Booger McFarland
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Well, a couple of things. I highly doubt anyone playing in this game is going to eat donuts. That's number one. But I like how you try to get people on your side, though. Yeah. Second. Yeah, man. Like the first thing I go back to is when they met in week four and first played a game. Derek Henry goes 87 yards.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
So this game, my initial thought comes down to whether or not Buffalo can stop the Baltimore running game. I mean, they rushed for over 200 yards that game. And not to get into weeds too much, but Buffalo's defense likes to play nickel defense. That means two linebackers and a nickelback. And Johnson, number seven, is that nickelback. Well, what does that mean?
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
That means that nickelback, who's 190 pounds, has got to be the one to fill in those run gaps and tackle Derrick Henry. how many times would PFT be willing to tackle me? Like, ultimately, that's what it comes down to. Because Johnson has got to tackle Derrick Henry probably six or seven times during the game. And I just don't know if he can do that.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
So I want to see what is Buffalo's adjustment going to be. Because they can't allow Johnson to tackle Derrick Henry over and over. On the flip side, Josh Allen is playing at an all-time high level. If you're Baltimore, how do you affect Josh Allen? We saw Denver try to get after him and rush him a little bit. They couldn't do it. So how do you affect Josh Allen? That way he can't get everyone.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
He can't get Shakur involved. He can't get Kincaid involved. He can't get Amari Cooper involved. So those are the first initial two thoughts I have on the game.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
You can want it as much if you want to, buddy. Yeah, 285. And if I'm running that shoe, you can want it all you want. You ain't stopping me, buddy.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
I still don't know if that's going to work, buddy, because I will carry you. How much do you weigh, by the way? Because you look like you're really skinny fat. I mean, what are you, like 195, 200?
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
That's a bad-looking 75, man.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Okay. All right. Hopefully 100 yards is enough time.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
That's a good point.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Yeah, I think I would agree to that. And how about that? A Hall of Fame kicker in Justin Tucker, to your point, could be a weak link. And we know he's got the leg. Like, he's done it for years. We know it's in there. Do you think it's just mental? Like...
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Can a guy who's a Hall of Fame player who's done something at the highest level get a mental block where he can't do it in front of people all of a sudden? Have you ever thought about that?
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
I think John Harbaugh's got to trust him, though. So if this game comes down to a money kick, it's, you know, end of half, end of game, 57 yarder where you knew Justin Tucker was money. You know, the announcer is going to bring it up. You know, Jim Nance and Tony Romo, you know, Tony's going to bring it up and and we're going to have a conversation.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
There may even be a timeout call to build attention. I would just love to know what would be going through the mind of Tucker at that point if it happens, and also what would go through the mind of his teammates because you can't just erase history of this past season where he struggled. I mean, he struggled a lot throughout this season, man.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Well, I appreciate it. It's going to be a heavyweight fight, man. And if you think about this, we often, you know, everybody loves to use these cliches. The Green Bay Packers are the youngest team in the league. Okay, I get it. They've been the youngest team the last two years. How about this one?
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
The Rams defense, and I think Troy used this last night, it's the cheapest defense in football because they got all those first and second year players. It's the cheapest defense in football, one of the most talented defenses in football. And if they have any shot of upsetting the Philadelphia Eagles, those young players have to go out and play as if they don't know any better.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Because on paper and in Vegas, everybody would tell you that it's going to be a mismatch. That offensive line, Saquon Barkley, just think about what happened a month or so ago when these two teams played each other. But it's something about when you face a team a second time. I remember when we played the Philadelphia Eagles and we couldn't get over that hump and we kept going against them.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
the ability to know what you were going to deal with. And when you went into the game, you didn't have to feel anybody out. You knew what it was going to be. I think the Rams are going to get the benefit of the doubt because they know what it's like to see Makai Becton. Like the dude's 6'7", 350.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Like you could put you two together and that's Makai Becton, Lane Johnson, Landon Dickerson, Cam Juergens, Malata. Like those dudes are gigantic. I think the smallest one outside of the center is like 6'6", and 325. Right. And so you have to know what that feels like to go against it. That way, when you go into the game, you understand how to attack it. I think the Rams are going to do that.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
The key to this game will be, and it sounds crazy, I don't know what the weather's going to be like, but I guarantee it's going to be cold. How does a team from Southern California who's got young guys deal with the cold weather? As somebody who's been in this league and been a young guy, it's difficult to deal with if you haven't had to do it a lot.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
The first time I played in cold weather, I'll never forget it. We were in Chicago. And here I am. I'm a rookie. I'm about to put on every layer that the equipment manager is giving me. And Hardy Nicholson looks at me and says, hey, no, no, no, no. We don't do that on defense. I'm like, what do you mean? It's like 10 degrees outside. He said, no, we don't do that.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
He's like, on defense, we tough it out. We got to tough it out. So, of course, I wanted to fit in. I didn't put anything on. And when that wind came through that tunnel in Chicago, it felt like it went right through the crack of my behind and out of my nose. It's the coldest I've ever been in my life.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
I promise you I've never been colder in my life, and all I thought about was when this game was going to be over and how could I get back to the locker room. And so the next few times that I played in the cold weather, I prepared for it. I used to use this stuff called Tiger Bomb and Vaseline, drank a shot of whiskey before the game, a little chicken broth.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
And so my body and my skin was ready to play. That's a real thing. I hope this Rams team is ready to deal with the elements because that will give them a heads up in playing in this game.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Pre-game warm-up is kind of the worst because you got to get your body loose and warm. And once you get loose and warm, and no lie, small shot of whiskey. I mean, we don't need anything hard like vodka. I mean, we don't need anything. Just like a small shot of, you know, a little Tennessee something. Something light.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
just to kind of get the throat nice and warm, put the tiger balm on, get ready to go, get lubed up a little bit. And here's the last thing you got to put the full body onesie on the ski suit, cut the toes out. All right. Make sure that the shoes are nice and dry. And once you get warm, the key is to stay warm.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Like the worst thing you ever want to do is get warm and then cool off because then you freeze all that, all that perspiration freezes up and you'll be cold as hell.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
First of all, I think it's a code that the offensive linemen can't wear sleeves. They all didn't have any sleeves on. I didn't feel intimidated. I just thought they was crazy. Listen, at a certain point, I don't care how tough you are, mentally tough. If it's zero degrees, everybody's cold. You're not going to tell me at zero, man, I'm not cold. That's a lot. Everybody's cold.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Now, are you going to play with it? Sure, you can play with it, but everybody's cold at zero degrees. Coldest game I ever played was Green Bay. It was zero degrees, windshield was minus 15, and the sun was out. Coincidentally, it was one of the best games I ever had because I knew how to dress, the tiger balm on my skin, I felt good, and the sun was out.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
So the sun being out at least made me feel better.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
So everybody says the same thing, but they beat around the bush. So let's just lay this out. Yeah. Let's look at the Eagles' offense. A.J. Brown, Devontae Smith, Dallas Goddard. They got weapons. Carcaterra. Offensive line, I think we would say is one of the best offensive lines in football, right? Yep. Saquon Barkley's been the best back in football this year, right? Yep.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
So what's the last piece? Fullback. Yeah, fullback. Nobody plays with a fullback anymore. Last piece of the quarterback. But for whatever reason, he hasn't been bad, but he hasn't been great. And so it kind of leaves you asking that question, what's wrong with the Eagles offense? The answer is right in front of us, guys.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
The indifferences of the quarterback and how that reverberates throughout the offense is the issue. Because regardless of what's being said, when the quarterback is off, everybody's affected. The receivers are affected. The offensive line is affected. And to me, Saquon Barkley has been the common force on this team because he was an outside guy that came in. And Saquon Barkley is a team guy.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
He's a guy that tries to galvanize everybody and get everybody together. And so I honestly think he's the guy that's holding this thing together because as we saw throughout the season, Receivers looking at the quarterback sideways. Quarterbacks look at the receiver sideways. And everybody come out, came out and said the right thing.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
But to your point, Big Care, you just asked the question that everybody continues to ask. What's going on with the offense? Jalen Hurts is not bad.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
No question. We've seen him do it. He was the best player on the field in that Super Bowl against Patrick Mahomes, no doubt about it. I will try to describe it this way and make a comparison that I think everybody in America can understand. It's like having a hamburger with no cheese on it and no condiments. Like, it's a burger.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Everybody loves burgers, but is the burger really that good without the condiments? It's okay, but everybody has their specific condiments in which they want to put on it. I'm a cheese, bacon, mayo, every now and then a hard fried egg guy. I don't know what you guys are. Unless you're five years old, nobody really eats a plain burger. We all need something on it.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
But if I said, hey, let's go get some burgers, you'd be like, let's go. I'm all in. But if I don't get everything that comes with the burger, you're like, eh, not really that good of a... I think that's Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts is like the burger, but we just continue to wait when we're going to get the toppings. When are we going to get everything that goes with it? We've had it before.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
We had it in the Super Bowl where he was outstanding and it was like the greatest in and out burger, double, double animal style with cheese, the whole nine. And we just want to get that again. And we haven't quite gotten it. We've been dealing with fat burger. We've been dealing with Chili's old timer with cheese.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Like we've been dealing with a lot of things, but we haven't got the in and out double, double animal style since the Super Bowl.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Okay. A little bit better.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
A little bit. So he's like a burger with, like, pickles only.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Well, I wonder what the health of Tyler Higby is going to be like because he went out in that game with an abdominal strain or something happened, a shoulder. I can't remember what it was, but he didn't come back. And while he was in the game, he had got five or six catches. So that's going to be key. Second of all, they need to be able to run the football. And like, you know, Jalen Carter...
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
And Chris Jones are probably the two best defensive tacklers in football. No disrespect to Jeffrey Simmons down in Tennessee. But Jalen Carter's playing at an unbelievable level for Philadelphia. And Nolan Smith, who a lot of people thought was a bust, he's coming on. So you got to be able to neutralize those two guys. You got to run the football at them with Williams, man.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
And I think the Rams offensive line is going to be key. Then it comes down, like, when you get in big games, man, like, your stars got to be stars. It's got to be Stafford, the Cooper Cup. Stafford to Puka Nakua, Stafford to Robinson. Matthew Stafford has to remind us of the Matthew Stafford that was with Calvin Johnson. He's got to come out and sling that thing. It can't be anything else.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
He's got to throw for 300 yards. Puka Nakua's got to have a vintage day. Cooper Cupp has got to remind us when everybody was like, man, who's that white boy? That's Cooper Cup. Like he's got to have one of those days. And so I think if they do that and they can run the football and this defense plays at that super high level, the Rams can take this game into the fourth quarter.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
And when you're the underdog, that's really all you want. You want when you come out of that last break and it's six minutes left for it to be a one score game either way. And that's all you can ask for on the road in the elements. I think the Rams can do that, but we'll see.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Cooper Cup versus Cooper DeGene? Yeah.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
By the way, I'm going to check your NFL facts right now. Cooper Dejean, white DB. Yep. Before Cooper Dejean, who was the last prominent white cornerback?
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
There you go. I'm just checking to see. I'm just checking. Come on.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
I would rather have the rest, especially if your bye week was early to middle part of the season. And like the physical part, like you're not going to make you're not going to go from like three to ten physically. You might go from three to like seven.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
But more importantly, mentally, I think a week break mentally where you don't have to get your your your mental levels, your competitive juices flowing. You can take a mental break where you actually instead of dreading to play or trying to figure out how to play, you're chomping at the bit to play. And that's a big difference.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
That's why you see the teams that have a bye week often come out in that first five minutes, that first quarter, they are flying around because it's mental. You're ready to compete. You're ready to get out there. You haven't competed in a while because we're creatures of habit.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
And when you've done something from July until January, and then you take a week off, like your body is still in that competitive mode, even though you've had a week off. So you're ready to get out. It's kind of like you, but watch this. You guys do a podcast every week or whatever. If you take a week off, you're like, man, I can't wait to get back home. I got so much to say.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
It's the same thing with football. And I think mentally the Chiefs are going to get a break. I think the Chiefs also are going to be really healthy. It'll be the healthiest they've been. I think if you're the Texans, man, you really got to be careful the first quarter of that game.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
And you can't come out of the first quarter down 14-0 because they're going to try to come out and make a statement and let everyone know that it's the Chiefs' invitational steal. But, yeah, I would rather be mentally and physically rested and have a tad bit of rust than to continue playing and have your body banged up and beat up.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
So I don't really have to even watch this game. If I can look at the stat sheet and without like took a blind look at the stat sheet and I saw Will Anderson Jr. Three sacks, four pressures. I saw Daniel Hunter, two sacks, seven pressures. I'm like, this is a game in the fourth quarter.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Because if those two defensive ends can put up a stat line like that, where they sack Mahomes four or five times, it's nine or ten pressures. Yeah, that game is going to be a tight game because that means they're going to affect the quarterback and they're going to affect the Chiefs offense. Like the biggest weakness, I think everyone knows, it's the Chiefs tackles.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
They've had to move Joe Tooney out there. They've tried to draft a guy. It doesn't matter. Those tackles have been bad. I know it. You know it. You know who else knows it? Andy Reid. So he's going to try to game plan around that. And so the Houston Texans defense and D'Amico Ryan's have got to figure out a way to affect the quarterback.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
If you affect Patrick Mahomes, then you affect the entire team because he's the thing that makes that go. Offensively, The Texas offensive line, man, like, I'm not sure what happened to Laramie Tunsil. I'm not sure what's going on with Titus, with Howard. Like, these guys haven't been playing well. They got a lot of money invested in that offensive line, and they haven't played well.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
And for the first time in over a year, I thought C.J. Shroud looked like the C.J. Shroud we saw when Ohio State took on Georgia. He was running around, making plays. He was making throws. Like, I haven't seen that guy. Because we all watched that Sugar Bowl, and you were like... I didn't know he could have second reaction plays. I didn't know he could do that.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
I think he won America over that night. And then all of a sudden, his rookie year, he was great. And then this year, it's kind of been like I haven't seen that guy since his rookie year. If he can play like that, man, for sure, this can be a game. I don't know if I expect it to be close, but I think the Texans can hang in there for a little while.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Yeah, I remember in Indianapolis where we're playing Cincinnati Bengals. It's a Monday night. And it wasn't the game plan. It was after the first series. So if you remember when Carson Palmer was there and Ochocinco and like all those guys during the Cincinnati heyday, they went no huddle. They went up tempo.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
And when you go up tempo, I'll tell people all the time when you go up tempo, like the offense can't be super complicated because those guys aren't rocket science. We're on rocket science. Like it's got to be a code that everybody's going about. And so after the first series, we figured out when Carson Palmer will come to the line of scrimmage and say 922 Las Vegas, 922 Las Vegas.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Well, Las Vegas is a West Coast city. It was a it was a run to the left. If he came up and said, whatever, 644, 644, let's go Jacksonville, Jacksonville, check that, check that, New York East, New York East, it was a run to the right. And so we were able to decipher their game plan running the football within the first series of the game.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
And so they didn't really have a ton of yards rushing that game. So it's one of those things where, like, the game plan can be cool, but everybody makes little subtle adjustments. And so it was a cool game plan where Palmer is kind of, you know, doing his thing, and we were able kind of to decipher their code that night.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Well, what you have to do is you have to kind of be like a kid in a candy store. Like, you can't let everyone know that you know when Santa's coming. Like, you kind of got to, like, oh, man, man, this is tough. Like, you really know it's coming. Yeah.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
I got so many, man. First of all, I'll start it with this. John and I started out on a good relationship. Then we hit a rocky patch, and I think we're good now. But there was a period of time where I was probably his least favorite player of all time. Really? You got to understand, Gruden is an offensive guy, and there's nothing more he loved than another offensive player.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
If you name him, he loved him. Defensive guys were just a tool to get him the ball back. Especially down in Tampa. You know, one of the best Gruden stories ever. Let's see. We've all seen the clip of Chris Sims. Like Chris Sims and John Gruden. And Chris Sims is trying to call the play and Gruden is looking at him like... I just told you to play.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Like, can you really say, like, can you not say to play? And he's, I mean, he is dog cussing him and MF and we're standing there on defense. Like, like, like this poor kid, man. And just to see him, just to see how he did and dealt with young players. was the most amazing thing, dude. And he would do it every single year.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
He didn't like young players because he wanted veteran guys that knew how to practice, that knew how to work, that knew that he didn't have to babysit. And so anytime a young guy came in, John Gruden was always a treat to watch.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Well, Jane Daniels has to be special and their defense is going to have to create some turnovers. Like we've seen Jared golf, turn the football over a little bit before. So they got to get turnovers. And, and, and I think before we even get to the X's and O's on the field, they got to withstand that building. Uh, I played in that at four field. That place is going to be at a fever pitch.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
They're the number one seed. If they win two games, they get to the Super Bowl. Both of those games are going to be at home. Like they've earned the right for the road to the Super Bowl to come through Detroit. And so you got to withstand like the road team. There's a reason only one road team won this week. And that was your commanders. Now, can they do it again?
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
It's going to be a different building. Tampa was loud. Tampa was boisterous. Fort Field is going to be totally different. So they got to withstand that. And then Jaden Daniels is going to have to make – we all know he can make those plays with his legs. He's got to rush for over 100 yards. And then he's going to have to hit some chunk plays down the field of Terry McLaurin.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
The good thing about everything I just said, it's all doable. It's all very doable because this Detroit defense is banged up. It's beat up. I think they're going to be without – Of their starting day 11, they're going to be without six of those guys, five or six. One of their corners, Terry on Arnold. He's a rookie. He's learning. He's going to be good, but he's very handsy right now.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
If you're Terry McLaurin, I think you got it. Anytime there's a matchup of Terry on Arnold versus Terry McLaurin and you're Jay Daniels, let it go. Now, I think you're going to have to watch for the safety. Kirby Joseph in the middle of the field, he's an all-pro player. He's got eight or nine interceptions. You got to watch for him.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
But I think if you're Washington and you watch film, this is not the Detroit Lions team that we thought they were going to be defensively at the beginning of the season. They are vulnerable. But in order to make them vulnerable, you're going to have to withstand the building. You're going to have to get some turnover from Jerry Goff.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
And you're going to have to get your quarterback to play defensively to where we think he's going to be in two or three years. Like in two or three years, I think James Daniels is in the conversation with Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, and Joe Burrell. He's not there yet, but he's got to give you a glimpse of him being there in order for them to win this game.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
like getting everybody back in their role, dude, is like a major key. Like imagine if your wife goes out of town and she leaves the kids with you, big guy. And then all of a sudden... It's happening this weekend to me.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
Right, exactly. Like listen... The wife goes out of town, you got the kids, and maybe you got a nanny that comes over and helps out, but it's just not the same when the wife is there. If things don't feel the same, it's not the same, you don't feel the same, things may be getting done, but it's not the same. It's very similar, dude. It's the same thing.
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Booger McFarland, Dana White, Rams End Vikings Season + Guys On Chicks
So when Anzalone comes back, things feel normal. He's the green dot. He calls the defense. You feel reassured that if you take a nap and fall asleep, that the kids aren't going to just jump out the windows. Right. When Anzalone's there, he's going to get everybody in their proper position, so it definitely makes a difference.
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We don't like DoorDash, Uber Eats, or like bring something a little healthier?
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I've got two things out of that. Number one, when the 40th birthday party is planned, I need an invitation. Whatever we're doing.
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Yeah. Just let me know when. I will definitely be there. That's number one. Number two, I mean, if you're going to order for the kids, stop ordering like they're grown. I can't help myself. I call Chick-fil-A and tell them to send like a party tray, and you can just get 50 nuggets and let them all share it.
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Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that sometimes, buddy. Nothing wrong with that.
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I think there's something there. This team has been super resilient all year. I think if they're starting 22, they're going to be down eight or nine guys when this game starts. Marcus Freeman has built an unbelievable program, the resiliency, the mental toughness. With that being said, when you step on the football field, you've got to make plays. Jeremiah Love, he's got to have a day.
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Jadarian Price, they're going to have to run the football. Anytime you're the underdog, you want to shorten the game a little bit. Riley and Leonard, we say this every time. He's going to have to make a play down the field throwing the football. He's got to hit a big play.
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And then their defense, which I think is Marcus Freeman's specialty, is going to have to be out of this mind because Chip Kelly, the offensive coordinator, and Ryan Day – I think, number one, they're going to try to get Jeremiah Smith going because he had one catch for three yards last time. And I don't know if you want to go into an offseason where he isn't a huge part of the game.
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So I think Jeremiah Smith is going to be targeted early and often. I think when you look at Travion Henderson, you look at Quenshawn Jenkins, It's so many of those guys that I think are going to be unbelievable for Notre Dame to deal with. So, yeah, to me, if Notre Dame plays at their best, if they play at their best, this is still a two-score game.
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And I think, yeah, even if they play at their best, because there's such a disparity, I think, when it comes to talent where we are now. Now, if this was the original Notre Dame starting 22, I think this will be a one-score game and maybe come down to the fourth quarter where you're like, okay, Notre Dame, I can see a path for them winning.
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It's tough for me to see that now with the current Notre Dame team based on the injuries and based on everything they got. And I think the wild card is this. If you're a Notre Dame fan, I think you got to go and say a prayer, number one, say a prayer to touchdown Jesus. And then secondly, you got to hope –
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You got to hope that Will Howard reverts back to Will Howard at Kansas State against the University of Kansas, where sometimes he just didn't realize he was a good quarterback. Yeah. And maybe he has a bad day. Other than that, I think this is going to be a comfortable Ohio State win. It may not start out that way, but I think eventually it'll be a comfortable win for them.
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Yeah, of course. I mean, we just saw that a month ago, right? Yeah. I mean, I... But notice how Michigan won the game. Turnovers. Will Howard threw one pick, maybe two. They ran the football. They controlled the line of scrimmage. They shortened the game. Jeremiah Smith did everything that I just talked about. Run the ball, shorten the game. Jeremiah Smith didn't get off.
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Will Howard playing like not Will Howard. That's what they got to get. You got to ask yourself, can we repeat what Michigan did?
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Yeah, I mean, listen, I'm not going to apologize for a conference that's dominated college football. You know, what I will say is this, is that I think the years and the ages where the SEC and to a certain extent the ACC with Clemson dominate college football is over with.
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And you look no further than the transfer portal in NIL because no longer can these teams in the South stack their rosters because I'm not going to wait two years to play when I can go to Penn State or Oregon or Michigan and I can play right now. I can play right now and they'll play me 250 grand. So like that's just never, ever going to. And think about this. Think about this.
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Look no further than the number one recruit in America this year, Bryce Underwood. Bryce Underwood was committed to LSU for 10 months. And at the very end, here comes Ellison. Here comes Portnoy. Here comes Brady. And all this money comes in and now he goes to Michigan. Five years ago, that doesn't happen. But now it happens.
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So I think we've just reached a point where there's going to be a lot more parity in college football.
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By the way. By the way, look what I have on right now, baby. Rollback joggers. Oh, let's go.
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So, you know, once you've reached the age of 40, I think what you need to do in the gym is lift a lot less weight. So everybody knows I'm a big Peloton guy. I'm almost at like 1,500 rides for my career. But I wanted to get back into the gym and just kind of start to tone up a little bit. And so what I do in the gym is a lot of body weight stuff. So squatting one single leg functional movements.
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So single leg body weight squats, put your, put your body in a position and you can do it just using your body weight, uh, single leg RDLs. Like the heaviest, the heaviest dumbbell I pick up is 40 pounds. And It's a lot of supersets. It's high intensity. It's eight reps here, eight reps there, three, four rounds. I'm not benching. I'm not squatting. I'm not throwing 315 pounds up.
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You don't need to do that. At the age of 40, it's a lot more about mobility. It's a lot more about prehab, posthab, like all those things where your body can functionally move. Like make sure your hips are stretched out, all right? Not only will you enjoy, but the wife will too. Like, make sure everything is nice and loose, okay?
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I feel like that's a Nugenics commercial with Frank Thomas and Doug Flutie.
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But that's what I'm doing in the gym now, man. A lot of functional movement, a lot of stretching, a lot of superset stuff, a lot of high intensity so I can tone up, man.
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You look good.
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seven quarterbacks so uh my homes lamar josh joe burrow um that's four i would probably go um um matthew stafford five golf jared golf six And then it's probably... Dak, seven. Shut up. Shut up. Cut him off. Get him off the air. We're right there.
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Cooper Rush, eight. To me, Jake Daniels is already top ten. He's already a top ten quarterback.
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That's the real reason I asked that question. That's right there. This one here, man. This one really, it just kind of, I don't know. It does a thing. These two right here.
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It looks like you're making a gang sign.
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I can't wait, man. Appreciate you guys always having me on. Love you guys, man. Looking forward to seeing you guys in New Orleans, man. Let me know when the celebration is. Yes.
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Jalen Walker. I'm always partial to the undersized guys, the guys that don't necessarily meet the measurables, but they're really good football players. And, you know, he's 6'1", 230 pounds, 40 pounds. He's kind of an undersized edge guy. He kind of reminds me of James Harrison. Remember that guy who used to play for the Steelers, number 92? Defensive player of the year, candidate forever.
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Undersized edge backer that made his living. Had a great career. I think Jalen Walker is a better version of that. If you have any, I guess, question marks about who he is, go back and watch the Texas game and watch how he dominated Texas. I think that'll tell you everything you need to know.
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That was my favorite pick because he didn't meet the measurables, but he dominated like he was the biggest guy in the draft.
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So here's what happens is that like everybody knows where we are. We're Georgia, LSU, Ohio State, these places. So, you know, that's kind of like in your back pocket, like the NFL is in your back pocket because you know what kind of place you are. You know the level of athletes you are. You know what type of competitive nature that this program exudes on a day in and day out basis.
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So you're trying to win a national championship. And if you get to a point where that's unattainable, I think then you go in your back pocket and you're like, okay, now I can start getting ready for the NFL. But everybody, you go to these places to win a championship. You're not going there to do anything less. It's win the SEC. It's get into the playoff. It's win a national championship.
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And at the moment where you're Georgia and Notre Dame's got you by the short and curlies and you realize you're going to lose that game, at that point, you're like, okay, now it's time to start thinking about the NFL. But The guys who know they're going or have a chance to go, you always have that in your back pocket.
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It's not something that you parade around because there are a lot of people in that same category. But you know it's in your back pocket. And at the right time, you pull it out and it's time to go to work on it.
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Movement. Football is a game of movement. You know, years ago, football was a big man's game. It was the bigger you are, the better your chances of succeeding were. You know, guys like Makai Becton, guys like the big kid from Ohio State that went to Cleveland, his name, he was like 6'8", 350. Like, it's no longer a big man's game. I want athletes. Now, you have to be a certain size.
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But for me, like offensive lineman, if you're 300 to 315, that's big enough. Can you move? Because football is now a game of space and it's about getting your best athletes in space. Think about the best people at each position. Trent Williams. What's made Trent Williams a great left tackle? His ability to move and block defenders on the second level.
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Think about some of the best guards we've seen. Think about Zach Martin, his ability to move and get up to linebackers and displace people. Think about the best quarterbacks. There are guys that can move now. So football is a game of movement now, and linemen are no different. That's why Aaron Donald can play defensive tackle. I don't know if you saw that article, and I think it was GQ or Essence.
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He said he played the Super Bowl against Cincinnati.
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at 260 pounds 260 now he can bench press 500 so he can get away with it but my point being is you don't have to be a guy like you Rosillo where your thighs are exploding out of your shorts like you don't have to be that guy anymore like all you need to do is you got to be able to move at some point big guy I'm working on the wrong things yes uh who was your favorite tackle then Favorite tackle?
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Obviously, I'm biased. I've known Will Campbell since he was 18 years old, man. Like the kid grew up 35 miles from where I grew up at. I've known him for a long time. People said he couldn't play because his arms are too short. The kid has football character. And what does that mean? That means that his competitive nature, when he gets on the field, is that of a player in which is not talented.
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So imagine the try-hard guy, but now he's got supreme talent. That's what a football character is. He's going to do his best to finish first. He's going to do his best to give everything he has on every rep. That's what a football character is. And he's got it. And he's got it at 6'6 and 315. So I'm partial to him. I like the kid out of Ohio State, too, Simmons. He tore the patella.
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Now, full disclosure, I tore the same Patella. It's about a year before you get back. And I know Kansas City took him and he took a flyer at the end of the first round. I don't know if he's going to be ready by training camp. But by all accounts, his movement is that of the best tackle in the draft.
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But it's tough to take a guy that high coming off a torn Patella and you hadn't seen him work out or seen him move.
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Well – Everybody will say that Shamar Stewart out of Texas A&M because he's 6'5", 267, ran 4.5, like he's a freak. But the production wasn't there. And it just depends on what side of the frat you fall on. Are you a trades guy or are you a production guy? I'm a trades guy, man. Like, I like the guy because here's my analogy. I like driving fast cars.
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I'd rather drive a Mercedes than a pickup truck. Now, it doesn't mean that I'm going to drive the Mercedes 120 every day. But if and when I want to go 120, I want to be able to get there. When you got a pickup truck, you can want to go 120. You're not getting there. So I'd rather have the guy with the traits and a good coach that can get it out of him at some point.
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Like all the guys that win the first round, man, like James Pierce, you know, Atlanta, I thought.
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put the expectations on him that he's got to be a double-digit sack guy when you give away a one to come back into the first round and take james pierce who oh by the way has got a lot of character stuff on his resume that is a bit rich for james pierce not that he's not good but the expectations in which you put on him are now magnified so we'll see if he can live up to that
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Yeah, I'd agree with that. And that's why I think when you say, OK, not only are we going to take him in the first round, we're going to trade back up to get him. It's putting a lot of pressure on that guy. You know, you talk about those South Carolina guys. I think the best one is still there. The freshman, you know, we can talk about Sanders, the three technique that got drafted, Kinnar.
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But I think the best one is still there. And I think he's going to wind up being he's going to wind up being a top 10 pick when it's all said and done.
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It does. But if you look at this, always follow the money. All right. James Winston, I think, is making four or five. That's backup money. I think they gave Russ, what, 11, 12, something like 20, maybe something.
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Okay, so there's your starter money. So Russ has starter money. Jameis has backup money. And now you bring in your developmental guy as the three. So I don't think there's any plans for Jackson Dart to play this year. I think what you hope to see is something very similar to Mahomes. You want the rest of the team to be really good.
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You want, you know, the defense to be dominant, the offense to be – average to maybe to a little bit above average, and maybe you get seven or eight wins, and then you get to the end of the season and you play Jackson Dart a couple games and you go tell the ownership, hey, defense is ready to go. We got our quarterback of the future.
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And Brian Dayball and Joe Shane are hoping they get an opportunity to see it through since they did choose him. And so that's what you're hoping for. Now, the thing that could derail that plan is if they're 2-10 and, like,
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They got to show a little bit more improvement with that, especially when you're going to go with Carter and Burns and Dexter Lawrence and the guys that they have in their defense. They should be. They should be really, really good on defense. I like Brian. Brian is one of the he's one of the five or six coaches in this league that if your quarterback
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If your son was a quarterback, Rosillo, coming into the league, I would say send your son to McVay, Shanahan, O'Connell, Dable, Liam Cohen. Like send your kid to those guys. Those guys understand how to develop the quarterback. And so I have no doubt. The only question is, are they going to get enough time?
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And the rest of the team has to buy in the time to get to the quarterback, if that makes sense.
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Yeah, well, you know, Greenberg grew up in New York. He's a New Yorker. And so we go to Green Bay's version of IHOP, which is called the Pancake Place. And so this is a down-home local spot where you're going in there to get a really good breakfast. And we sit down, great people, the most friendliest people ever. And the first thing the lady says, can I get you guys some coffee?
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And Greenberg goes, yes, I'll take an almond milk latte. And so I look at him and I said, hey, big guy, Do you really think they have an almond milk latte in Green Bay? He says, you're probably right. And the lady said, how about some coffee? And she was like, he was like, yes. Do you have skim milk? I said, OK, let's back down a little bit. I say they don't have almond nor latte nor skim.
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She was like, he's right. Would you like some 2% milk? He was like, I'll take it. And so he found that to be the most hilarious thing ever. And so he posted it. And then he proceeded to order a pancake as big as your head. eggs over hard, and some ham. And I'm like, hey, big guy, let's just stick to the basics. Eggs, bacon, pancakes. Let's not go above that.
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And so for three days in a row, that's what we had. We had eggs, we had bacon, and we had pancakes. And the nicest people in the world in Green Bay fed us.
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exactly you're in green bay wisconsin and you want almond milk or a latte i said big guy it's just not gonna happen but uh they offended us so much that we went back three days in a row that's how like that's the thing that i'll say like we went back three days in a row and they couldn't have been nicer we took pictures with the people they posted it was it was a great time man uh what do you think jacksonville will do with travis hunter
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You know, Russillo, here's the thing about Travis, man. I get it. He's a unicorn. He's different. And we as a society, we tend to over-sensationalize things we haven't seen. And as soon as one person jumps on it, everybody jumps on it. It's like this thing I'm seeing lately, 100 people versus a gorilla. Okay, like, let's be real. Okay, but you know what?
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All it took was one person to come in and now it's gone viral and everybody wants to talk about it. And I'll get to that in a moment. As it pertains to Travis Hunter, if I ask you what does he do best, what would you say?
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Oh, right. He's a better receiver. At 6'1", 185, 190 at best. Tremendous ball skills. Do you agree? Yes and no. I don't know.
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Right. I've seen games where he was a better receiver. I've seen games where he was a better DB. I just want to see him go against the best corners in football and to see can he handle the physicality. My one question against him or about him is the physicality in which he's going to receive.
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Can you see him lining up at corner against Chase, Jefferson, Nico Collins, Diggs, like some of the top receivers in the league? It just seems like physically he's got some work to do physically, not that he can't do it. Now, with that being said, I think he's got every opportunity. I just need to see it. I don't think it's a home run as much as everybody does. OK, I just don't.
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And maybe I'm in the minority and it sounds like I am. I just don't think it's going to be slam dunk. Oh, by the way, Jacksonville gave up a lot of stuff to get it a lot.
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I give you a guy like that now. Tell me if I'm right. Jabari Smith Jr. I think I see him the same way.
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I would agree with that. But again, it's one of those things that we're going to find out based on. Because when you're Jacksonville and you put the haul in to go get him, you have to have a plan. And I'll give Liam Cohen a lot of credit. He turned Baker Mayfield's career around in Tampa. He had his two best seasons down here in Tampa. So he's a part of that offensive guru-ish type class.
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So he's got to have a plan for him. I brought something up. I need to get your opinion before I forget about it. What's your take on the whole 100-man gorilla thing that's been going around? Because the first thing I said is this. Two things. Number one, the first 20 dudes are really sacrificial lambs. They're going to die.
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The morale of the group has got to be great because 20 of you know you're going to die. The other 80 have to figure out a plan to actually hurt the gorilla. And in the end, I think all 100 men die. So what's your take on this whole thing that's kind of taking the internet by storm?
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they would find a way but i don't know i don't know if you could get hey big guy you can have 100 guys with the with a mentality of um the guy russell crowe from gladiator like they can all have that mentality without any weapons whatsoever it it's it as a matter of fact I don't think it's going to last long. Like, like that's the whole thing.
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But by like the internet just jumps on and everybody thinks like, do you have any idea?
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A lot of guys, you don't have to watch him fight. Have you ever, you've been to the zoo before? Big guy. Have you seen horrifying?
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You can have an open mind. You can have a game plan. As Mike Tyson said, everybody's got a plan until they get hit in the mouth.
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You need Jon Snow. That's what you need. You need Jon Snow leading the charge.
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Tony Mandridge. I'll give you 100 Tony Mandridge's.
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Yeah. Okay. Now we're talking. Okay. Yeah.
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Okay, what's the number that you'd be willing to put that nice little view you have right there to the ocean on? What's the number? Is it 150? Is it 200, man? There has to be a number where it becomes overwhelming.
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I'm going to say I would feel comfortable. I would feel very comfortable at around 175. Okay, 175 is the number.
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So this is a very nuanced conversation and I've probably had calls from people I hadn't heard from former coaches that coached me in college. And a lot of them have been asking me just point blank. Is this racist? Is this colluding? And it's a nuanced conversation. And here's how I start the conversation. If you go back to October, November, December, here's the first part.
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Deion comes out, and these are facts, not my opinion. Deion comes out and says, hey, we're going to pick and choose where we go. All right? When he says that we're going to pick and choose where we go, to me, he's saying to the NFL that guess what? We're choosing you. You're not choosing us. And for me... That kind of turns a lot of people the wrong way in the National Football League.
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That's number one. Number two, let's look at the entire job interview, which is what this process is. The combine. He goes to the Combine, doesn't work out, doesn't do anything. No big deal. Other guys do. He goes to the East-West Shrine game where the NFL has said, hey, if you come to the All-Star game and you come, you need to participate. Well, he came. He didn't participate.
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You look at some of the interviews. Again, I listened to McShay, all the people in the know. I heard what McShay said. There are people that says he wasn't. rude, he just acted as if he didn't need to be there. Okay, that's one thing. The Giants go work him out. Dayball gives him some concept for plays to learn the night before.
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Day of, he doesn't have the things to memory where he can actually go out and rep it. Blah, blah, blah. That whole thing falls apart. And I say all that to say this. There's a lot of fault to go around. Number one, from the standpoint of his dad, I think Deion deserves a little bit of fault also based on that comment.
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Number two, I think the media deserves a little bit of fault also because we had the entire country thinking he was going to be a first rounder when the NFL scouts didn't tell us this. We were told this from Jeremiah, Kuyper, McShay. Everyone said at worst he was a second round pick at worst. NFL didn't think that way. The scouts and coaches didn't think that way.
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Thirdly, I think the kid has to realize that there was a little bit of arrogance and cockiness about his approach to the whole process. And when you couple all that together, Russillo, when you put all those things together, I think the combination of all of that turned some of the teams off. about a guy who they deemed to be a backup quarterback.
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And here's the real kicker that nobody wants to talk about. 32 teams didn't need a quarterback, all right? You're really only talking about five to seven teams that needed a quarterback. Well, Tennessee took theirs, all right? New York had a decision to make. New York chose Jackson Dart. The New Orleans Saints chose Tyler Shuck. Mike Tomlin chose Aaron Rodgers. All right.
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So when you start thinking about the teams that needed a quarterback, they chose other people. And I think the combination of all the things that I said is the reason why. And I think our society wants to put it in a certain category. It's collusion. It's race. It's the owners teaching Dion a lesson. I don't think it's any of that. I just think it's a combination of things.
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that came together where the kid wasn't as talented as we thought he was. And the NFL says, okay, we don't really like how your persona or your attitude or whatever fits with what we have going, and they'd rather not deal with it. And so when you get to the fifth round, I don't know how much guaranteed money that's there.
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He's in a position now in the fifth round where if he goes into Cleveland and he doesn't do the things exactly the way they want to, they'll cut him. And I think that's the position these teams wanted to be in with him rather than be in a position where he's a first or second-round pick and they owe him something and he's almost forced to be on the team. That's my take on it.
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Think about this, Ryan. We have put people in this league that have killed people. The NFL is about winning. There have been people that have killed people and played in the league. So the NFL will tell you if your talent is great enough, we will tolerate a lot of things. So they just don't think his talent is great enough to deal with everything we're discussing.
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Dude, I completely agree with you. I do think now, like even with all that being said and done. So think about this. If Cleveland takes him to everybody's happy, it's a big party. Well, Cleveland got him in the fifth round, but he's still in Cleveland. And he's still got, I think, a very favorable situation. Deshaun Watson most likely is going to be out for the year. Joe Flacco is 90.
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I don't know if he can hold up through an entire season. Kenny Pickett, you know, two gloves. He couldn't make it in Pittsburgh. So now you're literally, if you're going to look at this fairly, it's a quarterback room of Gunn and Gabriel at 5'10 and a quarter and Shadur Sanders and Kenny Pickett wearing two gloves.
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I mean, they bothered him evidently because he couldn't make it in Pittsburgh. If you ask Shadur Sanders pre-draft, of any situation you could be in, where you could be in the most favorable situation, not that you could start week one, but that your future, you could see your future aligning at this particular organization, you'd probably choose Cleveland.
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Because Stefanski is one of those dudes, right? Stefanski is in the, he's also in the McVeigh, Shanahan, Liam Cohen, Kevin O'Connell bucket. Like he's there. He's won coach of the year twice.
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And so if you're Shador, and once you get past the butthurt of having a three-day draft party and all that stuff, and you get to the point of you show up in Cleveland, which by all accounts, I think he got there today, and you just go in and work, we could look back two years from now, he could be the starting quarterback of the Browns and be on his way to a nice career.
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I think at best, he's Kirk Cousins, Andy Dalton. And people are going to say, oh, boy, go look at how much Kirk Cousins and Andy Dalton have made. Kirk Cousins is close to 270 million. Andy Dalton is over like 140 million. I take Kirk Cousins and Andy Dalton right now. And I think in his best situation, that's what he is. And I think he has an opportunity to have a really, really good career.
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And think about this. They declined the fifth year option on Kenny Pickett. So Kenny Pickett is in the last year. Deshaun Watson, he's got one year left and nobody wants him in Cleveland. So, I mean, everything is lined up. He's going to get an opportunity to prove that there's a future there. And that's all you can ask for him.
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That's where Dion has to... Be the dad and not the coach of Colorado. And and I'm saying that the right way, because the coach of Colorado has a press conference and you get to talk to the masses. A dad can make that comment to his buddies. It's OK for Dion to think that he just can't say that the press conference.
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He's got to say that to his buddies and he's got to do his kid a favor and not create any undue pressure.
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I'm trying to put this as... politically correct as possible, but there's really no other way. There was a man who told me years ago, he said, some very few things in life are certain. And he simply said this, he said, That thing between a woman's legs is undefeated. It's undefeated. It's never lost for Sillow.
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And regardless of how great we think Belichick is, and he's the hoodie, and we're on the Cincinnati, big guy, it's undefeated. It's never lost for Sillow. It hadn't been tied. It hadn't even gone to overtime. Now, all seriousness aside, I think Bill is in a situation where Bill has found – If he likes it, I love it.
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It seems a little odd to us, somebody in his situation having a 24-year-old kind of dictate things. And maybe it is odd. But, again, I think he's earned the right to do what he wants to do at 70-plus years old. But just know this. It's undefeated, buddy. It is undefeated.
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Hey, by the way, listen, I'm going to give a couple of basketball takes really quick. Number one, I think the Luka-LeBron partnership, it's amazing how it's come back full circle. It was going to be for the future, and then we got tricked into believing it was for now. And as we see now in the playoffs, it's for the future because they got no shot of beating Minnesota. That's number one.
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Number two, everybody talked themselves into the Clippers being a team that can make a title run. I don't think they can because I think when Denver... If Murray and Porter and Gordon and Jokic are on the floor, I still think they have championship DNA. They got to be on the floor. Orlando, I think Orlando, in two years, Orlando has an opportunity to be really good. The Wagner brothers. Who else?
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OKC... I worry about a team that if you said, let's take away SGA and I'm going to make the other four or the other team, the rest of the team, can the other team beat me four out of seven? I'd be willing to take that chance. SGA is the MVP, but I'm going to make the rest of the team beat me four games out of seven and I'll tip my hat. Cleveland, Cleveland's got a bunch of parts and
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The best thing that Cleveland and OKC do is use their youth. Play fast. Houston's the same way. When you're the younger team and you got more athletes, play fast. Play faster. That's all Minnesota did to LA. Just make them tired as hell. They can't keep up with you. There's my NBA takes on the podcast.
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No, I'm coming out because I'm coming out to play L.A. Country Cup. I want to get on the South Coast. I want to play. And I've been listening to a bunch of podcasts. I heard you took a trip to Pinehurst. You're a big golfer now. So I'm a 14 handicap. That means I can shoot 82. I can shoot 102. You and I have to get on the golf course and we're going to play. I can't wait. Here's the only rule.
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We're playing.
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Here's the only rule I got. If you wear the shorts that you recorded the McShay podcast in, I'm not playing with you. Because according to reports, it was a lot of thigh meat showing. I'm not playing with another man that shows thigh meat on the golf course. Not doing it. I'm just letting you know.
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Stay away from the seven-inch shorts. Nine-inch. Nine-inch shorts.
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This is sort of my joke about like... Who else are you going to blame? Like...
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If I'm wearing shorts. We're 230 now, by the way? Yeah.
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What are you talking about?
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Golf's on. Can't wait, buddy.
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If it takes me longer than 345 to play 18, there's a problem. That's all I'm concerned with.
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Later.