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Well, Happy Tuesday everyone here,
coming off of the long Memorial Day weekend.

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Hope everyone had a good time coming
today Tuesday. You know, Pat

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and I felt like it would probably
be better than trying to do it on

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the holiday, and I know Pat
was working hard over the weekend. Dorothy's

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back at school now, so I
can get back to talking about USFL football

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here. Interesting games this weekend.
Nothing quite as bad as the blowout that

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the Star stuffort last night, six
zero against the Vegas gold Nights, but

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I'm sure we will have fun stuff
to talk about today. I'm gonna bring

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it Pat, Pat, how are
you doing, sir? You know,

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a little tired? Shocker shocker guys, the USFL hater and me, I

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did not watch all the games live, but because you know, we have

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a show to do, and I
am a champion of these leagues, I

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watched them, I think starting at
nine pm last night all the way till

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now, you know, I watched
them. I watched Yellow Jackets, you

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know, the season finale of that, and I watched all the USFL games

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and till about twenty minutes ago.
So I did that for you guys.

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You know I was I was thinking
about this so I was doing a little

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market research this weekend, just obviously
over the long. Let me change my

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microphone here, that would probably help
me sound better. I do look market

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research here over the weekend. I
think we are the highest view. It's

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a little bar, but I just
think we're the highest viewt USFL either you

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know, preview, recap whatever.
So the haters that we are. I

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was poking around the internet this weekend. We've had a lot of podcasts drop

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off after the XFL season. You
know, We've had obviously, you know

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Stefan and Zach and them, and
there's Sports Gambling Network. There are a

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lot of different guys. But I
think we have no offseason here. It's

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no days off. We have CFLs
already. But I do think that we

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are as much as the haters we
are. I just wanted to point that

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out. Guys, So you are
doing good worth their pat well. I

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mean the haters come out to,
you know, to boost our engagement,

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right, Like a view is a
view. So if I'm going to come

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on and on someone's show that I
don't like and to say, hey man,

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this is the worst video ever,
hey man, it's engagement. The

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comments, So pat here we are
exciting here week seven. I just got

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the standings up here. We'll go
kind of week by week and all that

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general thoughts here, Like you know, you're coming fresh off having just watched

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all the games as well. I
caught as much as I could throughout the

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weekend, especially the Gamblers game and
the Stars. Did you make of USFL

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Week seven? Um? So,
I just did my quarterback rankings, and

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outside of Kenji Bahard, it was
actually some of the best quarterback play I

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think we've seen. Like Troy Williams
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the back end, you know,
law let us started out real slow.

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I think he was two of seven
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have right now or before the half. Obviously, DeAndre Johnson getting hurt not

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only hurts the team in a tremendous
way, but he's such a fun player

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to watch and I've seen a lot
of improvement from him this year. So

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it's really sad to see that Michigan
gets back on track. Some breaking news

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on that he was removed from the
roster, and then newsroom James Larson,

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you know, got it direct from
the source that he was released. So

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there's an open quarterback vacancy there,
So that's kind of, you know,

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a little bit shocking. I guess
who was? Yeah, I say that

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the e. You didn't say the
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out of East Washington. He played
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way more athletic. Comes from that
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you're a CFL guy, same school
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same type of players, same type
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Washington. So I mean that's kind
of sad. But you know, Josh

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Love, it's been put up or
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With Carson Strong out in a decent
game last week. This week he

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obviously one player of the week.
You know, Magoo magic continues the role

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obviously Cole Kelly with some big time
throws while getting hit, you know,

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not the sexiest stat line, but
he made the plays when it needed to

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happen. And that's why you know, Memphis is Memphis is a second Now

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our boy MBT, you know,
showing some fatigue, man, like he's

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he's making some great throws and he
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I don't know if that's a script
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John di Filippo get out coached by
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Birmingham side, but I mean MBT
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Hills they're running back looks really fatigued
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see more Anthony Jones their backup,
not because I think Anthony Jones is better

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than West Hills, but because you
know, the guy's been getting the rock

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almost thirty times a game. Uh. You know, people don't realize how

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much of a uh thanks Chris,
how much of a how much like he

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does in the receiving game as well, and those hits add up, man,

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especially if you're going out for a
pass and you don't you know,

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get the reception, you still get
a little nick You're still you know,

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putting Max's effort. So it is
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bit disheartening to see some guys just
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at West Hills was a CFL guy
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maybe there's some fatigue at that.
But I know you talked to Trey

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Watson last or two weeks ago.
I talked to him last week and uh,

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we talked it's about a little bit
when I talked about him about with

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Tray about you know, CFL to
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Trey was like, man, I'm
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I'm trying to get back to the
NFL, etceter. But like I wasn't

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one hundred percent, man, And
I'm like, yeah, I don't blame

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you like you did May and then
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know, playing ten almost ten games
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starts at the XFL. So like
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of these guys, especially Hills and
MBT as well, and you can even

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you can even throw that bow into
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then comes into camp as well.
Granted a little bit more advantageous for him,

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but you know, he probably wasn't
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ago, despite what his statistical output
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fatigue by some guys who have been
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CFL last year. We're starting to
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But the story of the USFL is
the strong strong stat versus a week North

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is vice versa, and the XFL, so I'm very curious to see.

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Obviously the tiebreaker was put out by
USL Twitter. You know, you're really

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similar to the counterpart. But in
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it doesn't get too complicated when it
comes to tiebreakers, right, Yeah.

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I did, like, yeah,
the the USFL, it's it's interesting when

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they had them. When they had
the kickoff thing with the NFL the big

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vote last week, and there was
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had a lot of USFL like,
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too, And now I think that
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like that went pretty viral with the
XFL, like we need we need to

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post out as well. Yeah,
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these leagues. You know, football's
football when it comes down to it.

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Um. I like the XFL kickoff
for the XFL. I don't know about

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it for the NFL. UM.
Sometimes the USFL kickoff is just too much.

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You know. It seems like the
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all the time, so maybe it's
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stats a little bit because they're having
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And that's something I'd have to dig
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seems like he has a bunch of
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into it already. But you know, something I always talk about with these

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leagues is like special teams is where
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So they need to return kicks,
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they need to do all this stuff
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the XFL kickoff is that it keeps
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to the NFL. But what I
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are returning it more, so they're
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more opportunity, and then you're able
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with the kicker. So I flip
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it that day, you know,
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made himself a little bit of money
this week of the Maulers. He had

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some good returns a hen he's been
a top pump returner. So these guys

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are probably going to garner some workouts
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But in the end, like we
don't talk about you know, guy who's

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running down as the gunner, like
Vinnie Papali called the touchdown this week and

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then made a special team's tackle right
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be your wide receiver three or four
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he's going to make a rosters can
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You know, that was my big
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I always get a lot of hate
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Scarlett or Stevie Scott because they play
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play on the kickoff. And you
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year being more involved in the passing
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value. He's a great kick returner. But special teams is where it's at,

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and you know, when we mess
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with people's jobs. Essentially. I'll
never forget Larry Isot of the Miami Dolphins

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couldn't play linebacker worth a lick,
but man, he made twenty tackles a

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year on to kickoff. Well,
it's interesting. I was talking with Eric

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Eager about this on I believe it
was last week's show, the one that

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you know from Friday with John Hodge
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he pointed out. With the you
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that going the way, you know
you're gonna have guys like to Kavante Turpin,

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you know who came out. I
think there was a SoundBite over the

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weekend like well, I'm still going
to return the balls, like I'm not

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going to fair catch, which I
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a good spot for him. But
you know a lot of these guys,

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like you said that you make their
money in the Spring League transitioning to the

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NFL if there's not as much of
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that I had with you're talking about
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I had it back and forth with
one of the YouTube commenters this weekend

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because they were upset that the XFL
wasn't allowing players to opt out to the

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CFL. Right, it's only to
the NFL, and he goes, well,

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I thought this was a player league, and I thought, whatever,

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I'm like, it's not sustainable for
most of these guys to play that many

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times, you know, to go
from XFL to USFL or whatever to CFL

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back to the NFL. Like yeah, I mean there's you know, certain

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cases, you know, Darnell Sanky, you know, could could do the

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CFL and or whatever we want to
do that way, but it's just not

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sustainable to have eighty of these guys
transitioning through the calendar all year, if

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that makes sense. No, and
I don't. I didn't read your comments

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specifically. I know I love to
comment, but John Hodge was completely reasonable

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about wanting the one of these leagues
to fail, like they're losing American talent,

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and like, if you're a Canadian
nationalist, that's great, Like I'm

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not knocking on anyone for wanting to
champion the Canadians to play in the Canadian

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Football League, but like there's there's
just a lot of football players kind of

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in this weird purgatory of like what
am I doing and whatnot? So like

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we always champion. There's six there's
sixteen approximately sixteen hundred jobs right now for

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staff and players and coaches and all
that goofy stuff, and that's great.

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I'm uber about that. But on
the plus side, like you know,

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some of these guys are getting cut
release cut really like, hey man,

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you gotta think about your body,
you know, Like it comes down to

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financials and tray tray, and I
talked about that as well, but it's

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like, if you know, money
is important, but man, you're gonna

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you're gonna make an extra ten grand
playing in this league and then be done

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for your career because you blew out
your knee because you're not recovering. Like

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you know, you hear stories about
bets in the NFL, like they don't

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practice still Friday, you know,
because they're literally off their feet, you

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know, and taking towardolf shots and
right. And you know, I get

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it, man, you gotta do
what you gotta do. But some of

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this league hopping. While I get
it. You know, a guy like

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Kyle Sluller is gonna make a little
bit extra money this year because of it.

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But in the end, man,
it's like it's a little bit scary

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for these guys's health. You know. Let's go through some of the games

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and sure we'll get some other step
here. We'll talk about Stallion's breakers coming

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in here. I think the biggest
news of the weekend is McLeod no longer

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a beer than Beer Brethren. What
was this like? First of all,

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the mark Ass curse is definitely a
thing. I posted this over the weekend.

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McCleod has not won a game since
appearing on the Mark Hass. Meanwhile,

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Ben Holmes, famously now of the
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not no showing my show going on
that way, but McCleod shaving It was

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like when Julio Rodriguez, like when
he was cold a little bit earlier this

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season for the Mariners, he wouldn't
wear his pants up anymore. He would

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wear the full length. He wouldn't
show his stockings when he was batting,

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like trying to Okay, I gotta
get my mojo back? Is that McCleod,

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Like, what is going on here? I mean, you gotta do

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it's it's cool until it's not right
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it's a little bit hot in Birmingham. Um you think that's it? If

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a temperature thing, I mean maybe
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it messed up. Like you know, I mean McLeod, it's got a

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good, uh good set of hair
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decent, you know, Nordic genetics, which you know, I think his

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middle name's baltaz Are or something.
Yeah, an article on him for your

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site, But I mean he's got
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I don't know, man, what's
help with these breakers? Like he's not

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playing that bad, like he goes
to Coote Spurts, but I think he

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started four four. Yeah. John
McLeod, John Balthazar Bethel Thompson, the

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phenomenal name. Not that much younger
than me. I mean, I'm an

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eighty six baby. McLeod and I
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And I think his uh his grandfather's
name is like Wilburn Moose and he was

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like an Olympic shot put. Yeah, go on the Wikipedia page real quick,

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okay, Bilburg, Yeah Thompson.
Yeah, dude, I've done a

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lot of MBT research. But um, I mean, I mean, dude,

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he put them in the position to
win this week man, Like I

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don't know how much of the game
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one like he's driving down they had
like you know, they got the ball

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to twenty. I think it was
like forty something seconds last or something like

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that. And you know, he
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that got ruled incomplete, another dime
to Jonathan Adams that you know, set

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them up at like the four year
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the pocket broke down on that hail
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that was a big bugga boot.
That was a big bugga boo on the

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last play the game. But the
guy, the guy, the guy's battling

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out there, man, And I
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the best offensive line, you know. And you know, like I said,

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west Hills is a little bit,
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twenty, He's got twenty attempts this
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which is probably his lowest output,
which is scary, but I mean it

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is what it is. You know, it is a receiving corps. Fine.

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I think that offensive line just needs
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time. He got hit a couple
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noted quinnin polling last week for not
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because he was getting in the backfield
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finish that tackle. So that loss
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note of one yard, which you
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for the Stallions. But in the
end, man, like the Birmingham team's

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no joke. I think I think
coming into the season, they returned like

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sixty percent of their roster, you
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too, but picking up Richard Smith
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and dave On Davis former XFL guy
Jase Sternberger. So I mean, we

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can knock the breakers all we want, but in the end, like Stallions

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are the best team in the league
right now. Well it's crazy because you

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know here obviously coming off for last
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think there was a lot of lamenting
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what's going on, and they started
slow here, but you know, McGoo

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looks like the real deal. You
know, obviously they're not asking to do

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with as much as they are with
McLeod here, which is crazy twenty four

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or forty two. It's just like
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here going on. But you know, I don't know, they're getting back.

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They got the home field. I
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We can talk about the show boats
during that, but it does feel

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like they're finally clicking to get in
here and carrying back the way that we

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were talking in the group chat yesterday
where the Generals maybe didn't retool enough in

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the offseason bringing it back the Sallions. We're able to kind of retain here

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what their core was it run it
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Yeah. And there was two special
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I don't remember if they cashed in
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know they cashed in on one.
There was one on the fumball on the

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kick return and then fumball on the
punt um. I mean, special teams

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is always always a big deal in
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worked out, they had it kind
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thing I want to shout out was, you know, Joe Clatt did a

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great job commenting, and I love
the fact that they clowned on Carrera at

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the end of the game. I
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there was a punt and clap.
Clat was straight up like, I don't

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know what he's looking at here,
and I think that's kind of a running

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gag at this point, you know. And also, let's really shout out

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Mike Pereira wearing the high water sweatpants
in the We'll Ask You there you kind

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of for the second where Mike farrew
wet was wearing the high water like sweatpants

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jogger sweatpants in the studio. I
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Mike Pereira gets like heal heat on
the show. I don't really understand that

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in the way that I don't think
playing Dino does. It does seem like

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Pereira. I mean, it seems
like we commented last week. I mean,

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every time I'm watching the games,
they're they're arguing with him about something.

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They're sand he's not seeing it,
right. Yeah, I mean I

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think they had the what is a
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But there was a down punt by
Kobe Watman that was at the negative

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inch line, and it clearly looks
like the receipting like I have football with

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me, and it clearly looks like
he had. He had the football like

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this when he tucked it back before
he touched the end zone. But Pereira

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called it a touchback, and I
mean maybe a game more interesting came down

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to the final seconds obviously on an
MBT heat But I mean, regardless of

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that, Clatt's doing a great job. Like it's he's uber enjoyable to listen

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to. He obviously knows what he's
talking about. Do you how do you

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feel I know last year there was
a lot of criticisms for some of the

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USFL teams and even this year,
people you know where they sound sleepy and

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I know they're not flying him in
all the time and all of that.

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But you know, we've got a
lot of ESPN like we didn't like this

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when the kid to the XFL.
Do you feel like the USL commentating is

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better worse than the XFL. I
think it's better because they mentioned the betting

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a little bit less. I mean, that's that was my biggest concern.

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I think you see it the over
under on the thing when it shows up

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on the little on the on the
score from the score tracker or whatever you

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want to call on the scoreboard.
But like, I mean, Fox,

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like Fox is putting out like they're
a team if I'm not, If not,

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they're a team, they're a minus
team. While well the XFL would

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ESPN was putting out guys and gals
who were like in the up and up.

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And you know, Jack Collinsworth last
year was a guy. You know,

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you got Cameron Hayward. He's been
doing games here and there and whatnot.

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But I mean, you know,
Jack Collinsworth's snow scrub. You know,

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Cameron Hayward has been around the game
a decent amount, which obviously doesn't

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mean anything, but it seems like
Fox is using the sideline reporters to be

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more of their like training grounds and
whatnot, which where Jack was and now

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they have Jake. But Devin Gardner
was there last year. But you know

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he's always on the watch. You
know, I got a lot of love

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for Devin Gardner. You know,
was a big fan of his at when

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he played at Michigan. So I
mean it's cool too, you know,

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it's cool to see Jake, but
there as well. You know, it's

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a guy who had high helps her
in the NFL a lot of injuries and

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uh, you know, still see
him involved in the game and whatnot.

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Yeah, it feels like the sideline, like he said, I don't.

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And obviously it was kind of like
Brock with the XDL back in twenty twenty,

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and I know when he's been doing
games, you know, it's it's

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like with the USFL, like we're
kind of trying to replicate that. For

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whatever reason, it does feel a
little bit more organic in the XFL.

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I know, they're both doing it
now and kind of like ones begetting the

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other and they're both kind of going
back and forth. It does feel like

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it's a little bit more natural.
I don't. I don't really feel like

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I ever gained a lot from the
USFL sideline stuff and the way that I

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thought some of this stuff that you
know, Kole Kublick was doing or whatever.

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With the XFL this year felt a
little more fun and if that makes

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any sense. Yeah, and you
know, when Devon's doing it, I

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have no problem. But you know, Jake Bud's never done this before,

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so this is his like spring training
essentially. But the commentating in the play

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by play, you know, with
Joe Klatt memo fees Downe a couple of

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games, Greg McRoy, I know, seeing Greg mclroys ESPN, but the

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one other gentleman, you know,
I'm feeling like they're bringing their A team

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to that because it's easier when you
don't have to find them out, you

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know, you keep them in studio. Oh well no, And that's the

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thing I mean, it's it is
interesting sometimes when they're talking, like Kurt's

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like, oh, you know the
feeling here in Detroit. It's like you're

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not You're not anywhere near Detroit,
brother, Like you as think you're saving

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money here on these flights. Bro, You're not even wearing cants right now,

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you're doing that. Let's see here, all right, So stars coming

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up here kind of you know,
getting back on track here, right are

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they? They're technically top in the
in the north right now here at four

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and three. Uh god, it's
it's really really weak. And we have

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a comment here from Gregory. We
can talk about the parody later here with

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all the teams still being in it. What did you make here? Malers

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here and kind of continuing their downward
slide, obviously closer. But what do

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you make of this? I mean, they're they're way more competitive this year,

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and you know that says a lot
to uh, you know, coach

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Hardens. Troy Williams had, you
know, a mediocre game in my opinion.

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I think I ranked him at seven
or eight. I ranked him at

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eight out, just ahead of Bahar
h dynamic on the rushing attack obviously,

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but he was their leading rusher.
Usually what they're pretty good about doing is

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getting London to that thirty forty yard
range, Groschek to that twenty five to

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thirty yard range, and then Williams
kind of does does the rest. Um

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Cucus looked a lot better. You
know, he only got sacked once.

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He got hit a decent amount.
But I've said before, I said again,

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like Stars have one of the better
receiving cores in this group. Anytime

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he got Corey Coleman. Regardless of
his NFL career, he's still a first

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round pick for a reason. I
think he took one for like fifty five

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yards or something like that. It
was, you know, great, great

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to see him continue to succeed.
Um, you know, a little bit

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too much rushing for Cucus. I
think he was like almost thirty yards or

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something like that. I'm really worried
about his health still, but they were

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able to keep him upright just enough. Colburn had a good coming out game,

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really leaned on him. You know, some tough rushes as well.

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But Stars are probably gonna win the
North. They're probably gonna go back to

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the championship and that'd be what up
their fifth time. A shout out Cucus

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by the way for coming up on
three thousand passing yards in the USFL and

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this career. I like to the
clip where Case lost his ring. I

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saw that floating around on Twitter as
well. Now I lost my wedding ring.

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He's I like, he's kind of
a goober. I mean, I

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like, I like Case Salon and
I think he's a good obviously good quarterback.

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He is a little bit of a
boob. But it's like I tell

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my wife, I lost my wedding
ring. I lost my wedding ring.

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So I thought that was funny.
Uh yeah, they had that one of

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them. I was one of the
something like that's happened before where a guy

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like lost their necklace in the end
zone or something they couldn't find it.

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Some precious valuable, Like let's let's
leave that's why do they wear like the

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silicon rings and so let's leave them
the hardware for another time. Yeah,

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or you get tattooed on you know, you know the bed. Yeah.

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Here, so we're looking here in
the in the north here I can see

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right over the sands. Yeah,
it seems like you know, Stars,

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you know there are two games up
now right against the Panthers, Like do

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we is this a repeat or were
heading back to Stars Stallion's part two?

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I think so. I mean,
I don't see it in another way.

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I know that that that I don't
want to say that gasped by the what

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was it the US website put that
new playoff structure in? I mean,

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dude, at this point, man, it's not the worst idea. Like

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I would rather see the Breakers,
the Breakers Stallions than the Stars um Stallions,

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honestly, because it's in my opinion, like you know, the Breakers

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would put a better, better,
better show on especially but they're one and

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one and Whatnotum, I mean,
Philly, Philly has got some good things,

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but then, like you talked about
every week, they didn't they didn't

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improve their offensive line. Um,
cookis has been beat up. They got.

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You know, the defense is doing
pretty okay. Channing Shribbling hasn't been

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as much as a ballhawk this year, but he hasn't been bad, you

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know, Amani Dennis has kind of
picked up his statistical slack um and whatnot.

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But man, that I just the
two best teams and I know they

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lost this week, but the breakers
and the Stallions or who I would want

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it like if it came down in
the USFL Championship NBT throwing a forty yard

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like heave to the end zone for
the final play not a bad book in

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my opinion. That was Yeah,
for anyone that wasn't tracking this last week,

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that was the most bizarre thing.
Where I Fran that writes with Paul

404
00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:15.119
Reads over at our Sports Essential and
Paul's obviously the USFL historian. He's been

405
00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.240
on the show bunch. Fran was
on our live show and Fran sends me

406
00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:22.720
over the whatever the new article he
wrote, and I'm checking it out and

407
00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:27.559
it's showing. It's showing the for
the playoffs that the one seed in each

408
00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:30.279
division is going to play the two
seed in the other division. I thought,

409
00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:33.920
well, like Fran, where did
this coverm was like, it's on

410
00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:36.480
the website. It's on the website. It came out in the press release

411
00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:38.960
and I go on there and who
yeah, whoever was writing the articles for

412
00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:41.359
that was just the most bizarre thing. I know, we reached out to

413
00:26:41.400 --> 00:26:44.839
the league, I know Mike reached
out to the league, but really the

414
00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:49.319
most bizarre thing that they concocted this
entire all universe playoffs scenario, wrote like

415
00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:52.440
clinching scenarios out of it, and
then had the backtrack at all and they

416
00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:55.200
said, well, no, it's
actually the one seed. It's going to

417
00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:57.759
face the two seed in each of
their divisions. Wait, how did that

418
00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:03.920
happen? Pat? I mean the
same it's the same guy who probably wrote

419
00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:10.839
the sixty five destroy it right.
I mean maybe it was a conversation and

420
00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:14.920
I'm you know about like, hey, like, this is not going to

421
00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:18.039
be a good championship game, and
you know, I think Cannon's gonna show

422
00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:22.119
out, show out in for the
for the playoffs. You know, they

423
00:27:22.160 --> 00:27:25.319
put together a good product, especially
that championship game, and they're probably like,

424
00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.480
hey, man, like this ain't
gonna be a good game, dude,

425
00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:32.680
because and maybe maybe part of it
too is that they don't want the

426
00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:38.599
Stars to play the Stallions in um
next next champion in the championship. I

427
00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:44.160
don't know, but man, I
mean your g guess is as good as

428
00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:48.079
mine. Someone someone's getting some heat
right now, especially if it's that same

429
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:52.599
guy or gal that did the sixty
five hundred fans? Do you do we

430
00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:55.640
like the parody here? We talked
about this every week. I've talked about

431
00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:56.960
this on the on the Normal Friday
Show? Do we like this? And

432
00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:00.359
every team's basically you know, gals
and mallers a kind of value, but

433
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:03.119
every where everyone else is kind of
more or less than that. I mean,

434
00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:07.720
it makes these games matter, right, Like if if the Stars were

435
00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:11.279
seven or six and one or seven
and one going into a you know,

436
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:15.279
week eight and week nine, would
we care as much if they were playing

437
00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:18.559
if they were playing you know,
who are they playing? I think they

438
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:21.359
played gamblers this week, would we
care as much? You know, like,

439
00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:25.200
you know, Panthers are playing the
Breakers this week. So now we're

440
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:26.880
kind of like, oh man,
this this game matters too, because you

441
00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:30.200
know, what happens with the malers
in generals if they figure it out like

442
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:34.119
it were, you know, do
Stars take another lead like if the Panthers

443
00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:38.759
upset the Breakers, then obviously,
uh, you know, the playoff.

444
00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:42.880
The playoff run for MBT gets a
little bit more murky, and then you

445
00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:47.519
got the show boats like Cole Kelly's
cool. Kelly has been my dog this

446
00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:49.440
whole time, you know, like
I'd probably be good and think dB this

447
00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:53.480
good. So it's um, I
mean, it's keeping these games interesting,

448
00:28:53.640 --> 00:28:56.279
right, and that's all you really
want, and especially in an eight game

449
00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:03.119
or eighteen, like, it's good
that you know two playoff spots. I

450
00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:07.480
don't know what the percentage is to
the fourteen versus the fourteen versus the thirty

451
00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:11.920
two in the NFL, but like
we have to care about if you care

452
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:15.839
about like watching this league, you
have to care about these games. You

453
00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:18.759
have to stay in tune to see
what's going on. So maybe he draws

454
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.799
a couple more more fans. I'm
not really sure, but you know,

455
00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:26.680
for me, I'm all about it. A couple of questions here, we'll

456
00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.720
go to the next gamble, we'll
stop here. Xander Alex mcgo m USL

457
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.359
MVP hands down. What do you
make of of that? I mean,

458
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:40.440
he ain't wrong every time I post
a QB ranking Xander Xanders in those comments

459
00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:44.240
saying that MPP. So, I
mean, Xander, you're not getting any

460
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:47.200
hate from me on that. I
definitely agree with you. It's not only

461
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:52.119
what he does with his let with
his arm, it's like it's moving around,

462
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:55.519
creating that extra time sometimes like they
said, he does too much.

463
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:59.079
But I mean, he's making plenty
of plays. And you know he was

464
00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:03.119
robbed of a like there were four
bad drops, so stat line seeven a

465
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.319
little bit deflated. Like Adrian Hardy
dropped the pass, Jasternberger dropped the pass,

466
00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:12.079
Dion Kane dropped the pass, and
then Michael Pettway slipped and he couldn't

467
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:15.720
reel in a pass that would have
been like a twenty two yard first down

468
00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:18.440
on a first and like or a
second and twenty one or something like that.

469
00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:22.880
So his stat line is a little
bit deflated in my opinion. Question

470
00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:26.279
here from Mike and this is interesting. Would it be good or bad for

471
00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:29.519
the league if the Stallion's winning again? My comment, then we'll go to

472
00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:33.160
past. You know, I think
ideally you would like to see another team

473
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:37.359
win just to kind of get that
kind of get that rub off of it.

474
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:40.519
I don't feel like Birmingham has been
as hot this year. I feel

475
00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:44.240
like they it felt like they got
burned out last year and going to all

476
00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:47.640
the home games and the tenant you
know ten and asking everyone ten weekends in

477
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:49.000
the road to kind of do that, has it felt like they've got the

478
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:52.759
rub? I do think you would
like to have, you know, Philly

479
00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:56.400
wins and the next year we're moving
Philly into their home market here Gregory has

480
00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:59.039
a comment about that, right,
moving the teams in, But you would

481
00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:00.640
like to see that, you know, let's get Houston get the rub or

482
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.680
kind of whoever, what do you
make about that in terms of that Bred

483
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:07.559
winning again an agreement? You know, like I like to skip poles a

484
00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.599
lot, So from like a personal
standpoint, i'd love to see him win

485
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.400
another championship. But you know,
if he does that, he'll probably he'll

486
00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:18.559
probably get some calls of coaching,
you know, I know he was connected

487
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:25.559
to the uab UAB this year.
My thing would be, I would really

488
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:29.519
like to see Detroit or Memphis win, or Michigan or Memphis win, just

489
00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:33.319
because it is, you know,
a hub city. But I don't think

490
00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:38.160
what you're saying is outlandish about um, you know, Houston winning, people

491
00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:41.279
in Houston are like, oh,
we have a football another football team,

492
00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:47.240
which is pretty cool, like and
then it might motivate the USFL. So

493
00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:53.079
like if next year their goal is
to get Philadelphia into a Hub and then

494
00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:56.160
Houston wins, they're like, Okay, well we should probably try this one

495
00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:59.920
out, because you know, people
in Touchas love football. People in Houston

496
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:02.240
love football. You know, the
Roughnecks, you know, put together a

497
00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:05.960
pretty decent show this year. Why
not why not, you know, get

498
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:07.759
another team in there and kind of
get some of that residual. And I'm

499
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:15.039
curious to see and from a Houston
standpoint, if Houston and the Roughnecks are

500
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.319
bad next year, but the Gamblers
are good this year, you know,

501
00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:22.880
going and they are in their Hub
in twenty twenty four or their Shabeuve in

502
00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:27.720
twenty twenty four, will we see
an uptick and fans for the Gamblers versus

503
00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:30.880
the Roughnecks And then we'll but to
do that, we got to see attendance,

504
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:36.440
right So, And I'm you know, we can talk about the attendance

505
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:38.319
all we want, circles, but
I'm good with not seeing the attendance for

506
00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:43.759
Canton, which show me the Michigan
games, not even the stars. Just

507
00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:45.680
show me the Panther games, show
me the Showboat games, and show me

508
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:50.799
the Standing games. It's interesting,
you know, where you have both in

509
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:54.960
alternate worlds here where you have both
the Houston and Detroit. We're both of

510
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:59.200
those NFL teams rather really rebuild right
now. You know, the Lions looking

511
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:02.079
good at you, you know,
presumably here why you know this coming year

512
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:06.160
into the next year kind of rebuilding, and an alt world where both of

513
00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:08.319
those teams are still you know,
duty you would think that maybe you get

514
00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:12.319
a little bit more rub with the
USFL where both of those markets are kind

515
00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:14.759
of rebuilding. You feel like there
has to be a little bit more,

516
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:16.880
you know. And I mean that
goes to the Roughnecks as well. But

517
00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:21.440
you know, these all leagues competing
in markets where the teams are actually building

518
00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:23.839
themselves to be better has to kind
of hurt a little bit. I mean,

519
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:29.160
it just depends. I think for
the Panthers it helps them because everyone's

520
00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:34.799
excited about football in Michigan and specifically
obviously in Detroit with the Lions. But

521
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:37.000
then I think it goes either way. But we don't have enough data to

522
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:40.599
accurately do that because I think you
could be you could be one hundred percent

523
00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:44.839
right or one hundred percent wrong,
like you know what I mean. And

524
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:49.160
I was big on the Panthers being
you know, showing out this year,

525
00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:51.839
and I think they, you know, from what we've seen, it's been

526
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:53.759
you know, first two weeks were
good, that third week didn't look too

527
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:58.279
good, and then last week was
okay. In my opinion, I think

528
00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:00.920
it looked like over ten thousand ends. But you know, coming from Birmingham,

529
00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:06.079
where I've been very vocal about this, like so much credit to the

530
00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:09.480
people of Birmingham who are not associated
with these players, these coaches, just

531
00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:15.360
dudes and gals just doing something on
a Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday

532
00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:19.760
night to continue to show up.
I think that's you know, they were

533
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:23.360
asked to do way too much that
city. And you know, I know

534
00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:27.760
they made out like five million dollars
plus and whatnot, but man, that's

535
00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:29.920
that's a lot, dude. Like, you know, I get tired of

536
00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:31.599
watching these games on my couch sometimes. You know, I'm like, well,

537
00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:37.159
we're like eighteen weeks into this,
seventeen weeks into this, like you

538
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:38.719
know, I'm beat down a little
bit. But you know, to ask

539
00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:42.920
to actually go to the games,
you know, even if the tickets are

540
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:45.400
free, you know, even if
I'm you know, getting comp drinks and

541
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:50.440
whatnot. Man Like, I have
a way better time watching these games on

542
00:34:50.559 --> 00:34:52.599
my couch than I do at the
stadium. We had the comment here,

543
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:55.800
Dylan talking and I don't want to
get into the post XFL depression, but

544
00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:59.159
yeah, a little bit of football
fatigue here, a little bit of spring

545
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:01.719
football especially. I don't know how
many of our fans overlap going into the

546
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:07.599
CFL here picking up and at least
to me, that feels different, right,

547
00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:08.480
And you know, the CFL is
kind of a different where. You

548
00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:12.000
know, I've had Bill say on
a couple of times with the athletic where

549
00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:15.800
for the casual fan there is not
a lot to differentiate the XFL and the

550
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:17.280
USFL. I know that we sit
here in the minutia and go back and

551
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:22.119
forth, but generally speaking, you
know, if you turn my mom onto

552
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:23.320
either game, she wouldn't know,
Okay, this is the one that oh

553
00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:28.159
buy the Rock or Fox or whatever. So are you feeling that they kind

554
00:35:28.199 --> 00:35:30.400
of football fatigue here? I am, And I think that's why I'm looking

555
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:35.800
forward to the CFL, and I
think for us read not to put us

556
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:37.519
on a high horse, but because
we talk to the players, and like,

557
00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:42.440
you know, we interview players,
when we interview coaches, and we

558
00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.440
talk with all these people, and
I mean, you keep sending me freaking

559
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:49.559
guys in my DMS to talk,
you know, try to get them,

560
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.239
you know, in my contacts in
the league and whatnot. The coaches keep

561
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:55.159
coming to me, and I'm like, you know, it's kind of like

562
00:35:55.239 --> 00:36:00.280
a NonStop grind with ill like about
the CFLs like I'm a very casual writher

563
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:06.400
for it, you know, so
I can kind of just watch watch the

564
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:08.280
game and turn off. I don't, you know, like I pay attention

565
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:12.400
to Brian, I pay attention to
my glass. I pay attention to certain

566
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:19.079
players, and I watched them from
a more analytical group faction. But I

567
00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:22.800
mean, like for the CFL,
for me, it's just enjoyable, you

568
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:24.239
know, Like I don't I don't
have to press pause, I don't have

569
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:28.599
to rewatch the game. I can
enjoy the football. And I do that

570
00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:31.480
with certain things in the NFL as
well. I like the NFL because I

571
00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:34.599
can just I can sit there and
have a beer and kind of do that

572
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:38.760
talking here, and so let's get
into the next game. Speaking of attendance,

573
00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:42.599
I was very in this the game
I turned on Sunday, I was

574
00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:45.440
very impressed with this. I was
very impressed that Memphis looks good. I

575
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:46.719
know we've kind of pooh pooed on
them, and you know, obviously the

576
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:50.280
non hut, but I was impressed
with this. What did you make of

577
00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:53.000
the Memphis crowd and then obviously the
game. The only thing that I'll like

578
00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:59.719
say negative about Memphis is just that
stadium is so weird that it, like,

579
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:05.360
I feel like they may have had
like a five thousand person person attendance

580
00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:07.960
a couple of weeks ago, and
we would never know because of how that

581
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:14.039
stadium is built. Because while Birmingham
was on the opposite sideline, they still

582
00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:20.000
had probably you know, five hundred
two a thousand people on the visiting sideline.

583
00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:22.880
You know, granted it's a big
game, but like that the home

584
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:25.639
team sideline was filled up. You
know, it looked pretty good. Like

585
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:31.920
so, I don't think I think
Memphis gets a bad shake, because we

586
00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:36.840
don't. You know, if there's
you know, five thousand people for a

587
00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:39.239
game, you know, not a
bad not a bad shake still probably you

588
00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:44.960
know, pretty okay in the checkbook. We don't we don't get the best

589
00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:49.960
the best view of it, in
my opinion, because of how weird shape

590
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:52.079
that stadium is, and that bothers
me a lot, because I don't think

591
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:57.480
it's fair to even the players,
you know, getting getting hyped up and

592
00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:01.519
going back to the Birmingham Mingham game, there was a lot of like you

593
00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:05.559
know, you could hear the actual
chance and whatnot as well. You know,

594
00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:07.480
that was cool to hear for you
know, we don't always hear that

595
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:13.320
in these in these games. But
I mean, I don't know where else

596
00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:15.760
you put the show boats, you
know, well, no, I mean

597
00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:19.559
it makes sense to do it there. I just to me, like I

598
00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:22.920
said, I was just impressed where
and I saw comments online. I think

599
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:24.559
it was on Facebook as well,
Like you know, it just proves that

600
00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:28.880
it's working there. I was talking
with listener Seth, and I guess Memphis

601
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:32.159
is is you know obviously in the
area there in terms of like being visible

602
00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:37.400
with doing stuff and sending players out. It just feels like that's the ultimate

603
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:39.239
goal. You know, in the
USFL. We've talked to people, you

604
00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:42.519
know, slow instead you kind of
all that stuff. It just it proves

605
00:38:42.599 --> 00:38:45.039
like it it does work in a
in an area where you know the team

606
00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:49.719
is becoming successful. Now I know
they started slow, but you have that

607
00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:52.800
momentum going to me. It's not
asking as much like we said with Birmingham,

608
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:58.679
where it felt like Birmingham was criticized
all last year. I wouldn't go

609
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:00.280
to the ten home games either,
if I have the opportunity to do it.

610
00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:02.719
Just it put a lot on them
where it feels it might be a

611
00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:07.079
little bit more organic with Memphis.
Yeah, and Memphis is a good market.

612
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:10.559
You know, there's no football there, there's no protein there. It's

613
00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:14.159
you know, they have you know, the Grizzlies are there. They've got

614
00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:17.159
some good minor league baseball. It's
a decent tourist attraction. Um, if

615
00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:22.760
you're a real football like, like
hardcore real football fan like and you really

616
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:27.079
like the BattleHawks to three hour drive
to get down the Memphis you know,

617
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:30.719
um, you can pick up some
people from Arkansas, you can pick up

618
00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:35.239
some people from southern Missouri, southern
Illinois. So there's you know, there's

619
00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:39.119
semi attraction for people to go out
get shifty on Beal Street and then go

620
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:42.880
to a football game. You know
they can get that because you go,

621
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:45.960
um, you know, I used
to go to Memphis Redbirds games a lot.

622
00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:47.760
You know when I lived in Southeast
Missouri. It's you know, two

623
00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:51.320
and a half hour drive for me, two hour drive, and it's like,

624
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:54.119
you know, let's go have some
decent barbecue, go see a site,

625
00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:57.679
and then you know, go to
a game for fifteen bucks. Like

626
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:00.960
so you can you can pick up
some Jules Is there as well. How'd

627
00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:07.519
your boy Kelly um? I so
spoiler alert, I ranked him at number

628
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:10.199
two, not the sexiest stat line. He had fifty percent completion percentage,

629
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:15.119
but he made two tough throws for
his touchdowns. And that touchdown that Derek

630
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:21.239
Dylan, he got rocked on Um
and you know, delivering a good pass

631
00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:24.760
and Dylan did the rest. I
mean another And some of these receivers in

632
00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:28.920
the USFL, man, like a
lot of these receiver rooms are high quality

633
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:31.239
or like, guys, I could
continue. You know, I'm more impressed

634
00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:37.199
with the receivers in both the XFL
and USFL than any other position, honestly.

635
00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:40.199
And I mean the chips were on, the chips were on on the

636
00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:45.639
uh you know, the chips,
chips were on the table and he delivered,

637
00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:46.920
man, And that's really that's all
you can ask, you know,

638
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:52.840
especially with all and I'll straight up
call it all the bs that we saw

639
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.599
with the Brady White thing, and
yeah, I get it. He's from

640
00:40:55.639 --> 00:41:00.599
Memphis and whatnot to see him kind
of I don't know if he was an

641
00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:02.079
aft with thought per se, but
you know, kind of have to be

642
00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:07.199
inactive for a week at Ryan Willis
play a couple of snaps and yeah,

643
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:09.239
I like, I like Ryan Wills
and everything like that, but I mean,

644
00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:13.719
Kelly Kelly's better, and Kelly's playing, and you know, I don't

645
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:16.760
know if he'll get another opportunity in
the NFL. He was with the Commanders

646
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:22.199
for forty five minutes, but I
definitely think like if the chips fall,

647
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:25.119
you know, he's kind of got
that Jalen McClendon vibe if he you know,

648
00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:28.639
he played a lot more in college
than Jalen. But he just needs

649
00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:30.679
another year in this league and then
we'll really know what type of quarterback he

650
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:35.119
is moving forward. I didn't like
it show Bus, but you know,

651
00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:37.400
because now they're on their big,
like undefeated streak and they posted they said,

652
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:39.559
yeah, if you weren't with us
at and three, you can't be

653
00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:42.320
with us at four and though,
And I was like, I don't.

654
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:45.400
Normally it's like if you weren't with
us and don't be with us now,

655
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:46.360
but it was like, you can't
be with us. I'm like, I

656
00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:50.360
would I would take any fan that
I could get on the Memphis band wagon

657
00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:52.639
right now. I wouldn't be telling
anyone you can't be a fan of our

658
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:55.840
team. Yeah, I mean,
I mean a little bit of alienation,

659
00:41:57.039 --> 00:41:59.840
right, but it is what it
is. You know, it makes for

660
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:01.639
it makes her a good tweet,
and we're talking about it. So,

661
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:07.639
yeah, Mark Thompson here, you
know, thirteen to times forty two,

662
00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:12.199
you know, he's really feels kind
of like that's that's you know, Houston's

663
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:14.159
kind of game plan here. And
I don't know, it doesn't feel like

664
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:17.320
they have much more depth because on
that well, Kenji bahar Man, he

665
00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:22.199
was doing such a good job moving
around in the pocket and rolling out and

666
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:24.920
I knew Josh Peterson had a pretty
good game, but they were really hitting

667
00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:30.679
a lot more drag routes to Justin
Hall and the screen passes, and I

668
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:32.559
mean, we didn't it just couldn't
get it done. I think he had

669
00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:37.599
five five passes deflected at the line. One of them led to an interception.

670
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:40.639
In a couple of them, it
looked like his arm angle dropped a

671
00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:44.800
little bit, so it's like maybe
he's trying to find those lanes on the

672
00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:47.039
mesh. Maybe I'm not sure,
but there were a couple where he like

673
00:42:47.239 --> 00:42:51.440
cocked it back a little bit and
it's still got deflected. And he's not

674
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:54.760
a short guy. I think he's
six one six two. Like it was

675
00:42:55.480 --> 00:43:00.039
maybe more about John John Atkins than
anything else. You know, it just

676
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:05.280
seemed like there was a hand hand
on the football every five minutes that you

677
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:08.280
know, every five attempts that but
hard drop back on it was impressive from

678
00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:12.800
the defensive line and they were getting
plenty of pressure all day on the four

679
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:16.199
kid, so he couldn't really take
that next step. And he's been improving

680
00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:19.920
every week and this is probably the
worst game he's played this whole year.

681
00:43:21.119 --> 00:43:23.519
It's good, you know, I
know Anthony lamenting here Gamblers and that,

682
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:27.840
you know that's the team he covers
right for the news, Hubs and all

683
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:30.000
that, but you know, there's
still at it here. It feels like

684
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:32.880
Memphis is on the upswing. Todd
Haley is certainly not going to be yelling

685
00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:37.079
at anyone on the sidelines after this
one. Yeah, And I mean it's

686
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:39.719
competitive, It's you know, that
whole South Division is competitive. It's a

687
00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:45.400
toss up in these next three weeks. Um. You know they're all four

688
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:50.400
and three right now. I mean
you know that. I think this,

689
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:52.400
excuse me, except the Stallions or
five and two obviously, you know,

690
00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:57.159
I think I think we could see
you know, Birmingham finished the season,

691
00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:00.760
you know, seven and three,
and then I think we're gonna have a

692
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:04.679
tie breaker. Personally, you know, I hope it doesn't go down to

693
00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:07.880
like the fourth or like with the
BattleHawks and Dragon the Sea Dragons. But

694
00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:13.360
I mean, these teams are going
to cannibalize each other. And I want

695
00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:16.039
to pull up the schedule just so
I'm not talking out out of left field

696
00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:21.559
or anything like that, but um, can you pull up the schedule?

697
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:27.719
Yeah, so we got here.
We got Houston here against Michigan or sorry,

698
00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:32.199
against Pittsburgh coming up, and then
obviously Philadelphia against Birmingham h NBC USA,

699
00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:37.119
and then Memphis at Jersey and then
Panthers a breakers here. Yeah,

700
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:39.480
I mean all three of those teams
could win this week and then you know,

701
00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:44.760
then there'll be some cannibalization with the
Breakers and show Boats in week nine.

702
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:50.760
Um, you know, you know, Birmingham could lose the Gamblers and

703
00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:53.440
then week ten it's you know,
going to be a Week ten and it's

704
00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:57.679
going to be a big game for
the show Boats versus the Stallions. And

705
00:44:57.800 --> 00:45:00.840
if the Stallions are clinched, do
they want to you know, throw everyone

706
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:04.840
out there. They're dealing with so
many injuries, you know, on the

707
00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:07.360
show Boats are playing and the Breakers
are playing the Gamblers. So that's gonna

708
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:12.199
be a big game, and it's
it's gonna it's gonna come down to some

709
00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:16.639
some nasty stuff once again, because
all these teams can be three and oh

710
00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:21.239
or excuse me, could win out
this weekend. They're all it's a very

711
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:24.760
winnable game for all of them.
They are the superior team. You know,

712
00:45:24.840 --> 00:45:29.840
they should be the favorite moving into
week eight for going into Week e

713
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:32.880
or the betting and whatnot. So
it could be real goofy going in the

714
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:37.960
week nine and then gets even goof
here in week ten because both those games

715
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:40.679
are division games. Well here's so
you know, spoiler, the ratings will

716
00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:44.639
be out tomorrow. Obviously the LAYD
with the holiday, I don't think ratings

717
00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:46.840
will be good this weekend, just
because of Memorial Day and people traveling to

718
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:50.519
kind of doing all that stuff.
I do think though, in terms of

719
00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:54.360
scheduling, and I don't I think
the time slots in the networks matter far

720
00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:58.800
more than the games. But I
do think they're they're fortunate here where the

721
00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:01.480
Birmingham Neworld game I think will be
the highest view just because that's you know,

722
00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:06.480
that was the one on NBC here
kind of more in the good slot.

723
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:08.400
But if you go here the week
eight with three of the games,

724
00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:12.920
but especially with the Panthers at Breakers, that's going to be a good game

725
00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:15.599
on Fox. You have the Stars
at Stallion, so that's going to be

726
00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:19.199
a good game on NBC. I
think that at least, and they can't

727
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:21.679
flex these or they don't seem to
want to, but at least I think

728
00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:24.719
they're benefiting from if there is going
to be a viewership boost with any of

729
00:46:24.760 --> 00:46:28.440
these games, I think that some
of the better games are happening to be

730
00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:30.679
in those time slots. Yeah,
you know, I was down down in

731
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:35.599
Lake Theo's arts this weekend and you
know they were all on all the bars,

732
00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:38.840
you know, so you got so
you know, there's not much USFL

733
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:42.440
in the Midwest, so and Lake
the os Arks, you got a lot

734
00:46:42.480 --> 00:46:45.760
of Kansas City people, a lot
of people from Iowa, a lot of

735
00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:49.320
people from Nebraska. Um, you
know, come up from Arkansas. So

736
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:53.280
I'm not saying that mattered because obviously
everyone's getting drunk and whatnot. But they

737
00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:58.880
were on at the bars for what
that is, you know, so you

738
00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:00.880
get some boosts there, a little
bit of exposure to you know, the

739
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:05.239
one or two guys or gals other
there at the bachelor party and don't want

740
00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:08.599
anything to do with the chaos that
is the lake of Theo's arcs. It

741
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:12.159
is funny, though, when you
have a conversation I'll pull up the last

742
00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:14.719
game here. When you have a
conversation something okay, what like what is

743
00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:16.039
this like what's going on? Like
is this in Europe? You're like,

744
00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:19.400
oh no, this is in like
we had it with the XFL back in

745
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:22.679
twenty Like, I no, this
is this is in Seattle or this isn't

746
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:24.000
where you know it is. It
is a very foreign concept here to get

747
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:29.440
used to that. Finally, here
we have Panthers. I can't win at

748
00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:32.039
home, but at least can win
here against the Generals. I know Andy

749
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:36.480
Murray was in the chat very down
on Mike Riley's coaching. You know,

750
00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:38.639
the DeAndre Johnson got injured. I
don't know if he's out for the year.

751
00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:42.239
Lots of things to talk about coming
out of this game. Yeah,

752
00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:44.719
I mean, this is the game
I you know, was in team to

753
00:47:44.840 --> 00:47:49.119
the most big big shout out to
Reggie Corbyn. He only had the eight

754
00:47:49.159 --> 00:47:57.280
yards rushing, but I think he
had four or five receptions. He was

755
00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:00.039
very he was running very tough.
He was, you know, doing a

756
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:05.159
lot more grinding, taking that Stevie
Scott role. Um, I think they

757
00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:07.280
give me the dan ball thing is
kind of played out at this point,

758
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:12.440
Like you know, over these averaging
like forty forty yards a game, forty

759
00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:15.679
five yards a game since he made
that comment in week two or three.

760
00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:22.480
But in the end, we saw
from Josh Love and the offensive coordinator Eric

761
00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:27.480
Marty a lot more of these dig
routes and mesh routes and whatnot that you

762
00:48:27.599 --> 00:48:32.000
know, sprung Trade Quinn a lot. They attacked the seams again once again,

763
00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:37.239
So I mean it seemed like once
Love got comfortable in that second half.

764
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:42.519
Um, you know, he returned
to the prowess that is you know,

765
00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:46.280
his Week one Offensive Offensive Player of
the Week. He looks overall much

766
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:50.760
better than he did last year.
Very curious to see what's going on with

767
00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:54.199
Eric Barrier. Um. You know, the last two weeks for Josh Love

768
00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:57.320
or kind of his make it or
break it. We saw a lot of

769
00:48:57.400 --> 00:49:00.079
improvement last week, you know,
being able to play the game the whole

770
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:05.320
the whole game. You know,
Strong was out for Strong was out,

771
00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:08.880
you know with his knee injury and
whatnot. But on the other side,

772
00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:13.360
there's an open quarterback vacancy, you
know for a guy, So we'll probably

773
00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:17.079
see Brian Lurkie up. I mean, Michigan States ties to these Michigan players,

774
00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:21.840
So don't be surprised to see a
guy like Anthony Russo, Connor Cook.

775
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:25.679
Um. You know, I got
goofy with this one. Ryan Mallett,

776
00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:30.440
that's twenty twenty one spring league guy. Um to maybe get a call,

777
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:34.199
you know, because now it's coaching
football right now, so you know

778
00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:37.519
he uh, he's a high school
head coach in Arkansas. I think,

779
00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:40.199
so wouldn't be surprised to see maybe
he comes up for two or three games,

780
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:43.800
you know, just to put on
some shoulder pads for a little bit.

781
00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:45.840
What do you what are you making
the generals here? Like I said,

782
00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:49.920
with DeAndre Johnson going out kind of
a little that, I don't know

783
00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.360
why he has been seeing as much
action as he has here, But I

784
00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:55.320
mean they're generals are kind of done
for the year here. If john Jay's

785
00:49:55.360 --> 00:49:59.679
out right, yeah, I mean
I'm a man. This poor this poor

786
00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:02.760
guy, man, this poor kid. I love this kid. He's you

787
00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:06.960
know, I know, I know
Mike Mitchell was a little bit critical how

788
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:10.880
babied he's getting and whatnot. But
he's so much he's so dynamic and that

789
00:50:12.039 --> 00:50:15.159
three headed rushing attack that we talk
about every week. To see him get

790
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:19.400
hurt on the rushing attempt one,
it just kind of breaks my heart.

791
00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:22.480
But this law Letta is just we
know who he is. He should be

792
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:27.000
in the USFL or the XFL.
I don't. As long as he wants

793
00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:30.400
to play football, I think he
should have a job, but as a

794
00:50:30.440 --> 00:50:34.559
backup so and there's nothing wrong with
that. And you know he's probably a

795
00:50:34.639 --> 00:50:37.159
financial advisor on the side, you
know, or selling insurance. So he's

796
00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:42.079
probably living a pretty decent life.
But in the end, I'm just I'm

797
00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:45.079
done with this dude. I'd rather
see pru Cup play because at least pru

798
00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:47.559
Cup is shifty and whatnot. Like
Lett is athletic, don't get me wrong,

799
00:50:47.639 --> 00:50:51.159
but pruke Up is a lot more
fun to watch, you know.

800
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:53.480
He's he's a little bit more frant
Harkington esque, you know, and he's

801
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:57.039
a bigger guy. He might roll
someone over as well, so it would

802
00:50:57.039 --> 00:51:00.840
be a good highlight. But I
mean, the general is this, this

803
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:05.639
team through, this team runs through
Johnson, and with him out, I

804
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:08.800
don't see much adjusting. Mike Mitchell
is really critical about the team kind of

805
00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:13.280
just ran it back, and that's
fine and all. But you know,

806
00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:16.920
it's fine until it's not. And
it's not right now, well that's the

807
00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:20.440
day. It just feels like they
haven't we talked to you, they had,

808
00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:22.119
they lost some guys. My microphones
breaking here, they had some guys,

809
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:24.840
and it just doesn't feel like they
did enough in the offseason to kind

810
00:51:24.840 --> 00:51:29.159
of replenish that sad year. I
mean, Generals are one of the kind

811
00:51:29.199 --> 00:51:32.639
of standout franchises last year, and
certainly one of the more recognizable franchises.

812
00:51:32.679 --> 00:51:35.960
You would like to see them,
you know, performing better here, but

813
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:38.559
that certainly it seems like they're done
for the year. Yeah, I mean

814
00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:42.960
it's it's it's definitely sad, you
know, kudos in Michigan. They keeping

815
00:51:43.079 --> 00:51:47.440
Josh right, Josh love Well relatively
upright. Um. I think they made

816
00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:52.119
a change at tackle. I know, Brodarius Ham was out in an injury.

817
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.440
I think you have a right quad
or a right knee injury. And

818
00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:59.519
then Josh Dumblap got to start,
and it seemed like they had another guy

819
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:01.480
in there. I don't know if
it was Ryan Nelson, um, one

820
00:52:01.480 --> 00:52:06.519
of their reserved offensive lineman came in. But in the end, I mean,

821
00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:08.559
they played a pretty clean game as
best as they could. They have

822
00:52:08.679 --> 00:52:13.920
two roster spots open Isheiman going to
the Mallers now, so very curious to

823
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:16.800
see what's what they're gonna do with
two roster spots. Obviously one should be

824
00:52:16.840 --> 00:52:21.840
a quarterback, but we'll we'll see, I know, um, you know

825
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:24.760
a lot of people were really excited
and I see him up there, Warren

826
00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:30.920
Newman. They're wide receiver, but
he's been kind of limited, you know,

827
00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:35.400
not really getting as exposed as we'd
like to see and you know,

828
00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:38.519
more touches. So overall, really
curious to see what's going on. Alonzo

829
00:52:38.679 --> 00:52:44.000
more thirty years old and still making
plays. Man, it's it's it's it's

830
00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:46.960
fun to watch. Michigan here is
still very much alive. I mean,

831
00:52:47.039 --> 00:52:50.679
I know that kind of their home
field, they're kind of the the Edmonton

832
00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:52.559
Elks here of the USFL. But
I mean, certainly still do you really

833
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:55.239
do you see them making the push
here as it just too they're too far

834
00:52:55.320 --> 00:52:59.599
gone. I mean, they're in
that second spot, you know, like

835
00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:01.320
who who's gonna take it from him? You know what I mean, Like

836
00:53:01.440 --> 00:53:06.159
who's gonna who's gonna take Who's gonna
take it from him? Like, you

837
00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:09.320
know, Troy Williams is good,
it's gonna come down to him. And

838
00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:14.639
it seems like they're leaning too much
on their defense and special teams and defense

839
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:17.239
won championships and that's great, but
you know you can't do that given up

840
00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:24.039
thirty seven points and against the Beliguered
Stars offensive line. So I mean,

841
00:53:24.519 --> 00:53:29.639
if if DeAndre comes back, I
could see them making a push to the

842
00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:32.079
generals if he's done for the year, which I feel like he's going to

843
00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:36.679
be more limited right now because of
his injury. Then I don't, I

844
00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:40.159
don't. I don't see anything happening
with the generals. Yeah, I mean

845
00:53:40.360 --> 00:53:44.639
we had a comment here falling apart, why don't they play prucop more.

846
00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:46.519
I don't understand that either. I
don't get why he's never gotten more.

847
00:53:46.599 --> 00:53:49.679
I mean, he didn't look great
them a little bit we saw at the

848
00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:52.039
beginning of the year. But it
just seems weird that you wouldn't go to

849
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:53.960
him and stick with a lotta Yeah. I mean, I don't, I

850
00:53:53.960 --> 00:53:57.599
don't. I don't know. You
know, he's his arm strength isn't as

851
00:53:57.639 --> 00:54:00.920
good as Lalto's, and you know, but he's a bigger guy. I

852
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:05.079
think he's six two, like two
twenty two thirty, So you could run

853
00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:09.039
a more aggressive approach in this readoption
offense and you know, have prow cup

854
00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:14.360
kind of barrel some guys over and
whatnot. But I mean, law Letta

855
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:16.880
threw some balls in the dirt,
like DeAndre was a victim the two bad

856
00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:22.400
drops won by Brandon Bowman. I
believe his tight end, but I mean,

857
00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:25.760
like la Letta kind of turned it
on in the second half, but

858
00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:30.760
it was like two of seven going
in the halftime. So I mean that

859
00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:36.360
the Michigan game was pretty low scoring
initially and then you know they've obviously won

860
00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:38.320
twenty five to twenty twenty two,
but I think it was like six three

861
00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:43.119
going in the halftime. Well,
here we go, we'll start putting the

862
00:54:43.320 --> 00:54:46.079
you know, airplane down here or
started the landing gear out. What did

863
00:54:46.159 --> 00:54:50.199
you make of this week? You
know, last week, I feel like

864
00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:52.360
people were down and the gameplay wasn't
as good. Obviously the games are a

865
00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:55.679
lot more competitive this week. Thoughts
on us of a Week seven as a

866
00:54:55.719 --> 00:54:59.679
whole. I mean, it's kind
of a shame that during Memorial Day we

867
00:54:59.760 --> 00:55:01.760
s some of the better playing you
know and whatnot. And I hope there's

868
00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:06.119
a lot of people in these bars
that I was, you know, running

869
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:09.119
around that you know, that saw
the game and maybe got a little bit

870
00:55:09.199 --> 00:55:15.039
more exposed and whatnot to the USFL. And you know, obviously that might

871
00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:17.840
be a national thing because you know, people love football Memorial Day weekend,

872
00:55:17.920 --> 00:55:23.320
all that good stuff. But you
know, I think the ratings will be

873
00:55:23.400 --> 00:55:27.159
down, and I don't think that's
the USFL problem. I think that's just

874
00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:30.440
the nature of the beast when it
comes to everything like that. And I

875
00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:34.760
don't think you know, people who
want to troll the USFL, that's you

876
00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:37.519
know, they're going to either way. But you know it's funny, you

877
00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:40.519
see the ratings might go down,
but the attendance was up, you know,

878
00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:45.000
so kind of it's kind of like
what we're doing here whatnot? But

879
00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:47.400
I mean, as far as the
actual product on the field, I'm pretty

880
00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:50.400
good. I'm pretty good with what
I saw. Like I said, it

881
00:55:50.519 --> 00:55:53.000
was some of the better quarterback player
I've seen in a while. And the

882
00:55:53.079 --> 00:55:57.400
games are all competitive right now,
and that's really the biggest thing. So

883
00:55:57.559 --> 00:56:00.320
maybe if you didn't watch the game
and week you turned you know, Fox

884
00:56:00.360 --> 00:56:02.800
Sports app on or whatever, and
you're like, oh, these games matter

885
00:56:02.920 --> 00:56:07.719
and week nine okay, or excuse
me, then watching in week seven,

886
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:09.599
but they matter in week eight,
you might get a little bit more giddy

887
00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:13.079
about it. You know. Yeah. We had a comment here, Mike,

888
00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:15.679
and I'm not gonna lie with the
holiday week and that note issues skipping

889
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:17.599
the USFL. Just watch YouTube pighlights
this morning to catch up. May do

890
00:56:17.719 --> 00:56:22.199
that more often. Moving forward,
Mark here says, haven't watching USL.

891
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:24.840
I pretty much record the games and
watch them on my own pace. That's

892
00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:30.039
the challenge. And I was signing
with Dorothy about this yesterday that you know,

893
00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:32.840
the biggest ratings issue for the USFL. You know, we're talking about

894
00:56:32.840 --> 00:56:37.920
the XFL March Mountains and all that
USFL here coming into May through June into

895
00:56:38.039 --> 00:56:43.400
July is just weather and people doing
anything else outside they're watching TV. Where

896
00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:46.960
the CFL, they really have their
schedule, you know, where they go

897
00:56:47.199 --> 00:56:51.920
June, July, August kind of
through November. It's built where you can

898
00:56:52.039 --> 00:56:53.880
kind of not watch the summer games
if you want that. You could turn

899
00:56:53.960 --> 00:56:58.400
on the CFL schedule Labor Day and
kind of know what you need to know

900
00:56:58.559 --> 00:57:00.920
for the rest of the year.
Where the USFL here going their playoffs into

901
00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:05.679
the summer. It really is the
gameplay is peaking at the worst time where

902
00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:07.840
people are going outside, do you
know what I mean? Where the CFL

903
00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:09.639
and they kind of understand that and
they're like, okay, well, it's

904
00:57:09.639 --> 00:57:14.199
almost like a modified preseason or it's
like season part one, and then you

905
00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:16.719
can come in where the USFL it
is. It is harmful here going into

906
00:57:16.760 --> 00:57:22.199
summer with the games. So we've
been very critical about and we'll go on

907
00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:25.480
a little journey with me real quick. We've been very critical about R J.

908
00:57:25.719 --> 00:57:30.320
Young and his interviews that he's essentially
given this platform of X amount of

909
00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:36.400
people and he only gets four hundred
views right this platform. So I'm on

910
00:57:36.559 --> 00:57:42.239
the USFL YouTube channel. They have
twenty five thousand subscribers. RJ. Young

911
00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:45.760
did an interview three days ago with
Corey Coleman, and guess how many views

912
00:57:45.800 --> 00:57:50.360
that got? And we're not there's
a point to this. I got one

913
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:55.199
hundred and twenty five three ninety six. Okay, So the USFL which is

914
00:57:55.440 --> 00:58:00.400
probably over four hundred. When you
actually look at their analytics, you ll

915
00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:07.559
posted one day ago Birmingham versus New
Orleans eighteen K views on YouTube yep for

916
00:58:07.639 --> 00:58:12.719
the highlights, seventeen k for the
mallers, and then they haven't even had

917
00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:15.800
it up for a day yet,
um, and they're at fifteen k for

918
00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:19.960
the Panthers and sixteen k for the
show Boats on their highlights, and then

919
00:58:20.119 --> 00:58:24.320
if you go into the week before, it's everything's over twenty k for their

920
00:58:24.400 --> 00:58:28.960
week before. So people are caring
about this enough, you know what I

921
00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:31.400
mean. They might not be fully
invested in it, but I don't know

922
00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:35.960
if it's the algorithm, which obviously
it probably is to an extent. I

923
00:58:36.039 --> 00:58:39.360
don't know what their watch times are
go down that list, but it's getting

924
00:58:39.400 --> 00:58:43.679
engagement. And I don't have the
XFL you know, highlights up because I

925
00:58:43.719 --> 00:58:47.039
think they're on ESPN, which is
not fair because ESPN has millions of such

926
00:58:52.679 --> 00:58:55.719
all that stuff. But in the
end, like we're seeing an extremely an

927
00:58:55.760 --> 00:59:01.119
extremely like interesting product and whatnot.
People people care more than we probably think,

928
00:59:01.280 --> 00:59:07.280
you know. I think that the
people that watch shows like this I

929
00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:13.760
tend to be more XFL or CFL
focused. I think that the USFL fan

930
00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:17.800
base, and they're certainly hardcore fans, and Gregory's in here talking that he

931
00:59:17.840 --> 00:59:22.480
went to thirty games to protect like
that's phenomenal, right, we love like,

932
00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:25.000
we love Gregory. He comments a
lot. But I think a vast

933
00:59:25.119 --> 00:59:30.920
majority of the USFL fan base is
a little bit more casual in terms of

934
00:59:30.000 --> 00:59:34.039
I'm going to watch the games when
they're on. Then obviously you get that,

935
00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:36.039
Okay, we're going to seek it
out on YouTube, but then people

936
00:59:36.039 --> 00:59:37.800
they're actually gonna watch shows like this, I do think tend to be lower.

937
00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:42.559
I think the CFL engagement online might
be a little bit higher. And

938
00:59:42.599 --> 00:59:45.679
then obviously the XFL take that for
what it is. You know, USFL

939
00:59:45.719 --> 00:59:51.519
and XFL are different products, but
you know, I think the fan bases

940
00:59:51.519 --> 00:59:53.559
are different. Max oh Max,
Maximus have woken up from crying over his

941
00:59:54.400 --> 01:00:00.559
Dallas Dallas Stars last year. Often
niche content esnforms as well. Uh yeah.

942
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:02.159
I also just people don't like RJ. Young. I think I think

943
01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:06.480
that you RG Youngest doing for a
certain brand of football, and I think

944
01:00:06.519 --> 01:00:08.679
that that's not the USFL. And
I think that, if anything, we've

945
01:00:08.760 --> 01:00:13.679
learned going through the XFL season,
just having a large number of subscribers on

946
01:00:13.760 --> 01:00:16.559
YouTube doesn't necessarily equate to a high
number of youth. Oh man, oh

947
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:21.960
man, anything else from you,
Pat? Yeah, I mean, if

948
01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:24.239
we got five minutes, I'll you
know, I'm looking at the XFL YouTube

949
01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:30.400
page. Um, you know,
eighty subscriber, eighty thousand subscribers. They

950
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:36.760
posted their season recap a week ago, two point two k. You know,

951
01:00:36.920 --> 01:00:42.400
championship highlights one thirty three K.
I mean that makes loud, that's

952
01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:45.000
pretty, that's impressive, But then
yeah, that's a championship game. People

953
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:50.440
are gonna be searching that up.
Um playoffs. I mean it's not terrible.

954
01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:52.800
You know, they gotta dig through
it. Um. I mean,

955
01:00:52.920 --> 01:00:58.880
obviously they post all their press conferences
on their and whatnot and have player fifty

956
01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:02.239
four stuff. I mean, that's
something I could research later because it's gonna

957
01:01:02.239 --> 01:01:07.679
take me way more time than anyone
really has. But I mean, I

958
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:13.320
mean it's doing something right. Like
but we talked about content, like like

959
01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:15.719
I put out these us about quarterback
rankings, and you know, I'm gonna

960
01:01:15.800 --> 01:01:19.280
keep doing it. But we talked
about it all the time in circles,

961
01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:22.920
like you know, my views are
down, you're you know, we talk

962
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:29.920
about this show when we talk primary
primarily USFL. Like obviously, my first

963
01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:35.719
quarterback rankings on my YouTube channel,
I have six hundred and fifty one subscribers,

964
01:01:35.920 --> 01:01:37.159
and it hit and you know,
when I posted, I think I

965
01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:40.440
was at four hundred or something like
that, and I think it got over

966
01:01:40.519 --> 01:01:44.920
six hundred views, you know,
and then my last one got like one

967
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:47.480
hundred and twenty or something like that
in week ten for the XFL. So

968
01:01:50.000 --> 01:01:52.440
I mean, it's just the nature
of the beasts. You know, we

969
01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:54.559
love this stuff, so we'll keep
putting out content. But I mean,

970
01:01:55.199 --> 01:01:59.880
you know, sometimes the things say
enough, you know, Well, that's

971
01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:01.400
I looked at the USFL last year. I mean, I don't think the

972
01:02:01.480 --> 01:02:05.360
YouTube views are everything, but I
think you can look at you know,

973
01:02:05.440 --> 01:02:07.960
web traffic and views and channel like
I think you can tell for products hot

974
01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:13.199
or not. And I felt like
the USFL last year was declining going into

975
01:02:13.239 --> 01:02:15.760
the playoffs. I think the parody
in the league. Hopefully it's helping year

976
01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:17.920
two. Hopefully it's helping him this
year. We'll see. I mean,

977
01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:22.519
like all these shows have have average
about the same in the last couple of

978
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:24.880
weeks since the XFL dropped off,
So we'll see. But it's certainly something

979
01:02:24.920 --> 01:02:30.280
to track there. Anyway, we'll
get out of here. I like doing

980
01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:35.519
the hour Ishmark Good Show coming up
this Friday. We're going to have obviously

981
01:02:35.639 --> 01:02:38.840
USFL content on another as well.
Evan Willsmore is going to be joining us.

982
01:02:38.920 --> 01:02:43.320
We're going to be talking XFL players
that still deserve a spot in the

983
01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:45.800
NFL. You know, obviously a
lot of those signings going and then I

984
01:02:45.920 --> 01:02:50.320
have a lot of CFL Cheam previews
coming up. If you're interested in the

985
01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:52.360
CFL season, should be a good
show, kind of getting out of the

986
01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:57.079
XFL bump. Here and going into
everything for the summer. Next week,

987
01:02:57.159 --> 01:03:00.000
we're going to be going live for
the CFL kickoff on June eighth, and

988
01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:02.719
then Andy Murray and I I think, are going to be doing a special

989
01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:07.679
live Friday show of talking to XFL
offseason and what that calendar should look like,

990
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:12.920
what the XFL should be doing.
And then we have the Rookie Showcase

991
01:03:13.039 --> 01:03:16.559
coming up on June sixteenth, which
works out that's our normal Friday show,

992
01:03:16.599 --> 01:03:20.199
so we'll be doing something for that
as well. So lots of things to

993
01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:22.840
talk about. I gotta figure out. But I do think we'll be doing

994
01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:24.960
post CFL recaps. I need to
figure out who wants to do that with

995
01:03:25.079 --> 01:03:30.440
me on Mondays. I don't want
to put that on anyone. You've got

996
01:03:30.480 --> 01:03:31.880
five minutes I talk about the future
for these. I don't know what Gregor

997
01:03:31.920 --> 01:03:36.360
you're talking about, I think,
but whoever, I don't know who wants

998
01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:37.800
to do the CFL shows with me, But we'll find someone to do that

999
01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:43.199
because no one is doing that in
the CFL space in terms of a live

1000
01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:45.719
call in show Monday. So I
am excited for that, and I think

1001
01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:46.880
that could be something. Anything else
from you, Pat, I appreciate your

1002
01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:51.280
time today. I mean, that's
really it. You know, I'm waiting.

1003
01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:55.559
I'm waiting on the XFL to see
if they're going to allow media again.

1004
01:03:55.639 --> 01:04:00.000
I talked to Brian Stole about it
because I do have a showcase in

1005
01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:04.079
Saint Louis, so I'll definitely have
an opinion of an opinion on that.

1006
01:04:04.280 --> 01:04:08.480
That's on a Friday, so I'll
definitely you know, let's see what my

1007
01:04:08.559 --> 01:04:11.440
camera guys got going on, and
you know, maybe we'll get some good

1008
01:04:11.480 --> 01:04:16.079
content there to you and my own
stuff. But I mean, you know,

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I'm pretty pumped about these showcases and
whatnot as well. You know,

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we're going to see a new crop
of players. Um, something to keep

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01:04:23.559 --> 01:04:27.360
in contact with with NFL spots,
you know. I'm sure Evan will bring

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it up. Is there's another gambling
probe going right now, so we could

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01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:34.719
see a lot of you know,
Mike, Mike's doing a real good job

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of keeping these numbers. Um.
You know, I've seen a couple more

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01:04:38.719 --> 01:04:43.000
players get cut, so maybe that
that the roster spaces are at twenty five

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01:04:43.119 --> 01:04:45.960
now, you know, and maybe
these teams are holding out for USFL guys,

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01:04:46.039 --> 01:04:48.760
which you know, there's some cheap, and we talk and I don't

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01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:51.960
want to discredit the players. We
talked about a cheap signing, right like

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01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:58.000
Philip Lindsay didn't need to go to
the XFL to go back to the NFL

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like he was on the first running
back yet current this is a guy we're

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01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:04.079
bringing in. What he went to
the XFL. Was it get that VEMM

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01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:09.599
of six hundred k and get a
guaranteed to like one middle type thing,

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you know? So you know,
I'm curious to see those signings from both

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01:05:13.599 --> 01:05:16.039
these leagues in the next two months, month and a half and whatnot.

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And I hate to say it,
but injuries always changed the game as well.

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Last thing for me, just got
an email from USFL after a highly

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entertaining Week seven where all games were
decided by six points or fewer with all

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01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:33.719
eight teams in contention that they are
going to be doing a virtual media availability

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01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:40.840
via Zoom Thursday, June first,
at nine thirty am Pacific time. So

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01:05:40.920 --> 01:05:45.440
maybe we'll be getting some USFL news
here at twelve thirty Eastern, nine thirty

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and Pacific. So it just got
the email out. You can rs VP,

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01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:51.480
I'll get on that, but we'll
be doing zoom media. It looks

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01:05:51.519 --> 01:05:55.679
like my prayer is going to be
there. Our boy Darren James is going

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01:05:55.719 --> 01:05:58.880
to be there. Darryl Johnston,
Yeah, Mike Prayer. So should be

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exciting. So maybe we'll some USFL
news, Maybe they'll be announcing the official

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playoffs scenarios. I don't know,
I don't know what that would be,

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but something coming this week USFL on
Thursday. So it should be excited.

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Pat appreciate it. Everyone like you
know, like and subscribe with Let's get

1039
01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:18.119
you to one of these championship games. Appreciate it and we'll see you guys

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next time. Thanks so much,
thank you. All right, let me

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01:06:21.360 --> 01:06:26.320
get our outro here. I've never
set to go on this. Here we

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go, all right, We'll see
you guys,