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My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast.

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hater. It is that time of week where we have a guest join us coming to us from the ranger. He covers the NFL over there. His name is Deonté Lee. First time guest. What's going on, brother? I'm doing well, man. It's been a while. I've been hoping that I would get this call eventually. glad to be on with you. You might not know this. I have been in the Beaumani realm for a little while. I was a long time Evening Jones watcher. Used to talk music of several iterations of my social media ago that does not exist anymore. So I'm glad to finally be on and be able to talk some sports with you. Now, I appreciate good to have you. For folks that don't know,

I told you Deontay, covers the NFL for the Ringer. He also coaches high school football out there in California. So you're like, you're an authority figure. That's what they like to call me on my job. I would say on Fridays, it doesn't feel so much that way all the time.

We're usually just riding with whatever these teenagers decide to do on a day-to-day basis.

Yeah, I always talk about this with college football that, like, I just can't imagine my livelihood depending on the actions of the worst decision makers on earth.

I had never really given a lot of thought to, like, whittling that down to high school. Now, high school, perhaps they're worst decision makers, but they have fewer decisions. So it kind of balances itself out, but it's still the same principle. 1,000% the same principle. And I would say the difficulty isn't just the kids. It's the dynamic between the kids and the adults, right? And what I mean is you have these guys who are former college players, might have had a cup of coffee in the NFL. They've got big ideas of what they want to get accomplished. And they're losing their mind on the sideline about what's not happening on Friday nights. And I have to bring everybody together and remind them. That 15-year-old, before they got to

practice today, was probably catching mono, sharing drinks with their classmates. You know, so you got to have

to temper your expectations in that respect. I try to be relatively chill. People tell me that I'm not

always that way, but you spend enough time in coaching me,, you realize all you can do is draw this stuff up.

It's out of your hands very quickly in this profession.

Well, the thing I feel like, too, that people lose sight of with every level you go down in football.

I mean, I think people lose sight of this in the NFL, and we'll talk about some of this in the show is, I really think that we underestimate the difficulty of throwing 10 pounds of

air wrapped in leather down the field with any measure of precision while also out here

trying to do rocket size with whatever to play is. Like, I just, the reason they didn't throw the ball

that much back in the day is not just simply these people weren't that smart. It was a full on understanding, man.

That shit is hard, dog. Think about how many rules they've had to change to make it such that you can actually throw the ball. Listen, I was watching Brian Thomas Jr. A couple weeks ago when people were talking about him having the yips, not wanting to catch a ball over the middle of the field. and I got to have to take a beat before I started criticizing

him and think, if I knew that there was a safety coming from the opposite side that I could

not see and the ball is such that I have to jump and reach outside my frame, I would probably

take a beat to wonder how much this completion is worth it. Yeah, me neither. No, that's the whole

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