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What's up everybody? 
What's going on? 

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Welcome to unleashed Boy, we got
a lot to hit. 

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Obviously a wild football 
weekend. 

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You know, I got at least go back
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sitting there saying, all right 
now, not that I really expected 

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this to happen, but I'm sitting 
there saying if everything goes 

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to according to a certain 
script, this could be a home run

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night for The Jets and then I'll
get into the weekend stuff. 

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But here just from Friday night 
from the college, right, That's 

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the first thing that happened. 
Absolute worst case scenario for

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The Jets. 
It's not even close. 

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Like, if you look at the 
options, and I talked about this

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on Thursday and Friday, like the
possibilities of what could 

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happen on Friday with Indiana 
and Oregon, there were a couple.

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There was at least three, maybe 
a fourth one. 

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And I was kind of run through it
again, where The Jets would have

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absolutely benefited 
tremendously coming to the draft

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with Mendoza, with Moore, with 
the Raiders and making them 

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think and everything. 
So the first situation was, and 

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we knew that this was going to 
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Dante Moore balls out. 
Wow. 

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All right, So you got the kid 
who's a little bit younger, a 

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little less experienced, you 
know, his college close to where

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the Raiders play. 
You know, Mendoza balls out, but

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more balls out. 
That's something that could be 

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advantageous to The Jets because
maybe it gives the Raiders 

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something to think about. 
That didn't happen. 

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The other thing that would have 
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so sold on Mendoza, I even said 
if Mendoza went like 11 for 19 

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with three picks and a fumble 
and the Indiana Hoosier got 

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absolutely bludgeoned and Oregon
won, I would still take Mendoza 

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over. 
Like there was nothing in that 

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game that would have sent me a 
signal to reevaluate how I view 

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the quarterback spot pertaining 
for what I wanted The Jets to 

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do. 
So if Mendoza would have 

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stumbled again, The first one 
they both pull out, that didn't 

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happen. 
The next one, if Mendoza would 

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have played poorly and more 
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Now, it still doesn't mean 
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would have said, OK, that's 
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going to take more pass on 
Mendoza. 

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But again, it would have 
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And when that happens, you never
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know Brady's there. 
So that's probably going to lead

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to sensibility and never work 
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they actually have a real 
football person there instead of

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Dopey Davis doing whatever he 
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But that situation didn't 
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Now here's the other thing I 
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situation. 
Mendoza plays amazing, like, 

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which he did, and Moore plays 
OK, OK, but Oregon somehow wins,

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Oregon advances, and then Moore 
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Mendoza's home. 
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the Raiders something to think 
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Instead, what we have is the 
absolute worst situation where, 

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you know, first play from 
scrimmage, Moore throws a pick 

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six, then throws it through for 
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Then Mendoza had more 
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incompletion. 
So there's no doubt, guys, who 

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the absolute best player is, and
there was no doubt for me going 

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in. 
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of possibilities like, all 
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and this could open up this area
of dialogue and maybe this could

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happen. 
So we're at a situation now, 

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right where it's pretty much 
worst case for The Jets. 

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There's no clear cut third 
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Obviously Mendoza's obviously 
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Now, I still do think that 
there's a chance that more comes

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out, You know, whether or not he
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Jets. 
I, I pull some Peyton Manning, I

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don't really know how that's 
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to go down there. 
I don't, I don't know. 

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We'll find out. 
But I think that the like any 

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leverage, anything that could 
have transpired that was very 

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favorable for The Jets the other
night, obviously went the other 

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direction, went the wrong way 
and there's nothing you can do 

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about it. 
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do, maybe the only other option 
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more does come out and, you 
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maybe 30%, you know, whatever, 
the nil money changes 

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everything. 
So if he's on the fence, which I

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know he is, you know, 1011 
million bucks, boom, you go back

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to school. 
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next year's draft crop is 
thought to be much better, much 

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better than this year. 
So, you know, now he's got to 

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weigh the merits. 
And this is a very tough 

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decision because it has ruined a
lot of people over the years 

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where if he goes to the NFL, 
even though it was a year or 

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he's a he's, even though he's 
young and he's only 20 and he's 

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got to put on some real 
functional weight. 

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He barely weighs over £200. 
The kid has a lot of talent. 

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I like Dante Moore, but I don't 
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him a 2, if he even does come 
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So maybe maybe you, if he, you 
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interviews, well, which I would 
imagine that he will, maybe he 

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still does come out. 
The Jets aren't sold. 

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The Jets trade out the 
Cardinals, whoever The Jets get 

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a stopgap for for next season. 
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Maybe. 
But I mean, you know, you, you 

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sit down, the game's over before
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into your spot on the couch, the
game's over, it's over. 

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And there's just really nothing.
Like there was no intrigue in 

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that game. 
Every single thing that you were

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hoping for from a Jets 
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could something not go our way? 
I don't know. 

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I don't understand. 
It doesn't matter. 

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And always listen. 
I could lament and I could 

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scream as loud as I want. 
You know, it's not going to 

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change anything. 
The script that needed to happen

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for The Jets simply did not 
happen. 

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The Jets did not get lucky. 
So now The Jets need to create 

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their own fortune. 
You know, they've got to get a 

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little lucky with the things 
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More coming out, whatever. 
And then somebody behind them 

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falling in love with Dante Moore
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And then listen, I'd be OK with 
this because even if Dante Moore

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played better and, and again, if
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different. 
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If he played better than he did,
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instead of awful, well, you 
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well, you know, you got a pretty
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You find the second receiver 
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body, 63, whatever, 5050 ball, 
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And then you could kind of talk 
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mort #2. 
I can't do that right now 

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because I don't I don't trust 
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and coach him up and I also 
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yet. 
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part of it where I'm willing to 
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might be and if that's what they
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business. 
I'll build out the roster. 

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I'll get the linebacker, I'll 
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the safety, I'll get the corner,
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lineman and I'll say that draft 
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And I'll, you know, I'll see 
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Murray. 
I'll see what's going on with 

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Kirk Cousins. 
You know all the names at this 

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point. 
So that was a very, very 

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disheartening start to the 
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Nothing you can do about it. 
You got to move on. 

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And as we move on and by the 
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questions here. 
BT unleashed hit me up on on the

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on the on the live function here
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Still not up on YouTube. 
Nothing I could do about it. 

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So instead of crying like a baby
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Do what I could do control what 
I can control. 

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Talk about the show. 
What's driving me nuts that 

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we're still not on YouTube, but 
there's really nothing that I 

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could do right now. 
So I'm not going to waste a lot 

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of time with that. 
All right now you get to the 

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weekend. 
First of all, rather than 

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starting in sequence, I'm not 
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here. 
I want to cherry pick couple 

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things I don't want to hear 
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Being a star enough with the 
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enough interested doesn't 
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It's no longer with Merritt. 
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playoffs, right? 
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was up 27 zip and they lose. 
Now that's also on coaching. 

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That's also on the defense. 
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that, that sequence where you 
make one first down, you make 

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one better throw, you're going 
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So 27 zip collapse is on his 
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the next year in this isn't. 
This is sequentially, by the 

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way. 
So 27 zip epic collapse. 

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Not good. 
All right, young Chargers just 

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thought trying to figure things 
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Last year, 4 picks against the 
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Like, imagine I'll get to that 
in a second. 

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And then last night you score 3 
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I mean, I know it was windy. 
It was also a little windy in 

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Philly. 
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of play. 
I don't want to hear about the 

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weather. 
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You know, it wasn't raining 
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Get your team at the end zone 3 
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I mean, and if you watch the 
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throws were there where Herbert 
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old lines not that good. 
I get that. 

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I know a couple of Keenan Allen 
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I know that as well. 
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and you're a top 10 pick, 
whatever he was, I forget where 

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he went exactly, but highly 
drafted, right? 

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And I think more importantly, 
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people just kind of rotely say 
that they're like, well, you 

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know Mahomes and Josh Allen and 
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Herbert, No, no, her, I don't 
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Herbert's not in that category 
doesn't deserve it. 

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There's no way Imagine I'm 
giants fans, right? 

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So imagine if Eli's first place 
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for two. 
Now they're also with Eli and 

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we've talked about this not to 
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Now I'm not going to do that 
now, but just across the bridge 

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to get to another point. 
Imagine Eli who went 2 for two 

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with two Super Bowls and two 
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flawless play MVP twice in the 
Super Bowl. 

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Imagine if Eli's first playoff 
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Coughlin, they flushed down a 27
zip believe and they lose the 

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game right number one. 
And then the next game and 

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again, still young Eli still 
feel his way out and still feel 

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his way around. 
Then the next game, Eli not 1, 

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not 2, not 3-4 interceptions 
lost you going home. 

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And then the next game when 
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team, you, you score 3 points, 
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I don't want to hear it. 
Like to me, like there are, it's

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funny how this works. 
It's actually really funny. 

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There are certain players who 
for whatever reason get unfairly

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knocked, you know, and I'm just 
like locally off the top of my 

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head, although I I believe 
there's merit to some of it. 

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You want to tell me Alonzo has 
been treated a little bit 

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unfairly baseball in the court 
of public opinion where we kind 

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of fixate on on the flaws when 
he was here rather than what he 

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does really well. 
Or maybe even Lindor. 

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Lindor to a lesser extent, or 
even Judge, who is the best I've

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ever seen. 
All these MVPS, 1100 OPS, 60 

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bombs every year basically. 
But because the Yankees don't 

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win, you know, in a sport where 
one player can't truly change 

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the outcome, like baseball, 
Judge is maybe unfairly 

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criticized and, you know, feels 
that vitriol from certain fans. 

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That's like that's one aspect. 
And then there's the other end 

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of the of the equation, the 
other side of the coin, where 

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certain guys, no matter what 
they do, for whatever reason, 

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maybe it's the market they play 
playing. 

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fans are calling up LA talk 
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horrible. 
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going on? 
That's not happening. 

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thought to be one of the best 
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So I mean, come on, guys, can we
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there's anybody that would take 
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is what he had in the regular 
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flame outs, it's probably a Jet 
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represent progress. 
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that point, like with Sanchez, 
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other guys right there, there's 
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don't care how thirsty you are 
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you know, sustained success 
where you go to the playoffs 2 

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years in a row. 
Whoa, eventually that gets old 

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and that gets tiring, right? 
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come. 
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good, imagine if The Jets 
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imagine what I would be saying 
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Strat that a couple of years ago
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three points in the playoff 
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yeah, by the way, last year 4 
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It's just it really is 
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this selective pouncing on 
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Don't get it, don't agree with 
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But Herbert was awful last night
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throwing in the same category 
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even the guys who are maybe a 
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a whole lot more like champion 
hurts and guys like that. 

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All right, so now, now you get 
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totality. 
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first three games. 
The team that with this is an 

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amazing stat that they put up 
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game yesterday, Niners Philly, 
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Wild finish. 
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Brown, Siriani yelling at each 
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Brown, the ridiculous drop. 
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going to fire Siriani got big 
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from where I am in Philly. 
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two to resign themselves to 
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I don't know, maybe Philly moves
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That was not a good look. 
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performance. 
Any you know, especially against

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the Niners team that lost 
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But during the game they put up 
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card games, the team that was 
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in the game. 
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You want to talk about a wild 
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Now? 
I made the picks on Friday here 

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on Unleashed right? 
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was wrong. 
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You'll get that on the show. 
Unlike a lot of other shows, 

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when they're wrong, they just 
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I will be wrong and I will 
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if I have to and reference it if
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now. 
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squash the Panthers. 
I really did. 

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I, you know, I, I remember 
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late Carolina money coming in. 
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Friday, all you want to probably
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point. 
Worse you going to do is a push.

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I'm thinking maybe 30-10, you 
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That's kind of what I'm 23 to 
2713. 

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That's what I was thinking, 
Right? 

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No, I was absolutely stunned at 
the way that game was an awesome

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game. 
The fans were great. 

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That's the importance of winning
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And, you know, here we are. 
We're off to a very, you know, a

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rousing start, a surprising 
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What are you going to do? 
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game, 21 to 3 at the half now. 
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All right, So the Bears had not 
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game since the Sunday after we 
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World War 2. 
That's the last time that the 

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Bears beat the Packers in the 
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Stunning stuff. 
Now that throw, Caleb Williams 

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made a lot of throws. 
That throw that he made on 4th 

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down where he rolled out to his 
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with touch and distance off off 
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best throws I've ever seen under
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And that's not hyperbole. 
Like Eli had a couple of great 

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throws. 
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great throws in playoff lore, 
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of difficulty now, if it was 
one-on-one and just had a, you 

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know, throw it over the top, 
that's hard enough rolling out 

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your flush, you're off 1 foot. 
Boom. 

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He had a there were at least 
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Like, so we had to throw it 
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in front of the second line. 
Perfection. 

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Wow. 
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of course, you know, Ben 
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one thing that that I don't mind
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people get wrapped up in this, 
like why is everybody so 

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consumed what a coach says to 
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This is one of the problems, 
right, with social media and 

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having cameras everywhere. 
So Ben Johnson, all right, 

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caught up in first of all, the 
handshake was a little 

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classless. 
I think you got to do a better 

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job than that. 
When you when I know you're 

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pumped up, I know it. 
I know you've got this energy 

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that surging through your body 
and you feel like you can run 

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through titanium steel because 
that's the the high that you're 

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on. 
But you're a coach, you're the 

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leader. 
You're the visible face of the 

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franchise. 
You got to do a better job than 

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that kind of handshake. 
You have to do a better job on 

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that. 
So if I'm going to criticize Ben

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Johnson for anything, it would 
be that like you can't do the 

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hit and run like the quick one 
and like it just it doesn't look

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right. 
All right, That's where you got 

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to process it a little 
differently. 

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Give the guy 10 seconds before 
he gets to midfield, let him 

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celebrate, shake the hands like 
a big boy and then get in the 

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locker room and say whatever the
hell you want to say. 

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And like, think about this. 
So Ben Johnson, I know Ben 

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Johnson's had a few flare ups 
with the media, whatever. 

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I'd rather have a guy with an 
edge and A and a little bit of 

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whatever than a guy would 
absolutely nothing who's stoic, 

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who project. 
Give me Ben Johnson any day of 

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the week over the litany of 
coaches who just, you know, 

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recycle no emotion. 
I'll take that guy any day. 

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You know that. 
But to me, Ben Johnson, let me 

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get this straight, Ben Johnson's
going to get criticized because 

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he said bleep the bleep the 
Packers F the Packers. 

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That's where we are in. 
I mean, are you kidding me, man?

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Think about that rivalry and 
think about how one side just 

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gave you the stat. 
World War 2 is the last time the

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Bears beat the Packers in a 
playoff game. 

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And this guy's not allowed to 
get to get all fired up with in 

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front of his guys where he 
thinks there's now you got to 

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know that there's cameras, I 
guess. 

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But it's just amazing how it it 
is amazing to me. 

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Here's the bottom line, how 
soft, and I have said this a 

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lot, how soft certain aspects of
society has, but how really how 

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it's become. 
It's amazing to me, like, oh, 

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the fake outrage. 
The coach said a naughty word. 

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The coach cursed on. 
I mean, you'd think that it was 

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T-ball and he dropped nine F 
bombs because his team had a 

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walk off winning T-ball. 
I mean, give me a break, dude. 

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Get over yourself, you softies. 
Like if you're on Ben Johnson 

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for that, you are you, you, you.
I'm talking to you, whoever you 

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are, and there's a lot of yous, 
all right, whoever you are, you 

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are more of a problem with 
society than an answer, then a 

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solution, then resolution be a 
break. 

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I mean, you know what it what 
goes into coaching football 

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from? 
I mean, first of all, you never 

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sleep. 
You're at the office all the 

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time. 
You sleep on a couch. 

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You're probably eating like a 
slob because you just inhaling 

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some fast food to get through 
the next tape session, right? 

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You're cutting off years of your
life with the stress and the 

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pressure, the constant media 
updates of the job security. 

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And then you go to OTAs. 
You go to, you know, non 

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organized stuff, barely 
organized stuff, whatever the 

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terminology is. 
Then you get to the OTAs after 

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you navigate the draft and the 
pressures of free agency. 

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And then you go to camp. 
And I know it's not like it used

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to be all the old timers say it 
and I get it. 

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But it's still it's still 
training camp, you know, where 

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you kind of sequestered for 
however long and it's just you 

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and your team and he trying to, 
you know, impart your your 

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vision to them and get them to 
buy in for a franchise that 

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doesn't want anything forever. 
And this guy's going to get 

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harpoon for dropping a few F all
F the Packers. 

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Damn right. 
I'd say the same thing. 

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Like, imagine if Aaron Glenn, we
should only be so lucky if you 

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know, last night beats the 
Patriots, right. 

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And Aaron says, you know who 
want to fly with them F and jet 

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something like that. 
After the couple of wins that 

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they had, which I like, I 
thought that was pretty good and

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drops an F bomb in there and he 
throws the Patriots name in 

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there. 
I mean, I'd be like, that's my 

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guy, that is my leader, that is 
my coach, That's the dude that I

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want leading my team. 
Everything else is just noise, 

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noise, really just noise I had 
no interest in engaging in. 

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And really at this point my 
life, I got no interest in 

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hearing. 
Get over it, right? 

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So the one thing that we learned
this morning? 

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And this is about, I think I saw
the story right, story right 

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around 9:00 before I went on the
air. 

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Matt Lafleur. 
Now, there was a thought that, 

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and this obviously would have 
complicated possibly the giant 

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situation, which I'll get to in 
a minute more thoroughly. 

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They're going to retain him, 
which I think is the smart 

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thing. 
I think Lafleur is a really good

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coach. 
I don't think he's got a great 

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team. 
I really don't. 

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I know there's a different 
standard out there in Green Bay.

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I get that as well. 
And I know that, you know, his 

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contract is up after next year 
and, you know, their GM and and 

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their president of football 
operations has been on record. 

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He doesn't want a lame duck, 
which I agree with. 

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So they're going to sit down, 
talk contract, He'll be back. 

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It's a good fit. 
Hey, listen, I, I understand 

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that it's not perfect. 
I I get that. 

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But when you're 76 and 40, all 
right. 

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And as he 7640 and one, as he 
has, as he has done so far with 

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the Green Bay Packers and in six
of the seven years you've been 

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there, you've made the playoffs.
It's it's kind of hard to say 

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with any sort of, you know, 
merit that Lafleur should be 

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fired. 
So he won't be Now, you know, 

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you want to factor in a few 
other things like, and by the 

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way, if you disagree with that, 
I think there's enough evidence 

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where we could at least have the
conversation. 

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You're up 21, three and a half. 
You got a young quarterback. 

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You got a young coach. 
You got to find a way to stick 

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him in stick. 
I mean, stick him in the 

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freezer, man. 
You got to find a way to win 

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that game. 
Admittedly, you have to find a 

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way to win that game, but you 
didn't. 

447
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,000
All right? 
So you've got a choice at that 

448
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,600
point. 
You got to get rid of somebody 

449
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,920
who, you know, works pretty well
in Green Bay. 

450
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,400
The culture they win, they're 
always a playoff team. 

451
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,320
There's no drama. 
And roll the dice on getting 

452
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,800
better, but also in certain 
areas getting worse and 

453
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,720
regressing. 
That's the real risk that you 

454
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,880
run when you hire somebody to 
come in and replace somebody 

455
00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,080
who's done a good job, like the 
Ravens will do with Harbaugh and

456
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,520
some other spots as well. 
Yeah, like the Knicks with Tom 

457
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:55,000
Thibodeau. 
That's that's that's a pretty 

458
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,440
good example as well. 
So I get it. 

459
00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:01,560
That's a especially that you mix
in the emotion of losing to a 

460
00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,440
division rival, even though the 
Packers have always been the 

461
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,400
beneficiaries of of that 
relationship. 

462
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:12,040
But yeah, I mean, I, I don't 
love the fact that they're most,

463
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,120
I think the last, what is it? 
The last last three, yeah, last 

464
00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:16,560
three years they've been a seven
seed. 

465
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,080
You know, you kind of just 
squeeze it in. 

466
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,960
Their Lions had their moment. 
Bears had their moment this 

467
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,680
year. 
Like you got to probably find a 

468
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,440
way to do better than a seven 
seed so that games not in 

469
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,560
Chicago. 
So maybe you get the occasional 

470
00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:34,280
buy be the top seed here. 
You know, I I I do like him and 

471
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:36,840
I think that that's obviously 
good news that he will be 

472
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,760
retained. 
And if you're John Horbaugh, how

473
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:41,720
do you not have interest in the 
Packers job? 

474
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,720
You're a Midwest guy. 
It's one of the most revered 

475
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,720
spots in all the sports and that
would have been a highly 

476
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:52,400
intriguing I I would think 
pursuit from their end and he 

477
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,440
would I would think that he 
would have been very receptive 

478
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,800
to it on his end. 
So that's not going to happen. 

479
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,520
That's one less thing you got to
worry about. 

480
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,800
You know, and and by the way, 
just buzzing around the rest of 

481
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,560
the weekend before I get a 
little bit more to the horrible 

482
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,720
stuff. 
Read some of this stuff here as 

483
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,600
well. 
And and even something on the 

484
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:09,200
Yankees with the bell. 
We got a lot to do today. 

485
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,680
I got a lot to do today the the 
game. 

486
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:18,840
Let me see the where is it? 
OK, so was surprised by the Rams

487
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,320
score. 
I did pick the Bears to win. 

488
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,000
I thought the Jaguars would win.
Tough loss. 

489
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,920
And by the way, I I love Josh 
Allen. 

490
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,600
That also probably keeps 
McDermott around unless next 

491
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,120
week is just gross and which I 
don't think it will be. 

492
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,360
You would have to think 
Mcdermott's back if they lose 

493
00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:37,400
that game. 
That's a possible job opening 

494
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,080
which maybe could have impacted 
horrible Stefanski. 

495
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,120
Some of these other coaches 
obviously in demand. 

496
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,960
I mean, you know, Philly, I 
mean, you, you, you've got to do

497
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:46,760
something. 
You've got it. 

498
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,680
Philly. 
If that's it, like whether it's 

499
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,400
Siriani, whether it's Brown, 
whether it's both, what I don't,

500
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,280
I don't know what the problem is
there. 

501
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:57,040
But when you look the way 
they've looked for so long this 

502
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:00,480
year, you might just have to 
say, all right, you know, hey, 

503
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,000
we captured a championship, we 
delivered it. 

504
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,720
We'll always be thankful to the 
men who did that. 

505
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,920
Obviously Saquon, obviously, and
Saquon's not going anywhere. 

506
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,560
Siriani, the quarterback. 
It just feels like it's time for

507
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,080
change there. 
Like there's there's just no 

508
00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,000
cohesion with the Eagles. 
I don't know. 

509
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,360
I like even with all the 
speculation and and Harbaugh 

510
00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:23,040
coach there for, I want to say 8
or 9 years early in his career, 

511
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,080
I have never seen Harbaugh once 
linked to the Eagles. 

512
00:24:26,360 --> 00:24:30,200
Now if there's an abrupt change 
soon and Siriani's out, I don't 

513
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:31,760
know, is that something Harbaugh
will be interested? 

514
00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,280
I'm not really sure. 
But you, you just can't ask for 

515
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,360
a better weekend. 
The football, every game was 

516
00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:41,120
tight, you know, last night, 
even though last night, like the

517
00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:43,360
aesthetics of last night's game 
was was awful. 

518
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,320
You know, just talked about the 
Chargers doing nothing, 16, 

519
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,000
three, the final. 
But even before that late 

520
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,480
touchdown there, it was close, 
you know, so you're thinking, 

521
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,040
OK, all right, you know, maybe 
here we go here. 

522
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,040
So the football is absolutely 
off and running. 

523
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:02,200
And now we get to what's going 
to be a transformative, 

524
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,600
hopefully transformative week 
for the New York Giants. 

525
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,800
Giants. 
The Giants have to get horrible,

526
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,840
and I'm not even saying that 
Horrible is the absolute clear 

527
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,520
cut number one. 
I mean, he's he's right there. 

528
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,960
I made my case for McCarthy. 
I like Stefanski a lot. 

529
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,000
I don't know if I like him more 
than Horrible, but it's kind of 

530
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,760
close. 
But why I say the Giants can't 

531
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,880
mess this up? 
Think about the perception of 

532
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,120
the New York Giants, right? 
The Giants, in a lot of ways, 

533
00:25:29,120 --> 00:25:31,720
guys and Giant fans hate when I 
say this, but this is the 

534
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,400
reality of it. 
Until proven otherwise, the 

535
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,040
Giants have an essence morphed 
into The Jets, and that is the 

536
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,760
worst thing that you can say 
about any NFL team, especially 

537
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,560
the one that was always the 
standard NFL team around here 

538
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,960
and along with the Yankees, the 
Platinum Franchise. 

539
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,040
So that's a big problem now they
finally found their quarterback.

540
00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:53,080
All right. 
So that that begins to get you 

541
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,280
away from the vitriol because 
that's been a massive problem 

542
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,560
for a long time. 
So, and not not by coincidence, 

543
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,960
when you find the quarterback 
will now suddenly the 

544
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:06,760
organization externally is 
viewed far more healthy than it 

545
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:08,600
was. 
Now, if you think about the what

546
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,960
are their eight openings? 
So forget about the Ravens 

547
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,280
opening. 
There could be more within the 

548
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,000
next day or so, but right now 
there's 8. 

549
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:18,320
Obviously, unless the Ravens 
pulled an all timer and brought 

550
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,840
back Harbaugh, there's seven 
jobs you got to worry about. 

551
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,160
So wherever for Harbaugh's 
perspective? 

552
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,560
And I think there's really only 
three, maybe 4 to me, the top 

553
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,840
three jobs, and I've really been
saying this from day one. 

554
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,480
I was saying this during the 
year with Sal, like I always 

555
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:34,880
thought that the Giants opening 
was going to be incredibly 

556
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,560
appealing. 
I know we can sit here and talk 

557
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,760
about, you know, how, how 
ownership and, and things going.

558
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,240
And I don't even mean Mr. 
Mayor's health. 

559
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,040
And, and that's totally 
separate. 

560
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,920
And most important, God bless 
that man and we're all praying 

561
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,400
for him. 
I'm separating that. 

562
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,120
I'm putting that to the I'm not 
even talking about that. 

563
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,800
Obviously from a football 
operations point of view, the 

564
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,640
Giants have been a zero, an 
absolute 0. 

565
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,880
But as I watched our play, I'm 
sitting there saying, okay, you 

566
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,640
know, right away this becomes a 
much more appealing landing spot

567
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,200
for a real worthy coach rather 
than going the coordinator route

568
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,160
and try to convince somebody to 
come take your job. 

569
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,160
The Giants just all they, they, 
they can't mess this up this 

570
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,760
week. 
That's all there is to it. 

571
00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:20,320
Like there's certain times you 
got to sell you and they got to 

572
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,560
sell themselves. 
But I mean, sell themselves 

573
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,640
where you're almost, you have 
to, you have to hit a Grand Slam

574
00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:29,920
in the presentation because you 
have nothing else really. 

575
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,520
That's incredibly appealing to 
somebody who has won a ton, 61% 

576
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,280
of his regular season games. 
That's horrible. 18 years, one 

577
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,280
Super Bowl, that man's a winner,
all right. 

578
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,200
And if you know, his kicker hits
a 45 yard field goal, you know, 

579
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,080
to wrap up the regular season, 
guess what? 

580
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,800
We're talking about Tomlin right
now and not Horbaugh because 

581
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,200
Horbaugh still has a job. 
Like that's the tenuous, unfair 

582
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,880
nature of being a coach in 
modern pro sports. 

583
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,160
Think about that. 
Like if that ball goes in, 

584
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,080
Ravens are playing, Pittsburgh's
done. 

585
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,400
He's still coaching, Tomlin's 
probably out. 

586
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,960
It's crazy. 
So I have always thought that 

587
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,480
this in this coaching cycle, 
none of the last few, but in 

588
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,520
this one, I really thought the 
Giants coaching job would be an 

589
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,800
incredibly attracting 
destination. 

590
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,720
I do think they're going to pay.
There were stories over the 

591
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:20,080
weekend that that that were 
refuting the thought that he 

592
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:24,640
needed $20 million a year, full 
personnel power that that wasn't

593
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,000
refuted by him. 
But you know, some really well 

594
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,840
sourced, reputable people put 
that out there. 

595
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,120
So you got to believe it, right?
So to me, you're looking at 

596
00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:35,600
these jobs and you know, Ravens 
aside pertaining to horrible 

597
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,320
Giants, very appealing Falcons 
very appealing. 

598
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,760
A lot of talent out there in 
Atlanta, pretty good place to 

599
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,480
live, good weather, bad 
division, good stadium, good 

600
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,680
owner. 
Like if the Giants, if the if, 

601
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,920
if we're having the conversation
this week, right? 

602
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:54,600
That either the Giants didn't 
acquiesce on whatever demand 

603
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,160
that I don't mean unrealistic 
demand, but when you're John 

604
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,840
Harbaugh, you're coming in and 
you're telling them what you 

605
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,640
want and they have to listen. 
That's it because you got the 

606
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,840
hammer and you have the leverage
and they're desperate. 

607
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,080
Now could they pivot to 
Stefanski? 

608
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,200
Sure. 
But as I've talked about the 

609
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,720
risk and this is a really 
delicate threading here is that 

610
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,560
like, if they don't get 
Harbaugh, and I know they've 

611
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,400
already had their time with 
Stefanski, But as they as they 

612
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:23,160
move to Harbaugh now this week, 
if Stefanski is either falling 

613
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,520
in love with somebody else there
or just not feeling that that 

614
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,800
reciprocal love from the Giants 
because he feels and this is all

615
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,280
the we could say whatever we 
want, dude, get over it. 

616
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:33,560
Big money's going to take care 
of that. 

617
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,480
But if you're a human and you 
feel that a team suddenly is, 

618
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,880
you know, going like emotionally
and financially to somebody that

619
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,800
you think you're comparable to, 
even though you're a lot 

620
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,840
younger, well, that's going to 
turn you off. 

621
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,080
And the one thing the Giants 
can't do was I believe with it 

622
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,960
with all my heart that all my 
heart, the Giants are walking 

623
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,800
away with a hell of a head 
coach. 

624
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:55,520
I've got no doubts about that. 
I really do. 

625
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,840
And if they don't, the Giants 
will have colossal they they 

626
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:03,840
will have colossally failed to a
level that even I thought that 

627
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,200
these current Giants did the 
Giant organization now was 

628
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,720
incapable of like it's on a tee,
man. 

629
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,680
Find a way to get a horrible, 
find a way to get Stefanski, 

630
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,520
find a way to get McCarthy. 
What? 

631
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,480
Find a way to do it. 
So they're going to have their 

632
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,200
coach not worried about that. 
I'm not, but I know that you 

633
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:25,440
want horrible and I think the 
Giants for you need to deliver 

634
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,360
you Horbaugh. 
That's it. 

635
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,520
Like it's already been written, 
You know, flip on the radio, go 

636
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,440
to X, go to social, go to your 
buddies, texts, everybody 

637
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,160
horrible. 
As soon as Horbaugh got fired, I

638
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,600
got flooded by text messages 
from my buddies, most of whom 

639
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:44,080
are actually Giant fans. 
And it was to a man, get that 

640
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,240
guy. 
Whatever it takes, Harbaugh or 

641
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,840
bust, this is the dude. 
So that's been the narrative. 

642
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,320
It is now up to the New York 
Giants to make sure that that 

643
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,200
narrative does not implode on 
their watch and based on what 

644
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,240
they do or do not do. 
You have to punch this in? 

645
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,320
You have to find a way to get 
Harbaugh to take this job. 

646
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,880
You have to. 
All right, So, you know, hit on 

647
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,800
the floor. 
I also do think that, you know, 

648
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,120
as, as I run through the Giants 
and the Falcons, like I'm just 

649
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,440
looking at this list here. 
So Green Bay's obviously crossed

650
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:20,480
out. 
Lafleur's going there. 

651
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,040
This is really pertaining to 
horrible. 

652
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,960
I think that the Browns, you 
know, I wouldn't rule them out 

653
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,840
myself. 
There were different sources 

654
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,160
over the weekend that linked him
to the Browns. 

655
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,520
At least having, you know, 
surface interest. 

656
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,080
And once you have surface 
interest and once you get in 

657
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,400
somebody's building or have a 
conversation, if that franchise.

658
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,520
And you would have to think the 
Browns are pretty damn desperate

659
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,120
at this point. 
If that team is so desperate 

660
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,960
that they do whatever and they 
just acquiesce and acquiesce and

661
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,040
acquiesce and acquiesce. 
Like whether it's money, power 

662
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,840
or both, Like, I can't say that 
it's impossible that he winds up

663
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,520
with the Browns. 
I don't think it happens. 

664
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,920
But you got at least leave the 
door slightly ajar. 

665
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,320
I would actually keep an eye on 
the Titans to an extent. 

666
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:09,720
Now the word is that Horrible is
going to lock himself in his 

667
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,960
film room, and he already did 
this weekend and just plow 

668
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:17,080
through the film and basically 
watch every play that Darts made

669
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,040
and every play that Cam Ward's 
made. 

670
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,720
I think Cam Ward's a pretty 
dynamic player. 

671
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,440
And I think Tennessee is a great
state. 

672
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,320
I think it's a great place to 
live. 

673
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,240
I think it's, I know they've got
a lot of money. 

674
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,640
I think they got about $100 
million in cap space and The 

675
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,040
Jets are right around 70 
something. 

676
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:34,920
Tennessee has even more. 
I think they might have the 

677
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,200
most, I don't know, the Raiders 
I think have the most Tennessees

678
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,160
right there. 
I think there's a lot of a lot 

679
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,560
of appealing aspects to what the
Tennessee Titans are doing. 

680
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:48,040
So while we might sit here and 
say, come on, it's Tennessee, 

681
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,960
it's the Titans, what are the 
Titans? 

682
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,920
And it's very easy to say that 
Cam Ward's a boss. 

683
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,840
What the hell did he do? 
If you really consume the NFL, 

684
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,440
like I know many of you do and 
aren't just Jets or Giants heavy

685
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,720
and Jets and Giants intensive, 
and you do follow what's going 

686
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:07,040
on in Tennessee, you'll know 
that Cam Ward is actually like 

687
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:10,880
his first year. 
Don't look at the stats in terms

688
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,920
of film, what he's put out there
is pretty appealing. 

689
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,160
I don't know how appealing to 
horrible, but appealing to 

690
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,440
enough to make them a bit of a 
threat there. 

691
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,120
So I, I, you know, to me, that's
where it's you going to run into

692
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,800
some issues here, you know, but 
this is the absolute way. 

693
00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,400
We just have to get this done. 
That's it. 

694
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:30,760
At least get it done in terms of
movement. 

695
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,440
You know, Can you imagine what 
would be worst case here? 

696
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:36,040
Let me just jot this down. 
Let me go through it. 

697
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,040
Then I'll start reading some of 
these messages and I'll get you 

698
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,440
some Yanks and Mets hot stove 
stuff, one on obviously belly 

699
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,120
and then something on Peralta 
more for the Mets. 

700
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:50,240
So giants. 
We're going to go Falcons here. 

701
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:55,080
We're going to go Browns, 
Titans, Arizona separate 

702
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:56,200
category. 
Not worried about them. 

703
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,760
All right, so let's just say 
let's say that horrible were to 

704
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:06,640
wind up with Titans. 
Let's say that Stefanski Now I 

705
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,639
think that that's less possible 
than this next item I'll throw 

706
00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:10,920
out. 
I don't really think it's going 

707
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,199
to be a brown, as I said before,
but just for the sake, let's say

708
00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:17,239
that Stefanski ones up in 
Atlanta, which I think is very 

709
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,679
plausible. 
Well, now you got Stefanski off 

710
00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:24,679
the board and you've got 
Harbaugh off the board and then 

711
00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:27,480
you've got some other pretty 
appealing situations. 

712
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,159
But now the list of appealing 
coaches is dwindling. 

713
00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:35,159
Well, at that point, I mean, if 
I'm the giants, I very easily 

714
00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:37,280
and very happily pivot to Mike 
McCarthy. 

715
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,080
But you would not like that. 
And again, the the ability to 

716
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:45,440
quantify that emotion is very is
very hard for many of you to do.

717
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,960
And this is one of the themes 
early in the week last week. 

718
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,840
If you guys missed it, just go 
to YouTube, check it out. 

719
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:53,120
Even though we're not on YouTube
live, we do download all the 

720
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,760
stuff immediately and we'll get 
back up on YouTube, whatever 

721
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,080
that's on them hopefully soon. 
But one of the shows, I think 

722
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,000
that would have been either 
Tuesday or Wednesday. 

723
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:03,160
You know, I, I, I talked about 
that. 

724
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:10,200
And I think that the like the 
giants here are, are, are 

725
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:13,160
handling it well. 
I do because I think when you 

726
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,200
look at what they had to do to 
satisfy elements of the Rooney 

727
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,840
rule, which by the way, is a 
sham on, on so many levels, the 

728
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,400
spirit is right of the Rooney 
Rule, but the, the application 

729
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:23,920
is, it is what it is. 
It's not right. 

730
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,680
And I've said that again, born 
out of a good thing, but it's, 

731
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,560
and I'm not saying it doesn't 
work at all, but it's, it's 

732
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:34,440
just, it's a box that too many 
people check and you know it, It

733
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,400
is what it is. 
I'd like to see it tweaked a 

734
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,840
little bit so it's more fair. 
I don't even have an answer as 

735
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,240
to how you do that. 
But see, the Giants did what I 

736
00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:46,880
think other teams need to do. 
And this, to me, tells me that 

737
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,360
the Giants will wind up in a 
good spot here because when they

738
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,240
fired Gable, they started to 
line things up and it was done 

739
00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:56,440
very stealthily, you know, no 
leaks, you know, within the 

740
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,800
building. 
They had their plan so that now 

741
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:03,520
they've already, you know, 
handled the OR check the boxes 

742
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,440
for the Rooney Rule. 
So that's good. 

743
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,320
So now they could just jump into
what they have to jump into and 

744
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,040
get the guy that they want. 
Whereas, and I also think that 

745
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,480
that's part of the reason why. 
Plus I think that they think 

746
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,640
he's good. 
But if you're the Packers and 

747
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,320
you fire, which they're not 
going to be just tuned in. 

748
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,320
Lafleur is going to be back. 
He's going to get the extension.

749
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,080
But if they would have fired him
today or tomorrow, well, now 

750
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,640
you've got to start the process 
of, of everything. 

751
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,400
And that obviously entails the, 
the Rooney Rule and, and many 

752
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,200
other aspects there. 
So as you do that, the 

753
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,680
horribaughs and the Stefanski's 
you would imagine and the 

754
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,400
McCarthy's I would think would, 
well, not that they would bring 

755
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:38,960
McCarthy back in Green Bay, but 
you know what I mean. 

756
00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:41,640
They would they, they would be 
behind it. 

757
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,480
So at least I have the sense 
here that the Giants have been 

758
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,960
buttoned up and, and they've had
their, their ducks in a row and 

759
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,720
they've had a plan. 
And that's a good starting point

760
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:54,920
for a franchise that really, for
the last 10 years, outside of 

761
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,000
one year, really has felt as if 
they had been planned less. 

762
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,440
So that's a good job. 
And I do think they're going to 

763
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,080
wind up with Harbaugh. 
And if not, I think they wind up

764
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,880
with Stefanski. 
And I think that the pivot would

765
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,120
be a very good. 
But I really do. 

766
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,640
All right, let's get some some 
messages here. 

767
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,880
How about Notorious Neil version
on X? 

768
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,320
All right, I don't want to know 
the coach with a losing record. 

769
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:15,920
No, Stefanski, Harbaugh's a 
winner. 

770
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:18,160
All right, listen, Notorious. 
I get that, Neil. 

771
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,320
I guess Neil's your first name. 
Thank you, Neil. 

772
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,400
I think personally and 
respectfully, I really think 

773
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,680
that that's a that is a short 
sighted way of looking at it 

774
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,080
because I could also say now it 
depends what you're looking for.

775
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,040
More stability, better resume, 
sure. 

776
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:39,440
I mean Harbaugh's that guy. 
But who has more upside, the 63 

777
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:44,280
year old man or the 46 year old 
coach who by the way has already

778
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:48,560
proven the ability to forge 
forward despite being surrounded

779
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:53,040
by the most inept people and and
ownership this side of The Jets 

780
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,040
were comparable to The Jets in 
the Browns. 

781
00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:01,240
I mean, really, I, I almost is 
going to sound crazy and I do 

782
00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:03,120
disagree with you. 
I I respect that you want 

783
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,680
horrible, that's fine. 
But I don't think that you need 

784
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,440
to get there by denigrating or 
or completely devaluing 

785
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,200
Stefanski To me. 
And this the part that will 

786
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,320
sound a little weird, like a 
contradiction, because it's 

787
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:17,640
you're supposed to win in the 
NFL and that's judged by Super 

788
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,360
Bowls and horrible's got one. 
Stefanski's got none. 

789
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,440
But to me, if you win 11 games, 
as he did a couple of times with

790
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,120
the Browns and you win the coach
of the year twice with the 

791
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,200
Browns, with some of the 
quarterbacks that he had and the

792
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,160
quarterback play that he and the
quarterback like room that he 

793
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:33,920
had to deal with. 
Not to mention this year with 

794
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,160
Sanders and you know, all the 
other stuff, retreads and 

795
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,680
retreads and veterans and 
backups and and nothing. 

796
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,440
I mean, he's probably saying, 
please fire me, Get me the hell 

797
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,640
out of here. 
So I go to a real franchise. 

798
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:48,800
To me, when you win early, when 
you do what he did with the 

799
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,440
Browns early, I got to go. 
This is going to sound crazy, 

800
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,360
but to me it's almost as great 
of an accomplishment as actually

801
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,360
winning the Super Bowl with a 
healthy, forward thinking, 

802
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,560
buttoned up, good franchise. 
Think about what the man's had 

803
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,560
to overcome in in Cleveland. 
So I think Stefanski's terrific.

804
00:39:04,720 --> 00:39:07,240
I really do. 
I think you're sleeping on him. 

805
00:39:07,240 --> 00:39:08,840
That's your opinion. 
That's certainly your 

806
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,920
prerogative. 
I get that, but I do not share 

807
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:15,240
that opinion. 
All right, how about this DM013?

808
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,040
Why are you so convinced Mendoza
is going to be a top quarterback

809
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:19,760
in the NFL? 
Does he have the arms talent to 

810
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,640
throw into smaller windows in 
the NFL? 

811
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,280
Yeah, I do. 
Why am I so convinced? 

812
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,320
Thank you for that. 
I've been saying this for a 

813
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,600
while. 
I remember where, you know, like

814
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,840
you or like some of you, I was 
doing a lot of reading during 

815
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:35,120
the summer and getting a sense 
of as I like to do before the 

816
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,720
college football season starts, 
just get a sense like, all 

817
00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:41,400
right, is the next draft going 
to be an old line draft? 

818
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,920
Is it a quarterback draft? 
Is there, you know, a crop of 

819
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,840
four or five receivers where 
this is thought to be a receiver

820
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,280
draft? 
A defensive edge rushed like, I 

821
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,520
just want to get a sense. 
That's my my first, my first 

822
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,600
pursuit. 
What's what's the main position 

823
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:00,240
like who's most represented all 
right, with great players that 

824
00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:02,680
are going to be worthy of going 
top 15. 

825
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,920
That's how I start. 
And then, you know, obviously 

826
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:09,480
the quarterbacks are central and
and and and most on my radar. 

827
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,120
And you knew there was a dearth 
of them. 

828
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,280
You knew it like you didn't. 
I didn't think arch was coming 

829
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:14,560
out. 
Didn't start off well against 

830
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,280
the Buckeyes. 
So that changed everything 

831
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,840
played poorly. 
Heard the boos. 

832
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:22,200
You know, beat up on some bad 
teams and then start to 

833
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:23,920
regenerate at the end. 
But I never really thought he 

834
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,000
was coming out this year, right?
Who knows, maybe if the Giants 

835
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,120
had the 1st overall pick he 
would have, but I never really 

836
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,120
thought that was serious and 
seriously in play. 

837
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,320
And for a while it was like 
Mendoza, more Simpson. 

838
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:38,040
And then obviously Simpson is is
lower than Mendoza and more, 

839
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,200
although I do think Simpson's 
better than some of you do. 

840
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:45,680
But the reason why I really 
think Mendoza's the real deal is

841
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,120
because there's not a quality 
that he doesn't possess. 

842
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,440
And you know, you know, first of
all, he's big. 

843
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:53,880
He's 65225. 
And when you're 65225 at this 

844
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,640
age in three, 4-5 years of, of 
better nutrition and more 

845
00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,160
importantly, you know, NFL 
weight room and that's your job.

846
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,160
You're going to BE65236237 
before you know it. 

847
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,440
Check. 
Good size, the kids brilliant. 

848
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,120
I mean, the kid is a steady, 
easy leader. 

849
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,800
Check. 
I think he's got great 

850
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,240
anticipation in terms of the 
smaller windows. 

851
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,160
I think he's got a really good 
arm. 

852
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,360
I don't think it's like Josh 
Allen Cannon, like I'm not or 

853
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,160
even Jeff George. 
If you remember that back in the

854
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,720
day as a, you know, as a as an 
NFL draft prospect who bounced 

855
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:28,960
around and it was it was a head 
case, but had a great arm. 

856
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,800
I just think that there's I 
think he's got everything. 

857
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,960
Now. 
You can you know, I I don't 

858
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:37,160
know, some of these recent 
quarterbacks here that have come

859
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,720
out had they had everything. 
Well, no, I don't. 

860
00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:42,440
I don't think that they have. 
And I also think that there's 

861
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:46,800
great value by being at a place 
like Indiana that has no 

862
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:48,400
football history. 
I think the last time they were 

863
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,920
in the Rose Bowl was 1948. 
I think I heard that on during 

864
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,040
their their game. 
I think it was 48. 

865
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,280
It was pre 19504648, whatever it
was. 

866
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,360
So I, I think that that kind of 
it's an intangible. 

867
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,960
I can't quantify it. 
But when you go to a school that

868
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:07,000
has no history, like the easy 
thing is, all right, you know, 

869
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,200
back in the day, you know what, 
I'm going to play for Dean Smith

870
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,680
or, you know, I'm going to go 
play for Calhoun at UConn. 

871
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,160
I'm going to stay local and play
for Coach Konaseka. 

872
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,920
And we're going to win 25 games 
with our eyes shut, right? 

873
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,560
Like when you just jump into a 
machine, it, it, it, I'm not 

874
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,800
saying that you're not good and 
I'm not saying that at all. 

875
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,280
But it it's, it's already got 
momentum and it's easier to jump

876
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:29,680
in the car when it's already 
moving. 

877
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,600
I think it's a lot harder to 
jump in the car with no wheels, 

878
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:35,200
you know, Jack it up, put the 
wheels on and then hit top 

879
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:36,800
speed. 
Like there's something there 

880
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:42,240
that to me is incredibly rare 
and incredibly valuable. 

881
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,560
And then I look at this 
emotional maturity. 

882
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,640
He's some of his throws against 
against the Buckeyes, those 

883
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,800
numbers weren't incredible, but 
some throws that he made along 

884
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,120
the way were were just to me 
reflective of a guy. 

885
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:59,480
And this is how I judge you of a
guy, you know, fourth quarter, 

886
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:04,360
789 minutes to go, clock 
ticking, cold January on the 

887
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,600
road against a good team that's 
well coached with a pass rush. 

888
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:12,400
Are you going to stand up and 
feel the heat and, and be 

889
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,040
willing to get popped as you 
deliver a big throw? 

890
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:18,560
And that's number one of my 
answer for him is yes #2 when 

891
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,840
somebody's open, even if they're
not really open, like they're 

892
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,880
really open in college, put it 
through that smaller, you know, 

893
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,720
less defined window check. 
And if you have to flush the 

894
00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:31,320
pocket and you're met with the 
choice of extend the playoff 

895
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:35,560
platform, run it and, and, and 
make some yards, check or off 

896
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:37,560
platform, throw it on the run 
check. 

897
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:39,160
That's the guy that I want on my
team. 

898
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,120
He's better than Dante Moore. 
He's better than Simpson. 

899
00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:44,760
He's better than anybody playing
college football right now. 

900
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:48,800
It's not even close. 
So that's why what I said on 

901
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,840
Friday, I meant it like I have 
been so in on Mendoza. 

902
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,400
I was hoping that Mendoza had 
two picks and like a strip sack 

903
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,680
that he didn't see that you'd 
have people saying, I don't 

904
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,360
know, you know, like the Mel 
Kiper type says, I don't even 

905
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:02,680
know if I don't like Mel. 
That's not a shot. 

906
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,480
But like people who do what Mel 
does right, who are wrong more 

907
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,760
than they're right, That's just 
just the reality of it. 

908
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,040
Like one of those types saying, 
you know, I don't know, maybe 

909
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:11,960
he's really not going to feel 
that pressure coming from the 

910
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:13,400
blind side. 
How did you not see that? 

911
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:17,320
Like I wanted him to play so 
poorly, so poorly. 

912
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:22,360
And Dante Moore plays so amazing
that the Raiders couldn't help 

913
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:26,600
but really start to get in their
own way and be the Raiders, even

914
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,400
though Tom Brady's there. 
I get that and at least have 

915
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,800
something to contemplate as they
as they really evaluated what 

916
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,640
the best route was for them in 
terms of the number one overall 

917
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,240
pick. 
Do they take Mendoza? 

918
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:39,240
Do they take more? 
Do they allow The Jets to trade 

919
00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:40,840
up one spot? 
Do they allow somebody else to 

920
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:43,600
trade up? 
Like there was a lot of options 

921
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,480
and I ran through this at the 
start of the show and if you 

922
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,080
missed it, I'll very briefly 
reset. 

923
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,600
Like the first option was 
Mendoza bowls out more bowls 

924
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:52,640
out. 
All right, good. 

925
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:54,160
Raiders have something to think 
about. 

926
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,880
Jets are emboldened to take more
or two if he if you know if if 

927
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,200
he plays well and under that 
scenario and then OK, that could

928
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,400
be a win win situation Or even 
if they both play well, Jets 

929
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:06,720
still don't want to commit to a 
young 20 year old quarterback. 

930
00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:09,320
They want to look to next year, 
upgrade some other weaknesses, 

931
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,520
which they have to because their
roster is awful. 

932
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,320
Well, then I'm like, all right, 
it's still the win because 

933
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,120
somebody else will want to move 
up to the two spot. 

934
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:17,440
If Moore would have played 
great. 

935
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,960
And that's that's that's a good 
situation for The Jets. 

936
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:25,160
Or Mendoza plays like S Moore 
plays amazing and then boom, 

937
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,600
that further changes the 
situation or at least gives team

938
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:31,320
something to think about. 
Or, you know, Dante Moore plays 

939
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:36,120
OK, Mendoza plays great, but 
somehow Oregon wins the game and

940
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,760
then Oregon goes and they ball 
out and more balls out. 

941
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,080
And he's the impetus behind the 
national championship win 

942
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:45,680
against Miami, which would also 
give people reason to pause and 

943
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:47,960
and reinvent, evaluate this now.
Now. 

944
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,720
So we got the exact opposite, by
the way. 

945
00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:54,120
I just, I don't know why I just 
did that, right? 

946
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,640
So I went, no, this is great. 
Are any of your kids doing this?

947
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:02,320
I don't know who started this. 
I don't know why it started. 

948
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,000
And I I just want to know when 
it's going to end. 

949
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:08,840
The kids and my kids do this. 
They must do it about 20 times a

950
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:10,760
day at this point. 
Now I know when I was their age,

951
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,920
I would say annoying stuff too, 
like, but there is this little, 

952
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,000
I guess it's a trend, the fad, 
whatever you want to call it, 

953
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,480
where they call your name like, 
So my kids will say Dad and I'll

954
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,920
say yeah, like, and they'll say 
it with urgency. 

955
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,200
Now I'm, I'm pretty good at the 
game, so I'm actually better 

956
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:25,960
than them. 
So I get them more than they get

957
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:27,640
me. 
But the first few times they 

958
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,160
would get me and I'd be in here 
or I'd be doing whatever. 

959
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:31,080
Dad. 
Yeah. 

960
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:35,560
And they go, no, I'm like, what?
That was a that was a weird 

961
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:38,640
conversation. 
Does anybody else deal with 

962
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,560
that? 
And the way they do it, the 

963
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,760
urgency and the tone and the 
pitch in their voice. 

964
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,040
They are getting very good at 
disguising it. 

965
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,560
And just even though I'm I'm, 
I'm better than them at this 

966
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,200
game now, I figured it out. 
They still get me one. 

967
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,280
So when my daughter got me 
yesterday and I just, I was in 

968
00:46:55,280 --> 00:47:00,360
the middle of work and like, she
does it differently than he does

969
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,040
it and he does it more. 
Well, actually she probably does

970
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:04,920
it more now anyway. 
Just caught me off guard. 

971
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,520
Anybody else deal with the I 
guess we'll call it the the no 

972
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:10,960
game These kids are. 
Oh, my God. 

973
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:13,680
All right, let me get the Let me
get some other stuff here. 

974
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:18,880
Yeah. 
What we got here. 

975
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,680
All right, Somebody reposted 
this stream. 

976
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,120
I'm not sure what that means. 
Reposted. 

977
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:25,720
I have no idea what that means. 
Hopefully they. 

978
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:26,400
Yeah. 
I mean, yeah. 

979
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,520
All right, let me just address 
this again. 

980
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:33,360
Everybody's asking Samson. 
Does BT not stream on YouTube 

981
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:37,120
anymore? 
No, B team is BT is desperately 

982
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,440
dying to be able to stream back 
on YouTube. 

983
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,600
But we are in the middle of 
something that I simply cannot 

984
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,080
control. 
And you know, it's funny, you 

985
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,400
know, back in the day, you know,
when our parents would have an 

986
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,360
issue, they would get on the 
phone, they would call somebody 

987
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:51,880
and you, I could, I could still 
see my parents like, come on, 

988
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:53,600
pick up the phone like customer 
service. 

989
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,600
I think I'd rather deal with 
that now than dealing with AI 

990
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,720
technology responding back. 
I'm like, alright, is this a 

991
00:47:58,720 --> 00:48:00,200
real person? 
This is this a bot? 

992
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:04,080
Is this AI generated because 
they personalize it in a way 

993
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,960
that makes you think that it's 
real when we know that it's not 

994
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,360
real. 
So I, I say that because it is 

995
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,600
impossible to get a direct 
answer outside of a 

996
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:17,120
regurgitation of policies and a 
very, very nebulous timeline. 

997
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,000
I don't think it's going to be 
that long. 

998
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:20,680
I've been saying that for a week
or so. 

999
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:24,240
This is now week #2 where the 
infraction, whatever the 

1000
00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:27,400
guideline, community guideline, 
which I certainly did not mean 

1001
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:29,720
to do, just figuring this stuff 
out. 

1002
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,800
But yeah, I, I cannot, I cannot 
live stream right now on 

1003
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,200
YouTube. 
It's driving me absolutely 

1004
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:36,760
insane. 
And, and again, if I let it 

1005
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,560
bother me, it's going to really 
be a it's going to be a problem 

1006
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:41,200
because it's going to detract me
from doing my job. 

1007
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,240
So I just say whatever. 
Control what you can control. 

1008
00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:45,040
Talking to the mic, do a show. 
Here we go. 

1009
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:49,200
All right, Mark, Bears fandom 
welcomes you to be a fan, even 

1010
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:53,200
if it's for the playoffs. 
Yeah, You know, I remember 

1011
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,080
saying, Mark, first of all, I'm 
really happy for you guys. 

1012
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:56,720
It's absolutely awesome, dude. 
And I'll tell you about 

1013
00:48:56,720 --> 00:48:59,680
something I tweeted after the 
game over the weekend, Like the 

1014
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,160
the Bears fans, man. 
First of all, the the rush of 

1015
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:09,720
emotions being down 21 to 3. 
Like think about that. 

1016
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:12,200
And I've been in these, we've 
all been in these situations. 

1017
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:14,800
It's it's freezing. 
You're at home. 

1018
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,240
So you're all the amongst 
yourself. 

1019
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:19,120
And I know there were Packer 
fans there, but 90% bears fans, 

1020
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:23,080
whatever the number was right? 
And it's half time and you sling

1021
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:26,080
to the urinal, you go to the 
bathroom and you know, you 

1022
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,000
shuffling your feet, you know, 
you pissed off, you had another 

1023
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,360
beer, You know, like going to 
lose these guys again. 21 three 

1024
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,160
can even score a touchdown like 
so there's the emotion that you 

1025
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:39,080
had going into the game and that
place was on fire pre game. 

1026
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:42,800
And then the reality or what 
appeared to be the reality of 

1027
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:48,280
the fate of a brutal, brutal 
exit and ousting from the play 

1028
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,440
offs at the hands of the team 
that you hate the most of 

1029
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:53,640
anybody in the NFL. 
And then the exhilarating, 

1030
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:59,200
completely unexpected 4 down 
conversions one leg throws into 

1031
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,040
triple coverage. 
Wow. 

1032
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:03,920
So first of all, unbelievable 
game. 

1033
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,600
I am not capable, Mark, though 
I, I do appreciate the 

1034
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:11,600
invitation. 
Like I could want you guys to be

1035
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,480
happy because that's what's 
great about sport. 

1036
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,400
When you see something like 
that, not the same, not the same

1037
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,800
fan base as celebrating over and
over and over. 

1038
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,160
I love when somebody new cracks 
through and I think it's 

1039
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:24,360
awesome. 
But and and in in a weird way, 

1040
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,400
even though I'm a jets fan, I'm 
I kind of want the bills to get 

1041
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:29,720
there, even though I thought the
Jaguars would beat them only 

1042
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:32,640
because I love Josh Allen. 
I just love what he represents, 

1043
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:35,560
how he comports himself, how he 
plays the guys just, you know, 

1044
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,160
no drama, no nonsense. 
Awesome, right? 

1045
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:42,280
And you know, it's not like it's
the Pats who were really who I 

1046
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,880
hate or the Dolphins who I grew 
up hating because of Marino, a 

1047
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,520
large part of my life. 
The Bills have been a fair kind 

1048
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:53,280
of like us, a non entity in the 
NFL and their fans to me or more

1049
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,640
most closely resembled Jets 
fans, in my opinion, more than 

1050
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,920
the Pats and the Dolphins. 
So I can kind of get behind the 

1051
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,920
a bills playoff win for their 
fans because I think that 

1052
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:03,280
they're I think that they're 
awesome. 

1053
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,800
Having said that, I got my 
teams. 

1054
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,920
I can't become a bears fan. 
You know, I appreciate that 

1055
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:10,680
Mark. 
I'm going to have to 

1056
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:14,560
respectfully turn that down. 
But I remember saying about two 

1057
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:16,800
weeks ago, I'm like, would it 
stun you if there was a Jaguars 

1058
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,920
Bear Super Bowl? 
Well, I mean, the Jaguars that 

1059
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:21,920
they very easily could have had 
it and they should have had it 

1060
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,640
on some level if it wasn't for 
the great Josh Allen. 

1061
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:26,960
And here we are. 
The Bears still have another 

1062
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:28,400
chance. 
So that was just unbelievable. 

1063
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,400
You know what, I'm sitting there
watching the game. 

1064
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,520
This is what I tweeted too, just
to finish up pay off that 

1065
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,160
thought before I'm watching. 
I tweeted after the game. 

1066
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,560
I'm like I need, I need to 
experience this again. 

1067
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,080
I need to I need to feel this as
a football fan. 

1068
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:48,280
I mean, you know, we'll we've 
gone through this chapter and 

1069
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:52,200
verse the unkillable jets post 
game shows all the shows on the 

1070
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:59,440
fan, me and Sal right, Jets, 
giants, non entity, basically 

1071
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:04,080
apathy for most of my three 
years on the station, apathy 

1072
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,840
where the season was over. 
So that giants had a little 

1073
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,680
flicker this year, you know, 
beating the chargers, getting 

1074
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:13,280
some leads dart, obviously, you 
know, then some Jews firing the 

1075
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,560
coach and there was there there 
were conversation points, but it

1076
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,080
has been just about that. 
Like, all right, who we bring it

1077
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:20,680
in next? 
Who's going to who's going to 

1078
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:22,480
save The Jets? 
Who's going to save the giants? 

1079
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:26,600
I, I can't, I can't even 
remember the feeling, although 

1080
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,240
that Bears comeback kind of got 
me back there somewhat 

1081
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,000
emotionally. 
I'm like, I'll do anything to 

1082
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:33,960
feel this way again as a sports 
fan. 

1083
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:37,520
And no matter how much I love 
baseball and I love baseball and

1084
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:40,040
no matter how much I love the 
Knicks and the NBA and St. 

1085
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:44,120
John's, like you, just the 
football energy, the every 

1086
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:49,160
single snap, it is just, it's 
just a different speed, man. 

1087
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:53,840
It is a different monster and I 
need it and we're nowhere near 

1088
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,120
it. 
And but but I'll tell you this, 

1089
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,600
you know, when you see a Bears 
team and you see some of these 

1090
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:02,880
other teams, I think about some 
of the teams that that played 

1091
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,320
over the weekend, right? 
Like how many of these 

1092
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:09,400
situations were were really, 
really, let's go back two years 

1093
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:10,800
ago. 
We're really good. 

1094
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,560
I mean, did you like the 
Panthers situation? 

1095
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:14,440
Not that they won over the 
weekend, but still they were in 

1096
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,000
it and they could have won, you 
know, Did you like the Panthers?

1097
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,240
Did you like the Bears situation
a couple of years ago? 

1098
00:53:19,240 --> 00:53:23,520
No, you know, did you did you 
like the pack situation a couple

1099
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,400
of years ago before, you know, 
Drake made we stranded or even 

1100
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:29,320
last year when you had Drake May
and you won four games, the 

1101
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,120
opposite of this year when you 
won 13. 

1102
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:34,880
No, you know, even though the 
Chargers always lose here 1 and 

1103
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,680
done, you know, before Harbaugh 
came, did you love their 

1104
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,680
situation? 
No, like it, it could change 

1105
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,120
fast. 
And I mean, I'm not going to try

1106
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:46,600
to convince you that it's going 
to change fast for The Jets, But

1107
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:50,680
eventually it is going to change
and it's going to change and 

1108
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,840
it's just going to hit us like a
ton of bricks and it's going to 

1109
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,760
be amazing because I've actually
forgotten how to be a good 

1110
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:59,080
football fan. 
Like I, it is so foreign. 

1111
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:01,640
I I honestly don't remember the 
last time I did it. 

1112
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,120
You want to tell me Aaron 
Rodgers, his first game, That's 

1113
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:08,000
week 1. 
I mean, that I've got to conjure

1114
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,720
up that emotion. 
You want to tell me to a lesser 

1115
00:54:10,720 --> 00:54:14,520
extent, week one this year, you 
know, high scoring game, Glenn's

1116
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,480
first game going against 
Rodgers. 

1117
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,680
It's week 1. 
I mean, think about what the 

1118
00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:23,920
real football fans have now that
we don't. 

1119
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:28,080
I am desperate for it. 
You know, like Pookie in in New 

1120
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:31,360
Jack City. 
I need a football game that is 

1121
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,720
worth watching for my Jets. 
Like Pookie needs the crack pipe

1122
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,160
back in the late 80s, early 90s.
Can somebody give it to me, 

1123
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:43,360
please? 
Oh my God, oh man, do I miss it.

1124
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,920
I miss it so much because these 
games are so awesome. 

1125
00:54:47,240 --> 00:54:50,080
But unless you're betting it had
a little action over the 

1126
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,520
weekend, did pretty well. 
Nothing crazy, but unless you're

1127
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:55,520
betting it, you know, at this 
point, fantasy's over. 

1128
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:57,800
You know, in terms of 
conventional fannies, fantasy 

1129
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,280
for the regular season. 
Like you watch it because it's 

1130
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,640
just amazing theater. 
But now watching it with amazing

1131
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,560
theater and it happens to be 
your team providing the amazing 

1132
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:10,400
theater. 
Oh my God, I want that so bad. 

1133
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:14,080
I need that man. 
Do I miss that God. 

1134
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:21,920
All right, what do we got here, 
guys? 

1135
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:32,040
What do we got here? 
I mean, I don't, I don't, I 

1136
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:33,480
don't really. 
I guess I'll figure this out 

1137
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:35,920
after so and so reposted the 
stream. 

1138
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,960
I I think that that's good. 
I'm I'm not entirely sure I 

1139
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,440
think that that's good. 
I'm really not sure. 

1140
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:42,840
So we'll figure it out. 
All right, let me get you a 

1141
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:44,120
little something here on the 
baseball stuff. 

1142
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:49,240
OK, so over the weekend, Yankees
Bellinger impasse. 

1143
00:55:49,240 --> 00:55:52,840
So what? 
Get lost and we don't need you, 

1144
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,280
Bellinger. 
Like I'm at my wit's end. 

1145
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:57,840
I tweeted this over the weekend.
Done, dude, You don't want the 

1146
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,720
Yankees. 
Go on your merry way. 

1147
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:01,880
Go back to the Dodgers, go to 
the Mets. 

1148
00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:05,120
I don't I no longer care. 
Now, that doesn't mean that I'm 

1149
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:06,600
not smart enough to know what's 
going on. 

1150
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:09,760
Like the one thing understand 
this because think about where 

1151
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,840
we were a year ago at this 
point, guys, right with Pete 

1152
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:15,600
Alonzo. 
Oh, you know, a year ago, Pete 

1153
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:19,360
looks like Pete's out the door. 
Oh, Mets getting ready to turn 

1154
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:21,240
to pay. 
Oh, wow, Pete's got an extension

1155
00:56:21,240 --> 00:56:24,360
now. 
It was an extension that allowed

1156
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,360
Pete to opt out if he had a good
year, which he did and he opted 

1157
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:28,920
out. 
Mets didn't want to do anything,

1158
00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:30,240
which I never thought that they 
would. 

1159
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,360
Baltimore. 
Baltimore comes in five year 

1160
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:34,640
deal, boom, Pete gets rewarded 
properly. 

1161
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:37,840
So he's going to have a good 
next half a decade with the 

1162
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,800
Orioles for a fun team and he's 
going to remain Pete Alonso 

1163
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:41,600
hitting bombs. 
Right? 

1164
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,080
But the tone of the offseason a 
year ago was all right. 

1165
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:47,200
That's it, man. 
Met fans were actually 

1166
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:49,840
conditioned. 
And that goes back to an amazing

1167
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,520
day, right where, you know, 
that's where you start to let 

1168
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,720
Cohen and Stearns know and you 
better bring our boy back here. 

1169
00:56:55,720 --> 00:56:57,320
What's going on? 
And I and I believe that that 

1170
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:59,840
was the impetus to change the 
minds. 

1171
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:02,280
I think that I can't prove this,
but that's just where I think 

1172
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:05,440
that they went into amazing day 
with no, with no intention of 

1173
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:09,240
signing Pete, you spoke and then
Cohen, who right now is letting 

1174
00:57:09,240 --> 00:57:11,920
Sterns do all the baseball 
stuff, which is smart cuz that's

1175
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,200
why you hired him. 
But I think last year, I think 

1176
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:17,320
the owner got a little, yeah, 
little little itchy there. 

1177
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:18,880
And he's like, hey, listen, get 
this done, dude. 

1178
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,200
I mean, again, I can't prove it.
I think that's what happened. 

1179
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:22,600
They got it done. 
Short deal. 

1180
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:24,680
He played well, Mets didn't have
a good season. 

1181
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:27,680
He bounces, whatever. 
So do I think that Bellinger is 

1182
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:30,560
going to sign a, you know, a 
couple of your deal with an opt 

1183
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:32,520
out after one? 
No, I don't because I think he's

1184
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,280
a more valued player than Pete 
because he does things that can 

1185
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,200
show up and help you win a game 
when you go over 4. 

1186
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:41,000
And we know what those things 
are playing. 3 or 4 spots being 

1187
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:42,440
a plus on the bags, all that 
stuff. 

1188
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:44,440
Right. 
So Bellinger's contract is going

1189
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:48,760
to be different than Pete or at 
least the Pete's contract last 

1190
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:51,920
year, but it doesn't mean it 
can't take on the same 

1191
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:54,960
characteristics. 
So I'm not sitting here saying 

1192
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,400
that Bellinger absolutely is not
going to be a Yankee. 

1193
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,640
What I am saying is I don't care
if he's a Yankee anymore at this

1194
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,560
point. 
I am tired of Boris. 

1195
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,280
And let's not get this thing 
twisted here. 

1196
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:08,400
You know, last year with Juan 
Soto, as Boris was raking us 

1197
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:11,480
over the coals here, Yankees had
and he did a great job for his 

1198
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:12,560
client. 
And by the way, he's doing a 

1199
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:15,240
great job for his client. 
Bellinger, provided he gets what

1200
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:16,760
I think that he thinks he's 
going to get. 

1201
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:18,680
He's not getting 7. 
Somebody's going to probably 

1202
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:22,080
flinch and give him six or the 
to five with a lot more money or

1203
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:26,040
a big AAV with opt out if the 
contract will look good and 

1204
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:28,160
we'll be able to be positioned 
as a win for Boris. 

1205
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,000
You could bet that because 
that's what's going to happen 

1206
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:31,680
because it almost always does 
with Boris, right? 

1207
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:35,760
But last year we had to sit here
and, you know, I mean, I wasn't 

1208
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,280
begging and groveling for Juan 
Soto to come back, but I was 

1209
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:39,920
very clear. 
I want him back. 

1210
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:42,360
Why the hell wouldn't I want 
Juan Soto back behind Aaron 

1211
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,040
Judge? 
It's the best thing I've ever 

1212
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:47,640
seen, you know, in in in my 
baseball, in my life 

1213
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:51,160
back-to-back, you know, even 
Mattingly and Winfield wasn't 

1214
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:54,320
quite this or, you know, Ricky 
and Donnie, like, you know, I 

1215
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:55,880
mean, it was this was 
ridiculous. 

1216
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,520
That one year with Judge and 
Soto, epic. 

1217
00:58:58,520 --> 00:58:59,840
I don't think we'll ever see 
that again. 

1218
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:02,080
I really don't. 
That's how unique that is, 

1219
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,760
because I don't know if we'll 
see a player like Judge ever in 

1220
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:07,240
our lifetime. 
And if you do, the chances of 

1221
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:11,440
them being coupled with a stud 
like Soto, who has an one of his

1222
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,000
best years ever in many 
different categories behind 

1223
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,280
them. 
I mean, those odds are basically

1224
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,520
invisible. 
So, but you played the game 

1225
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:22,840
because it's Juan Soto. 
I'm not playing this game 

1226
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:23,880
anymore. 
Goodbye. 

1227
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,600
Like, I, I, I'll let you, you 
know, go out there and do 

1228
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:27,480
whatever. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

1229
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:28,440
OK. 
Get great boards. 

1230
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:29,840
Fantastic. 
Awesome. 

1231
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:33,240
When you get the offer that you 
think is substantial enough for 

1232
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,200
you to take. 
And if he really wants to be a 

1233
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:38,160
Yankee, call us, come back, 
right, Give us the number. 

1234
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,520
We'll leave to say yes or no. 
And at that point, you have a 

1235
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,840
decision to make. 
But I wouldn't even really do 

1236
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,280
that as I think about that out 
loud. 

1237
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,040
Loud because that's preventing 
the Yankees from doing other 

1238
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:48,720
stuff during the during the off 
season season. 

1239
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:52,640
Now I mean something's got to 
happen here and before you know 

1240
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,240
it's going to be February 1st 
time's going man. 

1241
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:57,800
Like it is now the middle of 
January. 

1242
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:01,040
And I know that this happens 
year after year and it trickles 

1243
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:04,120
deeper and deeper into the 
offseason and it's further 

1244
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:08,640
complicated by the inevitable 
work stoppage labor strike that 

1245
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:10,480
is going to be that is going to 
wreck. 

1246
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:12,600
I don't care. 
You know what man, Fred said the

1247
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:14,840
other day with carton and and 
and C Mac, it's going to be a 

1248
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:17,720
disaster, right. 
So 2027 is going to be a mess. 

1249
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:21,480
So you know, I mean everything 
is a little more convoluted and 

1250
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,200
more stressful. 
I I understand that right, but 

1251
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:27,280
I'm trying to reduce the stress 
and just build the team. 

1252
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:31,200
All right, and if the Yankees, 
all right could make the 

1253
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:36,200
playoffs without Juan Soto, 
which they did, then I'm pretty 

1254
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:39,520
sure that the Yankees can make 
the playoffs without Bellinger, 

1255
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:43,920
whose advanced analytics stink. 
All right, doesn't it? 

1256
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:47,280
Now, I like him. 
This is not me doing a heel turn

1257
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,600
and and going in on Bellinger. 
He's a good player. 

1258
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:54,480
And there's reasons, right, for 
some of his soft numbers, like 

1259
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:57,320
there's a reason why his exit 
below is weak because his two 

1260
01:00:57,320 --> 01:00:59,840
strike approach is different. 
Just tries to flick the ball the

1261
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:02,480
other way, which I like when you
have two strikes, put the ball 

1262
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:05,760
in play, right? 
So a strikeout rate is down way 

1263
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:07,560
below league average, which is a
great thing. 

1264
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:10,960
But some of the other things 
that are that are really 

1265
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:14,080
favorable come contract time are
lower than expend. 

1266
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:15,960
You would want less than 
optimal. 

1267
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,760
So it's a bit of a more 
complicated analysis, right? 

1268
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,560
And and negotiation. 
But if you watch Bellinger every

1269
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:24,960
night, you know that he's good, 
but you also know that he's not 

1270
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:26,360
irreplaceable. 
That's it. 

1271
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:29,640
Like I'm not going past this 
week doing this song and dance 

1272
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:31,480
with Bellinger. 
You want the Yankees? 

1273
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:33,040
Great, we'll keep you. 
You don't. 

1274
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:34,040
That's it. 
Goodbye. 

1275
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:36,720
So what's the plan here here? 
Well, now you got to incorporate

1276
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:40,200
the Cubs with Nico Horner. 
And you know, another thing too.

1277
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:47,560
So Bregman, five years for big 
money, right with I think 77 or 

1278
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:52,440
so deferred again. 
Hey, Yankees, Yo Mets this thing

1279
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:54,480
on. 
Can you guys for once devise a 

1280
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:57,440
contract outside of Bonilla 
where there's real deferred 

1281
01:01:57,440 --> 01:01:59,000
money? 
Can you do this? 

1282
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:01,880
Can you join the modern 
negotiations? 

1283
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:04,880
You know, can you, can you 
figure out that things are 

1284
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:09,120
evolving and find a way to 
entice clients of whomever to 

1285
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:11,880
sign with you? 
That's that's also financially, 

1286
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:15,040
you know, beneficial to you down
the road? 

1287
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:19,800
Hey, here's a little secret. 
If you defer money, you can 

1288
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:23,200
reinvest that money so that when
it's time to pay that money in 

1289
01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:27,360
the deferral, the investment has
given you a dividend, so you've 

1290
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:29,200
made money. 
What an heck. 

1291
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:30,360
And up. 
Whoa. 

1292
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:33,920
What a stunning development. 
I didn't know that. 

1293
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:38,280
Well, I know it. 
And it doesn't seem like our our

1294
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,560
locals. 
And if they do know it, it seems

1295
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:44,400
like they're very reticent to 
operate under those those rules.

1296
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:47,000
And I just don't know why. 
Let me see. 

1297
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:47,520
Hold on. 
I can. 

1298
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:50,240
I can, I can kick some cash down
the road. 

1299
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:53,120
Yeah, I'm in. 
Because as you're doing that, 

1300
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,880
you know what you're really 
doing, you're giving Aaron Judge

1301
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,760
a real chance to win. 
You know, you give him a chance 

1302
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:01,920
to actually get back to and win 
a World Series with a real team.

1303
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,400
You know, like you did for Derek
and Reggie. 

1304
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:10,160
I, I, I don't know, man, I am 
less. 

1305
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:12,480
I love Nico Horner. 
Let me get that out of the way. 

1306
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:14,240
And I would love that for the 
Yankees. 

1307
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:17,400
I love that for them. 
He can run. 

1308
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:20,000
He can feel he's going to flirt 
with 300. 

1309
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:23,680
He never strikes. 
I think his K rate was like 8 

1310
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:26,520
percentile maybe. 
Oh, no, not 8 percentile. 

1311
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:28,680
That's eight. 
Like he struck out 8% of the 

1312
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:31,480
time. 
So basically it's like 92%, 

1313
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,200
whatever it is. 
I mean, his K rate's phenomenal 

1314
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:35,520
and he's just a winner and a 
grinder. 

1315
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:39,640
I don't know that as many of you
assume that because they got 

1316
01:03:39,640 --> 01:03:42,480
Bregman and they've got a little
bit of a log jam in the infield 

1317
01:03:42,480 --> 01:03:45,520
there, that Horner's the odd man
out. 

1318
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:50,160
I, I don't know about that. 
But what I would like to do at 

1319
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:54,040
this point is I would like to 
trade for Nico Horner and I 

1320
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:56,800
would like to start my offseason
and what I see what I would do 

1321
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,320
at that point, I would say, you 
know what, dude, that's, that's 

1322
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,120
enough. 
Now you've got to be step back 

1323
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:06,240
before I say, before I just drop
the bottom line with with Boris 

1324
01:04:06,240 --> 01:04:10,120
and Bellinger, you've got to be 
lined up with some other avenues

1325
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:14,320
and be and, and have the ability
to say what I'm about to say. 

1326
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:16,240
You should tell Boris and 
Bellinger. 

1327
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:21,240
So I'm going to line it up such 
that I'm already engaging the 

1328
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:23,840
Guardians and I've got a deal. 
Who do you want? 

1329
01:04:23,840 --> 01:04:25,720
You want Louis heel. 
And you want. 

1330
01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:27,640
I don't know how appealing heel 
is to. 

1331
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:29,800
I'm not getting you, Schlittler.
Anybody else that you want. 

1332
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:33,480
And the Yankees have two and 
really three arms that are of 

1333
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:36,280
high value that have not yet 
pitched to the major leagues 

1334
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:39,080
that universally. 
And it's not a Yankee Homer. 

1335
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:41,000
All right. 
Yeah, I think you know that 

1336
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:44,440
about me by now. 
Universally really, really 

1337
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:48,640
thought to be plus plus pitchers
that are coming up that throw 

1338
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:50,680
really hard that have lights out
stuff. 

1339
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:54,280
And you see, unlike the position
players, the Yankees do get a a 

1340
01:04:54,400 --> 01:04:55,600
little bit and they've earned 
this. 

1341
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:58,440
To be fair to them, the benefit 
of the doubt when it comes to 

1342
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:01,840
pitching prospects around 
baseball versus their position 

1343
01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:04,240
prospects. 
All right, So the first thing 

1344
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,080
you do, you engage, if you 
haven't already engaged the 

1345
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:08,960
Guardians on on some basic 
level, take it another step. 

1346
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:11,080
Hey, we want Quan, all right. 
What? 

1347
01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:14,320
So we'll give you whatever, What
do you want for Quan? 

1348
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:17,200
And then we'll adjust that. 
And the Yankees have enough, 

1349
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:20,680
whether it's a Jones, Dominguez 
or a couple of the arms or heal 

1350
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:23,720
a couple of young, young arms I 
mentioned or heal, you can 

1351
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:25,960
satisfy. 
I strongly believe the 

1352
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:29,360
Guardians, the Guardians demands
for a Stephen Quan deal. 

1353
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:32,800
So I got Quan as my left 
fielder, all right, So I don't 

1354
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:34,720
need Bellinger right now. 
So that's that's done. 

1355
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:36,760
Boom. 
Then I, and I don't, I would 

1356
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:39,840
have said trade Jazz to the 
Guardians, but I don't think 

1357
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,240
they want him for $10 million. 
Otherwise you keep Quan, right? 

1358
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:50,280
So then I take Jazz and I trade 
him Jazz and another pitcher and

1359
01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:52,760
I'm in the Peralta sweepstakes. 
You know, not one of these 

1360
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:55,960
middling pitcher like one of 
the, you know, obviously 

1361
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:57,800
Cabreras gotten. 
There's not many of them, but I 

1362
01:05:57,800 --> 01:05:59,640
get myself, and I'm not talking 
about school ball. 

1363
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:01,600
The next cut I get a starting 
pitcher. 

1364
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:03,680
So I got hornered second base, 
right. 

1365
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:07,040
And then you know what I'm going
to say, I just go, but I go 

1366
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:10,680
bonkers and I pay Pichette and I
got a righty and I got my left 

1367
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:12,640
fielder who's a great left 
fielder in Kwan. 

1368
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:14,320
All right. 
You know, I don't love the 

1369
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:17,640
Grisham situation, $22 million. 
I don't I don't I don't like 

1370
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:18,840
him. 
But I'm not going to reset this 

1371
01:06:18,840 --> 01:06:20,720
all the time. 
Think the Yankees messed it up, 

1372
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:22,200
but at least going to hit some 
home runs. 

1373
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:26,720
It'll be a good outfielder. 
Quan Grisham, obviously I'm a 

1374
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,960
judge corner at 2nd. 
And then as you figure out the 

1375
01:06:29,960 --> 01:06:32,960
Volpe injury, the Volpe standing
within the franchise when he 

1376
01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:34,720
comes back, what he looks like. 
Woah. 

1377
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:38,080
But Bichette could play third. 
You know, you could even what if

1378
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:40,200
you don't trade Jazz? 
You could, but I I know Jazz 

1379
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:41,840
doesn't like playing third base.
Tough. 

1380
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:43,560
You going to play where we where
we tell you? 

1381
01:06:43,840 --> 01:06:46,160
So if somebody doesn't want to 
trade for Jazz or the Yankees 

1382
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:48,640
don't want to trade him, which I
think they're inclined to do, 

1383
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:51,480
then I can still mess around and
have Jazz play a little third 

1384
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:54,640
base, maybe trade McMahon. 
There's so many ways to go about

1385
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:58,480
this, and it takes creativity, 
it takes a proactive mindset. 

1386
01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:01,880
It takes a willingness to to 
dance with a couple of teams on 

1387
01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:04,520
the trade market. 
It takes a willingness to cut a 

1388
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:08,720
massive check for Bichette. 
But do not tell me that there's 

1389
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:10,640
not a way for the Yankees to 
build out this team. 

1390
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,000
I don't want to hear it. 
And it doesn't have to include 

1391
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:17,080
Bellinger because, you know, I 
think somebody's going to crack 

1392
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:18,680
and give Bellinger that sixth 
year. 

1393
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:20,160
I don't think it will be the 
Yankees. 

1394
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:21,920
I don't think it should be the 
Yankees. 

1395
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:25,720
I will not get on the Yankees. 
If they say nap tapping out, 

1396
01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:27,000
we're good. 
We're not giving you 6 if 

1397
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,800
somebody else is, bye, bye. 
Do you think Go back to LA, have

1398
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:32,680
fun wherever you're going to go?
But I just gave you a road map 

1399
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:35,600
where you'd have a great lead 
off hitter and Kwan, you know, 

1400
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:37,480
order. 
I mean, you could bat them. 

1401
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:39,160
You could bat them second if you
want to. 

1402
01:07:39,360 --> 01:07:43,240
Can you imagine now it's an old 
school, not a ton of power, 

1403
01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:48,560
which I'm fine with. 
You can go Juan Horner judge, I 

1404
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:50,040
mean, you know, think about 
that. 

1405
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:54,920
Or you could go or you could go 
Quan Bichette judge and then 

1406
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:57,520
almost have Horner down 
somewhere more at the bottom and

1407
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:01,080
kind of reset that in, you know,
the old school conventional 789 

1408
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:03,040
guy, top of the order, whatever.
That's it. 

1409
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:07,680
Like that's the road map there. 
I'm just, I mean, I don't, I 

1410
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:09,320
don't know when these teams 
going to wake up and do 

1411
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:12,440
something here, man, I don't 
know. 

1412
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,880
But this off season for the 
Yankees and the New York Mets 

1413
01:08:16,319 --> 01:08:21,880
has been as listless and as 
uninspiring, not confounding. 

1414
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:25,640
I I understand what's happening.
Like I agree with the Mets plan 

1415
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:27,359
to deconstruct. 
I've said that many times. 

1416
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:31,840
I understand going through the 
game with bores, but there's a 

1417
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:33,880
limit where I'm not playing the 
game anymore and I'm at the 

1418
01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:35,120
limit. 
That's why I'm here today. 

1419
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:38,359
But up until this point, you 
know, I haven't been confused. 

1420
01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:41,200
I just been bored. 
It's been very boring. 

1421
01:08:41,600 --> 01:08:43,800
You know, last year the Soto 
stuff was incredible. 

1422
01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:50,359
You know, let's see, all right, 
got a lot of football things 

1423
01:08:50,359 --> 01:08:51,359
there. 
Obviously. 

1424
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:54,439
Let me give you something here 
on the bets. 

1425
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:59,399
So to me, like as a lesser 
extent to to a degree, but like 

1426
01:08:59,399 --> 01:09:02,960
I think that the giants would 
would really fail. 

1427
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:06,840
Like if it would, the Giants 
wouldn't would mess up if they 

1428
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:09,240
don't get horrible because I 
think horrible wants to go there

1429
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:11,319
and I think that he will go 
there. 

1430
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:15,279
Now, Peralta for the Brewers 
doesn't really have the say 

1431
01:09:15,279 --> 01:09:17,279
necessarily of where he goes. 
I don't think he's got a no 

1432
01:09:17,279 --> 01:09:18,439
trade. 
I know he's got one year to go. 

1433
01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:24,200
But I think similarly, if the 
Mets, because Peralta is gone, 

1434
01:09:24,439 --> 01:09:27,800
he's going to get he's getting 
next 10 days he's traded book 

1435
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:29,200
it. 
And I think Peralta is going to 

1436
01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:30,640
be a Met. 
And I've always thought that. 

1437
01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:35,600
But like, if the Mets flinch and
they're not receptive to 

1438
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:39,920
whatever the Brewers want back 
in return, well, then that's on 

1439
01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:42,040
the Mets. 
And then Stearns is going to get

1440
01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:46,120
rightfully crushed because I 
don't think there's a lot of 

1441
01:09:46,120 --> 01:09:49,120
teams that have the perfect fit 
in terms of profile, like 

1442
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:52,920
prospect profile, that the Mets 
have to be able to satisfy the 

1443
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:56,000
demands of the Brewers here. 
I think that it's a perfect fit.

1444
01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:59,000
Now, forget about McClain. 
There's no way I'm giving him up

1445
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:01,440
for anybody, even school at this
point. 

1446
01:10:01,440 --> 01:10:03,160
I'm not doing it. 
That's how much I think of 

1447
01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:05,600
McClain. 
And if the Brewers want McClain 

1448
01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:08,560
and there's just no budging 
deals off, go find somebody 

1449
01:10:08,560 --> 01:10:10,320
else. 
I'm not doing it, but you do 

1450
01:10:10,320 --> 01:10:15,760
have to find somebody to shield 
McClain like you can't and not 

1451
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:17,920
not that you don't want to. 
I mean, not that he can't pitch 

1452
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:21,120
opening day, but you just need a
guy who's been there, you know, 

1453
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:25,520
200 strikeout guy, a high inning
guy, a guy that's won a lot of 

1454
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:27,080
games, a guy that's been in the 
playoffs. 

1455
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:30,600
Like Peralta does so much, not 
just for the Mets like this 

1456
01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:33,880
year, but as they build out the 
staff with some young guys. 

1457
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:37,520
I I think they it would be it 
would be really a home run fit. 

1458
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:40,680
You'd have to think that Stearns
is ties to Milwaukee gives him 

1459
01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:43,640
the the upper hand. 
I I would think now if the Mets 

1460
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,840
had a a lame prospect base, this
will be a pipe dream. 

1461
01:10:46,840 --> 01:10:49,400
But over the weekend, we'll 
learn what and that's why you 

1462
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,040
know he's going to get dealt 
like what it becomes this 

1463
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:54,840
concrete like the Brewers want a
young Major League ready 

1464
01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:56,680
starting pitcher in place of 
Peralta. 

1465
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:58,280
Well, take tongue, all right, 
takes, bro. 

1466
01:10:58,280 --> 01:10:59,960
Take whoever you whoever you 
prefer. 

1467
01:11:00,320 --> 01:11:04,480
Now, I don't know what else it 
would take to make that. 

1468
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:06,800
It's not going to be, I don't 
think it would be just tongue 

1469
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:09,200
for Peralta. 
So this was a pretty good 

1470
01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:12,160
development over the weekend. 
Now, some of you might use this 

1471
01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:15,600
as fuel, not to trade him, but 
Ocuna hitting four home runs in 

1472
01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:16,640
winter ball. 
I don't know. 

1473
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:19,080
You want Pong and Acuna for 
Peralta done. 

1474
01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:21,440
Let's go. 
Like, I really think that he's 

1475
01:11:21,440 --> 01:11:26,440
got to be in New York by 204 
strikeouts, 176 innings, a a 2.7

1476
01:11:26,440 --> 01:11:30,880
OERAA winner. 
He's making $8 million in 2026 

1477
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:33,000
and then he's a free agent. 
You know, the Brewers aren't 

1478
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:34,320
paying him. 
That's a done deal. 

1479
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:37,480
You already know what they want.
The Mets have the the the the 

1480
01:11:37,480 --> 01:11:41,600
means to satisfy that. 
So I really think that they 

1481
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:44,720
absolutely have to make that 
happen. 

1482
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:48,200
I think that they will more on 
those Stefanski. 

1483
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:49,080
Let's see. 
I want to see if I get a 

1484
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:53,000
baseball thing here was offered 
report just came out that 

1485
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:55,360
Bellinger was offered five 
years, 160. 

1486
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:56,840
All right. 
I'm assuming that's the that's 

1487
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:57,920
the Yankees. 
OK, good. 

1488
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:00,640
That's fine. 
First it was thought to be 30 

1489
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:04,120
AAV, which obviously is 150, you
know, maybe the Yankees, you 

1490
01:12:04,120 --> 01:12:06,680
know, sprinkle in one 1 1/2, 
whatever, you know, $2,000,000 a

1491
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:08,720
little bit too. 
I get 22 million actually 

1492
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:11,160
literally at that point. 
That's fine. 

1493
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:14,720
I don't care about the money. 
To me, what I desperately if you

1494
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:19,320
if it came out and it was five 
years, 170, you know, or even 

1495
01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:23,360
175, which he's not worth, but 
with some deferrals, I'm not 

1496
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:24,760
going to, that's not going to 
bother me. 

1497
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:29,720
What bothers me about the 
Yankees is they have been cheap 

1498
01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:36,880
is the wrong word, but they've 
been far too aware of how they 

1499
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:40,640
construct these deals. 
And by stretching it out they 

1500
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:44,760
are. 
They are avoiding absorbing, you

1501
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:48,560
know, that bigger AAV each year.
But by stretching it out, 

1502
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:51,800
they've had a deal with decaying
players and diminished players 

1503
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:54,680
on the back end of contracts 
that we don't want anymore. 

1504
01:12:55,080 --> 01:12:57,040
And that's just a conversation 
that I'm done with. 

1505
01:12:57,120 --> 01:13:00,200
That's it. 
Like, come on, you got to learn 

1506
01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:03,880
from previous mistakes. 
So again, I want Bellinger, but 

1507
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:07,000
I want him in five years. 
Anything beyond that get lost 

1508
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:12,040
and any and by the way, I even 
think even at five years, 

1509
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:14,400
whatever the money is the plan 
that I just laid out. 

1510
01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:17,440
If you could execute that where 
you got quad and left and her 

1511
01:13:17,440 --> 01:13:20,280
and and and Nico Horner at 
second base and either trade 

1512
01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:23,640
Jazz for pitcher or put Jazz at 
third base, whatever, I actually

1513
01:13:23,640 --> 01:13:26,000
think that in a lot of ways that
that's even better by just 

1514
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:28,240
bringing back Bellinger and a 
starting pitcher. 

1515
01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:31,200
Now you got more contact, you 
got more speed, you got a plus 

1516
01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:33,400
left fielder. 
And listen, Belly's a great 

1517
01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:36,560
outfielder, but so is Quan and 
Horner's a better second baseman

1518
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:39,520
than Jazz and he makes more 
contact, you know, and he's a 

1519
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:42,320
higher average guy. 
So there's other ways to go. 

1520
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:44,720
I got to dive into that. 
I got to dive into that. 

1521
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:50,840
You know that that's the 
problem, not not having 

1522
01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:54,280
everything set up yet behind the
scenes, which which I'm getting 

1523
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:55,080
there. 
Yeah. 

1524
01:13:55,520 --> 01:13:57,920
All right, Nikki, Nikki Fermato,
where we got there? 

1525
01:13:57,920 --> 01:13:59,680
Nikki, thoughts on on Trader for
Horner? 

1526
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:03,040
I just brought that up. 
Another utility, consistent bat 

1527
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:04,560
versatility infield. 
You look at some of these 

1528
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:05,560
numbers, Where is it with 
Horner? 

1529
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:09,640
Why do I write it down? 
What do you strike out 47 times 

1530
01:14:09,640 --> 01:14:11,880
last year? 
The hell is it? 

1531
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:17,000
Yeah. 
All right, so Bregman five 

1532
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:20,720
years, 70 plus deferred. 
Horner jazzed third base, maybe 

1533
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:22,720
Horner to second try last four 
years. 

1534
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:24,000
How about this? 
We're going to geek out for a 

1535
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:28,000
second like because Horner to me
is thought to be a utility 

1536
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:30,320
player and I understand that. 
To what extent? 

1537
01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:32,440
Because he has bounced around a 
little bit, though not nearly as

1538
01:14:32,440 --> 01:14:35,080
much as you think. 
The last couple of years he's 

1539
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:36,480
been primarily second base, 
right? 

1540
01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:38,520
I think he played 153 at second 
this year. 

1541
01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:40,840
There was some early year like, 
you know, a little sprinkle the 

1542
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:42,240
third, a little sprinkle 
outfield. 

1543
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:44,440
He's a second baseman the last 
four years. 

1544
01:14:44,440 --> 01:14:49,080
Check out these wars, right? 
4.25.53.7. 

1545
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:53,760
Last year's WAR was 6.2. 
Like that's not a super sub 

1546
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:55,360
Util. 
That's not Joe Mcewing, you 

1547
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:59,320
know, I mean, super sub, you 
know, Andy Fox, that's a guy 

1548
01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:01,480
who's helping you win every 
single night. 

1549
01:15:01,760 --> 01:15:06,960
I mean, hit 297, struck out 49 
times, They stole 29 bags. 

1550
01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:10,120
And he's a great fielder and 
he's making $12 million. 

1551
01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:14,880
So, yeah, there's a lot of 
things there that can be done 

1552
01:15:16,320 --> 01:15:19,000
about this guy. 
AJ Bianco, what's up, AJ? 

1553
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:20,840
Can't figure out the Yankees 
thinking how could they think 

1554
01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:23,600
there is good or better than 
last year, especially with two 

1555
01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:25,480
starting pitches on the shelf 
for a month or two? 

1556
01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:27,760
I don't know. 
I mean, if I had that answer, 

1557
01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:31,600
Aji really don't know. 
First of all, OK, even if the 

1558
01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:34,440
Yankees were thinking about this
now, that is that the essence of

1559
01:15:34,440 --> 01:15:37,960
that question is a massive 
problem because AJ is not wrong 

1560
01:15:37,960 --> 01:15:40,280
in his premise. 
You know, basically the Yankees 

1561
01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:43,080
are in their minds thinking, 
well, you know, we were 

1562
01:15:43,240 --> 01:15:46,120
basically good enough last year 
and almost won the division, you

1563
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:50,040
know, tied Toronto, 94 wins and 
you know, Garrett Cole comes 

1564
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:52,120
back, maybe we win the division,
blah, blah, blah. 

1565
01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:54,480
Where whatever. 
Different matchup home home 

1566
01:15:54,480 --> 01:15:58,680
field All right, the Yankees 
weren't good enough with 

1567
01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:03,160
Bellinger last year. 
We all know that right so to 

1568
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:08,000
just bring back Bellinger is to 
merely get back to a point that 

1569
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:09,840
was not good enough. 
Thank you very much for the for 

1570
01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:13,400
the text there to a point that's
not good enough to win and by 

1571
01:16:13,440 --> 01:16:16,200
the way, you know last year 
really just kind of had to worry

1572
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:18,720
about Toronto. 
I think it's a totally different

1573
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:21,520
beast totally different animal 
in the American League East this

1574
01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:22,960
year. 
I think the Red Sox are going to

1575
01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:24,920
be pretty good. 
I think balter war is going to 

1576
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:26,400
be better. 
I think Tampa is going to to be 

1577
01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:28,080
scrappy. 
Yanks is the only one who hasn't

1578
01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:30,120
done anything in the division. 
Everybody else has gotten 

1579
01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:34,840
better. 
All right, So I don't, I don't 

1580
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:38,600
think that this division like I,
I think that the division winner

1581
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:40,680
could win fewer than 94 games. 
I really do. 

1582
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:43,880
I think you could be 9293. 
I I basically I don't see 

1583
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:46,680
anybody winning and anybody 
including the Yankees, even if 

1584
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:48,240
they do all these things that I 
want them to do. 

1585
01:16:48,480 --> 01:16:52,280
I don't think maybe Toronto if 
they got Tucker, maybe, but like

1586
01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:56,680
the 9899 hundred win threat, you
know, messing around with that. 

1587
01:16:56,680 --> 01:16:58,520
I don't think that's going to 
happen this year in the American

1588
01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:01,240
League East here. 
So I, I, I think it's a very 

1589
01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:04,280
faulty thought process and a 
very dangerous want to think, 

1590
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:06,200
well, you know, it's a 
crapshoot. 

1591
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:09,160
Get to October, never know. 
We'll bring back Bellinger. 

1592
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:12,240
You know, we'll, we'll win the 
division again and maybe or 

1593
01:17:12,240 --> 01:17:14,880
we'll tie for it again. 
We'll be right there and we'll 

1594
01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:17,520
theoretically be better because 
we'll have Cole come back and 

1595
01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:20,160
we'll Don come back. 
Here's the problem, though, and 

1596
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:26,360
I understand that to an extent, 
right, but you are leaning on a 

1597
01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:28,880
couple of factors #1 the other 
teams not getting better, which 

1598
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:30,240
I just dispelled, they're going 
to be better. 

1599
01:17:30,440 --> 01:17:33,120
And even if all of them are 
better, at least two of the 

1600
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:35,280
three are going to be 
significantly better. 

1601
01:17:35,440 --> 01:17:39,600
Fewer wins there #2 like if you 
don't get Bellinger, and even if

1602
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:43,160
you do and you don't do the, the
Quan, the Nico Horner stuff, 

1603
01:17:43,440 --> 01:17:46,240
whatever, trade Jazz for 
starting pitcher or somebody 

1604
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:49,480
else for starting pitcher. 
Well, there is a real chance 

1605
01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:54,080
that the Yankees stumble out of 
the gate this year. 12 and 1511 

1606
01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:56,880
and 15 now. 
I mean, could they stun us and 

1607
01:17:56,880 --> 01:17:58,880
start 13 and 4? 
Sure. 

1608
01:17:59,440 --> 01:18:01,920
But I've got to deal in the 
reality of the type of arms 

1609
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:04,800
they're going to be running out 
there against really good teams.

1610
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:08,400
And you're going to be going to 
Will Warren a lot early and 

1611
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:11,400
Yarborough a lot early. 
And Louis Hill, I don't know 

1612
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:15,120
what the heck he is at this 
point, you know, and that and 

1613
01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:18,000
obviously Max Freed, of course, 
but like that's a lot of scripts

1614
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:20,840
through the rotation that I 
don't think is really going to 

1615
01:18:20,840 --> 01:18:23,760
give the Yankees a chance to win
a lot of low scoring games. 

1616
01:18:23,760 --> 01:18:26,360
Not to mention guys. 
I mean, I I've just kind of 

1617
01:18:26,360 --> 01:18:30,120
pushed this to the side. 
The bullpen stinks outside of 

1618
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:34,040
Bednar. 
So I just think it's incredibly 

1619
01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:36,720
in right now. 
Right now the Yankees aren't 

1620
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:38,720
even a playoff team. 
You could think what you want, 

1621
01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:40,440
but I think most of you are with
me on this. 

1622
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:44,640
The Yankees are a non playoff 
team in my opinion right now. 

1623
01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:48,080
And even if it's just Bellinger 
flip a coin, I still don't know.

1624
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:52,440
So you know, all these things 
they got to do, they've yet to 

1625
01:18:52,440 --> 01:18:54,760
do anything. 
It's getting laid early and they

1626
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:56,880
got to start moving and and I 
don't know when that's going to 

1627
01:18:56,880 --> 01:18:58,240
be. 
I really don't. 

1628
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:01,720
Somebody talking about the 
Knicks here. 

1629
01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:03,240
Yeah, I watched the Knicks last 
night. 

1630
01:19:03,240 --> 01:19:05,480
Obviously, Felice says thank you
very much. 

1631
01:19:05,480 --> 01:19:06,800
I appreciate that text there, 
Felice. 

1632
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:08,520
Knicks have the heart back. 
Yeah, they do. 

1633
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:09,600
I honestly what you did? 
They're coming. 

1634
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:12,800
BT Let's go talk some hoops yet.
Today's more of a football 

1635
01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:14,840
basketball day. 
I watched the Knicks. 

1636
01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:16,480
Cat wasn't thrilled he was on 
the bench. 

1637
01:19:16,480 --> 01:19:19,000
Tough. 
You don't like it, too bad. 

1638
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:22,640
I mean, do do some other things 
better and you won't be on the 

1639
01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:23,960
bench for the final seven or 8 
minutes. 

1640
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:28,000
That's one thing that I like 
about Mike Brown is that he goes

1641
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:30,160
with the hot hand rather than 
forcing the issue. 

1642
01:19:30,480 --> 01:19:33,080
And yeah, you do see a different
Knicks team with Josh Hart. 

1643
01:19:33,080 --> 01:19:36,440
So now I still don't love the 
fact that, you know, it's 

1644
01:19:36,440 --> 01:19:38,800
basically, you know, back and 
forth with the Portland Trail 

1645
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:42,840
Blazers, you know, who are 
middling average, basically 

1646
01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:45,560
couple of games under 500 team. 
I mean, could you blow somebody 

1647
01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:47,520
out? 
But no, you got to start 

1648
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:49,280
somewhere. 
I'm not going to quibble on 

1649
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:53,160
style points, but I do like that
adaptability, something I talked

1650
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:55,720
a lot about with Mike Brown as 
the coach here. 

1651
01:19:57,200 --> 01:20:00,760
Let's see here Serpico, who's 
chatting quite a bit. 

1652
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:02,080
Big fan of the show. 
What up Serp? 

1653
01:20:02,080 --> 01:20:04,120
All right, I'm here late, but 
we're why it's not that's that's

1654
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:05,000
not you. 
It's not on me. 

1655
01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:07,640
Did you hear the rumor the 
Yankees in the lead for Peralta?

1656
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:09,560
Apparently Louis Hill is a 
centerpiece. 

1657
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:12,600
If that's the done, if that's 
the deal, do it because 

1658
01:20:12,840 --> 01:20:17,800
remember, the Astros wanted 
Louis Hill for Kyle Tucker and 

1659
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:20,240
the Yankees said no. 
And I thought that was asinine. 

1660
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:23,440
Now obviously he doesn't have 
the same value, and Peralta's 

1661
01:20:23,440 --> 01:20:27,560
not quite Tucker. 
But if it's, you know, Louis 

1662
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:29,720
heel, I did not see that again, 
I'm on air. 

1663
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:32,760
Thank you. 
Although I did I did say but 

1664
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:34,440
that I think that the Yankees 
are squarely in the mix. 

1665
01:20:34,440 --> 01:20:36,720
I just think that the Mets have 
more resources to get it done. 

1666
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:41,120
Now if it's Louis heel and a 
lower level minor leaguer that's

1667
01:20:41,120 --> 01:20:42,680
highly valued that I don't know 
about. 

1668
01:20:42,680 --> 01:20:44,200
I I'm not going to get into the 
weeds on that. 

1669
01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:46,600
Now I and that satisfies what 
the Brewers want. 

1670
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:48,200
Great. 
I'll do that in a heartbeat. 

1671
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:50,080
You want Louis heel, I get 
Peralta done. 

1672
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:51,280
Where? 
Where do I sign? 

1673
01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:54,240
But that would be a bad look for
the Mets. 

1674
01:20:54,480 --> 01:20:56,200
Like the Mets can't let that 
happen. 

1675
01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:59,480
Not to the point where they off 
the ante and throw McClain in 

1676
01:20:59,480 --> 01:21:00,480
there. 
That will be asinine. 

1677
01:21:00,480 --> 01:21:04,400
They're not doing that. 
But to me like I would.