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Hey! It's

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Welcome! Hey

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everybody, welcome in. My name's Chris and that's

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Hi there, thank you so much for listening

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interregnum, if you will. Eye roll. We

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don't get as many eye rolls these days.

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And so an update on this podcast schedule. Obviously

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there's a show today. It's coming out Thursday,

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February 1st. And there's a show

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next week, February 8th. And both

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get a separate show with me and

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Jimmy McCormick discussing in detail what happened,

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Bowl and making some picks. Those

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after next week, I will be taking

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a break, three weeks off. And

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then I'm back for a couple weeks. We'll discuss

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NFL Free Agency, then a couple more weeks off.

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And then we'll reconvene again for a longer

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haul to talk about all the NFL

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Draft prospects. And then finally

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also to make some initial ranks in the

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spring. So I just want you

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to be prepared here in the offseason. There's

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a show this week. There's a show

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next week then a few weeks

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off now about those weeks off

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It turns out I'm gonna spend

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some of that time in Austin,

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Texas Which was my home a

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while back? I'm gonna be there the

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weekend of February 23rd 24th 25th And

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then a couple of days into the following week And

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I'm gonna have some plans with friends

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But if there's an appetite

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for a listener meetup to hang out

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with some of you guys and gals

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out in Austin I would

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do that as well. I believe it's been

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since 2016

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since we did a meetup in Austin. I

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know this is the offseason So there are

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surely fewer of you hearing me talk right

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now But yeah If you're in Central Texas

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and you're free either that weekend or we might

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do it the Monday or the Tuesday evening Right

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after that weekend, you know, you could

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drop me a note Hey Harris at Harris

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football comm or just tell me on social

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media or something and I can gauge whether

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people are interested And maybe

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like in the next week or so I'll make a

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call about if and when we're gonna do a

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meetup in Austin Alright, so

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last week off the top of the podcast

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You may or may not recall that I

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did a very deep dive into the film

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of Stefan diggity himself I talked

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about what I saw came to some

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conclusions So, you

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know sometimes it the film doesn't automatically tell

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you this guy's still amazing or this guy's

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totally cooked But either way if

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you'd not heard that film work I would encourage

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you to go back and listen to last

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week's podcast today I'm gonna do a

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review of another wide receiver, but it

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was a lot less work This

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was inspired by listener Mike Faxel who

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wrote in hey Harris at Harris football

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comm and Requested an

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examination of a lightly used

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rookies tape Which after several

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hours of Stefan digs tape

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last week lightly used rookie sounded

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good to me. So hit it

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On the one

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hand, referring to

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listeners as jokes.

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I don't endorse that, but on the other hand, Steve

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Barry's long ago theme there mentions

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the Stephon Biggs, so how can I not use it right there? Let's

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talk about the very disappointing season

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of first round rookie receiver Quentin

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Johnston of the Chargers, the 21st

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overall pick in last April's draft.

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He went before Zae Flowers, about

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whom Johnston that is, it should be

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said, many of my draft expert

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friends were kind of shaky

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on Quentin Johnston before any

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of this ever happened, right?

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And based on the opportunity Johnston had

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once Mike Williams got hurt, the overall

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sudden need for weapons in LA and

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his paltry output, yeah, it feels like

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my draft expert friends were onto something

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and it became clear to

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me watching the film as the season started

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that Zae Flowers was a better player coming

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into the league anyway. Johnston

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ends his rookie year with 38 catches for 431 yards and two touchdowns.

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He started a bunch of games. Mike Williams

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tore his ACL in week three and

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you could certainly feel after a summer's

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worth of training camp reports that Quentin

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Johnston hadn't looked great. You

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know, the Chargers therefore were trying to

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ease the rookie in slowly even after

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the Williams injury. Johnston started

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some games nominally in that he was

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out there for the first play, but

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he was still running like 20 to

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25 routes per game

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for like another month. Josh Palmer

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was the Chargers' number two, we

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like Josh Palmer around here. Williams

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played mostly in three receiver sets at that point

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and the Chargers really didn't run a lot of

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three receiver sets. Palmer

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hurt his knee and that was

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you know kind of it Johnston had to

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start just didn't go well by November Jalen

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Guyton got healthy and was getting as many

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and sometimes more routes to run and of

6:11

course by mid-December Justin Herbert broke his finger

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and was done and everything after that I

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think we're gonna stick with a pretty big

6:18

grain of salt Easton's

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stick is the only quarterback who threw a

6:22

really long pass to Quentin Johnston that was

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complete this year and I don't know

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what I can take from that so when

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a dude runs 458 routes

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and only gets 66 targets there

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really is only so much that film

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is gonna tell us there was obviously

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a trust issue with Quentin Johnston coming

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out of training camp even to the

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point where the offense as a whole

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simply was not going to be designed

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to maximize looks to him had Mike

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Williams played all year 38 catches for

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Johnston might have been 20 right I don't know and

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we're not in the team meetings and we don't

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know the why behind those things we're

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talking about a lightly used rookie so I think it's

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important for us to have a few things in mind

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first off being disappointed being disappointing

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your first year is not good it also

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doesn't mean you can't be good in the

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future second we

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don't need to know these people and not as people

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you know and whether there's some buyers

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remorse going on right away for the chargers

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no matter what they say public publicly it's

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possible or maybe not and third

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we simply have to have a different

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lens watching someone like Johnston then watching

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someone like digs digs is supposed to

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have the offense designed around him he

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is supposed to be a primary

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read on a lot of plays and

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we've got lots of tape to compare

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the now to the then so

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my focus watching Johnston play here can't be like

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hey Harris tell me why they didn't throw on

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the ball like I don't know that the why

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is hard to know he's open sometimes

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they just didn't throw it to him all that much

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instead my focus is can we tell

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from what he looks like running routes,

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what he's generally good at and

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generally bad at and hopefully use

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that to tell us what kind of receiver

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he might be. Johnson's

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big, he's bigger than the

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defensive backs, he's 6'3", and he's

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pretty fast, he's not a slug. It's clear

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he has worked on his releases when he

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gets a corner uptight on him, maybe

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he even tries to juke a little too much,

8:25

but they have tended to work.

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He's trying to be a technician and get

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separation at the snap. I

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pop in the Packers game tape, I have a

8:35

play in the first quarter, it's a fourth down,

8:38

9.41 left in the first quarter, Johnson's wide right,

8:41

the Packers have one safety high, he's

8:43

shaded all the way to the other

8:45

side, so this is Quinton Johnson on

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an island with no help against a

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rookie corner, Carrington Valentine, and Johnson, it's

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a good release. Quick step to

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the outside, opens up the corner's hips, and

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then he's sprinting straight up field and he's

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open, so much so that the

8:59

high safety sees it and starts sprinting all

9:01

the way across the field to help, but

9:04

Johnson isn't the read, he's not even the

9:06

second read I don't think. They're

9:09

trying to convert this fourth and fourth, Herbert tries

9:11

to hit Donald Parham in the middle of the

9:13

field, perfect throw, Parham just drops it. I'm

9:16

not mad about them not taking the deep

9:18

shot, but I'm just saying it was there. Johnson

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has some easy speed, there's a play in

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that same game, third quarter, first read is

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a short slant to the middle field to

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Alec Erickson, Johnson is split

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wide right at the snap, he knows he's

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got the clear out route, he gets by

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his guy fast. He's

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open, again, he's not the first read so the ball

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goes to Erickson. If he

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was a star player, Herbert would

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have lofted it up toward the sideline and relied

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on Johnson to go get it. I

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watched all of Johnson's targets from the season,

9:51

60 whatever it is, but also

9:53

a few games of all of his routes, didn't take

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that long, and you can obviously

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see the raw material, the size, some...

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non-elite but pretty decent speed and some

10:02

pretty good releases. Not open on every

10:04

play obviously, but on his 458 routes

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he was certainly open more than 66

10:10

times if you get it. But he

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just did not have a major place in

10:14

Kellen Moore's heart and it's

10:16

easy to understand why. First there's

10:19

the leakage out of training camp. This

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guy isn't playing well, he's not showing up

10:23

in drills, reporters don't like what they saw

10:25

in August, etc. And then there are

10:28

the hands. Like as

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a rookie if you get your chance you have to catch the

10:33

ball. Officially Johnston is listed

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as having three drops. Unofficially there

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were more. There's a

10:39

high profile one in that Packer game,

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30 seconds left in the game on

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a third down, down three. Johnston runs

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a stutter go. Honestly doesn't

10:47

expect the ball, slows down a little

10:49

bit, but he gets past his guy

10:52

and Herbert runs around and throws a

10:54

crazy ball down the field all the

10:56

way across the field. Johnston's open by

10:58

three yards, it's perfect over his shoulder

11:00

and he just butchers it against

11:02

the Patriots. He runs a deep over.

11:04

Looks to me again like he doesn't

11:06

expect the ball, but he does see

11:08

Herbert moving right and that's the direction

11:10

of his over route so he perks

11:12

up a little bit and Herbert lays

11:15

it on him perfectly downfield, clang again

11:17

off his hands. Duck hands. I hope

11:19

we understand that drops are not a

11:21

completely objective stat. Like I saw plenty of

11:24

other catchable balls that Quentin Johnston did not

11:26

catch. Titans game in the end zone, he's

11:28

tightly covered but the ball's perfect. You would

11:30

love to see him come down with it,

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he did not. Way back in week one

11:35

against the Raiders from his own two yard

11:37

line, Herbert trusts Johnston on a deep back

11:39

shoulder throw. It's there, it's a 50-50 pass,

11:42

it's broken up. Same game, so

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he got held so that it didn't

11:47

get counted as a drop, but Johnston

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made a really good in cut pretty

11:51

far down the field. Herbert put it on him,

11:54

clang again. It definitely would have counted as

11:56

a drop except for he was held, but

11:59

he still got a open catch the ball. Against

12:02

the Bears red zone one-on-one coverage with

12:04

no safety help the ball does come

12:06

Johnston's way. Not exactly wide

12:08

open but remember the part when

12:10

you're bigger than the other guy like win

12:12

the contested catch and Johnston does not. We

12:16

should always remember the difference between

12:18

being a good NFL receiver and

12:20

not. It was very thin. These

12:22

guys are all freaks like laugh

12:24

at Nikhil Harry until you play

12:26

pick up hoops against him right

12:28

and a young receiver needs to earn trust

12:31

and do everything right and not drop the

12:33

ball to get on the good side of

12:35

that razors edge. It's beyond

12:37

obvious Johnston did not do that last

12:39

year and in fact a lot of

12:41

what my smart NFL draft friends said

12:44

happened like can he win against tighter

12:47

coverage does he use his size effectively

12:49

can he catch the ball. These

12:51

things reared their heads in his rookie

12:54

year. Is there an argument

12:56

that Kellen Moore's system wasn't good for

12:58

Quentin Johnston like too many option

13:00

type routes where you have to adjust based on

13:03

the defense like as you're in the middle of

13:05

the play. Okay maybe as

13:07

of my recording this we don't know

13:09

the new Chargers offensive coordinator yet. Every

13:12

coordinator is going to have some option routes in their

13:15

offense but like maybe maybe Johnston gets to play faster

13:17

and more instinctively in 2024 and as we discussed

13:21

a couple weeks ago on the show with

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Andy Barons Mike Williams is a pretty likely

13:26

cut got zero guaranteed money

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left they could renegotiate with him since

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he has attorney CL. It

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seemed at the time when the Chargers

13:35

drafted Johnston that it was to be

13:37

the eventual Mike Williams replacement maybe

13:39

that opportunity comes and the kid figures

13:41

out some stuff and works hard and

13:43

spends the summer earning the trust he

13:45

obviously did not earn last year and

13:47

maybe we look back on 2023 as

13:50

growing pains but obviously

13:53

he's a long way from there right

13:55

now. The bad comp that

13:57

I have for Quentin Johnston is Devonte

13:59

Parr. Parker, Deviant himself.

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Tall, strong, fast for his

14:04

size, absolutely looks the part,

14:06

but then the football start flying and you

14:08

realize that the hole is never going to add

14:10

up to the sum of the parts. And

14:13

a trail of analysts who only care about

14:15

the underwear Olympics will be left

14:17

scratching their heads wondering why this guy who looks like

14:20

that can't get more than a

14:22

few targets per game. And that's the key,

14:24

right? It's not that he's getting tons of

14:26

targets and isn't doing anything with them. He's

14:29

not even to the point where he's earned

14:31

the targets. It's way too early to nail

14:33

any coffins on Quentin Johnston. I think

14:36

he probably gets the biggest chance of

14:38

his career to turn over a new

14:40

leaf this year with Jim Harbaugh coming

14:42

in, everything getting changed, everyone having to

14:44

adjust, right? Go out and prove you

14:46

can be on the right side of

14:48

the razor's edge, be trustable, become

14:51

a first look on more plays, and

14:53

then maybe we're singing a different tune by

14:56

mid season. You can see the raw materials

14:58

for that to be possible, but clearly very

15:01

distressing. He was not trustable first

15:03

time around. Today's

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kickoff. Okay. On today's show, it's

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Patrick. Say speaking of

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Ringo star the end of the season.

17:55

Don't come easy for me. You

17:58

should go zoomers Google If

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they don't understand the Ringo star don't come

18:02

easy reference, but We're

18:04

still we're going to that Super Bowl the only not

18:06

the game Of course Denny Carter and I will be

18:09

at radio row that's like the

18:11

end of my season So I'm still in season

18:13

mode whereas we were talking for

18:15

the show It sounds like you're relaxing a little bit

18:17

more. I am relaxing a fair amount. I am

18:19

I've played a lot of golf These

18:22

last say three or four weeks and that has

18:24

been wonderful and our softball team is back at

18:26

it And I have to say so Pat I

18:28

don't think I told you this but I have

18:30

told the audience this past summer I

18:33

was back in Massachusetts, but I knew I'd be back

18:35

here in Los Angeles and I asked the listeners Hey,

18:37

do you want to be on a softball team with

18:39

me? And some people said yes up in Burbank and

18:41

so we've had we had a full season already We

18:43

started our second season. We've won two games. We've been

18:45

our last two games That's

18:48

uh, that's very empowering feeling it

18:50

really really is Yeah, any level

18:52

of any victory at any level

18:54

of competition? Is intoxicating

18:57

and the team is named team is

18:59

the op possums, of course and

19:03

And all the guys who a lot of guys listen. I

19:06

don't want to name everybody cuz I'll forget some people but But

19:10

yeah, it's been awesome super fun So

19:12

yeah, I've you know, obviously I'm

19:15

always super locked in on the NFL at

19:17

all times clearly, but yeah, I've been Sleeping

19:20

later. I'm so jealous of softball My

19:22

team fell apart a few years ago

19:24

and it's like left a whole hole

19:26

in my life start a new one

19:29

You're such a big that's what the people tell me say

19:32

it can't be filled This left a hole

19:34

that can't be filled by children. I need

19:37

softball. I need competition We

19:44

we are We're here to

19:46

do the bidding of the people we've asked the

19:48

question Many of these questions will be from people

19:50

of the book. Not all though. I also asked

19:52

on blue sky asked on Instagram I asked on

19:54

Twitter and I picked the best and the funnest

19:57

I thought to talk about and if I didn't

19:59

pick your your question. It doesn't mean I

20:01

didn't think it was going to be fun. Sometimes it was

20:03

just like, hey, do this really long task that requires a

20:05

lot of homework. And I was like, no, I don't want

20:08

to do that. But this is a tradition in

20:10

the week between,

20:12

before the Super Bowl. And I

20:16

think it's the first time you're doing it though, right? It

20:18

is. I have never done the listener requests

20:20

and I'm excited and

20:22

terrified and gratified. All

20:25

right. So I'll do my best to

20:27

say who asked them all. And if I mess

20:29

it up, I apologize. But I know Fox Pandograft,

20:31

he's a longtime listener. And his

20:33

question was for you. And you mentioned him before

20:36

we even got into this whole thing. What's

20:38

it like spending that much time

20:40

in the presence of Denny Carter?

20:43

Is it akin to warming yourself

20:45

around a fire on a cold

20:47

winter's day? If

20:49

it's the fires of hell, yes.

20:53

And I must say, obviously, Fox probably

20:55

already knew this, he's probably just trying

20:57

to see if I would

21:00

trip up, but due to ongoing litigation,

21:02

I still I cannot comment on my

21:04

personal relationship with Denny Carter. And we

21:06

do still have to work together due

21:08

to suits and counter

21:11

suits and arbitration. And I'm

21:13

not allowed to speak about my personal

21:15

relationship with Denny. No, it's it's amazing.

21:18

Denny's my best coworker friend I've ever

21:20

had. And really, really looking forward

21:22

to going to the Super Bowl. And

21:24

really, really looking forward to trying to come

21:26

up with the absolute dumbest skit idea as

21:28

possible. So we're

21:30

doing right now, you and Danny are gonna be in

21:32

Vegas. I will not be

21:34

because you know why it's horrible. Not Vegas

21:37

going to the Super Bowl is horrible. I've

21:39

been to reporter radio roads. I

21:42

don't I don't like it personally. It's

21:44

an endurance test. It's kind of fun. It's

21:46

a little fun. It's, it's a lot of

21:48

being what what is known as on it's

21:52

like hyper, like sensory experience.

21:54

And I've got to be

21:56

on interviewing people. I've got to be on like

21:58

glad handing with people Like you walk

22:01

two feet and you bump into someone you

22:03

know, it's a very overwhelming experience. So like

22:06

I People

22:08

might think I'm a full-blown extrovert, but I'm

22:11

more of like the classic I'm an introvert

22:13

I'm an introverts extrovert and like I

22:15

can handle it for a little bit But then I start to

22:17

just break down and cry at some point But

22:20

it's done it. I don't

22:22

I don't know you find it fun. I think it's too much

22:24

smoothing. I just don't like the schmoozing Wow

22:27

Yeah. All right. Kohler bear one Asks

22:31

the question of me. I think What

22:34

kind of microphone do you use for?

22:37

Podcasting and as

22:39

a good good podcast host. I did not prepare an

22:41

answer. So let me just look at this thing It's

22:45

an electro voice It's an

22:47

electro voice. It's like a Hold

22:50

on. I'm in my voice is gonna be off of it for a second

22:54

Are E27 Electro

22:56

voice re 27. It's a radio mic. It's a nice.

22:58

It's a it's a very nice mic. What do you

23:00

use? Do I need to update

23:02

upgrade to a radio mic? I feel like I

23:05

probably do I have the extremely cliche

23:09

Podcaster microphone of a blue yeti. Does someone tell

23:11

me to get a blue yeti one? It's like

23:13

you log on you order a blue yeti and

23:15

then you log off right? It's a hundred bucks.

23:18

I did. Okay, cool Yeah, yeah, cool. I think

23:20

Josh I think maybe when I first

23:22

started the show I didn't think there'd be a show right?

23:24

I just was like I guess I'll start

23:26

this show and I need guests So my cousin will be on

23:28

my cousin and Pat Doherty will be on because you were one

23:30

of the very first guests too But

23:33

you already had a mic and he didn't I

23:35

think I bought him a blue snowball I don't

23:37

even think he has a yeti. That's like isn't

23:39

a snowball like one level down. I think it

23:41

is I don't know. They must all be known.

23:43

So blue and blue is actually the brand. Oh,

23:45

yeah, it is. Yeah, there's a manufacturer Yeah, so

23:48

so I have this is an analog microphone to answer

23:50

colder bear This is not a digital microphone the advantage

23:52

of the blue products have is that they're digital you

23:54

can plug them right in So this

23:56

is an analog microphone. I have a blue

23:59

icicle which converts It works the analog to

24:01

digital and then you plug that in. So it's

24:03

like a little plastic tube and that's

24:05

cheap. The

24:08

mic goes into that, then that goes into the computer. There

24:11

you go. I need a more professional setup at some point.

24:14

I'm told I quote, literally work for NBC.

24:18

You think they could just send you one. No,

24:20

they do. They offered. They

24:22

send me a lot of stuff actually. One

24:25

of the things they did to me, I have another Blue Yeti. Can

24:28

we do a Facebook marketplace on your show and anyone want

24:30

to buy this other Blue Yeti that I have? Just

24:33

at Roto Pat, hit him up. Alright,

24:35

Gabe Marshall asks, has a

24:38

ladybug ever landed on your shoe

24:40

right before you did something spectacular?

24:42

Of course, this is our first

24:44

football question, which is referring to

24:46

Brandon Ayuk with the face mask

24:48

catch in the NFC championship game.

24:50

Apparently, he told reporters after that

24:53

a ladybug landed on his shoe right before

24:55

he made that catch. Nobody knew he

24:57

was going to be good that day. It

25:00

has not happened. First of all, that was

25:03

an enchanting interview. I did like that answer

25:05

actually. Here it would not

25:07

be good luck because what people think

25:09

are ladybugs in Missouri is actually some

25:11

invasive species. It's never like a real

25:14

deal ladybug. I can't

25:16

imagine that would be good luck to have an

25:18

invasive species that's landing on my shoe right before

25:20

the biggest play of the game. So

25:23

I'm hoping that that never happens to me. Say

25:25

if my softball team reforms, I'm hoping there

25:27

are no invasive ladybugs there. Invasive

25:30

ladybug actually is my

25:33

alt rock band. I

25:35

was going to say, that could be an alt

25:37

softball team name too, the invasive ladybugs. Sure. Or

25:40

title of your sex tape as they have known to say. Dan

25:45

Harris asks the question, initial thoughts on

25:47

the Super Bowl? I'll

25:49

ask you because you're not going to be around,

25:51

but we're going to do a lot more Super

25:53

Bowl content on the show next week. And actually

25:55

also probably some with Jim McCormick, who also has

25:58

a very litigious history by the way. uh... he

26:01

uh... will talk more about my like extensive thoughts

26:03

on the servo but you're not gonna be around

26:05

uh... on the show you'll be around you won't

26:08

be dead or anything but you won't be here

26:11

uh... knock on knock on fake would

26:13

probably yes yes i am knocking on as

26:16

not on real world uh... despite actually be

26:18

i don't know i can't uh... what are your initial

26:20

thoughts on servo well i know

26:22

one of the theories is that all the public money will

26:24

be coming on the cheap and on the chiefs i think

26:27

the forty niners are still two-point favorites

26:29

and i'll very much be one of

26:31

the public slappies uh... i

26:33

am not a better uh... like

26:35

i'd i'd i'm not i i don't mind like

26:37

like following the lines and i can think i'm

26:39

not a gambler uh... but i

26:41

was so confident that the chief's going to

26:44

be the ravens that i i

26:46

may i place the first bet i placed

26:48

in several years the fifty dollar bet on

26:50

the can city chiefs well and uh... was

26:52

gloriously rewarded and now i'm

26:54

heading back to canada city in the way i keep

26:56

viewing this that when i

26:58

think of like playoff football the

27:01

two x factors i think of are

27:03

shut down defense like a

27:05

quarterback who can make plays on his

27:07

own who creates offense on his own that's

27:10

in my theory of the chief the entire postseason

27:13

uh... and it was just two x factors as good

27:15

as the ravens are that i thought the chief's had

27:17

the edge in and i think they

27:19

clearly have that edge in the forty niners

27:21

and i'm also just kind of getting into

27:23

like bro narrative ball like dude like

27:26

sorry brock pretty not beating patrick mohams in

27:28

the super bowl like i

27:30

know it's not just quarterback the quarterback and

27:32

there's fifty two other players and

27:34

two really good coaches but i'm

27:37

remaining on the chief's bandwagon for

27:39

super bowl lv uh... three what

27:41

was the last time that niners played a good

27:44

defensive game i know

27:46

that i know they've been i one of

27:48

my tweets last week they've been like high-key

27:50

falling apart they did take over

27:52

the game against the lions in the second half

27:54

on both sides the ball the

27:57

other side of underachieving defense for

27:59

the league better part of

28:01

the entire second half of the season. I

28:03

know that is like an underplayed storyline. Yeah.

28:06

I do think the Chiefs feel like they

28:08

like go into shutdown mode way too early

28:10

every game and I feel like

28:12

they could like let the 49ers hang around like say

28:14

they get out to another 10 point

28:16

first half lead. Yeah, I feel like it's

28:19

a really underplayed storyline. They kind of collapse

28:21

the 49ers defense. Yeah, I think

28:23

they're gonna be able to run on them because it feels like people

28:26

generally run on them until they stop

28:28

trying for some reason like the Lions

28:30

did. So yeah, I

28:32

mean there's lots more to say and I

28:34

think actually this week's show about about real

28:36

football about the Final Four is gonna be

28:38

largely about the two teams that did make

28:40

it because for as you know

28:42

Kansas City San Francisco you know they're in and

28:44

they probably and then deserve to win just because

28:46

they pants crapped a little less but there's a

28:49

lot of pants crapping from the

28:51

losing teams in those two games. Boy

28:53

wasn't there? I would say more from the Ravens than

28:55

the Lions to be honest. I

28:57

don't know. I think the Lions thing was

28:59

more about that they were genuinely were not

29:01

the better team and so like they behaved as

29:04

if they had to just truly go for broke.

29:07

And but Jameer Gibbs fumbling

29:09

and back having an

29:11

interception bounce off his face and

29:13

Josh Reynolds dropping two catchable passes

29:15

like a lot of maybe

29:19

it was mostly isolated in the third quarter.

29:21

I'm not even getting into the coaching decisions

29:23

which you know I at

29:25

least want to admit are

29:28

like if you have a conversation about

29:30

analytics with a person

29:32

who believes full-fledged analytics and I know

29:34

you're not one of those you're

29:37

not even allowed to have the conversation because

29:39

you're pointing at a number. I'm pro analytics

29:41

but yeah I'm not a blind believer and

29:43

like press the button like whatever the number

29:45

whatever the button says you got to press

29:47

it. Right yeah but anyway I think about

29:49

Dan Campbell I didn't even think it was

29:51

analytics I thought he just viewed the game

29:53

slipping away like I gotta go for this.

29:56

Yeah that's part of the debate I feel like he's

29:58

being missed. I don't even think really analytics

30:01

from Dan Campbell. Except they have the

30:03

biggest analytics department in the NFL. I

30:05

just feel like it's

30:07

a happy coincidence then that... Anyway, there's more

30:09

to be talked about as far as what

30:11

happened. But there you go Dan,

30:14

there's our initial thoughts on the Super Bowl.

30:16

Aaron Marvin, when Pat is

30:18

finished with football season and has put his

30:20

30 kids to bed, what does he read?

30:22

Who does he read? Does he read? What

30:24

are his favorite books and or authors? I

30:27

am a reader. Everyone should be a reader. I only

30:30

have time for like eight or

30:32

nine books a year. Maybe I'm getting up

30:34

to like nine or ten. I'm reading more as I'm

30:36

getting older. I like

30:39

a lot of like single volume history books.

30:41

Some might call them like popular history. So

30:44

I read like a lot of really long books.

30:47

What I'm doing

30:50

to relax to end the season, the

30:53

book I started like almost immediately after the

30:55

season, really a low key

30:58

relaxing tome by the name of the rise

31:00

and fall of the Third Reich. One

31:04

of the most famous history books ever written by

31:07

American journalist William Scheier, who was

31:09

in Germany during the extremely

31:12

unfortunate rise of the national

31:15

socialists and very

31:17

terrifying, very unnerving

31:21

book one might say. Maybe not a terrible

31:23

time to revisit. Let's

31:27

just say of like current

31:30

ongoing, some may even say long-term

31:32

American trends. I was like,

31:34

maybe I should read this book. And

31:37

yeah, it's a chilling comes to

31:40

mind is what I'll say. But taking

31:44

care of your health is simpler with

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AG one. I've already had mine this

31:48

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31:51

do every morning. AG one has sponsored

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us for three seasons. Now It's

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31:57

Take it on an empty stomach. They've

32:00

replaced my multi vitamins and I'll tell

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you, Weiss In addition to a daily

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dose of vitamins Agee one also has

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a pre and pro biotic. This means

32:09

my stomach isn't the best shape possible

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to absorb the vitamins rather than having

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them just passed through. and I do

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notice a legit difference in my energy

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levels throughout the day. It's especially at

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the gym as if you have a

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so so stomach sometimes, which I definitely

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33:05

At. Him back with that and we are

33:07

answering your questions because that's what we

33:09

do in this episode. Rent Paper says:

33:11

what is your earliest memory of football?

33:13

Is there one specific player play or

33:15

game that made you fall in love

33:18

with the Nfl? My.

33:20

Of room This is not a job. My

33:22

earliest memory of the Nfl. A. What

33:24

Was The Michael Jackson Halftime Show?

33:27

Of the the first Cowboys, Bills Superbowl aware

33:29

that was right when are starting to really

33:31

dialed in on sports. So I was. I

33:34

was dialed in on the game to my

33:36

earliest memory. Of. The balls to

33:38

Dallas Cowboys does being unbeatable. Like

33:41

those first two years by really followed

33:43

where it where the cowboys this steamrolling

33:45

everyone and the Buffalo Bills and particular

33:48

as a man is crazy and I'd

33:50

I'd already. I didn't like the cowboys.

33:52

I was already like an underdog, like

33:55

a hopeless under daughter and that sounds

33:57

like this. Like the Cowboys be like

33:59

the Evil Empire basic the with my

34:02

my earliest memory of the Nfl and

34:04

then coincide with the Big Bang. Have

34:06

enough about returning St. Louis for the

34:09

Ninety Ninety Five Seasons. Nothing vague memory

34:11

your held them. I was

34:13

nice and with a mood of guess

34:15

the year after I was born in

34:18

eighty seven the Cardinals and I badly

34:20

one of the team in the Rams

34:22

arrived and that was like the the

34:24

jet fuel on my Nfl fandom getting

34:26

to A.my own team back then to

34:28

like like it is now St Louis

34:30

is like a pseudo cheese town that

34:33

she said really muscle in on the

34:35

territory like I ask for a Raiders

34:37

starter jacket for Christmas. My cousin is

34:39

a Raiders fan with my parents and

34:41

Kate and readers jacket pass. The

34:43

gun it achieves jacket. Or

34:46

but I gladly decided to sooner. Three, And.

34:50

My earliest I. You

34:53

know, I vaguely remember Steve Grogan being

34:55

the quarterback of the Patriots. Vaguely like

34:57

the know this probably like early eighties,

35:00

maybe even late seventies, but I probably

35:02

don't remember late at night, only one

35:04

of these. But I'm. At

35:07

you know at the the Maybe I question that.

35:10

The. Premise of the question Because what made me

35:12

fall in love with the Nfl? I can

35:14

honestly say I don't think I've ever been

35:16

really in love with the Nfl. I have

35:18

a very complicated relationship with the Nfl for

35:20

a lot of obvious reasons. I don't We

35:22

don't need to have a big philosophical conversations.

35:24

it's they're not new. It's been as long

35:26

as this thing's been around. I wrote a

35:28

book about it. People wanna read My first

35:30

novel about a guy playing in the Nfl

35:32

was pretty conflicted feelings about it's and I

35:35

think a lot of what the Nfl stance

35:37

for freely frickin' sucks and. I've. Always

35:39

felt that way and so I wouldn't say

35:41

I'm like on an unabashedly unequivocally in love

35:43

with the League's it's. At

35:45

At. The thing I will say is at its

35:48

best. It provides.

35:50

Adrenaline. Adrenaline like. Nothing.

35:53

Else other than you know full

35:55

contact affairs with your loved one,

35:57

you know like there's nothing there's.

36:00

The they like it does know their sport,

36:02

like it. There's no, for whatever reason, the

36:04

pace, the build up, the release, the whole

36:06

thing is absolutely addictive and wonderful. And I

36:08

have like that part of a lot. but

36:10

I do not find myself to be like

36:12

unabashedly in love with. It. Or. It's

36:15

an avatar from all but as both

36:17

good and bad about America and with

36:19

the good being. Like. Basically

36:21

the still nothing like a big

36:24

American event. And there's no big

36:26

American event quite like an Nfl playoff game

36:28

or even like a big regular season game

36:30

Metroid. The true love for the Nfl comes

36:33

from for me. I am a baseball fan

36:35

more it hard though, but I do love

36:37

the Nfl and is. Do

36:40

also hate the Nfl suicide I liked Like

36:42

these plans get this is nothing like. An.

36:44

American sports. There's nothing like a big Nfl

36:47

game. This truly nothing else. Like it. Yeah,

36:49

I mean I'm more much more in love

36:51

as a team with the Boston Bruins. That's.

36:54

The team I've always loved the most from a little

36:56

kid and. Like apps, I

36:59

have a way more way less complicated relationship

37:01

may have committed was because the constantly stab

37:03

me in the heart and kill me. but

37:05

status? whatever this. but as far as like

37:07

the institution in the sport and watching it

37:09

and stuff it's way less complicated. It's way

37:12

more just like at probably no way less

37:14

about it and I can just go to

37:16

school. It's fast things are happening in our.

37:19

Nfl As we're we're both fry burdened by over

37:21

knowledge. We just know every in a wouldn't we

37:23

are sent a lot of what's going on and

37:26

to see that over and over and over again.

37:28

Arm but but also just it comes

37:30

on lot of baggage of. Of

37:33

just. You. Know pandering to what

37:35

I consider to be the wrong people,

37:37

end up eating like awful. Multinational

37:39

company and there's this. It's very

37:41

American where there's a dollar opportunity.

37:43

they will take it. A

37:46

Go at Seventeen games as host on site.

37:49

Seventeen as most unsightly number there is. Don't

37:51

worry, it's gonna be eighteen soon enough. Were

37:54

always. and then our

37:56

jobs will be that a week longer he a's

37:58

ah michael cole I am a huge

38:00

fan of your podcast and The Office. This is me, I

38:02

guess. It was cool to see Rayn Wilson on your YouTube

38:05

channel for a mock draft. How did you meet each other?

38:08

So I know Rayn because of Rhett

38:10

Miller, who I think is probably listening, Rhett Miller

38:12

of Old 97s and his own solo act. There's

38:15

a new 97s record. I have

38:17

heard it. It's really great and fun. And

38:20

so Rhett, we're buddies because

38:22

he listened to the show and then also came

38:24

and interviewed me for his podcast and just we

38:27

became friends. He's in large now. We're just pals,

38:29

saw him like less than a year

38:31

ago and he text a

38:33

lot and stuff. And he started

38:35

a fantasy league and Rayn was in it and some other

38:37

actors and comedians and stuff. And so I've gotten to know

38:40

Rayn that way. Sorry,

38:42

I was taking a drink of water. Rayn seems like a

38:44

very interesting person. And I wouldn't say

38:47

I know him super well, but he's been really

38:49

super nice to me. Like I've

38:51

got this new book. He read the beginning of it.

38:54

And as people are kind of

38:56

sorting through it and I'm trying to figure out the publication stuff,

38:59

you just didn't need to, very generous guy. So

39:02

that's a very good, the best, the craziest fantasy league

39:04

I'm in, by the way, is with One Miss, I'm

39:06

actually not, I'm not gonna say it on here.

39:08

I'll tell you off there. I

39:11

got a couple others that are some interesting

39:13

ones, but I just got Rayn on

39:15

a mock draft. So we're gonna get to see it in

39:18

public. It was funny, very funny, obviously. Our

39:20

Godo, our Gordo, sorry, our Gordo

39:22

says, as a charger fan, I

39:24

would love to hear your thoughts

39:27

on how Jim Harbaugh impacts the

39:29

Chargers as an organization. Do

39:31

you wanna field this or do you want me to field this? No, you go

39:34

ahead, field. I mean, it was the ultimate, he

39:36

got to San Francisco, I mean, they

39:38

were in ruins. They had a

39:41

failed franchise quarterback and Alex Smith.

39:43

And I don't think a

39:45

soul alive thought they'd be going 13 and three,

39:48

getting the number one seed, making

39:51

the NFC Championship game as first year. That's

39:53

the top one percentile outcome, of

39:55

course, but three NFC Championship games

39:58

in four years. Harbaugh

40:00

is like, I

40:02

don't know if he's necessarily a culture setter. He's

40:04

a culture setter in college. I don't know if

40:06

in the pros they were like fully bought into

40:08

like the weird Jim Harbaugh culture stuff. But

40:11

like he's like, he, I

40:13

feel like he teaches fundamental football as well

40:16

as any coach I've seen this century. Like

40:18

the 49ers like the most

40:20

fundamentally sound discipline team, like instantly

40:22

in the NFL upon his arrival.

40:24

And maybe you could say they're

40:27

too conservative, but they

40:29

execute so well. I just, when

40:32

I think of Jim Harbaugh football, I think of like, those

40:34

fundamentals and execution, you know, two of the most

40:36

boring things. But like, that

40:38

raises your floor so much. And when your

40:40

floor is higher, the ceiling is attainable. And

40:43

he's never had a quarterback like Justin Herbert in

40:45

the NFL. He did have a quarterback like Justin

40:47

Herbert in college and Andrew Luck. And

40:49

he was still conservative then but there were

40:52

a huge ceiling to that offense. And

40:55

maybe in 10 years, he's fallen. He's

40:58

not he's fallen out of touch with what NFL football

41:00

is now. But I feel

41:02

like it's just a surefire home run hire,

41:04

basically. The danger I guess he's 61. He's

41:06

like he's starting to get checked out at

41:09

Michigan. I think he was just checked out

41:11

on all the NCAA craziness and what

41:13

comes along with being a college football coach. But I

41:16

mean, I think it's a extraordinarily good hire

41:18

for a team. And it really,

41:20

really needed something extraordinary to happen to it. Yeah,

41:23

it's good. I mean, it's

41:26

a good like if you had a choice between Harbaugh and

41:28

Vrabel as a coach. I

41:31

don't think it's a no brainer. I think Vrabel is really good too. He

41:34

is, you know, but I would

41:36

also say Harbaugh is great. Like he could be at the

41:38

top of the list along with Vrabel say I think that's

41:40

fine. He's

41:43

a Harbaugh weird dude. He's a weird I know

41:45

enough people in football who know what those meetings

41:47

are like where you'll be talking to him and

41:49

suddenly you're on a 15 minute digression about the

41:51

history of Roman architecture and yeah, he is one

41:53

of those guys. Yeah, he doesn't really know what

41:55

he's talking about, but he just keeps talking. I

41:58

think he is kind of a culture setter. I think you're right

42:00

about fundamental stuff, but I my guess is

42:03

that he is Good

42:05

at getting people to the extent that it's possible

42:07

grown men to pull in the same direction and

42:10

getting rid of ones who won't That's

42:12

a good thing. They seem like he wore out as welcome in San Francisco,

42:14

but it seemed like it was more about the front office Probably

42:17

than the players. He's he's a grinder. He's gonna

42:19

he won't be there long term, but I don't

42:21

you know five years I don't think he'll be

42:23

there but like he

42:25

wears on people he wore on the front office Yeah, just

42:27

he just wears on people but like I think it's really

42:30

good hire for sure Domino EEP

42:32

says will we get a new juggernaut and

42:34

what that means? That's that's my other podcast

42:36

the juggernaut which I don't really do anymore.

42:38

I did for like a year and it

42:40

ended a long time ago So it's very

42:42

nice of Domino to mention it We do

42:44

one a year now and it's

42:46

always a movie review podcast and yes cousin Josh

42:48

and I will do a best films

42:50

of 2023 podcast I think

42:52

it'll be in February but with Josh you

42:54

never know for sure Daniel

42:56

Daniel Fagan says what

42:59

do you like to do to help you get a

43:01

mental break during the long football season? So this is

43:03

during not after I thought it was after when I

43:05

copied it. I Know

43:08

there is no mental break during

43:10

the season not to be dramatic

43:12

But I like to read

43:14

read non football stuff is what I do

43:17

for mental break. Yeah, I try

43:19

to play golf on Fridays During

43:21

the season I get the show out on Friday pretty

43:23

early and I try to get out and

43:26

especially before the clocks change There's usually enough time,

43:28

you know So that's good.

43:30

And then well, we started a softball team.

43:32

So that's good. I played softball on Tuesday

43:34

nights and Try to

43:36

have like dinner with a friend on Saturday night,

43:38

but you're right it's like you have to really

43:41

you have to really Marshall your forces like Find

43:43

the find the two-hour window and like really make

43:45

yourself stick to that two-hour window And

43:48

you two you kind of the

43:51

same thing for me if Friday afternoon

43:53

through Sunday morning is like sacred time

43:55

That is the non work time and

43:57

like that's where Yeah, I'm

43:59

not That is the only

44:01

chance we get all week to really recharge

44:04

and I do take full

44:06

advantage of the Friday afternoon through

44:08

Sunday morning time period. Yeah, yeah.

44:10

I mean, yeah. Okay,

44:12

Sean Dugan says, what's a book

44:14

not titled Infinite Jest that

44:17

you've recently read and can recommend? You

44:20

already gave one. I

44:22

forgot to come up with an answer for this. I

44:25

think I would say George Saunders,

44:27

Lincoln and the Bardo. I

44:29

like that. I don't think it's like the greatest thing

44:31

I ever read, but it's really good. It's very sweet. It's

44:34

sad, but also funny. It's

44:37

essentially about a very small boy

44:39

dying. It's about Abraham Lincoln's kid,

44:42

dying when he was very young and Lincoln being

44:44

incredibly sad about it, but it's got

44:47

supernatural stuff in it and it's very well

44:49

written because George Saunders is a genius and

44:52

I would recommend it. It's a good book. I've

44:54

read several popular histories on Abraham Lincoln,

44:56

by the way. Read

44:59

the Battle Cry of Freedom, if you've never read it, probably

45:01

the best single volume history of

45:03

the Civil War. I'm

45:05

telling everyone, one of the best

45:07

books I've read in the past few years, it's

45:10

a classic, but the business classic, Barbarians at

45:12

the Gate, one of the most

45:14

riveting books I've ever read. You

45:16

truly are a dad. You're

45:18

younger than me, but boy, you're a dad. Next

45:21

you're going to be telling me to listen

45:23

to The National. No,

45:26

The National is too boring even for me. I

45:28

could never quite get into The National. Wow. The

45:31

National is taking fragments on this

45:33

podcast. Speaking

45:35

of the Chiefs, Zach

45:37

Wells asks, your Brett Veach, General

45:40

Manager of the Chiefs, what

45:42

do you do to address the wide receiver room in the

45:44

off season? Continue drafting? Are there

45:46

free agency you would target? What

45:48

do you think? I think,

45:50

have you had Chiefs, why would you just

45:52

not continue to run back the strategy of

45:55

take a day to flyer every year on

45:57

a receiver? Don't spend too

45:59

much money. A h one of

46:01

the most famously fraught positions there is

46:03

to spend on and free agency or

46:06

any true difference making receiver all never

46:08

makes the open market. You gotta damn

46:10

blonde eggs of scuse me up on

46:12

fastest you've got us while he overpaid

46:15

for someone like Christian Kirk. Is

46:17

was that mean? Even bitchy. So fire digs her saying

46:19

no no I'm saying that was a pretty good for

46:22

isn't signing. They let him get a free not see

46:24

any. went know out there was a trailer during a

46:26

sale but still it was. It was essentially a free

46:28

agent signing because they did what I am. Yeah,

46:30

yeah, yeah. and but I think that I'm.

46:33

I saw how could you even talk

46:35

cities and I can? They went back

46:37

to back. Super Bowls were like number

46:39

one receiver Juju Smith Schuster number one

46:41

receiver see Rice Slate how could you

46:44

think is incredibly are you gotta sign

46:46

receiver me The do They do need

46:48

designers I've identified as all year. Yeah.

46:50

We like day do not as often

46:52

sick imagine is often with Adam feelin

46:54

like literally to sleep. put adam feeling

46:56

on the chief and he never fourteen

46:58

hundred yards and it is very frustrating.

47:00

I just I don't see why they

47:02

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48:36

have more questions to get to Larry

48:38

Goldwater from Twitter not his real name

48:40

asks I would like to know what

48:43

gift you would get Bill Belichick to

48:45

console him for his ongoing unemployment to

48:47

cheer him up. I

48:50

don't have a good I don't have a funny answer for that

48:52

I just first thought of a cigarette boat that he

48:54

could ride around that's

48:56

a funny answer. What body

48:59

of water is Cape Cod on? What bay is

49:01

it on? I mean I know it's the Atlantic

49:03

Ocean. He needs to be just driving

49:05

a cigarette boat around Nantucket Bay like get like

49:07

the the wind in his face some salt water

49:09

and I'm sure he's out there all the time

49:11

he's probably not speed boating like

49:13

something to like stir talk

49:16

about inertia we were talking about inertia

49:19

before the show Bill Belichick and the reason Bill

49:21

Belichick didn't get a job is because

49:23

he just said I'm not going to do it unless

49:25

I can't bring on my cronies like he's still an

49:27

elite coach it's the cronies that are the problem but

49:30

he can't be shaken from his loyalty

49:32

to them and he needs the air

49:35

from a cigarette boat race in his face and then

49:37

did I say it's sound

49:39

of course it's not an intricate bag I

49:41

am from messages after all I'm a dumb

49:44

dumb. My answer of course is as always

49:46

he doesn't have a scowl butler yet I've

49:49

said it for years he needs a person to to

49:51

be a butler to his scowl so

49:53

so may I bottle your scowl

49:56

sir Uh,

49:58

it would solve all the problems. Uh. We

50:00

got a couple questions about the bills. Or

50:02

Joe Cole. And Tom

50:05

ailing a both asked about the bills

50:07

i'm. Joe said where do the

50:09

Buffalo Bills go from here what would you do

50:11

if we the odor And then Tom and a

50:13

much narrower question said what you think about T.

50:15

Higgins Speaking of reagents going to Buffalo. I

50:19

thought it was done. We time for the

50:21

sacrificial firing of Sean Mcdermott. I'd have to

50:23

do not that I think he's like the

50:25

quote problem. But. At me like

50:28

they're at Director John Fox with the

50:30

Broncos moment or the personnel is not

50:32

in question like the ceiling is not

50:34

in question when you have Josh Allen.

50:36

but they. Seem like a team

50:38

at crying out for a new voice quote

50:40

unquote or new ideas and even of every

50:42

idea Silvers in the back at Let Josh

50:44

Island Cook does seem like a team that

50:47

really needs like a leadership. And. Ideas

50:49

reset and I freeze. I was pretty surprised

50:51

they did not scapegoat one Mr. Salmond er

50:53

min after the season. Yeah,

50:56

that's a nice way of saying they really should

50:58

have fired their coats. Yeah, we know she was.

51:01

Yeah, we don't love to call for people to

51:03

be fired but like they really should have our

51:05

their coats. I'm. I feel like he

51:07

is reached his ceiling. Arm. It's just.

51:10

Happened to many times. It's fine

51:12

if it happens. Once happened for

51:14

time. like it keeps happening. Something

51:16

always keeps happening. You you. Know. I

51:20

know the Chiefs are good story there are more.

51:22

there are more button down organization and that's why

51:24

they won that game. but I'd compare the rosters

51:26

and I say i think the Bills have a

51:28

better roster. I frankly think the Ravens have a

51:31

better Us or that he's right now. She's rosters

51:33

great But the to such as button the hell

51:35

down and don't kill themselves the way the Ravens

51:37

kill themselves, the penalties and like hey dude we

51:39

need is intentional offside so we can reset the

51:42

down a distance and color time outs and instead

51:44

he commits personal fouls in a success. Talk about

51:46

the Ravens but like this is the kind of

51:48

crap that doesn't happen if. You're button down and

51:50

so that's all a way of saying this. I

51:52

did. I didn't say any that to denigrate the

51:55

Chiefs that he deserved to be answerable. They're the

51:57

best him an Fc. But the fact that they

51:59

are the best. The Happy: That roster speaks

52:01

badly of the other organizations because they're

52:03

not button down. Get your lock your

52:05

stuff down dude. And Sean Mcdermott has

52:07

clearly now proven that he cannot. Know.

52:10

Here he to see coaches. As Tilted is

52:12

almost anyone in the Nfl he's like more

52:14

Tilted almost and Brandon's daily he does happen

52:16

to them. Josh Allen. He's. More tilted

52:18

than to Denny Carter privacy and the her

52:21

I improve crying and coping far more than

52:23

any from and T. Higgins to Buffalo. Do

52:25

we feel like that? that addresses some stuff

52:27

that they just won't spend unless they get

52:29

rid of digs. I don't think they would

52:31

spend a do it. I. Don't think

52:33

even if they tear and may one of

52:35

the few teams this year, I believe the

52:37

salary cap matters there and a pretty for

52:40

Terry. I'm sure they could prime cook the

52:42

books for another year to make a haven't.

52:44

they really wanted to buy like know as

52:46

a to cease. Where. I feel like they.

52:49

They. Just decided that to number two receivers is

52:51

gonna be some guys like. It's sad when

52:53

they should try to find someone else. The

52:55

thing is like the T. Higgins contract I

52:58

I wouldn't not sign up for Cap reasons,

53:00

I would not sign of a real cash

53:02

reasons I don't think is worth the twenty

53:04

two million dollars is going to get for

53:06

multiplayer for four years whenever I just think

53:08

you don't want to pay your employees that

53:10

much money if you can't trust that. Now

53:12

if you decide that he's the guy and

53:14

you considered your way to wriggle out of

53:16

the decks contract which you can is that

53:19

he's other guaranteed. Money would hurt on the cap.

53:21

the cap is not real they can read ago

53:23

she josh out tomorrow and make the money works

53:25

but I just to your guns wouldn't be my

53:27

answer I am I don't Hopkins would be my

53:29

answer like. Fifty million dollars one

53:31

year com Moscow they can afford that. It's

53:33

it's it's just about the cash and I

53:35

know that Higgins is it was is either

53:37

at at his peak or on the upswing

53:39

and get her Hopkins very much not but

53:42

like as the to to digs echo woodwork.

53:44

Days is or sees me. Higgins to

53:47

the hit. I guess it's because he

53:49

plays opposites Marks A split He's a

53:51

disappear. And we are. I don't think I

53:53

can ever truly trust him as my number one receiver. Down.

53:56

some i'm gonna sums going to pay more money

53:58

or matt miles does the The incident sadness

54:01

now include wide receiver twos,

54:04

and therefore is it better to try and

54:06

snag La Porta or even a quarterback in

54:08

the third and fourth rounds in fantasy now?

54:12

I don't know. It included wide receiver twos last year,

54:14

didn't it? There were some weeks

54:16

where like, man, I'm so thankful I have Jacoby Meyers

54:18

on my team. Like that's how bad

54:20

I was getting at receiver. But

54:23

last year kind of felt like a bottoming

54:25

out to me. I think we've hit the

54:27

nadir of like recent offensive football. It was

54:29

the fewest touchdowns for games

54:31

since I believe 2006. I

54:34

guess maybe that was further to fall, but

54:36

I think we're going to finally start seeing

54:38

like kind of the return. And we're getting

54:40

a new generation of quarterbacks finally

54:42

kind of coming in and replenishing the

54:45

aquifer a little bit. I

54:48

think receiver, there were some years

54:50

where there was like very little difference between like the wide

54:52

receiver 14 and the wide receiver 40. That's

54:54

exaggerating a little bit. But yeah, as

54:57

this question points out, that was

54:59

not the case last year. But I

55:01

can't imagine receiver will be as thin next year as

55:03

it was this year. If

55:06

it stays as thin, it'll be because three

55:08

receiver sets are the norm

55:11

now. That's the base formation of the NFL. And

55:14

you know, they're just the ball gets spread around more than it

55:16

ever did before. So like, you're

55:18

going to have boom weeks, we're going to have bust weeks.

55:20

I mean, everyone listening to the show had Jacoby Meyers on

55:23

their teams. Everybody knows that was cool when

55:25

he scored touchdown and the way he didn't, it didn't rock

55:27

that hard. But

55:31

the I think people

55:33

think about this wrong. Scarcity

55:36

doesn't mean you stay away from the position. Scarcity

55:39

means you try to find the guy who's the exception

55:41

at the position and get you gives you an advantage.

55:44

The advantage the La Porta is going to give you if

55:46

he's the tight end one this year, if that's what everybody decides,

55:48

cool, I'll get to fade that. It's

55:52

just not as big as the advantage

55:54

that you get if you find the

55:57

right talented. if you find Nico Collins.

56:00

Right. You find the right guy the right time.

56:02

You should keep firing those bullets. The the idea

56:04

is not to. Take. The

56:06

slight advantage as of at the ding

56:08

dong position but the find the big

56:11

winner at the. Running. Back

56:13

a wide receiver essentially and frankly running back

56:15

you know for frankly zero zero Wide receiver

56:17

has a zero Rb has has finally gone

56:19

the way of the dodo rightly so. But

56:21

like wide receiver also fought for much much

56:23

more falls in the running that category. They

56:25

thing else I wouldn't say it's going for

56:28

where the don't by the way. but as

56:30

hitting I think the problem that the think

56:32

the scarcity just at every position right now

56:34

where I don't think it's A. but I

56:36

think it's because an overall scoring problem for

56:38

overall scoring as much lower than it was

56:40

at the end of Like The Breeze Brady.

56:43

Time. Eighty an era. That right there

56:45

was is always money and them in a

56:47

innocent stand is going in that era and

56:49

is displayed. This is Brad at the office

56:52

of Heights that we were. Late.

56:54

In the teams are the mid teens and

56:56

as scorcese down every position as com more

56:58

volatile. Every position is not as deep seated

57:00

the relying a more boom bust players than

57:02

used to like you pointed out as don't

57:04

think it's I don't think it's just receiver

57:06

issue ending. it's a com and everything issue

57:09

right now mean I would. Quarterback got. Absurdly

57:11

brutal last year. Yeah, I can. I would.

57:13

I would actually argue. The problem is the

57:16

talent pool. so deep, the so many good

57:18

players, the third receiver. Every team is like

57:20

a certain stud, but. You. Know

57:22

or does something Well, you know? But.

57:25

The but the point verb the of the result of

57:27

it kind of a remains the same which is. That.

57:30

That means great them is that pro football isn't

57:32

gonna find. The same guy constantly

57:34

right what you want to fantasies the predictable

57:36

hey, this football's always Gabi in these guys

57:39

hands, and there's ways use. For whatever reason,

57:41

we can agree there are way fewer of

57:43

those guys that we can count on. The

57:45

football, Bs or hands Yes, Ah. This.

57:47

Is a late addition. I doubt it

57:49

off of blue skies. Ah gee I

57:51

think as it was blue sky g

57:54

Colby Mill says why are St. Louis

57:56

and self loathing when it comes to

57:58

their own pizza. My. Theory

58:00

is a micro. It's It's a microcosm

58:02

of how they feel about their rank

58:05

amongst other major Midwestern cities. Know.

58:08

I would say also first up

58:10

the Midwestern thing as St. Louis

58:12

as an inferiority complex or Chicago.

58:15

But Kansas City as an inferiority complex of

58:17

St. Louis, Ck and Chicago forces an inferiority

58:20

complex. my New York so kind of. It's

58:22

like going up and down the ladder of

58:24

it. that's actually very most it loosens, are

58:26

extremely proud of St. Louis style pizza and

58:29

there's just a few. Are. You

58:31

got it into like for attention. The

58:33

try to differentiate themselves and St. Louis

58:35

culture or strike out against it. but

58:38

they're they're not. They're anomalies to be

58:40

honest there. What is or what? what?

58:42

What Is it? Like spaghetti on pizza?

58:44

cracker bread. pizza? Basically where it's it's

58:47

very thin. It's a made

58:49

up local she's called Provo. On

58:51

it's a combination of provolone and

58:54

mozzarella so it's like a fake

58:56

cheese said as a weird consistency.

58:58

To outsiders, it's as varied as

59:00

of devices seats as that as

59:02

great as a citizen Mrs. It's

59:04

absolutely amazing and St. Louis is

59:06

so bizarre. Really? Most towns

59:08

the biggest change. Is gonna

59:10

be like dominoes or pizza or whenever.

59:12

The for St. Louis by far the

59:15

biggest, a much bigger and all your

59:17

chance for together is Ema House which

59:19

was the originators English style pizza and

59:21

it's like it's emails is like Mcdonalds

59:24

and St. Louis and in my opinion

59:26

for good reason. Patty know the last

59:28

time I ate pizza. And

59:31

hide. You know? And it's gotta be. Iowa

59:33

ears and I don't office has many way

59:35

before covert that's reserve like and of them

59:38

only that stuff. We bedworth assistance

59:40

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59:42

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59:44

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59:46

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59:58

during sexual healing but on but

1:00:00

rarely discuss quarterbacks, let alone ranked quarterbacks,

1:00:02

like 18 to 24. The

1:00:05

upshot of the question is, how do you

1:00:07

decide whether to flex a low ranked quarterback

1:00:09

in a Superflex league? My

1:00:13

question, the only question I ask is, do they

1:00:15

play quarterback? And if the answer is yes, then

1:00:17

I start them over the running back of the

1:00:19

receiver. Which is why I don't

1:00:21

talk about the much inflexual healing, because start

1:00:23

the quarterback. That's it. You

1:00:25

don't need to go any further. Shane Nicholson. For

1:00:28

Chris, I have listened to all episodes

1:00:30

for three years and I haven't heard a background of

1:00:32

how you came to live on a yacht in Los

1:00:34

Angeles. I would love to know the story. Well

1:00:37

this yacht that I'm in now, it's

1:00:39

a palace. I mean, some people enjoy

1:00:41

the confines of land and I'm simply

1:00:43

in a palace. The

1:00:46

answer is that, yeah,

1:00:49

lore is hard to explain. It

1:00:51

is. Podcast lore

1:00:53

especially. Yeah, lore is hard to

1:00:56

explain, but the lore happened because

1:01:00

someone realized that I

1:01:02

had two residences, one

1:01:04

in Massachusetts and one in Los Angeles.

1:01:06

And they, as a funny offhand, like

1:01:08

to slam me in an email said,

1:01:10

I know you're busy on your yacht

1:01:12

in Los Angeles. So

1:01:15

I just went, yup, exactly. How

1:01:20

do I pronounce this? Ali Kaku,

1:01:22

I'm not pronouncing your full Ali-gah,

1:01:25

Ali-as-skur, but Ali I assume. Kaku says,

1:01:27

what the heck do we do with

1:01:29

Justin Fields in Dynasty and the Bears

1:01:31

in real life? I know, I know,

1:01:33

you've talked about it a million times

1:01:35

on the podcast, but I'm still perplexed.

1:01:38

And of course, Ali, we've talked about this,

1:01:41

but never when the Bears for sure had the

1:01:43

number one pick. So it is a little bit

1:01:45

different conversation. I

1:01:47

don't really think there's so much of a

1:01:49

fantasy answer right now in Dynasty or otherwise because

1:01:51

you have to wait until you find out what the

1:01:53

deal is. But

1:01:56

what do you think the Bears are going to do and what do

1:01:58

you think they should do? I will

1:02:00

say in Dynasty, I don't think he

1:02:02

could get less valuable. Where he's already

1:02:04

produced in pretty rough offensive environments, maybe

1:02:06

rough of his own making, of course.

1:02:08

But I don't see any

1:02:11

scenario in which Justin Fields gets less

1:02:13

valuable. Maybe he doesn't get more valuable,

1:02:15

and this remains the same level of

1:02:17

valuable. But wherever he's playing next year,

1:02:19

I don't think he'll be less valuable. And I think

1:02:21

the Bears thing, I don't think it's

1:02:23

either as confusing

1:02:27

as some people make it out to be, or

1:02:29

as straightforward as some people make it out to be. So

1:02:32

I think they're definitely moving on from him.

1:02:35

But I do just because I think the main reason they're moving on

1:02:37

from him is they can't do like a

1:02:39

Daniel Jones style contract with this guy, which

1:02:42

is basically where they would be at. Like you can't

1:02:44

do that if you also have the number one overall

1:02:46

pick. Like you just can't

1:02:48

pass that up. Or if they had the number

1:02:50

nine overall pick, they'd probably be getting ready to

1:02:52

do a Daniel Jones deal with Justin Fields. But

1:02:54

you can't pass on the number one pick two

1:02:56

years in a row with a guy who's still

1:02:58

a question mark. But I do understand

1:03:01

why it's such a tough

1:03:03

decision in fans' minds, and

1:03:05

why even the Bears, it's the first time

1:03:07

ever, first time in so

1:03:09

the Bears have had any semblance of upside,

1:03:11

any semblance of momentum at quarterback. And

1:03:14

so even if we ultimately think he's not going to make

1:03:16

an amazing quarterback, it is so frustrating, especially as

1:03:18

like the rest of the team is kind of back on the

1:03:20

rise. So one thing I'm going to be starting

1:03:22

over a quarterback, but I think it all just comes

1:03:24

back to they can't do a Daniel Jones style

1:03:27

contract when they have the number one overall

1:03:29

pick and Kayla Williams is available. You

1:03:31

just, it's risky, but they have to do

1:03:33

it. Yeah, I agree with everything you

1:03:35

said, except for I don't care about the contract because

1:03:37

it's not real. It's not, you know, except for the

1:03:39

real dollars. It just comes down to who would, who

1:03:41

would you, like you're going to hear all this cap

1:03:43

stuff. That's what ESPN is going to pump, right? The

1:03:45

cap, well, they have to do it because it just

1:03:47

lets them afford the rest of the roster. Oh, will

1:03:50

you shut up? They can afford whatever they want. All

1:03:52

they got to do is, you know, a point. It's,

1:03:54

but it's real. I mean, I Feel like it's not

1:03:56

as fake as some people make it out to be.

1:03:59

It's exactly as. The people in front offices

1:04:01

who laugh at the got issues that we have

1:04:03

about it does not real. And

1:04:06

but but but either way, like who are

1:04:08

you know I agree. I wouldn't want to

1:04:10

page again or jones the real dollars on

1:04:12

that contractors is because my hands money matters

1:04:15

and I wouldn't want to pay to employees

1:04:17

whose think at their job. So I definitely

1:04:19

understand what where you're coming from. The fact

1:04:21

that the key variable in the whole thing

1:04:24

is Killed Williams and. And. Was.

1:04:27

I'll say about Just and Fields. I reached

1:04:29

my breaking point with him right before their

1:04:31

bye week that the Vikings game Sexy one.

1:04:33

but that was because. The. Idiot

1:04:36

on the other side was even worse for the

1:04:38

vikings are but like feals was so bad and

1:04:40

I game and irish my bring point as like

1:04:42

a meniscus for this guy for a long time

1:04:44

and we all know that after the as of

1:04:46

the by he played better for her. And

1:04:50

ice. I'm sort of convinced that. Put.

1:04:53

Him in the right situation and have

1:04:55

little magic happen. And he belongs to

1:04:57

the fraternity of quarterbacks who can win

1:04:59

a Superbowl. but everything needs to go

1:05:01

right around him. That's usually the case.

1:05:03

There aren't too many quarterbacks, means there's

1:05:05

Brady this my home's name. The other

1:05:07

quarterbacks like Matt Stafford needed everything to

1:05:09

go right around them. You know, like

1:05:11

that's usually the case. So. I.

1:05:13

Don't like Matt Jones. I don't think it's

1:05:16

possible. Mail. Think as doesn't matter to

1:05:18

me what you put around him. I don't have

1:05:20

seen enough. I don't think he could be their

1:05:22

guts I think just feels good beats. But what

1:05:24

you're hoping for would you have a number one

1:05:26

pick is fighting the guy where it matters a

1:05:28

little less, what is random with and so on

1:05:30

that basis alone they probably are Need need to

1:05:32

move on. The you put

1:05:34

it with extremely well and I'd be I'd

1:05:37

to. I do think you could pretty be

1:05:39

said of people who need ever the our

1:05:41

promise lawyers brought production of everything around promo

1:05:43

when I never seem more things go right

1:05:46

for a player in my entire life. Yeah

1:05:48

he's in the Super Bowl and. Does

1:05:50

he even belong to that class of guys that

1:05:52

I trust? that if every that you know like

1:05:54

his keys on the T is on the borderline

1:05:56

season, he's too crazy. is probably

1:05:58

is that he's to create He doesn't have

1:06:01

the actual physical talent talent to cash the

1:06:03

checks that he is armed. It's also very

1:06:05

yeah field I do think yeah fields his

1:06:08

thing is Or he will

1:06:10

he'll never be like my homes where he's like

1:06:12

putting the team on his back But

1:06:14

the difference between him and Mac Jones is that he could

1:06:16

put the team on his back for a play Sure

1:06:19

make it have a 70 yard run or

1:06:21

throw a 70 yard touchdown For

1:06:23

he at least has on a on a

1:06:25

singular play basis that kind of upside Where

1:06:28

he's gonna have to be managed and manipulated like as much

1:06:30

as anybody Like he can still like

1:06:32

make a game-changing play and like I think that he

1:06:34

can he can price still get better I don't know

1:06:36

his pocket feels so bad But

1:06:39

I don't know. I think he's okay. I mean

1:06:42

we're about to have a whole offseason of Lamar

1:06:44

Jackson discourse Right. I mean I

1:06:47

was I was willing to buy it, but you can't

1:06:49

deny he in the second half of the game on

1:06:51

Sunday He made plays that killed him and killed the

1:06:53

team and the Ravens aren't in the Super Bowl primarily

1:06:56

because of that interception like I Like

1:06:59

it was just horrible terrible decision They say

1:07:01

flowers fumbling at the goal line terrible also

1:07:03

bad decision many other mistakes But the worst

1:07:05

thing is that interception it can't

1:07:07

happen. You can't make that decision and like

1:07:11

I think you can make the argument

1:07:13

like Justin feel up That

1:07:15

Lamar Jackson is not one of those guys, you

1:07:18

know that One of those like purely

1:07:20

unquestionable everything doesn't need to go right around him Like there

1:07:22

aren't that many of those guys and so I would put

1:07:24

fields in the group He's not as good as Lamar Jackson,

1:07:26

but I would put it in the group of guys that

1:07:29

If I paid us if the Patriots would pay a

1:07:31

second round pick for him. I would I would sign up in a

1:07:33

second Yeah,

1:07:36

no, I think that I feel like he should get

1:07:38

to second round picks I don't think he'll get a

1:07:40

first round pick. I feel like the ideal trade price

1:07:42

for Justin Fields is too I have no idea why

1:07:44

I think this I think it's two second round picks

1:07:47

I mean the Patriots pick is third in the second

1:07:49

round. I think that's enough That'd

1:07:51

be nice building block. Yeah for Justin Fields

1:07:53

Justin Fields trade offer. I mean, yeah but

1:07:55

the maybe is when as far

1:07:58

as personal Patriots will never do it because requires

1:08:00

pay in Justin Fields and they are very

1:08:02

very cheap as an organization. In terms of

1:08:04

real dollars they are among the

1:08:06

lowest spending and they have to make a

1:08:09

decision at three obviously whether Jayden

1:08:11

Daniels I guess is maybe the candidate there so

1:08:13

they I have no idea. I can't wait to

1:08:15

decide that later but not now. One more question

1:08:18

Vin Monte asks what does Rotopat

1:08:20

have to do to get me

1:08:23

back into fantasy baseball? You

1:08:27

probably don't have the answer to that but it

1:08:29

would take I don't I don't think it's in the cards. It would

1:08:32

be amazing to play a fan I

1:08:35

like fantasy hockey because I don't really

1:08:37

follow hockey and like I

1:08:39

don't know the players like on a personal

1:08:41

basis or I'm like watching the games and

1:08:43

like developing allegiances everything so it's like pure

1:08:45

numbers based for me so I can I

1:08:48

can approach fantasy hockey without any

1:08:50

baggage or emotion and I would

1:08:52

say you could do the same thing with fantasy baseball and

1:08:54

that would be what you should that that would fancy baseball

1:08:57

would be fun for you from that perspective. There

1:08:59

would just be no baggage. I'm not interested

1:09:01

in the slightest. The thing

1:09:03

is I would be I don't play fantasy anything else

1:09:05

I don't play fantasy hockey either but I would be

1:09:07

way more likely to do fantasy hockey because I like

1:09:09

watching a hockey game watching a baseball

1:09:12

game makes me want to peel my

1:09:14

skin off I cannot stand it. It's

1:09:16

so freakin slow. There's nothing better. There's

1:09:18

absolutely nothing better. I love it because

1:09:20

the reason baseball is king for me

1:09:23

is there are so many

1:09:25

statistical events that occur in every single

1:09:27

game like you think there's statistical events

1:09:29

in football let me tell you about baseball. No

1:09:31

I mean there are fake ones in football there

1:09:33

are real ones in baseball. The stats in baseball

1:09:36

I covered baseball back at the ESPN days and

1:09:38

like the stats in baseball means

1:09:40

something. Many many many of the things that

1:09:42

we're gonna talk about this with Jim on

1:09:45

the other podcast this week but you

1:09:47

know this whole windshares and expected probability and

1:09:49

stuff like that is fake in football. Let's

1:09:52

pretend we pretend we know what the windshares

1:09:54

are wind probabilities are but

1:09:56

in baseball they actually matter. Unfortunately also in

1:09:58

baseball they've mattered so much. much that they've

1:10:00

made the game worse to watch. They've

1:10:03

been working on wrecking the game, but they are

1:10:06

finally working on fixing the game. Yeah,

1:10:08

indeed. All right, well, we've done

1:10:10

it. We've made it through the listener

1:10:12

questions, and I hope you had fun.

1:10:14

I definitely did. You can find Pat

1:10:16

on Twitter at rotopat, and he will

1:10:18

be at Radio Row in the matter

1:10:20

of a week at the Super Bowl,

1:10:22

and I will not. I'm

1:10:24

going to make sure I golf, just in honor of you.

1:10:26

I'm going to play around a golf. I

1:10:29

appreciate you doing this. Thanks so much, and of course, being my

1:10:31

friend and for coming on the show so many years. It's

1:10:34

great to have you. Thank you. Well,

1:10:36

thank you so much to you, and thank you so

1:10:38

much to your audience. By far the most engaged podcast

1:10:40

audience I've ever come across, and I value

1:10:43

their loyalty as well. Even

1:10:45

though I'm only a recurring guest and not a host,

1:10:48

they're an extremely great group of people, and thank you

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very much. The

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Friday night this week, and

1:11:30

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1:11:34

and more talk about what happened last

1:11:36

weekend in the conference championships. Probably

1:11:39

some more talk about the Lions decision making,

1:11:42

and we'll talk about the Ravens did, and some

1:11:44

stuff about the Chiefs and Niners too. And

1:11:46

then next week here on this show, I'm

1:11:49

going to do some more film work on

1:11:51

a young player, and we'll have Matt

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Landes back on the show to

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talk about the Super Bowl from

1:11:57

a pro handicappers perspective. So

1:12:00

if you're in Austin or you're near

1:12:02

Austin, let me know if you'd be

1:12:04

willing to show up for a meetup

1:12:06

that weekend of February 23rd or maybe

1:12:09

the Monday or Tuesday after that weekend.

1:12:11

That would be cool. Let me know. And otherwise,

1:12:14

I hope you have a great rest of

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your week and we will talk next time.

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