The Herd with Colin Cowherd - 3 and Out - Shanahan Big Contract Pressure; 2020 Scouting/Front Office Craziness; Jamal Adams Demands; Deebo's Foot; Fauci Downer

Episode Date: June 19, 2020

In this episode, Middlekauff thinks Kyle Shanahan needs to put together a string of consistent winning seasons to prove he's the next all-time great NFL coach. He also breaks down some of the unique challenges NFL scouts and front offices will face in the 2020 season, looks at the headlines from around the league - including Deebo Samuel's broken foot - and answers listener questions in the Middlekauff Mailbag. Follow John on twitter @JohnMiddlekauff and go to theherdnow.com to find the latest content. Subscribe now! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And some new rules on Gained on Practice Squad guys And I think it's going to be an interesting fall from the scouting and front office perspective from the NFL. Some NFL stories, Jamal Adams, thoughts on Debo Samuel, Fauci on the NFL. We'll dive into all that. And of course, the Middilkoff mailbag at John Middlecoff is my Instagram. And easiest way to get on the show, you just shoot me a question in my DMs and I answer your question here. Pretty easy.

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And they keep rising review-wise by the week. And thanks for everyone that enjoys the show. And a lot of you shoot me DMs, questions, and followed by or start it off with a nice note. I just want everyone to know that has done that over the years. I really appreciate it. Okay, let's start with this. Like many people, I've watched a lot of Netflix over the last three and a half months.

I spend a large majority, like, I'm not that big of a TV watcher. I will watch TV shows that are popular that everyone else is watching because typically I like those shows too, but I don't just watch random TV. But I actually watch a lot of TV, they just happen to be games. I always have an NBA game on. always have a baseball game on, watch a ton of golf, obviously the NFL, college football,

365. I'm watching March Madness, you name it. Any event, any game, any competition I'm watching, betting on, really just, I watch for my own enjoyment. Now I also gamble, but I love sports. Like I would imagine many people listening to this podcast do too. So, nothing to watch for me the last three and a half months besides the occasional MJ documentary

or a couple of PGA tournaments the last two weeks. So I'm flipping around Netflix. stock that I once owned at much cheaper that it is now God, I could have made a lot of money. You gotta be patient on the stock market. That's a key because I own that bad boy in the high twos and it's now about 460.

But I clicked on the Garth Brooks documentary. I'm like, you know what? I'll check out Garth. I'm a country music guy. I'm a music guy in general, but I love country music. I've seen Garth a couple times live. He's, you know, an all-time great entertainer.

So I'd, you know what? Love to know his story. You know, he's a little, he's a little over the top. Now, he's an emotional guy, so the Netflix is, you know, a lot of Garth. You know, it's Garth kind of like the Michael Jordan set up, interviewing him within the last six months, maybe a year. So it's a lot of current Garth talking about his life and his career.

Interesting watch. And as he finally makes it big, he puts out a big record and has his biggest song yet to date called The Dance, and it's huge. I mean, it's the number one country song. It kind of puts them on the map as like a huge, country star just that song and he'd had one previous number one before that but that song was really like garth brook's country music star he said something then they go to him sitting on his chair like current times he's like you know once i did that i felt a lot of pressure because now everyone was

watching me the the circle around me the just the hype around me was big and whatever my next single that I put out slash album was gonna set the tone for the rest of my career I was either gonna take it to the completely next level and never look back

or just be kind of one of those one hit wonders I was like you know what I've never really thought about that but I think sometimes whenever you kind of get thrown in and you become somewhat quote unquote a big deal

I think you see this a lot with players right if you have a big year then everyone's kind of looking can you do it again it's why the great players like Julio Jones or Tom Brady, they've been doing it forever, right? That's why the great artists put down music forever.

It's what makes like you too so impressive, right? Or The Eagles or whoever. A great artist can produce great music for multiple albums. It's really difficult to do. Because once you come out with an all-time album, people are like, oh my God. So he's like, I really felt pressure. His next album had the songs Friends in Low Places and Thunder Rolls, and his two biggest songs by far, and he never looked back.

no human in the history of America has sold more albums than Garth Brooks. Not one. Not the Eagles. Not Michael Jackson. Now, I would imagine over this last decade it is not quantified the same, but Garth Brooks became, I mean, one of the biggest music stars

in the history of America. Flew by Elvis, flew by everybody. Michael Jackson. Garth Brooks was bigger. Sold more. Revenue. Generated more revenue. So even if you're not the biggest country music star, one, I'd recommend if you ever get the chance to see him,

it's a fun event, and he's just a complete showman. He earns every, you know, cent that you pay, and it really doesn't cost that much to go see him because he's really not the big on the business of country music in terms of the way they take advantage of people. So he's always really tried to keep the money down. But I started thinking about that.

You know, sometimes when the microscope comes on you, and we see it all the time, some players take that next step and never look back and become superstars. But I don't think we often look at it in the lens of coaches. And I think one guy, over this last season, became a star. Kyle Shanahan.

He just, he had a six-year contract going into year four this year. The owner ripped it up. Gave him six more years. Ten million a pop. And I think most of us, now you can be like, middle-clock, if you're just biased, you live out there,

I think most people listening go, yeah, Kyle Shanahan's the league coach. Because he is. He's awesome. I talked to Coach Reed about it at the combine. He's like, God, he's great for the NFL. He thinks he's like one of the best. and everyone's going to be looking at the Niners.

Now, we'll talk about Fauci and the football season this year, and I'm not even necessarily just talking about this upcoming fall. I'm talking about, like, the next two seasons. Like, the time is now. You kind of set your tone when everyone's looking. Because I think back to Belichick, when Belichick gets the job in New England, that first year's Rocky,

the second year, whatever, Tom Brady, does Drew Bledsoe go down in week one or week two, whenever it was, inserts Tom Brady. They never look back. they win the Super Bowl. Then the next year, I'm pretty sure they went like 7 and 9 or 8 and 8, but then after that they won two straight Super Bowls. So right after they won the Super Bowl, everyone's kind of keeping an eye on within the next

three years he's got two more Super Bowls. Andy reads a good example. Makes that first NFC championship. Now, he didn't win a Super Bowl until later in his career, but went to four straight. And the fourth one, he got to a Super Bowl. So it's like, God, this guy is really, really good. Now, I don't necessarily think Kyle has to win a Super Bowl this upcoming fall. or even in the next two years,

but I think at minimum he's got to go on a Harbaugh-type run. He has the team, he has the roster, he clearly is a star play caller, he has a coaching staff that has now been in place for going into its fourth year, and it might get a little more difficult after this year, but it's now time for him to kind of throw out some other hits because everyone's looking to them. And rightfully so.

They have a bunch of good players, they have a young core that's cheap, they have multiple star older players that are, under contract like Trent Williams and Richard Sherman. George Kittle, at this point in time, is still doesn't make that much money. Their quarterback, given how productive he is, is on one of the more team-friendly deals in the league.

Of any quarterback that's on a second, you know, contract. But Garth Brooks went on to become a guy that made country music mainstream. Like, Google, who makes the most money in music? I did it the other day. Kenny Chesney's been making $30 to $40 million for about a decade. Luke Bryan last year made $45 million. Garth Brooks changed the game.

But he answered and became such a big star. And I think Belichick is really the best example for this. He won those three Super Bowls within a four-year span, and then for the next 15 years, pedal to the medal. Now, he wasn't winning the Super Bowl every year, right? But he went to what? He's been to 12 with the Patriots, or I guess they've won six, and went to nine.

So they went to six more in the next 15 years. they're in the NFC or the AFC championship game every year, and he just became an all-timer, and arguably the best coach ever. And Coach Reed just won at winning, winning, winning, winning, winning. Now, Coach Reed, the second iteration in Kansas City, look at the star on him and Mahomes. Mahomes first year wins the MVP.

They get to the AFC championship game. They come within an off-sides of winning. They don't win the game. Well, coming back this year, everyone's talking about him. Reigning MVP, like the next Brett Favre, but like even better, what do they do? They win the Super Bowl. The rest is history.

They are clearly the top quarterback coaching duo, and he's now viewed as an all-timer. Mahomes is viewed as like the greatest two-year start to a career in the history of football as a starter. And I think it's taken, Kyle's taking a weird path, right? He was the son of a coach that won multiple Super Bowls. He's been a coordinator for four different teams. You know, Sean McVeigh had been a quarterback. coordinator one place, and we don't even really know how much he was coordinating, because Jay Gruden was calling the offense, right? Some of these guys were like, you know, they'd been

at one spot and got a job. Cliff Kingsbury, hadn't even won, he gets a job at Texas Tech. Kyle started with the Houston Texans, went with his dad to the Washington Redskins, went to the Cleveland Browns, and then went to Dan Quinn. That's four different head coaches before he even became a head coach, and then he went through some rough time. But definitely for the last four or five years, we went like, God, this guy's really, really good. And then last year kind of solidified himself. But he really, really, I think to become what he just got paid to become, and I think Jed would say, we already think he is that.

And that's true. And I do too. I think Kyle's a star. But I think he could solidify himself as like, whoa, are we looking at Bill Walsh? Are we looking at Bill Parcells? Are we looking at Chuck Knoll? Are we looking at Don Shula? Does he pass his dad one day?

Because his stardom right now and the stepping. Stone he has the opportunity with with this team is pretty incredible. And he's also the play caller. So he dictates half the game. And their offense is pretty loaded. Even though Debo got hurt and we'll get into that later. They still have another first round pick. They got multiple guys coming back from injury.

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That is, but definitely professionally, right? A lot of you guys are working from home. You know, if you're an essential worker, you're wearing a mask on job sites, or if you're in the food industry, whatever you're doing, it has been an uncomfortable time. There is no way around it. I would imagine people have taken pay cuts or lost money that they would have gotten because deals were reneged on

or didn't happen or whatever. This has been a curveball, none of us saw coming. And I think I'm already seeing it with the NFL. Yesterday it was announced that the league will add two players to the practice squad. So instead of 10, you can keep 12. And it's already been announced that instead of that, I think it was the new rule either passed last year or two years ago, that you were allowed to bring one player off injured reserve.

This year you're allowed to bring off. bring back three. And I think those, just like in any business, you've got to be open-minded. You've got to be able to change and adapt for the health of your business during this time. We're all doing it, right? All of us. So the NFL is no different. I do think it's going to have a major, major impact on the season.

When you put together your initial roster, you know, that it's usually the weekend, you know, leading up to week one, they have the big cut down. a huge part of accumulating your practice squad is based on evaluating the NFL. And what I mean by that is you've got three or four pro scouts, including personnel guys, general managers, that are just scouring, watching every single snap of every single guy in the NFL

during that 30-day period in August when all the preseason games are happening. Because you want to know, well, is the guy we have on our roster better than a guy that we could sign from another team's roster, just as a practice squad guy. I think there's a realistic chance

that preseason games do not happen. I saw a headline a couple days ago, they might cut down the preseason. It would not shock me within the next month, several weeks. They just announced no preseason games. They've already announced no joint practices. Well, a big part of the preseason

when I worked in the NFL, I probably went to seven or eight preseason games. I have buddies that are pro scouts. They go to countless preseason games. I've been told by multiple guys, yeah, we're probably not going to be going to preseason games. It's not even an option. You won't even be allowed.

They might not even exist, let alone the season for advance scouts. But let's just stick with the preseason. So you're going to be building these teams. The Major League Baseball draft just happened. It went from 40 rounds to five. and then every guy that was not drafted, there was a cap, you could only offer him $20,000 to sign. Well, the season basically didn't happen.

So besides the top handful of guys that were a lock probably top 10 pick coming into the baseball season, think how many guys might have gone undrafted, might have gotten in the fourth round, that would have been like first round picks if an actual season had taken part. I would imagine in five or six years in baseball, we look back and go, God, a guy like Max Scherzer or Madison Bumgarner, their equivalents will be in the league kicking everyone's ass. Can you believe that guy was an undrafted free agent and I'll push back? No.

Weird times during Corona. It was just crazy. Just like I think in several years we'll be like, God, can you imagine cutting George Kittle the equivalent? You know, it's some tight end that was cut. Now he's on the Cowboys or the Eagles or the Cardinals. He's kicking everyone's ass. He's like a six-round pick. part of the problem is going to be if there aren't preseason games

in training camp you're going to be so focused on the guys that are actually going to play or at least that you think are going to play getting them ready for week one and the season so your ability to evaluate your own guys is going to be somewhat limited now i would imagine coaches who think outside the box will set up very competitive two on twos and threes on threes but still there's nothing like guys playing well in practice, get to those preseason games, and they don't have it. Or vice versa.

A guy in practice, you're like, you know, we draft this guy in the fourth round. He hasn't been there in practice. Then you get in the game and he dominates. And you're like, thank God. But we knew we had something. That might not exist this year. So the amount of turnover all over the league and guys that are going to get spread all over these practice squads, we won't know for a couple years, but really pro bowl players are going to come out of this group. I would guarantee that. I would bet $1,000 right now, several

pro bowl, or guys make pro bowlers excuse me, guys will make a pro bowl over the next seven, eight years that were on practice squads and cut in this training camp. That maybe on a given year, if they would have been able to play in some preseason games, they would have been a lock to make

their team. You just won't have the information. Then we have the college football season, which is clearly going to be weird. Well, a big part of, and I've been a college scout, is you go into the programs. If you have the SEC, you go to Alabama. You probably spend six or seven days there total throughout the fall. Clemson, LSU, Ohio State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oregon. These schools are producing Utah, a boatload of pros.

You have to spend a lot of time there, not just to run into the player, and evaluate the players, but talk to everyone in the program. Well, isn't there a chance this year that the programs, depending on what happens in college football, I was talking to a buddy in the league yesterday that's like, what if college scouts aren't allowed into the schools?

That's possible. Now, you would still have to attempt, you know, if the games are going on, you could still evaluate them. You will just have to do your work, just like all of us. We've had to do zooms. Maybe you'd have to set up zooms with pro liaisons,

set up zooms. with offensive and defensive coordinators, it would just be a challenge. But that's what we're in. A challenging time. 2020, on one hand, I just say, it sucks. And then another hand, I actually think, I know I've used this personally

as a time to like, let's try some different things out. Let's see, maybe this didn't work. Why was I doing it this way? Was I doing it this way just because I thought this was the right way to do this? Is this the right way to do this? Could we change? Could we adapt? And I wonder if scouts,

Just like the NFL teams talked about during the draft. You know, after your college scouts spend four months on the road, you don't need to bring them for three sets of meetings to your facility. You can do a minimum one set over the computer. The technology is here. There's a region that our biggest companies in America are technological companies. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple. They're not like Ford Motor Company.

They're all based on the internet. You want something? Go to Amazon. Type it in. Order it. They'll deliver it three hours later. It's pretty awesome. And if you don't like it,

say, Jeff, I don't want it. And a lot of times they're like, credit it back to you. You don't even need to give it back. I know multiple people that have told me like, yeah, Amazon sent me the wrong thing or I got it and I didn't like it. And I was going to return it

and I did the return thing online. They're like, you've already been credited. It's like, I haven't even given you my item back. They're making so much money They don't even care I mean Apple's got Can't even, they don't even know Where to put all their cash

They were Pablo Escobar They would have You know Every piece of land in California Would be full of cash underneath it They'd just be digging holes Throwing cash in there So these scouts

Are gonna have to figure out a way Potentially I would already be Getting my mind right Of like Reaching out to some of the coordinators Reaching out to schools That I know are going to have A lot of prospects

You know And just trying to get their influence information now because once the season starts, if you do get cut off and are not being able to go in there, it's going to be hard to get a hold of some of these guys. Whether it's email, whether it's calling, they're going to have a lot going on. It's going to be a crazy time this fall. And the advanced scouts, I've done that as well. They're not going to be allowed.

There's going to be no media at any of these games. One thing I love, by the way, that the media is doing a lot lately. I see it on Twitter all the time is like, just on vacation with the fam or out with the boys. at the beach you should see what all these idiots are doing so wait you're at the beach but you don't like what they're doing they should be inside you should be outside it's one of those bobby nights do as i say not as i do like no it doesn't work that way you don't get to talk down it's like just just just on vacation with the fam you should see what these morons are doing in southern california so wait you're out and about you're out and about with the other people out and about it doesn't

quite work that way. Right? It's just so fraudulent. It's just God, it's just so fraudulent. It's driving me just off the wall. Nothing makes me angrier than a tweet like that. Just at the beach with my wife and kids. You see what these

idiots are doing next to me. So you're literally out. Listen, I followed the rules during this thing. I want it to end as much as anybody. I financially in bed with football and sports. But I'll be the first to say, I don't know what's going to happen this fall.

And back to what I said about the scouts, the front offices, they already did it for the draft, they did it for a free agency. If I'm an individual and I have an area, if I have teams to do this fall, get ready to change because there's a lot of unknown. No one knows what's coming. Hell, Dr. Fauci changes his mind every 10 minutes. So we'll dive into him here in a minute.

But just get ready for the unexpected. Okay, let's bang out a couple quick stories around the. the NFL before we get into the middle cuff mailbag. I guess the story, I mean, I've heard this damn story like three times in the last year. Like this player. Like him a lot. The Niners screwed up. They should have taken this guy over Solomon Thomas.

He should have been the third pick in the draft. He was still the sixth pick in the draft. When you go six in the draft like Jamal Adams does, you get paid a lot of money. You play a position and you have a plenty of. playing style, and I love his playing style. I watch football for the violence. I love guys like Jamal Adams that want to wreck shop when they hit you. My favorite players in the league, Khalil Mack, Aaron Donald, Luke Keekly, Richard Sherman, all dudes inflict pain, at least defensively, right? Those are my favorite type players on defense. I want ass kickers. And that's

what Jamal Adams is. Box safety. Really good. Talented player. Cover guy. Okay. Solid. Got a lot of opinions. Yeah, he does.

He's been a part of a joke franchise for three years. And he's going into his fourth year. Right. He didn't get, or he got his fifth year option picked up. And one reason he's complaining right now is because Christian McCaffrey just got paid. Well, Jamal,

Christian McCaffrey, there's a huge, it doesn't make that much sense to pay Christian McCaffrey what they paid. Let's be real. And I love Christian McCaffrey. I think he is a superstar. Paying running backs?

Not ideal. Now, Christian adds a huge element as a pass catcher, and he's been incredibly productive through two years. The owner of the Carolina Panthers just paid $2 billion in cash to buy the team. He got rid of... I saw the Carolina Panthers tweeted out, like, the best player in the history of the franchise. Listen, Luke Keeckley's the best player in the history of the franchise.

Seven-time All-Pro. better in Julius Peppers, better in Steve Smith. Cam Newton, though, is the most important player of the franchise. Wasn't the best player of the franchise? Again, Luke Keekeley, who was always beside the one Cam MVP year, and I'm pretty sure Luke was first team all pro that year, best player in the franchise history, Luke Keekeley. Most important player, most famous player, Cam Newton.

And Cam Newton was an awesome player too. But they got rid of Cam Newton. They got rid of Greg Olson, Kikley retired, Thomas Davis is gone, Jewish Peppers ain't walking through that door. You got to sell some seats. So I pay $2 billion. I got no problem giving Christian McCaffrey like $35 million. What's your value, Jamal?

Can I even win with you? I don't know. We never have. Someone today when I was going live on Periscope, which I do, you know, minus the pandemic, basically Monday through Friday through Twitter. John Middilcoff, same Twitter handle as my Instagram handle.

And someone said, well, Eddie Jackson got paid. Yeah, Eddie Jackson, his Pro Bowl year, whatever, a couple years ago, was, I don't know, one of the more productive players on the best defense in the league. And I'm pretty sure he had like four pick sixes that year. Maybe the Bears had like seven pick sixes at a team, but I'm pretty sure he had like three or four. It's a pretty unique skill, you know, scoring touchdowns. He's a cover guy. Jamal, you're not a cover guy.

It's a cover league. Now, you're a physical player. Again, I love physical players. what Joe Douglas supposed to do? Give you a bunch of money? Just wait and see. What's the rush? You're already getting a ton of money.

You're extremely highly paid. Think about the other guys from that class that he's like, other guys are about to get paid. Yeah, Patrick Mahomes, Deshawn Watson. If you take Jamal Adams off the team, is anything change? Sam Donald's the franchise. And he'll one day get paid if he's good,

and I think he will be. But we don't know. But Jamal, I like you. I like your passion, but God, it's just, who do you think's trading for you and then paying you? You're not Aaron Donald. You're not Khalil Mack.

You're not Jalen Ramsey. No one's doing that. Nobody. Divo Samuel broke his foot. Not ideal. Camp Jimmy 2.0. The 49ers were doing a camp in San Jose. Because a bunch of players live in Tennessee,

they moved it all to Tennessee. Kittle, use check, Debo Samuel, a bunch of guys last year that didn't play that much. Jalen heard who they drafted, Juan Jennings, who they drafted this year. Brandon Ayuk, the first rounder, I'm pretty sure is there.

Kendrick-Borne, they're having a huge operation out there, a huge practice, like 40 guys. Maybe not 40 guys, excuse me, but probably like 20 guys. I was texting with someone that was there, he said, we do 40 play walkthrough. They're taking it really, really seriously. anyone did not have a place to stay

Jimmy Garoppolo put up in a hotel So it's a pretty high level operation At least until Debo Samuel broke his foot And it's called the Jones Fracture And just a state school guy Don't know that much about medicine besides sports injuries And you know your basic bad diseases Like most of us do

Anytime you have a injury or a disease named after Has a specific name I always say it's not good You know the Tommy John is not good. The Jones fracture just sounds bad. Now I had a buddy text me to say, listen, I had the same, I did the same thing to my foot last year. This guy is just a normal human. He's not an NFL player. I said, well, what happened? He said, I did a month in a cast, and then a month in a boot. And then you start rehabbing. So it's a pretty big injury for a guy that gives George Kittle a little

more leeway, or leverage, he wants a new contract, a ton of pressure on Brandon Iyuk, a first-round wide receiver that really is just a one-year wonder in college. Again, talented player. Now, they got Jalen Hurd. Dante Pettis isn't very good, but they might need him now. Trent Taylor, who hasn't played in like three years. So we'll see. That's a, you know, part of football, and you saw it with Brandon Brooks this week, Torres Achilles. I say it all the time, and I think this way, and when I say it to Corona, like, I mean follow the right steps, but you can't be scared of your shadow. People like, what if he gets injured? Yeah, it's football. You get injured lifting weights. You get injured at OTAs. You get injured in training camp. You get injured in a game. It's like,

if I go pick up dinner and I get on the highway, it could go wrong. It's life. You can't operate scare. Sometimes guys get hurt. You know, it just, it sucks, but I can't be like, well, they shouldn't have been doing that. Yeah, he could have got hurt at OTAs. Guys get hurt every year at OTAs. Part of the deal. Dr. Fauci, not too bullish. on the NFL. My overall take on Dr. Fauci is the first month I thought Dr. Fauci was a genius. I just followed everything he said. I'm like, this guy, this little guy used to play basketball, he's smart.

He contradicts himself like every other week. So I'm not even against his overall message. It's going to be difficult to play football. The sport is anti-social distancing. John Harbaugh said it. Sean McVeigh said it. I've talked about on this podcast. Social distancing and football do not.

not go hand in hand. They don't. They couldn't be any more polar opposites. In football, you literally, five guys are touching each other at the line of scrimmage. Eleven guys are in a huddle. Every tackle, there's five or six guys, you know, falling on each other. The meeting rooms, the practices, the showers. It's just, there are definitely question marks. But the NFL is going to go. And I tweeted this, like, people are like, what if a, make a, quarterback it's Corona it'd be bad what if a coach got Corona what if the coach was you know a major coach I'm not gonna say any names I don't want to jinx anybody but would they have to miss a couple games man listen the more and more these stories come out and I'm not someone who just lives in the fear

porn I'm not doing it because I know that what the media's job is fear porn equals clicks and they've lost a ton of advertisers they're hoping to have huge numbers whenever the corona ends they'll just flip the script. They don't care. It's why so many people in the media were wanted to lock down forever and then the protests happened. They were okay with the protests

but they just said that they weren't okay with the, you know, you wanted a lockdown. Those two things couldn't be any more opposite, right? And now they want to lock down forever again because the cases are spiked. Well, 14 days ago, we had hundreds of thousands, probably millions of people all over this country

altogether when we were told forever to social distance. And all of a sudden the media didn't care anymore. It just doesn't make any sense. I'm pro protest, but pro protest in a pandemic when we're not supposed to social distance, how could you say with a straight face, I want a lockdown, I want to lock down and yeah, go protest. Like how could, and my entire Twitter timeline was like that. It doesn't even add up.

You couldn't be, you're talking out both sides of your mouth. But it shows you. Like my old overall take on the media, like they don't have much conviction on any of this stuff. and they're going to like dr fouchy thing blew up because i i feel like like a lot of them are rooting for a lockdown which again is weird uh but i'll be the first to say like the more and more you read about players getting corona like kareem jackson of the denver broncos well they had a huge protest right 14 days ago or 12 days ago in denver

is it crazy to think that he got sick during that right that would make some sense out and about with thousands of people isn't that what we were supposed to avoid isn't that why all these leagues were coming back with no fans? People are going to get Corona. It's going to happen. You just not want to play anything? That's not the way these leagues operate because like I said, earlier this week, it's about the money. Now, is

it going to be flawless? Is weird things going to happen? Yes. Are people going to get Corona? 100%. But I'm done caring what the media's take is on it because they would flip for anything for a click. I mean, most of these media companies are holding on for dear life.

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Losing. So, I just, listen, regardless where your stance is. I just don't care. You know, none of you guys are doctors. You went to Syracuse

or Northwesterns to get a journalism degree. And you just seem mad all the time. Which, I mean, God, fucking relax. NCAA approved six-week training camp kind of,

uh, comeback, plan. I saw today, Texas, I think 13 guys, test a positive. It's going to be a challenge, you know, but the NCAA, unlike the NFL, they're just a huge business and they want the money because a lot of people get really rich. Players, owners, teams, like everyone benefits. Hell me, I don't get really rich, but I mean, I make money off it. We want football to start. But in college football is a little different. The women's basketball team, the men's baseball team. The men's baseball team, the soccer teams, the swimming teams, they desperately, and let me repeat, desperately

need college football to happen. Because if it doesn't, bye-bye, bye-bye. College football pays for everything, literally everything. And luckily with the NFL, like they could figure it out if worst-case scenario pushed the season back, whatever, they could pivot. College, like if the season got canceled, there'd be a lot of student athletes. in these other sports and coaches and administrators on the street. It would be really, really bad. Again, why I have taken the stance the entire time, I want to get out of this as quickly as possible,

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Okay, let's dive into the Middilcoff mailbag. First question here. What are your thoughts on the culture of steroids in the NFL? It's hard for me to believe it's not rampant given the freakish nature of athletes these days. Is there a culture of the league turning an eye because it creates a better product? Any chance COVID tempts players to push limits because they're, they haven't been able to lift as much as possible. I'm not going to pretend to be naive.

Clearly, I've always assumed. Guys are taking things that push the limit. I have never heard a coach talk about it. In scouting meetings, a couple times it came up. You've got to be, you know, in draft meetings, you got to be careful. This guy might, you know, the team thinks he's a steroid guy. But you get tested.

So, you know, you try to push the envelope with every, you know, thing that every drug or over-the-counter whatever you can take that is not on the banned substance list. But if you get caught with a banned substance, you will get suspended. So I'm probably the wrong guy to ask. You'd have to ask some players. And obviously, they'd probably act dumb. But, you know, the guys to be to ask would be the strength coaches.

I never saw it. I never heard of it. I just always assumed. Now, in like any business, right, you can figure out ways to cut corners. I watch some of the Lance Armstrong documentary. We've seen the baseball steroid documentaries. Wherever the testing is, there's always doctors to be ahead of the testing. But, like, full on, just bend over steroid in your butt, needle.

That's probably not going on as much as you think. But the technology is incredible, right? With the creams, the clears. I mean, that was a decade and a half ago. So, yeah, I would imagine there are guys on stuff that pushes the envelope for sure. Do I think, like, I mean, I've always heard rumors, HGH and the NBAs. I mean, just look at some of these guys. I mean, give me a break.

But I don't, I've never been, again, I'm a Barry Bonds guy. I'm not affected by that. I'm watching this for, and I'm doing this for entertainment and for money. And because I enjoy it. I'm not, I don't care. I'm not Bob Costas here. Do whatever you got to do. It's a violent physical.

sport. Sometimes just doing some curls and eating chicken breasts. Ain't going to be enough. So, you know, in a serious nature, I don't know much about it. Like, I don't have much inside information because honestly, I've never really asked about it. It was one of those

things in my experience. No one just really talked about it. Partly because we don't really care. Only cared if you failed a test. At this point in his career, do you think Tomlin is actually underrated? Sure, he probably should have another ring, but he's made the playoffs 8 of 12 years, has a winning percentage that trails only Belichick among active coaches, and obviously

has dealt with some big personalities over the years. Seems like people are always coming for his head, but to me, he's clearly one of the best coach of the league. He's never had a season under 500. You could argue last season with Mason Rudolph and the Duck Hunter, it's one of the more impressive years I've ever seen. If you've been listening to this podcast for over, you know, months. You know when they traded for Mika Fitzpatrick, I destroyed it. I was wrong. Minka was a stud. They had one of the best defense in the league. He dominated. And they went eight and eight with no quarterback play.

And all the guy does is, you know, his worst years are going to be eight and eight. I do think he takes, you know, an unfair amount of criticism. But that also happens when you don't call either side of the ball. And you're just, quote, unquote, the CEO coach. Because our first response is like, what are you doing? Like those years with Joe Flacco, John Harbaugh, what are you doing? Pete Carroll, what are you doing? Now Pete's won, but I think sometimes when he loses, we just go, well, Russell Wilson.

Like with Andy Reed or Sean Payton or Kyle Shanahan or Sean McVey, their hands are on every game. Belichick doesn't ever get it because he just wins every year. Doug Peterson calling every game. game. Even Mike Zimmer. You go, well, calls those double A guy blitzes. Hell of a defensive play caller. So when you call a side of the ball, you impact the game. My other podcast guy, Haberman, who I do it with, has a theory in baseball. It's not even just theory. It's correct. When you don't hit in baseball, it looks like the team's not trying. But that's just the nature of the sport. If you get one hit all game, you're going to

You go, God, Yankees didn't even give a shit tonight. No, they tried. Max Scherzer just mowed him down. And I think sometimes in football, a guy like Mike Tomlin where you're like, he's not calling the offense, not calling the defense. Yeah, he's clearly doing something. Because the moment Antonio Brown left Pittsburgh, it was like a crazy man was on the loose.

To me, handling Antonio Brown, like it turns out Levion was just more about money. They didn't want to pay him. It was just business. Antonio was like a personality management. What an incredible accomplishment. Could you say managing Antonio Brown for the five or six years that the guy was in like the peak of his abilities

is one of the most impressive NFL accomplishments in recent memory? Who could do that? I mean, John Gruden and Mike Mayock could make it two weeks with the guy. My question is about home field advantage. If there are no fans in the stands, would there be a home field advantage in corresponding three points on the betting line?

or would that be wiped out? In my opinion, there are a few teams in the league that will still have a home field advantage and the biggest one would probably be Denver given the altitude factor, which would give them an advantage on other teams competing for a wild card spot. Thoughts.

I agree. It's why it's the people show. You guys are smart. Let me give that little thumbs up. For sure. It's why Utah has a big advantage. And Denver, excuse me, Denver and the NBA. They always talk about mile high.

I'd say more. Four teams would be impacted the other way, right? Three teams I immediately think of, and they're good teams. Super Bowl champs, Kansas City, Seattle Seahawks and the 12s, and the New Orleans Saints. Their fans play a massive, massive role. So if you're going no fans, again, gut feeling. I've never like ask a gambling guy why you get the automatic three points. But I would imagine maybe two of the points get, you know, maybe one point.

But if you're like, you know, the Niners going to, I'm trying to pick a bad team, like the Jets, why would you give them three points off the bat, right? Or the Chiefs, I think, play the Arizona Cardinals, you know, let's say it's in Arizona. Who cares? Yeah, I haven't really thought about that, but that's a good thought process for sure.

It would really, really impact Denver. I do have a question that is not really related to football, though. Are you bold by choice? When did you start losing your hair? Thanks, keep up your great work. I've always been really opinionated. I guess from really, really young age, used to butt heads a lot with my parents

because I would just never shut up. I had opinions. They're not always right. I've always talked a lot. So bold by nature, probably. I mean, you know, when you think about all aspects of my life, relationships financially. What's the worst case scenario?

You lose your money. You get dumped. Now granted, you could argue it's easier to be bold. I don't have two little kids running around. Though, I don't know if that would change that much. Now, I don't know if I'd put them in position where they couldn't eat. But, yeah, I guess bold by nature. You know, it all probably comes back to your childhood.

And if I really broke it down, probably based on the way I grew up and maybe things I disagreed within my own home if you really wanted to break it down, ways that went about it. I'm a little bit more of a, you just guns blazing free spirit. Weirdly, though, like, pretty disciplined.

It's a weird dichotomy. When did I start losing my hair? I remember being in college and seeing hair follicles on my desk, and I was like, I'm in some trouble. Then I became a GA at Fresno State right after I graduated from Cal Poly, so I was like 23, 24 years old,

and it started going. and then by my first year in Philly I was bald. So it happened pretty fast. I was full gone probably by 27, you know, less than a decade ago. I think 2011 maybe, eight, nine years ago. Where and why all this ground swell for Kaepernick? Like all of a sudden he's good enough to play again. If he was this good, where was all this swell last year or the year before?

I'm sure the bears could have used him. To me, it seems a little too much overcorrection given the current climate of the country, almost as if they're using Colin as a proverbial band-aid to say, hey, we gave him his chance, we're all about the movement now. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, I think you nailed it. Now, clearly there are a lot of members of the media that think he got screwed. He got blackballed. Like, no one with a straight face can deny he got blackball. But four or five years later, he sues the league to think that, you know, in his early 30s now, haven't played football in five or six years he's a good, you know, candidate to be signed. I saw someone tweet the other day like,

hey guys, remember Cam Newton? Right? I mean, if I was Cam Newton, like, hey guys, black quarterback here, was in, been in the league, hand up, can someone sign me? But yeah, I mean, again, this is back to the media. I think the media pushes it more than fans or whatever. they just ride with whatever they think will generate. Really, I think because of social media, they just follow. And once it becomes like likes and out of boys, and they do that.

Now listen, Colin should not have been blackballed out of the NFL in terms of his talent. He was talented enough to be in the league when they basically got the boot and no one signed him. And trust me, I was a critic of him that last couple years. He wasn't good. Like this notion that he was good because his number, with Chip Kelly. He was not good. I watched it. All these media members that helicopter

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or wherever you get your podcasts. Check his numbers. No, I did. I watched every game, every snap. I know you didn't because the team went 2 and 14. Worst year in 9 are history. Let me repeat that. Worst year in 9 are history.

I watched it. He was terrible. But his resume shouldn't have been out of the league. I think also the media uses him politically. And as I've said, over and over. People forget this. He's not pro- Democrat. He thinks they're both.

So it's become very political. I doubt to get signed. I really do. Maybe I'm off on this one, but I will be, I'll be stunned. You know, I know, I went on Colin's show, what day is, Thursday. Anthony Lynn talked about the workout list. Like, a lot, Des Bryant's on a workout list. You know, I mean, you can put anyone on a workout list.

I say it all the time, don't judge people off words, judge people off actions. Now, granted, you can't work them out technically right now because everything going on in the country, but I don't know, man. I'll be shocked if he's in the NFL this fall, but I hear you. Am I crazy to think that a six-year, $150 million extension from Mahomes could work, all fully guaranteed?

If I'm not mistaken, that would be the most guaranteed cash in the history of the NFL and would leave enough cap space for savvy veteran signings for players who've earned their cash and are chasing a ring. factor in Veech's so far proven ability to scout and draft and Reed Spag's coaching ability. I think it could be a good move for KC. Am I missing something? Sorry for the wordy question.

I just think Mahomes is the perfect combination of good enough to break the bank but humble enough to understand what it takes to win. So 150, divide six. Here's your problem. That's why I thought it was. You can't pay them an average of $25 million a year. It's like what Derek Carr makes.

So could you pay him less guarantee? The average has to be like $40 million. Because he's going to get both. He's got all the leverage. MVP, Super Bowl, Star, Cash Cow. To me, his number minimum, even if he's taking a hometown discount, is like $33, $34 million.

And then maybe it's $150 million. But it's like five-year deal. So five-year deal, that would be $30 million a year. Yeah, just, I think it's complicated. Now, would he take a $30 million a year, $150 fully guaranteed? Maybe something like that. Now, do the Kansas Chiefs, you got to put $150 million into escrow immediately because of the NFL's stupid salary cap rules.

But it's a complicated issue for sure. Curious about your thoughts on shortening the distance, a ball has to travel on a kickoff to be recoverable. This would keep special teams an important part of football and make for an exciting play. Yeah, I mean, I think 10 yards is okay. What are you going to do five and have players five yards across from each other? You know, it's just, I'm not trying to hate on special teams because I respect it.

It's a big part of the game. It's a hard part of the game. But, you know, I think that becomes a little kind of AFL, XFL. Like, at the end of the day, we don't really talk about kickoffs unless you return it to the house. We care about just kick it out of bounds or, you know, kick it in the end zone. own. Let Mahomes, Lamar Jackson come on the field. Look through your children's eyes to see

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companies. They actually are all based in Canada. I don't know if they're going to be good. A couple of them are backed by a big, a big consolation. They own Corona and Modelo. I don't know if you've heard of them. Number one beers in America. Another one's backed by Citibank. So I just pick some companies that have been really high before. They're low right now. I don't know

if they're going to hit. So if you don't have the money, don't invest. They might never amount to anything. Now, I've put five figures in all three because I'm just betting in the next several years, they get big. Do I know? No. Is it a risky move? Yes. If you like Portnoy here,

talking about the day trading, but I don't know. I'm pretty confident one of them is going to hit. Maybe both. ACB, CGC, and TLRY are the three handles that I picked. Now again, they're all pretty low. I think one's under 10. I think CGC is like 17 and Tilleri's like 12. I'd have to check today.

Tilleries 856, ACB is 13. and CGC 17. So I'm just kind of, they're all based in Canada. We have deals with them. Do your research if you want. I'm not a big research guy. And I just get some basics. Do I believe in the industry?

Do I believe in a company? Or do I see major companies investing in that company? I'm not Mr. Jim Kramer here. I've made some money in the stock market. I've lost some money. It's fun, though. It is, you know. And if, you know, these weed stocks go to the moon,

I'm buying myself a home. What are the three NFL organizations you would least want to be drafted to? What NFL teams could you most see becoming a dynasty over the next five to ten years? I would say the Bengals. I would say the Jacksonville Jaguars. And I would say...

That's a tough one on the third. Bengals easy number one for me. Jaguars 2. I was going to say the charges, but they're in L.A. and they got a bunch of sweet players, but their owner's a clown. But other than that, I mean, the franchise is kind of irrelevant. But if you're a player, you have a chance to win. Oh, the Lions.

Let me rephrase. I would go Lions 1. I'd go Bengals 2, and I would go Jacksonville, Jaguars 3. Teams would be a dynasty in the next 5 to 10 years. I think it's two teams just on the Super Bowl. Mahomes and Andy and Kyle Shanahan and Jimmy. And just the 49ers and just his ability to coach. so I'd say it would be those two teams.

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