Latest / The Ian Furness Show / Furness Show 12-1: Hugh Millen, Mike Sando, Lane Kiffin Fallout
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- 0:01Speaker 1: You're home for the twelfth Man in the NFL.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Proudley presents Hardcore Football with Hugh Millon, brought to you
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- 0:12Speaker 2: you with Ian Forness on Sports Radio ninety three point
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- 0:21Speaker 3: Hardcore Football with Hugh Millon right now. I heard a rumor.
- 0:25Speaker 3: I saw the video. Hugh was on a plane on
- 0:27Speaker 3: a tarmac. His family had two other radio stations and
- 0:31Speaker 3: shows across the country. But you know what, Unlike some people,
- 0:35Speaker 3: this guy is with us. He said, no, I'm staying
- 0:37Speaker 3: at KJR. I'm staying to finish the job. I'm a
- 0:40Speaker 3: nine and three Seahawks team. Hardcore football with Ian, Monday
- 0:43Speaker 3: Morning Quarterback with Chuck and Bucky Moore at four with Softy.
- 0:46Speaker 3: He's staying. He got off that private jet plane. He's
- 0:49Speaker 3: here with us right now. How are you.
- 0:51Speaker 1: I'm doing good?
- 0:52Speaker 4: Yeah, all this turnover, it's it's man.
- 0:56Speaker 1: We could do a whole hour on that.
- 0:58Speaker 4: But you know, look, there's a number of things that
- 1:03Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin got wrong, but I do think it's worth
- 1:06Speaker 4: noting that most all of us just okay, raise your
- 1:11Speaker 4: hand right now. If whatever industry you're in. Think of
- 1:15Speaker 4: think of the the company that's your number one competitor,
- 1:19Speaker 4: or maybe you have five competitors. If if one of
- 1:23Speaker 4: those companies that's one of your competitors comes to you
- 1:27Speaker 4: and gives you more money and a substantial opportunity, opportunity
- 1:33Speaker 4: to do much better and make a lot more money
- 1:36Speaker 4: in the future, how many of you are not doing that? Yeah,
- 1:41Speaker 4: after you've been with your company six years, right, and
- 1:43Speaker 4: you've earned the right to to upgrade to a better company.
- 1:47Speaker 1: I think that.
- 1:48Speaker 3: I think that part of it, Hugh, is is the
- 1:50Speaker 3: no brainer part of it. I think I don't think
- 1:52Speaker 3: a lot of people I think you think that. Yeah,
- 1:54Speaker 3: I think that, but I think a lot of people
- 1:56Speaker 3: are really really jumping. Uh you know, I think I
- 2:00Speaker 3: guess what I'm saying.
- 2:01Speaker 4: Is we should really singularly focus on what it is
- 2:05Speaker 4: that we find objectionable about what has transpired there.
- 2:10Speaker 1: That's just my take.
- 2:10Speaker 3: I think I think the I think there's a lot
- 2:12Speaker 3: of problems, but as you lay it out, I think
- 2:15Speaker 3: that that's one of those things that you know, for
- 2:17Speaker 3: the most part, I mean, listen, if you have all
- 2:20Speaker 3: those opportunities, and whether it's for an extra ten thousand
- 2:22Speaker 3: dollars a year or an extra four million dollars a year.
- 2:26Speaker 3: You know, it's it's you have to look at that
- 2:28Speaker 3: better job situation, better better company, so to speak, and
- 2:31Speaker 3: what have you. The weird to me, the inherent problem
- 2:35Speaker 3: is just is just how the sport's set up right now,
- 2:37Speaker 3: like in terms of the calendar and how it's working
- 2:40Speaker 3: and how it you know, the fact that you know
- 2:43Speaker 3: this takes place, you know, like not a lot of
- 2:46Speaker 3: other professions like you brought up, Like if it was me,
- 2:49Speaker 3: and I'll use that for now, Like if if someone said, hey,
- 2:52Speaker 3: Ian called the play by play for the cracking game
- 2:54Speaker 3: three weeks ago, and he's did, He's did the second
- 2:56Speaker 3: game after that. I hadn't heard him do play by
- 2:58Speaker 3: play before filling in for John four. And we're a
- 3:01Speaker 3: team or the team in wherever, uh North Dakota's and
- 3:04Speaker 3: NHL team. We'll just use that for an example. And
- 3:06Speaker 3: they said, hey, do you want to come work for us?
- 3:09Speaker 3: Like right now today in the middle of hockey Seaton.
- 3:11Speaker 3: I could not do that. I have a contract. I
- 3:14Speaker 3: could not do that. These contracts that college football coaches
- 3:17Speaker 3: have are different than a lot of walks.
- 3:19Speaker 1: I could not do that. You contractually could not do it.
- 3:22Speaker 3: Contractually, I could not do that. No, I can't. Okay,
- 3:24Speaker 3: I could not. Good that might have.
- 3:25Speaker 4: Been that might have been interpreted as morally, I could
- 3:28Speaker 4: not allow myself to do it.
- 3:30Speaker 3: I wouldn't leave the crack either. But yeah, that's not
- 3:32Speaker 3: what you're saying, right, saying contractually, contractually, I could not
- 3:36Speaker 3: do that. Like, we have a salesperson that's on our
- 3:38Speaker 3: staff that just closed a big deal a second ago.
- 3:41Speaker 3: Everyone's out there cheering and getting shout out that's awesome.
- 3:44Speaker 3: If if our competitor across street called him right now today,
- 3:48Speaker 3: he'd have to wait for six months before he could
- 3:49Speaker 3: work for the minimum. So to me, inherently the problem
- 3:52Speaker 3: is and college football doesn't want to change it because
- 3:54Speaker 3: they don't the coaches and those the power brokers in
- 3:57Speaker 3: charge don't want to change it. But there's not a
- 3:59Speaker 3: lot of walks of life, especially once you that make
- 4:01Speaker 3: they're talking about, like the millions of dollars these guys
- 4:03Speaker 3: are making where you can just cross the street and
- 4:06Speaker 3: go to a competitor the next day, Like, there's not
- 4:08Speaker 3: a lot that you can do that with. Most of
- 4:10Speaker 3: us have non competes in those types of roles and
- 4:12Speaker 3: we're not making millions, that's for damn sure. But like
- 4:15Speaker 3: I'm like I'm saying, I'm just I'll take the radio
- 4:16Speaker 3: out of it and just use the hockey. If that happened,
- 4:19Speaker 3: I would have to wait till the end of the year,
- 4:20Speaker 3: and even then I'd have to get out of a contract.
- 4:22Speaker 3: It's more than one year. And you know, probably I could.
- 4:25Speaker 3: You know, probably they'd say, yeah, you know, what better opportunity,
- 4:28Speaker 3: go for it. But there's a chance they would say, no,
- 4:30Speaker 3: you signed a contract and you need to fulfill it.
- 4:33Speaker 3: So I do I blame a guy for taking a
- 4:35Speaker 3: better job, as you laid it out. No, I blame
- 4:37Speaker 3: the system. I blame the calendar, I blame a lot
- 4:40Speaker 3: of things. That's exactly my take. Yeah, I think that's
- 4:43Speaker 3: I think that's the issue. So you know, I listen,
- 4:47Speaker 3: I'm curious about this. I know we'll get to sex
- 4:49Speaker 3: and second they won twenty six to nothing. We'll get
- 4:50Speaker 3: to that in a second. I think this because your
- 4:52Speaker 3: your insights, I think is important. For this reason. You
- 4:55Speaker 3: have two sons to play division on college football, and
- 4:58Speaker 3: I believe had gosh, I want to say between the
- 5:01Speaker 3: two of them, probably almost a half dozen coaching changes
- 5:04Speaker 3: right during their course of their tenure. It feels like
- 5:06Speaker 3: they had a lot from what I understand lot. Yeah,
- 5:08Speaker 3: it's it's it's vastly different. Yeah, if we're hitting it
- 5:11Speaker 3: through different lenses. Yeah, and that's I guess My question
- 5:14Speaker 3: is because you know, if if one of your sons
- 5:16Speaker 3: commits to I think somebody committed to Arizona, somebody committed Northwestern,
- 5:19Speaker 3: somebody committed to you know, back and forth, and then
- 5:21Speaker 3: the coaching change happens, and you're like whoa or you're
- 5:24Speaker 3: there and a coaching change happens. As a dad, you know,
- 5:27Speaker 3: what were your thoughts when those things took place? Because
- 5:29Speaker 3: I'd be bummed out, I you know, I know you
- 5:31Speaker 3: don't you know, it's hard.
- 5:33Speaker 1: You know.
- 5:33Speaker 4: I don't think I was ever bitter about it. I
- 5:36Speaker 4: just thought, Okay, that's the that's the climate. That yeah,
- 5:40Speaker 4: that's how it takes place. And I think moreover, when
- 5:42Speaker 4: I watch all these I think there are some similarities
- 5:46Speaker 4: with when I was a player rep in the NFL
- 5:51Speaker 4: for for ten years, right and for representing different teams
- 5:55Speaker 4: and prior to the Internet, I had to I had
- 5:59Speaker 4: to kind of apprize myself of the relevant laws. And
- 6:03Speaker 4: you know, I went the old fashioned way. I went
- 6:04Speaker 4: to the library and read about anti trust law and
- 6:07Speaker 4: labor law and whatever you try and get a wrap on. Okay,
- 6:11Speaker 4: what are the relevant laws that apply to you know,
- 6:14Speaker 4: we were trying to go on strike. We did go
- 6:18Speaker 4: on strike in nineteen eighty seven to an acquire free
- 6:21Speaker 4: agency had to decertify as a union so that the
- 6:25Speaker 4: anti trust laws would supersede the labor laws as opposed
- 6:28Speaker 4: to the other way around. And like I mean, it's
- 6:31Speaker 4: a whole process. We don't get into details, but I
- 6:35Speaker 4: guess what it informed me is that a lot of
- 6:39Speaker 4: what you see is is that we have an economics system.
- 6:44Speaker 4: And you know, the Supreme Court looked at Austin versus
- 6:47Speaker 4: the NCAAA in twenty twenty one, and you know, the
- 6:51Speaker 4: lower courts ruled against the NCAA, and then and then
- 6:56Speaker 4: the appellate court against the NCAA, and then finally the
- 6:58Speaker 4: NCAA was stupid enough to take it to the Supreme
- 7:01Speaker 4: Court where they lost nine to nothing. And in each
- 7:04Speaker 4: and every turn, the courts look at college football just
- 7:08Speaker 4: like another business, and and the players are the labor
- 7:13Speaker 4: and UH, so you cannot horizontally conspire to suppress wages.
- 7:21Speaker 4: Uh And and the analogy that they used the court
- 7:25Speaker 4: that they would be like a restaurant, a bunch of
- 7:29Speaker 4: restaurant owners in a community. They conspire to suppress the
- 7:32Speaker 4: wages of the chefs. And their defense, uh while they're
- 7:37Speaker 4: violating anti trust court is that the patrons at the restaurant,
- 7:41Speaker 4: they go to those restaurants and they only go knowing
- 7:46Speaker 4: that the chefs are are having their wages suppressed. And
- 7:49Speaker 4: that's the reason why they go because that's the amateurism
- 7:53Speaker 4: argument in college football. So so you see how the
- 7:57Speaker 4: when analyzed as a business construct the courts that again
- 8:03Speaker 4: nine to nothing. This is no liberal court by the
- 8:05Speaker 4: way that that they they just look at us.
- 8:09Speaker 1: Okay, this isn't enyity.
- 8:11Speaker 4: So the freedom that we all enjoy uh in a
- 8:15Speaker 4: free market, we have freedoms of movement. If you own
- 8:18Speaker 4: a business, if you are an employee, when you go
- 8:21Speaker 4: to the supermarket, all the the options that you have
- 8:24Speaker 4: for every uh item, all of those are are components
- 8:29Speaker 4: of a system that is designed to have competition. And
- 8:35Speaker 4: so okay, how does that apply? So when you to
- 8:38Speaker 4: sit here, you want to say, well, let's let's let's
- 8:41Speaker 4: put constraints on the coaches or the players, like a
- 8:46Speaker 4: lot of fans want. You just say, Okay, that sounds
- 8:49Speaker 4: well and good, but that's going to run a foul
- 8:52Speaker 4: with the anti trust laws and and it's called restrain
- 8:55Speaker 4: a trade as we know, and that just mad. Basically,
- 8:58Speaker 4: the courts are like they're they're egoized, and they're saying, hey,
- 9:02Speaker 4: if I see anything that's anti competitive, you know, I'm
- 9:05Speaker 4: eager to strike that down and say that's illegal, because
- 9:08Speaker 4: that's the benefit that all Americans get.
- 9:11Speaker 3: But if you're if Mike McDonald got approached by Jerry
- 9:14Speaker 3: Jones and was offered five million dollars more a year today,
- 9:16Speaker 3: he couldn't take that job.
- 9:18Speaker 4: Agreed to that, And that's where the contracts and the system,
- 9:23Speaker 4: the calendar of when these guys can move yep, just
- 9:27Speaker 4: has to be addressed.
- 9:28Speaker 3: It has to be you know who you know who
- 9:29Speaker 3: came up with a great idea. I thought, of all people,
- 9:33Speaker 3: you might know him, Dave Maller. I'm gonna read this.
- 9:37Speaker 3: I'm sure you guys will talk about it more for
- 9:38Speaker 3: but college football needs to adopt a carbon copy of
- 9:41Speaker 3: the NFL calendar. Free agency Transferportal opens in March. No
- 9:44Speaker 3: contact allowed directly or indirectly with players and other rosters
- 9:46Speaker 3: until then, Draft signing Day in April. No need for
- 9:48Speaker 3: coaches to quit in December to save a class at
- 9:50Speaker 3: their next stop. You're welcome. That's from Softy now.
- 9:53Speaker 4: And I would add to that, do away with springball,
- 9:57Speaker 4: yes that that that doesn't yes, yes, with the calendar,
- 10:00Speaker 4: and and then have kind of like o t as
- 10:04Speaker 4: you know, have allowed for some form of of of
- 10:09Speaker 4: structure in June. Then you take a break and then
- 10:12Speaker 4: you come back for training camp because you know, because
- 10:14Speaker 4: because the calendar, what happens in the transfer portal some
- 10:17Speaker 4: some schools are on a semester system.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Some are on a quarter system. So so those who.
- 10:22Speaker 4: Are on a quarter system, you have to be in class,
- 10:26Speaker 4: you know, you know, January fifth. Others you know you're
- 10:29Speaker 4: you're not in class to the end of January. Well,
- 10:31Speaker 4: now if you want to transfer in uh and and
- 10:35Speaker 4: you know, get the credits that you need. You know,
- 10:37Speaker 4: it's just a mess uh as it tries to align
- 10:41Speaker 4: with the football calendar. And and yet you know you're
- 10:46Speaker 4: not going to have schools that are going to overhaul.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Their academic calendar on account of a football no.
- 10:51Speaker 3: And the and the point you bring up about spring ball,
- 10:55Speaker 3: that's the only reason that that we are doing this
- 10:57Speaker 3: right now is because the coaches and you know, they
- 11:00Speaker 3: want they want people enrolled for as you said, whether
- 11:02Speaker 3: it's a winter quarter, spring quarter, semester, what have you,
- 11:06Speaker 3: they want them enrolled. They need to have them enroll
- 11:09Speaker 3: for that by that time so they can be eligible
- 11:11Speaker 3: to participate in spring football. And what you said is
- 11:13Speaker 3: one hundred spring football is worth. Here's the thing. You
- 11:17Speaker 3: know this again because you had kids that were D
- 11:18Speaker 3: one kids. Those kids are on campus year round anyway,
- 11:22Speaker 3: like like they could they could so the season, so
- 11:24Speaker 3: the semester's over or quarters over, and you're out for
- 11:26Speaker 3: the quote unquote summer. That's when you have a two
- 11:29Speaker 3: week whatever you want to call it, spring football, summer football.
- 11:32Speaker 1: That's kind of a joke.
- 11:33Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's funny that that people would think that
- 11:36Speaker 4: that's a thing, right because you get like four days
- 11:40Speaker 4: and then you know you're back and you have to
- 11:43Speaker 4: you have to show up at five six in the morning,
- 11:45Speaker 4: lift weights, do all the conditioning. Uh, you're you're doing
- 11:50Speaker 4: a player run practices. Uh, you know, seven on seven
- 11:53Speaker 4: and all that, but you're you're absolutely expected to be there. Yeah,
- 11:57Speaker 4: it's so I don't know why you.
- 11:58Speaker 1: Days off and fourth of July and hey, get your aspect.
- 12:01Speaker 3: You're there, Yeah, you're there. I don't And honestly, it
- 12:03Speaker 3: happens at all levels, to be honest with you, of
- 12:05Speaker 3: football and basketball, volleyball, doesn't matter what the sports, soccer,
- 12:09Speaker 3: it's every one of those sports are there all summer
- 12:11Speaker 3: and that's what those kids are doing. And it's a
- 12:13Speaker 3: full time job, you know. Instead you're practicing in March.
- 12:16Speaker 3: And I always thought it was funny anyway, Hugh, Like
- 12:17Speaker 3: you're like our two schools, Like our guys are practicing
- 12:21Speaker 3: in you know, end of March early April and it's
- 12:23Speaker 3: snowing half the time. Like what are you getting out
- 12:25Speaker 3: of that? Nothing? You know, like it's you know, was
- 12:28Speaker 3: it Washington's practicing in the rain then they have to
- 12:30Speaker 3: move inside. It's like, come on, just I don't know.
- 12:33Speaker 3: It used to be like some of those spring games
- 12:34Speaker 3: where a big deal. I get it. And maybe they
- 12:36Speaker 3: are for some places, right, maybe they are for some places,
- 12:38Speaker 3: But yeah, I think there's a better way, and I
- 12:40Speaker 3: think it's I think it goes back to the calendar,
- 12:42Speaker 3: and then if you are going to change coaches, then
- 12:44Speaker 3: you've got that time to do so it's after a
- 12:46Speaker 3: season ends. It's just it's it's goody. I guess there
- 12:49Speaker 3: are reports that that that Ole miss offered him the
- 12:51Speaker 3: identical money, but you know, we know it's more than
- 12:53Speaker 3: money at some point too. It's just it's a it's
- 12:57Speaker 3: it's weird. It's it's I feel I feel bad for
- 12:59Speaker 3: the guy. I feel bad for the kids at Mississippi,
- 13:02Speaker 3: you know, like that's what I feel bad for. I mean,
- 13:04Speaker 3: our our school on a very much lower level, like
- 13:07Speaker 3: really lower level, has gone through that a couple times,
- 13:10Speaker 3: losing coordinators and head coaches before bowl games. Now they're
- 13:13Speaker 3: playing in worthless bowl games. I get it. But watching
- 13:15Speaker 3: our offensive line coach call plays two years ago and
- 13:18Speaker 3: Clay Maguire, good dude, having a great success at Texas Tech,
- 13:21Speaker 3: it was a joke, like an absolute joke. Yeah, Like
- 13:23Speaker 3: I mean, it was just it was embarrassing, like he's
- 13:25Speaker 3: calling he'd never done that before, he's an offensive line coach.
- 13:27Speaker 3: I mean, hopefully my kids.
- 13:28Speaker 4: Will think in Mississippi. I think if let's say you
- 13:31Speaker 4: were as passionate about Mississippi as I am for Washington.
- 13:35Speaker 4: You are for Washington State. Just just close your eyes
- 13:37Speaker 4: and just imagine you're a hardcore rebel. Right, yep, you
- 13:44Speaker 4: if you're old enough, you can remember a hell of
- 13:46Speaker 4: a period of time. You know, arch Manning and et cetera.
- 13:50Speaker 4: For twenty years they were They finished in the top
- 13:53Speaker 4: ten eight years during the decade of the fifties and sixties,
- 13:58Speaker 4: the last time being nineteen sixty nine. The last time
- 14:01Speaker 4: that they finished in the top ten from nineteen sixty
- 14:04Speaker 4: nine was two years ago, obviously with Lane Kiffin. So
- 14:07Speaker 4: now you have this essentially, you know, call it a revitalization.
- 14:13Speaker 4: I don't know, it's just this upsurge of interest in
- 14:18Speaker 4: in Ole miss football. And then now you're going into
- 14:22Speaker 4: the playoffs and the entire offensive staff might who's calling it? Like,
- 14:27Speaker 4: how are you going to formulate a game plan? Yeah,
- 14:29Speaker 4: that's it. It's just it's yeah, you know the system.
- 14:33Speaker 4: But then the reason I made mention of the anti
- 14:37Speaker 4: trust laws is as soon as you think that that
- 14:39Speaker 4: you have a remedy, just make sure you run it
- 14:43Speaker 4: through that anti trust filter, because there's a lot of
- 14:45Speaker 4: things that you might say, Okay, that makes common sense.
- 14:48Speaker 4: It's going to be interpreted as anti competitive and it's
- 14:52Speaker 4: going to be strict down as illegal.
- 14:53Speaker 3: So yeah, it's it's it's there's got to be a
- 14:56Speaker 3: better way, Hugh. Honestly, there's just got to be a
- 14:58Speaker 3: better way right now. And I again, like, these guys
- 15:02Speaker 3: work your ass off all year and you're you're you're
- 15:05Speaker 3: a playoff team, which is the goal. Like, that's a
- 15:07Speaker 3: huge deal, and it's it's a big deal for anybody
- 15:10Speaker 3: unless you're just Georgia and you get there every year.
- 15:11Speaker 3: Ohio State, I guess, but I mean it's a big
- 15:13Speaker 3: it's a big damn deal. And now you're left in
- 15:17Speaker 3: just a shell of your former self as as a
- 15:19Speaker 3: football team. And I think that's and then you go
- 15:21Speaker 3: back and they're gonna go the boosters will be asked
- 15:23Speaker 3: for more money. Hey, you got to pay more money
- 15:25Speaker 3: than they're like, well, what difference does it make. It
- 15:27Speaker 3: doesn't matter. I can pay you all the money in
- 15:29Speaker 3: the world. He's probably gonna Takechambles the quarterback with them, right,
- 15:31Speaker 3: it doesn't matter.
- 15:32Speaker 4: Like all those guys are going to tap out of
- 15:34Speaker 4: the boat of the That'll be an interesting because of
- 15:37Speaker 4: the interesting Yeah, that'll be the interesting dynamic here is
- 15:41Speaker 4: is you know, you know he's going to want to
- 15:42Speaker 4: take players with him.
- 15:43Speaker 3: That always happens. How many of those guys leave, how
- 15:45Speaker 3: many of those guys participate in the bowl game? Can
- 15:47Speaker 3: they retain them? And you know then they pulled the
- 15:49Speaker 3: old we're gonna name the infrom coach our head coach,
- 15:52Speaker 3: the old Dan Wilson move, very Mariner like. So we'll see,
- 15:56Speaker 3: uh with a guy that didn't have a lot of
- 15:57Speaker 3: success down an all.
- 15:58Speaker 4: Remember both Sam Becker ian yep, with the basketball team,
- 16:01Speaker 4: both Sam Beckler, Yeah, Michigan all that stuff had been
- 16:05Speaker 4: the ad.
- 16:06Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh who was the coach?
- 16:09Speaker 3: It was Steve Fisher ended up taking the job. Who
- 16:12Speaker 3: left I'll think of it in a second. Fisher took
- 16:15Speaker 3: the job? Yeah, yeah, yeah, So the other guy went
- 16:18Speaker 3: to Arizona State.
- 16:19Speaker 4: So Michigan's had basketball coach goes Arizona State before the
- 16:22Speaker 4: NCAA tournament, and he had said that he wanted to coach,
- 16:26Speaker 4: much like Lane Kiffin is saying that he wanted to coach,
- 16:28Speaker 4: and both Sam Beckler now the ad famously said no,
- 16:33Speaker 4: I want a Michigan man coaching my Michigan team. And
- 16:37Speaker 4: so he put in the assistant coach, Steve Fisher. Now
- 16:39Speaker 4: that the different and they won the title. Yeah, yep, yep.
- 16:43Speaker 4: You know you have to win six games, obviously, you
- 16:45Speaker 4: have to six and oh to uh to win that title.
- 16:48Speaker 1: They did it.
- 16:49Speaker 4: But they had all the players right, so it was
- 16:51Speaker 4: and you know, you had a guy, you know, who
- 16:53Speaker 4: could coach in the system. And and so the the
- 16:57Speaker 4: blow to Michigan basketball, uh, versus the blow that apparently
- 17:03Speaker 4: is going to be incurred by Mississippi, it's just not
- 17:06Speaker 4: even comparison what Mississippi is gonna Yeah, you know, it's
- 17:10Speaker 4: like getting the difference between getting hit by a bicycle
- 17:14Speaker 4: and getting hit by a semi Yeah.
- 17:16Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
- 17:17Speaker 4: Built it was Freer, Bill Freer, Bill Freeder. Yeah, so
- 17:21Speaker 4: he yep, yep, I remember that. That's all the reason
- 17:24Speaker 4: why we remember Bill Frieder's because he's the guy that
- 17:26Speaker 4: got that left.
- 17:27Speaker 3: Yeah, Bill, Bill Freer left and Steve Fisher led him
- 17:30Speaker 3: to the title in nineteen eighty nine. And now also
- 17:33Speaker 3: different too because transferring, that was just a couple of
- 17:36Speaker 3: years after you finished at Washington, transferring and going to
- 17:39Speaker 3: a different school when you were a college student athlete
- 17:40Speaker 3: back then was a lot harder, was it not. It
- 17:43Speaker 3: was very hard. You had to sit out a year,
- 17:44Speaker 3: and all those he had, he had to sit out
- 17:46Speaker 3: a year.
- 17:46Speaker 4: And I will say this, you know, I think for
- 17:49Speaker 4: a long I think people are coming around to the
- 17:52Speaker 4: double standard, you know, because for there was a period
- 17:55Speaker 4: there where I think everybody, everybody's ire was directed at
- 17:58Speaker 4: the players. Oh, these are selfish, they they they don't
- 18:04Speaker 4: have the commitment. And well, I'll tell you who else
- 18:06Speaker 4: doesn't have the commitment. And we're learning about that is
- 18:10Speaker 4: the coaches.
- 18:11Speaker 5: You know.
- 18:11Speaker 4: For example, when when my kid was getting recruited by Oregon,
- 18:17Speaker 4: it's like, okay, you'll be the only quarterback in the class.
- 18:20Speaker 4: You can have justin Herbert, who's gonna play his last year.
- 18:23Speaker 4: Obviously he's the guy, yep. And then in the spring
- 18:28Speaker 4: you'll be competing with Tyler Shuck and then whatever quarterback
- 18:31Speaker 4: is in the class behind you, full stop like that's
- 18:34Speaker 4: it right, And then they they they recruit a guy
- 18:41Speaker 4: named Anthony Brown after Herbert, Anthony Brett.
- 18:44Speaker 1: He had started three years at Boston College.
- 18:46Speaker 4: He's throwing like forty eight touchdowns in the ACC and
- 18:50Speaker 4: now all of a sudden, all the reps that they promised,
- 18:53Speaker 4: you know, my kid going into his second year is
- 18:56Speaker 4: recherd freshman year, all those those reps that were promise
- 19:00Speaker 4: zero no, no. They Anthony Brown and then and Anthony
- 19:05Speaker 4: Brown and Tyler Shuck, who's quarterback in the Saints. They
- 19:08Speaker 4: kind of compared notes and at the exact same time
- 19:11Speaker 4: they were telling Tyler Shuck, dude, you're gonna be a
- 19:14Speaker 4: Rose Bowl MVP, they were also telling Anthony Brown, You're
- 19:17Speaker 4: gonna be the Rose Bowl MVP, and so and so.
- 19:21Speaker 4: I know this having played for Washington all of us quarterbacks.
- 19:25Speaker 4: We could look at the quarterbacks on the roster and
- 19:28Speaker 4: we could say, my path to the field is I
- 19:31Speaker 4: gotta beat out Chris Chandler. My path to the field
- 19:34Speaker 4: is you know, I gotta be beat out uh, you
- 19:38Speaker 4: know brock Hewart what and and everybody could see that,
- 19:42Speaker 4: and and Don James would look. He would tell his staff,
- 19:46Speaker 4: He'd say, hey, guys, we have to identify and recruit
- 19:50Speaker 4: and land and develop quarterbacks because on average that we're
- 19:54Speaker 4: going to have a new starter every other year who's
- 19:57Speaker 4: gonna take his very first snap and it might be
- 19:59Speaker 4: a conference game. Yep, Like Billy Joe Hobert's first start
- 20:02Speaker 4: was at Stanford. Right, it might be a conference game,
- 20:05Speaker 4: and we just that's the process we have to do.
- 20:08Speaker 4: Coaches didn't think about the portal. So while we're dumping
- 20:11Speaker 4: on the players that they're different, let's also understand the
- 20:15Speaker 4: coaches are different too, and they look at the porter
- 20:18Speaker 4: and they're constantly looking, hey, how can I replace my guy?
- 20:22Speaker 1: So so.
- 20:25Speaker 4: My summary on that is go ahead and say that
- 20:28Speaker 4: the players are are spoiled and entitled in that way
- 20:32Speaker 4: and they don't have the fortitude that they once did. Well,
- 20:37Speaker 4: neither do the coaches.
- 20:38Speaker 3: No one, All right, we'll get to see Hawks a
- 20:40Speaker 3: hardcore football coming up next with you.
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- 21:02Speaker 3: Seahawks win twenty six nothing over the Minnesota Vikings, getting
- 21:07Speaker 3: a nice shutout win over Minnesota at home. Seattle now
- 21:12Speaker 3: improves a nine and three on the season, very much
- 21:14Speaker 3: headed for a playoff Perth. The question is will they
- 21:17Speaker 3: win the West nice peag shout out to our friends
- 21:19Speaker 3: the Carolina Panthers. You big thank you to Dave can Allis,
- 21:22Speaker 3: former Seahawks assistant coach, and the Panthers for getting the
- 21:25Speaker 3: winner of the Rams yesterday. Thank you very much. Lots
- 21:28Speaker 3: of stuff to get to. Let me let me start
- 21:30Speaker 3: with something good and that would be h I mean,
- 21:33Speaker 3: Ernest Jones is okay. Yesterday A couple interceptions one eighty
- 21:37Speaker 3: five yard return in the second quarter make it a
- 21:40Speaker 3: ten to three game. It looked like just a quarterback
- 21:43Speaker 3: getting pressured and making a bad decision and to pick six.
- 21:45Speaker 3: But I know there's a lot more to it than
- 21:47Speaker 3: that from a hardcore perspective. Let's walk through that.
- 21:50Speaker 4: Yeah, well, first of all, the vikings, they elect to
- 21:54Speaker 4: put the quarterback on the move, right handed quarterback. They
- 21:56Speaker 4: want him out in the pocket right to have an option.
- 21:59Speaker 4: And it's not just enough to say in my terminology,
- 22:03Speaker 4: it's it's not just enough to say, well, let's have
- 22:05Speaker 4: him uh sprint out. I have different terminology voice recognition
- 22:11Speaker 4: that that keys what type of roles, So so I
- 22:14Speaker 4: can say boot and that means one thing. That means
- 22:18Speaker 4: that you're the all the flow. Let's say you're faking.
- 22:22Speaker 4: You're faking to Kenneth Walker. And if there's a lead
- 22:25Speaker 4: happens to be a lead block, a lead blocker let's
- 22:29Speaker 4: say oots. If if we're gonna go quarterback to the right,
- 22:33Speaker 4: if I say boot right, that means I know that
- 22:37Speaker 4: whoever's in the backfield is going to the left to
- 22:40Speaker 4: have more of an influence on the on the on
- 22:43Speaker 4: the direction right, and so the quarterback is coming out.
- 22:46Speaker 4: It's also some people call it naked, but but there's
- 22:50Speaker 4: there's gonna be the quarterback after the flow, he's gonna
- 22:53Speaker 4: be out, and there's gonna be a guy in the flat.
- 22:56Speaker 4: Uh in particularly in the reds and there's a guy
- 22:57Speaker 4: in the flat, there's a guy in the corner, and
- 23:00Speaker 4: then there's always a crosser from the back. If you
- 23:02Speaker 4: just look at the structure of those type of plays,
- 23:05Speaker 4: I could say with ninety nine point nine percent. I
- 23:07Speaker 4: don't want to say an absolute term, that's always how
- 23:09Speaker 4: it is. And so, but what the Vikings did is
- 23:13Speaker 4: instead of having faking the back away from the quarterback,
- 23:18Speaker 4: the running back Jones is going to go immediately to
- 23:22Speaker 4: the flat. And there's a risk involved there because the
- 23:27Speaker 4: running back is going to the side of the quarterback,
- 23:30Speaker 4: they can read the flow easier. And if you go
- 23:32Speaker 4: back to last year October sixth, everybody remember when the
- 23:36Speaker 4: Seahawks lost to the Giants at home in the fourth quarter.
- 23:40Speaker 4: Was Seattle down twenty to thirteen on their own thirty
- 23:45Speaker 4: five yard line, they went forward on Seahawks went for
- 23:47Speaker 4: it on fourth and one, and they went from the
- 23:50Speaker 4: same what I call King formation with a full back
- 23:55Speaker 4: towards the tight end. They did the exact same play.
- 23:58Speaker 4: The Seahawks Gino Smith did the exact same play with
- 24:01Speaker 4: Kenneth Walker in the flat and Brian Burns, who was
- 24:06Speaker 4: the defensive island on that side, who coincidentally wears number zero,
- 24:11Speaker 4: a veteran, you know, their best pass rusher. He gets
- 24:14Speaker 4: up the field and he sacks Geno. There was no
- 24:18Speaker 4: influence because because you had Canine in the flat to
- 24:21Speaker 4: the right. My experience, I haven't done a study on this,
- 24:25Speaker 4: but those type of plays work better on first or
- 24:29Speaker 4: second down, down in the goal line. You know, the
- 24:31Speaker 4: fourth down, that's risky. That's risky because if you to
- 24:36Speaker 4: have a guy up the field on you the way
- 24:40Speaker 4: the DeMarcus Lawrence was, you know, I feel sorry for
- 24:43Speaker 4: that kid there there was nothing there. It's a man beater.
- 24:47Speaker 4: And Seattle played zone against the Vikings, and so you
- 24:51Speaker 4: had Turek Warren and you had Emon Worry out there
- 24:54Speaker 4: covering the flat. Emon Warri had a very instinctive play
- 24:57Speaker 4: once he could see that Thatreek Warren Wolan rather I'm sorry,
- 25:01Speaker 4: Rik Wollan had the flat. He kind of slacked off
- 25:04Speaker 4: to help on the corner route, to help Kobe Bryant.
- 25:07Speaker 4: So there was some really good morphine of the defense.
- 25:11Speaker 4: You know, I give credit Riek Wollan em and Worry
- 25:16Speaker 4: Jones obviously, and also Drake Thomas on the backside covering
- 25:20Speaker 4: what's called the down flat. The tight end blocks down,
- 25:23Speaker 4: or it seems like he's blocking down. That reduction makes
- 25:27Speaker 4: the defense supposedly bite on the fake. And but yet
- 25:32Speaker 4: Drake Thomas from the backside, he covered the down flat
- 25:34Speaker 4: with Hawkinson. So Seattle gloved that up as if they
- 25:38Speaker 4: had been in the huddle, and they they called the
- 25:42Speaker 4: perfect play. They covered it. They had DeMarcus Lawrence up
- 25:45Speaker 4: the field, and that poor kid was they had no
- 25:49Speaker 4: chance to get anything. Now, obviously, you know he's just
- 25:52Speaker 4: got to Sometimes you just gotta eat it. Gino took
- 25:54Speaker 4: a sack. He didn't throw a pick six, right, but
- 25:57Speaker 4: he took an eight yard sack because Brian Earns was
- 26:00Speaker 4: up the field on a play that's designed to be deceptive.
- 26:04Speaker 1: If you don't fool that in and you don't.
- 26:06Speaker 4: Block him, if you're not going to block him, that
- 26:08Speaker 4: means you're trying to influence him. And if he doesn't
- 26:10Speaker 4: get influenced, you are f't.
- 26:11Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think just to point out remember people remember,
- 26:15Speaker 3: for people to reminder, it was a fourth and one
- 26:18Speaker 3: as well, So he's probably thinking, yeah, but I think
- 26:21Speaker 3: it's important because also he's probably just thinking we'll just
- 26:24Speaker 3: chuck it up, you know whatever. I mean, it's better
- 26:26Speaker 3: than losing you know, eight or nine yards at least
- 26:28Speaker 3: the ball the four or whatever or the not fogus
- 26:31Speaker 3: four yard line, what have you. Sometimes when we hear
- 26:34Speaker 3: people say it all the time, well it's fourth down,
- 26:36Speaker 3: just throw it up anyway, Well sometimes that doesn't work.
- 26:39Speaker 4: Well, yeah, every quarterback at some point, you know, it's
- 26:42Speaker 4: been said, well, don't take a sack on fourth.
- 26:45Speaker 3: Right it yep?
- 26:46Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you know you got a prayer at least,
- 26:49Speaker 4: you know, and and and that is mostly true, Like
- 26:54Speaker 4: you know eye before he except after c Right, that's
- 26:58Speaker 4: mostly true, but there's a lot of words. Is not
- 27:00Speaker 4: like science, Like we could go through the list where
- 27:02Speaker 4: it doesn't apply. Yep, and so uh yeah, as a
- 27:06Speaker 4: general rule, don't take a sack on fourth down, right,
- 27:10Speaker 4: we get that part. But there are circums, certain circumstances
- 27:13Speaker 4: where you know a sack is is the only play,
- 27:16Speaker 4: the right play because it's the only play.
- 27:18Speaker 3: Let me take a quick break. Come back. I do
- 27:20Speaker 3: want to ask you a little bit about the offensive
- 27:21Speaker 3: line or mostly what Brian Flores is doing. I mean,
- 27:24Speaker 3: we know he let like just the most blitz happy
- 27:26Speaker 3: guy in the world, I think their defensive coordinator for
- 27:28Speaker 3: the Vikings. But four sacks against Sam Donald, he seemed
- 27:31Speaker 3: to be pressured quite a bit. It's the one offensive
- 27:32Speaker 3: touchdown I believe just based on snap counts and what
- 27:36Speaker 3: my eyes saw that maybe we saw Christian Hayes playing
- 27:38Speaker 3: that right guard position and in place of Anthony Bradford
- 27:41Speaker 3: as well. But we'll talk about that offense in the
- 27:43Speaker 3: offensive line. To wrap up hardcore Football next.
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- 28:07Speaker 3: All right, HARDCORET football continues Humil with US twenty six
- 28:09Speaker 3: not f of the Seahawks winning with the Minnesota Vikings.
- 28:12Speaker 3: Talked about the I mean the defense was dominated against
- 28:14Speaker 3: a quarterback making his first career start on the offensive side.
- 28:18Speaker 3: He got about six or seven minutes here. Let me
- 28:21Speaker 3: get to this, so easily the most the least productive
- 28:25Speaker 3: day of the year for Jackson Smith and Jigba two
- 28:27Speaker 3: catches twenty three yards on four target, Sam Donald fourteen
- 28:30Speaker 3: to twenty six one eight number the jumps out though
- 28:33Speaker 3: he was sacked four times on the day by the
- 28:37Speaker 3: Minnesota Vikings defense. We know the Flores model where their
- 28:40Speaker 3: their defensive coordinator likes to bring pressure and all that.
- 28:43Speaker 3: Probably had a pretty good idea. What bothered Sam Darnell.
- 28:45Speaker 3: He practiced with him or was against him all last season.
- 28:48Speaker 3: But you know, we like to maybe I say we
- 28:51Speaker 3: am using my meat. I like to I think Bradford
- 28:53Speaker 3: is a big issue at right guard. But obviously there's
- 28:56Speaker 3: probably more to it than that. What did you see?
- 28:58Speaker 3: Was it more? What floor is in the vikings were
- 29:00Speaker 3: doing that kind of slowed down the offense or what
- 29:02Speaker 3: did you see?
- 29:04Speaker 4: Well, I think that first of all, I got three
- 29:06Speaker 4: pages of notes on just the protection a loan, and
- 29:08Speaker 4: so how do I get it into a six minute conversation?
- 29:12Speaker 4: So if we go side, it's okay, no, no, no,
- 29:15Speaker 4: I'm asking myself that.
- 29:17Speaker 3: Okay.
- 29:17Speaker 4: So as a general rule, this is how I process it.
- 29:22Speaker 4: A defense can look and say, we can defend a quarterback.
- 29:26Speaker 4: We got two bytes at the apple. We can defend
- 29:29Speaker 4: him on his side of the lion of scrimmage with
- 29:31Speaker 4: what we do in our pass rush, or we can
- 29:34Speaker 4: defend him on our side of the line of the
- 29:37Speaker 4: allion of scrimmage with what we do in coverage. And
- 29:40Speaker 4: you know, maybe you just say, well we'll drop eight.
- 29:42Speaker 4: We're gonna rush three, drop eight. A lot of fans
- 29:44Speaker 4: don't like that. It seems passive. I know as a
- 29:46Speaker 4: quarterback that going to those eight guys five hundred three
- 29:50Speaker 4: deep when you know those windows can be hard to fit,
- 29:55Speaker 4: you know, the timing and what have you. So there's
- 29:59Speaker 4: merits to both what Brian Floores did. If you just said, okay,
- 30:02Speaker 4: we're gonna separate, if you look at what Brian Floores
- 30:06Speaker 4: was doing on his side of the.
- 30:09Speaker 1: Line of scrimmage.
- 30:10Speaker 4: It was so unsound, like you'd slap your palm against
- 30:14Speaker 4: your forehead. They were playing on an occasion three under
- 30:18Speaker 4: two deep a normal three excuse me, a three deep
- 30:22Speaker 4: two under. A normal three deep coverage would be three
- 30:25Speaker 4: deep four under. They would play with two under. They
- 30:29Speaker 4: were doing what's called quarter quarter a half where they'd
- 30:31Speaker 4: roll cover two to one side and they would only
- 30:36Speaker 4: play but they'd only have five or six guys in
- 30:38Speaker 4: the zone, and so they have these huge holes that
- 30:41Speaker 4: in theory Seattle would be able to get to. They
- 30:44Speaker 4: did a two deep four under. Normally it's two deep
- 30:48Speaker 4: five under. They would and they were doing what's called
- 30:52Speaker 4: a catch or Palm's technique, where the corner was sitting outside.
- 30:57Speaker 4: If nobody is in the flat, he goes vertical and
- 31:00Speaker 4: it looks like cover four, which is a four D.
- 31:04Speaker 4: If somebody comes to the flat, he triggers, then the
- 31:07Speaker 4: safety is over the top and it looks like a
- 31:11Speaker 4: too deep coverage. So they were doing these morph coverages.
- 31:15Speaker 4: You know that on occasion they would go man to
- 31:17Speaker 4: man and and and yeah, there was a kind of
- 31:21Speaker 4: a weird looking bracket on JSN. At times they went
- 31:25Speaker 4: zone and like boxing one in basketball, they just had
- 31:30Speaker 4: Byron Murphy, the dB former Husky shadowing JSN. There were
- 31:35Speaker 4: times where they rolled the coverage to Cooper cup On
- 31:39Speaker 4: and and they left Jackson Smith and Jigba free access,
- 31:43Speaker 4: exactly the opposite of what you you would expect. And
- 31:47Speaker 4: so the so what they did from a coverage standpoint
- 31:51Speaker 4: is is it what? And they got the Harrison That
- 31:54Speaker 4: number twenty two for the Viking has been around maybe
- 31:56Speaker 4: a Hall of Fame level safety.
- 32:00Speaker 1: It's a lot like how the Cardinals use Buddha Baker yep.
- 32:03Speaker 1: I mean, he's.
- 32:03Speaker 4: Freelancing, kind of going wherever he wants, just has you know,
- 32:06Speaker 4: plays off instinct. That's an important part of what they do.
- 32:10Speaker 4: But they really were allowing themselves to be unsound in
- 32:16Speaker 4: the coverage. But the tradeoff is they say, let's create
- 32:21Speaker 4: absolute Hey Havoc, let's pick on Seattle. What is the
- 32:25Speaker 4: worst position group on the Seahawk football team, including special
- 32:29Speaker 4: teams and specialists, The worst position group is the offensive line.
- 32:33Speaker 4: This is the thought that we all kind of know intuitively,
- 32:36Speaker 4: and this is what Brian Floyes says. So let me
- 32:38Speaker 4: attack them. And so by putting the vikings, they have
- 32:44Speaker 4: the highest propensity of playing a three to four number
- 32:50Speaker 4: one in the NFL. And you said forty four and
- 32:52Speaker 4: a half percent, and the Seahawks use less than two percent.
- 32:56Speaker 4: So the Seahawks don't practice in it against it in
- 32:59Speaker 4: training camp or mini camps. So they're going against this
- 33:02Speaker 4: three four And by only having three defensive linemen, now
- 33:06Speaker 4: you've got four linebackers. Even if you blitz one, that's
- 33:09Speaker 4: that's not really a blitz because you can still play
- 33:11Speaker 4: seven behind it. You can blitz two and then and
- 33:16Speaker 4: play these these six man zones of of of all
- 33:20Speaker 4: different ilk and and you're you've got two blitzers, but
- 33:24Speaker 4: it's only a five man rush. And so Seattle and
- 33:27Speaker 4: you line them all up the line scrimmage and and
- 33:30Speaker 4: as a general you say, okay, we want the center
- 33:33Speaker 4: to go to one side and the running back to
- 33:34Speaker 4: go on on the other. But they created so many
- 33:37Speaker 4: uh what Mike McDonald calls pop and drop or defense
- 33:41Speaker 4: linebackers take two steps forward, induce the pass uh blocking
- 33:46Speaker 4: by that lineman for the Seahawks, and then drop out
- 33:50Speaker 4: into a zone and then fire guys over line up
- 33:53Speaker 4: on the on one side of the field. Uh uh,
- 33:55Speaker 4: you know, run them over to the other side to
- 33:57Speaker 4: being covered. So in that process, Vikings very unsounding there
- 34:01Speaker 4: in their coverage. But they just they just murdered Seattle
- 34:06Speaker 4: and dictated terms because of the offensive line. And it's
- 34:09Speaker 4: not just the losing h one on one battles. It
- 34:14Speaker 4: was the communication held the sack fumble yep. Now that
- 34:18Speaker 4: happened to be on a tight end, ye right, But
- 34:21Speaker 4: but you know, I think the Seahawks offensive linemen were
- 34:27Speaker 4: equally overwhelmed physically as they were mentally. So yeah, they're
- 34:31Speaker 4: gonna have to solve that because somebody along the line
- 34:34Speaker 4: is going to look at this tape.
- 34:35Speaker 3: That's what I'm asking you. That's how I ask you, Like,
- 34:38Speaker 3: is that is there is there a blueprint?
- 34:40Speaker 1: Now?
- 34:40Speaker 3: Like, is there a blueprint? Can you know when Atlanta
- 34:44Speaker 3: Carolina the Rams again the forty nine ers that you
- 34:47Speaker 3: know the remaining part of the schedule, is there a
- 34:49Speaker 3: blueprint there that people can look at and say, hmm, okay,
- 34:52Speaker 3: that worked for I mean, looking what the numbers are
- 34:55Speaker 3: that worked for Minnesota if not for their inept offense,
- 34:58Speaker 3: Maybe the Vikings are in that game health for the
- 35:00Speaker 3: pick six. It could have been the Vikings could have
- 35:02Speaker 3: been taking a lead that game. Is there a blueprint there?
- 35:05Speaker 4: Yes and no, there is for teams that that like
- 35:10Speaker 4: to play a similar structure and have practiced it, and
- 35:13Speaker 4: you know, have the personnel the Vikings personnel, as I said,
- 35:16Speaker 4: just three defensive lineman, four linebackers. Uh, they played some nickel,
- 35:20Speaker 4: but but they have they're the lowest percentage of nickel
- 35:24Speaker 4: dead last the Vikings and then again the highest in
- 35:29Speaker 4: three four. So you can't just say, all right, well,
- 35:32Speaker 4: let's just install all this stuff in a week and
- 35:34Speaker 4: and beat the Seahawks with it. You have to That
- 35:37Speaker 4: has had to have been a pretty good part of
- 35:39Speaker 4: your diet. You have to have majored or at least
- 35:43Speaker 4: minored in it.
- 35:45Speaker 3: Right.
- 35:46Speaker 4: You can't just show up and never having you know,
- 35:49Speaker 4: that's not who you are, you know, like, uh, you.
- 35:52Speaker 3: Know the you can't just change your whole defensive structure.
- 35:55Speaker 4: No, you're not gonna just you know that makes sense, right,
- 35:58Speaker 4: So so, but if you've dabbled in this, you might
- 36:03Speaker 4: you know, crank it up in terms of your usage
- 36:06Speaker 4: of this. So you're gonna you know, you're gonna see
- 36:10Speaker 4: you know that those seven across seven eight. You know,
- 36:13Speaker 4: as a quarterback the offensive line, you got to discern
- 36:15Speaker 4: who do we think is coming? And then if they
- 36:18Speaker 4: don't come, then what's uh, what's our plan if they
- 36:22Speaker 4: if they overload and they've got four you know, four
- 36:25Speaker 4: week is like a thing you learned in high school.
- 36:29Speaker 4: Four week is is I've got my center's going on
- 36:31Speaker 4: the strong side, my running back and the guard and
- 36:34Speaker 4: the tackle of that side. I can handle three, but
- 36:36Speaker 4: I can't handle four or a vice versa four strong.
- 36:40Speaker 1: My center's going on the strong side. I got the center, guard, tackle.
- 36:43Speaker 1: I can handle three strong. I can't handle four strong.
- 36:46Speaker 1: And so so.
- 36:47Speaker 4: When the defense lines up with eight guys online scrimmage,
- 36:51Speaker 4: they're they're showing you the potential a four week or
- 36:55Speaker 4: four strong. You know, they're not gonna go rush eight.
- 36:59Speaker 4: That's not what they do. That's that's that's that's suicide.
- 37:02Speaker 4: But trying to discern who's gonna drop off, uh, you know,
- 37:06Speaker 4: can be a challenge, and certainly it was for Clint
- 37:09Speaker 4: Kubiak and the offensive line, and that was a mess.
- 37:12Speaker 4: But you know what, hopefully we're doing a hardcore and
- 37:15Speaker 4: I know we're up against break I'll conclude it like this.
- 37:17Speaker 4: Hopefully we're doing a hardcore where it's it's a pivotal
- 37:22Speaker 4: game maybe you know, in a playoff game or what
- 37:24Speaker 4: have you, and say, hey, those those occasions, those four
- 37:28Speaker 4: occasions that they tried to do. Uh so the opponent
- 37:31Speaker 4: tried to do what the Vikings did. Seattle had a plan,
- 37:34Speaker 4: they burned them and they drove them right out of them.
- 37:36Speaker 3: Yep.
- 37:37Speaker 1: That's and then we'll talk about the adjustments they made
- 37:39Speaker 1: when that happened.
- 37:40Speaker 3: That's the challenge for Clint Kubiak. If I was doing
- 37:42Speaker 3: more at for today, i'd ask you about if you
- 37:43Speaker 3: would make a change at the right guard position. But
- 37:45Speaker 3: I don't have time to do that, and I'm not
- 37:47Speaker 3: doing more at for it. But maybe somebody have a
- 37:49Speaker 3: friend that might ask me that. Yeah, yeah, because I'd
- 37:51Speaker 3: be curious about your thoughts on that, because Brad, there's
- 37:54Speaker 3: twenty one snatch by Haynes yesterday at that right guard position.
- 37:57Speaker 3: All right, my friend Grace, starting to talk to you
- 37:58Speaker 3: next week.
- 37:58Speaker 1: Thank you, pleasures mind, thank you.
- 38:00Speaker 3: That is hughte millon Hardcore Football, will take a break,
- 38:03Speaker 3: Come back, Sandal. Let's take a tour around the rest
- 38:05Speaker 3: of the NFL. What a wild day yesterday, while weekend
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- 38:20Speaker 3: Choose Chill, Seahawk shutting out the Vikings yesterday, twenty six
- 38:25Speaker 3: to nothing, nine and three on the season right now,
- 38:28Speaker 3: currently the five seed in the NFC playoff picture. The
- 38:32Speaker 3: Rams losing yesterday to Carolina. Thank you very much to
- 38:36Speaker 3: the Panthers and Dave Canalis, their head coach, former Seahawk assistant,
- 38:40Speaker 3: But Rams told the tiebreaker because the head to head
- 38:43Speaker 3: they lead the NFC West identical record. By the way,
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- 40:04Speaker 2: and you'll find it from our friend Mike Sander. Who
- 40:06Speaker 2: joins us right now. Hi, Mike, how are you good?
- 40:08Speaker 3: How are you? I'm good? Hopeful holiday was treated you
- 40:11Speaker 3: well with three football games and maybe dinner fit in
- 40:13Speaker 3: with the family.
- 40:14Speaker 7: Yeah, it was really good.
- 40:15Speaker 3: I really liked it.
- 40:16Speaker 7: We got a fourth game on Friday, so I know,
- 40:18Speaker 7: I know, you know, it's not bad. I like them
- 40:19Speaker 7: spread out.
- 40:20Speaker 3: I like though, I'll tell you right now, I don't
- 40:22Speaker 3: know what the did they have a black Friday game
- 40:25Speaker 3: last year? Was this the first year?
- 40:26Speaker 1: I think they did?
- 40:27Speaker 7: But it's I was my wife and I arrest in
- 40:29Speaker 7: that too, because it's still fresh enough that my wife's like,
- 40:31Speaker 7: really on Friday. Yeah, I love to do something and
- 40:34Speaker 7: I love it too. My wife is like, come on
- 40:36Speaker 7: every day. She likes them not that much, you know,
- 40:39Speaker 7: every day.
- 40:39Speaker 3: To draw the line in the sand at some point
- 40:41Speaker 3: along the way. Well, there was plenty to discuss from
- 40:42Speaker 3: all those games. Let me start. I'm not actually gonna
- 40:45Speaker 3: start the Friday game just for a second. We talked
- 40:48Speaker 3: a little bit last week about Kansas City. They are
- 40:49Speaker 3: very much on the outside looking in right now the
- 40:51Speaker 3: playoff picture. They're six and six, they're two games back.
- 40:55Speaker 3: I thought it was interesting what you wrote today. And
- 40:57Speaker 3: I think it's interesting too because the narrative. I don't
- 40:59Speaker 3: know why this is, it's become kind of the running
- 41:02Speaker 3: joke amongst a bunch of friends of ours and even
- 41:04Speaker 3: my son. We're watching games, it's the Steve Steve Spagnola
- 41:07Speaker 3: drinking game. Every time you see Spagnola, the defensive coordinator
- 41:10Speaker 3: for the Chiefs, on the screen during a Kansas City game,
- 41:12Speaker 3: which is often, maybe even more so than Andy Reid,
- 41:16Speaker 3: you say, okay, time to drink, because it's all about Spagnola.
- 41:19Speaker 3: Steve Spagnola, he's the defensive coordinator. He's a genius. But
- 41:23Speaker 3: it's not the offense as much as the defense is
- 41:26Speaker 3: struggling a little bit this year for Kansas City.
- 41:28Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it's fall enough.
- 41:30Speaker 7: I think the offense has structural issues that you know,
- 41:34Speaker 7: I think they could definitely do a better job kind
- 41:36Speaker 7: of you know, presenting the thread of the run and
- 41:38Speaker 7: some of those types of things. But that being said,
- 41:40Speaker 7: there there's still a top five offense statistically with Mahomes. Defensively,
- 41:45Speaker 7: you know, the big flip this year is they're one
- 41:47Speaker 7: and six in the close games, the ones decided by
- 41:50Speaker 7: a touchdown either way. They were eleven Er last year.
- 41:52Speaker 7: When you compare those two things side by side last
- 41:55Speaker 7: year and this year, you see, yeah, the offense is
- 41:57Speaker 7: not quite as good, but the defense is a lot worse.
- 42:00Speaker 7: It's really falling off in those games. And I think
- 42:03Speaker 7: even though they're paying George Carlotus one hundred million dollar contract,
- 42:05Speaker 7: they just don't have They need another pass rusher. And
- 42:08Speaker 7: I think it's going to be heightened once Chris Jones,
- 42:12Speaker 7: you know, is done or super diminished, because right now
- 42:15Speaker 7: it seems like if Chris Jones gets home, you know
- 42:17Speaker 7: they're okay, and if he doesn't, they don't have a
- 42:19Speaker 7: pass rusher, and that's a real problem.
- 42:21Speaker 3: Yeah, and I look just kind of looking here. I
- 42:24Speaker 3: mean you wrote about about Tomlin and the Steelers as well.
- 42:27Speaker 3: I mean there's a couple. I mean when I look
- 42:29Speaker 3: right now and I see two teams in Pittsburgh and
- 42:32Speaker 3: Kansas City that are both effectively two games out of
- 42:35Speaker 3: a playoff spot wildcard. I mean, the Denver's going to
- 42:37Speaker 3: win the NFC West, there's no doubt. So Kansas City's
- 42:39Speaker 3: reigned there comes to an end. They need to get
- 42:41Speaker 3: in as a wildcard. Pittsburgh has a better chance statistically
- 42:45Speaker 3: They're tied record wise with Baltimore for at six and six,
- 42:49Speaker 3: but kind of feels like they're in all kinds of trouble.
- 42:51Speaker 3: The Aaron Rodgers part hasn't worked out. Are we going
- 42:54Speaker 3: to see a year in which Mike Tomlin and Andy
- 42:56Speaker 3: Reider are not in the playoffs both of them together
- 42:58Speaker 3: at the same time.
- 42:59Speaker 7: Well, I don't think the Steelers are going to get there,
- 43:01Speaker 7: but I still wouldn't write off the Chiefs, you think,
- 43:04Speaker 7: you know, I think that they can still, you know,
- 43:06Speaker 7: maybe make a push, but I think there's a good chance.
- 43:08Speaker 7: The one that was interesting to me I kind of
- 43:11Speaker 7: put three coaches together in this thing. I think Harbaugh
- 43:13Speaker 7: is one of them, and I think Tomlin's another, and
- 43:15Speaker 7: then maybe Sean McDermott, depending on what they do. I
- 43:18Speaker 7: think when we talk about Kansas City, even if they
- 43:20Speaker 7: think the playoffs they're not what they've been, we know
- 43:22Speaker 7: that they're six and six, So that's been your excuse
- 43:25Speaker 7: if you're some of these teams, especially Buffalo and Baltimore
- 43:28Speaker 7: who have good quarterbacks, less so Pittsburgh.
- 43:31Speaker 3: But like the idea that.
- 43:33Speaker 7: Hey, if Kansas City's out of the way and you
- 43:35Speaker 7: still can't make it, I mean to me, that's then
- 43:38Speaker 7: if I think the owners have questions about that. You know, so,
- 43:41Speaker 7: I think those three teams, to me, those three coaches, Tomlin,
- 43:45Speaker 7: McDermott and Harbaugh, what would you take right now? You know,
- 43:50Speaker 7: the odds of all three of them coming back, it
- 43:52Speaker 7: might be lower than maybe one of them not.
- 43:55Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Yeah, no it does. And you
- 43:57Speaker 3: wrote about the chance of fire Tomlin and Pittsburg yesterday
- 44:00Speaker 3: and just I've got a media friend back there and
- 44:03Speaker 3: just kind of checking in with him. It's yeah, it's
- 44:05Speaker 3: it's it's not good in the Steel City for sure.
- 44:08Speaker 3: Buffalo is an interesting one because I mean there are
- 44:11Speaker 3: two games back of New England, who plays tonight at
- 44:14Speaker 3: home against the Giants, and I mean Buffalo feels like
- 44:20Speaker 3: their path will have to be wild card. I mean,
- 44:22Speaker 3: maybe you can make up those two games along the way.
- 44:24Speaker 3: But it's just a little bit of a changing the guard, right,
- 44:27Speaker 3: Just a little bit of a changing the guard in
- 44:28Speaker 3: the AFC.
- 44:29Speaker 1: I think it is.
- 44:29Speaker 7: I think there's semi erosion of those top teams, and
- 44:32Speaker 7: as long as you have the Mahomes or Josh Allen,
- 44:34Speaker 7: they can still get it back together and be a
- 44:36Speaker 7: great team, But I'm with you. I think Pittsburgh feels
- 44:39Speaker 7: stagnant to me. Of those teams, I think Buffalo has
- 44:43Speaker 7: just kind of been, you know, they just haven't had
- 44:46Speaker 7: their mojo the whole now. It feels like there's something
- 44:48Speaker 7: missing no with him, And I feel the same way
- 44:51Speaker 7: with Baltimore. I feel like, you know, Lamar Jackson's just
- 44:54Speaker 7: kind of doesn't have as normal spark or springing his steps.
- 44:57Speaker 7: So and you do have some of these upstart teams.
- 45:00Speaker 7: So I do think we're gonna, you know, have a
- 45:03Speaker 7: team and maybe possibly even in the super Bowl that
- 45:05Speaker 7: we weren't talking about before the year, in that realm
- 45:08Speaker 7: as much.
- 45:09Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about changing the guard. You wrote about
- 45:11Speaker 3: it was the first story you had today the Bears,
- 45:14Speaker 3: the Chicago Bears. Who had the Chicago Bears sitting there
- 45:18Speaker 3: after week thirteen as the top team in the NFC, Sir,
- 45:22Speaker 3: who had them there? Raise your hand? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller?
- 45:25Speaker 7: I mean, I don't think that anyone with the Bears did,
- 45:28Speaker 7: you know, I don't think any I don't think some
- 45:31Speaker 7: guy in section three hundred and soldier Field had him there.
- 45:34Speaker 7: So and they look they their record is way better
- 45:39Speaker 7: than their point differential or some of the other things
- 45:41Speaker 7: that usually really correlate with winning. They've won a bunch
- 45:45Speaker 7: of super close games, and they haven't always been very
- 45:48Speaker 7: impressive doing it, but I do think they have, you know,
- 45:50Speaker 7: a coach, it gives him a little bit of an edge.
- 45:53Speaker 7: They've got a really good running game. They're working to
- 45:56Speaker 7: try to get the quarterback going, but they're winning, so
- 45:59Speaker 7: they're not having to hear about every week like Minnesota,
- 46:01Speaker 7: right they're quarterback development's a crisis every week because they're losing.
- 46:06Speaker 7: And in Chicago, I feel like this coach has some
- 46:08Speaker 7: stuff going now. So I think it's a real good
- 46:10Speaker 7: season for them. They're growing, they're improving. They just beat
- 46:13Speaker 7: the Eagles, and you know, I think it's probably going
- 46:17Speaker 7: to come back to earth some here. They've got a
- 46:18Speaker 7: couple of games with Green Bay. I think they might
- 46:21Speaker 7: have won against Detroit, So they're not gonna win them all,
- 46:23Speaker 7: but they'll probably win some of them.
- 46:25Speaker 3: You wrote about Ben Johnson and you just refer to
- 46:29Speaker 3: it as well, how much does the personality traject onto
- 46:33Speaker 3: the field, like his personality and just you know, we
- 46:36Speaker 3: know coaches X and l's and things like that, and
- 46:38Speaker 3: sometimes you reflection a team can reflection a coach's personality,
- 46:41Speaker 3: but end of the day, it's still about, you know,
- 46:43Speaker 3: what they're doing as a head coach or just a coach.
- 46:45Speaker 3: But I think we saw that early in Pete's career
- 46:48Speaker 3: maybe a little bit, you know, the personality translated to
- 46:50Speaker 3: the field. Are we seeing that with Ben Johnson?
- 46:53Speaker 7: I think so. I think it happens, for better or
- 46:55Speaker 7: worse for all of these teams. You know, when Mike
- 46:57Speaker 7: Holmgren came in, suddenly they weren't a penalized team. You know,
- 47:00Speaker 7: he was on point with a lot of that stuff,
- 47:01Speaker 7: and that followed him kind of wherever he went. They
- 47:03Speaker 7: were detail oriented. That's sort of a thing. And I think, uh,
- 47:07Speaker 7: for Ben Johnson, yes, you mentioned Pete Carroll, I think
- 47:10Speaker 7: Ben Johnson has it obviously. Mike rabel H brings that
- 47:13Speaker 7: in right away and it really helps, I think too
- 47:16Speaker 7: for some of these guys who can make a real
- 47:18Speaker 7: difference on one side of the ball or the other.
- 47:20Speaker 7: I think that's part of it for Ben Johnson is
- 47:23Speaker 7: he he's a you know, really has a great scheme,
- 47:25Speaker 7: so you see you get a little bit of added bonus,
- 47:28Speaker 7: you know, in addition to the personality of the coach
- 47:31Speaker 7: and Ben Johnson. You know, I didn't see him taking
- 47:33Speaker 7: off his shirt before the season is something that would work.
- 47:36Speaker 3: But I thought it was pretty cool the personality. It
- 47:39Speaker 3: was just through and I mean that I'm sure in
- 47:40Speaker 3: that city that works well too in Chicago. It's Mike
- 47:43Speaker 3: Standle from the Athletic the Athletic dot Com Pick six column. Well,
- 47:47Speaker 3: let's let's go back down the Pete Carroll Vegas Raiders
- 47:51Speaker 3: rode again. Chip Kelly fired, and you know now they've
- 47:55Speaker 3: there's he's already fired a special teams coach. So two
- 47:57Speaker 3: coaches down off his staff are both gone. The the
- 48:02Speaker 3: off season will be interesting, the rest of the season
- 48:05Speaker 3: will be interesting. Let's let's take a little deeper look
- 48:07Speaker 3: into what's going on with the Raiders organization. Mike, you've
- 48:10Speaker 3: covered this league for a long time. Is it a
- 48:13Speaker 3: Pete problem? Is it a Davis the owner problem? Is
- 48:17Speaker 3: it other people with their hands in the pie Tom
- 48:19Speaker 3: Brady problem? What do you see there?
- 48:21Speaker 7: Well, I think it is a Davis ownership problem first,
- 48:26Speaker 7: and I think we ran a table in the pick
- 48:27Speaker 7: six column today showing you know who had hired the
- 48:30Speaker 7: most coaches in the league since Al Davis died in
- 48:32Speaker 7: twenty eleven, and the Raiders were right up there, six
- 48:35Speaker 7: or seven, you know, a big number. And so that's
- 48:38Speaker 7: some of it. I think. Then, you know, Pete bears
- 48:41Speaker 7: some of this too, being you know, coming in and
- 48:45Speaker 7: I don't know what he had to agree to you
- 48:47Speaker 7: to hire the staff that he got. But it's not
- 48:49Speaker 7: good when you're fired two of your three coordinators and
- 48:52Speaker 7: we're not even to we're barely to December, you know,
- 48:55Speaker 7: in fact, before December they fired. He fired two coordinators
- 48:57Speaker 7: on his first staff. That's very unusual. Can you remember
- 49:01Speaker 7: that happening? I mean, especially for a legendary coach like
- 49:05Speaker 7: Pete Carroll, like what Andy Reid you know in week
- 49:07Speaker 7: thirteen have fired two coordinators? Well, it just doesn't happen.
- 49:12Speaker 3: Well, I mean, Pete never did that here, you know,
- 49:14Speaker 3: like I mean, and he now he fired coordinators like
- 49:18Speaker 3: he did do that, but it was never in season, Mike,
- 49:20Speaker 3: and I guess that would be the red flag, right.
- 49:22Speaker 7: It looked like to me that either Pete didn't have
- 49:24Speaker 7: a great plan for who he wanted to hire, or
- 49:26Speaker 7: he wasn't able to hire who he wanted to get
- 49:28Speaker 7: the fits. They're a real balancing act there, you know,
- 49:31Speaker 7: especially for somebody like Pete Carroll, who has fifty years
- 49:34Speaker 7: of coaching and developing his program and has a very
- 49:37Speaker 7: distinct style to it. How you coach with Pete is
- 49:39Speaker 7: really important to Pete. The way you interact with players,
- 49:42Speaker 7: your mindset, all those things. And he's also even though
- 49:45Speaker 7: he's not associated with being schematic oriented, he does care
- 49:49Speaker 7: how you play a certain win offense and defense, and
- 49:53Speaker 7: so he needs people that are going to do that
- 49:55Speaker 7: for him. And it feels like Chip Kelly and to
- 49:57Speaker 7: some extent Patrick Graham, who you know, were those types
- 50:00Speaker 7: of guys for him as his offensive and defensive coordinators.
- 50:03Speaker 7: The special teams coordinator was inherited from last year. So
- 50:07Speaker 7: it hasn't felt like a great mesh there. And I
- 50:11Speaker 7: think most people in the Lake think they'll, you know,
- 50:13Speaker 7: they'll they'll blow it all up after the year if
- 50:15Speaker 7: us by seventeen points or more five times, you know,
- 50:18Speaker 7: it just hasn't been competitive.
- 50:20Speaker 3: Enough when you say blow it up, like Pete's won
- 50:22Speaker 3: and done.
- 50:23Speaker 7: Yeah, like Pete would be young and done. And you
- 50:25Speaker 7: let I think a lot of people in the Lake
- 50:26Speaker 7: think that, Hey, John spytech, the GM who's you know,
- 50:29Speaker 7: roommates with Brady or buddies with Brady, teammates back at Michigan,
- 50:34Speaker 7: you know football guy that they will are eventually going
- 50:37Speaker 7: to do this. And I'm not saying it doesn't mean
- 50:38Speaker 7: they were against bringing in Pete, but Pete's going to
- 50:41Speaker 7: be seventy five next year. Are you going to commit
- 50:43Speaker 7: to how much are you of the future. Are you
- 50:46Speaker 7: going to commit your organization to decision wise when you're
- 50:48Speaker 7: gonna have high picks and all of these things, if
- 50:50Speaker 7: you're not showing any kind of traction this year. So
- 50:54Speaker 7: I think Pete's got you know, December here to get
- 50:57Speaker 7: this thing turning.
- 50:58Speaker 3: Would be my guess, Well, I think, you know, you
- 51:00Speaker 3: bring up the you know who's bringing in the coaches,
- 51:02Speaker 3: assistant coach and staff. You know, I think we saw
- 51:05Speaker 3: that here in Seattle. Like there, we all know Ryan
- 51:08Speaker 3: Grubb was not Mike McDonald's pick. That was a John
- 51:10Speaker 3: Schneider pick. It didn't work. He made a move, and
- 51:13Speaker 3: the team sits there, not entirely because of the change
- 51:16Speaker 3: in offensive coordinator and quarterback, but they're sitting there at
- 51:18Speaker 3: nine and three. You know, do I guess that'd be
- 51:20Speaker 3: the question they're gonna have to ask, do you give
- 51:22Speaker 3: Pete another year and let him hire his own people.
- 51:24Speaker 3: But one of the issues.
- 51:26Speaker 7: Mike, yeah, Mike was you know, Mike was in a whirlwind.
- 51:30Speaker 7: McDonald's in a whirlwind of being courted by teams, and
- 51:33Speaker 7: it's hard to even have someone lined up. I think
- 51:35Speaker 7: we say it was a John Schander move. I don't
- 51:37Speaker 7: know that, you know. I mean, they had to hire somebody,
- 51:39Speaker 7: and I don't you know who who could have Mike
- 51:42Speaker 7: McDonald got at that time, right right, You do grub
- 51:44Speaker 7: and you're sort of making the best of the situation
- 51:46Speaker 7: and you hope it works and it doesn't, and then
- 51:48Speaker 7: you pivot and make a move. But I think in
- 51:52Speaker 7: this case in Seattle, there was a It was clearly
- 51:54Speaker 7: they liked Mike McDonald and even in that first year,
- 51:56Speaker 7: they liked what they saw from him, and they were
- 51:58Speaker 7: competitive and they won games and the defense improved, and
- 52:02Speaker 7: so there was a lot to hang your hat on
- 52:04Speaker 7: with Mike McDonald. Pete Carroll really is like, Okay, you know,
- 52:08Speaker 7: it tapered off at the end in Seattle. We know
- 52:10Speaker 7: he's a great coach, but he is going to be
- 52:11Speaker 7: seventy five, and there they they haven't. The team hasn't,
- 52:15Speaker 7: for whatever reason, been able to take on his identity
- 52:17Speaker 7: or or show much this year. So that's why I say,
- 52:21Speaker 7: how long are you going to commit to that?
- 52:23Speaker 3: I wonder too, if if just for like we talked
- 52:27Speaker 3: about it a little bit last week, I'll move on.
- 52:29Speaker 3: And I wondered even just for Pete's legacy, if you
- 52:32Speaker 3: know what, Pete just didn't work in the rate with
- 52:33Speaker 3: the Raiders, the hell of a run in Seattle, two
- 52:36Speaker 3: super Bowl appearances in a title, and all those things,
- 52:39Speaker 3: and you know, most almost every year, with the two
- 52:41Speaker 3: exceptions of the playoffs, on and on and on. Maybe
- 52:44Speaker 3: we kind of when when you and and the Hall
- 52:46Speaker 3: of Fame guys get together in a few years down
- 52:48Speaker 3: the road, maybe you forget about one year, but all
- 52:50Speaker 3: of a sudden, if it's two or three years of
- 52:51Speaker 3: bad football in Vegas, that might really taint your legacy.
- 52:55Speaker 3: It doesn't help, you know.
- 52:56Speaker 7: I think I think if he had gone there and
- 52:58Speaker 7: turned it and they were a nine to eighteen this year,
- 53:00Speaker 7: I think that would help him. You know, it would
- 53:02Speaker 7: be their first winning record in a while and all
- 53:04Speaker 7: of that. So you know, We'll see how that goes.
- 53:08Speaker 7: We'll cross that bridge when he gets here. Who knows,
- 53:10Speaker 7: maybe he and Home going to be on the bout
- 53:11Speaker 7: at the same time.
- 53:12Speaker 3: Wouldn't that be something? Okay, I really go just quick
- 53:15Speaker 3: thought yesterday on the Seahawks' defense dominating in a twenty
- 53:19Speaker 3: six to nothing win over Minnesota, taking advantage of first
- 53:22Speaker 3: time starter at quarterback, and even though Steve Merriucci talked
- 53:25Speaker 3: about how he's going to set a single game rookie
- 53:27Speaker 3: record for passing yards hopefully tongue in cheek, it did
- 53:30Speaker 3: not happen, obviously, But thought on what you saw yesterday
- 53:33Speaker 3: with Seattle, Well, if you.
- 53:34Speaker 7: Ever wanted to know what it would look like if
- 53:35Speaker 7: the twenty twenty five Seahawks played the nineteen ninety two Seahawks,
- 53:39Speaker 7: this is what it would look like. Okay, we answered
- 53:42Speaker 7: that question. That was the nineteen ninety two Seahawks out
- 53:44Speaker 7: there for Minnesota. Respectable defense, really really bad sub professional
- 53:49Speaker 7: offense that was so bad justin Jeferson didn't even talk
- 53:52Speaker 7: to the media afterwards, he just left.
- 53:54Speaker 3: I mean, the.
- 53:57Speaker 7: Ridiculous pick six interception that brosmer threw, I mean, you
- 54:00Speaker 7: can't even make it up. So I think this game
- 54:03Speaker 7: was like, Hey, I think it was. You know, if
- 54:05Speaker 7: you're say you wish that the offense would have done
- 54:08Speaker 7: a little better, I think that, you know, that's in
- 54:11Speaker 7: the back of our minds a little bit with the
- 54:13Speaker 7: ram game. This game, I do think that Minnesota Brian
- 54:17Speaker 7: Florenz or defensive coordinator probably had Donald's number a little
- 54:20Speaker 7: bit some inside info there. So a twenty six to nothing,
- 54:23Speaker 7: you take it, you move on. You didn't have I
- 54:25Speaker 7: don't think they had a big significant injury, so they
- 54:28Speaker 7: did what they had to do. But I think you
- 54:29Speaker 7: do want to see more from the offense.
- 54:31Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're right. I think there was a
- 54:33Speaker 3: little bit of inside that trader going on, knowing what
- 54:35Speaker 3: Sam Donald was all about from Brian flores in company.
- 54:37Speaker 3: You get the win, you move on. It's there's no
- 54:39Speaker 3: there's no committee to determine who goes to the playoff
- 54:41Speaker 3: in the NFL, which is a good thing. Go check
- 54:43Speaker 3: out Mike's call them the pick six the Athletic. Every
- 54:47Speaker 3: Monday morning, go to the NFL A toaub Usually it's
- 54:49Speaker 3: on the front page of the Athletic as well. It
- 54:50Speaker 3: would be today except for some guy Nam Lane Kiffin's
- 54:52Speaker 3: dominating the headlines there, so go to the NFL page
- 54:55Speaker 3: check it out. Mike, great stuff. As always, we'll talk
- 54:57Speaker 3: to you next week. Thank you. There you go. That's
- 54:59Speaker 3: Mike Sander joining us here on the Beacon Plumbing hotline
- 55:02Speaker 3: this afternoon. Got a couple minutes here, a couple of
- 55:04Speaker 3: things one four nine four to five one. That is,
- 55:06Speaker 3: he's still unrestricted free agent. Text line four nine four
- 55:09Speaker 3: to five one. Texting your thoughts, comments, questions, concerns, all
- 55:12Speaker 3: that you saw over the weekend. We have been with
- 55:13Speaker 3: you since Wednesday. It's been a while. We've had a
- 55:15Speaker 3: lot going on since then. We've had a Husky loss
- 55:17Speaker 3: to Oregon, We've had crack and shut out Cougar's beat
- 55:22Speaker 3: Oregon State before a crowd of twelve people on Saturday.
- 55:26Speaker 5: Wasn't that bad?
- 55:27Speaker 3: Oh? It was bad.
- 55:28Speaker 5: The student section was bad. So the angle you were
- 55:30Speaker 5: seeing on television was of that.
- 55:32Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't blame him though, I'm I mean it.
- 55:34Speaker 5: Was cold and twenty seven degree.
- 55:36Speaker 3: Playing an exhibition schedule. Who cares?
- 55:38Speaker 8: And link this real quick?
- 55:40Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin is doing his introductory news conference right now.
- 55:42Speaker 3: We're kind of glancing up at that they're showing it
- 55:45Speaker 3: live on ESPN. There's a lot to this and we'll
- 55:50Speaker 3: get into our We're gonna have Stuart Mandel on on Wednesday,
- 55:52Speaker 3: and I'm really looking forward to the conversation with Stu.
- 55:55Speaker 3: He he and others very critical of Kiffin how he
- 55:59Speaker 3: handled it. Listen, there's no good way to handle this
- 56:03Speaker 3: type of situation when you know, as we talk with you,
- 56:06Speaker 3: if you missed our first segment with you today, you
- 56:08Speaker 3: might want to go take a peek and listen to
- 56:09Speaker 3: that again. We talked a lot about just the climbate
- 56:12Speaker 3: of college football right now. I hate it as a
- 56:15Speaker 3: college football fan, and I say I hate it. I
- 56:16Speaker 3: don't just hate that the coaching situation. I just hate
- 56:19Speaker 3: what we're seeing period right now.
- 56:20Speaker 5: I'm with you on that.
- 56:22Speaker 3: And it's not just college football, it's college basketball a
- 56:25Speaker 3: major turn off. It's yeah, I think there's a lot
- 56:28Speaker 3: of people that are turned off. Now. Listen, here's what
- 56:31Speaker 3: college football is going to lean on. They'll lean on
- 56:35Speaker 3: the massive TV numbers across the country and they are
- 56:37Speaker 3: they're big TV numbers for a lot of these games.
- 56:39Speaker 3: Every week we're seeing these numbers come out and they're
- 56:41Speaker 3: very good. And I understand, we get it. I understand that,
- 56:44Speaker 3: but I'll take it even too. Basketball like I saw today,
- 56:47Speaker 3: Like our guy Ace Glass is a freshman at Wise
- 56:49Speaker 3: who've got named WCC Player of the Week even though
- 56:51Speaker 3: they got beat up a little bit in Hawaii the
- 56:53Speaker 3: Mauley Invitational, but he had an incredible week in terms
- 56:55Speaker 3: of scoring. You can't even enjoy it no as a
- 56:59Speaker 3: cooper because you're like, Okay, is he playing for Duke
- 57:02Speaker 3: Kentucky Kansas? Where's he playing next year? Like that's the
- 57:05Speaker 3: first thing that comes to your mind if you have
- 57:07Speaker 3: a good coach and you're not one of four or
- 57:10Speaker 3: five programs in the country. And I mean, hell, there's
- 57:14Speaker 3: even rumor that and I think it was nonsense that
- 57:16Speaker 3: the bor might leave Alabama and go to Penn State.
- 57:19Speaker 3: But let's just say, unless you're Ohio State, Alabama, maybe Michigan,
- 57:24Speaker 3: I don't know, probably jacksas Sar can kind of write
- 57:33Speaker 3: his own ticket. Maybe sort there's very few programs in
- 57:36Speaker 3: the country that if you have a great coach and
- 57:39Speaker 3: you're having a hell of a season and will miss
- 57:41Speaker 3: is a great example of this. Yeah, that in the
- 57:44Speaker 3: back of your mind the entire year. As coaches get fired.
- 57:48Speaker 3: Can this be sustainable? Is our guy going to stay?
- 57:51Speaker 3: And this isn't when I bring this up. This is
- 57:54Speaker 3: not a hey, they should have to stay. I'm not
- 57:56Speaker 3: saying that. I understand that. I think Softy nailed, and
- 57:58Speaker 3: I think a lot of people have had relatively the
- 58:00Speaker 3: same thing. The calendar just has to change. We're gonna
- 58:04Speaker 3: have Huffman on later this week early signing days Wednesday.
- 58:08Speaker 3: Why well, because coaches wanted then that that The answer
- 58:12Speaker 3: is that, okay? But why, Like you don't even know
- 58:15Speaker 3: the coaching cycles not even over yet. Guys are leaving.
- 58:19Speaker 3: The egos of coaches also is a turnoff. I think
- 58:23Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin is a turnoff. He's a great villain. Going
- 58:26Speaker 3: to LSU is the greatest thing ever because that just
- 58:27Speaker 3: turns that school into the biggest villain in the country.
- 58:30Speaker 3: Like everyone will root against them. You might hate Alabama,
- 58:33Speaker 3: but you're gonna root like hell when Alabama plays LSU.
- 58:35Speaker 1: Yeah, you are.
- 58:36Speaker 3: That's just the way it's going to be territory anyway, right,
- 58:39Speaker 3: And for people trying to say that maybe he should
- 58:42Speaker 3: have been allowed to stay and coach foolish to even
- 58:47Speaker 3: think that he's going to a rival it's their number
- 58:52Speaker 3: two rival in the SEC.
- 58:54Speaker 5: You just couldn't do that.
- 58:55Speaker 3: No, it's there, he's going to LSU. If he went
- 58:57Speaker 3: to Mississippi State, it would be slightly worse than going
- 59:00Speaker 3: to LSU, but not much. You're not gonna let him
- 59:02Speaker 3: stick around and then also have another month with all
- 59:05Speaker 3: of your players, Yeah, to recruit them as you prepare
- 59:09Speaker 3: for a playoff game to go with you. LSU just
- 59:11Speaker 3: wasn't gonna happen. But watching this thing play out, it
- 59:15Speaker 3: keeps coming to my mind. And I brought this up
- 59:17Speaker 3: to somebody and they said, well, you know, who cares
- 59:19Speaker 3: about the players because they're all making their money anyway.
- 59:21Speaker 3: They're all hired guns. They're all that thing. I get that,
- 59:23Speaker 3: but not all of them are. Not all of them are.
- 59:28Speaker 3: For a lot of these guys, college football playoffs is
- 59:29Speaker 3: a pinnacle of their life. It's a pinnacle of their career. Yeah,
- 59:33Speaker 3: there's guys who are gonna go follow him to LSU.
- 59:35Speaker 3: But you work your butt off, as you mentioned, we
- 59:36Speaker 3: talked about it. You don't just work from August through
- 59:39Speaker 3: the end of the football season. You're working year round
- 59:42Speaker 3: as a college football player, and you get to that
- 59:44Speaker 3: level someplace that ole miss has never been before, and
- 59:46Speaker 3: your coach leaves. He had the right to. The rules
- 59:49Speaker 3: are in place allows him to do so. Away you
- 59:51Speaker 3: go hard to begrudge him for doing that. You also
- 59:55Speaker 3: probably if your old miss should have known what you
- 59:57Speaker 3: were getting into with him, maybe you do a deal
- 59:59Speaker 3: with the devil. Guy had been fired at a lot
- 1:00:02Speaker 3: of places, also have been a vagabond, doesn't like to
- 1:00:05Speaker 3: stay in one place for a long time, so you
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: hired him. It's probably inevitable if he had great success,
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: he was going to leave you. That's the way it is.
- 1:00:16Speaker 3: But think about this. They're an SEC team, they have
- 1:00:18Speaker 3: financial wherewithal he's gone. It's just a disappointing day, Like
- 1:00:24Speaker 3: disappointing all the way around. For I love college football.
- 1:00:27Speaker 3: I love college sports, and as you said it, it's
- 1:00:31Speaker 3: becoming harder to really enjoy it sometimes.
- 1:00:33Speaker 5: I will tell you senior night, last game of the
- 1:00:36Speaker 5: regular season, I'm on the sidelines at Wazoo, and that
- 1:00:39Speaker 5: is the first thing that was going through my head
- 1:00:41Speaker 5: just watching the last game is which you know what,
- 1:00:44Speaker 5: And I was like excited because there was no definitely
- 1:00:48Speaker 5: that guy's gone there. You know, we didn't have that
- 1:00:51Speaker 5: guy where we've seen in the past where.
- 1:00:52Speaker 3: It's also why we're six and six.
- 1:00:54Speaker 5: It is, I mean, and that's not crapping on that.
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: No it is.
- 1:00:59Speaker 3: But there's no camp More, there's no Geometerier, there's no
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: Deshaun Stripling, who's an All miss right now as a
- 1:01:04Speaker 3: wide receiver. It's none of those guys. But but yeah,
- 1:01:08Speaker 3: that's the trade off you're saying.
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: It was going that.
- 1:01:10Speaker 5: That has not been the forefront of my mind in
- 1:01:12Speaker 5: covering a game ever.
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: Can I ask one question?
- 1:01:15Speaker 9: Yeah, as someone who didn't go to a big college
- 1:01:18Speaker 9: football school, I see, you know, no football, right, What
- 1:01:22Speaker 9: is there to draw someone in who doesn't have the
- 1:01:25Speaker 9: tie to college football?
- 1:01:27Speaker 3: Now, that's that's a question you'd have to answer because
- 1:01:30Speaker 3: I'm just curious. I'm a college football fan, but I
- 1:01:32Speaker 3: grew up as a Husky football fan and then went
- 1:01:34Speaker 3: to Wazoo became a Cougar football fan. But I like
- 1:01:35Speaker 3: the sport, So I'm the one I can't answer that.
- 1:01:38Speaker 3: I ask you that I think it's money to become
- 1:01:41Speaker 3: a fan.
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: Yeah, like oh Gamba casual. I think maybe it's gambling
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: or regional in the NFL. Yeah, regional is a good
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: answer to that, But like, what school do you live by?
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 1:01:53Speaker 9: Like it's the same thing I say about. It's a
- 1:01:57Speaker 9: different comparison. I know, we're up against the clock post.
- 1:02:00Speaker 9: So if you're just a random soccer fan that lives
- 1:02:03Speaker 9: in Europe, right, why would you watch the MLS versus
- 1:02:06Speaker 9: the European leaks?
- 1:02:07Speaker 3: Yeah? Why you would watch college sports back in the
- 1:02:12Speaker 3: day would be yeah, the simple part would be because
- 1:02:16Speaker 3: you were a the pageantry, the tradition, all those things that,
- 1:02:22Speaker 3: let's come back to it probably don't exist like they
- 1:02:25Speaker 3: used to. Okay, that's probably the easiest answer. All right,
- 1:02:27Speaker 3: so right, come back a Factor Fiction, Final week of that.
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: Check your text.
- 1:02:30Speaker 6: Next from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
- 1:02:39Speaker 6: Now back to Ian Fernesz powered by Seattle Close to
- 1:02:43Speaker 6: the Sports book, Snow, call me Casino and Hotel on
- 1:02:46Speaker 6: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R FM.
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: Final week of Factor Fiction. Our first pick coming up
- 1:02:53Speaker 3: in a second. Before we get to that, Andrews, I'm
- 1:02:54Speaker 3: having text line issues on my end. Can you help
- 1:02:58Speaker 3: me out?
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: What you got? What else is new? All right?
- 1:03:01Speaker 9: From the two six Ian What used to make college
- 1:03:04Speaker 9: football and attractive? Sport to follow for me was the
- 1:03:07Speaker 9: prospect of building a program slash roster, recruiting ratings, program
- 1:03:12Speaker 9: stability in a short term two to three year span
- 1:03:14Speaker 9: with a chance for even longer stability.
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: None of that exists anymore.
- 1:03:18Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's I think that's the frustration for
- 1:03:21Speaker 3: fans is just that, well, like I mentioned, we're gonna
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: have Brendan huff Been on later this week early signing days. Wednesday,
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: We'll have many other probably Wednesday or Thursday. I'm not
- 1:03:32Speaker 3: sure what day we'll have Mon. We'll have him one
- 1:03:33Speaker 3: of those two days. And that's the hard part is
- 1:03:36Speaker 3: that you would get young guys and you're like, oh, okay,
- 1:03:40Speaker 3: he's red shirt and can't wait to watch him play
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: as a red shirt freshman, probably on special teams. And
- 1:03:44Speaker 3: then So we'll talk about this with Alex and MK tomorrow.
- 1:03:46Speaker 3: I'm curious what they think about the new college landscape.
- 1:03:49Speaker 5: Because they got plenty of things.
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's more player friendly than ever before, and
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: it was kind of ridiculous in the past. Maybe they
- 1:03:58Speaker 3: make guys sit out for an entire year year. Hell,
- 1:04:00Speaker 3: the PAC twelve PAC ten had a rule I believe
- 1:04:02Speaker 3: that if you transferred in conference. It was a two
- 1:04:05Speaker 3: year that you had to sit out, so made it
- 1:04:09Speaker 3: really hard. Like I, like I mentioned to Hugh, this
- 1:04:12Speaker 3: is the part I don't. I don't like unlimited free
- 1:04:17Speaker 3: agency for coaches and players. I don't. I'm never going
- 1:04:21Speaker 3: to be in favor of that because I think in
- 1:04:23Speaker 3: any walk of life in which there are we can
- 1:04:28Speaker 3: discuss this more tomorrow, but in any walk of life
- 1:04:30Speaker 3: in which you know your your employees, or your talents
- 1:04:35Speaker 3: are valued in any way, shape or form, you should
- 1:04:39Speaker 3: be a compensated for it and be also there are
- 1:04:41Speaker 3: some restrictions and play. That's just that's just real life.
- 1:04:44Speaker 3: You know. I mentioned before, like I won't even use radio.
- 1:04:46Speaker 3: I'll just use the other thing. I'll say cracking, Like
- 1:04:48Speaker 3: I could not go to John Forsland tomorrow, could not
- 1:04:52Speaker 3: just go and be the play by play voice of
- 1:04:53Speaker 3: the LA Kings. Doesn't work that way, you know, not,
- 1:04:57Speaker 3: especially God in c Yeah, well the seasons, Hey, you're
- 1:05:02Speaker 3: in the playoffs.
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: No, I'm out.
- 1:05:04Speaker 5: That's insane to me.
- 1:05:05Speaker 3: I just I don't think anybody can convince me otherwise. Yes, yeah,
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: we don't.
- 1:05:10Speaker 9: And I know we have to get fact fishing here.
- 1:05:12Speaker 9: Just a second, there's just so many aspects of college football.
- 1:05:15Speaker 9: As someone again who doesn't have the ties to write
- 1:05:17Speaker 9: the alum side of things, where it's like, I remember
- 1:05:22Speaker 9: a tweet from Steve Palozzolo a couple of weeks ago
- 1:05:25Speaker 9: where it's like, there's so much conversation around college football
- 1:05:28Speaker 9: that isn't about football, it's about everything else, right, And
- 1:05:31Speaker 9: I'm with I'm for like all the drama and everything,
- 1:05:34Speaker 9: and it adds to the sport itself. Yes, but that's
- 1:05:37Speaker 9: not what we're talking about anymore. It's just not it's
- 1:05:40Speaker 9: and it's not just football's basketball, it's everything in college
- 1:05:42Speaker 9: Let's get.
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: To do it. Factor Fiction. Here we go, Final week.
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: Where's that to go?
- 1:05:45Speaker 2: Glad you're with us, it's your shot at our weekly
- 1:05:47Speaker 2: thousand bucks and the ten thousand dollars grand prize. It's
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- 1:06:07Speaker 3: I'm gonna recap in a second. First of all, here's
- 1:06:09Speaker 3: a pick Patriots minus seven at home gets the Giants
- 1:06:13Speaker 3: win in n Football tonight. Fact four nine four to
- 1:06:15Speaker 3: five one you discreate fiction four nine, four five one
- 1:06:18Speaker 3: before you just say I'm gonna pick fiction because it's
- 1:06:20Speaker 3: for Nest making the pick. Let me point something out
- 1:06:24Speaker 3: to you. Let me point this out to you. There
- 1:06:30Speaker 3: is one show, and only one show that has won
- 1:06:34Speaker 3: not one, not two, not three, not four, five or six,
- 1:06:39Speaker 3: but seven straight games that would be late season push
- 1:06:44Speaker 3: baby for a Nest show. Yeah, we are seven and
- 1:06:49Speaker 3: zero now on a little bit of a heater at
- 1:06:51Speaker 3: the end of the year, fighting our way back somehow,
- 1:06:54Speaker 3: some way. Oregon minus six and a half against Washington,
- 1:06:58Speaker 3: fact Minnesota at Seattle under forty one and a half.
- 1:07:02Speaker 3: Anders fact Ole Miss minus seven that Mississippi State fact
- 1:07:08Speaker 3: boom boom boom. By the way, your pick, which was
- 1:07:12Speaker 3: bang on, spot on, one hundred percent right, only fifty
- 1:07:15Speaker 3: four percent of you guys, I know, I know my
- 1:07:19Speaker 3: Oregon mina six and a half Washington had sixty six
- 1:07:21Speaker 3: percent approval, seventy four percent for Ole Miss over Mississippi State.
- 1:07:27Speaker 3: M Interesting. All of a sudden, things are heating up
- 1:07:31Speaker 3: a wee bits. Anders.
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: Look at the show's standings.
- 1:07:34Speaker 9: Huh, it's probably unlikely to get a first place. Since
- 1:07:38Speaker 9: this is the last week of fact of fiction by.
- 1:07:40Speaker 3: Well this not we could. We couldn't because we were
- 1:07:42Speaker 3: seven behind chucking b Yeah, you're right, so no, it
- 1:07:44Speaker 3: is unlikely. We can catch two other shows, yes, the
- 1:07:47Speaker 3: uh M.
- 1:07:48Speaker 9: Jane The Midday twenty eight and thirty four for Nest
- 1:07:51Speaker 9: Show twenty five and thirty one, and Softing Dick twenty
- 1:07:53Speaker 9: seven and thirty two.
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: All within a couple games of each other. Need to
- 1:07:57Speaker 1: have a big week, so Ian's.
- 1:07:58Speaker 10: First pick of the week is Patriots minus seven at
- 1:08:02Speaker 10: home tonight Monday Night football fact over the Giants of
- 1:08:04Speaker 10: New York City Fact four nine four five one trying
- 1:08:08Speaker 10: to win a thousand dollars We could prize ten thousand
- 1:08:09Speaker 10: dollars grand prize if you just screate fiction.
- 1:08:11Speaker 3: Four nine four or five one. Look at how pretty
- 1:08:14Speaker 3: that looks like all of a sudden, there's a bunch of green,
- 1:08:17Speaker 3: all of a sudden, just kind of finding our way
- 1:08:19Speaker 3: back into the into respectability. It's really fun to look at,
- 1:08:23Speaker 3: very very good. I can't get to five hundred, but
- 1:08:26Speaker 3: I can get to eighteen to nineteen.
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: That's my goal. All right, let's do it.
- 1:08:32Speaker 3: Maybe pass a couple people on the way, Maybe pass
- 1:08:35Speaker 3: a couple people there's only Chuck, Anders and Dick and Bucky.
- 1:08:42Speaker 3: Those four are all above five hundred. Bucky is barely above.
- 1:08:45Speaker 3: He's ten and nine one game above five hundred. Everybody
- 1:08:48Speaker 3: else is MD's five hundre. Everybody else is below five hundred.
- 1:08:52Speaker 3: Oh got a chance. Let's get there. Ah, let's get there.
- 1:08:56Speaker 3: Strong start, strong, finish, strong, finish of the year. That's good.
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: One more time.
- 1:09:00Speaker 3: Patriots minus seven fact four nine four to five one.
- 1:09:01Speaker 3: If you disagree fiction four nine four to five one,
- 1:09:03Speaker 3: text in your pick right now.
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: Fact.
- 1:09:06Speaker 3: If you agree fiction. If you disagree, text that right
- 1:09:08Speaker 3: now again. A thousand dollars weekly prize. Did you give
- 1:09:11Speaker 3: a thousand dollars out yet this week?
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: No?
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: I'm having some.
- 1:09:15Speaker 9: Standings issues right now that I so people are asking
- 1:09:18Speaker 9: about the standings. I know, if you're close to the top,
- 1:09:20Speaker 9: you want to know before the last right you do. Yeah,
- 1:09:23Speaker 9: but that doesn't change your incentive it anyway.
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: You've got to win every single one.
- 1:09:28Speaker 9: So I will get the standings out at some point
- 1:09:31Speaker 9: either late today or tomorrow.
- 1:09:32Speaker 3: Okay, so let me just point out this. I want
- 1:09:33Speaker 3: to bring that up for this reason. So at some
- 1:09:35Speaker 3: point today or tomorrow, Andrews is gonna call somebody for
- 1:09:37Speaker 3: one thousand dollars from last week. Yes, and then a
- 1:09:39Speaker 3: week from today or tomorrow he'll call somebody else and
- 1:09:41Speaker 3: say you won a thousand dollars. And it also tell
- 1:09:42Speaker 3: somebody they won ten thousand dollars. If you're out of
- 1:09:44Speaker 3: the running for ten thousand, that's fine. Still want a
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- 1:09:51Speaker 3: text in factor fiction to four nine four five one.
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- 1:10:03Speaker 3: Every day feels lucky. Softy joins us next.
- 1:10:15Speaker 8: All right, he's here, ladies and gentlemen.
- 1:10:19Speaker 3: Not often I look on the old uh on, the
- 1:10:22Speaker 3: old app, the old X app, and I see something
- 1:10:25Speaker 3: and I'm like, wow, that is yeah, bang on makes
- 1:10:29Speaker 3: all the sense, makes too much sense?
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: Will I make a lot of He's talking about me?
- 1:10:31Speaker 9: Now?
- 1:10:32Speaker 11: I am, because I post a lot of stuff that
- 1:10:34Speaker 11: makes a lot of sense, A lot of sense.
- 1:10:36Speaker 3: I would I would be.
- 1:10:37Speaker 11: Which which unbelievable, thrilling, entertaining, just balls on you?
- 1:10:42Speaker 3: Are you talking about you too?
- 1:10:43Speaker 7: All right?
- 1:10:44Speaker 3: Which one?
- 1:10:44Speaker 1: Which one?
- 1:10:45Speaker 3: Well? The herb Street stuff is just frod.
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: He's just has he become.
- 1:10:52Speaker 11: I think his head is literally physically up his ash.
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: I mean, there's no other explanation for it.
- 1:10:57Speaker 11: I think you know, I used to with him right
- 1:10:59Speaker 11: back in the day, twenty five years ago. He was
- 1:11:01Speaker 11: a weekly guest of the Dave Softy Maler ten to
- 1:11:04Speaker 11: one show.
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: Really Yeah, And then ESPN.
- 1:11:07Speaker 11: Took over and cut everybody off at the pass, and
- 1:11:10Speaker 11: so we lost.
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: We lost the.
- 1:11:12Speaker 3: Mat And I think this guy's I think his ego
- 1:11:14Speaker 3: has just got the best.
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: Hitting me Like, no, dude, he's gay.
- 1:11:17Speaker 11: He is telling the players he's gonna go coach somewhere else.
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: You're done.
- 1:11:20Speaker 11: Audio Somemigo, the ad for old Miss Keith Carter I
- 1:11:25Speaker 11: think his name is, that said, no, you're not going
- 1:11:27Speaker 11: to be in the meeting.
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: You're done.
- 1:11:28Speaker 11: And on top of that, we're going to take your
- 1:11:30Speaker 11: rack of clothing your office and put it in the
- 1:11:32Speaker 11: parking lot. I thought it was freaking phenomenal, good for them.
- 1:11:35Speaker 3: The one I like, though this is a Dave Softy
- 1:11:37Speaker 3: Maller sixteen hours ago. College football just needs to adapt
- 1:11:41Speaker 3: a carbon copy of the NFL calendar. Free agency transferport
- 1:11:44Speaker 3: will open in March. No contact allowed directly or indirect
- 1:11:46Speaker 3: with players on other rosters until then, Draft signing Day
- 1:11:49Speaker 3: in April. No need for coaches to Quinn December to
- 1:11:51Speaker 3: save a class at their next stop. You're welcome. I
- 1:11:53Speaker 3: brought this up with Hugh and he brought up the
- 1:11:55Speaker 3: same thing, which I thought of as well, because the
- 1:11:57Speaker 3: only reason they do all this stuff now gonna get
- 1:12:00Speaker 3: him a role for spring screwf spring football, Like, just right,
- 1:12:03Speaker 3: have that in May or June or whatever you want
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: to do. It makes way too much sense there. There
- 1:12:09Speaker 3: is no other sport that allows a coach to be
- 1:12:12Speaker 3: poached from another team in the middle of the season.
- 1:12:15Speaker 3: Here's the thing.
- 1:12:15Speaker 11: I mean, obviously, the reason why the Kiffin thing is
- 1:12:17Speaker 11: so big is because Ole Miss is playing for a title, right,
- 1:12:20Speaker 11: I get it, there's more of a spotlight on this ones,
- 1:12:22Speaker 11: but this isn't the first time we've seen a coach
- 1:12:24Speaker 11: lead before a season ends. I mean, look, you know
- 1:12:27Speaker 11: Steve Sarkisian not that people want to compare what Ole
- 1:12:30Speaker 11: Miss is doing in the playoff to the Fight.
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: Hunger Ball in San Francisco.
- 1:12:33Speaker 11: But Steve Sarkisian took off to go be the coach
- 1:12:36Speaker 11: at USC and missed the ball game, and two he
- 1:12:38Speaker 11: had to take over and he won a game for them.
- 1:12:40Speaker 11: I mean, I kind of feel like sometimes we decide
- 1:12:43Speaker 11: how big a deal things should be for other players
- 1:12:47Speaker 11: and other people. Like I don't know how pissed off
- 1:12:49Speaker 11: those guys were when sark left. I have no idea
- 1:12:52Speaker 11: how angry they were. Maybe they were, you know, completely
- 1:12:55Speaker 11: angry at him, mortified that he would quit and not
- 1:12:58Speaker 11: be there for the for the bowl game against BYU
- 1:13:00Speaker 11: that that season. I got no idea how the players
- 1:13:03Speaker 11: felt about it. But I just think that you give
- 1:13:05Speaker 11: these coaches this window. You're going to put a signing
- 1:13:07Speaker 11: day in December, which is Wednesday, for crying out loud.
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: We got to have the kids enrolled for spring ball? No,
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: how about this?
- 1:13:14Speaker 11: How about they finished their senior year of high school,
- 1:13:17Speaker 11: go play baseball like normal people.
- 1:13:20Speaker 3: Go to the prom, do whatever you're gonna do. Yes, yes, yes,
- 1:13:23Speaker 3: like a seventeen year olds should be doing. Yes, all
- 1:13:26Speaker 3: those things.
- 1:13:27Speaker 11: Go get arrested for an open container, have some fun,
- 1:13:30Speaker 11: go to a keg at the arboretum, whatever you want
- 1:13:32Speaker 11: to do, floor in the gymnasium, all those things.
- 1:13:34Speaker 1: Kid, Yeah, all right, leaving.
- 1:13:37Speaker 11: School and going to calvinch when you're seventeen years old
- 1:13:39Speaker 11: in January, so you can maybe get on the field
- 1:13:42Speaker 11: in the fall, right and all that. I agree with
- 1:13:44Speaker 11: that tweet, by the way, that was agreed.
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: Good tweet. It's what was the second one?
- 1:13:48Speaker 3: No, the first one was the hurt Street Okay, sorry,
- 1:13:50Speaker 3: the second one was the thing.
- 1:13:51Speaker 9: Okay, should I interrupt something real quick? I just saw
- 1:13:53Speaker 9: this news. I don't know if you guys have seen this,
- 1:13:55Speaker 9: and I need what.
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: Would have said no?
- 1:13:56Speaker 9: But then I was I'll let you go ahead, go ahead.
- 1:14:00Speaker 9: Did you see that the Giants defensive end Abdul Carter
- 1:14:03Speaker 9: will miss the first.
- 1:14:03Speaker 11: I don't know if that's true that from Wes Steinberg's Twitter. Yes, yeah,
- 1:14:10Speaker 11: I don't know if Wes Steinberg is a real person.
- 1:14:12Speaker 11: By the way, you might want to be careful. There
- 1:14:14Speaker 11: is a sketule of climbing exactly. I just texted Seth
- 1:14:17Speaker 11: Everett a ka off and he is he has no
- 1:14:22Speaker 11: idea who he is.
- 1:14:23Speaker 9: Okay, this should I read what I'm seeing.
- 1:14:30Speaker 1: The disclaimer, this could be could be not correct. Okay.
- 1:14:34Speaker 9: According to Wesley Steinberg, is Giants defensive Carter will miss
- 1:14:39Speaker 9: the first drive tonight for disciplinary reasons after getting caught
- 1:14:42Speaker 9: watching porn in a team meeting when his headphones were disconnected.
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: Please be true, please.
- 1:14:53Speaker 3: I thought it was something serious, like, no, that's actually
- 1:14:57Speaker 3: is this serious at all?
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: Okay? I don't know what this guy is.
- 1:15:01Speaker 11: What's the guy's name, Wes Wesley Steinberg Steinberg, Yeah, I
- 1:15:04Speaker 11: think I went to Sunday School.
- 1:15:06Speaker 4: I was.
- 1:15:07Speaker 5: By the way, we can tell Purple Sheet. We're all
- 1:15:09Speaker 5: googling porn on our work laptops right now.
- 1:15:11Speaker 3: For the reason I.
- 1:15:13Speaker 1: Was Don Jackson.
- 1:15:13Speaker 11: I was at the Jed Fish press conference last week
- 1:15:16Speaker 11: and I opened up my iPad right in the middle
- 1:15:18Speaker 11: of the press conference and a commercial started.
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: Playing off my iPad. Oh god, oh that's or whatever.
- 1:15:24Speaker 1: I thank god it was a commercial.
- 1:15:27Speaker 3: I did that earlier show. Actually, he was a self
- 1:15:30Speaker 3: described NFL in New York Giants inside.
- 1:15:32Speaker 11: Nobody knows who he is, dude, and the fact that
- 1:15:34Speaker 11: he has a blue check mark means nothing.
- 1:15:36Speaker 1: You can pay for that. I know that, I know,
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: I know that thing.
- 1:15:39Speaker 3: I'm wondering how he has twenty three thousand followers.
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: Well, I mean there's a lot of parody accounts that
- 1:15:43Speaker 1: have millions of follow.
- 1:15:44Speaker 3: He's not followed by anybody I'm following, including Seth, says
- 1:15:48Speaker 3: Seth bo. Yes, I know him, Seth Everett my real name.
- 1:15:52Speaker 3: Well duh, yeah, I don't know.
- 1:15:54Speaker 1: You just mixed up up everyone off randomly. Yeah, GIBBERI
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: his name off.
- 1:16:00Speaker 3: Okay, have you never met Seth.
- 1:16:04Speaker 5: Seth Everett several times?
- 1:16:06Speaker 11: I know that Seth Everett bogged and off. Jesus, he's
- 1:16:11Speaker 11: a treat to.
- 1:16:12Speaker 1: By the way, he doesn't know who he is.
- 1:16:14Speaker 3: Okay, so you know what I'm going with, Seth not
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: knowing who this guy is meeting is. But that's a
- 1:16:18Speaker 3: great story. It is so it is so God, what
- 1:16:21Speaker 3: should we go to watch his.
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: First drive to do?
- 1:16:23Speaker 11: We should do a show one day, maybe in the
- 1:16:26Speaker 11: midll of summer whatever, where all we do is just
- 1:16:29Speaker 11: fake news. People have to decide what's legit and what's Oh,
- 1:16:32Speaker 11: that's a great right, we kind of like.
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: Mix it up a little bit.
- 1:16:35Speaker 3: I like it. I like that, I like that idea.
- 1:16:36Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out what So he's fifty two
- 1:16:38Speaker 3: news or real journalists fifty one?
- 1:16:40Speaker 1: You decide?
- 1:16:41Speaker 10: All right?
- 1:16:41Speaker 1: So what hey?
- 1:16:42Speaker 3: So watch tonight if number fifty one is not out
- 1:16:45Speaker 3: there for the giants in the first drive. Everyone knows
- 1:16:47Speaker 3: this because he was watching porn in a team meeting meeting.
- 1:16:50Speaker 5: Wait, I'm sorry, just the setting alone makes me fake news.
- 1:16:54Speaker 3: This softie on his computer right now, watch he leaves
- 1:16:58Speaker 3: his screen up. Quick alt control all delete, control all delete,
- 1:17:04Speaker 3: All right, what a you got going on? It's how
- 1:17:05Speaker 3: that works, by the way, Oh really, damn.
- 1:17:08Speaker 1: Through your browser? What I got today? Humil will be
- 1:17:12Speaker 1: here or o'clock?
- 1:17:13Speaker 11: A couple of segments with him Little Factor Fiction four
- 1:17:15Speaker 11: you a little fun with audio and today a special
- 1:17:18Speaker 11: day the return for one day of the Opponent Audio
- 1:17:22Speaker 11: recap with Paul Allen from KFA.
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: What time at four forty five? Sorry?
- 1:17:27Speaker 11: Three thirty today? No wait, hang on, no way, it's off.
- 1:17:30Speaker 1: Jackson's here? What time or forty five or forty five?
- 1:17:33Speaker 3: Jackson? Can you put on a three thirty instead? I
- 1:17:35Speaker 3: want to hear it.
- 1:17:36Speaker 1: We might play it twice?
- 1:17:37Speaker 3: Can you play twice?
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: That's not to do textimonials. That's what good. That's a
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: good point. He's too lazy to.
- 1:17:43Speaker 3: Get text three forty five? Can we hear it? Three
- 1:17:44Speaker 3: forty five?
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: No, four forty five. You gotta listen.
- 1:17:47Speaker 11: That's your that's your reward for listening to us for
- 1:17:49Speaker 11: two hours.
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: The pain will be rewarded.
- 1:17:53Speaker 3: The beautiful thing is there's a little thing called the
- 1:17:55Speaker 3: podcast on the iHeartRadio app.
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: Podcast.
- 1:17:58Speaker 11: Yeah, I can't podcast it, right Jackson, because it's an
- 1:18:02Speaker 11: NFL property.
- 1:18:03Speaker 1: Is that right now?
- 1:18:03Speaker 3: It's an iHeart station.
- 1:18:05Speaker 1: You're fine, just giving the guy a reason to listen.
- 1:18:08Speaker 3: You listen to podcast. Listen to you from three until
- 1:18:10Speaker 3: four when I get home. Sometimes you don't listen to
- 1:18:13Speaker 3: me when you're at home. No, I don't either, hear
- 1:18:16Speaker 3: my wife just want to listen to you?
- 1:18:17Speaker 1: Amen? Do you want to hear voice? Listen to you?
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: Why would you want to listen to me?
- 1:18:21Speaker 11: So true for the mild mannered and marginally objectionable Inverness.
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: This is paddle day saying so long everyone,