franchise is Immense. I can't believe they didn't have any patience for Brian Kelly because they can't afford to keep losing. So if they didn't pay him $50 million to clean out his office, they were gonna lose another hundred million dollars. So they had a choice. Either draw a line in the sand or keep dealing with the people who are always on the fence of like, just let it play out. It's like, well, we can't let this play out because we're gonna go seven and five and no one's gonna show up and we're gonna have problems. If you want the softball girls to have fucking cleats on their shoes, we got to win a football, you know? So I, I just think that that's, that's one that's becoming a pet peeve of mine. It's like everyone's just impatient. Yeah, society's a little less patient. Welcome to 2025. In America, time ain't on our side. Even though it's going the same pace, it's always gone. It's just we live in different times. So, yeah, there's way less patience for most things. It's kind of the way the world works, which I don't mind. I'm pretty impatient. Individual. Are the Bills the most overrated team in the NFL? Their five wins were against teams with a combined record of 10 and 29. Now the 4 and 4 Panthers are the best team they've beat. Truth against the teams. The defense looked like a JV squad out there. And outside of James Cook, Josh is surrounded by plumbers. I don't doubt he can single handedly carry a team to wins, but for people to say that they are contenders is crazy to me. I think this week against the Chiefs and Week 11 against the Bucks is the barometer. Yeah, I agree. I'm a little nervous. I was rooting for them to finally get to a Super bowl and win a Super Bowl. But this is a, this is a massive game. And at the end of the day, they're going to get judged off the playoffs. You know, I say it's a massive game, but it's like it's a massive game. Actually assuming that the Patriots keep winning, you got to hold serve at the end of the day. They beat the Chiefs in the regular season hasn't amounted to shit when it mattered in January. I want to ask you a question for your podcast. Well, you've picked the right spot, Eric. Will we start seeing the era of the number one wide receivers go away in the NFL? We see how well, Green Bay does with no true number one, spreading the ball to four to six guys. We saw how A.J. brown wasn't on the field for Philly. The need to always force feed the ball allowed the team to be more open. The same could be said about the Cowboys with Desmond. CD Lamp. I think it's difficult because the whole point of a draft, and typically most of these guys get drafted by the team. Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, CD Lamb is to nail picks. And when you draft a guy like that, you've nailed the pick. I do think that they're their representation. Like, why do they make so much more than tight ends and running backs? We've seen saquon and Christian McCaffrey two of the last three years be the best player in the league on offense. Who's the best player in the league this year on offense? Jonathan Taylor. It doesn't mean that Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase aren't awesome players, but we see Justin Jefferson with no quarterback. Like, what can he do? What can. Why does that guy make $35 million but Jonathan Taylor only makes 18? Or whatever the top tight end is in his prime gets 19 million or 20 million. How does that work? So it's like, I just think the money's out of whack. If they were making the same amount as the other guys. That's the one thing I will give the NBA is like, you're not judged on position in the NBA. Point guard, shooting guard, wing power forward, guy, bank, center. Like, you're either max player or you're not. And I think we need to kind of get back to that. Now, you could argue they give out too many max salaries and there's some truth to that. But a lot of NFL teams seem to have a glaring weakness, but we rarely see player movement and trades to address those weaknesses. The Chiefs clearly need a running back, only real weakness and have draft capital. See, I push back there. I kind of like their running back unit. I think the rookie's been good and I think Pacheco and Hunt have been pretty good this season. Like, I, I would say their need would be more. I bet they would trade for like a defensive guy. I'm looking at their running. You got Mahomes giving him four touchdowns on the ground. Kareem Hunt is giving him four touchdowns on the ground dot Pacheco's averaging over four yards of carry. Give him a touchdown. Yeah, I mean, I, I don't think that's really been a huge issue. The Steelers have draft capital and could use either wide receiver or some defensive help. I go on and on, but it seems like they're reluctant. Oh, I could. This wasn't even about the Chiefs, really. I figure the salary cap may play a part, but in your experience as a scout, are there other factors that play into this? I would say that teams, you know, GM's value like second and third round picks. So let's say I got a good player. Let's say, let's, let's use a crazy example. Let's say the Falcons just lose this weekend and they're like three and five and they're in shambles. And let's say the Chiefs called and said, hey, what would it take for us to get B John Robinson? And they went a one and two twos. It's like if you imagine if you just put Bijan Robinson on the Chiefs for the next, obviously for the next couple years, you'd be like, that'd be Jesus to go with that group. Now, I'm not saying they're going to do it in May, the Rams. I mean, you pick the team like, hey, we'll give you a first round pick back. So I think part of it is that teams just get reluctant to pull the trigger with the picks. I think it's less about the cap because you can manipulate that and teams can pick up money. But I think a lot of it comes down to like, like, listen, I remember when the 49ers trade for Christian McCaffrey, I thought it was crazy. I'm like, you're going to give up your second, your third and your fourth round pick for Christian McGaffrey. And obviously he's been one of the best players in the league when he's on the field for them. Since he's. They made that trade, it has been. He's an incredible player, right? But I bet most GMs that might have been interested in Christian McCaffrey would be like, under no circumstances am I paying that much money, you know, and that much money meaning the draft picks, because that is money. Those picks equal between my second and third round pick, I should get at minimum one of those guys should be an immediate starter for me who's making no money. So it's a huge advantage. I just think a lot of teams talk themselves out of picks and some. Someone DM me the other day about AJ Brown if he got traded. The dead cap acceleration, obviously it's more complicated to trade, you know, any player like A.J. brown, Max Crosby, Miles Garrett, these guys just got huge new contracts and it fucks with your Your cap. But I think a lot of guys don't get traded just because teams aren't willing to pay for it in the season. I think it's easier in the off season to make huge moves. Huge fan of the pod. What's your read on quote old Howie versus quote new Howie. For years, Eagle fans couldn't stand him. The bad drafts, the power struggles, the overthinking. But now he's basically the most trusted GM in football. What do you think actually changed? Did he evolve as a talent evaluator, get better people around him, or just learn from past mistakes? And do you think this version of Howie is here to stay, or could we eventually see flashes of the old version creep back in Also? What do you think of the Eagles dream team era failed? I think that time, you know, Coach Reed had been there a long time. We're really trying to get over the hump and you just kind of start mixing desperation with a lot of cooks in the kitchen. You know, Joe Banner was heavily involved, you know, when I was there. Joe Banner, I guess he got kicked out the last year, but like, he played a big role. So I wouldn't say how he had the juice by any means that he had now and then. I wasn't there for Chip, but obviously, you know, Chip would be like, yeah, we're not drafting devonte Adams. Like, what do you mean? They're like, ah, he's not good enough. We'll take the Matthews kid out of Vanderbilt. So it's like the coach had more juice even when he wasn't the quote unquote gm. Because you're not going to draft players that your coach wants no part of. So get devonte Adams slow. It's like, no, actually he's one of the best players in this draft. And this is the thing that doesn't come out till usually after situations are blown up. It's like, yeah, the scouting staff didn't agree with anything he was doing. It's like some of these stories that come out about the Patriots draft, like, yeah, none of the scouts wanted to do it. Bill just did it. Bill just wanted to draft this guy in the first round. It's like the dude the Patriots just traded to the 49ers, the pass rusher who was a second round pick a couple years ago. I saw Albert Brewer. This clip on local Boston radio was like, yeah, Bill wanted to take him in the first round. It's like sometimes these coaches don't listen to anybody. So once how he came back in charge in whatever 2017 like from Doug to, from Doug to Sirianni, like he's just gotten more juice than any GM in the league has. So it's like if, if scouting staffs had more juice, I think you would see different personnel moves where it's like Kyle Shanahan doesn't want to do something, the personnel staff has no say he's going to do it. I mean, coaches just, I mean typically have a lot of juice. And when you're on a winning team, typically the coach has all the juice. That's why I give credit to Sirianni. He just kind of knows where his breast buttered. So I would say that's he just has more control over the last, you know, seven, eight years than he ever had early on in his career. He also got the job. I mean, when I got hired, I think he was like 35 years old because I was 24, 25. I remember thinking like, he's actually closer to my age than he is. A lot of these guys working in the league, it was actually kind of inspirational. I was like, God, they just hired this 35 year old GM. Long time Lions fan. MVP question. How is Jonathan Taylor not in the top five of the MVP discussion? He is currently on Pace for 1800 yards and 27 touchdowns. Very similar to LT for the Chargers and MVP season. Yeah, man, I mean you can go on and on. I just think the running backs, I've heard a couple people break this down, they just have no shot. I mean he probably has to run for 2500 yards. I mean seriously, like Saquon couldn't have been the. I just think what Saquon McCaffrey, what Jonathan Taylor's doing, we might as well just rename it the Quarterback mvp because it feels very, very unlikely that you're ever going to see a Barry Sanders, Marshall Falk, lt, Adrian Peterson, the one year quarterback's just going to win it. I don't have a great answer beside that. Just that just feels like the, the standard practice moving forward. Fair, not huge fan of the show. Got a broader NFL question for you. We'll end on this. Why does California get to host back to back Super Bowls? Traveling to California and paying for the super bowl experience is way more expensive than for fans than the other venues. Doesn't seem fair considering that most of the country is on the east coast and thus easier travel. And down here in the south we really love our football and I would say more than California. Heck, the Rams won the super bowl and they feel like an afterthought in la, we have great stadiums in Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans. But seems like we get passed up. I mean those, all those places get it right? I mean New Orleans gets it. I was just there last year. Miami's got it multiple times in the last five years, six years. Arizona gets it. On loop, you could argue the Bay Area. Like the Bay Area. If you told me they never get another super bowl like I wouldn't complain, right? I mean it's not an ideal setup. Like New Orleans or even in Scottsdale is a much better venue I think for super bowl than San Francisco. But like their franchise has a lot of juice, you know, I mean they have a lot of pull and they, I mean the last time San Francisco had it was 10 years ago. So it's not like they get it that often. LA is always going to get it. It's a warm weather place. And LA is not just one of the biggest cities in America. It's a place that's hosted this event many times. And it's also their franchise has a lot of juice. So if you told me that the super bowl was just stayed three places, Arizona, New Orleans and Miami, I don't think anyone would complain. If you just said it's only Miami or only New Orleans, I don't think anyone complain either. But they're always rotating and these places that are going to build these domes like Tennessee Nashville will get it even though it's cold there. But if they build a dome stadium or one that has a retractable roof, they will get one. You know, the Cowboys, I mean listen, I mean a random people flying to the super bowl experience. I love the NFL but like I wouldn't exactly call that like Disneyland or anything but I hear you. I mean I, I don't know, I think it has a lot to do with the poll and you can only have Super Bowls in nicer climate areas. So I mean when I went to the, I was at that game, Panthers, Denver, in Levi's stadium, whatever, 10 years ago, I was sweating. I wore pants and like a button up short sleeve shirt and I remember being hot. It's so, I mean weather plays a part.
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