Colin Cowherd Podcast - Should Bears Trade For Kyle Shanahan? New Aaron Rodgers Documentary, UFO’s, Clark/Reese The New Magic/Bird?

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this for a second. There are things, especially in sports, that I noticed because we're both in this business, that you wonder why they haven't taken place sooner and then over the course of time, Like if you really think about analytics, why did it take so long for NBA gms to figure out math? It's like, this was like, it's what happened? Did a slide ruler fall into a GM's office and he had doodling one day with time? It's so, here's one of them. I believe exits the

smartest pece I've met. Did not always go to great schools or have great childhoods. In fact, I would argue, if there's a certain jet fuel to chaos as a child that propels you to aspirational life, right and sure, at any one time in the history of the NFL, there's about five rockstar coaches, and right now it's you know, Sean Payton took Chernobyl and two years later they're going to make the playoffs. With a rookie quarterback, and you know dead cap Hell, Jim Harbaugh, Andy Reid. You know

there's a handful. I think McVeigh and Shanahan fall into that group. And Pro Football Talks suggested the Bear should call Kyle Shanahan, and I'm just gonna throw this out exens So Kyle Shanahan is smart. He has a losing record in San Francisco as a head coach without Christian McCaffrey, who is now into the twilight of his career, Hurtle in Carolina, more so in San Francisco, he is staring down the barrel of signing Brock pretty injured for the

second time, to a big deal. It is an old, expensive, brittle roster and he has the least talented quarterback and here are the Bears good roster. He'd get power quarterbacks free for four years. He's got weapons, actually a decent back, and it's a restart. And you'd say to yourself why, because just like San Francisco, San Francisco was a dead franchise held the Warriors were a dead franchise for years. But the minute they got good people are like oh

Rick Barry, Chris Mullen, certain franchises are dead. The New York Giants are. The Bears feel like they are. But again, the Warriors were, the Niners were. Chicago is a massive football brand and to be the savior of it in an offensive era, I said this today, I would absolutely say, here's three first round picks.

Rock Party to Super Bowl. I'm thinking he could do wonders with Caleb Williams, like I want a known commodity. It would be amazing. I'd call the Rams and ask about Sean McVay. Absolutely, I hire an offensive coach, the most proven one that you can find to develop and stabilize for Caleb Williams. However they have to go about getting that, I'd be all four. The Niner situation is an interesting one. They still have a ton of talent on the roster. It's old and brittle and expensive. Like

you said, I don't think it's a disaster. Like I think if you asked a Vegas odds maker, hey, what are the preseason Super Bowl favorites for next year? I'd be shocked if the Niners were outside of the top six in terms of preseason odds. We don't know are they gonna pay debo. We don't know if Trent Williams is going to come back. But like, they got a lot of talent still on that team, and they had a freaky amount of injuries. So I don't know if

he looks at it as dire as you do. I hope he does, because the Bears have no evidence that they can just conduct a search and hire the right trum. They have no evidence of it. They used a search firm and had Ernie ACRSI consult them on John Fox. And then they had a general manager draft Mitch Trubisky without telling John Fox that that was going to happen,

and then they made John Fox coach Mitch Trubisky. Like it's so dysfunctional for so long in that hiring firing, Like thirty thousand foot view part of the organization that if Kevin Warren and Ryan Poles the president and GM go the trade for a coach route, They've never done it before, so I'm in for it. And then just one thing to your point, Chicago, I've said this to you before. It's unified by the Bears. The eighty five Bears still have media deals. They still drink for free.

Mike Ditka and I know he was a cult of personality, but I mean the guy made tens of millions of dollars from merchandising. I mean he was on ESPN for forever. He had cigars, he had wine, he had restaurants, he had video games, he had everything from being the coach of the Bears who won the Super Bowl. So it matters when you win a Super Bowl everywhere, but a parade in Chicago would be different than a parade in

Los Angeles or Cincinnati. So I would think a lot of coaches who currently have jobs, not just Ben Johnson or Cliff Kingsbury. I would think a lot of coaches. If the Bears are in the markets trade for a coach, I think a lot of coaches would call their agent and say, hey, can I get on that list.

So Matt Ryan in the Super Bowl had a really bad second half and people now think, you know, he was never clutch. Well, the truth is he is thirty eight come from behind fourth quarter wins. He's actually not that far off Brady, Montana, Elway and Mahomes as one of the great come from behind quarterbacks in the last well, I mean.

has thirty eight. He has twenty two this year. We've watched six, five or six times. He's not good.

esthetic athleticism, the beauty of it. I mean, he literally throws the ball and he's not on the ground like you ever seen those passes where his feet aren't touching the ground.

fourth quarter quarterback. And so there's my take is that this Aaron Rodgers dot comes out and it's just very funny how we view him as this legendary late game quarterback and it's been on display this year with a dysfunction organization.

like it was stupid. His ability to be a big game hunter, hunt for touchdowns, throw the ball down the field and not turn the ball over like Aaron Rodgers at his peak of his powers is still about as good as ever, and I think crazy influential, Like you mentioned Mahomes, Mahomes is a combination of the two, right, Mahomes has the from the pocket Andy Reid extension, brilliant snap throw, diagnose everything football guy, and then also can

throw a ball horizontal to the ground basically like submarine style through three dudes and you're like, I don't think I think a robot made that throw. So Mahomes is stylistically, I actually think, very similar to Aaron Rodgers, but he has this like weird combination of both, which is why he's the most talented to ever do it. I think that the explanation with the Jets is simpler than that.

I mean, the guy's old. One guy has been good at his age ever and it was Tom Brady won ever and Aaron Rodgers has other interests and the Jets are really dysfunctional, and he's coming off of a very serious injury, and you know, maybe the Jets bring him back next year, but I wouldn't. If I were them, I'd eat the forty nine millions, spread it out over two years, and just be done with the nonsense in the circus and draft a quarterback and move on and if they do that, can you name a team that

would sign him? I said the Raiders. Maybe, yes, like like the Raiders, maybe intrigue tough division have no shot to win it. You draft a quarterback, you sign Aaron Rodgers. You hope that Rogers has the quarterback sit behind him and has like a Jordan Love situation. Maybe do you have an organization that would pay Aaron Rodgers to play football next year?

doing a darkness retreat. It's just so he's such a oh he says enigma, I don't know, or you're just a pseudo intellectual who loves attention and has a massive ego. It's just it's so funny to me.

mean just threw it. And so I don't know what it is, and I'm going to suggest to you what it is. I guess is that over the last three weeks, I have just had this compulsion to go on TikTok. And I think it's the UAPs and the UFOs that I find it hysterical. I do not believe in them. I never have. With the Hubble telescope and the other telescopes, if they were out there, we would see him. I'm not going to trust Clancy in middle of Indiana at night four, heinekens in to tell me, you know here Aliens.

There's now like UFOs today, thousand pictures come up videos.

enough to believe that I can explain it. And my cynical nature or distrust of whatever is like it's probably us, Like it's it's the government doesn't tell us everything, Like it's probably us or China. They were a military exercise of some kind, or you know what I mean. Like, I don't know what it is. I'm not saying that people don't see things, and I'm not at all claiming that we get the full story, but I don't necessarily think it's spoke.

stealth was now part of our national discussion. Right that nobody we had the word stealth, but stealth Bomber's CNN when they flew in and under the radar, Well, they were testing them Area fifty one among other places. So people weren't crazy. They were seeing things, but they wanted that to be secret.

fortify it, modify it, and control it. That's what our government does, probably more than we're comfortable with.

not gonna tell us what it is. But I also think we want to believe stuff and media works for a reason, and movies make hundreds of millions of dollars for a reasoning. Independence Day is a hell of a watch, Like it's a great movie, you know, Alien Versus Predator. There's a reason why it's a franchise. It's it's it's

a fun story. We don't want to believe that I got a mortgage and life and a couple of kids, and if you're lucky, you get eighty years and then you go into the ground and there's nothing before us, and there's nothing after us. And you know what I mean. We want to believe in extra cool stuff. And there's a reason why Twilight and Stranger Things and Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings and all that stuff is so popular. It's fun to believe in things that are

overwhelmingly likely not real. We just are. We're easy, we are. I don't blame people for believing in it. I guess this is my point, because we are fed so much stuff to make it seem like like Game of Thrones, that dragon looks real. I'm sorry, I don't know what a real dragon is, but I'm like it looked real. We get we get inundated with a bunch of fantasy in a way where I understand why people want to believe in stuff.

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fallen out of the sport. The bottom ten to twelve payrolls now needed that money, and it's dried up fast, and so the gap between the haves and the have nots between the Dodgers, Yankees, Astros, Mets, Padres and the

rest of baseball has gotten white. And it actually helps baseball because where baseball drives its revenue a large degree of its television And if you can combine teams that become the Warriors with KD Star driven Philadelphia, New York, New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, it actually works for this sport. There's always been a competitive advantage. When the YES network first exploded and other entities weren't making that money.

The Yankees dominated the Hot Stove League for fifteen years and now it's some other teams and the Yankees. So I think the best players are on the biggest brands and in the biggest market, and it helps. Conversely, NBA ants and Minnesota. Wemby's in San Antonio, Jokich is in Denver, Jannis, Milwaukee. You know, Jalen Brunson's a nice piece. But in the end, with Lebron and Steph Curry aging, there's a markets matter except for the NFL. So with that premise, baseball is

in a good spot. So nobody likes their commissioner. Rob Manfred has stepped in it a few times. Danny, but he has been aggressive enough and his last two moves have absolutely worked, removing the defensive shift and the pitch clock. Attendance and ratings have benefited. So the golden at bat is being suggested. And obviously I've said this, I'm not sure if I've said it before, but baseball purists are a lot like the Quakers of religion. They're diminishing in numbers.

Over my lifetime, we were all exhausted by their purity. And baseball purists very much are, you know, the sanctity of the game. But television now is the primary provider of revenue, and they want more stars and they want faster games. And I got to tell you seeing Bryce Harper for the second time in twelve minutes instead of the dugout is not a terrible thing. Now, you're more purest than I am. After my rant here, but I see the upside to it.

that that was going to backfire. I was like, that's not a good idea making penalties reviewable, But I understood the thought process behind it. They did a trial for a year. It was a disaster. They went back on it, but I applauded them for trying it, even if I thought it wasn't going to work. The nd season tournament, we'll see how big of a deal it becomes. But I like that they tried it the pitch clock, as you mentioned, they finally tried it. Theo Epstein got really involved,

made a bunch of recommendations. He backed it data. He tried stuff in the Fall League and the miners and independent ball, and they worked it up and they're trying it and the rule changes are working. Trying stuff is a good idea, So I like the premise of it. I like thinking outside the box. I don't particularly care about the purists. And then I had our researcher at

breakfast Ball Troy, He's excellent. Look into the data on it, and just to use the Dodgers and the Yankees, the teams that were in the World Series with the biggest stars. If you said eighth inning or later, tieder, one run, game runner in scoring position, the Dodgers had that circumstance happen one hundred and thirty eight times this past season.

Otani came up to the plate twenty times. It's not enough when you compare it to Mahomes down six balls in his hand, last two minutes, Lebron's got the ball in his hands. Aaron Judge came up in that spot eight times all year. Loan Soto came up ten times all year. So your biggest stars, your best players, did not come up in the biggest moments all year long, nearly enough. So that is a problem that is worth solving. I have no idea if the baseball illuminati will go

for it, but I love the creativity. Here's a prediction for you, and you're more sourced than I am. You know all the head honchos and more owners and all of that. But let's just call this an informed one. I think the next CBA in baseball is going to be ugly. The last couple have been because of the collapse of the RSN model and how much of the revenue is localized. Right, the Dodgers got the last great deal,

so they have more money than everybody else. And then the vanity owners, the Steve Cohens of the world, the Yankees of the world. They can outspend everybody. The Cubs have a network, but they launched it late, so they don't make as much money from it as they would have if they would have launched it in twenty eleven, twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. I think we've got the best chance that we've ever had in the history of the sport to come out of the next labor negotiation. And

it might be ugly. We might miss some games, we might miss the spring training. We'll see how ugly it gets. I think we might get a cap and a floor. I think there's a real chance that enough billionaires that are in smaller markets are going to say, guys, I understand we want stars in big markets, but we can't

compete with no local media. Deal Like the Fox money is great, that the ESPN money is great, but if you guys are making the if the Dodgers are making hundreds of millions of dollars basically a year from their deal, and the Twins and the Diamondbacks and the Brewers and the Pirates, and a third of the league at this point has their local media literally owned by MLB. The people that own those teams are still billionaires, and their friends are if they're friends with the billionaire who own

the rich teams with the good media deals. And the players I think are going to go through You know,

Corbyn Burns will get paid, Soda will get paid. But I think we're going to go through enough free agent cycles where enough players are going to realize that the Dodgers can't sign everybody, they only can play one right fielder, they only can play one shortstop, that they are finally going to acquiesce and say, okay, it's in our benefit if the Pirates have to spend more and the Dodgers have to spend a little bit less, and then it will distribute the stars a little bit more evenly, which

will go against your first point. But a cap and a floor, I think is a real chance to come to baseball in the next five years.

But the problem being there were about four major markets in the offing looking for new renegotiations and deals, and the profits we're going to diminish. And uh yeah, that's really really hurt the Kansas Cities, the Pittsburgh's, the Seattles. It's highly punitive. They just can't for they can't even get in the running on sometime second tier players, forget Soto and Otani.

Cubs games a year would be great business. It's good business, but it's not great. But it's not close to what the Dodgers get because of when they launched it, because the cable companies are not doing it in the same way that they are not They're not willing to pay for it in cord cutting and all the reasons that are impacting the media landscape. So it's the inequity I think has grown. You're right, it puts stars in big markets,

and in theory that is good. But there's too many billionaires that own too many teams that don't have that deal that you don't want them to get out of the baseball business and not want to own the Twins or the Diamondbacks or the Pirates or the Brewers. So I think there's going to be a mechanism to level the playing field through the next CBA. I really do the as we do what we do for a living.

regular season baseball. A lot of the you know, as the gap between the good and the terrible and Made League Baseball widens, the races are settled, you know, the good teams are resting pitchers and you know, so it's a little minutia. So sometimes I think the audience thinks we do things just for ratings. Of course we do right. Ratings and revenue drive our entire existence. But I was I was sitting there day and I was thinking about

the cyclical nature. And I took a calendar out, and I thought, here are the busy times, here are the slow times. And I found, like six weeks. If I could ideally take six weeks off a year, six to eight, here.

never thought this in a million years. Hell, the teams don't make any money WNBA. But I'm like, well, do I have to cover the league? No, I'm going to cover Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. I don't cover boxing, but about three times a year there's a fight in the seventies, eighties, and nineties and you'd say, Okay, here's Ali Foreman. We would before I got into this business, and I know a lot of people will push back

and go that's very PC. But outside of UFC, I am convinced that Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese will be a decade long potential story as long as both teams are viable.

The data supports it, and it has a lot of things. Listen, frankly, some of it's ugly, right, There's there's racial components, there's sexism components. Like some of the stuff that came back on it was pretty ugly. But at its core, I always say rivalries are awesome. Yeah, rivalry. That's why Steelers Ravens gets you your juices flowing a little bit, Bears, Packers, Yankees,

Read Cubs, Cardinals, Celtics, Lakers. We like it. We like rivalries because I want less hate in the world and more Hayen sports, and so like a healthy amount of hate is okay to me. Like I don't want there to be riots, but I wasn't like clutching my pearls over flag planting, you know. I'm like, it's kind of funny, Like it's kind of funny that a two win team plants a flag at midfield and then they push a show and it goes the other way. When you're pepper

spraying college kids, I'm like, that's ridiculous. And I understand that I'm flirting in a gray area there on advocating something, and then when it gets too far, I'm like, well that's too far. Sorry, call me a hypocrite. I like a little bit of trash talk in my sports. I'm gonna do something on Breakfast Ball tomorrow. I don't think taunting should be a penalty in the NFL on sportsmanlike conduct.

If you punch a guy, you spit any guy's face, fine, unnecessary roughness, the same thing, delay a game, same thing taunting. Let them trash talk and figure it out. I'm cool with it. I'll make the case tomorrow on the show. That's a meandering way to get to rights are awesome and star power, celebrity h it dates back to college familiarity. We know it. And then there's also this, and you could speak to this. You've been in the game longer

than I have. People like to be a part of something that is growing, right, Like the World Series, the number was big, it was as good as it could have been. Yankees and Dodgers, Otani, Judge, Sodo, et cetera. But like if baseball got that number thirty years ago, they would have been appalled. And so like the general trend of baseball is down in terms of ratings from where it was, the WNBA, the era is going up.

People like growth stories, Right, how many companies have you invested in or talked to their CEOs out there in California where it's like, we don't even need to show profit, we just need to show that we're growth and more you and all of that stuff. So I think that's the netflicks for years, for almost all of them, for years. You know, like the line in David Fincher's The Social Network, like, don't you're throwing a cool party? You know a million

dollars isn't cool? You know it is a billion dollars, Like don't don't take an ad when you got on one hundred college campuses. Wait until you're in one hundred countries and then do it right, like lose money, keep getting your funding, and then cash in big at the end. So I don't know how big the WNBA can get, That's right, I don't. Like I do have some skepticism on how big it can get as as a whole

league teams. Caitlin Clark not rooting for it, obviously, but like say she tears her ACL in the second week of the season. I think that'd be real bad for interest for the sport for that season, right. I think it's carried by a very few pockets of stars right now. But will it be more popular in five years than it is today? Yes, Like it is clearly a growth enterprise, and I think that that is also a really popular phenomenon.

Like people like to be a part of something early in on the grounds or I knew this band before they got on the test feel smart? Yes, Oh when when did you sign up for Blue Sky? Like you know what I mean, Like it's happening right now. We'll see maybe Blue Sky will be a huge thing in two years, maybe it will be like what was Blue Sky again? But so I don't know where it ends for the WNBA, but I am absolutely positive Caitlin Clark will be a story ten years from now. She will

bring the league with her. And that is good business because it's growth. Even if Yankees Dodgers outrates the WNBA championship, like it's just one's going up the others going down. So therefore it it is seen as a cooler thing to be a part of.

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they call a bridge that can help it. But people are too busy to worry about my bridge and my followers. So if I could transfer all my followers, I don't even know if I would do it then, but I can't, and I have almost two million. So I'm okay with I'm okay with X. But it's a bigger picture is that you know a lot of people on the left post election, I'm out of here, and my take is, well,

that's kind of precious and a bit convenient. Is that the truth is and Ethan Strauss discussed this recently in a column on Substackbody gets treated like shit on X.

up looking for happiness. Have have things to do, follow your passions and what you're good at, you'll find happiness right, Like happiness will come to you if you just wake up. It's like grabbing a rainbow. I'm gonna wake up and find happiness. There's nothing to grab. You have to see other things that make you happy. That's happiness.

be fine. I'm not asking you to like play a violin for the guy made millions and millions of dollars. He'll be fine. But still, like there were consequences for him not being good, Like they're not consequences for me being wrong about a prediction about the Philadelphia Eagles, like be entertaining, own up to it, keep it moving, come back the next day. So I'm with you media people who, especially in the opinions, who cannot deal with criticism. I

think it's crazy. Now, obviously there are lines that should not be crossed, racial slurs, threats. Obviously, people of color get it worse. Women get it worse. This is all documented. I remember once it's like there was a study like negative feedback outweighs positive feedback by like thirty to one. You don't call your cable company and said cable's working great, Like you call when there's a problem, So the discourse of the feedback is going to skew negative. So that's

all of that part. The other thing about the thing about Blue Sky is like, so I squatted on a username. I haven't posted once. I don't do anything. I'm just like, in case this becomes big, I don't want anyone else to be Danny Parkins on Blue Sky. I have my username, and I'm going to be in this at this point longer than you are, right just by eight. So I'm just trying to like, I don't know where it's all going to go, but I'm trying to be prepared for

where it does. My thought on the liberal move to Blue Sky was I understan stood the desire to like form your own team and like consolidate your own team, but like it's a it's not like a conservative can't sign up for Blue Sky. There's no pre rest, So who's to say it's not going to turn into the exact same thing and who's And by the way, I'm not at all saying that the only people that are negative were nasty on X are conservative. That is not

what I'm saying. But like, if lu Ski gets big, a lot of people with diverse opinions and backgrounds and actions and intentions are going to be on it. And then the other thing is, aren't we bubbled and siloed enough?

That was my big thing about it. We all are in our own feedback loop already, we all already have our own algorithms, and like, yeah, the for utab is clearly being influenced by the lunatic who bought X. But like my Instagram reels when I search how to cast iron or ribi, I then get way more Instagram reels about steak like they're not They're not made from nothing, And so I agree, like leaving the place where the biggest public discourse on the Internet happens because you were

upset with the result, didn't feel like it would solve a problem. It felt like it would make you feel better, as opposed to working towards solving a problem. So if you want to do it to feel better, fine, But I also I don't really believe that most of these people are like gone for good. We're addicted to these things. Yeah, we are just addicted to them. I've checked my phone

twice since this interview started. Like it's hard, it's hard to put it down, you know, not interview conversation, but like it's just so I'm very skeptical of like Blue Sky, like long term us feeling like we are just oh, we just found a new one. People they'll be they'll be on X, and if it gets big and replaces X, then it will have the same problems that X hads. Yeah.

dumbest thing I've heard. And I've said I always say to her, do you understand if I stayed at a company for twenty years, the value of free parking and free smoothies and oat field and coffee at a company and she and she said, I said, who gets that? And I often think about that little thing. By the way, I get my haircut for free haircut, smoothie, coffee, parking. That sounds ridiculous. Do you know how many people, if you could sign up for that in a city, would literally fight over it?

out here. I need the free smoothie treatment from the LA offices.

are a couple. I'll admit that. I'm like, I just want to mute you because I don't want to see like your intentionally divisive, mean spirited, racist, hateful rhetoric come into my timeline because it just there's there's just negative ROI on it, right, like for mental health happiness, I'll go down a rabbit hole. It'll make me upset and now I'm just angry, So like that was just I've definitely done that with some people. Yeah, but I do

try to understand people who disagree with me. I do to read sites and people and feeds and interact with things that like challenge my worldview because it's a big, messy diverse country and a big messy, diverse, diverse world. Like if you only consume all the stuff that you already agree with, like, what's the point. Yeah, you know what I mean, Like, I want to learn, I want to understand. I want to hold the same one some gaps like it. It. I don't believe that, like people

who disagree with me are like bad people inherently. I think some of them are, and some are at least motivated by some bad stuff. But like, generally speaking, people want to be healthy, provide for their family, have happy, healthy kids, and like get along with their neighbors. So it's like, okay, let's try to understand each other and meet in the middle somewhere. So that's how I try to operate. But some people, Man, you got to mute, you got to have a site about your day. Yeah no, no,

I know you do. I know you do. And we're we're meandering here. This is a very abstract conversation. But I like apps. That's why podcasts work. No, that's true, that's true. I just I don't know how much deconstruction of the election you've done as to like why it went the way that it did.

it was misogyny. No, Hillary Clinton won the popular election. And what I found on MSNBC, and again I don't I'm not taking sides here. I don't watch a lot of either of this stuff. I think Steve Karneck he's very good an election night, and so I leaned toward him. But by and large I don't care. Even though I work for Fox, I tend to be a moderate, socially left, fiscally right. But what I did find is there is there's an inability by both sides when they lose, to

discover why they lost. And I'll I'll and I'll give you that's that's my first take is it's I'll give you an example, a sports example about the election. So every weekend in the NFL there's three blowouts. Does that mean there's three great teams?

in her prime, that was one of two. Right. So my take on the election was if you go back to Reagan winning and he had like a record turnout record support. Why because Jimmy Carter was one of our weakest presidents and Mondale when he ran against him, was a really, really weak candidate, and Reagan was charismatic. So it was as much about Reagan, whose first three years

in office were not profound. He struggled right, it took him a while, but it was about a charismatic personality who had been an actor and really weak opposition Trump. And it's as the total votes have come in, it's

not the mandate we many people subscribe to. But cop think about this with Kamalo, even in California, never heard of her until the twenty nineteen primaries, of which he had no coalition, didn't get me votes, and because of the emergence of TikTok and Biden's decline, he dominated the news cycle for three and a half years. She was invisible. They gave her the border. I'm not sure she went to it. She was invisible. Then Biden stubbornly was kicked

to the curb very late in the process. She came in and for three to four weeks the primary issue was where'd she go? So Trump has the biggest personal.

of advisors, and it was just infuriating. It. It was just they were just complimenting themselves on how great they did and how Cask was and listen, maybe it was impossible. Maybe Trump was too big of a brand, people were feeling inflation too much, Biden was too unpopular, and it was one hundred and seven days and she was a vice president for an unpopular president in a tough economy, and maybe maybe it was impossible. Maybe it was impossible for her to win in that timing, in that circumstance.

But God, did they have a lot of like, well, we had to do this, and we ran this, and we raised the record amount of this, and we had to define this and we got on this and we couldn't do everything, and we tried to do this and it was because of this and we did. I was like, do you not have thumbs? Can you point a thumb? Can anyone point a thumb? I was just pointing fingers and it's just like excuses and we did this, and I was so proud of this, and they were so

good at this. I was like, you weren't great because you didn't flip a single county. Stop telling me how great you did. Just take some acountability, take your loss, learn from it and right and move on. And so, you know, I hope they do. I don't think it's as doom and gloom as everybody else seems. I never know.

it takes and how infrequently they do. And James Carville and Bill Maher I think, have been closer to the reality of it. But it was just a lot of race and misogyny, and it's like guys mirrors look in them. Stop blaming the voters look.

Vegas and Carolina and all that is totally doubt. I'm not saying it's not, but we should strive to and I try to and continue to try to. And we're sixty eight shows in or whatever we are into breakfast Ball, so hopefully I've got a long road ahead of me to like back up these words with actions. But like it's fun to appreciate stuff and be like how cool

was that? How great of a play was that? Like we are watching You're like Daniel Jones sucks, like I guess, but he's actually awesome, Like he sucks compared to Patrick Mahomes. I don't want to be my team's quarterback, but if you if he was the Syracuse football quarterback next week, they'd go on a run, they'd win a bunch of games. So I do think there's a little bit more room too.

It's easy to talk about what's wrong with Phil and the blank team as opposed to making it interesting of why the Lions are crushing everybody, Like we just as a collective, I think we should try our best to like appreciate sports and celebrate them. Not that you can't be negative, not that you can't take an ax to something or call for a firing. It's all fine and good.

These guys get paid a bunch of money. It's it's the opinion business you should be But it's just a It's a good, healthy thing to remember that, Like we should celebrate the champions. I get on Stinking Carton Like, I'm like you guys just like you hate greatness. We're rooting against the Chiefs, Like are you crazy? Like Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes track, these guys are unlikable in some way. No, they're awesome. They're historic. Like we've never seen a three

pet You don't want to see it? Why I want to see it. I want to see the three. I want to see the greatness that I've never seen before. I'm not tired of it yet.

to twenty twenty two. Now, it is very clear to me that it is Mahomes one, Allen two, and so he will get one. I will root for the three peat this year. But part of that is also my mom's family's from Kansas City. I worked there, I was there when they hired Andy Reid, So part of that is like a personal tie and bias and Chiefs fans and Arrowhead and all of that. So yeah, Josh Allen, Buffalo and those fans that would also be an excellent story.

Obviously the Lions would be an excellent story. But I'm not tired of the greatness yet. From the chiefs. I liked Tiger, I liked Michael Jordan. You know, Brady did get a little ridiculous to me. I will admit that it's like the one because it was just it's like, dude, you're winning when you're in your forties.

like Tiger Woods created golf fans. There's cult of personality, figures in that level of dominance that I'll always be that, I'll always be Bones Jones. I hadn't bought UFC Fights in a while. I love the UFC Bones Jones Fights. I buy the card one hundred percent. Like there's like I am attracted to greatness almost universally.

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