00:00we we've cleaned up, we've cleaned up the mess plus, right? I mean, to me, cleaning up the mess
00:06would have been where we are really good shape. Um, and we keep waddle would have been great for
00:11me personally, personally. And I get it. I get part of its money and money down the road and,
00:17and you felt you got great value. And if you did, okay, I get it. We did this. You didn't
00:23do this
00:23to us, John Eric Sullivan. We did this to ourself. And, um, and so that's, that's fine. Um,
00:34but, but you're gonna have a young team, gonna have a young team. And, um, we don't have a lot
00:41of talent on this team right now, except the leaders and, you know, five or six guys on this
00:47team. It's, it's not fully loaded with a lot of talent right now. It's just not. Now, some of it
00:53could turn into being better players, but they're not there yet. Got a big draft coming
00:59up. Everybody knows about all those picks, but I, uh, I just think part of development,
01:04I will stand by this just firsthand. And I know it doesn't matter when you play. I think every
01:11guy has always told me the same thing. And, uh, that the important of veterans that are really
01:19team guys. And I, I have trouble believing it was just in the old days. And I know the
01:24game's different with free agency and we didn't have that, but we truly and Shula really not
01:30everybody, but most of the guys were good team guy. Good team guys are, Hey, help that
01:36young guy out, man. He's struggling. Hey, help that guy out on where to line up and, and why
01:41you do things that you do to help you. He wants to know, you see something, the veteran
01:47will help you a veteran will take you out and, and, uh, take you to dinner and talk to
01:52you and invite you over. And they see you're struggling a little bit, you know, guys from
01:56California coming out here for the first time and, and, uh, and just teaching you how to
02:01be a pro and how to handle things and what the coaches expect. The coaches just can't be
02:07the leaders full time. You can't just have this young team with, with these coaches. They're
02:14not going to be with them. And, and honestly, in some cases, and I'm always careful how I
02:19say this stuff that you do on the field, some of the coaches have never done. They can explain
02:25it. They can show you, but until you see a guy actually out there and Amy, sometimes
02:31that's a offense alignment, talking to a pass rusher, explaining what gives him the most,
02:37you know, difficult situations to, to go against those guys are really, really important to
02:43development of young guys and they play. And obviously they, they understand there to be
02:50leaders. You got to be really good players. It's hard for me to imagine talking about a
02:54guy that's a leader. That's, you know, not playing well. It was hard for me to think of
02:59two as a leader on that team last year, the way he was playing. And I, and I'm not, I'm
03:04just
03:04using him as an example cause he was the highest paid guy, but he was, he was playing as poorly
03:10as anybody in any position on our team. And you're like, what do you say when you stand
03:16up in a meeting? The only thing you should be saying, I used to say is I need to play
03:20better guys. Sorry about this. That's it. You can't tell somebody else. You can't call
03:26a team meeting or a position meeting the way you're playing. They're hard to do. Like, really?
03:32You're calling this thing. I'd rather be home with my kids than listen to what you have
03:37to say. Just give me the damn ball. So, uh, anyway, I just think the veteran leadership
03:43of, of Brooks Brewer sealer. Um, I'm trying to think if there's any other names are being
03:51mentioned over the weekend that are still in play. I get the H hand thing and they say
03:59they're far apart. I don't know where they are. Agents are going to tell guys, whatever.
04:04So, you know, and it's got, it's gotta be, I don't want to give him up, man. Now the only
04:10thing that's off for all these guys, if they walk in any of them and say, I'm out, there's
04:16nothing you can do what you're doing already. We, we don't want to be here. Then, then you
04:23don't have a choice that, that changes things. But if you're going to give these guys extensions
04:28and let's keep them, you got to have some good players to lead them. They can't just
04:34be veteran free agents that have not. And most of our guys aren't coming off great years
04:40that we're getting for, for the minimum, or they didn't have the same opportunity, or
04:45they've been a fourth or fifth receiver on their team and, or a third receiver with their
04:49numbers way down. So we're able to get them on the cheap with the thought, Hey, you can
04:53build your numbers back up, but those guys just can't come in and be leaders. It just,
04:57and I know the coach already said, I'm really looking forward in the GM looking forward to
05:02see who's going to be the leaders of this team. Well, I can tell you your leader. I saw it
05:06last
05:06year and they're going to be the same guys that lead your team this year. Brooks Brewer Seeler.
05:14Those are the guys I looked at that roster. Now, Patrick Paul, maybe, I don't think HN that's
05:19not his personnel. He leads by example, which are going to have guys like that. Like, I don't want
05:24to be telling guys all the time and I can't teach a 10, 100 meter to the other backs or
05:30whatever is
05:31those guys say that, that makes him one of the best running backs in football right now.
05:37But I think that leadership thing is important. And sometimes just when you're in a funk, man,
05:42and you're not playing well and you're not having success and you've already gone to see the sports
05:47psychiatrist in the building, set something up. I've never had this happen. I've always had
05:53success in the SEC and the big 10. And now I'm playing against these guys and nothing works.
05:59Having, having pros there still better than the most expensive psychologist having veteran guys
06:05here. I, I know I could give you a handful of guys who were there for me. And, uh, I
06:12still think
06:13I see Don struck a go stroker, man. Nobody was better to me, man. And then, uh, then you were
06:19and, uh, great. Even when you bust my chops, it was, it was, it was the right way to do
06:24it.
06:25And, uh, and that more always there. Jimmy Cephalo, always there. Somebody got on you,
06:31knew you were hurt. And Seth, he, Seth, he stepped in like he was the godfather. It was beautiful.
06:37So anyway, um, yeah, you get some of that stuff and, and, uh, I think it's important as far as
06:43the positions go, you know, we all have our, our different position, especially for Thursday night.
06:49We've got still 11 days before we talk about this, but, uh, yeah, I, I feel strongly about an
06:57offensive lineman or wide receiver at 11. And I'm not telling them, you know, if Carnell Tate's there
07:04to take him or Fano or Maui Noah, but again, either my quarterback, give him somebody to throw
07:12to with big upside. He only get better. The more he gets more experience he gets. And we have seen
07:19rookies come in maybe more so at wide receiver than any position in the NFL and have great success
07:25right off the bat.
07:27We see a lot of young receivers come in and just tear it up.
07:31I only have one fear and that's that they trade back. Cause I keep seeing people talking about that,
07:36that they could trade back and, you know, load up on later picks. And I just, I really want an
07:42impact guy, man. I do too. There's a lot of good players. I think they're going to be on the
07:45board at
07:4611. We got, we got four desperate positions that are all important, by the way, all very important.
07:52I just named the two on the offensive side of the ball, which is why I could see why they'd
07:56want to
07:57trade back. But, but also, man, they, that just hasn't worked out.
08:00Take the, take the best guy. And if it's a pass rusher, I got no problem. And if it's a
08:04really
08:04good lockdown cover corner and he ends up looking like Don McNeil, where day one, he just lines up
08:10on dudes and nothing's too good. You know, he just, and he's wearing veterans out of practice.
08:15If, if you have to, any of those, they're all equally important. Those, the good ones that all
08:20those positions are going to get paid a lot of money. Good news is you got needs at just about
08:24every position on the field. So, uh, well, those four for me are ahead. It's just me. I just told
08:29Bo this, uh, they're ahead of safety position for me and, and they're ahead of the tight end position
08:35too for me. And I think you, you, you have a pretty good tight end that we can work with
08:43from last
08:43year that we picked up after the season started. I thought was, uh, was really good. So anyway,
08:50uh, but, but it could be any one of those four positions. If you're listening and going, Oh my
08:55God, I want to hear about Lyman. I want to hear about a pass rusher. We're going to hear about
08:59Lyman and pass. And we need a cover corner. We haven't had a lockdown guy. We have not drafted
09:05a lockdown corner in a long ass time. Yeah. That's a LAS long ass time.
09:14You got, well, you got to set up this quarterback for a little bit of success though, too. Like you
09:18can't hang him out to dry in year one here. No, no, you go, you get too defensive minded going,
09:25Oh my God, he's really good. And then you're going, okay, that's great. But you're trying
09:28to figure out if you, you've got to get Malik, some players, he he's got to have time to throw
09:35it and you got to get him some young weapons to go with the guys you have.
09:39And then all these mocks I've seen, I, they, they haven't taken quarterbacks in the middle
09:44rounds here. I don't care about that. I don't, you know, I get, that's not, that's not, it
09:49seems like it would be a bit of a reach to do that, especially as he signed Malik, but
09:54I don't think I'm going to, I'm going to be surprised if they take a quarterback in the
10:01first, second, or the four, three third round picks, I would be very surprised.
10:06You think they do take one later in the draft though, at some point, probably take one after
10:10that. They, I call it a Saturday quarterback. The question is, where does Carson Beck go?
10:16That to me is the interesting quarterback question of this draft outside of the Ty Simpson
10:20thing, obviously, but I don't know. He's going to probably be three to six taken third to six
10:27quarterback taken in the draft. According to which spread though, man, three to five.
10:34I don't know. Maybe, maybe it's no idea what teams think of him. Well, they're not,
10:39you're not supposed to hear anyone talking about him. He's, he, he's an NFL quarterback.
10:46I think, you know, I go with everybody for that. He's that nice bounce back from whatever
10:51happened in Georgia. He is playing a lot better, but, uh, I, I have no idea. Listen, the, the,
10:57the stories from the, the university of Miami guys are going to be a really interesting
11:01group with this latest news now coming out that from Ruben Bain that, uh, hits is one
11:07of the top stories on, uh, I guess he got in a car accident and I didn't even know about
11:11it. Car accident after his freshman year.
11:14He was in 2024.
11:16Yeah.
11:16You know how these things go. They start to get all the information right around.
11:21No, no, no. You're exactly right.
11:23Yeah.
11:23But nobody knew about this.
11:24All this stuff comes out and, uh, you know, and he was released and, and, uh, so you know
11:32how it goes, man. Maybe he'll fall a few spots.
11:35Hey, listen, we had a guy with a mask on here, man. Right. Thank God he dropped for us.
11:41Cause that actually ended up being a great pick except we didn't keep them.
11:43Well, yeah, those were in the days when you got in trouble for weed. Right.
11:49Remember they used to, what they used to do to guys.
11:50What was the story behind that? Was that the, the mother's boyfriend?
11:55Yeah. Somebody leaked it.
11:56The mother's boyfriend or a mentor that he decided he didn't want to use anymore.
12:01That'd been a big part of his life. And, and the guy just started to send out pictures
12:06to like destroy the kid. He didn't. Hey, by the way, he did just fine for himself.
12:11Didn't he? He did. He did. But that was funny. Cause that's like, you know,
12:15he did okay to do. Josh Gordon's like the biggest one, but like they used to suspend
12:18guys for a year for testing positive for weed.
12:23I know Ricky Williams has told everybody in the country. It's amazing. Why couldn't I have
12:27been playing right now? I'd never miss a game. Right. Josh Gordon missed, uh, missed seasons
12:33because of weed. Yeah. Yeah. That was bad. Different time. Now would different time. You
12:38know, the deal can't go back on that, but we can tell you about your South Florida Chevy
12:41dealers. Omar Kell is going to join us here. And it's about, by the way, I want to welcome
12:46Omar to the Chevy family too. He's in the Chevy family. Now send him down. They got
12:51a red, uh, what do you get an Equinox, right? He did get the Equinox. I think he went Equinox
12:55honest. Hey, uh, I got.
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