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INSTANT REACTION: Dak Prescott & Cowboys OUTDUEL Saquon Barkley & Eagles on MNF,Raiders’ Plan for Fernando Mendoza, Will Colts BENCH Daniel Jones? · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

• 0:14
  Speaker 1: What is going on, my people? I'm John Middlecoff, it's
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: the Reign Out Podcast. The Dallas Cowboys annihilate the Eagles
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: backups and their starters on defense, which we will dive into.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: I'd say the Philadelphia Eagles are in major trouble. Some
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: other breaking news tonight. Dante Moore, the Oregon quarterback who
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: was KO'd at USC, who was going to be a
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: top five pick last year, who came back, is now
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: out for the year. slash, you know, it's like no
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  Speaker 1: point for him to come back. Give a couple quick
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on that. We had Fernando Mendoza. Should he be inserted?
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: Shane Steichen staying loyal to Daniel Jones. John Harbaugh. We'll
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: do a couple mailbag questions. At John Middlecoff is the Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: Fire in those DMs. And that'll be the show. So
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: you guys know the drill. If you listen on Colin's feed,
• 1:01
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• 1:04
  Speaker 1: watch us, check us out on Netflix. We got a
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: bunch of content up on the YouTube page as well.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: And let's just dive into Monday Night Football. Coming in,
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: let's face it. In the NFL, when you invest heavily
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: into a unit, this is not baseball, where you can
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: just keep buying players and it doesn't matter, the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees historically, it doesn't guarantee you wins, obviously, as
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  Speaker 1: we see. But in football, when you invest, especially a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money, which they paid Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis
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  Speaker 1: and Jonathan Grenard, I think I saw online, they're making
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  Speaker 1: $ 89 million this year. And Zach Bond makes a ton
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  Speaker 1: at linebacker. You need that unit to be really good.
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  Speaker 1: Just like the Cowboys, right? CeeDee Lamb makes a ton.
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, $ 60 million. George Pickens, I know he's only
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  Speaker 1: on a one-year deal, but he's making $ 27 million. They've
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  Speaker 1: invested a ton into their offensive line. So it's like,
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  Speaker 1: here's where we invested. That's where you invested. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: where we're at. And tonight was... Troy Aikman said it
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  Speaker 1: well toward the end of the game. We have not
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  Speaker 1: sent Jalen Carter or Jordan Davis' name all night. And
• 2:20
  Speaker 1: you go back to early in the season, like through
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  Speaker 1: three games, statistically, the Eagles' pass rush was atrocious. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have a tackle for loss. Not only did
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  Speaker 1: they not sack Dak, I don't feel like they really
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  Speaker 1: even touched him. Beside one play where Dak ended up laughing,
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember them being around him. And, like, at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, if someone is going to
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  Speaker 1: run for 200 yards on you in the NFL... you're
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  Speaker 1: going to lose the majority of those games. And most
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: of the time, if their defense is just okay, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get throttled because they're going to run the,
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  Speaker 1: running the ball. I think, you know, for a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of time became a lost art. We became at
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  Speaker 1: every level from high school to college to the NFL.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: We went through that period when all the guys were
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: hopping on Zoom, mad they weren't getting paid. And it
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  Speaker 1: was pass, pass, pass, pass. You don't really demoralize people
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  Speaker 1: through the air. In football, you demoralize people on the ground.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: It's where toughness is established as a team. And you
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: watch tonight, the Dallas Cowboys gave it to Javante Williams,
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: and he looked like Emmitt Smith. Which to me, it's like, yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: good player. Cowboys have, in theory, a good offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of guys who are drafted high. But when
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  Speaker 1: you have two supposedly elite defensive linemen at defensive tackle,
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: eventually you draw a line in the sand and be like,
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: I'm making a play. Historically, that's the way it works.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a $ 30, $ 40 million player. I'm on a $ 100
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  Speaker 1: million contract. I'm going to wreck some shop. And both
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  Speaker 1: those guys got worked. Yet on the other side, Quinn
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  Speaker 1: and Williams, who the Cowboys traded for last year, people
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  Speaker 1: were like, Jerry, what are you doing? Like, you felt
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  Speaker 1: him tonight. On the goal line. Going up against a rookie.
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  Speaker 1: Smokes him. TFL. Another play later in the game. Sack
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  Speaker 1: Tanner McKee. In most games, like, you feel Quinn and Williams' presence.
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  Speaker 1: And you have his whole career. The question mark with
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Carter is like, can you trust him? Jordan Davis
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  Speaker 1: has always been like, how good really is he? And
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  Speaker 1: I think anytime... I have older people in my life.
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  Speaker 1: When they start waffling how much I want to do this,
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  Speaker 1: what's my motivation, should I walk away from something, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's fair to question their heart. Is their heart
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  Speaker 1: in it? For an older person to expend the energy,
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  Speaker 1: especially in a profession like coaching... That is a grind.
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  Speaker 1: Like Vic Fangio flirted with this offseason. And his unit
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  Speaker 1: has played like a guy that, like, is Vic Fangio
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  Speaker 1: all in? Because his defensive players clearly are not all in.
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  Speaker 1: And he is a coordinator who I have the utmost
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  Speaker 1: respect for. His defenses a couple years ago, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they had four guys that had 10 sacks. They dominated.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when he was with the 49ers, they were
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  Speaker 1: one of the most violent defenses I've ever seen with
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  Speaker 1: my own eyes. And for whatever's going on right now,
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  Speaker 1: this is a disaster. And the Cowboys, who a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people make fun of for being the soft operation,
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  Speaker 1: even the way they play offense is like George Pickens,
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  Speaker 1: who's always like trying to jump over guys. CeeDee Lamb,
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  Speaker 1: who sometimes can coast a little bit. It's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they're just going to pass it on them. No, they're
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  Speaker 1: just going to run it down their throat. And obviously,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, those guys scored one CDF, two touchdowns, and
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  Speaker 1: Pickens had one. But the night was determined by, you
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  Speaker 1: guys have no chance to stop us. And you come
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  Speaker 1: into a game like this, you know, they scored 21 points.
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  Speaker 1: And Tanner McKee, I thought he looked okay, and then
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  Speaker 1: throws the pick, and then it just completely unraveled. Like,
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  Speaker 1: he's not built. I mean, he came into the season until,
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: you know, they had retirements or whatever, and they cut
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: Andy Dalton before they went overseas. He was our third-string quarterback. So, like,
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  Speaker 1: this is somewhat, if you're going to score 21 points, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Vic Fangio and the defense, we're going to need a
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  Speaker 1: night where we flex our muscles. And not only did
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  Speaker 1: they not flex their muscles, they got embarrassed. And here's
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: the problem for the Eagles. Like, I'm not saying the Cowboys, like,
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  Speaker 1: still a lot of question marks defensively. Can they get
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  Speaker 1: a pass rush, you know, on the edges? Do their
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  Speaker 1: DBs make enough plays? Even a night in some big spots.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, do you trust their secondary? There was a
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  Speaker 1: one on a fourth and two in the second half
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  Speaker 1: on the first drive coming out of halftime. Eagles drove
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  Speaker 1: right down the field. It was 17 plays, nine minutes
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  Speaker 1: and made it 21 to 20. Like that's like the
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  Speaker 1: best Eagle drive I've seen since they won the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: That was incredible. And then they never looked back after that.
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  Speaker 1: But a couple individual plays on that. You're like, there
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  Speaker 1: was a fourth and it was a fourth and one.
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  Speaker 1: I wrote down fourth and two. It was like, one
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  Speaker 1: and three quarters. And it was just like, Mekhi Lemon
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  Speaker 1: coming across the middle. You don't quite trust him. But
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  Speaker 1: the one way that you can overcome kind of a
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  Speaker 1: weak secondary is get turnovers. The Bears did it last year.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: They had a bunch of turnovers. So Overshawn's back, picks
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  Speaker 1: off the ball. You can be a weak defense, but
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: if you create some turnovers, pick off balls when they
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  Speaker 1: hit your DBs in the hands, maybe create a couple fumbles,
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  Speaker 1: you can make up for having some issues. Like this
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  Speaker 1: Cowboy unit is never going to be that good. But
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  Speaker 1: if they're able to get a turnover or two and
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  Speaker 1: their offense plays like this, they're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good chance. And you look at their schedule, it's
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  Speaker 1: like they get the Cardinals coming up. who, I mean,
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: are just a joke. Then they play the Colts, who
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: are going to be 1-2-3 Cancun if they're not already.
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  Speaker 1: Then they play the Niners. And then they play the Titans.
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  Speaker 1: So if you are 3-4, your next four games, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: you should be 6-5. And then you have a chance
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  Speaker 1: right there with the Giants. We'll see if J.J. McCarthy
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  Speaker 1: can maintain this. But keep running the ball. Makes it easier.
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  Speaker 1: Open stuff up for the wide receivers. And listen, you
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  Speaker 1: should gain some confidence. I understand the Eagles defense has
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  Speaker 1: not played well, but you embarrass them. And the other
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: thing is on Monday Night Football, like if you're a fan, Joe,
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: and this is the other thing. You know, Vic is
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: an old school, pretty, just kind of grouchy, a curmudgeon. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Jalek's Hunt had gone on a
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: podcast or did an interview like a couple days after
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  Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl. They got back. It was
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: like doing exit meetings, and it was a fun time.
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: And Vic got in front of the defense and started
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  Speaker 1: going over the second half and some of the poor execution.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: I remember they blew out the Chiefs. And you're like, God,
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: but that's who he is. And it's one thing when
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  Speaker 1: you're winning. And let's face it, the Eagles have done
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  Speaker 1: a lot of winning. I brought up their records since
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  Speaker 1: 2017 when they won the Super Bowl. They went 13-3.
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  Speaker 1: They have made the playoffs eight of the last nine years.
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  Speaker 1: And they've won the Division V of those. And one
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  Speaker 1: of those, you know, a couple of them, they went 11-6,
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys won 12 games. So it's not like they
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  Speaker 1: squeaked in at one of those 9-7-1 years. Like, they've
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  Speaker 1: had successful seasons even when they didn't win the division.
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: And really, for the last four years, 14-3, 11-6, 14-3,
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  Speaker 1: and 11-6. Like last year was an epic failure. They
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: still won the division and won 11 games. Think how
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: many teams that we make fun of constantly that would
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: sell their left leg to win 11 games. This season's
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: going to be a disaster. They're obviously 2-5. Does feel
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: like they're headed toward 5 wins max. Jalen's out, who
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: wasn't playing well to begin with. They're just constantly missing guys.
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: You see Saquon. He's just not going to be able
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: to stay healthy. That's the other elephant in the room.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of headlines. Should they trade Saquon? Obviously,
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: Howie's always open to do a deal. I think a
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: lot of guys on his team, typically Howie is the
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: one coming in for your asset and trying to get
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: it for 65, 70 cents on the dollar. Well, Saquon
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: makes a lot of money, and even the night coming
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: back from the hamstring injury, played nine plays, and then
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: his body started falling apart. Then he comes back in
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: the game, immediately his back's tight. It's like his hamstring
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: looks tight. It's like he can't finish the game. And
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: I just don't see anyone in the NFL trading anything
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: of value for a guy whose health is just in
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: serious question right now. They can't trade the defensive lineman
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: because they just paid him a bunch of money. Devontae Smith,
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: could you just sell him now? They're not even active
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  Speaker 1: for any of these games. So the players that would
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: have some value if you wanted to do a fire
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: sale are all injured. And it's like, well, Jordan Mailata, well,
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: it's like, you're not going to trade your left tackle.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: I actually don't really think, given that a lot of
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: their guys make a lot of money who are way underperforming,
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: it makes no sense to trade them because you're not
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: going to get anything of value. You might as well
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: just keep them, write it out. And let's face it,
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: the other elephant in the room, Tonight's not on Sirianni.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: Sirianni's taking a lot of heat. He has nothing to
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: do with the defense. Just like anyone that employs Vic Fangio,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: I would have said the same thing for Jim Harbaugh
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  Speaker 1: when he coached for the 49ers. I would have said
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: the same thing when he coached for the... Matt Nagy
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  Speaker 1: and the Chicago Bears or for Mike McDaniel. Vic Fangio
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: is the boss of the defense. Like tonight's on him.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: They got embarrassed and his players. And that's, I mean,
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: you can't stop anybody at any moment from just running
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: basic off-tackle runs. Like, I don't know what to say.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, he's the head coach.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: And let's face it, whoever had lost this game, that
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  Speaker 1: head coach, people were going to go, whoa. Schottenheimer desperately
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: needed this game. You got Stephen A sitting with Jerry.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: You got Michael Irvin and Stephen, you know, throwing back cocktails,
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: smiling ear to ear. They kind of needed this because
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: I think you can look ahead, even in the NFL, which,
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to do that. Like there are
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: a bunch of winnable games coming up and they get
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: some momentum because at the end of the day, they
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: do have a high end quarterback. But I just look
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: at this Eagles team that, Their shitty seasons over the
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: course of basically the last decade have been nine and seven.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: They're not going to sniff that. And I think you're
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: looking at wholesale off-season changes. I don't really think there's
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: that much they can do right now. Because Howie's never
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: been in the business of like, oh, just take my
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: player for a fifth. I'm like, hey, I don't see
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: that happening. You might as well keep an undervalued asset
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: who you've drafted, who you've acquired, who you've developed, who's
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: playing like shit, and see if the new staff and
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: the new coach can get them going. Because right now,
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: all these guys, underachieving feels like a major understatement. It
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: really does. I mean, tonight, I've been to a lot
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: of games at that stadium. You know, I can't even
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: imagine the vibes walking out. You know, when they've lost
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: awful games, like close games, devastating games, you know, people
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: are on edge, of course. I think a lot of
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: people leave this stadium just thinking, we're done. You know,
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: they play the Giants in a couple weeks in Philadelphia.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: It would not surprise me at all if you remember
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: when the Knicks played the Sixers and they basically, Knicks
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: fans took over. Wouldn't shock me at all if that's
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: a Giants home game. Because if I'm an Eagles fan,
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: like I... I'm going to take, you know, tailgating, going early,
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  Speaker 1: getting home. That's a seven, eight hour day to go
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: watch this. No chance. And it's, listen, the injuries, the
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: bunch of guys are on the shelf. Even the guys
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  Speaker 1: playing feel like they're being held together and duct tape.
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  Speaker 1: Tanner McKee is, I mean, at best, I mean, competing
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: third guy. I mean, he can't move, you know, their
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: offensive line, bunch of random guys. If, And look who
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: he's throwing to. So this Eagles season has just imploded quickly.
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  Speaker 1: out of here, the other thing I wanted to hit
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: on this news broke tonight is Dante Moore, the Oregon
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: quarterback who got KO'd at the USC game, is out
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: for the year. Historically, when a guy returned, most of
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: my life, in basketball or in football that was viewed
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: as a high pick, a lot of people went, that
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: is very risky. Your stock could fall off a cliff
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: because you play poorly or you could get injured. In
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the NIL era, I mean, what do you think he
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: made this year? Six, seven, eight million dollars? Probably one of,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: if not the highest paid quarterback in all of college football.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: He made, you know, maybe Arch Banning made more and
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: I bet it wasn't that much different. And I respect
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: he came back because he thought they could win a
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: national championship. And he would help provide the first national
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  Speaker 1: championship in program history and become a legend at the
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: program while getting rich and then becoming a high pick.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: You know, as long as he doesn't have some neurological
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: long-term effect, which we've seen a lot of guys get
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: concussions and come back. And I know his was a
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: bad one. But if I'm going to assume he's going
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: to make a full bill of health based on what
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Dan Lanning said, he will. and already has, I still
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: think he's going to be a top 10 pick. And
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I actually think he has a chance to be like
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: a top two or three pick. Look at this quarterback class.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Who's he competing against? I mean, I think Trinidad's performance
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the other night really rattled some people against an NFL
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: defense on the road. It was like, whoa. And I'm
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: a huge fan. You know, we'll see Darian Mensah, the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: better teams they play, but Like the Oklahoma State guy
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: has started like a year and a half of his
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: college career. He didn't even start a game in high school.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Arch Manning wouldn't get drafted in the fourth round right now.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: So what are we even talking about? Everything's going to
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: be okay. He made a decision. He got compensated for it.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and a freak thing happened, and it derailed his season.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: And then, like, and Dan Lanning, I watched some of
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: his press conference, like, this guy's not quitting. Well, you
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: just fired the offensive coordinator. The offense is a nightmare.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: So even if you could come back for a team
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: that's not going to the playoffs, your offense, the coaching staff,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: is in disarray. It is, it's one of those that
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: everyone in the NFL would be like, right decision, right move.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Start getting ready for the NFL. Just stay with the team.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Keep training. Stay in shape. And then, you know, get
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: ready for whether you want to play in the Senior
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Bowl or just get ready for the Combine. But there's
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: going to be a lot of different takes about this.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And he would have made more money if he would
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: have come out and gone to the Browns or the Jets, right?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: I guess he probably would have gone number two to
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: the Jets. I actually think if you go to the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Jets next year, they are much more equipped, right? Adding
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Omar Cooper Jr., adding, you know, Sadiq, his teammate. Like,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: they just, I mean, who knows? Maybe they could flip
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson the next week for a first-round pick. Like,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: they are going to be much more equipped to handle him.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: You know, the Browns are no longer going to be
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: drafting that high. And if there are some teams I
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: would be very hesitant to go to if I was him. Like,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: if the Arizona Cardinals had one of the top picks,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I would refuse to go. I would have some similar
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: thoughts when it came to the Miami Dolphins. Like, I
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: do wonder now if some of these guys are highly compensated.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: They're already rich. They already got some juice. They start
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: kind of pulling some Eli Manning move of like, I'm
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: not playing here. Because that's essentially what he did. He
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: went back to try to win a national championship. But also, like,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable. with the group of teams drafting high
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: so now if I if I am coming out which
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I guess technically probably could still end up going back
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: we'll see how that plays out but I think all
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: expectations him going to pro depending on who's drafting high
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and we got a long way to go we'll see
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: how this quarterback situation plays out I think some quarterbacks
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: need to start going like, I'm not playing for you.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: It happens all the time in the NBA. NFL players
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: would juice historically have done it. I would not go
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to a place where careers go to die. And we'll
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: have to see how it all shakes out, but... I
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: think he 100%, I mean, it wasn't even a decision
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to be made. Once the OC gets fired, like, for who,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: for what, as my man Ricky Waters said. So the
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dominate, and Dante Moore says adios, Oregon. When
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: do the Raiders put Fernando Mendoza in the game? Early on,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Raiders were competitive. Everyone's like, God, do you compete for
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: a playoff spot with Cousins? Kirko Chains, baby. Just ride
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: that wave. Then they almost beat the Chiefs, and I'm
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: guilty of this. I'm like, God, the Raiders are not bad.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Since then, it's imploded, and they clearly do not look good.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: They've been blown out essentially in two of the three games,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: are now under. 500, and feel destined to kind of
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: unravel here, which is understandable. They don't have a great
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: team on paper, and Cousins at his age has some limitations.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: But actually seeing the situation, I think this goes back
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to Bill Polian, that he had a famous line that
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: if you listen to the fans, you will be sitting
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: with them. And I think in public jobs, and this
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: would probably go for in relation to major public companies,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: obviously sports franchises, there is a huge loud noise outside
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the building. And the Raiders were adamant the moment they
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: drafted Fernando Mendoza from Tom Brady to their head coach
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: that they believed the best case scenario for any young
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: quarterback in his shoes is to not play as a rookie. Clearly, Brady,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: who has a major influence over this organization, specifically with
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the quarterback position, is a benefactor now way different situation
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: six round pick first overall pick but he sat the
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: first year he made the team he learned by the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: next year you know by after Bledsoe gets injured in
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: game one like the rest is history but I bet
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: you know if you're having beers with him that first
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: year of seeing how everything was done uh helped change
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the course of his career Now again, even going back
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: to his time at Michigan, which when he was there,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: unlike currently was an elite program, he battled the job,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: he played a lot, but he was in and out
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: of the lineup, unlike Fernando, full-time starter, national champion. It
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: does make me think, and listen, these situations are not easy.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I do think it is easier. We often see it
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: when coaches are competing for their job. Wins and losses
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: impact their status within the building. We've seen it countless times.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: They go to the guy they just drafted, whether it
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: was the number one overall pick or whether it was
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: a guy in the second round, just to hopefully get
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a spark, get some hope, and have the owner go,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: you know what, we can ride this out another year.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Clearly with Clint Kubiak, he's got a long leash. They
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: are not running through him of like, hey, you went 6-11,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: or hell, let's say they win two more games the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: rest of the year, he's not going to get fired.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: He is getting a long leash to work with Fernando
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Mendoza at minimum a couple years after this season, rightfully so.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: But I was watching the Saban documentary. I still need
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: to finish the last episode. And one thing, a lot
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: of things stuck out. I want to watch it again
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and take notes. I mean, it is... I think there
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: are a lot of parallels to whatever you do in life,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: takeaways and messaging that you could use for yourself. It
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: really is... I mean, it's a football documentary. It's a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: life documentary. But I think there are a lot of
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: lessons in there that you can, you know... remove the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: athletic portion of it and just use in your everyday
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: life to help you be successful in whatever you do
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: and one thing really stuck out to me is there
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I forget what episode maybe like the third or fourth
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: episode it basically documented the situation when Nick Saban fired
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin he fired Lane Kiffin after the final four
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: game which they won 24 to 7 They rolled wide.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I remember watching that game. That score was not as
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: close as the game. But in that game, they went
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: over in the dock, like, bunch of penalties, bunch of
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: guys didn't know the plays. It was very discombobulated. It
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: did not look right, especially for his standards, the program standards,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and the standard in which it would take to win
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the national championship game. And Lane had already accepted the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: job at FAU and clearly was basically his mind and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: just emotional being was already out the door. And Saban
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: knew it. Everyone in the building knew it, but no
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: one does that. No one fires the offensive coordinator where
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: you have been winning and had success with them right
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: before the biggest game of the season, literally for another ring.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: And Nick did it. And they were interviewing the other
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: coaches and The strike staff, even Jalen Hurts, who all
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: thought it was pretty nuts. I mean, Jalen, who's exceptional
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: in the doc, was like, I was a true freshman.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: It's a pretty big change for them just to insert
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Steve Sarkeesian the week of the biggest game of my life.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Mike Loxley was like, yeah, we all thought it was crazy. Like, hey, man,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: can't we just suck it up for seven more days?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: We're all cool with it. The offensive staff, we'll just
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: deal with it. And Nick essentially said, like, I knew
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: it wasn't right. And there are certain lines that if
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: you cross, I have to make a decision. And no
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: matter what everyone outside thinks, and in a gig like that,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of people on the outside have a lot
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: of opinions. And people thought he was insane when he
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: did it, right? And even looking back, it's pretty unheard of,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: and I don't think you'd see that ever again. I mean,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: most times when these teams make runs, you see these
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: coaches continue to operate for their program. Saban's guys have
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: been doing it forever. Last year, Bob Chesney is coaching
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a playoff game. He did the UCLA press conference like
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: two weeks before. So it's proven it can be done
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: time and time again. But now with Lane Kiffin, Nick
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Saban knew it, and he moved on. And you watch
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the documentary and you go, you know, it's weird saying
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: this because it's like, listen, he's already had a bunch
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: of national championships. His job, it's not like he's worrying
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: on a year-to-year basis. But that's the type move that's like,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: this guy's got some balls, you know. This guy's like,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I'm not having this crap happen under my watch, watching
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: it firsthand, knowing what this guy's doing, which is essentially
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: not trying that hard. It's not acceptable big picture. And
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I was thinking, think how many guys in Alabama, whether
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: it be the coaches, even a guy like Jalen, that
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: will never forget that and the way they operate the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: rest of their lives. And I think it's so easy.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: You get so much credit for, In the sport of football,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: when things aren't going well, especially like this Cousins thing,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: he can't move. So they can't run the ball. They
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: don't really have wide receivers. Their defense isn't that good.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: He's not going to be able to turn into Josh
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Allen or Patrick Mahomes and win them games against better competition.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: It's not really possible. The longer the season goes, I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: also think the worse he's going to look. The freshest
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: he was going to be was in September. Wait until
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: it looks like in November. But I also think this
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: is a situation that is not equipped very well for
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza. You throw him out there, one, only they
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: know truly behind the scenes, like how comfortable is he
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: in the office? How comfortable is he under center? Is
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: this a situation where we put him out there and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: it's like, I don't think he really knows, or is
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: that comfortable doing a lot of the stuff that Cousins
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: is doing, which he's been doing for over a decade
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: in this offense? He knows this offense, this terminology, the checks,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: what to do with the line of scrimmage, like the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: back of his hand. And one day, in a perfect world,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza will too. But there's currently no possible way
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: for that to happen. And to stick with your guns,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: knowing that if you do throw Fernando Mendoza out there,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: and clearly he reiterated today, we have Cousins, our guy,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: he's playing well. They're not doing it anytime soon. But
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the moment a Monday comes and he just goes, they
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: could have lost seven straight games. Fernando Mendoza's starting this week.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Everyone would give him an applause. Everyone would be excited,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: even if it's the wrong decision. And that's part of,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that's why you make all this money. Because you're really
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: paid for your decisions. Obviously, as the offensive coordinator, you're
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: paid for your schemes too. But as the head coach,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: you've got to stick with your guns. And this is
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: where organizational alignment really matters. And this is also where
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: organizations that people are always worried about their jobs make
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: poor decisions and you put yourself in bad spots. So, listen.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: If he truly was ready and was kicking ass at practice,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: it'd be a no-brainer. But I think it's an easy
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: one where you go, you know, we are not equipped.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: He could use some knowledge and more understanding of watching
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: cousins go through. This is part of paying cousins. Like,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: in a weird way, you paid to throw him to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the wolves and get his ass kicked. And that's kind
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: of what's happening. And listen, he hasn't played that bad
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: by any means. But if I was a betting man,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: this thing's only going to get worse. And that's why
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I said it yesterday on the podcast, I would be
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: shopping Max Crosby. And if you are in a position
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: to get more draft picks, get more players, because as
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you see, they're in a position now where Max can
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: be a high-end player, and they're down 28-3 to the Rams,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: who have played like shit and just had to put
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: like six guys on injured reserve. And that was a
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: practice for the Rams. In Vegas. You know, so... I
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: think the key here, and I don't expect it to change,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: stick with your guns. And speaking of sticking with your guns,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: people keep asking Shane Steichen every week as the Colts
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: keep losing. And Daniel Jones was just getting punked. I mean, Flores,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I saw some clips last night of people breaking down
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: He was faking stunts to run other stunts. I mean,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the shit he's doing, he blitzed them almost 90% of
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the plays. Like, at this point in time, he's going
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: to have a game where he blitzes every defensive play call,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: which is awesome. You know what I mean? They just
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys in the line of scrimmage.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Everyone runs one is running stunts and twists. You got
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: guys coming through creases. It's crazy. And they're just crushing
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the quarterback. And if they don't land the quarterback, they're
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: getting in his face. I mean, Flores is easily right
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: now the coordinator of the year. And kind of carrying
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that team with how poor Kyler Murray played. But Shane
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Sykin was asked, like, do you have any plans? Like,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: we're going to make quarterback change? He's like, absolutely not.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: And essentially like, you know, he's got to play better.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: You know the reason that Daniel Jones is not going
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: to get benched? Because football is not stocks, right? You
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: can't just take the loss and, you know, you paid
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: X for some stock and all of a sudden you're
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: down 30%. You're like, I want out and you just
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: sell it and you invest in something else. That's not
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: how it works in the middle of the season, especially
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: with a guy like him. It's not like you could
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: trade him. You're stuck with the guy. But the most
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: important number in this Shane Steichen, Daniel Jones conversation, when
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones signed his two-year $ 88 million contract, They gave
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: him a $ 44 million signing bonus. So they essentially gave
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: him half the total amount of the deal, which, unless
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I'm reading this wrong, a couple weeks within signing the deal.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: A direct deposit. They gave him a huge sum of
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: money for a guy coming off an Achilles, a broken leg,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: which is crazy. I mean, they hit their wagon to
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: a broken down four-torss. And now they're stunned that they're
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: on the side of the road needing to call AAA.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: That's the situation they're in. We all saw this coming
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: except them. Now you could argue they didn't have any
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: other options. My argument would be, even if I don't
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: have any other options, I could not choose that option,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: but they did. And once you give a guy that
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: much money and they sound like they have anyone else
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: on the roster, clearly Steichen can't stand Anthony Richardson as
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: a player. Uh, They're going down, like, the ship is
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: going down with Daniel Jones and Shane Steichen on it. So,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: unless he gets injured, which is obviously always in play,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: given his career arc, he's not going to get benched.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: No matter how many bad picks he throws. I mean,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: there wasn't, for a second, listen, Minnesota's a very, very
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: tough matchup. If they just, I mean, God, they didn't
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: cover the six and a half, but if their quarterback
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: just played a little bit better, they don't get a
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: field goal block, like, it's They should have won that
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: game by double digits. The Colts stink. I mean, they
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: are not good. And a lot of it starts, Daniel
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Jones is a very good player. And I know he
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: had a good stretch last year, but this all gets
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: back to the money. And this is how football works
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: for a long period of time. And now the money
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: is so astronomical. You see all these teams in the
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: offseason cutting guys, paying them to go away, which I
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: would imagine, you know, depending on how the cap works
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and who the new coach is and administration is, Daniel
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Jones probably won't be on the team next year. But
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: as of right now, when you gave him that much
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: money up front on a short-term deal, I'm just telling you,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the ship is going down with this guy steering it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: And don't be shocked. He's going to get this question
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: asked after every single loss, and it's probably only going
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: to get worse if they do the right thing, which
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: is a full-on fire sale. I do not understand why
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I'm recording this part in the afternoon before the Monday
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Night Football game, how there haven't been five different stories
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: today of like, hey, The Colts are in negotiations with
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: these two players. What are you waiting for? Part of leadership,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: and this is what the Raiders, we are not playing him.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I don't care how ugly this gets. We aren't pivoting. Now,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: three and four, it's easier to say that than, you know,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: four and nine, but they better stick to their guns.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: It's part of leadership. Well, Carly Ursae, if you want
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: to be a leader, like, hey, we need to get rid,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: we're two and five, we fucking suck. The money's already
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: been spent. I read an article today that like her
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: dad was always big on the cash going out. And
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: this gets back to some of these families that are
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: living in like the 80s, even the 90s, like the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: money's way different. While $ 44 million to give a signing
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: bonus is a lot of money, relative to some of
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: these contracts, it's really not. You know, you just saw
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a center for the Raiders get $ 27 million a year.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: You see random guards get $ 25 million a year. I mean,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk, who was at best a good number two,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: solid player, who had, I mean, now is a disaster,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: but at the time, they gave him $ 75 million. I mean,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: it's just like the money is way different. I do
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: think it's hard for some of these families to kind
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: of wrap their head around. It's human nature, right? If
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: you're a guy making $ 100, 000 and you're used to living
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: on that amount, right? How much your rent costs, how
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: much you live, and that's then whatever you actually take
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: home net after taxes and stuff, you have a pretty
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: good idea. Well, if I tell you in five years
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: or 10 years, you're going to go from $ 100, 000 to
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: $ 7 million. It's a pretty big jump. But the key
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: is if you want to change lifestyles, if you want
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: to send your kid to private schools, if you want
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: to start flying in first class, if you want to
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: upgrade your house, you're going to have to change your
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: mindset a little bit because the money coming in is
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: a lot different than what it once was. And I
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: think for some of these families, it's hard. There shouldn't
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: even be a question. But when I saw that comment of, like,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the one thing her dad taught her was, like, about
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: cash going out. And there was a comment in Mike
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Sandoz's article today. He's like, you know, the irony is
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Ursaic could be cheap at certain things, but then go
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: pay an unlimited amount for Johnny Cash's guitar. And, listen,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: none of these owners are being very frugal when it
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: comes to the fun shit outside. But, like, I'm sorry...
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: I understand the Ravens being like, are we super comfortable?
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Is this guy going to get injured a bunch moving forward?
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: But the cost of Lamar Jackson, you're talking hundreds of
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: millions of dollars. That is the cost of an extension.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: You just have to be comfortable with it if you're
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: going to sign it. And I do understand them being
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: a little uncomfortable because we said the stat yesterday, he's
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: missed more games since 2021 than Joe Burrow. Yet when
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: we talk about Joe Burrow, and I'm guilty of this
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: all we ever say, guys always hurt. Elbow, wrist, knee,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: turf toe, fucking always on the training room, the blue tent.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: It's like, well, if we're saying that about him, we
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: definitely got to say it about Lamar. And the cost
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: of extending guys like that is just a lot of money.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: So I get it. Like I'm not one of those
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: got to pay everybody. I saw someone online was like
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: billionaire propaganda. I've defended John Snyder on here because it's like, well,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: they couldn't pay Kenneth Walker. Guys, they paid a ton
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: of money to other guys literally this off season. I mean,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the highest paid players in league history, DB and wide receiver.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: And both guys are worth every penny. But you've got
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: to make tough decisions. But your core big-time guys like
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: your quarterback, like Daniel Jones, relative to the league, is
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: a bargain. Turns out he just sucks. If Daniel Jones
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: was just solid, two-year $ 88 million is an incredible deal.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: But when he's one of the worst quarterbacks in the league,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: it's awful. Because, you know, you see other guys. You
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: see Bridgecourt. I mean, what's Cousins making? $ 10 million a year.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: And Cousins is just a way better player. So I
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: think some of these families have a really, really hard
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: time because they're stuck in the past. And a lot
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: of humans are like that. A lot of humans hold
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: on to what things used to be. And listen, if
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: things aren't going well, I've always defended people like I
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: never have a problem with people being cheap that don't
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: have money. But like Tiger Woods taking a bunch of
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Marines to cheeseburgers and just paying for himself, it's like,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: come on, Tiger. I get you didn't grow up with
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of means, but once you are worth hundreds
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: of millions of dollars, time to be a fucking grown-up. Now,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: you don't need to be Charles Barkley or Mike Ditka
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: and just be taking care of everybody all the time.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: That's a personal wiring. but you've got to change the mindset.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I think you're honestly kind of a loser if that's
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: how you think, once you have the means where it's
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: not that big a deal. And this gets back to
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Rodgers yesterday talking about the Roonies of like, yeah, you know,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: the league should mandate we come out a week early. Well,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: why did the Roonies not come out a week early?
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Saved them a bunch of money. And what's one of
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: the biggest talking points this year when they traded away
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Joey Porter? It's like, well, they don't guarantee after the
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: first year. That might... have been cool with like Lin
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Swan and, you know, some of your guys in the mid-90s.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Times have fucking changed, guys. I mean, this is that
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: you didn't buy, you know, I get you bought the
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: franchise for $ 7, 500 and it's worth 8 billion now, but
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the revenue you have coming in, like you got to adapt,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: you got to change your mindset. And if you don't,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: you're going to get lapped. So, yeah, I mean, I
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: just think if you're a Colts fan or you think,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: you know, this is going to change, it's not this year.
• 40:01
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• 41:23
  Speaker 1: One big picture topic, I was thinking about this. There
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: was a visual yesterday of Mike LaFleur. Like there was
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: a play and he just looks like, God, we got
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: no shot. And maybe I'm being judgmental. This is nothing personal.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: And by everything I've always heard, seems like a high-level
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: guy and clearly knows football. I don't know any general
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: manager in the league that would hire him to be
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: the head coach. And he has absolutely no shot to
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: win with Arizona. Zero. He is a, I would bet,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: a large amount of money. He's a lock to get
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: fired in the next couple years. Aaron Glenn, who actually
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: has much more experience around the NFL as a player,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: and obviously he's been coaching now for a while, is
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: clearly completely over his head and is a disaster. And
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: both those guys are good examples of, they went to
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: places that are in shambles. A little different, right? The
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Jets owner, ton of cash. Arizona... no money relative to
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: these guys. But both places, if you think about the
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: last people to win there, like think about Arizona. Who's
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: the last guy to win there? Bruce Arians. When you
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: think about Bruce Arians, to me, the first thing that
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: comes to mind, grown up, veteran guy, a lot of
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: pelts on the wall, a lot of experience, dude that's
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: been in the mud for a while. And when you
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: think about the Jets, like who's the last guy to
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: have a lot of success there? Rex Ryan. who's literally
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: born into a coaching family. And even him, he could
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: only last so long until the wheels just unraveled. And
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: you look at John Harbaugh, like one underrated skill in
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: college and definitely in the NFL, is like, I kind
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: of want a grown-up to run my franchise. Now, it
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean you have to, you know, Harbaugh's in his
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: early 60s. I'm not necessarily talking about age. I'm talking
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: about a mentality. And when you look at John Harbaugh
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: taking over the Giants, they have been a disaster since
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin left. Another guy who would fall into the
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: category of, like, grown-up leader. Guy who's been around the
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: block a few times. Which, to me, kind of matters. Right?
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: It really does. And McVay, I think, spoiled it for
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of people. Outlier. Like, I look at Bob
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Chesney at UCLA. Isn't that surprising he's had a lot
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: of success? Another guy who has been in jobs where
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: he was probably in charge of driving the bus to
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the airplane for the team to travel to an opponent.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: And that airplane was not a chartered jet. It was
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: at an airport terminal with other normal people in it
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: like me and you. And that gives perspective on life
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: and gives the ability once you're given a big opportunity
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: to handle it. John Harbaugh was once upon a time
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: given an incredible opportunity to take over the Ravens. from
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: being a special teams assistant DB coach with the Eagles.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: But over the course of 18 years, you better believe
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: he's seen a lot of shit. And so when he
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: gets to the Giants, who are a much more, in theory,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: buttoned up operation than, say, the Cardinals or the Jets,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: it was still an organization that all they'd been doing
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: was losing. That, I don't want to say toxic, but
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: was not a place that you would say was successful.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: And he has got there and has immediately turned them around.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: And it's not like, well, everything's gone well. They lost
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: their starting quarterback on the first drive of the second game.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: His knee just snapped in half. Most places, like if
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: you give me Aaron Glenn or Mike LaFleur in that situation,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I would say at best they would be able to
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: win four games. At best. Honestly, you could convince me
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: they just wouldn't win another game the rest of the season.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: With Jameis and even adding J.J., it just would have
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: been a nightmare. Yet John comes there, has a bunch
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: of ideas of like, I'm going to need this, this, that,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: and this. And even John Mara eventually was like, I
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: got to capitulate to his demands because we are this
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: desperate for a big-time coach and a guy that just
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: simply knows what he's doing. And within the last couple weeks,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: trades for J.J. McCarthy were most of us were like,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I get why he did it, but it's like, I
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: don't know, man. This is not going to go well.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I have no, like, I didn't even think it was
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: that weird, the Cam Scadaboo situation. Because again, part of
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: being a great coach is understanding your players. Like, I
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: never understood the Scadaboo being a big story because Scadaboo
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, there are consequences for mistakes. You know why?
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Because any competitor, any human worth their salt, when they...
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: you know, mess up at whatever they're doing has no
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: problem going. Yeah, I got it. It's on me. And
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: as Mike Malone, the now coach of UNC, former Sacramento
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Kings and Nuggets coach, I think he said this when
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: he was with the Kings. He said, my bads get
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: your ass kicked. And it's true because there's a difference
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: between my bad, you know, and not taking accountability and
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: kind of wearing it. And the way players like it
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: used to happen a lot doesn't happen anymore because these
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: guys make a ton of cash and a lot of
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: coaches are in a weird way, are intimidated by players.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, you're benched. You're not playing this week.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: And it clearly worked. And the J.J. McCarthy thing, again,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: it's early. Who knows how it's going to play out?
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Has a chance to work because of John Harbaugh. And
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: I saw this headline today on Pro Football Talk, like,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: does John Harbaugh's success impact Mike Tomlin? How could it not? Honestly,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: it has a huge impact to me on Sean McDermott.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Look at these teams that are just completely lost. And
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: some of these teams are not going to sell or,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: you know, fire their coach, right? The Cardinals, the Jets
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: probably will. But there are going to be a lot
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: of teams that it's just like, this is just not
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: going to work. This is just not working. And in football,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: it's easy to blame the players, but the Giants have
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: sucked with a lot of these same players. I mean,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals sucked with a bunch of guys that Bruce
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Arians inherited. Tom Coughlin got there like he won a
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl with a lot of the core players who
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: had been on the team for a while. You know why?
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Because those guys know what they're doing. Experience, to me,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: always matters. At one point in time, you're going to
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: get a gig where you don't have the experience to
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: back it up. That literally happens to us all. But
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: then once you get to a point in time, if
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: you do have the requisite skills, which guys like Harbaugh
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: and Tomlin clearly have, then the experience builds and you're like,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty good at this. I know what I'm doing,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: even if I have some flaws. And Harbaugh, Tomlin, Sean McDermott,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: I would say one big flaw they all have is
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: none of them coach offense. None of them coach the quarterback.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: But what they can do is build up the guy,
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: build up the people around them, and lead the unit forwards.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: And I said, Sean McDermott, Indianapolis Colts. If I'm the Jets,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: and listen, I'm not saying Tomlin would want to be
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: involved in that shit show, but I would say money talks.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: And who knows? Maybe he's just destined to just make
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: seven figs, live a chill life, play a little Minecraft,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: and work on TV. I hope not, because I think
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: football's more interesting with him in it. I say the
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: same thing about Sean McVay. I think it's more interesting
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: with him being a coach. I want more personality with
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: the coaches. They're huge, huge main characters in this reality
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: television show. But you can't convince me that as the
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Jets end up going you know 3 and 14 as
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: the commanders probably unravel as well as those teams don't
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: you kind of turn their sights toward Mike Tomlin and
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: get really aggressive because again it's like well his upside
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: we're not talking about are they going to win 14
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: games a year for seven straight years can you just
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: have back-to-back years with double digit wins because that's worth
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: a lot to the franchise Think about the Giants, how
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: irrelevant they've been for a long period of time. Now
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: with John Harbaugh, they're not just a relevant franchise, they
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: feel like a credible franchise. You could argue that was
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: one of the most impressive wins they've had since Tom Coughlin.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: A quarterback who was literally left for dead, we all
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: were doing it, and has the best game of his
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: life against a team who's... They're clearly underperforming, but is
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: pretty desperate for a win on the road? I'm blown away.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: I think Mike Tomlin's value on the open market has
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: gone up like 20% just based on the first two
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: months of John Harbaugh's coaching career with the New York Giants. Okay,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: before we do the mailbag, quick dad diaries. This happened,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: I think, last Thursday, right? But I was like, you know,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: we had a lot going on in the podcast and
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football. I was like, we'll save it toward
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: next week. We've talked a lot about blowouts. As he's
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: gotten older, we've had less of those. Maybe it's just
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: we've kind of perfected how to put on a diaper.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: And a blowout is kind of when it comes out
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: of the diaper and goes everywhere. It can typically happen
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: in a car seat. in any seating arrangements that you
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: have around the house, like little bouncy things. That's usually
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: a prime position to get him to explode. Well, now
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: I would say over the course of the last month,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: he's become a crawler. And every couple days, the crawling speed,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: I would say, accelerates. So at first, he could barely crawl.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Then he's kind of moving. Now, if you don't look,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: he's in the other room, chasing the dog around. I mean,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: he is flying. I mean, it feels like he's pretty
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: close to walking. Pretty close might be strong, but within
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: a couple months for sure. He's already pulling himself up,
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: can kind of stand on his feet on his own,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: but the crawling speed is getting faster and faster by
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: the day. So on Thursday, this might have been around lunchtime,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: I had gone in the house, and he was kind
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: of crawling around by the kitchen, And all of a sudden,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: like Maria picks him up and she's wearing like a
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: crop top. So basically her chest exposed or like, you know,
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: above the neck, kind of around the neck area. And
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not really paying attention. And all of a sudden
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: I hear a, I mean, a loud, loud scream. And
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: she screamed so loud that immediately kind of scared him.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: So he starts crying. So it's just mayhem. And I
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: turn the corner and I look. And you know those
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: patches now that like Ohio State and Notre Dame have?
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Like Chase or SoFi? She basically had a perfect square
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: patch on her chest of poop. You know, it's like
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: a mixture of diarrhea. It's kind of hard, kind of soft.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: But it was perfectly square. And somehow she had like
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: picked them up and kind of held them against her.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: And the square patch was just perfect. And she's freaking.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: And the other thing is, the smell of these things,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: I would say, dramatically changes. It gets worse and worse.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, there are some days where I just do
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: like Steve Irwin chasing a crocodile. You hold a breath
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: and hopefully can make it a couple minutes while you
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: do the whole changing station. So I immediately grab a
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: wet towel, kind of clean her off, take them. Then
• 53:13
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• 56:04
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• 56:07
  Speaker 1: the show. This is from Trevor. You mentioned about having
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: a coach or commentator that shows his opinion. I don't
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: know if he would coach, but a perfect commentator would
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: be Steve Smith Sr., The dude calls balls and strikes
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: without caring about someone's feelings. Steve would be a perfect commentator,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: knows the game, and would be entertaining. I agree. Here's
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: the problem. While I enjoy those type people, and really, Aikman's,
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: I would say, the last of a dying breed of
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: someone that you can just tell by his tone will
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: be really, really aggressive. Even Tom is, I would say,
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: pretty corporate with it, which I totally understand. He's an owner.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: He's very tied to the NFL. Let's face it, him
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: and Roger now are probably closer than they've ever been.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: The NFL doesn't want that. And most importantly, the teams
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: don't want that. So you and I, I think we
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: would really enjoy guys like that who would just start
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: basically talking a bunch of shit when it's needed. I
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: just want a guy to reiterate what you and I
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: are saying on the couch, what you and I are
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: texting our friends. What you and I during a game
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: are texting or group text with other people that are
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: a fan of that team or that are watching the
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: games or gambling on the games. Let's face it, we
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: all probably lean a little negative, which to me in
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: a weird way is like healthy and almost cathartic of
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: watching these games, of getting it off your chest. And
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: sometimes you look back, you're like, God, I feel kind
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: of miserable. But the league does not want that. They want,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: I would say, happy or go lucky team partners. It's
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: honestly why I learned when I was in radio, I'm
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: not a very good corporate partner if we're just talking
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: about sports for a living. That's not going to be
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: my lane. I'm not going to thrive because I can't
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: pretend it's raining or it's sunny when it's raining on
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: just basic, obvious stuff. I think the league is telling
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: these guys they're definitely not as aggressive on the officiating
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: as you and I would be if we were sitting
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: there with a microphone. You know, Tom kind of was like,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: I don't agree. It's like, you should blast these people.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: But it's hard to blast people. They all know each other.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: They want to keep these gigs. I mean, Mark Sanchez,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: who's settling with this old guy, probably for millions. Do
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: you know what a moron Mark Sanchez is that he
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: couldn't just put down the booze and the drugs when
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: he was on the road? He was like the third
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: or fourth chair at Fox, probably making a million dollars
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: a year, working one day a week, traveling to NFL
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: cities for working three hours on Sunday. And he blew it.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: It's a pretty cush gig. Tomlin said it best a
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: couple weeks ago. It's full-time pay for part-time work. And
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: these guys, and listen, some of them, you know if
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: you're a former player like you're used to making big
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: cash so jj watt i don't know what his peak
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: earnings were 15 20 million dollars a year right in
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: his peak like the late 2010s he ain't getting that
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: now but he's probably this new extension he got to
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: stay with dance is probably two years 10 million dollars
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: maybe two years 15 million dollars Pretty good gig, you know?
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Pretty good gig. And if it goes well, we see
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: some of the numbers, that number will grow exponentially overnight.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: So I just think the league, they want corporate partners, man.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: That's why the journalists get so offended. Like, I'm not
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: a journalist, but I do miss the days when everyone
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: would just, or, you know, like, truthfully too. Not faking
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: it on first take to create an argument like Skip
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: Bayless and Stephen A to like, make good entertaining debate TV.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: I'm saying like, say something that you truly believe. And
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: it's just, that's not going to happen as much on television.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: And it's only going to get worse, I would say.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: That's why I appreciate Fitzpatrick saying that the other day
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: about Bo Nix. He literally said what we all thought.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: And whenever I saw anyone going back at him, I'm like, Listen,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick ain't Tom Brady or Peyton Manning, but if
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: you play in the league for 17 years, an undrafted
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: free agent from Harvard, you've got a pretty good idea
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: what it looks like. And he's also not a guy
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: that just blasts people. He was literally offended watching that game,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: which I don't blame him. This is coming from a
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: non-Vikings fan. But why when a team has an amazing
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: offense but a crap defense, they get put on a pedestal?
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: But a team with an amazing defense like Minnesota and
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: a bad offense just gets completely overlooked and almost disrespected.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: Offense is sexier. We just talk about the offensive play
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: callers way more. Fantasy football plays a huge role. If
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: you have one of the top offenses, your players are
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: thriving in fantasy, which a large portion of the viewing
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: public plays and is active with. I think that's a
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: huge correlation. But it's also more fun to watch. It's
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: more fun to watch, not necessarily for myself, but I
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: think statistically shows, or the NFL knows that the league
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: is better off when their offenses are thriving than the defense.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: I admire what Brian Flores is doing. It's not like
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: he's doing it with Daniil Hunter, John Randall, Eric Kendricks,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Anthony Barr, Harrison Smith in his prime. Those guys are overachieving.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: But it's just truly not as sexy. And the NFL,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: I think, directly goes against that side of the ball.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: They promote offense. They promote the quarterbacks. They promote the
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: play callers. They promote the wide receivers and the running backs.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: And the defense is almost an afterthought, which is not
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: the way the league used to be. When I was
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: a kid, I would say defense was on an equal
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: pedestal and honestly more with the hits and the videos
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: that used to go, the VHS tapes of the biggest
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: hits of the year. I mean, I own like seven
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: different seasons of those. Those are done. Those will never
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: get created anymore. I agree to what Scadaboo said. He's like,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. The league loves promoting me when
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: I have some sweet physical run, but they're also going
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: to find me. It's like they kind of talk both
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: sides of their mouth. Because at the end of the day,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: we all yearn for a little violence when we're watching football.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: And Scadaboo and a lot of defenders provide that. But
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: the league, that's not their business model. And in fairness
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: to them, they go, well, look at the revenue in
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: 2026 and look at the revenue in 1998. What world
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: would you rather be living in if you're associated with
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: the league? Player, coach, owner, GM. Obviously now is the
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: best financial time in the history of the league by
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: a mile and it's only trending to get better. Hopefully
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: for the course of my adult life so I can
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: keep this business rolling. Matt LaFleur should not be coaching
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: for his job. He definitely makes some bad decisions in
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: play calling in fourth downs, but he has Jordan Love
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: playing at a high level. Again, he's dealing with a
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: bunch of injuries case in point this week against the Lions.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: The starting center gets hurt the first series of the game.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: The backup center gets hurt the second series. Weren't they
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: playing a guy kind of had that game? I was
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: in and out of the audio. Wasn't the guy that
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: came in, he had never played center. I'm pretty sure
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: Burkhart said that. Yeah, it looked like he did a
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: pretty valiant effort there. His kicker keeps missing easy kicks,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: and the penalties his teams are getting are so ridiculous
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: that even the callers of the game are saying how
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: bad it is. Do you think there is something Matt
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: LaFleur can do better or different to make a difference?
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: I do think both of those guys, and I know
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell tried to justify the fourth down against his
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: own territory about being, you know, even if they gave
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: it up, he felt pretty comfortable about getting the ball back.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: I think both of them could be a little reckless
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: with the fourth down play calling. I think they both
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: were in that game. Like you said, it's not his
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: fault the kicker's missing chip shot field goals. A kicker
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: missing field goals, I would say, is never on a
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: coaching staff. A kicker missing chip shot field goals is 100%
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: on the player. So it's basically like, should we work
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: out other kickers? And to me, you just have to
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: bring in a bunch of guys this week and work
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: them out in front of the kicker. I would do
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: it on Wednesday at practice. I would say while practice
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: is going on, Gutekind's in the personnel department, and this
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: is where LeFleur can get involved. We need to get
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: aggressive to send a fucking message. The workout is going
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: to go on one of the fields out in our operation.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: So it is in plain view of the kicker and
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: the long snapper and the punter. So they all can
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: see it. So I either scare and send them, you know,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: like really dial back in, or we, maybe we find
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: another guy and replace them, but you got to run
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: the football. And what, what, what Jacobs have. And I
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: know it's the first game back. They have to find
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: a way to have a hundred yard rushing games. I
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: don't think it's sustainable playing the way they're playing as
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: the weather turns. Like I, I, I feel like they
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: just constantly throw bombs. And it's not his fault, you know,
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: Golden's not making these tough catches. But if I bring
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: up the Packers, who are 4-3 and in good position,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: they play the Panthers this week at home. I mean,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: the Panthers, you would think are going to give a
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: pretty good effort after just losing. It's crazy. The final score,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: you know, they only scored, what was the score at halftime?
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: Was it 33-6 in the final score? They scored 10
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: more points. That game felt like it was 70-0. That
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: was one of the biggest massacres so far of the season.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: Even Canales was like, yeah, I've never been part of
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: 33-6 at half. Sure hope so. So the Panthers, then
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: the Patriots, first week in November. So I would say
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: the weather is probably still pretty solid. They play Minnesota
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: at home, 11-15. Weather could change a little bit. I mean,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: that could be a weird weather game. They get two
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: dome games, which they're built for, at the Rams, at
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: the Saints. Then they get the Bears-Dolphins at home in December.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, the weather's probably going to be not great
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: at the Bears. I mean, they're getting three weather games.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: Green Bay, Green Bay, at Chicago. I mean, then the
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: final two games are home-home, Texans-Lions. They basically have a
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: stretch from after the Saints game, the first week in December,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: every single game is outdoors in probably awful weather. So
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: you're not just going to be able to throw bombs
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: to Watson and golden. You're, you're going to have to
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: run the football. And to me on the floor, it's like, okay,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: my offensive line struggling. I got to find a way
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: to manipulate this a little bit. I don't have, I mean,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: sometimes if your offensive line just stinks, there might not
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: be an answer on that one. I listen, I, They're clearly,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: he's not going to get fired. I think he's definitely
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: mellowed that out a lot. If it was going to
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: continue like the Atlanta game, he was going to be
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: in trouble. But then he immediately flipped it, and even
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: in the loss, like, he probably got a little lucky.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Lions did a lot of stupid stuff. Now,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: you could also, he'd say, well, if my DBs can
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: pick off Goff, they're hitting him in the hands. Like, yeah,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: they fumbled, but we also dropped interceptions. This is from Isaac.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: Where would you rank Kevin O'Connell? I see him getting
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of hate for the Vikings' poor offense, but
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: he's a head coach, not the OC. He's a former OC,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: but his job now is to win football games. He's
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: morphed into the, quote, leader of men, coach archetype like
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell or Harbaugh. Watching the Vikings this year, I've
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: been impressed by his willingness to rely on the defense
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: and play much more cautious. He could crank up the
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: aggressiveness on offense and score in the 20s every game,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: but with Kyler at quarterback, that could lead to turnovers.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: Kyler isn't very good. And that is not Kevin O'Connell's fault.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray has been average to below for a while now.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: And even yesterday, it was pretty eye-opening how poor he
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: played coming off a bye. He deserves... And I say
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: this in GMs all the time. It's like your draft.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Their job is to build the team and hire the coach.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: So ultimately, they are judged on wins and losses. So
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: if you have some draft misses, but you're going 11,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: 12 wins every year, who cares? Who cares? If you
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: sustain winning as a team builder, you get credit for that. Right?
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: So Kevin O'Connell is their play caller, but he also
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: was the guy that hired Brian Flores, which looks like
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: one of the great hires in recent memory. Because last
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: time I checked, a lot of people weren't offering him
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator job. Now, I do think he's going
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: to be under the microscope for if Kyler continues to
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: play like this, which, again, I'm not putting on him.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's a veteran player. He's not going to improve
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: at this point in time in his career and has
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: major flaws that there's nothing Kevin O'Connell can do. But
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: if J.J. McCarthy has a solid year and is a
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: guy leading the Giants to the playoffs, there is fair
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: questions of, like, where was the disconnect here? But I'm
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: with you. Ultimately, Kevin O'Connell is judged on his Wikipedia
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: page Not by how many yards they average per play.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: Not where their scoring offense ranks. If they win 12
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: games this year, he will get credit for that. Even
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: if a lot of people are going to give it
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: to Flores, who deserves a lot of it. But he
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: fucking hired him. So, yeah, I mean, I do think
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: big picture they have a major question mark at quarterback.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: You know, Kyler, no chance he's back next year based
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: on the way he looks now. You know, Carson Wentz
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: is what he is. He's like a backup. What do
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: you do? And if you win as many games, I mean, what?
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: They're already 6-0, so let's take a look at the
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: Vikings schedule really quick. At the Lions, okay, it gets tough.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: You know, they did beat the Packers week one, which
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: they deserve a lot of credit for. Even though they
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: were losing that game and it flipped, right? Then they
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: beat the Bears in the weather game. But hey, wins
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: a win. So they're already 2-0 in the division. The Buccaneers,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: who they kind of worked. The Dolphins, who I bet
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: on that game, that was pretty ugly. Saints are terrible,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: and the Colts stink. Now they got a stretch of
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: at Detroit, which the Lions at home, they're going to
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: score some points. This isn't going to be the culture
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: of the Saints scoring 13 and 10 points. Now, they're
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: not going to score 40 on Flores, especially because Goff
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: can't move, but you blitz them, they're going to have
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of blitz beaters. They have elite skill. Then
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: you're playing Josh Allen. Then you're playing Jordan Love again
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: in Green Bay, and they're going to be pretty motivated
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: after probably one of the Flores' most embarrassing games of
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: all time. Then they play Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: So they got a stretch here where they're playing $ 50
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: million quarterbacks four straight weeks. And I mean, right now,
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: you know, obviously Josh Allen, after Purdy's performance, probably the
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: MVP leader, but you could make the argument that Goff,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: Jordan Love, and Purdy are right there, like, you know,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: in the mix to represent the NFC old school wise
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Pro Bowls, right? Obviously, Caleb's healthy again. He'll be back
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: in the mix. But, I mean, you're talking three of
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks in the conference. So, I think this
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: next four-game stretch, I mean, if they go 2-2 in
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: this stretch and you're 8-2, they got a lot of,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: you know, they got some commanders, Jets left. They got
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: Panthers at home, Vikings at home. I guess... I mean,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: you're looking at an 11 or 12 win team if
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: they go 2-2. Now, let me take a look. I
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: would imagine they're not favored. I haven't even looked at
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: the lines this week. They're probably not favored this week.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: They will not be favored against Buffalo. I've got to
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: update my ad. They will not be favored in Mexico
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: City against the 49ers. I would imagine they're not favored
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: in the Lambeau. So they're going to be an underdog
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: in all four of these games. How attractive is coaching
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: the Jets next year? They got three first-round picks. Both
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: the Colts and the Cowboys look bad, and they have
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: their own first. I think it's twofold. One, they clearly
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: have a lot of talent. I mean, Omar Cooper Jr.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: had back-to-back 100-yard games. I think they can trade Garrett
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: Wilson right now. Would the Chiefs take him for like,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're the Jets, would you do like
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: a third this year and a one in 28, something
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: like that? Because you don't need four first-round picks. So
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: you just keep the cover bare. You take a little
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: less right now. It's like, hey, we'll give you a
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: first-round pick, but it'll be in a year. I think
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: you would entertain something like that. Who knows? Maybe you
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: get like a second and a first. The Chiefs are
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: kind of desperate. I would think about that. So from
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: a roster standpoint, from a team building standpoint, from an
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: asset standpoint, extremely. Their owner is a kook. A guy
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: with a lot of money who's nuts. Who's proven to
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: just be, I mean, not an easy place to work.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: So I think he had a lot of good going
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: for it, but I think there's a lot of bad.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: And if I'm a Tomlin type, do I got to
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: work with Darren Mugee? Who, by all accounts, seems like
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: he's done a pretty solid job. But do I know him?
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: How do I feel about him? Is he forced on me?
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: Who knows? Maybe they can just get their equivalent of
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: some young hotshot. Their Clint Kubiak or Liam Cohen or
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: a guy like that. I don't know who that guy
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: is this year. I saw someone like Declan Doyle. Let's
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: see when Lamar comes back how that looks. I know
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: Brett Veach has done an excellent job over the years.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: I know it has been an overreaction to the game
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: last night. However, there was no pressure against Sam Darnall
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: where the Chiefs defense gave up several longer third downs.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs don't have tackles who are available to play
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: with Josh Shimon's situation and unreliable wide receivers. Additionally, Butker
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: has missed the most field goals in the NFL since
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: the 25 season. Every Chiefs fan has demanded the rest
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: or major push for some sort of roster move. The chiefs, however,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: have no cap room paying Chris Jones, the most money
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: for any defender in the NFL. And he's nowhere to
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: be seen. People can say it's because the quarterback is
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: being paid great money, but Patrick Mahomes has the 10th
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: biggest cap hit in the NFL. Uh, how much of
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: the front office be blamed? I mean, they're five and one.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: They had the best free agent acquisition of the off season. The,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: I think you've got to give them somewhat of a pass.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: That was a perfect storm. They played Sunday night, right?
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: The Chiefs did. And then they're playing a team coming
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: off a Thursday game at home who, right there with
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, have one of the best home field advantages
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: in all of football college included. So if they look
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: like that moving forward, like the Josh Simmons situation, he's
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: not healthy. Clearly they weren't happy with him. Andy and
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: Mahomes kicked him out of the meeting room. But how
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: many teams in the league would sign up to be
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: for their record? They literally have the best record in
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: the AFC. I guess they're tied with Buffalo. Where's... I
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: don't know why I'm screwing this up. So conference. I mean,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: obviously we've got a long way to go. Only them
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: and the Bills are 5-1. Everyone has two losses. I...
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: They're okay. They'll make a move. This was supposed to
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: be a little bit of a transition year. Like, do
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are winning the Super Bowl? I
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: do not. Is anyone going to want to play them
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: in big games? Seattle's a tough matchup. It just is
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: for them. Most people ain't Seattle, though. Who do the
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: Chiefs play this week? The Broncos at Denver, which is
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: a big game because they absolutely embarrassed Denver. So you
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: would imagine Denver coming off a cupcake game against Arizona.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: That's going to be a big one. But then the Chiefs,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: so even if they lose this game, let's say they lose,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: you know, 24 to 20. Everyone's like, oh, five and two.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: Then they get the Jets at the Falcons and the Cardinals.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: They're going to be okay. They need to make a move.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: You don't want to like, I'd be hesitant to give
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: up some big time picks, but they'll canvas. They got
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: a bunch of young defensive players. Listen, they're loyal to
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: Chris Jones, but everyone kind of falls off a cliff sometime.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: Do you think the increase in flags is actually a
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: result of the commentators? Every game I watch, you hear
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: guys in the booth saying, there's a flag. Was that
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: a PI or a holding or something? Then they show
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: the play looking for a call. Yeah, I just think
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: everyone's so accustomed now to these officials just willingness to
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: throw these flags. I think the people in the booth
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: calling these games have zero impact on the officials, zero.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: But I think their condition now, they're watching these games
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: and every time something weird happens... Now, anytime the play-by-play
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: guy goes, he's not going to say there's a flag
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: until he sees the yellow on the ground. But I
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: just think your condition when you watch the NFL now
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: to just... I would say... assume that there's going to
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: be a flag. Don't you think defensive coaches should alert
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: the secondaries not to touch a player who is down
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: within field goal range when there is virtually no time remaining?
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: I cannot fathom why the Bears defense allowed A.J. Brown
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: to be down by contact instead of just waiting three
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: seconds for the clock to expire and then touching him.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: They ended up allowing a crazy rushing touchdown at the
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: end of the half. Something similar happened to Dallas and
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: Rio de Janeiro. If you catch the ball, again, I'd
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: have to talk to Mike Pereira. If I catch the
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: ball in the middle of the field and I hit
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: the ground and give myself up, I'm down. So if
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: I'm down and I stay down and I give myself up,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: it's over. They don't technically need to touch them. I'm
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: pretty sure. Especially in a situation like you said. Let's
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: say a team has a timeout. and there's 10 seconds left,
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: I throw over the middle of the field, I hit
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: the wide receiver, and now there's, let's say, five seconds left,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: and everyone basically makes sure he can't run to the
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: end zone, but he's going to hit the ground, doesn't
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: touch him, they will call the play dead if you
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: give yourself up. I'm almost certain on that. I'm not
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: Belichickian when it comes to rules, but I'm very certain
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: that you can give yourself up in the NFL. Obviously,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: in college, you're down when you go down. But I
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: think in the NFL, you obviously can on special teams,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: give yourself up. But you can over the middle of
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: the field as well. But I hear you. I mean,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: it's a good observation. Do you think NFL fans and
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: players look at the season and their playoff chances way differently? Like,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: for example, the Steelers are 5-2, but they're not looked
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: at as a real threat in the playoffs, and most
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: people rightfully just write them off. But I guarantee if
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: you went in that locker room, every player is there,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: is convinced they got a shot to win the Super Bowl.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: Isn't that kind of human nature, though? Like, if you
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: would have asked me my career trajectory in my mid-20s,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: when I was making no money, you know, living off nothing,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 1: taking food home from the facility, whether it be working
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: at Fresno State or the Eagles or even early on
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: in my radio career where I was living paycheck to paycheck,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: barely scraping by. If I would have told you where
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: I believed I was going, people would have thought I
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: was nuts. And I think that goes for a lot
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: of people. The self-belief you have in your future, whether
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: that be your immediate future or big picture future, probably
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: is going to sound crazy to a lot of people.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: Isn't the old adage like, Don't make public your dreams
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: because people will just rip them apart. And I think
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: if you went in the Steelers' locker room, the Steelers
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: could play any team in the NFL this week. Let's
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: say the best teams in the NFL. The Bills, you know,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: if Lamar Jackson was playing and the Ravens were rolling,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: the Bengals, you pick the teams, right? Chiefs. On the road,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: obviously they would think they could win the game All
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: these playoff games they've lost the last couple years, I'm
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: sure they believed they could, even last year, when they
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: got curb stomped by the Texans. I think they went
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: into that game with the belief they could win the game. So,
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: do the Jets, do the bad teams believe that? No.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: But I completely agree with what you're saying, that all
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: these teams, if we just went through it right now,
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: the Steelers are a pretty good example, but we could
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: even go lower than that. The Browns at 5-2. I
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: think the Browns play the Steelers this week, right? Yeah,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh. I would say most people, okay, this is
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: probably a bad example because the Steelers, we don't think
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: are that great. But, I'm trying to, AFC is kind
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: of tough because like the Ravens, the Patriots, the Bengals,
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: the Steelers, Denver, Jags, all these teams think they're probably
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: pretty good. Let's go to the NFC is probably a
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: better way. The Falcons, who are three and four. The
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: Rams are three and four. They 100% believe they're winning
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: the games they go into. You know, 1,000%. Definitely the Rams. Like,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: they have not gone into any of these games, even
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. Like, they went into that game thinking they
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: were going to roll. Where a lot of people were like,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: all right, kind of like the Raiders, plus four and
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: a half. So I think it's a mindset, but I
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: think a lot of people have that. When either times
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: are bad, you're like, you really believe this is going
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: to go that way? Or when times are good and
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: everyone's like, eh, it's actually not as good as you think.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: And the internal belief that you have to have, I
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: think it's a wiring. One, I mean, to play pro sports,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: you kind of got to be a little nuts. You
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: got to be off your rocker a little bit. And
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: I think the Steelers probably more than most, like Cam Hayward,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: TJ Watt. I mean, I have nothing but respect for Jalen.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey's been one of my favorite players in the
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: league for a long time. Like, he's one of the
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: hardest hitting DBs Him and Sherman of the last, that
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: are like, I know Ramsey's kind of a hybrid player now,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: but when he played corner, it's like, you think Jalen
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: Ramsey goes into games and you're like, yeah, they're going
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: to beat us. No chance. DK might be like, yeah, whatever.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: I'll head home. But yeah, I think most of these teams,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: especially veteran teams, you know, The Steelers are probably, you're right.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a better example than the Browns because
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: there are some guys in the Browns that are probably
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: taking it more week to week. But like Denver, New England, Baltimore, Buffalo,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Kansas City, like they don't go into any games thinking
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: they're going to lose. And it usually starts with a
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: message from the head coach because you have to have
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: this internal belief even if you think like it's crazy.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: How do upsets happen that someone makes a team believe?
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: This gets back to the Saban documentary when he was
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: at Michigan State and they were playing the number one
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: team in the country. He's like, just One play at
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: a time. It sounds cliche and it's stupid, but I
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: think it works for life. One day at a time.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: If you find yourself in a hole, drop the shovel.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: You know, you can't make it all up. You can't
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: make up two years in two days. You just got
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: to start working slowly. It's no different when you're having success.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: That was Belichick's big thing. Saban's big thing. You can
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: never get ahead of yourself. That's when you kind of
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: come back to earth. But I think there's a deep
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: belief that Especially teams with, like, I mean, their head
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: coach is Mike McCarthy. Teams with veteran head coaches, I do,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: you know, Sean Payton, Andy Reid, like, Joe Brady, I
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: bet there's sometimes, and he's, I don't want to say arrogant,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: but he's a pretty self-assured younger guy. If things go
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: well in a couple years, he's never going to go
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: into a game thinking they're going to lose. And he
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: might be that way now. But truly deep in his soul,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: other times, maybe he questions himself. But if you go
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: to the NFC, like, You think Brian Flores is thinking
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: anyone's scoring on them? You think Kyle Shanahan ever thinks
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: he's losing the game? Or John Harbaugh? Or Ben Johnson?
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: These guys have deep belief, and that kind of gets
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: inserted into the team through the messaging. We'll end on that. Adios.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: Have a great day.