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Bill Bender Joins the Show · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Bill Bender, senior writer for the Sporting News. You can find him at
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  Bill Bender ninety two, also at Sporting News College and the NFL. Bill.
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  Welcome in, sir. How are you and I'm doing well. Thanks
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  for having me on. Hey. I appreciate you, sir. Your thoughts
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  of what you saw last night. I was talking to Chris Landry with Landry
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  Football last hour about it. You know, for me, I know,
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  Bill, we talked about this. We're pretty much the same asia within a
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  year or two. I don't mind defensive football. I find it highly entertaining.
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  I can sit down and watch a ten to seven ball game or a
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  you know, a thirteen five or thirteen six ball game and be just as
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  entertained. But a lot of grumbling, you know, on social chat,
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  Well this ball game's boring. It's ten three and a half. I thought
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  it was a highly entertaining super Bowl you get it to overtime. Your thoughts
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  of what you saw last night, Yeah, you know what, you probably
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  could have sat in the chair next to me and been just as happy.
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  There you go. I love the game where the defense was solid and you
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  were kind of I was watching it with a good friend of mine. We
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  played together in high school and we were talking about how it was cool to
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  watch a game where you're like, the next play could determine the team,
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  and it felt like that. And obviously here's the other thing I thought,
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  I wonder if you felt the same way. At no point did I feel
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  like the Chiefs were gonna lose because they had Patrick Mahomes and they were within
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  striking distance the whole time. Always felt that way, no doubt about it.
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  Even after the trick play. Well, I felt after the trick play,
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  San Francisco might the might have had the momentum they needed. But with
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  Patrick Mahomes, I mean again, I never never counted them out ever,
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  No, And I mean the way he closed on those last two drives twelve
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  or fourteen, making that fourth down and run they put. You know,
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  that's a coaching thing. Andy Reid put the ball in his best player's hands
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  with the game on the line. And when you do that, I mean,
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  that's a big reason why Andy Reid has worked into some higher level coaches
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  or conversations about the greatest coach of all time. So, yeah, it
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  was cool. It was a fun game, you know, for it to
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  end the way that it did, down to the wire, a lot of
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  drama, and you know what, I thought brock Purty played pretty well too.
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  I don't really have anything negative to say about him other than, you
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  know, the Chiefs defense boted up and held them dis some field goals and
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  clutch situation. Bill Bender on your radio Monday edition of the programming Should I
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  find him on X and check them out at the Sporting News. I agree
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  with you on brock party. And you know, the forty nine ers are
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  getting him at a good value right now on that rookie contract. He's going
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  to get paid here after next year. Just way too early. I mean,
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  do you see? And we got to go through free agency, the
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  draft, all this kind of stuff. These two teams, are they the
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  best two coming back? Or you know, or will one maybe slip?
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  Just you know, kind of a fly over of both both organizations. Well,
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  I think the Chiefs are in their dynasty era now where you know it's
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  extended that it'll be a big deal when they lose in the playoffs next time.
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  You know, they're going for a three piece. Never happened the Packers
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  did before they filled it into there. So as Bart Starr once told me
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  in an interview, that they were the last team to do it, so,
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  man, what a story that would be. The forty nine ers will
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  have to fight the hangover. I do like brock Perdy, He's got two
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  years left on this contract. They've got a stud roster. They draft well,
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  so I think they'll be a prohibitive favorite in that conference. But teams
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  like Detroit, Green Bay, Philadelphia, Dallas, they'll have something to say
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  about that. And then the AFC is going to be so quarterback heavy that
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  it's just amazing that Pat Mahomes continues to beat these guys. Now, I
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  agree with you, and you look at you reference the run on the fourth
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  and one, the twenty two yard scamper. I thought that was a heck
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  of a play call. I mean, you take those nine carries sixty six
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  yards on the night for Holmes, you take that off the board, and
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  I mean they're right it around fifty five fifty six yards rushing for the ballgame.
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  It just felt like they just took this told Mahomes, hey, go
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  do whatever it takes win the ballgame, and he did that and of course
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  using his feet again, nine carries sixty six yards on the night. To
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  me, that was the difference in this offense. Was his ability to create
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  with his feet. Yeah, and you know the scrambles and you know,
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  even the forty nine ers did a good job pressuring him in the first half.
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  Bosa, Chase Young, Eric Armstead. That good team, good football
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  team. You know Christian McCaffrey last night too. Not to change the subject,
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  I was thinking, one hundred and sixty total yards, pretty dominant performance
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  had to go on in overtime, and they would just seem like the forty
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  nine ers would get away from him just enough. When I was thinking,
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  man, a college team would ride that, they'd give that guy the ball
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  three more times. And it was. It was definitely one of those deals.
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  Oh, there's no doubt about it. I mean, you're talking about
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  twenty two rushing yard or twenty two carries, eight receptions, one hundred and
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  sixty total yards, a touchdown. I mean, what a performance for him.
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  And you know, I don't I don't think that he is is by
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  far done. Let me shift gears with you. Talk a little college football
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  real quick. Your thoughts on Chip Kelly going from a head coach at UCLA
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  to an offensive coordinator at UCLA. That one thought process on that from you
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  and then also what does this mean and how how much better does this make
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  Ohio State? Well, I mean good for Ohio State. I'll start there.
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  I mean, they've get a really creative offensive mind that will spread them
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  out and I think they'll really maximize Quinn Show, Judkins, Treviaon Henderson have
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  a really good running game college football in some ways though, I mean,
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  just the look of a team coming into the Big Ten trying to create excitement
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  and your head coach goes and takes an offensive coordinator job. I know,
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  the sec down there where you guys are guys do like Derek Mason comes to
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  mind. I know he took a defensive coordinator job after getting fired, but
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  he didn't voluntarily do it, you know what I mean. And I think
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  that's the big difference for me, and I'm not sure that's a good look
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  for the sport. It just shows the gap between those superstore programs and everybody
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  else. Bill Bender talking to NFL and College Football Money edition of the program.
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  Make sure to find him on X and check him out at The Sporting
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  News as well. In same question for Ryan Grub, I mean, you're
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  talking about a guy who was the offensive coordinator at Washington. He goes down
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  to Tuscalos know there's some stories, some you know, stuff out there,
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  rumblings of hey, you know, they were trying to wait for that transfer
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  portal window to close. And then now back or to the NFL. He
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  goes back to Seattle, this time with the Seahawks. Your thought on kind
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  of that maneuver there by him, I mean, there's definitely some shade on
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  that in the way that they did it, but it's also by necessity in
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  some ways. And that's why. If there's three reforms that he made the
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  sport the first one to the calendar, how do we fix the college football
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  calendar? Because this was a wild coaching carousel, thirty changes, just unprecedented.
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  How do we fix the nil that's the next one. Do we get
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  into the revenue sharing and that kind of thing? And then how do we
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  fix the transfer port I think the transfer portal would fix itself a little bit
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  if those two things were fixed ahead of it. I think we would have
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  less transfers. And that's less of an issue for me than the other two.
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  Bill Bender talking college and the NFL. Bill to me, ask one
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  more question, I'll get you on your way. JJ McCarthy. There's been
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  back to the kind of college slash back to the NFL. You know,
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  Jim Harball came out and said, hey, you know, I'm paraphrase and
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  I think JJ's the best quarterbacks ever played at Michigan. I think he's the
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  best quarterback in this draft. Now he doesn't need a quarterback now with the
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  Chargers. You've seen kind of the movement of JJ McCarthy in some of these
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  mock drafts. We'll see what happens at the combine and more. Is JJ
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  one of the better quarterbacks in this draft in your mind? Got a lot
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  of intangibles. I remember back at Big ten Media Day, people were aside
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  themselves that Harball would compare Dorothy to Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes. But he
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  wasn't comparing the skill set. He was comparing the leadership, the tangibles,
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  those kind of things, and kind of hard to argue against that. In
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  some ways, given what Michigan went through this year and how McCarthy helped hold
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  us together, I do think he will have better numbers and be a little
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  bit better in the NFL than he wasn't Michigan. That might not make sense
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  considering he was twenty three and one as a starter. But I think the
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  receiver talent in the NFL in his arm. Will Mesh might take a minute,
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  but you've got a little bit of this. This year's Will Levispiel to
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  him. Because of those things, I think he'll be a very popular person
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  at the NFL. COMBA, make sure to find him on X that's Bill
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  Bender ninety two. Check him out at the Sporting News. Bill, I
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  appreciate your time as always. Look we'll catch up. It'll be March madness.
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  We'll talk that in spring football with you before you know what. I
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  appreciate it. I can't wait. Thank you so much for having me,
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  jac I'll talk to soon.