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Football. Hold new set up there. First topic today presented by PJs joined by my guy Mike

triple it. Mike. It's coming up. Would you rather season in the mock drafts? What do you got?

Well, yeah, we're playing around with the mock draft machine relentlessly. I think everybody

that's subscribed and all of our viewers are too. It's that time of year. The one that

you've tweaked and developed, New Orleans Stop Football, I think, is pretty close to perfect as

far as like real realistic options and a little variety. If I was doing like dream scenario,

I think we mentioned this on a previous show. I would want David Bailey or Rubin Bain to the

Saints in round one and then a receiver in round two. I think the receiver options are good. I

just I don't think that's completely realistic. There are worlds every once in a while Rubin Bain

falls to the Saints. I think that would be great. But I got some realistic ones for you here. I'm

a lay all three of them out and I want to know your top choice here. All right. So number one,

scenario one is the is different defensive player than wide receiver in round two. So that could be

Caleb Downs or sunny styles. Caleb Downs or sunny styles, round one, Chris Brazola or Chris

Bell in round two. Scenario number two is double offense. Jeremiah Love, round one and Brazola

Bell or another receiver in round two. And then option number three is flip flop of it. Go ahead

and knock that receiver need out in round one. Carnell Tate, the big receiver that they need. And

then or McIleman, if you prefer in round one, then round two, you get the edge rusher.

The mat draft machine gave me a choice of Zion Young or TJ Parker in round two. So three

scenarios. It's it's defense receiver. It's love receiver or it's receiver and then edge rusher.

Yeah. It's enticing. I think every every which way. I think for me, the one where I end up

settling in, I think I could go with any of them. And I like I like the double offense combo. I

like the the high end receiver edge rusher combo. I think I like the Caleb Downs, Chris Bell

combo the best. Like I think Downs might be the best player in the draft. And if you can get

them, like take them, you got the best player in the draft was was wrong with that. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So your downs over styles. Yeah. I think so. I think I think like in a perfect world,

I go downs over styles. Yeah. I mean, I think he has a lead range. You can play deep. You can

do them as a overhand. Can do a little bit in the box. You know, really, really just push army

knife type player. I love those guys. You know, they they had them at the dinner. They had

everybody at the dinner. You know, this week, but that that's kind of what they do. He was out

there. And look, if you think the offense can just add like another piece. Why not? Like they've

kind of focused the offseason on it. I think you give your defense a premiere piece. You add

another guy to the offense. And I think you can get a receiver that becomes a a a a building block

on it. But any one of these combos, I'm I'm not mad at. Yeah. You know, if I just I'm at the

restaurant, I just got to pick a menu item. Like that's the menu item that I'm picking. Look,

that's my same choice. That's the one that I picked the most often. I've been a Downs guy

for a long time because yeah, I think it's very similar to the Jeremiah Love conversation. I

think he could be a top three player in this draft who is going to fall and possibly be great value

because of of position value position scarcity and people are going to let a really special player fall.

So I like that. But I also love the idea of draft and receiver in round two because I think the

value is going to be there. I think there's going to be good options. We don't talk about is it

tape from from Notre Dame that often what do you have thoughts on him fields fields. He yeah,

tape takes a hostage. I got him on my mind. He's got he definitely fits the big receiver profile.

Does he get you as excited as as baller brazil? Is he a like realistic option if if you know,

the if those guys go up sooner than expected in round two? I think you can put any of these guys

in there and you know, you just find a role for him. I think it's sad on define. It's weird

because they have two guys, but it feels wide open at the same time. And I think part of that is

that Chris is a little bit of a chameleon like he can win it at every level and you can use him

in a lot of different ways. So I don't think he's really limited to any any one thing you drop a

guy in you have Rashid Shahidi plays one style Rashid Shahidi leaves you use them a little bit differently.

So I think he can kind of blend it around different people. I like Tate a little bit because of that

too. And I also disliked Tate a little bit because of that because he feels very very like Chris

kind of has that cover, but like two Chris's is a very good thing too. So I wouldn't be mad at that

either. I think you can go any which way with these guys. I think you just get the best one that

you can get and kind of build around them. The offense is still a little bit undefined like they

haven't figured out how all the cogs perfectly fit together. So I don't think you're at a place where

you're looking for a type. I think you're just looking for guys to build around right now.

And I think that's always kind of the case. But once you got your offense kind of perfectly figured

out. Sometimes you're looking for we need someone to replace them. I don't think they're there

right now. You know, I like Chris Bell a lot just because of the shock thing. You know, I think

his personality something that's going to depend on on each team. And I think I think I think

having a quarterback that already knows they can get along is it turns a question mark for some

people into a plus too. You know, even just yesterday, like he's out there talking

I'm openly, hey, they're recruiting me harder or whatever. You know, I that can rub some teams

wrong way. But I think for a team like this, I think that's a plus. I think you have a young

team, young coach, young staff like you want people with that young excited energy. And I think

they need that guy too. So I think, you know, he's appealing to me. And maybe I'm, you know,

I think we're probably all putting a little bit of, you know, the curve kind of goes the bell

because, because the shock, like I think we all probably put a little bit more weight on him

because of that. But I think you should too. Like hit the ground, run him, be part of it,

have a guy, you know, I think he brings an attitude. But any one of them guys, man,

fields, tape, lemon, braddle, like whoever, like, I think you can win with any of them because

I think you have a good offense. And I think you have a quarterback who's going to end up

being good. I think it's a must by the end of day two. If it falls to round three, so be it. But

receivers, the biggest must have all of them. So talk to me about scenario three here. Let's say

you knock off your biggest must in round one, carnaltator, macaque lemon. Do you like those

edge rusher options in round two, Zion Young, TJ Parker? Is there another guy you're eyeing ahead

of those guys? Yeah, I don't know that I go Parker for that. You know, I like Zion Young.

He's looked at there's so many of them. Like you can get into the third round and there's like

Joseph sitting there. I mean, there's just so many of these guys that I think you can bring in

and succeed with. I don't have a strong preference for any of them. I just want them to get one.

You know, I'm not, I haven't tiered my day three edge rusher take to that sharpness yet.

I got to get there. I'm working my way there. Yeah, I think I think any one of them though,

like I think you can get a rotational guy that that's slotting in behind Carl Granderson

somewhere is in the third round. And I think that's fine. I think if you can hit early on that

that's better. My dream scenario, I think is settled in the to Bane or Bayley. I just add in

one of those guys that he and then the the the day two receiver. I think that feels a little bit

better. And look, that's the trap. That's the trap that I've been talking about the whole

offseason is that you look at the positional value and like it is, like you can step in it.

And Caleb Downs is probably a better player, probably a better prospect, probably a better long-term

guy. That's the trap that I understand how it happens, but there is just something about it where

it's like man, oh, they got the edge rusher. Yes, but Caleb Downs might affect your team more.

So maybe it's a blessing if you don't. You know, that's the yeah, that's the math

scouting. But yeah, yeah, any one of them guys I'd feel good with. Yeah, I'm excited to talk

about a Saints team that's going to add two guys in the top 40 picks, that's for sure. Yeah,

and they've had as many of you guys I feel like building boxes offseason. You get a couple more

here. It really feels like something starting to come together. Moving forward here, one thing that

is not going to be on the draft list. And when we were going through the mock drafts, like you see

like Drew Aller sitting there or Carson back like in the fifth round or something, you're like,

man, huh, like should I know the answer is now no Aaron Rose. This topic is presented by them.

St. Signs Zach Wilson, kind of an interesting signing. Didn't necessarily see it coming. I

thought they were going to ask someone to the room. Zach Wilson is interesting. I think it has a

level of entry 26 years old, number two pick in 2021. Has tools just hasn't put it all together yet.

Third guy coming into the room. What do you think of it? Yeah, I mean, I don't hate it at all.

They had to add a third guy. I mean, you're not going into OTAs with only two guys. So

just because Zach Wilson is young and hasn't hit yet, does that mean they should add Josh

Dobbs instead or they should go add Trevor Simeon instead because that's what you're supposed to

do. No, I mean, I'm fine with Zach Wilson being the third guy. I don't think he's, I don't think

this is dissatisfaction with Spencer Ratler. I think he's clearly the third guy. But sure, go

ahead and take a chance at a guy who's the number two overall pick in the draft. See if there's

untapped talent there. See what habits he's learned that's good. Now that he's been in three different

places the three the last three years, let's see what habits he hasn't learned. Or you know,

that you need to teach out of him that have led to him not having successfully. My only concern with

him is I believe in this model. I believe in the, you know, we've seen the Niners do it to great

effect. Let's get our hands on Sam Darner. Let's get our hands on Mac Jones. Let's bring the

talent into the building while they're free and see what we make of them. I think the biggest red flag

was Zach Wilson is not his struggles in New York. I think it's that Denver got him free for a year

and then let him move on. And then Miami got him free for a year and let him move on. So, you know,

why didn't those teams see enough to want to keep developing him? I think that's actually my

biggest red flag. But a lot of times it just takes the right fit and there's absolutely no risk. So

I'm perfectly fine with that. I do want to ask you though you led this topic off by saying this

means now they don't have to draft one or you can take it off the draft board. Do you think that's

necessarily true? Because I mean, this is, this guy could be here for just a year. Spencer Rallor

will be a free agent in a year or two. But you think Drew Aller, Garrett Nussmeyer, Carson Beckett,

you think they're just out of the equation completely or still in play? Well, I think there's always

opportunity or red opportunities there. You hit it. But I think with two, like it's a need and

that was not a need. So I think it's kind of just like any other position where you don't have to

find an answer because you have one. I think what this is, I think there's a ton of value in it.

I think bringing in somebody that that has been through a lot, has that a lot of hardships,

has not been able to figure things out. If you put them in a position where they can't hurt you,

he can't hurt you is the third quarterback theoretically. Like he's nobody you're counting on.

So you're getting the value of those lessons in the room and the chance to fix whatever's

broken with them. If you never fix what's broken with them, he can at least sit in those rooms

and talk about how screwed up things were. How this was the mistakes I made and these are all the

lessons I've learned. I mean, that man has been through a lot. He's been a lot of different places.

He's been exposed to a lot of different things. So he's bringing a lot of knowledge into your room.

And beyond anything else, I think that's fine. I think that adds value to Tyler, Chuck. Someone

that I can tell you what not to do. I think telling someone what not to do can be as valuable as

someone somebody what to do. So you have that in the room. And then yeah, look, he's been a

handful of places. But maybe maybe they teach better here. If you believe you teach better,

maybe they fix them. Maybe they don't. Maybe they put it all together. Maybe they don't. I don't

think you're you're looking for for any of that. I think you're just looking for a guy that

kind of has the right makeup, has has value out to the room can can be insightful to your guy

that's in that position. And look, if he hits and he plays well in things become good, like maybe

maybe one of your other quarterback assets become a value to somebody else too. And now you have

the ability to potentially move someone if someone else hits. But I like it. I mean, it's literally

just hey, Kinsak Wilson, like my baseline here is hey, Kinsak Wilson say things that can make

Tyler shock better at his job. And I think he can. I think I think there's a lot of things that he

did wrong that he's learned from. And I'm cool with it. I like it. I'm not looking for anything out

of it. I'm not looking to actually see value from Zach Wilson. Um, can he add two Tyler shock? And

I think he can. And then maybe maybe there's a plus beyond there. But um, look, I also think just,

I'm always my first audit of things when they sign somebody is like, does this make camp more

interesting on day 17 at camp? When you've seen everything, like could could see exact Wilson

lead the scrimmage B team be interesting? And like, yeah, because so that's a win there too.

So, um, I think he just has like another little layer of interesting and that's always a win

for me when when things are interesting. No, it's really good point. Look, and you know,

my my concerns or qualms are just like how much would I bet on him succeeding? And I'm skeptical.

But I love this is a flyer. Every team should take every year. I think I think it makes way more

sense to kick the tires on somebody who's drafted number two overall, then then bring in, you know,

the Trevor Simeon type, not to keep hating on him. He's just he's fresh in my mind as a as a guy

who's been switching. He's got another contract. Yeah. Yeah. He's he's the kind of guy that most teams

do fill this role with. And yeah, I'd rather I'd rather try to find the next Malik Willis with that

with that job. Yeah, man. Like I don't think you don't bet anything on him. I'm not betting

anything on him. Like you can't this is they got the guy that don't even need the place of

that really. It's just hey, bring him in and see if you can clean him up and put him back out

there. And if it works, it works if it doesn't it doesn't who cares. If he's a disaster, give it

of him. But I don't think he's going to be I think he's been around, you know, some some places

has some good insight. And I think I think he at the very least operationally, I think he's had

some really good lessons on how to carry himself in the NFL. And he's also been behind other guys

and hasn't been a problem or any like I just think he probably has a right make up for it. So

yeah, we'll see how that one goes. It's going to be interesting to see how it plays out.

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presented by Shabair Insurance, the Airheart Agency, the Saints Resign Terrell Burgess.

Solid guy on the team last year, decent presence in a young secondary, played in 16 games.

I think last year appeared mostly as special teams. 27 years old. Good guy to have around. Doesn't

really cost anything. What do you make of it? Yeah, I think we did an episode six weeks ago or

something where we both listed who's the under the radar person on this free agent list that you'd

most like to see back or that you most expect to see back. He was my choice. He began his career

very first year back in 2020 playing under Brandon Staley. Brandon Staley saw him out.

Good guy in the locker room. Good guy with position versatility on the field to play both

safety spots, nickel, dime. I thought he was a really solid addition and one that seemed obvious

to bring back and took a couple weeks. And I like it. I mean, you bring back Julian Blackman,

you bring back Terrell Burgess. It goes with what you were just saying about Zach Wilson. It's like

you've now filled holes. So you're not going into the draft being like, oh shoot, we need a safety.

You want a safety upgrade. You want a star cornerback upgrade. But you've filled holes so

that so that you're covered if you don't. Yeah. Look, I've said this a million times.

You know, I don't know who necessarily is behind every single one of these, but I think there's

probably a quiet case that that Michael Parenta might be the best safety scout in the NFL.

Anybody can find the anyone can find the big loud names. It's tough to consistently,

just consistently year after year, find that better and safety that just league minimum comes in,

hits, contributes in that you want to keep around and like it feels like they've done it like four

or five times in a row. Like it's something that they are exceptional at doing. And you got to

hit on those type of guys to look their cap situations better now. But I mean, that was the

lifeblood of the organization for a while. I was just finding these these league minimum guys and

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whoever's finding these guys like it, it's, uh, they, they've done an exceptional job at it.

So, um, kudos to them. Like it's really something that they're good at. Um, yeah. I like it. No

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The pro day circuit is going on. The Saints are on their jet set in tour. Um, around to the

pro days, uh, LSU. Kalim Moore was at Miami, getting a look at Rubin Bain and Mesa door in, uh,

Mooga and all these guys, uh, and then they had some people out at the Ohio State pro day. They

often have these, these dinners. Um, you know, I, the people like hearing about them. But I mean,

do this everywhere. Like everywhere they go. They kind of get everyone together. They have one at a

Ohio State with, uh, it's now real Reese sunny styles Caleb Don's carnel tape. Kaden McDonald,

Malone, um, some other guys were there, um, meeting with some, some people from the scouting staff,

coaching staff. Just a way for them to get together and, uh, see all guys interact with one

another in a more natural, non, uh, formal interview setting. Um, let's start it to top.

Kalim Moore, Miami. What's that tell you? Well, I mean, it was the same day that LSU pro day was going on.

Um, um, um, so, you know, usually the saints are out in full force at LSU pro day. It's obviously

good to diversify. I found it a little interesting. The Kellan Moore went there. I mean, um, Rubin Bain

is obviously the showstopper there. We talked about, you know, take him if he falls above everybody

else, above the LSU guy who might be there, above the Ohio State guys who might be there. Um,

and then obviously the offensive tackle is there as well. It does not mean, hey, the coach went

there. These are the top two guys on their board, but, um, those are two pretty important

pro days to be going on at the same time. And that's going to keep happening over and over again,

where you're going to see Jeff Ireland one place, Mickey, Lamis, another Kellan Moore, another,

um, you know, a little interesting that that that's where Moore chose to go, but that's,

that's what the league chose to do. I don't think there's a single head coach at LSU's pro day,

and there were several head coaches at Miami's pro day. They just, they have a lot of talent that

needs to be evaluated in the first couple routes. Yeah, looking, it might just be one of the things

where, uh, Kellan feels like he had a, had a good eye on LSU. He told us during the season that he

was watching all of Garrett Nussmire's game, the support, the OC obviously. Um, so maybe he just

felt like he knew him. And yeah, look, like you said, I think Miami just has a ton of guys. Like,

if you're picking in the top 10, obviously, uh, the lanes there, um, at LSU, but

maybe you have more questions about Rubin Bain than you do the lane. And that's where you

want to be. And you feel like you need to talk to him or, you know, look, I also just think that

the, the process is, has changed a little bit too, where it's more, more of everybody

instead of the buck stops with Sean Payton or the buck stops with, you know, whoever,

like I just think that, that is a more collaborative effort now. So I think where everybody is,

carries very equal weight. I think we're Jeff's out, where Mickey's out, where Kellan's out,

where Brandon Staley's out, like I just think all these things kind of carry a similar amount of

weight. Some are a little bit heavier than others. Obviously the head coach just has a little

more weight than a coordinator. But I think it's a, it's a much more collaborative process now

than like the buck stops with one guy. Um, so yeah, I mean, like I, I think it's, I think it's just kind

of, I think it all means something, but I don't think it necessarily means anything either at the

same time if that makes sense. Or it means Carson back in round three and Zach Wilson was just a

smokescreen. Yeah,

something got to get back in full, everybody. But yeah, look, it's interesting. Like Bane, I love

the interview. He did with Cam Wolf, where he was talking about Mike Tyson being. Oh,

I know. I was thinking of you, man.

There's a great quote. It was a great quote, man. Like I, I loved it. Um, and, and you know,

I think part of that's true too. It's interesting. But yeah, I think putting knives on him matters

quite a bit. I don't think he gets to eight. But if he gets to, I, I feel like I'd need more time

around him. Look, the other thing here too is that like maybe you just feel like your info coming

from a school is stronger from one than the other. You want to go somewhere and make m roads too.

And that could be a reason for going to a pro day. So, um, there's a ton of stuff. But yeah,

look, the Miami guys, holy crap, that team, like they got, they got some people on that team,

not, not even in this draft, next year's draft, I mean, they is loaded. So yeah, it definitely

makes sense for me. Speaking of loaded programs, I, this is just naively something that as a reporter,

I should find out my own answer to this question. But I'm curious if you already have an answer to

this question. The having dinner with all these Ohio state guys, um, including, I mean, cream

of the crop prospects the night before their pro day or the night after the pro day. That feels

like a good get, right? Like, I mean, yeah, they can't have six dinners, you know, they, if they

all come to the dinner with the saints, like, that's some cash. Hey, right? Like, you know,

hey, look at my team, right? If you're not, if other people aren't competing with you for that,

it's weird. It's just weird to me that like they wouldn't, are the saints the only team that are

doing this? Cause like, it seems like they get all of them at every single school. So I don't

understand. And it just seems like, so the first time we heard that they were doing it,

they were doing it. It was like seven years ago or something. Like the first time we heard

they were doing it, I was like, man, that's like so smart. And it just feels like they have that,

that exclusively on lock. I don't understand how they win that every single time. But it feels like,

it just feels so smart, man. Like you get people around each other and you can, there's just insights

to be gleaned. Like maybe somebody acts very mature in a meeting with them. They get around

other people and you see a little bit of maturity come out. And like, I think all that stuff is

important to the profile. Cause figuring out the profile of the person is, I think is the biggest

piece of this. We all know who can play well. We can all watch it. I think it's cutting down

those variables and just having answers for things and seeing how someone's wired. And I think

that's just like another, another layer of the evaluation. I don't think it's the most important

layer of these dinners. But I think it's a layer to it that can give you something. Um,

crazy to me. Nobody else does it. Uh, we're going to have a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Favorite football movie sports movie topic here. It's about that season. April comes around.

You got to watch draft day. Terrible movie. I was about to get in a bow call a hand joke in the

last segment. We were talking about going to dinner with all the prospects. You got to do it.

You got to watch it. You got to watch terrible movie. Terrible movie. But let me ask you,

man, which your favorite football movie? What is it? What do you got? This one's tough for me.

I've got a lot of favorite sports movies in my all-time favorite movies. I don't have a go-to

football unless are you going to allow Jerry McGuire? Will you allow Jerry McGuire?

I mean, you could take it. It's football adjacent. I feel like it's a little bit of a stretch,

but I think it's okay. The football is good in it. It's some of the most realistic football. But

Jerry McGuire is one of my probably three favorite movies of all-time period. So I would take that

if that counted. But yeah, for just about every sport, I have a favorite movie that's about the

sport. You're at the practices. You're at how they choose the team. You're at the big game. You're at

the... I don't have one for football. I mean, maybe any given Sunday came the closest, but I think

it was so like jumping the shark with a lot of the stuff they did that no pun intended. But

maybe it's Rudy, even though I know they stretch that true story to the edge and it's a little

sappy. You know one of my favorites that does it is necessary roughness. You remember the one with

like Scott Bakula's the quarterback and Kathy Ireland is the kicker when they had to like put

together the program. They were the college program. They were resurrecting. But I think football and

draft a huge disappointment because they made everything so realistic except the actual things

that happened. Like they took you into the rooms made it look like the NFL and then had like,

you know, just a script that was so ludicrous. It blew my mind. We need a better football movie.

We need one. Maybe that can be your next project after the website. I can't believe you missed the

the free space here, man. Friday night lights. Yeah. I like the movie. I love the TV show. Maybe

maybe I'm knocking the movie because because I like the TV show better than the movie.

Oh, the midst of perfect movie, man. Like it's it's got everything. I've watched it probably

500 times there. I mean, it's just it's just such a it's such a such a great movie. And then

the other one, remember the types. That's fair. That's fair. I, I just doesn't quite grab me as much

as it should. But I know that's going to be a lot of people. So I'm not going to hate on it.

You don't want to go play for coach. I want to go play for coach. Boom, man. You're crazy. Like

it's great. Two great movies. Two great movies right in their lights. I don't hate them. They're

damn. They're perfect to me. Um, every time booby, you know, booby loses it. Like it brings tears

to the eyes. Um, you know, Billy Bob Thornton and the Permian bass and emptiness that he goes back

to and layman. Like it's just like he belongs there for some reason. I don't understand. But like

Billy Bob is perfect in that setting. Um, yeah, I love it. And then the show's great too. But I,

if you're making me pick, I, I take the, I take the movie over the show. I think. I like

quite a bit to show with my kids and season one was harder to get through than I remembered.

A lot more high school romance drama than I remembered. Like season four and season five are

where that show really, really love love both those seasons. I like one, too. But like, yeah,

I just think and I've rewatched both things by a million times. I've watched the movie more. It's

one of the manual watches for me. Um, a great movie. I love it. Uh, the other one that I like too

and man, playmakers, the show like shows, the ESP shot in that down. She's, I mean, that show

was amazing. We're like one of the best seasons of TV ever. Like it really is. And then it's just

gone and it never came back. I don't know why anyone never, uh, resurrected it. I also kind of

really like ballers, too, is a show like I can, I can do it. Um, they're both in the vein of

any given Sunday in the program where, where I think they lean a little too much into the,

the shock value, but they all had a lot of really good stuff. Yeah, for sure.

The program, I love the program, too. But I was like, I was very young when that came out. And

like watching it now, I can still watch it because like I attached to it. There's definitely

some cheesiness like the voiceovers, like where people are just doing voiceovers and like nobody's

actually talking like it's like what's happening? Like they inserted like lines during football games

and like you see the players facing. He's not actually, this is very weird. Um, but there,

there was like a, a forbiddenness to that movie at the time when it came out and I was young and

I think it just kind of felt like, uh, like something pervasive or whatever. And I, I think it just,

you know, like a young Nick, like it just felt like you were doing something you weren't supposed

to be doing. Um, I got another football, I got another football adjacent one. Heaven can wait,

Warren, baby, uh, uh, awesome movie at football adjacent, but awesome movie. Uh, favorite one over

off sports movie. Um, major leagues mine, uh, probably not politically correct. Um, but, uh,

that's mine. I mean, because it's almost all about the baseball, like it gives me everything I want,

you know, like I was saying before the, how they build the team, the big game, all that throughout

the whole season. Um, really close second, uh, it's probably Rocky three. That's my favorite Rocky

movie, Rocky three. That's when you get club or lang, you get, you know, whole commandia,

get eye of the tiger, you get the training montage with Apollo. I think that was Rocky hitting

it stride. And, uh, I love Tinkup, Tinkup golf movie. I didn't know we were doing documentaries,

otherwise I would have taken Rocky. Um, money balls mine, money balls mine. That's probably one of

my favorite movies ever. Honestly, like I can just watch it over and over and over and over and over.

Like it's just a movie I, I really like. Um, there's a lot on this list, man. I like sugar,

the, the baseball. I don't know if you ever seen that. That felt like a documentary, even though it

wasn't. That was a great movie. Um, there's just so many, man, any, any sports movie, like I,

I love it. Like I, I can, I can watch them over and over. Um, from, uh, blue chips. I love

blue chips. I get cheesy movies still, but I loved it. Um, there's just so many. I could go through

the list here. Like those formula, Disney movies work for me. Farland, USA wildly underrated.

Yeah, I'm a soccer for me. Even movies like Sunset Park, uh, terrible movie, but I,

but I loved it. Uh, shorty do up, uh, like all the, like anything, man, anything that you

put sports in it, it's the formula, uh, I'm in. Um, what was the, uh, there was that MMA movie

recently, uh, warrior. I should have mentioned warrior. It's so, yeah. Warriors near the top for me.

That one was really good. Uh, there was a, man, I like the, like going into shows,

just sports type shows, heels was, was a great show to me. I really like that. I mean,

there's just so many. Like you do it. Like I'll watch it and I can just go through it. I know

what it is. I'm going to get like a little emotional when, oh, he overcame so much. And, you

know, that's all I need. Beautiful. Victor, wait, here we go. Here's the random one for anyone

who hasn't seen it victory. Uh, it took like the greatest scape, like the trying to escape from

the World War II prison camp, uh, through a soccer team and, uh, Sylvester Stallone was, oh,

yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, all right. Uh, what's our, uh, Gordon question of the day today,

presented by Greg McCurden, injury attorneys. This was pretty interesting because we have now,

you know, we spent a couple of weeks talking about Tyler Schuck, uh, our expectations for him.

But I think we've moved on to where we just talk like he's a given now, uh, and, and, and

keeping us, uh, keeping us on as downward ruby. You think there's any chance Schuck has a sophomore

slump? Are we playing with like a 5% chance, 50% chance away? Where's, where's the chance that

Schuck has a sophomore slump to you? I think it's, I think it's low. And I think part of that is,

I think he's, I think the maturity gives me confidence in him that he's a little bit older,

adjusted in life. Knows how to live isn't necessarily, okay, all this stuff came fast,

and I'm losing my way. I like the fact that he seems bored. That he's like here. He's, he's

everywhere. Like he just, he seems bored. And I like that he seems bored. That means that he's not

busy. And he's busy, he's bad when you're newly rich and famous. Like busy is not good. You

don't want busy. You want bored. Um, I'm told he's at the facility every single day, every single

day he's been there. I, someone told me he, there was like two days after his kid was born,

that he, that he wasn't there and then he was back. He's there every single day doing work,

working out with people. It looks like he's trying to find stuff to do. I, I like it. I like

I was off season looks. Um, and like I said, board is, board is great. Board is great. Visibly

bored. Yeah. And outstanding place to be. And he keeps showing up behind the scenes. I mean,

Foster Merrow posted that video on his Instagram. He was out there at a high school field East Jeff

shout out to East Jeff hosting all the track meets my kids are running in a recognize the field

instantly. Um, he's out there throwing with Foster Merrow and all the guys that are in town.

Chris Bell just mentioned that when he was in New Orleans, he went out and hung out with

Tyler Schock and Quincy Riley is former Louisville teammates. So he's hanging out with guys who

are coming in for 30 visits. Um, yeah, he's, he's absolutely plugged in. Um, the thing

gives me the most confidence is, uh, I, I know I said this before, but the things that impressed

us about Schock last year were not the trying to convince yourself that you saw it stuff. Like

it wasn't the, uh, he looked really good between the 20s. He looked really good early in games,

but he wasn't really tested in big moments. He was constantly tested in big moments. The kind of

stuff you never see with some guys, you're like, man, sometimes you see it, but just not when it's

third and 13 or not when they're down by 10 in the fourth quarter, we, we, we, not when he has to

escape the pocket under heavy pressure, that's when we saw it most with him. Like he, he passed a lot

of tests, even in a small sample size. Yeah. Look, the other thing too with the swamp too is,

is I think part of that, it goes back to that adversity element of, okay, everything was great

to work. You're not things went bad. How do you get out of it? He, I just feel like he's been there

and maybe that's, I don't know, you know, we'll, we'll see. We'll find out. Um, but I,

I believe in him. I, I really do. And I, I think he's just kind of built to, to keep going in

that maturity and all that stuff. All the things that we were like, is this a problem? I think all

those things, to me, a lot of them, small sample, but a lot of them are trending towards strength. So

I like it. And I like his ability to go out there and just kind of pick up where he left off and

deal with whatever comes and, and keep the boat afloat. Uh, we're going to keep boat afloat here.

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