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3 & Out - Tomlin or McCarthy for the Giants? AJ Brown Speaks Out, Browns Drama & Purdy’s Future
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Next Question with me, Katie Couric, I sat down with Bernie Sanders. We've talked many times over the years and today he even throws a few questions my way.
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We talk about the billionaire class, the cost of living, and of course, the government shutdown. Listen to Next Question with me, Katie Couric on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Hey, I'm Kyle McLaughlin. You might know me as that guy from Twin Peaks, Sex and the City, or just the Internet stand. I have a new podcast called what Are We Even Doing? Where I embark on a noble quest to understand the brilliant chaos of youth culture. Each week I invite someone fascinating to join me to talk about navigating this high speed rollercoaster we call reality. Join me and my delightful guests every Thursday and let's get weird together in a good way. Listen to what are we even doing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The volume what is going on everybody? How are you doing out there in the real world? Hopefully well, because Thursday Night Football is upon us and let's just keep our fingers crossed that is a better game than last week because that was tough. But we will prevail. We'll keep our head down and we'll just keep swinging and talking some ball and luckily there's a lot going on. AJ Brown made some headlines. Some thoughts on Nick Sirianni McCarthy that'd be Mike McCarthy, betting favorite, currently New York Giants something to keep an eye on. Paul D. Podesta the guy that played well, Jonah Hill played him his character in Moneyball with Billy Bean. I think last week left to the I know last week left. I haven't talked about it yet though to the Colorado Rockies because remember he's a baseball guy and just left the Browns high and dry. Not that the Browns were sad to see him go, but definitely want to touch on that. And then we'll do a mailbag as well. And listen, you guys know the drill. We go live on YouTube after every Thursday night game. So we'll be live tonight after every Sunday night game, after every Monday night game, obviously we turn that into a podcast. The mailbag at John middlekopf. Firing those DMs. Subscribe to the podcast wherever you may. Listen, Spotify, Apple, we got you covered. Subscribe to everything we do YouTube podcasts and you'll never miss a thing of me talking into a microphone here in Scottsdale, Arizona. So let's talk some football. But before we do, you know I got to tell you about my friends at Zone. This product contains nicotine and nicotine is an addictive chemical. Underage sale is prohibited. If you're competitive like myself. And you're always looking for some way to help you stay dialed in. Like when I'm doing a podcast or playing golf. Well, that's something for me are Zone pouches. And you won't catch me without I've been rocking these mints after dinner, in the morning, during the day. Here's the thing. Not to mention 20 pouches per can versus 15 the other guys offer. Choose Zone and dominate the day. Use the promo code number three and out 20 on nicokick.com for 20 off at checkout. Okay, let's, let's start with the Eagles because A.J. brown had some headlines again today. I think it's funny if you would have told someone 20 years ago, it's like, yeah, this, you know, famous wide receivers who's having some issues with his quarterback, the offense not throwing him the ball, made some comments. Oh, where do you make the comments? He tells newspaper report or something. He, he may mentioned something on the local radio station. No, he was actually. I don't even know, I watched the clip. I don't even know if he was playing video games. Clearly there was someone playing video games and he was on Twitch talking to the guy. It's like you stream video games and a bunch of people watch. There's actually a bunch of multi millionaires that became famous just on this thing called Twitch. And a lot of little kids actually now just watch people on YouTube play video games. It's really popular. You'd be like, what are you talking about? Like, yeah, A.J. brown said don't take me on my fantasy or on your fantasy team. He's like, well, it's not even factually incorrect, like he's kind of onto something. But I was thinking about this as someone who's about to have a child and I do believe ideally as you get older, you learn to manage stress better, right? Especially for men. When we're younger, we can be volatile, we definitely can fly off the handles. It's something that I've worked on. I'm still continue to work on the way I handle stress, my emotions and as you get more on your plate, you have more people depending on you. You gotta be able to handle yourself when shit hits the fan. Sometimes anyone can handle themselves. I don't care what you're doing when things are going well, what about when things go poorly? And it's why I say it all the time. In football, it's impossible to judge what a position coach will be like as a coordinator or head coach, because they have no pressure on them from the outside. They really do not. No one talks about position coaches. But the moment you become an offensive or defensive coordinator, not only does everyone know your name, if you have a bad game, everyone wants you fired. And if you become a head coach, you not only are being asked questions about those guys, you, you're also being asked questions about yourself and everything going on in the team. So your ability to handle stress and crazy situations are something that you have to become numb to and numb too fast, because if you do not, it'll eat you alive. And that's just a random football team, let alone a team like the Philadelphia Eagles that are in one of the biggest media markets in America and are just a highly polarizing team year in, year out. And the other thing is, like, the owner and the GM are kind of unfazed by controversy at this point. Honestly, it feels like they welcome it at times. So being a head coach in that organization is not that easy. And here's the thing, you know, and I've been. I'm guilty of this. I'll be the first to admit it. I've been hard on Sirianni over the years. But, like, he's 55 and 22. He's just won the Super Bowl. Like, there's not much to say. I mean, at this point in time, Mike Tomlin was talked about like he was Bear Bryant meets Bill Walsh back 15 years ago. Look at Mike Tomlin. Hasn't won a game, hasn't won a playoff game in nine or 10 years. Goes nine and eight every year. People like, oh, you on scholarship will be a coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers for life. People like, what is Sirianni's deal? Why? Know this? He handles a lot of shit. And specifically with his quarterback and A.J. brown, and he does it pretty well. And like, at this point in time, A.J. brown's proving. I googled it today. I was like, didn't. The Eagles, I remember when they traded for him, they gave him a contract. I'm pretty sure they gave him a large contract extension within the last 18 months. And that's true. Last year, 2024, they gave him three years, $96 million. I'm no mathematician, but pretty sure that's, on average, $32 million a year. And when you're someone like A.J. brown, I say it all the time. When you are the elites, even if your stats are down, you typically see every penny of your contract. So when Howie Roseman trades him to someone this offseason, which I'm sure is going to happen, that money's going to keep flowing into A.J. brown. So he's a great example. I've never had that much money, but I do subscribe to the opinion that money doesn't buy happiness. It does buy boats and mansions and private planes and send your kids to private school, but it does not make you internally happy when you're a wide receiver and they're not throwing you the ball. A.J. brown is living proof of that. But Sirianni has to deal with this, and he has to answer to this every single week, multiple Times. Because he speaks on Monday or. Excuse me. Yeah, he speaks on Monday. He usually speaks on Wednesday. He speaks on Friday, and then he speaks again after the game. Because that's what you have to do as a head coach. And the number one question they're asking you about when AJ Throws flames back to the fire is this. And if he's able to make a long run in the playoffs, even if he's just in the championship game again, like, this is a type situation that I would say melts a lot of teams. You know, people have talked about this over the years. I think Pat Riley coined the disease of me. I remember. I think it was like John lynch or John Gruden or one of those guys told the story about after they won the super bowl, you know, the next year, it looked like everyone was pulling up to training camp and a little nicer car, yet a couple more holdouts. People wanted raises. It's part of the deal. And it's. I'll be honest, I think it's easy to coach the underdog. It's easy to start at the bottom and start working your way up. The wind blows the strongest at the top of the mountain, and most coaches crumble in the situation. I actually think Sirianni's done a really good job. So I actually kind of understand the more you've seen this situation and the more he's kind of held it together, of why they value him. And Jeffrey Lurie said this before. He's great with working with people. And wasn't that what we said about Tomlin for so long? His ability to, like, God, look at Antonio Brown? I mean, shit, really look at him now some. My wife was like, have you seen this story on Antonio Brown? I'm like, maria, any headline for Antonio Brown, I would say over ever since his feet got burned. My first reaction is, I'm out. I don't give a shit. So I've seen it, but I have no opinion, and I refuse to click on the article. But Tomlin got a lot of credit because the moment he got rid of him, he was cut by the other team within, like, two weeks of training camp. And I'm not saying A.J. brown is that, obviously, but these are situations that would destroy coaches that don't have the ability to handle their team and can't handle the stress and can't handle the arrows on top of, like, his team on a weekly basis is, like, not playing great. So he's trying to hold that together. He's got an offensive coordinator who's under Fire. So I think Nick Sirianni has had a really, really impressive year. Speaking of a guy that's had an impressive year, he hasn't done anything is Mike McCarthy. And last year he was fired. I was like, I think one of these teams is going to hire him. Turns out he didn't get hired. And now it's looking like jobs are coming open left and right and there are not many Ben Johnson's and Mike Vrabels out there. So when I saw the headline from Pro Football Talk that Mike McCarthy is now the betting favorite to be their next head coach, I went, makes some sense. And I've been saying, Mike Tomlin, if the Steelers, you know, crash and burn, which they're in the middle of crashing and burning as we speak. But when you're the New York Giants, like they've tried all these coordinators and they have blown up in their face, clearly this time around they're going to go at, if Mike Vrabel was on the market, they would have been crazy to not offer him like $20 million a year. Like, they need someone with the chops that has been a head coach and someone that's had success. So I thought Mike Tomlin makes some sense. But sometimes I forget because he's kind of out of sight, out of mind. Mike McCarthy, he checks a lot of boxes. First and foremost, he coached Aaron Rodgers and the packers, which is, you know, it's weird because they're in such a small little town. My buddy Chris, who was just actually there a couple days ago, was taking me pictures of like, how I've never been there. But the, you know, the community just surrounds Lambo. Like it's obviously the smallest market in the league, but one of, if not the biggest brand. And it's ebbed and flowed a little bit. I wouldn't say it's the biggest brand in 2025, but it's, it's a top four or five brand in the league because they've been winning for three and a half decades. I gave the stat the other night. They've been 32 straight years on Monday Night Football. 32 straight years on Monday Night Football. You don't do that unless you win. And Mike McCarthy can handle the bright lights. He just worked for Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, which is obviously the most valuable franchise, but also the most talked about franchise, the most polarizing franchise and one where you literally answer the owner because he's also the GM. So like Mike McCarthy, if you're like, well, how's he going to handle the New York market, you know for a fact that he can handle it. Because for almost 20 years he goes to the packers and the Cowboys and then two, you go, okay, he can handle, you know, the big picture, the media, you know, being the head man. What about his chops to coach? Like, can he develop a quarterback? Looks like he literally developed Aaron Rodgers and Dak Prescott when he became the play caller. Had one of, I think, if not his best statistical season of his career. So I would say Mike McCarthy is known as an offensive quarterback guy. So if you're looking for someone from Jackson Dart, you could make the argument if me and you were sitting in a room and we were talking, like, if we had two options, we can, we have. We're going to have access to Mike Tomlin or we can get Mike McCarthy. Well, it's like, I don't think we go, really, if you're the Giants, you would die for either. Like, they will just get you going on the right track. Look what he did for Dallas because you're like, well, he didn't win in the playoffs. The Giants would die to just be in the playoffs. The Giants would just die to be in the playoff mix come December 1, let alone December 31, let alone playing a January game. Pretty sure they've been to one playoff game, I guess two, because they won it. The two. The two games they played in with day ball, whatever, three years ago, in the last basically decades since 2016. So just getting there is a huge achievement for this franchise. And I think if we were talking like, who should we hire, Mike Tomlin or Mike McCarthy? Well, we go, we do have Jackson Dart and he's going to need someone to work with him because while he does have a lot of talent, we need to mold it and we need to get the best out of him. Like, obviously Tomlin can lead the group, but, like, he's not coaching the quarterback. Right. I've seen Mike Tomlin deal with quarterbacks all over the map. Post Big Ben. I think Mike McCarthy might win out in that situation. So I think the downfall of McCarthy has really been like, didn't get over the hump multiple times with Aaron Rodgers and obviously couldn't win playoff games with Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys at home. He lost two home playoff games to the 49ers and to the Packers. That it's hard to shake that in the first round. It really is. But I would say if I'm Joe Shane, Mike McCarthy would make a lot of sense. The Browns and Paul D. Podesta, one Piece of advice I give because I do agree, like cowards. Big thing is with advice, it's really hard to give generic advice to people when everyone's path is so different, everyone has different desires, everyone, most people want to attain different things. So to give one individual piece of advice to generically over and over is not going to resonate with a lot of people. And I'm like, I completely agree with that. But any young person that says, hey, I'm a senior in college, or hey, I'm fresh out of college, I want to get involved in sports, the one piece of advice I will continually give is if you want to do it, you got to go all in on it and just handle not making much early on to try to get over the hump, you know, at some point in time in your career, ideally earlier than later, but it's going to be tough sledding early on, you are not going to make very much money. And if you do take a real world job, if you're like, you know, I'm just going to try like, hey, I got an offer from Morgan Stanley. I had a buddy, I had, I wouldn't call him a buddy. I had an acquaintance, a guy that was reaching out and asked me for advice, finally called and said, listen, I got an offer, I think it was from like Chase Bank. I said, hey, you take this job, which I don't blame you at all, you're going to make way more money over the course of the next couple years than you ever would working in sports marketing, working in whatever path that you wanted to take in college athletics. But just know this, if you do accept that job, you're never coming back because you'll start making money, you'll start living a different lifestyle and it's going to be very, very different, very hard to transition. I can only speak for myself, but I never had a plan B. And I not like I had options to work at Chase bank or Wells Fargo, but I never did that. I only did one thing. And I was pretty singular minded when it came to where I wanted to go and what I wanted to attempt to achieve. And I actually saw, I clicked on a YouTube video the other day of Matt Patricia, and I don't know if I forget it was a podcast or an interview. And he basically said that early on. Remember he was an aerospace engineer, I think he played college football and he had a big offer out of college, I think, to make like, you know, this 25 years ago, 20 years ago, early 2000s or late 90s, to like a six figure job, like you know, one of the military industrial, Locky Martin or one of those. And then a guy in college football, like a former coach or something, offered him essentially like a GA spot or an assistant coaching for like $5,000. And he trusted his gut and he followed his passion. And his family thought he was on drugs. And you've heard a lot of stories like that from coaches. But I do think you have to pick a path and not look at other options. Because if you look at other options, I think it's. People talk about this all the time in the dating world and like what's wrong with young people? It's like, well, if you see these dating apps, like it's just this. There weren't that many options in the 50s. That's why a lot of people in the 50s and 60s like married the first person they dated. I mean the world wasn't as flat then. You didn't have access to the person in the town next to you, let alone states or you just couldn't communicate. You just kind of took what you could get and you just, you guys rolled with it. Her too. I mean, it's two way street. And I saw Paul, Paul D. Podesta left the Cleveland Browns. And no one truly knows what his role, like how much juice he had. He clearly had enough juice. Cause even he was quoted in an article about Deshaun Watson of like, we all own this. It's like we do all own this. Like, who was the guy pounding the table and said this is a good idea to trade for this guy? Obviously the owner had to okay it and given the money. But like, were you one of those guys that said it was a good idea? Because if you did, you own that, right? It was Stefanski saying that. Because if so he owns that. If he wasn't, then he does not own this. And I think Paul D. Podesta is a good example of a guy that helped Shepherd a record of 56, 99 and one that he had other options because he wasn't a football guy, he's a baseball guy. And as it got uglier and uglier, he just became the guy running the Colorado Rockies. He said, see you guys, have fun. I'm jumping off this boat, literally going to another one and my life's going to be fine. And I just got another four or five year contract, probably paying me 2, 3, 4, 5 million, whatever. You guys are fucked. And I started thinking about this. Most people in football have been plan A, there is no plan B. Players Most players, all they focus on in their young careers, like how do I get better at football, what do I got to do at football? What do I have to do to get my next contract? And they are pretty singular minded of just trying to improve and being the best player possible. Most coaches and executives are the same thing. Like you don't coach football for like 20 years and at 45, like I'm going to just start selling insurance. Not really the way it works. You, you worked on this craft, you're all in. If you're just a scout out there at 40 years old and you've been doing it for, since you were 23, like you don't have much real world experience, like I'll just start working at Wells Fargo. You don't have those options. But Paul D. Podesta got involved with all these other guys, right, that were just football guys. That's what they do. They, they're football GMs, football coaches. Yet he could always jump ship because I don't care what he says, he could always kind of put his foot in the other pond of baseball and he literally just did this and he leaves these guys high and dry. So I think it's a good example. And whether it's sports or whatever, when you get into someone who is not all in on what you are doing, especially in a pressure packed business, right, like football, like basketball, like baseball, like finance, you name it. It doesn't just have to be sports. If that guy has other options and you don't, he will leave you like and that's exactly what happened. And Paul D. Podesta will leave a stain on this organization. When you say his name, I don't even think at this point in time you think of Jonah Hill and Billy Bean in, in Moneyball. I think of the guy that helped really ruin the Browns, like make them a complete laughingstock. And he doesn't care. He'll probably buy some big ass house in Denver and be at spring training. And the Browns are their problem now. And I think, you know, this starts with Jimmy Haslam. When you hire people from outside situations that aren't that work their way up in football. Like Nick Casario. Let's use him as an example with the Houston Texans. They obviously got a big comeback win the other day, but let's just say the season would have imploded, right? It's not like he has the option of like, you know what, I'll just go run the Houston Astros. Or you know what, I'll just go give Pat Riley a Call and go work with the Miami Heat. He's a football guy. His entire life has been dedicated to, to football and most specifically the NFL. That wasn't Paul D. Podesta. So I think the Browns wanted to look cute. They wanted to think outside the box. It got them a lot of media credit at the beginning of this situation because he's an intellectually, you know, viewed as like a high level. Just a lot of brain power up there, right? But who cares if you don't know what you're doing? Which he clearly did not. And then when the house was on fire, he didn't grab a hose and help put it out. He literally just got in his car and drove off. So if I was a Cleveland Brown fan, my first reaction to this guy would be like, fuck you. Excuse my language of children. And last but not least, Brock Purdy. I saw a headline today. Oh, I saw the headlines as a story that Marvin Harrison Jr. Is appendicitis. He's out this week. He's going to be gone for a couple weeks. And they have. I saw a headline today that the Arizona Cardinals had to do a walkthrough of practice on Wednesday afternoon because they have so many injuries. Clearly they're in shambles. They just got their just doors blown off by the Seattle Seahawks and they got problems. They play the 49ers this week in Glendale. It'll be, I would guess, 80% 49er fans. I mean, I mean it's always the majority 49er fans. But now that the Cardinals suck. If you told me it was close to 90%, I'd believe you. I was of the opinion if Brock Purdy, unless he is 100% and can't get re injured, I'm just rolling with Mac Jones now. I'm not naive, I'm not dumb. My decision is I didn't just give him $200 million. Literally. Jed York guaranteed him $188 million. The way pro sports work, I'll never forget it. When I was a kid, the Sacramento Kings had Chris Weber and we were so awesome. We had Mike Bibby, we had Pejo, we had Vladdy, we had Bobby Jackson, we had Hedo Turkoglu. Team was badass. And then Chris Weber tore his knee. And then the next season he couldn't play for like 80% of it. And I'm pretty sure the Sacramento Kings had the best record in the NBA. Well, they had just given him like $100 million. And this was 25 years ago. He was going to start the moment he could, quote, unquote play. And that's what he did. And then the team fell apart and it was never the same. And Chris Weber's career basically ended up. It was the beginning of the end and it was also the beginning of the end of the Sacramento Kings. But there is pressure when you pay a guy a lot of money and you know you can't lose your job to injury is the old adage, and there's some truth to that. But when you get paid a premium, there is no, not only not losing your job, which he never was going to do, but the moment you can play the coach and the organization is going to put you back in. I just believe this, that Mac Jones has played really well this season and he has a couple games just like last week against, I mean, he's played the Rams twice and he lit him up like Chris. He's looked fantastic. Now if Brock Purdy is healthy, I would take Brock Purdy over Mac Jones and I like Mac Jones. But Brock Purdy's proven he's a better player. I do think there's a lot of pressure on him this week because let's face it, when Brock plays, he's one of the most polarizing guys in the league. That's not going to change this week. If it doesn't go well, they're going to be favored in this game. They are favored in this game and the Cardinals are viewed as a team that's about to completely unravel. So to me, I just hope for everyone's sake so we don't have to talk about it all week, Brock can just show up, assuming he plays and just play well. Because if he doesn't and they were to lose, then I think we got a big story on our hands. Especially if Piersall, by all accounts looks like he is going to practice this week and potentially play come Sunday. It'll just be a big story. And it'll be a big story fast. Today's show is brought to you by our new presenting sponsor, Hard Rock Bet. We talk a lot of football here on three and out. But there's so much more to bet on. The NBA is obviously in full swing. I was watching Michigan State and Arkansas play basketball. College hoops is back. Even the NHL is rock and rolling. So if you haven't tried your first bet yet on Hard Rock Bet, there's still time for you to get 150 in bonus bets. If you win, just place a five dollar bet and if it hits you, not only get your winnings but an extra 150 in bonus bets. 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I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm. That's pretty awesome. I think I saw a billboard of yours recently. It said 20 billion one 20 billion is an insane number. Yeah, 20 billion recovered. It's actually, I think somewhere north. Probably closer to 22, 23 after this year. And each year we get bigger and badder and our army grows. So the number will hopefully keep getting bigger and bigger as time goes on. Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan?
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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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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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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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Does that sound like a radical idea, Katie? Is that too far left for you?
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Okay, okay, 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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To me, the failure of the Democratic Party has been an unwillingness to recognize the real issues.
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Open your free iHeartRadio app. Search Next question with Katie Couric. And listen now. I'm Eva Longoria.
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And I'm Maite Gomez Jejun.
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And on our podcast Hungry for History, we mix two of our favorite things, food and history. Ancient Athenians used to scratch names onto.
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Oyster shells and they called these astrakhan to vote politicians into exile. So our word ostracize is related to the word oyster. No way. Bring back the ostracon.
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It blows me away how progressive Mexico was in this moment. They had land reform, they had labor rights, they had education rights.
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It's okay not to be okay sometimes and be able to build strength and love within each other. Thanksgiving isn't just about food. It's a day for us to show up for one another. I'm Eliot Khani, host of the podcast Family Therapy, a series where real families come together to heal and find hope. What would be a clue that would be like, I've gotten lots of text messages from him. This one's from a little bit better.
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Of a version of him because he's feeding himself well. It's always a concern, like, are you eating well? He's actually an amazing cook.
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There was this one time where we had neighbors and I saved their dog and I ended up inviting them over for food and that was like one of my proudest moments. This is family therapy. Real families, real stories on a journey to heal together. Listen to season two of family therapy every Wednesday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. We're gonna do a mailbag at John Middlekopf. At John Middlekopf. Is the Instagram fire in those DMs questions answered here on the show. Again, just my name on Instagram DMS wide open. And we will start with. We'll start with Ben. Huge fan of the show and the Packers. When looking at the NFC north, who is the best position for success over the next two or three years? I feel like our options are limited now with so much money tied up in Parsons and love and I feel like we went from the best young team in the league to dog shit in the blink of. I would. You're not that bad. I would say the Lions are the only team with a quarterback who's proven like, I mean, Jared Goff's been playing at a high level for a long time. Caleb's. They're about to play a lot of big games. You know, it's one thing to light up the Bengals, the Cowboys or the Giants. Let's see how he plays against Packers. He's got two games against packers defense. I don't know, we'll see, right? J.J. mcCarthy is not only a major wild card, I mean, it looked like Justin Jefferson was quitting on him in his fourth start. And I would say, you guys, I mean, there's just a lot of pressure right now on the floor. Even the people that cover the packers are like, this guy's fighting for his job now. So Dan Campbell not only is not fighting for his job, he's the best coach the Lions have ever had. And obviously Jared Goff is a solid quarterback. But the other thing is they're well positioned because like Aiden Hutchinson is a star, like Brian Branch is a high end player, right? LaPorta, Amon Ra, Sewell, Gibbs Montgomery, Jameson Williams, like these guys are all young and under contract. So I would still lean the Lions. We're going to learn a lot about the Lions this week. I think the other night on Monday night I said that Philly was going back to back road games was wrong on that one. My bad. And as I say, my bads get your ass kicked podcast. They don't they just mistakes and we move on. But the Philadelphia Eagles are hosting the Lions. So it's, that's, that's a big game for the Lions. More. It's, it's actually a bigger game for the Lions and the Eagles. I think as a defensive coordinator today's league, is it tougher to defend the run or the pass? Love the show. Well, I think it depends on your personnel. I would say for most guys, given their personnel, if you have a good running game, it's harder to stop the run, right? 20, 30 years ago you had a bunch of big run stuffing guys in your front seven, linebackers included. I mean how many guys in the league would you be like, this guy's a downhill run stuffer. Like I love Fred Warner, he's a Hall of Fame player. Fred Warner is a sideline to sideline, beats guys on angles. He's not like meeting Lorenzo Neil or Mike Allstott in the hole and shedding him and making the tag. It's not really how he plays, you know. So I just think that the style of player is a lot different now at linebacker. And just a lot of teams don't employ like 340 pound defensive linemen because they have no pass rush. And a lot of times you just got to beat passers. And even if you're playing like a rushing team, if they got a good quarterback like Lamar Jackson, like having a 340 pound guy there, it's like, well what's he going to do? Chase down Lamar Jackson? You know, so it's. I just think the personnel has changed a lot. I definitely think it is stopping the run again if you're facing a good run team. Whenever I see a lot of people going, you know this team's terrible against the runs. Like, well, yeah, they don't have the players and what are they going to do? Draft a bunch of 260 pound linebackers? Watch college? That guy does not exist. There are a lot more. I saw the clip of. I honestly, I haven't watched much Ohio State this year just because they are beating the shit out of everybody. I mean obviously they're elite, but whoever their best player is that pass rusher. I saw some clips, I was like, God, this guy. I think Dane Brugler. I was reading an article, I forget the kid's name, but he's a baller. Looks like Michael Parsons. There's just a lot of Micah Parsons. Look at the best defensive lineman in Abdul Carter was like Micah Parsons 2.0, the Ohio State guy. There are a lot of guys like that, there aren't a lot of like this guy's an all around pass rushing, defensive run stuffing edge guy. So it's. You get paid to rush the passer college too. Really a good question. My question for the pod is do you share the same optimism as me when it comes to the Chargers chance of winning the super bowl in the next year? I think we have a major advantage with Jim having familiarity with the players in the draft and having a top five quarterback, two great tackles, some young studs and some young weapons. Thanks in advance. I would, I would buy Charger stock, right? Let's just, let's just say this. The Chargers were on the stock market and let's just say they are currently $100 stock. I'd be like, I easily could see this thing going to 350 in the next three years, right? I'm. Here's what I do know with Jim Harbaugh, that $100 is not going to be 50, right? So now is it going to go to 175 or is it going to go to 450? I do think it has a huge upside. So I was telling someone this the other day though. The Slater injury, like he had a devastating knee injury. There is a chance that he's never the same but you got jolt so it's, it wouldn't be as crippling. But you just gave him a lot of money so that, that could impact financially the salary cap a little bit if he's never the same, which I'm rooting for him to get it right. But he, it was bad and I think it was like IUK right Ligaments, knee, I mean it's anytime the patella, the ligaments, the acl, it's a problem. Question for the show. Do you think lafleur is that bad of a coach? No, I don't. I've never said that this might be confirmation bias. I've. I've never been high on Love, but I personally think JLo, oh, that's Jordan Love. I get thrown off sometimes when I see that. I started thinking about Jennifer who still looks fantastic at 55 isn't as good as people think. No one complained about LaFleur when he revolutionized Rogers career or when Love was on a heater going into the Dallas game. I don't think he forgot how to coach. Love's inconsistency and bad turnovers make him an average quarterback and he needs a good run game to put up points. I just don't think generally it's Good business to fire a coach who instantly became a top candidate available. Every other team looking would every other team looking. But hey, maybe I'm wrong. I don't think he'd be a lock to get a job if he got fired, but I do think he'd have a pretty good chance. I think someone mentioned this the other day with Atlanta. I'm with you on Love. I mean, sometimes you get in business with a quarterback who is valued because his stock's a little higher, but that's as high as he's ever going to reach. But he's not that bad. Your standard is so high. So like Jordan Love is held to that standard of the heater and the way he played against Dallas where clearly the last couple years, like he's solid. Like if you do a good job, you got good personnel around him, you're going to win 10 to 12 games. Right. They won 11 last year, went one and five in the division. They. What are they? Five, three and one. So that's nine games. So if they went, I guess if they won eight, they got eight games left. Four and four, you'd probably want to go like five and three. You get 10 wins. Yeah, it's 10, 11 win quarterback with an awesome defense. Yeah, it's not great. I mean, you'd want a little bit more for the money. Yeah, I think you might be on, I would say lafleur, if I could pick one. I'd probably take Jordan Love. Like, I think what Jordan Love is, he's somewhere like 10 to 15 and it's on you as a team builder to build the right team. But he's better than a lot of quarterbacks. A lot of people talk about Jordan Love. Is Jordan Love the next Trevor Lawrence? He has elite traits like Lawrence and they both have high ceiling playoff moments. However, they don't process well, both pick up injuries and have some wild brain fade and accuracy moments. Are they actually good quarterbacks? Beyond the traits? I would take Jordan Love over Trevor Lawrence. I would. But I'm not. I'm not a Trevor Lawrence guy at all. Most quarterbacks are going to have massive brain farts. Right. And that includes the top guys. But you can live with it because the top guys are so elite. If we go with the crew like after five or six. Right. So you're talking the Dax, the Purdys, the Jordan Loves, like in that world. Right. I wouldn't even put Trevor Lawrence in that world. C.J. stroud. Like you got to live with the good and the bad and that's Most people, like, most people are not Michael Jordan or LeBron James, but like you can compete for a championship with the high level all Star, right? Most people are not Shohei Ohtani or Aaron Judge, but you can win a ton of games with like the dude Seattle and the Twins have. So I just think it's easy to see all the negative and just write the guy off. But also there was a, a law of averages. Like you went from Farve to Rogers. Favre, who is a won three straight MVPs, won a super bowl, went back to another, is widely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. You upgraded. Think about that. You upgraded. It was. Now, Montana's better than young, but same deal. Anytime you go back to back hall of Famers at quarterback for 20 plus years, it's unheard of. The third guys, like the 49ers, third guy was Jeff Garcia. He was going to pro Bowls. They were going to the playoffs. Like, that's, that's pretty good. It's actually pretty impressive that you were able to transition to a guy that you drafted too. I just think he's kind of held to his own standard in the Dallas playoff game. What Packer fans are used to with Rogers and also like, their defense is sweet. So it's like, you got a sweet defense. We need more wins. Shit. Bo Nix skips balls half the game and they still find ways to win. Now granted, they have like, I think they have like 50 sacks through like early November. How come velocity isn't the thing? I'd love to know how hard Caleb Williams throws the ball. That's a good question. I never hear any of my buddies in the league bring it up. I'm pretty sure it's tracked because they definitely track speed. Like speed we know fast guys are running, which is. Bill Simmons is a funny rant. Like, so what, the guy's running 22 miles now? What does that even mean? Like, there's no context, right? If I say, hey, Jordan Love threw seven touchdowns in the game, we would all know, like, that's incredible, right? Or so and so threw four interceptions in a game. You're like, oh, that's, that's like historically bad, right? Two pick sixes. But you give me these miles an hour compared to what? Like, compared to a golf cart? Compared to like, did Desean Jackson run 30 miles an hour? Do you run 20? Like, I don't know. So I'm with you on the velocity. They do the, they do it at the combine. I'm not sure It's a Great question. I could text someone in the NFL and find that out. Do you guys see stats on how hard guys are throwing? Caleb is. Caleb has a fucking cannon. Which sport has the widest and narrowest gap between college and professional levels? Football, basketball or golf? Appreciate all you do and congrats on becoming a father. I love this question. I would say, like there are a lot of guys on the Alabama, LSU field. When I say a lot, like there's a percentage of people, I would say 50% of the players. So if there's 22 guys, Alabama, LSU. But there's more than that because you got rotating guys in and out. Let's just say 30 guys, give or take, are consistently playing for both teams. So it's 60 players. You know, probably 30 to 35 of those guys are going to be NFL draft picks, right? Same thing with Alabama, Georgia or you know, Oklahoma, Georgia, like the big time, Ohio State, Oregon, you got a ton of draftable guys. But even the guys that don't get drafted, like they wouldn't be a good player by any means. They could just play a game at right guard. Now if you're like a right guard and you're not, maybe you go to a rookie minicamp, maybe you don't, maybe you just, your career ends as a three year starter at LSU at right guard. You could go to the NFL and play a game. Now you might be terrible, right? I think in basketball there is a pretty big difference between because we see it all the time, like in the tournament, smaller schools beat bigger schools. I actually think there's a smaller gap between just the dude playing point guard at Alabama that won't be an NBA player, but could play a game with NBA players and kind of fit in for a game. Now could he make a career of it? Obviously not. I think the gap in golf is pretty wide. I, I think as someone that watch and I've played with a lot of college golfers, there's a pretty big difference. But just being like on the golf team at UCLA and playing on the PGA Tour, right. I think it's easy. It's by far the easiest if you are a Division 1, especially a Power 4 player, to make it to OTAs or even make it to like a week of training camp doesn't mean you're going to play in the NFL. Doesn't mean you'll ever sniff a practice squad. I think it's easier to do that than it is. Just I played at UCLA and I played in a couple tour events. That, that is way more difficult to do to make an NBA roster, unless your dad's LeBron is very hard. So I would say football, the gaps, probably the smallest. Golf or basketball I'd lean is the widest. Great question. In baseball, I would say baseball is a little like golf. It's just so hard to get there. I saw a headline like could Kyler Murray go play baseball? You think Kyler Murray, who's been making. Was he make 40, $45 million a year, who was the number one overall draft pick who signed a $35 million contract, is going to get on a fucking bus even if they're like, hey, we'll let you go to double A. You think he's going to go to double A? I think I have a better chance of teeing it up at the Masters or coaching the New York Football Giants than Kyler Murray does playing minor league baseball games on buses for six months a year. Because you don't just go to the bigs. Hell, you're not even close to the bigs. If he trans, when's the last time you think he played baseball? So I just laughed. I'm like, these are like unnamed NFL executives saying this. You think he's going to go to the minor leagues? I think he'd be more likely to just retire and just go chill than play minor league baseball. After experience what he's experienced, I would be. I'd fall out of my chair. I'd be that stunned, I'd be shell shocked. Why does the NFL allow super slow motion to review catches and fumbles but refuse it for false starts and tush push plays? I keep hearing real time. It's too hard to officiate. Well, it has something to do with like dead ball fouls, right? I can't review. There was a play, I think it was in the Niner Rams game. It was like 4th and 2 and Kittle came in motion and before they can snap the ball, he has to become set. Well, they threw the flag saying he wasn't set. He ended up getting a completion, was a first down, but they said it was, you know, he wasn't set. So the play didn't count. And they got a five yard penalty. Even though they replayed it. Tom Brady was like, he's definitely set. They screwed up. But you can't, you can't challenge that, right? Just like I can't challenge if they don't call it on the field, my guard or tackle jumping early. But I can, I can challenge in the. Once the ball is snapped. I can challenge a lot of Those plays. Now, I don't think you can challenge like pass interference anymore, but you can't challenge like defensive holding. But I don't know. I. You'd have to ask like Andy Reid and the guys on the, on the competition committee how they pick and choose that. Belichick's whole thing always was you should be able to challenge any given play. I have two challenges and if I get it right, I get it back or whatever. And if I get it wrong, I lose a timeout or whatever. The rule is. We know. I do. I know the rules. You get two challenges. If you get a challenge wrong, you lose a challenge and you lose a timeout. Pretty sure that's right. But his whole thing was you should be able to challenge any play. I should be challenged if you're offsides, if they're whatever. But they're just unchallengeable plays and I don't know, they tried the past interference thing. It clearly didn't work. Love the show. I would like your thoughts on firing real life people versus firing of NFL players and head coaches. Thanks. Well, I think a major difference. Why? You know, for example, I mean I literally talk about this stuff for a living. When you get fired at a regular person job, typically you're an at will employee and most human beings don't have contracts, right? So when you have a contract, as Brian Dabel does, I don't even know the details of his contract. Let's just make them up. Let's say he still had next year on his contract as well. They would owe him. Let's just pick a number seven and a half million dollars for next year in 2026. So does anyone going to feel, even Mike Kafka who will probably get fired at the end of the year, let's just. I hope he doesn't but is probably making $2 million. So when NFL players, like if you're a guy, whoever, it's one thing. If you're like an undrafted free agent, you, you get fired, you didn't make any money. So you're, you're, you have a lot in common with the regular person. But like when an older veteran guy gets fired, one, they owe him any of the guaranteed money that they haven't paid him and two, like he has money. So like part of the reason we all work is to provide for our families. Right. The reason I'm doing this podcast is to generate money to pay the bills here. Right. Obviously I enjoy doing this, but if it didn't pay, I couldn't. I'd have to find something else to do. Like, the mortgage is due every month. Right. My. My air conditioning bill is really high because I like it cold. But, I mean, that doesn't pay itself. So a huge part why we feel sympathy for a normal human being who gets fired from his job. I have as well. When I did not get my contract renewed in Philadelphia, I didn't have any money coming in. My contract ended. They're like, hey, we're not renewing it. It's like, it is over. Like, a lot of people, you just. You just end. Now. You can get unemployment or whatever, but most. The average income in America is what, like, 60 grand now? Depends where you live. Like, in California, it's higher. In North Dakota, it's lower. But, like, I feel like Brian Kelly just. They own $53 million. James Franklin, but it's not even just him. Like, the position coaches now in the NFL make 500 to $900,000. They're the top, like, one and a half percenters in America. So they just have more. Now, listen, their life's hard, and they're public figures, and people talk shit about them coaches, you know, and players. But as Don Draper said, that's what the money's for. You know, I think the dude that gets fired with no money and no contract would gladly have some people talking shit about him for $10 million. I know that. So I would say the big difference is just the money. Now, obviously, like, if you're a CEO of a company, you actually have more in common with players and coaches. I've got Dan Morgan here on the pod. Say hi, Dan. Hey. How's it going today? It's going good, man. Tell us who you are and what you do. I'm Dan. My name is Jim Morgan. I'm an attorney and a managing partner at Morgan and Morgan, which is America's largest injury law firm. That's pretty awesome. Why do you guys think you win so many cases? The insurance companies and other companies that we go against know that we're going to take it to the end, that we believe in the case. So we fight for every dollar, and we're not afraid to go that extra mile for our clients. Are insurance companies, like, actually afraid of you guys? We don't bluff. We take it to trial. And we are not strangers of getting very, very, very large verdicts. Awesome. So how does someone get in contact with Morgan and Morgan? What would I do if I got into an accident? Probably the easiest way is dialing pound law. That's £529 from your cell phone. And our call center is always waiting to take your call. 24. 7 365. Wow. Dan Morgan from Morgan and Morgan, America's largest injury law firm. Thanks for coming by the show. Thanks for having me. Visit forthepeople.com for an office near you.
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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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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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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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Does that sound like a radical idea? Is that too far left for you?
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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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To me, the failure of the Democratic Party has been an unwillingness to recognize the real issues.
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Open your free iHeartRadio app. Search Next question with Katie Couric and listen now. I'm Eva Longoria.
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And I'm Maite Gomez Rejohn.
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And on our podcast Hungry for History, we mix two of our favorite food and history. Ancient Athenians used to scratch names onto.
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Oyster shells and they called these ostracon to vote politicians into exile. So our word ostracize is related to the word oyster. No way. Bring back the ostracon.
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And because we've got a very mi casa es su casa kind of vibe on our show, friends always stop by.
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Pretty much all. Every entry into this side of the planet was through the El Golfo de Mexico. No, the America. No, the America. El Golfo de Mexico continuado forever and ever.
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It blows me away how progressive Mexico was in this, in this moment. They had land reform, they had labor rights, they had education rights.
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Mustard seeds were so valuable to the ancient Egyptians that they used to place.
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Them in their tombs for the afterlife. Listen to Hungry for History as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jenna World, Jenna Jameson, Vivid Video and the Valley is a new podcast about the history of the adult film industry. I'm Molly Lambert, host of Heidi the Heidi Fly Story, and I'll be your tour guide on a wild wild ride through adult films. We get paid more than the men. We call the shots. In what way is that degrading? That's us taking hold of our Life. In the 1990s, actress Jenna Jameson crossed over into mainstream culture, redefined stardom, then left it all behind. I'm a powerful woman. I think that's intimidating to a man. With a cast of hundreds of actors and comedians playing key figures, we'll take a look at how adult films became legal in the 70s, hugely profitable in the 80s and 90s, and fell off a financial cliff in the 2000s. Listen to Gentle World on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
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Can we get a Thanksgiving first? I'm hungry. Hey y', all, it's Kadeen and Deval.
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The hosts of Ellis Ever after podcast.
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This holiday season, whether you're cooking for the family, out buying gifts for the.
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Kids, or crowded in holiday traffic, tune out the noise and tune in to Ellis Ever After.
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On Ellis Ever after, we get real with our crew about family. If you feeling like you feeling that's probably cause you a good parent friendship, be careful what you put in your body. Move your body and love it the way you love them cars that house, them clothes, them shoes. Love yourself, the brunches, love in marriage.
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So attractive to me and everything else in between.
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I've told my most important embarrassing moment on this podcast before, which was me taking a Ziploc bag. So listen to Ellis Ever after on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. I'm a huge Niner fan and my buddy's a Vikings fan. With both of the teams looking like a wash, we're debating which team the Vikings or the Niners can get back to competing quicker. The Niners, if they win this week, they would be seven and four with the Panthers, the Browns and the Titans. So like the niners probably get 10 wins. There's a decent chance depending on how the Bears go. Obviously the Niners and Bears play each other, but the Bear schedule gets really hard that if the niners got the 10 and the Bears only got the nine, even if the Bears beat them, the Niners would be the seventh seed. The Niners will make the playoffs. So regardless of how many guys they've lost with injury, which is a lot, they still can make the playoffs, even if they're one and done. Like that's a, I think that's a pretty impressive accomplishment given that their backup quarterback, you know, won them five games potentially. And we'll see if Purdy's, how many games he's able to play if he comes back. If I was a head coach with a newly drafted quarterback, I think there are three main things I would want to see from him in his first year. Every game I'd want him to make at least two or three high level NFL throws. Every game I'd want him to learn from and correct at least one mistake made in the previous game. By the end of the season, I'd want him to just simply look better than he looked in the beginning, even if his stats don't change much. And if I knew I was guaranteed to not get fired, I wouldn't care at all about how many games we won as long as the quarterback looks like our guy. Is there anything you would add to this? Well, usually guys are playing on bad teams. You're going to be throwing 25, 30, 40 times a game. So I'm going to need more than two or three throws. I would need, I would need like specific examples of. We need improvement in the red zone throughout the season. We would need improvement on third down throughout the season. Situations of understanding, like I'm getting nitty gritty football here, but how to handle different pressures. The understanding of the offense in relation to pressures and coverages and knowing where to go when I need to go there obviously rapport with my skill. Guys, I think there's a naturally like the learn from one mistake. I mean that's, that's just football one on one. You know, you play a game, the coaches go over the film and then they correct it with you. It's like Kyle Shanahan's big thing is most coaches, you know, like in a locker room when you win a game they're like see you Wednesday. He you, they work every Monday because he believes that, you know, by Wednesday you've already forgotten a lot of the game. So when you go over the corrections with the coach, like it's, you have like a two and a half day gap where he automatically, I don't know exactly what time it is, maybe it's like noon, but they just do film correction even if they're not going to practice. And I mean that's, that, that's. You start doing that stuff in high school. So to me that the correction stuff is natural, but I think it's more you would like to see if there's a certain defense or pressure that he struggles with. The more and more he sees that, the more and more he adapts to it. Obviously you would naturally probably it's the NFL so you're going to be in some close games. How he handles two minute, four minute situations, how he handles, can he get us, you know, in a game winning field goal situation, can he run out the clock if we have a 10 point lead with six minutes left, can he lead a drive that you know, helps get five, six minutes off the clock? Obviously some of that's on the running back, but. And then there's the, the stuff that it's hard to quantify. Like what's he like his practice habits, what time is he getting to the facility, how's he, you know, his film study ability of the opponents, working with the backup quarterback, working with a quarterback coach, you know, approaching recovery. Right. Football, the season's a lot longer in the pros. Like even Ohio State or Notre dame, they play 15 games like you're automatically playing 17, right? So you just playing more games. And even in the college situation you play the 12. Like if you're Notre Dame, you play 12 games and then let's say you make it to the national championship. Well, you got a two week break before the first playoff game. Then you got a ten day break. Like there aren't you get one buy and then you're playing Thursday games. You just, it's the NFL season's a marathon. So how you handle that, improve on, you know, the way you go about it to make it easier on yourself. Obviously it's a learning experience, but I think there are a lot of intangible stuff that a guy can improve on with just experience. I mean, I'm a huge believer and the more you do something, the naturally better you get at it. A lot of people were hitting me up, I got asked the question, would I rather have one guy? One, I get two running backs. One running back guarantees me 100 yards every single game, no more, no less. Or one running back that guarantees me two yard a carry, no more, no less. And a lot of people said, well, you can use that running back in two point situations. Basically every two pointer you would get, in every short yardage situation you would get as well. It's like, yeah, maybe I didn't think of that. I do believe if I'm an offensive coach, especially if we have a good offense, I should be pretty good in short yardage. I might not have the tush push but I the hundred yard back. I think it's really valuable if you're a good team because I can run up the clock in the third and fourth quarter. So I hear a lot of people pushing back on that. But maybe I'm a sucker for a hundred yard rusher and if you play 170017 games gonna have 1700 yards a year. I do need to tell you about my friends at game time. Best ticketing app in America. So if you want to go to a football game, a professional football game, anywhere around the country, you want to travel, you want to watch your team on the road, you're a Chiefs fan, you want to go watch them play in Denver. Your team going to Vegas, you want to go to Vegas for the weekend. Any game. They have incredible flash deals. They have tickets for as low as $100. The price you see on the app is the price you will pay for the ticket. There are no hidden fees when you check out. So take the guesswork out of buying tickets with GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account and use the code JOHN for $20 off your first purchase terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem the code Johan for $20. Download the Gametime app today. Last minute tickets, lowest prices guaranteed. Curious to know how the NFL, if the NFL can step in between YouTube and Disney, since the NFL owns the rights to their games, would it be possible for the league to feed Monday Night Football games through NFL stream for free while Google and Disney duke it out? Seems fair to the consumer. And I'm sure the NFL wouldn't want to lose ratings. I saw the ratings. College football in the NFL are just naturally down a little bit for Monday Night Football and college game day, which makes sense. I mean there's a lot of us that just don't have access to it. I would imagine this is one of those situations where they will get louder the longer this goes and they will need a solution. Because you have to remember too who's the NFL in business with for the direct package that all the games, YouTube TV, they have, they have the NFL package. So the NFL is in business with both these two people. Now at the end of the day, like this is probably the last thing they want to be like they just want all their games on TV for everyone to consume. But this is, I would imagine they've probably already made some just quiet preliminary kind of overtures like hey guys, what's going on? You give it like a month of no Monday night football for YouTube TV consumers. People are gonna get antsy. And I'm talking Raj, I'm talking the owners. Like this, how this is their bread and butter. This is where they make their money. What if I told you that ESPN and YouTube were colluding against them, trying, Trying to screw them? You never know. You can convince me. I saw some funny conspiracies about Nico Harrison in the NBA and Luca. I mean, I've always had some too. I've never known exactly how to connect at all. I just always thought something was shady. It's crazy. You know, you make a big trade in the NFL or just sports in general, like, it can go wrong, right? The Micah Parsons thing, there's risk involved in that. For the packers, you're giving them a ton of money. You're giving up two first round picks. Sauce Gardner, like, all these trades there, there is no guarantee. Even when the Eagles traded for A.J. brown, it's like, he better be an elite player. We're giving him a ton of money. And a lot of times when you're trading for a great player, you feel pretty good about it. I don't think the Luca trade in the middle of the night with Nico Harrison is just. It's just one of those. The most NBA story of all time was shams reporting that Nico was going to be fired in two more hours. He scheduled to meet in two hours. That's where, like, conspiracy me, who just follows sports for a long time goes, did Nico leak two shams that, like, I got a meeting, I know they're going to fire me because that's what I'd probably put my money on. But pains me, I hate the Lakers. But skinny Luca, I think he's averaging like 75 points a game and just dominating the league. It's just one of those that. I think it's the worst one of all time. I really do. Like, we have some of those going on right now in the NFL. It's like Daniel Jones is playing great for the Colts. I think all Giants fans go, listen, he never was going to do that for us. Like, Christian McCaffrey gets traded from the Panthers and then a year later he has like one of the great seasons of all times. Like, well, that wasn't going to happen here. But if you're like a Mavs fan, you're like, Luca was doing that here. He was all NBA. Every single year. He took us to the Finals. What the bleep is going on? And Nico's like, sweet, I'm out. Have fun. Here's Anthony Davis. I just, I. That one man. All timer, have a great day. The volume.
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On the latest episode of Next Question with me, Katie Couric. I sat down with Bernie Sanders. We've talked many times over the years, and today he even throws a few questions my way.
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All right, are you ready for another question? Go ahead, hit me, Bernie.
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We talk about the billionaire class, the cost of living, and of course, the government shutdown. Listen to Next Question with me, Katie Couric on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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The Rich Russians falling out of Windows podcast is back. Sad oligarch season two. Since we left you in 2023 after season one, many politically motivated Russian millionaires have continued to die in suspicious circumstances. Season two gets very weird. Listen to Sad Oligarch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody. Daniel Jeremiah here and I'm Bucky Brooks on Move to six. We take you inside the game, from breaking down college prospect NFL rookies to evaluating team building philosophies, coaching trends, and how front offices construct winning rosters. We study the tape, talk to decision makers and give you a perspective you won't find anywhere else. It's everything you need to understand the why behind what happens on Sundays. Don't miss it. Listen to the Move the Sticks podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Join me, Danny Trejo in Nocturnal Tales from the the Shadows, an ethology of modern day horror stories inspired by the legends and lore of Latin America. Listen to Nocturnal Tales from the shadows on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
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We were in the car like a Rolling Stone came on and he said, there's a line in there about your mother. And I said, what? What I would do if I didn't feel like I was being accepted is choose an identity that other people can't have. I knew something had happened to me in the middle of the night, but I couldn't hold on to what had happened.
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These are just a few of the moving and important stories on my 13th season of family Secrets. Listen to Family secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart podcast.