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Levittown Podcast Host (1:30)
In 2020, a group of young women found themselves in an AI fueled nightmare.
Colin Cowherd (1:36)
Someone was posting photos.
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It was just me naked.
Colin Cowherd (1:39)
Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts.
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Colin Cowherd (2:01)
The Volume what is going on everybody? How are we doing? Hopefully everyone is having a great day, a great morning, a great afternoon, wherever you may be. And today we're going to talk some football. I I just recorded a bunch of stuff with Colin so I I will try to talk about things we didn't touch on. I I do want to reiterate a theory I have when it comes to the Cleveland Browns, Jimmy Haslam and Shador Sanders, the prank call. I have a couple thoughts on that Belichick interview, which if you haven't seen Belichick's interview on cbs, Good morning on Sunday. It's quite the ride with his new lady friend Jordan and then a couple other football things here and there from the draft. So we will have content all week reacting to the draft stories as it all kind of marinates and we'll just keep talking about it. We'll probably have a big mailbag on Tuesday at John Middlekopf is the Instagram fire in those dms. Get your questions answered here on the show. But before we dive in to a little football, you know, I got to tell you about my friends, my partners in the official ticketing app of this podcast, Game Time. And here's the thing. I just had a bunch of friends who went to Stagecoach. It's kind of the country music version of Coachilla down there in, in the desert in California. Indio, I think they call it, Palm Springs area. Had a lot of fun and they did it. They even saved them a little money. All because of me. I got you covered, guys. And if you want to go to a game, listen, do you live in Southern California? You're, if you're a Laker fan, you guys might only have one more game. Do you want to see Luca and LeBron play? Who knows? Maybe this is LeBron's last year in the Lakers. Maybe they move on. Only time will tell. But if you want to go see an NBA playoff game and they're fantastic. I mean, the difference of the NBA playoffs and the regular season reminds me of preseason to regular season football. I'll watch the Knicks Detroit today. Just thrilling, thrilling action. So if you want to go to one of these games, obviously hockey playoffs are often running. They're fantastic. Do it with my friends. The best ticketing app I've ever used. Take the guesswork out of buying them with Game time, download the Gametime app, create an account, use the code JOHN for 20 off. Your first purchase terms apply. Again, create an account, redeem the code Johan for 20 off. Download the game Time app today. Last minute tickets, lowest price is guaranteed. Okay. There's a lot going on and I, I didn't do anything on Saturday. Partly I just needed a breather. You know, Mel Kuiper was, was fuming. I'm pro Mel Kuiper. But I, I do think he was clearly, I don't know why he was so Angry and, you know, Louis Riddick and Reese Davis and they were going back and forth, and it was like, God, you got to be exhausted. I. I was exhausted from the story. I needed to take 24 hours off. So me and Colin touched on it. I've had some time to think about it, and I'm going to rehash a theory that I just told Coward. So if you already heard it, sorry. And if you haven't, this is my theory. Because I don't think it's that complicated. Because it doesn't make much sense to take multiple quarterbacks in a draft, especially in the third and the fifth round. That's. That's unheard of. You know, you go back to RG3 and cousins. It was because Kyle Shanahan and Mike Shanahan did not want RG3. Kyle Shanahan was trying to convince them to trade back and take Cousins early. He's talked about this. This was a situation where I think I just read something that the Cleveland Browns had flown out and it never got out. And met with Jimmy Haslam, with the coach, with the gm, with Dylan Gabriel. They liked him a lot. Now, I don't even necessarily agree with their assessment. I think drafting Dylan Gabriel in the third round is a little rich for my taste. Right. It's like paying a million dollars for a $700,000 home now. Value in the eye of the beholder on draft day. We can argue that till we're blue in the face. I don't think he was going in the third round. I actually feel pretty confident now. You could always make the argument, how do you know? I've been doing this long enough. Pretty good idea. There's a reason the Will Howards, the Riley Leonard's, the Quinn Ewers. Like, you didn't need to take those guys in the third or fourth round. You knew they were going to be there in the sixth or seventh. I do think Dylan Gabriel at the latest. I mean, I think he could have got him in the fifth, but whatever. My thought is this, as Shador Sanders starts to drop. When you work with someone long enough, it's like when you're growing up and you live with your mom, your dad, your brothers, you really know them well, right? You know, what sets them off, you know, what buttons to push to piss them off. You know, when it's like, okay, I. I better. I gotta be. Especially if you have an older brother or an older sister. Like, okay, I'm gonna. I'm gonna avoid this issue. I know my dad really values this, even though my mom doesn't care. And so you just kind of work the room a little bit, right? Definitely. If you've been in a company and you've worked with someone, you've worked for someone, you get a pretty good feel for their demands, what they're into, what if they are an overbearing boss, what they will force you to do. And you kind of know how to play them a little bit. I don't mean, like, nefariously, but just like to settle everything down. Once Shador Sanders starts dropping, Andrew Barry and Stefanski aren't done. They know that Jimmy Haslam is going to be interested. Why? Because Jimmy Haslam has forced several quarterbacks on them that they did not want. And they clearly in this draft, wanted Dylan Gabriel. So once he starts plummeting, they go maybe texting to each other, maybe talk in their office, close the door, like, maybe we should draft this guy a little bit higher than ideally we want to. So we just get a quarterback in our draft class and then Chador will go some picks later and we don't have to force this upon us because Shador Sanders, when I think Kevin Stefanski, I don't think an ideal fit. I actually think Shador's playing style is a lot like desean Watson. Now, I think desean was a better college player and a better prospect than Shador, but I think there are some similarities. Well, in Kevin Stefanski's offense, and this is the Kyle Shanahan thing, they don't really into freelancing.
