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Will the VIKINGS always regret letting go of SAM DARNOLD? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  The last two head coaching openings in the NFL have been
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  filled as the Arizona Cardinals and the number one offense in
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  the NFLLA Rams and former Jets offensive coordinator Mike
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  Lafleur. Lance's first head coaching gig
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  while in the desert. The Davis family and Tom Brady
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  just the last picks of the coaching cycle with little
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  chance of real success? The Minnesota Vikings
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  surprisingly fired their general manager of the past Four
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  Seasons, Quesi Adofo Mensa, after the Vikings struggled
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  offensively after letting Super Bowl quarterback Sam Darnold go
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  for the underwhelming JJ McCarthy.
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  www.worldwidesportsradio.com. ESPN Adam Schefter reports the
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  Vikings have fired general manager Quesi Adofo Mensa after
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  Four Seasons. Pro Football Talk Mike Florio
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  reported that Quesi and head coach Kevin O'Connell argued
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  whether JJ McCarthy was ready to be the starter and if the team
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  should keep Sam Darnold, who is less than a week away from
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  starting in Super Bowl 60 for the Seattle Seahawks.
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  O'Connell didn't get his wish as the GM overruled the successful
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  coach, setting the franchise back years.
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  The Vikings also released Daniel Jones along with Donald in their
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  decision to go with McCarthy, who had a rough first year.
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  First season superstar wide receiver Justin Jefferson also
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  threw the outgoing GM under the bus on social media, stating the
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  obvious that the team would have been better with Donald.
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  ESPN's Kevin Suffered reports that Brian Flores was also very
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  uncomfortable with Quesi. To keep Flores in the fold, the
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  Vikings reportedly made him the highest paid defensive
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  coordinator in the league at over 6,000,000 a year.
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  Since he took over in 2022, the Vikings have had the second
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  fewest games played out of their draft picks, combining for just
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  172 games, only better than the Dolphins.
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  Who fired their GM Chris Greer mid season?
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  All right, so I if you're at him, we had, we had one of Pete
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  Bursick on the show and he's a friend of the show.
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  And I know Pete's probably listening to the show.
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  I sent him the link and I wanted him to see and my take behind
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  Quessy and, and I don't know much about him as AGM.
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  What I do know is he's been there for four years and his
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  draft picks were not very good. JJ McCarthy.
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  I I like coming out of the draft.
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  I think he needed a little bit more time behind Sam Donald.
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  I think they should have signed Sam Donald for a three-year,
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  $100 million contract that Seattle gave him.
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  Sam Donald was successful his first year as a starting
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  quarterback, quarterback with Minnesota.
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  O'Connell was getting his offense through him and you saw
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  Justin Jefferson flourishing. Their running game was
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  flourishing. Their offense was flourishing
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  even with an elite defense with Brian Flores.
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  I mean, think about this right now.
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  If Sam Donald was there with Minnesota, maybe it would be
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  Minnesota going to the Super Bowl.
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  Maybe they win the NFC this year.
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  Brian Flores, his defense was elite, top five, top six in the
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  NFL once again. And their offense was putrid.
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  Justin Jefferson had over a little bit over 1000 yards this
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  year, had two touchdowns. I looked up the numbers last
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  last week. They were bad.
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  Justin Jefferson who was on his way to maybe catch Jerry Rice.
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  Everybody, if there was anybody. I remember when Odell Beckham
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  was in a position to maybe catch Jerry Rice with the 4th great
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  seasons he had with the Giants and then fell apart with injury.
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  Justin Jefferson has been fairly healthy.
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  And besides, I think it was last year or the year before when he
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  had a significant injury. Justin Jefferson was, he's been
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  playing at a top level and as good as any wide receiver in the
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  league. If you look at him fantasy, he
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  was a top three, top four pick. Anybody that drafted Jeff,
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  Justin Jefferson this year probably lost their fantasy
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  league or probably didn't even get into the playoffs.
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  Think about it. Are you going to trust that JJ
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  McCarthy is the future quarterback in the organization?
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  Because Jim Harbaugh said if you don't draft him, it's like
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  you're not drafting Michael Jordan.
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  Now, we heard that about Deshaun Watson.
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  When, you know, somebody in Clemson said that.
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  And he was right. Deshaun Watson for his first
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  five or six years was a good quarterback.
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  And then with all his woes being traded and then, you know, the,
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  the rub and tug situation and all that and, and his situation
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  behind the scenes didn't really bode well for the Browns and the
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  organization or even the Texans when they decided to part ways
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  with him because of the backlash.
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  O'Connell is on the hot seat. Say whatever you want,
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  O'connell's one of the best young offensive minds in the NFL
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  and he was eventually being looked at, is one of the elite
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  offensive minds in the league. When Sam Donald was there, they
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  decided to let Sam Darnold go to Seattle, which is probably the
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  best thing Seattle did in the offseason with all the moves
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  Seattle made, even the draft picks that they made, which was
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  fantastic draft. The biggest move they made was
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  bringing in a quarterback, a veteran quarterback who by the
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  way, was the youngest quarterback in the NFL in NFL
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  history when he was drafted by The Jets.
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  The The Jets drafted him at the age of 19.
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  He just turned 20 when he was drafted.
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  And look, Sam Donald's only 28 years old.
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  He's not even fully in his prime yet and he's starting to develop
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  into the star quarterback that The Jets should have saw him as
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  and Minnesota definitely saw him as.
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  Now you'll look at Kevin O'Connell.
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  I don't know if Kevin O'Connell, if he fails again this year,
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  which AJ McCarthy will have a job, there's no way ownership is
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  going to keep him as good as he is.
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  There are other guys that are going to be available next year.
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  Mike Tomlin will be available. Maybe Brian Flores gets that
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  offer. Finally, Minnesota decides to go
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  with Brian Flores as the head coach because he was successful
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  over there in Miami and maybe that's why they gave him a six
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  year deal. I mean, A6, six and a half,
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  $1,000,000 contract for this next year and be in the highest
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  defensive corner because maybe they're playing is if O'Connell
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  doesn't work over there, you're bringing Brian Flores and he
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  could draft his own quarterback and they trade JJ McCarthy.
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  I do not know Mensa in a hole in a wall.
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  Pete Bursik did and I didn't really get into the GM and, and,
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  and the firing when Pete was on the show because he was still in
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  position as the GM. Now you think about it and, and
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  where they sit, this is still a, a competent defense.
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  This is still an elite defense. They're going to have
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  practically all their players coming back next year.
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  They have a, a competent offensive line.
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  I don't know if they're running game is as as good as it was the
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  year before, but that's because they had a quarterback that can
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  actually throw the ball. I It's a big problem when you
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  don't have a quarterback and you don't have a quarterback in line
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  to succeed, you're not going to have much.
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  You have a weapon like Justin Jefferson.
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  He to me is the best wide receiver in the NFL, hands down.
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  He is the best wide receiver in the NFL.
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  Not having a quarterback that could get him the ball is a big
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  problem. And when you have your
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  quarterback go out there and throw your organization under
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  the bus, throw the team under the bus saying that Sam Donald
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  was the guy, not JJ McCarthy. How do you think JJ McCarthy
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  feels when his best wide receiver came out on social
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  media and said Donald's a guy, Donald was the guy.
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  Now you're going into a season where JJ McCarthy is the, the,
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  the quarterback again, once again.
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  And your team does not believe in you.
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  Your best player does not believe in you.
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  The one of the highest paid wide receivers in the NFL does not
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  believe JJ McCarthy, believe in JJ McCarthy.
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  And, and the fact here is if you don't have a quarterback, you
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  don't have nothing. Go ask The Jets, go ask the
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  Browns, go ask the Miami Dolphins.
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  You don't have a quarterback, you don't win.
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  Go ask the Giants right now. Now they think Jackson darts the
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  guy. But before Jackson dart, they
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  were reaching for Geno Smith and all the other quarterbacks
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  they've had over the years and coaches and GMs. And I'm
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  bringing up the Giants because we live in New York.
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  Look how bad the Buffalo Bills were until they got Josh Allen.
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  And they didn't even know if Josh Allen was going to be the
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  guy when they drafted him because his throwing motion and
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  that shoulder surgery when he came from Wyoming, they reached,
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  but they believed in him. And that's why the GM still has
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  a job over there. That's why Joe Shane has a job
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  over there with the Giants because they reached on Josh
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  Allen and they were right about Josh Allen.
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  JJ McCarthy they might have been wrong about and that's why the
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  GM doesn't have a job. And that's why O'Connell might
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  not have a job after next year because if you can't develop a
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  young quarterback that you decided to draft, and he was a
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  part of that. I wasn't just Mesa.
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  I don't care what anybody says as much as O'Connell, like Sam
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  Darnold. JJ McCarthy was on that roster
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  when Sam Darnold was signed. JJ McCarthy went down his first
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  year and that's why they signed Sam Donald.
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  I think people forget that JJ McCarthy missed his first full
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  season, I think because he tore his ACL.
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  He came back last year in his first full season as a starting
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  quarterback in the league and he failed that.
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  Does that mean he's going to fail?
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  No O'Connell in the offseason can develop it.
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  We'll see how it works. But if you look at the situation
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  for what it is, you see Sam Donald in the Super Bowl right
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  now and on getting a three-year, $100 million contract.
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  And last year you had the money to sign Sam Donald to bring him
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  in another year or even Daniel Jones to at least start over JJ
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  McCarthy. So we got his feet wet and you
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  failed to do that because your GM said JJ McCarthy is a guy.
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  We're starting JJ McCarthy and we're not bringing back Sam
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  Donald. That's why he doesn't have a
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  job. Yep, and the other reason he
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  doesn't have a job is because you knew you were an injury
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  prone quarterback that missed an entire rookie season and didn't
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  get a better backup quarterback to go along with that you had.
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  Yeah, even if you don't bring back Darnell like you bring back
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  Daniel Jones and maybe he, maybe he plays as well as he did in
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  Indianapolis, maybe he doesn't, I don't know.
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  But at least he's still a lot better than what you had with
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  Carson Wentz, who hadn't played in like 3 years and then Max
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  Brosbury was an undrafted free agent.
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  Like you didn't do that when you knew you had a quarterback that
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  was injury prone. Burstick talked about it when he
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  was on the show. He's played 10 games in his
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  career in two years. Like, that's not going to win
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  you anything. And yeah, O'connell's going to
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  get a brunt of it if he doesn't show up this year because
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  there's been better coaches that have lost their jobs this
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  offseason and there's been better GM's that have lost their
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  job this offseason. You talk about Brian Flores
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  either getting promoted or Mike Tomlin.
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  Mike Tomlin started in Minnesota as the defensive coordinator
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  before he got high with the Steelers.
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  So the ownership has a little bit of loyalty to Mike Tomlin
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  potentially, too, as well. Now, is O'Connell still a good
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  coach? Yeah, I think he'd probably like
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  go out for a year like Mike McDaniel, an offensive
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  coordinator, and then he'll get a job in a year or two after
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  that if he does get fired from Minnesota.
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  But again, Questi, we've seen better GM's get fired for these
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  just bold decisions. And the Vikings, you don't think
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  of them in the same light of those organizations you were
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  listed as. But there's still not a team
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  that loved. There's great with quarterbacks
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  as a whole. Dante Culpepper is probably the
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  one homegrown guy that they drafted that was pretty good,
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  but her cousin's the free agent. They haven't drafted good
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  quarterbacks. Besides they drafted Christian
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  Ponder and all these other Wade Wilson in the past like these
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  aren't this is and they're really good at developing other
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  positions too. They're a top ten, I think
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  player development organization, but they just can't get the
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  quarterback right. And it just really looks bad
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  when you look at what Sam Darnold has done.
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  You know what Daniel Jones did in Indianapolis and now some of
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  their draft picks. Do you talk about the stats
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  Fish? They haven't had games played.
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  Some of them are really injury prone to like Lewis seen was a
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  first there. His first draft pick was a good
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  safety in Georgia. You had Makai Blackman who was
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  good corner like they a lot of them have lost some major
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  injuries which doesn't help them.
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  But still it's definitely not a good track record.
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  You did not draft well this year.
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  Then solve the biggest positions you need.
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  It's a problem when you have the second fewest amount of snaps by
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  guys that you've drafted since you became the GM of your team.
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  It's not a good sign. And then you.
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  Also have Jordan Addison getting suspended this year too which
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  doesn't help either. Well, that also speaks to like,
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  you know, culture issues within the in the clubhouse.
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  But The thing is, you have good coaching.
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  You do have good coaching and they're fighting it.
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  They just didn't have the roster.
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  And when they got injuries, they couldn't come back from it.
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  And the quarterback play was atrocious.
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  They didn't have a backup. But the problem was this GM had
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  not only Sam Darnold, but Daniel Jones.
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  He had both of them, Errol, you, before he got hurt.
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  I mean, you gave me hell every week because Daniel Jones was
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  going to be comeback player of the year.
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  He was going to get all of the awards.
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  He was going to be a Pro Bowler, some consideration for maybe a
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  second team all. Probably.
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  Now we get to watch the door Sanders.
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  Yeah. So that's even better.
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  Yeah. You like my Nathan?
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  Yeah. And Shador eating the clam
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  chowder. Music dude, Nathan's.
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  If he sees Shadora Sanders, he's probably going to be riding his
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  jock strap the whole time. He'll probably be hanging on it.
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  You know, he's seen nothing. Oh, I want to.
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  I want to interview you. By the way, Nath, please stop
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  interviewing people. You are atrocious.
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  Atrocious and I love. You.
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  How about this one? This is a new one too, right
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  here. Oh my God, for you, Josh Watson.
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  That's a good one, by the way. Well it turns the head crafted
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  one. That one is still the best.
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  And I'm, I'm going to say this, Brian Flores is probably licking
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  his lips because he knows that if O'Connell does not succeed
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  this year and this team does not make the playoffs with JJ
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  McCarthy, they already know with a new JM in place, they're not
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  bringing JJ McCarthy back. They're going to use him as a
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  trade chip, maybe get a second or fourth like The Jets got,
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  maybe even less because I don't even think he's he's a competent
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  quarterback. Maybe you trade him to the
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  charges and let him go over there and play with Jim Harbaugh
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  as the backup with Justin Herbert and and then you have to
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  draft your own quarterback. And that means Brian Flores will
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  be right in position to get his first coaching job since Miami.
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  Which that's why I believe they gave him a 666 and a half,
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  $1,000,000 contract for this next year was because I believe
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  that O'Connell is on the hot seat.
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  You pay a defensive corner $6 million.
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  You know that they want him there in case O'Connell doesn't
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  work. Yeah, and again, another thing
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  he doesn't get credit for is the way that they they developed
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  these these new guys that I lost from the Mike Zimmer defense.
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  They let Daniel Hunter go to Houston and signed Jonathan
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  Granard, oddly enough of Texan's draft pick.
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  And Granard has done wonders with this Vikings defense.
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  And look at all these random linebackers that they brought
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  into that that have succeeded in that system with Flores.
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  That's the same thing he did in Miami.
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  It wasn't Questi doing anything special with with these draft
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  picks either. Did he draft some good players?
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  Like I said, got unlucky with maybe some of the injuries?
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  Yeah, I think, I don't think value wise he was like
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  drastically reaching. Dude, the only reason why he
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  doesn't have a job was the JJ McCarthy draft pick.
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  That's the only reason why. And that's what.
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  And that happens with a lot of GM's.
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  But Joe Douglas lost his job because it's Zach Wilson.
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  We want to go on and on and on. Go back.
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  This is worse though Errol, because he had the guy in the
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  building and he was ready, he proves.
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  That So did Joe Douglas, So. Did I know?
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  But they just won 12 games or 13 games or whatever it was with
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  Sam Darnold. Remember we talked about them
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  trading in the playoff format last year because they won 14?
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  14, yeah, 14 games, you win 14 games and you go, you know what?
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  Let's try this. Unproven kid that was supposed
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  to be mobile, but he just tore his meniscus or ACL whatever the
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  hell it is that he tore last year.
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  I I mean it was it's one of the most ridiculous decisions by a
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  general manager ever and it makes me think about it now
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  speedy you talk about he made some good choices with some free
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  agents sure so did Gettleman right that that's that's great.
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  But if you can't, draft. And you don't understand talent.
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  This guy never played football. Now there's it's not like he
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  never played like any football, like at a high level, he never
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  played football. He's a basketball guy and he's a
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  stats analyst from and he's got a job with Shanahan and worked
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  his way up as an as a sounds. Like the Browns?
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  Backgrounds. Sounds like the Browns taking
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  the 49ers injury luck to Minnesota.
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  Right. Well, I mean, I, I, I don't care
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  about the luck. I I just don't think you want a
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  guy like that to run the show that doesn't have that kind of
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  like understanding of certain things that you need to
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  understand about football. Like if you have a guy that can
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  win 14 games, a quarterback, you keep that guy, you trade
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  McCarthy for whatever you can get for him.
• 20:52
  They what do you think they could have got at the time?
• 20:54
  A first round pick. They could have got probably a
• 20:57
  first round pick and now you're not getting even a third round
• 21:00
  pick for this guy. Maybe you're not, you know,
• 21:02
  maybe, maybe, maybe third at best.
• 21:05
  And it's a it's it's it's embarrassing.
• 21:08
  And they overachieve more than any team, I think because
• 21:10
  they're in the toughest division with all those playoff teams.
• 21:14
  They were 500 until the very end.
• 21:17
  And a testament to that coaching staff.
• 21:19
  I mean, we'll see what happens with the next guy they get, but.
• 21:22
  Wasn't it drafted before Bonex? So think about it.
• 21:26
  Bo Nicks has been and I, I loved Bo Nicks when he came out of the
• 21:29
  draft and I, I told everybody, I think he was going to be a good
• 21:31
  quarterback in the League. One that he got a chance to play
• 21:34
  four years of college ball, had a chance to play at a top level
• 21:37
  and and then goes to a guy like Sean Payton.
• 21:39
  Now O'Connell is a good offensive mind, but O'Connell
• 21:43
  also has never coached a rookie quarterback.
• 21:45
  This was his first quarterback that he coached from college.
• 21:49
  He's coached practically veteran quarterbacks.
• 21:52
  So this was something new for him.
• 21:54
  Now, I'm not saying that O'Connell can't do it, but JJ
• 21:56
  McCarthy might not be able to run his offense.
• 21:59
  And, and to me, I thought they were reaching for JJ McCarthy
• 22:02
  because I didn't think JJ McCarthy is speedy.
• 22:04
  If you remember, I thought he was an early second round draft
• 22:06
  pick, late 1st at best. So they were reaching on JJ
• 22:10
  McCarthy because Jim Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh vouched for him.
• 22:14
  But guess what, if Jim Harbaugh loved him so much, that was his
• 22:17
  first year as a head coach, why didn't he draft them?
• 22:20
  Why? Because he had Justin Herbert
• 22:21
  and he had a chance to coach the doc.
• 22:24
  So I to me, I go back and I look at the options that the
• 22:28
  Minnesota Vikings had at the time that they could have
• 22:31
  drafted Bo Nicks or maybe not drafted that year, waited a year
• 22:35
  after bringing Sam Donald and then think, hey, if Sam Donald
• 22:40
  doesn't work, then we go after a quarterback in the draft.
• 22:43
  Because Sam Darnold came from the 49ers.
• 22:46
  He was a competent young quarterback, still had an
• 22:49
  opportunity to develop. He had his time with the 49ers,
• 22:52
  got a chance to understand Kyle Shanahan's offense and who does
• 22:55
  O'Connell come from the Shanahan tree?
• 22:58
  So he he runs practically the same offense.
• 23:00
  And look what Sam Darnold turned into.
• 23:02
  And I think it was a big mistake, a big mistake letting
• 23:05
  Sam Darnold leave. And by the way, Sam Darnold did
• 23:08
  not want to go to the Seattle Seahawks.
• 23:10
  As a matter of fact, I remember when Sam Donald was being
• 23:13
  interviewed on a podcast after the season, they asked him,
• 23:16
  where do you want to go, being that you're an unrestricted free
• 23:19
  engine? He said.
• 23:19
  I'd like to stay in Minnesota. I built a lot of good
• 23:21
  relationships here. So the fact here is he wanted to
• 23:26
  stay in Minnesota and Minnesota didn't want him anymore.
• 23:29
  And boy, oh boy, now you know who's getting the fruits of all
• 23:32
  loins? The Seattle Seahawks, because
• 23:35
  Seattle is the favorite to come out.
• 23:36
  They're 4 1/2. I think they're 4 1/2 favorites
• 23:39
  of right now in the Super Bowl and and they might murder the
• 23:42
  Patriots after what we've seen the Patriots in the playoffs.
• 23:45
  Yeah, and he's not going to get as much credit either like the
• 23:49
  Vikings GM or the Vikings fans liked him for.
• 23:51
  Oh, he didn't keep Kirk Cousins when Kirk Cousins got hurt in
• 23:54
  Atlanta, But meanwhile your quarterback just got hurt too.
• 23:56
  So the same things you grant blame the quarter, the GM 4 you
• 24:00
  can't blame him for. All right, O'Connell elevated
• 24:02
  Kirk Cousins back to what he was in Washington when he was there.
• 24:05
  It went after Zimmer got fired and then, oh, you're going to
• 24:08
  elevate the defense? No, Brian Flores elevated the
• 24:11
  defense. You didn't elevate the defense,
• 24:12
  Questy. Like it's not going to be the
• 24:13
  same effect either. And by the way, Hawks Nation, we
• 24:16
  know that you can't sign until the Super Bowl's over.
• 24:19
  We said that if you listen to our take in the beginning, but
• 24:21
  you just popped in. So it's OK, man.
• 24:23
  But but we read all your posts and and we will answer all your
• 24:26
  posts throughout the show. We're rooting for you guys too.
• 24:29
  We're not for the Patriots. So I think Seattle is is
• 24:33
  absolutely favorite. And by the way, everybody asked
• 24:35
  me what is the worst thing you would want to see in a Super
• 24:38
  Bowl? You don't want to see.
• 24:39
  As much as I like Sam, Sam Darnold and I've rooted for Sam
• 24:42
  Donald since he's been drafted, I don't want to see The Jets mix
• 24:45
  up and watch Sam Darnold win a Super Bowl and hoist that
• 24:48
  Lombardi Trophy. I don't want to see it, but I'm
• 24:50
  rooting for Sam Darnold over the Patriots in their ghosts.
• 24:54
  I can't stand the Patriots and I do not want to see the Patriots
• 24:58
  win. Just think of it this The
• 24:59
  Seahawks get rid of Jabal Adams. They win a Super Bowl after two
• 25:03
  years. It's like watching the Patriots
• 25:04
  and the Giants play in the Super Bowl in 2007 and 2011 as a Jets.
• 25:08
  Fan. That was me with the Eagles.
• 25:09
  That was me, the Eagles. You don't, you don't want to see
• 25:11
  that. And I'm, and I'm an Eagles guy
• 25:13
  too, so I loved watching the Eagles beat the hell out of the
• 25:17
  Patriots in the Super Bowl when they did.
• 25:19
  But the fact here is, if I'm a Seattle Seahawks fan, I'm
• 25:24
  thanking the Minnesota Vikings, absolutely thanking them not
• 25:28
  signing Sam Donor or even trying to even pitch Sam Donald an
• 25:31
  opportunity to be the starting quarterback for the next three
• 25:34
  years and let JJ McCarthy sit behind him.
• 25:36
  I I think it was an absolute slam dunk.
• 25:40
  This is the coaching carousel, Errol.
• 25:42
  Let's get right into the coach. The rest of the coaching hires,
• 25:46
  we get into some coordinators that are kind of fascinating.
• 25:49
  The Bills, after they hired or promoted rather Joe Brady, they
• 25:53
  filled out their coordinators. Right now, taking a look at it,
• 25:58
  Pete Carmichael was the Broncos senior of offensive assistant
• 26:02
  and before that with the Saints, we know that is a Sean Payton
• 26:08
  guy, right? So Sean Payton guy gets promoted
• 26:11
  and he becomes the offensive coordinator.
• 26:13
  I'm assuming it'll still be Brady calling the plays, but
• 26:16
  we'll see what happens with that.
• 26:17
  And then Jim Leonard, former Jet, obviously former Bill, and
• 26:22
  now he is the defensive coordinator of the Bills.
• 26:25
  A lot of people very high on Leonard in this cycle, Errol.
• 26:28
  All right, Carmichael is a is a slam dunk.
• 26:30
  First of all, Sean Payton, you know he's going to bring that
• 26:33
  playbook over there. Sean Payton's one of the best
• 26:35
  offensive minds in the NFL and and a guy like Carmichael has
• 26:39
  been following Sean Payton for the last 6-7 years has an
• 26:42
  opportunity to finally be the guy that's calling the play.
• 26:45
  I think it's a slam dunk. The Jim Leonard thing I love,
• 26:48
  what scares me about Jim Leonard is if The Jets fire Aaron Glenn,
• 26:52
  that's the guy The Jets are going to be looking at 100%.
• 26:55
  Because a couple of years ago, there were stories coming out
• 26:58
  that The Jets wanted to hire Jim Leonard.
• 27:00
  They interviewed John Leonard and they really, really liked
• 27:02
  him. And this is a guy that's been
• 27:04
  coaching college football, Wisconsin I think it was.
• 27:07
  And this is a guy that's very well respected around the
• 27:09
  league. He was a great safety.
• 27:11
  I remember when he came to The Jets and he had the opportunity
• 27:14
  to succeed over there with the New York Jets.
• 27:15
  That was when Rex Ryan brought him in.
• 27:18
  And that's what when the defense was elite of the elite in the
• 27:21
  NFL. Now, here's the thing.
• 27:24
  I don't know what Brady is, but he brings in two competent
• 27:27
  coaches, Carmichael and Leonard. He doesn't have to worry about
• 27:30
  the defensive side of the ball because I think Jim Leonard is
• 27:32
  very competent at that position. I'm just, I'm wondering how Josh
• 27:37
  Allen is going to fall into place with a Carmichael calling
• 27:40
  the place. Is it Joe Brady calling the
• 27:41
  place or is it Carmichael? And that means Josh Allen is
• 27:45
  going to have to sit back and understand the verbiage in a new
• 27:48
  season on with the Buffalo Bills under a new offensive
• 27:51
  coordinator. That's the only thing that
• 27:52
  scares me. Bringing a Carmichael.
• 27:54
  I would have brought in a guy that knows Josh Allen and knows
• 27:57
  this Brady offense more than I would have brought in a guy that
• 28:00
  knows, you know, a Sean Payton offense with a veteran
• 28:03
  quarterback that was very comfortable over there with the
• 28:07
  Buffalo Bills. Yeah, I think outside of the
• 28:09
  elements of Josh Allen running the ball, the rest of the
• 28:12
  offensive, the wave that Bills have been running in the last
• 28:14
  couple years, but after they traded digs, after they got rid
• 28:16
  of a lot of these other receivers, is a lot like what
• 28:18
  you see with Sean Payton and Sean Payton.
• 28:20
  Saints offense is 2 running back sets.
• 28:22
  You saw even later in the season, James, James Cook even
• 28:26
  be spelled out sometimes for Ray Davis and Ty Johnson, guys like
• 28:28
  that. And then he had the two tight
• 28:29
  ends that was Knox and Kincaid. So I think it's a really good
• 28:31
  fit for what the Saints did with Carmichael there.
• 28:33
  And then the receivers, they're all right now, bigger bodied
• 28:36
  receivers. There's a lot of the guys that
• 28:37
  they had with the Saints over there.
• 28:38
  So I could definitely see that working.
• 28:39
  And Jim Leonard, I agree with you if The Jets don't poach him
• 28:41
  as a head coaching. Candidate, it's going to happen.
• 28:43
  I don't want to bring as much as I like Jim Leonard, I don't want
• 28:46
  to know the rookie coach. But I think schematically
• 28:48
  speaking, I think Jim Leonard is a good guy for what the bill.
• 28:50
  I think you need a little bit of an adjustment and more of a
• 28:52
  creative type defense. I think it's a very good move.
• 28:55
  All right, well, Speaking of what The Jets are going to do,
• 28:58
  I'm going to put up, I had Giants up here just going to fit
• 29:00
  it. But Giants and Jets, they both
• 29:03
  are still looking for an offensive coordinator.
• 29:05
  A bunch of names have been picked up and they can no longer
• 29:08
  get him. Davis Webb was promoted to
• 29:12
  offensive coordinator for the Broncos, so he gets to stay
• 29:15
  there. Payton keeps his guy.
• 29:17
  A lot of people are looking at Davis Webb, former Giants
• 29:19
  quarterback. Obviously backup didn't really
• 29:23
  do anything. There's some other names that
• 29:24
  have been bouncing around that just got picked up that we can't
• 29:29
  go for. Jonathan Gannon on the defensive
• 29:31
  side goes to the Packers. Gus Bradley, blast from the past
• 29:35
  there goes to the Titans. So Sala, Bradley and Gable, what
• 29:39
  a staff that is. We'll talk about some of the
• 29:43
  other ones, but here's the list I have for people the Giants are
• 29:47
  looking at and then The Jets. So let's start with the Giants.
• 29:50
  The Giants At the top of this list is Cliff Kingsbury.
• 29:53
  Looks like the Giants are going to be interviewing him.
• 29:55
  They already have interviewed him remotely.
• 29:57
  It might be getting a second interview.
• 29:59
  Brian Callahan fired head coach from the Titans last year,
• 30:02
  obviously known for his work with the offensive line at like
• 30:06
  his father, offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter.
• 30:09
  It might might be looking they might be trying to give him some
• 30:13
  money to take him away from the Colts and ironically Daniel
• 30:16
  Jones, which is just what a full circle moment that would be.
• 30:22
  Then I think Alex Tanney, another Giant from the blast
• 30:26
  from the past, another quarterback coach.
• 30:29
  I don't know if Shield Haas was signed yet.
• 30:34
  Nate Schilhas. All right, that's another Rams
• 30:37
  guy. That's another McVeigh guy.
• 30:39
  He's the passing game coordinator over there.
• 30:41
  So that's usually a step below offensive coordinator.
• 30:44
  And then the name that really intrigues me off of how well he
• 30:48
  did with Ole Miss running that team.
• 30:52
  A lot of people are interested in Charlie Weis Junior as an
• 30:56
  interesting, out-of-the-box, maybe cheap candidate.
• 31:01
  So that's what the Giants have. Any thoughts on the Giants first
• 31:03
  before we get to the? Giants, I mean, Kingsbury's a
• 31:05
  guy, if he's coming in for a second interview, that more
• 31:08
  unlikely he's the guy that the Giants are shooting for if they
• 31:11
  strike out on him. Because I, I know The Jets are
• 31:14
  interesting. Kingsbury, maybe they interview
• 31:16
  for him, interview him. I I know he's on the list.
• 31:19
  He's always been on the list for The Jets.
• 31:22
  I, I, I don't know if he wants to be coaching with Aaron Glenn.
• 31:24
  And now that John Harbaugh is there and he's going to be there
• 31:27
  for the long run, I think Kingsbury will feel more
• 31:29
  comfortable coaching under a John Harbaugh.
• 31:32
  That would be more likely. I, I, Weiss has has a connection
• 31:36
  with the New York Giants, so it would make a lot of sense.
• 31:39
  Charlie Weiss has been, you know.
• 31:41
  He's and Jackson Dart. And Jackson Dart.
• 31:43
  So it would make a lot of sense that Charlie Wise Junior would
• 31:46
  be a guy that they would interview.
• 31:47
  But I, I think it's, I think it's Kingsbury.
• 31:50
  If I were the Giants, I'm going with Kingsbury.
• 31:52
  I'm going to I as soon as he comes in for that interview, I
• 31:55
  don't let him leave my I don't let him leave, leave the office.
• 31:59
  I make sure that I give him a contract.
• 32:00
  So if, if, if you want Jackson Dart to develop because
• 32:03
  Kingsbury next year is getting a job one way or another, this guy
• 32:07
  is one of the best offensive minds.
• 32:08
  Washington should have never let him go.
• 32:11
  I, I was very surprised that happened.
• 32:13
  And I think Kingsbury has been in that division, the NFC East
• 32:16
  for the last couple of years. I think he is a it is a
• 32:19
  accomplished offensive coordinator and probably the
• 32:21
  best offensive coordinator still available right now.
• 32:23
  Yeah, I definitely think he's number one on that list.
• 32:25
  You want to think that with the Giants having issues with the
• 32:27
  wide receiver position right now, you want somebody that
• 32:29
  could space that offense. Kingsbury did that with
• 32:32
  Washington even before they traded for Debo Samuel the
• 32:34
  following year. They got guys that helped Jade
• 32:38
  and Daniels out and they're gonna need that kind of thing
• 32:39
  with Jackson Dark. It's likely the Giants are not
• 32:41
  gonna have Malik neighbors at the beginning of the season.
• 32:42
  They're not gonna have Wandell Robinson cuz they're not gonna
• 32:44
  be able to pay him. So they're gonna need to make
• 32:46
  something work with. Those he's gonna give himself a
• 32:47
  lot of money next year. Yeah, he is, and I don't think
• 32:49
  it's gonna be from the Giants cuz they're only $11 million and
• 32:52
  they'll probably have to trade Thibodeau.
• 32:53
  Too we're, you know, we're just an undersized slot receiver away
• 32:58
  from winning so. Yeah, we.
• 33:00
  Should shell it out for him. Isn't he unrestricted Thibode?
• 33:04
  They gave him a fifth year, no option they could trade him. 5th
• 33:06
  year but. I don't think they'll be able to
• 33:07
  sign. Him.
• 33:08
  They're not going to get much for him.
• 33:09
  What do you think they're going to?
• 33:10
  Get that's not true, he actually played the role very low last.
• 33:13
  Year stop fish. No, they they're talking about.
• 33:15
  What do you think? They're going to get.
• 33:17
  There's no way they're getting a second round for him.
• 33:18
  There's no way they're getting a second round draft pick for him.
• 33:20
  You want to bet they're? Not going to give him away if
• 33:22
  they hadn't. Why?
• 33:23
  First off, remember how the Giants had Kiwanuka, Humaniora
• 33:27
  and Strahan? Or Antuck, rather the three of
• 33:32
  them. That was a.
• 33:33
  You're not getting a second. Third guy that can be that like
• 33:36
  33% price off for. All right, that will keep them.
• 33:39
  Then they're going to keep them because there's no way they're
• 33:41
  getting a second round draft pick for him.
• 33:42
  I don't think he's a three down guy.
• 33:44
  I think you like him in rundowns.
• 33:46
  I think you can get away with him in so you're.
• 33:48
  Going to get a second round draft pick for A1 down player.
• 33:52
  Come on. No, I'm saying you can't use
• 33:54
  them. You don't want to use them as
• 33:56
  like a pass rush guy because he doesn't seem to be that, but
• 33:59
  he's been really good against the run.
• 34:01
  He's one of the actually in the top top quartile in the league.
• 34:04
  Which is weird, I had the opposite problem beginning of
• 34:06
  his career. They'd be lucky he.
• 34:07
  Was really struggling the option stuff.
• 34:09
  They always got him on options. They'd be lucky to get a third
• 34:12
  round draft pick for him. Well, I they, they that might
• 34:16
  play out in the next couple of weeks or next month or so as we
• 34:19
  get to it. Let's talk back about The Jets
• 34:21
  now. Kingsbury is not on this list
• 34:23
  because I think he turned them down.
• 34:24
  There's been a lot of that arrow, a lot of just saying no
• 34:27
  to The Jets. Here's the names that are up
• 34:30
  that I'm seeing. Greg Roman.
• 34:32
  All right, obviously, former Chargers offensive corner was
• 34:35
  let go. They did not do well offensively
• 34:38
  this year, but obviously they lost their tackles.
• 34:40
  He's been in the league forever. Another guy that's been around
• 34:42
  forever, Darryl Bevel. He's most recently with the
• 34:45
  Dolphins as a passing game coordinator and a quarterback
• 34:48
  coach. Frank Reich might be the most
• 34:50
  high profile name of these guys. Former Colts and Panthers head
• 34:55
  coach, obviously offensive coordinator for a long time.
• 34:58
  Gets credited for what the Carson Wentz run that ended up
• 35:02
  being foals. Ronald Curry, the Bills QB
• 35:04
  coach, and Lunda Wells, the Cowboys tight end coach.
• 35:08
  That's not a murderer's role. You don't offensive coordinator,
• 35:11
  you don't know what is a murderer's role and and of
• 35:13
  course you know that's not for for everybody to know that Fish
• 35:17
  is a giant fan, so he would do anything to throw The Jets under
• 35:21
  the bus. It's bad though bro.
• 35:23
  Really, Frank Wright is not a bad offensive coordinator.
• 35:26
  He has been an accomplished offensive coordinator.
• 35:28
  He won a Super Bowl with the Eagles.
• 35:30
  I like Frank Wright. I think Frank Wright is the guy
• 35:33
  that The Jets are going to interview again.
• 35:35
  They're interviewing Roman too, but I think it's Frank Wright.
• 35:38
  I, Frank Wright almost became the coach of the New York Jets
• 35:41
  before Robert Sala. They really liked him.
• 35:43
  I, I, I don't think you'll ever be a coach in the NFL again.
• 35:46
  He's been coaching in the NCAA. He's been coaching college
• 35:50
  football. This is an accomplished
• 35:51
  offensive coordinator. And, and again, I don't think
• 35:55
  it's a bad list. I don't think it's a great list.
• 35:57
  I don't think the Giants list is great.
• 35:59
  OK, Kingsbury's the only one, and that's fine.
• 36:02
  Kingsbury don't want to coach under Aaron and it's that's
• 36:04
  fine, grand. Well, we'll see how he he
• 36:08
  coaches under John Harbaugh, who's just, as you know, just as
• 36:12
  much of A of a meathead when it comes to yelling at his coaches
• 36:15
  as any of the coaches he's ever worked for, including Mr. Quinn.
• 36:19
  So who who he didn't work out with.
• 36:22
  And and everybody keeps saying that him and Dan Quinn were very
• 36:24
  good and they were close really, because one of the main reasons
• 36:27
  why he got let go was because him and Dan Quinn couldn't get
• 36:30
  along in the locker room. So Kingsbury is a is a
• 36:33
  personality. I like Kingsbury.
• 36:35
  I like him as an offensive coordinator.
• 36:37
  I think if the Giants land them it, it's a good it's a good
• 36:40
  pick. But again, I know Giant fans
• 36:42
  think that Jackson Dart is the guy, but what is he proven this
• 36:46
  year that he can move outside of the pocket and make a couple of
• 36:48
  throws? And now they're they're going
• 36:50
  into a season with a a wide receiver that might not be back
• 36:53
  until week six, Week 7 might not even start in the beginning of
• 36:56
  season. You're losing Wandell Robertson
• 37:00
  and now you're going to be probably drafting, look, another
• 37:02
  wide receiver in Tate who can't stay healthy.
• 37:05
  So good luck to the Giants and Kingsbury if that goes that way.
• 37:08
  And by the way, Scatter Boo, who's a running back that just
• 37:11
  had his leg bent in 5-6 games of the season, which I told you was
• 37:15
  going to happen. So what do the Giants have
• 37:17
  offensively going to a season if you're bringing Kingsbury?
• 37:20
  If Kingsbury wants that job, good for him.
• 37:22
  It's not going to work. Yeah, it's interesting.
• 37:24
  I wouldn't stay away from the last two candidates you
• 37:26
  mentioned Fish Curry was a former NFL receiver that's now a
• 37:28
  quarterback coach, was a receiver with the Raiders and
• 37:30
  then a tight end coach from the Cowboy.
• 37:32
  Seems like it's definitely. A big it's either bevel or
• 37:34
  right. Yeah, Bevel's interesting
• 37:35
  because I was never crazy about him with Seattle, but I think
• 37:37
  since he left Seattle, went to Detroit and won a super.
• 37:39
  Bowl. Yeah I know, but I I always
• 37:41
  thought his play calling was very weird.
• 37:43
  But really? Because it wasn't Pete Carroll
• 37:45
  call in the plays he's in. Defensive mind, Russell Wilson
• 37:47
  had a very unique offense. I think is probably part of it.
• 37:51
  But I, I do think his play calling in Detroit was very good
• 37:53
  though. I think once he left there
• 37:54
  Seattle, I think that he took that offense to another level,
• 37:56
  which didn't have a lot of talent in that Matt Patricia era
• 37:59
  where they never drafted very well at all outside of TJ
• 38:01
  Hawkinson. And then they go to Miami, which
• 38:03
  they've had a lot of cap issues. I think he doesn't done pretty
• 38:05
  well there. So I think Frank Reich would be
• 38:07
  my favorite of those 3 candidates over Bevel.
• 38:10
  Greg Roman I think would only happen if they keep Justin
• 38:12
  Fields, but seem like the organization's going to far away
• 38:14
  with them. If Greg Roman becomes the guy, I
• 38:16
  would keep Field. Why not and not draft a
• 38:17
  quarterback this year? Frank Reich's like one of the
• 38:19
  few guys in NFL history that got 2 head coaching jobs and got
• 38:23
  fired in one year in both of them.
• 38:25
  That doesn't mean anything. He's an.
• 38:26
  Author. I'm just saying.
• 38:27
  I'm just saying like there's a lot.
• 38:30
  You want to you want to throw that at him.
• 38:32
  He was an accomplished offensive.
• 38:34
  Point I know, but you know, look, guys rise and guys fall,
• 38:37
  you know, and sometimes that's it.
• 38:40
  You know, I don't know if it is. We'll see what happens.
• 38:42
  I it's it's definitely an interesting one.
• 38:44
  There's another coordinator that got hired that the Giants had
• 38:48
  Once Upon a time and we all liked and we didn't want to see
• 38:51
  him go, but we got tired of his own his own defense and he
• 38:55
  wasn't blitzing enough and like, oh, we need wink.
• 38:58
  Oh, well, the Steelers decided to hire Patrick Graham.
• 39:02
  If Errol, if you like what Bill Belichick did defensively, you
• 39:07
  like what Patrick Graham does defensively because he's a
• 39:09
  Belichick disciple. He's giving you the multiple
• 39:12
  fronts. He's giving you the 3-4.
• 39:14
  He's giving you zone. He's giving you confusing looks.
• 39:17
  He's doing everything that you know Belichick would have done,
• 39:22
  but he's doing it today and it's a good defense.
• 39:26
  He's been strong with bad offenses.
• 39:29
  He's still been competent over there.
• 39:31
  I think this is a great hire. What do you guys think about?
• 39:34
  Here's the thing, I would have, I would have interviewed Mayo
• 39:38
  too. Mayo was, I think he got a bad
• 39:41
  stick from the Patriots. They fired him.
• 39:43
  They brought in Mike Vrabel. This guy was a good defensive
• 39:45
  coordinator with the New England Patriots, actually one of the
• 39:48
  best defenses in the league under Bill Belichick when he was
• 39:51
  there with Mayo. I, I, I think I would have
• 39:54
  interviewed him just as much as I would have been interviewed
• 39:56
  Patrick Graham. It's unfortunate what the
• 39:58
  Patriots did to him and what I, again, Robert Kraft, has done to
• 40:02
  coaches over the years. After Bill Belichick and and
• 40:05
  that to me is a big problem. Now, I, I think Patrick Graham
• 40:08
  is a good coach. He's a good defensive
• 40:10
  coordinator. He's going to be a coach
• 40:12
  sometime in the next couple of years.
• 40:14
  I just question you bring in Mike McCarthy.
• 40:17
  I think you I should, I would have brought in a Mike McCarthy
• 40:20
  guy. I'm not bringing in some other
• 40:22
  team and another guy from another organization that I
• 40:25
  don't know much about. I think Mike McCarthy should
• 40:27
  have went with a guy that he knows a little bit about.
• 40:29
  That's just my opinion. I don't bring in a guy I don't
• 40:32
  know much about. I'm only hiring.
• 40:33
  Oh, because he's been good with the Patriots and he knows his
• 40:36
  stuff. And any it worked with Bill
• 40:37
  Belichick. That's the only thing that
• 40:39
  worries me about this hire. It's a good hire, but we'll see
• 40:41
  how that works. Yeah, I always thought he was
• 40:43
  pretty good with this first year with the Giants.
• 40:45
  Year 2 was a little iffy, but I think a lot of that had to do
• 40:47
  with the free agent flops that the Giants had at the end of
• 40:49
  Gettleman's tenure too, bringing, bringing in a Dory
• 40:51
  Jackson and overpaying a lot of those other linebackers inside
• 40:54
  before they drafted a bunch the next year.
• 40:56
  I think Graham with the Raiders though did very well amidst Josh
• 41:00
  McDaniels dysfunction and actually they had a competent
• 41:02
  the 2022 year, the first year they were actually competitive
• 41:05
  because of their defense. So I think there is actually
• 41:07
  some encouragement with it. Yeah, I think Mayo's definitely
• 41:09
  an interesting one that they could have looked at.
• 41:10
  So now the question is, Mike McCarthy, is there any
• 41:12
  familiarity with the rest of the Dallas defense left or Green
• 41:15
  Bay? They just jumped on capers all
• 41:16
  the time. So do you want somebody outdated
• 41:18
  or you want somebody modern? That's the question.
• 41:20
  All right, let's move on to one of your favorites, Errol.
• 41:23
  Our buddy Raheem Morris lost his job as the Falcons head coach.
• 41:27
  Super amount of talent on that Atlanta team.
• 41:30
  They could not tolerate his lack of winning games, but he had
• 41:35
  always been successful as a defensive coordinator.
• 41:37
  He most recently was a defensive coordinator of the Rams when
• 41:40
  they won the Super Bowl with the Aaron Donald.
• 41:43
  And he had always been one of those guys that likes a lot of
• 41:46
  beef inside. He wants to run some Bear
• 41:49
  fronts. He wants to run, you know, 3 big
• 41:53
  lineman out there at all times. Have guys blitzing from
• 41:56
  different angles. And he's going to be, you know,
• 41:59
  a little bit more aggressive than other guys, which kind of
• 42:02
  fits with that kind of turnover mentality that they want in San
• 42:07
  Francisco. I love to hire.
• 42:09
  I love the hire. I'm not a San Francisco 49ers
• 42:11
  fan, but Raheem Morris is a great defensive coin.
• 42:14
  He's been an accomplished defensive coin aid.
• 42:17
  I don't think he'll ever be a coach in the NFL again.
• 42:19
  I think his time as an NFL coach, unless he he he's a coach
• 42:24
  or a defensive coordinator under a Kyle Shanahan for the next 5
• 42:27
  years. I don't know if Kyle Shanahan
• 42:29
  might be on the hot seat this. Year.
• 42:30
  I think so. It if and Raheem Morris took
• 42:33
  this job because he thinks if he thinks he could fix this now he
• 42:36
  does have Bosa coming back. He does have Warner coming.
• 42:40
  This team could be an elite defense and could be a contender
• 42:43
  next year there. I don't know where their
• 42:45
  schedule lies next year especially, but this team was a
• 42:48
  top top three team. They made it into the playoffs
• 42:51
  and got their asses whipped by Seattle and Robert Sala.
• 42:55
  As much as everybody liked what Robert Sala did in that game,
• 42:58
  Robert Sala look like a deer in the headlights.
• 43:00
  He didn't know what the hell he was doing.
• 43:01
  I think Raheem Morris is a better defensive coordinator.
• 43:04
  He uses his schemes. He uses more blitz packages than
• 43:07
  Robert Sala. I think he's more accomplished
• 43:10
  as a defensive coordinator than a Robert Sal is.
• 43:13
  I love this heart. I think this is the best hire.
• 43:14
  Yeah, I like it for this reason, especially when he missed the
• 43:18
  Rams. He had a lot of random guys.
• 43:20
  They had obviously the stars with Donald, the Ramsey and
• 43:22
  Leonard Floyd, guys like that Bob Miller they traded for.
• 43:24
  But I think the getting those random rookies to work in that
• 43:27
  scheme really helped the Rams be a good enough defense at that
• 43:30
  time as quickly as they were early in the season.
• 43:32
  And then with Atlanta last year, look at the rookie class that
• 43:34
  they had with the 2 pass rushers.
• 43:36
  Also Xavier Watts, Billy Bowman as a corner.
• 43:38
  The Niners have a lot of rookies on that defense with Collins,
• 43:41
  with Alfred Collins, with Mike L Williams that we talked about at
• 43:43
  the draft time, Fish and a lot of those young corners that
• 43:45
  emerged this year in solace defense.
• 43:47
  They're going to have to play a lot of those guys if these guys
• 43:49
  keep getting hurt. And this is just team is getting
• 43:51
  older. So I really like it as well.
• 43:52
  I think it makes a lot of sense. He has a lot of familiarity with
• 43:55
  Shanahan going back to Atlanta, going back to Washington, like
• 43:59
  they've been together for a very, very long time working,
• 44:02
  you know, it's even though he's not an offensive coach, having
• 44:05
  that familiarity and that working relationship with the
• 44:08
  other side of the ball, it's an underrated thing.
• 44:10
  So I'm I'm pretty I I think that's a great move by them.
• 44:14
  And let's go to one more I have here.
• 44:17
  Which is your second favorite team?
• 44:19
  Errol. It's a very interesting hire.
• 44:20
  Shawn Mannion was the quarterback coach over with
• 44:24
  Jordan Love in Group Green Bay under the other Lafleur over
• 44:28
  there. The more successful Lafleur that
• 44:30
  seems to always have a very good record every single year in the
• 44:33
  regular season hasn't got it done in the postseason.
• 44:36
  Maybe unlucky with injuries, maybe something else.
• 44:39
  We don't know yet, but we'll see how that plays out.
• 44:41
  The Eagles now get that try from the new Lafleur tree.
• 44:46
  Sean Manion at Offensive Coordinator.
• 44:49
  All right, so Sirianni and Manion are very close.
• 44:52
  I've heard through the Grapevine these guys have been very
• 44:55
  connected over the years and Matt Lafleur and Sirianni
• 44:58
  actually like each other. So I think this is the reason
• 45:01
  why he brought in a Manion and and this has been a problem all
• 45:04
  season long. Last year was their offense and
• 45:07
  and getting a guy like Jalen Hurts in position to be that
• 45:11
  elite quarterback that he was the year before, you know, under
• 45:14
  another coordinator that's coaching the Saints right now.
• 45:17
  So Moore is Moore kind of is like a Mannion and Mannion's
• 45:21
  like a Moore. He likes to use those different,
• 45:24
  you know, different wide receiving spread out wide
• 45:27
  receivers. And maybe this keeps Brown.
• 45:29
  Maybe this makes Brown a little happier and and bring in a guy
• 45:32
  like this who can spread out the offense and Hugh Smith and Moore
• 45:36
  and Brown in a different style of offense.
• 45:38
  I'll say this. You look at the Green Bay
• 45:41
  Packers this past year and watch what they did offensively, how
• 45:44
  many wide receivers they had. They had four or five wide
• 45:47
  receivers and they spread out their offense with Dobbs, with
• 45:50
  Watson, with all the different guys that they had.
• 45:53
  I, I think this this Eagles team, they have a lot of weapons
• 45:56
  too, but they didn't spread out their offense.
• 45:58
  As a matter of fact, they traded some pizzas.
• 46:00
  They traded some wide receivers this season because they
• 46:03
  couldn't fit them in their offense.
• 46:05
  I think you bring in a manion, Manion's going to be able to use
• 46:07
  those style, that kind of style that Matt Lafleur likes to use,
• 46:11
  spreading out his his talent and his speed demon guys into
• 46:15
  different positions and slants and and different type of
• 46:18
  offense that it's going to work. So yeah, I was going to say the
• 46:21
  the also the tight ends too with after Tucker before Tucker Croc
• 46:24
  I hurt was looking very good in that system to Luke Musgrave was
• 46:27
  a guy that was a draft pick the same year as Craft that looked
• 46:29
  pretty good at times. And those receivers, like you
• 46:32
  said, there's like a rotation of five of them in Green Bay that
• 46:35
  Philly, again, I think, I think at certain points when the
• 46:37
  passing game just wasn't working for them, they tried to force
• 46:39
  feed too much AD. Some monster games.
• 46:41
  They traded one in Mensch. Yeah, Metchy.
• 46:43
  Yeah, Metchy was Thatchy. Yeah, who went to The Jets?
• 46:45
  Who played pretty well. Played pretty good with The
• 46:47
  Jets, yeah, amidst all the quarterback issues that they
• 46:49
  had. And again, they couldn't even
• 46:51
  get some of the other guys going.
• 46:52
  They had random spurts, which is Jahan Dotson, But like, it's
• 46:55
  still not enough where I think they needed enough another one
• 46:57
  of those guys to help the passing volume, the passing
• 46:59
  concepts go into that. So I think it's good.
• 47:01
  And Metchy was a pretty fairly high draft pick for the
• 47:04
  Philadelphia Eagles and they just let him go.
• 47:06
  They, I mean, they got Michael Carter the second, but Michael
• 47:09
  Carter all when he, he was traded to the Eagles, really
• 47:12
  wasn't a big part of their defense.
• 47:14
  So you traded a guy like Mechi who right as Mechi, John Mechi,
• 47:18
  Mechi who looked really good with The Jets.
• 47:21
  And could you imagine with, with this kind of offense now with
• 47:24
  Mechi and, and the kind of offense that the the Green Bay
• 47:27
  Packers like to run and spread out their wide receivers and use
• 47:30
  them in different packages, he would have fit like a glove.
• 47:32
  Maybe Mechi becomes a star in this offense.
• 47:35
  Yeah. And the other thing I think is
• 47:36
  he was with Minnesota. I forget if it was with Kubiak
• 47:38
  or O'Connell at the beginning, but he was a little bit.
• 47:41
  He was the backup quarterback with Kirk Cousins over there
• 47:43
  too. So you could see a lot of those
• 47:45
  concepts being brought into there as well, which I just
• 47:47
  think the Eagles needed a little more than just A1 style of
• 47:50
  passing offense that they had last year because it seemed like
• 47:52
  it just got. Stained Look at Watson's numbers
• 47:54
  this year on the men in look. Look at look at his offensive
• 47:58
  numbers. I mean, he's a free agent this
• 48:00
  year. Watson's going to get a lot of
• 48:02
  money because of the season he had.
• 48:04
  He is a #1, he is a #1 now. And I teams like the Eagles,
• 48:08
  teams like I, I couldn't, I could see the Eagles making a
• 48:12
  move for a watch. They Trey Brown, Yeah, 100.
• 48:14
  Percent they they could bring in Watson over there and that
• 48:16
  offense and, and use him as their number one guy.
• 48:18
  Smith will be a good #2 and a slot guy.
• 48:21
  I I think Watson's more bigger and more stronger than a guy
• 48:24
  like Smith. So I I wouldn't be surprised if
• 48:28
  the Eagles land Watson some part this offseason.
• 48:31
  The whole A.J. Brown thing is what's hanging
• 48:34
  over that whole Eagles roster right now.
• 48:36
  What are they going to do? Can they get it to work out?
• 48:39
  Can they have a come to, you know, come to pop a meeting just
• 48:42
  like work out all of our our problems?
• 48:44
  Because you could say Christian Watson, that guy's never had a
• 48:47
  healthy season his entire career.
• 48:49
  He doesn't stay healthy. He only played a few games.
• 48:51
  He was great in the games he played, but he doesn't stay
• 48:54
  healthy and you need to be available.
• 48:55
  A.J. Brown is built like a tank and
• 48:58
  A.J. Brown had a really good
• 48:59
  second-half of the season. He had a terrible first half of
• 49:02
  the season, but that's, you know, I think it's more issues
• 49:05
  that they need to work out more than he can't play.
• 49:08
  A.J. Brown still an elite receiver in
• 49:10
  this league. They need to find a way to keep
• 49:12
  them and add something around the periphery.
• 49:14
  They that team functions because of A.J.
• 49:17
  Brown and Devonta Smith being two of the best receivers in the
• 49:21
  league. I think, I think what they
• 49:22
  forgot is they have an elusive elite running back who wasn't
• 49:26
  touching the ball enough and what he likes to do running the
• 49:29
  ball because he had Jacobs last year.
• 49:30
  You have even a better running back in, in in a guy like Sacron
• 49:34
  Barkley can do so much more things than Jacobs can.
• 49:38
  So I think this is this fits like a glove and and Siriani
• 49:41
  needs this to work because if it doesn't, he's going to be
• 49:44
  looking for a job at the end of the season.
• 49:45
  That was the other one we were hearing.
• 49:47
  You know, a lot of people turn down Siriani surprisingly this
• 49:51
  offseason to work with him. We heard The Jets a little bit,
• 49:54
  but we heard a lot of Siriani stuff.
• 49:56
  I mean, you hear that because he's just so unlikeable as a
• 50:00
  person, as a Giants fan, Like he just, it's just so fun to to go
• 50:04
  in there, even if it like ruins our draft position, that when we
• 50:07
  finally beat them, it was wonderful.
• 50:09
  I loved it. I love every. 2nd of it this
• 50:12
  year. Quiet.
• 50:12
  I don't want to hear you, Giants.
• 50:14
  But we're terrible, we're terrible and we shouldn't be
• 50:17
  able to beat you guys. So, you know, hopefully your
• 50:20
  Eagles can, under Manion, be more confident offensively.
• 50:25
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, my golf clap of the week.
• 50:31
  This deserves a golf clap. No doubt.
• 50:33
  Golf clap, Golf clap. Now, ladies and gentlemen, this
• 50:38
  was an interesting, interesting story if you're a basketball fan
• 50:42
  or a 76er fan, which I'm not, but there's a lot of 76er fans
• 50:47
  out there that are probably shaking their heads to this
• 50:49
  story. The NBA has suspended Paul
• 50:55
  George 25 games because of a substance he was using.
• 51:00
  Now they don't know where they it hasn't come out what kind of
• 51:03
  substance it was. I would think it was steroids or
• 51:07
  human growth hormones. The problem right now is is Paul
• 51:10
  George can't stay on the court. He made himself a lot of money
• 51:14
  and ever since he broke his leg with Team USA, he's not been the
• 51:18
  same player. Now he's been an elite player.
• 51:20
  He made himself a lot of money and and obviously he's bounced
• 51:24
  from one team to another. He was with the Clippers and now
• 51:27
  he's with the 76ers. The guy can't stay healthy as a
• 51:30
  matter of I don't even remember the last game, the last season
• 51:33
  that he played sixty or more games in a season.
• 51:35
  And when you when you see these kind of injuries, it starts to
• 51:39
  make you think, can this guy stay healthy?
• 51:42
  And the amount of money this guy's making, I think he's
• 51:44
  making over $40 million a year. And this guy don't even play
• 51:47
  6060 games. I I don't even think he plays 50
• 51:50
  games in a season. What he was probably thinking
• 51:53
  going into the season is I got to stay healthy.
• 51:55
  I got to make sure that I could be a part of this roster.
• 51:57
  So either one, I can make more money or I could be traded to a
• 52:01
  roster where I can win a championship, which, by the way,
• 52:04
  Paul George has never won a championship.
• 52:06
  No matter where he's he's gone. He's been an unaccomplished NBA
• 52:09
  champion because he can't win championships.
• 52:12
  He's gone as far as I think, as an Easter Conference finals.
• 52:15
  And once with the West, with the Clippers.
• 52:17
  Yes, so he's never gone to an NBA championship and that tells
• 52:21
  me he's not a winning player. Now that doesn't mean that Paul
• 52:23
  George can't get to that next level.
• 52:25
  That doesn't mean that Paul George doesn't have it in him to
• 52:27
  get to that next level. This guy is one of the best two
• 52:30
  way players in the NBA. He's been one of the best two
• 52:32
  way players in the NBA for 10 years.
• 52:34
  When he is at the top of his game, he can offensively.
• 52:38
  Offensively, he could score a year, he could put 2829 points
• 52:41
  in the hole and he defensively, he could defend 33 positions.
• 52:45
  He could play. He could defend the one, the two
• 52:47
  and the three. He is as elusive defensively as
• 52:49
  any player we've seen. And could you imagine Kawhi
• 52:52
  Leonard and Paul George, arguably 2 of the top five
• 52:55
  defensive players on a team? We're on the same roster with
• 52:59
  the Clippers, but they couldn't play together because both guys
• 53:02
  couldn't stay healthy. If Kawhi was out, Paul George
• 53:04
  was in with Paul George was out, Kawhi was in.
• 53:07
  They barely play together. And and to me, that's why the
• 53:10
  Clippers were not an accomplished Western Conference
• 53:13
  team when both those players were on the same roster.
• 53:16
  Here's here's another thing you have to look at with the 76ers.
• 53:19
  Joel Embiid can't stay healthy. Tyrese Maxi, who's become a
• 53:22
  superstar in this league, really all season long has been a top
• 53:26
  ten player. Nobody gives them any credit
• 53:28
  because the 76ers are really not a good roster, not a good team
• 53:31
  because it can't stay healthy. And and and again, we've heard
• 53:35
  problems with the fans, the fan base.
• 53:36
  They don't really pack out the stadium as we all know the
• 53:40
  Knicks situation when they the Knicks played them in the
• 53:42
  playoffs. What was it a year ago, two
• 53:44
  years ago? Yeah, two years ago when the
• 53:45
  Knicks, the Knicks sold out practically the whole the Knick
• 53:48
  fans sold out that whole arena. And then you had Joellen beat at
• 53:51
  the end of the game saying that where are my 76er fans?
• 53:54
  This is just absolutely terrible to see that there are more Knick
• 53:57
  fans at the game than 76er fans. It just tells you one thing
• 54:00
  about this organization and his team.
• 54:02
  They have a very good owner, an owner that owns three
• 54:06
  professional teams. He owns a basketball team, a
• 54:08
  football team and a hockey team. Harris and who also was on the
• 54:13
  you know, the list, the Epstein list.
• 54:15
  That's a whole nother story, you know, but I the fact here is, is
• 54:20
  I look at the 76ers situation and with the Paul George
• 54:23
  situation, it's not going to get any better.
• 54:25
  And even if Paul George sits out for the 25, the 25 games and I
• 54:29
  heard Paul Georges take and said, listen, I'm going to take
• 54:31
  my I'm going to take my licks. So I'm going to take my, you
• 54:34
  know, straps. I'm going to come back and I'm
• 54:36
  going to be come back as a better player.
• 54:38
  The problem is, is Paul George has not come back as a better
• 54:41
  player. The guy doesn't play more than
• 54:43
  30 minutes a game. When you're making $40 million a
• 54:46
  year, you should be playing 3536 minutes a game.
• 54:49
  He doesn't even come close to those minutes because of his
• 54:52
  injuries, because of his his situation and his unhealthy
• 54:55
  situation. It's been a big problem.
• 54:57
  And unfortunately, if I'm a 76er fan right now, if Paul George
• 55:02
  gets back, I'm moving Joellen Beat and Paul George and adding
• 55:05
  another young superstar to play with, Tyrese Maxi move them
• 55:09
  both, both those guys cuz he can't stay healthy.
• 55:11
  And both of them, both of them have more excuses than anybody
• 55:14
  I've ever seen in the NBA. Errol, I got the games played
• 55:17
  for Paul George in his career, so dating back to 20.
• 55:22
  In 20/18/19 he played 77 games for the Thunder.
• 55:25
  So as soon as he left for the Clippers, 48 games. 54 games. 31
• 55:31
  games, 56 games. And in his last year with the
• 55:35
  Clippers, he played 74. He only played half a season
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  last year, 41 games. How much is he making?
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  A lot and he's only played 27 games this year.
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  Let me look, pull it up, see what his salary is, but I'm
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  assuming it's a Max contract, $51.67 million this season to
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  be. If I'm, if I'm the 76ers right
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  now going into the trade deadline, I know Paul George is
• 56:03
  out for 25 games. If I can move Paul George and
• 56:07
  Joel Embiid in a package for a young stud, I would do that.
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  I would absolutely do that because you're not winning the
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  championship with this roster. You might not even make the
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  playoffs with this roster. You might be a playing team.
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  So what I would do is I would trade my 2 veteran guys to a
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  team that is a contender. Maybe the Lakers maybe get
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  Reeves. I could you imagine that?
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  You said you trade Joelle. You heard too, though you know
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  it doesn't matter. The one that served it doesn't
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  matter I bring if I were if I were the Lakers and the Lakers
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  have a chance to win a championship.
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  You have Luka Dodgic, LeBron James for this list this last
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  year. If LeBron James decides to come
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  back or goes to another team, you have a chance to get Joel
• 56:47
  Embiid and pull George for a guy like Reeves and maybe somebody
• 56:50
  else. So it can kind of match the
• 56:52
  contracts, maybe make it make it make sense 8 and.
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  Back or something? Like that, maybe a draft pick or
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  something. You send Joellen beat and you
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  said Paul George to the Lakers. You give the the Lakers as much
• 57:05
  chances that that they can for Lebron's last year to win a
• 57:09
  championship in the, in the Western Conference with, with
• 57:12
  the powerhouses they have over there.
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  And you send Reeves over there with a new team with Tyrese.
• 57:17
  Tyrese Maxi was a young stud and Reeves looking like he's going
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  to be a star in this league wherever he goes next year
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  'cause they can't afford him next year.
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  So and, and, and remember LeBron James is off.
• 57:28
  Ease off the the salary cap next year so they can afford Joel
• 57:33
  Embiid, they can afford Paul George on that roster with Aluka
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  Doncic. It would make a lot of sense.
• 57:38
  Yeah, the Lakers are kind of stuck as it is as it makes sense
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  where they could just form that big three, assuming that Luca
• 57:43
  wants Embiid and Paul George there.
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  I don't know, but that's an all another story.
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  But yeah, LeBron, I think Steve was as good as gone anyway, and
• 57:49
  Reeves they're definitely not going to be able to afford.
• 57:51
  So Reeves with the Sixers make a lot.
• 57:52
  Of sense, that's the only team that I could see making a move
• 57:55
  like this. Or the Pelicans, because the
• 57:57
  Pelicans are that dumb. I, I mean, maybe Memphis.
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  John Morant. John, they're looking to move.
• 58:03
  John Moran. I was here and they were trying
• 58:05
  to shop Jaron Jackson too, so maybe they.
• 58:07
  They're out of their mind. Jaron Jackson, Sharon Jackson's
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  one of the best two way players in the NBA and he's still very
• 58:13
  fairly young. What is he, 28 years old?
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  He's in the prime of his career as a basket.
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  Again, not an amazing. Scorer, but a good passer and a
• 58:19
  great defender. Honestly, I'm the Knicks.
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  I'm looking at Jaron Jackson. I would, absolutely.
• 58:25
  Get him last off season too. I would look at him.
• 58:27
  You have all these pieces, you got all these youngster McBride,
• 58:30
  Kollek, I I mean, you put a package, you bring in a Jaron
• 58:32
  Jackson and maybe some draft stock.
• 58:35
  I, you know, in the future. I don't know how much they have
• 58:36
  left the Knicks for the next 5 years, but they have it every
• 58:40
  other year. So I, I would, I would think
• 58:43
  that maybe looking at Jaron Jackson as a guy that he would
• 58:46
  fit like a glove with the Knicks.
• 58:47
  You probably won't have to give up maybe more than two, and
• 58:49
  maybe just spaced out every three years or so.
• 58:51
  Well, look, Shaman has looked good for the last couple of
• 58:54
  weeks and he's been a part of that the the starting seven for
• 58:57
  the Knicks. I think Shamit would be a guy
• 59:00
  that the Knicks could move. He, he's a guy that could shoot
• 59:03
  his, I think he's shooting 3839% at the three-point line.
• 59:07
  They move him, McBride and Colic and maybe another player and and
• 59:12
  maybe some draft picks. I, I think that would be a good
• 59:15
  move for the New York Knicks. You bring in a Jaron Jackson, it
• 59:18
  would be perfect. And Chamet has been as good as
• 59:21
  any bench player the Knicks have, even better than Hart in
• 59:25
  the last couple of weeks. His shooting's been great, you
• 59:28
  know, defensively too. And, and he's very pesky, like
• 59:32
  very pesky plays within the system.
• 59:34
  He's he's just somebody who's been hurt again, He's just one
• 59:37
  of those guys who hasn't stayed healthy in his career.
• 59:40
  He if he can just stay healthy enough to come off the bench and
• 59:42
  be that that energy guy and hit those open shots when we're
• 59:45
  playing teams that just aren't rotating defensively.
• 59:48
  Because let's face it, there's a lot of these games this time of
• 59:50
  the season where teams are just not playing real defense in the
• 59:53
  NBA. It's why people don't like the
• 59:54
  NBA because it's just like these guys are just chucking up threes
• 59:57
  because they're wide open. That's why they're taking the
• 59:59
  shot. Nobody's rotating on.
• 1:00:01
  Nobody plays hard in the NBA until the playoffs and that's
• 1:00:04
  why everybody says what's the bother of watching an NBA
• 1:00:07
  regular season game. Nobody cares about them.
• 1:00:09
  You already know who's going. You're coming out of the East
• 1:00:12
  and coming out of the West. You already know who the top
• 1:00:14
  four teams in the Easter Conference is.
• 1:00:16
  I mean, you can't be blind to see what's going on.
• 1:00:18
  Could you imagine the Celtics? They don't have their best
• 1:00:22
  player. He is out for the season tearing
• 1:00:24
  his Achilles. And they're still, which I'm
• 1:00:27
  talking about, Jason Tatum, they're still tied with the
• 1:00:29
  Knicks in second place. It's pretty amazing what they're
• 1:00:32
  doing. This might be the best coaching
• 1:00:34
  year. I think he's coach of the year
• 1:00:37
  right now as far as I'm concerned, from the Celtic.
• 1:00:39
  Who's the guy from Missoula who's been a lot of people
• 1:00:43
  question Missoula and how he coaches and and really is it
• 1:00:46
  just the roster that makes Missoula such a great coach?
• 1:00:49
  Well, ladies and gentlemen, I would say this.
• 1:00:51
  Missoula has been a good coach this year, an elite coach in the
• 1:00:54
  NBA and should deserves a lot of credit for some of the
• 1:00:57
  accomplishments he's made so far with this this Celtic team,
• 1:01:00
  which really only has two guys. If you really look at it, Brown
• 1:01:04
  and White and White are the two best players.
• 1:01:06
  And White, he was a journeyman before he came to this roster.
• 1:01:09
  So it's been pretty amazing what the Celtics have done this year.
• 1:01:13
  For Josh Richardson at the time, I think was a one for one they.
• 1:01:16
  Did have they do have the 6th man of the year too on the
• 1:01:18
  Pritchard. Yeah, Pritchard's been good too.
• 1:01:20
  So they only have three guys and the same.
• 1:01:23
  Record is the Knicks. Exact same record as the Knicks
• 1:01:26
  and. Their roster is nowhere close to
• 1:01:28
  the Knicks talent, so it just says a lot about what Missoula
• 1:01:32
  has done so far as the head coach of the Celtics.
• 1:01:35
  And and again, I I've taken shots at Missoula over the last
• 1:01:39
  three years. I think it's been his roster and
• 1:01:41
  why why his team has been so good.
• 1:01:43
  I mean, you had Porzingis a couple of years ago, 100%
• 1:01:47
  healthy with obviously Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and White.
• 1:01:50
  I mean, Oh yeah, Drew Holiday on this roster as well.
• 1:01:54
  You know, playing good basketball.
• 1:01:56
  And that's why they won that championship.
• 1:01:57
  I do not believe Missoula was the reason why they won that
• 1:02:00
  championship. It was just the roster and the
• 1:02:01
  talent. This year, the way they've
• 1:02:04
  played and and how good they played in certain stretches, you
• 1:02:07
  have to give Missoula a little bit of credit.
• 1:02:09
  I think Missoula right now, if the season were to end, Missoula
• 1:02:12
  is my coach of the year, So and that ladies and gentlemen, is my
• 1:02:18
  golf clap of the week. If they bring in Jared Jackson,
• 1:02:22
  they're going to have to move OG or Mikkel Bridges.
• 1:02:26
  They're going to have to move one or the other.
• 1:02:27
  That would have to be because think about it, you can't have
• 1:02:31
  three guys that play the same position and that and that's
• 1:02:35
  what they are. They're they're all three guys
• 1:02:37
  that play the same position. I mean O GS playing the three
• 1:02:39
  right now, or is he a date me? But sometimes he's playing he's
• 1:02:43
  playing the two. So I I think that, you know,
• 1:02:47
  Jaron Jackson's more like AA34 guy.
• 1:02:50
  You're going. To he's a he's a four.
• 1:02:52
  He's four or five. He's like a stretch 4.
• 1:02:54
  I don't think he's a 5 corner 3. He's not.
• 1:02:56
  He's a 610. He's 610 with crazy long arms.
• 1:02:59
  He's a brim protector. He's more, I, I think Jaron
• 1:03:02
  Jackson's more of a four or three on the Knicks on that
• 1:03:04
  roster. I think he's more of a 43.
• 1:03:08
  I don't think you can because you have if you have bridges in
• 1:03:10
  Nanobi like those guys are going to.
• 1:03:12
  Play, they're not going to have a part.
• 1:03:13
  They're not going. To have a part there too.
• 1:03:15
  And Shamit plays a forward, you know, like it's just like 4 guys
• 1:03:19
  for that spot that like 2-3, four.
• 1:03:22
  I think he's a 4-5 if they're going to use him as a small
• 1:03:25
  ball, 5 if they if they take him.
• 1:03:27
  Because you can't really do that with Mitch.
• 1:03:30
  Like you can kind of try, but you can't run with Mitch.
• 1:03:32
  The only way they get him is if they to get Giannis and that
• 1:03:35
  would make a lot of sense. He would be like the second guy
• 1:03:37
  they'd go after. I'd like to thank everybody that
• 1:03:40
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• 1:03:56
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• 1:04:00
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• 1:04:01
  He he decided to stay in New York for another extra day.
• 1:04:05
  He told me at 4:30 that he's getting on his plane now.
• 1:04:08
  I'm like, dude, you're not going to make it to the show.
• 1:04:10
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• 1:04:12
  I knew he wasn't going to make it and he's probably listen to
• 1:04:15
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• 1:04:18
  the whole show on Thursday. But yeah, thank you to all the
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• 1:04:26
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• 1:04:29
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• 1:04:32
  All right, Super Bowl champion 8:45 will be joining us.
• 1:04:35
  Former New York Giants tight end Howard Across.
• 1:04:38
  Oh, that's right, that's right. Nathan was the one that scooped
• 1:04:41
  him off. Yes, he was one of the better
• 1:04:42
  goal line defenders of all time, right?
• 1:04:46
  Is it? Is no, that was Gary reasons
• 1:04:47
  they'll be out in a. Few.
• 1:04:48
  Oh, that's right. That's right.
• 1:04:49
  Howard Cross. I'm trying to remember Howard
• 1:04:51
  Cross. I don't.
• 1:04:52
  Remember the tight end Shockey's back up?
• 1:04:57
  Now I remember him because I I did, I was an executive producer
• 1:05:01
  for Imani Tumor. So Imani Tumor used to tell me a
• 1:05:04
  lot of different stories about those teams before the Super
• 1:05:07
  Bowl championship. He did all The Dirty work while
• 1:05:10
  Shocky got to line up and go out for passes.
• 1:05:12
  Cross was a great blocker and he caught some passes too.
• 1:05:15
  He was a good, halfway decent athlete.
• 1:05:17
  All right, All right. Howard Cross will be joining us.
• 1:05:20
  So very interesting. Thank you again to all the fans.
• 1:05:23
  We'll be back on Thursday. Yes, Jabba will be here on
• 1:05:26
  Thursday. Better be I'll smack up silly.
• 1:05:29
  I got a chance to meet him on Saturday.
• 1:05:30
  So that was interesting both of us together.
• 1:05:33
  It's like I knew him for years. It really is.
• 1:05:36
  And he he I got to give a shout out to Jabba.
• 1:05:38
  He was very kind to my friends, very cool to my friends and try
• 1:05:41
  to pick on my size at which you're only four inches bigger
• 1:05:45
  than me. Buddy.
• 1:05:45
  Stop bragging about it. When I steal a base against you,
• 1:05:48
  then you can you can start kissing my ass, my friend.
• 1:05:52
  I love you anyways. Goodnight.
• 1:05:53
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