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account, my shrinking

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Sun's last night Good Nick.

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You bet on Bradley Beal again?

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No, I will never bet on Bradley Beal.

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I don't.

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I don't know that I ever will ever again.

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Well, that's because we

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didn't have any money on it.

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He would have went over the world, probably.

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Partly why it went over there.

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You know what.

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Uh, let's cut to the chase. Two things

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here. I want to let you down

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gently, everybody listening. No, Rich Herenberger

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today.

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Okay, it's a it's a blow,

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but it is. It's really rough. Jared.

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You and I were going to rally, absolutely

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gonna rally. And it is a ball buffet,

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as I love to say, because there is so much

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football to talk about.

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Love me.

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Some NBA playoffs will sprinkle that in as

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well. But it's the biggest story of

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the draft by far. And it happened

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on Thursday, and it was the Falcons

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with the number eight overall.

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Pick, going QB.

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They go with Michael Pennix, Junior

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after signing Kirk Cousins in the offseason.

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Did you like it? Did you hate

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it? Did you just not understand

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it whatsoever? Because I was all

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on the negative side of like, what

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are they doing cliff

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Notes version here? Jared is one

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or the other man that one or the other

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Falcons where you knew Pennix

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Junior would be there at eight overall.

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So if you're gonna take him, why

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did you sign Kirk Cousins?

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Yeah?

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And if you signed Kirk Cousins, why did

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you draft Michael Pennix Junior. I just

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don't get it. This was his seven to ten

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football team last year who made

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up big splash by getting Kirk Cousins,

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and you could build around him. You could have gotten

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Rome with Doonsday, get him another

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weapon, could have gone defense. These guys

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called pass rushers sort of important. Their

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pass rush is freaking brutal, like

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dead last in the NFL, and they're like, Eh,

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let's go QB who might pay off three or

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four years down the line. I don't get it at

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all.

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Perplexing, I think puzzling,

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and frankly, I think punitive to their

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long term future. And I

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know I'm not a general manager. I know I'm

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not a scout. I know I'm just a humble betting

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analyst trying to win you mondies

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every week. But the

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response from this was pretty swift,

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like it it was, and you saw

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the fans like that. If you saw the video

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of the fans, I think.

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I forget what the stadium they were in there watching somewhere

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in Atlanta.

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And it was like it was like

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they just stole their lunch money, like it was

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a very unique pick.

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So the I

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guess the justification. I

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don't know if this was.

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Given by Terry Fontno or some other analysts

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afterwards. I saw Peter Schrager tweeted this yesterday

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and I just I couldn't understand it.

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He's like, oh, well, this is like what the Packers.

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Did, right, like with Jordan Love and Aaron

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Rodgers, right, Aaron Rodgers, and they had

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their say, no, no, it's

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not that situation at all.

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It's not even close. It's not even in the

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same zip code as that situation.

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Jordan Love was significantly

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younger when he was drafted, three years younger.

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He was drafted with the twenty sixth pick,

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not the eighth pick. There you go, and

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and Aaron Rodgers was in Green

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Bay for like a decade, he'd already won a

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Super Bowl, like the the ship

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had sailed like they were kind of growing

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tired of the you know, the dog and pony show

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and the back and forth, and they were like,

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okay, like let's just let's

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start to turn the page.

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Here.

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You can't turn the page when the book

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hasn't even been opened yet. Kirk

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Cousins hasn't even taken a snap,

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and you're already like

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it.

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Just it made absolutely no sense.

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And the draft capital you're spending

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at eight is very different than twenty six at

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eight. And the funny thing is they could have taken

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Byron Murphy at eight. They ended up taking some defensive

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tackle from Clemson in the second round.

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And they traded up.

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They gave up more picks to the Cardinals

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to take this defensive tackle who I'm sure is fantastic

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grouke or horror, you

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could have taken Byron Murphy at eight,

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kept all your picks and then taken I

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don't know, Spencer Ratler, another

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quarterback in the second round, and

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continued to do Now, maybe

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they just really love Michael Pennix

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more than more than God but

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I just don't understand

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any of the logic here.

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I don't either, man, I really don't.

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And it's a great breakdown

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where you look at if you want to do a Packers

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side by side comparison.

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Brett Favre was.

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With the Packers for a long time,

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and then they drafted Aaron Rodgers twenty

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fourth overall. Yeah, right, then

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Rogers plays there for a long

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long time, and then they drafted

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Jordan Love twenty sixth overall. Twenty

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fourth and twenty sixth, those

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picks, like you said, Jared much

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different than the eighth overall

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pick, so much different

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to make it out to be the same thing as crazy,

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And I keep going back to I remember

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when I was a young kid and we moved

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into a new neighborhood and

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some of the neighbors I'll never forget,

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they brought a pie over and

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I was like, that's kind of nice, nice little house,

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very middle Gift, very Midwest.

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They didn't say like go blue, yeah, Irish

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suck or anything like that. Very nice, very

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Midwestern. And I thought about

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that. The Falcons

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basically live on the same

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block as Kirk Cousins, and

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they just egged his house.

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That's what they did.

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They didn't get him a pie, they didn't say welcome

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to the neighborhood. He hasn't

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taken one snappy

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yeah Blue. And they get Michael

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Pennix Junior with the eighth

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overall pick. That's a

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premium pick. That's a guy who could have

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helped the Falcons big time in

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twenty twenty four, not a guy that could

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maybe help the Falcons big time

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in twenty twenty eight. That's

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just I don't know of a worse

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house warming gift than

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what the Falcons got Kirk Cousins.

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It's like the plant that you know you're gonna kill, Like

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the plant's already dead before you bring it home.

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Yeah.

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That, And I'm sure Kirk will handle it

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like a professional, because Kirk is a professional.

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And this will

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be like you do two things

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here. There's two things that you do

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here that you don't want to do when you got

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a rookie head coach, I guess not a rookie Raheem

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Morris has done it before, but for the most part

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it's been a while since he was, you know, cassed

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with this. And you get

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a quarterback now that is under

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the gun from the start. Kirk

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Cousins is going to be answering

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questions about this all

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summer long, and he will deflect because again,

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he is a professional and he will handle this

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like a professional. But why

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change the tone in Atlanta

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to negative before this?

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There's gonna be plenty of negative things to talk about once

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the season starts.

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Why change the tone to negative

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before the season even starts. That's

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the part that really scares me here with

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what whatever they're building and the

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exchange.

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I tweeted this out because it was hilarious.

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There was a brief exchange that was on camera

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in the Falcons war room between Fontino

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and Arthur Blank, and it looked

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like Arthur Blank like just got

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his like they brought the wrong order out

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to him at the diner. He's like, wait, wait, wait, hold

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on, I didn't order this,

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Like you want to take a quarterback?

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We I just paid Kirk Cousins

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one hundred million dollars and

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you And maybe it was his choice, maybe

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he doesn't like kr I don't know, but the look

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on his face was like, man, I should have hired Bill Belichick.

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It was just such a weird way

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to start this Raheem Morris

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campaign as the new head coach, And

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the part that surprised me, Like we all thought they were going

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defense, Brian Like, it was like a three

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dollars favorite for them to go defense.

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With this first pick.

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And the reason why it made so much sense Raheem Morris

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rams, Aaron Donald, like Byron

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Murphy lot too, Like there were some really

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good defensive players right

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there for the taking, and they just

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said, eh, we're good. It

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just it was a mind boggling decision.

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Yeah, do you go back to last

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season, the Falcons defensive line

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not very good. They were dead last

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in pass rush win rate, and

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if you just go by SAX numbers, they're

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bottom third in the NFL

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in terms of sacks generated last season.

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Like you said, there were some dudes on the board

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right there that could have helped you

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would have gotten cause again it was

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a record fourteen offensive

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players to begin the drafts wild.

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It's wild.

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So if the Falcons went defense,

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they could have gone with their first choice.

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Then the number one defensive player. And I

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thought Murphy at sixteen the Seattle was

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a steal.

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Yeah, Seattle is going to have

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an unbelievable defensive line

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now for the next decade with this kid. And

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I like what Indye did with Latsu at fifteen,

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right, that was we did our mock drafts before and

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like that was the first That was the best defensive player I

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saw in the draft prospect

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wise. I know there was a neck injury issue, but most

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of the teams cleared him. And then Dallas

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Turner, the Kiff Alabama, who you know played

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in the SEC played in How many times

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did he play in that building in an SEC championship

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game?

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Like, there was just so many good options

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on defense.

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It was just Bryan it

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was one of the most And then of course Bonnicks four

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picks later to Denver, like it

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was the six quarterbacks in the first twelve,

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like we we'll probably never see that again in our lifetime.

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Yeah, we might not. And I'll

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say this for Kirk Cousins, it's

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going to be an ongoing

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battle to stay positive

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about this, right because

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think about it, the season starts.

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You said it, right, he's gonna deflect and he's gonna

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say the right things. Ses he's a professional in

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the off season. But it's easier,

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a lot easier to say the right things

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in the off season. But when

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the regular season rolls around

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and you're in Week four, or five

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or what have you. And you have a rough

10:27

game offensively, you

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lose the game, Like,

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how how often is Kirk

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going to come back to the draft

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and think, Man, it'd be nice if

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I had Roma Doonza to throw to. Maybe

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right, Rome goes off for a couple of touchdown

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catches in Week four and Kirk

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things after a loss.

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Huh, be nice to have that guy.

10:50

Or the pass rush just can't get

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home and Dallas Turner

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has a day right like it's

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going to be an ongoing battle

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to just forget about it, forget

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about what could be. But every

11:06

single day you go to the facility,

11:09

there's Pedix.

11:10

Junior right there.

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I know it's so and I hate

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the guy, but you hate what it represents.

11:15

You have to.

11:16

It's like it's like when you're in the relationship,

11:19

the marriage, the long term marriage, and you're

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just like, what am I? Like?

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What did I do?

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What did I And that was so my first

11:26

gut reaction, after the shock

11:28

of wow, they really did that, my

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first gut reaction is what's Kirk Cousins thinking,

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Because listen, this guy

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when the quarterback position in the NFL

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is the position you

11:41

want that person to feel so comfy

11:43

and cozy and happy with the

11:46

situation, especially in a free

11:48

agency role.

11:49

Right, it wasn't like they drafted him. It

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wasn't like.

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He was the first team that he was a part

11:54

of, and he came up with the organization and there's

11:56

this loyalty and this brand. You

11:58

know, Oh, I love that he that's the Vikings

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for him, or actually, frankly it's Washington,

12:03

but really the Vikings was where he made his name,

12:05

I think, and really became, you know, came into his own.

12:08

And then he signs this free agent deal and it's all

12:10

hunky dory for like three weeks, and then

12:12

all of a sudden, it like the

12:15

reality of the NFL really

12:17

sets in and he and I'm and I'm

12:19

thinking, man, Kirk's probably like, what organize

12:21

it?

12:22

What Mickey mouse team? Did I just sign

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up with? Here?

12:25

That that you just brought me

12:27

in and you paid me all this money

12:30

and there's all these and

12:32

the crazy thing about this draft again.

12:34

You had three quarterbacks

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taking in the first four

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picks. Yeah, in the first three

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picks.

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And then the eighth pick, so that means

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you had four other players taken

12:46

before you had so many

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good players on the board. Here, and

12:52

then you tried to sell it like, oh

12:54

yeah, well this kid's and then font

12:56

after the draft is like, I hope he doesn't play untill

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he's twenty eight.

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That being is a good thing. So you just.

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Drafted a player with the eighth pick that you hope

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doesn't play for four years.

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Like, make that make sense? That

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is asenine. It

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is.

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Just that part of it. They took

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the fifth quarterback off

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the board, right they they went, Is

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that right?

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It was no fourth because they

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took Pennix before McCarthy.

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Unbelievable, Terry Bottina.

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Whenever you're smoking down there in Atlanta, I

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want a piece of it.

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I'm in the fourth quarterback

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or the first defensive

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player, or the first any.

13:38

Other player basically except for receiver.

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Real and they're like, you know what, let's go QB,

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go QB.

13:44

At least it ain't go kicker. That was that.

13:47

At least it wasn't the worst.

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Decision they could have made. They could have picked

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a kicker and it would have been worse. So congratulations,

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Starry, you made the second worst positional choice

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with the eighth pick.

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we got the uh, the critical

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analysis side of the way at least

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to begin the show. I prefer

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going that way. You know, what are the

15:49

Falcons thinking? And then we get to something that we

15:51

like instead of the other way around. You know, we're gonna

15:53

hit on the Falcons again at some point. Oh, I

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feel like once.

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Is not enough for Terry Fount knowing his gang

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name. I'm with you for a pick

16:01

there.

16:01

I love that I've got something to say. We'll

16:03

bring it up in the third hour. Okay,

16:05

nice, But something that you said about

16:08

Belichick made me think about

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bracelets that were very,

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very popular years ago and

16:15

how the Falcons could have utilized one.

16:17

But let's stick to what we like right

16:20

here. If you look at all the drafts thus

16:22

far, we're through three rounds, okay,

16:24

so a long way to go, but the

16:26

premiere rounds, the premium rounds,

16:28

if you will, who do you like

16:30

the most what they've done so far?

16:33

Jared? I mean the Bears have to be

16:35

at the top.

16:36

I mean they got I would say, a

16:39

generational prospect right, and we don't

16:41

know what the future is gonna look like for

16:43

Kayleb Williams. But all the smoke he's

16:45

been getting over the last three months is is

16:48

a little overblown. Like the kid has handled

16:50

everything very well. I

16:52

thought he handled Draft Night well, I thought, and

16:55

who am I to judge? Right? But there

16:57

are a lot of little checkpoints throughout

16:59

the process. There was not one red flag

17:02

for me throughout this process. For Kayleb Williams, he handled

17:04

it despite all the negative criticism

17:06

that he received about his you know, work ethic

17:08

and all the you know, behind the scenes stuff and crying

17:11

on the field and all that nonsense, which.

17:12

Didn't matter at all.

17:14

He was very consistent to the process and

17:16

the Bears obviously made the right choice. And

17:19

then, oh, by the way, everyone thought they

17:21

were gonna go defense at nine. I thought again, Byron

17:23

Murphy catching some steam there to go in the top ten.

17:25

I thought Atlanta Chicago made a ton of sense,

17:28

and they decided to go, Hey,

17:31

we just drafted a generational prospected

17:33

quarterback. Let's bring in who

17:35

I would say, I know, Marvin Harrison, I think probably

17:38

the best overall receiving prospect in this draft.

17:40

I think that is barring one hands down. But

17:42

I'll be honest.

17:43

I really liked Rama Dunes and

17:45

and I think he has the I

17:47

think the phrase that was used

17:50

by the scouts, and I love how they come up with like this.

17:52

You know these like weird like catch phrases

17:55

for these for these kids, alpha

17:57

target catch trade or something like

17:59

the way he like catches the ball, like

18:01

the high pointing of the football.

18:03

Like they thought he was the.

18:04

Best in this draft at that alpha

18:07

of the of the catch radius. That's what

18:09

it is, Alpha catch radius. That was the phrase

18:11

that was used for Roma Douonday. So you

18:13

get two picks in the top ten. It's

18:15

an obvious choice.

18:16

But the Bears got a whole lot better

18:19

on Thursday.

18:20

Yeah, they really did. You're right about that.

18:22

A couple other teams that I really

18:24

like what they did. I really

18:26

like what the Ravens and with the Eagles

18:29

were abo.

18:29

Yeah, especially Philly.

18:31

Yeah, because both of these teams, I

18:35

said, with both of their first round picks, where

18:37

I'm like, wow, those players were still

18:39

on the board. You know where you go.

18:42

The Eagles, they had to get a corner, and they get Quiny

18:44

and Mitchell out of Toledo, who

18:47

could have easily been a top fifteen pick,

18:49

maybe a top twelve pick, like Micah Parsons

18:52

when you've got when Michaeh Parsons is

18:54

on a division rival Cowboys

18:57

team and he's just like, ugh,

18:59

this made me completely sick. With

19:01

the Eagles getting quinnyon Mitchell,

19:04

Yeah, that tells you everything you need

19:06

to know right there. And then also

19:09

the Ravens they get Nate Wiggins, the

19:11

corner out of Clemson, and

19:13

he just fits in perfectly

19:16

with what they do. He's just a physical

19:18

guy, competitor, and

19:21

you're like, this is the epitome of

19:23

a Ravens player. He fits into their culture

19:25

perfectly. And then with the

19:27

Eagles you also get Cooper de Gen

19:30

in the second round.

19:31

He could have been a first rounder.

19:33

And look, man, you never know, just

19:35

because you get good value on a player doesn't

19:37

mean automatically that guy's gonna produce.

19:40

But it's a good value

19:42

pick. And the chances are pretty

19:44

high that they're going to be productive. And

19:47

for the Eagles, they needed to shore up that secondary

19:50

and they did with their first two

19:52

picks. So I really like what the Eagles

19:54

and the Ravens were able to do. Those guys fit

19:56

into their cultures, I think

19:59

seamlessly.

20:00

I agree, and I'll stay at the top

20:02

because I think the two quarterbacks

20:04

that were taken after Caleb Williams, I thought

20:06

those were the perfect selections for

20:08

the teams, right, the fits. And we heard

20:10

a little Jayden and Daniel smoke. Hey,

20:12

maybe they didn't like what how he handled it. Now

20:15

that was all smoke like he was always the guy

20:17

to Washington. It makes a ton of sense.

20:19

He has five years of experience. They

20:22

caught college experience. They needed someone

20:24

day one to come in and play in this Cliff Kingsbury

20:26

new system with the new head coach and the new owner and all the

20:28

bells and whistles and everything. And then

20:30

Drake May, who was younger only

20:32

had significantly less college experience,

20:35

goes to a situation in New England where Jacoby

20:37

Brissett, who I would say of all the starting

20:39

quarterback level guys, he's probably

20:41

on the lower end but a lot of experience.

20:44

He's a good dude.

20:45

He's a good you know, He's one of those guys that'll bring Drake

20:48

May in and you know, you know, teach him

20:50

the system and kind of bring them along, and

20:52

that's what Drake needed. So I thought the next

20:54

two quarterbacks were both good

20:56

fits. I have no idea which one of the two will

20:59

end up being the better pro A lot of that is scheme

21:01

and situation and what kind of receivers they bring

21:03

in, and you know, if the defense is any good in Washington.

21:05

Who knows. And same thing with New England.

21:07

But I did like those fits, the

21:09

things that surprised me a little later

21:11

in the draft.

21:12

And I don't know if this is gonna end up being a good pick.

21:15

But I cannot believe the Bills

21:17

traded with the Chiefs to let them go take the Tyreek

21:19

Hill replacement. If you recall, the

21:22

Patrick Mahomes pick was also a Bills

21:24

trade, And it just seems like

21:26

the Bills and the Chiefs have this like weird

21:29

trade draft mojo going where

21:31

if I'm Buffalo and that was a different regime that traded

21:34

the Mahomes pick, So you know, there's no apples

21:36

to oranges. But you got to remember

21:38

that, right, Like you're getting killed by this guy every year in

21:40

the playoffs, and now you're gonna make another trade to

21:42

allow the Chiefs to take Xavier Worthy, who

21:45

you know, it was like the best forty time in like thirty

21:47

years in the combine. Like who knows if he's

21:49

gonna end up being a great pro. But that's

21:52

the kind of speed you don't want to give Patrick Mahomes.

21:54

So that was a bit of a head scratching move. But I

21:57

like to pick for Kansas City, of course, to

21:59

get a little bit fast in the receiving group.

22:01

The other pick I like a little under the radar.

22:03

I thought the Bucks really needed help on

22:05

the offensive line.

22:06

In the interior.

22:07

I thought Graham Barton, so I bet the under on

22:09

Graham Barton's draft

22:11

position at.

22:12

Twenty one and a half.

22:13

I thought Pittsburgh Miami also needed

22:15

some interior help, and he was very versatile.

22:17

The most versatile offensive lineman in the draft and play

22:19

guard and play center came from Duke It understands,

22:22

a really smart kid. I really like the

22:24

Bucks taking in because Ryan Jensen, who'd been

22:26

a staple of that offensive line during

22:29

the Tom Brady.

22:29

Super Bowl years. He was forced to retire

22:31

because of a knee injury.

22:32

So again you can kind of see the scheme and

22:35

the fit and how these teams view

22:37

their situations based off

22:39

of their first round. And then you've got you know,

22:41

Wackadou City there in Atlanta going on.

22:44

Man, if you're

22:47

the Chiefs, sorry, if

22:49

you're the Bills and you get called

22:51

by the Chiefs right and they're like, hey, we'd

22:54

like to trade up with you, guys, I

22:56

would exactly. It would just be click,

22:58

no, thanks, take a call from somebody

23:01

else. And that's crazy too, because

23:03

yeah, you go back to the Patrick Mahomes draft.

23:06

So the Chiefs jumped

23:08

up in twenty seventeen from twenty

23:10

seventh overall to tenth overall

23:13

to get Mahomes, and the Bills got a

23:15

good corner. They got Tradevius White, sure,

23:18

but still out the Chiefs got my home. Yeah,

23:20

so you've got that history there, and

23:23

uh yeah, the Chiefs get

23:25

a receiver on top

23:27

of it, Xavier Worthy, who has game

23:30

breaking speed, and

23:32

uh, you trade out of the first round. You eventually

23:34

get a wide receiver and Keon Coleman,

23:36

who's a good player, but.

23:37

I like that pick too.

23:38

I thought the receivers at the end of the first round were

23:40

all really perfect fits.

23:42

I really did.

23:43

He's just not dynamic though,

23:45

he's He's more of what we would

23:47

call a possession receiver. Yeah,

23:49

and that's not necessarily a bad thing,

23:51

but it doesn't seem like

23:53

you have your number one receiver yet, you

23:56

know, if you're Buffalo and so that's that's

23:58

rough right there. Hey, we got to get to failed ex expeeriments

24:00

right around the corner first. Though not

24:03

a field experiment whatsoever. This

24:05

is a great experiment that

24:08

came through in winning

24:10

fashion. He goes by the name of

24:12

Isaac blowing crown I low with the

24:14

latest.

24:15

You know.

24:15

Another great experiment moments ago

24:17

the coining of the phrase wackad

24:20

City wacka.

24:21

Do city in reference magic city,

24:24

in reference.

24:24

To the Atlanta Falcons. I

24:27

really like that. I think we're

24:29

going to mark that down for when the schedule

24:31

comes out, when the season begins.

24:33

And yesterday the Wackado

24:35

falcons.

24:39

U's nest flying through the cuckoo's

24:41

nest.

24:43

The Cuckoo's nest got

24:45

an Academy Award out of that one. My

24:47

Jack Nicholson impression needs a lot of

24:50

rust, not having a lot of my

24:52

Jack Nicholson impression has a lot of rust,

24:55

unlike Anthony Edwards because on Friday

24:57

Night, in Game three of the NBA Playoffs,

24:59

the timberwolvest Are scored thirty

25:01

six in their one twenty six to one oh nine victory

25:03

at Phoenix for a three games to non lead.

25:06

Rudy Gobert and Carl Anthony Towns

25:08

each had double doubles as Minnesota out

25:10

rebound of the Suns fifty to twenty

25:13

eight. The Indiana Pacers in overtime

25:15

over the Milwaukee Bucks won twenty one

25:17

to one eighteen for a two games to one lead.

25:20

Tyrese Haliburton the game winning three

25:22

point play with one point six left at overtime.

25:25

He finished with a triple double. Milwaukee

25:27

played with that Giannis Antetakumpo due

25:29

to a strained left calf. Damian Lillard

25:32

aggravated an achilles tendon injury

25:34

late in the fourth quarter. The Dallas

25:36

Mavericks defeat of the Los Angeles Clippers

25:38

one to one to ninety for a two games to one

25:40

lead. Luka Doncics twenty two points,

25:42

ten rebounds, nine assists. Baseball

25:45

Friday night, the San Francisco Giants over

25:47

the Pittsburgh Pirates three to nothing. Patrick

25:49

Bailey of the Giants broke a scoreless

25:52

tie in the bottom of the ninth inning with a three run

25:54

home run to win the game. The Minnesota

25:57

Twins beat the Angels in Anaheim five

25:59

to three. On a five game winning streak.

26:01

Phillies won at San Diego nine to three.

26:04

They had five home runs, including Kyle

26:06

Schwarber seventh and Bryce Harper sixth.

26:08

And The NFL Draft resumes today at

26:10

noon Eastern with Round four and

26:13

the Carolina Panthers leading

26:15

things off at one oh one overall.

26:18

Please, if you're out there, do not put up

26:20

any signs on the outside of your restaurant

26:23

in reference to the Carolina Panthers drafting

26:26

decisions.

26:26

Back to you.

26:27

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26:48

the air, man, so I

26:51

low let off the update with some

26:53

of these basketball scores. Oh yeah,

26:55

and man, the Suns. That

26:58

was the nightcap. Suns just

27:00

get bull dozed. They lose

27:02

by seventeen points at home

27:05

when they went into the game down

27:08

oh two in the series. Right,

27:11

like, this is your season on

27:13

the line. You're at home, it's

27:16

go time. What can you do? And

27:19

you're trailing at halftime? And so third

27:21

quarter this is it, right, this is

27:23

your season on the line. What are you gonna be

27:25

able to do? They get outscored thirty six

27:27

to twenty wow in the third

27:30

quarter, and they end up losing the game by

27:32

seventeen points. It's not even close.

27:35

And so this is an epic

27:38

failed experiment where

27:40

they go all in. They get kd to

27:42

go along with Devin Booker, you add some

27:45

Bradley Beal. It's

27:47

Bo Benson said off the

27:49

air a few minutes ago. They don't

27:51

have a draft pick until,

27:53

like, you know, like they went all

27:55

in. It might be twenty thirty you

27:58

get a first.

28:00

I like the Rams of the NFL.

28:02

Yeah right, yeah, you had to go back to twenty

28:04

sixteen with the Rams for a first round pick.

28:06

You're gonna get that stat years from

28:09

now when the Sun's actually picking the first

28:11

round and they're gonna be one

28:13

and done. And they might be one and done after

28:15

getting swept in the

28:17

first round epic failed

28:20

experiment there in Phoenix.

28:21

Yeah, and I think I'll look

28:23

at it from the positive light. Minnesota

28:26

really took that, like they they learned

28:28

a lot from last year's playoff failure. And

28:31

I like that this Minnesota team

28:33

is very dangerous, Like we have not been talking about

28:35

them enough, I think, and we will be over

28:38

the next few weeks as this postseason

28:40

continues to evolve. I

28:42

don't know, like the KD stuff, Like it seems

28:44

like he kind of sold his soul with the Nets and

28:47

that was kind of their last real chance, And

28:51

I don't know if there's gonna be another

28:53

run for it, Like if he

28:55

can't carry this group of players

28:58

that is arguably the most talented group

29:00

he's played with outside of that Golden

29:02

State.

29:02

Contingent, I don't know.

29:05

I just I don't know if there's another

29:07

group that, like, unless

29:09

he joins a super team

29:11

as kind of the third wheel, so to say.

29:14

I just don't know if he can carry

29:16

a team anymore, because really this

29:18

team was perfectly made for him

29:20

to carry. Like he had the point guard and Booker,

29:23

he had the secondary scorer in Beal didn't

29:25

have the big man, but that's not as important

29:27

in today's NBA. You had a

29:29

big three, a legit big thory. I mean, Bradley

29:32

Beal was a number one. I know we've had our issues

29:34

betting the prop market with him, but talent

29:36

aside, like the dudes, like a number one score

29:38

dropped like fifty yeah, like a crazy run

29:40

with the Wizards. And Devin Booker

29:42

is an all star, high

29:45

level point guard that has changed

29:47

his game. He was a little more of a score has changed

29:49

his game to more of an assist guy.

29:51

It was ready made for Phoenix

29:54

to make a run.

29:55

And if they can't do

29:57

it with this group, I don't know if there

29:59

is a group left that KD can carry

30:02

over the mountain, like he might have to be a secondary

30:05

piece for.

30:05

The rest of his career down the stretcher.

30:09

Man.

30:09

It's uh, it's crazy that right.

30:12

If you win a series or two and

30:14

you're losing the conference finals, that's

30:16

that's different. If you go up against Jokich

30:19

and Denver and you lose. Okay,

30:22

if it's later in the playoffs,

30:24

fine, but man, round

30:27

one, the rough look and the

30:29

Clippers also, Man, you look

30:31

at them last night and they lose

30:34

to Dallas in Game three. They're trailing

30:36

in that series two games to one, and

30:39

Kawhi Leonard, I mean, he's trying

30:41

to do what he can. He's got

30:43

this knee injury and he's trying to

30:45

gut it out. But it's night and

30:47

day. They didn't have Kawhi

30:49

in Game one and the

30:51

Clippers looked great and won that game.

30:54

He's been back the last two games

30:56

and man, especially last night, he

30:58

didn't do anything. He's nine points,

31:01

four of seven from the field. Paul

31:03

George seven points,

31:05

three of eleven shooting like

31:08

that's the fewest combined points in

31:10

twenty six playoff games together for

31:12

Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. Westbrook

31:15

had one point and one ejection. It's

31:18

just a calamity all the way around. Now

31:21

they're down to one in the series. It's

31:24

possible they somehow pull that out,

31:26

but they're going nowhere. This

31:28

is absolutely a failed experiment there

31:30

also, and man, it's

31:33

think about that in the NBA, where some of

31:35

these teams where they make these power

31:37

moves and initially you're like, whoa

31:40

Clippers, They've got Kawhi and Paul

31:43

George or the Sons. They've got

31:45

Katie Booker and Bradley Beal

31:47

and you're looking right at both of them

31:50

probably being one and done. It's

31:52

just it's shocking

31:54

to see the results, not even close to

31:57

what a lot of people thought initially when

31:59

those moves were made.

32:00

Yeah, the Clippers have a different situation,

32:03

I think because of just the the injuries

32:05

that have followed Kawhi. It just it's

32:08

felt like a dark cloud has kind of just

32:10

been following them around all year, and

32:12

it's just like you're waiting for that moment where

32:14

you finally get the oh, okay, Kawhi's

32:17

back, let's see it, and then it's

32:19

like, Yeah, it is.

32:21

Hard, and I think I forget.

32:22

There was someone on the network that brought this up on

32:24

a show early this week, and I agreed to one hundred percent. It

32:27

is hard to flip the switch in the NBA

32:29

playoffs, like Kawhi has not played a

32:31

whole lot of games this year at a high level, Like

32:33

he has been in and out, and that's been the story of

32:35

his career over the last let's say, five years

32:37

since the Toronto stuff.

32:39

It is hard to just

32:41

flip the switch in the playoffs and say, yep,

32:44

all right.

32:44

Let's do it, especially when you've got kind of

32:46

like the island of misfit toys around you. Paul

32:48

George Russell Westbrook. I like the Zubac k

32:50

He's been fantastic. His prop numbers

32:52

have been mislined the whole series, hammered

32:55

the over pr last night. It's been a

32:57

money maker in the postseason so far.

33:00

That's the one guy that's kind of overachieving

33:02

what we've seen so far because he's not like an

33:05

absurd talent, but he is playing really well in

33:07

the middle there. And I do think the Clippers have an edge

33:09

in the paint because Luka Kana wants to be outside.

33:12

I think Zubach will bang a little bit and you

33:14

know, the Clippers. I do think the Mavericks

33:16

don't have as much size in the middle, and maybe they should

33:18

exploit that matchup more.

33:19

But yeah, they need more out.

33:21

Of George and Kawhi, and it's hard to get more

33:23

out of them. I mean, these guys have been through the Ringer man.

33:26

Like I was looking back at Paul George's numbers.

33:28

This dude was playing basketball

33:30

at a very high level a long time

33:32

ago, and it is hard to keep

33:35

that level for over a

33:37

decade.

33:37

He's been through a lot of gruesome injuries.

33:39

We know about the Kawhi stuff. Like you bring these

33:41

guys together and you throw them out.

33:43

There is this kind of like mismash.

33:45

Like I don't know, if you're a guy on Thanksgiving, Brian,

33:48

do you mix your food together or do you separate

33:50

everything?

33:51

I separate stuff now.

33:52

Yeah, so these guys are all mixed together

33:54

and mashed together, and you wouldn't

33:57

like that concoction very much.

33:59

No, No, it's that's

34:02

the thing is. It's a reminder again

34:05

where it's not just the amount of talent

34:07

that you have, it's how the talent fits together. There

34:09

have been Olympic teams, like Olympic

34:12

basketball teams for the US where

34:14

it's nothing but talent, but it didn't

34:16

fit together very well. It's the same thing

34:18

with the Suns or Clippers, whoever

34:21

you're talking about. It's got to fit. So

34:24

I mean, you look at say, the Nuggets

34:26

are a great example. They've got talent, perfect

34:28

example, but it fits together so

34:31

well so well, so not

34:33

always the case.

34:36

And then you got the Lakers on the other side.

34:40

All right, right around the corner here we

34:43

get to the parlay platter. Jared

34:45

Smith has been scorching hot.

34:48

We'll see if the fireways

34:52

continue. Also, man,

34:54

there's gonna be some fire for me with

34:57

some listeners that don't know how to listen,

34:59

you know what I mean. We gotta we gotta get

35:01

a better description for listeners,

35:04

you know what I mean, Jared, Because some listen,

35:06

some don't.

35:07

So maybe we'll active

35:09

and inactive listeners.

35:11

Yeah, it's like it's

35:13

like earwax ear listeners,

35:15

you know what I mean, They're just they can't quite hear. But

35:17

it's something like, so we'll do a two for one

35:19

little combo platter. I crush

35:22

listeners that don't know how to listen. Jared

35:24

Smith earns you money. That's right around

35:26

the corner. It's Fox Sports Saturday right here on

35:28

Fox Sports Radio. It's Fox Sports Saturday

35:31

here on Fox Sports Radio. Before we get

35:33

to the parlay platter over here,

35:37

I have to I don't know if these are trolls

35:39

or just listeners who don't know how to listen here,

35:41

Jared, But.

35:42

Yeah, what's going on with I didn't see any tweets yet.

35:44

Got something from Holden cheesehead

35:48

all says Brian. No, just called Kirk

35:50

Cousins Kurt over a

35:52

half dozen time, a half dozen

35:55

time on Saturday

35:57

morning Fox Sports Radio. I know there's a typo

35:59

right there, Jared is time.

36:01

So you're gonna take the highro though, not mention that?

36:03

No, no, yeah, yeah, you lose credibility,

36:05

Brian, though, when you don't even know the

36:07

players' names hashtag

36:10

NFL Draft hash time.

36:11

I didn't notice that Kirk. I didn't hear

36:13

Kurt.

36:14

Well, he's the thing. I know,

36:17

it's Kirk. Granted

36:19

I might speak fast from time to time,

36:21

and it sounds like I kind of lazily

36:24

run through it. We have some audio

36:26

from the first segment, so

36:29

let's let's do a little let's do a little

36:31

ear test, if you will, if you could fire

36:33

that up for us, let's hear it one or the other man,

36:36

that one or the other Falcons where

36:38

you knew Pennix Junior would be there at

36:40

eight overall, So if

36:43

you're gonna take him, why did you sign

36:45

Kirk Cousins? Yeah, and if you signed

36:47

Kirk Cousins, why did you draft Michael

36:49

Pennix Junior. I just don't get it. This

36:52

was the seven to ten football team last

36:54

year who made a big splash by

36:56

getting Kirk Cousins.

36:58

There you go, you said, Kirk, Yeah,

37:01

so same thing. I got the mid West accent. There.

37:03

I understand why people maybe, and it's early,

37:06

I don't know clean the airwaks out though.

37:07

Kirk. Yeah, I even't hit me up. He's crushing

37:10

me, Kirk, Brian Kirk.

37:12

Yeah, call him Kirky, Kirky pie.

37:16

I'll just say this and I'll take the high road, Jared. I would

37:18

say, uh, listen better, jackasses,

37:21

listen better.

37:23

Okay, that at least they're

37:25

listening. Honestly, that's the best.

37:26

And I'd speeled this way too, because we get a lot of heat

37:28

anytime I get a pick wrong. Even when I get a pick right, sometimes

37:31

I get trolls. At least they're paying attention.

37:33

Yeah, at least they're looking at us. At least they're

37:35

invested right there.

37:38

Yeah, Okay, we've got money to make

37:40

over here. Let's get to the parley platter,

37:43

shall we. Let's do what check

37:45

this out?

37:46

Parlay flatter.

37:47

But I don't know if I enunciated parlay

37:51

platt plat.

37:55

Okay, Jared, what do you have for us, buddy?

37:56

Well, it is a platter, right, so let's serve it up.

37:59

I think this is a very fitting a

38:01

pick for considering the name of the segment. So

38:03

I was watching. I've been paying attention to

38:05

this, to the Lakers Nugget series very

38:08

closely. It's I think it's been it's

38:10

been a one sided series, I would say thus far, but the

38:12

Lakers have had a couple of moments, but not able to get

38:14

over the hump. However, I think Lebron James is still playing

38:16

it at about the highest level he could

38:19

possibly play at.

38:20

And we're gonna put him with.

38:22

Our pound Nikola Jokic in a two

38:24

team, same game parlay tonight. Both

38:26

guys the star players. They're gonna be on the

38:28

floor for a million minutes tonight. Let's hope it's not a hlacious

38:31

blowout, but we will put Jokic

38:33

and Lebron James each to record ten

38:36

or more assists. Now, they

38:38

both have kind of been hovering around this number

38:40

the entire series. Lebron

38:43

got there thinking one game, Jokic got there

38:45

in one game, and they both got nine in another

38:48

game. Their regular line for this game is eight

38:50

and a half. I would bet the over on both of those as

38:52

well, but just for the sake of the parlay,

38:54

we will sell one assist

38:56

and we will put Jokic and Lebron

38:58

to reach the uple digit dime

39:01

plateau. Not again, you only

39:03

need those two things to happen, and

39:05

this is a.

39:06

Pretty good payout.

39:07

Plus three seventy five over

39:10

at bet MGM are our partners there, giving

39:12

us a I think a pretty decent again

39:15

payout for what is only two events happening

39:17

that have been pretty much consistent the entire

39:20

series so far.

39:21

Jokics so far eighty nine,

39:23

averaging eighty nine.

39:25

Passes in the series, which is well above his season average,

39:27

which is about seventy five, and he had

39:29

fifteen and a half potential assists

39:31

in the last two games. Whereas Lebron, how about this

39:34

the first three games of the series. Now they've lost all

39:36

three games, but eighteen, seventeen and

39:38

sixteen potential assists.

39:40

So I think getting to ten tonight for both guys.

39:43

One of these guys is gonna have a triple double. It's

39:45

a matter of who, and it's a matter of can

39:47

they both get to double digitus is.

39:49

I think they both can, and I think plus

39:51

three seventy five is a decent day out to make it. I

39:53

like it.

39:54

Man.

39:55

You know, Jo Kic is an artist.

39:58

He's unbelievable with this pass, There's no

40:00

doubt about that. And I also think D'Angelo

40:02

Russell. This might sound strange, but the

40:05

point guard D'Angelo Russell.

40:06

Lebron passes to everybody.

40:08

Yeah, he'll even pass the D'Angelo for

40:10

an assist here and there. He

40:13

was awful in game three, didn't

40:15

hit a shot. I think he'll be a lot better

40:17

in game four. So if that could

40:20

be an assister too, to get Lebron over the hump

40:22

as well.

40:22

Yeah, I think over eight and so I bet over eight

40:24

and a half on both guys solo.

40:27

But again, you're having a little fun

40:29

with the parlay.

40:29

You throw them both together, you mash it up,

40:32

and you just again plus three seventy

40:34

five to me, usually that's like a three or four leg

40:37

same game par Like last week, we gave you the Bradley Beal

40:39

stuff. We needed three things to happen, and that's all we got

40:41

was plus three seventy five.

40:43

All right, Coming up, next more draft stuff,

40:45

which rookies and which

40:48

veterans hit a home run with how

40:50

the draft is unfolded. Oh, good

40:52

morning everybody. Hope you're having a fantastic

40:54

Saturday. A Rich Ornberger

40:56

will reconvene with us

40:58

next week. Okay, get some work

41:01

done with the I think the old electricity

41:03

over there and the Ornberger residents.

41:06

You know, gotta have all that working out.

41:08

Yeah, that's important these days.

41:09

Yeah, gotta have that for remote

41:12

broadcasting. Kind of an essential. So

41:14

we will get back with

41:16

Rich oh next week. But Jared

41:18

Smith, Brian know with you here today. I

41:20

thought this would be a good thing to do, Jared,

41:23

Where we always look at

41:25

the draft one way,

41:28

where it's, hey, which teams

41:31

got the best players? And that's not

41:33

necessarily wrong at all, but I

41:35

like to flip it around a little bit as well

41:38

and say, hey, which players

41:41

ended up with the best teams?

41:44

Which players are in the best environments.

41:46

So if you start with the rookies and

41:49

then we'll eventually get to the veteran players,

41:51

like who struck gold in terms of

41:54

who their new teammates are. Kirk

41:56

Cousins would not be on this list.

41:58

Kirk Kirk Kirk.

42:01

For anybody who can't listen. But

42:04

let's start with the rookies here. Which

42:06

rookies ended up in great

42:08

situations. At the top of the list,

42:11

I think it's JJ McCarthy. Yeah

42:13

right, we're looking at, Hey, what's

42:16

JJ gonna do for the Vikings?

42:18

And that's fine, but look

42:20

at the Vikings and what they're gonna be able to provide

42:22

for him. You've got Justin Jefferson,

42:25

arguably the best receiver in football, Jordan

42:28

Addison, TJ. Hockinson, he

42:30

comes back from the ACL but he's

42:32

a really, really good tight end. You

42:34

got a lot of talent around you

42:37

in Minnesota. And then you've got

42:39

Kevin O'Connell as your head coach, who's

42:42

great at scheming things and really

42:44

good play caller. You've got a ton

42:47

around you. I think JJ McCarthy

42:49

going to the Vikings that's a home run

42:51

for him.

42:52

Could not agree more.

42:53

And then, oh, by the way, Dallas Turner, who a lot of

42:55

people thought was like the number one defensive.

42:57

Player in the draft, yeah at

42:59

seventeen.

43:00

So they made two moves

43:02

in this draft that add

43:05

to what is already a very reputable

43:07

core. And I think when

43:09

you look at what McCarthy is the

43:11

fit in Minnesota, and there's

43:14

Thorn Eiserman does a great job for one of the local

43:16

websites covering the Vikings has

43:19

been talking about this kid going to Minnesota

43:21

and the perfect fit for like the last

43:23

three months, and I agree. Like it is

43:26

like styles make fights, right, we

43:28

say that all the time. We're talking about game breakdown games.

43:30

Well, styles make quarterbacks too, And I think Kevin

43:32

O'Connell, the style that JJ plays

43:35

and the weapons around him, he

43:37

is going to get dropped in.

43:38

I don't know if he's gonna be the starter from day one.

43:39

I think they want him to be, but they've got Sam

43:42

Darnold, and I think he's a guy that can at least carry

43:44

the load, kind of like Perset in New England, where you're

43:46

not looking at him long term. But he's

43:48

a veteran, he's been around the block, he's played

43:50

a lot of football, been through a lot of ups and downs

43:52

throughout his career. That's the guy you want to

43:55

kind of, you know, usher in a rookie

43:57

quarterback and to get him up to speed quickly.

44:00

I don't know what that dynamic will be.

44:02

I haven't heard Sam talk about JJ

44:04

yet, but it was pretty obvious that Minnesota was going to take

44:06

a quarterback in this draft. It was just a matter of when

44:09

and how, and they ended

44:11

up getting a guy. And I'll be honest,

44:13

I credit the Jets a lot. The Jets

44:15

had that tenth pick, they saw McCarty

44:18

there at ten, and Joe Douglas

44:20

kind of pulled a you know, a little

44:23

rope adpte there. He probably called up Minnesota

44:25

and said, yeah, man.

44:26

There's a lot of people that want to come up to ten. You guys really want

44:28

this pick. You got mcarthy.

44:29

They knew the Vikings wanted McCarty like

44:31

that was like the worst cup secret in the draft. So I

44:33

think the way it played out, not only for the Vikings

44:35

but also the Jets in that ten to eleven

44:38

swap was a really unique situation.

44:40

But it also played out I think that was

44:42

like a mutually beneficial like the Vikers like, sure,

44:44

take whatever pick you want. We want this McCarthy

44:46

guy so bad, and so the Jets get

44:49

some benefit from it, and then oh, by the way, the Vikings.

44:51

Get their man in the future.

44:52

And then still made moves a little later

44:55

on with seventeen taking Turner,

44:57

so I think the Vikings with those two picks

44:59

in that that little mid range first round area,

45:02

getting the quarterback of the future and perhaps

45:04

their next edge rusher of the future was

45:06

an absolute slam dunk.

45:08

Yeah, And I would say somebody

45:10

else from the first round if you look at it

45:12

from the player's standpoint, right,

45:15

So all these players that just got picked,

45:17

We've got one hundred players

45:19

that have been picked through three rounds so far.

45:22

I would look at Xavier Worthy.

45:25

So he goes to the

45:27

Chiefs, It's like, oh, cool, Mahomes

45:29

is my quarterback. I have a legitimate

45:32

chance to hit the ground running

45:35

with Mahomes, you know. And

45:37

they don't have this true number

45:40

one receiver. They just have a hodgepodge

45:42

of receivers over there. In casey, that's

45:45

a great opportunity for Xavier Worthy.

45:47

They trade up to get you, yeah,

45:50

right, so you are a

45:52

target for them, and

45:55

so they're going to try to make it work and you get Mahomes

45:58

as your QB.

45:59

That's huge for him.

46:00

I also think if you flip it around and say

46:03

the rookies that were just drafted,

46:07

you know, who didn't hit a home run, I

46:10

would look at Malik Neighbors right,

46:12

So he could be really special out of LSU.

46:15

But he goes to the Giants,

46:17

You've got Daniel Jones as your quarterback.

46:20

You compare it to the other two receivers in the top

46:22

ten, Marvin Harrison Junior goes

46:24

over to Arizona Kyler Murray

46:26

over Daniel Jones all day, every day,

46:29

no doubt about it. And then also, I'd

46:31

much rather have Caleb Williams as

46:33

a rookie QB as my

46:35

guy than Daniel Jones

46:38

with the Giants, who's probably his

46:40

last season. He looks like he's probably gonna

46:42

be on the way out and he can't stay healthy

46:45

either. It might not just be Daniel

46:47

Jones the wing you the ball. I think that

46:49

Malik Neighbors. I think he could be

46:51

really special for the Giants. They initially

46:54

are not going to be special for him at all.

46:57

I agree.

46:57

I'll give you one more positive because this happened

47:00

kind of under the radar later in the first round, and

47:03

I think it's gonna be a slam donk the Lions

47:05

taking the corner from Bama Arnold,

47:07

and we've seen Holmes the GM of

47:10

Detroit really prioritize

47:12

Alabama players recently.

47:14

They took branch last year, right.

47:15

Like, I think this is a team

47:17

that is like one or two really good

47:19

defensive pieces away in the secondary. I mean they

47:22

were a breath away from beating the Niners last year,

47:24

right, Like, they're really close. And

47:27

I think that move really

47:29

under the radar. Right Mitchell went first,

47:31

there was some smoke that maybe Arnold was the better corner.

47:33

Mitchell went first, but Mitchell went later than a lot of people

47:35

expected. Arnold going twenty fourth

47:38

to Detroit, Like, he is gonna be slotted

47:40

in day one, perfect fit. Aaron

47:43

Glenn defensive coordinator is gonna play a ton

47:45

of bump and run.

47:45

They're gonna be very physical with the line of scrimmage with him.

47:48

So I like that pick a lot for Detroit,

47:50

and I think Arnold fits their scheme and he

47:52

is gonna I mean, the Lions are super

47:54

Bowl ready right now, and they got better

47:57

on defense. I agree about

47:59

Neighbor. I'll give you another one that's kind

48:01

of in that same boat.

48:03

Now. I loved it because it made

48:05

me a boatload of money. But Brock

48:07

Bowers to the Raiders, like, I love

48:09

this kid. He is an absolute rock star.

48:11

But Cardner Minch's throwing on the ball this year.

48:13

Where's the upside with Brock Bowers?

48:16

If they were able to get one of

48:18

the quarterbacks either in for agency or Kirk Cousins

48:20

or somebody, and then add

48:22

Bowers, Oh boy, get ready

48:25

because you got DeVante Adams and Brock

48:27

back like that could be really special. But

48:29

I don't know if that quarterback situation

48:32

is a really good fit for what.

48:34

The Raiders are trying to do long term.

48:36

You know, one more from the

48:40

prospects perspective, right the rookies

48:42

here, we've talked about the

48:44

Falcons thing, and that's

48:46

not great for Kirk Cousins, right He's

48:49

not gonna be giddy about Michael Pennick

48:51

junior when they could have gotten somebody to help

48:53

them right here, right now. But think

48:55

about this from Michael Pennock's junior's

48:57

standpoint. I don't think

48:59

this is there's a home run for him at all.

49:02

He's gonna be sitting for who knows how

49:04

long, two three years potentially.

49:07

I don't know about you, but if I'm drafted in the top

49:09

ten, I want to play and

49:12

I need to know the quarterback. We always talk about

49:15

this, who's the quarterback who sat

49:18

for a year or two and

49:20

then sucked. You know what I mean, because we

49:22

only have these well Philip

49:24

rivers. He sat for a while to look

49:26

at him, and then look at this other quarterback,

49:29

Jordan Love played really well last year.

49:31

He's sat.

49:31

And we make it sound like if you sit

49:33

for a year or two you're destined for greatness.

49:36

To have to be a few examples where that's not the

49:38

case. But if I'm Penix junior, I

49:40

want to play. And if it's

49:42

not my rookie year, okay, but we're

49:44

talking year two, year three, potentially,

49:47

no, thank you. I would want no part

49:49

of Atlanta if I'm Pennix Junior or a rookie

49:52

quarterback.

49:52

Yeah.

49:53

And the sad thing is like, let's

49:55

just close our eyes for a minute and pretend the

49:57

Falcons didn't sign Kirk Cousins. So

50:00

let's let's do let's let's play this thought

50:02

exercise, right, and

50:04

they draft Pennis Junior. How do you feel

50:06

about the pick? Then, just

50:09

if it's there's no, there's no Kirk

50:11

is gone. He's still in Minnesota.

50:13

He's somewhere else.

50:13

I don't know.

50:14

He's you know, sipping Mike ties on the beach somewhere

50:16

yeah, and they draft Michael Pennix Like sight

50:19

unseen, How do you feel about Penix?

50:20

Then I still feel like it's a reach.

50:23

Sure, and it could still work

50:25

out, but I would absolutely,

50:27

absolutely feel like it was a reach. Where

50:29

Wow, top ten. Okay, maybe

50:32

we thought he would fall out of the first round and

50:34

a half was total.

50:36

I mean he took some steam late. Like all

50:38

the quarterbacks, it was obvious to me the

50:40

day of the draft all six would go in the first

50:42

round based on the market. I just didn't think

50:44

they'd go as high as they did.

50:46

Yeah, yeah, I would still think it's

50:48

a reach. But man, when you do

50:50

have Kirk cousins Kirk Kirk

50:54

right, you do.

50:55

You remember the scene in Step Brothers he's saying

50:57

Pam or Pam,

51:01

Pam pam. Yeah.

51:05

One other thing to look at Look at it from

51:07

the veterans standpoint. Okay,

51:09

look at all the veteran players in the

51:11

NFL who hit a home

51:13

run and who didn't. I think you just stay

51:15

in the top ten. There was a lot

51:17

of talk about the Giants

51:20

drafting a quarterback. So

51:23

think about Daniel Jones, who's

51:25

coming off of injury, who

51:27

could have been replaced, and instead

51:30

they go Moleak neighbors. They get a

51:32

stud wide receiver that's a

51:34

home run for Daniel Jones and of course

51:36

the obvious for Kirk Kirk

51:39

Kirk Cousins. You

51:42

know, they get Michael Pennock Junior and

51:44

don't get him some help initially, so polar

51:46

opposites. Daniel Jones gets

51:49

major help, Kirk Cousins

51:51

gets no immediate help with the backup.

51:53

Quarterback Kyler Murray, right,

51:55

I mean, huge.

51:57

Huge home run for him. Yes, And.

52:00

I wish I could like catalog every

52:02

take I've had on this show and like just recall

52:04

them immediately, because I feel

52:07

like I was very negative against the Cardinals

52:09

going in the last year, and I thought.

52:11

Yeah, if I'm Kyler Murray rehabbing that

52:13

injury.

52:13

I'm taking it really slow. Because the Arizona

52:16

Cardinals, I don't know what their future like, they just traded,

52:18

like at that time, they had traded their top five

52:20

pick to Houston, right, and then Houston

52:23

got back up and took Will Anderson

52:25

third. So it was like, what's the future here in Arizona?

52:28

And I give Kyler Murray

52:31

a boatload of credit everything I said

52:33

bad about you, Kyler, You're not listening. But if you are, you

52:36

handled that situation last year,

52:38

your team traded out of the of the top

52:40

five, right, had a chance to take

52:42

someone to help you, and you decided to, you know,

52:45

play the long game, which I understand

52:47

that, and then you're rehabbing the injury

52:49

and Arizona start. I mean, it was brutal, but then they kind

52:51

of played a little better, right, like they showed some fight.

52:54

And I'll be honest, I really

52:57

I really liked the head coach and the

52:59

way that era Zona handled the back

53:01

of that season. Right.

53:02

Jonathan Gannon's a defensive coach. You didn't know what they were

53:04

gonna get offensively.

53:05

But Kyler Murray came in and looked fantastic

53:08

the last month or you know, six eight weeks of the

53:10

year, and they rewarded him

53:12

by I think taking the best

53:15

maybe generational kind of talent there

53:17

with Marvin Harrison Junior. So I

53:19

think both Frankly, I think both Kyler Murray

53:22

and Justin Herbert taking the best tackle

53:24

in the draft both feel a little right

53:26

little when they put their head down to rest

53:28

on Thursday night, they probably felt a little better

53:30

about their situation.

53:32

Yeah, yeah, And it's weird right

53:34

where if you go back to the breck Brock Bauers

53:36

situation, if you look at it from

53:39

Michael Mayer's standpoint, m the

53:42

tight end right like on a Notre Dame, and

53:45

you gotta be looking at this like, oh

53:48

wow, we got another tight end.

53:50

I don't know if he's a real tight end, like he gives me Kelsey

53:52

vibes like they're gonna line him up at h back. He might

53:54

even play running back like I think Bower

53:57

is gonna be like a like a Swiss army knife.

53:59

Yeah, and you good. I don't know if you're trying to do

54:01

a Patriots thing with a

54:05

that had worked out great until well,

54:07

you know, untill it didn't right,

54:09

But for a while it was really good. How about

54:11

this nugget last thing I'll leave you with. So

54:14

with JJ McCarthy going to the Vikings

54:16

home run for him, a lot of talent there and

54:19

Kevin O'Connell that that's a really good environment

54:21

for JJ McCarthy, this stat

54:23

blows my mind, Jared. The Vikings

54:26

they still finished tenth last

54:28

season in yards per play. Wow,

54:31

they didn't have Kirk Kirk

54:34

Cousins for ten games. They didn't have

54:36

Justin Jefferson for eight games, they

54:39

still were tenth and yards per play without

54:41

those guys.

54:41

Guys. Kevin O'Connell's a really good coach.

54:44

We need to get to that point where

54:47

he is among the top offensive

54:49

minds in our sport, where we view

54:51

him in that way because man

54:54

the web and you could just tell the way they

54:56

designed the team, like they

54:58

traded in division for a tight like

55:00

that never happens, and he's

55:02

been fantastic. Obviously, Detroit

55:05

is okay, they got Sam Lporter. They're not crying about

55:07

it. But the way

55:09

that you utilize the weapons sometimes is

55:11

more important than actually having the guys on

55:13

your team. And for a tight end Indivision

55:16

to come switch midstream like that and to

55:18

have the production that he.

55:19

Did without a healthy quarterback.

55:22

And then oh, by the way, justin Jefferson and Jordan

55:24

Madison, who I think, you know, one two punch maybe the

55:26

best in the league. Like, there is

55:28

a really interesting thing bruin in Minnesota

55:31

if McCarthy can hit the ground running.

55:33

Man, and that's a big if. Yeah,

55:35

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55:37

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56:03

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56:05

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56:08

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56:10

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56:23

Man, So, there

56:27

was some harsh criticisms

56:31

of New Bears quarterback Caleb Williams.

56:34

And we've all seen

56:36

some of the things. We've all heard some of the things, but there

56:38

was one thing in particular here, Jared,

56:40

that got me thinking of this discussion

56:43

we've been having a little bit differently. Okay, So

56:46

this was on the Pablo Tory Finds Out

56:48

podcast, and there is an NFL

56:51

scout that is

56:53

quoted when he's talking

56:55

about Caleb Williams crying.

56:57

Right.

56:57

This was after the Washington game.

57:00

And just bear with me

57:02

for a second, because this

57:04

comment in particular, I was like, wow,

57:06

it made me think of things differently. So

57:08

the scout said, raw emotion is great,

57:11

but Caleb's thing that was ridiculous

57:13

to me. That threw up major red flags.

57:15

I will tell you that scares the bleep out

57:17

of a lot of NFL teams too. That's

57:20

the quote. Now, this is where I

57:23

thought of it differently. Because we've talked about the crying

57:25

thing. We don't think it's a big deal at all. But

57:28

how I thought about it differently, it

57:31

made me think of evaluations that

57:33

I got wrong in the past.

57:35

But I can still live with the reasoning, you

57:38

know what I mean. That's the question. If your evaluation

57:40

ends up being wrong, can

57:43

you at least still live with the reasoning?

57:45

Or I'll give you a couple of examples.

57:48

C J.

57:48

Stroud. I had major

57:51

doubts about c. J. Stroud coming out of Ohio

57:53

State, mostly because of

57:55

the talent he had around him

57:58

there. You know, he had

58:00

dudes that are first round picks all

58:02

over the place. He had Jackson

58:05

Smith and Jigba. He had Marvin Harrison

58:08

Junior. He had what like

58:10

Chris Olave and all

58:12

these dudes. Right, Garrett Wilson.

58:15

Those were first round picks,

58:17

like one after another a couple of years ago. They

58:19

were all CJ. Stroud's teammates,

58:22

and I'm like, he's just gonna hit the ground running with Tank

58:24

Dell. Okay, Like I didn't

58:26

buy it, and that was dead wrong, but

58:28

I can at least live with that reasoning.

58:31

Same thing with Jordan Love. Jordan

58:33

Love, I looked at it and I said, the guy has

58:35

thrown eighty three passes in

58:38

the NFL. That's what he

58:40

had heading into last season. I'm like

58:42

an inexperienced guy throwing

58:46

to nothing but inexperienced

58:49

wide receivers and tight ends. I

58:51

don't expect them to hit the ground running. That

58:53

was dead wrong, but I can live

58:56

with the reasoning. So the point

58:58

is, what if Caleb Willilliams

59:00

does pan out for the Bears. Let's

59:03

say he's really good. Can you live

59:05

with your reasoning if you're like, yeah,

59:07

I kind of doubted him because he cried

59:10

after a loss. Like, I don't

59:12

think that you can stand

59:15

by that reasoning if he pans

59:17

out and your evaluation is wrong.

59:20

Listen, evaluations are wrong.

59:22

But some are really wrong.

59:25

Like the reasoning is shoddy to begin

59:27

with and I think, well, Cayleb Williams

59:29

cright after a game. I think that reasoning is

59:31

really really bad, and it's just gonna look worse

59:34

if he does pan out.

59:36

I think there's a lot of closed

59:38

minded people that are scouts in the NFL.

59:41

I think that the take that I

59:43

saw, and I saw it come out

59:45

this week, and I saw the you know, the discourse

59:47

surrounding it, I think he was called They

59:50

called him Prince. They said he's a weird

59:52

kid. One GM told me if it's like if

59:54

Prince played quarterback, Okay,

59:57

Like, Prince to me is like one of the most iconic

1:00:00

performers and entertainers of our time.

1:00:03

And I don't know if

1:00:06

right, Like.

1:00:07

Are we judging Prince as

1:00:09

a person or are we judging

1:00:12

him for his entertainment accolades

1:00:14

in the music industry?

1:00:17

Like how are we judging Caleb

1:00:19

Williams. I understand that you

1:00:21

have to be a quality human.

1:00:23

You have to do your job, you have to go

1:00:26

to work, punch the clock, know the playbook,

1:00:28

be a leader, all those things. Take

1:00:31

off the field, you know, internal

1:00:35

mental fortitude to do.

1:00:38

But Caleb's done

1:00:40

all those things.

1:00:40

Like I think if you look

1:00:42

at the situation. It's like you're

1:00:45

you're judging this kid because of his personality,

1:00:48

where his personality has

1:00:51

only shown emotion and passion

1:00:54

for the.

1:00:54

Sport that he plays.

1:00:56

Now, you might not like how he

1:00:58

expresses that emotion passion,

1:01:00

But this scout's probably thirty or forty

1:01:03

years older than Kayleb Williams. People

1:01:05

need to realize. And I struggle with this too. Sometimes

1:01:07

it helps that I have three very young nieces

1:01:09

and nephews to kind of bring me back to reality. The

1:01:12

world has evolved since whenever

1:01:14

this scout, And he's a former scout by

1:01:16

the way, so he's not a current scout. He don't even

1:01:19

have the job right now. Maybe that's an interesting

1:01:21

one, but that, to me

1:01:23

is the part of this that bothers me. You

1:01:25

are judging this kid for his

1:01:28

personality. By the way, we don't get to choose

1:01:30

our personalities. They just exist inside

1:01:33

of us. There are you know, subconscious

1:01:35

So judge him for how

1:01:37

he handles himself on the field, how

1:01:40

he handles himself with the coaching staff.

1:01:42

With the players.

1:01:43

Does he upset his teammates, No,

1:01:46

he's just maybe a little quirky, Like, what

1:01:48

are we judging him? On, Like, that's the part

1:01:50

that really bothers me. This is a strictly personal

1:01:53

judgment of Caleb

1:01:55

Williams. Now, if he doesn't pan out because

1:01:58

the weirdness is starting to affect his teammates,

1:02:00

well that's different. But right

1:02:02

now you're just saying, yeah, it's a little weird, let's not

1:02:04

draft him first overall, Like that makes no

1:02:07

sense.

1:02:07

It doesn't make any sense. I'll give you a

1:02:09

couple of dudes who are quirky

1:02:12

and successful. Jim Harbaugh.

1:02:15

Yeah, Jim Harbaugh.

1:02:16

Is a weirdo.

1:02:17

You know, he's a different it's the nervous

1:02:19

bird. Yeah, right, weird. I'll

1:02:22

never forget. After they beat Washington in

1:02:24

the National Championship game, he's

1:02:26

being interviewed on the field and confetti

1:02:29

is just raining down and he's like,

1:02:31

all these pieces of confetti

1:02:34

they tell a story and no,

1:02:38

Jim, it's just confetti. Man, what

1:02:40

are you talking about. There's another guy who's

1:02:42

weird, Aaron Rodgers. But

1:02:45

guess what, he's a freaking baller,

1:02:47

you know what I mean. It's this idea that what

1:02:50

you can't be weird and successful at

1:02:52

the same time. Okay, Caleb

1:02:54

Williams does a few things that some people

1:02:57

might look as well, that's different

1:02:59

or that's that's I don't

1:03:01

care. All I care about is

1:03:03

is he getting the job done on

1:03:06

the field?

1:03:06

Yep.

1:03:07

And as long as anything that's eccentric

1:03:09

doesn't get in the way of winning

1:03:12

or anything like that.

1:03:13

Who cares.

1:03:14

Who cares if the guy does things

1:03:16

differently than you do. I just think it's a dumb

1:03:19

reason to dismiss the guy.

1:03:21

And there was a lot of that leading up to the draft,

1:03:23

and there's only going to be more until he proves

1:03:26

those people wrong by producing.

1:03:27

Frankly that like all the people that

1:03:30

have doubted me and naysayed me publicly.

1:03:32

Of all, it's fuel. It's fuel, and

1:03:34

I'm sure Caleb will use it as fuel. But we

1:03:37

don't have the ability to go

1:03:39

back in time and change things

1:03:42

in the past. We have the ability to change

1:03:44

things in the future, and unfortunately,

1:03:47

we live in a really judgmental society

1:03:50

like it is the most and

1:03:52

you.

1:03:52

Know, we're a blame.

1:03:53

We're on the radio and talking about it every week, but that's

1:03:55

our jobs and it

1:03:57

is It's really hard

1:04:00

to look at today's society and to compare

1:04:03

it to anything that took place when and

1:04:05

Granted, I don't know who this scout is. I'm assuming

1:04:07

he's above the age of forty.

1:04:10

Let's just make a safe barrier. I would say fifty

1:04:12

may be safer two. But let's say he's in his

1:04:14

forties or his fifties. So he grew up in the eighties

1:04:16

and the nineties, like I did, right that

1:04:19

to me, the society was

1:04:21

so different back then. You

1:04:24

are only comparing your

1:04:26

like you're judging Kleb Williams

1:04:28

off of your upbringing, Like to me,

1:04:31

he's weird. Well maybe to someone else he's not weird.

1:04:33

Like, I think the judgment of

1:04:36

a personality is

1:04:38

the worst possible thing you can

1:04:40

do to frame

1:04:43

someone's professional acumen.

1:04:45

I have the ability to take my personality

1:04:48

and hit pause on it when I do my job,

1:04:50

Like that's called professionalism. Like sometimes

1:04:53

it seeps through at times and you get a good

1:04:55

glimpse of who I am on the air, But there

1:04:57

are times when you just have to your

1:05:00

job. And I think that is

1:05:02

the part that bothers me about this take. You

1:05:04

are judging him based off of his personality,

1:05:07

and you didn't mention about the times

1:05:09

that maybe he toned down some of

1:05:11

his weirdness. To make sure the team

1:05:15

did what they needed to do right, whatever the vibe

1:05:17

was that day, whatever the practice, whatever the accomplishment,

1:05:19

the obstacle they had to overcome.

1:05:21

So to me, this is like.

1:05:22

The worst possible way to judge a kid, and it's

1:05:24

unfortunate that this created.

1:05:26

So much team.

1:05:27

You know, I'll say this real fast because

1:05:29

I just thought of another guy who's

1:05:32

some would view him as a little bit dif

1:05:34

weird, certainly emotional,

1:05:37

Odell Beckham Junior. Right,

1:05:39

And think about this. The point I'm

1:05:41

trying to make is I would rather

1:05:44

have a dude who's emotional

1:05:47

because he cares right.

1:05:49

They just kind of like unplugged in

1:05:51

Jay Cutler esque, you

1:05:54

know, where he's just kind of like, I'd

1:05:57

rather have a dude like Odell Beckham Junior.

1:05:59

And sometimes the emotion got in his

1:06:01

way. Yeah, sometimes he got attacked by

1:06:03

a kicking net, you know what I mean, Like sometimes

1:06:05

that got in his way. But he

1:06:08

was a flat out baller early

1:06:11

in his career when the injuries

1:06:13

didn't play a part, and a

1:06:15

lot of that fuel was how much

1:06:18

he cared, right, Like he was an emotional

1:06:20

guy, but he was absolutely invested

1:06:22

and cared a ton I would

1:06:25

rather have Caleb Williams crying after a game

1:06:27

because he cares so much than just unplugged

1:06:29

and unfazed, like what do I care. I'm gonna

1:06:31

be making thirty million dollars

1:06:34

pretty soon in the NFL, like we lost the

1:06:36

Washington or big deal. I think

1:06:38

that's actually a strength. So

1:06:41

it's a strange conversation. But

1:06:44

long story short, I'd rather have a guy that's invested

1:06:46

and cares than a guy that doesn't.

1:06:48

Someone who cares a ton about

1:06:51

our general wellbeing and yours

1:06:54

the maven of information, mister Isaac

1:06:57

Loewenkron, what's going on?

1:06:58

I love the general well being

1:07:00

of the Phoenix Suns and their fans.

1:07:03

Not great at this am because

1:07:05

of what happened in Game three of the NBA Playoffs

1:07:08

on Friday night, as Anthony Edwards

1:07:10

at the Minnesota Timberwolves scored thirty six

1:07:13

in a one twenty six to one oh nine victory

1:07:15

at Phoenix for a three games to none lead. Rudy

1:07:17

Gobert and Carl Anthony Towns both

1:07:20

with double doubles. Earlier Friday

1:07:22

night, the Indiana Pacers in overtime

1:07:25

defeated the Milwaukee Bucks one twenty

1:07:27

one to one eighteen for a two games

1:07:29

to one lead. Tyrese Halliburton

1:07:31

the game winning three point play with one

1:07:33

point six left at overtime, as he finished

1:07:36

with an eighteen point ten rebound,

1:07:38

sixteen assist triple double.

1:07:41

The Bucks played without giannis on Tedtacunpo

1:07:43

because of a strained left calf, and Damian

1:07:45

Lillard aggravated an achilles tendon

1:07:47

injury late in the fourth quarter. Also

1:07:50

Friday night, the Dallas Mavericks defeated the

1:07:52

Los Angeles Clippers one to one

1:07:54

to ninety for a two games to one lead.

1:07:57

In Major League Baseball on Friday night

1:07:59

in San Francis, the Giants and Pittsburgh

1:08:01

Pirates were scoreless all the way

1:08:04

into the bottom of the nine thinning. Giants

1:08:06

had two on Patrick Bailey at

1:08:08

the plate and Hall of Famer John Miller

1:08:10

at the mic on canbr.

1:08:13

Here's the set, the one one pitch.

1:08:15

There's a drive in the deep light field

1:08:17

way back there.

1:08:21

The battle game is over.

1:08:24

Oh what bar free run homer

1:08:27

for Patrick.

1:08:28

Bailey, twins over the

1:08:31

Angels in Anaheim five to three, Minnesota

1:08:33

on a five game winning streak Phillies and nine

1:08:35

to three triumph at San Diego as they had

1:08:37

five home runs, including the seventh

1:08:40

forour Kyle Schwarber and the sixth

1:08:42

by Bryce Harper. And the NFL

1:08:44

Draft resumes today at noon Eastern,

1:08:46

less than ninety minutes from now, with round

1:08:49

four the Carolina Panthers on the clock,

1:08:51

Fellas all yours, thank.

1:08:53

You, I Lo it is Fox Sports Saturday

1:08:55

right here on Fox Sports Radio.

1:08:58

Man.

1:08:58

Guess who had money on the the Pirates

1:09:00

yesterday as well? That would be me.

1:09:03

They had the bases loaded in the top

1:09:05

of the ninth inning and a scoreless game there Jared,

1:09:08

and it's your old one two three double

1:09:11

play just grinded out to the picture

1:09:13

right there that sucked. And then the bottom

1:09:16

of the ninth that was the three run homer that Isaac

1:09:18

lohen crun just played for you right there and crystal

1:09:21

clear audio and uh.

1:09:24

Probably wanted to tune out for that one.

1:09:26

Yeah, yeah, actually, it's yeah,

1:09:29

that's exactly what I was doing.

1:09:32

Isn't that the best? When you lose like that?

1:09:34

That's like the worst part about sometimes our

1:09:36

business when we do the betting thing, and

1:09:38

then I have to turn on the highlights,

1:09:40

because you know, I watch highlights of stuff, and then it's

1:09:42

the pervasive media that highlights are

1:09:45

where things will just pop up on your feed, like

1:09:48

the bad beat that just happened. Yeah, you have to

1:09:50

relive that awful moment that just took hundreds

1:09:52

of dollars from you. But here it is, it's awesome, a

1:09:54

million exclamation points.

1:09:56

You know what I hate the most.

1:09:59

I wish my reaction wasn't this way,

1:10:01

But I really think it's human nature, you

1:10:04

know, and a lot of people can relate to this. If

1:10:07

you have a terrible day, nothing

1:10:09

goes right. Let's say you're betting on

1:10:11

the Pirates and the Suns last night and

1:10:14

it just all goes the hell. You know. It

1:10:17

sucks when someone is like, I

1:10:19

had an amazing day of gambling

1:10:22

and you're like, I've probably done that.

1:10:24

If you right, like, it'd

1:10:26

be like you just broke up. You

1:10:28

don't know where your life is heading. And

1:10:31

someone else is like.

1:10:32

I just got engaged.

1:10:33

This is unbelievable, and you're

1:10:36

right, like, I don't want to be unhappy

1:10:39

for anybody else. Yeah, if things

1:10:41

are going you're ware, that's great. I don't want to be like

1:10:45

and I can't help but think that

1:10:47

where it's like, man, good

1:10:49

for them. But that just makes

1:10:51

my day even worse.

1:10:52

Maybe this is why that NFL draft scouts

1:10:55

so mad about Caleb Williams. Maybe he

1:10:57

thought he was going to be a quarterback in the NFL

1:10:59

one day and he turned out to be a draft

1:11:01

scout or some you know, talent

1:11:04

evaluator, and now

1:11:06

he's just gonna be overly critical on things

1:11:08

that don't matter in the grand scheme of the

1:11:10

world and football.

1:11:13

That sounds about right. Maybe maybe that's it.

1:11:15

By the way, Real Fast Ilo

1:11:17

mentioned this as well. The Bucks

1:11:19

losing in double overtime. Yeah,

1:11:22

what a game though, Huh, that wasn't unbelievable.

1:11:24

It was Haliburton man. He missed every shot

1:11:26

until he needed to make one, any fund and

1:11:29

one. I feel

1:11:31

bad for the Bucks, Jared, And

1:11:33

it's not just a Game three thing. It's an injury

1:11:36

thing. They haven't had Yannis

1:11:38

all series long. He's got the strained

1:11:40

calf and now Dame

1:11:43

is banged up. Where earlier

1:11:45

in the game he tweaks a knee, then

1:11:47

in the fourth quarter it's his achilles.

1:11:50

It's like, my goodness, what else can go

1:11:52

wrong for this Milwaukee team. I

1:11:55

hate that injuries have gotten in their way

1:11:57

because I really would have liked to have seen a health

1:12:00

team and with Doc Rivers,

1:12:02

just to see how far they could have gotten.

1:12:05

Yeah, they might not have gotten past the Indian.

1:12:07

Who knows, will never know, but I

1:12:09

just know it sucks that they're banged

1:12:11

up at the worst possible time.

1:12:13

Yeah, I think there is a savior that could

1:12:15

help them if Jannis does come back

1:12:17

and play as well.

1:12:18

This series is not over yet.

1:12:19

It's two to one now. Nindy's

1:12:21

got home court, They've got the momentum. I think they're younger,

1:12:24

they're fresher. I think they're better equipped to win

1:12:26

the series. But the

1:12:28

NBA's got a funny way of messing

1:12:31

with your mind here. And I haven't looked at the schedule.

1:12:34

I don't know if they get an extra

1:12:36

date. They do not, so you know, sometimes you get

1:12:38

that extra date. Their extra day was between

1:12:40

Games two and three on

1:12:43

the travel day. Every game for the

1:12:45

rest of the series will be one off, one on,

1:12:47

one off, one on.

1:12:49

Which is not beneficial to

1:12:51

them.

1:12:51

So obviously the chips are stacked against them,

1:12:54

I'll be honest, though, Chris Middleton would he dropped

1:12:56

forty last night, like, Yeah, there's a

1:12:58

chance for him to get high

1:13:00

and to kind of take that secondary scoring

1:13:02

role away from from Dame. But if

1:13:05

Yannis doesn't come back, the series over anyways. But

1:13:07

if Yannis comes back in the next

1:13:09

game before tomorrow and

1:13:11

is able to play, well, I don't

1:13:13

think this like I'm not ready to just call this

1:13:16

series just yet, because

1:13:18

Milwaukee was able to win Game one and and

1:13:20

and kind of at least give themselves a chance,

1:13:23

right, because the question was we're talking about this

1:13:25

about the betting. Betting perspective

1:13:27

wise, do we bet Indiana

1:13:29

to win the series now or do we wait because

1:13:32

we don't know about Gianni's status. The fact

1:13:34

that Milwaukee won Game one kind

1:13:36

of changed the tone of things.

1:13:39

So I don't think it's over yet. But yes, obviously

1:13:41

Chips stacked heavily against the Bucks

1:13:44

after last night.

1:13:45

Yeah, really they are, and it

1:13:47

probably would take Janni's coming back,

1:13:49

yeah, for them to win this series

1:13:53

with Dame being banged up, right, Like,

1:13:55

this isn't uh yeah, my left

1:13:57

shoulder was a little bit, but

1:14:00

I'm working through it. And you're like, okay, who this

1:14:02

isn't my you know, my left ring finger

1:14:05

and this is an achilles

1:14:07

yeah right. He's like, yeah, I kind of activated.

1:14:10

This achilles thing going on in the fourth quarter.

1:14:12

It's like, oh gosh, that's not good.

1:14:15

Whatsoever? I will say book

1:14:17

ending this with how bad the day went.

1:14:20

I've also had a little in game Pacers

1:14:23

minus three and a half. I

1:14:25

looked good a couple of times, Jared,

1:14:28

where you know, Pascal Siakam

1:14:31

trying to trying to get the and one at

1:14:33

the end of regulation to go up four, misses

1:14:35

the free throw and Middleton

1:14:38

cans the three.

1:14:39

By the way, that helped. Huh

1:14:41

it did?

1:14:42

That was the only way we could have gotten home, was

1:14:44

Middleton hitting that. What crazy show

1:14:46

are the Pacers doing? Not fouling

1:14:48

you when you're up by three in the final seconds,

1:14:51

why are you like, maybe Middleton will

1:14:53

miss. He's only gonna go for

1:14:55

forty two tonight file the guy, yes,

1:14:57

but goes to overtime. Okay,

1:15:00

they were in ot We got

1:15:02

the Pacers. They hit a three in the final you

1:15:04

know, sixteen seconds or so. Okay, all

1:15:06

right, we're looking good. Let's get a miss. They're

1:15:08

gonna follow us. Uh, Middleton

1:15:11

banks in a three for double overtime.

1:15:14

Then we're crazy the side

1:15:16

of that, Yeah, we're triple overtime. How

1:15:19

crazy was it? Were they inbounded the ball

1:15:21

with like six seconds to go. They throw

1:15:23

it way in the back court for Halliburton,

1:15:26

unbelievable place. And he gets this running

1:15:28

start and hits the end one and

1:15:30

and we we win by three

1:15:33

when we needed to win by

1:15:35

four.

1:15:36

Is in gambling fund right?

1:15:38

You want to be a gamblers crass? Yeah?

1:15:40

Yeah, you want to hear an opposite side of that

1:15:42

that I was on that turned out positively.

1:15:44

It's been the conversation in a positive way to take it. So

1:15:47

Halliburton, who was like, oh for the world last

1:15:50

night, I mean, you could not hit a shot. I think it was one

1:15:52

for twelve from three his point

1:15:54

total I bet over sixteen and a half.

1:15:57

It was fifteen until the

1:15:59

last and that's beautiful and he ended with eight.

1:16:01

And now the free throw didn't matter, but that

1:16:04

shot put him over his point prop for the

1:16:06

night. And you watched the game. He could

1:16:09

not hit and the usage rate went

1:16:11

way up. I love the look.

1:16:13

I was very comfortable even if I lost the bet. I

1:16:15

felt comfortable with the read because you know, he

1:16:17

took a gazillion shots, he couldn't make anything,

1:16:20

but that hitting the way that it

1:16:22

did, it felt fitting like Haliburton

1:16:25

to me is the heart and soul of this new what.

1:16:26

He had fourteen thirteen assists last night, like absolute

1:16:29

rock star.

1:16:29

And it is fitting that you know your

1:16:31

bet hit based on this weekend.

1:16:34

Mind uh, we're gonna get back

1:16:36

today, all right. We got

1:16:38

to prop it up right around the corner. So we'll

1:16:40

see if I can rally things and if Jared

1:16:43

can stay red hot. He's Jared Smith,

1:16:45

f SR betting analyst. I'm Brian no Picks

1:16:47

around the corner. It's Fox Sports Saturday, right

1:16:50

here on Fox Sports Radio. It

1:16:52

is Fox Sports Saturday, right here on Fox

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Sports Radio.

1:16:56

Let's dive into this.

1:17:02

Prop it up plays.

1:17:06

Okay, we got some prop bets over

1:17:08

here for you guys. We'll

1:17:10

start with you, Jared. Anything you like in particular.

1:17:13

There is a lot that I like today in the NBA, so

1:17:15

I'll be honest. The NBA prop market

1:17:17

in the playoffs is an absolute

1:17:20

gold mine. And here's why the

1:17:23

books are taking numbers from the regular

1:17:25

season and they're saying, Okay, this is

1:17:27

about where the averages have been and it's

1:17:29

hard to create numbers and manually, I mean there's

1:17:31

a million players and they're throwing up numbers

1:17:34

and you know just as well as me, Brian in the playoffs,

1:17:37

rotations, Titan minutes up, more, minutes,

1:17:40

more.

1:17:41

Whatever, stats, assist points, whatever.

1:17:43

So if you can find the guys

1:17:45

that are getting those minutes bumps,

1:17:48

I think you have a big edge on

1:17:50

the books. Let's start with Evan Mobley. I

1:17:52

love buying off of blowouts. Obviously

1:17:55

the Cavs. That was one of the ugliest games I've ever

1:17:57

seen in Orlando the other night. They will

1:17:59

obviously play better. He can't play any worse. They

1:18:01

will obviously play better. Today, Mobley

1:18:04

still score double digit points despite again

1:18:06

Cleveland not being able to score anything and

1:18:08

only playing twenty two minutes. Mobley's

1:18:11

point prop today is said at fourteen and

1:18:13

a half. I think there's a lot of smoke on

1:18:15

Donovan Mitchell. I think that's where Orlando's defense

1:18:17

will focus. I think Jared Allen gets a lot of attention

1:18:20

in the middle. Evan Mobley can kind of fly under

1:18:22

the raidars. This is a guy who can absolutely

1:18:24

go off at any given moment.

1:18:27

He has a seventy one percent hit rate

1:18:29

on his points prop. When he's got Garland,

1:18:31

Allen and Mitchell on the floor this year,

1:18:33

more minutes, no blowout. Today, Evan Mobley

1:18:36

goes over fourteen and a half points. The other guy

1:18:38

I'll give you because of this minute's bump.

1:18:40

We don't talk about the Thunder a whole lot, but keep

1:18:42

an eye on Jalen Williams today.

1:18:44

I don't care what you play. I bet over

1:18:46

four and a half assists.

1:18:48

This dude is playing almost

1:18:50

forty minutes a game, thirty

1:18:53

nine minutes in game one he played thirty five, which

1:18:55

was a blowout game, and his playoff

1:18:58

passing rate most on the team.

1:19:00

Nine and a half potential assists per game through

1:19:02

the first couple of games of this series. We

1:19:04

only need five today to hit this prompt so

1:19:07

mobile over fourteen and a half points. That's the early

1:19:09

game Cabs magic. Williams over four

1:19:11

and a half is just Jalen Williams, the big man for the

1:19:13

Thunder. This two's Jayen Williams on. Okayc keep

1:19:16

an eye on that for okay

1:19:18

see later two.

1:19:20

Okay, So I'm gonna stick

1:19:22

with that same game. Pells

1:19:24

hosting OKAC not

1:19:27

too scientific right here. I

1:19:30

just Jonas Valentunis is way

1:19:32

bigger than chet Holm Grit and

1:19:35

he went crazy in game one rebounding,

1:19:38

had twenty rebounds, and

1:19:40

then came back to earth in game two Game

1:19:43

three at home. You

1:19:45

know, Oka See is always a threat to shoot

1:19:47

the lights out, but on the

1:19:49

road when the Pels have to

1:19:51

have it, I'm gonna say they're not gonna

1:19:54

be scorching hot today,

1:19:56

and a lot of rebounding opportunities for Valentunis.

1:19:59

I'm gonna over eleven

1:20:02

and a half. And that's one of those numbers

1:20:04

where it seems kind of daunting

1:20:06

beforehand. Like Jared Allen,

1:20:08

I thought about him as well. With the calves. It's at twelve

1:20:11

and a half is the total, and

1:20:13

you're like, man, that's a lot of

1:20:15

rebounds. No, it's It's

1:20:18

amazing how some of these rebounding

1:20:20

numbers they just start stacking up

1:20:23

quickly. So I'm going

1:20:25

Valanchuna is just huge size

1:20:27

advantage over chet Holme Grin. Give

1:20:29

me over eleven and a half today for Big

1:20:31

v As I call him, Jared, How do you like the double

1:20:33

double? Yeah?

1:20:35

Yeah, a good one too for Jonas.

1:20:37

Could be all right coming up

1:20:39

next? Is the best case

1:20:41

scenario? Still good for

1:20:43

this team. Oh, welcome

1:20:46

in Hope. You're having a fantastic Saturday. You

1:20:48

know, Jared, if we go back

1:20:50

to the Pennix junior situation

1:20:53

here for a bit, the Falcons,

1:20:55

you know well chronicled the

1:20:58

land Kirk cousins in the off seat in

1:21:01

pay them one hundred million dollars guaranteed,

1:21:04

and then they get Michael Pennick junior with the

1:21:07

eight brawl. Pick what

1:21:09

they ended up doing.

1:21:12

Here's the thing.

1:21:13

Maybe it works down the road, maybe

1:21:15

it pays dividends, but it

1:21:19

won't. You're betting against

1:21:21

it. Huh yeah, well you've been hot

1:21:24

start. It is from

1:21:27

the start. Here's the deal. Even

1:21:30

if it does work down

1:21:32

the road, you're negating

1:21:35

your greatest advantage of

1:21:37

taking a quarterback in the top ten where

1:21:40

you're hoping to strike it

1:21:42

rich with say c. J. Stroud

1:21:44

last year, where he hits

1:21:47

the ground running. And then the Texans

1:21:49

they get really aggressive this

1:21:51

offseason and they make some

1:21:53

big time additions because

1:21:55

you can.

1:21:56

You've got a.

1:21:57

Quarterback on a rookie contract,

1:22:00

and so you just build around the guy. You

1:22:02

go out and you get danil Hunter, you

1:22:04

trade for Stefan Diggs. You

1:22:06

know you're going all in. That's

1:22:09

the greatest advantage. If you look

1:22:11

at some of the teams that have made the Super Bowl

1:22:13

the last couple of years, the forty nine

1:22:16

Ers this past season, Rock Purdy

1:22:18

rookie deal. Look at the Eagles.

1:22:20

Jalen Hurts was on his rookie deal the

1:22:22

season prior, Joe Burrow was on

1:22:25

his rookie deal this season before that.

1:22:27

Now, none of those teams won, but they were right

1:22:30

there. Yeah, every game lost

1:22:33

by a field goal like

1:22:35

this close. My index finger and my thumb

1:22:37

are very close together. They're like very close,

1:22:40

fifty to fifty ball games that could have gone their

1:22:42

way. But the point is, that's

1:22:44

the greatest advantage in the NFL

1:22:47

if you have a really good,

1:22:49

productive quarterback on his rookie

1:22:52

contract. And the way it's

1:22:54

shaping up for the Falcons, whenever

1:22:57

Pennix Junior becomes the guy, this could

1:22:59

be years down the road. You don't

1:23:02

get the same benefit of him

1:23:04

being on the cheap and on his

1:23:06

rookie contract. So even if

1:23:08

this does work out, your

1:23:11

greatest advantage has been negated

1:23:13

because he's gonna be holding a clipboard

1:23:16

most likely for a couple of years. That's

1:23:18

one of the main reasons I don't like this move

1:23:20

at all.

1:23:21

Yeah, one of my mentors in the gambling

1:23:24

space when I first started doing this,

1:23:26

like really heavily, he said, I

1:23:28

know that the parlays and these fun long

1:23:31

shot wagers are are you know, they're

1:23:33

gonna get your attention and you'll get a lot of retweets

1:23:35

and maybe you'll make a couple bucks one day.

1:23:38

But before you make a bet, close

1:23:40

your eyes and think about everything

1:23:43

that needs to go right in

1:23:45

order for you to win that bet. And

1:23:47

if your mind starts taking you down a road

1:23:49

where it's like this has to happen and this and

1:23:52

the this, and then for this to happen in here and that,

1:23:55

you need to make sure that you're being paid commeserate

1:23:58

to what those you know in your mind. The eye should

1:24:00

match up to what you're paying for it. So

1:24:03

let's apply this logic to what

1:24:05

the Falcons did.

1:24:07

In order for.

1:24:07

This move to work, Kirk

1:24:10

Cousins has to be successful,

1:24:13

because if he's not successful, then

1:24:15

people are gonna ask why the heck

1:24:17

did you just spend one hundred dollars of Arthur Blank's

1:24:20

money to go get them? So first

1:24:22

Kirk Cousins has to be successful, maybe

1:24:25

one year of really.

1:24:26

Good quality play.

1:24:28

Then you have to time it perfectly,

1:24:31

like thread the needle perfectly,

1:24:33

where his decline starts

1:24:36

to match up with the incline

1:24:38

of Michael Pennix feeling comfortable and

1:24:41

safe in a new system and a new situation,

1:24:43

and then the paths have to cross

1:24:46

perfectly for this

1:24:48

to work. That

1:24:51

is a lot of things that have

1:24:53

to go right a long

1:24:55

way down the road. And I always say

1:24:57

when I'm handicapping the draft, it's a lot easier

1:24:59

to handicap the first two or three picks. The later

1:25:01

on you get, the more the crazy

1:25:03

reality starts to say it and this happens here

1:25:05

and it changes everything. So the

1:25:08

longer we play this scenario

1:25:10

out, it's

1:25:12

harder and harder to get it right because

1:25:14

the future things change, the variables change.

1:25:17

We have to project out two to

1:25:19

three years in order to

1:25:22

get to the proper answer for

1:25:25

the decision that was made on

1:25:27

Thursday night.

1:25:28

That is like a thirty team

1:25:31

parlay. Yeah it ain't hitting.

1:25:33

Yeah, No, it's a really well

1:25:36

it's a really good job of framing

1:25:38

it. And it reminds

1:25:40

me. I read something totally random where

1:25:43

there's a nugget where one

1:25:46

fifth of Americans on vacation

1:25:49

think about their next vacation.

1:25:51

Yep.

1:25:52

And I'm like, that's basically what

1:25:54

the Falcons are doing right now. Yes,

1:25:57

they're on vacation and

1:26:00

thinking about their next vacation. I get

1:26:02

that it's smart to plan for the

1:26:04

future in general,

1:26:07

but there are times when you just have

1:26:09

to freaking go for it, you know what I mean.

1:26:12

And I think there's

1:26:15

a situation that would most likely present

1:26:17

itself that might

1:26:20

rival the Penis Junior situation

1:26:23

that would be even better down the road,

1:26:25

you know what I mean.

1:26:26

Like, so you reach

1:26:28

on Penick Junior.

1:26:29

With the eighth overall pick, are

1:26:32

you telling me that there's not gonna be a

1:26:34

similar situation, let's

1:26:36

say two or three years down the road.

1:26:39

Yeah, where they could have done the

1:26:41

same thing and the timing would have

1:26:43

worked.

1:26:43

Out way better.

1:26:46

Where Kirk Cousins has been around

1:26:48

for a couple of years, he's getting longer

1:26:50

in the tooth. You're looking for the next quarterback

1:26:52

to take the reins. Kirk Cousins hasn't

1:26:55

played one snappy yet and

1:26:57

he's got years left in him. It

1:26:59

just does it make sense to me? And

1:27:02

even if we play the best best case scenario I

1:27:04

was thinking about this year, if you look at

1:27:06

the other side of the coin, right, it's important to

1:27:08

do this. Let's play the what if

1:27:10

game? What

1:27:12

if things do work out, what would

1:27:14

that look like? Okay, if this works

1:27:17

out for Kirk Cousins, Hey, Kirk

1:27:19

Cousins missed time last year.

1:27:22

What if Kirk misses you know, let's

1:27:24

say three four games and

1:27:27

Pennix Junior fills in and

1:27:29

plays pretty well and they win a few of those

1:27:31

games and it keeps them alive in the playoff

1:27:33

chase, And okay, that's that's probably

1:27:35

best case scenario. Best

1:27:37

case scenario for Penix Junior, Well, he holds

1:27:40

a clipboard for a while, eventually takes

1:27:42

over and is a stud, and

1:27:44

that's that's good for him.

1:27:46

But every best case scenario

1:27:49

has a drawback, you know what I mean. And

1:27:51

that's what I can't get past either, is,

1:27:54

even if this works out as best

1:27:56

as it can, there's a drawback

1:27:59

for Kirk. Let's say Penix Junior fills

1:28:01

in admirably, well, hurt

1:28:03

for a little bit. Well you know what's gonna

1:28:06

happen. Well, why don't just stick with Penix

1:28:08

Junior. Why bring back Kirk Cousins. That's

1:28:10

not great? And then also the

1:28:13

rookie deal that I talked about,

1:28:15

where you're not taking great

1:28:18

advantage of that. I

1:28:20

look at the Packers as a good example. There's

1:28:22

a drawback to having Jordan

1:28:24

Love sit for years is

1:28:26

they didn't get to take great advantage

1:28:29

of him being on a rookie contract. The

1:28:31

Packers had a good season, Jordan

1:28:33

Love played great last year to number

1:28:35

two in the NFL in touchdown passes. They

1:28:38

didn't take great advantage of him being on a

1:28:40

rookie contract because they didn't know what they had

1:28:43

and now they're probably gonna pay him this offseason.

1:28:46

So you never got a chance to take advantage

1:28:49

of that great luxury of

1:28:51

a productive quarterback on a rookie contract.

1:28:54

And that's where I think that's alarming,

1:28:56

where every best case scenario still

1:28:59

has made your drawbacks. With the Falcons

1:29:01

taking Pennix chew, Yeah, and.

1:29:03

That's why again it goes back to predicting

1:29:05

out the future is not easy

1:29:07

to do. The longer into the future, you

1:29:09

get I know what I'm having for lunch today, I

1:29:11

have no idea what I'm having for lunch next week.

1:29:13

Yeah, like it just it.

1:29:15

It doesn't make sense from a logic

1:29:18

standpoint, and I'm all about logic.

1:29:20

I understand contrarian.

1:29:21

This was you can't even

1:29:24

put this in the contrarian category, because

1:29:27

contrarian is when you see a

1:29:29

market bubble that isn't being accounted for

1:29:31

and you and you try to zig when everyone else is

1:29:33

zagging.

1:29:34

There's no zig or zag here. This

1:29:36

is like zilch.

1:29:37

I just I don't understand the

1:29:40

logic because you nailed

1:29:42

it with the two to three years that is

1:29:45

the window for Kirk Cousins. Let's call

1:29:47

it a two year window, just like Aaron Rodgers

1:29:49

two year window. You're

1:29:51

telling me that in twenty twenty

1:29:53

six, you have such a good

1:29:55

feel for the landscape of quarterbacks

1:29:58

coming into the NFL that you don't

1:30:00

think one of those guys can give you what Penix

1:30:02

gave you. And I heard the clip they played

1:30:05

it during the commercial of Brady Quinn, who was one

1:30:07

hundred percent right, and he said he likes the

1:30:09

fact that Atlanta said he was Penix

1:30:11

was so good they couldn't pass him

1:30:13

up. I like that conviction

1:30:16

and that if I'm Michael Penix, I have a lot of

1:30:18

confidence coming.

1:30:19

Into Atlanta, but you're not

1:30:21

the starter.

1:30:22

If they liked just so much, they

1:30:24

knew he was playing in Washington

1:30:27

last year.

1:30:28

They watched him play, but.

1:30:30

They still signed Kirk Cousins if

1:30:32

they liked him that much. This

1:30:34

dude has been playing college football for five

1:30:37

years. You liked him

1:30:39

that much, and you still took a

1:30:41

hundred mili of Uncle Blank's

1:30:44

money and gave it to Kirkie Potte

1:30:46

Like I just it's.

1:30:47

The logic of this decision.

1:30:50

And I don't usually get this heated because I

1:30:52

try to stay calm, because when you're passionate

1:30:55

and overly emotional, you don't make good bets.

1:30:58

This is the worst decision I have ever

1:31:00

seen since I've been doing this job in

1:31:03

terms of like draft capital, future

1:31:06

projections, where the team is

1:31:08

now. I don't think you could have

1:31:10

made other than maybe drafting a kicker. You

1:31:12

could have taken anyone else at eight

1:31:15

and it would have been better than

1:31:17

what the situation currently is.

1:31:19

Yeah, and think about

1:31:21

this too.

1:31:23

Let's just say Kirk re signed

1:31:25

with the Vikings and

1:31:27

then they drafted a quarterback. You'd

1:31:30

be like, what are they?

1:31:32

Why would they be doing this?

1:31:34

You know what I mean?

1:31:35

They it makes zero sense

1:31:38

for the here and now. Again, I don't have a crystal

1:31:40

ball. I don't know what's gonna happen years

1:31:43

down the road. Like Jordan

1:31:45

love the Packers, like that they have them now.

1:31:47

But I would also rewind to

1:31:50

those last couple of years with Aaron

1:31:52

Rodgers. I mean, Aaron Rodgers

1:31:54

had a couple of MVP seasons, you

1:31:57

know what I mean, Like, who knows

1:31:59

what would have happened, and if they used

1:32:01

a first round pick that might have been a major

1:32:03

asset that helped them get over the top.

1:32:06

We'll never know that.

1:32:07

I think you could play that game even better

1:32:09

with the Falcons. You're talking about the number

1:32:12

eight overall pick. There's

1:32:14

an even better chance, right, it's a top ten

1:32:16

pick. This guy could help a lot. So

1:32:19

I just don't get it. I also think this last

1:32:21

thing you mentioned this at the beginning

1:32:23

of the show, Bill Belichick, yep,

1:32:25

and the Falcons passed him over years

1:32:28

ago, a lot of people were wearing

1:32:30

these bracelets that said,

1:32:33

WWJD, you remember

1:32:35

this, what would Jesus do?

1:32:37

Now?

1:32:38

It's just like, I screw that. Just have fun, do whatever

1:32:40

you want to do. But then now it's yolo.

1:32:43

It's yolo now, But back then that's

1:32:45

what it was. I think that NFL

1:32:47

front offices a lot of these teams

1:32:50

should have WWBD.

1:32:52

What would Belichick do? And

1:32:54

he didn't get everything right. I'm

1:32:56

not saying he did, but I'll tell

1:32:58

you one thing, Jared, there is

1:33:01

no way if they

1:33:03

signed Bill Pelichick to be their head

1:33:05

coach in Atlanta that Michael Pennix

1:33:07

Junior would be there. No

1:33:09

chance because it's just dumb.

1:33:11

Zero shot. And that's why I

1:33:13

tweeted this.

1:33:14

So the video of Blank and

1:33:16

font No going back and forth is

1:33:18

one of the funniest things ever. Again,

1:33:20

it reminds me of what my grandfather used to like

1:33:23

the like the waiter at the at the at the diner

1:33:25

he went to gave in the wrong soup and

1:33:27

he's trying to send it back and he's like, wait a minute,

1:33:30

I didn't order this. He's like, oh, back

1:33:32

and forth like wait, are you sure? And then the what it

1:33:34

happened was like I

1:33:36

think in that moment there was regret.

1:33:39

Why didn't I hire Bill? Like I I

1:33:42

honestly do believe that, And I don't know.

1:33:44

I'm just basing it off of body language. In my

1:33:46

personal opinion, I don't really know what Arthur Blank

1:33:48

is thinking. But if I was Arthur

1:33:50

Blank, that's what I would be thinking.

1:33:53

Man, it makes me think about the report

1:33:55

from last week we talked about with

1:33:58

Robert Kraft calling yeah

1:34:01

yeah, Arthur Blank and say, hey man, this

1:34:03

Belichick guy. Don't trust him, really

1:34:06

hard to work with, YadA YadA, YadA YadA.

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Nix's agent.

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That was really called, right,

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Brian, There's got to be an explanation out there in the universe

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somewhere.

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I don't know where it is.

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It's like the great mystery of our time,

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like how the Big Bang theory and Michael Pennock's

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getting drafted eighth?

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You know what?

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And I'll spend this in a gambling direction

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real fast, Jared, Jared is, I

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don't know about you. I would imagine you're similar.

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Last that give you an example. Okay, Heading

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into the game, I'm like, I'm gonna bet on the Suns.

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I don't see them losing three straight.

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This is a team that handled the timber Wolves.

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They won every game in the regular season by double

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digits. They come home, crowd's

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going to be into it. Maybe the sun shoot the

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lights out. I'm gonna have them.

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Get a game.

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Yeah, I thought at least

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made sense. Then the game plays out, and

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then a lot of gamblers do this.

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What was I thinking?

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That was such a stupid bet,

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That was so idiotic.

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But with Pennix

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Junior, if you told me before

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the draft, hey, I get a little tip for you. Falcons

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are gonna go with Pennex Junior, I

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would have laughed in your face. I would have been like,

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