00:00Getting set for a 2,000-yard rusher, and maybe no Malik neighbors in that opener as John Harbaugh, noncommittal
00:10to Malik, saying if he plays, he plays. We'll see what happens with the surgery recovery.
00:15Yeah, are we trusting anything coming out of John Harbaugh's mouth these days? I've never heard him speak this much
00:25the entire time he was in Baltimore, and all of a sudden he is. We've got like three straight days
00:30of comments. He's at a commencement speech. Oh, he's out there saying we're going to kick the Cowboys' ass. Now
00:35it's the whole Malik neighbors' comments. I'm saying gamesmanship.
00:38But Schefter, we all know that he likes to leak the details, violate HIPAA in advance, and he had already
00:44said that it looked like Malik neighbors was going to be ready to go. So I think that that's just
00:49early gamesmanship there from old Johnny.
00:53As it relates to the 2,000-yard rusher, your boy, Cam Scadaboo, with a prediction.
00:59Cam Scadaboo, look, I do love him. I do love him, but he's an idiot. Not only does he say
01:06that he'll be ready to go week one, but he also says when he plays 17-plus games this year.
01:15Oh, that's a playoff promise right there.
01:17That's a playoff promise.
01:18Or he doesn't know how many games there are.
01:19He said it's going to be 300 carries for over 2,000 yards, which I did some math on that.
01:26That means an average of 6.6 yards a carry.
01:29And I'm pretty sure he was about half that last year.
01:34Bobby, what was it?
01:36Yeah, he was 100 carries for 400 yards last year, which is nowhere close.
01:41Nowhere close.
01:41Yeah, he's not anywhere close there.
01:43I do think the assumption is hilarious that he's going to be carrying the ball 300 times.
01:48Even if he was getting the majority of those opportunities, the idea that, well, I'm just going to come in
01:53and I'm going to take everything from Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary.
01:56I'm getting 300 carries next year.
01:57But 2,000 yards, I'm dead serious.
02:01I don't know that he picks up 2,000 rushing yards the rest of his career.
02:04Look, stop it.
02:06I love him.
02:07I think he's fun.
02:07But he's a Mike Allstott starter kit.
02:10All right?
02:11No.
02:11Yeah, he is.
02:12No.
02:12Oh, my God.
02:13That is offensive to Mike Allstott.
02:15No, a starter kit.
02:16He's not a 2.0.
02:17No, he is a Lusaka polite starting kit.
02:20That's what he is.
02:21He is the only back in football who on fourth and one could fall forward and he's still short of
02:28the first down marker because he's that small.
02:31I can't wait to see where my New York and Jersey buddies draft Scadaboo in fantasy.
02:38Oh.
02:38I want to see how high he goes.
02:41There needs to be something.
02:42So the study you got to do is like which player is always overdrafted in that market.
02:45Are you in a league with them?
02:47Yes.
02:48Like a money league?
02:49It's college league.
02:50Yeah, money league.
02:50Oh.
02:51Yeah, you're going to be able to take advantage of that with Dart and Scadaboo, I bet.
02:55But like in every city does this, I'm sure, where the player is.
02:58Like CD will be the first wide receiver drafted in DFW.
03:02But in Minnesota.
03:02Are you sure?
03:03Well, maybe not.
03:04I mean, I wouldn't.
03:05I would take pickets.
03:06But in Minnesota, it'll be Jefferson.
03:08No one else would.
03:09In Cincy, it'll be Chase.
03:11Right?
03:11In Detroit, it'll be St. Brown.
03:13Just keep going, right?
03:13Wherever Tyreek is or was, you know, last year in Miami, it was Tyreek, right?
03:18But Scadaboo is going to be that guy.
03:20And so is Dart.
03:22That's fascinating.
03:22So who would be the, like, what would be the most advantageous city to play people in fantasy?
03:28Because you got like when Miami had their trio of receivers, you would get them to, we'll take all those.
03:32The NFC North.
03:33Chicago.
03:33The NFC North, man.
03:34They are just.
03:36Chicago fans have been, now, not right now because they're decent, but they have been delusional
03:41where Vegas just capitalizes on them every single year.
03:44Dude, Chicago always has.
03:47Remember they thought Justin Fields would win MVP?
03:50That was hilarious.
03:50Chicago always has, like, the highest percentage of bets from any city, you know, outside of Vegas.
03:56You know, Chicago, like Detroit, Pittsburgh always has high bets.
04:00Meanwhile, the Giants do us a favor.
04:03I need that reporter who said he was going to be fired that week.
04:07It was, uh, it was, wait a second.
04:11Was that Rich Cimini?
04:12I think it was Cimini.
04:13No.
04:13Joe Shane extended.
04:15I think it was.
04:16As the general manager.
04:18Joe Shane.
04:19After people said Harbaugh would kick him to the curb right after the draft, here he is.
04:25Extended.
04:25You know how there's always the talk of, like, well, Jerry's just, he's really the general manager name only.
04:34He's not really running it.
04:35He's just obsessed with the title.
04:37He's happy to just have that title even though he's not the one, like, really controlling things.
04:41Pat Leonard.
04:42Pat Leonard.
04:43Pat Leonard?
04:44Yep.
04:44That must be.
04:45That guy looks like an idiot today.
04:47I just wanted to put his name out there because he looked stupid after saying he was going to be
04:51fired three weeks ago.
04:52That must be just.
04:54I hope we don't get him on to preview the Giants during the year.
04:56No, no.
04:57We got Paul Schwartz and John Schmelke.
04:59We don't need anybody else in the rotation.
05:01No, it's the, it must be just he's obsessed with the title.
05:05He likes being called the general manager.
05:07Because the only way I can think that an extension would happen is, yeah, if you're cool just sitting here
05:11and seeding to John Harbaugh on every decision, but you hold the title, okay, fine.
05:17You can do that.
05:18You can have the title and we'll sign you up to a contract.
05:20Just stay out of the way.
05:21And then, I mean, that must be, he must just be okay with that setup and he's willing to take
05:26whatever, which he sounded in all of his interviews right after Harbaugh was hired as a guy who was just
05:30content.
05:31Like, oh, just let me keep my spot.
05:33Let me keep my job.
05:34Well, people love their draft.
05:36I don't know how much credit you give to Joe Shane.
05:39He gets the credit for the draft.
05:40He's the one calling all the shots.
05:41Yeah, but, I mean, like, his, you know, obviously Shane's team did 15 months of work.
05:46They also had two very high picks.
05:48They had two very high picks.
05:48I mean, they couldn't have screwed it up.
05:50Well, you can't screw it up.
05:51They literally were the last team to do it when they had Evan Neal and Kayvon Thibodeau.
05:54That's right.
05:55But, like, you know, when Arbel Reese falls in your lap, like, you could screw it up by not taking
05:59him, obviously.
06:00But any pulse would have taken him in that spot.
06:03A lot of people think they did.
06:04A lot of people are wondering if they messed up with Maui Noah.
06:06For sure.
06:07But they came in with a plan wanting to get an offensive player and a defensive player with the top
06:13ten.
06:14It's not hard to execute that plan.
06:16No.
06:16We need an offensive player.
06:18We did it.
06:18We did it.
06:19We did it.
06:19We did it.
06:20The two picks at the top ten.
06:21Hang the mission accomplished banner.
06:23Yes.
06:23Mike Clay is looking over these draft picks.
06:26Yeah, he is.
06:26So he went and did his.
06:27He's ESPN.
06:28ESPN.
06:29And his projections, NFL rookies in several stat leadership categories.
06:34So, like, you know, passing yards, he goes out on a limb with Fernando leading.
06:40That is going out on a limb.
06:41That is.
06:42He does say he's going to have 14 starts.
06:45That's the limb right there because I don't think many have that.
06:48He only has Carson Beck with two.
06:50Simpson and Klubnik, no starts.
06:52Either one for them.
06:53Receiving touchdowns and yards, he's got Cardinal Tate.
06:56And then right after that is Jordan Tyson.
06:59And then you go further down.
07:00You get, obviously, Jeremiah Love running away with it.
07:03We didn't play, by the way.
07:05Cardinal Tate, we didn't play the audio yesterday.
07:07Caleb Downs said he was with him when the schedule release came out.
07:10And he said Cardinal was just, like, pouting that Downs had, like,
07:13all these primetime games.
07:15And he said, every game we're playing is at noon.
07:17Now, tackles.
07:18Because the Cowboys are obviously defense heavy.
07:21Styles won.
07:22They said he's going to have the most tackles this year of any of the rookies
07:24with 123.
07:25Then Reese at 116.
07:28CJ Allen third.
07:29And then Downs tied with Thienemann with 82 tackles.
07:32How does he come up with those numbers, I wonder?
07:34Like, how is he just like, yeah, 82.
07:36That's what he's going to get.
07:36Great question.
07:37Great question.
07:38It's a great question.
07:39Sacks.
07:41Malachi Lawrence second.
07:43Oh.
07:43Oh, he's doing the Cynthia Freeland thing, though.
07:46With how many?
07:465.7.
07:475.7 sacks.
07:48Which I don't think you can actually get 5.7 sacks.
07:51Rookies are averaging 106 sacks per season over the last decade.
07:55But the past two seasons have been far below that average.
07:58They've been 84.5 and 100.
08:00James Pierce at 10.5 last year.
08:03But, you know, for him to be, you know, ahead of Mesidor and Bain and Falk and even Reese,
08:08you know, depending on how they use him, Lawrence at, you know, let's say 5.5.
08:14I mean, there you go.
08:15If the projection is Malachi Lawrence above Bain and Mesidor, I mean, those are two edge
08:20rushers that Cowboys fans were clamoring for.
08:23Interception.
08:23Here we go.
08:24Here we go.
08:25So, Delane tied with Trayden Stooks.
08:29Trayden Stooks.
08:30And he's tied with Caleb Downs.
08:31And with Caleb Downs with two.
08:33Thienemann with 1.8.
08:34I don't think you can get that.
08:35And then Chris Johnson with Miami with 1.5.
08:39So, there's your...
08:40So, they're top three in interceptions.
08:42Top three in sacks.
08:43Top three in tackles.
08:44I still think...
08:46I'd be careful projecting six sacks from a Cowboys rookie edge rusher because that doesn't
08:49always work out.
08:51You did, right?
08:51I would say that is what I did.
08:54I would...
08:55I think the Caleb Downs thing, and obviously those aren't, like, gaudy statistics.
08:58I mean, two interceptions and 82 tackles.
09:01That's not like, oh my gosh, it's so crazy.
09:02But I would say that some of the projections I've seen from Cowboys fans where they're trying
09:07to say, like, you know, they're on Twitter and they're getting excited.
09:09They're like, Caleb Downs, I bet he's going to have, like, five picks this season.
09:11He's going to do this.
09:12He's going to do that.
09:13It's like, I think you're going to get to the end of the season.
09:15You're going to look at his stat line and you're going to think it's not as good as what
09:19you think you're seeing on the field because...
09:22But that's okay.
09:23His entire impact is going to be gauged or judged, I think, based on the Cowboys' defensive
09:29numbers and how much they climb as a unit.
09:32Because his numbers themselves are...
09:33He's...
09:34It's like Darren Woodson.
09:35Darren Woodson couldn't just stay in a position and stack up numbers.
09:38He was asked to do too much stuff.
09:40He was asked to take things away and impact the defense in a big way.
09:43So he doesn't have necessarily some of the raw, gaudy statistics out there too, but he
09:46was the biggest impact.
09:48And that's going to be Downs.
09:48Downs is going to make a massive impact with not a lot of stats.
09:51We did not get to this yesterday, but Aaron Rodgers quickly said, yep, this is it.
09:57This is finally the final year.
09:59And he gave credit to Bobby's boy, Mike McCarthy, for helping him make that decision.
10:06I had a conversation with Omar at the end of last year, and I encouraged him for an outside
10:14perspective to interview Mike.
10:17Not thinking that he even would, honestly.
10:20Just because the way the league goes and the trend, you know, it's kind of like whoever
10:25worked with John, you know, Kyle, or one of those guys, Matt now, you know, gets a lot
10:35of looks and multiple guys in those trees have.
10:38But then when it became more serious, I was thinking, wow, that'd be a really interesting
10:44thought to come back and play with Mike.
10:47He is so funny to listen to.
10:49First off, I like, I encourage for an outside perspective, hey, why don't you interview the
10:54guy who bartended a mile from the stadium here?
10:57You should talk to that guy.
10:59Really, like, go outside the box.
11:00But then for him to basically, that sounded like the most backhanded compliment ever,
11:04where he's like, you know, a lot of times people just, they want to grab somebody from
11:07the most successful trees.
11:09Like, where are you doing the most successfully offensively?
11:10Not me.
11:11I want to look away from what's working in the rest of the league, and let's go outside
11:15the box and look at it a little differently.
11:17The reality is, Aaron Rodgers knows from history, he can push Mike McCarthy around, and he can
11:21do whatever he wants, and that's what he wants.
11:23He wants somebody who can do whatever he wants.
11:25I got some Vegas prop bets on Rodgers' season.
11:28Will he be benched during the year?
11:32Oh, no, he'll never bench himself.
11:34No, he won't.
11:36No, his minus 500.
11:38His over-under passing yards for the season is 3,400 and a half.
11:44Oh, I got to go see what he had last year.
11:46So we're trying to figure out what the favorite would be?
11:48Oh, you got to pick the over-under.
11:49There's no favorite on that.
11:50He'll go under.
11:51Aaron Rodgers passing touchdowns, over-under is 21 and a half.
11:56Over.
11:57The interception's nine, over-under.
12:01Under.
12:02It's hard to intercept the ball three yards thrown in the air.
12:04He's risk-averse.
12:05Will the identity of Aaron Rodgers' wife be revealed during the 2026 season?
12:10You can bet on this.
12:11Was it already not?
12:12What was that?
12:12Was that a ball sack?
12:15It might have been a ball sack, because that girl looked, as you would say,
12:19Oh, I was going to say crunchy.
12:21Oh, she was crunchy, yes.
12:22What's the difference between chopped and crunchy?
12:24Well, chopped is just ugly.
12:27Crunchy.
12:28Crunchy is earthy.
12:29Crunchy is Nola.
12:30She looked crunchy.
12:31She's crunchy, yeah.
12:32She's not ugly.
12:33If that's her.
12:34Yeah, I don't know.
12:35Noah's minus 300.
12:36Yes is plus 200 for his wife.
12:38You said you were going to figure out her identity.
12:40I know.
12:41I got distracted.
12:42I forgot to actually look it up ever after I looked it up, because I just now was remembering
12:45it.
12:45I was like, oh, yeah, I was supposed to look that up, and I think I'm going to find it.
12:47That could be his wife.
12:48So, Rogers last year with 3,300 yards, 24 TDs, seven picks.
12:52What will he do first during the 2027 season, like in his own life?
12:57Peyote.
12:58Act in a movie slash TV show is the favorite.
13:02Join a TV broadcast team.
13:03Podcast co-hosts.
13:05Announce pregnancy.
13:06Create cannabis.
13:07Psychedelic company.
13:08Oh, baby.
13:08Let's go.
13:09That's plus 650.
13:10That's what I'm doing.
13:11Buy a pro sports team.
13:13Become state farm insurance salesman.
13:15Work for CDC.
13:18Plus 5,000.
13:20Him and RFK.
13:21Also, he's going to start the, I'm going to put money on the start of the cannabis.
13:25Plus 650.
13:26Yeah.
13:26That's good odds.
13:27What happened?
13:28Why do you think he's not, like, setting himself up for another milked decision next offseason?
13:34He already said.
13:34He said this will be my last.
13:35He said it.
13:36I know, but he's an egomaniac.
13:38So, what's the play here?
13:39Is he trying to do the retirement tour?
13:40Does he want, like, the Dirk and Wade send-off in every city with the NFL?
13:45But Aaron probably thinks he's different enough to be able to do that.
13:48No quarterback has.
13:49Nobody ever gets a walk-off-the-field, standing ovation like, you know, the Pistons team did
13:55when they got sweaty.
13:56Everybody, hey, we're going to win.
13:59Baseball, they don't do that.
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