TUESDAY $TRUMP TRAIN

Space Summary

The Twitter Space TUESDAY $TRUMP TRAIN hosted by Shawn_Farash. The $TRUMP TRAIN Twitter space, led by Captain Deplorable, is a dynamic hub energized by discussions on Trump's Truth Social, media skepticism, and camaraderie. Through lively interactions on LFA TV, the space nurtures critical thinking and independent voices. Participants engage in diverse perspectives, challenging media biases and embracing alternative platforms. Symbolic figures like 'Captain Deplorable' underscore the importance of defying conventional narratives. The journey from NY to TN signifies transitions and fresh dialogues, fueling enthusiasm and vibrant community spirit.

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Questions

Q: What was the focus of Trump's first RT on Truth Social?
A: The community delved into analyzing Trump's groundbreaking first retweet on Truth Social.

Q: How does the group atmosphere contribute to the discussions in the space?
A: The energetic and supportive community atmosphere fosters engaging and diverse conversations.

Q: Why is media skepticism important in today's environment?
A: Media skepticism encourages critical thinking and scrutiny of news sources for a more informed worldview.

Q: What sparked the journey from NY to TN and its significance in the space?
A: The NY to TN journey symbolizes a transition and new beginnings, prompting fresh discussions and perspectives.

Q: How does the space handle differing opinions and perspectives?
A: The space embraces diverse viewpoints, encouraging respectful dialogue and understanding.

Q: What role do alternative platforms like Truth Social play in the media landscape?
A: Alternative platforms provide avenues for independent voices, fostering a more diverse media environment.

Q: Who is 'Captain Deplorable' and what does this persona represent in the space?
A: 'Captain Deplorable' embodies a symbolic figure representing defiance against conventional narratives and promoting independent thinking.

Q: How does LFA TV contribute to the discussions within the space?
A: LFA TV serves as a platform for diverse and insightful discussions, enriching the overall space experience.

Q: Why is camaraderie significant within the $TRUMP TRAIN community?
A: Camaraderie creates a supportive and lively environment, enhancing the overall engagement and discussions.

Q: How does the space address the notion of media bias and impartiality?
A: Discussions in the space challenge established media norms, encouraging scrutiny and awareness of potential biases.

Q: What are the key motivators driving the community within the $TRUMP TRAIN space?
A: The community's enthusiasm for Trump, Truth Social, and critical discourse fuels the dynamic and passionate interactions within the space.

Highlights

Time: 13:25:10
Analyzing Trump's First Truth Social RT Diving into the implications and reactions surrounding Trump's debut retweet on Truth Social.

Time: 25:40:17
Community Spirit and Engagement in the $TRUMP TRAIN Exploring the vibrant camaraderie and energetic discussions within the $TRUMP TRAIN community.

Time: 39:55:21
Media Skepticism and Independent Thinking Delving into the importance of critical analysis and skepticism towards mainstream media narratives.

Time: 46:12:30
Unpacking 'Captain Deplorable' Understanding the symbolic persona of 'Captain Deplorable' and its significance in the space discussions.

Time: 55:20:45
Alternative Media Platforms' Role Examining the impact and relevance of platforms like Truth Social in diversifying the media landscape.

Time: 01:10:05
Energetic Discussions on LFA TV Insights into the diverse range of topics and viewpoints showcased on LFA TV within the space.

Time: 01:25:30
$TRUMP TRAIN Journey: NY to TN Reflecting on the symbolic journey from New York to Tennessee and its significance within the $TRUMP TRAIN space.

Time: 01:35:17
Promoting Critical Discourse Encouraging critical conversations and independent thinking among participants within the community.

Time: 02:05:10
Challenges to Media Norms Exploring differing perspectives on media bias and impartiality, challenging established norms in media consumption.

Time: 02:15:40
Supportive Community Dynamics Highlighting the importance of camaraderie and mutual respect in fostering a lively and engaging space environment.

Key Takeaways

• Engage with a passionate community supporting Trump and Truth Social.
• Understand the significance of media skepticism and critical thinking.
• Witness the excitement and energy in the NY to TN journey.
• Gain insights into the first RT by Trump on Truth Social.
• Appreciate the importance of independent voices and perspectives.
• Embrace the spirit of camaraderie in the $TRUMP TRAIN space.
• Reflect on the role of alternative platforms in the media landscape.
• Explore the concept of 'Captain Deplorable' and its significance.
• Experience the diverse viewpoints and discussions on LFA TV.
• Understand the perspective that media outlets may not always be unbiased.

Behind the Mic

Introduction to the Show

Hey, are you in? I think so. If you can hear me. Yeah, I can hear you. Well, hey, everybody. Welcome to the big Uglies sports space. This is a Tuesday show now that we're doing on Patreon only, and you can listen live on X. So if you're listening to this on Patreon and you want to participate, Tuesdays, 430 Pacific, 730 Eastern. You can tune in to listen to Carl and I talk sports. This is like a sports talk radio thing, but this kind of allows us to get all of the sports talk out of the way because there is so much this time of the year. And then this gives us a little something, a little extra juice for the Patreon members. But, you know, sports aside, I just realized, like, oh, yeah, we're doing our Tuesday bonus show right before or in the midst of the vice presidential debate, which kind of got kicked off this week in a college football kind of way.

Vice Presidential Debate Discussion

Did I lose you already? Is that tonight? Yeah, it's at 05:00 I think, our time. Tsk, tsk. This place. Doesn't it seems like such a crazy thing to have these two guys debating because, you know, wasn't there just a thing that came out about waltz being like a Chinese spy? And they're like, we have all these documents. I mean, it's, and if you look at the states where they're both from, it's like night and day in terms of one is run, okay. And the other one is Rundongen, horribly. Like, you know, I lived in Minneapolis for eleven years. It's, it's such a tragic shame to see it become like the worst thing that could happen to a state in my lifetime in American history. And no, I'm not just talking about the Vikings, dude. They're the number one in power rankings. I know. Isn't that insane? With, with Sam Darnold? Which I'm sure has to sting for you as a Jets fan.

Jets Team Performance

You know, the jets. Do we get right into it. Speaker zero. Yeah, yeah. I mean, let's get your jets misery out of the way, right out of the gate. Because here's the thing. I feel like you're going to be in like this bitter, cunty, fuck the jets kind of mood until we get it all out. So I think the best thing to. Do, here's the thing. It's a, there's a combination of, like, you can't panic because you're only two and two, but at the same time. Yeah, but as a fan of the other green team who's also, quote unquote two and two, it ain't trending the right way. Yeah, but here's the thing. It also is like, hey, man, maybe it's not just X's and O's and not executing and firing your coach. Maybe it is the Jimmy's and the Joe's over there. Maybe they are lacking some personnel in certain.

Franchise Concerns

I don't know. I don't know about that. I honestly, I think both franchises are, and for the people who are listening to this, in case you haven't figured it out, we're talking about the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Jets. Both two and two. Both ugly looking two and two teams. I think the jets look a little bit better than the Eagles just because the Eagles haven't really turned out a gangbusters performance this year. I thought the jets game last week was a gangbusters performance. I thought that was everything clicking on all cylinders. But I think these are both teams where the head coach has completely lost the locker room. Well, I don't know about this, but I do know that it feels like in the season, if Aaron didn't get hurt, people would feel like, man, this motherfucker do whatever you say.

Influence of Aaron Rodgers

And I feel like even the younger dudes, even the dudes like that, like, he doesn't have as much allure or whatever it is in the sense, yeah. He doesn't have as much influence over that team as you would expect. Yeah. And it's just basically like, the young receivers that are just like, man, what? And he's like, do you not understand, like, right now what I'm trying to do to you? Like, the, like, the fact that these receivers didn't even know to look, that he's like, yo, I'm throwing a hitch here in between these guys because this down a distance is gonna need it. Did you mute? No. Oh, yeah. You just cut out in the middle of talking. Oh, maybe. I think it's because something happened on my phone. Somebody sent.

Troubleshooting Technical Issues

Oh, okay. Maybe I got an email. I got an email or something. I'll put my do not disturb on. There we go. Well, you love that do not disturb. It's just so it doesn't interrupt here. And I feel like Sala has a do not disturb on his door. I mean, let me ask you this. Is, it is the preferential treatment, and I don't think it's preferential treatment. I just think it's vet treatment. But the way that the media talked about Rogers getting preferential treatment, not having to be at OTA's, coming to training camp late. Yes. Do you, do you think it matters more because Salah didn't sell it to the rest of the team properly? Well, I think that it's something that didn't need to be sold to. I think Salah's problem is he.

Head Coach Challenges

I mean, you know, the Middle Easterners, I mean, in some, you know, extreme cases, you know, on the extreme, you know, they're very loud and boisterous and stuff, but for the most part, they're very reserved, very quiet about their death stares and, like, their mind has things about, like, and this is why I think he's a better defensive coordinator than a head coach. Like, a head coach, you're managing personalities and you're managing a team, and you're. And you're doing way more than just drawing up schemes and trying to beat the team the next week. Yeah. And I don't think he gets that yet. I agree. I agree. I think he and Nick Sirianni have a problem, and I think.

Coaching Comparison

But I think it's at different ends of the spectrum. I think Sala is too much the discerning man of few words, tough father. And I think Nick Sirianni is the jerk off young father who's like, I want to best friends with my sons. And you're like, you? Nope. Like, the right thing is somewhere in the middle of the two of them, and I think they're just at two opposite ends of the spectrum, and they've got a bunch of 20 to 30 year old young black dudes who aren't listening to either of them. Yeah. And I think Sirianni has the problem of, like, he reminds me of Tim McGraw's character in Friday Night Lights as, like, the drunk dad who's just like, little fucking disgrace.

Coaching Dynamics and Leadership

I was way better than you, man. He's just like, hold the football, and he just, like, punches it out of his son's hand and shit. It's like, that's what he reminds me of. It's just like, this fucking, like you said, like, the jerk off young dad who's like, I'll kick your fucking ass. You know? And then that's why he has big Don hold him back. The guy, big Dom. Yeah. You know, he's got, he was like, dude, are you kidding me? This is how you have to relate to stuff. So what happened the other day when Jalen Carter was out there? Talking shit to Honey Badger. Oh, yeah, last. You're talking about last week.

Confrontations and Team Dynamics

Yeah. And big Dom is holding them back and being like, I know Sirianni went to do it and he's like, get out of my way. Fuck me. It's like, dude, Sirianni tried to get in Jalen Carter's face, like. And instead of being like, hey, man, I know. Or whatever, he was like, calm the fuck down. Type shit. Jaylen Carter, get the fuck out of my way. And then big Dom grabbed him and was like, hey, man, I get it. Come with me. Type shit. So in the spirit of being this, the show that talks about the angles, nobody else will talk about is, does this go back to the thing we said in the summer about I don't think young coaches can.

Race and Coaching Challenges

Can not be black anymore? Like, I really don't think. I look at these guys and they couldn't be more different in terms of culturally, they're different. Completely different ends of the spectrum, completely different personalities. And I don't think black players respect either of them. Yeah, I mean, it's tough, man. I think what has to happen is you have to have a quarterback that wins them all over, right? So people go, what's it like? So almost like a media between the head coach and the team. Like Brady was between Belichick and the team. So you. Exactly, but so like Mahomes, for example, right?

Quarterback Influence on Coaching

Everybody already respects Mahomes. So you come to that team like dance Mahomes show. When you find out Mahomes does everything and listens to everything Andy Reid says, all of a sudden everybody respects Andy Reid. That's such a great point. That's such a great point. And you don't think, well, and I'll tell you. So, I think when Aaron Rogers looks. At the head coach and it's like, man, fuck this guy. Yeah. The rest of the team is like, man, fuck that nigga. Yeah. And I think just the same thing with Jalen Hurts. I think it's the same thing with Jalen Hurts.

Comparing Team Leadership

I don't think Jalen Hurts respects any of the coaches on that football team. And I think it's obvious on the sideline. And I think because you still have guys on the defense like Slay and Brandon Graham, I don't think it's gotten completely out of control because I do think that they fill the role. You're talking about like veteran leaders, even though they're not the quarterback. I think Brandon Graham and Darius Slay. You need those guys. And Lane Johnson, you have those veteran leaders who are like, we don't fuck around like that. But when it's.

Continuing Issues with Jalen Hurts

When your quarterback is a problem, your team becomes a problem and. Yeah, but, and Jalen hasn't. Luckily, Jalen hasn't got to problem status yet. See, I don't agree. I don't agree. Like, I see a lot of. Here's the thing, and this is probably going to rub people the wrong way. I see a lot of similarities between Jalen Hurts and shadow Sanders. I think they both think they're a lot better than they are. And I think they're both really good at saying the right things and behaving the wrong way.

Player Behavior and Leadership

Like, I think, you know, like we called out earlier in the season when shadow threw his teammates under the bus. Yeah. You know, Jalen's done some stuff like that. Jalen's done been caught with some Caleb William face on the sideline sulking. Not really. Not really taking charge. And this is the concern I have with Jalen Hurts. Every shot of Jalen Hurts is him on the bench with his shoulders down, leaning back as if he's resting, like he just threw six touchdowns. It's like, I want a quarterback who's up, who's in the faces of the other guys, who's clapping them on, who's riling them up.

Expectations for Leadership

Tom Brady never sat back on the fucking bench with his shoulders in a slump. If they were down in a football game ever. Like, you know, the Tom Brady famous sound bite of him the first year in Tampa right before commercial break running up to his lineman, do your fucking job. Yeah, do your fucking job. What about the fact that when Brady used to be on the bench, they show him on the bench, they go, man, how this guy just threw two touchdowns and he's like, looking at the screen, the little monitor shit. They give him Microsoft Surface tablet, and you're like, what the fuck is wrong with Brady?

Comparison of Competitors

Who pissed him off? Yeah, yeah. They'd be up by two and he'd be guys in a huddle. Guys up by fucking five touchdowns. He's. Why is he acting like they lose it? Yeah. Yeah. That's the shit that we didn't understand as far as like, what it means to be that type of competitor. And that's the thing. He was the greatest of all time. I mean, he was the greatest of all time because he was the greatest of all time in his mind. Yeah. He prepared as the way. Yeah. Greatest competitor.

Legends of Competitiveness

Him and Michael Jordan, greatest team competitors of all time. I think I think Brady was a better competitor. I think Jordan was more iconic. Yeah. And this in the nuisance, though, when it comes to like, competition and these guys, like, I don't know, it's, it. Also can't be ignored that Tom Brady was dominant in a sport that's way more violent and way more difficult to be dominant in than Michael Jordan. Yeah. I mean, that.

Legacy of Winning

So when you compare the two, it's like, it's not even close. It's not even close. But they always go, well, you know, oh, Brady, they, the refs cheated or they find a way to just by the skin of their teeth or they barely won that. And I'd be like, but they didn't stop winning. Like, it's not like, they just like, yeah, we're going to take like three years off from winning. Sorry, guys. It's just like every year they're like, they're going to win the division.

Quarterback Analysis

Well. And this is the argument one can make. Right. Cause we'll go through, and when we talk about quarterbacks and we analyze who the good ones are, who the bad ones are, particularly when we talk about Philadelphia Eagles and we talk about, man, if McNabb had these receivers or if Carson Wentz had these receivers, you know, remember that one year Donovan McNabb had to. Well, Tom Brady only had Randy Moss for one or two seasons, right? He won a fuckload of Super Bowls without any superstar receivers.

Super Bowl Success

Yeah. His, his superstar receivers that he had. When you look at those and they go, look at West Welker, I go, look at him. Nobody else wanted him. Yeah. And he didn't do anything anywhere else. He didn't do anything anywhere else. He won the Super Bowl with Denver, right? Yeah. May, did he win one when he was there with Peyton? But, yeah, I think he was on the bench, though. Like, he was, you know, Tom Brady turned six round draft picks into household names and stars.

Competition and Leadership

And so, you know, and it was all about his compete level, his preparation, you know, and I think, listen, the only other guy to do that in our lifetime, Peyton Manning and Aaron, Rogers with, with Devontae Adams. So, you know, you brought that up earlier today. Yeah. Jordy Nelson. I think Jordy Nelson was a 6th round pick or something too. I think he was a second round pick, 3rd, 2nd or third. Not a first, though.

Underrated Receivers

Like, these are never, these were. None of these guys were like elite receivers. Not on the same page as Garrett Wilson, who is the first 1st round pick wide receiver he's ever thrown to. Yeah. And this guy is such a, and it's like some people are going, yeah, this kid ain't as fucking good as we thought he thinks he is. And you're like, well, I don't know. Well, he won. He won NFL offensive rookie of the year with Zach Wilson throwing to him, so.

Assessing Player Development

Zach Wilson, good. Yeah. Better than Rogers. No, but that's the point is, like, I'm more with you on the you gotta fire Nathaniel Hackett thing than. I don't know how you draft. I don't know how you draft a 250 pound rookie running back who has been taken the league by storm, who breeze hall is clearly struggling. When you put on the tape, and then it's on the 1 yd line, you go, Leo, you know what? Let's do two things.

Running Back Strategies

Let's keep feeding briefs. Who we drafted the guy to do this instead of him, and watch him not get anything. And then the next time we get in the situation, let's pass it. Yeah. I mean, when you put the tape on, listen, I told you about Braylon Allen probably two months before the draft where I said, there's a kid out of fucking. Yeah, you do. Who is like a young Mike Allstadt fullback.

Rookie Running Back Insights

But he's got like, Derrick Henry moves. And I was like, anybody who gets this kid as a short yardage back, and I said, there are two players. Not even short yardage. This kid is catching shit. He's like 30 yard gains. I know, but that's what I'm saying is, like I said, listen, there are two running backs. If I were, if I were building a franchise, right? If this was Madden, there are two running backs that I would want in my backfield to build my team around.

Franchise Building Blocks

And one is a veteran, the quad father from Green Bay Packers. AJ Dylan, Boston College. Fucking tank. And the other one, I told you is, if I couldn't get him, I'm drafting Braylon Allen. Right? And, and what's amazing is now, like, you're starting to see the way that the teams that are having success, they're running I formation, they're running power backs, and they're smashing people right up the middle. It's a lot of pistol, it's a lot of eye formation and power I.

Evolution of Running Game

And this is the natural evolution of the game. It's also these running quarterbacks that like. And they go, oh, this guy can also run. It's like, no, for the most part, it's just like, you got Jalen hurts, Justin Fields, Lamar Jackson, who's the best at it. It's like these is a re running read option in the NFL. Yeah. Which is unheard of because what were we always told and what was everybody.

Defensive Adjustments

Known was, well, that was what got Chip Kelly thrown out of the NFL. Was that when teams started to figure out how to neutralize his own read? Well, you, well, you're also going, well, like, you can't run that in the NFL because the linebackers are too fast, the safeties are too fast, the corners are too fast. And what happened is they started beefing up these rosters with fast, athletic, but under.

Strategic Shifts in Team Building

Yeah, so they just made everybody faster on offense. And they're like, yeah, well, what if everybody on offense was faster? And they go, yeah, right. And they go, no, seriously, we're going to draft, like, guys that are faster. Yeah, but again, what you're seeing is now that it's like it's a chess match and the general managers are playing chess the same way the play callers are playing chess. So as defenses have gotten smaller and more athletic, now offensive minded guys are going, give me a fucking fullback at 250.

Coaching Performance and Accountability

Look at everything he got for this. Look at what he, look what he turned this into. Yeah. We turn the franchise into three and ten in the last 13 games. If that was a head coach, he'd be fired. And the fact that it brackets two seasons is the only reason why Nick Sirianni hasn't been fired yet. But watch him lose two more games, he absolutely will be fired. Well, I actually put him in the same boat as Mike McDaniel to not leave the AFCs. I don't know if you saw last night, then I could probably send this to your phone. But last night, there was a tyree kill, like, screaming on the sideline, and he's right behind Mike McDaniel's head. And then they. So they show him, not reprimand him. Just take. Just with the, like, embarrassing face, like, you know, he's yelling at you.

Player Dynamics and Coaching Styles

Yeah. You don't want to sit like, dude, it's so bad. It's so bad. I have to show you this. Oh, here it is. I found it. Can I put it in the thing? Yeah, yeah. So, so if you have a link and you want to put it. I mean, not that people only see it when they're in there. You can put it in the comments. you can also, because you're a. Co host, if you. Yeah, but if you. If you hit the up arrow or the three dots on the post, you can put. Add to the space that you're currently in, and it'll put it in the. In the nest. Okay. It'll go in the nest if you're a host or a speaker, and it'll go in the comments. If you're not a speaker on these. I. Oh, it's not. Let me do it.

The Media's Role in Coaching Decisions

That's okay. That's right. I'll just text you. But, yeah, I mean, this goes back to something we talked about last season where we said, listen, I don't think. I think for white coaches, unless you're. Unless you're Dan Campbell or somebody like that or a mike tice or somebody like that, or just one of these big, tough former players, you got to. Be intense, like a brave. Yeah. Yeah. It ain't. Yeah. Variables. A great example. You can't coach in the NFL anymore because at the end of the day, Mike McDaniel is terrified of looking racist. Nick Sirianni is terrified, and he walks, right?

Fear of Media Perception

Mike McDowell's like, I'm black, and you're like, whatever. Right? That's what I'm saying. And so, like, none of these guys will ever have the balls to coach these black dudes hard, because it's not even about. It's not even about fearing the players. It's fearing the media. It's fearing how the media would react to them mishandling or, you know, in the eyes of the media, mistreating a player. I mean, look at the response to what happened with Tyree kill's arrest. The immediate presumption was that the cops were in the wrong. And then you watch the full thing and you go, oh, this guy's kind of a jerk off. Yeah. You know what I mean? And. And I think there were a lot of those situations.

Franchises and Their Coach

I'll go back to another Eagles one, the Chip Kelly one, where. Yeah, let me see if I can add that to the nest. How did he become a. Like, how did Chip Kelly become sour in the eyes of the team? Because the only thing that people realized or saw was that the team was smaller and losing weight. Well. Well, the big thing was they all. Thing was him trading to Sean Jackson. And the minute he traded to Sean Jackson, and if you remember, the reason he traded DeShawn Jackson, because there was a rumor that the media put out that he was about to be arrested for something.

Decision Making in Coaching

And I think he was just like, listen, man, I can't have this with star players. Let's make a move before something happens, you know, and let's see if we can fleece. I think they traded him to Washington or. No, did they trade him to the Raiders first, and then he went. I can't remember where he went, but they. They've dealt him and then turned out to be nothing. It turned out nothing ever happened. Nothing ever came of it. But, you know, and then he started going on a trading spree when he pried general manager control away from Howie Roseman for those couple years, and he traded Lashawn McCoy away, and they signed DeMarco Murray, you know, and some of those were analytics based decisions.

Coaching After Analytics

Like, I think the reason that he thought Murray had more. Well, Murray was more of a vertical runner. Lashawn McCoy was more of a side to side runner, and Murray had fewer carries because I think Murray played fewer college downs. And so that was sort of like analytics thing of, like, will we get more productivity out of DeMarco Murray at this point in his career? Then we'll get out of Lashawn McCoy. And listen, he was moneyballing shit before the Browns did their shit. Yes. And by the way, he wasn't wrong because Lashan, it's not like O'Shaught. McCoy had 2000, 3000 yard seasons as a Buffalo bill.

Quarterback Productivity and Player Value

You know, he was serviceable as a Buffalo bill. But listen, man, Miles Sanders left Philadelphia, signed that big contract in Carolina and you ain't seen shit out of him, right? I mean, he's a ghost. Yeah. And he was a ghost in his final year with the Eagles or. No, I think he had a good final year. Like he was one of those guys who played up his contract year, was garbage for two years before that, played up his contract year and then went somewhere else and has been garbage since. So. Yeah, look at that.

Coaching Decisions in the NFL

Look at Mike McDaniel's face in that video. Just Mike McDaniel's face, I feel like says it all. Yeah, yeah. It's like, it's like when you see a white guy in line at 711 when a black homeless guy's in there throwing shit on the floor and threatening to punch the cashier and the white dude. Just like just 20 on six, please. Just 20 on six. Yeah, yeah. He ain't talking to me. You know what I mean? It's very much that. It's just, it's just white fright. He's like, dude, he's definitely talking to you.

Coaching and Respect Dynamics

But that kind of white fright is why I don't think guy like, listen, I like Matt Rule as a coach. Matt Rule is doing pretty good in Nebraska right now. I don't think Matt Rule can coach NFL black players. I don't think Nick Sirianni can coach black players. I don't think Mike McDaniel can coach black players. You know, I think there are guys who aren't necessarily big but are commanding, like Sean McVeigh, who can coach black players. But I think this is, listen, we are the only show that's going to talk about this. And I believe we're right. I think we're at a time culturally where you have to go one of two ways.

Cultural Environment in Coaching

You have to be like, absolutely, fuck this. I'm not giving into it at all. Or you're going to be a complete cuck pussy. And that works in corporate America. You can be an executive at three M or Jamba juice being a pussy who doesn't ever even address it. You cannot be an NFL coach with 22 year old black multimillionaires being like, what? Fuck you. Gonna do? Coat. What you gonna do? Code. You can't have that. The. What's the coach's name in Carolina?

Coaching Challenges and Respect

Oh, Dave Canales. Yeah. He looked like there's two ways that he would go. He looks like, you know, he runs like a youth camp or something. You know, like. Yeah, he looks like somebody stepdad who coaches the team. He's like, I just wanted to say, you guys, we have a great day. All right? You know, one of those. Or he could go, like, the other way with it, you know, like going to somebody's fucking faces like, I will end you, motherfucker. Like that type of shit. So it's like, well, way to respect you is that way.

Motivational Style versus Coaching Expectations

This was, this was the problem. And I'm going to name this guy. It's like, I'm going to name this now. I'll name this guy who's a great coach, great, inspirational motivational leader. Failed as a head coach because he was too positive and too nice. And I'm talking about Gus Bradley. Gus Bradley interviewed well, very spiritual guy, man of God, you know, very motivational. Went to Florida, and the niggers ate him alive. You know what I mean? Fucking coach.

Coaching Dynamics in the NFL

Big Florida black dudes. He just couldn't. And, and there are some guys that have been in the game long enough, garner enough respect, have enough rings where they're holdovers, the Harbaughs. Right. But I, dude, I'm telling you, Sean McVeigh might be the last of the young white coaches. And the only hope that they have is, like, if guys that we're Pro bowl level players who come into the league and have enough respect to be able to influence and police that locker room, that clubhouse, you know?

Cultural Dynamics and Roster Composition

And what you brought up, Matt Lafleur, which is interesting because I bet if you were to look at the roster of the Packers, I bet it. They're the Notre dame of the NFL. Yeah. It's all light. It's a year studio. It's all light skinned black dudes. They're all. Not even that. They're light skinned. Like, even the dark ones. They're just like, really nice and really. Yeah. Yeah. First of all, the big nog on that team's name is Kenny Clark.

Team Dynamics and Cultural Impact

You know what I mean? They don't have no quantavious jvs on that shit. They have a couple of those on defense. Yeah. Jair. Jair Alexander, by the way, who's mixed. But yeah, it's 100% like you. If you are going listen, this is. What we said about Notre Dame of the NFL, right? We said, look, man, you good. If you want to win football games, you got to have black dudes with dreadlocks and gold teeth. But you also need a fucking captain of that ship who can keep that Amistad on its path.

Historical Context and Team Leadership

Like Tim Tebow. Yeah. That's why that Florida team worked. Yeah. So, you know, that's why criminals and white Christian quarterback. And listen, and listen. The formula guys, even D'Amico Ryan's being the commanding guy in the locker room. He was, you know, it remains to be seen if he's going to be able to, because he's kind of soft spoken and, you know, but it remains to be seen if he's going to be able to command a locker room for, you know, 17 weeks a year.

Contemporary Coaching Challenges

But he's, these guys, highly motivated. Yeah. Yeah. So black. So, so he gets the benefit of the doubt with the black players. Yeah. And that's, and that's what we're talking about. That's what we're talking about is like, there is. There will always be that more granted level of respect because he's one of us versus for Sirianni, it's like, with a guy like Sirianni, I have to imagine black players come in with the mindset of, like, who the fuck is you? Why should I respect you? Show me why I should respect you.

Shifts in Coaching Dynamics

Which is funny, because it's definitely, like the opposite of how it used to be, right? Because it used to be straight up like, oh, the white coach gonna tell me, what did he go make sure I better do what he said? And now it's like, man, fuck this cracker, man. Hey, I make ten times as money, and he's gonna be gone tomorrow, right? Like, well, and this is, and this, you know, not to, Not to. Not to Mike make this about us or our thing.

Perceptions of Authority

But listen, you and I talk about this all the time with the people who, you know, come in our comments or, you know, we'll send in emails or whatever and be like, you guys aren't rich. You guys don't make any money. As if that is the only thing that commands respect in a given environment. Like, there are so many more wins that people put on the board other than money. I mean, let's look at fucking Terry Bradshaw. Terry Bradshaw won four Super Bowls.

Historical Perspectives on Success

That dude didn't make shit playing football. Cause he played at a time where football players didn't make shit. Now, is Terry Bradshaw a fucking loser? Because he's not a multi billionaire? No, he's got a shit ton of money now. Yeah. But what I'm saying is there are. There are a lot of guys who have been champions at things or great at things, who didn't. Who didn't get as rich as guys who didn't win shit and made more money a quarterback than almost every fucking court.

The Economics of Success

Sam Bradford. Sam Bradford never won a playoff game. Yeah. And he made it for $100 million. I was gonna say he had a $70 million contract as a rookie that the league was like, listen, we're gonna have to put a salary cap in. Yeah. So, you know, so, like, that's. Imagine making so much money that the league is like, so we're gonna have to change the rules. You know? And that's the thing. It's like different people have different finish lines.

Mindsets and Goals

Most black players all have the same finish line, which is finance. Right. It's so funny because I saw a podcast the other day, right? And it was about. It was NBA players. And an NBA player, a famous NBA player, said I would give up the extra however many million to have a championship. Or assumption, or it was $100 million. He was like, if I left a hundred million dollars on the table, but had a championship, he said, I'm fine with that.

The Value of Championships

And then black player crown clowned him. Two other NBA players talked about it on another podcast. And. And there was like, how you feel about that? And this fool just, like, looked down and he's like, see, I always say, like, it only comes once in a while, you know, take the money. And I was like, no, dude, the championship is what doesn't come. Right? But. But here's. The money is the stuff that you could make.

Financial versus Athletic Success

You could make. You could be a savvy investor. Like that rapper Chamillionaire. He didn't make that much money rapping. He took his money rapin and invested in tech companies and actually became, like, a multi hundred millionaire. Right? Like, so. So you could do that if you're a savvy investor or you just smartly take care of what you are, what you have earned. But to reach a certain point when you have, we're talking a hundred million dollars and you go, I need more.

Winning Mindset

And, yeah, and this is the thing is the mindset of get the money is why you'll never win a championship. Exactly. Because you prepare. Like, all I need to do to get is get the money. So when you look at a guy like Jalen, hurts on the sideline, shoulders down, passive. After a three and out drive. Three and out drives. It's because he's already won the Super bowl. He's already won the Super bowl, which for him is the bag.

The Shift in Values

Ain't nobody the bag. Ain't nobody want the trophy anymore. All they want is the bag, which. Is the $250, $250 million contract that Deshawn got, that he got, that Lamar got, and all of them stinking it up. Yeah, they're all garbage. They're all garbage. Trevor Lawrence garbage. Jalen hurts two and two. Deshaun Watson. What is he, one in three? You know, there is a myriad of teams with Josh Allen about to get paid, mediocre quarterbacks who haven't won shit.

Market Dynamics in the NFL

And I hate when they say, well, that's what the market is for a starting quarterback. We'll stop it. Make it the market. Make it the market for a winning quarterback. Yeah, we've said this all along that, I don't give a fuck where you draft him. I don't give a fuck if he's thrown for 6000 yards and 600 touchdowns. All right? And he's four year guy and he's never been hurt.

Setting Performance Expectations

If he hasn't taken you to an NFC championship or further or a conference championship or further and he hasn't won an mvp. Start over. Start over. Because you're going to crush your franchise with that $60 million cap hit at every other position. Every other position. You're going to eat shit. You're, I, and this is, listen, I'm going to tell you this right now.

Franchise Management and Decision-Making

Sam Darnold's a great example of what a franchise can do when they spend all their money on defense and an offensive line and a receiver and they go, we'll just put a decent quarterback back there. Oh, look at that. We're four and o. Because instead of spending it all one quarterback who's maybe marginally better than Sam Darnold, we spent it on three linemen, a pass rusher and a fucking wide receiver.

Building a Strong Team

An elite hall of fame level talent at wide receiver. A great wide receiver. Yeah, great wide receiver. Right. So, and it's like, that's all. You spread all that quarterback money around into those positions and now you got a four and oh team. That's, man. But, but, you know, there's also coaching involved.

Coaching Influence on Performance

Yeah. And, you know, it's interesting because people. Forget Kevin, where was Kevin O'Connell before he was the head coach of the Vikings? Washington. No. Detroit. No. That's the guy that's there now. No, the Rams. Oh, yeah. He was with McVeigh. He was with McVeigh for two seasons. Then before that, he was with McVeigh at the Redskins 2017 to 2019 quarterbacks coach, passing game coordinator, offensive coordinator.

Success from Coaching Trees

And that was when McVeigh was the title Washington. Yeah. So he's from that same tree as McDaniel and Shanahan and all of those guys. But, you know, pretty good. Pretty good offensive mind. You look at, you look at what McVeigh has done with very few groceries in the bag. Pretty good offensive mind. You know, Matt Lafleur is from that tree. So, you know, you're starting to see that Washington tree of this generation, of the last ten years is pretty much like that Bill Walsh tree was when were kids.

Historical Coaching Lineages

You know, like Andy Reid, Holmgren. Holmgren. Yeah. Mariucci. Yeah. Yeah. So Billick, Brian Billick was from that same tree. Wow.

Discussion on NFL and College Football

All of them guys. All of those dudes was a Pete Carroll from that homegrown shit. Isn't hedgest? I think so. No. He might be from the parcels tree. Oh, I could be him with him. With Saban and Belichick. Yes. Yes. So, you know, all in all, listen, the NFL, and this brings us to another thing. The NFL is really now a lot of overpaid players that are underperforming. And quite frankly, I think the NFL is getting stomped to death by the NCAA in terms of excitability, in terms of matchups, and talk about on the field product, you know, and this is the thing, is what's beautiful about Nil, because there are a lot of things we could say that are potentially bad, or we see trouble on the horizon with nil. But what's beautiful about it is you can spend a little bit of money, and you can have franchises or not franchises. You can have colleges like Rutgers coming out four and, oh, you can have the University of Illinois three and one, four and one.

Continuing on NIL Impact

You know, it can take some of these schools that have been kind of dormant in the national conversation for ten years, and all of a sudden they're in the mix. Yeah, now, Max take money. But now there Matt rule basically laid it out like, in order to. A quarterback's gonna cost you a million dollars. So you recruit this kid and you go there and he's like, I want a million dollars. You're gonna not pay him. Even if he doesn't pan out, even if he's trash, you're gonna not pay him. Why? S and Mu will pay him. Mississippi State will pay him. Ole Miss will pay him to, somebody else will pay him. So, like, what are you gonna do? Well, and here's an interesting thing, too. And this. And I. And not to make. To make another racial point, right? Because you always hear black players or black celebrities talk about why no black owners in NFL.

Questioning Ownership and Recruitment

Why ain't no, you know, why no black general managers? And now there's a lot of them. But get your hands in the mix in college. Yes. And this is my question. So. So where's the black equivalent to Dave Porter going? Listen, why. I don't understand why Michigan can't have quarterbacks. I'll pay them $3 million in barstool money every year. Going to portal, going to high school and get the best quarterback. I'll pay him $3 million. Where's the black equivalent to that going if I want? You know, here's a great example. Why doesn't Kamala Harris offer $3 million for quarterbacks to play at her HBCUs? She went to, you know, and that's the interesting thing. You're not seeing it. Fortnite has a degree from Michigan.

Discussion on Athlete Decisions

Right? So I don't know. You're saying. You're saying black millionaires don't have college degrees from prestigious universities. They just kind of, you know, go to the league. Right, right. Go to the league. I mean, they don't finish. Yeah, that's, you know, fair enough. Fair enough. But what I'm saying is a listen, then pick the one that has your favorite uniform. Well, you know what I mean? This is the biggest way for black millionaires to get in the mix with sports. And. And you're just. You're not seeing it. You're not really seeing it. Well, like, it'd be like, one thing and be like, can you believe Morgan Wallen just paid the fucking. This linebacker from Tennessee a bunch of money to come there? He's a massive Tennessee fan. I understand that.

The Role of External Influences

He's like, dude, Matthew McConaughey gave this one kid a bunch of money to come to Texas. And the craziest thing about it is they made entire documentaries about this when it basically shut. The reason why the U hasn't been the U is because the whole Nevin Shapiro scandal of him paying the money to the pay to play, like, the booster shit. The booster scandal. It's just like, dude, where's Nevan Shapiro? Now? The guy went to jail for this shit, right? Yeah. Way worse punishment than Reggie Bush getting his heisman taken away. Well, like, he went to jail because, like, the money, he was used. Like, they looked into the money shit and then the money, he was like, you know, defrauding people.

Concerns Over University Funding and NIL

Yeah, like, he was like, you know, running posey schemes to get that money or whatever the happened. But either way, I mean, this guy really cared about the betterment of the University of Miami football. Like, everybody was like, hey, if you have, if you need something taken care of, just go see Nevin. And he'd be like, boom, here you go. And he's just like, I need money for this. And they'd be like, okay, heredeh. And that was it. It wasn't extravagant. Like, yo, here's a new chain. Here's a new Ferrari. But somebody's like, yo, I really need this. They was getting taken care of. It was just like, yo, I cannot live in this building no more. I'm gonna fail all my classes, and I won't play good on Saturdays.

Anticipating NIL Developments

And they'd be like, I can't have that. How you live in this apartment now? Like, what's wrong with that? Yeah, well, inevitably, though, like, you're gonna start to see some of this come into nil because, you know, listen, everybody's got everybody who makes their money in nefarious ways, got shell corporations. And so don't be surprised if you see some random shit like Robex juice nil deal for $6 million, and you find out that Robex shit is owned by the John Gotti family or something. You know what I mean? So, you know, there people have been good at hiding money in this country for a hundred years. You're going to start to see dirty nil money come in one way or another because it's the same way the government is influenced.

Contrasting Past and Present Player Compensation

Well, I mean, to be honest with you, the way the money comes in is like, remember talking about the older players and, like, Terry Bradshaw and how they weren't making money? Yeah. Like, the money that comes into it now is almost laughable, you know, when you look at that. So, like, if these dudes know they're going to be 100 millionaire by their second contract, why do they not, you know, go all out, do you think, in this? Like, why are they going stop? It's okay. I know, I know. Why do they make business, quote unquote, business decisions before that? Like, why is that Eric Henry and. Lamar Jackson are running drills in our building right now.

Reflections on Youth Culture in Sports

I know. My dog is hollering at him. Like, yeah, if I had a dog, he'd be hollering at him, too. I want to holler at him. I never thought I'd be the old guy yelling at kids in the building. But it's about to be me. It's. It's. I, you know, I yell at him across the way. Just like, stop with that fucking running. Where you running? Where are you running in a building? Why? Why running? I know, buddy. Yeah, but why these? Why these kids making it so, like, again, making business decisions? How about this kid from UNLV? Yeah.

Business Decisions in College Sports

Well, and these are some of the things that you're going to start to see that we said, you know, there's. Good linebackers did it, too. Yeah. Where, where, you know, there's good, bad and ugly. I think some of the bad is going to be that they're going to be great college quarterbacks who make plenty of money in college decide not to play pro. The other thing is, I think in the middle of it, even the. Some of the best college quarterbacks are going to go, hey, man, I'm going to have to play when I get drafted. If I'm good, I'm going to have to play for one of the worst teams in the NFL and turn them around. That's the way the draft works.

NCAA Dynamics and Player Retention

So I'll just stay in college football. Keep playing at Bama, keep playing at Michigan, keep playing at Ohio State until I'm completely out of eligibility, and then I guess I'll go to the NFL. And then the other problem is, on the flip side, you're going to have really good prospects to get lured to colleges and the schools or the boosters or whoever don't pull their end of the deal. So I'm in the camp. I'm in the camp of more money needs to get pumped into these deals for kids through the schools, through revenue sharing. I think they need to get legitimate revenue share so that they can play for a school or couple schools until all their eligibility is out, like you said, because that really will develop them.

Proposed Transfer Regulations

And what do you think about putting a transfer limit on it to where they can only transfer? Yeah, transfer twice. I transferred twice. I transferred the first time, went to a school, and then they weren't gonna put me on scholarship when I had to sit out, but there's no sitting out anymore, right? So, like, they didn't have to go through those type of decisions and shit. So, like, lord knows, I maybe wouldn't even, you know, transfer there the first time. Maybe I only transfer once. Who knows? Like, you know, maybe I'm in the portal and fucking people are like, yeah, we're sorry.

Concerns Over the Structure of College Transfers

We'll take you back. Yeah. I just know that, like, the way it's set up. Like, chip Kelly was right. Like, they're. The way it's set up now, it's just doomed. You know, the stars, it's only going to get worse and only going to get more lopsided where, like, the other players is like, what are we playing for? Yeah. The same lies of, like, you get an education, like, that guy has a Ferrari. Yeah. Well, what's going to happen? You're going to start to have kids. You know, like, the beauty of college football historically was that on any given Sunday, man, you could coach up a.

Desparities in NCAA Football

You could coach up a North Dakota to go in and upset a Georgia or somebody like that once in a blue moon, a notre dame. You know, you could have these teams that could be coached up because there wasn't such disparity. But basically what NCAA has become is you've got the moneyball situation, we've got all your other teams, then you got a thousand fucking feet of garbage and then some shit and then us. You know what I mean? And so there are going to be some kids who are going out there who are the Oakland Athletics of the NCAA football and.

The Future of College Football

And are just going to know, like, there's no way in hell we're going to be able to compete with this team at all. Yeah. And I tried to say that the only thing that's going to happen, and maybe this Reggie Bush case will come through where Reggie wins and it sets the precedent where they have to, like, pay this, like, back pay to star players and shit that they made money off their likeness and their name. Like Reggie Bush getting money from the Pac twelve and USC. Well, that can happen because they got money laying around. But NCAA is going to go, but we're just a governing body and all we do is pay salaries and blah, blah.

Legal and Financial Repercussions

We don't have money like that. They go, too bad. Pay it. And then they'll get sued by Vince Young and Tebow and all these other players attorneys. Johnny football. Yeah, yeah. And then just. They'll go, well, we'll just file for bankruptcy and disband. And then the big Ten, the SEC will just go, let's form a super league like live golf did. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good point. That's probably where. That's probably the next ten years of college football you just laid out. Maybe five, might even happen in the next five years.

Speculations on NCAA Survival

And I think maybe these schools are looking at it like, man, just fucking let Reggie win that case. And then we can disband the NCAA and make us ungodly money. Well, and it's kind of weird, you know, you could also argue that, like, it. Okay, so if the NCAA is only just this sort of regulatory governing commission, then why the fuck do we want it? It kind of goes back to what Dana White used to say about USADA where he's like, listen, we want them to keep our sport clean. But USADA doesn't run the UFC.

Clarification on Drug Testing Procedures

Yeah, but people don't even know this. NCAA drug tests, right? They only test for steroids. The school, the university themselves is responsible testing for recreational drugs. Yeah. So when you ever see a player who's suspended for the year for failing a drug test from the NCAA, they failed for steroids because that's the only thing you can fail for. The schools are responsible for maintaining their own clean, you know, drug free, you know, programs. So if that's the case, anyways, the NCAA is useless.

Interrogating the NCAA's Purpose

Right? That, that's my point. And my point is, you know, the UFC eventually did away with it and said, listen, we'll just do our own testing. And as long as the athletic commissions are fine with our testing, then we don't have to work with USADA. We don't have to work with some of these other, you know, these large organizations. And I think college football will go the same route. I think college football go, listen, the SEC is fine at managing SEC football, so we're just going to do our own thing.

Autonomy of Universities

And so I do see that as a potential benefit, you know, and they're, you know, to that point going back to, like, Riley Gaines and Leah Thomas stuff, you know, why is there a governing body overseeing the University of Kentucky telling them that men can swim against their female swimmers? Like, the universities have no autonomy in this, where they can just go, you. We're not doing that. No, because they've all entered this agreement to be governed by the NCAA.

The Role of the NCAA in Regulation

Right. And as soon as ever. And you go, all right, well, they're supposed to. So what are they supposed to do? Well, they're supposed to regulate and oversee the championships, right? Well, the College Football playoff committee oversees the football championship, so y'all don't even do that. Right? So, okay, basketball. Well, all right, so you oversee that. That's your only. That's your main thing is basketball. Then what else is like lacrosse?

Funding College Sports

And it's basically you're subsidizing every other sport. It's just like, well, could the schools, it's not like the NCAA is forking up money so that Northern Illinois can have a field hockey team. You know, the schools are paying for this, and. And the money that they raise comes from the athletic departments and stuff, so they can fund the teams. And that comes from title nine. Right. Which is, you know, a federal law that's, you know, it says they have to have an equal amount of stuff.

Impact of Title IX on College Athletics

So basically they had to cut, I remember being when I was at Ohio, they had to cut men's, certain men's teams to keep certain women sports teams because of title nine. It was crazy. It'd be like something like, there was no, like, guys. I forget such and such team anymore because they had, like, a women's field hockey team. And then the next year they're like, we're just going to cut women's field hockey. And they were all like, crying and shit.

Reactions to Field Hockey

And I was like, who plays field hockey? I was like, I'm from Florida. We don't even have that shit. You don't have fields or hockey? Yeah. I was like, what the fuck is that? Yeah, you bitches are playing with a leprechaun stick. This is goofy. Yeah, man. I thought I saw a couple of dikes running with a shillelagh out there. Was that. You mean to tell me you're keeping. Oh, you must have been observing our field hockey team, like.

Discussion on Field Hockey

Yeah. Yeah. What the fuck did you just say to me? No, it ain't hockey, bro. It's a bunch of dikes and a shillelagh. I know what I see. Fucking guy. Field hockey. Get out there. Get out there, dude, leprechaun in the hood is out in the field. Yeah. Mayor, if you heard this guy. Fucking dude. Speaking of, speaking of hockey, we're about to jump into NHL season 8th.

Looking Forward to NHL Season

Yeah. What do you, what are you thinking about? What are you thinking about this upcoming NHL season? You know, we've got some of the same power or some of the same, you know, power players at the top of the league there. There wasn't a lot of huge roster movement this year. It wasn't like a lot of stars changing teams or anything like that. You know, who are the teams at the top of your list that you think are still going to be there from a year ago? And then are there any new teams that you think could be on the bubble to make some noise starting from.

Evaluating NHL Teams

The bottom or the top? Start from the top. Florida's not there no more. You. You think they lost too much? Yeah, I think Vegas might still be there, but I think that's the window. I think Vegas and Dallas are very much at the closing point of the. Window, Utah doesn't have the same, is not privy to the same type of expansion sort of draft that Vegas or even the Kraken had. Yeah.

Expansion Draft Implications

It was just literally a linear transfer. There was no expansion draft. Yeah. So to be like, well, maybe this Utah team is like, dude, did you see they fucking, like, own gold themselves? Yeah. Preseason, which is pretty embarrassing. But I will say this is, there is something to be said for going from a franchise that has been trash for 25 fucking years. Never, never spent money, never was really competitive. Never got stars.

Transforming Trash Organizations

And then they go up there and. What's the guy's name who bought the team? Ryan something. Smith. Ryan Smith. So, first offseason, boom. Give me surgace. Give me, you know, give me. Moreno went out and just started spamming. They did? Yeah. They signed free agents. Yeah. Well, no, they made trades. They made trades. But, you know.

Evaluating Player Acquisition Strategies

Yeah, that first day had. The big trade brought in guys with big salaries, which is not something Arizona ever did. There's nobody wanting time. Nobody wanted to unload those contracts except for a shitty franchise would. Yeah. Well, historically, anytime a big contract was being sent to the Coyotes, it was for a player who didn't play anymore. These are cap dump moves, you know?

Trades and Team Development

So for Utah to go out and bring in a guy like Mikhail Sergeyev at the top of his career, like, the best two way defenseman, arguably, in hockey, I would say. I would say he's maybe the best two way guy with. Because the best offensive guy. Right, but, so then you look at that and go, okay, you know, what does surgachev on that blue line do for that team as an upgrade? What does Marino do for that team on the blue line as an upgrade?

Anticipating Future Team Performance

What does the n. Cole do on that blue line as an upgrade? I mean, this was a team that was defensively and goaltending wise pretty damn good last year. Yeah, but you think about the line. He played on with Braden Point and Nikita Kucharov. Yeah, of course. He's, and his pair partner was who? Victor Hedman? So, yeah, so think about, like, what he's going to in Arizona.

High Expectations and Performance

I mean, Utah. Right. He, he doesn't have next to close to that, the same level of, I'd say, parody across the board. Not saying that. Like, I mean, you got to say that's a pretty even, you know, three across the board. Right, right. But here's what I'll say about Utah. Here's what I'll say about Utah. That's never been the case before.

Utah's Potential at the Trade Deadline

And what I'm trying to say that's indicative of Utah is a team that has, you know, as the Arizona Coyotes. Anytime at the deadline, if they were good, they would use it to sell assets. This is the first year that if Utah has won 30 plus games going into the trade deadline, there's a very, very good chance that Ryan will spend money and that they will get better at the deadline and they will take on some contracts and potentially build a team going into the playoffs that will be competitive. So I, for nothing, they already shown, they already showed they have a track record they're willing to trade. So, yes, so I do think, I think you look at a team like the Flyers, right? And if the Flyers somehow underperform, you know, and they've got guys like Couturier, they've got guys like Lawton, they've got guys like Joel Farabee. I think Utah becomes players for those kinds of players at the deadline where they normally would never spend money like that before.

Ryan's Vision for Utah

But Utah is at a point where, and Ryan even said this when he was on McAfee because, listen, we're set on prospects. We've drafted. You know, we've had multiple first round picks for about a decade. God, I wish Sabres would think like this. We need stars, you know, and so, you know, they've got them in Clayton Keller and Dylan Guenther and Logan Cooley. But that's about it offensively. And so you look at that and go, okay, you know, if Utah is there and a team like Buffalo isn't, a team like Philadelphia isn't, does Utah then become almost like Vegas was over the last couple of years, that championship destination market at the deadline? And I do think that is maybe the most compelling thing about Utah this season, is that I do think that's not a franchise that people look at and go, well, who knows what's going to happen? I don't want to, I don't want to live there.

Utah's Competitive Landscape

I don't know what's going to happen to that franchise and I don't want to play for 5000 people every night. That is a whole different ballgame now. And I think Utah for most hockey players is a much more livable and desirable place to live than Arizona, you know, and so I think they are very much like the Golden Knights in the sense that I think they're, if as long as they're not in the basement, I think they're going to be very competitive bidders at the deadline. And I think they could get really good really fast this season. I think this would be year 14. If, if the Sabres don't make the playoffs again, this will be a 14 year drought. Well, I put the Sabres in the exact same situation as Utah, and it really comes down to, are the Pagulas going to be spenders at the deadline? Which they've never been. They've always been sellers.

Sabres' Longstanding Struggles

Well, I'm saying, so I think this is year 14. If you miss the playoffs again, why not go for 15? You know, I just see us making no moves at any deadlines. I see us spending no money. And I don't know if our team is good enough to be even middle of the pack team yet because we haven't seen them on ice. There's been a lot of injuries, a lot of young kids. A lot of lines haven't been the lines that are going to be together. Cousins over here. You know, Skinner's gone or there's. I don't know. We'll see. I would like to. I'm always. Here's the thing. I'm taking a new approach to the Sabres. Okay? Every year I go, this. This might be the year. This might be the year that might be. We look really good.

Expectations for the Sabres

And I just feel like, you know what? Fuck it. This might be a year that we go 14 years, I'm having the opposite approach. I have no expectations for the Sabres, and then I can be pleasantly surprised when we win the things. Yeah, yeah. Well, I think when you look at the Buffalo Sabres, it's not a question of, like, you have the players. It's really about like, can you put it together? Like the Sabres, if you look at their top six and their, but now their bottom six. Cause they spent their entire offseason building, rebuilding their bottom six. You know, when you look at that, it's not for lack of talent. I mean, I would argue that the Buffalo Sabres have the best top four defense in the entire NHL in terms of youth and in terms of, like, capability.

Buffalo's Defensive Strengths

You know, Dahlin, Power, Byram and who's the fourth guy that I'm forgetting? Samuelson. Like, with Owen Power's. Yeah. And then you've got Yoki Haru and Jacob Bryson, I think, is the other one. But it's like, that's a pretty good core. That's pretty good defensive core. What's the only thing that you can say about that core and about the. The coaching is that Lindy is back. Right. Well, so the concern I have with Lindy is like, I don't know that so here's. Here's the thing with Buffalo. Like, Lindy has always been a sandpaper guy to me, and I don't know. I don't know that you have sandpaper players on.

Coaching Concerns

Well, look at. That's what I'm saying. So look at that. Look at that. All those defensemen you just named and then think about Lindy's back. Yeah, well, so to me, what do. You get out of him? You get him playing like shit, Nick. And what's that? What's the other dude's name? Oh, you're talking about a longtime guy, 26, played at Minnesota. I would have played with him. Matt Barnaby. No, no. That's 36, and you're going way too bad. First of all, I'm not that old. That was the nineties. No. Who was your longtime winger? Blonde haired kid. Thomas Vanek? Yep. Thomas Vanek?

Buffalo's Historical Context

Yeah. You're talking about the ugly slug sweater Buffalo Sabres. Yeah. And I just think that, like, okay, we got defensemen that shoot now that's, what, three out of four that you named on the top, that top four pairing, they. Can create a lot of offense. Create shots, create offense. I think they're like, three out of those four is just like Lindy's. Lindy's defensemen never were in those positions. The way the offense sets up, those aren't the guys. They always got to kind of stay back. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. You know, it's interesting to see. Cause there are a lot of those teams that could go either way. I put Buffalo in that mix. I put Philadelphia in that mix.

Current Team Dynamics

You know, obviously there are teams out there, I think, with much higher expectations to take a step forward, like New Jersey. I think when you make a trade for a guy like Markstrom and supposedly goaltending is your only hole on that roster, and now you filled it. I mean, they better. They better win most of their games to start the season. And I'd say the same thing goes for teams like Los Angeles. It's like La Buffalo. A lot of these teams are similar. Utah, where they've been drafting high guys for a long time, and it's time to put it together or else you. Then you might as well blow it up. If you can't put it together now, you might as well blow it up.

The Way Forward

Yeah. And I think there are a lot of team. There are a lot of teams like that in the mix. I'm trying to think of other ones. You know, Minnesota is a team that's kind of, I think they just did that a little while ago when they bought out Parise and Suter's contracts at the end. But, yeah, I mean, there are a lot of those teams the same thing that Chicago did where they kind of had to blow it up and start over. So I think they're already Michael. No, I don't know about that. I mean, it doesn't hurt when you go get the generational talent that is Connor Bedard. But you talk about, you're talking about a team that has missed the playoffs for 13 seasons.

The Impact of Generational Talent

So much so that they went and got their old coach back. Yeah. Like, it's so cyclical at this point that I can't have expectations because there are none. Yeah. I guess I feel like we're like the Cleveland Browns on ice. The Cleveland Browns on ice. Pretty great, by the way. It's pretty great analogy. Some could also say the jets on ice. Yeah. The fucking Buffalo ice captains. Yeah. Pretty terrible. But I'm excited for the season. I mean, you know, one of the things I'll tell you, and we could kind of wrap up on this about watchability.

Watchability of Sports

I don't know what your thoughts are. We talked a little bit earlier about NCAA just being a superior product to the NFL. Between penalty flags and commercial breaks, I find NFL football almost unwatchable in real time. Oh, my God, it's so boring. The games take four. It feels like four and a half hours now. As if three and a half wasn't too long to begin with. They're taking over 4 hours now on average. And it's in a matter of. I sat down. I sat down for 30 minutes the other day and I saw one and a half possessions.

Frustration with NFL Formatting

Can I say this now? I know I'm a fat folks, but I started watching the games. There was breakfast. The game is in the fourth quarter. Historically, food wise, on football Sunday, right out here, you would watch. You'd watch football, right? Correct me if I'm wrong about this, but around halftime of the 10:00 a.m. games, you're going, if I don't have something here, I got to order something. And then you were good until Monday, Sunday Night Football. And then you're like, Sunday Night Football now let's do dinner. Right? Right now it's almost like I better eat before the 10:00 a.m. games start because they're not going to be done till three, dude.

Your Viewing Experience

I mean, that 10:00 a.m. game, right? I'm having breakfast. I'm like, oh, dude, football and breakfast is gonna be the shit. I start watching that red zone and show me all those non-scores or scores, you know, that's going on. And I'm like, cool, it's halftime. Like, fuck, man. What I look at, it's halftime, it's like 12:30. And I'm like, what the fuck? Yeah, it's only halftime at 12:30. I was like, how are they going to finish this game? And they're like, at red zone starts, dude, they're in there's like seven minutes left in the fourth quarter of this one game.

The Drain of Commercials

And they're like, now we go to show you live from this game coming to you. Everyone's like, this game's kicking off. And I was like, God damn, man, how far behind is the other game? It's just like, did commercials do this? Did the rain do this? Like, what? Like, what are the only flags? Penalty flags do it. Yeah, I mean, you know, by the time the second games were on, I was like, it's, I need lunch occasionally. Like, you would have bleed over maybe once a week in the NFL or childhood because it was, because it would be like, oh, this game's going into overtime, so we have to leave you and go to 01:00 game.

The Overlap of Games

It's every game now. They have to leave. And it's not that there's a minute left. There's a fucking quarter of football. There was fucking seven minutes left in the one game. And like, if you weren't watching red zone, you wouldn't be able to see both because they would have just switched it. Yeah. And I'm just like, dude, what is going on with this? There's three games that aren't over yet. Yeah, it's really between the commercials and also even like, there'd be like a timeout on the field and they'll go to commercial while the broadcast is still playing.

Awareness Beyond the Game

Yeah, dude, guys lay on the ground. Picture in picture. And while he's on the stretcher, it's just like, they cut to the sound of the commercial. Yeah, so just like Verizon new iPhone 16 on us and it's just like a guy is getting wheeled out. Coop, what's a vagina? Yeah, dude, it's unwatchable. So I go back to that where I'm like, now that hockey season is starting, I might not watch any football until college football Saturday. And then and then I. With, with Sunday football, I'll just as soon watch a highlight show.

Shifting Focus to College Football

I really, I really feel that, you. Know, because hockey, I can watch a hockey game comes on at 04:00. It's done by 530, maybe six. But I would still like to talk about something, though, that we didn't talk about. What's that? While you're watching your Saturday football, will you be checking out specific games like I did when I checked out the by jew? No, I love. About what? One thing I love about Apple TV is that. And, and ESPN Plus.

Accessibility to College Football

Shout out to ESPN Plus. I do love that I can just see all the games and the scores and it’s almost like a manual red zone where I can go like, oh, normally I would never watch Middle Tennessee State take on Louisville, but that looks like a good game. Let me click on that. So just the fact that there is more availability of college football to watch now I feel like, and it’s easier to find it. I am watching a lot more of it. Yeah, but Jake Retzlaff is a Jewish quarterback for the Mormon Brigham Young University.

Cultural Context in Sports

Well, if that doesn't show that the Jews will get paid by any means necessary, or they will. Does he have a rocket arm? Because he might be needed in Israel this week. You know what else I just noticed? Right? So here comes that. Deserved a lot more love than it got. Like, here's this Jew who comes into the Mormons. It's just like, I can play, believe me and trust me. And they're like, fine. And it made me realize, holy shit, there's no university like that plays football.

Identity in College Sports

Yeah, like there's the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, but there is no, like East Bronx, you know? Yeah, there is. It's called CAA. That's their team. They all rep all the coaches. Yeah, they rep everybody. They. Why would we want to put ourselves out of the field of battle? This sounds like harm's way. Listen, why be devils that, why play devil's advocate when we can advocate one. Everyone, when you can be devil's advocate, huh? These are people. This game is for mongrels and Negroes.

Politics and Sports

You don't need to play these games. Yeah, what you want to do is you get to get there. 3% of every action that they make in their football lives. That's how you do it. Yeah, well, I'm going to tune into this debate here and see what I see what. Talk about bloodbath of a sports contest. I can't imagine JD Waltz or JD Wall Street Tim Walsh doing good against JD Vance in any capacity in this debate whatsoever. This, this feels like Louisiana raging Cajuns up against Alabama raging Cajun potato skins.

Cultural Observations

Wait, so the JD Vance, where are they, by the way? Is this like in a. I don't know, space? Why can't they do it in space? Space? That would be cool. I don't know where they're at. I could tell you where they're not. They're not over by the hurricanes. They're not in. Getting missiles launched at them by Iran, which, by the way, I got to check on my girlfriend. She might, her splinter cell might have been activated in the last 2 hours while were doing this podcast.

Complex global situations

As soon as we see the lights of Iran over Israel, that is where we know it is time to do our mission. Like sirens going off and shit. And they just like, exactly. Shut up. This is the time. This is what we have been told exactly. That's, do you think that shit is, I think. Where is it you that I seen post like, oh, God, here comes the fucking. Oh, yeah, I do. Here comes 200 x spaces about how Israel shot missiles at themselves.

Reflections on Public Perception

Dude, did you see Sam's face? No, but I'm sure that's what it is. They shot him at themselves, bro. Somebody wrote like, oh, let me guess, Israel sold them arms to themselves so they can shoot themselves so we can get into this war with Iran. He's like, pretty much. I can't. I. Listen, I'll put it this way. We have friends. We have friends who started. No, no, I'm saying we have friends who are like, I can't even pay attention to the presidential election because I can't have it hijack my brain that much.

Avoiding Overwhelm

And I go, okay, well, that feels irresponsible and stupid, but I feel that way about, like, Israel shit. Like, dude, I can't, I have no horse in the race. Listen, Iran says death to America. I believe them when they say it. They're the bad guys. I don't care. Like, this argument that, no, they're all being marionetted by the Jews. I can't, I can't look into it. I can't, I can't let Jew hunting take over my brain. What is the purpose of that?

Understanding Dynamics

And you know what I love about that for me, is that people go, well, that's great. That's exactly what they want. That's exactly what they want. That's exactly what they do. That's, that's what they've done to you. They've made you not even interested in their corruption. So it's so funny that. Do you remember around 2001, from, like, zero one to 2002? It was very much a phrase that became cliche. That was. Well, that's how otherwise the terrorists win.

Comparative Feelings

Yes. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, and the terrorists win, dude. They used to say, or otherwise the terrorists win. And now they say, otherwise, the Jews win. No, they say, this is exactly what the Jews want you to do. Yeah. And then you go, well, don't you mean the terrorists? And you go, what did I say? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Conspiracy Insights

Anytime anything happens, adverse in my life from now on, I'm just gonna go, just how the Jews planned it. This is Obama. Yeah. Fucking Obama. Shit on my fucking shoe, dude. If we change the name of this show to Jews, Jews. I swear to God, there would be 6 million people. Well, it would feel like 6 million, but it probably more like 300,000 people listening to our podcast.

The Impact of Influence

6 million? Where'd you get that number? They're fucking mind control, bro. Tell me it don't work, dude. They're all your brain. All right, well, the Jews right now are channeling in, and they're telling me to watch the Boston Bruins Philadelphia Flyers preseason game at the same time I watched watching debate. So great show. And then I guess we'll see you tomorrow for the regular weekly episode of Dead Big Ugly.