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INSTANT REACTION: Bears SURVIVE Bucs on SNF, NFL Week 9 Reaction: 49ers DOMINATE Raiders, Packers DESTROY Patriots, Giants DEFEAT Eagles in NFC East Showdown · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The Volume. What is going on, my people? How are
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: we doing? John Middlecoff, 3NOW Podcast. What a game. As
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  Speaker 1: Ditka would say, the Bears, the Bears somehow survive. It is,
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  Speaker 1: football is a team game. We will dive in. You
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: don't see often Caleb and Ben Johnson flummoxed and melting
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  Speaker 1: like that on national television. So we'll dive into the game.
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  Speaker 1: Tampa obviously had an incredible opportunity. You get that many interceptions, fumbles,
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  Speaker 1: and you do not take advantage of it. That one's
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  Speaker 1: going to sting. But a lot of other stuff, the 49ers,
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  Speaker 1: the Packers looked incredible. The Chiefs got rolling again. Giants,
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos, the Rams. We got a lot going on
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. Injuries, potential trades. So we'll have you covered.
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin can't win a big game. Colin and I
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  Speaker 1: usually record today from travel stuff. We're going to record tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll be up on YouTube tomorrow in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: And probably the podcast feed around the same time. Probably
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  Speaker 1: before the Monday Night Football game would be my guess. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you guys know the drill. If you listen on Collins Feed,
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  Speaker 1: as well as check out all of our content on YouTube,
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: and let's just dive into Sunday Night Football. No joke,
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  Speaker 1: that is clearly the craziest good-bad game of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Because it wasn't just awful. I thought both defenses were...
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  Speaker 1: Extremely violent. Obviously, Tampa was playing out of their mind. Chicago,
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  Speaker 1: their defensive line felt like at one point in time
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  Speaker 1: they might knock Baker out of the game. Jalen Johnson
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  Speaker 1: as the pick six, which you could make the argument
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  Speaker 1: was the difference in the game. I enjoyed it. And
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, still can't believe what we just witnessed.
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  Speaker 1: And my number one takeaway is this. is coming into
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  Speaker 1: this game, I'm in this pool where me and a buddy,
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  Speaker 1: it's four-figure buy-in, and you pick 10 games a week.
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  Speaker 1: And we rode with Tampa. They got six and a
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  Speaker 1: half points. It usually sets early in the week at
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  Speaker 1: the Lions change. We got them at plus six and
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  Speaker 1: a half. And he told me there's like 30 people
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  Speaker 1: in this group. And 22 of the 30 picked the Bears.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of went counter and took Tampa. Not because
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  Speaker 1: I felt great, but just like, you know what? This defense,
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  Speaker 1: Monday night football across the country. Tampa was just at home.
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  Speaker 1: Game could just be weird. And through the first two
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  Speaker 1: series of the game, it felt like it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be 50 to nothing. And then football happened. And
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  Speaker 1: Caleb threw a pick. And really for the next almost
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  Speaker 1: three quarters, Todd Bowles had Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams spinning.
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  Speaker 1: and mainly Caleb Williams. Nothing Ben Johnson called worked. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty rare to watch Caleb be out of source. We
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  Speaker 1: just really haven't seen it. It's also pretty rare to
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  Speaker 1: see Caleb not be able to scramble around and make plays. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when you have a defense with that much team speed
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  Speaker 1: and that many defensive backs who, if you do put
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  Speaker 1: the ball into harm's way, Feel like they catch the
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  Speaker 1: ball better than Tampa's receivers. So the throws he was making,
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  Speaker 1: obviously his first interception. I'm with Colin on this one.
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  Speaker 1: Interceptions don't bother me. They're going to happen. Ones that
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  Speaker 1: are atrocious have been happening since the history of the sport.
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  Speaker 1: Montana's thrown them. Brady, obviously Favre, Manning, Rogers, Mahomes. All
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  Speaker 1: these guys throw bad interceptions. You live with it and
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  Speaker 1: you move on. Next play mentality. It was awful for
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  Speaker 1: his standards because he hasn't really been throwing them. It
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  Speaker 1: was bad. But then the next two where he was
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  Speaker 1: scrambling away from pressure. You know, typically we crush the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback because when you throw an interception on a ball
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  Speaker 1: that you were trying to throw away, you could argue
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  Speaker 1: that that's the worst looking interception besides probably like a
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  Speaker 1: pick six like Baker. But just A ball where you're
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  Speaker 1: clearly trying to get rid of it, either throw it
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  Speaker 1: out of bounds or to just grasp, and there's only
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  Speaker 1: a defender there and he picks the ball off. It's
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  Speaker 1: a tough look. And we typically, and I'm guilty of this,
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  Speaker 1: crush the quarterback. But as this game went on, it
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  Speaker 1: actually brought into light those two plays. It's like, I
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  Speaker 1: think Tampa deserves a lot of credit on those. You
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  Speaker 1: force him off the spot. You get him to move.
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  Speaker 1: He can't scramble around much because you got guys on
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  Speaker 1: both ends of him. He doesn't have a way to
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  Speaker 1: run away from you to run down the field past
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  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. He's kind of stuck. And he
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  Speaker 1: throws it up, which clearly he would like those passes back.
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  Speaker 1: And Tampa, I mean, one, the DB toe-tapped the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: The other DB made a stretching catch that I watch
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  Speaker 1: wide receivers all day today drop. We don't give the
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  Speaker 1: defenses in the NFL who are playing at a high
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  Speaker 1: level enough credit on plays they make. And Tampa was
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  Speaker 1: dictating the terms of the game. And even toward the end,
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  Speaker 1: when they create that fumble that led to the tying score.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, we just view the quarterback screwed up. Well,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the defense forces them to screw up. And then
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  Speaker 1: once you do that, it snowballs. They're all out of sorts.
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  Speaker 1: You start rushing him. It's something defensive coaches talk about
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  Speaker 1: a lot. For most of our jobs, even in a
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  Speaker 1: pressure-packed industry, if you have a big meeting with a
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  Speaker 1: big client, whatever, you can kind of just slow down,
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  Speaker 1: take a deep breath, talk, and relax into it. Football,
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  Speaker 1: there's what? Four or five seconds a play? So once
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  Speaker 1: I move you and speed you up and get you
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  Speaker 1: moving at a pace in which you don't want to,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to slow it back down. And I can
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  Speaker 1: dictate that pace if I'm getting pressure, if I'm blitzing,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm getting home. It happened to Baker too. There's
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  Speaker 1: no time for him to throw. So everything has to be,
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  Speaker 1: if my first couple reads aren't open, I have to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the ball. And that's what was happening
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  Speaker 1: tonight on both sides. I mean, this was a game
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  Speaker 1: dominated and dictated. by Dennis Allen and Todd Bowles. And
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. I wonder if a lot of people,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the consensus is in social media
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  Speaker 1: or just will be tomorrow at the water cooler. I
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  Speaker 1: like that game because of the violence of it on defense.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of those hits that Devin Bush had in
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  Speaker 1: the open field, it's like, sign me up for that.
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  Speaker 1: The play Reuben Bain had that KO'd Luther Burden, It's like,
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  Speaker 1: that's the football that I like. That every yard is contested.
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  Speaker 1: That if you're not holding onto the ball with both hands,
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  Speaker 1: it might come out to the ground. And as a quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: like both guys, you're going to be running for your life.
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  Speaker 1: And I do think if you're Ben Johnson, for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in a while, you escape with a win,
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  Speaker 1: which is the most important thing by a mile. That
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  Speaker 1: is the goal of your job. It's not style points.
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  Speaker 1: It's not winning the turnover margin. It's not winning, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the yards, the first down. All that stuff, all the
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  Speaker 1: stats that you'll hear right off over the next, none
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  Speaker 1: of that matters if you lose. But when you win
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  Speaker 1: and you move on, but you kind of get humble
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  Speaker 1: pie around your building. And for the first time in
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  Speaker 1: a while, it knocks everyone down a peg. We're not
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  Speaker 1: the greatest thing since sliced bread. We're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be the greatest offense of all time. We just got
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  Speaker 1: embarrassed at home as an offense on Sunday Night Football.
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  Speaker 1: But this is a team game. And our defense picked
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  Speaker 1: us up. And they played out of their mind as well.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson had a play that probably was the difference
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  Speaker 1: in the game. Because if Tampa just punts on that
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  Speaker 1: drive instead of giving six, who knows? They might just
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  Speaker 1: force another punt and get the ball back. Instead, Baker
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  Speaker 1: throws it right to Jalen. He runs, kind of walks,
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  Speaker 1: he's just not that fast anymore, to the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a huge flip in the night. And
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  Speaker 1: to me, it was the difference, when you look at
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  Speaker 1: the totality of what we just witnessed, it was the
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  Speaker 1: difference in the game. Was Baker's mistake leading the six?
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  Speaker 1: Because at that point in time, their offense couldn't score
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. They couldn't even get in the field goal range.
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  Speaker 1: They couldn't move the football. And this gets back to
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  Speaker 1: Todd Bowles. When you're in that environment and your offense
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  Speaker 1: is so bad, and I think on third down, they
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  Speaker 1: were like two, what were they on third down? They
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  Speaker 1: were two of 12. It felt worse. It felt like
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  Speaker 1: every time he dropped back on second and eight or
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  Speaker 1: third and eight or third and 10 or second and 10,
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  Speaker 1: They had absolutely no shot for a first down. There
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  Speaker 1: were periods where you're like, why don't they hand it
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  Speaker 1: to number seven more often? He is by far the
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  Speaker 1: best player in your offense. And then as the game
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  Speaker 1: went on, he made some of the best plays in
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  Speaker 1: the game. Look, I like DeAndre Swift. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: Bucky Irving is on a completely different level. This version
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  Speaker 1: of Bucky Irving in 2026 is one of the best
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  Speaker 1: running backs. Pure rudders of the football. Inside runs, outside runs, pitches, sweeps,
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  Speaker 1: inside zone, hit off tackle, reverse course, cut it back,
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  Speaker 1: and then you factor in game well too. They have
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  Speaker 1: a dynamic rushing attack. I don't know if I would
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  Speaker 1: have called that many passes. And the offensive coordinator was
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  Speaker 1: a little all over the map. But it was 24-13.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the third quarter, they were on
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  Speaker 1: the 12-yard line. It was fourth and four. And Todd
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  Speaker 1: was validated when he kicked the field goal at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the first half. And he described it to Melissa.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, listen, we're getting the ball. So if we
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  Speaker 1: kick a field goal there and we score, that's a
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  Speaker 1: 10-point swing. Between the end of the first half and
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  Speaker 1: the start of the second half. And that's something that
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  Speaker 1: Belichick Patriots always used to really hammer home. I think
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: they used to call it like the eight minute, like
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  Speaker 1: the last four minutes, the first half, first four minutes,
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  Speaker 1: you can gain a huge advantage in the game. And
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: it paid off for Todd. And it made sense. He said,
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  Speaker 1: if we weren't getting the ball and we were kicking off,
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  Speaker 1: I would have gone for it. Like, okay, you honestly
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  Speaker 1: don't hear that many coaches be that candid about their
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  Speaker 1: thought process. But when it's fourth and four and you're
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  Speaker 1: down 24 to 13, And you are, and listen, I
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  Speaker 1: understand you have punked him for a couple of periods
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  Speaker 1: or a couple of quarters, but there is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a series because at any moment he can hit
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  Speaker 1: a big play. Like, clearly he has that in his
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  Speaker 1: back pocket. And he's proven that throughout his young career
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  Speaker 1: is how well he plays late in these games. Thought
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: you got to be a little more aggressive. And they
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: leave the offense on the field, but it's clearly a,
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: you know, we're going to run it down to a
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: delay a game. call HUD-HUD hike starting at five or
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  Speaker 1: six seconds, and hopefully they'd jump offsides. How about you
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  Speaker 1: run a real play? That was the time that, like,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be aggressive because you'd already thrown a
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  Speaker 1: pick six, but you got all these gifts because these
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  Speaker 1: turnovers kept coming, and he's not. And Todd Bowles is
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  Speaker 1: an elite defensive coordinator. I mean elite. That is as
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  Speaker 1: good of a defensive mind as we have in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: The way he coaches us up, the mentality in which
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  Speaker 1: they play, the violence in which they fly around. The
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  Speaker 1: coaching in that game between Dennis Allen, who's also a
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  Speaker 1: high-end defensive coordinator, we know Ben Johnson is good, and
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  Speaker 1: Todd is really, really good. Problem is Tampa's offense, they
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: have no passing game. It doesn't really exist. Baker hit
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  Speaker 1: Tez Johnson on the deep bomb, but other than that,
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: they basically did nothing. You had no faith whenever they
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  Speaker 1: would drop back to pass. Even as it was off
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  Speaker 1: for the Bears, and they were just discombobulated. Every time
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  Speaker 1: Caleb dropped back to pass, I still expect a first
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  Speaker 1: down throw. As the game went on, I got a
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: text from a buddy that was like, Baker looks like
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: he's not going to make it through this game. He
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: looks exhausted. He looks beaten up. He looks broken down.
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  Speaker 1: Every time a series would end, he's kind of limping,
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  Speaker 1: a little light gallop thing with grimaces on his face.
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  Speaker 1: You go, is this guy okay? Is this guy going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to finish the season? Because Tampa, like
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: Chicago's a playoff team. We know that for a fact.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a good test because they've already lost
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  Speaker 1: a couple division games, right? They got smoked by the
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  Speaker 1: Packers when Caleb was out. They got beat in the
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: Minnesota game at home in the rainstorm when Caleb popped
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  Speaker 1: the hammy. And those two teams, Packers defense, Mike is
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: coming back. Their defense is playing pretty freaking good. And
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: their offense, like the Bears most weeks, is unreal. And
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  Speaker 1: we know Minnesota is just a weird, tough team to play.
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  Speaker 1: And then Detroit, you could just get into a shootout
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  Speaker 1: with them. They're just loaded on offense. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: defensively if they're going to be good enough, but the
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  Speaker 1: division is no joke. So this is a good test
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  Speaker 1: of like, we got to button some things up. Because
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  Speaker 1: if we want to win the division and not be
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: a wild, that was one big advantage for the Bears
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: last year. First playoff game, where was it? Soldier Field.
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  Speaker 1: Even the second playoff game where they, I mean, almost
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  Speaker 1: pulled off a crazy win against the Rams. It's a
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  Speaker 1: lot more difficult to go on the road and play
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  Speaker 1: these games. Not saying they can't. They just proved last
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  Speaker 1: week they went to Seattle, hostile environment, and pulled off
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  Speaker 1: the win. Menungai will be back. Simmons will get more
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  Speaker 1: and more comfortable. But this type game where you really
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: got to figure out some of these blitzes, you are
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: going to face teams like Tampa with the team speed
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: that Caleb just can't run around like a gazelle and
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: just annihilate you. And it also proved like Rome dropped
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: a ball tonight that went right through his hands. Burden
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  Speaker 1: got mollywhopped on that play. Swift got destroyed. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they got pretty lucky tonight that Tampa's offense was so bad.
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  Speaker 1: If they would have played some of these other higher-end
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: NFC teams, given their performance, they would have lost. 100%
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  Speaker 1: would have lost. Kalief Raymond muffed the punt. It, like,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: bounced off him, off his helmet, and somehow it landed
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  Speaker 1: back to him on the ground. So, what a game.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, that was... Sometimes that's healthy. You know, sometimes
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: that's really, really healthy to have a game like that.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: And if you're a good coach, the next couple days
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: are going to be ugly in Chicago's facility. Probably be
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: a little uncomfortable with the offense. Not that Ben hasn't
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: been coaching these guys hard, but when you're kicking ass
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  Speaker 1: and taking names, people are screaming at you. We're human beings.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, guys, calm down. We got this. We got
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  Speaker 1: this big guy. How would these guys not have been
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: saying that and thinking that? Now it's like you kind
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: of got to shut your mouth, put your head down,
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of listen and take notes to whatever
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  Speaker 1: he's saying. Because, you know, Caleb looked human for the
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  Speaker 1: first time in a long time. which is a credit
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  Speaker 1: to Tampa, which is why Tampa should win that division
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: because their defense is incredible. But offensively, it's really, really tough. Now,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: they're lucky they play in the polar opposite of the
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: NFC North, which is loaded, right? I mean, the Bears
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: will see Minnesota tomorrow. Packers will look incredible. And Detroit
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: is just humming along, going to be an 11-12 win team.
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  Speaker 1: It's the opposite. I mean, Atlanta's terrible. Carolina's worse. So,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: you know, Saints somehow won. I mean, this division is just,
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  Speaker 1: it's there to be had, though. You know, you get
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: to 7-10, you probably win it. The other thing, any
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: other crazy things? I mean, there was just, some of
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: my notes was like, they blitzed Caleb on 3rd and 10.
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  Speaker 1: They got him. Then they blocked the punt. They got
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the ball back at the 50, but then they punted,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: and then they got another interception. I said Tampa's defense
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: just makes shit happen. Bears offense is broken. Then Baker
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: throws a pick six. It was 17-13, and Tampa's just
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: right there throwing blows. The Bears defense, I mean, they
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: came through. I mean, Simmons, that one hit he had
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: on Baker looked like a gladiator. when he was elevated
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: in the air parallel to the ground and hit him
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and Baker just flew back. I don't think any guy
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: in the league gets destroyed by two defensive linemen at
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: once like Baker Mayfield. He takes these sacks that just
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: feel more vicious and violent than the majority of quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of quarterbacks he's kind of rolled up on.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Caleb a lot of time will get his cleat you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of fingertipped and he'll fall. Baker's standing there and
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: it's just like a wall of gladiators coming on him.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: And he's almost like, fuck it, I'm just going to
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: take these guys on. He'll just stand there and get destroyed.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Happens over and over. A lot of respect for him.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: His toughness is elite. But man, is he going to
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: be able to get up? Do you think he'll even
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: make it to the plane? Will someone have to carry
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: him to a seat? What a game. I still can't
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: believe Todd Bowles. He just gets so conservative. And Mike Tomlin,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I'm going to red flag this. Mike Tomlin at halftime,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: after Bowles kicked the field goal, Maria Taylor comes to
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: him and was like, Mike, what do you think of
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Todd's decision there? And Mike essentially says that in games
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: like this, you got to like kind of think outside
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  Speaker 1: the box and do extraordinary things. And what he was
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: trying to say is Todd should have gone for a
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: touchdown there instead of a field goal. And I started thinking,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I feel like I've been watching the Steelers
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: on Sunday night and Monday night football for 20 years
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: with Mike Tomlin. And listen, maybe PFF and the stats
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: won't back me up, but I feel like he was
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: as conservative as they come. And if I reversed it
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: and I put Mike Tomlin for the last 18, 19
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: years when he was a Steelers head coach in that situation,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: he's kicking the field goal. Like Mike, let's not act
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: like you're Dan Campbell and going for like some gunslinger
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: on all these fourth downs. And I appreciate it. Like
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Mike's over there saying stuff, but it's like, Are you
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: being a little disingenuous? Because I have literally seen you
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: in that spot with good defenses and average offenses and
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: you would kick the field goal, which I had no
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: problem with. But you came to Mike Tomlin like it
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: was coming to Dan Campbell who just got fired from
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the Lions. Like, I would have gone four on fourth down.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: That's what we did in Detroit forever. Mike, that's not
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: what you did in Pittsburgh. You were conservative. Like, I
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: want Ben Johnson's a good example. Typically, Ben Johnson, I
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: feel like, is a pretty aggressive coach. But tonight, he's
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: playing Baker Mayfield, and their offense is completely struggling. They
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: cannot throw the ball beside the one big pass. Passing
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: game is not a threat. And you could make the
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: argument they did not give it to the Bucky Irving enough.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: He had 20 carries. Probably should have had like 32.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: And there were a couple times when Isaac punted. I
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: feel like he punted in some spots tonight. he normally
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: goes for. Because the game dictates what he does, right?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Which to me is a good coach. The game dictates
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: what he does, right? If you're meeting with somebody, you
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: got to feel out their personality before you just bust
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: out a one-liner, right? You don't want to pull that
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: out and be like, ooh, this probably shouldn't have said that.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: He's going to church tomorrow. That's not going to fly.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: We're not getting that deal. You've got to have a
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: feel for the room. And Ben Johnson, to me, has
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: a feel for the room. Todd, a lot like Mike Tomlin,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: they're going to be conservative. When all else fails, they
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: will lean conservative. And you could argue big picture, if
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: you're defense elite, not a crazy direction to just lean on.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: And against a lot of teams, he probably would have
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: been fine tonight. But you are playing the Bears who
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: at any moment, like the last drive, you bust the covers,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: they can hit a big play because they've got explosive players.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: And Caleb can hit wide open guys. So, I just
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: got to red flag the Tomlin thing. Tomlin acting like
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: he was Mr. Fourth Down over there. Maybe I'm wrong.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Maybe numbers will back me up. But I feel like
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: he was Kingfield goal like Mike. Bro, be aggressive here.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: And he's over there just shitting on Todd Bowles. If
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I was Todd, I might shoot Tom in a text
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and be like, bro, calm down. Calm down, Mr. Media.
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• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Let's dive into the 49ers. And they're now 7-1. They
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: traded for DeForest Buckner, and their defense was awesome today.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Caused multiple fumbles. They must do a Mike Tyson drill
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: at practice because Fred Warner's been doing the peanut punch forever.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: They got other guys on the team now doing it,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and it worked at the goal line. They had several
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: interceptions on Cousins. It wasn't really a fair fight. And
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I think one thing with the 49ers, who, of course,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: on multiple text threads is like, well, can they make
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: it out of the game without an injury? And with
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: four minutes left in a blowout game, they lose this
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: stud defensive tackle, Rookie Halton, who had been awesome so
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: far this season. He gets carded off. I didn't even
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: see the play, but it clearly didn't look good. Air cast,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: we just have to assume, gone for the year. So
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the 49ers, even when things are going really well, you
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: always have that in the back of your mind. Can
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: they make it out of the game without an injury?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I'd say that's a common theme in the sport, but
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: it feels like it affects the 49ers more than just
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: about any team. And you could argue it's a blessing
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: in the sense that you still got a couple days
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: for the trade deadline. And I would imagine the 49ers,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: we got John Harbaugh who's calling everybody. We got the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears who are surely going to be extremely continue
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to be active. I think some of these AFC teams
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: are going to be sniffing around. I do wonder though,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and this is what's going to be telling because they
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: usually say deadlines, you know, create deals. If you look
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: back on last week, right? When the Chicago Bears traded
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: for Jeffrey Simmons, they made an offer. Well, I mean,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: some might say that they couldn't refuse. Others said that
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: they just They were only going to deal with one team.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: They were buddies, and they gave it to them. They
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: gave them two first-round picks. That's a really good deal. Clearly,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the other two, DeForest Buckner and Quentin Nelson, who's now injured,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: are kind of friends doing deals. Both expiring contracts, a
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: little unique. I think the 49ers have to think long
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and hard. You have this group of star players who
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: are older. And you're not going to have a two
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: or three year longer stretch than you have right now.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: You're 7-1. Both your two division rivals have four losses.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: And they haven't even played each other yet. So you
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: just assume, let's just say they split. That's five losses
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: for the Rams and the Seattle Seahawks. And that assumes
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that they win out. So you got a pretty good
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: buffer to win this division pretty, I would say, seamlessly. Football,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: things get weird, but having a three-game stretch where these
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: two teams have to play each other, you feel pretty
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: good about that. And you've already beat them both twice.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: And they both have to come to you. So let's
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: just say, coin flip, you win one of those two games,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: you're in a great position. But this goes back to
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the Ryan Poles thing, when he's like, when we looked
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: at all the teams that had won a Super Bowl,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: they all had a dominant, dominant interior pass rusher. and
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: we needed one. You watch Chris Jones today. I know
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs defense had been struggling against the Jets. When
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: he turns it on, he can look like Reggie White.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: He can look like an unstoppable force. You just can't
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: block the guy. And you can move him all around.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: You can put him over tackles. You can put him
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: over centers. You can put him over guards. He can
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: play up and down the defensive line. He's a lot like,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I actually think J.J. Watt, I listened to a decent
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: amount of that game day, his broadcast. I don't even
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: know what game he was calling. I'm just kind of
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: flipping around the four boxes. JJ was so unique because
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: you could line him up anywhere. And the 49ers just
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: kind of have guys that play specific positions. Now, there
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: aren't really Jeffrey Simmons out there, but I think they've
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: got to be really, really aggressive. And I would quadruple
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: down on the defensive line. Like, I would go all
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: in on that position. You don't need to trade for
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: a wide receiver. And this talk about Cousins and his
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: trade value... I know today was a tough game, but
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I have a hard time seeing anyone trading anything of
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: value for him. And if you're the Raiders, they have
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: been steadfast. And Mark Davis was just on CNBC talking
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: about how much respect he had for Cousins, how good
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: a job he was doing with Fernando. I would be
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: stunned if he's traded. The Raiders are a flawed team.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: They don't really have wide receivers. Their entire offense is
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: predicated on the two tight ends, who are awesome, even
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: though they both fumbled today on back-to-back plays. The running game,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: what happened today with Genting? I mean, in fairness to him,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: every time they hand him the ball, there's like seven
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: people behind the line of scrimmage. He had six carries
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: for 25 yards. I mean, they were killing him. The
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: one thing with Jenty... And listen, the 49ers tackle pretty well.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, Greenlaw and Fred Warner... I mean, Fred's probably
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the best tackler in the NFL for a linebacker. But
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: like you watch Bijan this morning, you just watch some
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: of the good running backs throughout the league. They can
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: break a lot of soft tackles. Like if you're getting
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: squared up by a guy in the NFL, It's going
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to be hard. I don't care if you're Bijon, if
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: you're McCaffrey, if you're Gibbs. But when I have a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: position where I'm one-on-one with you, or we're going to
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: an angle, and you're going to touch me, right? So
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: you're going to have a chance to tackle me. Those
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: guys make a lot of plays in those situations. Jenty
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: does not. When Jenty gets touched, he goes down immediately.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: And that's the one concerning part. And listen, we've... I
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: guess I was going to say we've seen smaller running
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: backs thrive, but they've all had elite skills. I mean,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: you could argue one of the greatest players in the
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: history of the league was Barry Sanders, not a very
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: tall guy. Also built like a tank. If you go
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: way back to Darren Sproles, in his heyday, he ran
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: like a, he was like a rocket ship. He was
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: so explosive and so strong. Genting, to me, just looks
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: like a little running back. And you saw the 49ers
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: guys get around him, it's like, goes down immediately. And
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I think things just pop, right, for the elite talents.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Some guys like Jordan Watkins in the 49er game, he's
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: been on the Niners for several years, been in and
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: out of the training room, been injured a lot, has
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: really gotten his chance to play over the course of
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the last couple games. And has jumped off the television screen.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: He's been awesome. Purdy likes him. Clearly Kyle's starting to
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: like him. And they're throwing him the ball. And he's excelling.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: That's not abnormal. A lot of guys that are mid-round
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: picks take years to finally, and I'm not even saying
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: he's going to have a long career, but to like
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: have a moment. Brock Bowers had no moments. He hit
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the field and immediately dominated. You know, it's like, this
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: guy's something. And what was he? Super high pick. Nick
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Bosa drafted high immediately. Like, holy moly. And I just
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: get really, even McCaffrey back in the day, you just
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: knew it right away. You don't need to box score
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: scout these guys. You can just watch you go. That's something.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I would say right now Ashton Gentry looks like just
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a guy in the NFL. And honestly, compared to some
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: teams that have several running backs, you're like, would he
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: even play for these guys? At the way he's currently operating.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: With his skill set. I don't know if he really would.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Not that explosive. Doesn't break any tackles. It's not all
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: his fault. You go back to Saquon in New York.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: There were a lot of years where it was like, well,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: he's got nowhere to go. But there was the soul
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: alive that knows anything about football that went, you know, it's...
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Saquon just sucks, right? It was like, well, he's got
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: nowhere to go. You could see his talent. You could
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: see the burst. You could see the explosion. And that,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: to me, is what you just don't see with him
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: because it doesn't really exist. It's kind of crazy. So
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the 49ers just destroy the Raiders 7-1 heading into the
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy game where I would guess they're going to
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: be a massive, massive favorite in that game because Cowboys
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: aren't that good. The other game that, I mean, I
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: like the Packers in this spot, but I didn't see
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: this coming. They obliterated the New England Patriots. Jordan Love
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: right now is playing like one of the best quarterbacks
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: in the league. No team in the league, it feels like,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: shoves the ball and just throws bombs as much as
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Green Bay. LeFleur gets a lot of credit. Now, I've
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: been singing his praises now for a couple weeks. Back
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: was against the wall. Everyone was shitting on them. O-line sucked.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: They got thoroughly embarrassed at home on that Thursday night. Hell,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago, they lost a weird game to
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the Lions. And it's like they haven't really flinched. And Parsons,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you know, when he comes back, obviously not this next week,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the following week, Their defensive line really jumps out right now.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: So you add him to that unit, their defense today,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, Drake clearly did not play well. It's enjoyable.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: As someone that grew up in an era of football
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: where if a quarterback put the ball in a compromising spot,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: you would get sent to the hospital. Like, you would
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: get knocked out. So the best quarterbacks had to be very,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: very careful where they placed balls. So when we talk
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: about decision-making, right? Like Brock Purdy's a good decision-maker. Jared
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Goff's a good decision-maker. In this modern game, but they
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: don't really need to worry. There's not a threat of
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: throwing over the middle because half the guys are not
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: going to hit you because they don't want to get
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: a flag. And then the other guys, if they do
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: hit you, it's immediately a 15-yard penalty. And there was
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a play today where... it might have been 33 Williams,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: absolutely decleted a guy in the Patriots. And Brady was
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: offended by the pass. He's like, you just, you can't
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: throw that ball in that spot. And I'm like, Tom, well,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: you were taught that. But in this modern day game,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: there aren't spots you can't throw to because these guys
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: are defenseless. They don't even think like that anymore. And
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: then they immediately throw the flag. Well, it was a
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: clean hit. It just was a violent hit. And that's
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: one thing that pisses me off about football in 2026.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: College and pro. When there is a violent collision, the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: official just throws the flag. It's just immediate flag. It's like,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: this is football. This is a collision sport. That guy's
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: job is to tackle this guy. But you got to
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: be careful about tackling. And you better do it right
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: or you're going to get a 15-yard penalty. And they
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: picked it up, and as the game went on, Brady
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: just kept saying, he is the turnover-worthy plays. This guy is, like,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: you watch Jordan Love play today, and you watch Drake May,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: he's just throwing to the other team all the time.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, he had three interceptions in the first half.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, at one point in time, it was 24-7.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: To have it 24-7 in a game where your quarterback's
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: throwing a bunch of picks... And Tom Brady's showing back
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: up to Foxborough, gets a standing O. Gronk's getting a celebration. Edelman,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: bunch of guys. It's a really big moment. It's a
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: big game. It's like a playoff level game. You're a
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: playoff team. They're a playoff team. And, you know, they
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: end up scoring again. It's 24-14. But they were kind
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: of in it. But you're like, I don't think they
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: can stop them. And they couldn't. Because I'll take the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: L on this one. They gave Christian Watson the contract
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: this offseason. It was like, God. I love the guy's speed,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and I know he stretches the field, and I know
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: he makes a bunch of big plays, but can you
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: depend on him? He has been... It's not Jefferson's fault,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: but he looks like Justin Jefferson or something. I mean,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: he's just an unstoppable player. He has elite speed. He's
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: going to be faster than every DB he goes against.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: And he just makes play after play after play. And
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: obviously the go routes and the post routes, if he
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: gets a step and Jordan puts it on him, which
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: he's been doing all season long, it's going to be fireworks.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: But to me, it's like the stuff across the middle
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: of the field. It's the out routes. It's like the
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: complete game. And then you throw in Golden with him,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: who's an all-time fantasy pickup by your boy. Those two
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: guys with Jordan Love, it's like, yeah, we can't really
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: run the ball. We don't care. It doesn't matter. As of,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: they actually, Caleb Johnson had 68 yards. They ran for
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: 129 yards somehow. I mean, about seven different guys had runs.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Jacobs got banged up because of his hand on the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: stiff arm. But their offense right now, I don't feel
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: like there's anything quite like it in the league. Because
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: when he goes back, he wants to throw a bomb.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: And more than likely, he's going to throw a bomb.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: And there's a decent chance, unless Golden drops it, they
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: are going to complete a lot of these. You know,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: part of the reason I think fans, and I'm guilty
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: of this, why don't they go deep more often? Because
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: the deep ball is not viewed as a high completion pass.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: It's extremely low. Right? Very, very low. Yet, and I
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: don't have the stats in front of me, but it
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: feels like the completion percentage right now when they push
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the ball downfield is extremely high. And a large percentage
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: of these guys' touchdowns are coming on like 15, 20-yard-plus
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: throws in the air. It's remarkable. I mean, they look
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: fucking good. They look really, really good. Like, listen, the
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: 49ers are good. They played the Raiders who are on
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: a playoff team. At home, off a bye. It's why
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I like the Niners and the points. It was like,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: this is a good spot for them. This game was
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: on the road, big spot. I like the Packers, but
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's going to be a tough game. It's
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: going to be a slugfest. No, it's not going to
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: be a slugfest. It's going to be, we're going to
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: score on you at will. We are going to embarrass you.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: And all these people that wanted LeFleur fire are going
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, we're doing a really good job.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: You know, him and Jordan Love, great rapport, great connection,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: great play calling. Think how many teams want their play
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: caller fired. Michigan just fired the play caller who's like
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: the highest paid OC in college. And they're all excited.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Now they want the head coach fired. It's the nature
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: of the sport. Ryan Day losing, fire him. Sirianni. fire him! Harbaugh,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: fire him! I'm not acting like I'm above it. I
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: love it when people in the media are like, I'm
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: not one to say it should cost him his job.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: It's like, shut the fuck up. This is football. We're
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: not saying they should fire the coach's assistant who's taking
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: his phone calls making $ 75K. We're like, yeah, the coach
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: making $ 10 million sucks. He's highway robbery. These are grown-up conversations.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: You know, people in corporate America, CEOs of public companies,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: when the stock doesn't perform, you get canned. I mean,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: it's just a nature of the beast. It's cutthroat. Part
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: of the world we live in. So I have zero,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: zero hesitation saying like, yeah, this guy might need to go.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of coming around on Jim Harbaugh. But LeFleur,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: like I did understand, like it's getting kind of weird.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: He shut everybody up. And they got a ton of momentum.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Today was really, really impressive. That was fun to watch.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: It really was. Let me tell you about my good,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: good friends at Captain Morgan. Because I want you to
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: make the captain a feeling. Not a mascot, but a movement.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: The switch you flip when the night hesitates, instilling Captain
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: While You Can as the instinct that overrides autopilot. Captain
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: is the adventurous spirit that cuts through hesitation, leading the
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: way into uncharted territory. That gut feeling that says, we're
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: all here together. So why not? It's now or never. So,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Captain while you can is about turning hesitation into action,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: getting people to stop overthinking and just go for it, baby.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: It positions captain as the trigger that starts the moment,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: not just something you bring to it. Speaking of coaches fired,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: you could convince me today that the chargers had a, uh, 1-2-3,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: trade me please. 1-2-3, we quit. 1-2-3, we hate it here. 1-2-3,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: this is worse than Brandon Staley. The Brandon Staley era
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: ended in memorable fashion. They got blown out by the
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Raiders on a Thursday night game. It was like 100-0.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, literally, I think it was like 68-10 or something.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: It was a crazy score. And Staley and Telesco were
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: fired the next morning. Now, it had been building, right?
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Staley was over his head. It wasn't going well. This
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: feels equally as bad, if not worse. And if Jim
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Harbaugh's name was Jim Middlecoff or, you know, Bill Johnson,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: just a random coach, I think he probably would have
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: already been fired. And he definitely might get fired after
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: this game. But he's Jim Harbaugh. And his resume is
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: really impressive. And he makes a ton of money. And
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: I've said all along, I don't know. I have a
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: hard time seeing them firing him. I can't see them
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: trading Justin Herbert. You watch games like today, you go,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: I wonder if everything's on the table. This is a debacle.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: There was a play late in that game. The Texans scored,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I think, to make it. 30-9. Then they scored again
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: to make it 37-9. Then the Chargers scored a couple
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: of useless touchdowns. Looked like guys stopped. Looked like guys
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: just tapped out. And listen, when things are going rough,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: I wasn't immune to this when I was young. If
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: you're part of an organization, a company, an office, and
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: things are going really, really bad, if You think you're
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: going to get laid off if a company's going under.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: It's easy to, people mail it in. Welcome to society.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: We're dealing with human beings. These aren't AI robots, right?
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: So if you're getting your ass kicked, I don't care
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: who you play for, you might not give the same effort.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Because you go, well, they wouldn't do that for Saban.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Or they wouldn't do that for Belichick. Well, how many
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: times those guys were their teams involved in ass kickings?
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Not many. It never happened. So week after week after
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: week of getting your teeth kicked in, sometimes you just
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: wave the white flag. And once you wave the white flag,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: it can get really, really ugly in football. Because you
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: can't half-ass it. It's impossible. You can go through the
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: motions in a basketball game. You can definitely go through
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: the motions in a baseball game. You can't really do
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: it in a football game without getting exposed and spotted on...
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: On film, on TV. It's just so evident and obvious.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: And you're watching today, you're going, uh, uh, uh, that's
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: kind of Jim sound. Uh, it's like this thing, this
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: is a wrap. You might need to send a nuclear
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: bomb into this and blow the whole thing up. So
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I know they've been adamant. We're not trading any, we're
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: not trading Khalil Mack. I've even said like, I'd be
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: stunned if they trade Herbert. At this point in time,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: the next couple days with the Chargers, nothing will shock me. Nothing.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Because the Texans, who are 2-5, had a really rough year.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Looked like they're a future Super Bowl champ. I mean,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: they even break a sweat? That was Herbert's running around
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: like a chicken with his head cut off. Either getting sacked,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: throwing interceptions, getting crushed. Every single game, he's on the
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: sideline getting work done because he's getting killed. He's playing
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: like crap. Their offensive skill guys just kind of stand there.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Offensive line can't block a soul. I've been watching the
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Chargers for a long time living on the West Coast.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, a long time. The amount of Charger, Raider,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Niner games I've seen in my lifetime over the last
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: 30 years, you know, before I started getting these direct,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: I guess it's YouTube TV or whatever, the package. For
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: most of my life, I just watched the local games, right?
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, that was a world I grew up in.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: You just watch the games that were on television. And
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: the games that were on television were a lot of
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Charger games, a lot of Raider games, A lot of
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: 49er games. And the Raiders took a lot of shit
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: for a long time because they used to look like
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: that under Al Davis and toward the end of Al
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Davis and then early on in Mark Davis' tenure. That's
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: what the Chargers are. That's where they feel like they're going. Nowhere.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: And it's getting really, really bad. I'll promise you this.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Never lived in LA. I've never even lived in Southern California.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: But I got a pretty good beat on those people.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: I went to college with a lot of them. I
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: know many that live there now. I have spent some
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: time there over the last three or four years for
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: weeks on end doing Colin's show, around the community, rubbing
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: elbows with the people. They like a winner. I mean,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: they like this Laker team. That's why they like Kobe
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: and Shaq. That's why they like the Dodgers. One, no
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: one cared to begin with, but if you're going to
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: play like this, no one's going to pay attention. And
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: is it getting worse before it gets better? Because there
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: is no getting better this year. Like you can blame
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel. Like this feels bigger than him. This feels
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: like organizationally, you know, has Jim lost it? Which is
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: crazy to say, but it feels like overnight, like he
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: got no pulse on his team and they've quit on him.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: What else happened today? I don't ever remember a player.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: who has been involved in situations that have knocked other
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: players out for the season. Remember when Mahomes' leg went
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: two different directions? Today, Mahomes, on a throw, I'm sure
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: many have seen the highlight or are watching the game,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: got his arm hit right as he was throwing. Same
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: thing that happened to Brock Purdy a couple years ago.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Brock Purdy needed elbow surgery, and because it was the offseason,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: was out until the middle of training camp. If that
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: would have happened week one, he would have missed the
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: entire season. So when I saw Mahomes do that, I went,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: oh my God. He just tore his UCL. His season's over.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs are done. Because that's the way he acted,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: and that's the way it looked. Then he gets to
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: the sideline. He kind of shakes it off, asks for
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: a football, starts throwing. Next series, he's back. And then
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: they never look back. And they beat the living piss
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: out of the Jets, who early on I started thinking, like,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: are the Jets the best 3-14 team in league history?
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Because they got a bunch of offensive skill guys. They
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: got David Bailey running off the edge. And then they
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: just became a really bad team. And Kenneth Walker and
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey look good today. And Mahomes just somehow, he's just,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: he's a Gumby. You can't injure him. You cannot hurt him. Like,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: it takes, it's... kind of crazy looking back, but it
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: actually isn't. Guy tore his ACL and was back working
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: out during like OTAs. I mean, think about that. Like
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: he was out of practice at OTAs. Some people just
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: recover faster. I don't know what to say. This goes
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: back to Adrian Peterson and some guys have an injury
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: and it ruins their entire career. There's no way to
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: quantify it. There's no way to understand it. It's just
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: the makeup, I guess, of our bodies, our ligaments. If
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: that happens to most NFL players, they're done. Done. Not him.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: He's fine. It's like Sam Darnold gets some of these
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: random injuries like the hip, now the quad. I feel
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: like Mahomes would be like day to day. I mean,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't miss a game. It has nothing to do
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: with pain tolerance or toughness. It's like, yeah, my body
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: just recovers overnight. It's wild. But the other thing with
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, I mean, I guess Andy, to start his
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: press conference after the game, addressed Butker and said, don't
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: ask me any questions. I'm going to deal with it.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: I don't have anything to tell you guys. But at halftime,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Butker missed a kick, but there was an offsides. Of course,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: there was the Jets. Then he missed the kick again.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: And I think it was Tracy Wolfson asked Andy what
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: he needs to see from Butker. And he says, it'd
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: go through the uprights. And he just walked off. I mean,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: he was like kind of smiling. It was kind of crazy.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: I guess it makes sense. They bring in Justin Tucker
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: to the practice squad. Tucker's just on the sideline walking around.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Gotta be a little weird. It's like if you think
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: you're coaching or playing for your job and Carly Ursae
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: is just standing there during the game, gotta be a
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: little weird vibe. Like you just work with humans. You
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: ever worked in an office with your boss hanging over
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: your shoulder? It's not easy to do, right? You ever
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: try to do something with anyone knows this as a parent,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: like do something with the baby and your wife's staring
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: at you. It's like, am I screwing up? Am I
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: doing the wrong thing? You didn't give me the handbook.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. And this Butker thing,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: my guess, I think it's hard for them because they've
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: been through so many games, been on the team for
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: so long. Sometimes you just lose it. Like sometimes it
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: happens in baseball with pitchers. It happens in basketball with guys' legs.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: And it clearly just happens with kickers, right? It's not
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: like his kick is going, a 50-yard field goal is
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: going 30 yards. Like his leg doesn't work. No, his
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: leg works. He just can't make it happens. I know
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: a bunch of people in golf to get the driver yips,
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: the chipping yips, it gets in your head and kicking is,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: you know, a rare profession where the majority of time
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: in your job, you're just standing there and thinking about
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: what you have to do. And it's a tiny, tiny
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: percentage of time that you actually have to do said job, right? The,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: Even at practice, you don't even do that much. But
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: when the games come, the only thing that matters is
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: can you make the kicks. And currently, Butker just simply
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: cannot make the kicks. Which doesn't matter when you're playing
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: the Jets. Doesn't matter at all when you're playing the Jets.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: But it will matter if you're playing the Bills. It
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: will matter if you're just playing real games against other
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: real teams. And it wouldn't stun me at all if
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: by the time you're listening or watching this, that Butker
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: has been relieved of his duties and released. Which I think,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: you know, this is where Coach Reed's really good at
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: this type stuff. And he's very loyal. You know, I mean,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: look at the loyalty to guys that produce. I mean,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: this is a bottom line business. But the loyalty he's
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: shown to Kelsey, they gave him a big contract after
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: a terrible year. You know, the loyalty he's had to
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Chris Jones, again, great player, but There's no thought of
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: moving on from him. Hell, I thought last offseason, like,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: you know, I'd probably trade Chris Jones. Chiefs didn't. When
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: I was at the combine talking, they wouldn't even entertain it.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: It's not even a thought that crosses their front office's mind.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: We're not trading this guy. We're not getting rid of
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: this salary. We don't care. We want him on our team.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: What he means to us. And I think there's been
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: probably a longer leash with Butker. Because of the way
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: that their natural loyalty is the core group. I do
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: feel like today that leash might have broke. And maybe
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: he gets another week because it didn't cost him anything.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: And it also depends what does Justin Tucker look like?
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: You know, roaming around at practice hitting field goals. Only
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: they know because the media doesn't come out to practice
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: during the season. But it feels like the end of
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: the road. As Boyz II Men once said. Giants-Eagles. What up?
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is the other thing with modern quarterbacks.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Back to Brady and the hospital balls. Historically, guys, there
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: was a small percentage of guys that ran, right? So
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: if you were a running quarterback, like when I was
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: a kid, it was like Steve Young, Randall Cunningham. Most
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: guys didn't run. So if they did, they would just
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: hit the ground. They never wanted to risk it because
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: you also could get killed. Now we see a bunch
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: of guys that it's like, bro, you need to get
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: on the ground. And we've seen that with Jackson Dart
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: over the course of his short time in the NFL.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: It's like, man, this is not, you're not playing Vanderbilt here.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: You have to be very, very careful of being a
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: little more cautious with your body because your body, if
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: you play well, will pay everyone in this building on
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: the team. The coaching staff, the front offices, mortgages for
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: the next decade plus. 15 years. People will build remodels
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: and second homes because of you and your body. That
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: is the pressure on you. Well, he gets injured. JJ
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: comes in. JJ and Jackson Dart have some similarities. Both
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: a little reckless. And JJ today, when he got injured,
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: he just... He like lowered his shoulder and then turned
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: his body. It's like, bro, this is, I get the
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Eagles are down bad, but they got a lot of
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: guys on defense that will shatter your insides. And that's
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: what it looked like had happened. And then all of
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: a sudden, Jameis comes in. Jameis actually played pretty well.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: I think he went like six or seven of eight,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: threw a touchdown. Like Jameis, perfect role for Jameis is,
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: now he's got some reps. So like when he came
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: in in the Rams game, He was so rusty, he
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: couldn't have looked any worse. Definitely feels like he's got
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: a better flow, probably understands the offense better. Comes in,
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: perfect guy. If your quarterback goes down for a quarter
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: or two or a game, throw in Jameis. You're like,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking, did he just shatter ribs, spleen, insides? Is
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: he going to, they're going to have to put him
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: on injured reserve. Then all of a sudden I look up,
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: he comes storming out, high-fiving his offensive linemen. And I went,
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: you know the easiest, quickest way to create a bond,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: I mean a true bond, with a member of the
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Harbaugh family, the easiest way to do it is to
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: show them that you're tough. The toughness factor for that
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: family to me will go longer than any physical attribute
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: you may have playing football. When he did that and
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: came back out, I went, John's going to really like
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: this guy. John's going to feel validated in not just
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: the move acquiring him, but the type guy that they got.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: A guy that I can go to war with. A
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: guy that will play injured. Because when he went to
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: the sideline and tried to throw the warm-up throw, and
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: as the ball left his hand, he immediately cringed. I mean,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: probably almost buckled to his knees. Because of whatever that
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: pain was. And listen, it's pretty clear he went into
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: the locker room and got a shot of something, of
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: the good stuff. And came out and played right through it.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: And then because they're playing the Eagles, who have lost
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: seven straight games, and I saw a stat today that
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: if Joe Milton didn't run the ball, I think he
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: ran for like 65 yards, had a couple nice runs,
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: pretty good athlete. They averaged a little over two and
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: a half yards. If you remove his runs, their average
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: yard per play on an offensive play was like 2.6 yards.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: We made so much fun of this offense with Jalen
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Hurts over the last couple years. It is way worse
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: without him. And I don't blame the Eagles for benching
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: McKee and going with Joe Milton. Like, what are their moves?
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: What else can they do? Like, some of you guys
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: with great hair, you can do so much different shit.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: You can slick it back. You can spike it up.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: You can cut it short. You can highlight it. You
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: got a lot of different options that look a lot
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: of different ways. I got none of those. I have
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: one pitch. I'm bold. And if I grow it out,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: it looks like a cul-de-sac. It's an impossible look to rock.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: I have one look and it's shaving my head every
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: couple days. That's all I got. It's the only pitch
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: I got. It's like the Eagles got nothing. They got
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: no other pitches. This is it. I mean, the best
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: player on the field today, Arvel Reese. You know, it's funny.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Ohio State's getting crushed. It's like, This is the Transfer
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: Portal NIL era. I don't care how good your that.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Look how many guys they've just lost the NFL over
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: the last two years, but they just lost Arvell Reese
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: who in an NFL game had 10 tackles and three
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: sacks and his hit on Milton, which is your classic,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: probably why Milton never plays. Because the guy's coming, and
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: I guess Kayvon Thibodeau said after the game, he screamed
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: at Joe Milton, you're going to get lit up on
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: this play. They all knew it was coming. He's got
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: no clue it's coming. Your classic just wasn't a blind side.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, he could see it. It was from the
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: right tackle side, untouched. I mean, it's hard as you
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: can get hit. That guy looks like, man. I mean, what?
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, was he 20, 21 years old? The talent
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: in that body is immense. The Eagles are just screwed.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: You just got to ride it out, suck, and retool.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: I just don't think they're getting offered anything for any
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: of these players. You never know with Howie. Could he
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: do some crazy trade for Jordan Davis or Jalen Carter?
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Those would have huge financial ramifications because they just gave
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: those guys big contracts. So I have a hard time
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: seeing it, but he's done crazier things than before. The
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: other thing is someone's got to take the phone away
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: from John because... I think John's motivated by a couple
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: of things. One, he's a football coach. He wants to win.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: He has a team that at this point in time,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, the commanders, no team, worst late game team
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: in the history of football. Eagles might not win another game.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: And the Cowboys are just, I'd be lying if I
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: said I was super locked in on that game, but
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: not shocking at all that they were in a barn
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: burner with the Colts, who have literally traded two or
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: three of their best players, have a quarterback who stinks,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: and a running back who probably wants to get traded,
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: afraid to say it, and still might get traded. Weird spot.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: And a coach that is a dead man walking. And
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys, we're going toe-to-toe with them today. I mean,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: no one was stunned. I didn't put any cash on
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: the game. Just because it's like, I take the Colts
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: plus six, but that was the play. I'm just staying
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: away from this thing. But we're winning this division by
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: a couple games. We're going to cruise to this thing.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: But I just don't think the Giants are in position
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: to trade a second round pick for Jonathan Taylor. And
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: I like Jonathan Taylor. But what does it tell you
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: that they were the only team in the league that
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: offered that? But you're not a player away. You've got
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: good running backs. I know Scadaboo's banged up right now,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: but your team's fine. If you can find some diamond
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: in the rough deal for a fourth rounder at some position, okay.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: But to me, year one, and this is the problem
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: with making coaches the boss of everything. He does not care.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: I was listening to Bill Simmons talk to Doc Rivers.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Doc Rivers just, he, he, he, and he was talking
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: about other sports and he, he's like, everyone hypes up picks.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: Picks are important. Picks are very important. It's the longevity
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: of your franchise. And it's not just, well, we, we
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: don't have our first round pick this year. It's the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: flexibility that pick allows you to have. You can trade up,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: you can trade back to get cheaper labor. So if
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: you get Jonathan Taylor for like a, Third round pick
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: and you're a playoff team. Okay. But a second round pick,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: a couple bad things could happen. All of a sudden
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: you win eight games. Like this team is not good
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: enough to be fishing around in those waters. And I
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: think most general managers who ran this team would be
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: pretty deliberate, would be just slow and cautious. John's like
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: on the Autobahn right now in a Ferrari, you know,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: thinking he's fucking going to lap Lewis Hamilton. It's like, well,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: just tap the brakes, my man. But there's no one
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: there to have him tap the brakes. And with every win,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: it just gains a little juice. And this is, listen,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: you can make fun of Joe Shane all you want.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: His job is hard. The job of having a guy
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: making that much money with that big of an ego
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: and has accomplished that much and try to tell him like, yeah,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think this is a good idea. We've all
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: been in these spots where you're in a meeting and
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: And you are way lower on the food chain than
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: the other guy. But you want to come out and
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: like more than just give your suggestion, like truly give
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: your opinion. Just be like, this is stupid. But it's like,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable saying that. And that's probably the
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: position he's in. Where he's just not comfortable going, this
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: is a, we got to pump the brakes here a
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: little bit. The Giants are liable to do anything over
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: the next couple days. Because of that man. The picks
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: are his, and if you will pick up his phone call,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: he will trade you. One thing I will say about
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: the Rams in Denver, who went to Carolina and who
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: went to Washington and got wins, anytime you go west
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: to east and you play that early kickoff game and
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: you get a win, no style points. Get a win
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: and get out of there. And for the Rams... The
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: last play of the game, they ran this end around
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: to Puka, who just... Puka had 19 targets today. Matt
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: Stafford had 43 pass attempts. He basically had half the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: pass attempts go to Puka. He is a dominant player.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: And he injured his knee. I mean, they say they
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: fear it's... They were confident. They're not fearing it to
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: be an ACL. I'm trying to think how exactly it
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: was worded. I wouldn't re-watch the play because, I mean,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: like most people didn't notice. That's pretty scary. If Puka
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: Nakua is injured for a foreseeable amount of time, that
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: would be dead. They're fucked. Simply put, they are done.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: He is their offense. They throw to him every play.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: And it makes sense. I throw to him every play too.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: Can't be stopped. So, and I know it's easy. It's like,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: It's like the 49ers. Why is the guy in the game? Well,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: you only have so many players. Someone has to play.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: Why are you doing that to Puka? I don't know.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: We thought it would work. We didn't intend on him
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: getting injured. What if I just handed it to Kieran
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: Williams or Blake Corum? They could get their leg snapped.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: It's football. It happens. He got hit in the knee
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: and kind of didn't look good. I mean, no way
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: around it. So on a day that should have been
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: pretty celebratory, You go east. Washington's actually a sneaky, decent,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: bad team. The defense has been playing pretty good. And
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: you get a win. Miles Garrett comes back. I think
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: he had three sacks. Every time I looked up, I
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: had them on the smaller TV. As the game was
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: going on, you just felt 95. You're like, geez, he
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: looks good. And when it was nut cutting time, he
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: was teeing off. One of his sacks, he came from inside.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: He ran like a little Euro step. I'm like, geez,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: he looks good. Fresh legs, for sure. Some of these
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: other guys he's playing, a little heavier legs. They've been
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: playing half a season. But holy moly. If you told
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: me that version's back with Puka healthy, the Rams were
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: going to be a problem. But you remove Puka, even
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: if you add Miles, that is devastating. And I'm as
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: big of a Puka fan as anyone you'll meet. He is...
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: He's everything I'd want in a football player in terms
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: of his playing style, his physicality, how reliable he is,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: just how versatile he is, how tough he is. That sucks.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: And Denver, your classic Denver game, you know, it felt
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: like they should just hammer him early. Bo throws a
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: terrible red zone pick. And you're like, this game's getting weird.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: Then it's 14-13 and the Panthers are driving. You're like,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: they're going to lose? And then Bryce is making plays,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: getting comfortable. What is going on? You're really just going
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: to lose this game and let Bryce Young slice and
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: dice you? And then the craziest interception I've ever seen.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: Because it looked like an incomplete pass. The play was over.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: They came back from break. Sean Payton had challenged it.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: The guy that picked it didn't even know he intercepted it.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Bounced off a guy's hand. I think he clearly thought it.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: Bounced off the ground. Challenge it. Win it. Bo leads
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: him right down on a touchdown drive. Leads him on
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: another touchdown drive. And it's just like, the final score
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: is a little closer than what I witnessed in the
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: second half. Denver took over. And then Benito ended the game.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: But that was, I guess you just gotta live with
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: the bad thing. You know, Bo's gonna do something dumb
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: He's going to make some bad plays, but once they
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: got that interception, he flipped a switch. And listen, I mean,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: there are some teams right now, Denver, the Packers, the Niners,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: Chiefs kind of got their swag back a little bit today.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was the Jets. But, I mean, Denver's 7-2.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: What are the Packers right now? The Packers are 6-3, but, God,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: they feel– They feel closer to the 49ers at 7-1
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: than they do even Seattle at 5-4. Seattle's defense is good,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: but offensively, without Sam, today was a little bit of
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: a struggle. Could definitely run the ball, it feels like,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: out of a little more juice with Price and Charbonnet back.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: The Cardinals, there's no, wasn't a snowball's chance in hell
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: they were going to go up to Seattle and win
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: a game with Gardner Minshew zero. But you know, if
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: once drew lock was starting a couple of days ago,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: you're like, okay, this game could get weird. It did
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: kind of get weird. I do appreciate like, it's funny.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: People want things out there, right? Um, Who wants the
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor the Giants tried to get him? Probably the
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: Giants want him to be known. I'm not trying to
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: source guess, but my guess is that John Harbaugh and
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: Jay Glazer talked. Because John's trying to land some people
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: and he can't get a deal done. And he's pissing
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: them off. Who do you think told Jay Glazer that
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: they tried to get Trey McBride over the weekend? Or
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: over the last couple days? Maybe it was going on
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: last week. Sean Payton. And I don't blame them. I'd
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: want Sean Payton too. And I'd say this if you're
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals. You're going nowhere. It's not like this guy,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: you know, this isn't like having, I don't even know
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: a good analogy. Like, you know, when they gave Kobe
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: contracts at the end just because they were terrible, but
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: they needed people. Like, whether you have Trey McBride or
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: not does not change the business of your franchise. So, yeah,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: if Sean McVay tried to get him for like two
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: twos or something, of course not. But what did he
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: offer you? You're telling me you wouldn't trade McBride for
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: multiple ones? Your team is going nowhere fast. You have
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: no future. You're in a division with three of the elites.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: Your owner sucks. So I totally understand Sean and the Broncos.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: Who knows? Maybe these people are just... I mean, why not?
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: What else you got going on? Like the same thing
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: with Jonathan Taylor. I understand a little bit more with
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: the running back because you can just hand him the
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: ball 20, 25 times a game. But you do need someone. Like,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: you just have a new coach in Arizona. Like, LeFleur's
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: not getting fired, you wouldn't think. Obviously, everyone in Indy's
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: going to get fired. You want some people there. At least, hey, listen.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Whatever our minimum price is on Jonathan Taylor. I've heard
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: Pellisaro say that they want, like, the McCaffrey or Breer.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: It's like the two, the three, the four, and the five.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: I think the 49ers gave him the two, three, and four,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: and then a five the following year, which was a
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: lot at the time. And clearly the market for Jonathan
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: Taylor is not near what people think it probably should be.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: But like, what are you willing to give him up for?
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Because no one's giving you a first round pick. Would
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: you give him for a two and a three? Or
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: is his value to you to have on the team
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: in the offseason so you get credible people go, yeah,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: there's something there. Because if you just have no players,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: this Daniel Jones situation that's impacting your cap, defense stinks.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: Who would want that job? Probably not many people. So
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: I do understand if the owner is the one saying
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: we are under no circumstances can we not at least
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: feel like we got a good haulback. I get that.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: And listen, I understand Arizona telling him no. But what
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: was he offering? Because to me, it'd be like give
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: me two ones and a two, I'd have to think
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: long and hard for it. Because I'm going to win
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: five games. I suck last year. I suck every year.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: So at least if I get multiple picks, maybe I
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: have the chance to fire my general manager and kind
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: of reset the franchise. Not much to say in the
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: Lions game. They covered, but it was... The Dolphins play hard.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: I'll say this. The Dolphins do play hard. Let me
• 1:12:48
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• 1:12:59
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• 1:13:05
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• 1:13:09
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• 1:13:13
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• 1:13:17
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• 1:13:21
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• 1:13:26
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• 1:13:30
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• 1:13:34
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• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: We can end on a couple quick college things. Yesterday,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: one of the viral videos, probably around lunchtime where I'm at,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: maybe even, I guess it was earlier, probably like a
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: little brunch, is Lane Kiffin, whenever he walks into the
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: stadium at LSU, he always has famous people around him, right?
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: And this week, Shaquille O'Neal went to LSU. Angel Reese,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: Paul Skeens, LSU. You get people that went to the
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: school Livy, Paul's girlfriend. Totally get it. But what I
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: don't quite understand is you bring Kevin Costner, who is
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: from Southern California, who's obviously, you know, acted his whole life,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: who went to, I'm pretty sure he went to, like,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: he didn't go to college. He went to, you know,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: theater school. He's a theater kid. He has no relation
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: to LSU. So you just wanted someone really famous. And
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: then you paint Alabama's locker room pink. Which you're messing
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: with them. Okay. But like, is Kirby Smart doing that
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: type of stuff? Which, again, if you're going to be
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: a circus, if you're going to be a reality television show,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: it's cool on TV if you get big ratings, right?
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: In football, all that stuff is fun and games until
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: you start losing. And they gave Lane $ 90 million. They
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: paid Brian Kelly, whatever, $ 50, $ 60 million to go away.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: And they paid his roster like $ 40, $ 45 million. One
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: of the highest paid rosters in the country. Which I
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: think the way they had to do it, because they
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: don't exactly have multi-billionaires cutting them check, I think they're
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: using like taxpayer money. And then you play Alabama against
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: Kalen DeBoer, and you go, listen, it's not easy to
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: replace Nick Saban. And it's been rocky. Because the standard
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: was so high I mean, it's like replacing Steve Jobs
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: or Jeff Bezos. Like, good luck. Much easier to place
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: the CEO at Mr. Pickles, the local sandwich shop. Like,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: Kalen DeBoer's job was basically impossible because there was no
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: way he was going to match that. Yet he's done
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: a pretty freaking good job. He's beat Kirby multiple times.
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  Speaker 1: He went to the SEC Championship last year. He won
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: a playoff game on the road last year. And this
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: year he scores 21 unanswered in the second half and
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: wins 31-13. And Lane Kiffin's resume now looks very, very
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: similar to James Franklin, who everyone makes fun of as
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: a guy that can never win a big game. But
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: somehow Lane's branding, because of the reality television show and
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: the circus element to his whole thing, Kind of absolves
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: him from the way we talk about some of these
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: other coaches that can never get over the hump. And
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking to national championships. I'm just talking win
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: big games. At home. I remember Kalen Dubourne. who I'm
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: pretty sure was 3-0 against Dan Lanning, beat him twice
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: in his last season at Washington, once in the Pac-12
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: championship game, where he was like an 8.5, 9-point underdog.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: He was not supposed to win the game. Nobody thought
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: he was going to win the game. Then he went
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: out and dominated the game. Then he played Texas in
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: the first round of the playoffs, where he was also
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: an underdog against Sark and Quinn Ewers, and he won. So, DeBoer,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: who is not Nick Saban, has a resume of winning
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: Kirby Smart. He's beat a lot of teams that people
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: thought he wasn't going to win. Then you get Lane Kiffin,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: who never wins big games, and then also loses games
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: that he's favored to win at home. He did it
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: at Ole Miss. He's doing it again at LSU. So,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: in on the road, lose to Kentucky, who's not bad,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: but we just saw Kentucky play Tennessee and get the
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: crap kicked out of them. So it's going to be fascinating.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: Like what he did at Ole Miss was historic. The
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: team had never won back-to-back seasons of 10 games. So
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: they were happy to have his services. But when you
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: go to LSU and the standard is minimum, we want
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: to be competing for final fours. It's like all philip
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: river is going to be the next coach at nc
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: state and there's going to be a lot of people
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: that's like this is crazy how are you hiring a
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: guy that's never even coached in college we get he
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: played but he's been coaching in high school it's like
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: guys he's not taking over notre dame he's not taking
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: over ohio state he's not taking over bama or georgia
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: NC State has been in existence playing football for over
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: 120 years. They have won, let me repeat, one 10-win season.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: This is not some dominant football program. Honestly, it's probably
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: average at best and more than likely considered below the
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: rest of the national landscape. It's like when Colorado took
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: a chance on Deion. It's fucking Colorado. So, yeah, it
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: was a no-brainer move for them. Just like NC State
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: taking Phillip Rivers. Obviously, he played there. But even if
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: he didn't have a son coming with him, I'd be like,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: hell yeah, do that. And do you know what else
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: matters in this day and age? The ability to drum
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: up money from people around the program. That really matters.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: Because all these players cost a lot of money. Your
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: coaches cost a lot of money. Lane Kiffin has like
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: 84 people on his coaching staff and personnel staff. And
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: just football staff. I think it's the biggest staff in
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: the entire country. But the momentum he had coming into
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: that job is like, got a bunch of money. That
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: matters in this day and age. Like Oregon, they got
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: Nike money. Texas Tech now is Cody Campbell. Some of
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: these programs, Ohio State must have a bunch of rich guys. Indiana,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: Mark Cuban and all these other billionaire guys cutting them checks.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: So the money factors in. And the problem for Lane
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: is there's a lot of hype and flash and reality
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: TV vibe, but there's not much substance. And the thing
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: with football, more than most of our jobs, like a
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: lot of you guys, if you get quarterly quotas you
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: got to hit, but you got a little time between,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: you know, okay, I got another five weeks till the end.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: I got a little time. In football, once the season starts,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: every fucking week you're judged. Every freaking week you are judged.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: Most of us are not, right? I mean, technically as
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: a podcaster or TV host or, you know, in kind
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: of this bit, entertainer, maybe it's numbers, downloads, views, whatever.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: But there's nothing more concrete. Like, it's kind of, I
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: would say, more fluid how it's determined good or bad.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: In sports, it's very black and white. You won or
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: you lost. And holy moly, he loses a lot of these.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, holy moly. That's why Notre Dame. It did
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: not matter how it was going to look, and they
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: were kicking their ass early, and then Mensah and his
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: buddy that he brought from Duke started lighting them up
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: like Christmas tree. And you're watching, you're going, listen, there's
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: no style points in this game. If you're Marcus Freeman,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: whether you win by seven, whether you win by 100,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: or whether you win by one, you just... Under no
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: circumstances can you not have more points at the end
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: of the game. That's the only thing that matters. And
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: you could tell. You could feel it, honestly, the way
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: he was carrying himself. You could tell he was a
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: little tight. It was probably the biggest game he's ever coached.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: Entire season was on the line. That's the one thing
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: about college. You don't really get that in the NFL
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: in October and November. Season was on the line. He lose,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: it's over. No playoffs. And you could feel them, honestly,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: just on television, you could feel the place getting a
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: little tense. That's why I thought, Mario, if you drive
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: the field, go for two. You got nothing to lose.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: You're good. You're fine. You're making the playoffs. This guy,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: you beat him, it's over. And they found a way.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: They found a way. The other thing is, and we'll
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: end on this, Michigan just fired the offensive coordinator. Now
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: that the business is so big, like ultimately in the NFL,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: certain brands are good for the league to be like
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: having success. But the Cowboys, which for most of my
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: life have been the biggest brand in the NFL, have
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: never do anything. Doesn't matter. The Chiefs are the highest
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: rated team currently in the NFL in terms of television rate.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: Like they get the most eyeballs. The Bills are right there, right?
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: The 49ers and Packers, massive historic brands. They've had seasons
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: when they haven't been good, and it doesn't matter. Chicago
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: Bears haven't been good the majority of the internet era.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: Now they are. So it's much more spread out. Who
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: can carry you? And it's kind of like a community effort.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: College is not like that. The SEC needs Bama, Georgia, LSU,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: just like the Big Ten needs... Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: They need the top brands to be good. It is
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: extremely important. Michigan is not only not good, they're horrible.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: And I do think, obviously, the powers that be at
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: Michigan can't be pleased. Hard to trust, though. They just
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: employed Sharon Moore, who clearly everyone in the program knew
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: what was going on, which I'm sure they did, too,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: and it's like nothing really happened. It's like, guys... The conference,
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: and this is going to sound, I think Fox, you
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: cannot have Michigan essentially become Rutgers. Because that's kind of
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: what they feel like right now. Rutgers. And Kyle Whittingham,
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: I have nothing but respect for him, what he did
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: at Utah. Sometimes you're at a point in your life,
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: and I'm not there, most of you aren't there, where
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: you have so much goddamn money in your 60s or 70s,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: You do not have the same drive. You don't have
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: the same fire. You might be doing something strictly out
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: of spite because Utah essentially fired him. He wasn't going
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: to be welcome back. They want to go with his
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator who is doing really well, right? I mean,
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: it's BYU in the Holy Bowl. So they made him
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: kick off at 10 a.m. Mountain Time because they wanted
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: to put the SEC games and Notre Dame and everything,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: you know, later. I guess Notre Dame was on NBC,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: but all the SEC games on ESPN and the other slots.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: So they kind of got screwed. But Utah handled business.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: And they do not miss Kyle Whittingham. And you saw
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: this with Pete Carroll. Legend. Pete Carroll built USC and
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: Seattle from scratch. He built them both from scratch. But
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: by the end, it was over. It was a wrap.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: Too rich. Lost his fastball. Just not the same. That's Kyle.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: And the other thing is, in college, Salt Lake City,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: the Utah program, isn't covered the same way Michigan is.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: And it does feel a little overwhelming for them. So
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: I think everyone involved in the business of Michigan, the conference,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: the TV, the head of Michigan, this has to end.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: Because there's too much on the line for the conference
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: for this team to be this bad. They're unwatchable. They're
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: just not watchable. Like the Chargers, you can't watch them.
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: Because if you watch them and your team's not playing them,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: You're like, why am I doing this? I'll go for
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: a walk. Can I read a book? Should I go
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: for a jog? Can I just turn off the television?
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: This is terrible. That's what Michigan makes you feel inside.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: This is the worst product I've ever seen. Adios. The Volume.