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Well, happy Tuesday morning here,
Welcome to the Mark Cast. Read here

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inside today June gloom here in Seattle. So we're standing inside, say dr

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rip fan control football here. Just
found out breaking news today coming out via

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friend of the show, Ben Fisher
over at the Sports Business Drown. Maybe

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we could talk about that as well. Also have some TV tidbits we can

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talk about rating not out in full
because of June teams, but Mike Mitchell

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distant over some self, so we
can talk about that. We have Partrophina

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here. Pat just putting on a
phenomenal shirt. I really like that.

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How are you doing, sir?
I'm doing well. You know. I

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think if you've seen my interviews,
I usually try to go flamboyant for my

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guests when they come on. So
I think, yeah, I got this

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one going and then we'll see what's
next. So I really want to show

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off my tattoos. It's good.
Well, I think you gotta, like,

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if you got you gotta kind of
flaunt it here. I think like

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no one's gonna beat you up or
say anything about you wearing the flamboyant shirts.

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I think as long as you can
rocket, and I think that's what

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you need to do. It's got
owls with NBGS on them. It's good.

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I don't know what that means,
but that's good. Interesting first off,

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just not the USFL news here.
We're gonna do obviously that the recaps,

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and we have our big playoff talk
we're gonna talk about, but fanacial

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football taking the year off at least
trying to sell franchises. All that said,

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do you have any quick takes on
that. I don't want to derail

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too much of the show, but
I mean I'm a little disappointed. You

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know, the league itself was very
gimmicky and like, you know, kind

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of weird compared to the traditional arena
game. But I mean, I don't

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think anyone can deny that there was
talent. And I know everyone talks about

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Turpin was in there and whatnot,
but you know, they did send like

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two other guys to the NFL.
They send a bunch of people to the

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XFL, they send a decent amount
of people to the CFL. I mean,

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in the end, it was like
a cool way in my opinion that

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Okay, maybe you're not going to
go to the NFL or the XFO or

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USFL, but you are going to
build your brand because the amount of Air

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Corps celebrity that was in it.
So I mean it's a little disappointing for

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that. You know, they did
a pretty good job in my opinion,

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of boosting these people's like infamy.
You know, like you see all guys

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like boost up there following their follower
accounts on all of their accounts and whatnot.

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So you know, football isn't for
anyone, but you know, having

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twelve thousand followers on the social media
platform, you know, is never a

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thing for some of these guys.
Yeah, I thought they were kind of

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finally figuring out their niche right where
we're not We're really not competing I mean,

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and I know they said, but
like we're really not competing with USFL

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or XFL. We're getting maybe a
lot more off the street kind of guys

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that wanted an opportunity and want to
play, and maybe from you know,

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some of those we can kind of
cultivate on. I always agreed with Mike.

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I thought the field needed to be
bigger. I thought it was too

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tight. The other thing I think
on here was we had so Robin here

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worst photo ever of this, I
don't know we have so Robin got arrested

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in the previous day. We have
as much shot on here. But I've

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gone back and forth back when Paul
was on the show Paul and Paul,

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and I had no love loss for
a lot of the Piangeto football guys,

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but I certainly appreciate what they do
and what they did. Patrick Deese has

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been on the show, and I
mean, I think they're hard working guys,

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but I do think buding off a
little bit more than they can shoot

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here trying to do basketball and kind
of everything else this year as well.

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Yeah, I mean it's I don't
think it's any what's the word I'm looking

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for. I don't think it's any
different than when people are talking about expansion

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in the Extra POW or the USFO. It's like, hey man, like

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you're talking about bench in three fifteen
when you can't put up two twenty five,

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you know what I mean, Like, let's let's keep repping the two

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twenty five before we put that extra
plate on, you know. Like maybe

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a little bit of a silly analogy, but I feel like sometimes there's you

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know, we're overly competitive with what
stuff, so it's kind of like,

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hey man, let's make sure that
we are our houses in order before we

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do anything crazy, And that's kind
of how I felt with it. It

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is interesting. I guess they're going
to try to sell off. They have

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Jerry Kurtz here who helped with the
former He was the former Arena Football League

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commissioner, helping kind of sell some
of these franchises. They said for the

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high six figures, low seven figures. I don't I don't know. I

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mean, they have the celebrity we
could do a whole show about this year.

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They have the celebrity owners. They
have all that. I don't want

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to deep die, but like,
I don't know, I think there might

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be a little bit more value there
if you get I don't know, I

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think those fan bases are maybe a
little bit more locked in if you're trying

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to get Hey, we're selling the
usfl or in the XEL franchise. But

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they had the last goal who were
given the capital markets currently quite frankly,

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no one's gonna tell you it's not
capital intensive to run the sports league.

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We thought maybe the better idea of
this environment is to focus on the technology.

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So they're gonna license off. It
sounds like a lot of their attack

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try to get money that way.
And they maybe spin this up later.

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I don't see anyone at low sevens
purchasing a fan and from football franchise.

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No, and apologies for the train, but I mean like I wouldn't I

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wouldn't pay you know, a million
dollars for a fan control football league like

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or a team like I mean,
I can do the quick map. I

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think there's like like fifteen players on
the roster or something like that. You

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know, like their offensive line plays
like three three games a day or something

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like that. It's like, I
mean, I feel like, you know,

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they pay play six games. I
feel like I can to fifty on

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that, you know, two fifty
k on that and still be able to

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pay people pretty decently. I don't
know, you know, like i'd have

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to do the math like on the
spreadsheet and you know, I know the

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FCF week and review right now.
But yeah, I mean it's interesting.

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I just thought you get off the
show here at least talk about this while

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it's fresh, and it is.
The real victim is always who the players

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right at the point, you know, like like we're seeing those guys go

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to different leagues and make plays and
like be you know, able to make

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more money and it's like, you
know, you have these guys from non

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traditional backgrounds in college. You know, you just go to a tryout in

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Atlanta and then next thing, you
know, like Bryson Leine Andrew Jamille.

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I know, you know a lot
of people talk about Turpin, but we

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all know the reason why Turpin wasn't
in the NFL. Like granted, he

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you know, made his way.
He did his tour for the last two

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years before getting to the Cowboys.
But like a guy that doesn't get talked

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about a lot of these uh Travis
Tavooni and I think that's his name.

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He's on the Brahmas now, but
he spent about a year and change with

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some NFL teams and like he was
with the Seahawks for a hot second.

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I remember him, the Hawks,
the Giants of Vikings. Like the guy's

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probably made like three hundred grand in
the NFL, you know between all his

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hit stops, and it's like that
guy was in a sorry Max wasn't always

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getting blown up on this show.
Very popular man. It's probably what trade

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and calling me to make fun of
me. But um, I mean,

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like you know, that's that's who
the victims are. When it comes down

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to this. You know when any
anytime a air quote league fails. Ye,

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so interesting stuff. So today we're
gonna run through all the playoffs of

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Mike, Mitchellson, Everson number.
So because of Janeteenth, the us off

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L ratings are off you know a
day uh pre Lambs for the Sunday Night

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six hundred thirty one thousand. That
was for the big you know, clinching

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at all, you know, Michigan
Stars, kind of all that stuff.

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Interesting. I sent these over and
just for us to kind of ponder here.

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For the season, the USFL after
nine weeks is average six hundred and

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twenty two thousand, six hundred and
forty one viewers per game. The NBC

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games have averaged nine hundred thousand that
includes the Derby lead and nine hundred and

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four thousand on average. Fox is
average six hundred and eighty seven thousand and

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three seventy five. So it just
kind of interesting to put that in perspective

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when you balance out the Fox in
NBC for the USFL. Mike has done

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the math there, six hundred and
twenty two thousand season average for the for

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the over the air broadcast games,
XFL had seven ABC games and those average

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six hundred and twenty two thousand also, so literally the exact same number on

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average for the USFL twenty four Fox
in NBC averaged over and then the XFL

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with the seventh of forty for that
kind of interesting. Yeah, I mean,

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I mean, what are we gonna
well, what's what's the saying.

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It's like numbers, number, you
know, anything could be like a statist

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stick that goes in your favor.
You're gonna have XFL guys who were like,

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you know, gonna take that number
and you know, spinning around to

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their favor. You're gonna have USFL
guys spinning around to their favor. I

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mean, I mean until we see, you know, the finances of these

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leagues, Like I don't know what's
good because I don't know what they expect

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to be good. So they were
only expecting three hundred k PR thing,

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well they crushed it, right.
If they were expecting seven hundred, they

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were you know, missing their mark. So that's kind of something that I

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always like try to think about.
It's like, that's kind of go and

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do not to serve her all that
was but um, sorry lost my train

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of thought. Everyone's freaking calling me
to um. Long story short, but

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like it comes down to their finances, right and like what their goals are.

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So I mean that's that's something you
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I think you know got hinted on
with this. You know, sixty million

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dollars loss of the x XFL is
like, what are you okay with?

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You know what I mean? I
thought this sixteen million lost thing? Since

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I moving on here, I had, as promised, I had a couple

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of tweets ready here following the USFL
playoff clinching scenarios. Here, I said,

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the entire North Division the playoffs?
Are you kidding? The playoffs?

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We're seeing crazy here? And then
I was proud of this one US off.

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L saw the XFL with one,
four and sixteen in this playoffs and

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says, hold my beer. I
was pretty impressed with that, Pat,

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What do we make here? Playoffs
clinch South a little bit more interesting with

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this North Division? What do you
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I don't even know, Like I
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it's really bad. I just sorry, I think it's really bad. And

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the Mawlers are not a good team. I don't think. I don't think

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that I'll do a hard stuff there. I disagree. I think they also.

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So the Maulers put out James Morgan, which I get it. He

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was I want to say, a
sexy name, but like an FIU guy,

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you know, you know, Division
one player drafted by the Jets fourth

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round pick. Like they won't they
go oh and two with him at him

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at the helm. They put bringing
Troy Williams. And like, something I'll

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talk about with Troy all the time
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you know the similarity to him in
Cole Kelly is that, like you know,

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when Troy is playing. When Troy
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he's able to run around like Cole
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know, two hundred and fifty pounds
or something like that, and like when

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you hit him low, like he's
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Like Troy does the same thing.
But that defense has been like an amazing

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defense this whole year. I mean, Mark Gilbert's is stud you got Tizeno.

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I mean, that's could easily be
and you know we're talking we're talking

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minimal movement here, but that could
have easily been a six or team if

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they went with Troy Williams, Now, what's the reality of it. They

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they didn't, so they ended up
four and six. But like, I

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mean, I think the Maulers,
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week, is like why not them? You know what I mean? Like

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they you know, they're pretty,
they're pretty goofy team. They could you

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know, kind of make some plays
and whatnot as well. I mean,

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that's that's my opinion. Like I'm
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but at the same time, like
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they have two study interior defensive linemen, the linebackers are running all over the

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place. I got a pretty decent
secondary, and then they have some good

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role players in the secondary who aren't
stars or anything, but they do their

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job. And you know, every
play in football works if everyone just does

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their job. So and that's what
they're doing, man, then I you

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know, when it's more kudos coaching
staff than anything else. We got a

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couple of comments here with this Stars
are the best team in the norath can't

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believe they aren't in the playoffs.
Joe says Pittsburgh was running this field goal

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in week nine away from going five
and five, best fence in the league.

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Mallers are absolutely a playoff worthy I
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that that's probably the Homer and Me
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I didn't feel like I was as
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like they were kind of on an
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pres little season, right, you're
saying the same thing with Trey Williams.

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But to me, it just felt
like they had kind of like pushed their

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way in and earned it in versus
like the Stars really just kind of crapping

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themselves out of contention here. That's
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and we talked about this a couple
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Stars there there. Their biggest bugaboo
was their offensive line, Like case Coocus

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is probably in an ice bath right
now, and they didn't improve their offensive

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line that much. Like they had
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guy um c J. Perez was
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bumped in between tackle and guard.
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they pick up this guy Drew Himmelman
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and was it the uncos last year, and you know he changed that whole

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dynamic of the offensive line once he
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to just progress and whatnot from there. A lack of run game. You

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know, they went into the season
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Dexter Williams and Colburn. Colburn gets
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Jamis Williams guy. They had injuries
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they did not improve, especially on
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they sewed. I happy for obviously
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and he got a little roughed up
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I had to tweet that out,
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weird. We'll get into the games
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funny until it's not it. It
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and we had a lot of things
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know it's going to happen in an
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think, you know, Andy Murray
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he sent over that you know we
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let me pull this up here.
We'll just let me talking about it.

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We need to improve, but it
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to change your platformats and there five
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but the lack of a wild card
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that deserve it. The battle Hawks
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have before. Any other thoughts on
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kind of beat the beat there,
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teams that you know got into the
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know, and I think really the
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leagues. And if the Mallers or
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championship, UM, I mean,
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watching the South Division playoffs right now
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between them UM and the Breakers.
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Northern Division, the Northern Division is
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whoever they play, And obviously I
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Renegades. I feel like I've talked
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and I don't like saying I'm a
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of a fan of the players and
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that game was obviously, you know, kind of awesome in like a weird

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way, you know. But at
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understand everyone's discourse, and like,
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going home now, and you know
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a little different. You know,
the battle Hawks all they had, I

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want to say, all they had
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beat Seattle, you know, no
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fours a lot different than seven and
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just thought bad. I know,
Anthony Miller was really looking forward they're covering

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the Gamblers all the way through the
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that's probably the biggest disservice here is
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but maybe he can stomach head and
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kind of give us some recaps that
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WNBA right now, So I'm sure
that's that's very thrilling for. So let's

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get into this here. So I
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know, like I said, Matt
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this Pittsburgh over the Generals, not
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I guessaid Matt being able to walk
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just kind of showed, like,
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bad DeAndre. M I mean there's
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this game, there was a lot
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Trey Williams like leaving the team and
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mean a lot of people kind of
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well he technically didn't leave, and
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problem of like something is going on
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called out the offensive coordinator and whatnot. And I talked to a couple of

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people about this, Like in the
DMS, I was not not players,

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just like you know, people who
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do you think if they won the
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released on Monday? Like, like, I like Trey, I think he's

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a shifty back, but like,
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running back, dude, like the
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over like the OLT League, played
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at this point it's kind of like
maybe he kind of knows, like he's

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got something lined up to what he
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it's like, man, I wouldn't
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many enemies and whatnot, you know, Like, and that's just a life

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thing more than anything else that I
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our USFL r CFL Week two.
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two, we were in the time
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ten. Yeah, I saw a
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I knew enough to get involved in
that. But you guys obviously sent over

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in the private like I think Mike
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the prevailing theory is Mike doesn't care
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way of discrediting or talking like receipts
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didn't know enough about it. It
seemed really messy with with the with the

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Mullers there. Yeah, I mean, I mean in the end we could

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talk about like the exterior part of
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team regardless. Like Troy Williams talked
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in the in the show. Able
to do the little things right, not

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get hit as much, um you
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second and a second and ten compared
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you make your money because not only
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a first down, but like now
you're not punning seven yards back and all

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that goofy stuff. So it's like
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I know two of them were on
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like, I'm going to hold onto
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more and like, you know,
see if something happens, and you know,

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so third down sacks, some coaches
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know, you're trying to make a
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it all it depends on field position
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I don't remember where down the distance, but if I'm at the five yard

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line, it's thirty you know,
thirty five, and I'm trying to make

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a play rolling out and I get
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guys are professional kickers. I'm not
going to be losing my mind that my

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twenty two yard field goal went to
a twenty seven yard field goal, you

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know what I mean. I want
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more and make play here and there
and all that goofy stuff. What's what's

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next for DeAndre Johnson here. I
made a joke the the Edmonton Elks and

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the CFL had a really horrendous game
against the BC Lions shut out, which

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is incredibly hard to get to do
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and Derek Taylor tweeted out, you
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I said, I'd call off doctor
Johnson to say, hey, you

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want to come north here? I
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and we'll kind of do our USFL. We'll do it. You know,

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we'll obviously do do a recap for
the championship. Pat's going to be on

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the regular Show Friday. We got
to figure it out, but we're going

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to do an all USFL team and
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normal Friday Show. But what's next
for DeAndre here? Just kind of a

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knee jerk reaction. I mean,
I think he I don't know, man

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like, I think he's kind of
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passer right now. Um, you
know, last year he was kind of

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I don't want to use the word
coddled, because he definitely wasn't. But

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last year he was able to use
the skill set of you know, running

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the read options and whatnot, and
because then they could just throw um Luis

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Perez as a pocket passer type guy. Um this year, you know,

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had to build have the brunch of
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whatnot, and at times look great
that other times looked terrible. I mean,

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next year, I think he comes
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I mean, like third year in
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Barrier man he was picked up on
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gonna go to the CFO, I
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because of familiarity with the system and
everything like that. But like Eric Barrier

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has been, like you know,
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he was a Harlan Hill winner or
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at Eastern Washington was with the Panthers
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Guys pretty athletic, a little bit
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Comes from that kind of like Mike
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I'm definitely intrigued to see if they
transition to him because he does have

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a stronger arm, but he's still
decently athletic. Not plays a lot faster

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on film than he does on his
forty. I think he runs like a

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four eight on some on his forty. But overall, like i'd like to

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see Barria I get a shot,
and you know, with them claiming him

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off waivers, maybe that's kind of
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Okay, now he's on our roster
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these two guys at the at the
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Because you know, they had some
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Sadderfield was on that team for a
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more you know, Ageless Wonder was
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get a little bit younger there.
The Morne Peterson L was supposed to be

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a big playmaker for them. He
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much as I thought they could have. But overall, he had a decent

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season. I would like to see
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end um. I saw a lot
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Bowman a lot this year, and
that was and that was in the USFL.

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I made a tweet a couple of
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teams had guys at tight end.
So to me, like, if they

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can improve on that position, I
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But I mean, that's that's that's
not really anything profound. You get

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better players, you're more competitive,
right, Like, as as profound as

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that may sound, you know,
I threw some fancy words in there,

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but that's that's the reality of situation
for New Jersey. UM in terms of

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the playoffs here and correct me if
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to host the North Wind right,
there wasn't any chance of doing it at

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Ford Field. So you know,
Mawlers here get home field advantage here against

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the Panthers. And I talked to
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and you know how many they are, but they did say that they're

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like when they talk to people UM
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were going to come down to Ohio. It's not the craziest dride, it's

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not the closest dride, But I
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to see a pretty like a pretty
decent crowd like in Kanton. I mean,

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it gets warmer two summer break.
Hey, let's go to the Pro

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Football Hall of Fame and then watch
this football game. I don't I don't

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happy to be proven wrong. We'd
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know. I think the I think
the championship game, it's it's a it's

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a tough sell. I mean,
Mawlers haven't exactly drawn the house in Canton

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already, right, I mean,
like we we have and I know,

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I mean, I know it's the
playoffs and all that. This to me

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is a really unappealing We've talked unappealing
playoff games. So I just don't know.

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Do you think you think Protective is
gonna like do pretty well? I

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mean, I mean they've always showed
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and there where it wasn't as air
quote sexy. But I mean, like

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I mean, whenever we've talked about
like the USFL games and like their crowds

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and whatnot, I mean, like
Birmingham this year wasn't like that it wasn't

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really anything too crazy in my opinion, not too um when I say too

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crazy, like too crazy in a
negative way, Like I feel like they've

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always had a decent showing of their
games, and like Memphis, it seemed

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like every other week, you know, when the Showboats played, I felt

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like some weeks it looked good,
some weeks it didn't. But I definitely

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and they're doing some advertising I've seen
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and Birmingham Sports and like you know, the Luke Miller has been like sharing

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stuff on like the radio stations that
they've been kind of pushing it a little

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bit more, which is good,
you know. I think that's I'm really

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excited to see what like the Birmingham
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though I bookmark this, the NBC
game will still draw more like for

406
00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:08.720
all era for TV a TV viewership, I guarantee you the NBC game out

407
00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:15.640
draws the Fox win here five o'clock
specific versus four. Just the NBC has

408
00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:19.079
by far average higher than and I
I said, I think it was a

409
00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:22.640
week ago we were talking radiance.
I say, it doesn't matter, you

410
00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:25.400
know, the matchups don't matter.
It's the timeslots and the networks, and

411
00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:27.039
NBC has proven to be out of
obviously no one else is on that.

412
00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:30.759
David, watch that for all that. Whenever we pooh pooh this North Division

413
00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:34.559
game. But it'll still draw more
on TV probably. I mean it's NBC,

414
00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:38.480
you know, Saturday night type thing. Like you know, you're gonna

415
00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:41.920
get people at the bar watching it. You're gonna get people you know,

416
00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:45.359
it's gonna be on at the bars
and whatnot. Um, you know,

417
00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.400
so I mean they're like like I
go down to the Ozarks in Missouri all

418
00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.319
the time and the games are always
on at night. Like like even without

419
00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:56.240
me changing it, you know,
I was gonna say, year, yeah,

420
00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:57.480
you're you're going through and changed all
that. It's like when you got

421
00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:02.319
to the Apple Store and subscribe to
your YouTube champ on all the phones there.

422
00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:06.960
You man, I need to bump
me up to almost seven hundred.

423
00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:10.480
But yeah, man, like I
you know, I mean it's not the

424
00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:15.759
sexiest matchup, but like I'm more
I'm more bought into this, uh,

425
00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:18.920
this Stallions game. Man, Like
let's let's let's uh, you know,

426
00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:22.559
it's kind of weird. Like you
know, I got a lot of love

427
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.160
from Magoo, a lot of love
for MBT and the seat. Either one

428
00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:30.319
of those guys win the championship,
especially MBT obviously because they know we have

429
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.160
CFL love and whatnot. But either
one of those guys, especially a guy

430
00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:38.160
like Magoo who is the starter last
year and then and then gets cut um

431
00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:44.000
or not gets cut gets her MBT
coming from Canada winning the Gray Cup.

432
00:28:44.119 --> 00:28:45.920
But like, you know, he's
got doubters. Did he actually win the

433
00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:51.240
Gray Cup? And it's like,
I mean, that's that's the matchup,

434
00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:52.960
man. I think I think a
lot of people are intrigued for but you

435
00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:57.359
know, the Maller's winning this kind
of would be kind of cool just because

436
00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:03.599
of how kulos their team was last
year and essentially a doormat and whatnot.

437
00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:07.920
To see them, you know,
rise from the ashes would be a pretty

438
00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:11.480
cool thing. Yeah. I think
I think USFL reposted like Boogie Roberts,

439
00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:15.359
you know, Worster first or whatever, talking through all that. I hope

440
00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:17.240
he's okay too, right, he
was kind of banging up. He had

441
00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:22.000
to leave the game Birmingham here over
Memphis and the Saturday Night twenty seven twenty

442
00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:26.839
at Memphis kind of the you know
streak ran out here, didn't have enough

443
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:30.319
like you've had a lot of Birmingham
already. Any other thoughts on this particular

444
00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.160
matchup. I mean, I think
I think Cole Kelly's like, um,

445
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:36.799
a year away. I really he's
one of the guys I want to see

446
00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:41.079
come back next year. Um.
Because of how big his body was and

447
00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:45.440
whatnot. I could see him getting
like NFL workouts, but he does need

448
00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:49.440
a little bit more development as a
passer. Um. Sometimes when I watched

449
00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:55.400
him and this is I forgot my
football today, But I see him throwing

450
00:29:55.440 --> 00:30:00.200
the ball kind of like come up
like that sometimes and it and and it

451
00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:04.480
messes up his timing a little bit
because you're seeing Papolli catching the ball like

452
00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:07.759
this, and he also keeps like
you know, obviously behind him, but

453
00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:11.559
he's also keeping the ball up a
little bit more. And you saw a

454
00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:15.039
couple of plays though Cyrus Mitchell,
well Mitchell like had two hands on the

455
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:19.160
ball and yes, you should have
caught the football, but he's leaping up

456
00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:23.440
and he's getting you know, dealing
with a lot more contested catches where if

457
00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:27.640
he brings it down a little bit
and you know, I wasn't a quarterback.

458
00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:30.319
You know, I studied these mechanics
a lot. But I'm trying to

459
00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.359
think, is that just because of
how tall he is and whatnot? Is

460
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:37.960
he not? Is he not you
know, driving with his feet and like

461
00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:41.880
when you really break it down,
Um, I think Kelly needs to work

462
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:48.240
on this uh mechanics a little bit
because some of these passes that he overthrew

463
00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:51.960
or you're kind of like man or
even his completions, You're like, man,

464
00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:55.000
if he threw it on the numbers
and said behind the guy, you

465
00:30:55.039 --> 00:31:00.000
know, papolis still running for another
you know, fifteen yards. Um,

466
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:03.440
a guy I really wanted to highlight
on the show Boats and he didn't have

467
00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:08.359
the craziest game, but a guy
named John Atkins, interior defensive lineman for

468
00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:14.200
them. He played at Georgia.
That guy had a way better season than

469
00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:15.559
a lot of people give him credit
for. He did win the Player of

470
00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.480
the Week award this year, but
I mean he had a really good season.

471
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.839
And and you know someone I just
wanted to give a quick shout out

472
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.400
for. You know, I don't
know if he's watching this or whatnot,

473
00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:30.799
but I mean, I mean some
guys do you know, but overall.

474
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:34.440
I mean, coming from this Brady
White, you know, it's kind of

475
00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:37.680
like fetch. You know, we're
not it's not going to be a thing

476
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.200
Russian, you know, coming from
this Brady White debacle. Another guy that

477
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.559
they kind of forced on us to
see them be a five and five team

478
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:49.599
from a four and six team last
year. Improvement, fun team to watch.

479
00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:53.400
Cole Kelly was fun to watch when
he was on. So guy I

480
00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:56.319
want to see come back. But
they had some nice players this year.

481
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.759
You know, Kyrie Woods kind of
came out of nowhere became one of the

482
00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:06.480
high rated players in the USFL from
PFF. I thank Vinnie Papali really was

483
00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:08.960
a guy last year who's kind of
an afterthought. Rashaw Davis gets hurt.

484
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:14.480
They picked up of Cyrus Mitchell,
who I think he was with the XFL

485
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:17.720
for five minutes. I know he
was back and forth on some practice squads

486
00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:22.160
last year. To see him and
kind of take that role after Richard Davis

487
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:27.519
got hurt over Cyrus Mitchell, Derek
Dillon, I think, so I find

488
00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:31.680
being a Special Teams Player of the
Year. So I mean, they got

489
00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:35.680
they got pieces, a little bit
more improvement on the offensive line. You

490
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:39.480
know and whatnot. But I mean
they were a fun team to watch at

491
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:43.640
times, you know, especially once
they went to Kelly over the Brady White

492
00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:47.279
experiment. Yeah, let's get it's
exciting here Stallions. Like I said,

493
00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:50.920
I don't know there was ever too
much in doubt here, but obviously eight

494
00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:54.079
and two going into that. Anything
else on this one will have the I

495
00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:58.160
want to talk to the Sunday games. So anything else on the Birmingham here

496
00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:00.839
no, And you know, once
again the Magoo thing is always going to

497
00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:07.160
be just the Stallions in general have
dealt with so many injuries and then um.

498
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:13.559
Another gentleman who stepped up for Birmingham
this weekend was a Brady buck I

499
00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:15.640
think he had like twelve tackles,
nine tackles or something like that. He

500
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:21.440
uh or Brodie buck Um. You
know Northwest Division two guys, I think

501
00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:25.759
Northwest Missouri State he um. You
know, Quinny Polling stepped away from the

502
00:33:25.799 --> 00:33:30.160
team. Scooby Wright was hurt.
So it was nice to see that guy

503
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:32.319
who was cut earlier in the season
to come back and you know, play

504
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:38.160
a pretty decent game and get a
nomination for a h Defensive Player of the

505
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:43.960
Week. Uh. This is this
is interesting here. I I was sitting

506
00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:46.599
there and this Father's Day, we're
getting ready to go h too over there

507
00:33:46.599 --> 00:33:51.440
our in laws for Father's Day.
At dinner, I was watching. I

508
00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:52.480
go, oh, goody, goody, I'm gonna get here. I get

509
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:57.680
to watch the whole New Orleans Breakers
Houston Gamware's game. I'm sitting there editing

510
00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:01.440
my dancer sideal videos. I was
filmy and watching this. I tweeted out.

511
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:05.799
I said, for any fathers watching
this game right now, I publicly

512
00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:08.480
apologize if you're sitting there with your
kids watching this game. This was the

513
00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:12.320
worst first half of a football I
think I've ever seen in my entire life.

514
00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:15.000
Yeah, and I mean there was
some clock management at the Gamblers.

515
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:19.719
I've had that all year. I
felt like the Breakers were kind of toying

516
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:22.559
around with the Gamblers for a little
bit, you know, but when mbteam

517
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:24.159
needed to make plays, he did, and then they kind of slowed it

518
00:34:24.199 --> 00:34:30.840
down. Someone we've talked about in
nauseum on the Breakers is West Hills.

519
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:35.280
I mean I think he averaged like
two yards to carry or something like that.

520
00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:38.960
I mean, you know, sometimes
the stat line for running backs is

521
00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:44.199
a lot different than it really,
you know, tell us the whole story,

522
00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:46.599
if that makes sense. So a
lot of tough yards. Hi Hills

523
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:52.199
is a pretty underrated player because one
he almost had a thousand yards all purpose

524
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:57.880
and he didn't return kicks, so
that was an impressive feat in my opinion.

525
00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:01.199
And two, like just kind of
grinding out games healthy for the majority

526
00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:05.639
of them. Um. You know
that receiving corps we talk about all the

527
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:09.599
time to DA understand Johnny Dixon,
Jonathan Adams and Stage Surat really rounded out.

528
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:14.599
Those guys made plays when they needed
to, aided by some bad blunders

529
00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:21.760
by by um by uh the gamblers
and whatnot. I don't know why Curtis

530
00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:24.760
Johnson didn't go for it UM in
fourth on fourth down, I think they

531
00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:29.679
were under two minutes. And then
you even saw John d. Philippo call

532
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:34.639
asking why is he not calling a
time out? UM because and I don't

533
00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:37.519
know if it was clasp that was
the PA played by play, but he

534
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.079
made a good point. It's like
it's third and nine. You might get

535
00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:45.719
them thinking about throwing the football and
then it's incomplete pass. Like you know

536
00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:49.239
the game now you have a decent
amount of time. Obviously, a blunder

537
00:35:49.239 --> 00:35:53.639
on that field goal the miscommunication between
the wanderer and the long snapper. But

538
00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:57.760
the biggest thing I like got a
little confused about is they went with Monte

539
00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:00.639
cs Are for a little bit um
It threw two passes, one pick the

540
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:05.239
Vonte digs, But when he threw
that he rolled out. He just kind

541
00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:07.079
of dumped it off, like he
didn't throw it out the bounds or whatnot.

542
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:10.119
He was out of the pocket and
everything, and he didn't actually throw

543
00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:13.320
it out of bounds. He kind
of just dumped it. And Diggs made

544
00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:16.639
a good play to you know,
pick off the ball and whatnot. You

545
00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:22.239
know, a nice little tiptoe interception
on the sideline. But at the same

546
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:24.079
time, it's kind of like,
why aren't you just throwing out the way

547
00:36:24.199 --> 00:36:27.840
like out in the stands, you
know. So I don't know if that's

548
00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:31.360
an experienced thing. Coz Art's been
in the USFL for two years, played

549
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:36.400
a decent amount of Canada. I
believe he had a cup of tea in

550
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.559
the NFL, like, you know, training camp if I can't remember.

551
00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:42.639
But regardless of the guys played a
decent amount of football. He knows better.

552
00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:45.960
It just was weird, and I
thought the announcers too I think it

553
00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:50.440
was Cloud was like really hard on
Chris Johnson too, like talking you know,

554
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:52.400
he doesn't know what he's doing,
and we're like really, you know

555
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:55.559
you're getting this from first year or
whatever kind of It's just the whole thing

556
00:36:55.599 --> 00:36:59.519
was a mess and not going and
using the time out. I don't know,

557
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:02.519
I just it felt and I had
messages set my way of you know,

558
00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:07.239
these games should be better in week
ten. Like it we're kind of

559
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:09.960
at the point, like I get, I get the first couple of weeks,

560
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:13.599
like we're week ten here going into
the playoffs. Yeah, I mean

561
00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:16.559
Curtis Johnson definitely dropped the ball in
some coaching and timeouts and clock management and

562
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:21.440
whatnot. I mean that's my opinion
on it. You know, call me

563
00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:25.800
wrong, but I think if you're
a Gamblers fan, you won't disagree overall.

564
00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:30.559
I just you know, it is
once again, it is week ten.

565
00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:32.320
But you know, John d.
Philippo did a good job managing the

566
00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:37.599
game and whatnot. He's got a
lot of experience and everything like that.

567
00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:44.280
So but you are absolutely correct,
Like it was extremely disappointing to kind of

568
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:47.800
see what happened with the Gamblers,
and like, do I think New Orleans

569
00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:52.079
wins that game because I think d
Philippo opens it up a little bit and

570
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:54.280
you know, kind of presses on
and does what he needs to do to

571
00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:57.840
win the game, you know one. But at the same time, it's

572
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:01.119
like making a little bit harder for
defail a bow and the h and the

573
00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:05.719
breakers. So here's the thing here, you know, I'm looking and we

574
00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:07.960
so now we have this, right, we have the seven and three New

575
00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:12.280
Orleans Southern Division here going up,
Like I just don't even feel like if

576
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:15.480
this is the New Orleans team that
comes out next week, I just don't

577
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:17.239
even think they have a chance.
I mean, it's that's what it's like,

578
00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:22.000
so frustrated with these end of end
of season poor games like this is

579
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:23.559
like we're like, we're trying to
get to the playoffs, and it always

580
00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:27.440
kills me where it's like, oh, yeah, we barely got in and

581
00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:30.159
we're barely It's like, yeah,
now you're going to the playoffs like you

582
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:31.639
need to you know, you need
to have some sort of momentum. And

583
00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:35.000
I give that in the NFL all
the time, like oh, this team

584
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.800
they lost six in a row,
but then if they just win here,

585
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:38.880
they're gonna get it, You're like, yeah, and then what you're gonna

586
00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:42.400
lose next week? Like it doesn't
I mean, I get okay, your

587
00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:45.320
paychecks whatever. Kind of like I
just don't see New Orleans having any shot

588
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:49.239
here at all, do you.
I mean maybe we could you know,

589
00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.599
kind of seem like a little bit
more of a closed playbook as well for

590
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:57.760
defilip bow in this game. Um, you know, once they kind of

591
00:38:57.800 --> 00:39:00.039
realize where they were at and like, you know, managing the game to

592
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:06.239
win it. I do think that
he's gonna, you know, he's gonna

593
00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:09.039
open the whole playbook up because you
know, not to sound tacky, but

594
00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:14.239
it is when or go home.
So hopefully we see that because d Philippo

595
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:16.480
is a good coach, talked about
it all the time. You know,

596
00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:21.119
they got some players on that offensive
side of the ball that you know,

597
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:25.440
our fringe NFL guys. Let this
quarterback rip, Let's see good MBT,

598
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:30.079
Let's see bad MBT. Like I'd
rather him go out there and throw four

599
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:32.480
picks, really pushing the ball down
the field, making some risky throws and

600
00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:37.480
put up a cute stat line of
like you know, fifteen of twenty three

601
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:42.599
for one hundred and eighty yards in
one touchdown and they lose you know fourteen

602
00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:46.079
too, you know, twenty seven
because the stat line will look good,

603
00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:51.719
but you know, we'll see what's
what's going on. It was funny they

604
00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:53.760
had the graphic where they were talking, I like the you know, the

605
00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:57.519
the wind streak or last streak of
the Breakers, like, okay, it's

606
00:39:57.519 --> 00:40:00.440
a ten week season, Like it's
hardly like streaky, you like, we

607
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:01.920
won whatever, but you know they
had one of them undefeated them. They

608
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:06.840
lost it. I love they had
like their shirtless McLeod like with his beard

609
00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:07.639
at the beach. I was like, this is I mean, it was

610
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:10.440
hot. I want to I want
to get a copy of that for my

611
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:14.360
wallpaper. Here can I get that? I mean, I'm sure you know,

612
00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:17.320
go back to the app and the
in screenshot if you got there.

613
00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:22.039
You know, I wanted to anything
else here on on Breaker and it's just

614
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:25.559
I it was just bad. I
mean, I'll be curious what the radios

615
00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:29.679
are. I'm sure it'll be good
because it was on what was this one?

616
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:31.920
This was the h of course you
don't have the TV. I think

617
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:35.719
this was like not on like the
normal. I can't remember when I watched

618
00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:37.840
it on Fubo. It's like it's
just on you know, I don't have

619
00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:40.199
to pay attention to what it is. But any other thoughts on the on

620
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:45.159
the Gamblers breakers, I mean no, I mean I'm really hoping, like

621
00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:47.440
I talked about, the De Filippo
opens it up and kind of let's out

622
00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:52.280
all the stops and uh, you
know, they've they've had success running like

623
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:54.840
jet sweeps and whatnot as well.
We didn't really see much of that this

624
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:59.719
this game, so maybe we'll see
some of that with Edeli Snow he's had

625
00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:01.679
some success to doing that. So
the biggest thing that they do that I

626
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:05.920
love is when they put safe Sharade
in motion and then have him run the

627
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:09.679
drag route underneath but he's going behind
the offensive line. That's opened up a

628
00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:13.800
lot of play from them over the
season. So you know, you throw

629
00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:16.920
safe Sharat six receptions, seventy plus
yards. I think I think this game,

630
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:20.760
you know this, I do think
Birmingham wins. I do think it

631
00:41:20.840 --> 00:41:22.559
is going to be a good game. But at the same time, it's

632
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:27.039
like, you know, and I
hope I'm wrong because I was wrong in

633
00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:31.039
the XFL playoffs that I do think
like our true USFL Championship is coming from

634
00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:38.599
the South Division U this Sunday,
I and we're going to do obviously our

635
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:42.719
preview here coming up at the end
of the week. But to me,

636
00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:45.400
to me, Malers, they're kind
kind of coming in as the underdogs against

637
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:49.480
the Stallions. That to me seems
if we have to kind of make chicken

638
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:52.719
salad here out of this for the
championship game, that's what I would like

639
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:54.920
to see. Obviously, McCleod and
kind of the guys over there way ideally,

640
00:41:54.960 --> 00:42:00.119
what would you prefer to see in
the championship game? And I do

641
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:01.960
you like this? And we'll talk
about this game. I do like this,

642
00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:08.239
uh you know this Michigan, Michigan
versus Stallion's matchup, if if that

643
00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:13.679
would be pretty ridiculous in my eyes
because of like EJ. Perry just out

644
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:16.840
of nowhere getting the start and then
you know, not knowing the playbook and

645
00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:22.719
having miss ques and like just making
you know, chicken salad out of you

646
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:27.239
know, chicken chicken feeces and like, I mean, some of these plays

647
00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:30.760
that EJ. Perry had success on
was like amazing to see, Like it

648
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:34.679
was just like a kid out there
just like you know, it was very

649
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:37.760
I don't want to use Johnny Manziel
as an example because it wasn't like Johnny

650
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:42.320
Manziel, but very just like backyard
football, like we're gonna figure this out,

651
00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:45.320
guys, let's do it type thing. You know. He'd provide that

652
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:50.400
spark for for the Panthers, you
know, against against the Stars team that

653
00:42:50.440 --> 00:42:52.880
I think we all agree is was
better. And like you know, Corbin

654
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:58.039
didn't do much twenty four yards.
I think he had like thirteen carries or

655
00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:01.119
something like that. Fourteen carries.
Um Scott was kind of limited, you

656
00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:06.159
know, using more in like the
blocking back and whatnot. So I mean

657
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:09.559
that's I would love to see E. J. Perry, uh and what

658
00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:14.039
he can do with his capabilities,
you know, with another week or two

659
00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:16.199
in the in the offense and like
opened it up a little bit more.

660
00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:21.280
Yah. I thought they were coming
for you there, sirens thought they were

661
00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:23.639
coming. I thought this is the
end of the uh so here the big

662
00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:28.760
final act this is you know,
the Stars are my team, you know,

663
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:30.400
I mean they were and they were
my team back from Brian Scott back

664
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:32.599
in the day and all this kind
of stuff. Here a case has been

665
00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:37.079
on the show. Uh what what
happened here? Collapse of the Stars here

666
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:40.039
Michigan finally got a home win.
Right, What do we make of this?

667
00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:45.400
I mean, the Stars offense on
paper didn't give up any sacks,

668
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:51.360
but like you know, sometimes those
pressures which they don't always record, mean

669
00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:54.719
a lot more. Because Case was
running around surprised. He was wincing every

670
00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:59.639
time he got hit. You know, Brithland speaks that right tackle on the

671
00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:04.000
Star h it was. It was
the first guy's name was Burden, and

672
00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:07.320
then the second guy, Toth,
was a Division three guy from I think

673
00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:13.239
Overland University who was with the Bears
for like five minutes, was signed this

674
00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:16.159
week. He's thrown in there,
going against Levi Bell holding on almost every

675
00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:22.639
play. It was. I mean, once Himmelman got out, they shock,

676
00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:24.639
They shook up the offensive line a
little bit. It just did not

677
00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:28.840
look good, you know. I
mean, I've been on this Himmelman train

678
00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:32.639
for like three weeks now, and
how crucially was especially going up against Breedland

679
00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:36.519
speaks and at the end of the
game you saw him in a arm sling.

680
00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:39.519
It looked like I mean, I
mean, Case is a great quarterback,

681
00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:45.400
like the grit way, more athletic
than we probably give him credit for

682
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:49.760
the lack of running game and how
he was able to like how he was

683
00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:53.000
able to make up for it.
Like, I mean, there's not enough

684
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:58.320
good things to say about case Cokins. I saw some people get giddy about

685
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:02.440
the fake punt, but kind of
Kupa made a great play and he's been

686
00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:07.599
such an asset for the Panthers that
like he made you know, I mean,

687
00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:10.679
I don't know how many other defensive
backs make that play, Like he

688
00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:15.280
literally jumped over this guy and swatted
the ball away and it was a clean

689
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:20.320
play and it was just uber impressive
to see that happened. Especially Thompson did

690
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:23.400
a decent job on that fake punt. You know, the backup quarterback was

691
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:28.280
the personal protector and rolls out through
the ball in a decent spot and the

692
00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:30.079
coup had just made a decent,
great play on it, and that,

693
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:34.119
you know, that changes the game
a little bit. Granted, they missed

694
00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:36.800
the field goal as well, but
that's going to happen. The Panthers,

695
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:39.880
I think missed the field goals as
well, so he trade points for there.

696
00:45:39.920 --> 00:45:45.880
But this Panthers special teams and it
man was just on point with that

697
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:50.760
block kick or exceeding that block punt
and then Marcus Simms changing the field because

698
00:45:50.760 --> 00:45:52.440
even if you're not scoring, now
you're putting the ball in there, you

699
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:55.960
know, in their back half of
the field and whatnot. So that changes

700
00:45:57.000 --> 00:46:00.960
a lot of things that comment here, Rock and Roll, Alien Case Cook,

701
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:06.039
I should ask for his walking papers
top non NFL landing spots, c

702
00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:15.199
Dragons or roughnecks. Man, I
don't think he goes if he went to

703
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:20.159
the XFL, I don't think he'd
go to Houston. I think Aj is

704
00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:24.239
pretty set with his guys as far
as the Rider die there. I mean,

705
00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:30.079
I mean, I think June would
like him in Seattle. Like,

706
00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:32.000
I just don't know what the Stars
do here, because it's one of those

707
00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:36.840
like we were there last year and
then severely regress this year. Like I

708
00:46:36.920 --> 00:46:40.920
don't I don't know if I see
Bart doing like a whole off season,

709
00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:45.639
like him gearing up to kind of
do this again in this point in his

710
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:47.559
life. Do you get what I
mean? Like, do you see the

711
00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:52.880
Stars like really overhauling in the off
season to like make another go with Case

712
00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:54.840
or whoever? I mean, I
mean, they need to figure out this

713
00:46:54.960 --> 00:47:00.440
offensive line that was their biggest bugaboo
the whole year. You know, I

714
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:04.039
think he got sacked like what fifteen
times in the first three weeks, and

715
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:08.559
then you know, Himmelman comes in
and it improved a decent amount. I

716
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:12.679
mean, that's that's really the reality
of this. That's what he needs to

717
00:47:12.679 --> 00:47:15.639
do is kind of overhaul that whole
offensive line and then you know, you

718
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:19.719
could put me back there at the
quarterback. I got seconds the throw.

719
00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:22.119
You know, I'm gonna hit my
drag routes, you know, and they

720
00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:25.679
had some dynamic group of playmakers.
It's kind of sad to not see him

721
00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:31.199
progress. I don't know, I
don't know who's the next, Like,

722
00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:36.760
I don't know what their team looks
like next year because they did have so

723
00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:40.079
many great receivers and whatnot. And
like even a guy who's a late season

724
00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:44.760
pickup, Cyril Grayson, you know, athletic guy and whatnot, Like could

725
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.119
he be a rental type thing,
because you know he's he could be.

726
00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:52.480
He's probably on NFL shortlist. Corey
Coleman put together a great season. I

727
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:55.239
mean, Matt Colberg got hurt,
but Dexter Williams put together some decent you

728
00:47:55.280 --> 00:48:00.239
know, tape and whatnot. Like
what do we see from this team in

729
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:05.079
the year three of the Barn Andrew
Sarah, I don't know. I just

730
00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:08.880
because to me, you get to
that point with some of these guys and

731
00:48:08.920 --> 00:48:12.920
I think the X f out.
You know, you get through the novelty

732
00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.079
of year one, Okay, now
we're okay going into year two, let's

733
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:17.679
figure this out, and then you're
kind of getting to the point that like,

734
00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:21.480
all right, what are we doing
here? Am I really into this?

735
00:48:21.559 --> 00:48:23.079
Have I really bought in? You
know? I think I think year

736
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:27.119
three and we'll see next year with
the XML obviously, but I think it's

737
00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:29.599
just a weird timing thing of like, Okay, we've kind of seen what

738
00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:31.119
we're I do. Do I love
doing this? Do I not? Like,

739
00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:34.559
I'll just be curious to see kind
of what a lot of these seems

740
00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:37.039
that Mike Riley, Like is he
still doing this right? I know his

741
00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.239
wife has health concerns and things like
that, Like is he back again?

742
00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:43.920
Bar some of these guys, I'll
be curious to keep an eye on.

743
00:48:44.519 --> 00:48:51.320
I think, Um, I think
Riley comes back because of like and I

744
00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:54.440
don't know how much he cares about
like milestones, but he's only like four

745
00:48:54.599 --> 00:49:01.079
or five wins away from two hundred
as a head coach throughout his coaching tenures,

746
00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:06.000
so maybe that could bring him in. You know, Bob Stoops did

747
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:08.199
an interview where they were like,
you know, you're at one nine nine,

748
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:09.920
you're coming back, and he's like, hell, yeah, I get

749
00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:14.360
that two hundred. So I mean, and also the thing is about Riley

750
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:19.679
too, is he has his kids
and whatnot or his grandkids that always accompany

751
00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:22.320
him, and those are memories that
you'll you'll never give up, right,

752
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.480
So it's like, as long as
it works out for him, I could

753
00:49:25.480 --> 00:49:31.360
definitely see him. I could definitely
see him like being a part of this

754
00:49:31.639 --> 00:49:37.159
machine for another season, especially with
those two factors. But in the end,

755
00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:39.559
like you said, family is more
important to everyone in these leagues.

756
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:43.519
You know that a lot of these
coaches take these jobs in these leagues because

757
00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:49.440
of the family flexibility. So we'll
see what happens on that front. I

758
00:49:49.480 --> 00:49:52.039
mean, I'd like to see Riley
come back and get that two hundred.

759
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:55.440
I think Bart's kind of a fun
a fun mentor like a leader of men

760
00:49:55.960 --> 00:50:00.239
that I think he's really crucial for
you know, young or players in developing

761
00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:04.440
players and whatnot to not only teach
them how to be football players, but

762
00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:08.360
also like decent human beings. And
he talked about it last year and United

763
00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:13.320
a football like he's a teacher by
trade, So like, I think that's

764
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:16.239
kind of what keeps them going.
But you know, it's it's easier to

765
00:50:16.239 --> 00:50:21.920
say that when you're coming off a
championship game win or lose, versus a

766
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:25.440
four and sixth season, which I
think everyone believes that they underperformed. I

767
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:29.559
U surprised they didn't do the United
by Football this season, And mean,

768
00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:32.079
I know we has it wasn't a
barn Burner success, but were you surprised

769
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:36.199
just to kind of develop more of
these storylines? I mean I was,

770
00:50:36.599 --> 00:50:39.000
you know, because I mean I
liked it, but I mean, you

771
00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:43.320
know, my opinion doesn't really matter, you know, I'm just one guy

772
00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:46.239
type of thing, so I could
really you know, like I don't know

773
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:49.760
what their ratings were, I don't
know how much a cost, I don't

774
00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:52.800
know how worth it it was them. So I mean, if I could

775
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:58.880
have less United by Football, but
it guarantees this league to succeed for ten

776
00:50:58.960 --> 00:51:02.159
years, I will for that trade
off of not knowing that Ben Holmes doesn't

777
00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:08.559
know who Aaron Rodgers, is I
guess rapping up, Yeah, because I

778
00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:14.199
mean obviously started the show talking with
Fancantel Football and all of that. You

779
00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.199
know that it is very capital intensive, and I'll be curious to see kind

780
00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:22.039
of I know, talking with Mike, and Mike's been on our show and

781
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:25.280
in the chat and stuff. You
know, us L underperformed this year,

782
00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:31.000
right versus what I think league executives
wanted and expected both TV and in attendance

783
00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:34.400
on here. So let me curious
to kind of see what their game plan

784
00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:37.920
is because you know, we'll do
the whole deep dive after the season.

785
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:40.440
But like just you know, when
we had Greg Parks on when we were

786
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:45.880
talking the XFL kind of season overall
ratings, just putting these USFL games on

787
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:50.679
more networks, you know, better
timeslots didn't necessarily equate two more ratings.

788
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:52.760
So I mean, does does USFL, you know, does Fox go head

789
00:51:52.840 --> 00:51:55.559
in here in the next season?
Are we ramping up even more marketing?

790
00:51:55.719 --> 00:52:00.079
Like I don't know what costs they're
willing to take for this, Like you

791
00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:02.559
know, kind of filler content for
lack of a better word. I mean,

792
00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:06.360
it's not filler content to the players
and coaches, but I think overall

793
00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:09.840
to the TV network that's kind of
what they view it as. Yeah,

794
00:52:09.880 --> 00:52:14.159
man, I have no idea,
Like I'm not I'm not trying to fence

795
00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:16.880
it on this at all, but
like we don't you know, we don't

796
00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:22.519
know what their analytics are. We
don't know what they're okay with and what

797
00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:25.480
we're not okay with. Like,
I mean, it's the same thing when

798
00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:30.320
you talk about the sixty million dollars
loss, Like if I'm projected to lose

799
00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:35.320
eighty and I lose sixty, you
know, finance guys will tell you that

800
00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:37.440
is a win, you know.
I mean, any startup there's gonna be

801
00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:43.800
losses, you know, especially when
you have investors and whatnot. So I

802
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:49.480
mean, I'm just more curious to
see about, like what the expectations are.

803
00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:52.559
And obviously, like I don't think
you know that's information. We're never

804
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:57.679
going to be privy privy too,
but I mean we'll find out in a

805
00:52:57.719 --> 00:53:00.360
couple of years if you know,
this is still going or they're you know,

806
00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:04.880
or if it's not, you know, like it doesn't get it doesn't

807
00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:08.280
get much simpler than that. Eventually, there's a red line where they hit

808
00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:13.119
either one of these leagues that they're
just like, yeah, we're good type

809
00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:15.400
thing. Like, but in the
end, who's the real victims? Right,

810
00:53:15.400 --> 00:53:19.079
It's always gonna be the players and
the coaches and whatnot. Like,

811
00:53:19.679 --> 00:53:22.320
hell, even the referees, you
know, like eleven of these USFL referees

812
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:27.760
are in the NFL. Now,
you know, I think I've mentioned it

813
00:53:27.840 --> 00:53:31.960
on the show, like last year
USFL players collectively made almost nine million dollars

814
00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:39.599
like being on rosters, Like eight
hundred jobs are are connected to this league.

815
00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:45.320
So and you know, we're not
even getting into like the background characters

816
00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:51.719
of like Fox interns, who you
know, have to do this in order

817
00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:55.280
to like you know, succeed here
and then go to like the next thing

818
00:53:55.280 --> 00:54:01.480
wherever Fox puts on them. So
because of all that factors, in my

819
00:54:01.599 --> 00:54:06.760
opinion, I think the league is
here for a long time because of all

820
00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:12.960
the underlying benefits that Fox can get
out of this, from their crews,

821
00:54:12.960 --> 00:54:19.519
to their technicians, to all that
stuff where they're doing all this like exterior

822
00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:25.280
and extracurricular activities and essentially doing tryouts
of their own for their people before they

823
00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:30.480
go on Fox on Sundays or whatever
NFL on Fox. So I don't think.

824
00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:32.760
I don't think that gets talked about
a lot. Well even like,

825
00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:37.119
yeah, you had like Mike Robinson
here and I've seen him future a lot

826
00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:39.880
more this season. Last year he
didn't seem like he was really all that

827
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:44.000
invested. I felt like this year
and he's been on with Joels sometimes and

828
00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:46.639
stuff, I thought it's been a
good look. A couple asked questions comments

829
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:51.039
here, Mike wants to know our
kids. Cook is in the other two

830
00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:53.719
year players officially free agents. Cases
would be on a different deal because he

831
00:54:53.800 --> 00:54:58.239
was released and then signed back on. I think all the players are on

832
00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:00.440
two year now regard list? Right? Is that? Do you know any

833
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:06.199
different? I knew we had a
lot more like And Mike Mitchell is going

834
00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:07.320
to have to like clear a lot
of this up, and I'm sure he

835
00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:13.320
will, because we had like these
two waves of contracts last year where half

836
00:55:13.360 --> 00:55:15.159
of them were on two year deals
and then half of them were on like

837
00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:19.719
the twelve thirty one out. But
if you you know, joined the NFL,

838
00:55:20.000 --> 00:55:22.920
you were you know, you were
free to do what you pleased and

839
00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:30.239
whatnot. And I mean, I
mean I have I mean, I don't

840
00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:32.280
know what cases deal is, you
know, like literally because he would be

841
00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:36.519
different because he was in that initial
way, but then him going to the

842
00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:40.079
to the rams right that he would
that would avoided or you know, ended

843
00:55:40.159 --> 00:55:44.079
his whatever. And then I believe
he has resigned. I believe Case as

844
00:55:44.440 --> 00:55:47.119
well. And it's also like Case
talked about this as well, like I

845
00:55:47.159 --> 00:55:53.280
think Cases staying in the USFL because
one, it's just a continuity for him

846
00:55:53.320 --> 00:55:58.519
as well, and he's proven that
he can get an NFL opportunity from the

847
00:55:58.639 --> 00:56:02.199
USFL. And I think this year
he proved his stock a little bit more

848
00:56:02.360 --> 00:56:07.000
as well. Especially his greediness and
toughness as ability as a rusher was really

849
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:10.000
showcase. Like I know he had
the seventy yard rushed last year against the

850
00:56:10.039 --> 00:56:14.559
Panthers, but I mean this year
he was consistent. I think he total

851
00:56:14.599 --> 00:56:17.800
over three hundred rushing yards as well, Like and these a lot of these

852
00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:22.119
weren't you know, read option plays. It was him, you know,

853
00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:25.400
kind of doing some improv plays.
He had two seventy eight rushing yards,

854
00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:30.960
which is good for eleventh in the
league. Um, I mean a lot

855
00:56:30.039 --> 00:56:35.039
of that was, you know,
just his natural ability to kind of figure

856
00:56:35.079 --> 00:56:37.320
things out. So he showed off
the athletic ability, he showed off toughness,

857
00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:40.679
he showed off that his ankle slash
leg is still good to go.

858
00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:45.679
I mean, why why not?
Like he's got a good thing going,

859
00:56:45.840 --> 00:56:51.440
you know what I mean? Like
he's definitely a face of this league.

860
00:56:52.280 --> 00:56:54.360
He can He's proven he can get
to the NFL from this league. I

861
00:56:54.440 --> 00:56:58.480
would if like Case is one of
those guys that I don't think the time

862
00:56:58.519 --> 00:57:02.719
frame of the league benefits him or
discredits him in any way. It's like

863
00:57:04.039 --> 00:57:07.599
if a team is going after Case
Cucus, they're going after Case Cucus because

864
00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:10.440
they know who he is and his
film has already proven who he is,

865
00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:15.159
So him playing in February versus him
playing in April doesn't matter much. I

866
00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:22.320
hope he gets more looks because obviously
coming off last year and the injury,

867
00:57:22.360 --> 00:57:23.519
and then he had a wedding and
stuff. You know, he got married.

868
00:57:23.719 --> 00:57:27.639
I hope that you last question for
me, because I know you have

869
00:57:27.639 --> 00:57:30.920
a heart that yet, do you
think he's played well enough this year to

870
00:57:31.960 --> 00:57:35.920
even with them losing here and not
making the playoffs, that Case has played

871
00:57:35.920 --> 00:57:39.800
well enough? Yeah? No,
I'm one like I think he played even

872
00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:45.360
better this year. I think he
played even better this year considering some of

873
00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:47.760
the things he had to go through, Like, I mean, Corey Coleman

874
00:57:47.800 --> 00:57:52.320
makes your life a little bit easier, but that running that rushing attack last

875
00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:54.679
year was a little bit more solid
than they had better offensive line last year.

876
00:57:54.800 --> 00:57:59.000
You know two guys I've always talked
about, it's going their Vogel and

877
00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:02.760
Alexa King Bula Um aking whu lose
on an NFL active roster right now.

878
00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:07.119
He didn't play last year, but
he was signed to an NFL active roster

879
00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:10.920
for the Commanders. So it's like
you lose guys like that who are fringe

880
00:58:12.039 --> 00:58:15.519
NFL guys, Like what do you
expect? You know? And then you

881
00:58:15.559 --> 00:58:20.400
saw what happened when they picked up
Himmelman who was a fringe NFL guy,

882
00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:24.320
and you saw the vast improvement that
he put out, like his product and

883
00:58:24.360 --> 00:58:29.639
whatnot, not just Himmelman, but
Cookus as well. So I mean it

884
00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:35.280
is definitely like he's gonna be hitting
the workout wire. Um. You know,

885
00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:40.039
some of these teams have already begun
cutting their ubfas Um. I mean,

886
00:58:40.079 --> 00:58:44.159
there's definitely a short list of guys, Like you've seen some guys get

887
00:58:44.199 --> 00:58:47.960
cut in the NFL right now,
and you know, the timeline kind of

888
00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:52.679
adds up, you know, like
USFL season is ending, like you know,

889
00:58:53.079 --> 00:58:57.000
maybe there's like a guy like John
Jay Kirkland from the Roughnecks. It

890
00:58:57.119 --> 00:59:00.159
was hurt like he's getting healthy,
or like teams are like, okay,

891
00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:02.760
we're gonna make this push for Corey
Coleman, you know, like and that

892
00:59:02.840 --> 00:59:07.800
was something I know, Rex sent
Harra became the thirtieth XFL player to get

893
00:59:07.800 --> 00:59:12.159
signed. But you know, Mike, Mike talked about what there was twenty

894
00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:16.440
four roster spots available. Injuries haven't
happened yet one, but some of those

895
00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:21.400
twenty four roster spots, there's plenty
of free agents right now, like younger

896
00:59:21.400 --> 00:59:24.159
player free agents that they could have
signed just to fill the roster spot.

897
00:59:24.599 --> 00:59:29.119
With the USFL like winding down.
In my mind, that means like,

898
00:59:29.159 --> 00:59:35.360
okay, there's at least ten it's
twenty guys already. Sorry about the stream

899
00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:39.360
that NFL teams are already like okay, when what day is today? June

900
00:59:39.400 --> 00:59:45.360
twentieth, when they're eligible on June
twenty seventh, that's a guy we're signing.

901
00:59:45.960 --> 00:59:49.199
Well, we'll get you out of
here today. Pat's got it.

902
00:59:49.239 --> 00:59:52.679
Out. We appreciate it everyone's stopping
by. Like I said, we did

903
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:57.599
CFL preview or recap yesterday with Hussey
over there with Evan Wilsmore. I thought

904
00:59:57.599 --> 01:00:00.519
that was a lot of fun.
And then obviously today wind this down.

905
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:04.360
Pat will be on the normal Friday
show this week. I Rick Sartella coming

906
01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:07.880
by talking and kind of Ricky draft
for the XFL kind of recap that how

907
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:12.159
the team's kind of bolstered up.
I know we did our initial chats with

908
01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:16.400
a John Vogel and coach Craig Sport
and that over there, and then I

909
01:00:16.440 --> 01:00:20.679
think Derek Taylor, CFL voice of
the Blue Bombers, who's going to be

910
01:00:20.679 --> 01:00:23.280
coming on as well to talk about
that. So it should be good winding

911
01:00:23.360 --> 01:00:25.880
down here. Anything else for me, Patt, We'll get out of here.

912
01:00:27.119 --> 01:00:30.599
Not really pretty the usual, just
you know, pushing my own stuff.

913
01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:36.719
Tomorrow I have one interview confirmed with
a college coach local to Saint Louis,

914
01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:42.639
and then I'm still waiting to hear
back for a player as well,

915
01:00:43.079 --> 01:00:45.800
and then you know, once again
it's you know, I've been a little

916
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:47.719
bit of a grind. I think
we're all hitting some fatigue right now as

917
01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:52.960
far as with football. You know, my workload has increased for my full

918
01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:58.480
time gig, so you know,
it's definitely it's definitely becoming a little bit

919
01:00:58.519 --> 01:01:00.960
more a football fatigue. But in
the end, like you know, to

920
01:01:01.039 --> 01:01:05.599
the casual viewer, who doesn't you
know, have to report about every game

921
01:01:05.679 --> 01:01:07.280
and all that stuff, I definitely
think this is, you know, the

922
01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:10.239
golden age for football. And the
biggest thing is, like I'm really excited

923
01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:15.719
to see if my theory checks out
with a lot of these NFL teams like

924
01:01:15.920 --> 01:01:20.079
spying like USFL guys, because like
I said, if you have twenty,

925
01:01:20.360 --> 01:01:25.119
every roster spot is so crucial for
an NFL team, especially in camp with

926
01:01:25.199 --> 01:01:30.599
injuries and keeping guys fresh and whatnot. In my opinion, like I think

927
01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:36.880
we're gonna see like like ten to
fifteen and possibly twenty guys get some get

928
01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:40.280
some quick looks, you know,
once the USFL season is over. You

929
01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:44.880
know we saw with the XFL with
the workouts. But I mean it makes

930
01:01:44.920 --> 01:01:46.840
sense, right, Like I'm not
saying anything too crazy about that, right,

931
01:01:47.320 --> 01:01:51.440
Well, I know who I know
one person in particular will be very

932
01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:54.039
excited about the USFL signings area.
Hit your boy will be very excited to

933
01:01:54.039 --> 01:01:58.679
get these signings gone. Yeah,
and I mean, I mean I definitely

934
01:01:58.719 --> 01:02:04.079
think like NFL teams are like probably
calling Fox right now, like, hey,

935
01:02:04.079 --> 01:02:07.280
so your season's over. Like John
Smith played pretty well. I think

936
01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:10.519
he'd look good and you know,
and you know New York Jet Green,

937
01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:15.199
like what are we doing here?
Cheech, Well, it'll be exciting,

938
01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:19.639
we'll be tracking all that. I'm
sure Pat was well appreciate it. Everyone.

939
01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:21.920
Like I said, check back Friday
should be a good show. And

940
01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:23.159
I hope you guys have a good
rest of the week, take care of

941
01:02:23.800 --> 01:02:36.320
Thanks guys,