and Hello welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collar here and joining on the show for the

first ever Purple Insider Book Club, which is a thing I just invented today.

Doug Ferar, he's NFL editor at USA Today,

and wrote one of my favorite books

that I have read in years, The Genius of Desperation,

which takes us through an incredible journey

of advancement in the NFL. Doug, how are you? Welcome to the show.

Good, thank you for having me. I'm sorry people won't hear the guitar podcast we just did, but you know.

Well, Randy Rhodes and Paul Gilbert and back when people actually you know learn to play the guitar as opposed to, yeah.

I still see people in music videos holding guitars. I just don't hear anything that they're really doing with them and so there's like 11

YouTubers who can still shred and those are the people that we watch.

That's just how it is.

Pretty much it.

Yeah.

But we're, you know, we're too old far too.

Well, guitar has regressed.

Football, football's certainly not.

And, you know, I feel like I should get a PR fee

maybe a little bit for the number of times

that I mentioned in your book, and I thought, we really need to have a discussion here,

especially since it's May,

and I can't ask you about people

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