Postgame Show: And I Think That Would Be Fair
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sabotage me too I don't know we should unionize against it could have been how could it have been any more obvious what I was doing to Greg Cody I'm pointing at the clock I'm theatrically let's end the show you sabotage okay I mean how do I argue with that

Sorry for me thinking old people should be treated with a little more respect around here. Thank you. Thank you, Mina. Seriously, it's ridiculous. Ageism running rampant throughout the studio. Ridiculous. Come on. You were so interested in every word that Mina... I was jealous. I'm looking at you. Let's get into it. Dolphins talk. Dolphins talk. I respect Mina's opinion on all matters NFL. She's...

better than anybody else in NFL analysis, in my opinion. And she's talking about a subject that's very interesting to me because obviously Tua's contract mess down here is the biggest story in town. And so, yeah, I was very interested in her take. Mina, what are you looking forward to here over the next month of us now galloping toward the NFL football season? Like, what are the storylines that are most interesting to you?

Other than the continued procrastination of the Dallas Cowboys when it comes to signing any of their star players, which I do find interesting. I know people get a little bit tired of Cowboys talk, but that I find inexplicable and fascinating. And yeah, that's very odd. There's a couple of quarterback competitions, notably Jess's Steelers. Let's talk about it.

that has some juice. I know fields versus Wilson might not be the sexiest of sentences in some people's eyes, but I'm really interested in seeing what happens because you have a quarterback who, you know, is coming off of an improved performance in Denver, but I think we all agree has a lower ceiling than fields, but a higher floor perhaps than fields. And I I'm interested in seeing how that plays out. I am too. And Mina, I just to change the subject slightly, I,

Are you as surprised as me that the Giants offseason hard knocks is like actually pretty good? Yes, completely. The first few I was like, well, first of all, you know, hard knocks now that the teams have oversight over it. I've gotten kind of conditioned to not expecting anything particularly juicy. And the fact that so much juicy content has come out of this one, I think I've learned more about the

how front offices operate from this ep this series pardon me of hard knocks than anything I've ever seen in NFL media I find it fascinating why would the Giants sign off on some of those things that make them look like that when they're negotiating with Saquon Barkley but do you think they made they look they came across poorly I thought they came across actually like really well and same I thought Saquon also said like yeah that's pretty much how it went down right

He came across well, too. I saw that he didn't know he was being recorded, he said somewhere, which that's a little weird. One party state, though, I think. Well, he came off well, so I don't like I maybe he's upset about it. I can see why. But he came off, I thought, incredibly well. The phone call between Joe Shane and him where he says, you know, circle back to us. So obviously not going to happen. But I thought.

It came across as pretty humane. I'm not sure why what else people would have expected from that conversation. What did you see in there that you were learning? You felt like you were learning because I I the only reason I figured that they wouldn't show any of that is just because that kind of stuff typically, no matter how the inner workings of business. I don't think the Giants necessarily want other people to see that, that they OK, that was surprising to me.

I loved all of the stuff from the interviews that they've had with players that they've shown because I think you really get to see, one, how smart these prospects are and everything that it goes into evaluating because it's so hard to assess college players, quarterbacks in particular, but any of them, you know,

on the mental side of things. And, you know, we've seen over the years, like tests like the Wunderlich are devalued because they don't really, they're not really predictive. And so there's, I think one of the biggest mysteries is how do NFL teams look at a player and say, does he study? Can he get better? Can you, you know, see the field well? How smart is he? And I think getting a little bit of a glimpse into that was fascinating. Did you also think that Sam Hartman should have gotten like a little cut from the hard knocks revenue because they used him so much just for his face?

No. No? You didn't think that? No. I mean, for someone that wasn't going to be drafted by the Giants, he got a lot of face time. What team is he on now? Commanders. You didn't notice that? That was my... Yeah, I didn't really dwell on the Sam Hartman parts of Art Knox. Okay, you're making me look bad now.

Yeah. I don't know. I'm sending this clip to our group chat with Michael and he's going to, he's going to agree. Don't talk about the group chat. Sorry. Do you know, uh, do you know what a great pride it gives me to have Mina Kimes just confidently look everybody in the face and say, what team is he on? Uh, that's a show, uh, overtly show a lack of knowledge in a way that betrayed no lack of confidence. I love that. I have gotten, uh,

much more careful about being negative about players since the early days on this show, because clips from my early appearances haunted me, notably the Josh Allen, which I have, you know, worn a hair shirt for, and I'm now like one of the preeminent ESPN Josh Allen defenders, but that's neither here nor there. I think the greatest insult probably that I can give a player at this point is what I just did right there, Dan.

Jeremy is pointing out to me that Sam Hartman is the fourth string quarterback on the commander. She doesn't need to know that. Yes, she does. You don't know Mina Kimes. Yes, she does. She feels like she does need to know that. I also love that you just unveiled for us, Mina, what I believe, because 2025 is going to be difficult if some things break in the next few months the way that we don't really want to around here. There's a new lane for Mina Kimes if you need to be in a little bit of disguise as a football analyst.

As a Southern belle, listen to yourself here earlier in the program. Oh, no. And I think that would be fair. And I think that would be fair. You could be a pulp. Wait, that's not. That is you. I think that would be fair. That is you. You could be on Pulp Fight. No, that isn't. That is you. You put that through some sort of jet. No. And I think that would be fair.

That is you. 100% you. That was literally you seven minutes ago. No way. It is. And I think that will be fair. Yes. Did you speed that up or something? Not at all. No, that's just you on the Paul Feinbaum show. And I think that will be fair.

That is not me. You're fake-newsing me. That's like an AI. It is not AI. I don't have the confidence of staff here in order to make that as Southern as it was. I did cut it down. I'll give you the more context so you can hear the full clip. And I think that would be fair, but the thing is you're not paying these quarterbacks based on...

And I think that would be fair, but the thing is you're not paying me scorebacks. Yes, Mina, yes. Who else would it be? Wait, you have... I want to understand something here. You're accusing Chris Cody of magically being able to figure out artificial intelligence when I can't get him to hit the right button at any point during the show today? You think...

He does. The great devastation of this moment is sort of me being Brian Kelly. I have spent, Dan, you know this. Everyone on the show knows this. I have spent years trying to do accents unsuccessfully. Failing. And I think that would be fair. And yet somehow, this is my greatest absent and I disown it completely. And I think that would be fair.

That's a woman. We all perked up back here when it happened. We were like, did anybody else hear that? Go grab that, please. A 70-year-old woman from Georgia named Darlene. And I think that would be fair.

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