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Well, there's nothing like getting the
tweet here about half hour before all this,

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Hey, like we're you know,
we're gonna pull us and stuff.

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We're gonna live tweet now. If
anyone from XFL ever hears this today,

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tomorrow, five years from now,
just let us know. Hey, we're

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gonna start tweeting the stuff. At
ten. We can get prepared. We

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have people standing by. Luckily,
Greg Parks can hop on here. We've

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got Pats hopping on Craig coach Craig
Sports as well. Here in a little

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bit, Greg, how are you
doing today? As the XFL twitter feed

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just posted, I'm ready to roll. I'm feverishly scribbling on my notepad to

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try to keep track of picks and
things like that as we're going on.

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So if it looks like I'm paying
attention, I promise I am. I'm

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just also taking notes off here to
the side. Yeah. So we're here,

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Greg, So we've done. We
did the dispersal draft. Today is

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a super draft. If you following
along, please like and subscribe. We

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split the conferences. We were able
to draft, you know, protect and

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get all those players last time.
John Bogel and I did that. John

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Vogelist know the end today without internet, So that is why he is not

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hopping on here today today. Now
you can draft outside of your conference,

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so we'll be filling out the teams. Certain teams have more spots to fill,

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So we'll kind of figure out how
long this will go today and then

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I think free agency starts tomorrow,
I believe Mike Mitchell said. So people

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get really excited about the draft,
but it is cool. But then I

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mean, this will be a full
bangs deal here coming up after themorrow.

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Do you like how everything's gone so
far? That's a very broad question in

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terms of this draft process. How
are we feeling about all this? It's

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it was very difficult, I think
to figure out a fair system, a

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system that would be fair to the
players, a system that would be fair

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to the teams. And when you
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process that is ongoing right now,
it looks very convoluted. It's like,

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how did they even come up with
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in terms of trying the best to
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they could have done better or differently
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the one they came up with.
It is complicated. It is convoluted.

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I have, you know, people
close to players reaching out to me saying,

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hey, it's so and so eligible
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You know, so even the players
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the eligibility for this, And you
know, that's a failure of communication more

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than anything else, I think.
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know because John Vogan I went live
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course last time we we did the
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everything on Monday. So then today
and I was talking with XFL and like,

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well, no, we're gonna We're
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okay, Well I was expecting the
dump later today because we had people

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on our stream last Monday finding out, oh I'm a protected player. I'm

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not. But here we are today. We're live street you live tweeting,

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which I guess is a little better. I have it up on here.

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We have Kde latimerre chatting in here
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So that's exciting. Yeah, it's
just it's weird. Communication from the beginning

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of all of this hasn't been phenomenal. I understand we have a lot of

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moving pieces, and it's a very
shortened time frame here to kind of get

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all this done. Is that how
you feel like, just with with all

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the moving pieces, we're kind of
getting by exactly, And you're You're right,

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the ramp up time is very short, which is why I was kind

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of hoping they would delay until twenty
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twenty four, and then delay until
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Fox Sports and Redbird Capital not wanting
to lose tens of millions more money in

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the process just to get to twenty
twenty five. So I understand that from

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a financial point of view. But
you know, you have two leagues that,

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as similar as they are, are
very distinctly different in some ways,

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whether it's the contract structures, whether
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and things like that, and you
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one into a very short amount of
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seen some of the issues crop up
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if if you're better off, like
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were on and we've had many hypotheticals
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season knowing that, hey, we're
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from there. Because some of this
it feels a little tight. I mean,

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fans are still excited to hear you
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seventeen people watching with about twenty.
I don't feel too bad about that.

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But I don't know. To me, I would like, this feels like

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a mix, right, like we're
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USFL did. I don't know,
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these two very oil and vinegar here. We're trying to marry these two philosophies

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together, and it seems like you're
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It doesn't always feel right. Yeah, and again, you know, I

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think the people in the Football Operations
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as we you know, talked about, there is a little bit of

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an oil and water to this where
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so, you know, again,
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the issues that we're saying. I
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and I've actually I've said it many
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I could read like, who's your
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and I'm famously a Washington Commander's fan. Some people are like, oh,

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clearly you're going to be a DC
Defenders fan, which I could never

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be with, you know, all
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we've had with the Sea Dragons and
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with the Brahmas. Follow my boy
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God Will Brandon Silver's in the world
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work. Have you picked a new
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Well, I wouldn't. I wouldn't
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team locally. I was closest to
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a rooting interest in them. I
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know, fifty thousand foot view,
where I'm I'm not cheering for any team

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in particular. I'm just kind of
covering the league as a whole, and

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it's a lot trust me, it's
a lot better that way. You don't

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have your heart set on anything,
and you don't allow your heart to break,

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just like the Jaguars did for me
in the NFL, and so it's

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you know, I'm certainly rooting for
the league to succeed, to be a

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place where players can come and play
and put their work on tape and advance

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to the NFL and short of that, be able to make a living playing

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football at this level. So I'm
rooting for the league to succeed. But

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I don't say I have a rooting
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and I've got the thing reef.
I'm refreshing in the background, So I

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will tell you guys when we have
everything coming in here. I know coach

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Craig is hopping on in the minute, and then Patt as well. Are

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you feeling more or less bullish than
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with kind of how everything is laid
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done deep dives in the cities and
all that, But how are you feeling

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just overall here? Welfare check not
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you, I think the main complaint
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that they didn't do enough work in
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locally. We saw that reflected in
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in you know, in the TV
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kind of fix that. And because
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and granted there were some events held
in the cities, but I didn't

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think they could go as gung ho
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have they not been working so hard
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plan together. So, you know, I think if I had a disappointment,

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and if I had some reservations about
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don't think they've still done enough work
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as something that people should want to
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are you liking the messaging here of
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Yesterday I had my tweet I was
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lot of UFL commercials during the Dallas
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So the Dallas Cowboys fans will know
how to find Dak Prescott playing next

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year. They'll be able to track
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we're seeing the light again. That
feels like USFL. Right, We've got

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our Hey, this eight year Hollywood
Football League and kind of all that stuff.

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How are you feeling with the messaging
coming out of like two leagues coming

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into one and this will be the
best thing ever. You know, I'm

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fine with it so far. I
think that it certainly beats the alternative,

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which is not how a lot of
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saturate the market with advertising than do
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how effective it is. I think
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of the XFL and the USFL is
important. Having those talking heads talk about

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how important Spring league is and how
good these leagues are. You know,

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there are millions of people who tune
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world that don't tune in to see
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using them as an authority on these
leagues might reach some fans who might otherwise

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not either hear about this league or
sample the league at all. Yeah,

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I'll know this, like you know, we'll do. And obviously, like

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John Logo has been great coming on
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today, like all know this.
You know, we'll pop off like another

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five or ten subscribers, you know, over the weekend. If people you

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know and I don't know that you
are they rolling ads or people like hey,

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okay, let's check that stuff out. Like I said, make sure

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you know you're subscribed on here.
Great comes down a lot and we do

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a lot of this kind of stuff. I was going to do it later

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today, but obviously this is fun
now. Still refreshing on here, people

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checking in bedsco battle Hawks. I
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get into all this anything. I
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a couple of weeks. Yeah,
it's been a while, and there's been

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a lot of you know, work
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things like that have been an upgrade
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a lot of FOX. I do
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which I think is a plus.
So you know, they're doing things

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as best they can right now.
I don't want to give them too high

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of a passing grade for this just
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the same time, and we're expecting
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wood for that. They did say
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think Russ Brandon mentioned, so hopefully
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can get started selling individual game tickets. They can get started selling season tickets

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in Houston. They haven't even announced
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is rumored to be where that Roughnecks
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has been announced, so they can't
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season ticket deposits, but they can't
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stadium, which they haven't done yet. So every day that goes by that

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they don't do that is another missed
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this is the same conversation read we
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Vegas stadium situation being the hole up. So hopefully it doesn't drag on the

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same way that Vegas did last year. Yeah, I know you said the

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rest Brandon had talked the schedule coming
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rules this week as well. Feels
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of a lot of things coming out. You've gone through New Year's and the

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holidays and all that. That's kind
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oh, we're doing all these drafts, you know, end of December,

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and I'm like, we're not.
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you know, the Thursday before Christmas
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like, this makes more sense.
And it was hard to do the draft

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without even announcing the league, you
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been kind of strange too. That's
what I'm saying. Have you gotten feedback

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from people in terms of like this
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has not if people were new that
I followed the X Fellow or whatever,

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you know, talking about always is
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spurred a lot of conversations. If
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as this cultivated new new ideas that
people want to talk to you about.

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In terms of all this, like
in terms of the casual watcher, not

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really. It's I don't think it's
broken through yet. I think as we

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go on with the NFL postseason and
the commercials hit more and more. I

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think there may be more of a
conversation about that, but it really hasn't

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sunk in yet. You know,
the one thing about the ads in the

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time of the season that the league
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a new development for XFL fans who, in all three iterations, the league

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kicked off the week after the Super
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this avalanche of television ads is going
to have when yes, you're advertising,

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but now you're gonna wait until March. It's not all this advertising and then

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boom, the league starts right after
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this advertising in January, and then
what kind of lull if any will there

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be until March thirtieth. Are we
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throughout ESPN programming or are they going
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so I am interested to see what
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And once the season ends in February
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a month and a half until the
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going to look like. Are they
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pull back a little bit more?
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hear. Sorry, we have all
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because you know, we talked about
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ad during the Dallas Cowboys game,
and you know, Anthony Miller, we

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were talking to the chat and he
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great seeing all these ads. I'm
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it's such the USFL thing, like
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ad and hey, we'll see you
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mean, I know, even NBC
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their Olympics commercials, and it's like, Okay, I understand you're doing the

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Olympics in July, but I don't
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Pat, how are you doing here
today? Hangs for hopping on here?

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Pat, how have you? How
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this is rolled out? I mean, I'm just kind of riding the wave

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like everyone else. You know,
there's always been a belligerent amount of speculation

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with this whole process, and you
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out on it, and I think
you're absolutely right, you know, like

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than I do. Yeah, I
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man, like I'm just hate to
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just along for the ride. I
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to me, coaches talk to me, you know, asking what I know,

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me asking what they know, and
you know, eventually everyone gets on

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the same playing ground, level ground
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right now, just January fifteenth,
we got and I was doing the math

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real quick, about one hundred and
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other teams are starting to find employment
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most recent one Chris Dishman going to
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very curious about that. I'm more
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the kind of a sidebar what's happening
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a lot of double dipping some of
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they're going to allow that now that
jobs are being you know a little bit

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more stringent. So I'm very curious
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about has to say about that.
Yeah, Craig, what do you make

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of all this? Like in terms
of just you did our part of whatever

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the heck they called it the college
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the college I think the XVEL did
in the rookie draft had you on back

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then? What have you made of
all this? And what does the resignation

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of emerge UFL league for you?
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process so far, and kind of
the biggest frustration I think for a lot

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of us too, is the lack
of updates to like the average person,

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you know, even like even today, like oh, we're gonna be live

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tweeting this all of a sudden,
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day of it's like, well,
even if you just told us last Friday,

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that would have been at least a
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gave you a little bit more interest
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person, even the casual fan at
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so much that hasn't been shared.
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they're trying to make this happen this
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of deadlines. But you could have
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of what I feel like too at
the same time, But I think it's

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gonna be very interesting to see what
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draft, from this draft today,
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free agency is gonna start tomorrow too, and you're going to see a lot

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of turnover on these rosters too.
I think when I was looking through like

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some of the rosters, I'm like, some of these teams got like six,

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you know, five six good running
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of these guys aren't going to be
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really easily. Yeah, Greg,
what do you think about kind of the

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consolidation. And we've talked with like
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everyone enjoining Darryl Johnson everything up above, But some of these teams, I

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mean, you're really being able to
cherry pick some of the highest talent from

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you know, and now we're getting
to where we can go outside of our

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own league. I mean, do
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increase going into this season? I
would hope. So if not something terrible

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happened, Yeah, I certainly would
that it is you know, if you

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want to look at it like this, sort of like an all star team

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of XFL and USFL players is what
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quality of play should be high.
Remember, there was a lot of especially

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with the XFL in terms of kickoffs, in terms of some of the other

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rule changes, there was a lot
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new rules. There was a process, and I think that sort of dragged

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down the quality of play early on. Remember that they were not they didn't

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have any preseason games because the weather
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were supposed to hold up you know, preseason games last training camp, so

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they didn't even really get to have
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games. So I think by now, whatever rules they go with, whether

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it's a combination of USFL and XFL
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think the players are going to be
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and I think that's going to help
the quality of play as well. Yeah,

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Pat, we were talking expecting rules
coming out potentially this week. What

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do you I mean to me,
I there's not that many big rules.

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I mean, I know, if
you want to be a homer for what

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it is, what do you think
they do for the rules? I mean,

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if you're gonna truly be the league
of opportunity and intersections and everything,

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I think make the NFL rules as
as we can. I know we can

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debate on whether player safety and all
that stuff, but if you're trying to

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pitch the Cavante Turpin, the Brandon
Aubrey like all that goofy stuff, you

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have to keep it, in my
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possible. And you know, I
tweeted something out recently about kickoffs, and

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you know a couple players made their
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you take out the NFL style kickoff, you like a lot of these guys

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aren't going. You know, Frank
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for the last two seasons. And
I make this comment about the running backs

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and receivers, and it's part of
the reason why Cam Phillips from twenty twenty

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is not an The NFL is I
don't need these guys to be my linebacker

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one or my linebacker two. I
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them to run down the field on
kickoff. I need those metrics. So

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if they want to go to the
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and everything like that, but you're
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to the udfas and maybe a Canadian, a Canadian football player versus the XFL

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guy, because now I'm like,
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need my linebacker two. I need
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make plays. Now, Pip that
if we do go to, you know,

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an XFL style kickoff in the NFL, then yeah, that's that's the

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metric I think you have to go
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think to jump in there. I
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do think there is sort of this
push pull right because you want to give

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NFL teams as much of an NFL
look to these players as you can,

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because your goal as a league is
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kickoff, that is very different from
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NFL Special teams coach trying to find
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and run down punts, you don't
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might do based on the XFL kickoff. But I also think that you have

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a very finite number of people who
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who are not as good as NFL
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right, So you have to offer
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point of view, whether it's you
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even now NFL teams do talk to
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you know, or talking to players
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being able to hear the coach to
quarterback communication, or whatever broadcast innovation they

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can come up with. But that
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the XFL kickoff it doesn't sound like
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which I'm disappointed in because if you
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that is so well regarded that people
who don't even watch the UFL are commenting

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on and how effective it is,
and you're losing that. I think you're

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losing some of the intrigue that you
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not otherwise watch, you know,
this alternative league football. But if you

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offer them different rules, if you
offer them something different from the NFL,

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that still makes sense. It still
looks football, and it's still intriguing.

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I think you may pick up some
viewers who say, you know, I'm

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hearing about this new rule, it's
kind of interesting to me. Let me

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check it out. Craig thoughts on
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of comments we'll get too. Yeah. I think the point that Pam makes

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makes a lot of sense too,
because like a lot of these guys,

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if you're trying to get on the
back end of their roster, you have

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to be able to do multiple things
at the same time. So I think,

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you know, even if you just
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the NFL, you can still do
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do the one two and keep it
interesting. There and have that be

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kind of your differentiation point too,
because you can't really not from the extra

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point to that. For Oppert,
I think that'd be like maybe that's the

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kind of the give and the take
of the situation. Pat, you go

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for it. Two things. We
have our first selection, Jared, I

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don't. I don't see it.
Where is that the showboats Twitter? So

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oh well, of course, so
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It's actually actually Quentin Dormandy was the
first pick by san Antonio. San

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Antonio had the first pick, Memphis
had the second. Quinton Dormandy went to

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san Antonio number one. But it's
not on the x FOLK Twitter, right

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right, it's on the team twitter
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Thank you guys so much. All
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Here we go, all right,
so and keep us posting the chat as

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well. I'm trying to frantically kind
of research on this heat. So here

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we go. Good for good for
Quentin, I think, paired up with

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aj Smith, he'll do he'll be
very serviceable. They're probably going to get

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rid of Matthew Ka who was their
QB three. Impossibly Kurt bank Kirk as

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well. But going back to the
rules and everything like that, do we

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know who do we know what position
group has been the most successful outside as

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specialists in the in these leagues like
transitioning to the NFL specialists, I mean

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that it's defensive linemen. It's Lebrian
Ray, McHale, London, Austin player

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Austin. I'm sounding like, you
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Look, I said, Khalil Davis, Lebrian Ray, Jeremiah Farms last year,

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Dominique Davis. It's mostly defensive linemen
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the NFL. Outside of the specialists. Specialists are in their own group.

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A lot of these guys are all
in the same clip. They all bring

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together as the kickers, the hunters
and everything like that. But I think

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that might say something as well.
Going in just final point, I'm sorry

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and you're great, but read I
think we talked about this during the regular

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draft. The XFL Twitter account has
undering eighty thousand followers or something like that.

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I talked, I talked to Larson
offline. I was like, this

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kid got a million point five impressions, a million point five he's got three

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thousand followers, three hundred and eighty
thousand followers from the XFL main account.

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The amount of lost opportunity that these
guys lost with these non picks to just

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get this reach out, to get
it retweeted, like Central Michigan could retweet

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the Quinn Dormandy thing and all that
stuff. I feel like they lost figuratively

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and the way Twitter's you know,
financial stuff works granded, they don't have

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the blue check mark. They lost
figuratively a lot of money by not doing

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that. I want to talk more
quarterbacks later. We do have our second

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pick, Like we said, the
show Boats, I think we'll give this

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all on you know, I think
they gotta figure this out. We're getting

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this all together on here. It
is interesting just his pat points out this

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is on XFL at twenty twenty three, the Twitter account on there, it's

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not on the you know, it's
not co sponsored with the USFL one.

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I think it's also weird we still
don't have like a UFL Twitter account.

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Greg Memphis show Boats taking Jared Thomas
here thoughts on that. Yeah, it's

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funny because the XFL doesn't exist anymore
neither just twenty twenty three, and yet

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it's being retweeted by the XFL twenty
twenty three Twitter accounts. So I think

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that's a good microcosm of the league
at this point. You know, when

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I looked at the Memphis show Boats
roster and I kind of analyzed their dispersal

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draft, I had offensive line as
one of their big remaining needs, and

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they addressed it pretty handily with Jared
Thomas from the New Orleans Breakers. He's

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a center, so that's a really
important position along the offensive line. And

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so yeah, good pick. I
think in terms of patting any founts on

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this, I want to go back
to the quarterback conversation you're here in any

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fouts on Jared, I mean they
only had and Greg, Please correct me

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00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:06.279
if I'm wrong. They only had
Jordan mccraig, who is a long time

408
00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:11.240
uh he's a long time spring league, arena league guy. A couple of

409
00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:17.160
stints in the NFL got hurt last
year. Obviously, the flip connection of

410
00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:22.519
of you know, of the Showboats
to the Breakers, pick makes sense.

411
00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.559
Sure up that offensive line like case
cook is the lack of a better word,

412
00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:32.000
cook. And what's you know?
I think, man, when you

413
00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:36.359
cut down all the talent from all
these leagues and take them from sixteen to

414
00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:40.720
eight. This is I'm hoping this
is going to be an ultra competitive league.

415
00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:44.359
But I mean sometimes it's not about
the exod of those It's about the

416
00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:49.400
Jimmy's and the Joe's once they hit
the field. So but we had a

417
00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:53.079
some way am I am I?
Oc here? Am I? Am?

418
00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:56.960
I? Is that? Am?
I? Should? Should? That?

419
00:27:57.079 --> 00:28:02.559
Just be right? Is that correct? Offensive center? Offensive center? Okay,

420
00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:04.680
don't you know we just have c
on there? Yeah? Well I

421
00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:10.319
don't like see I usually put if
I'm doing like my abbreviations and my breakdowns,

422
00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:15.400
I'll do og. But then I'll
always ride out center. Okay,

423
00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:21.720
who in mine? I'm just just
at you know, I mean, I

424
00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:23.920
had a question here and I want
to circle back to the dormany thing from

425
00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:27.039
your listener, Max talk and you're
how concerned are you all about the league

426
00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:30.480
reportedly considering paying the quarterbacks for the
same as the other players worried that some

427
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.480
of the quarterbacks. Obviously we saw
Quentin so he's not concerned about that.

428
00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:37.359
But Greg, are you you know, we had a you know, the

429
00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:40.200
the Vipers and kind of all that
paying for some of those quarterbacks. I

430
00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:44.160
think part of it was more like
games played versus whatever. But thoughts on

431
00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:47.680
less uh less money going to the
quarterbacks here this year and kind of getting

432
00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:52.759
that talent. Yeah, I think
that's It hasn't necessarily borne itself out yet.

433
00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.839
Now, if Jordan Tamu doesn't re
up with the defenders because he doesn't

434
00:28:56.880 --> 00:29:00.880
like the contract structure, then you
know, we have an example to point

435
00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:03.559
to as to someone who said no
to the league because of that. Right

436
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.400
now, it's all kind of speculation, and we're seeing some pretty good quarterbacks

437
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:11.359
stick around with the league. So
I'm not really in panic mode yet,

438
00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:15.960
but I do think that's the That's
another thing that's sort of a push pull

439
00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.119
for this league, right They want
to have the best players, They need

440
00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.680
the best quality of play to attract
fans, and yet they may not be

441
00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:29.440
as willing to pay more four quarterbacks
or four key players. We saw the

442
00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:32.880
XFL do that in twenty twenty three
with quarterbacks. We saw the XFL do

443
00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:36.200
that in twenty twenty They were willing
to go above and beyond the normal pay

444
00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:38.640
rate for some of the star players
to bring in, and the same thing

445
00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:41.720
with assistant coaches. You know,
we don't know what effect it has because

446
00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:45.839
we haven't seen the coaching staffs released
yet. But you know, one of

447
00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:49.119
the ways that you can get these
players into the NFL is not only to

448
00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:53.279
put game tape on film for NFL
teams to look at, but it's also

449
00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:59.079
to have good coaching or the best
coaching outside the NFL that you can get.

450
00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:04.240
And if you're on only making these
coaches sort of seasonal employees, there

451
00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:07.319
is a risk that you're not going
to attract some of the best coaches.

452
00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:10.759
Some of the better coaches are just
going to say no to that, whether

453
00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:15.039
it's the lower pay, and we
saw Hines Ward walk away from a lower

454
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:18.359
pay for a second year, and
so you know, I think that's the

455
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:19.559
tough part is, yes, you
want the best coaches, and yes you

456
00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:23.039
want the best players, but you're
also not going to go above and beyond

457
00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:27.160
for pay for players. You're going
to limit the work for coaches to seasonal

458
00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:33.240
which probably limits their pay in some
ways. So I understand the financial realities

459
00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:37.200
of the Spring League, and the
reason that these two leagues combined was because

460
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.839
of those financial realities, but you
know, they're going to have to accept

461
00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:45.839
the limitations of it with the players
and coaches if it comes to that because

462
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:49.000
of the pay. Hey, Pat, were you surprised that hines Ward didn't

463
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:52.200
come back? Where? I didn't
get your thoughts on that of you,

464
00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:55.960
because to me, that's a pretty
He was a pretty focal point of kind

465
00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:57.720
of the selling of XFL last year. Right if hey look at these either

466
00:30:57.759 --> 00:31:02.640
we're giving these opportunities for these coaches
and what did you make of him not

467
00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:06.160
coming back? I mean, it
just not to be edgy, But it

468
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:10.799
depends on what this signs Ward really
want. Does he want to be because

469
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:14.240
he's in Greg, Greg and Greg
please correct me if I'm wrong. I

470
00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:18.119
know he had ties to the AAF. I know he had ties to another

471
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:22.400
league that ended. I don't know
if it was the Ricky Williams League,

472
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:26.920
the Freedom League that Ricky Williams make
a thing and whatnot. So he has

473
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:30.799
ties to spring football, but in
alternative league football. But he also has

474
00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:37.359
ties to you know, Fau was
an assistant receiving coach to the Jets.

475
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.519
To me, I don't know,
I'd have to sit down in top with

476
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:42.680
him, and I know that's kind
of a cop out thing to say,

477
00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:45.240
but it's like, what do you
want? Man? Like, do you

478
00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:49.960
want to be this type of dude
who's in it for the bag, because

479
00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.279
I looked up how much money he
made and he made thirty eight million dollars

480
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:57.319
in the NFL, stopped playing in
twenty twelve and whatnot, which, yes,

481
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:00.000
it is a lot of money for
most people and whatnot. But when

482
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:07.160
you're living at certain expenses and taxes
and paying out agents and whatnot like that,

483
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:12.000
that air quote bag goes away a
little bit quicker. So if Hines

484
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:19.039
is for the brand and for development
and whatnot, you know, I don't

485
00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:22.920
see why he doesn't take the six
hundred thousand dollars dollar salary because I'm sure

486
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:27.720
he's doing other stuff. But you
know, I kind of thought Heines is

487
00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:30.359
going to be this Anthony Beck type
guy where he does his media stuff,

488
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:35.839
he's for the development, And while
it's obviously a full time job, it

489
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:38.559
really isn't you know. You really
only have to care about seven months out

490
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:43.279
of the year, you know,
And as long as I know, wins

491
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.680
and losses mattered. But as long
as you're like a good team guy,

492
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:52.279
I feel like they'll keep you around
in these leagues off tap. But you

493
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:55.079
know, if you're fun, if
you're fun, to be around. I

494
00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:59.200
don't see them getting rid of you, you know, unless you're a complete,

495
00:32:59.240 --> 00:33:02.440
you know, lack of a better
word, douche nozzle. We have

496
00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:06.240
our next back here. I will
go to Craig on this. Ezra Gray

497
00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:09.839
going to the Roughnecks running back on
there from Alabama. Any thoughts on that.

498
00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:15.119
He's a guy that's bounced around a
little bit now, so he had

499
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:17.279
some flashes last year in Memphis.
It's kind of an interesting pick. I

500
00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:21.960
think this early too, because when
you think of the Houston team, you

501
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:23.799
think that they got some decent depth
at running back already. You know,

502
00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:29.240
you got Mark Thompson there. I
think Pledger is back somebody else I'm forgetting

503
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:30.799
off the top of my head,
but I'm like, that's probably not the

504
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:35.759
biggest area need for their team.
And taking a little bit early in my

505
00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:38.240
opinion. But yeah, I was
pulled up and I probably should have done

506
00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:43.079
this before because I was trying to
remember with the Dormandy stuff like okay,

507
00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:45.119
because I got it, rec that's
kind of my quarterback then rather Jack Cone

508
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:47.759
and we had Benkruz on there.
But yeah, with the rough Necks that

509
00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:52.599
we have everyone's favorite Mark Thompson I
got the roster up on here, but

510
00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:57.960
yeah, certainly, and then this
early the other one. Pat thoughts on

511
00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:00.920
that path on as a coming on, I mean, I mean he he

512
00:34:01.079 --> 00:34:07.840
did come on a little bit.
There were some injuries between Alex Collins and

513
00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:13.119
Jawan Washington I believe got hurt as
well, and then they also had Justin

514
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.840
Stockton there, so he did really
come on in the end of the season

515
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:21.679
last year. I mean, when
you have Mark Thompson there, despite his

516
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:24.920
antics on the social media, he
still has proven to be an extremely effective

517
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:30.039
running back, So running back to
me isn't the need. But you know,

518
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:32.119
with I mean, it's kind of
a gluttony of riches. You know,

519
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:36.119
you might be able to pick this
guy up, hold him and then

520
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:40.199
trade him to the ship to another
team and just kind of manipulate that.

521
00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:44.559
Like maybe that might be going too
deep into it, but that's how I

522
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:47.400
feel about certain picks. Great for
your thoughts on this, and then I'll

523
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:50.360
pop up with him. We have
our next draft pick coming on. But

524
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.639
thoughts on the running back and then
we can talk about dray Von as well.

525
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:57.920
Yeah, I agree. I was
surprised they went running back there with

526
00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:02.360
Ezra Gray actually the first pick of
a team that did not protect a player,

527
00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:07.920
So Houston picking Ezra Gray from the
Memphis show Boats. So the first

528
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:12.760
two picks were from teams that no
longer exist. The Roughnecks taking the first

529
00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:15.440
player from a team that is still
in existence, but who did not protect

530
00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:20.199
that player in last week's draft.
Gotcha. And then we have a couple

531
00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:22.760
more picks there. See now that
he's kind of the slow and then kind

532
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:27.719
of the avalanche comes on here Saint
Louis Ballhawks tating the safety here. Let

533
00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:31.480
me get that tab pulled up here. Dravon as Henry from West Virginia,

534
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:36.679
anyone that pad you want to chat
on your Ballahawks there? Yeah, So

535
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:44.000
Saint Louis completely revamped their whole secondary. Not only did they lose Lavert Hill,

536
00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:47.800
Nate Meters who just got released from
the practice squad. Elijah Hamilton went

537
00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:52.960
to the NFL. They didn't retain
him. They completely got rid of like

538
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:57.000
Chris Cooper. I think Mike Hampton's
gone as well. So a lot of

539
00:35:57.079 --> 00:36:00.679
turnover here, West Virginia guy who
went to Yeah, we got two more

540
00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:04.239
picks here. Just to get keep
in mind, this is good. I'm

541
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.760
just in surprise, they're coming in
so quick now. West Virginia guy Anthony

542
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:12.519
Beck type. Anthony Beck played with
the New York Guardians and also was with

543
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:15.920
I think he was with the Jets
or the Giants at one point as well.

544
00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:20.320
Two years in the USFL with the
Generals, Fringe all USFL type guy,

545
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:24.079
very very positive in my opinion,
and once again go of riches.

546
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:29.480
Right now we have here the first
one. Then we have a big name,

547
00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:32.199
so the Panthers are picking up Nate
Brooks here coming in, and then

548
00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:37.960
we also have Jalen McClendon going to
the DC Defenders on here, So we'll

549
00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:40.320
get Craigs thoughts first on either one
of those, and then we can go

550
00:36:40.360 --> 00:36:44.880
back to Greg on that. Yeah, so I think we'll ask you,

551
00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:47.119
Henry, that's a good get just
for battle Ax because you know, like

552
00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:51.440
Pat said, there Evamp and a
lot of your secondary the last Luca Dennis

553
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:53.559
too last year who's been on the
Falcons practice squad for a little bit too,

554
00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:57.559
So they just kind of need some
depth on the back end at the

555
00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:01.280
very least. And I think good
guy to add early on. I think

556
00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:06.039
Jayalen mccleinnon makes a lot of sense
for DC because they don't really know if

557
00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:08.639
Teama's coming back, you're a king
may or may not come back at this

558
00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:12.559
point in time. So he's a
guy that will at least fit their scheme

559
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.360
pretty well. He's a guy that's
had some experience in these spring leagues too,

560
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:19.519
so he's going to be an interesting
piece, especially because they really don't

561
00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:22.480
have that much of the quarterback room
right now. And then who's the other

562
00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:24.840
one again? Oh harol, let
me get we have Nate Brooks. Figure,

563
00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:28.440
I know, I got too many
tabs going because now it's sempling back

564
00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:30.840
on Nate Brook's going to the Panthers, and then Jalen McClinton obviously, and

565
00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:35.519
Brooks is obviously guy that's played a
little bit around now. And you know,

566
00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:37.440
Panthers could use a little bit of
their secondary help to you know,

567
00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:40.880
they had Josh Butler last year.
He's been on the Cowboys practice squad all

568
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.400
year. So anytime you're at it
at least early on, for me,

569
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.760
like anytime you're adding to either like
your secondary, your offensive line, your

570
00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:51.840
defensive line, that's those would be
kind of the areas that i'd focus on

571
00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.599
the most, just depending on based
on the team though, Obviously some teams

572
00:37:54.639 --> 00:37:58.599
have different needs, but those would
be the three areas that I would try

573
00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:00.760
to get the most step in,
at least early on these drafts. So

574
00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:04.679
pop it up on here and we'll
get Greg's thoughts. See now they're all

575
00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:07.079
coming there. We see here very
so right, So talking you got mc

576
00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:10.079
clennon here, and then Jared Scott
go into the Renegades, right, that

577
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:14.320
wasn't a repeat from before, right, and I'm just trying to keep track,

578
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:19.199
and then Laura nell Coleman going to
the Stallions on here, Greg any

579
00:38:19.239 --> 00:38:23.599
thoughts on those three. Arlington did
not protect any tight ends and they didn't

580
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:27.519
draft any in the first dispersal draft, so they came into this with zero

581
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:30.880
tight ends. And we know how
important a role tight ends play in the

582
00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:35.360
offense that they ran last year.
Sale Canelo was a big part of it.

583
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:37.280
He was released in the offseason to
sign with the Minnesota Vikings, so

584
00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:42.119
tight end was going to be high
on their list of needs. Here they

585
00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:45.519
take Jared Scott number one, so
he's probably going to play a big role

586
00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:51.199
for them, and then the McLendon
pick. In between the first dispersal Draft

587
00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:54.960
and today, there's been a lot
of buzz connecting McClendon to the defenders.

588
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.559
A lot of people kind of putting
two and two together when they look at

589
00:38:58.559 --> 00:39:01.320
the specific system run by Fred Heist
in DC, what quarterbacks are out there

590
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:06.320
who could fit into that system.
Certainly DeAndre Francois, who is the only

591
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:09.880
quarterback on their roster coming into today, seemed like more of a replacement for

592
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:14.519
Derek King than for TEAMU, So
they were still kind of looking for a

593
00:39:14.559 --> 00:39:17.559
starting quarterback. Jalen McClendon. I
guess the question is did he show enough

594
00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:22.000
in the limited games he had with
Vegas last year to be a replacement for

595
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:27.199
Jordan Taamu if it comes to that. Certainly, taking a quarterback first overall

596
00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:30.239
in this draft, first round rather
in this draft certainly makes you think they're

597
00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:35.800
hedging against the idea of Taamu coming
back. So, yeah, it's it's

598
00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:38.599
gonna be interesting the competition and to
see if this is really it as far

599
00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:43.079
as top level quarterbacks DC ads or
if they look to add somebody else in

600
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:45.840
free agency or somewhere else in this
draft. Yeah, Pat, that's a

601
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:50.039
good question for you, Like,
do you yeah, there was there enough

602
00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:52.719
with some of these guys to pick
up or would you look outside the box

603
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:54.440
and obviously, like the free agency
is going to begin tomorrow, so they

604
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:58.840
could we just get this and kind
of do whatever anyway, But thoughts on

605
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:01.159
you know, like someone like mc
clendon that maybe didn't have as much playtime

606
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:05.400
during the season, Well if you
look, McClendon got better and better as

607
00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:08.920
a team goes. This is a
guy with limited starts in his collegiate experience.

608
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:14.159
I think he had only three pass
attempts at the Wildcats in twenty twenty,

609
00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:19.800
So I personally don't know if Jaylen
McClendon could be or is that guy

610
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:22.280
for lack of a better term,
but I do know that he deserves an

611
00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:28.039
opportunity based off his sample size.
Last year, Rod Woodson spoke extremely high

612
00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:32.840
of him in a limited role granted
behind Brett Hunley, behind Luis Perez,

613
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:37.719
and finally getting his ability to play
the most football he's actually played since high

614
00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:43.079
school. So a guy like that
deserves a shot. Fred Kist is going

615
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:45.719
to take care of this young man
and put him in a system. Really

616
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:51.599
hoping they get rid of DeAndre Francois. I'm about over the Francois experiment.

617
00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:54.159
Didn't like him in the spring League
fan control football is its own thing.

618
00:40:54.320 --> 00:41:00.760
And then all the rumors about what
he did to Quinn Dormandy'd like to see,

619
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:05.239
you know, maybe they bring back
another guy to fill out that QB

620
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:08.440
room. But yeah, very similar
skill set and you know a lot of

621
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:13.519
upside from McLendon and DC craig.
I let you take you're a pig.

622
00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:15.719
You can you talk about Laurenelle here
or anything with Francois? Are you over

623
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:21.719
Frans saw wherever you want to go? U? I think I've been over

624
00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:24.400
Francois since he left Florida State.
But that's a whole neary story for a

625
00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:28.880
different day. And like even with
the mcclennon thing too, it's like at

626
00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:32.039
the like you're kind of hedging that
one of King or Tiamu comes back.

627
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:36.519
And then at the very least he's
a holid backup that's played a little bit

628
00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:40.599
in the style of the league.
Yeah, I mean, I really think

629
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:45.920
McClendon would be the perfect backup for
the defenders. I'm not ready to say

630
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:49.840
he's gonna start, like I just
I'm not there yet. From what I

631
00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:52.000
saw last year with him in Vegas, I do agree with Pat I think

632
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.960
he did improve. There were still
times at the end of the year where

633
00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:59.719
he was just throwing past his way
over guys heads. The passes were not

634
00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:02.960
close. So that consistency and maybe
that comes with playing time, but that

635
00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:07.800
consistency needs to be refined a lot. And you know, maybe if they

636
00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:08.719
work with him in training camp,
because I do think he is a good

637
00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:13.440
fit for what d C does on
offense. But you know, if this

638
00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:19.920
is really all they do in in
the uh in this part of the offseason,

639
00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:22.920
they add Francois, they add McClendon, maybe they add a camp arm

640
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:27.079
or a third quarterback somewhere. I'm
not really sold on on their chances then

641
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:31.159
uh yeah, Pat thoughts on Taomu
and all of that return or not return,

642
00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:34.760
and I and the Max is talking
to the Chad about the Yere Kingdom

643
00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:36.760
and there's just a lot of questions
with d C. I think they did

644
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:39.880
any of the other quarterback room right
now. When when to touch on King

645
00:42:40.360 --> 00:42:46.719
when he got that full time offensive
assistant QB coach position, This man was

646
00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:52.400
not this man was not coming back. I coach at the nai A level.

647
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:57.079
I am a part times restricted earning
coach. I do a lot of

648
00:42:57.119 --> 00:43:01.159
work. I can only imagine being
in a group of five, a group

649
00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:07.480
of five team. So while it's
edgy and cute, if you actually understand

650
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:12.280
what it takes to be a football
coach, that man was not coming back.

651
00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:15.519
And it's awesome. He's got a
paycheck from the XFL, he's got

652
00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:22.239
a paycheck from the NFL, spend
you know, doing his Lamar Jackson impression,

653
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:27.159
all that goopy stuff. But that
man was not coming back. Tayamu.

654
00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:30.320
There's two trains of thoughts on Tayamu. I've heard some things that it's

655
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:35.320
not my opinion to say about and
it has nothing to do with character,

656
00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:38.039
nothing to do with attitude. I've
heard some things about Tayamu the reason why

657
00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:42.760
he's not on an NFL practice squad
right now. But at the same time,

658
00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:45.880
going back to him, is he
kind of hitting that glass ceiling of

659
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:51.480
like this is not working out.
I need to go figure out something else

660
00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:54.239
in my life. Because while it's
awesome to go get hit by fringe NFL

661
00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:59.920
players for seventy thousand dollars a year, that might get old after a while.

662
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:04.039
So that's something he might be thinking
about in what his opinions are on

663
00:44:04.119 --> 00:44:07.639
that I'd love to see him on
a selfish aspect because I think, you

664
00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:12.280
know, it's awesome and he's thrown
for almost five thousand yards and all those

665
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:15.719
silly statistics. I always keep track
of that nobody cares about they care,

666
00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:22.440
they care, certain people care.
A lot starts with the ends then and

667
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:27.840
uh but yeah, in the end, I'm very cute, you know.

668
00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:31.079
I think that's the conversation he's having. Maybe we get a Kurt ben Kirk

669
00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:35.320
cameo from TAOMU. It's like three
weeks in, you know, three weeks

670
00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:37.039
in. Okay, I'm missing this
one last rodeo. Let's go bro.

671
00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:40.840
Yeah, Greg, do you expect
Ben Kirk back? I know he was

672
00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:44.159
kind of on the list, but
now we're getting all like with the San

673
00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:46.679
Antonio that was always a weird fit
and how he was on and then he

674
00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:50.480
wanted to leave and then they brought
him in and obviously he got hurt.

675
00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:52.800
But a lot of issue there is
that juice worth the squeeze getting Ben Kirk

676
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:58.920
back on. I mean, I
was certainly surprised that he was drafted,

677
00:44:59.480 --> 00:45:02.880
which seems to indicate that he signed
a letter of intent, which again was

678
00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:07.159
surprising, you know, for someone
who last year, by the sounds of

679
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:12.039
it, one of the main reasons
he didn't report to Houston was he didn't

680
00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:15.239
want to live in Arlington for a
month and a half and go through training

681
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:19.880
camp there. And so you know, once the season started and he got

682
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:23.119
an opportunity, he felt more comfortable
coming to play. So, I mean,

683
00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:27.360
if he's signing the letter of intent, now that's that's the same situation

684
00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:30.000
he's going to find himself in this
year. And for a guy who is

685
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:36.079
as active on social media as any
player in the XFL or USFL, I

686
00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:39.519
don't believe, unless I missed it, that he said anything about being drafted

687
00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:43.880
or whether or not he's coming back, which is why we're having this conversation

688
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:46.599
right now. So it is kind
of strange that he's gone silent on that.

689
00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:51.559
He certainly hasn't refuted the idea that
he's coming back by virtue of being

690
00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:53.840
drafted. So, you know,
unless we hear otherwise, I would assume

691
00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:58.760
he's signed the letter of intent and
he's coming to camp. Maybe he doesn't

692
00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:01.119
know. I mean some of the
players are coming on last week like oh,

693
00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:05.639
I'm protected, Like maybe yeah,
as much as he's on social media,

694
00:46:05.639 --> 00:46:08.280
I would find that hard to believe. Hey, but I just yeah,

695
00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:12.679
here we have Robert Quittin and Bankert
said he's retired on Twitter, so

696
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:15.480
uh, you know, I I
don't, but I just hated how he

697
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:19.360
handled all of that last year where
it was like, I don't know,

698
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:22.360
they've they've played that I'm a part
of this league and it's like, well

699
00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:25.039
you're okay, you're part of We'll
see a lot of times. I am

700
00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:29.440
proud, though. I'm happy for
Ben Kurt and the agreement packers. That

701
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:31.599
was trying to throw my life watching
the Dallas Cowboys get robbed last night,

702
00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:35.800
So as w washing commanderstand, I
can be happy about that. Craig,

703
00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:37.760
any thoughts any of this we might
be done with, like the first round

704
00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:40.360
of this right we're kind of circling
back through here. It might be dead

705
00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:43.519
time for a few minutes, or
any thoughts on any of the pick so

706
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:46.840
far? Oh so can you bring
them back up a little bit? Yeah,

707
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:51.639
I will let me get this on
here. We got Larnell and the

708
00:46:51.679 --> 00:46:53.840
last one we had was Larnell Coleman
going to the start. We've got some

709
00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:59.800
second round picks coming in now.
Like Coleman's the guy, like I think

710
00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:01.519
is the type of guy you want
to draft like early in these you know

711
00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:06.440
you're getting that offensive line depth.
He's a guy that does have some projectable

712
00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:09.639
upside. He I think he was
undrafted free agent initially by the Dolphins,

713
00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:13.400
spending a little bit of time with
practice squad, you know. So he's

714
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:16.679
a guy that this league's gonna be
good for and he could develop into,

715
00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:19.840
you know, one of the better
tackles in this league overall. Too.

716
00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:22.880
At the same time, Greg,
where are you seeing these picks? Is

717
00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:27.039
it going by the teams again?
Yep, it's going through the team Lovely,

718
00:47:27.320 --> 00:47:29.880
We're six picks into the second round. As far as I can tell,

719
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:31.280
Well, where what am I looking
at here? They told me the

720
00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:35.559
fall XFL twenty twenty three. What
team should that? What's an exciting pick

721
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:37.880
I should pull up? Well,
we got our first specialist take in.

722
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:40.719
Punter Matthew White, who played with
the Breakers last year, is going to

723
00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:45.880
Memphis. So you know that's where
that's where my attention is shown. Okay,

724
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:47.800
let me see here. Max says, I can search UFL draft and

725
00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:53.280
get Okay, latest here we go. All right, share this Michigan Panthers.

726
00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:58.400
Second round. We've got well Will
Adams here safety going to the Panthers,

727
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:02.159
Chris Rowan going to the DC Defenders
from the Stars. We'll circle back

728
00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:06.639
through here. Oh, here's Mark
im following down the bull side. This

729
00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:07.559
is what I get on this.
Why can't we just put them on the

730
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:12.639
XVl count Greg thoughts on this?
And here we go Matthew White. Let's

731
00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:15.840
get some thoughts here, Greg.
I'll get this figure that here. Well,

732
00:48:15.880 --> 00:48:20.519
Matthew White finished middle of the pack
and punting with the USFL last year

733
00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:23.159
with the Breakers. He comes over
with everybody else coming over from New Orleans

734
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:28.400
to Memphis, so they've got that
going for them. A couple of other

735
00:48:28.440 --> 00:48:30.559
interesting picks here. We had Trey
Bots going in the first pick of the

736
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:37.199
second round of the Brahmas from the
Philadelphia Stars, so that's gonna build up

737
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:39.119
the interior. They're missing a couple
of interior. Defensive lineman. Matthew go

738
00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:44.800
Tell signed a contract futures contract with
the Seattle Seahawks, so they're gonna need

739
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:47.599
some bodies in the middle of that
defense. The Roughnecks took Glenn Logan,

740
00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:52.320
who was a Roughneck last year.
Now he's now he's a Gambler slash Roughneck,

741
00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:54.400
so he's gonna be wearing the same
jersey this year, same same team

742
00:48:54.480 --> 00:49:00.639
nickname, but he comes over from
Houston to Houston, so that's a complicated

743
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:04.400
situation. Chris Garrett, who I
believe was a former draft pick of the

744
00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:08.000
Los Angeles Rams, is a Saint
Louis Battlehawk, So again, you know,

745
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:12.239
the BattleHawks have one of the strongest
rosters on paper, certainly adding to

746
00:49:12.280 --> 00:49:15.079
it by picking a former NFL draft
pick Will Adams, who played a big

747
00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:19.440
role for the Vegas Vipers on their
defense last year, now a Michigan Panther,

748
00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:23.280
and you mentioned Chris Rowland, so
I think as far as I can

749
00:49:23.280 --> 00:49:27.199
tell, we're as caught up in
the second round as we can to go.

750
00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:31.360
This is again, if there's anyone
from any like, you can't say

751
00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:36.199
the follow along on the XFL account
and then post them all out on the

752
00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:39.800
team like I think the XFL account
is like retweeting them or posting them,

753
00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:44.760
but they're behind, so you're seeing
them first on the team accounts and then

754
00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:47.320
like later on the XFL account,
which is a little anyway. So we're

755
00:49:47.320 --> 00:49:50.960
doing the best we can that here. I pat thoughts on any of these,

756
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:58.239
not on any of these guys,
But DeAndre Torri just opted to sign

757
00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:05.840
with the the Toronto Argunaunce of the
CFL, so he I think he becomes

758
00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:09.559
like the sixth dude I've seen over
the past two weeks to opt the sign

759
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:15.880
with the CFL, and that does
include h MBT obviously. But yeah,

760
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:17.840
so, I mean I've talked about
it. I think I wrote an article

761
00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:22.119
about it not too long ago.
Guys kind of looking at the writing on

762
00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.679
the wall saying, hey, man, you know, get ready to learn

763
00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:30.920
French. My dude, Craig thoughts
on any of these. I'm getting another

764
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:37.239
stream up here, so we can
pull up some of these. I can

765
00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:39.840
scrub back down here. Elijah Holder
here, going to the any of these

766
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:44.079
you want to comment on. Calvin
Jackson, Washington State, going to the

767
00:50:44.599 --> 00:50:46.199
renigains here. Some of these are
really throwing me off because it's like the

768
00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:50.440
team graphics but the players team like
it's been a real hard time with this.

769
00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:53.000
What do you think Chris Rowland,
you know, glad to see him,

770
00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:57.239
you know, I think, man, the Stars were weird because they

771
00:50:57.320 --> 00:51:00.400
had so many injuries. I can't
even call this guy like their white receiver

772
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:05.000
two or watch receiver five. But
Chris Rowland is definitely a guy who deserves

773
00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:07.559
to be, you know, still
in the rotation in this in this league.

774
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:12.039
And you know, I don't know
what the glunt nay of riches that

775
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:15.159
all these teams have granted. Correct
me if I'm wrong. Once again,

776
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:22.159
Lucky Jackson and Chris Player are both
gone from their receiving rooms. His life

777
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:27.320
a little bit easier. But Chris
Rowland's definitely not scrub whatsoever. And he's

778
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:29.840
got a brother in the draft pool
as well, so it'd be interesting to

779
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:32.079
see if they do a homie hookup
with one of the back end rosters.

780
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:37.400
Craig, what do you think here? I think Roland's a good pick for

781
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:38.960
them too, because kind of if
you looked at the wide receivers they have,

782
00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:42.760
they're like those bigger body ones,
so they kind of need like somebody

783
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.400
to up bread just down kind of
in the slot too. This year,

784
00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:49.840
I was trying to who is the
one they got? Who is it that

785
00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:52.159
they added? They added Preston Williams. I think it was that used to

786
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:54.840
play with the Dolphins. He's had
like a whole bunch of the field issues

787
00:51:54.880 --> 00:52:00.119
over his years. So they got
him, They got Brandon Smith, they

788
00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:01.519
brought back, they got a lot
of bigger bodies, so kind of get

789
00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:04.719
a guy in the slot makes some
sense. I was trying to look up

790
00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:07.159
Kevin Jackson too, because I remember
him in Washington State. But I was

791
00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:12.639
like, was he the guy that
was on last chance YouTube this college?

792
00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:15.880
He was? Yeah, he was
an l o I guy. Didn't play

793
00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:19.800
in the league. I don't know
remember what team he signed with, but

794
00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:22.960
he was an l o I guy. And obviously, you know, anytime

795
00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:27.639
you're a last chance you guy,
you got a little bit of a following

796
00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:30.840
and whatnot. So I mean,
it's cool. Yeah, let me see,

797
00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:34.840
I'm trying to remember his story.
But like, he's the guy that

798
00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:36.840
does have a little bit of speed
though, so he could be a deep

799
00:52:36.920 --> 00:52:40.199
threat for a team. He was
tearing it up on last Chance You and

800
00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:45.639
I mean, J man, don't
sleep on it. I goes, So

801
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:49.159
we got the third round. Now
on here, Greg, I'm following Greg's

802
00:52:49.239 --> 00:52:52.840
lead here, Christian McFarlane, here
go into the Memphis showboates here coming from

803
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:55.719
the is that the What the heck? Greg? What did we make up

804
00:52:55.760 --> 00:53:00.239
this? We're getting more at least
Aguilar coming in here fast and furious.

805
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:04.039
Now whether we make here, Greg, Yeah, I just want to go

806
00:53:04.079 --> 00:53:06.800
back to Kelvin Jackson. He was
a he was an l O I signing

807
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:13.400
of the Sea Dragons. Surry.
Sorry, there's my guy. Literally fun.

808
00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:15.079
Sorry to cut you off. Greg. I'm literally going to Vegas for

809
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:17.880
work last week. Who do I
see in the airport? BJ Wilson,

810
00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:21.679
you know where are you going?
He's like, I'm going to Edmonton.

811
00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:22.239
I go, no ship. He
goes, no, no, no,

812
00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:28.000
no, I'm not signing up there. I'm like, you know, the

813
00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:30.920
boys, the boys got to stay
home. So Mark Lillibridge hooking the hooking,

814
00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:37.440
hooking up the Saint Louis guy.
It's my guy. Uh all right,

815
00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:40.239
Greg, go for it. Yeah, just trying to catch out the

816
00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:46.679
roughnecks. They needed a kicker.
They bring in Louis Aguilar. So you

817
00:53:46.679 --> 00:53:51.880
know, we're seeing specialists got more
highly than they normally would, just because

818
00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:55.320
teams are sort of filling those spots. A lot of teams did not protect

819
00:53:55.480 --> 00:54:01.119
or did not draft specialists last week, so they're sort of in the mode

820
00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:06.679
of looking for specialists here, perhaps
adding some in free agency. So even

821
00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:10.079
though it seems like high draft picks
for these specialists, not too surprised when

822
00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:15.280
there are some good ones still out
there. We'll go back Patty the other

823
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:22.400
thoughts on all this. Sorry,
I had to let my girlfriend DJ God

824
00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:30.159
signed because she calls so BJ's a
D two product. Was the first player

825
00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:35.960
in Quincy University history to get signed
an NFL contract or a professional contract whatsoever.

826
00:54:36.679 --> 00:54:42.039
L I Guy by the Roughnecks did
an interview with him. Awesome guy

827
00:54:42.199 --> 00:54:46.679
won. Awesome family too rolled in
the same circle. So it's also cool

828
00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:53.280
to see because rumored obviously Mark wila
Bridge is with the is with the Brahmas

829
00:54:53.320 --> 00:54:58.400
now taking care of some of his
guys, so we'll see and uh,

830
00:54:58.840 --> 00:55:01.599
you know, personal note, my
uh, my girlfriend's a big Wade Philips

831
00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:05.880
guy, not because of anything he's
done on the field, but because she

832
00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:10.280
says he looks adorable and she calls
him Dan, so you know there's a

833
00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:15.440
and anytime they show his wife on
the on the field, she gets a

834
00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:20.039
little bit emotional and she's always like
doing farmer farmer Dan impressions. Well,

835
00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:23.960
whale boys, we didn't uh we
didn't get that victory today, But go

836
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:28.519
home and hug your loved ones and
uh let him know that. You know,

837
00:55:28.719 --> 00:55:30.159
it's just a game and we're gonna
we're gonna come out on top on

838
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:37.480
this. Okay, we've lost Pat, We've officially lost Uh Greg, how

839
00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:40.280
are thinking to hold that pier?
That thoughts something that says I keep I'm

840
00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:44.719
trying to refresh on another stream to
not get it too but like this is

841
00:55:44.760 --> 00:55:46.960
just so weird here anyway, thoughts
these latest guys coming in. We have

842
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:51.360
a new way Defenders here, I'll
talk. Yeah, we have t J

843
00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:53.599
Barnes who goes in the third round
of the Defenders. He's an interesting,

844
00:55:54.079 --> 00:56:00.880
uh interesting situation because a lot was
made of his retirement after the Renegades won

845
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:05.199
the championship. I think there's a
story on XFL dot com about TJ Barnes

846
00:56:05.239 --> 00:56:07.960
going out on top as a champion. We heard a lot during the broadcast

847
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:12.360
about the lengths that he went to
to get in shape to come in to

848
00:56:13.159 --> 00:56:15.679
be a force in the middle of
that Arlington defense. So I don't think

849
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:20.119
anyone was surprised then when Arlington did
not protect him as part of their forty

850
00:56:20.159 --> 00:56:22.159
two last week, and then TJ. Barnes goes on social media and is

851
00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:23.800
like, Okay, which team is
going to get me? And we're like,

852
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:28.760
wait, what, I thought you
were retired? Man. So you

853
00:56:28.800 --> 00:56:31.400
know you figured that if he was
available, and that if he was going

854
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:35.360
to go full bore toward twenty twenty
four, that some team was going to

855
00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:37.119
pick him, and some team was
going to pick him with a high draft

856
00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:43.159
pick, and the sorry the Defenders
end up coming in in a third round

857
00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:45.760
and taking him. I did have
defensive line as a key need for the

858
00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:51.320
Defenders. They lost a few defensive
tackles to retirement this offseason, so that

859
00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:53.239
was a position that they needed to
fill and they got a good one in

860
00:56:53.280 --> 00:56:57.800
TJ. Barnes. I got some
more picks here, I'll scroll through.

861
00:56:58.239 --> 00:57:01.760
Then we have coming to here,
Eric blue Jay going to the Michigan Panthers,

862
00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:06.199
and then Trey Bots going to the
San Antonio Brahmas. Pal toss to

863
00:57:06.280 --> 00:57:12.159
you don't do much about trade trade
botts uh C s C s C State

864
00:57:12.199 --> 00:57:19.039
PLAYBLO D two product going down to
Ojebai He I believe was a signing by

865
00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:22.119
Michigan at one point during the off
season, So they bring him back.

866
00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:28.960
Complete revamp in my opinion for the
Panthers on the offensive line, which is

867
00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:34.039
for the last two years something that
I felt like they needed to to supplement.

868
00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:37.559
So continuing to get the rich get
Richer type thing. You know,

869
00:57:38.239 --> 00:57:42.800
a former you know, a group
of five guys and whatnot coming out of

870
00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:45.960
Wyoming. Pretty curious to see what
he's got going on. But I mean

871
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:49.280
they picked up a lot of these, you know, Schmart, I think

872
00:57:49.639 --> 00:57:52.320
you know, they didn't pick up
Gilmore. They picked up Drew Himmelman,

873
00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:57.000
who completely changed that offensive line in
Philly when he joined. So curious to

874
00:57:57.000 --> 00:58:00.880
see where he goes, especially because
I believe they have ushdun Lap at the

875
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:05.760
other uh at the other tackle Pennsylvan
right now. H Yeah, And then

876
00:58:05.800 --> 00:58:08.559
we have here some more coming in
here and this year Greer going to and

877
00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:10.559
if I say any of these wrong, just slap me in the head.

878
00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:15.199
Arlington Renegades, and then Jalen Morton
going to the Birmingham Stallions. We'll toss

879
00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:19.599
back to Craig here and then obviously
Matt white Wards. Now we're getting the

880
00:58:19.719 --> 00:58:22.719
xfl one retweeted and all this stuff. So Craig, any thoughts on this?

881
00:58:22.400 --> 00:58:24.760
Yeah, I was gonna say the
other one I seen from Saint Louis

882
00:58:24.800 --> 00:58:29.360
now as they picked up Cameron Kelly, the defensive back from San Antonio.

883
00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:31.760
So that's a that's a pretty good
guy to get in. Helps out build

884
00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:36.559
out some of the secondary depth too. I'm trying to pull that up on

885
00:58:36.719 --> 00:58:38.920
here. Keep going here though.
Yeah, I was just saying Morton,

886
00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:44.960
as you said, he went back
to Birmingham. Uh right, Yeah,

887
00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:50.880
was there QB two when Slowter got
there. So he rounds out their room

888
00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:55.440
with Smith Martinez and now and now
more than I think Morton played a couple

889
00:58:55.440 --> 00:59:00.039
of snaps. I don't think he
threw a pass. Originally he was signed

890
00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:06.960
by the Gamblers and then traded for
montel Co's Art who's had thefl and whatnot.

891
00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:12.039
So I mean familiar with the system
depth pick if Jalen Moore playing,

892
00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:15.920
there's some bigger issues there in my
opinion. I think he ran the ball

893
00:59:15.960 --> 00:59:20.079
once last year for like six yards
or something like that. And you have

894
00:59:20.199 --> 00:59:22.880
like a couple of snaps that when
Google got backed out of the game for

895
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:24.679
a couple of seconds, but that
was about it. Yeah. Do do

896
00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:29.280
we get like Glenn Logan already here
with the Reughnecks that was in the second

897
00:59:29.360 --> 00:59:30.960
round. Now we're circling back through
on here. Okay, Pat, we'll

898
00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:36.280
toss back to you here. Any
bouts in any of these coming down once

899
00:59:36.280 --> 00:59:38.920
again with the BattleHawks with their secondary. Like I said, they completely revamped

900
00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:44.400
and whatnot, revamped and whatnot.
Sorry, a lot of these picks are

901
00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:49.400
coming out, so you know,
I have notes and all jacked up.

902
00:59:49.440 --> 00:59:54.119
Glenn Rogan staying in Houston with the
Gamblers, I mean Houston picks. When

903
00:59:54.119 --> 00:59:58.599
you pick up Chris Odin, who
could run a three technique and play the

904
00:59:58.719 --> 01:00:04.039
edge, plus guys down there,
I mean, it's gonna We're gonna say

905
01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:09.320
this term a lot richer getting richer. That's really what's happening. Greg thoughts

906
01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:14.119
on any of this stuff, and
I certainly I share what Pat was saying

907
01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:16.519
about kind of some of these teams
that bukened up here. Yeah, third

908
01:00:16.599 --> 01:00:21.599
round is when we're seeing some teams
pick some of their own players who they

909
01:00:21.639 --> 01:00:24.400
did not protect among the forty two. We saw Michigan with Eric Woji.

910
01:00:24.719 --> 01:00:29.599
We saw Arlington with Nasir Greer,
who is an offseason signing by them,

911
01:00:29.880 --> 01:00:32.559
in the Stallions with Jalen Morton.
So not in the first two rounds doesn't

912
01:00:32.559 --> 01:00:37.000
look like. But the third round
we start seeing teams picking from their own

913
01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:42.679
list of unprotected players among the non
forty two. So that's just interesting to

914
01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:45.239
see at the timing that that comes
down. Yeah, it's interesting kind of

915
01:00:45.280 --> 01:00:51.000
how I don't know the roster aerobics
that kind of go into that of like,

916
01:00:51.039 --> 01:00:52.000
well, what ones do we need
to protect? Now? Which ones

917
01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:55.480
do we need to pull greg Any
any surprise signings here, anything, as

918
01:00:55.480 --> 01:01:02.840
we're kind of getting into the weeds. None that jump off non, None

919
01:01:02.840 --> 01:01:07.159
that jump off the page to me, I don't think, you know,

920
01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:10.480
I thought maybe there'd be more offensive
linemen. One of the things that we

921
01:01:10.519 --> 01:01:15.559
saw in the XFL Supplemental Draft last
year was a lot of teams when these

922
01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:21.960
USFL players became available, XFL teams
started really stocking up on offensive linemen because,

923
01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:24.320
as we know, offensive linemen are
very hard to find. Talented offensive

924
01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:28.679
lineman for these spring leagues are very
hard to find, yet they play such

925
01:01:28.679 --> 01:01:31.320
an important role in the games,
keeping the quarterbacks up right, opening running

926
01:01:31.400 --> 01:01:35.679
lanes for the running backs. So
I did think maybe we'd see a little

927
01:01:35.719 --> 01:01:38.519
bit more movement along the offensive line
with picks so far. But again,

928
01:01:38.559 --> 01:01:43.840
you know, when you're combining the
best of the best. Maybe you're not

929
01:01:44.199 --> 01:01:47.679
reaching as much for offensive lineman as
you would otherwise. Yeah, Ethan here

930
01:01:47.760 --> 01:01:52.159
said, let's see, I'm here. I'm trying to figure out, like

931
01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:55.519
okay, so like why this is
just my life right now? Because I'm

932
01:01:55.559 --> 01:02:00.599
sure she ufls go, well,
why didn't this because they they have this

933
01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:04.519
because they tweeted UF drafts, So
now we have we're trying to track,

934
01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:07.360
we're trying to attract the players during
they're not even using the proper hashtag.

935
01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:12.760
So I really appreciate that XFL social
for making that worthwhile. Pat will circle

936
01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:16.000
back to you. You know,
it's really, it's really it wanted to

937
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:20.119
point out with Chris Garrett that you
have him on the screen D two product

938
01:02:20.400 --> 01:02:22.960
getting drafted, won the Super Bowl
and has appeared in an NFL game,

939
01:02:23.079 --> 01:02:28.559
So very stoked. I mean that, you know, Saint Louis has a

940
01:02:28.599 --> 01:02:32.599
lot of key pieces returning on the
front seven, so you know, if

941
01:02:32.719 --> 01:02:38.360
Chris Claiborne comes back along with along
with Donnie Abraham running the show, very

942
01:02:38.360 --> 01:02:42.719
curious to see how he kind of
fits into that because they did have a

943
01:02:42.760 --> 01:02:46.559
lot of pieces like Carson Wells,
who is very versatile, Travis Speeney.

944
01:02:46.880 --> 01:02:52.880
And also now they brought back or
they signed Peter Toeman Penno, who was

945
01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:55.719
the defensive player of the Year last
year. So, man, I'm gonna

946
01:02:55.719 --> 01:02:59.719
sound like this broken record, but
the rich are getting richer anytime. You

947
01:02:59.760 --> 01:03:02.440
got, you know, a guy
who got a couple of coffee in the

948
01:03:02.559 --> 01:03:06.639
NFL and won the Super Bowl ring
he had been doing something right at the

949
01:03:06.639 --> 01:03:09.639
time, right, Yeah, So
Craig Any, so we touched on some

950
01:03:09.719 --> 01:03:13.519
of these. Chris Garrett here going
to the battle Hawks. I'm just making

951
01:03:13.519 --> 01:03:15.440
sure he've touched. Norman Price here
going to the Roughnecks. To anyone you

952
01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:21.800
want to comment on, Yeah,
a couple two here. So I see

953
01:03:21.800 --> 01:03:24.280
Max Roberts going to Memphis now,
he played with Vegas last year. He's

954
01:03:24.280 --> 01:03:28.519
a guy liked a lot coming out
of Boston College but never really got his

955
01:03:28.920 --> 01:03:31.320
chance in the NFL, honestly,
but he's been a decent pass fresher.

956
01:03:31.519 --> 01:03:35.800
He's going to be at least a
good rotational player for them. And then

957
01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:39.039
I saw the Brownos got Chris Steele, who's cornerback out of USC. So

958
01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:42.800
he's at least, you know,
played a high level in college bounced around

959
01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:45.360
a couple of practice squads here and
there, so could definitely help out their

960
01:03:45.400 --> 01:03:51.239
depth as well. Greg going into
the draft today, where there are teams

961
01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:52.599
that you were more worried about than
others, and then we've talked about the

962
01:03:52.639 --> 01:03:55.360
quarterback issues with DC, but was
there anyone that you were maybe a little

963
01:03:55.360 --> 01:04:00.400
bit more worried about from a quarterback
standpoint, from a team building Yeah,

964
01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:06.599
from an overall roster, not really. I think again, when you're taking

965
01:04:06.800 --> 01:04:10.639
you're really getting the best of the
best. So even if I do have

966
01:04:10.679 --> 01:04:14.000
some concerns maybe about positionally from team
to team, there are other positions on

967
01:04:14.039 --> 01:04:19.519
that team that may be kind of
strong. So it's really really too early

968
01:04:19.559 --> 01:04:24.599
to say about any concerns. I
think after today we'll get a better picture

969
01:04:24.920 --> 01:04:28.519
of what those rosters look like,
and certainly in the coming weeks after free

970
01:04:28.559 --> 01:04:30.280
agency. And you know, free
agency is kind of a mystery. It

971
01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:33.480
was one of those things buried in
the press release when they were talking about

972
01:04:33.840 --> 01:04:38.239
this upcoming draft, the Super Dispersal
Draft, and they said, you know

973
01:04:38.239 --> 01:04:40.639
it's almost like, oh, by
the way, free agency also starts on

974
01:04:40.679 --> 01:04:43.880
Tuesday, and it's like, Okay, what form is that going to take

975
01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:48.519
it sounds like the players who were
not drafted here, as well as anyone

976
01:04:48.519 --> 01:04:53.920
who did not play for the USFL
or XFL in twenty twenty three, will

977
01:04:53.960 --> 01:04:57.760
be eligible for that free agency period. So you're talking about players who did

978
01:04:57.800 --> 01:05:00.840
not sign futures contracts on practice squads
at the end of the year. Anthony

979
01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:05.159
Beck was begging them on social media
to not sign futures contracts and instead come

980
01:05:05.159 --> 01:05:09.840
to the UFL, so those players
would be available in free agency. So

981
01:05:10.280 --> 01:05:13.599
we don't know what how the announcements
are going to go, whether teams are

982
01:05:13.599 --> 01:05:15.840
going to announce them as they happen, or if it's just going to be

983
01:05:15.199 --> 01:05:19.280
a press release like the XFLO would
do. In terms of signings, or

984
01:05:19.280 --> 01:05:21.880
how active these teams are going to
be, it's all going to depend or

985
01:05:21.880 --> 01:05:26.000
a lot of it's going to depend
on how many picks they make today.

986
01:05:26.239 --> 01:05:30.280
There were some teams who could pick
as many as twenty twenty two players in

987
01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:33.360
this draft, some only thirteen.
So how many picks are they going to

988
01:05:33.440 --> 01:05:36.800
use on this draft? How many
open roster spots are they going to have

989
01:05:36.920 --> 01:05:42.400
after today to add free agents for
training camp while not having to release anyone

990
01:05:42.440 --> 01:05:45.760
from their drafted list, So that's
going to be something interesting to track to.

991
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:49.480
Uh yeah, if anything, then
they'll probably post those on the USFL

992
01:05:49.480 --> 01:05:53.679
account, like you'll probably that'll be
where he can find all those. That's

993
01:05:53.679 --> 01:05:57.599
all the free agencies stuff that we
have some more signings here coming in now

994
01:05:57.599 --> 01:06:01.280
of course is and now the Xlos
were do Cole here going to the Panthers.

995
01:06:01.639 --> 01:06:06.400
I know that's the team you followed
here, gid Okay, God help

996
01:06:06.480 --> 01:06:13.199
me here that comment on this.
Well, Adams here going to the Panthers.

997
01:06:13.239 --> 01:06:17.239
Panthers really stocking that pier. Yeah, Cole Adams returns. He spent

998
01:06:17.280 --> 01:06:20.480
the last two seasons there. Was
signed in the middle of the season of

999
01:06:20.519 --> 01:06:28.639
twenty twenty two one two one two. All you all Defensive Player of the

1000
01:06:28.679 --> 01:06:34.519
Week award or Special Teams Player of
the Week awards with him. I'm a

1001
01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:38.440
pretty big fan of him. You
know, that's a move to me they

1002
01:06:38.480 --> 01:06:40.880
have. That's a move to me
where they kind of just did a little

1003
01:06:40.920 --> 01:06:44.679
bit of like roster manipulation, like
hey man, we're gonna bring you back

1004
01:06:44.719 --> 01:06:49.679
type thing. So consistent player play
at Syracuse had a stint in the AAF

1005
01:06:49.840 --> 01:06:56.880
for about five minutes and then lost
his job to to Donnie Higgeman, who

1006
01:06:57.079 --> 01:07:03.119
has not been protected either. Virginia
the defense back. They picked up Virginia

1007
01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:08.320
State guy, HBCU guy was a
guy that you kind of want to circle

1008
01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:12.519
to see if, like maybe Reggie
Barlow was going to pick up, but

1009
01:07:12.599 --> 01:07:15.440
obviously they didn't. And then you
know, a lot of people love Cheety.

1010
01:07:16.599 --> 01:07:21.320
He got picked up by the San
Antonio guy. I think San Antonio

1011
01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:28.039
had some of the worst offensive line
play that really halted the defenders. That

1012
01:07:28.519 --> 01:07:31.559
excuse me the development of Jack Cone, which I didn't think Jack Cone was

1013
01:07:31.559 --> 01:07:35.199
a world beater, but that offensive
line didn't do him any favors. They

1014
01:07:35.239 --> 01:07:39.760
had guys like kay Avish here pretty
much coming out of retirement and you know,

1015
01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:44.119
man the fort a lot of inconsistencies
on the tackle there. So definitely

1016
01:07:44.119 --> 01:07:46.079
a guy with some experience, some
depth play, and he's got a good

1017
01:07:46.079 --> 01:07:50.119
social media presence. He's written some
books and whatnot as well, so you

1018
01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:54.840
know, keeps his brand alive,
keeps a couple more retweets and follows for

1019
01:07:54.880 --> 01:07:59.719
the kids. So good for him. Like Greg said, I feel that

1020
01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:02.719
the most turnover we're gonna have is
always going to be on the offensive line.

1021
01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:05.800
In these leagues, because if the
NFL can't get them right, what

1022
01:08:05.920 --> 01:08:10.920
makes them think the UFL is gonna
get it right? Greg, We have

1023
01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:14.639
a couple more here coming in a
circle back got Pier, We got these

1024
01:08:14.840 --> 01:08:17.680
all this, and there BJ Bellow
here going to the Arleant Renegades, and

1025
01:08:17.720 --> 01:08:23.119
then that trub Bonds here from from
the Mallers here going to the Stallions.

1026
01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:26.479
Always weird to see these kind of
you know, like the Stallions, we

1027
01:08:26.640 --> 01:08:29.880
got the Mallers color is kind of
weird out here. Any other thoughts and

1028
01:08:29.920 --> 01:08:32.640
any of these guys coming down,
Yeah, I mean you look at San

1029
01:08:32.680 --> 01:08:38.399
Antonio's first four picks. They've picked
two from Houston, which would be expected.

1030
01:08:38.760 --> 01:08:42.880
Wade Phillips bringing over BJ Wilson and
Chris Steele, who were two offseason

1031
01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:46.399
signings LI signings, So they're coming
over with the coaching staff and with the

1032
01:08:46.560 --> 01:08:50.640
DPP mark a little bridge to San
Antonio. Michigan has kept two of its

1033
01:08:50.680 --> 01:08:56.520
own players in the last two picks, Eric Obaja and Cole Murphy. And

1034
01:08:56.920 --> 01:09:00.199
you know, a couple as bad
as and I agree Tonio's offensive line was

1035
01:09:00.199 --> 01:09:03.600
was in rough shape, a lot
of it due to injuries. But to

1036
01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:09.560
San Antonio offensive linemen being taken in
this round in Norman Price for the Roughnecks

1037
01:09:09.560 --> 01:09:14.000
and Gid for the defenders. So
just an interesting note there, and another

1038
01:09:14.560 --> 01:09:19.359
San Antonio Brama Torrell Bonds going to
Birmingham. Yeah, and Bonds had a

1039
01:09:19.359 --> 01:09:24.960
couple of tea in the NFL.
His spring football experience goes all the way

1040
01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:30.760
back to the AF the leave he
was with the Express, so he's had

1041
01:09:30.800 --> 01:09:33.000
a couple of a cup of tea
in the NFL. I don't know if

1042
01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:36.079
he's still that type of player,
but you know, definitely not a bad

1043
01:09:36.119 --> 01:09:42.079
guy to keep in your des pat. A couple others here just while we

1044
01:09:42.119 --> 01:09:45.079
have you, Lee Morris here going
to the show, buttz I'm kind of

1045
01:09:45.239 --> 01:09:47.880
looking here past my screen here,
and then Elijah Holder with the Stallions,

1046
01:09:48.039 --> 01:09:53.800
and then de Ruy and Parker here
San Antonio Bramas as we're talking here,

1047
01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:57.319
more reinforcements for the on line here
even in the social media. Yeah,

1048
01:09:57.359 --> 01:09:59.880
I mean the offensive line, we
can hammer that. That could be an

1049
01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:03.119
their talking point. We talk in
circles, you know, we got to

1050
01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:06.800
get better. So you you bring
in, you bring in my man bj

1051
01:10:08.199 --> 01:10:12.239
bj Fringe NFL guy would be in
the NFL. Right now, if he

1052
01:10:12.279 --> 01:10:17.239
did not play with the if he
did not get hurt when he was with

1053
01:10:17.359 --> 01:10:21.279
Carolina, uh probably would have got
drafted, but didn't participate in a lot

1054
01:10:21.319 --> 01:10:26.119
of workouts. BJ could probably you
know this, this guy is massive,

1055
01:10:26.119 --> 01:10:30.760
He's more athletic. He could dunk
a basketball. A scene's it. So

1056
01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:35.319
we could see that Lee Morris once
again, you have that showboat breakers connection.

1057
01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:40.239
They're gonna bring in a guy who
they're comfortable with. You know that,

1058
01:10:41.560 --> 01:10:45.399
Flip knows that we could do the
offense with. And Morris kind of

1059
01:10:45.439 --> 01:10:47.840
came on, you know, as
a third option when Stage Sharrot kind of

1060
01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:54.359
cooled down as well, pushing up
to Elijah Holder, another spring league guy

1061
01:10:54.399 --> 01:10:59.680
played with the Gamblers, and then
I believe he played. He played with

1062
01:10:59.720 --> 01:11:01.520
the game, and I feel like
he played in the XFL last year as

1063
01:11:01.520 --> 01:11:04.039
well. I had a couple of
tea in the NFL at one point.

1064
01:11:04.319 --> 01:11:09.720
The old guys with NFL experience all
guys with Spring league experience, and let's

1065
01:11:09.720 --> 01:11:14.920
see what happens happens with them.
BattleHawks also picked up John Dacca as well.

1066
01:11:15.039 --> 01:11:16.880
Here let me see if I can
get that pulled up on here.

1067
01:11:16.880 --> 01:11:20.119
Any thoughts on that if I can. Oh, here, the last one

1068
01:11:20.159 --> 01:11:23.880
I guess I have is a slogan
closseman. That's the last one that shows

1069
01:11:23.960 --> 01:11:27.439
up on the UFL one long snapper. I mean, I hate to be

1070
01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:30.680
that guy, but there's so many
long snappers. Will cut these in the

1071
01:11:30.760 --> 01:11:35.960
NFL. They'll cut a couple,
a couple, a couple snaps, and

1072
01:11:36.000 --> 01:11:41.640
they'll find someone who just got cut
from a practice squad or you know from

1073
01:11:41.720 --> 01:11:46.000
last year. These these specialist coaches
have a lot of these contacts in the

1074
01:11:46.000 --> 01:11:48.880
phone ready to go. There's only
thirty two in the NFL, and now

1075
01:11:48.880 --> 01:11:54.920
there's only there's only forty in the
United States. So get good, or

1076
01:11:54.920 --> 01:11:57.880
get get busy living, or getting
get busy snapping, or get busy,

1077
01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:01.000
uh selling car insurance. My dude, We'll go back to Craig last One

1078
01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:05.319
here, Donnis Boone here going offensive
tackle to the DC defenders, any comments

1079
01:12:05.319 --> 01:12:09.439
any of the guys that have come
down. Yeah, So I think once

1080
01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:13.039
again we're kind of getting back into
that offensive line run where we're just getting

1081
01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:15.640
because like at the end of the
day, you want as much depth that

1082
01:12:15.720 --> 01:12:17.039
offensive line as you can get,
and you want to get your best group

1083
01:12:17.079 --> 01:12:19.680
of five guys. You want to
get your best group of backups there too.

1084
01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:24.359
I don't know if they actually have
they actually announced like how big the

1085
01:12:24.479 --> 01:12:28.359
roster says are going to be this
year, Yeah, seventy five and then

1086
01:12:28.439 --> 01:12:31.399
drop down here going into the actual
season, right, I was more like

1087
01:12:31.439 --> 01:12:34.399
considered like after, you know,
like once we get in season, like

1088
01:12:34.439 --> 01:12:38.880
are they going to add a couple
spots just because you know you're cutting down

1089
01:12:38.920 --> 01:12:42.279
the two leagues into one so you
can get a couple extra guyst opportunity too?

1090
01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:45.520
Was it forty two and eight?
Pad is at the final numbers on

1091
01:12:45.560 --> 01:12:50.439
that like it was like forty it
was forty two and it was forty three

1092
01:12:50.520 --> 01:12:58.279
or forty two with the QB three. Yeah, fifty on the roster,

1093
01:12:58.399 --> 01:13:02.319
fifty on the active roster, fifty
one for the EXOD. I like to

1094
01:13:02.359 --> 01:13:05.880
see them get like a couple spots
up if they could, But that's you

1095
01:13:05.880 --> 01:13:09.319
know, that might be just a
little bit nippicking at this point in time.

1096
01:13:09.399 --> 01:13:12.399
But the more chances you get,
the more opportunities you can have for

1097
01:13:12.439 --> 01:13:14.239
you guys. But like at the
end of the day, you're going to

1098
01:13:14.279 --> 01:13:16.960
bring in seventy five guys, You're
going to cycle through probably the last thirty

1099
01:13:16.960 --> 01:13:20.960
of them at some point in time
too. So just getting all these guys

1100
01:13:20.960 --> 01:13:24.560
in there seeing who can do what. Especially, you know, you got

1101
01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:27.000
some of these veterans in. You
don't know what's shaped there. And by

1102
01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:29.680
the time you get to the season, you know, we like to think

1103
01:13:29.720 --> 01:13:31.960
everybody's working out in the best shape
of their life too. But some of

1104
01:13:31.960 --> 01:13:35.039
these guys are older. So bringing
them in and you know, at least

1105
01:13:35.079 --> 01:13:38.079
if they go into camp, they
go into camp with some old guys,

1106
01:13:38.079 --> 01:13:40.960
some young guys. Let the best
guy went out, and you know,

1107
01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:43.239
at the very least, you know, even if you got some old guys

1108
01:13:43.239 --> 01:13:45.319
there and they just don't have it
anymore and they're working with some of the

1109
01:13:45.319 --> 01:13:46.479
younger guys, they might be able
to teach them something. At the same

1110
01:13:46.520 --> 01:13:49.399
time too, well it's fresh,
like you said, it's even with these

1111
01:13:49.520 --> 01:13:53.479
rosters and stuff. And oh yeah, it'd be nice for them to expand

1112
01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:55.800
all this. I mean we had
talked about, you know, salaries and

1113
01:13:55.920 --> 01:13:59.239
not be an increase like where there's
now. I mean Greg knows this and

1114
01:13:59.319 --> 01:14:00.600
Vince McMahon when the AF went away, and it's like, well, I

1115
01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:03.680
don't need to pay the XFL players
anymore, like there's no competition here.

1116
01:14:03.760 --> 01:14:06.600
So I you would like to see
them bring in more numbers for all this,

1117
01:14:06.760 --> 01:14:09.399
but I don't, you know,
I don't see that. Greg.

1118
01:14:09.399 --> 01:14:12.520
What do you make of roster sizes
and kind of have the reworking tier going

1119
01:14:12.520 --> 01:14:15.720
the end of the season. I
think it's fine. You know, NFL

1120
01:14:15.760 --> 01:14:18.279
has fifty three man rosters. They've
got sixteen man practice squads. I certainly

1121
01:14:18.319 --> 01:14:23.279
wouldn't have a roster size bigger than
that of the NFL. And again,

1122
01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:27.720
everything that we talk about in terms
of rules, in terms of roster structure,

1123
01:14:27.760 --> 01:14:30.119
in terms of coaches, all has
to be looked at through the lens

1124
01:14:30.279 --> 01:14:35.880
of financials because that is what we're
doing here. That is what these team

1125
01:14:36.039 --> 01:14:41.119
That's why these two leagues have come
together, right, So you know,

1126
01:14:41.319 --> 01:14:45.159
I think there's an argument to have
more players just because you need more depth

1127
01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:48.640
for these leagues. You can't be
bringing someone off the street who hasn't played

1128
01:14:48.640 --> 01:14:51.960
in a while in mid season and
expect them to perform at a high level.

1129
01:14:53.000 --> 01:14:57.960
It's why XFL twenty twenty had the
I forget what they called it there,

1130
01:14:58.000 --> 01:15:00.359
but Team nine, yeah, had
that where they you know, they

1131
01:15:00.359 --> 01:15:05.600
were able to keep a basically almost
a full roster of players in shape and

1132
01:15:05.680 --> 01:15:10.720
training, so that if someone went
down for the Arlington Renegades, they could

1133
01:15:10.800 --> 01:15:15.359
sign one of those players who was
already in shape and they they didn't have

1134
01:15:15.439 --> 01:15:18.119
to choose from someone who had not
been training or it was not in shape.

1135
01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:21.199
So you know, there is that
argument as well. I'm not sure

1136
01:15:21.239 --> 01:15:26.479
if that is worth the financial burden
that it would put on the league,

1137
01:15:26.560 --> 01:15:30.079
But you know, I think the
roster size I'm pretty okay with. We'll

1138
01:15:30.199 --> 01:15:31.720
have to see how it plays out
this year to see whether they need to

1139
01:15:31.800 --> 01:15:35.760
fix that for year two. Pat
for you here, we have a question

1140
01:15:35.880 --> 01:15:39.359
at talking and I'll keep an eye
on the picture as they come in.

1141
01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:43.560
BattleHawks not selecting the KIV makes me
think they're confident in getting aj back or

1142
01:15:43.560 --> 01:15:45.960
at least they have someone in free
agency in mind that. What do you

1143
01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:47.680
think the BattleHawks are going to do
here? Quarterback wise? Right? The

1144
01:15:47.720 --> 01:15:53.399
ag is with the Bengals. Right
with the Bengals, I'm not sure on

1145
01:15:53.439 --> 01:15:57.760
this contract situation. He was promoted
to the active roster. He'll be a

1146
01:15:57.760 --> 01:16:00.239
free agent when in March when free
agencies. Yeah, so he'll be an

1147
01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:05.920
unrestricted free agent. I'm not one
hundred percent sure on how the NFL and

1148
01:16:06.199 --> 01:16:10.439
XFL like he just signed with a
team now because he wasn't signed to a

1149
01:16:10.439 --> 01:16:15.239
futures deal. Obviously he's not a
practice squad player. But in my opinion,

1150
01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:18.600
this comes down to what AJ mccaron
wants to do. I've been very

1151
01:16:18.680 --> 01:16:23.439
vocal about this. He made over
six hundred thousand dollars this year. He

1152
01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:27.479
got to play a little bit,
so he scratched that NFL which did halfway

1153
01:16:27.560 --> 01:16:30.720
decent, and I believe he had
a touchdown get called back in his first

1154
01:16:30.760 --> 01:16:33.960
game, with three or four in
his last game, you know, for

1155
01:16:34.079 --> 01:16:39.079
like nineteen nineteen yards or something like
that. So I'm very curious to see

1156
01:16:39.199 --> 01:16:43.439
it's gonna come down to him.
The door is open. Coach Beck has

1157
01:16:43.479 --> 01:16:45.720
been very high on Tiano. Tiano
did okay when he came in. He's

1158
01:16:45.720 --> 01:16:49.439
a lot more athletic, decent,
arm strength, you know, a ut

1159
01:16:49.840 --> 01:16:56.199
martin guy with some CFL experience,
as well as someone who covers the BattleHawks

1160
01:16:56.199 --> 01:17:00.159
and is going to drive forty five
minutes to these games to cover the team.

1161
01:17:00.640 --> 01:17:03.520
There's a lot of good quarterbacks out
there that that aren't in this draft

1162
01:17:03.520 --> 01:17:08.800
pool, So I'd like to see
maybe a similar type AJ McCarron type signing.

1163
01:17:09.399 --> 01:17:14.920
On the flip side. AJ's doing
bar rescue or the Bar Olympics right

1164
01:17:14.960 --> 01:17:18.359
now in Vegas. I didn't see
see him out there last week, but

1165
01:17:18.920 --> 01:17:21.199
you know, I'd love to see
Aja come back. I mean, it's

1166
01:17:21.239 --> 01:17:26.319
good for our city, it's good
for the league. But at the same

1167
01:17:26.359 --> 01:17:30.800
time, like what does he have
the proof? You know, like what

1168
01:17:30.960 --> 01:17:33.800
does he want to do? Remember
the big thing with AJ is in twenty

1169
01:17:33.840 --> 01:17:40.079
twenty two, he didn't do anything
in twenty twenty two. He was recovering

1170
01:17:40.159 --> 01:17:44.119
from his ACL tear and then comes
and plays football. So he's got a

1171
01:17:44.159 --> 01:17:47.119
little bit of that motivation to get
back. He came in, he became

1172
01:17:47.359 --> 01:17:53.640
good team guy. Jake Browning was
also a practice squad guy that got elevated.

1173
01:17:53.680 --> 01:17:57.800
No extension there, so he's an
unrestricted free agent. Browning played pretty

1174
01:17:57.800 --> 01:18:00.119
well. Does he get a lot
more money to go do a Jared Sidham

1175
01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:06.159
thing in Vegas or something like that
or another team? I don't know.

1176
01:18:06.680 --> 01:18:11.319
All of a sudden, you don't
have Jake Browning, who's your QB two?

1177
01:18:11.319 --> 01:18:13.760
Do you go back and go get
Brandon Allen, Well, I know

1178
01:18:13.800 --> 01:18:16.600
that AJ's better than Brandon Allen's.
I'd rather keep AJ. Here's a two

1179
01:18:16.720 --> 01:18:20.119
year, four million dollar deal.
My dude, go hang out with Joe

1180
01:18:20.199 --> 01:18:25.760
burrow a getting somewhere. Picks in
here, greg Any thoughts on the AJ,

1181
01:18:25.800 --> 01:18:28.840
and they we can roll through some
of these picks. Yeah. I

1182
01:18:28.880 --> 01:18:33.920
mean, if the best case scenario
for the BattleHawks is AJ mccarren decides that

1183
01:18:33.960 --> 01:18:39.520
he wants to return to the UFL
and the BattleHawks and he has no interest

1184
01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:43.479
in signing a contract with an NFL
team for twenty twenty four, but you

1185
01:18:43.520 --> 01:18:46.680
have to remember that's that's going to
be March fifteenth ish, so you're talking

1186
01:18:46.720 --> 01:18:53.199
two weeks away from the XFL season
or the UFL season beginning. So that's

1187
01:18:53.199 --> 01:18:57.880
a really tight window for him to
come in. And I mean, it's

1188
01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:00.479
probably gonna be the same playbook because
I think Anthony Beck said that Bruce Gregkowski

1189
01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:04.439
is returning his offensive coordinator, So
it may be best case scenario, but

1190
01:19:04.439 --> 01:19:08.279
it's still gonna be two weeks and
you're still gonna be coming in toward the

1191
01:19:08.399 --> 01:19:12.399
end of camp when you've had other
quarterbacks there working with these players, a

1192
01:19:12.399 --> 01:19:15.960
lot of new players by the way, you know, because of the merge

1193
01:19:15.000 --> 01:19:18.720
of the USFL and XFL Battlehawk's adding
a lot of offensive players who maybe weren't

1194
01:19:18.720 --> 01:19:21.960
there last year. So you know, even in the best case scenario,

1195
01:19:23.039 --> 01:19:26.479
it's going to be a tight squeeze
to get in on time and to earn

1196
01:19:26.479 --> 01:19:30.880
that starting spot. And as we
end round five, Juan Minigo going to

1197
01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:33.840
the Renning Gades, I believe he
was an offseason signing of them. I

1198
01:19:33.880 --> 01:19:39.399
want to point out that the last
two picks by the Panthers were specialists,

1199
01:19:39.439 --> 01:19:44.520
and they protected a kicker in Jake
Bates from Arkansas. They drafted Brock Miller,

1200
01:19:44.520 --> 01:19:47.039
a punter from New Jersey. They
now have two kickers and two punters

1201
01:19:47.039 --> 01:19:50.319
on their offser So read earlier in
the show, you asked me who's gonna

1202
01:19:50.319 --> 01:19:54.279
be my favorite team? Now it
might be the Panthers because they are stocking

1203
01:19:54.359 --> 01:19:57.680
up on specialists. Well, I
you know, because then I mean might

1204
01:19:57.720 --> 01:19:59.600
as well, and then you kind
of get your pick of the litter here,

1205
01:19:59.640 --> 01:20:02.000
especially the guys that have been part
of it before. Pat any thoughts

1206
01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:06.640
on that that is socking up here
on the special teams, not not really,

1207
01:20:06.680 --> 01:20:10.600
I mean, I mean I wouldn't
have done it, but Jake,

1208
01:20:10.800 --> 01:20:14.680
you know. But you know,
Mike Nolan's coached way more games in the

1209
01:20:14.800 --> 01:20:18.439
NFL than I have. Big thing
to note is Jake Bates has never kicked

1210
01:20:18.439 --> 01:20:23.640
a field goal at the collegiate level. He's been a kickoff specialist for years.

1211
01:20:25.239 --> 01:20:28.079
I don't know if Brock Miller can
do kickoffs. I assume he can.

1212
01:20:28.199 --> 01:20:30.880
He's got a hell of a leg. They just pick up Kyle Kramer,

1213
01:20:30.920 --> 01:20:35.720
who was with them as well from
twenty twenty after they released Michael Carazosa.

1214
01:20:35.840 --> 01:20:40.920
So very curious to see on that
BattleHawks pick up a guard by the

1215
01:20:40.920 --> 01:20:47.079
way, Abdual beacham some USFL experience
there he was with Orlando. I mean,

1216
01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:51.239
I think he's a mid tier guard. You know, he's pretty active

1217
01:20:51.279 --> 01:20:55.840
on social media, so they might
come at me about it. But there's

1218
01:20:55.880 --> 01:21:01.479
my man, bj But you know, that's a lot of goofy stuff going

1219
01:21:01.520 --> 01:21:04.399
on. In my opinion, I
think the problem is they're getting shot gun

1220
01:21:04.399 --> 01:21:08.960
to us and like all different types
of waves. So I'm like trying,

1221
01:21:09.000 --> 01:21:12.760
I'm having a hard time keeping up. I just went everyone coming down.

1222
01:21:12.880 --> 01:21:15.439
Yeah, coach Greg, get you
pounds on any of this stuff here?

1223
01:21:15.479 --> 01:21:17.239
Coming in. I think KD is
the latest year, and then we're kind

1224
01:21:17.239 --> 01:21:20.520
of rolling up. Yeah, that's
not the KD canon one. And it's

1225
01:21:20.560 --> 01:21:25.800
just like he just keeps floating around
for forever. It seems like I believe

1226
01:21:25.800 --> 01:21:29.439
it was like the first iteration or
you know, the XFL twenty twenty,

1227
01:21:29.479 --> 01:21:31.319
he was like supposed to play in
that and then just like never showed up

1228
01:21:31.920 --> 01:21:34.319
and he just kind of bounced around
for a while. I'm just he's like

1229
01:21:34.319 --> 01:21:36.279
one of those guys. I'm like, I'm just kind of sick of this

1230
01:21:36.359 --> 01:21:39.039
guy. At this point in time. He had, you know, I

1231
01:21:39.039 --> 01:21:42.239
had a couple of decent games last
year for Orlando where he got deep on

1232
01:21:42.279 --> 01:21:46.760
a couple of touchdowns and whatnot.
But you know, nothing against the guy

1233
01:21:46.840 --> 01:21:49.960
personally. It's just like, eh, kind of sticking yea this point,

1234
01:21:51.000 --> 01:21:55.520
anything here, show botes anyone else's
I kind of roll back up here,

1235
01:21:56.359 --> 01:22:00.520
Salasi here BJ. We got BJ
before I hear Gene call him in here

1236
01:22:00.560 --> 01:22:05.199
going to the roughnecks wide receiver.
Not really anything on that. I mean,

1237
01:22:05.840 --> 01:22:13.680
I mean in the Gambler's offense,
I felt that there Pooka can't let's

1238
01:22:13.720 --> 01:22:16.560
talk about him. Pocka will there
you go. Let's Pooka Williams was with

1239
01:22:16.600 --> 01:22:21.920
the BattleHawks for about thirty eight minutes, originally drafted by DC last year.

1240
01:22:23.680 --> 01:22:27.439
Big thing about Pooka there was a
legal issue that came up recently as well.

1241
01:22:28.840 --> 01:22:30.479
You know, a guy that really
everyone thought was gonna pop if you're

1242
01:22:30.520 --> 01:22:34.600
really in step with these leagues and
didn't didn't really get the opportunity to whether

1243
01:22:34.600 --> 01:22:39.279
it be his own. But you
know, fringe, fringe NFL guy at

1244
01:22:39.279 --> 01:22:43.199
one point versus overturn man, all
that goofy stuff. So let's see what

1245
01:22:43.279 --> 01:22:47.359
happens with Pooka. A couple others
on here coming down here, Van Trail

1246
01:22:47.800 --> 01:22:53.119
going to the Panthers, and then
Madre Harper here going to the Stallions.

1247
01:22:53.159 --> 01:22:57.000
As I kind of get up to
date here, Van Trell was part of

1248
01:22:57.000 --> 01:23:00.880
their defensive line rotation last year with
Michigan. You tea Chatt a NEWGA guy

1249
01:23:01.600 --> 01:23:06.119
played some snaps in the CFL.
You know, there's there's a lot of

1250
01:23:06.199 --> 01:23:11.359
key pieces, like when anytime you
have Breelan speaks there, that secondary defensive

1251
01:23:11.399 --> 01:23:15.479
end spot is going to be a
big like what if? As far as

1252
01:23:15.479 --> 01:23:18.920
like who's going to be the guy
you saw speaks get that extra attention.

1253
01:23:19.439 --> 01:23:24.560
Last year they signed Levi Bell,
who Bell had four and a half five

1254
01:23:24.680 --> 01:23:28.479
sacks in about six games or something
like that. And when you bring in

1255
01:23:28.560 --> 01:23:31.399
Levi Bell, who's a muscle hamster, plays very similar to Patrick Richard,

1256
01:23:31.880 --> 01:23:35.399
it was really great to see that
Bell get more exposure. And then it

1257
01:23:35.560 --> 01:23:41.439
opened up like Breeland Speaks having a
lot more success on the back end because

1258
01:23:41.439 --> 01:23:45.680
now there's another dominant pass rusher there. If you can have that, just

1259
01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:50.239
have a average and I use that
an average defensive ends on the other side

1260
01:23:50.239 --> 01:23:54.279
of Breedland Speaks, it's gonna be
It's gonna be a good time. You

1261
01:23:54.319 --> 01:23:57.359
know. It's kind of like Sam
Hubbard is a lot better than we think

1262
01:23:57.399 --> 01:24:00.840
because of Trey Hendrickson for the Bengals. Greg, I've had a lot of

1263
01:24:00.920 --> 01:24:04.600
questions in the chat here, even
another one here talking about why has the

1264
01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:09.199
anyone picked up Jeff Beidet. It
was about about five six seven here.

1265
01:24:09.199 --> 01:24:15.600
Are you surprised no Bedet signing yet? I am a little bit. You

1266
01:24:15.640 --> 01:24:18.760
know, he's he's another one that's
been campaigning on social media about being po

1267
01:24:19.479 --> 01:24:25.439
We know he's in the draft pool. But yeah, you know, you

1268
01:24:25.479 --> 01:24:28.159
look at some of these wide receivers
that have picked like a Katie Cannon,

1269
01:24:28.600 --> 01:24:30.960
who, yes, he's speedy,
lacks a little bit of size that Bedet

1270
01:24:31.000 --> 01:24:35.479
may have over him. So you
know, he was he was in a

1271
01:24:35.560 --> 01:24:40.680
rough offense last year with Vegas.
You know, even with Arlington or Dallas

1272
01:24:40.680 --> 01:24:44.239
in twenty twenty, he didn't really
shine. I think he only averaged you

1273
01:24:44.239 --> 01:24:47.079
know, seven or eight yards per
catch, so he did wasn't really used

1274
01:24:47.159 --> 01:24:51.199
to stretch the field as his speed
would indicate. So there might be some

1275
01:24:51.319 --> 01:24:56.359
questions about that with him. But
yeah, I would expect him to be

1276
01:24:56.439 --> 01:25:00.319
selected by the end of the draft. Maybe someone takes a late fly on

1277
01:25:00.439 --> 01:25:02.840
him as a wide receiver, but
it's certainly a little surprise that he hasn't

1278
01:25:02.840 --> 01:25:06.279
gone by now. Uh, Pat
for you, as we talk about Cameron

1279
01:25:06.359 --> 01:25:10.000
Kelly here getting pulled up, Andrew
has a question the chat where do you

1280
01:25:10.039 --> 01:25:13.479
think the BattleHawks need to improve?
And obviously here with drafted with the safety

1281
01:25:13.479 --> 01:25:15.960
and then we have a couple more
picks for whether you make of Andrew's question,

1282
01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:18.800
I mean, I'm pretty I'm pretty
good right now. I'd like to

1283
01:25:18.840 --> 01:25:24.680
see him get and this is this
is kind of a generic statement. I

1284
01:25:24.800 --> 01:25:29.800
like to see him get a straight
dog in the secondary. You know,

1285
01:25:29.880 --> 01:25:31.560
I think the guys they have right
now are good, but there's no one

1286
01:25:31.760 --> 01:25:33.840
like that. I'm looking at that. I'm like, oh, okay,

1287
01:25:33.960 --> 01:25:39.039
no fly zone type thing. They're
linebacking corps. I'm pretty okay with.

1288
01:25:40.159 --> 01:25:44.680
You know, you have a team
they addressed the they addressed receiver, you

1289
01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:48.920
know, because they don't have Marcel
Aman or Darius Shephard right now coming back

1290
01:25:49.079 --> 01:25:56.119
with Blake Blake Jackson and Jakor Pearson. Maybe a tight end that really stretched

1291
01:25:56.119 --> 01:25:59.760
that field. Obviously we're all holding
our breath a quarterback and that's the easy

1292
01:25:59.800 --> 01:26:01.760
thing to say, but I would
love to see a tight end to kind

1293
01:26:01.760 --> 01:26:05.880
of stretch that field, really work
the seams and everything like that. And

1294
01:26:06.960 --> 01:26:14.760
you know, because right now they
have Kamari Kamari Ebert and another gentleman who

1295
01:26:14.800 --> 01:26:17.880
was the backup the Kyle Pitts at
Florida before he went to UCF. And

1296
01:26:17.920 --> 01:26:21.720
then there's big Jake Sutherlin who's more
of your full back type. So I

1297
01:26:21.720 --> 01:26:28.439
think they're pretty stacked outside of quarterback, but we could see a quarterback pop

1298
01:26:28.479 --> 01:26:31.079
out of nowhere tomorrow, you know, once free agency comes up because of

1299
01:26:31.119 --> 01:26:38.840
all these guys who aren't being being
signed the future. So Craig, we

1300
01:26:38.920 --> 01:26:42.439
have a couple more signings coming in
here. I will likely going to the

1301
01:26:42.439 --> 01:26:46.960
Showboats and then talking about Eric here
with the Panthers and the dear Ruz going

1302
01:26:46.960 --> 01:26:50.239
to the Defenders, keeping him back
with the Defenders. I think that's kind

1303
01:26:50.239 --> 01:26:55.279
of do they hear any other thoughts
on these picks? Yeah, obviously Will

1304
01:26:55.399 --> 01:26:57.560
likely. He's been a guy that's
been around for a little while now,

1305
01:26:57.640 --> 01:27:00.560
so he's been a pretty good player
when he's gone out there. He's been

1306
01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:03.479
help when he's been out there and
healthy. I saw Lannon Akers was another

1307
01:27:03.479 --> 01:27:08.840
one there too that popped up him
staying with san Antonio essentially. So obviously

1308
01:27:08.880 --> 01:27:11.880
he did enough and he was a
guy that came on pretty good at the

1309
01:27:11.880 --> 01:27:13.920
beginning of the year. Then he
got hurt. I believe it was an

1310
01:27:13.960 --> 01:27:15.439
ankle injury. He missed like what
was it like six weeks or something.

1311
01:27:15.479 --> 01:27:18.800
That kind of slowed down after that
too, although you know san Antonio had

1312
01:27:18.920 --> 01:27:23.720
all their other issues. It'll be
very interesting to see what that team looks

1313
01:27:23.800 --> 01:27:27.239
like in total by the time you
know the whole new coaching staff. A.

1314
01:27:27.359 --> 01:27:30.640
J. Smith what his impact on
this offense looks like overall too,

1315
01:27:30.680 --> 01:27:32.760
because they have a lot of interesting
pieces here, but how they kind of

1316
01:27:32.760 --> 01:27:36.000
put all those offensive players together is
gonna be very interesting, I think.

1317
01:27:36.319 --> 01:27:41.640
And yeah, go for it.
That Acres was traded to the Roughnecks in

1318
01:27:41.720 --> 01:27:45.520
the offseason, and I book the
Stallions picking back up of both Scarborough,

1319
01:27:45.600 --> 01:27:49.159
So no, I don't think that
was a surprise personally. Yeah, Boe

1320
01:27:49.239 --> 01:27:53.039
coming back here on that, Greg, toss back to you. Any updated

1321
01:27:53.079 --> 01:27:55.840
thoughts. Yeah, A couple of
things that stand out to me. It

1322
01:27:55.880 --> 01:28:00.039
looks like Arlington did not make a
sixth round pick, so they may be

1323
01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:03.119
done. If they passed on that, they may be done for the day.

1324
01:28:03.319 --> 01:28:08.840
And if so, it looks like
that would give them sixty one players

1325
01:28:08.840 --> 01:28:12.479
on their roster, so there's plenty
of room for them to add over free

1326
01:28:12.520 --> 01:28:18.640
agency. Khalil McKenzie just going to
the BattleHawks in round seven. He was

1327
01:28:18.680 --> 01:28:21.760
a starter at center for the Vipers, got hurt last year. Donovan West,

1328
01:28:21.760 --> 01:28:28.199
who actually I believe was also picked
by the BattleHawks in the previous draft,

1329
01:28:28.880 --> 01:28:32.319
so he came in and replaced McKenzie
at center. So McKenzie is a

1330
01:28:32.359 --> 01:28:38.880
guy son of Reggie McKenzie. Former
NFL player Khalil comes in. He's got

1331
01:28:38.880 --> 01:28:41.880
some NFL experience as well on practice
squads. I think that's a really good

1332
01:28:41.920 --> 01:28:45.239
pick for the seventh round. Pat, we have a question here, why

1333
01:28:45.239 --> 01:28:47.159
did they draft a running back when
they have Mark Thompson here? Talking about

1334
01:28:47.159 --> 01:28:53.239
the thoughts on that the gamble next, who did which? Why did they

1335
01:28:53.279 --> 01:28:55.920
drave? Oh yeah, I mean
why would it? Well, you got

1336
01:28:55.920 --> 01:29:00.760
to have depth there, right if
TJ. Pleaser, who played a decent

1337
01:29:00.760 --> 01:29:05.000
amount when Mark was hurt earlier in
the year, let me pull up their

1338
01:29:05.359 --> 01:29:08.880
roster real quick. But in the
end, like it's gonna come down to

1339
01:29:08.920 --> 01:29:11.920
a lot of like it's it might
not just be about running the ball.

1340
01:29:11.960 --> 01:29:15.159
And I know it's a crazy thing
to say, right, it comes down

1341
01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:16.520
to, like, Okay, we're
gonna pick up this guy. What's this

1342
01:29:16.640 --> 01:29:19.840
film? Noe? Okay, we
see all this goofy stuff. He could

1343
01:29:19.840 --> 01:29:23.720
play our kickoff, he can play
our special teams. He could he could

1344
01:29:23.760 --> 01:29:27.119
be our third down pass catching back. Pledger didn't really do that much,

1345
01:29:27.199 --> 01:29:30.479
you know, Shamary you know they
picked up Shamari Jones as well, I

1346
01:29:30.520 --> 01:29:35.199
think in the offseason. But you
want a guy who's gonna be your ability

1347
01:29:35.279 --> 01:29:39.760
to fill out more roster spots in
that special teams. But not only that,

1348
01:29:39.880 --> 01:29:42.039
when you're going in the camp,
if you're going in the camp with

1349
01:29:42.079 --> 01:29:45.520
only three running backs, you're gonna
have your running back three running those scout

1350
01:29:45.520 --> 01:29:47.279
team reps. Well, depending on
the game plan, you might want to

1351
01:29:47.319 --> 01:29:51.439
have that running back with your first
team while your scout team's doing their thing.

1352
01:29:51.640 --> 01:29:56.279
I don't know because of the roster
sizes how they break up their practices.

1353
01:29:56.680 --> 01:29:59.399
Normally, if your team's big enough, you had your scout scout O

1354
01:29:59.560 --> 01:30:02.279
going again to your team one D
and your Scout D going against your team

1355
01:30:02.279 --> 01:30:05.720
one oh. With fifty one players
on this roster, I don't think they

1356
01:30:05.760 --> 01:30:10.199
really have that privilege. So you
really want these running backs to come in,

1357
01:30:10.319 --> 01:30:13.239
especially in camp, which is going
to be the majority of your install,

1358
01:30:13.640 --> 01:30:17.319
to be really taking away those reps
because I think we'll all be who

1359
01:30:17.479 --> 01:30:24.439
and hollering if Mark Thompson gets hurt
against during scout team reps because Shamari Jones

1360
01:30:24.479 --> 01:30:28.880
couldn't go because he's got a tweaked
ankle, and TJ Pledger isn't feeling his

1361
01:30:28.960 --> 01:30:32.560
best self either. Craig Any thoughts
on this stuff. And then I have

1362
01:30:32.600 --> 01:30:35.560
a couple of questions here in the
chat. We have a new also as

1363
01:30:35.600 --> 01:30:43.359
well as san Antonio aj Hendy here
going from the Reughnecks. Yeah, I

1364
01:30:43.399 --> 01:30:45.640
don't think I got too much else
to add really there. I mean I

1365
01:30:45.640 --> 01:30:47.880
talked a little bit about Gray when
he got drafted. But you know,

1366
01:30:47.920 --> 01:30:51.199
maybe it's the pass catching aspect,
because you look at the guys that they

1367
01:30:51.279 --> 01:30:55.800
got with Mark Thompson, TJ.
Pledger, Tyane Evans, you don't really

1368
01:30:55.840 --> 01:30:59.439
think about them as being past catchers
as much. But you know, anybody

1369
01:30:59.520 --> 01:31:00.960
that can play it a little bit
of a verstyle role is going to be

1370
01:31:00.960 --> 01:31:04.760
important in these types of leagues just
in general. A couple questions here.

1371
01:31:04.800 --> 01:31:09.319
We have a question from Robber and
the question from Vinnie. This is more

1372
01:31:09.399 --> 01:31:12.479
I think of a philosophical question,
a little bit of talking free agency.

1373
01:31:12.520 --> 01:31:15.960
Greg Robert wants to know how does
free agency even work if the leagues run

1374
01:31:15.000 --> 01:31:17.960
the teams and everyone makes the same
salaries. Man, I know the USFL

1375
01:31:18.000 --> 01:31:20.520
had a little bit more of it, felt like the free agency signings and

1376
01:31:20.560 --> 01:31:24.680
during the summer and stuff, but
how are you expecting this with the eight

1377
01:31:24.680 --> 01:31:27.560
teams now? And it's so weird
because we don't know what you how many

1378
01:31:27.800 --> 01:31:30.520
spots in every team. But philosophically, I think this is going to work

1379
01:31:30.520 --> 01:31:33.079
here moving forward. One of the
big questions, right, I would assume

1380
01:31:34.359 --> 01:31:40.079
teams go out and recruit players and
try to bring them in, and ultimately,

1381
01:31:40.199 --> 01:31:43.680
if San Antonio and Memphis are both
recruiting the same player, the player

1382
01:31:43.720 --> 01:31:48.000
decides where to go and they sign
a league wide contract and for that team.

1383
01:31:48.079 --> 01:31:53.039
So you know, my understanding as
it used to be for the XFL

1384
01:31:53.079 --> 01:31:55.359
back in twenty twenty, like they
would sign with the league, they would

1385
01:31:55.359 --> 01:31:59.439
go into a pool and teams would
claim them from there. But I get

1386
01:31:59.439 --> 01:32:03.199
the sense there's a lot more networking
going on amongst DPPs, among coaches where

1387
01:32:03.239 --> 01:32:06.880
they're reaching out to players trying to
bring them in, or maybe players are

1388
01:32:06.880 --> 01:32:09.920
reaching out and saying, hey,
I'm willing to play in this league,

1389
01:32:09.920 --> 01:32:12.640
but I want to play for this
team. So it may be a player's

1390
01:32:12.640 --> 01:32:16.159
market here if that's the way it
goes. But you know, obviously we

1391
01:32:16.239 --> 01:32:20.199
don't have all that information, so
that's kind of informed speculation for me.

1392
01:32:21.439 --> 01:32:24.520
Pat, I got the same question
for you, and then we have a

1393
01:32:24.560 --> 01:32:28.640
follow up here Benny has a question
as well. Here we'll get to I

1394
01:32:28.680 --> 01:32:30.960
mean not to be Edgy Robert,
but it comes down to opportunity, right,

1395
01:32:31.159 --> 01:32:35.399
Like if I am a free agent
quarterback and I can make the same

1396
01:32:35.439 --> 01:32:40.479
amount of money, but I have
to go against you know, give a

1397
01:32:40.560 --> 01:32:43.520
quarterback for example, Ben de Nucci
from last year. Right, let's say

1398
01:32:43.520 --> 01:32:45.960
he doesn't play with the Sea Dragons. He's in the same situation where he's

1399
01:32:46.000 --> 01:32:48.079
like, I need to go play
in the spring League to do X,

1400
01:32:48.199 --> 01:32:54.119
Y and Z. Do I want
to go play for X team with this

1401
01:32:54.239 --> 01:32:58.079
quarterback who's established like the Showboats,
Or do I feel like I can go

1402
01:32:58.159 --> 01:33:01.319
beat out Quinn Dormandy, or I
can beat out Jamalen McClendon for DC or

1403
01:33:01.359 --> 01:33:04.880
San Antonio. So it comes down
to that these guys, very few of

1404
01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:09.640
them, I would have to say, want to make their career playing in

1405
01:33:09.680 --> 01:33:15.600
the UFL. I believe that everyone
who goes to the UFL has the dream

1406
01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:18.760
of going to the NFL. Crazy, right, So at this point these

1407
01:33:18.760 --> 01:33:21.359
guys are going to be looking at
it saying what scheme do I fit the

1408
01:33:21.399 --> 01:33:25.119
best, Where can I go to, Where am I going to get on

1409
01:33:25.159 --> 01:33:29.239
the field, and what can I
do to showcase my talents in an effort

1410
01:33:29.279 --> 01:33:35.079
to reach my goals. We have
a couple more picks here coming in Jamir

1411
01:33:35.239 --> 01:33:40.760
Ross Johnson here going back to the
Stallions here at stacked with chanting it back

1412
01:33:40.760 --> 01:33:45.119
to back at CJ. Johnson going
to the defenders. Craig for you,

1413
01:33:45.199 --> 01:33:47.840
Vinny has a question this guy here, who'd you guys have said having the

1414
01:33:47.840 --> 01:33:51.039
best draft offensively? Who have you
been impressed by of any of these teams?

1415
01:33:53.600 --> 01:33:57.399
M is kind of tough, like
because without looking at like in totality

1416
01:33:57.520 --> 01:34:02.239
to you, yeah, I will, I think, what's your gut feeling?

1417
01:34:03.039 --> 01:34:08.359
Oh, it's tough right now.
I like what Saint Louis has done

1418
01:34:08.439 --> 01:34:11.439
so far, like addressing some of
their secondaries and the players they brought in.

1419
01:34:12.560 --> 01:34:15.399
I'll see it. Even like c
J. Johnson there though too.

1420
01:34:15.439 --> 01:34:18.680
That's another DC defender. They're going
after these big body wide receivers still besides

1421
01:34:18.880 --> 01:34:23.119
Chris Rowland, but you know he's
a guy at Eastern Carolina. He was

1422
01:34:23.239 --> 01:34:27.319
a very very good player. He
had a lot of off the field issues.

1423
01:34:27.600 --> 01:34:30.840
He got invited in the NFL comments
still last year did all right there?

1424
01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:32.800
You know, got a cup of
coffee in like training camp. But

1425
01:34:33.239 --> 01:34:35.960
he's a guy that could be very
good in this league if he has his

1426
01:34:36.000 --> 01:34:41.079
head on straight. Greg's same question, who are you feeling like as having

1427
01:34:41.079 --> 01:34:45.399
the best draft offensively? Offensively?
I look at again, DC. You

1428
01:34:45.399 --> 01:34:47.600
know they pick a quarterback. They
needed another one. I'm not really sold

1429
01:34:47.640 --> 01:34:51.279
on Jalen McClendon me the answer,
but they addressed it with a high draft

1430
01:34:51.279 --> 01:34:55.399
pick, adding two receivers. C
J. Johnson. When I wrote my

1431
01:34:55.479 --> 01:35:00.119
column on UFL board, Johnson was
my surprise unprotected from the defenders. I

1432
01:35:00.159 --> 01:35:02.680
was surprised that they left him unprotected. So to come back in the super

1433
01:35:02.720 --> 01:35:05.399
dispersal draft and get him in round
eight, I think is a pretty good

1434
01:35:05.439 --> 01:35:12.399
bargain. You know, you look
at it looks like a lot of teams

1435
01:35:12.520 --> 01:35:17.159
really helped themselves on defense. Saint
Louis adding three guards. Their draft is

1436
01:35:17.199 --> 01:35:20.159
done, but they added Khalil McKenzie, who I already raved about. Abdul

1437
01:35:20.199 --> 01:35:25.319
Beacham from Orlando. Christian Olums said
backup types. But as we've seen with

1438
01:35:25.359 --> 01:35:28.560
these leagues, you need good backups. I mean, if you can go

1439
01:35:29.079 --> 01:35:31.319
too deep at every position on the
offensive line, you're going to be in

1440
01:35:31.319 --> 01:35:35.880
pretty good shape. The Brahmas did
some interesting stuff adding bj Wilson. They

1441
01:35:35.880 --> 01:35:41.279
added Landon Acres coming back over Katie
Cannon. So we know in that offense,

1442
01:35:41.279 --> 01:35:43.600
wide receivers are going to be important. They're going to play a role,

1443
01:35:43.680 --> 01:35:46.039
so kind of like some of those
pickups. And you know Memphis with

1444
01:35:46.079 --> 01:35:49.399
their last pick in the at the
eighth round, Damian Willis out of Seattle,

1445
01:35:49.720 --> 01:35:55.319
so he was pretty far down the
receiver depth chart I think in Seattle,

1446
01:35:55.359 --> 01:35:59.079
but still playing in a June Jones
offense is going to get you noticed.

1447
01:35:59.119 --> 01:36:01.359
So I think he did pretty well
there and has a pretty good pick

1448
01:36:01.399 --> 01:36:05.960
up for round eight. We had
a question asking about the Renegades drafting.

1449
01:36:06.000 --> 01:36:12.359
It looks like their last pick was
Juwan Minigo here coming in about seventeen minutes

1450
01:36:12.359 --> 01:36:15.479
ago. So just again I had
had on their battle Hawks announcing they're done,

1451
01:36:15.479 --> 01:36:19.000
a kind of a different vary numbers
and all that stuff. Anyway,

1452
01:36:19.000 --> 01:36:21.479
from Mike's question, Pat, who
you feel like is having the best draft

1453
01:36:21.520 --> 01:36:29.199
defensively, I think I think you
said defensively or overall, well, however

1454
01:36:29.199 --> 01:36:30.520
you want to take it at this
point, overall, I think it was

1455
01:36:30.560 --> 01:36:35.119
san Antonio. I mean, I
think you automatically upgrade. When you pick

1456
01:36:35.199 --> 01:36:39.680
up you know, Quentin Dormandy,
you know, dealing with all the stuff

1457
01:36:39.680 --> 01:36:42.239
that he did, showed a lot
of bouts. You throw him in that

1458
01:36:42.279 --> 01:36:45.880
AJ Smith offense. I think it
could get real, real goofy in a

1459
01:36:45.920 --> 01:36:49.279
good way. You picked up DJ
Wilson, sup Shure up to the offensive

1460
01:36:49.279 --> 01:36:54.359
tackle spot. You bring back landon
Acres, someone that they obviously had their

1461
01:36:54.359 --> 01:36:57.680
eye on for the trade. I
think going at that front, they're a

1462
01:36:57.760 --> 01:37:01.159
much improved team. You keep pieces
all around. You know, Saint louis

1463
01:37:01.960 --> 01:37:10.039
really depth heavy. No one really
blows me away as far as as far

1464
01:37:10.039 --> 01:37:13.840
as too. They picked up I
do like Khalil McKenzie XFL twenty twenty guy,

1465
01:37:14.039 --> 01:37:16.720
some NFL experience and also played i
think all ten games last year,

1466
01:37:17.560 --> 01:37:23.600
able to be versatile, So there
are definitely some improvements on that offensive offensive

1467
01:37:23.640 --> 01:37:28.239
line. They also brought back Christian
Olmsted, who was their seventh or eighth

1468
01:37:28.359 --> 01:37:31.000
offensive lineman that you know played on
field goal but in active a decent amounts.

1469
01:37:31.079 --> 01:37:35.399
So a lot of safe picks,
a lot of picks that could easily

1470
01:37:35.640 --> 01:37:41.199
improve the team. But we leave
this draft without a quarterback, and that

1471
01:37:41.319 --> 01:37:46.000
is something that fans of the league
will be tweeting about and blowing up dms

1472
01:37:46.039 --> 01:37:50.079
about and all that goofy stuff.
Greg, how are we doing in terms

1473
01:37:50.119 --> 01:37:53.560
of like where we're at in the
draft? I know that Saint Louis is

1474
01:37:53.600 --> 01:37:55.800
done, he said, are we
kind of winding down here? I'm trying

1475
01:37:55.800 --> 01:37:59.960
to check some of the teams.
Looks like it looks like Arlington, Michigan,

1476
01:38:00.239 --> 01:38:03.039
Houston are done. They didn't make
round eight picks. Saint Louis announced

1477
01:38:03.079 --> 01:38:08.600
that almost said was their last pick. So we're looking at Memphis DC in

1478
01:38:08.680 --> 01:38:13.560
Birmingham potentially with round nine picks,
although we're not sure. I haven't seen

1479
01:38:13.600 --> 01:38:16.039
any other picks come in the for
the ninth round. But I think,

1480
01:38:16.359 --> 01:38:20.560
you know, Pat is right in
terms of the Brahmas, like if you

1481
01:38:20.640 --> 01:38:27.279
can come into a draft like this
and get potentially a starting quarterback in Quenton

1482
01:38:27.319 --> 01:38:30.159
Dormandy, And I think, you
know, maybe a little unfair to judge

1483
01:38:30.239 --> 01:38:33.479
Jack cone By last year because of
the offensive line issues, because of the

1484
01:38:33.479 --> 01:38:38.159
injuries elsewhere on the offense, not
just the offensive line, by the way,

1485
01:38:38.199 --> 01:38:41.479
they had some running back issues as
well with Kylen Bilage. Maybe tough

1486
01:38:41.520 --> 01:38:45.800
to judge, but certainly Quenton Dormandy
showed at the end of last season that

1487
01:38:45.119 --> 01:38:49.560
he could be a starting quarterback caliber
player in a league like this. So

1488
01:38:49.680 --> 01:38:54.239
if you're able to get a starter
at that position in this type of draft,

1489
01:38:54.520 --> 01:38:56.800
I think that vaults you to the
top of the list in terms of

1490
01:38:57.079 --> 01:39:01.479
who won this draft. Craig Any
thoughts on kind of rounding out any of

1491
01:39:01.520 --> 01:39:06.359
these rosters, anything else on pat
what Greg said, I don't really have

1492
01:39:06.399 --> 01:39:10.279
too much else to add. I
think, you know, San Antonio did

1493
01:39:10.319 --> 01:39:14.159
a good job with kind of what
they've done. Like I like what Saint

1494
01:39:14.199 --> 01:39:15.880
Louis did. I think a lot. You know, at the end of

1495
01:39:15.920 --> 01:39:19.520
the day, it's hard to get
like to screw up this type of draft,

1496
01:39:19.560 --> 01:39:25.079
honestly, because you're picking players that
you already didn't have, making your

1497
01:39:25.159 --> 01:39:28.560
roster a little bit better. So
every team should be getting better in this

1498
01:39:28.680 --> 01:39:31.720
too. I think obviously the special
teams when we were talking about Michigan earlier,

1499
01:39:31.800 --> 01:39:34.800
was kind of interested in having two
kickers and two punters. But you

1500
01:39:34.880 --> 01:39:40.680
know, to each their own in
that regard. Patty think Dormany that was

1501
01:39:40.720 --> 01:39:45.680
the biggest name today in the draft. Yeah, maybe not first play,

1502
01:39:45.760 --> 01:39:49.399
but because of all the all the
all the baggage, and I used to

1503
01:39:49.479 --> 01:39:56.239
warn baggage lightly all the stuff the
year before, So I mean, I

1504
01:39:56.239 --> 01:39:59.479
I think his play was a lot
better than a lot of people probably gave

1505
01:39:59.520 --> 01:40:01.800
it credit or and whatnot. But
overall, I'm excited to see a guy

1506
01:40:01.880 --> 01:40:08.119
like that still continue to have an
opportunity, especially with all these all these

1507
01:40:08.560 --> 01:40:11.960
you know, the cutting down of
the workforce and whatnot. Very interesting to

1508
01:40:12.039 --> 01:40:15.000
see though, the amount of air
quote free agency spots. I've had a

1509
01:40:15.039 --> 01:40:21.560
couple guys tell me that they who
were signed that didn't sign their lois that

1510
01:40:21.640 --> 01:40:27.079
they do plan on coming back as
well. So you know, Saint Louis

1511
01:40:27.119 --> 01:40:31.359
only picking what eight guys, seven
guys that brings their roster up to sixty

1512
01:40:31.359 --> 01:40:35.840
one or sixty two. They had
twenty one spots open coming into this DC

1513
01:40:36.079 --> 01:40:42.199
twenty two, you know, Arlington
twenty Birmingham twenty two. So I'm very

1514
01:40:42.239 --> 01:40:45.479
curious to see what's going to happen
as well. Greg names, you're surprised

1515
01:40:45.520 --> 01:40:48.159
to see not pop up here today
that we were talking to Dad and the

1516
01:40:48.199 --> 01:40:53.279
Silvers and all that. I mean, just any any kind of red red

1517
01:40:53.279 --> 01:40:56.520
flags out of there. You're seeing
players that didn't get picked up. Well,

1518
01:40:56.560 --> 01:40:59.960
it's hard to say because we don't
really know, especially for the whole

1519
01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:03.960
overs from last year, who signed
their lois and who did right, so

1520
01:41:04.399 --> 01:41:08.159
we know the ones who are new
to the league, especially for the XFL,

1521
01:41:08.159 --> 01:41:11.079
where they were putting out press releases
of hey, these guys are new

1522
01:41:11.079 --> 01:41:14.680
to the league. They've signed loys
or they've returned from the NFL and they've

1523
01:41:14.720 --> 01:41:17.119
signed LOI. So it's really hard
from that perspective to know who was in

1524
01:41:17.119 --> 01:41:21.920
the pool. Very hard to find
USFL roster information, updated roster information quite

1525
01:41:21.920 --> 01:41:27.880
frankly in you know, preparing my
review of the dispersal draft, and certainly

1526
01:41:28.199 --> 01:41:32.279
as we get to preparing my review
of the super dispersal Draft. So really

1527
01:41:32.319 --> 01:41:36.680
hard to say who was who was
in the dispersal draft other than those who

1528
01:41:36.760 --> 01:41:41.680
made it clear on social media.
A couple more picks here. I just

1529
01:41:41.680 --> 01:41:45.199
want to point out Boogie Roberts by
the picked he did so he was in

1530
01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:49.560
the USFL, signed an LI with
the XFL, I think with the Brahmas

1531
01:41:49.760 --> 01:41:54.399
was not protected among the forty two. So now he goes to the defenders.

1532
01:41:54.680 --> 01:41:57.800
We had John Yarborough go to the
Bramas with the first pick of the

1533
01:41:57.880 --> 01:42:01.640
ninth round. He was with Houston
the XFL last year, So another Roughneck

1534
01:42:01.720 --> 01:42:06.079
being brought over by the Brahmas coaching
staff who coached the Roughnecks last year.

1535
01:42:06.119 --> 01:42:12.399
Long snapper Turner Bernard goes to the
Showboats and as a quandary, right White

1536
01:42:12.479 --> 01:42:15.439
staying with Birmingham. So I think
Birmingham their last five picks have all been

1537
01:42:15.479 --> 01:42:20.560
players who played with Birmingham last year. So you know, when you talk

1538
01:42:20.600 --> 01:42:25.279
about deep teams, right, if
you're Birmingham, you may look at that

1539
01:42:25.319 --> 01:42:28.520
forty two protection lists and say,
wow, I can only protect forty two

1540
01:42:28.920 --> 01:42:31.439
while there's some players who might be
some teams that might be really scrounging to

1541
01:42:31.479 --> 01:42:36.000
find forty two players on their roster
worth protecting. So you're seeing that Birmingham

1542
01:42:36.039 --> 01:42:41.119
had such a deep roster that they
protected their forty two and then they're picking

1543
01:42:41.199 --> 01:42:45.359
up more of their own players to
add to their roster this offseason. What

1544
01:42:45.520 --> 01:42:46.920
I want to get into we can
do a little bit of talk here before

1545
01:42:46.920 --> 01:42:49.880
we get out at some point about
the kickoff game, because I do think

1546
01:42:49.880 --> 01:42:53.600
that that's going to be very interesting
all of that. Yeah, Pat,

1547
01:42:53.640 --> 01:42:55.920
what do you think? Boogie here? I know there have been questions about

1548
01:42:55.920 --> 01:42:59.680
that. Good to see him sticking
around with the defenders any of these these

1549
01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:02.479
last This has to be near the
end here, right in terms of the

1550
01:43:03.079 --> 01:43:06.239
names coming out, I mean,
John Yarborough has been around the league,

1551
01:43:06.640 --> 01:43:11.600
these leagues, TSL guy, Canadian
guy. I think he played with the

1552
01:43:11.640 --> 01:43:17.399
Browns in camp for five minutes,
played with the Gamblers last year in twenty

1553
01:43:17.479 --> 01:43:24.119
twenty two. Kicks over to the
XFL with the Roughnecks. They obviously transition

1554
01:43:24.239 --> 01:43:28.760
staff. John Yarborough versatile, can
play guard and tackle. I don't think

1555
01:43:28.800 --> 01:43:33.680
he's amazing at any spot, but
he's definitely a value piece that has a

1556
01:43:33.680 --> 01:43:39.279
lot of starting experience in these leagues. So definitely not a bad guy to

1557
01:43:39.359 --> 01:43:44.399
have on your roster. Especially you
got to keep these guys around for the

1558
01:43:44.479 --> 01:43:47.960
micro because you still might have some
of these power five guys and group of

1559
01:43:48.000 --> 01:43:51.800
five guys who still think they're going
to be in the NFL. So like,

1560
01:43:51.920 --> 01:43:55.960
in my opinion, you might see
guys who you're like, oh man,

1561
01:43:56.000 --> 01:43:59.319
that's kind of crazy. He's sticking
around in the cycle until these leagues

1562
01:43:59.720 --> 01:44:05.560
start becoming like a legitimate Like this
league isn't going anywhere in ten years and

1563
01:44:05.600 --> 01:44:10.520
with spring football every five minutes,
we're not really sure what's gonna happen.

1564
01:44:10.960 --> 01:44:15.000
Boogie the interior right there. I
believe they had a gentleman named Robert Windsor

1565
01:44:15.600 --> 01:44:19.720
that they that they signed that they
didn't protect, so him and TJ.

1566
01:44:19.880 --> 01:44:25.199
Barnes are really going to clog up
that middle Itsqandre White came on a little

1567
01:44:25.199 --> 01:44:27.199
bit in the end of the year, a little bit more playing time,

1568
01:44:27.239 --> 01:44:32.520
splitting carries with a CJ. Marrible
and Ricky Pearson. So another depth piece,

1569
01:44:32.600 --> 01:44:34.720
Like Greg said, you had teams
that were like, oh man,

1570
01:44:34.760 --> 01:44:38.560
who are we going to protect forty
two? And then you had teams that

1571
01:44:38.600 --> 01:44:42.199
were like, okay, man,
like as soon as you come come up

1572
01:44:42.239 --> 01:44:45.199
in our draft board, like you're
coming back. So don't you know granted

1573
01:44:45.399 --> 01:44:49.279
I'm sure he doesn't live in Birmingham, but don't unpack for too long,

1574
01:44:49.359 --> 01:44:53.800
you know. Well, But also
like Greg, like you said, you

1575
01:44:53.920 --> 01:44:56.880
have I mean, some of these
teams are just a lot better. And

1576
01:44:56.880 --> 01:44:59.840
then you have some of these coaches
right with the Brahmas, that's just weird

1577
01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:02.239
ynamic where like we're wanting to take
a lot of the Roughnecks players to the

1578
01:45:02.239 --> 01:45:06.119
Bromas. Maybe Wade does a want
and the same with de Filippo, which

1579
01:45:06.640 --> 01:45:11.039
who followed me on Twitter the other
day. Some of them it's a fake

1580
01:45:11.079 --> 01:45:15.319
account or not if someone trying to
potentially that could be my USML Conference team.

1581
01:45:15.319 --> 01:45:18.560
But yeah, Greg, just the
roster gymnastics and all of that,

1582
01:45:18.640 --> 01:45:21.880
where you have two of those weird
dynamics with those teams, and like you

1583
01:45:21.880 --> 01:45:25.079
said, yeah, if I'm the
Stallions, I want to save everyone I

1584
01:45:25.079 --> 01:45:28.560
don't want, I don't need any
Malers on my team or whatever. Yeah,

1585
01:45:28.600 --> 01:45:31.359
and that's the whole point of this, these dispersal drafts is to get

1586
01:45:31.359 --> 01:45:36.319
the teams more on even footing.
Where Birmingham is far and away, I

1587
01:45:36.319 --> 01:45:42.439
would say the best roster of the
USFL. DC and Saint Louis certainly two

1588
01:45:42.439 --> 01:45:44.439
of the best rosters in the XFL. And then you have a team like

1589
01:45:44.479 --> 01:45:47.119
the Brahmas, who finished three and
seven last year, really struggled with their

1590
01:45:47.199 --> 01:45:51.760
roster construction with injuries and things like
that. So by being able to draft

1591
01:45:51.800 --> 01:45:57.960
players you know that Birmingham didn't protect, So you know these players that Birmingham

1592
01:45:58.000 --> 01:46:01.239
is selecting back to their roster were
eligib today to be selected by a team

1593
01:46:01.319 --> 01:46:04.640
like San Antonio so that they could
make themselves better. They chose to go

1594
01:46:04.680 --> 01:46:09.199
in different directions. They chose to
load up again, not surprisingly on the

1595
01:46:09.239 --> 01:46:14.479
roughnecks of last year. So I
guess the big point of this is to

1596
01:46:14.960 --> 01:46:16.920
we don't want one in nine teams. Okay, we don't want a team

1597
01:46:16.960 --> 01:46:21.960
like the Guardians being one to nine. Competitive football is the goal here.

1598
01:46:23.439 --> 01:46:27.920
And to that end, how do
you combine two different leagues where you're eliminating

1599
01:46:27.960 --> 01:46:30.560
eight teams and you still have all
of these players who have either signed letters

1600
01:46:30.560 --> 01:46:33.880
of intent or who are under contract. And this goes back to our conversation

1601
01:46:33.960 --> 01:46:39.319
at the beginning of the show,
where this was not a perfect system by

1602
01:46:39.359 --> 01:46:44.319
any stretch, but I certainly couldn't
think of anything better because it's such a

1603
01:46:44.479 --> 01:46:48.359
You have so many complicated factors going
into combining these teams, wanting to do

1604
01:46:48.399 --> 01:46:53.399
it equally, but also wanting to
do it fairly and wanting to make sure

1605
01:46:53.399 --> 01:46:57.199
you're fair about the dispersal, but
also making sure that teams can be as

1606
01:46:57.239 --> 01:47:01.159
equal as possible because you want that
comp petition once the season kicks off.

1607
01:47:01.359 --> 01:47:04.960
You don't want forty to zero snoozers. That's not going to Attrack the audience

1608
01:47:05.000 --> 01:47:10.479
you need to keep these leagues going. We'll get Pat and then we'll go

1609
01:47:10.560 --> 01:47:13.439
to Craig on this. And this
was his interesting came of Matt Lyons just

1610
01:47:13.520 --> 01:47:17.800
posted this in our group chat here. Jeff Bedett tweeting out because they said,

1611
01:47:17.760 --> 01:47:21.239
obviously, Kelly Latimer, how are
you just going to lay Jeff Badet

1612
01:47:21.359 --> 01:47:24.880
on the board. Do whoever I
read the wrong way, I apologize.

1613
01:47:24.880 --> 01:47:27.680
All I ever cared about was getting
warm percent better every day and helping my

1614
01:47:27.720 --> 01:47:30.199
team win by all means. And
then we've talked to Bedett. We had

1615
01:47:30.239 --> 01:47:32.159
a lot of comments and that that
to me is a little bit weird on

1616
01:47:32.199 --> 01:47:39.199
that pad initial thoughts. So we
do know that Jeff may have rubbed the

1617
01:47:39.319 --> 01:47:44.399
staff in Michigan in twenty twenty two
a little bit a certain way. So

1618
01:47:44.520 --> 01:47:50.720
maybe that kind of negates his standing
with one team. You do have Jeff

1619
01:47:51.239 --> 01:48:00.520
with his time in his twenty twenty
team Colley help me guys, was the

1620
01:48:00.520 --> 01:48:08.000
Renegades, so he was with Yeah, so he was a Bob Stoops twenty

1621
01:48:08.319 --> 01:48:15.840
seventeen he was with the he was
with Oklahoma. So Stoops stopped coaching at

1622
01:48:15.840 --> 01:48:20.479
Ou in sixteen. But you have
to think like college football was a little

1623
01:48:20.479 --> 01:48:25.800
bit different back then, that Stoops
had a hand in him coming to OU

1624
01:48:25.840 --> 01:48:29.079
in seventeen and with you know,
Lincoln Riley being there and everything like that,

1625
01:48:29.199 --> 01:48:33.119
Like people know who Jeff Beidet is. I mean, I think he

1626
01:48:33.199 --> 01:48:38.159
still has the capability of playing this
league, but you're also asking a twenty

1627
01:48:38.199 --> 01:48:41.640
nine year old receiver like, you
know, to be a part of this

1628
01:48:41.760 --> 01:48:45.399
whose name is in Josh Gordon or
Martavis Bryant. You know, like Jeffidet

1629
01:48:45.399 --> 01:48:50.000
has a couple of receptions in the
regular season game under his belt, it

1630
01:48:50.079 --> 01:48:53.600
becomes a little bit more. I
think Jeff should be a part of this

1631
01:48:53.680 --> 01:48:57.439
league. But at the same time, it's like, you know, you

1632
01:48:57.479 --> 01:49:00.439
take a guy like Landon Acres who's
a couple of years younger. A lot

1633
01:49:00.439 --> 01:49:03.680
of these guys a couple of years
younger. I mean, I hate to

1634
01:49:03.720 --> 01:49:09.319
be edgy, but you know,
life's not fair, man like. But

1635
01:49:09.439 --> 01:49:14.119
you're also looking at and we just
like kind of went through the numbers real

1636
01:49:14.239 --> 01:49:21.199
quick, like there's still about sixty
the seventy roster spots open, like you

1637
01:49:21.239 --> 01:49:24.800
know, and how many of these
guys are going to get drafted and just

1638
01:49:24.800 --> 01:49:28.640
be like nah, fam, I'm
good. Yeah, I don't know.

1639
01:49:28.720 --> 01:49:30.319
I mean to me, and like
I love Jeff and he's been on the

1640
01:49:30.319 --> 01:49:33.159
show and I think he follows,
he accounts and everything. Like some of

1641
01:49:33.199 --> 01:49:36.680
these like people got really restless with
all this like pre draft stuff and like

1642
01:49:36.720 --> 01:49:41.520
I'm tweeting out the private emails from
everything and I'm going to delete it later

1643
01:49:41.600 --> 01:49:45.199
and it's like, I don't know, maybe that pissed people off and they're

1644
01:49:45.239 --> 01:49:47.159
like, we don't want to I
don't know, Like I just I it's

1645
01:49:47.159 --> 01:49:51.159
easy for me to kind of tweet
and say things. It doesn't really affect

1646
01:49:51.239 --> 01:49:54.800
me, if you know, if
I'm not going to get fired from the

1647
01:49:54.880 --> 01:49:57.840
XFL or whatever. But I just
thought there was a it kind of got

1648
01:49:57.880 --> 01:50:00.279
involved in that. Are we surprised
at here? No, No Jeff Bedett

1649
01:50:00.279 --> 01:50:03.840
today kind of now that we finally
rounded this out. Yeah, I mean

1650
01:50:03.880 --> 01:50:06.600
it's it's interesting, for sure,
But you know, he's been a guy

1651
01:50:06.640 --> 01:50:11.319
that's been around a lot of these
leagues for a long time. He's had

1652
01:50:11.359 --> 01:50:15.000
a lot of soft tissue injuries too. That's kept him off the field for

1653
01:50:15.039 --> 01:50:18.319
most of the time. Because the
last season, so you know, there's

1654
01:50:18.359 --> 01:50:25.600
that factory's getting older obviously kind of
have some of the I don't even know

1655
01:50:25.600 --> 01:50:28.640
what you want to call it,
the conflict between the two leagues when they

1656
01:50:28.640 --> 01:50:30.680
were kind of murdering and he was
talking about, you know, being a

1657
01:50:30.720 --> 01:50:34.239
part of the players like union on
the one side, and he's trying to

1658
01:50:34.239 --> 01:50:36.600
say all this stuff and they come
out and they're like, oh, well,

1659
01:50:36.840 --> 01:50:40.960
everything you just says not true.
One never too how much does that

1660
01:50:41.000 --> 01:50:45.520
actually play a role into everything too? There's just so many here. At

1661
01:50:45.680 --> 01:50:48.039
the end of the day, he's
probably gonna end up. If he doesn't

1662
01:50:48.039 --> 01:50:50.920
get drafted, he will high with
some team. We'll see if he makes

1663
01:50:50.960 --> 01:50:56.960
faster or not. It's just gonna
take the situation, I think, Greg

1664
01:50:57.000 --> 01:51:00.000
I think this is the last last
picks coming in here certain four minutes ago

1665
01:51:00.039 --> 01:51:08.479
Brahmas with Cody Tressed, Anthony Hines
here going into the Defenders, Bobby Holly

1666
01:51:08.960 --> 01:51:15.640
not the wrestler right with the Stallions, and then at Ty Smith here with

1667
01:51:15.800 --> 01:51:18.600
Matt Maxis commenting a big pick up
for the show notes and Ty Smith with

1668
01:51:18.760 --> 01:51:23.760
a few defensive standat players from the
Guardians last season. Greg Any thoughts on

1669
01:51:23.800 --> 01:51:28.199
fellow Guardians and Ty Smith or anyone
else here yeah. Ty Smith sort of

1670
01:51:28.199 --> 01:51:32.520
on the back end of the Orlando
defense did okay last year. Cody Krest

1671
01:51:32.800 --> 01:51:36.760
for San Antonio was another Lois signing
by Houston in the offseason. He had

1672
01:51:36.800 --> 01:51:42.960
spent some time in NFL training camp. This year, Anthony Hines a really

1673
01:51:43.000 --> 01:51:45.800
good backup who can spot start with
d C, good special teams player,

1674
01:51:46.119 --> 01:51:48.359
so that's a really good pick.
He was in d C last year.

1675
01:51:48.399 --> 01:51:51.720
DC's been picking up just like Birmingham. Did you know DC's been picking up

1676
01:51:51.760 --> 01:51:56.920
the last five aside from Boogie Roberts, I think five of the last six

1677
01:51:56.960 --> 01:52:00.119
picks have all been DC players from
last year that they're bringing back. So

1678
01:52:00.199 --> 01:52:04.800
Hines is a good depth piece.
Bobby Holly for Birmingham. The fullback is

1679
01:52:04.840 --> 01:52:09.479
not dead yet, and Holly is
I think he can play some tight end

1680
01:52:09.479 --> 01:52:14.800
as well, so good for Birmingham
bringing another name for Birmingham being brought back.

1681
01:52:15.560 --> 01:52:17.319
So yeah, I mean, even
here in the tenth round, quality

1682
01:52:17.359 --> 01:52:21.880
players being taken. I would assume
San Antonio might be one of the last

1683
01:52:21.880 --> 01:52:29.159
teams to be drafting because they're gonna
want to pull as many roughnecks from twenty

1684
01:52:29.239 --> 01:52:32.800
twenty three or Loi signings of the
roughnecks over so they may go a little

1685
01:52:32.800 --> 01:52:36.119
deeper than a lot of other teams
for that sake, to really add those

1686
01:52:36.159 --> 01:52:41.600
players who fit their offense and fit
their defensive schemes. Pat An the pounce

1687
01:52:41.640 --> 01:52:44.439
on these last names coming in.
I mean, Bobby Holly is a guy

1688
01:52:44.640 --> 01:52:49.720
with Skipholz ties, not only from
the last two years, but also also

1689
01:52:50.199 --> 01:52:57.399
I'm at Louisiana Tech, like Greg
said, an extremely versatile guy. I

1690
01:52:57.479 --> 01:53:00.760
believe Birmingham's well, I know they
have Jason Sternberger. I don't know if

1691
01:53:00.800 --> 01:53:04.680
they kept bad Moss back, but
you know, with the rosters being as

1692
01:53:04.800 --> 01:53:09.319
versatile as you need to do,
you'll have a guy like Holly who will

1693
01:53:09.319 --> 01:53:13.079
play on special teams and whatnot.
Ty Smith, he's an older guy.

1694
01:53:14.319 --> 01:53:17.159
I know he played. He's playing
a bunch of NFL games. I think

1695
01:53:17.199 --> 01:53:21.159
I saw last year he had like
seventy total tackles in his NFL career.

1696
01:53:21.239 --> 01:53:27.520
So you bring in a veteran presence
down the Memphis and whatnot. Anthony Hines

1697
01:53:27.560 --> 01:53:30.960
once again, a guy in the
in the room, in the in the

1698
01:53:31.000 --> 01:53:35.039
team versus lo can kind of fill
in with Francis Bernard and whatnot. If

1699
01:53:35.079 --> 01:53:41.920
Bernard goes out, So nothing really
to lose my mind about, you know,

1700
01:53:42.520 --> 01:53:45.119
going on my list real quick.
San Antonio had fourteen spots open,

1701
01:53:45.800 --> 01:53:50.119
so we'll see what happens. And
then Cody Kress, I think he's kind

1702
01:53:50.119 --> 01:53:54.239
of like playing an a Chris Clone. But obviously when you sign him and

1703
01:53:54.279 --> 01:53:58.000
you have the open spot, by
not bring him back, right, Craig

1704
01:53:58.039 --> 01:54:02.079
any pos these final picks coming in, Yeah, I mean, like Keevin

1705
01:54:02.119 --> 01:54:05.399
Bobby Holly is gonna be like important
for them. He's a good special teamer,

1706
01:54:05.560 --> 01:54:09.560
good fullback. At the least he
had their one long touchdown I believe

1707
01:54:09.640 --> 01:54:14.039
it was that last year before he
got hurt. Yeah, so obviously he's

1708
01:54:14.239 --> 01:54:17.520
been around you knows the system too. And then I like Cody Krest,

1709
01:54:17.560 --> 01:54:20.039
I think that's a good pickup.
But like it's gonna be really interesting to

1710
01:54:20.039 --> 01:54:25.039
see what that san Antonio offense looks
like once again, when you get all

1711
01:54:25.039 --> 01:54:27.840
these pieces in there, figuring out
who actually makes the team's gonna be like

1712
01:54:27.880 --> 01:54:31.239
another thing too, just because they
have so many wide receivers there. Now

1713
01:54:31.520 --> 01:54:35.399
it's like, okay, so who
are we keeping for seven or eight guys

1714
01:54:35.439 --> 01:54:41.279
that they go with and who ends
up on the field the most there's a

1715
01:54:41.319 --> 01:54:44.880
lot of interesting pieces there because there's
a lot of names, Like they got

1716
01:54:44.880 --> 01:54:47.560
some of the guys they that are
holdovers, they got the guys they brought

1717
01:54:47.560 --> 01:54:53.039
over from the Roughnecks. Who you
know, there's some guys Ag Smith particularly

1718
01:54:53.159 --> 01:54:58.159
likes one way or another. So
it'll just be interested to see all those

1719
01:54:58.199 --> 01:55:05.000
pieces all play out too. And
I'm trying to remember the name. But

1720
01:55:05.119 --> 01:55:09.640
they had their running back too from
Hawaii from two years ago. He got

1721
01:55:09.680 --> 01:55:13.720
hurt most of the last year,
but he actually played initially like D two.

1722
01:55:14.199 --> 01:55:17.399
Yeah, Kelvin Turner Jr. But
he initially played like D two Quarterbacksville

1723
01:55:17.439 --> 01:55:21.000
State transfers to the wai to play
running back, and then he was working

1724
01:55:21.000 --> 01:55:25.399
out for like NFL teams as a
running back slash wide receiver. So I

1725
01:55:25.439 --> 01:55:32.760
think guy, he just spotted it. In terms of we have a a

1726
01:55:32.760 --> 01:55:36.239
couple of questions around that Greg people
asking about Cole McDonald. Seemed like he

1727
01:55:36.279 --> 01:55:40.800
was pretty athletic last year. I
no no side of Cole McDonald. They're

1728
01:55:40.800 --> 01:55:44.439
obviously Brandon Silver's, but Cole McDonald
seemed like someone that was pretty a focal

1729
01:55:44.439 --> 01:55:47.520
point of the XVl marketing last year. Right in terms of the player of

1730
01:55:47.560 --> 01:55:51.640
fifty four. Yes, I guess
yeah, it's hard to market a backup

1731
01:55:51.720 --> 01:55:56.199
quarterback beyond that, you know,
because that was that was his role,

1732
01:55:56.279 --> 01:56:00.000
backup quarterback, short yardage specialist,
that sort of thing uses very much a

1733
01:56:00.039 --> 01:56:03.880
gadget player last year for the Roughnecks. I'm not sure really if there's a

1734
01:56:03.880 --> 01:56:08.119
ton of room for that on a
roster this year, especially in this draft.

1735
01:56:08.159 --> 01:56:12.159
And again he's one of those guys
that we don't know if we signed

1736
01:56:12.159 --> 01:56:15.640
an LOI to return or not.
Same thing with Brandon Silvers. If you

1737
01:56:15.680 --> 01:56:19.359
were on a team last year and
you made it through the end of the

1738
01:56:19.399 --> 01:56:23.880
season, the XFL didn't really publicize
whether or not you signed an LOI.

1739
01:56:23.920 --> 01:56:26.560
It was only the guys who were
new to the league or who had been

1740
01:56:26.600 --> 01:56:30.039
released to sign with an NFL team
and returned to the league. So that's

1741
01:56:30.079 --> 01:56:31.720
why I said, it's so hard
to know who was even in this pool.

1742
01:56:31.840 --> 01:56:35.680
To really critique picks or non picks, I will say, and I

1743
01:56:35.680 --> 01:56:42.520
guess it's probably the statute of limitaitious
past year we're talking about the Roughnecks to

1744
01:56:42.560 --> 01:56:45.159
Renegades and all that stuff. With
the player forty four. I remember when

1745
01:56:45.199 --> 01:56:47.000
I was in DC for the Sea
Dragons game. The night before, I'm

1746
01:56:47.039 --> 01:56:53.079
watching the game that Renegades and Roughnecks
at the bar with a lot of the

1747
01:56:53.079 --> 01:56:56.680
player fifty four guys win the Renegades. It was like all the producers and

1748
01:56:56.720 --> 01:57:00.279
stuff and they're like, oh my
god, we can't believe the Renegades don't

1749
01:57:00.560 --> 01:57:02.720
like we haven't we haven't been tracking
them on the show, like we don't

1750
01:57:02.720 --> 01:57:05.479
have any footage of them. They're
gonna go to the championship game. And

1751
01:57:05.560 --> 01:57:09.640
I remember, like I was just
excited and Perez and everything, but it

1752
01:57:09.720 --> 01:57:12.479
was like, oh gosh, like
we really need to like have a production

1753
01:57:12.600 --> 01:57:15.319
media right now and figure out,
like how are we gonna market this game.

1754
01:57:15.600 --> 01:57:17.199
I think this is kind of weird
because Bob Stoops is their head coach,

1755
01:57:17.239 --> 01:57:19.880
and he was probably, along with
Wade Phillips, like the most well

1756
01:57:19.880 --> 01:57:25.199
known head coach, so you think
they'd at least have like be filming him

1757
01:57:25.439 --> 01:57:28.960
and and things like that. So
that was kind of weird to me.

1758
01:57:29.319 --> 01:57:31.119
And some of the you know,
Luis Perez, a friend of the show,

1759
01:57:31.159 --> 01:57:33.560
filled in with Brian Scott and all
that stuff of the vibras. You

1760
01:57:33.600 --> 01:57:36.960
know, Louis is a nice guy. But not exactly the most verbos of

1761
01:57:38.239 --> 01:57:41.279
orators, you know, when you're
getting down to two interviews and stuff.

1762
01:57:42.000 --> 01:57:45.640
Pat, we have a question here, Madre. Is Madre London still around?

1763
01:57:45.680 --> 01:57:48.760
Did he make it on the roster? Madre London was with the Malers

1764
01:57:50.039 --> 01:57:54.640
signed but I don't remember if he
Re signed him. Yeah, I don't

1765
01:57:54.640 --> 01:57:58.039
see him on the rosters right now. He did not get picked up today

1766
01:57:58.159 --> 01:58:01.560
from so far and why week as
well? A lot of people love Madre

1767
01:58:01.680 --> 01:58:10.079
London because of all the great stuff
he did in the European League of Football

1768
01:58:10.119 --> 01:58:12.760
and he's a spring league guy.
I mean, I thought he was kind

1769
01:58:12.800 --> 01:58:15.920
of you know, I mean you
had Garrett Grocerer. I thought he was,

1770
01:58:16.840 --> 01:58:20.359
you know, a little bit faster
version of Garrett Groshak. He didn't

1771
01:58:20.359 --> 01:58:24.439
really lack that like explosive speed.
And everyone was like, but yeah,

1772
01:58:24.520 --> 01:58:28.640
over two thousand yards rushing in in
the European leg of football and I'm like,

1773
01:58:28.720 --> 01:58:30.520
yeah, I mean that's cool.
But like a lot of those guys

1774
01:58:30.560 --> 01:58:34.720
haven't been playing football for more than
like three hours. So I mean it

1775
01:58:34.880 --> 01:58:39.960
was a story that didn't really get
like as much traction. I think more

1776
01:58:40.000 --> 01:58:45.720
fame for Madre London came because he
was the Daveion Smith's replacement because of the

1777
01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:50.640
Pizzagate nonsense. But I mean,
I think he's like twenty six. I

1778
01:58:50.680 --> 01:58:55.159
looked it up the other day.
He's like twenty six years old. Plenty

1779
01:58:55.159 --> 01:58:58.720
of roster spots. Guy gets hurt. I mean, if you want to

1780
01:58:58.720 --> 01:59:01.239
talk about guy in the mallers who
should have got signed Troy Williams. But

1781
01:59:02.600 --> 01:59:08.000
that remains a big scene, timy
Wise, here are we are? We

1782
01:59:08.319 --> 01:59:11.319
about rounding down here? I though
I've been trying to track Greg. You

1783
01:59:11.359 --> 01:59:14.479
maybe have a better pulse on just
I mean, I assume we'll get a

1784
01:59:14.479 --> 01:59:16.239
press release at some point of the
other teams. I just don't want to

1785
01:59:16.279 --> 01:59:19.039
keep people all day. I kind
of want to be about this. It

1786
01:59:19.119 --> 01:59:24.760
looks like round ten is the end. I haven't seen any picks being released

1787
01:59:25.319 --> 01:59:30.199
before that. The XFL main twitter
account is now tweeting out round by round

1788
01:59:30.239 --> 01:59:35.000
picks okay on tweet, so if
you're interested, you can kind of see

1789
01:59:35.039 --> 01:59:39.600
them and track them from there.
But it looks like we're done. And

1790
01:59:39.720 --> 01:59:43.800
I look at you know, the
teams like the Bramas they added ten players

1791
01:59:43.840 --> 01:59:47.880
today on top of the several that
they picked and protected. So you have

1792
01:59:47.960 --> 01:59:54.159
teams like the Bramas who have you
know, three to four players, you

1793
01:59:54.159 --> 01:59:58.199
know, three to four openings on
their roster. Same with Memphis, they

1794
01:59:58.239 --> 02:00:01.199
picked ten, they had thirteen open
coming in. So you know there are

1795
02:00:01.199 --> 02:00:05.199
teams with single digit openings less than
five. You have some teams, for

1796
02:00:05.239 --> 02:00:11.399
example, I think the Roughnecks picked
six, so they could have picked thirteen

1797
02:00:11.439 --> 02:00:16.239
and they've got seven openings. Arlington
had twenty openings on their roster. They

1798
02:00:16.239 --> 02:00:20.520
only picked five, so they got
fifteen openings on their roster for free agency

1799
02:00:20.560 --> 02:00:25.680
tomorrow. So you can kind of
see how every team is treating this draft

1800
02:00:25.720 --> 02:00:30.920
a little bit differently. They are
keeping different numbers of roster spots open for

1801
02:00:30.079 --> 02:00:33.720
free agency tomorrow. Some of them
may have an idea of some players they

1802
02:00:33.720 --> 02:00:39.079
want to sign already tomorrow who are
not in the USFL or XFL. Maybe

1803
02:00:39.079 --> 02:00:43.199
they've been talking to players already who
are free agents. So it's going to

1804
02:00:43.239 --> 02:00:45.760
be interesting to see how that plays
out. And again it's gonna be interesting

1805
02:00:45.760 --> 02:00:47.920
to see how that's covered by the
UFL, how those signings are made,

1806
02:00:48.239 --> 02:00:53.600
and when those signings are announced.
Yeah, I will say Justin Weill flashed

1807
02:00:53.640 --> 02:00:57.640
this up on here, and of
course we do rounds five through nine,

1808
02:00:57.680 --> 02:01:00.119
and then we did a tweet for
round ten and then at some point I

1809
02:01:00.159 --> 02:01:02.239
would think we would just tweet them
all in one consecutive list. But that

1810
02:01:02.800 --> 02:01:06.439
of the outside in terms of the
free agencies have obviously when we do in

1811
02:01:06.439 --> 02:01:10.840
the live show on that, but
like and subscribe if we get the rules

1812
02:01:10.840 --> 02:01:14.640
and stuff this week or the schedule
will definitely do depending on how they do

1813
02:01:14.680 --> 02:01:15.960
the schedule, but at least,
you know, look for an episode Friday

1814
02:01:16.000 --> 02:01:18.039
if we do get some of the
stuff this week, and maybe we can

1815
02:01:18.039 --> 02:01:21.520
get Pat back on or someone Greg
whoever wants to you. But kind of

1816
02:01:21.560 --> 02:01:26.319
talking about, you know, any
of the big free agency signings and all

1817
02:01:26.399 --> 02:01:28.800
that stuff. Pat, now that
we have the list here, anything else

1818
02:01:28.840 --> 02:01:30.399
standing out from you? And I'm
trying to get if we can Scott got

1819
02:01:30.439 --> 02:01:33.760
for big it read arounds one through
ten and when the consecutive list. No,

1820
02:01:34.000 --> 02:01:36.880
not really, you know, we
talked about, you know, the

1821
02:01:36.920 --> 02:01:42.760
monetary values of these tweets and whatnot. You know, something I would have

1822
02:01:42.920 --> 02:01:45.720
liked to see, and this is
me really really nitpicking, is you have

1823
02:01:46.119 --> 02:01:50.199
the guy and then you have his
Twitter handle. You know, like,

1824
02:01:50.600 --> 02:01:53.720
oh, that's a lot of work. We can't even get one to ten

1825
02:01:53.800 --> 02:01:57.119
in the order. I don't think
we're I think we're getting the clearer to

1826
02:01:57.159 --> 02:02:00.920
it. Maybe eleven dollars for Twitter
blue you would you would have got a

1827
02:02:00.920 --> 02:02:04.520
pretty decent amount of impressions today.
That and then you know, with them

1828
02:02:04.560 --> 02:02:11.079
only playing paying these guys sixty thousand
dollars and whatnot, like every dollar counts,

1829
02:02:11.199 --> 02:02:14.199
you know what I mean, So
these guys don't have to work side

1830
02:02:14.319 --> 02:02:17.439
jobs and everything. They can focus
on building their brands and whatnot. And

1831
02:02:17.520 --> 02:02:21.119
I know that might be like a
real nitpicky thing, but like that that

1832
02:02:21.199 --> 02:02:26.000
stuff counts, man, Like you
know that that stuff really does count.

1833
02:02:26.039 --> 02:02:30.720
And you know it's eleven dollars for
a blue check and there ROI can we

1834
02:02:30.760 --> 02:02:35.079
all agree would be a pretty decent
like chunk of change, especially if they

1835
02:02:35.079 --> 02:02:40.600
did it last week with like I
said, James, three thousand followers,

1836
02:02:40.680 --> 02:02:45.439
almost two million impressions the xbl three
eighty three. Yeah, we can't even

1837
02:02:45.479 --> 02:02:48.319
get it's good. Yeah, And
like they still don't have anything passed around

1838
02:02:48.319 --> 02:02:51.279
five on your craig any other thoughts
and any of this kind of stuff.

1839
02:02:51.279 --> 02:02:55.399
Here, we'll start getting this down
Football Fair, you know hit like like

1840
02:02:55.439 --> 02:02:59.279
the video subscribe. We added like
twenty six subscribers I think, So that's

1841
02:02:59.319 --> 02:03:01.199
exciting. We have that two hundred
people watching, So thanks everyone for checking

1842
02:03:01.199 --> 02:03:04.119
it out. You were at like
two because I have it on my laptop,

1843
02:03:04.239 --> 02:03:08.920
so I'm cheating getting that extra getting
that extra view. Had I appreciate

1844
02:03:09.000 --> 02:03:12.159
that. I think Dorothy's downstairs on
their phone as we'll watch it. We

1845
02:03:12.439 --> 02:03:15.359
have the numbers, but yeah,
we had like two hundred and eighty at

1846
02:03:15.359 --> 02:03:18.600
one point or two sixty at one
point. It wasn't on Twitter, so

1847
02:03:18.640 --> 02:03:23.720
it was all YouTube. So I
mean, I mean people, people are

1848
02:03:23.720 --> 02:03:26.640
gonna you know, type this in
and see this and hopefully you know,

1849
02:03:26.720 --> 02:03:30.840
they think we're semi competent, and
you know, you know, they continue

1850
02:03:30.840 --> 02:03:32.880
to watch and you know, let's
let's see what happens. But thank you

1851
02:03:32.960 --> 02:03:38.159
for everyone for listening to us talk
for almost two hours. Let me just

1852
02:03:38.199 --> 02:03:40.479
say, and I keep wanting to
go to Craig again, but we keep

1853
02:03:40.479 --> 02:03:44.439
cutting them off as sorry. I
will say, like, uh, you

1854
02:03:44.479 --> 02:03:47.560
know, tweeting not ten minutes before, like hey, we're doing this today,

1855
02:03:47.600 --> 02:03:50.680
Like I just even if they had
just put that Friday, we're doing

1856
02:03:50.680 --> 02:03:54.239
this, and then like we said
today, they're not all on the XFL

1857
02:03:54.239 --> 02:03:57.039
count around the teams, Like there's
such little things like if you're going to

1858
02:03:57.119 --> 02:04:00.479
do it, it's just not not
hard at all to do this. And

1859
02:04:00.520 --> 02:04:03.039
like I said, I think we
probably could have gotten another thirty forty percent

1860
02:04:03.039 --> 02:04:05.199
of the viewership on here if it
was it. Hey, we're doing it.

1861
02:04:05.520 --> 02:04:08.319
You know, we were gonna do
it this afternoon. We're doing it

1862
02:04:08.359 --> 02:04:12.039
now. I appreciate obviously Greg stepping
up in blocking time and Pat and Craig

1863
02:04:12.119 --> 02:04:15.000
is Craig Any other thoughts on kind
of any of these names and any other

1864
02:04:15.039 --> 02:04:19.600
thoughts on anything. Yeah, I
think it's just been an interesting experience overall.

1865
02:04:19.640 --> 02:04:24.640
Like obviously we've had these two different
drafts, and like even going back

1866
02:04:24.640 --> 02:04:27.279
to like someone with Greg said,
like we don't know like some of these

1867
02:04:27.279 --> 02:04:30.600
guys that signed the letter intent.
So maybe that's playing a big factor in

1868
02:04:30.600 --> 02:04:33.920
like these quarterbacks not getting drafted because
we don't even know if they're signed the

1869
02:04:34.159 --> 02:04:38.560
love for the league, you know. And at the same time, maybe

1870
02:04:38.560 --> 02:04:41.960
some of these quarterbacks are debating between
coming back to the league or like going

1871
02:04:41.960 --> 02:04:45.159
to the CFL and trying to explore
explore out there too, because you have

1872
02:04:46.359 --> 02:04:49.119
slightly less options, but you still
have options at the end of the day.

1873
02:04:49.199 --> 02:04:53.520
So you know, even when we're
talking about a guy like Cole mcdonwell,

1874
02:04:53.600 --> 02:04:56.920
like maybe he goes to the CFL
now because his game could fit pretty

1875
02:04:56.920 --> 02:05:00.279
well up there, you know,
around the goal line, running around everything

1876
02:05:00.279 --> 02:05:02.039
else like that, even if it's
just you know, your short yardage quarterback.

1877
02:05:02.439 --> 02:05:05.039
So there's a lot of different factors
here. I think it's gonna be

1878
02:05:05.199 --> 02:05:09.560
very interesting to see what happens with
this free agency and even kind of going

1879
02:05:09.600 --> 02:05:13.640
back to what someone Greg brought up, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot

1880
02:05:13.640 --> 02:05:16.399
of these teams kind of had like
backdoor deals with some of these guys to

1881
02:05:16.439 --> 02:05:20.399
sign as free agents. And that's
why the less some of their roster spots

1882
02:05:20.399 --> 02:05:26.920
open, because you're probably not gonna
go after teams for there's no real tampering

1883
02:05:27.000 --> 02:05:30.079
in this league. I guess,
yeah, I mean, we'll see what

1884
02:05:30.159 --> 02:05:34.119
happens. I mean there was a
little bit of tamper ring in the USFL,

1885
02:05:34.199 --> 02:05:40.399
right with like the Generals at one
point, well they signed too many,

1886
02:05:40.520 --> 02:05:43.000
right, they signed too many over
the summer, and then they got

1887
02:05:43.079 --> 02:05:45.920
they got halted a draft pick in
the college draft or whatever it was.

1888
02:05:45.960 --> 02:05:49.560
If that was wild Times there Greg, any any other thoughts on this,

1889
02:05:49.640 --> 02:05:51.800
I don't want to, I say, just someone to keep everyone all day.

1890
02:05:53.119 --> 02:05:55.159
Yeah. Like so what Craig was
saying, it kind of reminds me

1891
02:05:55.199 --> 02:05:59.119
of the NFL Draft, where you
have teams start negotiating with potential undrafted free

1892
02:05:59.119 --> 02:06:01.119
agents in round six, in round
seven, So there could be a little

1893
02:06:01.119 --> 02:06:03.479
bit of that going on. If
Arlington knows they're going to sign two or

1894
02:06:03.479 --> 02:06:08.399
three really good players in free agency, they may, you know, say,

1895
02:06:08.439 --> 02:06:10.760
Okay, those guys are going to
be better than anyone who's left in

1896
02:06:10.800 --> 02:06:13.920
the draft pool. So we're going
to stop drafting right there, knowing we're

1897
02:06:13.920 --> 02:06:15.720
going to bring these guys onto the
roster. And you know, if you're

1898
02:06:15.760 --> 02:06:20.079
a Brandon Silvers and you know,
you can sign your letter of intent at

1899
02:06:20.119 --> 02:06:24.439
any time, and I'm assuming these
guys are going to sign their contracts officially

1900
02:06:24.439 --> 02:06:29.880
when they get to training camp.
Maybe not, who knows, but you

1901
02:06:29.960 --> 02:06:33.199
know, if you're Brandon Silver's,
is there an advantage to signing your li

1902
02:06:34.199 --> 02:06:39.319
to be in the draft pool where
you are kind of limited in your own

1903
02:06:39.399 --> 02:06:42.640
power. You're you're going to be
drafted by a team and that's the team

1904
02:06:42.680 --> 02:06:45.239
that has your rights, or you
sign your LLI. After the draft,

1905
02:06:45.319 --> 02:06:49.000
you go into the free agency where
you can kind of choose maybe what team

1906
02:06:49.039 --> 02:06:51.000
you want to be a part of. So there could be a little bit

1907
02:06:51.039 --> 02:06:55.279
of that going on as well,
a little gamesmanship from the player's point of

1908
02:06:55.319 --> 02:06:59.439
view in terms of those llys or
those contracts. You know, just throwing

1909
02:06:59.439 --> 02:07:00.960
that out there as a possibility.
I don't know that to be a fact,

1910
02:07:01.039 --> 02:07:04.920
but it wouldn't surprise me if agents
are kind of leading their players down

1911
02:07:04.960 --> 02:07:08.920
that direction. Well, yeah,
I give your Brandon Silvers, you know,

1912
02:07:09.000 --> 02:07:12.479
ag I'll bring you back regardless of
try. I mean, I think

1913
02:07:12.479 --> 02:07:15.600
that there's certainly an open door there. I remember we had Brandon Silver's on

1914
02:07:15.640 --> 02:07:18.359
the show and he's like sitting on
his pickup truck and I'm like, oh,

1915
02:07:18.439 --> 02:07:21.640
what do you do? I just
like fishing when I'm not player,

1916
02:07:21.680 --> 02:07:26.840
and I'm just I don't know if
Brandon Silver's is game in the system,

1917
02:07:26.840 --> 02:07:29.079
but I certainly wouldn't put it past
it. Like, you know, if

1918
02:07:29.079 --> 02:07:30.920
he wants to go play with a
J. Smith, I'll tell you,

1919
02:07:30.920 --> 02:07:33.319
you know, get him back on
the Brahmas. I think that would be

1920
02:07:33.359 --> 02:07:36.479
good. Pat anything else, we
still can't get this list in order.

1921
02:07:36.560 --> 02:07:40.399
The XBL is tweeting out we have. I think what they did. I

1922
02:07:40.399 --> 02:07:44.079
think what they did read is they
tweeted and they made individual tweets for every

1923
02:07:44.079 --> 02:07:46.520
one in the first five rounds,
and then instead of doing that for rounds

1924
02:07:46.680 --> 02:07:49.560
five through ten, they just put
them all in one list. So if

1925
02:07:49.560 --> 02:07:53.199
you're looking for one through four as
a list, I think they did each

1926
02:07:53.279 --> 02:07:59.239
individual tweet and then that I'm on
here, I don't see that. I

1927
02:07:59.279 --> 02:08:01.319
mean, I'm I don't want to
like get in the weed here, but

1928
02:08:01.359 --> 02:08:05.039
I'm on, like, I'm on
here, we have around five a thread

1929
02:08:05.079 --> 02:08:09.680
through to eleven. I don't see
rounds one to four anywhere, No,

1930
02:08:09.720 --> 02:08:11.319
I don't. I don't think they
did rounds one through four the same way.

1931
02:08:11.359 --> 02:08:16.399
I think they did, each individual
pick getting its own post or retweeting

1932
02:08:16.800 --> 02:08:20.800
or retweeting the team accounts for those
posts. And then they stopped and for

1933
02:08:20.880 --> 02:08:26.079
five through eleven they just did the
five through ten. Oh they did.

1934
02:08:26.079 --> 02:08:30.119
They did have a round eleven.
Look at that. That was That's new

1935
02:08:30.159 --> 02:08:35.479
to me, Okay, Matthew Coughlin
out here, Yes, yeah, the

1936
02:08:35.560 --> 02:08:37.000
Texas to be here. The why
they heck did they tweet to tune in

1937
02:08:37.039 --> 02:08:43.560
live? You know, I just
anyway, uh follow follow on Twitter the

1938
02:08:43.000 --> 02:08:46.720
Underscore Mark cast. I'll tweet out. I'm sure we're going to press release

1939
02:08:46.760 --> 02:08:48.840
here when it's all said and down. But this, you know, like

1940
02:08:48.439 --> 02:08:52.279
you either got to do it or
you're not even the freaking XFL. The

1941
02:08:52.399 --> 02:08:54.479
drafting last year was great where you
would just refresh it, it would pop

1942
02:08:54.479 --> 02:08:56.439
in the grid and all that.
I mean, there's ways to do it

1943
02:08:56.479 --> 02:09:00.640
that aren't like we need to make
all these graphics. Never think I pat

1944
02:09:00.680 --> 02:09:05.479
anything else here, not really.
I mean final picks Myron Richel, Mitchell

1945
02:09:05.880 --> 02:09:15.840
Stallion's guy from last year, Reserved
dude, you Coughlan a show Breakers guy.

1946
02:09:16.159 --> 02:09:20.720
You know they keep the same specialist
Core Taylor. Don't really know much

1947
02:09:20.760 --> 02:09:24.079
about him. I apologize to him
and his family. But in the end,

1948
02:09:24.359 --> 02:09:30.119
I uh, I think rewinding down
here, man, it's been you

1949
02:09:30.159 --> 02:09:33.520
know, two hours. Uh,
I mean, it just seems like maybe

1950
02:09:33.520 --> 02:09:37.680
these last final picks are just kind
of like, hey, by the way,

1951
02:09:37.760 --> 02:09:39.760
you want to come play for us
real quick. They're hoping that,

1952
02:09:41.439 --> 02:09:43.800
you know, maybe some of these
NFL practice squad guys, you know,

1953
02:09:45.239 --> 02:09:48.880
don't sign their futures deals and whatnot. But that's a whole nother discussion,

1954
02:09:48.560 --> 02:09:52.359
uh for another day. You know, once again, appreciate you having me

1955
02:09:52.399 --> 02:09:58.359
come on, you know, Pat
Ristrimo, I'll be streaming my thoughts and

1956
02:09:58.680 --> 02:10:03.479
yes tomorrow and everything like that before
I go to Memphis. And you know,

1957
02:10:03.520 --> 02:10:07.960
I have to go to Memphis to
shore up that spring football is happening

1958
02:10:07.000 --> 02:10:11.199
in Memphis, by the way,
and that's why I was in Vegas to

1959
02:10:11.439 --> 02:10:13.439
try to get the Vipers back.
But they told me to leave Cashfield.

1960
02:10:16.640 --> 02:10:20.640
They were like, yeah, what
did they do? Pat? What cash

1961
02:10:20.680 --> 02:10:24.800
Refield? They were very they were
very confused. Somebody I was there,

1962
02:10:26.079 --> 02:10:30.159
did you get some photos? I
would like to see some photos from this,

1963
02:10:31.159 --> 02:10:35.920
so side side quest here. So
I was just there for work,

1964
02:10:37.000 --> 02:10:39.960
obviously, and I'm walking up and
down the strip, just kind of exploring

1965
02:10:41.239 --> 02:10:46.279
and seeing stuff. And then I
find my way by a football field and

1966
02:10:46.319 --> 02:10:50.600
I'm like, oh, what's this? And then I didn't realize UNLV was

1967
02:10:50.640 --> 02:10:54.560
literally right off the strip, and
I'm like, college children go here.

1968
02:10:54.640 --> 02:10:58.920
This is a terrible idea. And
then I ended up like walking on to

1969
02:10:58.039 --> 02:11:03.000
like the UNLV practice facility, like
driving around and whatnot. I was just

1970
02:11:03.079 --> 02:11:07.560
like, dude, why are they
letting me do this? Like I am

1971
02:11:07.640 --> 02:11:11.399
just a random guy in a minivan
mind you, and then you know,

1972
02:11:11.720 --> 02:11:13.680
a T mobile. You know,
I didn't. I don't really like the

1973
02:11:13.720 --> 02:11:16.640
party, especially my girlfriend wasn't there, so it's like I don't want to

1974
02:11:18.079 --> 02:11:20.720
do stuff without her, you know. So it's like, you know,

1975
02:11:22.479 --> 02:11:24.640
it was kind of funny seven thirty
in the morning. You see guys like

1976
02:11:24.840 --> 02:11:28.840
yelling Vegas, Vegas, Vegas,
and I was just kind of like,

1977
02:11:30.159 --> 02:11:33.359
bro, you know, yeah,
all right, let's oh where are the

1978
02:11:33.840 --> 02:11:37.279
Oh Craig dropped out? Where did
he go? I've been doing the draft

1979
02:11:37.319 --> 02:11:39.000
stuff. He must have had to
go. Has that been a long time?

1980
02:11:39.039 --> 02:11:45.079
I was trying to get the XFL
thing up here XFL fans, Uh

1981
02:11:45.119 --> 02:11:48.159
here we and then we have round
twelve, so we have this has to

1982
02:11:48.159 --> 02:11:54.439
be at We're down to two teams
picking, so show both Antonio Brooks Defenders

1983
02:11:54.439 --> 02:11:58.680
and Enrique Yenni Romero. Any thoughts
and any of that? Oh man,

1984
02:11:58.279 --> 02:12:03.960
I think Romano was the uh was
it one of the kickers or something like

1985
02:12:05.000 --> 02:12:05.880
that? I don't know. I
mean, I mean, I might be

1986
02:12:07.600 --> 02:12:09.920
I might be type casting there,
but yeah, he was. He was

1987
02:12:09.920 --> 02:12:16.079
a kicker signed this offseason. Yeah, Greg, any other comments on any

1988
02:12:16.119 --> 02:12:20.600
of that stuff, Uh no,
I mean kicker at this point is interesting.

1989
02:12:20.640 --> 02:12:24.880
They still have Matthew mccrane as well. He was one of the guys

1990
02:12:24.880 --> 02:12:28.439
they protected really good kicker from XFL
twenty twenty and twenty twenty three, so

1991
02:12:28.600 --> 02:12:33.039
creating a little competition. I guess
in training camp at that position, if

1992
02:12:33.119 --> 02:12:35.520
mccrane goes up, you know,
like, we don't know if these we

1993
02:12:35.560 --> 02:12:37.880
don't know if these dudes are going
to show up, they might just Well,

1994
02:12:37.960 --> 02:12:41.199
mccrane was protected, so I assume
he had signed a letter of intent

1995
02:12:41.239 --> 02:12:45.880
at that point. Now that that
could obviously change and he could decide not

1996
02:12:45.920 --> 02:12:48.079
to show up, but I'm assuming
if you sign a letter of intent,

1997
02:12:48.119 --> 02:12:52.479
you're pretty solid on going to camp. At least I'm gonna pull up any

1998
02:12:52.760 --> 02:12:56.800
to see if he's done any punting
or anything like that. But no,

1999
02:12:56.920 --> 02:13:01.039
he's a Canadian LFA, hey guy, you know, kind of upset the

2000
02:13:01.119 --> 02:13:05.600
LFA doesn't have a team in Cancun. You know, I'm trying to move

2001
02:13:05.640 --> 02:13:09.279
the Cancun lokey again, I'm not
trying to keep everyone on here, but

2002
02:13:09.319 --> 02:13:11.239
I mean, we just had a
round twelve, so I guess I'll give

2003
02:13:11.279 --> 02:13:13.920
it just another second here. I
really thought we were done on here,

2004
02:13:15.720 --> 02:13:18.000
Greg. I guess anything else where
they're really just kind of winding down the

2005
02:13:18.000 --> 02:13:24.319
ship here. No, I think
that's uh, that's about it for me.

2006
02:13:24.920 --> 02:13:26.479
You know, we might get a
few more picks here from from d

2007
02:13:26.600 --> 02:13:31.159
C and d C and Memphis.
Of the last two remaining, Birmingham has

2008
02:13:31.199 --> 02:13:35.159
exhausted their picks, so I guess
it's up to them to see if we

2009
02:13:35.199 --> 02:13:39.399
continue on. Yeah, go,
Pat, Sorry, and Dave Bowler and

2010
02:13:39.399 --> 02:13:43.560
Anthony Beck want to go home.
They want to go play some golf.

2011
02:13:45.479 --> 02:13:48.680
Yeah, Max says Ramera was playing
in the Mexican League before this, so

2012
02:13:48.760 --> 02:13:54.560
there you go. Greg. Obviously
we'll be doing deep dives here for a

2013
02:13:54.840 --> 02:13:58.039
ufl board. Now, how is
that? How was the rebrand from xfl

2014
02:13:58.079 --> 02:14:00.840
board the ufl board. But you've
been doing big d times with all these

2015
02:14:00.880 --> 02:14:03.359
team rosters. Yeah, I mean
it doesn't really affect me all that much,

2016
02:14:03.479 --> 02:14:07.039
just making sure I type the right
address in and things like that.

2017
02:14:07.159 --> 02:14:11.239
But I'm sure for Mark Nelson it's
a little it's a little tougher. So

2018
02:14:13.520 --> 02:14:16.159
now you know, It's interesting because
you know, I'm someone who I'll admit

2019
02:14:16.199 --> 02:14:20.960
I didn't pay a whole lot of
attention to USFL. I didn't dive into

2020
02:14:20.960 --> 02:14:24.000
it, you know, very surface
level, and I admit that every time

2021
02:14:24.000 --> 02:14:28.199
I come on here. But you
know, it's been a learning experience for

2022
02:14:28.279 --> 02:14:31.039
me looking into the rosters, looking
into how the teams performed last year,

2023
02:14:31.199 --> 02:14:35.920
and doing my deep dive into the
previous draft. And so you know,

2024
02:14:35.960 --> 02:14:39.960
that'll continue with this and hope that
as the off season progresses, I'll get

2025
02:14:39.960 --> 02:14:43.600
a little more and more comfortable with
the USFL teams, the coaching staffs,

2026
02:14:43.640 --> 02:14:48.640
the rosters, and so you know, that's that's kind of my hope as

2027
02:14:48.680 --> 02:14:52.239
the off season goes on. Yeah, we have here the this has to

2028
02:14:52.239 --> 02:14:54.439
be at the final thirteenth round.
The show notes Michael Stevens on there,

2029
02:14:54.479 --> 02:14:58.439
so Pat, I want you the
whole dissertation of Michael Stevens before we get

2030
02:14:58.439 --> 02:15:01.119
out of here. And Michael Stevens, well, when I saw that,

2031
02:15:01.199 --> 02:15:05.960
I thought his name was Michael Steivers. Which Michael Steivers is a freshman at

2032
02:15:07.000 --> 02:15:13.560
Illinois College, so who I know. He's a defensive back, was with

2033
02:15:13.680 --> 02:15:16.800
New Orleans last year. Same thing
with the NC State. From what I

2034
02:15:16.880 --> 02:15:20.199
remember, I mean kind of just
a reserve defensive back. I think in

2035
02:15:20.319 --> 02:15:26.439
twenty twenty two he had a little
bit more to him as far as like

2036
02:15:26.439 --> 02:15:30.319
playing time, because I remember like
looking him up at one point. But

2037
02:15:31.079 --> 02:15:33.119
I mean, if you're a breaker
and you're kind of curious about where you're

2038
02:15:33.119 --> 02:15:39.439
gonna go, Daddy flipp gonna make
it happen. So I think he started.

2039
02:15:39.720 --> 02:15:43.399
I think he started a little bit
this year, but I mean that

2040
02:15:43.439 --> 02:15:48.159
defense was kind of overshadowed, or
guys are overshadowed, like with girod Fernandez

2041
02:15:48.319 --> 02:15:54.800
and Bonte Diggs whatnot, so you
kind of kind of you kind of really

2042
02:15:56.279 --> 02:16:00.960
go like his as the rest of
the guys and whatnot, especially when you

2043
02:16:01.000 --> 02:16:05.119
have MBT on the offensive side of
the ball and whatnot. So depth pic

2044
02:16:05.560 --> 02:16:11.640
in my opinion, quality quality defensive
back at this league. We'll see what

2045
02:16:11.720 --> 02:16:18.079
happens on that front. But there
is a reason why he it took a

2046
02:16:18.159 --> 02:16:22.800
minute to get into what we'll call
it. It took a minute for him

2047
02:16:22.840 --> 02:16:24.920
to get back, you know.
But it could also be one of those

2048
02:16:24.960 --> 02:16:28.039
things where it's like, hey man, we're gonna come get you. Don't

2049
02:16:28.079 --> 02:16:31.880
worry about it. You know,
there were a couple, man, there

2050
02:16:31.880 --> 02:16:35.920
were a couple of guys who were
on the who were on the showboats before

2051
02:16:37.159 --> 02:16:45.760
the Haley regime showboats that were getting
text message like that they were safe,

2052
02:16:45.760 --> 02:16:48.200
and then all of a sudden they
were like, oh my god, Whip

2053
02:16:48.239 --> 02:16:52.280
is the coach? What's going on? Oh? So yeah, I mean

2054
02:16:52.399 --> 02:17:00.360
like I don't know, Like I
get that it's not anyone's fault, say,

2055
02:17:00.440 --> 02:17:03.639
but at the same time, like, I mean, I don't you

2056
02:17:03.680 --> 02:17:09.479
know, I'm It's like, I
don't run this league, So who am

2057
02:17:09.559 --> 02:17:11.920
I? You know, who am
I to make these decisions and all that

2058
02:17:11.959 --> 02:17:18.559
stuff. So I also don't want
to say anything that upset the upset the

2059
02:17:18.159 --> 02:17:20.840
ebb and flow of everything. But
yeah, man, there were some guys

2060
02:17:20.879 --> 02:17:24.799
who got text messages from existing staff. Like I told you, there was

2061
02:17:24.879 --> 02:17:28.840
two or three guys who I talked
to that got like, didn't even know

2062
02:17:28.879 --> 02:17:33.440
they were safe last week, And
I mean, god, willing next year.

2063
02:17:33.600 --> 02:17:39.559
This is a little bit more streamlined. Yeah, I will say they

2064
02:17:39.600 --> 02:17:41.639
had a question here. I'll get
to in the minute. Yeah, it's

2065
02:17:41.239 --> 02:17:43.719
I don't know. We we didn't
do the one last week because he didn't

2066
02:17:43.719 --> 02:17:48.719
want people's feelings hurt because they did
or didn't find out, but that we're

2067
02:17:48.719 --> 02:17:50.799
doing this with it, I don't. I don't really get the rhyme maries

2068
02:17:50.920 --> 02:17:54.079
of any of that stuff, Greg
anything else here as we wait down.

2069
02:17:54.280 --> 02:17:58.120
This has to be at the round
thirteen I would expect. So round twelve

2070
02:17:58.319 --> 02:18:03.040
was Listens Tonio Brooks by the way, but it's actually Antoine Brooks. Yeah,

2071
02:18:03.120 --> 02:18:07.239
safety out of the Seattle Sea Dragon. So I think that's a pretty

2072
02:18:07.319 --> 02:18:09.520
quality pick up for Memphis this late
in the draft. But yeah, I

2073
02:18:09.559 --> 02:18:15.239
would assume that Memphis is it's down
to just Memphis now, so either they're

2074
02:18:15.239 --> 02:18:18.840
going to continue picking against nobody or
or they're done with round thirteen, Lucky

2075
02:18:18.879 --> 02:18:24.840
number thirteen. We had a question
here talking about fantasy sides for UFL pat.

2076
02:18:24.879 --> 02:18:28.079
I assume Mark's doing something again,
right, I mean that kind of

2077
02:18:28.079 --> 02:18:30.879
seems like it's his thing. Yeah, so Mark, we'll be doing it

2078
02:18:30.959 --> 02:18:35.799
on UFL news Hub. I don't
know the specifics of it. I know

2079
02:18:35.879 --> 02:18:39.159
he's done it for the last couple
of years. There's also another kid,

2080
02:18:39.159 --> 02:18:43.399
I'll pull up his Twitter draft.
I forget what the hell is his name,

2081
02:18:43.399 --> 02:18:50.440
but it's draft fantasy. I did. I did last year. Let

2082
02:18:50.479 --> 02:18:56.639
me just get his Twitter pulled up
real quick on my either. But he

2083
02:18:56.719 --> 02:19:01.719
did it. It was it was
all fantasy or something like that, all

2084
02:19:01.840 --> 02:19:05.920
fantasy draft or something like that.
Yeah, just handle is all fantasy sports.

2085
02:19:07.360 --> 02:19:11.040
I did it through him last year. Pretty solid guy. I think

2086
02:19:11.079 --> 02:19:13.280
his name is like Jet or something
like that. But I did it through

2087
02:19:13.319 --> 02:19:18.399
his league. I think Mike Mitchell
was in that league as well. And

2088
02:19:18.479 --> 02:19:20.440
you know, I didn't really have
any complaints. You know, it's it's

2089
02:19:20.479 --> 02:19:24.399
going to take a minute until I
think they get it streamlined. I know

2090
02:19:24.319 --> 02:19:28.440
Mark stuff has been pretty good throughout
you know, the time, from when

2091
02:19:28.479 --> 02:19:31.360
I've heard that from people. So
I mean either one of those two options

2092
02:19:31.719 --> 02:19:35.639
I recommend, and you know both
those guys are pretty responsive in the DMS.

2093
02:19:37.760 --> 02:19:43.000
If you do mention UFL news Hub
and message UFL news Hub and you

2094
02:19:43.000 --> 02:19:46.120
don't get a response back, feel
free to reach out to me and I'll

2095
02:19:46.120 --> 02:19:50.040
go direct with Mark. That just
kind of you know, you know,

2096
02:19:50.280 --> 02:19:54.559
push the things and push it forward. I know he's on the beach right

2097
02:19:54.600 --> 02:19:58.799
now or at the pool, so
but we do have what seventy five days

2098
02:19:58.840 --> 02:20:01.680
so this bad voice starts, so
I'm sure he'll start starting up prior to

2099
02:20:03.559 --> 02:20:07.399
Yeah, and then two and two
we're getting out of here seeing Greg greg

2100
02:20:07.760 --> 02:20:11.799
I think I think that if Memphis
only had thirteen spots open on the roster

2101
02:20:11.879 --> 02:20:15.559
coming into today, and they've made
thirteen picks, so I'd assume that's the

2102
02:20:15.680 --> 02:20:18.159
end. Okay, that's the end. I just I'm hoping for a final.

2103
02:20:18.639 --> 02:20:20.000
And then at two and two had
a comment here, do you guys

2104
02:20:20.040 --> 02:20:24.959
have any suggestions for Instagram accounts?
They did he if he changed his name

2105
02:20:26.040 --> 02:20:28.959
the XFL analyst. UFL analyst is
having the best best account to have on

2106
02:20:30.000 --> 02:20:31.639
there to follow all the breaking news? Is it pad? Did he update

2107
02:20:31.680 --> 02:20:35.760
his handle? I haven't been on
Instagram a lot later Facebook step the UFL

2108
02:20:35.799 --> 02:20:41.520
Analyst on Instagram. That's kind of
the way way to go. You know.

2109
02:20:41.639 --> 02:20:45.079
He does get a lot of these
players DM ing him as well,

2110
02:20:45.479 --> 02:20:48.600
so and he doesn't really do much
on like YouTube or anything like that.

2111
02:20:48.719 --> 02:20:54.760
He's also on Twitter. I think
he's still XFL analyst on Twitter. But

2112
02:20:54.200 --> 02:20:58.440
once again, if you can't find
it, send send me a d M

2113
02:21:01.239 --> 02:21:05.479
and I'll shoot you the link or
whatever. But it's UFL analyst on Twitter.

2114
02:21:05.840 --> 02:21:11.159
Now, it might still be XFL
analyst on Instagram. But yeah,

2115
02:21:11.200 --> 02:21:15.520
he's a good he's a good uh
resource, and you know he is a

2116
02:21:15.600 --> 02:21:18.760
young, a young kid and whatnot. But he is still like you know,

2117
02:21:18.840 --> 02:21:22.479
he's been doing it since like the
AAF, so he's not a bad

2118
02:21:22.559 --> 02:21:26.520
resource at all. He doesn't do
YouTube or anything, which I've told him.

2119
02:21:26.520 --> 02:21:28.559
I was like, dude, how
are you not if you got all

2120
02:21:28.600 --> 02:21:33.799
these players in your dms? But
you know, maybe maybe later, maybe

2121
02:21:33.920 --> 02:21:39.319
maybe maybe later. We'll rather here
Greg, get anything else from you.

2122
02:21:39.360 --> 02:21:43.079
No, I think that's good.
You know, I'll have something later in

2123
02:21:43.120 --> 02:21:46.799
the week on this draft and and
breaking things down a little bit more so,

2124
02:21:46.280 --> 02:21:50.079
uh look on ufl board dot com
for that coming up, and that

2125
02:21:50.200 --> 02:21:54.399
Greg m Parks on Twitter and pat
on there by, Pat Rafino. I

2126
02:21:54.399 --> 02:21:56.639
appreciate everyone, Like I said,
we'll put this to bad follow Twitter.

2127
02:21:56.760 --> 02:22:00.559
We'll put out the father release at
the end, but it could be two

2128
02:22:00.600 --> 02:22:03.520
seconds from now, it could be
two hours from now, so appreciate it

2129
02:22:03.600 --> 02:22:05.399
like a subscribe thumbs up all that
stuff. And like I said, Craig,

2130
02:22:07.159 --> 02:22:09.879
I DMed him. He said his
internet ran out. And then John

2131
02:22:09.920 --> 02:22:13.559
Vogel, who is gonna come on
by this Snowdan without proper internet, so

2132
02:22:15.079 --> 02:22:18.879
I really appreciate it everyone making time
today. Like I said, look for

2133
02:22:18.000 --> 02:22:20.680
Friday episode if we get enough stuff
this week, so that should be good.

2134
02:22:20.680 --> 02:22:22.280
So we'll see you guys next time. Thanks again