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Fanatically Speaking: NFL Trust Meter? Zero. Bad NFL Calls & Coaches on the Hot Seat · Fanatically Speaking with Kent

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what's up everybody welcome to fanatically speaking
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i'm kent i'm log off i'm the log off legend and
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uh we're here to say everything that every fan
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is thinking but louder and probably a little
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crazier get ready this is fanatically speaking
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with kent and log off you know what's funny like
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i don't hate i don't i'm not a social media hater
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i'm a social media You know what I mean? Yeah.
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Like, I don't want people to think that I get
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on the internet and start hating people on social
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media. That's not what I do. The first half was
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absolutely horrible. You know, just inept offense,
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inept defense, special teams, you name it. I'm
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going to turn into Oprah. Why were you so angry?
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He sucks this season. This game, whatever. Whatever's
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going on, right? And the very next pitch, guess
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what they do? They double. Homer. And he's like,
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told you, Dad. Why are you always knocking down
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people? Listen, you got the highs and the lows.
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Yeah, so I knew that. You need the highs and
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the lows. So I do that, yeah. I'm trying to be
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the voice of reason here. I am what I am. What's
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up, everybody? Welcome to Fanatically Speaking.
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I'm Kent, co -host, promoter. I am Log Off, the
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Log Off legend, the hater of social media. I
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am the co -host and producer of the show. Once
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again, we are just a couple of fans making a
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podcast for fans, by fans, mainly about sports.
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And today's topic is we're going to get into
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the NFL again. Again. But a lot of topics. Again,
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it's going on. I mean, the NFL season is going
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on. But there's a lot of topics here about midseason,
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just about. So just kind of hit that midseason
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point and have some, like, you know, who's real,
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who's not real predictions from this point and
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other storylines going on in the NFL. Yeah, like
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a midseason review. if you will. I think that's
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how we have it worded. So yeah, just kind of
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going over the teams, looking at the tops of
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the division. I kind of wanted to let you start
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off because like my position on this is a little
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awkward. So I'm just kind of curious, just, just
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kind of what you got on this. I'll go ahead and
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let you cook. All right. Yeah. So, so as a, just
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looking at the teams right now, I'm just going
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to go by surprises. Obviously the Indianapolis
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Colts is a big one. You know, I don't think anybody
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had that on their bingo card. Daniel Jones performing
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very well. The Colts, the top team right now,
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or one of the, you know, in AFC. Yeah, I don't
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think we expected that. Texans are kind of middle
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of the road, up and down, but they're not showing
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me anything, even though I had high hopes for
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them this season. Let's see. The Dolphins are
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a train wreck. The Titans are trash. The Jets
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are trash. Even their owner thinks so. Well,
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at least the owner, Woody Johnson, thinks their
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quarterback is trash. Let's see. NFC, again,
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we go back to these quarterbacks performing well,
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who we probably gave up on. So the 49ers, a lot
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of injuries on that team, but yet still holding
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their own at this point. And at quarterback,
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Mack Jones. in place of Brock Purdy, has played
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really well, which is surprising. Sam Darnold
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in Seattle playing well. I still don't have hope
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for him in the playoffs, but again, that team
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is put together pretty well. A newer head coach.
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Let's see. The Panthers being over, you know,
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just being over 500 any point in the season.
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Let's see. The Saints, you know, of all the teams
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that are bad in the NFL or have bad records,
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the Saints. I feel like are in every game. No
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matter what the score, they try hard, they play
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hard. Maybe it's because Kellen Moore won a Super
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Bowl with the Eagles. I don't know. But I feel
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like they're doing a pretty good job, and I don't
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think a lot was expected of them. They got rid
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of Derek Carr and made him retire, even though
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he's not really retired apparently. They're in
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every game. I feel about watching them play or
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seeing their game than, you know, watching the
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Arizona blow leads or, you know, coaches pushing
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players, things like that. You know what I mean?
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Outside of injuries, you know, some teams are
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just not good. And that's like the Dolphins,
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the Jets, the Titans. The Browns are never going
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to be, you know, they're never good. They don't,
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again, they couldn't make up their mind on quarterback.
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The Raiders are not good. I won't do predictions
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yet. On from this point forward now, you know,
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we can change our picks for the Super Bowl. And
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obviously, I said I'm going to have to change
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my pick. You know, I was trying to go with the
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Texans. And that's going to change. And we can
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change it because we are going to change it based
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on where we're at right now in the seat. And
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from this point, but just as a review, I think
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I said, I just want to point out, I think quarterbacks,
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we gave up on our playing well. And quarterbacks
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who are getting paid big money. Some of them
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are not. That's fair. To you, Logoff. Yeah, I
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think all of that's fair. So just off the top
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of your head, you kind of went through both conferences.
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How many teams do you trust? How many teams do
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I trust? Hold on. Here's the thing. But I want
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to, but I'm holding your feet to the fire on
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this. I want a definite yes or no. The teams
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that I'm – I got you. No caveats. So the teams
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that you name, I trust them to advance in the
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playoffs. Go. You mean name teams? I need teams.
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Yeah, give me the names of teams that you trust
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moving forward for the rest of the season into
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the playoffs. Okay. So I just want to put this
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out there. In a previous episode when we talked
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about the NFL, I think – I had less teams, I
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believe, in the NFC that I believed in. I think
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I believe in more now. And then the AFC, I probably
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believe in less teams. It's like a flip -flop.
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So let's go. Okay. A team I believe in, again,
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I think this hasn't changed, the Kansas City
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Chiefs. Okay. Who else? The other team I believe
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in are the Buffalo Bills. Who else? I just mentioned
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them. I am now a believer in the Indianapolis
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Colts. Okay. Call me crazy. Call me crazy. I'm
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not calling you anything. Those are the only.
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So that's in the AFC. I really, I'm not finished
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though. Okay. Okay. That I believe can actually.
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Are we saying, like, believe we can go to the
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Super Bowl? You are wording this up. My question
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was specific and direct. My question was, give
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me the teams that you trust. Hold on. Give me
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the teams that you trust going forward the remaining
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of the season and into the playoffs. Okay, I'm
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going to take that as these are teams that can
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go to the Super Bowl. So those are my three in
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the AFC. Colts, Chiefs, Buffalo Bills. Okay,
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who do you have in the NFC? The good old Philadelphia
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Eagles. As mad as I get, as frustrated as I get,
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I do not give up, and I don't stop believing.
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I'd say the Buccaneers. Losing Mike Evans is
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going to affect them unless they make a deal.
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Tragic injury, man. I feel so bad for that dude.
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Yeah, yeah. I believe in the Eagles. I believe
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in the Detroit Lions. I believe in the Los Angeles
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Rams. Okay. Is that where it stops for you? And
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I thought I had more, and I know the Packers
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are up there, but I just don't believe in them.
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Okay, cool. All right, so I'm going to do a quick
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recap. So you got the Rams. So that's three in
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each. So you got the Rams, the Eagles. The Lions.
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And the Lions and the NFC and the AFC. You got
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the Chiefs. You got the Bills, the Indianapolis
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Colts. And the Colts. Okay. So that's six teams.
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All right. All right. I'll go. I don't trust
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none of these motherfuckers. Not any of these
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teams. All of these teams have had games where
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they have just showed us their ass, where they've
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made dumb mistakes. They've had bonehead turnovers,
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coaching gaffes, you know, calling timeout, not
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calling timeout, no special teams issue. Like
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just want all of the teams across the league.
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I don't trust anybody as far as I can throw them.
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And so it's easy to kind of crap on the bad team,
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but it's so many. And I'll have to look to see
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historically what this looks like. There are
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so many teams right now that are above 500 that
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it might be a record. Because there's a lot of
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teams that have winning records right now. So
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we've got Eagles, Packers, Lions, Bears, Bucks,
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Panthers, which you mentioned, 49ers, Seahawks,
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and the Rams. All in the same team with an identical
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record. Yeah, nine teams in the NFC above 500.
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Above 500. Right now. Eight teams in the AFC.
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Like, that's insane. And if I'm not mistaken,
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I can go through all of them. I could find the
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atrocious losses where they've lost games where
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it's like, the hell are you doing? I thought
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you guys, like the Bills? I thought you guys
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were ballers. Like, how the hell do you lose
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to the Falcons? What are you doing? You know,
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how do you lose to the Patriots? Huh? What? So,
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you know, and I'm going to key in on the Bills
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because I made the proclamation. Early, two weeks
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in, that Josh Allen was the best quarterback
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in the league. And I'm not backing away from
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that. You can't put up 20 points on the Patriots
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within your own division. You can't put up only
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a sad 14 points at the Falcons. Everybody wins
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in Georgia. You can't go in there and get a win,
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Josh Allen. You know, so they're just one example.
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Obviously, the Chiefs have had their woes. They
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lost a lot of games or, you know, lost their
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games early in the season. They seem to have
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found their momentum. I still don't trust them
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either. OK, yeah, I know. I know they had some
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key players come back. You know, Kelsey didn't
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blow any games for him. But just looking at it,
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it's an absolute coin flip amongst all this.
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I thought the commanders were good. Lost to the
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Cowboys. I thought the Cowboys were terrible.
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They win one big game and now everybody wants
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to give Dak Prescott an MVP. So, you know, so,
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so I'm just like, everything is so unpredictable.
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You know, you talked about the Packers. I mean,
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they got a tie on their record. Like to the Cowboys.
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Yeah. To the Cowboys. Like I could do this all,
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which is going to come back to hurt them as the
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season rounds out. Like that, that tie is going
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to hurt, but I'll give you. I'm sorry. I'm going
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to give you two teams who – I'll give you a few
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teams, actually, where their losses aren't that
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bad. One of them are the Colts. They have one
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loss at the moment, and they lost by a touchdown
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to the Los Angeles Rams in L .A. Okay. The Rams
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have two losses. One is to Philadelphia, where
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they blew a 27 -6 lead, and the Eagles won off
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of blocked field goals. And then they lost to
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the 49ers because they decided to go for it on
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fourth down instead of kicking a field goal.
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You could look at that many ways, but that was
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one of those Thursday night games, division games
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where the Rams lose to Mac Jones. And I believe
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they were like an eight and a half, nine and
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a half favorite in that game. So maybe you look
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at that as a bad loss. Packers, you mentioned
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their loss was to the, they had a loss to the
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Browns and a tie to the Cowboys. That's why I
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said I don't believe in the Packers and they
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barely beat the Cardinals. with Jacoby Brissett
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as the quarterback. He's doing backup quarterback
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commercials. Great commercials, by the way. Yeah,
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and it takes a lot. I mean, they probably pay,
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but, you know, seeing like Jacoby Brissett and
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Mitchell Trubisky who are still in the league,
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and they're just like, you know what? I'm a backup
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quarterback, and I'm going to get paid for it
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on the field and off the field. No, and listen,
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there's a market there for them. It's kind of
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a sweet spot. Yes. You know, because... This
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is a conversation for another day. But I think
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it's a huge detriment that the best quarterbacks
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in the league, to me, don't really have that
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much of an appeal. Like, other than being famous.
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Like, Mahomes, I don't want to buy anything Mahomes
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is endorsing. Josh Allen, I mean, his personality
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is just kind of stale. I mean, I haven't seen
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Lamar Jackson in a commercial yet. I haven't
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either. But these backup guys got charisma. Them
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Cowboys got commercials, though, I tell you.
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Of course they do. America's team. So I'm going
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to key in, and like I said, I don't want to beat
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a dead horse about saying I'm not trusting anybody.
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It makes sense, though. I'm going to spin the
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wheel, and I'm going to have it land on a team,
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and then I'm just going to dissect this particular
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team lands on the Colts. Okay? So you're saying,
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oh, okay, yeah, the Colts, they only got one
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loss. They got one team. Hold on. OK, to a good
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team that only scored 27. They lost 27 to 20.
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Yeah. Daniel Jones turned back into a pumpkin
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in that game. All right. 24 for 33. Not bad.
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262 yards. Cool. Some of that was probably in
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garbage time, just racking up stats. But he had
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one touchdown, two picks. Yeah. He's absolutely
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capable of doing that again. For sure. So that's
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what I mean. Like, I just don't like I just don't
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trust him. The team is great around him, but
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that's who everybody's looking at. Mr. Indiana
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Jones. I may regret saying I believe in them,
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but there's just something about the team. I
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don't know. Okay, look. Like I said, it's not
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a bad pick. They're formidable. They are a formidable
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team. Go ahead. No, no, go ahead. You go ahead.
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I was just saying they're just one of the teams
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that I got in the six that I picked to say I
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believe in these six. Okay. All right. No. And
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that's fair. I mean, and maybe that's you kind
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of taken. I don't know. Maybe taken, you know,
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a shot in the dark. Right. You know, just taking
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a swing. Yeah. You know, so but I know that,
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you know, Daniel Jones doesn't have a lot of
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postseason success. He's played in two games
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and he wasn't great in either of those games.
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Like like his combined stats for both of those
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games. should be the or the equivalent of one
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good game by a good quarterback so i just don't
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i don't trust that guy you know it's good for
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good for them good for them and good for him
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because he'll get a contract because of this
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year again he's definitely in that batch of you
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know guys we gave up on but they've got a they're
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gonna have to win in the playoffs to prove us
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wrong um and it's a sam darnold mac jones daniel
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jones correct yeah i'll give you that going to
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shift to uh the next topic on the nfl at the
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moment i think we we we had planned to talk about
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this before but we said we're going to wait so
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now is a pretty good time and that's coaches
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on the hot seat so so we're going to talk about
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some injured egos here maybe and uh you know
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we talked about the teams at the bottom and we
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talked about the blame game We've seen one head
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coach already be fired this year, and that's
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the Titans with Brian Callahan. Yes. So I'm going
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to throw a wrench in this really quick because
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I just want to ask what your position on this
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is. A simple yes or no will do. Do you believe
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in firing a head coach mid? I think sometimes,
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yeah. I mean, I think you can just tell. Especially
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if you're halfway through the season. And you
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got to go off the previous season or seasons.
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And you got to see something in the team, especially
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the way the team is built. Now, I don't agree
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so much with, you know, when the Panthers fired
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Frank Wright, what, 10, 11 games in the season,
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his first year. I think you got to give the guy
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a season, right? And then based off of that,
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maybe. But there's a lot of things that go into
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it. And I've seen a lot of stuff and read a lot
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of stuff about this, the way teams operate. And
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it's about when, you know, you have a coach in
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place, kind of like the Titans. They had Callahan
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already. They draft Cam Ward. Then it doesn't
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work, right? And it's like he had already had
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a season with, like, Will Levis. So now it's
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like, okay, you're still our guy, and we got
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the top pick, and we, you know what I mean? But
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now Cam Ward, you fire Callahan, and now Cam
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Ward's got to start over with somebody else eventually.
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You know what I mean? So it's Bryce Young, you
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know, the Panthers, they fired Frank Wright.
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Now Bryce Young's stuck with an interim and then
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he gets Canales. So it adds to it. You know what
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I mean? Does that make sense? No, it makes sense.
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It depends on the situation. You know what I
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mean? And I'll give you the example I think we
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all agree on. If you're watching the Miami Dolphins
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play football and you're watching the team that
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they have and the success that they've had maybe
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a few years ago and it's kind of gone downhill.
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into that you know they're getting blown out
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by the cleveland browns and ricky dylan gabriel
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so mike mcdaniel is the one that would answer
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that question that i say yes sometimes i think
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coaches got to go in the middle of the season
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just go ahead get it over with that okay so i
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can't argue that i can't argue that but i'm going
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to try okay and so the company that i work for
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the ceo literally has an acronym that he's quite
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often and i love it the acronym is o y s and
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he says it to everybody on the floor we're having
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meetings it stands for own your shit yeah own
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your shit i think that when a head coach makes
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a i think when a head coach sinks the way someone
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we talk about mike mcdaniels we could we can
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use him as the example here let him ride this
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out this was of his doing he helped build the
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roster Tua has had great years playing up under
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Mike McDaniel. Yeah. You know, the Tyreek Hill
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thing kind of fizzled out last year. We saw the
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stuff that he was doing this year, and then ultimately
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he got hurt. Yeah. You know, but still got Jalen
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Waddell on that team, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
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they still got a team. Yeah. They got a pretty
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good defense. You have a professional football
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team. Like like these NFL head coaches make a
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lot of money. I don't I think I think this is
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kind of a perfect storm of of three parts. Impatient
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ownership, angry fan base and poor production
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on the field. So it's kind of a perfect storm
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of everything where, like you mentioned, like
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with the Panthers, I mean, temporal fire anybody,
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man. Tepper will get anybody out of here. He'll
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fire anybody in a heartbeat, and he doesn't care
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because he's got a ton of money. He'll pay you
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$50 million to leave so you don't have to look
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at you. That's nothing to him. He has paid up
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to four coaches at one time. There you go. Yeah,
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and it doesn't matter to him. And coaches, their
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salaries and everything aren't as regulated as
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players, so there's no cap. He could pay $100
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million in coaches' salaries, and it doesn't
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matter to him. He's worth billions. So that's
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one side of it. Angry fan base. Like you, when
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you see the fan base kind of turn on a quarterback,
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you know, we kind of saw it happen with Russell
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Wilson where the fan base was like, yeah, let's
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get this guy out of here. Yeah. You know, so
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those types of things are going to happen. But
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I personally, I would like to see these coaches
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just stick it out and finish your year. If you
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stink all year too bad, you're, you're running
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the show. You can't get all the credit when your
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team is great. And then when your team starts
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failing and losing and it's embarrassing, you
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know, the. Mike McDaniel, his whole energy shifts.
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Those press conferences, with his shades on and
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his hoodies. Oh, yeah. You know, and his long
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-winded answers and stuff. And, you know, and
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his. Listen, I think you should make that guy
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earn every dime, dude. You catch every flight.
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You go to every practice. And you know what?
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By the way, you still scout for next year, even
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though you know you ain't going to be here. Yeah.
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You know, hey, you know, look, the trade deadline.
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Make some moves. Try something. Damn it. Like
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you still got a job. And even if they get fired,
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they're getting paid. So the least they could
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do is still act like they try. Act like they
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care. Yeah. I mean, I know. Well, you make a
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great argument. But but I can't and I can't,
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you know, say that that's a bad take. I mean,
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that makes sense. Right. And that's a good to
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argue the other side. That's a great take. I
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just want to point I saw this this week. So I
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have to mention it since we're just talking about
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the Dolphins at the moment. Here's who has been
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on the Dolphins coaching staff at some point
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and they let them walk. Two of them have been
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the interim head coach for the Miami Dolphins.
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First is Ben Johnson, current head coach of the
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Chicago Bears. Dan Quinn, current coach of the
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Washington Commanders. The next two were at one
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point interim head coaches in Miami. Todd Bowles,
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current Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach. And
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Dan Campbell. And Dan Campbell in Detroit. Yes.
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Now, hold on, now, hold on. Now, when Dan Campbell,
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the Dan Campbell one is interesting. He was incredibly
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green. He was talking about biting kneecaps off
22:12
and shit in the press conferences and stuff.
22:14
Like, he was a crazy person. It was very, very
22:17
early for him. And maybe if he would have stuck
22:22
around, I think that, you know, okay, I'll put
22:25
it like this. Let's just say that if you put...
22:29
if you put dan campbell in a room and mike mcdaniel
22:32
in a room mike mcdaniel is the guy that you expect
22:35
to fix your internet connection and dan campbell
22:38
is the guy who's going to install your new toilet
22:40
so yeah they are totally different at different
22:43
ends of the spectrum yeah you know but but i
22:47
mean no they had them in house but keep it but
22:49
that that kind of lends to my point they let
22:51
them go really early yeah i mean two were interims
22:56
They just said, hey, you did a great job. At
22:59
the time, I mean, I didn't get into much detail
23:01
there, but, you know. But, yeah, I mean, and
23:06
it's a combination, right? Like you said, you're
23:09
going to get the blame when you're losing. All
23:12
the praise and the credit when you're winning.
23:13
Yeah, but it also depends on your quarterback.
23:17
Your team. But I feel like the Dolphins have
23:19
a good team, but they made the decision to pay
23:21
two. Hold on. I'm not giving you that. Mike McDaniels
23:27
was an offensive genius. Remember? Oh, yeah.
23:30
He's going to scheme his way to a chip. So that's
23:34
what I mean. So what happened? What went wrong?
23:38
Is your team just bad? Do you just not have the
23:41
talent? You know, they want to talk about culture
23:43
and accountability and all of this kind of stuff.
23:46
But, like, at the end of the day, you're not
23:47
winning games. They've been close in some games.
23:50
Some games they've got the doors blown off. But,
23:52
you know, go ahead. I'm sorry. Go ahead. No,
23:55
I was just saying, like, what I look at is like
23:57
I talked about before. Is the team putting in
24:00
effort? And what kind of roster do you have?
24:03
So with, like, the Dolphins, and I'm going to
24:05
get into a few of these things. It might be Daniel.
24:07
It just looks like he's lost the team, right?
24:10
They look like they're not trying. He doesn't
24:13
look like he's trying. He looks frustrated. He
24:16
looks disconnected from the team. You got Tua
24:20
making press conferences, and then he apologizes
24:23
for saying things in the press conference about
24:25
the team. It's a mess in Miami. And again, I
24:28
point out the Saints. Kellen Moore, first year.
24:30
Not a great record, but they play hard. And they're
24:33
in games. And that's all you can ask for. And
24:35
also with Spencer Rattler as your quarterback.
24:38
The Jets, Aaron Glenn doesn't seem to be making
24:41
really good decisions coaching and things like
24:43
that. He's supposed to know defense and the same
24:46
defense that Robert Sala had playing great. Aaron
24:49
Glenn, they don't play so great. They also, again,
24:52
I brought up Woody Johnson. He don't want to
24:54
blame Aaron Glenn, but he's going to blame Justin
24:56
Fields. Quarterback play has to do with their
24:58
problems, but they're just not a good football
25:01
team and they don't look like a well -coached
25:03
football team. Not that Aaron Glenn should lose
25:06
his job. I'm just saying he's going to have to
25:09
improve next year if he's still there, just like
25:12
Callahan got it in Tennessee. Was it showing
25:15
improvement, making really bonehead decisions
25:17
coaching? It's different being the guy, right?
25:22
It's not like being a coordinator. Not everybody's
25:25
made to be a head coach. And while that's fair,
25:30
while all of that is fair, at the end of the
25:33
day – Jonathan Gannon. you can't lose and push
25:35
players right yeah but but you're but you are
25:38
the you're you got the job already you're the
25:42
person that's responsible it all falls on you
25:45
ceo go out there and do your job man like even
25:49
if you're losing go out there and lose with some
25:51
grace go out there and lose with some class and
25:53
you know hey maybe you don't make it back the
25:55
next season that's fine But I just don't like
25:57
guys being bailed out. Now, there is an upside
26:00
because interim coaches get a chance to. But,
26:02
you know, you mentioned interim coaches get a
26:04
chance to coach when someone gets let go. But
26:09
the downside to that is we know that that interim
26:12
coach is gone after the end of that year anyway.
26:14
So he gets, you know, it's five, six games or
26:17
whatever. Most of the time. Most of the time.
26:19
I mean, it's very rare. If like if I was an interim
26:22
coach, I'd be like, y 'all have to sign me for
26:24
this. And for the rest of this season, the next
26:25
season, just sign me to a deal. If you want me,
26:28
give me the job and actually give me an opportunity
26:31
to build a resume. So but other than that, let
26:34
let Mike McDaniel wear all these losses on his
26:38
record. Don't put them on me. Don't give me a
26:41
bad team to inherit. I'm going to I'm going to
26:44
do this real quick. Let's just do this right.
26:46
Every year coaches get fired. At least a handful.
26:50
So let's just, what five teams do we think are
26:55
going to fire their head coach? And we'll count
26:57
the Titans as one of that five that already happened.
26:59
So we just need four more teams who we believe
27:02
at the end of the year will make a coaching change.
27:04
Okay. Okay. Mike McDaniel with a bullet. Yeah.
27:10
So three more left. I'm going to say Jonathan
27:15
Gannon. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. I'm thinking.
27:20
I'll agree. Jonathan Gannon, that's two. I am
27:24
going – and it's going to hurt, man, because
27:27
I really like him, and I think he's got a shot
27:31
to be a good coach. Aaron Glenn is gone for the
27:35
Jets. It's over for him, man. And I really want
27:39
to see that do -do well, man. But, yeah, it's
27:41
a wrap for him. That's three. I got another one
27:45
that – I got a fourth one. I'm curious. So we've
27:49
already got four already, so this will technically
27:52
be the fifth one. We need one more, and I'm trying
27:55
to choose between the Giants and Brian Dayball
27:58
and the Raiders and Pete Carroll. Wow. Okay,
28:02
mine is another one, but go ahead. I'll hear
28:05
yours. Yeah, I think they say Dayball's safe,
28:09
but they've made the switch to Dart. They have
28:11
Scadabo. They had a little energy. As of this
28:15
podcast, they've coming off blowing a, well,
28:18
not just blowing a lead, but giving up 32 points
28:21
in the fourth quarter, or 33 points, I'm sorry,
28:23
to the Denver Broncos to blow a lead. He can't
28:28
keep losing like that. I know they beat Philadelphia,
28:31
and I know bad audio saved everybody from my
28:35
rant. And then Pete Carroll, I mean, he's 74.
28:41
And I heard a good take on this was, like, they're
28:44
rebuilding, but they're still trying to win.
28:48
He ain't got that much time. So, you know, what
28:52
are we doing? Like, Geno Smith is not the answer.
28:55
I think his days are done. He turns the ball
28:58
over more than anybody in the league. Yeah, Tom
29:01
Brady eventually, you know, is going to get over
29:03
there in that coaching box and tell them they
29:08
got to make a change, man. They suck. They suck
29:11
something awful. They're bad. I want to say Stefanski
29:16
and Cleveland. Okay, damn it, you stole mine.
29:18
Yeah, Stefanski, fuck out of here. He's done.
29:21
It's over. Gone. But they don't have a solid
29:25
quarterback. So you got to look at the GM and
29:29
say, what are we doing? No, no, no. We paid six
29:32
quarterbacks this year. Hold on, hold on. We're
29:35
not going to do this where we bail them out.
29:38
Stefanski had say. Stefanski. I mean, their quarterback
29:42
situation, he absolutely played a part in. Okay?
29:45
You've got – hold on, hold on. You've absolutely
29:48
played a part in. Yeah. Think about what's taken
29:51
place with the Cleveland Browns. Three quarterbacks,
29:55
one of them Shadurah Sanders, who doesn't even
29:58
play. He's not even getting reps in practice.
30:00
The other one you just traded, and he just beat
30:04
Aaron Rodgers on a primetime night game in front
30:07
of everybody. You traded him within the division.
30:10
As Mike Tomlin said, you traded him to another
30:14
team in the division that needed a quarterback.
30:17
That needed a quarterback. But he was your starter.
30:19
He was your opening day starter. And you felt
30:22
the need to trade him to another team in the
30:24
division. And we're not even halfway through
30:26
the season. He's played two weeks with the Bengals.
30:30
There you go. That is the level of ineptitude
30:32
that the Browns have. Kevin Stefanski has to
30:36
go. And I'm going to defend Pete Carroll here.
30:41
You say he's 73 years old? Yeah, 74. 73, 74.
30:45
95. Okay, hold on. No, no. I'll give you all
30:49
those numbers. He's an octogenarian. I'll give
30:51
you that. He's an old guy. And I like Pete Carroll.
30:53
I like Pete Carroll, too. But I'll tell you this.
30:55
You ain't never met a more vibrant, energized
30:57
old man ever. No. And that roster is not good.
31:01
Exactly. And we know he's a good coach. We know
31:04
that he can put things together. I don't think
31:06
his age plays a role other than maybe his health
31:09
taking a bad turn and now you're kind of stuck.
31:11
But I don't think that's a reason to fire him.
31:14
For me, I keep him and allow him and let him.
31:19
build my team we know he can build a team yeah
31:22
let him build the team but uh but Stefanski yeah
31:25
dude you got to go and and it's kind of and and
31:29
it kind of bothers me that we it took it to the
31:31
last person on that list for us to get to him
31:34
because he should have been right behind Mike
31:35
McDaniel he's up there he is definitely up there
31:38
yeah he's got I can't I yeah I'm not mad at that
31:49
Let's just go to the next. We're going to go
31:51
to another segment. I think that's good on the
31:53
midseason review. I just want to get into a few
31:56
things that are going on in the league as topics.
32:02
Just hit these real quick. Taunting. Let me just
32:08
say this. I got issues with a couple of penalties.
32:10
I got issues with certain things going on within
32:14
the game. And then the NFL, you know. They, every
32:18
once in a while, it feels like they're being
32:20
run by Adam Silver or someone of that nature.
32:25
But a couple penalties that have been getting
32:28
under my skin is the taunting penalty. Guys,
32:33
grown men getting paid millions of dollars, they
32:36
can't express that they just tackled you. I think
32:40
it's gotten a little better since we originally
32:42
talked about this. I don't know that that made
32:45
it to an episode. But I know we mentioned it
32:48
and discussed it, but I think it's gotten better.
32:52
But it's still about as it bothers me that you
32:54
can't tackle somebody and flex without them throwing
32:57
a flag, a 15 yard penalty, by the way, for grown
33:00
men playing football. And then the other one
33:04
was, you know, the rough in the passer. You know,
33:07
it's it's it's a hit or miss. Right. If Dak Prescott
33:10
gets up and cries and. Touches his face. You
33:14
know, they throw the flag. I've seen a few on
33:17
deck this year. And the only reason I have seen
33:19
the games for the Cowboys is because guess what?
33:22
Every week is the game of the week on Fox. They
33:25
they they force your eyes open with, you know,
33:29
like bird. Like, what is it? Bird box. Bird box.
33:33
Watch the Cowboys no matter what. But those two
33:36
penalties bother me, even though we're going
33:38
to get, you know. Later, we will discuss penalties
33:42
as well. But those two right now are just the
33:45
big ones that, you know, it's again, if your
33:48
finger brushes the quarterback's head, they say
33:52
you hit him in the head. I mean, I don't know,
33:55
man. I get it if you lower your helmet into their
33:59
helmet or something. You hit them five seconds
34:02
after he's thrown the pass. But some of these
34:05
penalties are just crazy, and it's a bell out.
34:09
I'll start with the taunting. My only issue with
34:15
the taunting is that it's insistent. The rule
34:18
is the rule. The guys know the rules. Follow
34:21
the rules. Don't commit a stupid penalty that
34:24
costs your team 15 yards. It's that simple. You
34:27
talk about these guys making a lot of money to
34:29
play these positions. It's hard to be a defensive
34:32
player in the league right now. I understand
34:33
that. Okay, you made a big play, dude. You're
34:37
going to make four or five of those big plays
34:38
in a game. Control yourself. Especially if you
34:42
know you're going to do it directly in front
34:44
of a ref. They're going to call it on you. It's
34:47
going to cost you 15 yards. And everybody on
34:50
the sideline is going to be pissed at you. Because
34:51
it's, you know, I understand letting the emotions
34:54
kind of take the lead. But the taunting only
34:57
applies. to specific things. So it's not that
35:00
you can't go out there and kind of flex a little
35:03
bit and show yourself, but it's specific things
35:08
that you can't do. You can't hover and stand
35:10
over someone. You can't put your hands on people.
35:13
You can't put your hands in people's faces. It's
35:16
basic decorum. And these guys know the rules.
35:23
It's an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. It's
35:26
an equivalent. So but my only thing is, again,
35:30
I just want it to be consistent. If you're going
35:32
to call it, call it every time. Don't allow one
35:35
guy to get away with it on the offensive side
35:37
and then have and then but call it on a defensive
35:39
guy when he gets a stop on the next. Just be
35:41
just be consistent with it. That's all I'm asking.
35:44
Yeah, because as you mentioned, defense, it's
35:47
very hard to play defense. So, I mean, with the
35:50
way they call it sometimes on these defensive
35:52
players, I mean, offense would get it just for
35:55
pointing first down. Right. And actually, you
35:59
know what I mean? I mean, I'm just saying like,
36:01
you know, Cam Newton used to have some good ones.
36:05
A lot of guys, they have some good first down
36:07
pointing. I think it's like, you know, I think
36:09
that was Puka Nakua maybe. I don't know if he
36:12
did like double guns and then pointed and they
36:14
were like, yeah, you can't do that. But there's
36:18
a there's a line and they know it. But lately,
36:21
though, as watching, it seems like it's gotten
36:23
better. established the rule um and i think maybe
36:30
they've lightened up a little yeah and like i
36:32
said i'm not as upset about taunting penalties
36:35
because my thing is is these guys they know what
36:38
it is and what i love is when they do when they
36:41
taunt get called for it and then they're shocked
36:44
they're pearl clutching yes it's like dude just
36:48
you're six foot three 225 with a with three percent
36:52
body fat and you're shocked that that ref called
36:55
and you're grabbing the side of your head like
36:57
oh my god i can't believe he called that you
36:59
know what you can and can't do dude if it's in
37:01
the heat of the moment i'll let it ride but these
37:04
choreographed taunts that you're being upset
37:06
better be called like it just it just accentuates
37:10
that you know you're you might be a dumbass when
37:13
it comes to roughing the passer though yeah i
37:16
understand why the rule is there what i think
37:20
to kind of regulate that penalty being called
37:24
because it's such an impactful penalty that affects
37:28
the game and its most important players being
37:30
the quarterback. I think it's something that
37:33
should be subject to more review as opposed to
37:37
just the one call that happens live on the field
37:40
and maybe you miss something. I think that's
37:43
something, if they want to protect quarterbacks,
37:45
if they want to make sure that... you know, that
37:48
they aren't being assaulted, like you said, a
37:50
late hit, something to that effect, then go ahead
37:53
and treat it as such. Bring it in. Say, hey,
37:57
I want to make sure that Patrick Mahomes doesn't
37:59
get rocked unnecessarily. That was a dirty shot.
38:02
Yeah, he came in a little loaded. That was a
38:03
dirty play. Yeah, he swiped over knowing that
38:06
the ball was gone. Hit him right in the face.
38:08
Maybe he hits him in the eye. I just want them
38:11
to take it more seriously. I feel like it's a
38:13
little too willy nilly when they call stuff and
38:15
when they don't. And unfortunately, it just happens
38:18
to be at pivotal points in a game where the quarterback
38:22
just really needs a call and he just happens
38:25
to get it. Yeah. And again, recently, again,
38:28
having to be forced to watch the Cowboys, you
38:30
know, I just see Dak. And this is not me being
38:33
a cowboy hater here. I mean, honest to God, it's
38:35
any quarterback. Tom Brady used to any high,
38:37
any big time quarterback does it once they get
38:40
hit status. I'm sorry. You said you're not being
38:43
a cowboy hater. Sure. Sounds like it. But go
38:44
ahead. I mean, I say that because I was about
38:50
to say, you know, once you reach a status, I
38:52
didn't realize Dak had reached Brady status that
38:55
he can just cry to the referee and they throw
38:57
the flag. But that's where it's gotten to him.
39:00
But yeah, that's interesting. So my universal
39:03
challenge flag would work on roughing the passer.
39:07
Interesting. No, it would. Yeah, it would. Yes.
39:10
The other thing going on in games right now has
39:14
been these ridiculously long field goals. Okay.
39:18
And the word is that the balls are tighter, they're
39:21
juiced, and a 60 -yard field goal now is just
39:26
nothing. Okay, so wait. I don't know how I feel
39:29
about it. Now, I've maybe kicked a football seven
39:33
times in my life. When you say juiced, you simply
39:37
mean that the balls are overinflated to the max.
39:41
Yeah, I don't know exactly. I mean, I heard Vic
39:44
Fangio talking about it. But it's the equivalent
39:47
of when baseball had juiced baseballs and they
39:50
were just flying out of the park. And this was,
39:53
I believe. after steroids so it was like hey
39:57
we made these guys stop taking steroids so let's
40:00
still have home run everybody can kick a long
40:02
field goal so it's just kind of like i don't
40:05
know how i feel about it i know they want more
40:07
offense which again is why the offense gets all
40:09
the calls uh no defense gets all the penalties
40:12
and now we've added this where you know they
40:15
can kick you know damn near the entire football
40:17
field for a field goal do you have but but what's
40:21
the problem you have with that I don't know.
40:25
That's what I'm saying. Is it real or not real?
40:31
Like, like again, home runs and baseball is more
40:34
exciting than I guess a 60 yard field goal, but
40:38
we're gonna, you know, I don't know. We're just
40:41
making kickers look like they're amazing. Not
40:43
nothing against kickers. I just. Where does it
40:46
stop? Where does it end? But wait. I don't know,
40:50
man. Because it used to be like, again, I know,
40:54
again, this is offense driven. So the defense
40:57
makes a stop. You're like, great. There's no
41:00
way they're going to kick this 59 -yard field
41:02
goal here. Nope. Yeah, they are. You sound. You
41:06
got to have a three and out on the 30 -yard line
41:09
to hold them from a field goal now? You sound
41:13
like. An old -ass man who... Hold on, hold on,
41:18
hold on. Let me land a plane here. Let me land
41:21
a plane. Yeah. You sound like an old -ass man
41:25
wishing for the days of bird and magic and tiny
41:30
basketball shorts and two -point set shots. Because
41:36
this is the three -point NBA conversation all
41:41
over again. You can't be mad at more points.
41:44
You could say, oh, this is making these mediocre
41:47
kickers look like they're great. Maybe they are
41:50
that good. Because when you look at when you
41:54
look at. OK, I think the thing with like the
41:56
60 yard field goals was the chances of people
42:01
making those field goals was so unlikely that
42:05
teams wouldn't attempt them. So I'm going to
42:08
take that same parallel and apply it. The NBA
42:11
with the three point shot. The reason why teams
42:14
didn't take a lot of threes was because it was
42:16
like, hey, we'd rather get an efficient two.
42:19
Maybe he gets fouled, go to the line, get a free
42:21
throw, right? But when you look at how many players
42:25
started, oh, OK, wait, I can actually take five
42:29
threes a game. Some days I'm going to hit four
42:32
or five. Some days I might hit one of five. But
42:34
my average, I'm going to shoot three out of five.
42:37
And that's a Hall of Fame type three point percent.
42:40
OK, so. So I think what's happening now is that
42:43
guys have proven that they can go out and kick
42:45
them. Because that's the other thing. When Steph
42:47
Curry came into the league and he tried to do
42:50
his Davidson impersonation, it took a couple
42:52
of years for him to start gunning threes. And
42:54
then Steve Kerr was like, you know what, man?
42:55
Just do what it is you want to do. We knew that
42:57
he was a great three -point shooter with Mark
42:59
Jackson. But Steve Kerr was like, no, no, no,
43:01
dude. Get across half court. Take your shot.
43:05
Chuck it up. And now this is where, with kickers,
43:09
you know that they have the ability. When Steph
43:12
Curry takes a 35 footer, no one goes, oh, my
43:15
God, Steph, that was a bad shot because we know
43:17
he is capable of making that shot. So when it
43:20
comes to kickers and you know that they have
43:21
the ability to to a better than average percentage
43:26
to kick that field goal and make it, you make
43:29
it and then you kick the ball off and then give
43:32
the team worse field position. You got to take
43:34
those three points. So I don't know whether it's
43:36
the balls. I don't know whether it's the kickers,
43:38
but. It's not something that I'm going to frown
43:41
upon, you know, just because it's different.
43:44
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Like I said, I can't
43:48
pinpoint it, but. It doesn't feel right. Hold
43:52
on. You don't like the kickers kicking. It doesn't
43:54
feel right to you. It doesn't. Okay. I don't
43:58
like it. I think in the next, if this trend continues,
44:02
because this is a trend right now. We're talking
44:04
about this, you know, six, seven games into the
44:06
season. Yeah. So it's a trend right now. It's
44:08
not. It's a fad. We don't know what it's going
44:11
to be like for the next. Let's see how you feel
44:12
in a couple of years. Yeah. The other thing that
44:21
got my attention, I'm going to go on another
44:23
rant. The NFL I saw is looking to add at least
44:27
two more international games next season. Here's
44:31
my argument. For the fans of these teams in the
44:36
city that they reside in. Home teams are losing
44:40
a home game. I don't care about the money they
44:42
make. I don't care about the teams making the
44:44
money. It's one less home game that a team gets
44:48
to play, right? Some of them's away games for
44:52
other teams. And again, I do hope we get to an
44:55
18 -game season so we can have nine and nine.
44:58
But these international games, I get it. They
45:00
want to go overseas. They want to spread the
45:04
love, all these things. But the scheduling of
45:07
it is a disruption. And I'll give you an example
45:10
I just noticed. One team that loves to do this,
45:12
and they do multiples every year, are the Jacksonville
45:15
Jaguars. The London Jags? The Jaguars, before
45:19
going overseas, they were 4 -1. They were coming
45:22
off a Monday night win against the Kansas City
45:24
Chiefs. They were riding high. They go overseas.
45:28
They lose all their momentum. They've lost both
45:31
games over there. They lost an ugly game to the
45:35
Denver Broncos, and then they got waxed by the
45:37
Rams. I think it was a disruption of their momentum
45:40
that they had, right? They were here, they were
45:43
playing great, just had a home game, beat the
45:45
Chiefs, like I said, and then they have to go
45:47
over there and they just lost their momentum.
45:49
I think it's a disruption. And again, I think
45:52
it takes away from the fans in the city of those
45:54
teams. I get it. It's a money game. It's a business.
45:58
NFL won't do these things. I hope they never
46:01
put a team over there. I think they should put
46:03
like a league over there or something. But, you
46:05
know, putting a team over there eventually, I
46:07
mean, think about that scheduling. I don't know,
46:11
man. If you had to play for that team, now you've
46:13
got to go to Europe. Hell, yeah, we've got to
46:15
play in that division. Not the end of the world,
46:18
but, yeah, no, I get it. We can travel now. But,
46:20
again, the way they have to schedule around these
46:22
things, I'm just not a big fan of it. I think
46:25
we have way too many now. It's starting not to
46:28
be that specialty. You know, it's different like
46:32
when, you know, they start in Brazil or Mexico
46:36
City, you know, that that first game of the season,
46:39
like when you have that Thursday night game or
46:41
something, I guess is better than the end in
46:44
the middle of the season. Just because, you know,
46:48
Thursday night and then you get to really then
46:51
get a good break before your first Sunday game.
46:54
But yeah, I'm not a fan and I'm not happy to
46:57
hear that they're going to add more games. Okay.
46:58
Call me old man. Call me whatever. Yeah. I'm
47:01
going to call you old ass man. And the only thing
47:09
that I agreed with what you said there was how
47:11
it affects the fans. I could not care less how
47:16
it affects teams and how they play. They know
47:19
their schedule ahead of time. There's things
47:22
that you're not going to be able to control.
47:24
I mean, I can't control my own work schedule.
47:26
Like traveling halfway across the world. I get
47:28
it. It stinks. But the team, trust me, the teams
47:32
that are traveling over there are doing the accommodations
47:34
are going to be as comfortable as possible. So
47:36
that way they put the best product on the field
47:38
because they don't want their players to get
47:39
hurt. That part doesn't bother me. But I'm going
47:42
to tweak this just slight bit because you're
47:46
putting the onus on overseas games. I'm going
47:50
to shift this to the fans perspective that you
47:53
alluded to. With the overseas games and local
47:56
fans not being able to go one less game to go
47:59
see their team locally. But I'm going to flip
48:01
this to these double headers. I'm going to flip
48:04
this to these multiple games that are being played
48:07
on the same day. You know, on a Monday night
48:10
where Monday night. Yes. Where you have a game.
48:14
Yeah. Well, you have an opportunity to to to
48:17
schedule. And here's the thing. And I'm just
48:19
this is this may be the wackiest of ideas. But
48:23
if you have an additional game that, you know,
48:27
is going to have to be rammed late on the schedule
48:31
on a Monday, just so that way the game is played.
48:34
Why not move it? to a sunday and this ties into
48:38
what you were saying about these international
48:40
games the international games start what eight
48:42
nine o 'clock nine thirty nine thirty so they're
48:45
over early or late late morning early game why
48:50
not just start that other game then yeah why
48:53
not just tie it all together have a morning game
48:56
late morning early afternoon game going right
48:59
into the one o 'clock schedule like it's so easy
49:01
and it's so simple i think a lot of this has
49:04
to do with like the the ESPN Monday Night Football
49:07
contractual obligations of the games. And they
49:10
just got to kind of just get them on the schedule
49:12
to get them played. But it makes it hard for
49:14
fans to follow the games and to watch them. And
49:18
it's almost as if having the doubleheader on
49:21
Monday Night Football almost feels like they
49:22
forgot about it. It's almost like, oh, damn.
49:25
Oh, man, we have to play this game. Oh, yeah,
49:28
just throw it on at 10, 1030. Yeah, so they're
49:31
scheduling it this way. And they've been doing
49:35
this for years where they'll open the season
49:36
or the first few weeks and they'll have multiple
49:38
games, like not exactly the same time, but it
49:41
might be like a seven o 'clock and eight thirty.
49:44
But again, this past Monday, it was what, an
49:47
eight and a ten o 'clock or something like a
49:49
seven and a ten. It was crazy. I'm like, man,
49:52
it's ten o 'clock. I mean, if it was the Eagles,
49:54
I'd probably stay up and I'll call in sick the
49:56
next day. But, you know. I'm not staying up watching
49:59
the Seahawks and the Texans at 10 o 'clock at
50:02
night. No, but you might have watched it at kickoff
50:05
with 730. Well, yeah, if there's one game. If
50:08
there's one game. But I think they're doing this,
50:11
too, because they get so many duds by having
50:15
one game on a Monday. Now, I say that, but they
50:18
only have one game on Thursday, and we get a
50:20
lot of duds on Thursday. So, yeah, I'm with you.
50:24
I'm glad you brought that up. That's another
50:25
thing. I'm not a big fan of the doubleheaders.
50:29
It's hard enough for me to try to watch wrestling
50:31
and football. I think there's enough time on
50:33
Sunday to put that game on. To be able to sandwich
50:35
it in. Well, again, this is what we've done for
50:38
years. One game on Monday. The other game can
50:42
go on Sunday. It's okay. We don't have to watch
50:44
the Cowboys. We could put another team on TV.
50:49
Hold on. But that's a counterpoint, though. Because,
50:53
you know, if you either... You never know what
50:56
a game's going to turn into. You never know if
51:00
the Falcons are going to score zero against the
51:03
Panthers. You never know if a division opponent
51:06
in, you know, the Las Vegas Raiders is going
51:10
to, you know, drop a goose egg while playing
51:12
the Chiefs. It's hard to tell. So it's like,
51:15
so what do you do? You have interesting matchups.
51:17
Or you have big -named teams. You know, you mentioned
51:19
the Chiefs, the Cowboys, you know, the Eagles,
51:22
the Steelers. You just throw them on and just
51:25
kind of cross your fingers and hope. But at the
51:26
end of the day, that's nothing that the NFL can
51:28
control. It's out of their control. Set your
51:31
schedule. Make it convenient to where people
51:34
can actually watch it and enjoy it and not looking
51:36
at it. Those doubleheaders, man, was looked at
51:38
as a burden. Fans, it was a burden for fans.
51:41
It was a burden for media. They're like, damn.
51:45
I've got to flip back and forth between these
51:46
games. Like, you know, like, what's going on?
51:48
So, you know. Yeah, either you're flipping or,
51:51
like you said, they're starting it at 10 o 'clock
51:53
at night. Way too much. Insane. The other thing
51:56
with the – we mentioned the fans losing a home
51:58
game, and it's only one, right? But what if you're
52:00
a season ticket holder? It's like you're paying
52:02
for seasons. That's a good question because my
52:04
thing is, like, if it – I don't know how that's
52:07
factored in. My guess is that your season tickets.
52:11
But if I pay season. Oh, go ahead. No, no. My
52:13
guess is that if your season tickets will be
52:16
tickets for the games played at that stadium.
52:20
True. But I would say. You're losing the game.
52:23
You're losing the game. And it may be that's,
52:25
you know, maybe they got it worked out. No big
52:28
deal. I would still, if I was in Philadelphia,
52:30
I would have season tickets to the Eagles and
52:32
I wouldn't care. Okay. So that's that on that.
52:35
But you care if one of those games was in London?
52:38
I mean, I would, and I'd probably start doing
52:39
some math to try to figure out how much I paid
52:43
per game and things like that. But they're probably
52:47
just, I think they're just charging, you're right,
52:49
for the games that are actually being played.
52:50
But I would have to take a look at that. All
53:04
right, so fun random topic. What is the most
53:07
irritating penalty in football? Okay, so. So
53:11
not necessarily a penalty that like you don't
53:14
like. Like we talked about taunting. It's just
53:16
like, it's irritating. And I got one and I got
53:19
a reason why every time it's called. It just
53:21
irritates me that it's still done. I'm curious
53:25
if we have the same one. So we're going to go
53:27
with. Okay. So the question is, what is the most
53:30
irritating penalty in football? To me, the most
53:34
irritating penalty is holding. Oh, wow. Specifically
53:39
on the offensive line. And it's because it's
53:45
simple. It's because you can call it on every
53:47
play, but you don't. It's because you can make
53:49
an argument to justify it being called in so
53:53
many different situations on any play. I mean,
53:57
hell, I'll tell you like this. I know it occurs.
54:01
Have you ever seen a holding penalty called on
54:04
a field goal? It absolutely happens, but they
54:07
don't call it. Yeah, rarely if ever. Rarely if
54:12
ever. So for me, it's irritating where it's like,
54:15
damn, that was a great run. And I'm wanting to
54:20
make this clear. I'm not talking about... a holding
54:23
penalty on a DB, on a receiver trying to break
54:27
free on a route. Those are just a little too
54:30
obvious. They call some of those as holding.
54:33
Technically, it's more pass interference. I'm
54:36
talking about on the line, guys jockeying for
54:39
position to open up holes for running backs,
54:42
for running quarterbacks, for run design plays,
54:46
and then the ref throws a flag and you realize
54:49
that that 27 -yard run has to come back. irritating
54:52
as hell that is not mine mine's gonna be from
54:57
a different angle different point of view it
55:00
is the block in the back wow because okay i i
55:05
don't understand why it still happens that you
55:09
know if you're running downfield and and you're
55:13
uh you know you're on off and and you're trying
55:16
to the defenders in front of you how you still
55:21
push somebody in the back when you clearly know
55:24
you're behind them is just so irritating because
55:27
i'm like it happens all the time like every game
55:31
it could be the first punt first kickoff of the
55:34
game blocking the back blocking the back i'm
55:36
like man like you don't know yet that you can't
55:39
push somebody in the back it's just irritating
55:42
to me well no and and that and that kind of goes
55:44
back to what we were talking about with the taunting
55:46
like you like you know You got to be aware. And
55:51
the block in the back is so obvious. It's probably
55:54
one of the more obvious penalties in the NFL
55:57
because every single time, whoever gets pushed
56:02
in the back is defenseless. There's nothing they
56:05
can do. And honestly, I think that's why it's
56:08
more dangerous, and I'm glad that they actually
56:10
call it. I like it as a penalty because you don't
56:13
even give someone the opportunity to brace themselves.
56:16
Just think about how many injuries it would be.
56:18
They say block in the back, but imagine if you
56:20
hit somebody. You give them a little forearm.
56:23
You give them a shoulder. As somebody's trying
56:25
to get in position to make a play on a ball.
56:29
Somebody's making a play on a pass. Someone's
56:30
making a play on a run. And you hit them from
56:33
the back. That's a really good one. And it is
56:35
irritating, even though I think it's needed.
56:39
I don't understand why guys do it. That's irritating
56:43
as hell. I'm fine with the penalty. I'm just
56:46
like, I'm overwhelmed how many times it happens
56:50
in a game. Gotcha. And then, and normally they
56:54
give themselves away, right? The hands go up
56:56
like, I didn't do it. We see, we've seen it too
57:01
many times with great, with great players too.
57:03
Yeah. It happens. It's about every, it's every
57:07
game multiple times. It's irritating, but all
57:09
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