00:00how you doing doing awesome you're doing good oh doing great yeah it's been a great day already
00:04has it oh yeah it's been awesome and sometimes i can't tell when you're being sarcastic being
00:10totally honest and something bad happened no okay everything has been great and you know yesterday
00:16uh you know that i'm a big fan of the little league world series and yesterday the whole
00:20thing was washed out right and so starting this morning at 6 a.m we had double headers
00:25throughout the whole day have you been doing a marathon not quite i mean i i didn't catch the
00:306 a.m game but i did catch the 9 a.m game and now i'm watching this and it's
00:34awesome it's on here in
00:36the studio and some kid almost just got clocked in the head look at this one whoa man and he
00:42got him
00:42in the arm instead yeah um it was a curveball so uh nobody charged him on but yeah yeah it's
00:48all good
00:48but uh well great fantastic um i'm excited too i'm excited too and i'm not going to let you not
00:57make me excited i'm not trying to not make you excited i'm just trying to shine a light on what
01:02i felt like was a little bit of a hypocrisy and you can feel that way because i mean you're
01:07always
01:07a big fan of like you know we don't know about a draft class until a year or two or
01:13maybe three and
01:14i'm not sitting here telling you that we know anything about dejan stripling but what i what i
01:19firmly feel like i mean i already felt this way like i think from a skill set standpoint an excitement
01:27level some things that you are seeing that are at least clues i don't think like it's no longer
01:34embarrassing that they picked him with the second pick in the or the first pick in the second round
01:38that's not like yes he hasn't achieved anything yet i'm not here to say that the jury is going to
01:45be
01:45out i mean until the jury's not out he could have a great rookie year and never do anything again
01:50so i'm not putting anything in ink but my goodness if the question is is it too early to be
01:59excited
02:00very excited about dejan stripling my answer is a resounding no it is not too early
02:08to be excited it's too early to start making sharpie declarations about about his nfl career
02:15but wow dude you gotta i mean you have to give something for what this looks like on
02:22on the football field don't you i mean you give him i think a little bit you don't give him
02:27that
02:28much to me because i think about like marco bellinelli in summer league when he had 44 or 42 whatever
02:34in a summer league game and it's like oh my god he's the next chris mullen this guy is the
02:39guy
02:39and so i do look at what stripling has done it's great he looks good he looks like he can
02:45play at
02:46this level with you know brock purdy and mac jones and all the rest of it he looks good he
02:51looks better
02:52than most people would have thought but i'm still of a mind where you i'm gonna pause and wait wait
02:58until you get to the actual games but i'm not saying you can't get excited i'm also excited yes
03:03like i mean and that's that's really all i'm getting at you know my thought my mock drafts
03:08were already stupid they're already stupid and i get it it's content it's it's really just tapping
03:14into the excitement that we have about an event so i'm not saying they should like go away but i
03:19do
03:20think it should go away that when somebody and this can be anybody when any team doesn't follow
03:25some dude named dane's website wow when they make no really dang brugler well he happens to also
03:33have it i love the only dane so it's the name that popped into my head i like i like
03:38dane brugler
03:38dane does his work but i don't think that you should be outcast as an nfl executive coach or team
03:47when you don't follow rules that aren't actually rules they're not they were just there's somebody
03:54else put that up there and we i i've long thought the dejan stripling thing became weird you and i
04:00were
04:01on the air when it happened i was like what who didn't like it but then we're gonna go into
04:07the
04:07lab or the information superhighway or whatever it is and we come to find out that for whatever
04:14reason stripling was one of these weird situations where the nfl teams behind closed doors were all
04:20salivating over him and nobody knew i don't know why i don't know how that happened but if you went
04:27out in the world and pointed and laughed at the 49ers for the pick i i think i think your
04:35tail's
04:35between your legs today i do i do i mean i don't think it's quite in between your legs yet
04:41but as you
04:42look at you know what's going on from you know practice and then these two games in preseason games
04:48it looks like he probably is going to be better than what most people thought so i don't know if
04:53you're totally ready to tuck tail and admit that you were wrong if you were that person but right now
04:59and i always go back to the uh matt steinmetz quote from i think you guys did new vodka and
05:05you know he
05:05said he was liking it early and right now you're liking it early we're all liking it early and it's
05:11great and we all should be liking it early wouldn't you say with alcohol it's a lot better and and
05:16more
05:17important to like it early to like it late your taste buds are dead it could be you're wasted and
05:23if you're like if you're liking it late you're probably on your way to a headache the next morning
05:27like if you ask me because tonight it's friday we're probably going to go tip uh one or two uh
05:33me
05:33and the lovely christy after the show we'll go do that um ask me what i'm liking at eight o
05:39'clock
05:39and then ask me what i'm liking at 11 o'clock let's go to uh dibs half in the bag
05:43i mean you're probably
05:44liking uh sleep at 11 o'clock 11 o'clock we're we're home i'm i'm in bed trying to stay
05:50awake
05:51through whatever i'm streaming that like so yeah liking it early is yeah it's a big statement it is
05:57and honestly if you watch uh dijon stripling and you look at like forget the stats and forget the
06:02catches and the targets and the rest of it but the routes he's running thank you he's getting open
06:07and the ball is thrown his way and the hands are up and he grabs the ball most of the
06:12time for once
06:13yeah fine whatever i mean if he had caught that then we might be insufferable today right um but
06:20but just for fun for fun because that's where at least that's the tone i'm going for with this
06:26i'm not here to say the guy is going to have some sort of a hall of fame career but
06:32check this out
06:32couple of tweets um dejon stripling's preseason start he is the first player in at least 20 years
06:40to total 11 catches within the first 20 minutes of two consecutive preseason games three names are
06:50the next closest to achieve those numbers nobody's done it in the last 20 years but the three closest
06:56players to do it des bryant demarius thomas and jeremy macklin that's fun yeah it's fun it's super fun
07:06i mean it's got put it this way does it mean everything no does it mean a lot no does
07:13it mean
07:13something i think it does like it would be honest it means nothing okay what about this targets per route
07:22run leaders among rookie wide receivers in the preseason in the last 11 years with the minimum
07:30of 15 routes run targets per routes run in the preseason okay so again this is all preseason
07:39football that we know it's targets per route run targets per route run by rookie wide receivers in
07:45the last 11 years in the preseason number one is dejon stripling
07:52now that doesn't matter but listen to who the top four are number two is tank dell who was a
08:01rookie
08:01sensation before he has twice had massive leg injuries number three is jackson smith and jigba
08:07and number four is amon ross saint brown i mean i'll put it to you this has to mean something
08:16it can't be like it means me me halfway no see i doubt i disagree with it means nothing cannot
08:22mean
08:22nothing it means nothing so targets per route run tells me that all right we're gonna play you and
08:28when we play you and you're gonna run a route we're gonna throw you the ball that's what this
08:32means but you have to be open for the ball to be thrown you have to be you have to
08:36be targeted you
08:37have to be right you could be targeted and not actually catch it although he's caught the ball
08:42almost every time he caught what uh four of five targets yesterday i guess so for me this stat in
08:50the preseason means almost nothing it tells me that all right we have a guy and we don't have mike
08:55evans
08:56and we don't have ricky pierce all and we don't have kirk and we don't have debo so who do
09:01we have
09:01he played oh he had i'm sorry two targets okay he's out there apologies first time he played so
09:09basically you have a guy who is your guy and you want to find out who he is and so
09:14when he runs
09:15around you try to throw him the ball hold on you're making it about only the last tweet that i
09:21that i
09:21read what i'm trying to say to me meaningless all right tweet plus tweet plus eye test plus camp plus
09:28reports plus preseason games plus everything you see your statement i want to make sure i got this
09:35right my statement is based on the two tweets okay my statement is on the two tweets so let's take
09:40everything your statement is not this means nothing no no my statement on your two tweets your two
09:47stats i'm asking no no i'm telling you what i'm telling you that's not what i was asking you but
09:51what i'm telling you is what i'm telling you okay so you brought out these two stats which are
09:56preseason which to me is meaningless not the first not the first two things i brought out
10:01but what i'm saying is beyond those two stats which are meaningless to me all right like what he did
10:07in
10:08camp and what he seems to be and what the buzz is what does that mean what does that mean
10:14to you
10:14that means a lot more than two meaningless stats in the preseason all of it into words everything that
10:20you've seen means what it means he probably should have a good rookie year okay if he can stay healthy
10:25sure but i don't give a crap if he is like number one in targets and this and preseason it's
10:32not that
10:33means nothing no it's not about the stat it's about what that indicates i think that what what is clear
10:39is the 49ers have a real freaking talent would you would know what it indicates to me the stats
10:47what it indicates to me is that they don't have a lot of other people and that they're going to
10:52try
10:52and see what this guy can do okay and what this guy can do in the preseason has been good
10:57again not
10:58the stats i'm talking about talking about the stats but i'm not the whole picture to you means what
11:06it means yeah let's see they clearly have a real talent here i don't i don't know how that's going
11:13to
11:13get all get executed sure he may get hurt week one and then that's the end of that who knows
11:18you know
11:19but like come on like this is really you got to be excited about it it's exciting but i'm not
11:26going
11:26to look at like these arcane preseason stats and make that the reason why i'm excited i'm excited
11:33because he looks good yeah yeah i mean we're talking about all of it
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