00:00Okay, so let's go over to the housewives of the National Football League.
00:06This is exactly what Tom Brady has dubbed wide receivers in the National Football League today.
00:15So he was on the New Heights podcast there with the Kelseys,
00:20and he made it very clear that the position in the National Football League now,
00:24the wide receiver position is a position that you have to give more care,
00:29and you have to treat these players a little bit different,
00:33and more energy, as he put it, has to be put into coddling their egos.
00:38Well, this is a National Football League-created now image of what the wide receiver in the NFL is today.
00:44Let me give you a little history lesson here.
00:47Back in Jerry Rice's day, nobody opened up their mouth because they were in fear of getting destroyed
00:52coming across the middle of the field.
00:54You didn't hear wide receivers chirping because if you did, you would get your ass knocked out.
00:59You would get your ass handed to you.
01:01Now the National Football League has made it so that this is a new position that people now are egomaniacs.
01:10If you go back in the day, in the 1990s, even back in the days of the Emmitt Smith,
01:15the running backs were the number two offensive player in most huddles in the National Football League.
01:21If you go back to the 80s, it was even more so that you had the era of the running
01:25back.
01:26Running backs were really the second guy who was the most important person in the huddle next to your quarterback.
01:31Well, what did the NFL do?
01:33They changed that dynamic.
01:34Look at the kids coming out of college today.
01:36Most of them were wide receivers.
01:38Can you imagine what the NFL has done for that position?
01:41You could get the ball five times a game, and you could make in excess of $35 million,
01:48in some aspects, nearly $40 million a year, touching the ball only five times.
01:54Again, back in the day when you were a football team in the NFL in the 80s and 90s and
01:59early 2000s,
02:00you're talking about being a workhorse guy like Emmitt Smith,
02:04getting the ball 28 to 35 times and carrying your football team on their backs.
02:08Wide receivers today, this is created by the National Football League.
02:12And Tom Brady even said it.
02:14You've got to go over and above to sit there and make sure that their egos are okay.
02:22Can you imagine that?
02:23Guys like A.J. Brown, who bitched and moaned, and Brady said,
02:27hey, you've got to be cool with the fact that one game you may get the ball 12 touches,
02:31and then the next game you may get it three touches.
02:35That's not good enough for these guys today.
02:37It's almost made it to the point where wide receivers in the NFL today, think about it.
02:44They'd rather get their numbers, and they would rather get their touches,
02:47I think more so than winning, because this is how you're paid.
02:52You're not paid on wins in the National Football League.
02:56Take a look at the top flight wide receivers in the National Football League,
02:59and you tell me how many guys have gone on to win Super Bowls,
03:02or even contended or been in Super Bowls.
03:05If you make your numbers in the NFL and you get your touches, that's how you're received
03:12and how you're looked at, oh, whether or not you're one of the better wideouts
03:15in the National Football League.
03:17It's not about wins.
03:19It's about fantasy points.
03:21Remember, fantasy football.
03:24This is what really has changed the game and how you look at fans.
03:29Hey, what guy gives me the most when it comes to my fantasy team?
03:33What gives me the most opportunity to make as much money as I possibly can with my fantasy team?
03:39It's all about touches, and it's all about your receptions and yardage and your TDs.
03:45That's all these wide receivers in the NFL care about, and Brady knows that.
03:49And to be truthful, most quarterbacks know that these guys would rather get their numbers
03:54than would rather really win games.
03:56Look at A.J. Brown, man.
03:58A.J. Brown made $32 million a year, was 50 and 18 in four years,
04:02and that wasn't good enough for him, and that's why he's in New England.
04:06A.J. Brown made $32 million a year, was 50 and 18 in four years,
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