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Chris Landry on NFL coaches and job openings and college football · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry on your Radio one more segment. Landry Football dot com is the
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  website, and of course Landry Football on X. All Right. Chris,
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  so a couple of questions about some of the teams that exited this past weekend.
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  Tampa Bay Baker Mayfield, what do you and I mean, we'll see
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  what happens. Is he going to be back? Does he have a long
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  term future there can that Can that organization take the next the needed next steps
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  over the you know of course of the offseason, two, get further even
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  next year. Yeah, I think that they would like to get a deal
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  done with them. It needs to make sense. I mean, it's just
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  obvious. Sometimes folks said, well just sign them whatever. The price has
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  to be right. I think they want to bring him back, but also
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  think they need to look for other options into the future too, with a
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  younger guy that I think they that they feel more comfortable with than say Kyle
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  Trask, who I don't think is the answer to the future. So I
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  think, to me, with the quarterback position, you always try to look
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  at younger options down the road that you may bring in. But I think
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  bringing him back is something that they need to do and look I think this
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  team proved to be a little bit better as ear went along, but I
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  still think they've got some work to do. And I thought they got hot
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  at the right time. But I think they need to improve their running game.
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  I thought they ran the football better than I thought they would because they
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  haven't been a good running team all year long. They ran well against Detroit,
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  but I think with improvements, we don't know yet what's going to happen
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  in Atlanta, although it's trending in one direction and Saints are making changes,
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  and so I think there's always that arms right there. Chris, when you
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  look at Buffalo, I don't want to say. I don't like using the
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  term peak. Have they peaked? But have they peaked? Well, here's
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  what I think. I think you know they've I don't know that I would
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  say they peaked. Here's what I believe they need to do. I don't
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  like necessarily how the team is constructed. What I mean by that is they
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  play in Buffalo, and they got to play in Buffalo in January, or
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  in most cases they did. They need to get more is a call at
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  that line of scrimmage, on offense and defense. They need to run the
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  football more consistently. Joe Brady really got that running game going better. But
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  they need to run the football and defend the run better. That's what they
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  need to do better. Josh Allen is the answer. He's one of the
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  elite guys. He is not the problem. He's not the reason that they
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  haven't advanced. He's actually uploaded him more. I think Kansas City has the
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  best quarterback in the league, but also think they have a better team and
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  they're better constructed. That defense is legit. Buffalo needs to get more physical.
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  They need to get tougher, and I think that's what they need to
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  do, and they've got to have some hard discussions on how to do that.
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  And you know that, to me is the difference. So I think,
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  maybe, to use your phrase, the way they're doing it, I
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  think is beyond peak. I think it's reached its point where it's not going
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  to get any better until they're able to adjust the physicality of this team.
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  You mentioned Joe Brady man that was a hot name coming out LSU after Joe
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  Burrow and that whole deal in twenty nineteen. And of course, there is
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  nothing wrong with being an offensive coordinator for an NFL franchise. But what's the
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  word on the around the industry on this guy and why he maybe has not
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  gotten an opportunity to be a head coach yet. Well, he's a good
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  young coach. He's got a lot of publicity in the LSU year and look,
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  he did a great job. Let's just call it what it is.
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  You know, Joe Burrow was the reason why they won it. And Joe
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  Brady was a part of it. That's he wasn't the full time play caller
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  either, now was. It was his first involvement in some of the play
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  calling. But the reputation is that bright young coach came and learned under under
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  Sean Payton that system and is just learning and developing. And I think he's
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  done a really good job. But I think a lot of it is people
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  start throwing his name out like anybody that needed to put Joe Joe Brady,
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  Joe Brady, like, you know, he's he's really good. But he
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  ain't bringing Joe Burrow with him. So if you're Alabama, you're he's not
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  like he's the magic colior. He's really good. To answer your question,
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  and I think can be a good head coach in the NFL one day,
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  and I think his time will come. I don't think it's it's there yet.
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  I think it would make a lot of sense for him to, you
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  know that, for them and for him to stay in Buffalo with a great
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  quarterback, and I think from there he could move on. He could do
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  what Brian da Ball was able to do, parlay being the coordinator there with
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  Josh Allen into a head coaching job in the NFL. I just don't think
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  he's there yet. Brian dave Ball had a lot more experience when he got
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  his opportunity. Just that Joe's just to green at this point. He's good,
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  but then the head coach is a different animal. Jim Harmer second interview,
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  coming up with the Chargers, I don't I don't want to say,
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  is that a dundal? But is it looking like a dundal? Well?
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  He said, is going to have a second one with Atlanta too. No,
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  I don't think it's a I think with Jim, you you've always run
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  in the danger of kind of predicting what's going to happen with him. I
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  don't know that it's a done deal. Do I expect him to take one
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  of these jobs? I do. But but I don't know. I don't.
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  I don't think money's going to be a problem though the Chargers are the
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  least the spandeffs of the least wealthy. Maybe ick In phrase it that way
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  owners in the NFL, that that's not going to be a problem. They
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  spend money on players. It's funny with spend money with him, I believe.
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  So, yeah, I think it could be. I think it's a
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  lot of what it is in the NFL. And you see a lot of
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  these second interviews is the first one is to kind of get to know one
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  another, and the second interview is usually where you get it to the details.
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  The devil's in the details, as they say. And I think,
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  you know how it's going to be structured, how the organization is going to
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  be structured. And I think, Jim, to me, the Chargers organization
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  is in that job opening is a good one, not just because of the
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  quarterback, but they let their general manager go, so it would appear that
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  you could go there and name your own GM if you're Jim Harball. So
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  to me it makes a lot of sense. But until it's done, I
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  you know, won't have to wait and see Chris for we get you out
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  here, I want to ask your college football question. And we won't know
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  until these teams the rosters really settle out and we see what's going on.
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  But it's kind of eye opening what's going on Ohio State. You look at
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  Ryan Day, they've really kind of given him. It looks like all the
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  tools he needs to try to make this thing make a run and everything and
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  get back to you know, the national semi final, the national championship.
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  When you look at at some of the guys they brought in and transfer quarterback
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  from Kansas State, quin Shawn Jenkins from Ole Miss, some other players as
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  well, it looks like it's I don't want to say bang or bust for
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  Ryan Day, but it looks like that's the way they're playing this thing.
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  He loves a couple of years in the road of Michigan and that affects you.
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  Yeah, that's what that is. And it's the folks don't know.
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  It's the largest alumni base that there is, and uh, you know,
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  in terms of just numbers. I'm not saying that they spend the most money
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  or whatever, but they are spending it right now. That collective i'm hearing
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  is way way up there, and they're they're putting a lot of money into
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  this, and they're they all were putting all our chips in. I think
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  it is no question, And yeah, I think it is. They are
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  going to be They may be we'll see, they may be the team to
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  beat. I think they'll be the favorite in the Big ten. Uh,
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  they'll be the most talented. But like you said, let's wait and see
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  and make sure all those guys are there and don't leave and some of these
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  things don't fall apart. But yeah, they got some fur year names for
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  Mississippi State fans. That's going to be feeding at quarterback and who knows,
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  they're all in, no question about it, and that's uh, we talk
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  about it in the South that you know, the rivalries and whatnot. I
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  have been around and of course lived in Cleveland when I worked for the Browns.
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  That's Ohio State. Michigan is as I mean, it is fierce a
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  rivalry as there is at any level anywhere, anytime. And losing for you
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  know, a couple of years, and having Michigan win the national championship on
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  top of it, boy, that just does not sit well in Columbus.
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  And they're doing everything they can financially to make sure that doesn't happen again anymore.
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  Yeah, and you stay in that conference. You look at Oregon what
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  Dan Lanning has done, you know, rightfully. So, I mean it
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  would it would appear at least today that you know, Michigan is going to
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  slide a little bit. We'll see, Harball may not be there. Penn
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  State, I just don't see them being ready to thinke that next step that
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  Oregon could come in being the second best team in that league. Oh absolutely.
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  I mean, you know, Washington's into transition, Yeah, no question
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  about it. And there's nobody else that's ready to kind of make that jump.
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  And I do think that, you know, I think the one team
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  that we've got to see if they're gonna make the jump. I'm not a
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  big fan of Lincoln Lobby, but let's you know, let's USC's got there's
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  some potential there resource wise to be in that elite group. But no,
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  I don't expect them to be that d year. We'll see. Yeah,
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  I'm I think that that Oregon's right there and uh, you know, probably
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  challenging Ohio State for preseason favorites in the BEEGN Chris Landry. Make sure to
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  find him on x at Landry Football Landry football dot com. Chris always appreciates
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  your time. Enjoy the championship games and when we talk next week we'll have
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  a super Bowl matchup to preview. Yeah. Absolutely looking forward to have a great one