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Mike Food along with my co host George

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Hurst. George, well,

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everything's you know, I know, it's baseball,

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it's not football, but it's back right, So everything's

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back, you know, as in the world is right now

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as far as concerning we've had Sports

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Live Sports Account, so now

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we're just hoping that football can do the same

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thing here. We may have some doubts here, you

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know, see how things work out, but I feel like everything's

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back on track somewhat. Yeah,

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I have mentioned to you in

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the past I was watching some English Premier League

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and previous weeks and as there

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was some juice there for me. But having

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the game's back on American soil and

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watching some baseball and even

1:04

the MLS contest the other night was

1:07

fun just to be able to flip back and forth to

1:09

two different channels, watching two different sports

1:11

was like, all right, cool, I'm

1:13

back. You know. We we had a lot

1:15

of doubts, but here we are. We're playing baseball

1:18

and we're talking football here today and

1:20

hopefully getting back there soon. We're going to

1:22

get into in subsequent segments

1:24

a little some updates on what happened

1:27

this week. As of the time of

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filming this there could be more news that continues

1:31

to break, so forgive us if it's slightly

1:33

obsolete, but we'll do our best to

1:35

update you. The story I wanted to start with

1:38

on this hour was an

1:40

interview that Chris Thomason did with

1:43

Adam feeling. He beat the odds

1:45

in as the article starts,

1:47

but he wouldn't be feeling as good if he were trying to make

1:49

an NFL team. In as

1:52

it says here in Chris Thomason's tweet, I

1:55

know that if I had was going through this offseason

1:58

as a rookie, I wouldn't be in the NFL. There's

2:00

no chance. And he's talking about

2:02

the general components of what

2:05

we've talked about George related

2:07

to this offseason, how some

2:09

of the business of signing undrafted free

2:11

agents, bringing guys in, trying guys

2:14

out that are fringe players, maybe

2:16

veterans trying to catch on, or rookies trying

2:18

to catch on with the team for the first time. That

2:20

business hasn't really happened in the same manner as

2:22

it has. There's been virtually no there's

2:26

been no hands on tuning.

2:28

I shouldn't use the word virtual because it has been

2:30

virtual. Uh, there's been

2:32

no hands on teaching. There's no practicing against

2:34

other players. For somebody like Adam Feeling,

2:37

who broke into the league in a really unique manner,

2:39

he's saying he wouldn't be in the NFL, and

2:42

I get it. He maybe he's right, maybe he's maybe

2:44

he's over to Jaddrak a little bit. But yeah,

2:46

players aren't going to get a chance to show what they can

2:48

do because of what everything being condensed.

2:51

I mean, let's face it, When so training camp

2:53

does open and practice really do take place, you're

2:56

gonna get you guys ready. You don't have a time

2:58

to experiment. Let's see what this guy can do

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it see what this undraft, the free age it could do. You don't have time

3:02

for that. You have to get the guys that you think of your starters

3:04

ready to play. That's why I think football

3:07

gonna be so sloppy in September

3:09

because of very few painted

3:11

practices, no preseason games. We

3:13

may hate the preseason, but they do serve somewhat

3:16

of a role here. Four was ridiculous, but two

3:18

it really is the perfect number in my mind. But no,

3:21

none of those either. I think a lot of players

3:23

or a lot of teams are going list and I'm just getting the players

3:26

ready that I know can play. We'll see what happens

3:28

after that, but I want to get the players ready who

3:30

I know can play, Get them ready to play, because I don't

3:32

have time to screw around and worry about,

3:35

you know, my sixth round pick. You know he'll

3:37

learn, he'll learn eventually, but since he's not wasn't drafted

3:39

to be a starter anyway, I've got time

3:41

for him. I don't have time for the guy who I think

3:43

is going to start. Now. I have a game in

3:46

less than a month. Right. We've

3:48

made the point about the Vikings, specifically

3:50

that they drafted fifteen players

3:52

in this year's NFL draft, and most of

3:54

any team, and to make a specific comparison,

3:57

uh in this article in

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Pioneer Press, when the then

4:02

unknown wide receiver feel And made the Vikings

4:04

practice squad. Seven years ago as an undrafted

4:06

free agent out of division to Minnesota

4:09

State man Cato. He had a rookie minicamp,

4:11

spring drills, four preseason games

4:13

to show what he could do, and the Vikings had a ninety

4:16

man training camp roster. Due to the coronavirus

4:18

pandemic, Vikings players will have none

4:20

of those things this year. There were no on field

4:23

drills during this past spring, and NFL teams are

4:25

expected to have just eighty players

4:28

in training camp and no preseason

4:30

games. So a stark contrast

4:32

George to what Feeling was looking at,

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really anybody was looking at in any

4:36

other year. We all know he's a very much a

4:38

long shot player to be as good

4:40

as he is, but still it says

4:43

a lot about the differences just from a year

4:45

ago that the way in which

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the NFL is conducting business from a year ago. Absolutely,

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listen, we all know this is going to be a strange year. We're

4:52

gonna have to accept things. And I love Listen. I

4:54

don't think a lot of people care. But this

4:56

guy can make the roster or not. But it is unfair

4:58

to these guys who are gonna give They're all but that's

5:01

where we're at right now. Alright. I keep saying,

5:03

if you want to have football or any school from them out

5:05

of baseball, basketball, hockey, whatever it might

5:07

be, you're gonna have to accept some strange

5:09

things are going to happen. It's not gonna this is not going to

5:11

be a year like any other, you

5:14

know. I keep you know, I'm a big baseball guy, and I hate

5:16

I don't like a lot of the rule chains in baseball. But that

5:18

gets baseball on the field. Fine, I'll live

5:21

with it. This year the football is gonna be the same thing,

5:23

and that's gets football on the year. Fine, I'll

5:25

live with it. I don't care what you want to do. I just want to see the games

5:27

here. And we went four months without anything here.

5:29

You hope you can get out there. You hope it's safe to get out

5:31

there. So I think everybody's got to make those,

5:34

you know, those sacrifices. But it's the players

5:36

themselves, you know, GMS, the coaches there.

5:38

Things you're gonna have to do that you've never done before, that

5:40

you don't like, but if you want to get the game on the field,

5:43

it has to be done. Yeah, he

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feeling obviously coming off an injury ridd Old season

5:48

in a disappointing season in nineteen,

5:50

especially compared to the thirteen

5:52

catch season that he had. He

5:54

closes out this article by saying, you have

5:56

to try to make the most of your situation, and

5:59

you can't control all lot of it dealing instead of

6:01

this year's undrafted free agents. So I

6:03

know there's going to be a lot of guys that may have to try

6:05

again next year or maybe get some workouts

6:08

throughout this season. I don't know, but it's definitely

6:10

going to be a different year. Welcoming

6:12

in our radio audience now as we close

6:14

out this segment. But I think he says

6:16

it well, George, I think unfortunately

6:19

some of these guys dreams will be on hold.

6:21

The NFL is just figuring out a way to conduct

6:23

business differently. I said,

6:26

this is a a work in progress. No, we've never no

6:28

one's ever had to go through this. No sports league

6:30

has ever had to go through certainly not the NFL. There

6:33

were some pickures I saw earlier in the week for baseball

6:35

during the Spanish flu of they were wearing

6:37

masks, but there we haven't

6:39

been through this, No one has. It's a pandemic,

6:42

right we gotta do what we gotta do to get possibly

6:45

have a season. Mike, So once again, I understand,

6:48

I understand it's it's frustrated certain players,

6:50

coaches, team members that might be. But

6:53

hopefully this is really the big hope for me. Hopefully

6:55

it's just for this year. Yeah.

6:58

True, So a little insight as

7:00

to what is different about this year from

7:02

a player's perspective and a player that really

7:04

needed business to be done in the way that it's

7:06

normally done in order to make a team. George

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Back on the Grid, Mike and George talking about

7:38

some updates to the NFL

7:41

start of the NFL season. We're trying to get

7:43

everybody into training camp here, Chiefs

7:45

and Texans expected to be back in

7:48

camp first. Um

7:50

as we film this, there's a lot of

7:52

news breaking, so some

7:55

of more of this may be clarified

7:57

by the time you're watching it, but I feel

8:00

for you to send George to hate mail on Twitter or

8:02

frankly, just go to his Twitter feed and

8:04

he may have retweeted and clarified

8:07

some of the things that we're about to talk about. But important

8:10

conference calls occurred late in the

8:12

week George on Friday, Thursday

8:15

Friday amongst the ownership group and then

8:17

the NFL p A regarding

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safety and health protocols regarding money,

8:22

scheduling, training, camp reporting, testing,

8:25

all of this stuff. I don't think even

8:27

after these calls one cent of it

8:29

is smoothed out. Like we saw bumps in the road

8:32

with MLB Juan Soto,

8:34

a positive test doesn't allow

8:36

him to play for the first few days, followed by

8:38

negative tests were That's going to

8:40

be part of what we're dealing with. Two. By the ways, false

8:43

positives, you're just gonna have to say,

8:45

I'm sorry, it's the best we can do right now. I'm

8:48

sorry you missed Game X, but we just

8:50

gotta move ahead. Agreed.

8:52

This is gonna happen in the NFL too. Yeah, you gonna

8:54

have some of you guys who have positive tests and maybe they're

8:56

not positive were they will they feel fine? False

8:59

negatives full got false negatives as well. By

9:01

the way, it's

9:03

what we're gonna have to live with. Once again, it keeps saying it over

9:05

and over again. If you want the games to be played, we're

9:07

going to have to live with this. That there's gonna

9:09

be sometimes where you don't have your best player. You

9:12

know that. Also, this guy can't play because he tested

9:14

positive and you find out oh no he

9:16

was actually Okay, it was a false one. It'll make

9:18

you angry, But what are you gonna do, really,

9:21

what are you going to do? You haven't got with choice but to have these tests.

9:23

But for every thousand and I think they're gonna have what

9:26

one to three that are false? Yeah

9:30

uh yeah. So Chris

9:33

Mortenson and Dan Graisiano and Tom Pellicero

9:35

and many other people out there have done an excellent

9:38

job of reporting on

9:41

a wide variety of the logistics and business

9:43

issues that are plaguing in the NFL right

9:45

now that need to be solved. But here's a

9:47

few of them. We talked about the eighty

9:49

man roster deadline in the

9:51

previous segment, so that's an eight instead

9:53

of a nineties. So the eighty man roster deadline is

9:55

August sixteen, before padded practice.

9:58

Teams can have a ninety man roster if they go with

10:00

split squad set up. Some teams

10:02

have plans to split squad and use stadium and regular

10:05

practice facilities. Also,

10:07

negotiations started, NFL owners

10:09

wanted to players to give thirty s

10:12

grow and players are okay with threat of

10:14

not playing because no force major in

10:16

the cb A except expect both

10:18

sides to take losses in unprecedented

10:20

times to make this work. And

10:22

he also clarifies that lost revenues

10:24

will be significant in NFL, but

10:27

the sharp drop should be more than counterpunched

10:29

by massive spike coming with new TV and

10:31

media deals, a seventeen game season, more

10:35

playoffs, and gambling revenues. I'll stop

10:37

there and then i'll continue on the

10:39

next rant, but i'll let you comment there. Yeah,

10:42

I think that's what we're all probably most

10:44

concerned about right the most

10:46

of the rest of this thing. They'll they'll work it out. It's the

10:48

money that's always the part that worries me. They'll

10:51

work out the health and safety protocols. We've seen

10:53

that in all the sports. They've been able to do that. But what

10:55

the rail Baseball was the money

10:58

because the owners want the players to take I

11:01

guess they want a pay cut. In the MLB

11:04

players said, yeah, not gonna happen.

11:06

And if i'm the NFL, I'm thinking the same thing. It's

11:09

not gonna happen. As you like to point out on these shows,

11:12

what business is guaranteed to make money,

11:14

right, And I completely agree with you. You're not guaranteed

11:16

to make money. These NFL players can lose

11:19

their career on any play, any hit, so

11:22

why should they take less money? I don't think they should

11:24

either. But I'm also curious about

11:26

the fact of the salary cap. Right, we've

11:28

heard, We've heard everything about the cap.

11:30

Right first, they were gonna take seventy million dollars off next

11:32

year, which we you're gonna have, you know, a

11:34

hundred free agents on the street, good players right

11:37

now. If they do stuff like that now,

11:39

they weren't spread over maybe two years or four years

11:41

or five years. I don't know, Mike, why they can't do

11:43

it over eleven years over the entire So

11:46

Chris Mortenson may may have clarified

11:48

it again, this might need some additional clarifying,

11:51

but the salary cap appears to be remaining

11:53

the same for twenty and there is a

11:55

cap floor of one seventy

11:58

five million, and with

12:00

the possibility of it being higher based

12:02

on revenue streams. That's what my Grafflo

12:05

and Tom Pelicero report. I mentioned that those guys

12:07

are doing a lot of work on this, so that

12:11

that's one seventy five still is a twenty

12:13

five million dollar hit, George, if

12:15

it was, if it was the maximum

12:18

hit, that that it's a lot.

12:20

You know we're talking. Yeah,

12:23

I just don't understand basically

12:26

call it, but it could be higher. So what

12:28

if it's you still don't ever

12:30

want it to go down. I don't

12:32

understand this, you know, I

12:35

know anybody who remotely watches football

12:37

know that there could be a huge

12:39

revenue spike in two years with the new television

12:41

contracts. Why don't they just say, hey,

12:44

you know what, We'll wait until then and

12:46

then we'll adjust the cap where instead of

12:48

it going up seventy for each team and only goes up

12:50

I don't know, forty million for each team. The owners

12:52

don't want to float it to the players, and they should

12:54

be able to, of course they can.

12:57

If this is about the owners wanted to stick it to the

12:59

players again. It's really all it is. They want

13:01

to they want to get out of certain contracts. This will

13:03

give an excuse to do so, you know, and they

13:05

want the contracts to go down, or the floor to

13:07

go or I guess the average of the contracts to

13:09

go down. Then or they could start again where

13:11

maybe the next quarterback doesn't get thirty eight million,

13:14

but it goes down to million whatever

13:16

it might be. So it starts at a lower and

13:18

the crappy thing is the quarterbacks. It won't

13:21

It won't affect them at all. It

13:23

will affect the other guys. It'll be like

13:25

a veteran linebacker that's got to take a

13:27

million two instead of a million

13:30

six. Now everybody at home is being like, are

13:32

you crazy, guys, I'm gonna make a million bucks to play linebacker.

13:35

Well, he just sacrificed four grand

13:37

because of the way that they squeezed

13:40

the players in this instance. I'm not suggesting

13:42

that there is no responsibility for

13:44

the players to have to share in

13:47

this in some way, but they don't

13:49

have the ability to smooth

13:51

it out over the life of their careers. Many of

13:53

them. The owners could just say,

13:56

you know what, We're not going to increase the cap

13:59

when it comes time to increase it. We're

14:01

going to artificially hold

14:03

the cap down when it should inflate

14:06

after the big TV deals. I

14:09

don't know, I understand the economics

14:12

of it. Maybe not every iota, but

14:14

I do think this is at least

14:16

moving in the right direction, giving them a floor,

14:18

but still one seventy five down from that's

14:21

a pretty big adjustment. I hope it doesn't adjust

14:23

that much because it will result in in players

14:25

getting cut. Absolutely. Well, that's

14:28

twenty three million for each team. Plus it's not going

14:30

up next year, which I can guarantee with certain

14:32

teams were assuming it would go up next year

14:34

like it always does every season to account

14:36

for their contracts. So yeah, it's going to be you're

14:38

gonna see players, more players on frads.

14:40

It was obviously that's also not good for

14:43

the players. He goes once again, that drives prices

14:45

down. If you have if you have five top wide

14:47

receivers, well you don't. You don't need to pay them as much.

14:50

You know, there will there be as many jobs going around. It's

14:52

it's not good really all around. It's not good for the game.

14:54

The owners though, I just thinking with their uh you know,

14:56

their bottom lines. But as you you just said, the

14:59

owners have the abil league. They're gonna only team

15:01

attend. It could be in their family

15:03

forever. They'll make up these losses. The players

15:05

cannot their Their careers

15:08

are fun finite, three years,

15:10

four years. Some guys will get eight years, but very

15:12

few. Yeah. Uh. The NFL

15:14

p A Executive Committee voted unanims

15:17

unanimously to recommend the proposed changes

15:19

to the c b A. As we film this,

15:22

the conference call amongst the NFL player reps

15:24

is ongoing an important resolution

15:26

to the new CBA agreement. Again a lot of

15:28

this via Chris Mortenson of ESPN. Uh,

15:31

there will be a fund slash benefit established

15:34

to pay back any benefits eliminated as a

15:36

result of COVID up to three

15:39

and paying back any loss guaranteed money to players.

15:42

So, as noted by many, the NFL player ups will

15:44

vote YadA, YadA, YadA. So uh

15:47

so that's it, George. There at least does

15:49

seem to be some thawing of the

15:51

hard line. Look, we were you

15:53

and I were both concerned about them

15:55

not having discussed finances to

15:57

this point. I would actually give the

16:00

NFL a gold star if

16:03

as this stuff all came to a head, they

16:05

have proved it this quickly. Should

16:07

they have waited this long? Probably

16:10

not. But I think they were so concerned about

16:12

health protocols above money

16:15

in this instance in order to get the deal. Then

16:17

I'm saying they care more about it in this instance

16:19

to get the deal done that I

16:22

would actually give them a check mark

16:24

here for getting this stuff done potentially

16:27

without delaying the Chiefs and Texans

16:29

reporting to camp for at least getting their

16:31

COVID tests. Oh, I would. I would

16:33

give a gold start check mark. But I think they've

16:35

They've done a great job here. I did not expect this no

16:39

way, because you know, this

16:42

is not really a deadline to get it done. I

16:44

guess it's close to what if you want to run a perfectly

16:46

normals. He's looking at the date here, it's with late

16:48

July. You know, I'm surprised it didn't

16:50

go on further. You know, it's basically wonder one of the

16:52

owners that, well, what else they have in store here?

16:54

Because they weren't delaying for a little bit. Now they're not, you

16:57

know, so I wonder what's going on here. But I think the fact

16:59

that they've got it done, which means theoretically

17:02

everything should move along now. According to pace,

17:05

testing has to be done, So I guess that's the next

17:07

big thing. When everyboy gets test coming us. What percentages

17:09

do all those come out? We've heard that's another stickling

17:12

employed right about five percent. It's more than

17:14

five percent. It's daily left of five percent every other

17:16

day. I do want when those initial tests come

17:18

out, how that's going to law? What the what

17:21

the percentages? Yeah, MLB intake testing

17:23

was one point eight one nine percent.

17:25

We'll see if the NFL matches at Georgia and I'll

17:27

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watching sports Cred back

18:09

on the grid. Welcome back to our radio

18:12

audience as well. George and I are talking

18:14

about some news and notes. I'm gonna play a little

18:16

bit of a fun game here on

18:18

this final July

18:20

weekend. Is it the final July

18:23

weekend, Yes, I

18:25

believe it is. Yes, next week, yeah,

18:28

final July. I Look, these days, weeks,

18:30

months have blended together, obviously in a way

18:32

that they haven't before. But on

18:35

this final July weekend, we are

18:38

just gonna play, have a little fun with it before

18:40

the football actually get started. People get

18:43

out there in paths where they may or may not

18:45

be hitting each other because contact may

18:47

or may not transmit COVID

18:50

virus. It's it's getting tough, George,

18:53

but we'll have a little bit fun with that game.

18:55

So a couple of news and notes. What I think the one

18:57

business, uh component

18:59

that really has started to move is

19:02

the signing of a lot of rookie contracts. Jeff

19:04

Gladney, defensive back from the Vikings,

19:07

he signs his deal, Chase Claypool

19:09

of the Steelers signs his deal.

19:12

So, whether they are first round picks

19:14

or extending a little bit into the mid rounds,

19:17

these teams are trying to lock up the rookies so that

19:19

if and when the camps open in the

19:22

next week to ten days,

19:24

they'll be ready to go. Yeah,

19:27

we've see this every year, right, some some teams take

19:29

longer than others, but for

19:31

the most part due to the CBA. There's not

19:34

much to negotiate here, alright,

19:36

youn go hear some language, some payout language,

19:38

but that's it. You're not gonna get any more money than what's

19:40

what's in the CBA there, So you should be it. They

19:42

all should be in by camp, you would think. Every now

19:45

and then we do see a boat

19:47

of the situation where one guy might not be in.

19:49

But I expect the most, if not all, to be in by

19:51

camp. I do wonder this, you

19:53

know, I just went through my head once again. A player, even

19:56

a rookie, is worried about COVID. You know, maybe

19:58

someone playing in one of the Californi on your teams, one of the

20:00

Florida teams. You know, the nightmare is down there.

20:03

Maybe they fight for extra things a little harder, you

20:05

know they normally would, because maybe they have not all that thrilled

20:08

up being there once see things calmed down anyway. But

20:10

I expect most these rookies to be

20:12

these conjects to be done there the next

20:14

Really I U said seven to ten days, I think it will be less

20:17

than that, as I think all camps will be opened by

20:19

the end of the by the end of July.

20:21

Actually, yeah, uh so

20:24

so good news that we're starting

20:26

to see some momentum. Right, we'll see how

20:29

these conference calls play out and exactly

20:31

when everybody can report, but Chiefs and Texans

20:33

are supposed to be first. We'll see

20:36

another piece of news to a tongue of Bolos

20:38

said he's quote ready to go in an

20:40

interview with USA today. He's

20:42

recovery has been reported ahead of schedule

20:45

on multiple occasions, and the quarterback

20:47

himself is now confirming this. The possibility

20:49

of him taking the field as a rookie is looking increasingly

20:52

likely. This is all according to Rhodo

20:54

World. Uh Fitzpatrick still a favorite

20:56

to start Week one, but it wouldn't be surprising if to get

20:58

some starts. So im gonna said it over under

21:01

two US starts this year, six

21:05

and a half. Oh, I'm

21:09

gonna go over. I'm just gonna

21:11

go over. I think they want to see what they have in two a

21:13

here. I think he's going to be a good,

21:15

solid player. I don't

21:18

love it because once again he

21:20

hasn't been able to go on the practice field. There'll be no preseason

21:23

games. You don't know if he has any kind of chemistry there. But

21:25

I just have a funny feel that this is a team that wants

21:27

to get their new toy ya. I

21:29

want to see that. I'm looking at their schedule here. I just want to see,

21:32

you know, if it's Patrick and get off to a big start,

21:34

how that might change. I have it right here.

21:37

So they start at the Paths on

21:40

Sunday, sep hosting

21:43

Buffalo at Jacksonville

21:46

hosting Seattle. That

21:48

could be Seattle coming down hot. It's

21:50

the longest trip in the entire Seattle

21:53

plays well coming out and he doesn't seen the ball with him. I

21:55

get it. But that is the longest trip in the NFL.

21:57

Is Seattle in Miami, and that

22:00

would be potentially playing in the Miami Heat.

22:02

So they can come to New York and

22:05

kick the Giants tail all over MetLife

22:07

Stadium. That I get. But going to Miami

22:09

when it's still bordering

22:11

on summer weather, that might be a little

22:13

bit tougher. Even the fans, no fans,

22:16

whatever, that's still a potentially tough trip

22:18

physically. Then, as at San Francisco

22:21

at Denver. So the tough

22:23

part for them is that the

22:25

beginning of the schedule isn't particularly easy

22:28

so I think if you're looking at and Fits

22:30

goes out there and you know

22:32

he fits, is it up to three

22:34

and three? What if they're three and three, I'll just be bullish

22:37

on them. They beat Jacksonville, Seattle, and

22:39

Denver, they're three and three. I

22:41

hasn't I like this Miami team as far as I

22:44

think they can. I think they're terrible team anymore.

22:46

I don't. I think they're gonna do some damage. But man, I

22:49

mean three and three has been nice, right, So

22:53

I don't know, But I do think they were

22:56

and seven and went five and four

22:58

down the stretch and they got a bad call

23:00

against the Jets. They should have been six

23:03

and three. But that's

23:05

the crazy. They were all in seven

23:08

and they went five and four down the stretch.

23:10

Trust me, I lost their O I lost

23:12

their under bet because they

23:15

played well at the end of the year, including beating

23:17

the Patriots, and you're that angry at all.

23:19

Good to see that. Um, I'm glad you've

23:21

gotten over that. I haven't. So

23:24

I'm gonna say he plays starting weeks seven, cause I think that

23:26

makes sense. You will play two good defenses

23:28

at sanfre and Denver. Things aren't gonna go well for Fitzpatrick

23:30

Fair and you come home for two games against

23:33

the l A teams, get Arizona, the

23:35

Jets back to back, Jets back to back,

23:37

the bye weekend between Cincinnati. I think it's the perfect

23:40

time to put them in there, perfect time. After

23:42

week six, I only think will be playing

23:44

all that great. You say three and three. I'm probably more with

23:46

two and four rain, but three and three wouldn't shock me. I

23:48

think they could possibly be Denver as well there,

23:51

but think be the perfect time to make that switch. Six

23:53

weeks in and your schedule starts to get

23:56

more in your favor. And played both of the

23:58

l A teams at home back to back, another

24:00

weird scheduling quirk. The Ladies

24:02

back home to home, the Jets. They played back to back with

24:04

the bye weekend between. That's weird.

24:06

Weir um So

24:09

that so you're saying if they were three

24:11

and three they would bench fits for

24:13

TWA. I think that's when you make this. I

24:16

don't think they'll be three and three. I think they'll be two and full. But I

24:18

think I just don't think things are going to go well

24:20

at San France at Denver. It really not really

24:22

fits his full You know, you took the two tough

24:24

places to play. I think that's when they make the switch.

24:29

Six and a half. I picked because it's a tough number.

24:31

They have six games specifically

24:34

after the bye week, so if

24:36

they got to the bye weekend, they were, you know, limping

24:38

into the bye week, and they were I don't know, four

24:40

and six, and they knew that they were in

24:42

trouble the first game

24:45

in New York. You really don't want that. Jamal

24:50

Adams. Jamal Adams isn't even gonna be on the team

24:52

anymore. He'll be a cowboy,

24:55

right, Oh god, I hope not. But

24:58

well, Adams gonna Dallas. Genavian Clowney

25:00

is going to Dallas. So don't you read the fans. Then

25:03

I can't get through all the stories about how every free

25:05

agent lands in Philly to get to the

25:08

Dallas stories. Every time I read a free agency

25:10

story about the NFL that

25:12

Philly writers and fans are like, I just

25:14

come to Philly, Like, all right, why doesn't nobody

25:16

just come to Philly. Give you guys a four hundred million dollar

25:19

cap. You can design Clowney and every free

25:21

agent running back that has come up

25:23

over the last two years, they will sign a free agent

25:25

running back. I'm still waiting

25:27

for There's no way they're going with Miles Sanders. He's

25:31

not built that way. They had to give him somebody.

25:34

I'm not saying that the guys started Scott

25:38

Board. Come on, they need somebody, they need

25:40

somebody else. They to get eight carries,

25:42

ten carries a game. Maybe

25:45

I don't think that's hard to find. Well, I hear

25:47

the why. That's where I think it's wait for the price to come down.

25:49

It's wait for somebody to get cut or

25:52

that. That could be the aw as well, Broyce

25:54

Freeman, somebody like that. Somebody might find themselves

25:57

out of a depth chart somewhere one of the you know,

25:59

maybe Gus ed Words gets cut. Gus Edwards

26:01

is Gus Edwards is the ultimate eight

26:04

carry seven eight carry a game

26:06

guy three yards in a cloud of dust.

26:08

Give Miles Standers some time off. I don't

26:10

know. I'm not as bearish on

26:13

Sanders as you. I don't know that he's going to

26:15

be se Quon Barkley or

26:17

some of the other I just don't think

26:19

he's the kind of guy you want to give twenty plus touches,

26:21

so he won't make it through the rest of the season. I

26:23

get it. It's somebody there to

26:25

help him. That's what I think. He's

26:28

not on the roster right now. True,

26:30

I see what you're driving it.

26:32

Okay, So you wanted to we

26:35

got a few minutes left here and we can carry it into the next

26:37

segment. You wanted to set up a little game,

26:39

uh here, a quarterback shell game, so

26:42

to speak. Tell me what it's all about, exactly what

26:44

it is as if you've watched NFL Live, you've seen them

26:46

spin the wheel for the quarterback, same theory here.

26:48

We don't have a wheel here. You know, I don't have the budget

26:51

for that. But we're gonna use a little dice here.

26:53

So we just gonna pretty much you can pick a division

26:55

you want to start with or whatever you're gonna one. Going to make

26:57

a decision here, Mike, little die for you're

26:59

gonna pick a division and then you can roll roll

27:02

with Die. You decide before we roll with Die. You're gonna

27:04

decide do I want to roll with Die to get a

27:06

better quarterback? Or am I happy with this what the quarterback

27:08

as is? And

27:12

there's no dial. If you pick the f C West,

27:14

you're not rolling with Die and Pat Mahomes are you, but

27:18

you might on everybody else? All

27:20

right, So let's stick with the a f C. East since we

27:22

were just talking about too. Okay,

27:25

So Miami, would you would

27:27

you keep to and Fitzpatrick you get the whole quarterback situation,

27:30

or would you roll a die and see if you can do better this

27:33

year in the future. It's

27:36

not an easy decision, that is it. Do

27:38

you want to stick with do you want to

27:41

stick with the rookie and a good sell it back up? Or

27:43

do you think you can do better with

27:46

the dial roll. I don't know what the percentages are,

27:48

how any good quarterbacks you would take over? Him? Is

27:51

not the coach of the Jets, I

27:54

really like. I

27:59

think I'm gonna Dick. I

28:01

think we're gonna take the to uh upside

28:04

because the franchise might not run him into

28:06

the ground. That's a close one. I'm fifty fifty

28:08

on that. I'm not a believer in Josh Allen.

28:10

I'm as much of a believer in Sam Donald

28:12

at least as I am in Josh. The only

28:15

really from Miami right now? Oh oh,

28:18

I oh, all right, I've seen it. I'm glad you talked

28:20

me through this. Really, would you

28:22

take somebody else or would you roll a die

28:25

to take it? Chanre, You're gonna do better than two?

28:27

I would, by the way. Um,

28:31

all right, let's roll the die. I want to see how this works

28:33

out. All right. So you ended

28:36

up with, Oh my god, you ended up with the Saint. You end

28:38

up with Miami. Okay, that that can't count. You

28:41

ended up with number twelves A four eight. Oh,

28:45

you're not gonna be happy like you

28:47

ended up with number twelve. You ended up with Gordon Menshew?

28:49

Gardner? Minshew? Why why is

28:51

it? Gardner? Minshew? Why is he twelve? How

28:54

are you? ANFC East,

28:56

ANFC North, ANFC South twelve a

28:58

f C West in order of standings of last year. That's

29:01

terrible. Yeah, you can. You can't have snake

29:03

guys on that roll, buddy. But I did initially

29:05

say I'm I didn't understand

29:08

the game. Okay,

29:11

alright, Uh, let's do again. We got one

29:13

more role before the break that was

29:15

week. Let's go a f C North. We'll just

29:18

keep going. We'll pick a pick a team

29:20

first, Oh, Steelers, would

29:23

you roll a die on Ben? Yeah? Because

29:25

he's a million years old and he's coming off Tommy

29:27

John, you got

29:29

twenty two, so you've got somebody in the A f C, NFC,

29:32

uh north right, Kirk

29:35

Cousins and

29:38

his contract, but he got a younger quarterback.

29:41

Would I take Kirk Cousins over Ben Roethlisberger.

29:44

Absolutely not. I

29:46

mean I got him because I rolled the stupid

29:48

dice, but I would not want that instead.

29:51

I mean, you have a more long term you

29:54

don't have to worry about stretching with somebody long

29:56

term. We're gonna do more of

29:58

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30:00

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30:33

going through a little bit of a quarterback

30:35

shell game, uh so to speak. So we're

30:37

going to continue that in a moment. I'll get one piece

30:39

of news from Todd Gurley.

30:42

This is via two point nine

30:44

Atlanta, who he interviewed with uh

30:46

he's talking about sitting out. He said he's open

30:49

to sitting out this season if the NFL doesn't come

30:51

up with a proper COVID nineteen safety

30:53

plan. Obviously things are being approved as

30:55

we speak. I don't really think I think

30:58

he's as George at Police

31:00

said during the break, I

31:02

think he's saying what a lot of players are thinking

31:04

right now. It's really not structured,

31:06

right Girly said about the NFL's current restore plan.

31:09

There's not a proper plan in place, and I'm comfortable

31:11

with I don't have a wife, I don't have kids. You have to

31:13

look at the guys on the other side who have a pregnant wife,

31:16

kids and a wife they just want to go home to every

31:18

single day. We saw it in Major League Baseball, George

31:20

with Buster Posey a unique situation

31:22

where he adopted premature twins. He didn't

31:25

want to put his family at risk. Totally understandable.

31:27

Are there other NFL players that are in similar

31:29

positions. I don't really know, but it's

31:32

entirely possible that somebody might feel

31:35

uncomfortable as the season gets closer and

31:37

want to opt out for

31:40

some reason. I just get the sense that,

31:42

look, I thought more baseball players were going

31:45

to opt out. I think we're official numbers

31:47

at fourteen. I think it's unclear

31:49

whether or not some of those guys get paid.

31:52

I thought it would be as many as twenty five a roster.

31:55

So we're not there. Does it happen in

31:57

the next thirty days in baseball and things get out

31:59

of control? Uh? Maybe?

32:01

But for some reason, I've gotten

32:04

the sense from even as concerned,

32:06

even as the football players have

32:08

remained concerned and voice their concerns

32:12

to a variety of different publications,

32:16

I don't get the sense that they're going to sit out. Whether

32:19

it's the culture of the sport or the fact

32:21

that they have shorter careers, I just don't know.

32:24

Excuse me, Well, for me, it

32:26

is the shorter careers, Mike. You can't

32:28

sit out unless you're an established

32:31

star or you made your money already. Right.

32:34

You can't sit out because you're the average NFL

32:36

careers what two and a half three years, that's all it is. So

32:38

you've got to make your money while you can. So

32:41

No, I don't think they're gonna You're gonna see a lot of opt outs. I

32:43

just don't think so. Now, I do wonder what

32:45

could happen. We saw in baseball on

32:47

Thursday. You talked about Earli on the show. One Soto

32:49

tested positive els and he can't play. I

32:51

do wonder if a whole bunch of players

32:54

on one team test positive. Player goes this is

32:56

ridiculous. We've got eight players out now

32:58

and one of these guys is really sick. I'm plan, you

33:01

know, it's obviously it's in the building. It's this that, whatever it

33:03

might be. I can't do this anymore. I do

33:05

wonder, what, what's that? What's going to happen

33:07

there? I go to see a team that's playing that

33:09

team the week after what you

33:12

know, we're playing this team. They just had eight guys nailed

33:14

out out. No, no, no, that's that's

33:16

crazy. I'm not doing it. Yeah, I can see that sort

33:18

of thing happening. I mean, what hapen what Soto on Thursday?

33:21

First, they are in Boom tells that all the Yankees don't

33:23

fratnize with them. They'll go anywhere near them, stay

33:25

away from the Nationals, which means everyone's worried

33:28

that Soto got it and apparently they

33:30

had all the tests that we're going on this what happened in football

33:32

as well. They had all the test that we're going on that hadn't

33:34

come back yet. They didn't know the result yet. Oh

33:36

we know, you know, eleven of the players could have had

33:38

it and they just didn't have the results yet. So

33:41

this is something you have to worry about. That being said,

33:43

I keep I want to keep saying this over and over

33:45

again. I'm not feeling bad for anybody.

33:47

This is what you've signed up for. If you don't

33:49

know this is this could be a problem going in, then you haven't done

33:52

your research, you haven't done your education. All right,

33:54

There's going to be issues here in regards

33:56

the players safety. There is you are taking

33:58

a risk if you play, and you dare well should

34:00

know that before playing. Agree,

34:04

I'll say the funny the funky

34:06

thing about the baseball is that I've mentioned in a

34:08

number of times on this show is

34:11

that the one point eight percent positives

34:14

on the intake testing I

34:16

thought was a good thing. It

34:19

was a lower number than I anticipated.

34:21

Freddie Freeman, who's a star for the Atlanta

34:23

Braves, he was sick. He had COVID

34:26

and he was sick for a few days. He was symptomatic.

34:28

He was away from the team for a period of time. But

34:31

opening day started and Freddie Freeman

34:33

was out there first inning facing Jacob

34:35

de Gram So there obviously

34:38

is the ability for players to recover and come

34:40

back. I just thought that that percentage was

34:42

good, hope. Now we've seen oddly

34:46

vastly different stories from

34:49

college football, for example, where

34:52

dozens of players on the same

34:54

team of tested positive, albeit my

34:56

old and asymptomatic cases in a lot

34:58

of instances. Um, is

35:01

it the nature of football itself? Is it the nature

35:03

that their college kids and they just haven't

35:05

really taken care to social

35:08

distance and wear masks. It could be all

35:10

of the above that I mentioned. I just thought

35:12

the one eight percent positives was

35:14

good for baseball because it was a lower number

35:16

than I anticipated. Other people might be like, are

35:18

you nuts. I wouldn't want to be around

35:20

population that's too almost two percent

35:23

positive. It's really how you feel personally

35:25

on it. Uh. And I just wonder

35:28

if it's the culture of football, the nature

35:30

of them being college kids and everything else. Yeah,

35:33

that's what when I was talking earlier that this is what I want to see what

35:35

that percentage will be when they take their next tests. You

35:37

know what's going to happen there. I agree at

35:39

one point it was lower than I expected it

35:42

will be higher. Thought it was gonna be eighteen

35:44

percent or something like that, but I thought it would be four

35:46

or five six somewhere and there. So I

35:49

was definitely encouraging. Baseball was expecting

35:51

five. I think I think they were as well. I think I think

35:53

everyone was, uh happily

35:56

surprised that the number was one

35:58

point. I think hockey came out uh when they

36:00

first did, they were actually pretty low too. And then we'll see what

36:02

that what happens with them next week when they go to the

36:04

bubble of two bubbles in Toronto at Everton.

36:07

What that percentages? But it's

36:09

certainly good news right now. Yeah,

36:12

uh so, uh So that's it really

36:15

on Girlely, I think he voiced some concerns. I

36:17

don't think he's legitimately threatening

36:19

at this point to sit out. I think it was just

36:22

the NFL players. It's another NFL

36:25

player as they sort of sieged

36:27

on social media last week in

36:30

order to say that we want to play, letting

36:32

everybody know, putting the pressure

36:34

on the NFL publicly to

36:36

get their affairs in order regarding

36:39

health and safety protocols. It's not gonna be

36:41

perfect. We know there's been bumps in the road with MLB,

36:43

but here we are George. Opening

36:46

Day happened, and we played a whole bunch of baseball

36:48

games, So there will continue to

36:50

be bumps in the road. But I'm actually feeling more

36:53

bullish about these seasons than I was, say

36:55

a few weeks ago. I I remain

36:58

confused in terms of foot ball,

37:00

specifically, when we lose position

37:03

a group, potentially that's not going

37:06

to happen in baseball. Most likely, it's

37:08

unlikely that the whole starting pitching staff

37:10

would go down. It could happen, but it's unlikely.

37:13

Um. Plus, they have a thirty man taxi

37:15

squad ready to go. The rosters already at

37:17

thirty. They have another thirty guys. Will

37:19

it be lower quality baseball players?

37:22

Yeah, but we don't know how

37:24

long they're filling in for. It could be only a couple of days

37:26

at a time. Difference from football to baseball is to

37:29

back up your point here, in baseball, what's

37:31

the worst case scenario. You said it, the whole starting staff

37:33

goes down. Alright, deal with that. Take take

37:35

you guys from the the taxi squad

37:37

thirty and you still got a baseball game. In

37:40

football, the entire offensive line goes

37:42

down. Well, now you've got Patrick Mahomes running

37:44

for his life. And do you really want a guy

37:46

who you can't play right, who has a half billion

37:48

dollar contract running for his life as soon

37:50

as the bull snapped. That's the different

37:53

difference in football is that you know someone could

37:55

get really hurt. We really hurt here. So

37:57

I think that's that's the huge difference from me here. Oh

37:59

not. I think you're right. I think it's gonna be live

38:02

with whatever happens, live with it. You know, guys

38:04

are gonna go out. We're gonna have this over and over

38:06

again, mentioned one solo and baseball top baseball

38:08

player out. Yeah, we're gonna have this in football,

38:10

we're gonna have probably have it in hockey, probably have it

38:13

basketball as well. And I'll keep

38:15

saying it over and over again. If you want to see

38:17

the games played, live with it. This

38:19

is what it is. In two baseball,

38:22

starting pitchers go down right before

38:24

starts fairly often. Blake

38:27

Kershaw was supposed to start Opening

38:29

day. We found out that day that he

38:31

wasn't pitching. How often

38:33

do we find out the day of that

38:36

Pat Mahomes back tightened up, or Ben

38:39

Roethlisberger's elbow is sore, he's

38:41

not going to be able to play today.

38:43

We will know about those injuries in advance,

38:46

because it's typically as a result of the wear

38:48

and tear of the season, not the morning

38:51

of. That's extremely rare. There's the

38:53

occasional last minute cancelation

38:55

of a player didn't go well in warmups and he

38:57

doesn't have to play, but we generally already

39:00

you know that that player is somewhat injured.

39:02

Um. The baseball culture different from the football

39:05

culture in that regard. So let's continue

39:07

on with this game, the sham of a game

39:09

that I keep getting screwed on with the roles.

39:12

I gotta pick a I gotta pick a team. Now, would

39:15

you like to ask me all those tributa questions that I've rarely

39:17

got one? Right? This is my revenge? Yeah,

39:19

that's that's just true. Um. I

39:22

never paid my paid, I never paid

39:24

back my texting

39:27

you of that horrible ending

39:29

to the game. I was supposed to do something on social

39:31

media. I never got around to it, So chalk

39:33

that up to pandemic. Anybody

39:36

who did listen Mike text me about eleven

39:39

o'clock, maybe ten fifty at night. Oh,

39:41

you gotta turn on the NFL whatever. I think it was the

39:43

NFL Network, whatever else you gotta turn it on. You got turned

39:45

onto. I think it's Fox Sports one actually whatever, you

39:47

gotta turn it on. R Now I'm thinking, oh, we're on TV

39:49

or something's something I need to say. No, I'm

39:51

a Cowboy fan. Mike decides I should

39:54

watch the end of the green Bay Dallas game from three

39:56

or four years ago when Mason Crosby

39:58

kicks the game. When he kicked it was an amazing ending

40:01

to my In my defense, it

40:03

was an amazing ending, wasn't

40:06

Aaron Rodgers was really good there at the end

40:08

of how he held onto that football in that

40:10

sack by Jane Either it was amazing. All right,

40:13

let's play. So I'll pick another team. Uh,

40:18

just just just go to division, go go

40:20

down. Just picking on something that random, all

40:23

right, Matt Ryan, I'm not rolling

40:26

Caroline at Teddy Bridgewater. Teddy

40:28

Bridgewater just signed a big contract.

40:31

Boy. You must like Miami. You get would

40:34

you trade Bridgewater for to and

40:36

Fitzpatrick. I'd

40:40

rather to in Fitzpatricks in this case,

40:42

I would why And it's not it's not an

40:44

anti Teddy thing. I just don't.

40:47

I think that to a ceiling

40:49

is higher. I think because Caroline

40:51

is already playing, they're not playing for a playoff

40:54

spot this season super Bowl. Why not take,

40:56

as you said, the higher ceiling with to a lower

40:58

contracts. I give you more cap room for years

41:00

to come here, and once again, you've got time

41:02

of development anyway. You're not playing to win this year,

41:05

so you have time you gotta come. Well, you probably don't

41:07

have to compete with Breeze and Brady, they'll probably

41:09

both be gone by the time two is really there,

41:11

but it gives you some time here to really get too

41:14

up to date. I agree with you, I would. I would take this

41:16

pretty easily to over Bridge and

41:18

Teddy Bridgewater. Obviously, he performed admirably

41:21

with the Saints last year. They didn't light it up

41:23

when he was in there. He hasn't been a high volume

41:25

passing quarterback overall. I think

41:27

he's obviously a player that everybody likes,

41:29

and I think he's a solid quarterback.

41:32

But I probably put him more in the Kirk

41:36

Cousins range than I would the you

41:41

know, the the next

41:43

up and coming quarterback Brane. I don't want to say

41:45

Lamar and Patrick Mahomes because people aren't

41:47

really in that range. But I probably put him

41:49

more in that, you know, middle of the pack range.

41:51

Is he had top ten quarterback? Could Teddy Bridgewater

41:54

be a top ten quarterback? I

41:56

think I probably doubt that a little bit. He

41:58

could come close by. I don't know that he's the

42:00

guy that i'd feel confident in winning the Super Bowl?

42:03

Would you rather have Teddy Bridgewater? Jared Goff?

42:07

You take the contract? Contract?

42:10

Gets what this game is about? The contract counter?

42:12

I would take Bridgewater would

42:15

take I have more flexibility, only three years

42:18

then get out of there, maybe after two. But in

42:20

any event, okay, I'll

42:22

pick another team, the

42:25

Niners. Let's roll the dice. Jimmy

42:27

g Chris Venture not gonna be happy with you, because

42:30

I'd roll the dice. Because he's

42:32

Italian, who cares, no loves

42:35

He loves it because he's Italian. That's why

42:37

he likes him. All Right, you got number nine? Oh

42:39

well, you got an easy one here. No. Nine

42:41

is the Shawn Watson. I think you're taken.

42:43

Okay, how much money he's gonna make you? Take it? To Shawn

42:46

Watson. I mean, if I had to Shawn

42:48

Watson, if you can guarantee me Shawn

42:50

Deshaun Watson, I'd roll the dice for like

42:54

guys, I

42:56

wouldn't roll the dice on would

42:59

you rather have Deshaun Watson or Lamar Jackson

43:02

right now the rest of their career. Well,

43:06

they're both gonna get massive contracts that we don't. We don't

43:08

have any of that to break the contracts sort of a push.

43:11

Yeah, I think I'm gonna go to

43:13

Sean Watson. I like his build

43:15

better. It's

43:17

crazy to say I agree with you and

43:20

it is not. Is not throwing

43:22

shade at Lamar the top five

43:24

quarterback. He's done it one time, specifically

43:27

and unanimous m v P accolades,

43:29

all that kind of stuff. But I just

43:32

I'm a huge Deshaun Watson fan. I

43:34

think Mahomes and Russell Wilson, and

43:37

then I start thinking of the next names,

43:39

and Watson is on the tip of my tongue when

43:41

I'm rattling off those names. Yeah,

43:43

I'm with you there. I like I like to show it a lot.

43:45

I think the long term, you know, maybe Drew Breeses

43:48

has a better year than him now, but I'd rather

43:50

have Shawn Watson probably now that Drew

43:52

Brees. I think we have point out a lot about the show on

43:55

Watson this year. He doesn't have that Hopkins Anymore's

43:57

gonna be same. It has to be more on

43:59

his shoulders. But what he keeps saying earlier in the show

44:01

that we hope that Bill o'ba O'Brien

44:04

doesn't hold him back, he's gonna he's gonna

44:07

have about Watson b Watson. In fact, we're

44:09

gonna close out the show by doing Deshaun Watson

44:11

props. After this and Georgia not

44:13

come back. We've got a three a little three minutes segment to

44:15

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44:17

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44:48

Deshaun Watson props. Having a little

44:50

fun because I rolled the dice in George's Weird

44:53

Game and I finally won. Deshaun

44:55

Watson would be my QB. So let's take a look

44:57

at his props for the year. I've all and

45:00

said that Kyler Murray as off AP

45:02

Offensive Player of the Year is a bet that I like. But

45:04

you know what, I like to Deshaun Watson

45:07

AP Offensive Player of the Year one

45:09

just as much Kyler Murray's plus thirty two

45:11

hundred. Shawn Watson plus hundred doesn't

45:13

mean MVP. MVP usually goes along

45:16

with having a really successful team, like

45:18

Lamar Jackson did last year. I think,

45:20

regardless of record, he should have won

45:22

the m v P, but they were fourteen and two. It made

45:24

it a slam dunk. So, uh, Deshaun

45:27

Watson plus twenty hundred, you like him

45:29

more or less than Kyler just for example,

45:31

for comparison's sake, more

45:33

or less mean I do like the bet. Uh. It's like you said,

45:36

because it's mainly because I think for Houston to

45:38

be successful, they have to unleash him. De

45:40

Shaun's gonna have to play well, he's just going

45:43

down. You can't rely on the You probably can't rely on with defense

45:45

totally. You can't rely on that one receiver in Hopkins,

45:48

and there's nobody else on that offensive gonna take away.

45:50

I guess the publicity from him. If they win, it will be because

45:52

of the Shawn Watson. As much as I made like David

45:55

Johnson, He's not Barkley, he's

45:57

not Isecular Elliott, he's not Christian McCaffrey, he's

45:59

not anyway near by himself. It's

46:01

going to be Watson at leads this team. If you

46:04

believe they're going to get the over was the seven a half

46:06

wins, it means the Shawn wasn't had an incredible

46:08

year. That's what it means to me. We've seen that schedule

46:10

too. Not easy here, uh the

46:13

schedule that that's the reason I won't do it, because I think

46:15

it's gonna be too tough for him to get. I

46:17

do prefer Kyler Murray at thirty two over.

46:22

I'm gonna look at his other props here

46:25

if I have him Watson,

46:27

No, they don't have his yardage total up. Let's

46:30

look for his touchdowns?

46:32

Do they have them? What? No,

46:35

DeShawn Watson, you gotta be kidding me. Most

46:37

regular season passing yards? Here we go. Here's

46:40

that's another one that could potentially be in play.

46:42

But he's at plus twenty two hundred.

46:44

The guys in front of him for passing yards

46:47

Mahomes, Dak Maddie Ice, Phil

46:49

Rivers, Phil Rivers, No way,

46:52

that's a terrible that's not happening. Tom Brady,

46:54

Jared Goff, Matt Stafford, Ben Roethlisberger,

46:57

Drew Brees, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers, Baker

47:00

a Field, went Scaroppolo, then

47:02

DeShawn Watson. He's too low.

47:05

But I'm basically rooting for Pat Mahomes

47:07

to get hurt for that to happen. I don't

47:09

know that he's going to have the most passing yards, but

47:11

I think you go down the board a little

47:13

bit. It's kind of interesting. I don't know. I

47:15

just don't know that they'll throw that much. I think they'll

47:17

throw more. I don't know enough to get him five

47:20

thousand yards, which basically is what right

47:22

near where you need to hit in order

47:24

to win the passing arche title at t any

47:26

problems anyways, you mentioned, I don't think he'll throw that

47:29

much. No hopins. We don't think the receivers are gonna

47:31

stay healthy. I'll stay a life okay, so

47:34

Shaun Watson AP Offensive Player

47:36

of the Year twenties and one that said, for us on FFC

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