NFL Draft Reactions + Pittsburgh Recap | Inside The Bus

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Inside the Bus. This is episode forty six preseason Will Compton number forty six along with Alfred Morris.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to top that. You also have Lee Smith and Andy Pettitt, Craig Kimberl for a little baseball flavor.

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Speaker 3: That's a good one. Uh.

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Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers long snapper Christian Kuons Charchers really high school texted my girlfriend in high school. I hated him for a long time. Sure he's a nice guy now, all right, No, it was He's Christian Koon's was like the guy growing up for high school, for a local high school. He was just the stud he played at Dukequine and now he's a long snapper and he has a podcast.

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Speaker 3: He's the sickest dude.

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Speaker 4: I never got to meet him or anything, but it was always just like, yeah, that dude.

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Speaker 3: He texted cat or he texted your ex girlfriend.

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Speaker 4: God, no, one of my first girlfriends, they were like friends.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what it was at all? Or the message? No?

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Speaker 4: I mean they I believe, dude, such high school stuff. And this girl, I mean she has a family and a child now, and she was lovely and he's a lovely guy. I genuinely they were friends because her best friend went to his and so they became friends there. But he's also like the guy, and so I'm like, no, I'm like, you're texted him because he's like a stud and he's on the Steelers and I'm watching him, like it's pretty.

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Speaker 3: Sick, dude. That kind of makes me think of And this is really wasn't supposed to be a topic. But I don't know if y'all have any text messages from ex girlfriends or maybe current girlfriends that just stand out to you, like whether y'all were in the middle of a breakup post breakup. I don't know if something jumps out. Matt, you can answer this too if you want.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a text per se that pops to mind, but I remember this is like a slight flex in college, the game where I made it on top ten and it was like the next week or I think the ESPN thing came out Saturday night and then it was Sunday and that's when I was talking to my college girlfriend. But my high school girlfriend facetimed me seventy times, like and I'm like, we're broken up, Stop calling me, Stop calling me. Like denying every single call. She's like, I just want to congratulate you for making it on ESPN. I'm like, thanks, we're good.

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Speaker 4: She said, I saw that.

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Speaker 1: I want you to know I thought you were a kiss seventy times? Is it like maybe, yeah, at least twenty five thirty times. I know Matt's been there before. It's like, it's not fun to be a part of it feels good though, you felt like the man. I kind of felt like, yeah, I just made on ESPN. Now you want to talk to me. You you're cheated on a guy who's now on Espnay, that's what you want to do now we're Yeah, you're good.

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Speaker 3: She broke them up. Matt, you got into your No, mine's mine is not anything crazy. It was just one time we broke off. I guess like in the middle of the summer, and then the first week of school, I just get a text that says screw you with like a bunch of use at the end, and I honestly had no idea what it was about. And it's kind of funny because we end up getting back together. And then it became sort of like an inside joke of like if something was just a little bit weird. We text each other like screw you. But that's the only one that it always jumps out of my head. I just remember that feeling. Do you remember or care to share what happened? Is for her to say that, no, I honestly have I can't remember at all, like because clearly it was just a way she wanted to spark conversation back up.

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Speaker 4: It had to be miniscule for her to take it as a joke later right where I would assume and you're good friends with your exes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like your stomach like did your stomach like my stomach would have been like.

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Speaker 3: My stomach drop. I'm thinking, man, what the heck did I do? Yeah? Especially in high school? That is so true, Matt said. For those they couldn't hear me, He said multiple us though, that's flirting, which I do agree with.

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Speaker 1: That's that, bro, that's remember like texting like, hey do a girl like, how many whys do I put?

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Speaker 3: Right? Don't misshit of all time? Different generation? Matt, what did he say? He just went, You're probably just sent a straight meat first, but.

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Speaker 2: Meat off the rim.

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Speaker 4: I love it, just giggling because you said it softly but he could hear it very loudly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but the episode is not about ex girlfriends. The episode is about the NFL draft our thoughts on it. We got to visit Derek's hometown. He got a little bit betrayed, maybe by their pick Project Pick. I'll let him get into that coop. Also, I know he felt well, actually he didn't feel He told us before the pot he had no longer have feelings. Yeah, due to what they did. But how far or how far were you guys staying from where you are originally from?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? So where we were staying was extremely close where he used to live, which I got to show them the place. But where I'm from is about forty minutes outside. So yeah, you're go ahead. So you're not from Pittsburgh, So.

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Speaker 3: You you how I say I'm from Philly's how you say you're from Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: I would say it's agree, Yeah you passman Roeville if people say that. So I had that conversation in college where I say, H'm from Pittsburgh to anybody that ever says anything, and then the inner city kids go, well, what color were you your street signs? Because if they were blue, that means you were in the city. If they're green you're in the suburbs, which I totally get in respect. At the same time, though I lived down there, for freaking.

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Speaker 2: You different because he lived in Pittsburgh, right.

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Speaker 4: I never lived in Philly, but I would say you're from Philly if you're from the surrounding area of where it goes.

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Speaker 3: Like, we're good.

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Speaker 4: The easiest way to say is like Chef's a Braves fan. He ain't from Atlanta, but like Jared living outside Atlanta would say it's from Atlanta. That's how I always view it.

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Speaker 3: I'm from Greenville, man, No, you're not. Okay, you're from Brentwood. Man, I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 4: Matt's over there. If you didn't hear me said I am from Brentwood, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: So I feel like I'm from Dallas. Yeah, twenty minutes though, and that makes sense as a DFW year to year from Dallas for sure. I'm from Keller that's basically Fort Worth, which is basically Dallas'.

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Speaker 3: Get and to also stamp Derek even more like, how long have you lived in Nashville?

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Speaker 4: This is this will be going on your six I believe.

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Speaker 3: And we ran into three people that just saw him on the street and we're like, Derek, what's going on? And just the same neighbors from all of his community back then when he was living in Pittsburgh, and like they're still there. I'm sure they live in some different places, but it was just cool to see. That was my favorite part about Pittsburgh was the neighborhood feel, and we got the full experience because we walk into a coffee shop. A guy standing outside d what up. I'm like, he had been here for six years.

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Speaker 1: He's sure I could go to certain spots of Philly if I know where my boys are living, I'd be like, see, I'm I'm from here.

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Speaker 4: He's bearing the lead too, because we go to the shop and of course knew two people.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, dude, I mean six years though, Like I like, I wouldn't go back to Braidonton and be walking around and like see people that I know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's Pittsburgh motion like I'm not phillyping.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Also one more shout out to Derek on his podcast that he had back in Pittsburgh. They did a going away episode and it was a live, live show and over one hundred people were there.

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Speaker 4: We stuck it in this little corner that I got to show them. So that's yeah, we were we were very close to having motion if I understood any of it at the time. But I showed them, like we can rec up the whole trip real quick. But the best part for me was showing them the gym that we recorded out of the back of in a closet. And so we had this little closet of the back probably three forced to the size of the room we're in, and we had two l tables, our computer, a Golden tr K game, all that stuff. But like I got to show him where the live thing happened, and like everyone was my going away podcast episode. So we had people, you know, it was standing room only, not a big deal, but we like it was the coolest thing. And I had all my buddies from back home. One's a professor of sports journalism at Ohio College. He texts me. My old partner's Josh and Greg text me all the thoughts on the bench. Guys text me and they were just like, hey, just so you know, we all kind of feel a version of we made it, because like all that work went into something that's now happening. It was a very very like, very blessed, grateful trip that was very very full circle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. My I think my favorite part is basically what else. I just didn't realize that the city that there had that neighborhood feel because I've never been to Pittsburgh. Yeah, mister Rogers, baby, mister Rogers exactly. So it was cool. I feel like it would be such a fun sports culture to be a part of.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's different from you you've been to Philly before. I feel like, like, you know, manioc area, and I feel like that's what all of Pittsburgh is my correct and center because I've never been to Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it very much where It's just it's very local feeling. It's very neighborhood, it's very sidewalks, it's very bikable because Philly, to your point, Philly's a city like I love Pittsburgh, true and die, but like Philly's a city. Nash feels bigger the downtown than Pittsburgh is. The downtown. Pittsburgh for itself is a bunch of localized neighborhoods with a downtown. And so when you're like, true, if Mitch is walking around Philly that's because that's like a New York's right city too, So just give a little there. But we will say, yeah, we saw g my buddy that works at House of Highlights. He kids at the coffee shop. An old coworker named Lindsay was walking her dog and she texted me. She was like, hey, like, next time you're in town, can you remind me to put makeup on. I had like eye patches walking her dog. I was like, you're fine. And then we ran into a high school friend at that same coffee shop, and so it was it was cool.

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Speaker 3: The food scene also slept on food scene in Pittsburgh. I feel like they got some stuff. We oh, they got some stuff.

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Speaker 4: A lot of James Beard chef's, a lot of Micheline hype and talk, a lot of cool spots, a lot of fine dining. There's a place, like a couple places. There's one that's hit the High Hold, which is in a castle outside of the town. They're going for a Michelin star. We went to Meet Potatoes, which is where I used to live right next to, so I got to show them like the apartment building, but Meet Potatoes is the place we used to save up to go to we got to sit in the private room. I never knew there was a private room, had no idea. So we did that. We went to my number one brewery, Sinderlands. We got the food that's your number one on your list on my list of ninety.

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Speaker 3: That looked fire and the beer just like beautiful.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was just like the chalice it was in, but I'm like, that looks like it would smack right now, but in like the wings, the casada, the I think I heard clump and Jared got a crunch wrapp the.

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Speaker 4: Crunch trap supreme. There rips, we got Caesar salad, shremade a whole salad, which he was just like, this is good and it's a it's a hot day, got some burgers. The wings were good Man and my buddies there. One of their head brewers he he rips Pokemon packs with the brewers there, so he brought out their card is a milk tank and he got Will and Taylor to sign it and he said they hung it up in the office the other day.

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Speaker 3: That's sick.

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Speaker 4: He's a huge, huge fan of everything and so it was it was cool there. We walked down the strip So the Strip District is where all of our marts and like Steelers merch and there's a fish market there and stuff ran in the fish My college roommate who works the crazy Yeah Fish to tell that story. He works at the only PA liquor store, So you know, wine and spirits, like is all of it. This is a liquor store just for Pennsylvania liquor. So everything made there can be sold there, but they can't take out of product stuff. So during COVID they had a huge boom because wine and spirits, how we have to buy our liquor, was shut down. Fish is one of the only it's like the Somalia for bourbon. I can't think of the word, but he's one of like five in the state. And he's a dog. Played college ball. We got in the restaurant Seen Together. We lived in a year in a one bedroom apartment with our mattresses touching, and he was dating girl and I was dating girl and I was like good night, Sarah, and he's like good night Cam and we're just like saying tonight. And the girls hated it. We thought it was the coolest thing ever.

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Speaker 3: Bro he rips.

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Speaker 4: He's the homie yit b.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I can't say enough good things about Pittsburgh, and I was not expecting much honestly. I'm like, this would be cool to see, I know, to have good sports culture, but I'll probably be ready to go by the time that we're out of here, and when I'm there, I'm like, dude, I need to come here, like on a trip for a weekend. Where was the draft itself?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was outside after sure, so we were stationed. There's like so you walk across a Vital Clemente P and C parks here, then there's a bridge, like a gap of not a bridge, a gap of like bars acrossure and parking lots in between. So all the parking lots were the set up, and it was on the stadium. We were on the other side outside what's called the Science Center and like that parking lot. So we were set up behind. But they did a good job of Like the area felt good compared to the only other drunkive into is Detroit, and Detroit was on one street and it felt like Battle of the Bastards, Like I'm looking around, there's people here.

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Speaker 3: I think that's how like Nashville was.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh sure, Pittsburgh felt spacious.

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Speaker 3: More definitely spacious. Yeah, the Green Bay one last year was like that set up. I felt like it was pretty cool. Green Bay was awesome.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, did you go to Green Bay last year?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? That was I Did they have a forty? Oh yeah they did have one.

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Speaker 1: So I saw a comment on either YouTube or saw that. It's like I was waiting for Mitch to run a five to one again. I'm like, bro, I'm so palmed. I couldn't and I was aiming for like a four nine, just kind of like messing around. But I'm like, couldn't even.

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Speaker 3: Based off our pump pass kick. We might actually have to set up a race between Matt and Mitch. He he go ahead and say what.

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Speaker 1: I like, I had offered the race and Matt's like, oh, I need I need one win on the day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't. We don't got to get Matt doesn't get into it. Next week after the video comes out.

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Speaker 4: Such a fun video there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a good one. I'm trying to think thing I'll say.

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Speaker 4: Pittsburgh too was h We didn't get over to my washing, but Permanni brothers, the guys getting to try that sandwich was big and a couple of lights there, and then I did get to sneak away. We didn't get to take the crew, which stunk. But I snuck away at one trip to snag some bud lights and then I snuck another trip to grab some waters and uh form energies, that's how I word it. Uh and we and uh so we ran into my brother at a new bar that he opened up there. So I got to take sure quick. Yeah, and so stopping said high to him and brought Shurhan back, said hi to him, and he met Shreham real quick. We had tried to go after me potatoes, but we left dinner. It was so late thirty bro, we were the last ones there. And then after the draft we were all just ready to lay down for a second.

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Speaker 1: D I remember the draft when in Green Bay was late night because we made the same walk back, Like you know how he walked back from Lambeau to the Airbnb.

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Speaker 3: We walked back from Did that feel like.

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Speaker 4: A bad walk?

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Speaker 3: I loved it?

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Speaker 4: Okay, the weather it was perfect through that park.

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Speaker 3: We were on our step game that whole week. Ten K. I was on five days over ten K streak. Yeah, I was Dano. Dano is awesome, man. I really I really don't know his story that much, and I know we were talking about it, but he'll allude to like the reason I love football so much is because it was the only family I ever had. My family was so broken growing up that these are I consider all the locker rooms all was in my actual family, and I wish we could have learned more about that. And I'm sure he's probably shared it a million times and that's why he kind of just brushes over it. But he truly is. I mean, I know he gets a lot of hate from some of his takes, but I feel like he's one of the best actual guys that's on TV.

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Speaker 1: He seems like, uh, I was watching I think I was watching the vlog and when Taylor or Taylor and Dano both mogged Will and.

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Speaker 3: He's like, what's mogged mean?

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Speaker 1: It's like he seems so innocently like awesome, right, and like he doesn't know like the lingo and whatnot, but like he seems like and even when he was here for Tighten.

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Speaker 3: You like just he seems like the fucking dude. I think my favorite story actually was probably his spike ball one yeah, with his kids, and he's his kids are basically like, if we beat you in spike ball, then we get a phone. If we don't, Dano says, you get a phone your junior year of high school. His kids are going into high school right now, and him and his wife got that work, And I'm like, I feel like that's the perfect image of probably what it's like to be a part of his family.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that would honestly be something you and Sitting would do a million and you would be getting pissed.

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Speaker 3: At Sitting for like not Yeah, dude, sit in his athletic as crap spike ball, I got her in for sure. But like if we played doubles tennis, like on the week link, Yeah, if we played pick a ball on the weak link.

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Speaker 4: It's the thing I liked about that is he talked a lot about his autism. Yeah, and we I couldn't talk about it after It's not like it's a secret for what's going on. But they talked a lot about a project that he's working. Yeah, did they bring it up on CAM? I forget if they mentioned it.

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Speaker 3: No, I can't remember if it was during or Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think we can talk about it off. But that project was so cool because you're just like he loves his family so much. He was such a cool guy, very like nice to talk to for a second there when I got to and his little he.

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Speaker 1: Did talk about it because I remember hearing it because like somebody was making to clip about it or it was in the vlog.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it was just the character that he couldn't mention, but he could do clanky. But yeah, that thing rips, so for.

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Speaker 3: We can say it.

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Speaker 1: Dana's son Madden, who has autism, is doing artwork for Backyard Baseball, which is six unreal and it's like that is like for to be a kid and they're like, yeah, I'm in that game, like that's so awesome. But yeah, he he seems like he rips and like like I'm always curious, like you always hear how like the running out of the back of the end zone like the safety thing. It's like, but he went to Yukon and like got drafted, like and Yukon's not a football school like he was there with. I think him and d Butt are like the two players to really come out of Yukon.

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Speaker 3: I feel like I'm forgetting a running.

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Speaker 4: Back Skylar Bell this year in the draft, and that's the only one I can think of.

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Speaker 2: They had a few guys in like the twenty teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because we played him in a bowl game one year and I remember they had a good running back. Yeah, but I can.

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Speaker 1: Remember, like, I mean, he for him to be in the league for twelve years coming out of Yukon, it's like he must have had some shit to him.

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Speaker 3: Granted he's like six eight six.

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Speaker 2: Didn't he start that whole I mean, I know it wasn't great, no glory, but didn't start the whole season for that Lions team that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he started the whole and sixteen season, but I think he started a good bit of it because.

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Speaker 2: Then they got Stafford right after and he was still on the team. Yeah oh yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, like seeing those pictures of him too, he's got such a babyface.

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Speaker 3: Oh I know, hey Yukon. Yeah he love Dan Oh need him in Nashville for sure. How is that?

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Speaker 1: What's everybody's thoughts? And I'm more so asking this to one person of their of their draft.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: I came on here last week and said, man, I just don't want the Cardinals to draft Jeremiah Love and the that it was him and Jeremia Simpson ty Simpson. Yeah, and then we got Carson Beck. Like literally, we're just cursed. But here's here's my problem. Here, the thing about the Cardinals drafting Love, and this is just a Cardinals thing. He is probably the best overall player in the draft, good argument for it, best player in the draft, and somehow the only like team that would draft him and fucking up is the Cardinals because they have so many holes. They just paid like two running backs. When you have a team full of holes in you're the worst even in the league, you don't need a running back. And then when you get him at three, he costs fifty one million dollars not my money, but we're like, we just drafted a fifty one million dollar running back. When we needed line help, when we needed like defense, we needed all these things, we took a fifty one million dollar run back. And then you know, it's whatever.

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Speaker 3: He'll be good.

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Speaker 2: He'll take the Saquon CMC route and play for us few years, be really good. We'll stink, and then he'll go somewhere else and win a Super Bowl. So like, I'm already prepared for what I'm not buying a jersey is that it will be irrelevant to do with your Tyler Al junior jersey. But burn it.

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Speaker 3: Did you buy Tyler? No?

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, God.

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Speaker 3: I might have to get you. Would you wear it if someone else bought it for you? Probably because bro, it's a moment like uh as somebody?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I would wear it till the wheels fall off in two years.

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Speaker 1: Wait, would there be a jersey? Like who's do you want a jersey of any of the players on your team?

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Speaker 2: The only jersey for the Cardinals that I would feel good about is Trade McBride. But then like Buddha, Yeah, but he's just like he's he's he's towards the end, like Trad McBride's our star. Buddha's like our our consistent pro bowler. But nobody really cares about Buddha. I love Buddha. You just go safe.

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Speaker 4: Get a Chase Pisan to this jersey. He's your guardy draft.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited about that one. You you did, guess Chase, I'm excited about him.

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Speaker 4: Good one. Just get his jersey. Linemans are super safe. They're not gonna for their contract.

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Speaker 2: Well here and another thing, going back to Carson.

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Speaker 3: Back, that's crazy. What this Carson Back. I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 4: I thought you were saying the lineman taking.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I was like, I think I hope he's good. No, no, yeah, yeah, Carson Beck. So all the discourse on on Twitter is like, well.

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Speaker 3: I don't hate it. That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing. It's like, oh, it's it's okay because they're gonna get a quarterback next year, like this little bridge, like he can be a backup. The Cardinals are like primed to tank this year, be awful and draft a quarterback and a loaded class next year and have good weapons around him and kind of build it like the right way, like start building it the right way. And we burn a third round pick on Carson Beck, who has a lot of questions, like he yeah he was good at Miami.

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Speaker 3: See that.

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Speaker 2: But that's what I'm saying, Yeah, like he was good.

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Speaker 3: Joe Montana was also picked in the third round.

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Speaker 2: Well, Carson Beck and Joe mont Exactly. Here's the problem is.

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Speaker 1: Like I get that aspect of like burning a third round pick when you could have get like.

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Speaker 2: You need so much, bro, I would love quarterback is a next year problem.

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Speaker 3: I wish we could see a world where the Cardinals don't pick him, and I would love to see where Beck would have went. Yeah, but I don't think like I think y'all are hating on Beck.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's just not that like we are drafting a quarterback next year. We are drafting a quarterback, so like it just doesn't make sense. And you have all these holes in a third round.

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Speaker 4: Picks could have got Marc hal Bell tackle one, get Romelo Height, Texas Tech. There Antonio Williams a wide receiver, Oscar Doubles back up. You could have got Caleb Douglas, wide receiver, Texa Tech. Could have got Drew Aller A few picks later, A J. Halsey at center, Zach Right a branch.

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Speaker 2: They better not wear back. They better not let him wear eleven if they were they If he wears eleven, I'm burning it down now.

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Speaker 1: Like I think Beck is a good quarter like he I want to say, this could be very wrong. He has the most starting snaps out of any quarterback that.

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Speaker 3: Got draftter this year.

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Speaker 1: He's got he has like the most experienced, which is like a kind of like a metric that they use of like whether you're not gonna whether you're gonna be successful or not. And not only that, like in the SEC against like the really good Bama teams, the really good who else did they play?

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Speaker 3: They asked?

00:23:08
Speaker 1: The rest of the SEC kind of sucks, Yeah, LSU Texas like whatever, Tennessee. But like he has that experience in like winning SEC championships, making it to the national championship two or three times. Like I don't think he's a bad player, but burning a third round pick on him.

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Speaker 2: But it's the same thing as the Jeremiah Love is. Like it's the Cardinals make the wrong pick at the wrong time. It doesn't matter if they're a good player or not. Like Love is not the right pick for the Cardinals. Thirty one teams would have been crushed, like crushed it. That would have been a great pick. It's he's still gonna be a good player on the Cardinals. Not what they needed. They they kind of fucked up Carson Beck. Another team could take them in the third round. It's like, oh, you know what, like he could he could do something. He could do something the cardlals, but like they they are gonna get a quarterback next year. They do not need it. It was they just burned a pick, like it is not good. They're not good at drafting. It's pretty obvious how they're franchises like awful every year. They're just not good at drafting, and this year I think it was like the biggest example of it.

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Speaker 4: He's got to beat out Minshew for backup for even Jacob And so then you look at next year where if they do go quarterback, you're bringing in the Carson back to be his backup.

00:24:15
Speaker 3: And he's not like a locker room person, you know, he's he's what people say Kyler is. Yeah, he definitely seems like he's a problem bro. Like Week six or seven, he blames blaming the wide receiver for running the wrong route and losing the game. You see as Lamborghini getting stolen in Miami.

00:24:34
Speaker 2: Nobody likes him, right, you know that's just word about.

00:24:39
Speaker 3: His birthday party, Like why why is nobody on his birthday? That tracks? Why do you like that? You like he likes to let me stuggle on him. Whatever.

00:24:52
Speaker 2: It's a it's a bad pick and they're a bad franchise, and if you expect them to be good in the next three to four years, there's still gonna be the Cardinals, and I'm gonna be right in so of him because I right is because it's just facts, like they're not gonna be good in three more years, like they're always bad. So it's not like that that's a bad pick because it's.

00:25:08
Speaker 3: It's just they're in Division two.

00:25:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're kind of fucked. Yeah, it's like six Auto l's every year, but that doesn't even matter, like you gotta show some fight.

00:25:20
Speaker 1: I feel like the Ty Simpson to the Rams is like a ballsy pick, but it's if you think about it, it's like Jordan Love to the Packers.

00:25:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, even if that doesn't work out though, Like the Rams and the Niners, the Seahawks always draft well. The Rams and the Niners they draft well too. They can fuck up a pick that would cost anybody else like three years, and they're just like good, it doesn't matter. Like Trey Lanston. Yeah, Trey Lance didn't slow down the Niners like they got pretty late whatever. The Rams didn't have a first round pick for like six straight years and one of super Like, it does not matter. Those teams can afford to kind of reach.

00:25:54
Speaker 4: Or fuck super Bowl.

00:25:55
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold, Yeah, Seattle like and they and they draft good. The Cardinals can't afford to like take a risk, and even when they take the sure thing, Isaiah Simmons, he's bust city. So it's just like there is no hope. There's really no hope.

00:26:08
Speaker 3: There's always hope. Man, No, you got hope.

00:26:11
Speaker 2: You saw my hope before the season. I thought we're gonna be good.

00:26:13
Speaker 3: There's hoping the Dallas Stars. Brother, no, there's not.

00:26:16
Speaker 2: We're down three two.

00:26:17
Speaker 3: This is we. Coop and Ryan were talking the other day and Ryan brought up some Rangers game. Coops has seasons over, or maybe it's talk about Matt and they're fourteen and fourteen. It's April.

00:26:30
Speaker 2: I was telling Ryan, it's so funny. I mean, twenty twenty three was a great, like they won the World Series.

00:26:36
Speaker 4: Awesome.

00:26:36
Speaker 2: I can't even complain. But since twenty fifteen, they've been asked besides twenty twenty three, and I just kid, it looks I look forward to baseball season every year and then the Rangers just rage make me all summer. He got a World Series, it worth it, but.

00:26:51
Speaker 1: But he that's not gonna stop him from bitching about this.

00:26:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I got like I gotta. I'm invested. I watch every game. It's really at least keep over there every game that I gets like fever pitch.

00:27:00
Speaker 3: Yes he's Jimmy Fallon. I haven't seen that. Watching phrase hard Boston Red Sox fan, like his whole life revolves around it. Doesn't miss a home game. It's a bird movie.

00:27:12
Speaker 2: I said, I like, I love the Rangers.

00:27:14
Speaker 3: But do you love the Rangers more?

00:27:16
Speaker 2: Or Rangers? That's my favorite.

00:27:18
Speaker 3: Team, like over the Cardinals.

00:27:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, Rangers are my favorite overall team. Probably Rangers Cardinals.

00:27:23
Speaker 3: What about MAVs.

00:27:26
Speaker 2: I used to like the Maps. I used to like the MAVs more. I used to like basketball more. I just said, kind of since the Lucas well, yeah, I have made the right play, but no, they didn't make the right play. They lucked into a good play after making the wrong play the MAVs. I I follow the mass because I follow Luca and I only followed the MAVs the NBA. I just I can't. I can't follow them. I don't like the NBA, and now that like the MAVs fucked up, I really don't. I have not really watched any playoff game of the NBA yet.

00:27:57
Speaker 4: I've only watched there's been some good ones. I mean it's nice.

00:27:59
Speaker 2: I used to watch them be good. Yeah, and even they're they're struggling number yeah, but they're yeah, they're they're down three to one now three two.

00:28:08
Speaker 4: You're just oozing negativity onest team to win.

00:28:13
Speaker 3: I think you might enjoy this part.

00:28:15
Speaker 2: There's some fun about watching your team b ass and just raging such a crazy sure.

00:28:21
Speaker 1: I feel like even when your teams, even when your team's good, you'd be like, Noah, bro, we're about working.

00:28:26
Speaker 2: Dude, let me consume my team win the super Bowl.

00:28:29
Speaker 4: He's like, they're gonna drop the trophy.

00:28:30
Speaker 2: It's yeah, the Cardinals are not gonna win the super Bowl.

00:28:35
Speaker 3: If they did, would you be happy? Or yeah, I'd be happy.

00:28:40
Speaker 2: I was a cloud die when the Rangers in the World Series.

00:28:43
Speaker 3: You probably couldn't tell you anything.

00:28:44
Speaker 2: No, I was up till two a M buying merge.

00:28:46
Speaker 3: Was that? Was that the fall right before you got here? Yeah?

00:28:53
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty twenty three.

00:28:54
Speaker 3: I was in Atlanta, damn, so we could. We couldn't even experience series I did. I really can't like probably if we I'm telling you South Carolina when the National it would be it wraps. I feel like you would just have to retire. Yeah, I'm going on tour and there's nobody even trying to come see me. I'd just be going around everywhere.

00:29:15
Speaker 4: Would you go to South Carolina for the game or to the National Championship game to watch? I always talk about that, like I don't even know if the Steelers win a super Bowl, I'd rather be in Pittsburgh than the super Bowl, is what I've always said.

00:29:26
Speaker 1: That would you go to Williams Brice to watch the game or would you go to Arizona to watch it?

00:29:33
Speaker 3: Dude, that's a great question. I think off rip, I'm saying Arizona like to go watch the game, but man, I would want to do everything I could to get back in time for when that team gets there. Because when just to give you a little glipse, when South Carolina went to our final four run in basketball, we played in Greenville and we beat Duke and I was at the game in Greenville. It was the last game of that session. So it ends at like ten or eleven o'clock, drive back down to Columbia and like just beat the buses and I'm there when the players get off the bus and we're deaffing everyone up, and I'm like, that part was almost even better than the game. But going on, I gotta be everywhere once once we win.

00:30:12
Speaker 2: That's that's a good point. I wasn't at the game obviously when the Rangers won, but I was in Atlanta like a Buffalo wild Wings with some of my like intern friends there. Yeah, there was nowhere else I would rather been than like back home in Texas. Yeah, because that's my childhood team. Like, that's the one I had invested the most in my whole life. And as soon as I fucking move away, they win the World Series, which is great, I would easy trade.

00:30:34
Speaker 3: But there who which pick? Were you most excited about?

00:30:37
Speaker 4: Jennings Dunker?

00:30:38
Speaker 2: Uh?

00:30:39
Speaker 4: Not even close for me? And it's I rewatched the blog at the vlog and I was like, all right, I didn't look too stupid, but I definitely looked stupid, but I didn't look too I don't hate Max, It's just it felt very panicky. We didn't bring them in. There's a high school buddy Mines, the number one beat writer for the Steelers, and his whole thing is we always bring in or go to their pro day. He just was complete left field from what I wanted. Jenny's Bunker though I had him grated really high as a guard, He's a tackle that started swinging in was great. We now have the most solidified offensive line that I think we've had since our Super Bowl runs of just like in like Zach Frasier, I think he's it's Tim Mcreed Humphrey best center. Mason McCormick was like a fourth or fifth rounder of South Dakota. He's a neck roll.

00:31:20
Speaker 3: Love that.

00:31:21
Speaker 4: And now we got Dunker in there too, with like a red just mullet from God. And I'm like, those three meaty hogs are my three favorite. I might try to get a trifecta jersey. Yeah, but I was a big fan. Jeremy Bernard is a really good pick too.

00:31:34
Speaker 3: That's a underrated, very exciting, like the Drew Aller project pick.

00:31:38
Speaker 4: It's tough for me because my perspective on the Drew Aller pick is obviously different than what your perspective for Carson Beck, Like even if they were flipped or whatever, because we're still holding out hope and we had the unrestricted pridgent for Rogers. Rogers still is the best player to play quarterback for us since Ben, and if he played this year, would still be there. My thing with Drew Allery is the city of Pittsburgh needs to understand that as cool as Will Howard is anyone in Natty, he's a sixth round pick. We don't have a lot invested in him. I think Drew Aller, if he comes out last season, he's a first round pick, and there's no questions.

00:32:08
Speaker 2: A definitely more talented than.

00:32:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, easily across the board. The city of Pittsburgh is just so tired of not having a guy they'll force Will Howard to be the guy in their heads. I liked it for the sense of, like one of the two of them is probably gonna be my starter next year and then unless we go in the first and draft someone next year. But that's that's an interesting one. I liked the Drew Aller pick. If I can delete this season of Penn State football from my memory, I.

00:32:35
Speaker 3: Know it's hard man, but he hurt, did get hurt, but it hurt.

00:32:40
Speaker 4: The James Franklin saga their skill position players not being great then just kind of being dogwater as a team and like a punching bag up in Pennsylvania and then we draft the guy. I just keep watching his tape from two years ago and be like, no, dude, this is a six to five, huge arm with some accuracy issues. Who is just our best quarterback on the roster right now, aside from Mace. But I still think he's better.

00:33:01
Speaker 1: The h the only because I'm friends with so many Penn State fans. The only issue with dree Ler's accuracy, Yes, but like that was the same thing with not comparing him to Josh Allen.

00:33:13
Speaker 3: But like you, that's all mechanics. You work on mechanics, you fix, you fix that stuff. Yeah, I want to know what he's like up here, because that's I know. In his penn State career it was always a knock on like they did they never did win the big game. How much of that is on him? Who knows? Because James Franklin he never wins.

00:33:31
Speaker 1: I haven't heard like anything from anybody like that, like ran into Roller and said like, oh, he's a deucebag kind of thing. I haven't heard any of that, so I'm not sure.

00:33:42
Speaker 3: I just want to know if he believes in himself, like in the in the fourth quarter of a game, Like does he really think I can make any throw on this field.

00:33:49
Speaker 4: I think being a James Franklin kid breeds that within you, and it is so like my next sentence for that is and they're always wrong, but it breeds the self confidence of it that like, no, we're the best and we're going to do this. Because I know that's how Penn State fans are. I know that's how obviously he's different, but Barkley felt. I know that's how some of these guys that have always been the face of it really even back to like Christian Hackenberg. Like Hackenberg thought he was the guy and it sucked. Yeah he wasn't great at football. But I I like Drew Aller being a Pittsburgh Steeler. It's good for the city. It's nice to have you even brought up. And I know they kind of said it wasn't a thing, But like him and Will Howard knowing each other, I think it's gonna be awesome.

00:34:28
Speaker 1: I had some dude in the comments where like Drew or yeah, Drew Allers from Ohio, get it right, dipshit, I'm like, I don't fucking care about where Drew allis is.

00:34:36
Speaker 4: Also, didn't even you said, Will Howard was from. You didn't even say I don't think where Drew was from.

00:34:41
Speaker 1: But regards Drew allidhs from Ohio. Will Howard's from Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

00:34:45
Speaker 4: Yes, you had said Howard was from PA, and I was like, yeah, I didn't even see I don't.

00:34:49
Speaker 1: I don't fucking like but the more like there you're if you're in Pennsylvania, the number one school you want to go to is penn State. Yes, like that is that's very well known. I'm sure same thing as South Carolina. You want to go to South Carolina. Like it's work Clemson, but.

00:35:06
Speaker 2: South Carolina or coastal uh in Oklahoma you want to go to oklahom State.

00:35:10
Speaker 4: What do you think of the Chiefs draft? Because I graded you guys really high.

00:35:14
Speaker 1: I I think this is a hot take. I hate the man sword delaye pick. I don't like that at all. I don't know who Peter Woods is. We named our our another, our third round pick. His first name is r Mane. I actually now that like Peter not saying I me not saying I didn't know who Peter Woods is. Like I know who he is, but like don't know enough about it.

00:35:39
Speaker 3: I think drafting Garrett ness Meyer Bold bold pick. I think people are a little bit wrong on Garrett neus Meyer. I got a saur taste strictly because of Josh Payton.

00:35:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, he kind of ruined him for us.

00:35:53
Speaker 3: And what what I know we had it in a group.

00:35:55
Speaker 4: Like hey Garrett because it was and Clemson club Nick right, yeah, like.

00:36:00
Speaker 3: Hey LSU or no, you're gonna shop the better LS. You're gonna l was.

00:36:05
Speaker 4: Gonna shoo the because an injury for yeah, come out or something of that.

00:36:09
Speaker 2: Before the season.

00:36:10
Speaker 1: But then they did fourteen to seven.

00:36:13
Speaker 3: I think, oh yeah, oh wait, so I should I should be on Garrett's side.

00:36:16
Speaker 4: Yeah, there I might be saying, right, there was something where LS won and we were told not to pick Elis.

00:36:22
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, And dude, I think that injury was legit. And Dudemer last year like not this fascinating season before he's dialed like he's got some ship to him.

00:36:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, coach too.

00:36:36
Speaker 1: I mean we have obviously Mahomes justin fields. I don't know, I don't know who the third guy is. If we have somebody else, and then we have Garrett Smyer, like I feel like he will be It's kind of sucks the same way. Too early to say like a perennial backup. He could be like in Orlowski kind of he'll be a backup for a long time. He very clearly.

00:36:56
Speaker 4: Henney, Yeah, he had a seventh is so nice.

00:36:58
Speaker 3: Nose ball you got. He sucks.

00:37:04
Speaker 1: We can get rid of him and get We'll keep Garrett, but.

00:37:09
Speaker 4: You like that man took over for Trent. I think Peter Woods is a grinder that'll be nice to Chris Jones and our our Mason Thomas Orr Thomas Mason, I love him.

00:37:19
Speaker 1: Sneaky pick too. Emma Johnson with Kenneth Walker and now Emma Johnson, Like I got squad kind of fun with that. The only thing I'm bummed that we didn't get and I wanted was a tight end to like for to be under Trav who's like young athletic that Trav could then teach. I know, and I I want Rob to be the man, but I really wanted Michael Trigg. But then I'm I'm hearing stuff that like he's a locker room He's from Taylor Baylor Cowboys, but like I'm hearing that he's like a locker room cancer, like or hearing reading but like he has all of the like he's a big body in the athletic but and I feel like Trav Can.

00:38:09
Speaker 3: I think it's so he wished me happy birthday, so I can do it. Trav Can, like do you remember that.

00:38:17
Speaker 2: Trat comment?

00:38:18
Speaker 3: Drave Can be like, hey, shut the fuck up. He can put him in his place. Yeah, you're going to listen to Travis Kelsey and he's.

00:38:23
Speaker 1: Og enough to where like I mean who He's not going to listen like per se to like Jake Ferguson or Dalton or not even Don Schultz.

00:38:31
Speaker 3: A saf ferg though he do he does have some sauce. Yeah he does.

00:38:36
Speaker 1: But I uh, like I I did want to solidify that that tight end position because this is we we all know this is Travis last year.

00:38:48
Speaker 3: Yeah. The only thing I have on the draft because I I don't really have a full on NFL team. I just followed my game Cocks Jalen Kilgore. I have no idea and I know I'm biased, but I have no idea how he fell into the fifth round where Buffalo and he's the steal of the draft. He's the steal of the draft. Dude. He had a top five performance at the Combine. All of his numbers are almost identical to Nicki Manwari. He's just like a tad bit less athletic but comes from the same exact system where they pretty much leave these guys on an island on our defense and tell them go make plays, trust your instincts, and coach them up that way, and like that's the NFL, Like you have to be able to play like that, and our defensive system has bred some really good defensive players to the NFL recently. And the fact that he's in the fifth round, I know the GM called him and was like, Hey, I can't believe you're still here. Thank God you're still here. Like, let's get to work. And bro. Kilgore's family, his dad is a legend, James Kilgore, senior veteran of the US Army, possibly a marine, one of the best Twitter follows of all time, the most wholesome of all time. After every loss, he's just sweetened out. The work is the only thing that matters. Head forward, feet forward, all this stuff. Yeah, zero issues in the locker room. I couldn't believe he fell to the fifth round, but I can't wait for him to just light the NFL up the only guy. No, so we actually had Nick Barrett. He got drafted before Jalen Kilgore. He's a d lineman. The Chargers picked him. Uh, and then some guys signed after your boy.

00:40:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, second round, dB, he's gonna be oh yes, yes, he's gonna be nice.

00:40:34
Speaker 3: Second round think yeah, first or second pick of the second round. I feel like he was stage. Yeah, he's nice. Next year is gonna be a big draft for South Carolina? Oh yeah, Man Sellers pass this year we could have like low key three first round Nick Carver, you could have you could possibly eligible, uh, Stuart, Yeah, you could have two top five picks. I know when Dylan's in Dylan store and Leonoris Sellers. Yeah, golly, we have got to go to the playoffs. That would be a South Carolina thing, like have two top five picks and not go to the playoff. How long we've been going? It's got on Mario Rivera four. No, you're right, you're right.

00:41:19
Speaker 2: Hey, he was the last one. I think they could wear forty two before they retired at League one. A whole baseball nugget.

00:41:25
Speaker 4: For the last thing I do want to say, is, uh, some guy commented saying that progerct Jones our best lineman. What a phony. Somebody commented and said we should go to Gristhouse instead of Sunderland's what a phony. And someone commented and said, why would you take them to Randy sand Randyland rips set the stage there. It rips just a house.

00:41:48
Speaker 3: I watched the log I'm like, like, this place is so fucking weird, but it's like I need to go check it out exactly. Yeah. That plays a right down the street from a lemonade stand too.

00:41:58
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah that's all. I didn't get that off my chest to you guys.

00:42:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's kind of like when I got shipped for taking everybody to gyms for cheese steaks. It's like, who are you?

00:42:09
Speaker 3: Cheese steak was good too?

00:42:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, you go to you talk to ten different people, You're gonna hear seven different spots, right, It's like there's no winning, no satisfying everybody.

00:42:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially Philly. Yeah shit, that's where I'm from. There, that's my people. Shout of the flyers. But yeah, JP appreciate you'all. Tune into another episode of Inside the Bus. Make sure you guys fall along with the los Angeles Lakers and Lebron, James and Browny as they continue to try to make history in the NBA. I'm gonna pass it to uh Coop so he can finish that thought.

00:42:44
Speaker 2: Yes, Lebron is on the brink of being the first ever player to ever blow a three oh series lead, so definitely stay tuned for that one. That is looks three two, but they're up three oh Lebron.

00:42:55
Speaker 3: It happens all the time, man, thanks for doing it.

00:43:00
Speaker 2: Of the

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Speaker 3: F