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49ers UPSET Eagles, Patriots DEFEAT Chargers, Bills EDGE Jaguars on NFL Wild Card Sunday · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: So let's talk some football. Let's just start right off
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Speaker 1: the bat with a man named Nick Sirianni. And I
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Speaker 1: thought about it like this. Let's just pose a question.
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Speaker 1: If I ask you or anyone they don't even need
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Speaker 1: to work in the NFL, just a football fan. If
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Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni was fired on Monday, would he get another
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Speaker 1: coaching job this season, and want to say coaching job,
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Speaker 1: would anyone hire him to be their head coach? Since
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Speaker 1: none of you are here, I will answer that question
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Speaker 1: for you. The answer is no. Well, let's take some
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Speaker 1: other guys who were fired. I think we kind of
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Speaker 1: just assumed that Mike McDaniel was gonna come back randomly
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the week. See you, you're gone.
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Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel's fired. Kevin Stefanski a week ago was not shocking,
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Speaker 1: also fired. Let's assume those guys realized Stefanski's interviewing for
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Speaker 1: head coaching jobs might, as you know, easily could land one.
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Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel also, he's interviewing for the Cleveland Browns, who
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Speaker 1: Mike silver Davis, California resident, former legendary s I writer
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Speaker 1: wrote a book about like the Shanahan Tree. Of that
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Speaker 1: crew of guys, the former Washington coaches, Mike McDaniel was
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Speaker 1: famously wrote a thirty two page essentially essay to help
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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan and himself get out from under the Cleveland
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Speaker 1: Browns leadership in Jimmy Haslam, and they were able to
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Speaker 1: resign and leave and go to Atlanta. Well, Mike McDaniel.
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Speaker 1: I think either has or is going to interview for
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. But if Stefanski and McDaniel were not
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Speaker 1: going to be head coaches and don't get head coaching jobs,
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Speaker 1: both of those got. Definitely Mike McDaniel would be not
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Speaker 1: only locked coordinators, people would think about firing their offensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator to hire those two guys. They would have teams
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Speaker 1: lined up all around the league to hire Mike McDaniel
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Speaker 1: and Kevin Stefanski to call their offense. For a ton
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Speaker 1: of head coaches all around the NFL, no one would
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Speaker 1: hire Nick Sirianni to be their offensive coordinator. The Eagles
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Speaker 1: don't let him call plays. Let's be real. Let's look
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Speaker 1: at the business world. Some people create start things from
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Speaker 1: scratch and dominate that world, right, whatever their individual industry is.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos created Amazon from nothing. Elon's created countless companies, right.
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Speaker 1: Sam Walton created Walmart from thin air, built the thing
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Speaker 1: up from scratch. Some people hit the lottery and get
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Speaker 1: rich overnight. Where does Nick Sirianni fall under that? I'd
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Speaker 1: argue he hit the lottery. He got Howie Rosenman as
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Speaker 1: a general manager, he got an owner. That's willing to
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Speaker 1: spend unlimited amounts of money, not just on his own roster.
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Speaker 1: They obviously have been well renowned now for front loading
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Speaker 1: contracts and being able to pay guys more cash up front,
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Speaker 1: and how they can manipulate the books. But a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago their defense wasn't shambles. What did Jeffrey
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Speaker 1: Lurry do? What's it gonna take to get Vic Vangio?
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Speaker 1: We will pay him the most of any coordinator in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. Most owners aren't willing to do that help.
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Speaker 1: The majority of owners get knocked for being cheap. So
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Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni is in a situation where he plays the
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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers who When Kyle Shanahan addressed the team
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Speaker 1: in the locker room after one of his most historic
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Speaker 1: wins as a head coach, he gave props to the
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Speaker 1: two linebackers, neither of which were on the team a
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Speaker 1: month ago. When it was reported this morning that Lane Johnson,
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Speaker 1: a future Hall of Famer, was not going to be
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Speaker 1: able to go, do you know the first thing I thought?
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Speaker 1: Who cares? Doesn't impact the forty nine Ers. They're dead
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Speaker 1: last in sacks. Nick Bosa is currently third on the
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Speaker 1: team and he hasn't played in months. The forty nine
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Speaker 1: Ers defense, beside their secondary, was a bunch of random
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Speaker 1: practice squad free agent off the street guys, and somehow
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Speaker 1: the Eagles couldn't do anything when it mattered. The brock
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Speaker 1: Purty threw two bad interceptions. The Eagles scored three points
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Speaker 1: off both interceptions. I saw a tweet tonight that the Eagles,
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Speaker 1: if you remove defensive scores, averaged less than ten points
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Speaker 1: in the second half of games all season long. They
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Speaker 1: have Aj Brown, who we can get into here in
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Speaker 1: a second, is obviously one of the most talented wide
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Speaker 1: receivers in the NFL. Terrible game to night, but dude's
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Speaker 1: big time player, so over the course of the season,
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Speaker 1: at any moment he should dominate. DeVante Smith is a
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Speaker 1: top fifteen pick who's not only lived up to it,
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Speaker 1: is a stud. Saquon Barkley last year ran for two
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Speaker 1: thousand yards. Dallas Goddard. I think Tom Brady said a
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Speaker 1: night like that's his twelfth touchdown of the year. He's
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Speaker 1: one of the more productive past catching tight ends in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. They have a quarterback who is a true
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Speaker 1: dual threat guy. He might not have the high end
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Speaker 1: speed like Lamar Jackson or Kyler Murray. But he is
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Speaker 1: a runner, and I thought, listen, I got it wrong.
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Speaker 1: I'd never thought when he came out Oklahoma. And I'm
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Speaker 1: a big Oklahoma guy because the guy before I got
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Speaker 1: into this world I worked in football. The guy that
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Speaker 1: hired me when I first started out of college at
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Speaker 1: Fresno State, he works at Oklahoma. So I've been dialed
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Speaker 1: into that program for a long time and watched all
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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley's, the Baker Mayfields of Kyler Murray's and Jalen Hurts,
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Speaker 1: and I thought Jalen was probably gonna have to play
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Speaker 1: running back in the pros. I thought that was the
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Speaker 1: craziest pick I'd ever seen. When how he took him
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Speaker 1: in the second round, I was wrong, and then he
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Speaker 1: became more than a productive passer. But one thing early
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Speaker 1: on in his career, Jay why I thought he'd be
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Speaker 1: a running back because I thought he could be like
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Speaker 1: Frank Gore. He's not some blazing speed guy up the sideline.
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Speaker 1: His instinct say as a runner are actually much more
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Speaker 1: natural than even some running backs. You know what the
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Speaker 1: Chargers would have done to have him just taking carries.
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Speaker 1: He's patient, he has great vision. He's just he's natural
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Speaker 1: instincts with the ball in his hands when he's moving.
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Speaker 1: Even had a couple runs a day, one was called back.
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Speaker 1: It's like, why didn't Jalen have ten plus runs? Say
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Speaker 1: this about Lamar since Lamar became MVP caliber. He'll do
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Speaker 1: whatever it takes to win. You need me to run,
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Speaker 1: need me to pass. I don't give a damn. I'll
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Speaker 1: do what it takes to help the Ravens get a victory.
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Speaker 1: Jaye was like, no, I want to play like Russell Wilson,
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Speaker 1: dominate from the pocket. You're not a pocket quarterback man,
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Speaker 1: You're a dual threat player. So watching the Eagles just
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Speaker 1: completely crumble. I worked there for a couple of years.
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Speaker 1: I worked for Howie. The pressure in that building is immense.
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Speaker 1: Hell I still get nightmares about it sometimes, which honestly
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Speaker 1: keeps me on my toes because the world I live
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Speaker 1: in now still there's a ton of pressure. I got
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Speaker 1: a growing family. It's not like I don't have pressure
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Speaker 1: to produce in to do well financially and professionally for
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Speaker 1: my wife and my future child. But it's a little different.
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Speaker 1: I don't walk into that office on pins and needles
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Speaker 1: and that's what happens in Philadelphia, which is part of
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Speaker 1: football culture. It was like that at Alabama. It's like
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Speaker 1: that in Philadelphia. It was like that in Belichick forever.
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Speaker 1: Like it's a natural environment in the football world and
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Speaker 1: it's very healthy, but they don't tolerate getting embarrassed. And
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Speaker 1: tonight watching or this afternoon, watching the Eagles get embarrassed
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Speaker 1: by Brock Purty throwing to DeMarcus Robinson, who looked like
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Speaker 1: he was Jerry Rice, I was like, this is not
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Speaker 1: gonna go overwill George Kittle, who is not just one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite players in the NFL, he's truly one
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Speaker 1: of the great tight ends I've ever seen in my life.
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Speaker 1: He is going to have his number retired one time
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Speaker 1: as a forty nine er. He's a complete badass, and
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Speaker 1: as Christian McCaffrey said after the game, he's the heart
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Speaker 1: and soul of our team. Let me repeat, the heart
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Speaker 1: and soul of their team. Who is already missing Fred Warner,
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Speaker 1: who'd argue from some people that he was the heart
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Speaker 1: and soul of the team. He's been gone forever. Nick
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Speaker 1: Bosa long gone. They're missing players left and right, And
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Speaker 1: it didn't matter because it turned out. The Eagles aren't
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Speaker 1: very well coached and they're just not a very good team,
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Speaker 1: and the forty nine ers shouldn't be that good of
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Speaker 1: a team. They're missing way too many players, but there's
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Speaker 1: like a character to them where they didn't fracture when
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Speaker 1: it would have been easy to. When George Kittle is
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Speaker 1: getting carted off the field, war is pretty clear, yeah
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Speaker 1: his achilles ripped, yet the Eagles are forcing the ball
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Speaker 1: to AJ Brown. I don't blame them. He's a really
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Speaker 1: talented player, but it was pretty clear he didn't really
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Speaker 1: want to be there. And I think a big mistake
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Speaker 1: the Eagles made was not trading AJ Brown during the
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Speaker 1: middle of the season when they could have. And they're
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Speaker 1: going to trade him in two months. But when you
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Speaker 1: go into these playoff games, you need to have people
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Speaker 1: who are all in. And did AJ Brown today look
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Speaker 1: like a guy that was all in? And I'm not
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Speaker 1: just saying that because he had a bad game. Like
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Speaker 1: Randy Moss, Jerry Rice had some drops, probably not as
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Speaker 1: many as he did in an individual game, But it
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Speaker 1: happens like it's football, like people fumble, people throw interceptions.
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Speaker 1: Obviously they are better and worse times to do certain things,
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Speaker 1: but like it happens, and watching that game the day
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Speaker 1: I went, I don't know, I how does Sirianni survive
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Speaker 1: the next forty eight hours Because the offensive coordinator was
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Speaker 1: probably going to get fired no matter what, whether they
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Speaker 1: unless they won the Super Bowl again, he was a
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Speaker 1: dead man walking. That's the way Philly works. They fired
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Speaker 1: coordinators all the time. But I think this outcome against
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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan that when I asked, when I posed that question,
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Speaker 1: who would hire Sirianni tomorrow if he was fired? What
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Speaker 1: if I flipped it to the forty nine ers, who
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Speaker 1: would hire Kyle Shanahan tomorrow if he was fired? I
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Speaker 1: think your answer would be twenty nine teams, thirty teams,
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Speaker 1: hell more people would hire the forty nine ers defensive
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Speaker 1: coordinator who was just fired last year from the Jets.
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Speaker 1: It's actually aged much better because that organization is an
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Speaker 1: all time clown show than Nick Sirianni. And the crazy
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Speaker 1: part is Nick Sirianni has been in two of the
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Speaker 1: last three Super Bowls. But I think, if we're all
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Speaker 1: being honest, how much did he really have to do
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Speaker 1: with that? Hey, he leads some team meetings, you know,
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Speaker 1: he's good like with personalities, but like it feels like
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Speaker 1: he does nothing in the game and he can't help
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Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator who was clearly over his head. His
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Speaker 1: quarterback has got to this spot where it's like, what
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Speaker 1: are we doing? Why aren't we utilizing your talents? Look
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Speaker 1: at Brock, perty what does it take to win the game?
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Speaker 1: You need me to run, you need me to die forward,
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Speaker 1: you need me to scramble and make a play. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: I'm a quarterback, so you're gonna need me to pass
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Speaker 1: and make the play. But we're gonna need my legs
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Speaker 1: in big spots. And I'm not just talking about quarterback sneaks.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about taking off and running. And Brock had
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Speaker 1: one of the dumbest plays you'll ever see, because it
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Speaker 1: was one of the truly great six or seven second
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Speaker 1: at the end of a half play call, because I
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Speaker 1: was like, what are they gonna do here to try
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Speaker 1: to get six seven more yards? They don't have any
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Speaker 1: time out. You can't throw it over the middle of
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Speaker 1: the field. The Eagles are playing like against the sideline,
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Speaker 1: and they just ran a quarterback like power, and Brock
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Speaker 1: kind of froze and then he fubbled the ball. It
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Speaker 1: was a complete disaster. But listen, party by no means
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Speaker 1: was perfect tonight. That play multiple interceptions. I'm a little
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Speaker 1: baffled that during the prep when all else fails, do
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Speaker 1: not throw at twenty seven, throw at the other guy.
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Speaker 1: And listen, he tested them twice and got picked off twice.
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Speaker 1: But what it mattered the most for a game winning drive.
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Speaker 1: It didn't matter what the play call was or what
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Speaker 1: was needed. They just did whatever they had to do.
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Speaker 1: Do you need me to run it? Do you need
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Speaker 1: me to pass it? Do you need my Pro Bowl
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Speaker 1: full back to make crazy catches? Do you need Christian
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Speaker 1: McCaffrey to make a catch. And that's what happened, and
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Speaker 1: that's why the forty nine ers drove down the field
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Speaker 1: perty had a huge first down run on that on
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Speaker 1: that drive. Because it never comes down to I'm just
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Speaker 1: a pocket quarterback or I'm just a Shanahan quarterback. No,
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Speaker 1: I'm just a quarterback that will do whatever it takes
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Speaker 1: on a given week to help us win the game.
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Speaker 1: And yet when you watch the Eagles, they're the complete opposite.
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Speaker 1: Jalen's like, I just want to pass, I don't want
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Speaker 1: to run, and clearly doesn't because you would call more
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Speaker 1: quarterback runs. I'm watching Josh Allen, I'm watching the two
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Speaker 1: quarterback Sunday night. I'll do it. Do you need me
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Speaker 1: to take off, I'll take off. That is not the
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Speaker 1: way Jalen plays anymore. Maybe he doesn't want to get hit,
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Speaker 1: Maybe he just doesn't want to run. He got a
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Speaker 1: super Bowl, He's made a bunch of money. And I
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Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for Jalen, what he stands for,
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Speaker 1: how hardy works, how serious he is. But in terms
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Speaker 1: of as a player, you can't maximize your abilities as
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Speaker 1: a player when you won't do like one of the
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Speaker 1: things you are best at, when you also have some
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Speaker 1: clear deficiencies and you try to lean into them. Like
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Speaker 1: part of life, to be successful at something is to
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Speaker 1: double down on what you're good at and do things
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Speaker 1: you struggle at. I don't give a shit what you do. Avoid,
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Speaker 1: don't do that, stay away from it. It's like, I'll
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Speaker 1: just be a pocket quarterback. This isn't really working man like.
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Speaker 1: This is. This is get run and get moving. That's
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Speaker 1: your what Look at Drake may look at Justin Herbert,
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Speaker 1: who didn't play well but throws on the road. Look
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Speaker 1: at party, get out and move, get out and make
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Speaker 1: some plays. You're a great athlete, not a good athlete,
15:41
Speaker 1: a great athlete. But this comes back to coaching, and
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Speaker 1: this comes back to this situation. The Eagles are ruthless,
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Speaker 1: they really are. And to get embarrassed like that at
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Speaker 1: home by, you know, you got to remove the brand
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Speaker 1: in Kyle Shanahan and put the players that he was
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Speaker 1: rolling out. They threw a ball today. I've been watching
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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers for three plus decades to number
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Speaker 1: eighty one, I had never heard of this player. And
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Speaker 1: then Kevin Burkhart said, well, he hasn't played in an
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Speaker 1: NFL game or caught a pass since twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: He's been on practice squas squads and bounced around. I'm like, yeah, no, shit,
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Speaker 1: I couldn't point this guy out of a lineup. But
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Speaker 1: that's what the forty nine ers had to do today
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Speaker 1: because of injuries, because of just the uphill battle they
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Speaker 1: had to fight against a team loaded with players. Defensively too,
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Speaker 1: and listen, the Eagles defense is bad at all. You
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Speaker 1: could win a Super Bowl with that defense. You cannot
16:35
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl. Hew, It's proven. You can't win
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Speaker 1: a playoff game with that offense, which just as a
16:41
Speaker 1: fan of football, as someone that just would be sitting
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Speaker 1: on my couch and watching it. If I sold insurance
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Speaker 1: or had to dig ditches Monday morning, they would be
16:51
Speaker 1: one of the last teams in the league I will
16:53
Speaker 1: want to watch. I got so many texts from people
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Speaker 1: like the Eagles are a terrible watch. I'm like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: they really are. They're boring, there's no creativity, like the
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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers ran a trick play. For those of
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Speaker 1: you that don't watch every forty Niner game, forty nine
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Speaker 1: Ers are not a trick play team. They actually have
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Speaker 1: one go to trick play and it's a wide receiver pass.
17:13
Speaker 1: Now part of it is Juwan Jennings was once a
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Speaker 1: huge high school recruited quarterback. It kind of went viral
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Speaker 1: today on Twitter that he was ranked ahead of guys
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Speaker 1: like Sam Darnold, Joe Burrow, and Lamar Jackson come out
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Speaker 1: of high school. Then he got to Tennessee, changed positions,
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Speaker 1: and I don't think it went great toward the end
17:34
Speaker 1: because when he gets introduced in games, he doesn't even
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Speaker 1: acknowledge Tennessee. It happened with de Shawn Jackson back in
17:40
Speaker 1: the day because him and Jeff Tedfer butted heads. It
17:42
Speaker 1: happens sometimes whenever you hear a player on TV, say
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Speaker 1: like Davis Senior High School, you like, something went bad
17:49
Speaker 1: with the coach in that program, right, because usually the
17:52
Speaker 1: guys are excited, like one to the University of Texas,
17:54
Speaker 1: went to the University of Oregon, Go Ducks. Whenever you
17:56
Speaker 1: hear the high school or their hometown, You're like, Oh,
17:58
Speaker 1: something bad went down, which shouldn't happen as much now
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Speaker 1: because guys are getting paid so much money. I'd have
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Speaker 1: a huge smile on my face. I'd be like seven
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Speaker 1: million dollars University of Oregon. But I do think when
18:11
Speaker 1: Kyle busted out that trick play. I've been saying this
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Speaker 1: forever with coordinators, I don't pretend like even the shittiest
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Speaker 1: coordinators in the NFL, if you got them on a
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Speaker 1: whiteboard or you got them in front of the room
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Speaker 1: with high school coaches and just talked football, their knowledge
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Speaker 1: and understanding a ball would blow us all away. All
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Speaker 1: of us. We'd be like, what is this sky talking about?
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Speaker 1: From splits to depths, to route concepts to against all
18:39
Speaker 1: these guys are great backup quarterbacks as well, but when
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Speaker 1: you get them on the field as a backup quarterback,
18:46
Speaker 1: as a player, or as a position coach, as a coordinator,
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Speaker 1: and they got to start calling the plays and the
18:52
Speaker 1: bullets start flying. Separates the men from the boys to
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Speaker 1: the highest level. Speaks for college, no different in the pros.
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Speaker 1: And some people when I was saying this the other
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Speaker 1: day about Tony, the little wide receiver from Miami who's
19:04
Speaker 1: a true freshman. Obviously, our experiences when we're young shape
19:09
Speaker 1: our capabilities and our future talents in certain things. You know, Obviously,
19:14
Speaker 1: playing football, there are god given metrics that you're gonna
19:17
Speaker 1: need to play college or in the NFL. Right that
19:20
Speaker 1: there are certain you're gonna have to have certain you know,
19:24
Speaker 1: intellectual capacity to be a doctor or to be an
19:27
Speaker 1: engineer when it comes to math or biology. Right, But
19:31
Speaker 1: once you get to that level and you're surrounded by
19:33
Speaker 1: a bunch of other people at that level, they're gonna
19:35
Speaker 1: be separating factors. And I remember watching Tony in that
19:39
Speaker 1: the last game, thinking like this guy was born to
19:42
Speaker 1: play football, Like his instincts in his feel for the
19:46
Speaker 1: game are just elite. I remember hearing a story when
19:48
Speaker 1: I was a kid, I grew up in northern California,
19:51
Speaker 1: right by Sacramento. My dad was a huge Cow fan,
19:54
Speaker 1: Cal football, in Cal basketball, And I remember being pretty young,
19:58
Speaker 1: it's probably like ten twelve years old, when Jason Kidd
20:01
Speaker 1: was at Cow and there was all these rumors, you know,
20:05
Speaker 1: it was like took him like five times to pass
20:06
Speaker 1: the minimum level of SAT. Like it's very academically challenging
20:11
Speaker 1: to get in Cow. And I don't think anyone would
20:13
Speaker 1: consider Jason Kidd like, you know, some intellectual genius. But
20:18
Speaker 1: in terms of basketball IQ, he's like Albert Einstein. And
20:23
Speaker 1: in sports. One thing I learned, actually, Howie Roseman taught
20:25
Speaker 1: me this. I remember scouting a guy and talking about
20:28
Speaker 1: their GPA and it was like, this guy's not that smart.
20:34
Speaker 1: He's like, was he football smart? I'm like, yes, coach,
20:36
Speaker 1: say the guys picks it up after one try, no problem,
20:38
Speaker 1: Like we don't care about his GPA. We're not doing
20:41
Speaker 1: GPA here, We're doing football, right. And that's like in life,
20:45
Speaker 1: like your GPA doesn't always translate. Do your instincts at
20:48
Speaker 1: whatever you're doing translate? And you watch Kyle Shanahan and
20:52
Speaker 1: Brock Perdy the symbiotic relationship they had Colin plays obviously
20:56
Speaker 1: the timing of that trick play, and then you watch
20:59
Speaker 1: the Eagles off operation and all you could say is like,
21:03
Speaker 1: what the fuck is going on here? And the answer
21:06
Speaker 1: is no one knows, because if they knew, they would
21:09
Speaker 1: change it and fix it, but they don't have the
21:11
Speaker 1: ability to because they're not good enough. It's really that simple.
21:15
Speaker 1: At the highest level of the NFL, the separating factor
21:19
Speaker 1: is like pretty small, and the difference of Kyle Shanahan
21:24
Speaker 1: and Robert Salah compared to the Sirianni Patola combination was
21:30
Speaker 1: a mile wide. And the sad part is like Vic
21:32
Speaker 1: Fangio's big time. He ain't the problem. And that's why
21:35
Speaker 1: I ask, like, if you fire Sirianni, why wouldn't you
21:39
Speaker 1: immediately go after John Harbaugh. He already has a defensive
21:43
Speaker 1: coordinator in place. Vic is close with the Harball family,
21:47
Speaker 1: worked for Jim four years. You could bring Todd Munkin,
21:51
Speaker 1: who worked with Lamar Jackson and help. You know, a
21:54
Speaker 1: couple of years ago had one of the best seasons
21:56
Speaker 1: like NFL history, and boom, you're off and running. Here's
22:01
Speaker 1: the other thing, Jeffrey luriy knows John Harbaugh well, he
22:05
Speaker 1: worked there from nineteen ninety eight to two thousand and
22:07
Speaker 1: seven before he got the Raven job. So when I
22:11
Speaker 1: know that the Miami thing, and listen, I thought, like,
22:14
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh, go to Miami. Miami. Job's terrible. They have
22:18
Speaker 1: no quarterback. They actually do. He's under contract for like
22:21
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars to me, the Eagles. You're having a
22:25
Speaker 1: long conversation all day tomorrow of like, not only do
22:28
Speaker 1: we move on, but if we do, do we just
22:30
Speaker 1: put all of our chips on the table and just
22:31
Speaker 1: hire the guy down the road who could basically just
22:34
Speaker 1: be a way better version of what we just had.
22:38
Speaker 1: Because our great advantage is working for us is awesome.
22:42
Speaker 1: We spend a bunch of money, We pick good players
22:44
Speaker 1: who're extremely talented. We just need the coaching on the field,
22:48
Speaker 1: something that only a small percentage of people know what
22:51
Speaker 1: they're doing. We got the defensive coordinator and staff in place.
22:56
Speaker 1: We just need a massive upgrade in terms of our
22:58
Speaker 1: head coach and our offensive capability because we just saw
23:02
Speaker 1: a guy who is elite. You don't go nine and
23:05
Speaker 1: four with Jimmy Garoppolo and Brock Purdy over the course
23:09
Speaker 1: of seven years and not be a leade at your job.
23:12
Speaker 1: And obviously perty's better player than Jimmy Garoppolo, but no
23:15
Speaker 1: one's getting pretty confused with Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen.
23:20
Speaker 1: And it looked like I thought when he threw the
23:22
Speaker 1: second half interception that was gonna doom though, but he
23:25
Speaker 1: didn't because one thing the forty nine ers have going
23:27
Speaker 1: for them is mental toughness, and they're pretty unfaced and
23:32
Speaker 1: they might go down, but they're gonna go down swinging.
23:35
Speaker 1: And it's felt like the Eagles. You know, the AJ
23:37
Speaker 1: Brown situation was like, uh, there's a disconnect, and that
23:41
Speaker 1: to me starts like you're either coaching or allowing it
23:43
Speaker 1: to happen, back to the Belichick old saying, and it
23:45
Speaker 1: is true, and they got major problems. So the Eagles
23:49
Speaker 1: is definitely something to keep a tight eye on, and
23:51
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers move on to play Seattle, which
23:56
Speaker 1: I think the Niners and the Bears just had all
23:59
Speaker 1: time like validation season wins. Like the forty nine Ers
24:05
Speaker 1: with their injuries, had no business going twelve and five
24:08
Speaker 1: and definitely no business winning a playoff game on the
24:11
Speaker 1: road as a big underdog. The Chicago Bears, who've had
24:15
Speaker 1: one of the crazier seasons you'll ever see. At down
24:20
Speaker 1: twenty one to three at home, just honestly had no
24:23
Speaker 1: business winning that game, and winning those two games, there's
24:27
Speaker 1: almost a freedom like what do we gotta lose? Moving forward? Now,
24:30
Speaker 1: I do think that the Bears are healthier, especially after
24:33
Speaker 1: Kittle's gone. Moving forward, they got more offensive firepower, but
24:37
Speaker 1: both defenses have major question marks. Made some individual plays,
24:41
Speaker 1: but at any given moment, you were just kind of
24:43
Speaker 1: on your heels, like, I don't know if this is
24:44
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24:49
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24:53
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Speaker 1: not gonna go away. I am guiltiest charge. I have
26:57
Speaker 1: been a defender. I defend Justin her Herbert and have
27:00
Speaker 1: consistently defended Justin Herbert. I thought tonight he was pretty bad.
27:05
Speaker 1: There were a lot of throws in the middle of
27:07
Speaker 1: the game where balls are air mailing people. Now as
27:11
Speaker 1: the game went on and he's just getting shellacked. The
27:14
Speaker 1: whole thing just crumbled. But there was a stretch where
27:17
Speaker 1: the Patriots were basically trying to say take the game
27:20
Speaker 1: from us, and a lot like the forty nine ers,
27:23
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh was going into this game, let's just make
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Speaker 1: this thing weird. Let's muddy this thing up and make
27:29
Speaker 1: it weird. And it was. They just needed a couple
27:32
Speaker 1: of plays from their fifty million dollar quarterback, who physically
27:35
Speaker 1: is as gifted as anyone in the NFL. But I
27:39
Speaker 1: thought tonight, in the meat of the game, when it
27:42
Speaker 1: was there to be like, Hey, a couple of touchdown
27:44
Speaker 1: drives all of a sudden, you'd be up fourteen to six,
27:47
Speaker 1: fourteen to nine, like you would take a commanding lead
27:50
Speaker 1: in this thing. And clearly they are struggling cold weather,
27:54
Speaker 1: they lose their best corner, and he just didn't play
27:58
Speaker 1: very well. Now I'm not out on him, I don't
28:01
Speaker 1: you know. It's one of those situations where you're like,
28:06
Speaker 1: this is not nothing. He's zero and three in the playoffs,
28:09
Speaker 1: and he clearly does not look good, and tonight he
28:13
Speaker 1: did not look good. Now I also think there's two
28:16
Speaker 1: parts to like the statement, he did not look good
28:18
Speaker 1: and well, okay, we just got to figure it out.
28:20
Speaker 1: We got to just play through it. He's not going anywhere.
28:23
Speaker 1: What do you want to do get rid of them?
28:25
Speaker 1: What are your other options? There aren't any, So I mean,
28:28
Speaker 1: you're all in on this. Help. I saw your backup
28:31
Speaker 1: quarterback play Denver in week eighteen. Never do that again.
28:35
Speaker 1: So you just got to figure this out. And I
28:37
Speaker 1: think the best way to figure this out. I think
28:39
Speaker 1: it's fair to say you're not Josh Allen. I mean,
28:44
Speaker 1: there's a level in which he is not peaking in
28:49
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Hey, listen, he's missing some offensive lineman to
28:53
Speaker 1: star offensive linemen. Their running back situation, the running their
28:57
Speaker 1: rookie running back from North Carolina, pretty big question mark
29:00
Speaker 1: right now looks pretty slow to me, Like I would
29:03
Speaker 1: be a little nervous if I was those guys big
29:05
Speaker 1: picture about that selection. For the next six months, I'm
29:09
Speaker 1: sending that guy to speed training. We're gonna work on
29:11
Speaker 1: an explosion, short area quickness. I'm gonna need a little
29:14
Speaker 1: more burst, big boy, because the speed in which you're
29:18
Speaker 1: running is just not good enough. But like as stories
29:22
Speaker 1: like this grow, when you're as talented as Herbert and
29:24
Speaker 1: you're viewed as one of the six seven, five, six
29:27
Speaker 1: to seven best quarterbacks in the NFL, your standard in
29:30
Speaker 1: the playoffs is way higher. And right now he's oning three.
29:34
Speaker 1: And obviously last year he played one of the worst
29:36
Speaker 1: games in the history of the league. Right five interceptions,
29:38
Speaker 1: It was atrocious. Tonight wasn't that bad, but it was
29:41
Speaker 1: not good. And you're playing a guy who's playing his
29:44
Speaker 1: first playoffs start in Drake May who honestly throughout the
29:48
Speaker 1: game wasn't playing that well either. Started heating up in
29:50
Speaker 1: the second half, making some runs, made a couple of
29:52
Speaker 1: big throws and kind of just settled down. He'd be like, well,
29:56
Speaker 1: his team's a little bit better and definitely healthier. Kind
29:58
Speaker 1: of like his his number four overall pick left tackle
30:01
Speaker 1: is getting picked up by Khalil Mack, who's probably one
30:03
Speaker 1: of the stronger guys in the league history, and just
30:06
Speaker 1: driven back into him constantly. But like Drake Mayo played him.
30:11
Speaker 1: Not that he played great. I'm not compared to Drake
30:12
Speaker 1: made to Josh Allen on Sunday, but he definitely outplayed
30:15
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert and Drake may has played one real year
30:18
Speaker 1: of football, because I definitely don't count last year in
30:21
Speaker 1: his college crews at North Carolina. Did he ever play
30:23
Speaker 1: in a big game in college? Not trying to shitt
30:27
Speaker 1: on the ACC here, but definitely that program's not like
30:29
Speaker 1: they're playing, you know, Alabama and LSU in the playoffs,
30:33
Speaker 1: so like this is a big game, bright lights game.
30:36
Speaker 1: Herbert's been there, done that, played in Rose Bulls, started
30:39
Speaker 1: now in multiple playoff games. It should have been a
30:42
Speaker 1: huge advantage for him. He's got Jim Harball on his
30:44
Speaker 1: side right the coaching, the Patriot coaching is elite. Vray Bull,
30:49
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels, so's Jim Harbaugh staff. Jesse Mentor probably could
30:54
Speaker 1: be a head coach here in two weeks. Jim Harbaugh's
30:57
Speaker 1: won how many playoff games guys won? How many games
30:59
Speaker 1: the guy I won in his career? Greg Roman takes
31:02
Speaker 1: a lot of shit. I saw Greg Roman win a
31:04
Speaker 1: lot of games with Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick. Lamar Jackson,
31:08
Speaker 1: like his resume is not as bad as the way
31:10
Speaker 1: he gets discussed. I think sometimes people talk about him
31:12
Speaker 1: like he's Raiders Chip Kelly. Like, no, guys, he's not bad.
31:16
Speaker 1: He kind of knows what he's doing. Is he perfect? No,
31:19
Speaker 1: would you ideally want a little better, of course, but
31:22
Speaker 1: he's not that bad. And you see tonight like, I
31:25
Speaker 1: don't know, something's just off. I don't know even I
31:27
Speaker 1: don't really have like some strong opinion. I don't know why.
31:30
Speaker 1: But oh and three and it's just one of those
31:32
Speaker 1: stories that is just not gonna go away. It happens sometimes.
31:36
Speaker 1: I love Barry Bonds as a kid. For a lot
31:38
Speaker 1: of his career might have been prey Jews. He didn't
31:41
Speaker 1: play very well in the playoffs. Alex Ardriguez had that happen.
31:44
Speaker 1: Baseball is a little different, just because you only get
31:46
Speaker 1: so many at bats, you have five game series, it
31:49
Speaker 1: can be a little skewed, but like it wasn't nothing
31:51
Speaker 1: after a while. And that's what I would say about
31:53
Speaker 1: this justin Herbert thing. It's like it's gonna be a
31:55
Speaker 1: massive story. And until he wins a playoff game, people
32:00
Speaker 1: did want to kind of go counterculture and hang a
32:04
Speaker 1: left when everyone's hanging a right, kind of always can
32:06
Speaker 1: hang that above everyone's head. Wake me when he wins
32:09
Speaker 1: a playoff game. Don't wake me when Josh Allen wins
32:12
Speaker 1: a playoff game, because he wins a lot of them.
32:13
Speaker 1: He just happens to not be able to beat the
32:15
Speaker 1: Kansasity Chiefs. Well, I took out my binoculars to day
32:18
Speaker 1: and I look, the Kancay Chiefs are nowhere to be found.
32:20
Speaker 1: They don't exist in this playoff run. Patrick Mahomes obviously
32:24
Speaker 1: has torn acl and his team's not represented, so he's
32:28
Speaker 1: playing the Jacks, who were as hot as any team
32:30
Speaker 1: in the NFL. They're really, really good. Liam Cohen has
32:33
Speaker 1: done a great job and he went in and kicked
32:37
Speaker 1: the shit out of him. Josh Allen was incredible today.
32:41
Speaker 1: He was a one man wrecking crew. He's really more
32:46
Speaker 1: like something you would see in basketball. He did it all.
32:49
Speaker 1: There was nothing he couldn't do. On top of slamming
32:53
Speaker 1: his hand into a helmet, getting his knee twisted on
32:56
Speaker 1: a touchdown run, he took a quarterback sneak like twelve yard. Honestly,
33:00
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen that. He was just
33:03
Speaker 1: had the game where sometimes people like used to write
33:08
Speaker 1: about this type stuff back when newspapers existed and we
33:10
Speaker 1: had sports columnists and I grew up reading them all
33:13
Speaker 1: of like, this was a man that just wouldn't be denied.
33:17
Speaker 1: And that's what it felt like today, because if you
33:20
Speaker 1: flip the quarterbacks in that game, Jacksonville would have won
33:23
Speaker 1: by twenty five points. They would have killed the Bills.
33:26
Speaker 1: I've come around on Trevor Lawrence over the last couple
33:29
Speaker 1: of years, like anyone that watched football is like, I'm out,
33:31
Speaker 1: I don't see it. There was no denying down the
33:34
Speaker 1: stretch of this season. He did look really good. Today
33:37
Speaker 1: was not that day. Made a couple good passes, obviously,
33:40
Speaker 1: threw a couple of touchdowns, but overall he was all
33:42
Speaker 1: over the map. And sometimes these young coaches and listen,
33:47
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan's probably the only guy in twenty twenty six
33:51
Speaker 1: that will just keep calling runs and have no problem
33:54
Speaker 1: even when it's not working. Even Ben Johnson like he's like, Okay,
33:57
Speaker 1: I just got a pass. Most young coaches are Sean
34:01
Speaker 1: McVay is the skinny jacked version of Andy Reid. Wants
34:04
Speaker 1: to pass it NonStop. Did you see that game against Carolina?
34:06
Speaker 1: It's like, Sean, why are you passing so much? You
34:08
Speaker 1: know what? They love to pass. Kevin O'Connell loves calling
34:11
Speaker 1: pass plays. Liam Cohen clearly likes calling pass plays. Watching
34:15
Speaker 1: this games like you're running at will against these guys.
34:18
Speaker 1: Have you watched the Bills in the playoffs over the
34:21
Speaker 1: last couple of years. They're not that big. You can
34:23
Speaker 1: lean on them. Eat Entrant had twenty five carries, but
34:27
Speaker 1: he just kept calling down the field passes and it
34:30
Speaker 1: wasn't really working. And then at the end of the game, listen,
34:33
Speaker 1: I disagreed with McDermott when he just scored on the
34:39
Speaker 1: essentially Josh push. I would have melt it, ran it
34:43
Speaker 1: down to like high twenties, call the time out and
34:45
Speaker 1: ran that play three times because I wouldn't have wanted
34:48
Speaker 1: to risk the way the kickoff rule is. I mean,
34:51
Speaker 1: their kicker can hit it from like seventy yards. I
34:54
Speaker 1: would have done that, but obviously it worked. A couple
34:56
Speaker 1: of plays later they pick it off in the game's over,
34:59
Speaker 1: I thought, And I also understand you don't want to
35:02
Speaker 1: tempt fate a fumble something weird happens. I get it,
35:05
Speaker 1: But that was a massive win, and I think sometimes
35:10
Speaker 1: it's cool. And I've said this forever. I watched sports
35:12
Speaker 1: for the best players. I was lucky, right. I was
35:16
Speaker 1: grew up in the nineties, like most kids, idolized Michael Jordan.
35:20
Speaker 1: I love golf, love Tiger Woods, like those are my
35:22
Speaker 1: two favorite athletes by far. And then my favorite baseball
35:26
Speaker 1: team had Barry Bonds from like when I was ten
35:28
Speaker 1: years old up until I was graduating college, so like,
35:32
Speaker 1: I watched it. And then when I worked in radio
35:33
Speaker 1: with Steph Curry, I went to a ton of Warriors
35:36
Speaker 1: games in his heyday when he was winning MVPs. That's
35:38
Speaker 1: why I'm not a huge like watch it for the
35:40
Speaker 1: little guy that could, like that doesn't do it for me.
35:43
Speaker 1: I want to watch Peyton Manning. I want to watch
35:44
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I want to watch Steph Curry. I want
35:47
Speaker 1: to watch the best of the best, and I pay
35:50
Speaker 1: to watch Josh Allen. I really would and listen to
35:52
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. A good player, but kind of like you know,
35:56
Speaker 1: Jordan Love, they're like the middle of the pack. When
35:58
Speaker 1: they're on, they can be have top ten games, but
36:01
Speaker 1: they're not top ten quarterbacks. Especially Trevor Lawrence, he's on
36:04
Speaker 1: a low end of that. He got hot there first
36:06
Speaker 1: stretch at the end of the season, but we saw
36:08
Speaker 1: at home in a very conducive environment in seventy five degrees.
36:13
Speaker 1: It's funny also, like I love the playoffs because you'll
36:16
Speaker 1: just go to Chicago and it's like a it's like
36:18
Speaker 1: a snow globe. You watch Philly, it's like this thing
36:21
Speaker 1: is freezing, like domb. I know you're a big boy,
36:24
Speaker 1: but how do you not have an extra jacket on?
36:27
Speaker 1: How did some of these guys not have beanies on?
36:29
Speaker 1: And then you go to Jacksonville it's like, yeah, we
36:31
Speaker 1: got no taxes, were all in the pool. Sun's out
36:33
Speaker 1: December tenth, were sweating, Like yeah, hard to beat that. Man.
36:37
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I'm a warm weather guy, and
36:40
Speaker 1: like I like that, but that didn't benefit them because
36:44
Speaker 1: Josh got loose and he got it. He worked him today,
36:48
Speaker 1: he really did. And I thought Trevor Lawrence just his
36:52
Speaker 1: numbers don't look that bad. I think he was eighteen
36:53
Speaker 1: to thirty. But I don't know, man. I think it
36:57
Speaker 1: was closer to the guy that I remember than the
36:59
Speaker 1: guy that he thought he had become the last couple
37:01
Speaker 1: of months. And some of it's on his coach, like
37:03
Speaker 1: run the ball. Other than that, you know, we got
37:10
Speaker 1: we know the games now. We got Bill's Denver, we
37:15
Speaker 1: got New England playing whoever wins tomorrow. We got the
37:18
Speaker 1: Niners playing Seattle, and we got the Rams playing Chicago.
37:22
Speaker 1: That's that's a pretty good slate. And I think a
37:25
Speaker 1: quick look ahead to this tomorrow game. And I mentioned
37:28
Speaker 1: this to Coward when we were recording, is if this
37:31
Speaker 1: was a Disney movie, right, if this was I just
37:34
Speaker 1: watched F one the other day and like the legendary
37:36
Speaker 1: guy got to win the last race, you would be like,
37:39
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is gonna throw a bunch of touchdowns. The
37:43
Speaker 1: record on Monday Night football is gonna continue. It's gonna
37:45
Speaker 1: be awesome. But this is the NFL. This is not
37:50
Speaker 1: reality television. I know people think they script this, they don't,
37:54
Speaker 1: and more than likely, like, this is not gonna end well, right,
37:58
Speaker 1: He's playing a team as an underdog with an elite defense.
38:03
Speaker 1: And I was I was flipping the channels this morning
38:06
Speaker 1: at the gym when I was trying to get a
38:07
Speaker 1: little sweat before the games, and Aiden Hutchinson was at
38:11
Speaker 1: the in the studio with ESPN guys, and he was
38:15
Speaker 1: talking about his experience playing Rogers and he's like, it's
38:17
Speaker 1: not really fun because he's gonna get rid of the
38:19
Speaker 1: ball so fast that however many plays you have on offense,
38:24
Speaker 1: they're gonna be passes. Let's say forty to forty five,
38:27
Speaker 1: you know, maybe less. You're gonna have two or three
38:31
Speaker 1: chances over that entire time because of how quick he's
38:34
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of it to sack him. And when
38:37
Speaker 1: you get that opportunity, just better not you better not miss.
38:40
Speaker 1: And the thing is these Textan guys don't miss. Denil
38:43
Speaker 1: Hunter and Will and Will Anderson are just not gonna miss.
38:47
Speaker 1: So if they get in the position where they are down,
38:49
Speaker 1: they would be in major trouble. And obviously DK is
38:52
Speaker 1: gonna have fresh legs, but is he out of rhythm,
38:55
Speaker 1: they're missing Darnel Washington with a broken arm. Let's face it,
39:01
Speaker 1: they are extremely lucky to be playing in this game.
39:04
Speaker 1: If John Harbaugh one with twelve seconds left in a timeout,
39:10
Speaker 1: if he got a little more aggressive, that field goal
39:11
Speaker 1: should have been closer. And it's a tough place to kick.
39:15
Speaker 1: But how often is this guy missing that kick? I
39:17
Speaker 1: know he's a rookie, but less than twenty five percent
39:21
Speaker 1: of the time. So if he kicks it ten times,
39:24
Speaker 1: he's hitting seven or eight of them. So the Steelers
39:27
Speaker 1: are very, very fortunate to be here. But part of
39:28
Speaker 1: the reason they're fortunate is because their defense isn't that good.
39:32
Speaker 1: Like they've moved Jalen Ramsey to safety. He blew multiple
39:35
Speaker 1: things in that game that cost him. So he is
39:38
Speaker 1: an all time great player right man. Jalen in his
39:40
Speaker 1: prime was just elite. His versatility, his size, his physicality
39:45
Speaker 1: as a tackler. I'm a big Jalen Ramsey fan, but
39:48
Speaker 1: like at certain positions, when you get old, you kind
39:51
Speaker 1: of fall off a cliff. He's just not quite the
39:53
Speaker 1: same guy. And their pass rush isn't that great. And
39:56
Speaker 1: while Cam Hayward played the game of his definitely over
40:00
Speaker 1: the last several years he's been an older player. It
40:02
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was like watching John Randall or something
40:05
Speaker 1: in his prime. He was dominating that Raven. Can you
40:08
Speaker 1: do that again? And I'm a cam Heyward. Guys come
40:10
Speaker 1: on this podcast before TJ. Watt lot of respect for him,
40:13
Speaker 1: but that injury, Like, did you really notice his presence
40:17
Speaker 1: last week? I just have a hard time seeing this
40:20
Speaker 1: go well for the Pittsburgh Steelers and if they lose
40:23
Speaker 1: that game, listen, I know we had kind of talked
40:26
Speaker 1: about it. We would talk about Tomlin forever. He never
40:28
Speaker 1: gets fired. I never expected them to fire John Harbaugh,
40:31
Speaker 1: not in a million years. It was honestly one of
40:33
Speaker 1: the more shocking NFL news over the course of the
40:36
Speaker 1: last i don't know, six plus months, where you just
40:38
Speaker 1: see it in your jaw drops. You can't convince me
40:41
Speaker 1: if the Houston Texas beat him by seven and ten
40:45
Speaker 1: fourteen points. The last two playoff games they played, they've
40:48
Speaker 1: been blown out by the Ravens and the Bills. If
40:51
Speaker 1: that happens again, you got all these older players, the
40:56
Speaker 1: conversation is gonna only get louder. And now they're all
40:59
Speaker 1: these jobs open and like, would it be time to pivot?
41:02
Speaker 1: Is now the time? So I listen. I think it
41:04
Speaker 1: would be cool if the Steelers were to win this game.
41:08
Speaker 1: With my heart, I would enjoy watching a throwback Rogers game.
41:12
Speaker 1: It was awesome watching that fourth quarter against the Ravens.
41:16
Speaker 1: But I'm not betting on it. I'm actually betting against it.
41:19
Speaker 1: I'm going to take the Houston Txans in this game.
41:22
Speaker 1: I actually love the Houston Dexans in this game. I
41:25
Speaker 1: think they could smother them and absolutely destroy them. And
41:29
Speaker 1: those runs that were going against the Ravens where Jalen
41:31
Speaker 1: Warren is breaking tackles like he's Walter Payton or Earl Campbell,
41:36
Speaker 1: I don't envision that happening on Monday night. And then,
41:40
Speaker 1: you know, I think this loot. You lose at home,
41:43
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's not looking well, you get
41:45
Speaker 1: some booze like you saw it today in Philly. When
41:48
Speaker 1: it doesn't go well at home, it can just get weird,
41:52
Speaker 1: and it can get weird really quick. It wasn't that
41:55
Speaker 1: We're not that far removed from them, like Channing fire
41:58
Speaker 1: Tomlin wasn't you know six months ago? That was like
42:02
Speaker 1: two weeks ago against so It's like, guys, I just
42:07
Speaker 1: think that I think we're seeing the end of it all.
42:11
Speaker 1: I really do, and I'm more convinced now than ever
42:14
Speaker 1: this league. There's a lot of moving parts. We're gonna
42:17
Speaker 1: learn more about Lafleur over the next couple days. Obviously,
42:19
Speaker 1: have thoughts, however that thing shakes out, This John Harbaughs situation,
42:23
Speaker 1: the Sirianni situation, we got a lot going on and
42:27
Speaker 1: it's just a crazy time in the NFL, A lot
42:29
Speaker 1: like college football, but even on a much higher level.
42:32
Speaker 1: You can fire anyone at any moment, because paying someone
42:35
Speaker 1: twenty thirty to fifty million dollars to these NFL owners
42:39
Speaker 1: now is like change that I could find in my
42:42
Speaker 1: desk drawer. It means nothing to them. Imagine paying someone
42:47
Speaker 1: to go away and owing them and the staff sixty
42:50
Speaker 1: seventy million dollars and not even blinking, not even thinking
42:53
Speaker 1: twice help the Raiders. A couple of years ago, before
42:58
Speaker 1: Brady and the money got involved, they paid Josh McDaniels
43:01
Speaker 1: and Dave Ziegeler are combined like seventy million dollars to
43:05
Speaker 1: leave to pack your shit and go. Mark Davis is
43:09
Speaker 1: not you know, Steve Balmer, but he has that much
43:14
Speaker 1: money because of that's what the league generates from the
43:17
Speaker 1: media deals. So all these coaches at all times, unless
43:21
Speaker 1: you're Andy Reid, you just never know Sean McVay and
43:25
Speaker 1: like Kyle Shan. It's a very short list of guys
43:28
Speaker 1: that are truly totally safe. Any other guy, like if
43:32
Speaker 1: people have some conversations, you pissed the wrong guy off you,
43:35
Speaker 1: you don't manage up well enough, put your stuff in
43:38
Speaker 1: a cardboard box and get the hell out of there.
43:40
Speaker 1: That's how fast it changes, and that's it makes the
43:43
Speaker 1: league a little more unpredictable. You know, the guys aren't
43:46
Speaker 1: just gonna hold jobs for as long just because I
43:49
Speaker 1: like you. Look at Wheree Morris. People love the guy.
43:52
Speaker 1: He tied for first place, now granted it was eight nine.
43:55
Speaker 1: They given the owner a hug, is like his wife,
43:58
Speaker 1: his family's hugs, like for every game, and like Raheem,
44:02
Speaker 1: you gotta go. We love you, but you're not coaching
44:05
Speaker 1: this team, buddy, And I give Raheem props because if
44:08
Speaker 1: someone paid me. The American dream is not a white
44:13
Speaker 1: pick offence, a dog, a couple of kids. It's to
44:16
Speaker 1: be paid millions of dollars to not work. That's I
44:22
Speaker 1: can't even And you know what I saw Raheem basically
44:24
Speaker 1: the guy like, if you don't hire me to bad coach,
44:25
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go TV. It's like I would do do that.
44:29
Speaker 1: Enjoy your life, that smart man. I'll end on this.
44:48
Speaker 1: It's official now that Matt Ryan will be the boss
44:51
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. They created some title He's above the GM
44:54
Speaker 1: and the coach. Matt Ryan made hundreds of millions of
44:58
Speaker 1: dollars playing football, because when you're a professional athlete, especially
45:03
Speaker 1: I mean Matt Ryan played longer than most professional athletes.
45:07
Speaker 1: If you're at the top of your field as a
45:08
Speaker 1: quarterback at whatever position, as a baseball player, basketball player,
45:12
Speaker 1: when you retire in your late thirties, you have accumulated
45:15
Speaker 1: an goodly amount of money. Yet, especially a guy like
45:19
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, you're healthy, you got another forty to fifty
45:21
Speaker 1: years ahead of you, You've probably got a young family,
45:24
Speaker 1: you got literally the world by the balls, and then
45:27
Speaker 1: you take some cush CBS job which is probably paying
45:30
Speaker 1: you a million bucks. Just go in the studio, hangout
45:32
Speaker 1: toxin ball. You do not need to sign up to
45:36
Speaker 1: go get back into the world of grinding, because that's
45:39
Speaker 1: what football is. If you're going to go into the
45:42
Speaker 1: office every day, it is a grind. It's not a
45:45
Speaker 1: place where people are smiling and having a great time
45:48
Speaker 1: every day. It's a very serious, stressful, kind of angry environment,
45:55
Speaker 1: which a lot of people like. Honestly, a lot of
45:57
Speaker 1: these guys are addicted to that environment. You know, they
46:00
Speaker 1: said in the movie Heat, the action is the juice.
46:03
Speaker 1: I think a lot of these guys you know what
46:05
Speaker 1: the juice is. It's not just Sunday running out there
46:08
Speaker 1: to play in front of seventy thousand. It's like the
46:10
Speaker 1: grind of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. It's like the grind of
46:14
Speaker 1: showing up at the office to get a workout at
46:17
Speaker 1: six am and being there till ten o'clock at night.
46:20
Speaker 1: It's the grind of just having to figure it out
46:23
Speaker 1: on the fly on a Wednesday with some injuries and
46:25
Speaker 1: just everyone on their fifth cup of coffee, third can
46:30
Speaker 1: of the week of Copenhagen and just seventh pill of
46:35
Speaker 1: adderall and just grinding in the office. It's some people
46:40
Speaker 1: are just addicted to it. And Matt Ryan did not
46:42
Speaker 1: need to do this. Now, I'm not acting like Arthur
46:46
Speaker 1: Blank's paying him two hundred grand to accept this gick.
46:49
Speaker 1: He's making millions of dollars, but like, not enough to
46:53
Speaker 1: change his life. His life's already been changed by the
46:56
Speaker 1: money he made playing. So when you signed back up
46:59
Speaker 1: to go grind like this and you saw the clip
47:01
Speaker 1: of John Lynch on the sideline, another guy did not
47:05
Speaker 1: need to be doing this. Anyone that watched the Lway
47:08
Speaker 1: documentary was like, I missed it. I just wanted to
47:10
Speaker 1: do it. He became the GM of the Broncos, Like,
47:15
Speaker 1: these guys can go play golf, hang out, do whatever
47:18
Speaker 1: they want, get involved in businesses, do some TV. I
47:21
Speaker 1: respect the hell out of these guys to just go
47:23
Speaker 1: you know what, I miss the juice. I miss it.
47:28
Speaker 1: I missed the misery, and I do admire and respect
47:32
Speaker 1: that from these guys that are worth just so much
47:36
Speaker 1: damn money and don't need the misery in their life,
47:39
Speaker 1: but it kind of fulfills them because that's kind of
47:41
Speaker 1: what football is, and working in football is not. The games,
47:47
Speaker 1: like the three hour game day that you and I
47:49
Speaker 1: watch on our couch is such a small sliver of
47:52
Speaker 1: the actual job. It's it's probably over the course of
47:56
Speaker 1: a season, I don't know two three percent of the gig,
48:00
Speaker 1: So props to Matt Ryan. And I talked about this
48:03
Speaker 1: on a podcast a couple of weeks ago because Pelsarro
48:07
Speaker 1: on the NFL Network had a reported that he was
48:09
Speaker 1: going to try to do both jobs, and he shot
48:11
Speaker 1: that down. He said, I'm done with CBS. I was
48:14
Speaker 1: watching him to day when he talked about it, like
48:16
Speaker 1: he thanked everyone. You could tell he's kind of getting
48:18
Speaker 1: emotional and just saying like they gave him this opportunity
48:21
Speaker 1: and he was appreciative. And I would say the other thing,
48:25
Speaker 1: you know, the thing with quarterbacks. I thought that i'd
48:29
Speaker 1: say this with Philip Rivers. You know, Drew Brees, a
48:31
Speaker 1: guy I got respect for Drew Brees, who I thought
48:33
Speaker 1: was terrible on TV. He's gotten much better, like they
48:37
Speaker 1: just happened to be, especially Matt Ryan. Six' five with
48:39
Speaker 1: a good. Arm If Matt ryan couldn't throw the ball
48:42
Speaker 1: five yards and just would have had to go work in, economics,
48:45
Speaker 1: right he would have ran a, bank he would have
48:48
Speaker 1: started a, business have been really Like Matt ryan was
48:50
Speaker 1: destined to be a very very successful. Guy SO i
48:53
Speaker 1: would tell you, This it would not shock me at
48:56
Speaker 1: all if he was a BETTER gm than he was a.
48:59
Speaker 1: Quarterback he was a good quarterback obviously had the ONE
49:01
Speaker 1: mvp season that was the. Outlier mostly it was just
49:04
Speaker 1: like a, consistent somewhere between like seven to twelve, guy
49:07
Speaker 1: guy you could win with if you had a good.
49:09
Speaker 1: Team if he, didn't it could go sour. Fast but
49:12
Speaker 1: he was always really really impressive in really really. SHARP
49:15
Speaker 1: i felt like he was smarter than he was. Talented
49:18
Speaker 1: and if he really goes all in on this and
49:23
Speaker 1: leans on the people he, knows he's been. Lucky he's
49:25
Speaker 1: been around a lot of coaches in his career In,
49:27
Speaker 1: atlanta and If lafleur became available Because Green bay fired,
49:31
Speaker 1: him he was his quarterback coach when he won THE
49:32
Speaker 1: mvp working For kyle when shocked me at, off they
49:35
Speaker 1: hired him. Immediately so you know he's going to need
49:39
Speaker 1: to lean on people for THE gm scouting. Aspect obviously
49:42
Speaker 1: he's never done. That but the thing when You're Matt
49:45
Speaker 1: ryan and you want to get some intel and you
49:46
Speaker 1: pick up the phone and you Call Lane kiffin Or
49:49
Speaker 1: Pete golding Or Ryan, day guess what they call you
49:51
Speaker 1: right back text. HIM i guarantee you get a text
49:55
Speaker 1: back in five, minutes so he will have no problem
49:57
Speaker 1: gaining a, network AND I i think it's fair to
50:00
Speaker 1: say he's smart enough if he's willing to do, this
50:03
Speaker 1: because you can't be willing to like kind of go half,
50:05
Speaker 1: in half out like that was the, Knock Like Maggie
50:07
Speaker 1: johnson always kind of want to do, it but then
50:09
Speaker 1: not really because he wanted the normal, life WHICH i
50:11
Speaker 1: don't blame him at. All, RIGHT i would Do Dan
50:14
Speaker 1: marino same. THING i would be like. Them i'd be,
50:16
Speaker 1: Like i'm worth hundreds of MILLION, Ti i'm gonna go kick,
50:19
Speaker 1: It i'm gonna go hang, Out i'm gonna go enjoy my.
50:21
Speaker 1: Life i've already done, this But matt wants to put
50:25
Speaker 1: his feet to the. Fire so IF i Was Atlanta falcon,
50:28
Speaker 1: fan WHICH i haven't had many good things to say
50:30
Speaker 1: about the franchise over the, YEARS i would say this
50:33
Speaker 1: is this is EXCITING tbd see how it, goes but
50:38
Speaker 1: it's it's exciting when you get a guy of his
50:41
Speaker 1: stature to, say, YEAH i want. This and THEN i
50:43
Speaker 1: listened to his comments today Like i'm doing this because
50:46
Speaker 1: we deserve to be in the playoffs and we've been
50:48
Speaker 1: shitty for too, long so exciting. Times and we'll be
50:53
Speaker 1: back again tomorrow and we'll see what we'll. See How, hey,
50:56
Speaker 1: listen there are gonna be some curveballs. COMING i would
50:58
Speaker 1: Imagine monday Or. Tuesday and by curve, balls HOPEFULLY i
51:01
Speaker 1: don't mean my son Say i'm. Ready i'm kind of
51:03
Speaker 1: got my mindset On. Thursday but, listen can't play god,
51:06
Speaker 1: Here but when it comes to, FOOTBALL I i think
51:10
Speaker 1: some interesting stuff's about to happen the next couple of.
51:12
Speaker 1: DAYS i think we're we're gonna enter the season where
51:15
Speaker 1: we start getting really. Weird see you. Later the volume
51:24
Speaker 1: m