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Listen to Crimeless Hillbilly Heist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. The Volum. What is going on everybody? John Middlekop 3Now podcast how are we doing? Hopefully everyone's doing well. Here's the plan for today. We've had podcasts the last two Days we've had three actually. We have one with Colin after the Sunday games, Sunday afternoon games. I did a podcast after the Sunday night game for the 49ers and Falcons. We did another big one yesterday reacting to the double header last night on Monday Night Football. So today we're going to do a big mailbag at John Middlekopf. Is the Instagram. Fire into those DMS. Get your questions answered right here. So my DMs are wide open. Fire in on Instagram, just my name at John Middlekopf. And we're going to do a massive mailbag. It's like hour 20 minutes, so buckle up. I wanted to try to answer a million questions because I have so many that I'm just. It's impossible to get to them all. But I, I want you to know I try high effort here, trying to overachieve, but I can't do a seven hour mailbag. But I did a. It's probably one of the longest ones we've ever done. So that, that will be the game plan today. Recorded this on a Tuesday afternoon. So buckle up and, and yeah, other than that, you guys know the drill. Make sure you subscribe. If you listen on Collins feed, subscribe to three and out. Make sure you to our podcast feed, Apple, Spotify, wherever you may listen. We got you covered. Obviously everything we do is on YouTube. So you can find all this content on YouTube as well as we go live on YouTube every single Thursday night, Sunday night and Monday night. And then obviously that podcast comes out early the next morning. So we get that thing turned around. We got a team, full all Stars, a bald guy that just talks into a mic. So that's what we're doing. 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Download the Game Time app, create an account, use the code JOHN for $20 off your first purchase terms apply. Again, create an account, redeem the Code John Johm for $20 off down on the Game Time app today. Last minute tickets, lowest prices guaranteed. Let's. Let's dive into the mailbag. Okay? Didn't realize how much of content of yours that I follow. I enjoy your fair takes. Not everyone can say that, but I appreciate you. My question is about Dable. I agree the Giants should give him another year, especially since he isn't a great. There's not a great candidate for head coaching this cycle. My question is, do you think a coach like him who is volatile and is high in high pressure situations, charging into the medical tent, overly aggressive sideline actions and interactions is something that can be changed. Chargers Harbaugh is animated, but seems he is far more controlled. Meanwhile, Day ball looks unhinged and may not be a good leader for this team. Jim Harbaugh is also over 60. I remember him early on in his 49er career. He was as volatile, if not more volatile than Brian Dabel. He would like get in tiffs with other coaches constantly. He was insane, which was awesome. Now here's the thing. When you're insane and you're energetic and you're winning, everyone loves you, right? Those, those GIFs over the years of like Kirby Smart and Nick Saban and Will Muschamp kicking everyone's ass are really fun while they're winning national championships. When you start doing that and losing, it's not as fun. So your personality is your personality, right? My personality, your personality. We're all wired a little bit differently. Obviously Brian Dayball is just an on tilt, edgy individual now. I think with age you definitely chill out. I actually stumbled upon, I was trying to fall asleep after the podcast on Monday night. I'm laying there, it's like 11:45, she's asleep. So I don't want to turn on the tv. So I grabbed my iPad. I know the blue light close to your eyes, not good. But it's like I need something. I can't turn on the light to read a book. Not that I would, but if I want to do, I couldn't anyway. So I started going to YouTube and I grabbed my iPad, put it in an earphone and I watched this clip on 60 Minutes. Bill Parcell. Somehow the algorithm knows me well. From like 2004. He had just been hired by the Dallas Cowboys, maybe was after his first year and even people were saying like he had chilled out a lot and he was like 62 at the time. Like, as you age, it's hard to have the same energy and ferocity that like Nick Saban at 70 years old, while relative to the rest of human beings is pretty intense, nowhere near as intense as he probably was at 55 years old. It's just, it's a natural cycle of being a human. So, yeah, I mean, I think that the Brian Dabel you're seeing now is the guy you're getting if you keep him another year and if it goes well for the foreseeable future. I know the season is not over yet, but what college quarterback this season has impressed you the most and do you think could end up being the number one overall pick? You know, I don't know if I've seen a guy that I would feel comfortable drafting number one overall. And I think we got to be very, very careful about this because if you could do it over, right, the Titans would take. Actually, if the Titans could do it over, what they would do is they take Abdul Carter number one and then they would trade into the first round to get Jackson dart. Because you could have had Abdul Carter and Jackson dart. Instead they have Cam Ward, who again, I'm not jumping off the ship on that, but we gotta call a spade a spade. It hasn't gone well. So like, I think we got to this kind of situation where the top quarterback had to go really high and it's like, this guy's not going to be good enough to ever live up. Mac Jones is resurrecting his career. He's. Mac Jones isn't a first round player in any draft, let alone this quarterback inflation draft. So I think you got to be very careful. Like, Ty Simpson is really good. He's on a stacked team with an elite coaching staff. Right. I've seen other guys to a Mac Jones have a lot of success in that program. So I like, I couldn't draft Ty Simpson number one overall. I got to watch Fernando Mendoza a little bit closely or closer. But I had a buddy who works in the NFL high up, you know, like number two executive was at one of his games and was really impressed with him. I think it was the Oregon game and he's like, listen, after he threw that pick six and then for him to bounce back and lead them on a, on a TD drive, like it was really impressive. Physically, he's Got all the skills. I said, number one overall pick. He said, no, I couldn't go that high. And then there's the argument of like, well, if you think the guy's a starter, who cares? Draft him at number four, draft him at number 30. It's all the same if you think he's going to be the starter. Like, yeah, there's a little more pressure when you take a guy really high. So like, I haven't watched South Carolina so shitty. I haven't been dialed in on Sellers, who clearly it's not going that well there. Nussmeier, who I've watched a decent amount. I don't know if he's banged up, but he looks not good. You know, Pavia is an unreal college player. I don't know if he's an NFL prospect. Dante Moore, obviously the Penn State game was awesome and then the Indiana game was kind of a comeback to earth moment. Again, he doesn't have to come out. My overall take and I haven't studied every single guy and watched every single snap. I don't see many guys that I would feel comfortable drafting in the top 10 right now. That doesn't mean like Jackson Dart. I wouldn't have drafted Jackson Darth in the top 10 either. And look at him, he looks like a very promising. Like you can find good players in the 20s in the second round. So I think we need to get back to that, draft other players and take quarterbacks in the second, third and fourth round. Russell Wilson, Kirk Cousins, Dak Prescott, Brock Purdy. Like you can find solid quarterbacks that are almost undervalued. And I think sometimes you overvalue. So it's like buying a overpriced stock. It's usually when you get your, you know, your ass handed to you. And I think that's happening a lot with these quarterbacks. I heard you mention a couple times with a little disdain in your voice that Kevin Stefanski and Brown's GM get passes by the media just for being Ivy League alums. Does this mean you are an anti an anti intellectual or is there another reason you distrust them? By the way, as a Charger fan, I love your take on Brandon Staley. You know, you're either looking at if you're watching this on YouTube or listening on the audio. I have multiple degrees. I have an undergraduate degree. I have a graduate degree. My overall take is my degrees are from state schools. No one cares if I was a Syracuse guy or a Northwestern guy or one of these prominent media schools. I would probably be Discussed differently with the cool kids in the media. Not that I even want to rub elbows with these people. Ultimately, my point is the media values their education really, really highly. If AI does what a lot of people think it's going to do, it is going to have a dramatic impact and to me negate a lot of things in academia, especially higher education. Right. Because, like, why do I need you? And I'm telling you right now, I can foresee the future on this one. The media is not going to go quietly on that because that's going to almost, I would say, negatively impact something that's really important to them. And I just see a lot of these people in traditional media that really value their degree from their school, which I'm jealous of. Like, I went to Cal Poly. I would have a lot of pride if I was like a Florida alum or Ohio State alum or Texas alum, you know, with my athletic programs, I don't have that. So I guess there's a jealousy to that aspect for me. But when it comes to the Ivy League, like, they're just viewed as really smart guys. And I think the media gives passes to people, especially in football, when it goes, well, he's a smart guy. It's like, yeah, well, he's losing. It's like, well, he's really, really smart. He must know something that we don't because they value education really highly. Right. It happened with Sam Hinkey for years. It's like the process, the process blows. The best thing they got out of it was this seven foot guy who's always injured and now always complains. It's like, it did not work. We have to acknowledge that, you know, And I think Sam Hinkey is a great example. He's like, well, he's so smart. He's got it. Maybe he doesn't. And I see it in football all the time. Like when they think you're just a dumb football guy and you start losing, they destroy you. But Andrew Barry, who, again, I have nothing personal against, I'm sure he's a nice guy. I know people that have worked with him that like him. I know a lot of people that know Stefanski, really like the guy. I think Stefanski's done a good job. Good job given the circumstances. My whole point with their situation is they are 100% treated differently than Trent Balky would be in their shoes. Because I've seen Trent Balky lose. Everyone takes a giant dump all over his entire career. It's like, oh, Andrew Barry's having a Pretty good draft was team blows. He took two quarterbacks. Now if you want to tell me all this was out of his hands, right? But he keeps saying like no, we did that. And then the Flacco thing like by Tomlin just told you he doesn't even feel like they respect the business. That's what bothers me and where I get on board with Tomlin, the Flacco move, the amount of little respect you have for you have two rookie quarterbacks. Are either of these guys good? I don't know. But like Dylan Gabriel and Shador Sanders, just being in a room with Joe Flacco would benefit them. I don't know. Flacco's just played in the league for two decades, has been around countless hall of Famers, has been a Super bowl champion, has been a guy that's been benched, has been a guy that's literally seen it all, has been a young player where a lot of people thought was overrated, has been a good player that people thought was underrated. There's nothing that he hasn't check off that could really benefit every day. Dylan Gabriel and Shador Sanders being around and good organizations would have valued that. Well, to me, the Browns and their GM value things which I'm pro stock market. I like. I enjoy making financial bets on things and viewing them unemotionally. But I, but I'm talking about companies, not actual individuals on a football team. And that's how I feel. He approaches it and it was just embarrassing. And they do a lot of embarrassing things and I've given them a pass for the desean Watson thing because it's like pretty clearly on the owner. Even though they, they're outspoken like we did it, we did it. I just think that they get, they get treated differently than other people who have the same results that are viewed as just football meatheads. That's my overall point with the take of the Ivy League thing because if Andrew Barry was just, he had gone to San Diego State, I don't think the coverage would be the same. That is the overall gist of my take on this situation. I also don't value like, I mean I was around growing up some multimillion dollar farmers that didn't graduate high school. So it's like I come from a world where. And listen again, I got a graduate degree. So it's like my parents pushed education. I'm not anti education. I also think it can be extremely overrated. And having worked in a field now around a lot of people with traditional media backgrounds I'd say we look at it a little bit differently. I would say that's fair, but, like, I don't besmirch, if that's the correct word, those guys for going to the Ivy League, but I don't think it's really debatable that they get treated differently and specifically the gm, that if. That if we just take, you know, another franchise with their record, they would get absolutely dumped on. As a Bears fan, I'm not used to getting a lot of media coverage because there haven't been many bright spots in years past. However, people are quick to hype up teams like the Chargers and the packers, even though they have clear weaknesses. Obviously, Caleb and Ben are still working things out, but curious as to how you see the Bears. Even though we have played great teams, we are four and two and the defense is looking great. I would say the difference is the Chargers have Jim Harbaugh, who's been winning for almost two decades now at every. In every football team that he ran, right? And I would say the same thing for the Packers. They've been winning for three decades. Last year, they had a down season. They made the playoffs. The year before, they won a road playoff game with the same coach and the same quarterback. So it's like you get the benefit of the doubt. It's why whenever I see these people that, like, wish Josh Allen sucked, like, when are people gonna. When are people gonna criticize his performance last night? Like, yeah, he had a bad game. Have you been watching him for six years? He's a fucking dominant player, right? I'd say the same thing for Lamar. Like, the only way you can criticize Lamar is, like, when he struggles in the playoffs. Like, I'm not crushing him for a bad regular season game. Who cares, right? That's. There are certain players that are on a level of, like, Jamar Chase can have a bad regular season game. It's football. It happens. But it doesn't diminish his. His, like, status in the league. And other guys, like, on a weekly basis, we're judging Caleb Williams, you know, and I honestly thought, like, obviously last week their defense was remarkable. They made Spencer Rattler look like a UFL quarterback. DeAndre Swift has looked sweet. I thought Caleb did not look good. And it's really hard now. If your defense is going to be awesome and your running game is going to be awesome, you can get by with an average quarterback. But I do believe that it's difficult to just sustain winning once you play better teams, right? Once you play the Lions and play the packers if Caleb's going to. He was just running around constantly. It was just like. It was kind of bizarre. But they were kicking ass and they win the game pretty easily. And no one talks about it, but it was one thing I saw. It's like, well, it's not like I would feel a lot better about this team if he looked good operating for Ben. I just don't think he really has middle cuff. You hate Caleb Williams. No, I don't have care about Caleb Williams at all. I wish he was an awesome player. I wish all these quarterbacks were awesome players. I would rather watch good quarterbacks. I literally watch football for a living. Than shitty ones. Like we got to watch Carson Wentz on Thursday night. Not really looking forward to that. As a Cowboy fan, I was wondering your thoughts were on their position over the next two years. Obviously their defense is too bad in order to be competitive team, but considering four first round picks along with the other picks, I think they could have a shot at making a great roster. Also, I hate Jerry Jones, but he usually does well in the draft. Historically. Do you think they can make an NFC championship for the first time since the 90s in the next two or three years? Well, how old is old Dakota Prescott? I'm pretty sure I'm going to guess 33. Dakota Prescott is 32, just turned 32 this summer. So modern medicine, health training, no reason he can't be a really good player at 33, at 34, 35, at 30. Like for the next three or four years. Look at the 49ers. They transitioned off a bunch of defensive guys and they drafted a defensive lineman, a defensive tackle with their first two picks this year. Both guys play a lot and the defenses look pretty good. And are they going to be like Micah Parsons, Nick Bosa level players? Probably not. But can they be solid starters on a good defense? Looks like it. So I think you just approach it like you're going into the draft drafting defensive players, whether it's the best corner, whether it's the best. You know, if you can find a Roquan Smith, whether you can find a defensive tackle or defensive end. And you just keep picking defensive players, right? You've invested heavily in the offense, you've drafted a bunch of offensive linemen. You paid the quarterback, you paid CD Lamb, you paid Ferguson. I would imagine you're going to pay George Pickens. If they don't, that would be a pretty big red flag. And to me it's just about investing in the defensive line. If you told Me, their first two picks this draft in the first round, let's say they use them both pick. Let's say the Cowboys end up going like 8, 8 and 1. And the. And the Green Bay packers, you know, are picked 25. So you get picked 20 and 25 and they pick two defensive linemen. I don't think anyone would quibble with that. But you can't just be like, oh, just, I kind of like this Jeremiah Love. In fairness, Jeremiah Love would be pretty sweet on their team. But you got to take defensive lineman. You have to question for the next show. USC fan starting to feel a little discouraged with Lincoln Riley as a coach, particularly play calling. Am I right to feel like we can get more out of him? I think at this point in time, he kind of is what it is. You know, I think you can recruit better. One thing that he had at Oklahoma was their team was stacked. They had NFL offensive linemen, they had NFL running backs, they had NFL wide receivers, they had NFL quarterback, they had NFL tight end. I mean, some of those teams he coached before he came to USC were. I mean, offensively were Mark Andrews, CD Lamb, Hollywood Brown, Mixing P. Ryan, Orlando Brown, I think Creed Humphrey. Right. Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray's the backup on this. Like, he was like, like, we have Makai Lemon. Like, yeah, Lincoln used to have about seven of those. So I think you just got to keep recruiting. Notre Dame's in a better spot and built up better than Notre Dame right now or than USC now. I completely disagree. You know, Coward goes on this rant of this, this game needs to stop. You watch that game. It's like, no, this game does not need to stop. They need to play it every single year. Now I get. USC is like, well, we still have to play Oregon, Ohio State, Michigan, Washington. It's like they get to pick and choose their own schedule. It's like, well, Notre Dame, let's just, let's come on to the Big Ten, which feels inevitable as these conferences continue to consolidate. But watching that game at night in the cold, I mean, that's not really going to be a Lincoln's deal, right? I mean, I would say most of the time. And listen, part of playing in the Big Ten, you're going to play in some games in October and November on the road at night, like, it might not be the greatest weather. I. I would say, you know, Lincoln Riley's teams are kind of built for sunshine, scoring some points when it's going perfectly well. But does he know defense well enough? He has a GM that he hired from Notre Dame. I actually just started following him on Instagram like last week. Chad Bowden, I think his name is really impressed. I read this LA Times article, I sent him a dm. I'm like, you know, I read this article. Just your story's pretty cool. Just how he kind of came up at Cincinnati under Freeman Notre Dame, how most people didn't think the GM was, would leave. And all of a sudden he tells him like, I'm going to usc. I think, I think he's originally from la. His dad is I think former former gm, I think of the Cincinnati Reds, grew up with the Collinsworth family. Cool story. And clearly, I mean really some of the quotes from the Notre Dame coaching staff like really, really high thought, highly thought of. And that's the one thing that's different now in college football, like Lincoln, you coach the team. Like I just came from Notre Dame. Like, let me pick some of the players, you know, let me help isolate. These are the type guys we need because sometimes coaches, let's face it, like most guys aren't Nick Saban. Most guys aren't Urban Meyer. A lot of coaches are bad evaluators. 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Based on what McDaniel said at his last presser, basically throwing Tua under the bus for being so bad. Where's the GM and the owner not stepping in on the state of affairs for the organization for something like this? If they're not going to let McDaniel go yet, there's yet that's fair. But shouldn't someone say something to address this dumpster fire? Hot take. Why do we need to address every dumpster fire? You know, I don't quite get it. Like sometimes things go bad, right? In sports and you see it in college football all the time. It's like I didn't need Florida State's AD or president or Wisconsin's AD or president to give me a statement. If you're not going to do anything like, yeah, we get it, you suck. They're always like, this standard is not good enough, but we're still evaluating. Like, yeah, no shit. So are we all like, why do we need these statements for optics? I There's not a word that I hate more than optics. I like results, I like reality. To post something like, Steven Ross comes out with a statement. What's he going to say? If you're not firing anybody, no one gives a shit. So yeah, you just kind of let this situation go. One thing I was maybe I'll talk about tomorrow, maybe I won't, is they must have owners meetings going on right now because I saw Woody Johnson gave, gave. He was being interviewed and said like basically got Aaron Glenn's back of saying, well, what's he supposed to do? Our quarterback can't complete a pass. And literally everyone on social media, everyone in the media universally is like, God, field sucks. This guy is one of the worst quarterbacks I've ever seen. Woody Johnson then says the same thing and everyone's like, asshole. You can't say that. Why not? Well, what's he supposed to say? You know, Justin Fields is coming along. No, he feels like they just robbed us. Now, if you want to say, hey, Woody, you just let the coach and GM give him that contract. That's insane. Like, my mother could have told you. Like, it struggles from the pocket, not a great thrower. Just got benched for Russell Wilson, who's like on Twitter talking shit about Sean Payton. It's like, Russell, listen, I, I'm not saying Sean Payton has the highest approval rating with everybody, but you definitely don't. Like, I just, I just let bygones be bygones. You got paid to leave. You guys hate each other. He definitely hates you. You know, you pretend that you, you love everybody, but I just like, it's not necessary. And I would say the same thing about these statements. Like what? I just don't know what Stephen Ross or the GM is going to say. There's literally nothing they can say to make anything better unless they say we're going to fire Mike and at the end of the season we're going to cut to a. Then people would be happy. But that's. They're not gonna say that. A few weeks ago you mentioned taking one of those blood food allergy tests. Was wondering if something they found was useful and you would recommend doing. It's a little overwhelming, I would say. I found out I'm lactose. You know, I can't have dairy. Not supposed to have dairy and gluten, not ideal for me. So it's like, wait, literally everything I eat. Now listen, like, as you get older, you try to avoid the carbs, but I think you kinda gotta be realistic about it. Now some of em, it's like I'm severely allergic to shallots. You know, it's like probably should pick and choose when I eat avocado, stuff like that. But just, yeah, you should probably not eat dairy or gluten. That can be a little overwhelming. It's like, well, so I don't get to put cheese on anything. I don't, I don't put sour cream on my chipotle bowls anymore. But it also like, yeah, I got a milk and I would say dairy products has always been a little hit or miss, I would say with my stomach. But the, the gluten one, that's. That is deep, man. I love a. I love a good bagel sandwich. I love pizza, love pasta. But it's like I gotta choose. Do I want to be A fat ass, inflamed, swollen, you know, guy with low energy? Or do I want to be vibrant and skinny? So we'll see. I'm just starting this journey. I don't know how it's gonna go, but that was. Yeah, it's a lot, I'll tell you that much. It's no secret that you're not a fan of the Falcons, but what is it about them that makes you hate them? To me, they're no different than any middling franchise. It's funny. It's like, I promise you this. I don't hate anybody. I really don't. My life's too good to hate. I remove that from my go to emotions. It's a waste of my energy. And I don't know any of these people personally. Now I would say my take on the Falcons is twofold. I think their owners kind of douchey and not because I hate rich people. This is pro capitalism show here. So good for him. I'm glad that he had successful business career. We celebrate that here. Honestly, I admire it. But like put himself in the hall of fame last year. Whenever he talks, this is about him. He's a little much for me now. You could argue a lot of owners are like that. True. I do think they carry themselves like they're a little more successful than not. And I do think two years ago when they got rid of Arthur Smith and what's his name, his president that's also like runs his. His will. I can't even think of his name now. And obviously the gm, you know, clearly they made the right decision by not hiring Bill Belichick, but they also acted like they knew what they were doing and it was all Arthur Smith's fault. Where again, I don't know Arthur Smith personally either. One night I had some beers with him years ago at the. At the combine. But anytime that like an organization just points the finger at one person and the people picking the players and kind of running the organization were like, it's that idiot, not me. And then that guy leaves and the same shit just continues to happen. It's like, no, you guys are kind of fraudulent. And listen, this league can. There's so much money in the line. Everyone wants to get their hand in the piggy bank. But I just something about it. I'm with you. They are not like that bad. They're not the jets or the Raiders. Their stadium's cool. But like. And listen, Raheem Morris is universally liked by everyone that I respect, you know, in the business from The Shanahan tree. I mean, Sean McVeigh and Kyle Shanahan love the guy. So, like, I have nothing against him, but I think we have to acknowledge, like, you acted like Arthur Smith was an idiot, hired this guy, and it's been a debacle. I mean, there was. I saw the clip. I'm sure you did, too. If you're a Falcon fan of him being asked after the game about the 10 men on the field on the big third down, I mean, that's. This is. This isn't four games into his career. I mean, he's been there now a year and a half. Pretty. It's pretty embarrassing. I just think they're. The way they carry themselves and talk and the outcome are just two different operations, you know, And I feel like they tried to not get treated like some of these other organizations that lose a lot. And it sure feels like since Matt Ryan fell off a cliff, they've been losing a lot and kind of some embarrassing losses. I mean, this year, think about it, they just lost to the 49ers with their second stringers and they've gotten blown out by the Carolina Panthers. I just have a hard time, I think sometimes in the football business when, like, no one ever wants to take responsibility, they always want to point the finger at someone else. And it's. I'm talking more like in the front office than, you know, coaches will backstab each other, too, but if you're the offensive coordinator, your offense sucks. It's hard to hide, right? But with the GMs, like, well, he wanted that player, he wanted that quarterback. You know, I didn't hire the coach. The GM wanted him. If I'm the president, I just think that happens a lot, you know, in the Bruce Allen types who was with Washington forever. I'm trying to think, the Atlanta Falcons president. Why can't I get his name? Greg? That's not who I'm looking for. Rich McKay. There's just any. Any organization that has the Rich McKay types, I'm just out on, and I don't take that seriously. Because he wants credit. If it went well, he'd be front and center. But when it doesn't go well, like, I just run the Arthur Smith billion dollar will. Like, I'm just here to kind of support everybody. The Kevin Warren types. It's like, you guys are just. I can't stand people like that. When I was with the Eagles, it was Joe Banner, like, they want the credit, but when shit goes bad, they want to stab everyone in the back. There's the league and honestly, big business is full of those type people. It's like they don't own it. They're not really in charge, but they run like a power playing role. I would always red flag organizations with those human beings. As a Ravens fan, wouldn't it be a blessing in disguise if the Ravens were truly to be this year's team from hell? What does going 9 and 8 or 10 and 7 and beating up on slump busters and losing in the divisional championship round do? I get it. It's a loser mindset to tank for the rest of the year, but you already are 1 in 5 and making the playoffs would just be Lamar saving Harbaugh's ass for a second time. Not to mention that you would not have a top pick in each of the rounds in a stacked edge class. And we have had a revolving door of geriatric players on the edge DN position since Suggs left. It also gives you a chance to move off some of these big contracts like Linderbaum and some other young players due to be paid soon. To me it's like in the next couple of weeks if you rattle off a couple victories and look completely different. It's football. You should try to me if you like. If the Bears beat you coming off a buy, it's over. And it makes way more sense to be a four or five win team and have the 10th pick than it does to end up with eight or nine wins. So I'm completely with you. The Harbaugh thing, it's like, let's just play it out. You win five games this year because it's like, oh, Lamar's coming back in theory. I mean didn't he miss practice yesterday? But Lamar was there when they were losing. Like it's. The defense was horrendous, right? I mean their issues are. Lamar was already kind of running around trying to make things happen and it didn't matter they were getting blown out. I think through four games didn't they have like one of the highest scoring defenses in the history of the league? I think they gave up more points through four or five games than anyone in the league history. So I have a hard time seeing them. So the six games. So it'd be 11. So to get to 10 wins you have to go 10 and one or I guess that'd be 11 wins. You have to go. You'd have to go nine and two. Like I don't know. I don't see that. That'd be go 10 and seven to go nine and eight, you'd have to go eight and three. Like the team we saw is going to go eight and three. Now I think we talk about them like what they've been, but what they've been is not what we saw this year. I'm with you. I'm anti tanking but like once you start like 2 and 8 it and you have like your quarterback. Yeah. I don't think it's the worst thing to lose some games and get a higher pick. Especially like historically you guys are drafted well and you never draft high. Imagine if you had like the seventh overall pick. What's going on? John Love the pot. Was wondering if you could break down the team behind you a bit. And if you're looking to possibly expand. We got a big team, we got a great team, we got a lot of people, you know the volume. Very lucky to have a lot of people this. I know a lot of you just hear or see me, but all I do is talk into a microphone. You know it starts with. We've had a couple main producers over the years. James who actually just officially left because he's on Joe and Jada. He lives in Jersey and that podcast like a rocket ship. I was actually with him in New York. So for a long time he did all the video. And now Shane, who has been with us, I don't know, feels like a year. It might be less than that at least with my show specifically. So anything that you see video wise of like our live streams or the ads that are, you know, implemented in there, to me just telling me, you know, kind of running the, the business behind the scenes of when ads need to be read. This is this week. Hey, we need to do this. You know, I'm very dependent on those people to feed me information and then they're tied in with like Josh, I call him Goldie, who is kind of like, I think his term is technically the gm. Like he runs Collins podcast and then he oversees a couple other ones. So it's like caught kind of all under his umbrella and we just kind of now we're kind of a self sufficient operation here. But from James to now Shane to Adam, who runs the audio, who makes me sound better. Any echo in my room, he's loading audio for countless different, you know, different podcasts on the network. But also like, you know, I screw up. There are things that, that maybe if someone rings the doorbell and I leave, like things that get edited out that I don't have to mess with. So from an editing standpoint I do nothing you know, I'm very dependent on Adam and Shane and then you know, Jackson and Noah, you know Jackson, you know, intern Jackson and Noah, who you don't know, but I think I've talked about him before. He was the one feeding me the Baker Mayfield. 25 to 1 for MVP. You got Jackson playing football at Montana, a little walk on status, slow white, I think slot receiver, maybe tried to play outside, you know, is like six five shooting guard. I think he played at like Duquesne. So we got some athletes behind the scene and they just crush it on the social media stuff. So listen, I've been in this podcast business and I try to do a lot of this stuff myself when I had a previous show with my buddy guy. And it's hard and it's impossible and I am very, very lucky that this operation ran. Logan kind of runs the, the content aspect for all the Volume, but has introduced me to these guys and got them on my team and it's been, it's been good for everybody and it's. We got a cool group and just again, they just like sports, which helps. So it's like I've been very, I've been very fortunate to work with normal, good, talented people because again, I, I could talk into a mic seven hours a day and if I wasn't associated with calling the Volume, you wouldn't know I'd existed. But from the social clips to the videos to the audio getting cut and loaded. So when you get in your car now at 7am in New York and you're commuting, I had nothing to do with that. So I can't. I mean, I hope they know how much I appreciate everything they're doing behind the scenes and how talented and good all these guys are because they're fucking ass kickers. I know you talk about this often, but do you think any sources or people that can explain how these GMs get taken to school by agents? In what world would to a Lawrence Kyler Purdy all worth the contracts they were given? You always say, who are you bidding against? But seriously, who are they bidding against? How does this happen? It seems like an absolute malpractice that this is setting franchises back constantly. Is it agents trying to get their breaks or trying to get their beaks wet? Even if it is, how are the GMs and owners willingly letting this happen? It makes zero logical sense. Even Dak, who is a good quarterback, is he worth $60 million a year? I get having an average quarterback is better than nothing. Dak actually is Playing pretty good right now. I mean, he looks like one of the best quarterbacks in the league. I don't know, man. I think, I think you would really have to sit down with like John Lynch, Kyle Shanahan, Trent Balky, some of these guys over cocktails and because again, we can all guess. Like, why did you give Trevor Lawrence $200 million? Like, I like Brock Purdy a lot. I actually think he took a relatively team friendly deal based on the other deals. But it's like, guys, he's played, he's been the starter for two and a half years. Like, couldn't we just play it out again? Well, then franchise take. Well, it's like, let's just keep proving it. That's the way most of us work. It's like, well, he's a quarterback. Well, is he Mahomes or Josh Allen and Lamar? No. Then let's just let it play out. And I'm not trying. Like, Purdy had proven that he can win. But then last year they had a bunch of injuries, they won six games and he didn't play that well down the stretch. And now he's injured, the team's winning. So it's like, and I'm not, I'm more pro Purdy than I am Trevor Lawrence, Kyler or tua. But my first reaction will always be is like, what's the rush? Why. Why are we rushing? Like, I get the packers giving Micah Parsons $188 million. Totally. I get the Cowboys giving CD Lamb or Jamar Chase $200 million. Totally get it. Right. But if, like, I have a guy that's not elite at his job. And that's also the problem. Like, I'll use Kyle as an example. Kyle. Kyle views Brock Purdy like an elite. Like, Kyle would tell you he's every bit as good or I can be every bit as good with him as like Patrick Mahomes is with Andy Reid. Even if that's like, not actually true, I generally believe that he believes that. So it's like, yeah, I'll give my guy a max amount of money. But then you see Sam Darnold who makes got like $55 million guaranteed. I mean, just watch him. He looks like one of the better quarterbacks in the league. It's like, I get that guy for a third of the price when I just want that guy. I will say this. If I was a quarterback and my career had hit some hard times and I was going to be a quote unquote backup, I would call the first people I would call would be the 49ers because they are resurrecting careers. Sam Darnold, Mac Jones, they created Brock Purdy's career. I mean Kyle Shanahan would be my first call. I want in. That's what I would say. If Mac Jones biggest regret he signed a two year contract. Imagine if Mac Jones had just signed a one year contract. What would he get this offseason? Like one year, 20 million bucks probably. He would definitely get the most amount of money for a bridge quarterback. How much of the packers just looking weird on offenses on the floor? Just seems like Green Bay is not getting consistent results on offense. LaFleur just seems like he coaches not to lose. I don't know. I mean I, I don't, I don't get why there's like a lack of trust in Jordan Love. And you can argue that he makes some poor decisions every once in a while. You know, Jacobs definitely doesn't feel quite as dominant this year as he did last year. But if I remember correctly, didn't he start slow last year too? I don't know. Something just. You watch the packers hard for me to put my finger on again, I liked them to. I got a bet on them to win the nfc. I got multiple bets on them that aren't going to hit because they're also tied to the Texans to win the division, which I don't even feel that great about. But you watch him. Something's just a little off. Something's just a little off. You know, looking at Jacobs right now, he said a couple 80 yard games. Yeah, he said 380 yard games. Got eight touchdowns this year. Actually scoring a lot of touchdowns. But shit, he had 15 last year. He's been a monster for the packers actually in between last year and this year, these are just rushing touchdowns. He has 23 rushing touchdowns. I mean if I get 30 touchdowns from a guy like Jacobs ain't the problem. I don't know. It's a great question. I don't. You know better than me. I can't put my finger on the. On the packers befuddled. Can I tell you about my friends at Bubs Natural? I've been taking a scoop of this every day for the last couple weeks. And getting old isn't that fun. You know, your skin gets thinner, your body aches more after workouts. It's tough. And that's why you need to do everything possible to work against that. And taking a scoop of this in the morning. Getting my collagen peptides. I've noticed one I feel like my skin is definitely glowing more and from a workout standpoint, my body feels as fresh as it's felt in years. No sugars, no sweeteners. Unflavored from grass fed pasteurized raised cattle. Cannot recommend this stuff enough. 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I got to get your perspective on this. Would the openings at Penn State and Florida be considered better opportunities for Lane Kiffin or should he stay at Ole Miss? I think Lane Kiffin's a big Florida guy by all accounts. I've listened to a lot of, you know, college football people talk about the podcast. I think he's got a house there. Obviously his dad is synonymous with the state Tampa 2 defense coach there forever. Lane resurrected his career, I would say post Alabama as a head coach at was it nau. I get some of those schools NIU and I Northern fau. And I guess it wouldn't be nau. It'd be fau, Florida Atlantic University, whatever school coach that. I just think that you know there is and I said this before, you're going to find out there is just a prestige coaching at certain jobs. But one thing I noticed last weekend, the SEC has the best home environments. I mean Auburn is in shambles. They have had back to back night games that looked as good as any football environment there is. Ryan Grub, the Bama offensive coordinator, said, I've been coaching for a long time. I've won, you know, Division two national champions, one double A national championships. I've coached in the National Championship game at Washington. I've played in massive games against Oregon. He's like, that was the best atmosphere I've ever seen by a country mile. Vanderbilt, which is a. Used to be an Also ran that game against lsu was rocking. And the Georgia Ole Miss game, Ole Miss stadium. I mean, these, these atmospheres are pretty sweet. So it's like, yeah, Florida is an awesome atmosphere, but Lane plays in the sweet place. So I think it's more about, like, at this point in time, Lane super rich. So it's. It's not like he already makes $10 million a year. Whether they give him 50, $80 million, he's already, like, not worrying about money. So it's less about money and more like, would he rather live in Gainesville than live in. In Oxford, Mississippi? Does he think that the proximity, it's. It's closer for him to recruit some top players? Does that even matter now? And like, ultimately, does he want the challenge? Like, has he done everything humanly possible he can do at Ole Miss? I don't believe Penn State makes much sense for him because he's, He's a rock star in the sec and Lane Kiffin feels like an SEC guy. And you saw that interaction he had pregame and post game with Kirby. Like, he kind of. I think he's found his people, and I think that's a. I think that's really important in life, finding your people. I feel very. I've lived in a lot of places, spent a lot of time, obviously born and raised in California, but I've lived for a couple years in Philadelphia. I lived for six months in Kansas City. I've lived in, you know, from the Bay Area to Fresno to, you know, the. The coast in San Luis Obispo. Like, I've been around a lot of different types of people because everywhere you live, people are wired a little bit different, right? We're all, quote, unquote, Americans. But, like, living in Florida is a lot different than living in Seattle, than living in New York City. And I think once you find, like, these are my type of, like, I just vibe with Arizona, it's just. It's just my vibe. It works like I fucking belong here. And I think that really matters when you are professionally ambitious. So it's like, because he still has a lot to accomplish at Ole Miss, if these are his people and he fits in well and he's. He's openly talked about how important coaching there has been to his life, then, yeah, stay. But if you feel that you're more Florida than you are Mississippi, then go. I think it's about much more personal stuff than it is professionally because like Ole Miss pays a ton. Ole Miss has, I think they had one of the, the highest payrolls in the country last year with their roster. So it's not like they won't pay for the players. He can obviously pay coaches. He plays against the best teams, Georgia, Bama, lsu. Like he's playing them all every year. So it's not like he needs to go to Florida to play better competition. It's just about like do you want to live somewhere different? I really think it's that simple because at this point in time, 10 years ago it's a no brainer. Now it might not be. To me, Penn State makes no sense for Lane Kiffin wouldn't touch that job with a 10 foot pole. With quarterbacks getting second and third chances, where can Mac Jones be traded to with a chance to be a starter next year? I just don't think the 49ers can afford to trade them. I mean their starting quarterback now has had a major shoulder injury or I guess elbow injury. That they were lucky it was the NFC championship game or if that happens in a in during the season would have cost him the year he got banged up. Was it last year? I forget the exact injury off top of my head and obviously now he can't play in games. Kyle Shanahan just said yesterday like he ain't playing this week. So Mac Jones like part of having life insurance plan, especially those of us, if you're listening with children, like who knows what if I cross the street and a truck hits me and I die? You never know. You think the 49ers plan when they gave Brock Purdy all that money for Brock Purdy to miss all these games? Of course not. But they had a contingency plan and that's was their insurance was Mac Jones, so. And then he has a bunch of success. The other thing is I think his contract was like two years, $7 million total. I think, I think Mac Jones is borderline untradable for for this team. Resurgence of quarterbacks like Daniel Jones and Mac Jones and the longer term rebounds from guys like Baker and Sam. Do you think teams might start taking more chances on formerly quote unquote bus quarterbacks instead of spending draft capital on rookies? Since 2018, roughly a third of the quarterbacks once labeled bus have managed to turn their careers around. Could smart well run teams start viewing that as a more efficient or higher probability move than drafting a first quarterback? I think it's already happening. Like, look at all these quarterbacks that end up on different teams. They've all been given other shots. Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, Mack Jones, Sam Darnold, Baker Mayfield. Like they bounced around to other teams before they ended up where they're at now. So I. The thing, when you're drafted high, you're always given constant opportunities. Think Sam Darnold, you know, after being a backup for the niners, was given one year's $10 million based on not much. Now he's changed the course of his career in Minnesota. But like you could argue, like, wait, you're giving him $10 million for what? But that's because he was a high draft pick. You get more opportunities. You know, the NFL is a meritocracy. That is true, right? Once training camp starts, once the game start, you can be the 30th pick. If the undrafted free agent is outplaying you, he is going to start and you are not. Period, point blank, end of story. But if that undrafted free agent plays and he sucks, he is not going to get the same amount of opportunities around the league as the second or first rounder if he sucks. Because you can cut that guy. And I mean, you see it with receivers all the time, like Dante Pettis. 49ers, drafted high and he's been on like 17 since. If Dante Pettis had been an undrafted free agent instead of a guy drafted in the second round, he's not getting the same amount of opportunities. So I think that, I think that's always been the case. It's pretty rare for a guy drafted really high to not get. I mean, you gotta be an all time disaster for no one to touch you. When do we start talking about Matt Stafford as the MVP? 17 touchdowns, two interceptions, 2,000 yards, no Puka and mediocre run game. I'm talking about him. He's fucking awesome. The NFC west, we got the little overachieving Niners, we got Seattle, that looks incredible on defense. And JSN and Sam Darnold. And the running backs, Charbonnet, Kenneth Walker, I mean, they got a lot of talent. John Snyder's good at his job. And the Rams, that defense looks good. Stafford looks good. Shocker. Devonte Adams is good. It's like Keenan Allen, Devonte Adams, you give those guys to good, quarterbacks are going to be good. I don't care that they're slow now, Keenan's slower and Devonte. But like those guys are pros, you know, those guys are good. This Texans offense, since Watson left Houston has left a lot to be desired. I still believe CJ Is a Super bowl level quarterback, but they need to get him a good OC. If Mike McDaniel becomes available, would you hire him for $10 million a year? No. $10 million a year. 10. I don't think Mike's making 10 now. I would hire him, I guess, but I think one thing Casario needs to do, and we actually talked about this last night after we got done recording, is I will defend them a little bit. They made a bold move, right? I do think. I don't know this for a fact, but it was kind of clear the owner was on them about drafting a quarterback. So they drafted CJ which immediately looked like a good pick, but then they really wanted Will Anderson. So they traded from 12 up to three. So they went C.J. stroud, Will Anderson back to back. Well, we looked it up. They traded pick 12, pick 33 and the following year's first round pick to do that. So you're watching the Texans, like, God, it feels like they're missing a couple of players. Well, yeah, they are because they gave up a first round pick and picked 33. That all of a sudden that could be a guard and a running back. All of a sudden that could be some unreal tight end and a tackle. Right? But that guy doesn't exist because they traded it away to get Will Anderson, who's a badass. But like part of the acquisition price to get Will Anderson was losing out on other players and their team has serious holes and that kind of comes with the territory of making a trade like that. So I just think Kasario's got to find a way to like improve the offensive personnel and the offensive line. Specifically Cole Popovich. I was thinking about this last night. Who is their offensive line coach? My first year at Fresno State in 2008, he was our right guard and he got. We played Rutgers week one and they had like the McCourty twins, Kenny Britt. They were really good. We beat him, no big deal. He got hurt in that game and his career just ended. He might have got hurt maybe in training camp. I'm pretty sure he played week one. But the year before, Ryan Wendell, who's the Rams coach, offensive line coach, and Cole Popovich, who's the Houston Texans coach, were the Garden center for Fresno State team, I think won nine or 10 games. I was thinking like, how many college teams in the last 20 years have two of their five starting offensive linemen that are offensive line coaches in the NFL? Pretty awesome. Accomplishment for Pat Hill, who's also an offensive line guy. Just tidbit that no one might care about beside me. Born and raised in Indy, we all know the quarterback's situation since Luck retired in the carousel has seemed endless with the passing of JJ or Jim Ursay. Not jj, his badass daughters taking the reins and the resurgence of Indiana Jones and Jonathan Taylor, blah blah. Just like reading off all the sweet things with Shane from Philly and Lou from Cincy. I'm Am I completely insane to think the Colts could be a perfect place for A.J. brown and Trey Hendrickson to join the squad for a Super bowl push? So basically trade your first round pick for AJ Brown, your second round pick for Trey. I think that's a little ambitious, but would I do that if I was Chris Ballard? 100%. I do think that the Eagles are in a spot where I just think you can't give away A.J. brown. He's too good. You just kind of deal with him posting some weird stuff about Jalen. It just kind of is what it is. But yeah, I don't know. I don't think he's going to get traded. Trey. The Bengals lose a couple games for sure. Could get traded. When does Howie ever trade someone sweet? He'll trade for someone sweet, but I have a hard time. Like AJ Brown clearly is one of the best players in the league. Like that's you just see when he turns it on. Now you could argue it's a little hit or miss, but they're clearly not as good as, you know, the Eagles mindset is to the Bengals obviously in a different place, but the Eagles like why can't we just be back in the NFC Championship game and then we're 60 minutes away from the Super Bowl? Look at our team. No, it's not guaranteed, but trading AJ Brown even for a first round pick makes us that less likely to happen. I'd rather trade him in the off season for like a second and a fourth than do it during the season. Because even if he's mad what's he's going to loaf, he still plays hard. What's up with these play callers calling all these double passes? After seeing the failed ones from USC in the Seattle Seahawks game, it got me thinking. I don't think I've seen a successful double pass in four years. You know when you spend 15, 20 hours a day, Monday through Thursday and even Friday is probably a 13 hour day. Saturday if you're traveling is a long day, you spend a lot of time thinking and they say Paralysis by now, paralysis by analysis, Analysis by paralysis. Screwing that statement up. But whatever, just overthinking, like sometimes just idle time and just, you know, the creative mind can work to your benefit and also can work, you know, like the Chiefs. Did you see the play that went viral of them running that, like, kind of diamond formation where they hand to one of the up backs who's on, I think, to the left of Mahomes. And Mahomes is pretending to try to get them to jump off sides and start screaming like, fuck, this never works. And clearly he was doing that to screw them up. Like, there's a. There's a fine line between doing like, that's pretty genius. And they got some downtime. They're probably BSing on the practice field.
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Sad Oligarch Podcast Narrator
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John Middlekauff
I don't know whose idea that was, but like. And then the double pass, when you're just driving easily down the field, I think a lot of the double pass comes with one Football can be pretty. What's the best way to describe it? Monotonous can be taxing on a daily basis of just doing the same things over and over. Right. You show up early, you film study, you work out, you eat breakfast, you practice, you go to meetings, you walk through, you. You rehab. It's just the same thing over and then just trying to get to the game and then you do it all again. And part of keeping guys engaged is doing fun shit. Like, Coach Reed is really good at that. Like, that Mahomes moment. Like, that helps guys stay locked in. Like, how are you supposed to. Like, I understand Mahomes is an ambitious, like, you know, an achiever, right? But still, he's human being. 28, 29, 30 years old, got a couple kids, super rich. They've already won a bunch. Like just doing the same thing over and over at practice. Like, you, you can lose your focus. And the easiest way to keep guys engaged is like, bust out a trick play every once in a while in practice. Well, you can't just run in practice over and over. Eventually you want to run in the games. So I. I can imagine when that play call comes in in a game, they all probably light up in the. In the huddle. Now when you throw it to the other team, it's obviously a disaster, but I do kind of get it, you know, part of. I don't know exactly the rules we're going to have for. I'd be a pretty big hypocrite, you know, about having a very strict diet for my. For my unborn children. But, like, you can't just say you never get to eat ice cream in your entire life. Like that's not really a healthy way to approach it. But you also can't give them ice cream for breakfast. But every once in a while you gotta let them have an ice cream cone. And I think that's kind of like trick plays. Obviously when they work you look like a genius, but you can't just never run them especially good teams. I mean, that just helps people stay engaged.
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The new podcast Hell in Heaven, two young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over. But one will end up dead, the other tried for murder not once. People went wild, not twice, stunned, but three times. John and Anne Bender are rich and attractive and they're devoted to each other. They create a nature reserve and build a spectacular circular home high on the top of a hill. But little by little, their dreams slow starts to crumble and our couple retreat from reality.
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John Middlekauff
They lose it. They actually lose it. They sort of went nuts.
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Hell in Heaven Podcast Narrator
Until one night everything spins out of control. Listen to Hell in Heaven on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Snax from Trap Nerds Podcast
What's up everybody? This is snacks from the Trap Nerds podcast and we're bringing you the horror every week all October long.
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John Middlekauff
Kicking off this month, I'll be bringing you all my greatest fear inducing horror games. From Resident Evil to Solid Hill, me and Tony bringing back Fireteam on Left 4 Dead 2 and we just gonna be going over some of the greats.
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Snax from Trap Nerds Podcast
Also in October we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movies and figure out why black people always gotta die first.
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John Middlekauff
The umbral reliquary invites any and all fooling brave enough to peruse its many curiosities. But take it all sales are final. Weekly Horror side quests written and narrated by yours truly with a full episode read and a commentary special and we.
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Snax from Trap Nerds Podcast
Will cap it off with Horror Movie Battle Royale Jason vs. Freddy Michael Myers vs. The Alien Thing with the Little Tongue Monster. October we're doing it Halloween style. Listen to the Trap Nurse Podcast from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast.
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The Rich Russians Falling out of Windows podcast is Back Sad Oligarch Season 2 Since we left you in 2023 after season one, many politically motivated Russian millionaires have continued to die in suspicious circumstances. We dig deeper into these odd deaths, which include everything from mushroom poisoning and mysterious serious heart attacks, the window clumsiness and suicide by decapitation. One thing we have found since we started back in 2022 is the information on the suspicious deaths has become much harder to find. Not just that, it seems as if state controlled media in Russia is being utilized to purposely confuse and contradict the reporting that gets put out. As you can probably imagine, the season two gets very weird. Listen to Sad Oligarch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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John Middlekauff
How come Sean Payton isn't taking more heat for his play calling? It's either screens or deep balls. While Bo has definitely struggled with balls 20 plus yards down the field, I feel like he's a good thrower. 10 to 20 yard routes. Totally agree. I feel like when they get him on the run and he has like crossing routes, like if he's going to his right and one of the wide receivers is basically paralleling him, you know, if he's five yards behind the line of scrimmage and that guy's 10 to 15 yards past the line of scrimmage following him, he's good on the run making those throws. I mean he made a bunch in that game against the Giants in the fourth quarter, but just like having him drop back and throw some go routes or deep breaking routes, it's clearly not been working and it feels like they are running them and maybe it feels they're doing it more because they miss it so often. It's actually not that high of a number, but I don't understand why they don't utilize his legs way more often. Okay. Do you think the 2020 draft happened again? Jordan Love would be taken ahead of Herbert and Jalen Hurts. Love is one in the playoffs and played in more games than Herbert and I think that it's fair to say he's more physically gifted than Hertz the 20 draft burrow to a Herbert Love hurts well I think if you if you don't factor in injuries Burrows a lock to go one I think if you're doing it today and you're factoring in injuries Burrows pretty risky. I mean he's had major injuries major injuries. So to me people are going to think I'm nuts but I think there'd be a big contingent in the NFL that would take Herbert again based on the day the information we have on the injuries to a clearly is going last. You know, I think the Shanahan guys like Hertz would not look good in the packers offense. Hertz would not be good for Kyle Shanahan. It would not. You couldn't function. Hertz would not operate in Baker Mayfield's offense. So you have to kind of build the offense specifically for Jalen. So I think it would be very dependent on the coach. I think Jalen or excuse me Jordan in theory and again I'm not like anointing him some the greatest thing since sliced bread. He can be very hit or miss but he's a little more less scheme dependent. You know Jalen, you have to have a pretty clear plan of attack. I would say I wouldn't even put two on this list. You know I think all four of those guys burrow Herbert love hurts would go I mean 1 through 4 I tua probably goes in like the fourth round. It's crazy how bad he looks. Jeez, Lions fan, what is wrong with our offense? The O line is good at times, but we can't move the ball consistently when it matters. Now you have young, you have a new center, a new guard. One's a rookie. I mean it's just part of the deal. I mean Sewell Decker excellent players, your skill guys are excellent. Like I'd be pretty bullish on the Lions. I wouldn't be that worried about the offense. With the Chiefs now surprising back to normal. Lamar injured the Bill secondary week the Chargers banged up the Broncos not playing well and Joe Burrow out etc. Everyone else implodes. They still get the 1 seed by home field and get a weak first round all leading up to the AFC Championship and Arrowhead. No one really good enough on defense to stop them with that feeling like it's inevitable. Does it take the excitement out of the regular season for you? It does for me it almost makes an AFC regular season game pointless. I think if you got Andy Reid and Spags and Veech on the phone right now, they say listen it's easy to say out loud. All the shit's hard. Some of these games we have won against Buffalo, we easily could have lost even the game that, you know, we kind of embarrassed Lamar didn't. Wasn't the final score 17:10 when they beat him. It's not like they are winning these games 45 to 7. So it's football. You're one weird bounce away from being down 10, nothing. I mean, the Chiefs even remember the first year they won the super bowl when they had the crazy comebacks against Tennessee. Was it Cincinnati? I forget who they were down. It was Houston. It was like Houston then Tennessee or Tennessee, then Houston. Whatever the setup was, it's. It's football. I don't think it's going to be that easy. I hear what you're saying because I told Maria this the other day, I'm like, the Chiefs are going to be back in Super Bowl. I don't want it. I'm like, well, Randy, Reed, Veech, people. Like, we were rooting for him. It's like, no, I'm not. I've seen enough. Like, well, I am because I appreciate him. I mean, if they get back to the super bowl, that is an incredible accomplishment. It really is. And I've always been. I obviously know these guys personally, but even the Patriots, like, I didn't know Belichick or Tom, but I did appreciate like how dominant they were because how hard it is to do that. This isn't, this isn't the dodgers that have $700 million player, $400 million player, three 200 million dollar pitchers like this. Isn't that the former MVP first baseman Muncie, who's sweet should the Titans higher Belichick as the head Coach and Mike McDonald's the offensive coordinator, find a decent personnel guy and go from there? No, that's the problem with the Titans is they already got the personnel guys, two of them, Brinkard and Morganzi. So Belichick, Belichick's NFL career is over. Like, he's. Even if he got North Carolina turned around a couple years by then, he's 75, 76 years old. It's pretty crazy. Belichick's never coached in the NFL again. I guess it's not as crazy saying that right now. October 20th 1st, 2025. Based on what we've seen in North Carolina though, I, I do think the Pablo Torre video of her talking much more nothing burger than it is a story. Like, yeah, she's crazy. We know. What do you think she's gonna sound like? Like, I just found that. Again, I am not against salacious crazy stories of, like, the video of Belichick coming out, which looking back, might have been her house shirtless. Like, I'm not against content like that, but I did feel a little uneasy watching Belichick miked up with her talking about, like, stupid sayings relative to football. It's like, who cares? This is so stupid. We get it. Someone with underdog fantasy, hated her, leaked this out. But I just don't does this. What does this change? What does this do? I even thought like, oh, Michael Lombardi goes to Saudi Arabia. You mean like everyone else? Like, literally everyone is trying to get balls deep in their trillions of dollars. He ain't like, is that a weird story? Maybe it would have been a weird story 20 years ago, but in 2025, like, isn't the Big Ten sniffing around their money too? Isn't everyone? I mean, every single sport. I just think sometimes with those two guys specifically, it's got a little Mike McDaniel feel like everyone's just trying to shit on him. And obviously Pablo's getting people to feed him shit. But just watching that video, I went, is there more to this? Is there. Should I be watching this video? Like, do I feel a little icky? Yeah, I kind of do. Because I also think it's kind of stupid. Is Fernando Mendoza, top 10 draft pick. The algorithm first put me on your feed and now I'm a weekly watcher. I like this guy. I text a couple people a couple weeks ago and they said no. But now, relative to the class, I think there's a pretty good chance if he's going to be the top quarterback. We know top quarterbacks get overdrafted. Like, I don't see why he couldn't go number one overall. He's tall, huge arm, winning. Signetti loves him. Was good last year, California on a team that didn't have much talent. So I would say if I was a betting man right now, I would say he has the best opportunity to go number one overall. I would also bet that a quarterback doesn't go number one overall, which probably be a stupid bet based on recent history. I still got a lot of questions. It's a big ass mailbag. I was so upset when they traded Micah, but now, seeing how the season has played out, I'm actually glad we didn't. Instead, we gained valuable resources, the cap flexibility to make smart moves this offseason. My question being, would you have paid parson or moved on? I think the only thing you can really ding them on is the, the timing of the trade. What they should have done is traded them before the draft because their team's pretty good and they could have used that draft capital like a defensive lineman. What if they just had a starting defensive end that they had just drafted? So that to me would be the question mark of how they got here. Not that Micah Parsons was traded. Their defense, even if you put them on, it would only do so much. But to me, should they have traded him for the draft and if they had done that, would they have gotten more? That's a fair criticism, but I never. If you've listened to me, you knew I didn't have that big a deal with trading him. It's not like, like, if the packers had had Micah Parsons and traded Micah Parsons to be like, you're a Super bowl contender, why are you trading this guy? The Cowboys clearly were not. I mean, I honestly, the Cowboys have been one of the best stories in the NFL. Brian Schottenheimer, what a pretty cool moment for again, a guy everyone shit on. Curious to hear your thoughts on the Giants. In your opinion, are they a playoff level good in one or two years and they got a long way to go. Let's just, let's just figure out like, is Brian Dabel their coach or not next year? I mean, we got a long way to go. What does neighbors look like coming back off the injury? What's the coaching staff next year? Let's just, I, I can't put him in the playoffs anytime near, in the near future. We got, we got a lot of holes to fill and specifically the best offensive skill guy needs to be healthy, if he's healthy. And they have a good draft, which it feels like they've had a couple good drafts now. Yeah, I don't see why they couldn't be a playoff competitive team. Do you think the NFL division should be adjusted to be more geographically fair to a team like the Cowboys? Texans or not Texans, Texas being in a division with New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland makes no sense. It's about market, baby. They want the Eagles playing the Cowboys. They want the Commanders playing the Cowboys. They want the Giants playing the Cowboys. This is a business. And at the end of the day, these people are chartering Jets. It's also like usc. Like, should they be playing Ohio State and Michigan, you know, in Maryland, Rutgers? Probably not, but it's about, it's about money. And you ain't putting the Cowboys with like the Saints and the Jags, I promise you that. So I think they Like a lot. Where the Cowboys stand, I'm with you. Doesn't make perfect sense. Once upon a time, the San Francisco Giants in the Atlanta Braves were in the same division in baseball. Make that make sense? Pretty sure the 49ers and the Atlanta Falcons were in the same division. So it's just. Listen, I think we've come a long way, but the Cowboys are not leaving that group of teams, I'll promise you that. Do you think the Niners are starting to have thoughts on the Purdy contract? Regret and the way Mac Jones has been playing. Not saying Purdy isn't good, but Mack is playing hurt and far from the eye test. Looks very similar to Purdy at a much lower cost. Also, it feels like there is more resurgence of the bus quarterback than ever before in the league. I think you could make the argument of like, should Purdy have just been like a three year, $30 million quarterback? You know, and this gets to the question earlier about like, why are we paying all these guys just because Mahomes and Josh Allen and Lamar made a lot. Why do you make a lot just because you're also a quarterback? Like, I'm a podcaster too. Should I make the same amount as Joe Rogan? Probably not. I don't generate the same amount of views and listens that he does. But we're both podcasters because that's. Well, they're both quarterbacks. Well, it's like, okay, well, one guy's way better than the other guy. It's like Giannis and some random dude on the Bobcats are both NBA players. Who would you rather have? It's like, well, I can't have you on us. This is the guy I got. Well, do you want to invest in this guy? Because if you give this guy $30 million a year, that's going to be a you problem. And I just think Purdy was difficult because he definitely saved the 49ers. If Brock Purdy wasn't drafted and didn't come around, Kyle Shanahan, John lynch are probably fired because Trey Lance wasn't just a whiff, he was a disaster and they would have been in major trouble. Purdy saved their job, so they feel obligated. Now it's also easy for them to spend. It's not their money, it's the owners. But I think the way you build your team, like, and this is what happens when all these other stupid contracts, in fairness to Brock Purdy, like, I'm not signing less than tua, like, I'm not signing for anything Less than Trevor Lawrence. And that's his argument. It's like the real estate comp argument. It's like well my neighbor's house sold for $1 million. I have a bigger floor plan, a nicer kitchen and a bigger backyard. So yeah, I'm putting my house on the market for $1.2 million. Right. But you couldn't do that if like well my neighbor's house sold for 350k. It's like my house is exact same. I'm putting it on the market for 900k. Guess what's going to happen. No one's going to call. Brock's agent had a pretty easy argument based on the Kyler Murray's the Tuas the Trevor Lawrence is like even Jordan Love, Jordan Love got paid after eight good games. So it's all out of whack. Okay, last question. Long time listener love the pod. Major, major fugazi. I was thinking about this. I'm trying to bring back Fugazi Friday. It's kind of got lost in the shuffle during football season but I was we might do my top five NFL fugazi's this year finishing the basement and have one room for entertainment for a theater where I will primarily watch sports. I want to install speakers in these rooms as well as a couple speakers on the outdoor patio. I'm not a sound nerd getting quotes from Best Buy for an install and parts are 25 to 40k. I'm still in shock. This ain't no Taylor Swift recording studio. This is just a private home in the suburbs of the Midwest. Curious, what did you do for your home viewing room when you watch sports, how much did you spend? Do you remember the brand of speakers? Right now I'm actually building an outdoor office which is not cheap because it's basically it's called like Studio Shed. So it's going to have power, it's going to have air. It's going to be just basically my home studio in the backyard which is like 150 square feet and it's you know, when it's all said and done, probably cost me like 50 grand. But given that the room I'm in right now which has multiple TVs where I watch NFL football, where I can watch like 10 games at one time, it's like we're going to have a kid so he's going to get one of the rooms and this room can't just be a wasted space for my office when we're going to need help, right? If her mom's coming People stay here. So I needed to utilize the outdoor, but it's just not cheap. At the same time, I don't have a choice. When I originally moved in this house, we remodeled it and I got an audio guy. I said I basically want my house to be like it's 2050, not 2000 and I want everything hardwired. I want speakers all over the place. And that was at the time like 25k. It was an expensive endeavor. But all my, you know, that's also my, you know, from security system to all my TVs are on the same operation to my speakers outdoor, like for the backyard and the pool I got speakers. But again like I have no skill to do any of that. It wasn't cheap. But I will say this. The guy who's coming tomorrow because they're building trenches today. They poured the concrete for the office. They're going to build it within the next 10 days. He's coming tomorrow to hardwire that like it is pretty important. So for me, I view a couple things. If you're going to overpay a little bit, let's just use your house. In general, it's like you end up spending a lot of time there, right? There are things like for me, I could easily, I could have any car I want, right? But I've been driving the same 2011 Tahoe for a long time. I don't drive that many places for my job. My cars are relevant. Cars paid off. It doesn't cost me anything. Like now if you have a job where your sales guy front facing and the car's important, I don't blame you. I would spend a lot on a car too. But for me, I spend a lot of time in my house. My whole operation is built currently based on my house and the Internet speed and streaming like I have to go prices that are a little uncomfortable. I'm with you. 40k just for a man cave fuels kind of crazy. Now if you have the money, here's the one thing I would recommend because I don't. I don't know what the difference are between the type speakers and I have no clue. I just trusted my guy. If you are going to spend a lot of time in that room, let's say you're going to live at your house for another 10 years. So you do this man cave up, make it sweet, spend 30 grand, which relative to how much money you have is a shitload of money. If you spend a lot of time in there and it's pretty sweet, you're not really Going to complain and in 10 years, like, what's that money really going to mean to you right now? If that's the difference of like sending your kid to college or feeding the family right, or buying a car to get to work, like, yeah, you can't do it. But if this is money that you have to spend and you are going to utilize it, like, I think sometimes we overthink things that we end up utilizing a lot and sometimes get cheap on them and then regret it later. And then we do things that we're actually not going to use that often and we overspend on stuff. It's like, what a waste, what a waste. So I think you just have to prioritize how important is this room to you? Because I'm with you. The modern technology is pretty expensive. Now. The good thing is I get like a hundred inch TV for $2,000. You know, the, the televisions relative to inflation for most things are relatively cheap. But everything else, the wiring, the speakers, the setup, the labor is definitely not cheap. So I, I would just try to gauge it. One, if you don't have the money, like don't, you know, don't put this on credit or anything, if you have the ability to pay for it cash. Because that's a huge thing with me. Like I will do these projects as long as I have the cash. I'm not taking out like a HELOC to fucking redo my pool that I end up using 10 times in a year, right. Just because it looks cool, right? If you have the cash and you want to do it, then do it. If not, then don't do it. But also if you're gonna use it a lot, you're like, once I had this guy hardwired my house, I've never really complained about it. It's been really good. Would I rather use that money somewhere else? Could I have tripled it if I would have put it in the stock market three years ago? 100%. But it's, I've never complained about it since I've had my house. I mean, I have this huge thing in a closet, this box of just. I don't even know what it's like. It's a huge bunch of different, like receivers or something. I mean, I couldn't even if, whenever things go down, I just call him and he comes over and he fixes it. It's incredible. So it's, it's money well spent. So I, I feel your pain. This shit's expensive. But if you're going to watch a lot of games down there. In a couple years, you and your buddies will not be complaining. I'll promise you that. The volume Toyota is all in all season. And with Toyota Game Day Giveaways, the official automotive partner of the NFL is giving football fans a chance to win big by making free predictions on which big plays will happen during the second half of every Sunday night football game. Prizes include Brock Purdy's favorite Toyota Sequoia, NFL shop gear, and more. Visit toyota.com NFL to learn more. 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Snax from Trap Nerds Podcast
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John Middlekauff
And DC 18 and over. For complete details, how to enter prizes and official rules, visit toyotasgamedaygiveaways.com hello America's sweetheart. Johnny Knoxville here. I want to tell you about my new true crime podcast, Crimeless Hillbilly Heist from Smartless Media, Campside Media and big money players. It's a wild tale about a gang of high functioning nitwits who somehow pulled off America's third largest cash heist. Kind of like Robin Hood, except for the part where he steals from the rich and gives the to the poor. I'm not that generous. It's a damn near inspiring true story for anyone out there who's ever shot for the moon, then just totally muffed up the landing. They stole $17 million and had not bought a ticket to help him escape. So we're sitting like oh God, what do we do? What do we do? That was dumb. People. Do not follow my example. Listen to Crimeless Hillbilly Heist on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Snax from Trap Nerds Podcast
What's up everybody? It's snacks from the trapped nerds. All October long we're bringing you the horror.
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John Middlekauff
Boogity boogity boogity. We kicking off this month with some of my best horror games to keep you terrified.
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Snax from Trap Nerds Podcast
Then we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movies and figuring out why black people always die first.
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John Middlekauff
And it's the return of Tony's horror Show Cited Quest, written and narrated by yours truly. We'll also be doing a full episode reading with commentary and we'll cap it.
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Snax from Trap Nerds Podcast
Off with a horror movie Battle Royale. Open your free aha Radio app and search Trap Nerds Podcast and listen now.
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Sad Oligarch Podcast Narrator
The Rich Russians Falling out of Windows podcast is back. Sad Oligarch Season 2 Since we left you in 2023 after season one, many political, 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.
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John Middlekauff
This is an iHeart podcast.