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The Battle of the Quarterbacks · Sports Exchange

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Happy Wednesday, everybody. Welcome to another edition of that Sports Exchange. My
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name is Scott Morgan, Rout the Motor City mad Mouth, very loud tonight.
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Then again, what's new with my colleagues? Here, Jacob Chrisner to
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the top. Here's Jacob. How's it going tonight? I'm doing all right?
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And Jamie Ellis what's going on? How's everybody doing tonight? Doing all
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right? And of course a man's busy working on some Super Bowl preparations.
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I can understand the why God, why the man has his hat backwards?
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Okay, because all that process is probably backwards and newst number of the Sports
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Exchanges. Travis Holmes, he is from inside the pitskin, but we thought
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we'd bring him on here tonight and give him a change of pace. Welcome
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back, a new opportunity for Travis. Thank you for having me, Thank
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you for having me. Looking forward to it. So for the audience it
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doesn't know Travis, why don't you give them a little bit of a brief
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overview of Travis before I get to particulars. For the last two years,
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I've been covering the Jacksonville Jaguars with a seven B and Sports as their game
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Day analyst. Basically, I just break down the place, tell them who's
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that fault for, what play wouldn't right, what play went wrong and why.
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Also I cover the Jaguars for Bigcatcuntry dot com as the news correspondent there,
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and we also have a podcast on Fridays, also Jaguar related, because
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it's all Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Jacksonville. I'm in Orlando, right outside of
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Jacksonville, a few hours south of Jacksonville. And also, as Scott mentioned
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already inside the Pitskin on Tuesdays at eight thirty pm every week, I'm a
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penelist on that show. Nice for you guys have have me finally, you
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know, branching out to also the sports has changed. Appreciate it. Man,
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Oh, you're very welcome a run that. I think we're gonna let
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everybody know what Jacob Christner how they can get a hold of you. Yes,
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wor else you're gonna see us. I know we're going to be in Las
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Vegas, where I have a feel of this team is going to be there.
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I don't know if I'm happy about that just yet, but they're probably
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gonna be there. Guys. Well, we're also working on your website,
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know today's been a big coaching day. I've just mentioned a couple. We
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won't get into as much detail unless we have a little bit more time later.
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We know that in the NBA, the Milwaukee Bucks hired Doc Rivers as
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their new head coach, and of course now the latest reporters Jim Harbaugh is
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indeed headed to the LA Chargers. I believe it's a five year deal.
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More details will be divulged with Those are the stories that we are following here
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on the Sports Exchange. First thing I want to get to is I want
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to go ahead and size up two key coaching hires. We have Jared Mayo
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to New England, and then the Raiders hired Antonio Pears and paired him with
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former Chargers general manager Tom Felesco. Okay, we'll start with jabellis. What
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are your thoughts about both of those hires. Listen, you know it's always
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an interesting move when you make a change of the dynamic and you could bring
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it a better coach. Sometimes it's just the right fit. Sometimes it's the
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opportunity. Sometimes you're able to get a bigger name. I think this is
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going to be good for both those teams that I see good things in the
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future for them. Yeah, I mean the only thing about Tamiko Ryans I
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can honestly say is he's done a really, really good job with the Texans.
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So watching a young guy like him succeed pave the way for the opportunity
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for Jared Mayo, who obviously inherits A three, four and thirteen teams.
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So he's walking into a situation where he doesn't have to go behind a legend
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who is a good record. Now I have to clean up the mess instead
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of be a part of it, So I think they'll be a little bit
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looser reins. With that said, Travis Holmes, what are your thoughts about
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both of these hires? And also JB wants to comment on the Antonio Peers.
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He certainly earned his stripes to become the Raiders coach. Listen that that
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was a move that if they didn't make, their fans were gonna go crazy,
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the players were going to be completely unhappy. That was a no brainer.
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They did the right thing. It had to be done, and you
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saw as soon as he was the interim coach the difference of the play.
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I mean, they went from zero to one hundred the way that they just
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turned it on. And it's a shame to see that. You know,
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a team doesn't perform for a certain coach and all of a sudden they start
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believing and performing. But for whatever he did, he brought out something in
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them, and I hope it continues because I always liked Antonio Piers. He's
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a good guy and to see the team do well for him was phenomenal.
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Now he earned the job, Let's see what he's going to do for the
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future. All right, Now, I'll turn it back over to Travis Holmes.
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You know, the question you have two coaches evolved. You got Jared
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Mayo and you have Antonio Pierce. Yeah, I mean to JB's point,
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they the Raiders couldn't have fumbled this one again, you know, after they
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had the last interim coach who did well what was rich Thank you Miscusia.
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And that was a hard one, like the fact that they couldn't do the
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same thing again, like having a national quality coach in the building with the
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players already having the buy in and you showing you he can do the job,
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showing you that he can implement that discipline with the team, and just
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getting them on track. Whether or not you have the players, that's a
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whole other conversation as far as building the team and such, but showing you
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that you have a five hundred plus team realistically and implementing the I want to
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say Oakland, but you know what I mean, the Oakland Las Vegas way,
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the style, the culture, whatever you want to call it. In
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that locker room, there's no way you you could have just fumbled the ball,
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fumbled that back again. So they had him in house. They kept
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him in house. Good job there. Uh, as far as the Patriots
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are concerned, pretty much to your original point, that Demko ryans hire kind
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of gives a little bit more of confidence, you know, around the league
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hiring that going from a defensive team a lot like the Texans having a team
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that was already a pretty solid defensive team, whether or not the offenses and
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shambles, that's another conversation. But you know, having a team that was
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already a pretty solid defensive team, and now all you have to do is
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just be able to moderately keep that good, keep that solid, and find
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a way to improve on your offense. Like it's still going to come down
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to, like the Houston Texans. Who you have at quarterback, who's your
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who's going to be your OC? That's going to be a big hit for
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him, So it really does. He's going to need that that experienced GM
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to kind of lean on, which is probably why they went Tom the Tom
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route. Uh, that's yeah, they didn't want to they didn't want a
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rookie general manager, and they didn't want a rookie coach. That's a recipe
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for disaster. So arm you're right there, So he can he can succeed
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a defensive coach, another defensive coach, gonna follow up the defensive coach of
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all defensive coaches lately, and then Bill Belichick. So yeah, it's a
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great hire for both teams. But it's still going to come down to know
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who's that quarterback, who's that who's that OC? So that next high is
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going to be really important. Okay, last, but not least, Jacob
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Krishner. Well, Antonio Pears is absolutely my favorite higher. Completely. I
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mean this is I mean you got to realize just how much energy that they
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had that they got received with him coming in. Completely, we know who
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the last coach was, now you're gonna say his name. Last just awful
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and then I think he turned. Truthfully, even if it would have been
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the one win, it ends up the five hundred. But if he'll been
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the one win, I think winning in k C did it. That meant
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that team that team did that constant attender every year went into their building and
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won. They had all that energy to believe that they could do it there,
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you know, And that's the big thing. And eventually he's gonna have
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to get more experience and do more things with the x's and o's. But
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sometimes the adrenaline does it, and it's like, and you're right that Dimico
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Ryan Sting does do it, but Girod. As far as Gerard Mayo goes,
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we're gonna find out, truthfully, if he's there's a thing with this.
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Remember he's called a hand pick. He's kind of a hand pick here
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as far as replacement. So we're going to absolutely find out if Gerrod Mayo
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was actually calling some things during that time and they're four and thirteen, or
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if he was a hand pick didn't do anything. It has to start it
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from his own scratch, and we will not know until the season, So
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we'll see how good he is, because if he was just a hand pick
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and he was calling some of the plays and that's not a good confidence booster
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because they're at four thirteen. If he wasn't doing anything and Bill had the
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whole team, then he could start it over. Then we're going to see
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what he can do for real. And then that's the fair part. Okay,
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well that's fair. Okay. One thing I want to go ahead and
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mentioned here is Max Crosby was going to force his way out if they didn't
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hire Antonio Pierce, and then of course Davante Adams certainly wanted him as well.
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So that definitely went out there to me and stood out. So next
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thing we're going to talk about is, according to Buffalo Bills head coach Sean
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McDermott, he told the reporters the team doesn't need to start from scratch after
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another disappointing effort. Okay, JB, I know you were pulling for the
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Bills, so you know, are you with it or not? Listen?
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You know you can't play the defensive coordinator for a game like that. Can't
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play the defense. It was kind of you know, the way it was
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unfortunate event the Bills. It reminded me of Scott Norwood with the missed field
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goal. You know, it was really a disappointment. I was pulling for
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the Bills, even though I got the Chiefs jersey on tonight. You know,
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there's really no blame except it's a team blame. You know, there
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were a lot of things that I thought they could have done better to win
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that game. I know that you can't put the blame on one person.
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You know, it's it's a team game. I thought the referees were awful.
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You know, I really hate to say it. I feel as though
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when you play the Chiefs in an important game, it's as low you're against
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the other team of the Chiefs, And you know, I look at it
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unbiased because I don't have a dog in the fight. Yeah, I want
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the Bills to win, but you know, I'm watching the game objectively.
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I'm a Giant fan and I watched that all year, and you know,
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if there's not a play that's right that called for them, I'll tell you
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the same way. But I really feel as though when you watch a Chiefs
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game, especially an important one, you're playing you know the team and the
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reps that it's a hard thing to do. You have to almost play a
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perfect game. You know, and I don't know if the Ravens will be
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able to do a munch of with it this week. Thank you Jacobs kick.
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The big thing about it was but Josh Allen did exactly what he needed
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to do. He really did. He played him and I was almost the
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game of his life. I say number two. The first one was that
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last once he just he does everyone what else can you do? And then
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we can talk about the kickers right there. But as far as the coaching,
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no, And see this is the first time you've been on a show
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with me, Travis Salman to give him exactly what I say about coaches.
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Okay, this is what I say about this. It can always get worse.
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I'm a Bears fan. They lost Levey at ten wins one, ten
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wins seats since eleven years, twelve years going on. Now you pick you,
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if you go on the emotional knit wit of the fans, then you
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did. Then you pay for it. That's what you do. You've got
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to, I mean, and that's what a lot of front offices do.
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It's like, if you can go get Andy Reid and strip him from another
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team and go make it awesome. If you can go get John Harbaugh.
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Awesome, that would be better than McDermott. There ain't too many that are
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better than McDermott. Though, then what happens is it can get worse and
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you get five wins. It's the same with the whole thing with Tomlin.
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It's the same thing with all that. You can get worse. So if
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unless you have a big time monstered replacement, just forget about all that,
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because you can and you can come from contender that barely misses it to nothing.
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Yeah, you know you are so on point there, Jacob, you
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really really are. You know, everybody's in the business where they want to
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go out there and as fire the coach. But think about who the placements
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are. Is there anybody in this thing that really stands out the one carrot
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just left as it looks like with Jim Harbaugh. But who's a real glaring
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guy? To me? I think a guy who should get more consideration.
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I haven't seen his name around lately is Eric the Enemy. I don't know
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why it's taking so long for this guy to not get multiple interviews. I
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know he recently interviewed with the Washington commanders. So nowadays I'm a little bit
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lost about who everybody's looking for. I know Ben Johnson's the name that's getting
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bannered around. I wouldn't be surprised to see him go to the Washington Commanders
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and JB. I'm glad you're gonna be on next week because we'll have probably
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more clarity at least on the coaching higher so we'll be able to get into
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more definitive stuff. But the reality is this, as far as the Buffalo
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Bills get off Sean McDermott's back, I mean, the guy missed a tying
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field goal, not the game winner. I know what's important. I know
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everybody likes to jump on kickers, and yes, you know what, it's
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unfortunate that all you do is kick, But the reality is a high pressure
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situation and we all know what it's about. So you know, I don't
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think they have to rebuild. I really really don't, you know. But
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obviously they had a golden opportunity against Kansas City and they're building against mahomes and
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unfortunately they did not capital wives on it. So now I don't think they
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have to rebuild. I think that's a little premature. All right, Well,
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I'm gonna go over the stat of the week and this is gonna blow
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everybody away. Let me get let me get on, let me get in
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on this one. If you don't know, I'm sorry, Travis, I
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forgot Go ahead, funny to you just say that I actually disagree with everyone
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because I do think they need to change it up. I do think at
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minimum, as far as you know that the players on the team currently want
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Joe Brady back, that's kind of what it feels like, the you know,
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the feeling as far as you know, the different rumors in the media
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and such. And I'm like, they actually got they got better in some
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ways, but overall they got worse after they got rid of Ken Dorsey.
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Like they got better in some ways, and those those ways is that they
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chose to run the ball between the thirty fives. That was literally the only
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difference in the team and every objective metric outside of actually just pushing the run,
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just just saying, hey, on these third down situations, we're gon
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gonna run the ball instead of trying to pass the ball, and outside of
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that, they got objectively worse. In EPA, they got objectively orse and
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both both running past FYI Like the only thing they got better at was being
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able to kick field goals and those you know, those longer field goals and
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things of that nature, and those three six nine points every game is what
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that changed. That changed everything for that team. So in a lot of
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ways, I want to say, like Ken Dorsey wasn't the verse OC out
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of these two. He just simply was stubborn about passing the ball within you
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know, field goal range, or passing the ball on those third and short
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or third and you know second and manageable situations. I say all that to
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say they don't need to change over the whole team, No, but they
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absolutely need a better OC because, frankly, looking at the game, Josh
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Allen carried the team on his back. Yes, because Josh Allen had to
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carry the team on his back, you didn't see very many of those players
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in structure. And by in structure, I mean like, hey, the
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offensive coordinator called this play. This is where the ball is supposed to go.
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Get the ball out of your hands, move the ball down, matriculate
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the ball down the field. No, no, no, this is Josh
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Allen being a monster, being a machine and running you know, running around
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in circles, running, you know, running the ball down the field,
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putting the ball on some dimes in some crazy spots, and that's not generally
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something that's going to be able to be you know, that's hard to that's
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hard to continue, that's not sustainable in most situations. And that's so he's
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making it harder on his quarterback to carry this team and in those type situations.
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And because of that, I'm like, I think that offense needs to
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be remade. At minimum. That they're a great team because they have a
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great athlete, but that that doesn't mean that they're going to a lot like
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Cincinnati Angals in that way. You have the athletes, you have the guys,
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but that doesn't mean you're going to be the better team unless you get
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better coaching. Good stuff. All right, Well, you know what,
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I'm gonna let you start off with this particular one and that is the stat
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of the week. So get this and one hundred and four seasons, the
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Arizona Cardinals have seventeen playoff wins. Okay, now in seven seasons to Kansas
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City Chiefs, Patrick Mahome has won seventeen playoff games. Wow, all right,
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well, you know what, Travis Holmes, you can lead off with
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this one. I mean, goodness, that's a rough one. I mean,
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but the Cardinals haven't had much success since you know, what the what
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is that, Larry Fitzgerald, you know timeframe? I guess I'm trying to
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Yeah, I don't remember who the last quarterback was. That that's Urt Warner.
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Warner. There you go, Lord, So it's been a minute.
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And not to mention, you know, Pat Mahomes. The reason that the
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Chiefs were able to get Mahomes that year is because that was a severely injured
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Kansas City team. Like we all forget that they were like, what was
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it, a four or five win team of the season prior, but because
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they had some serious injuries and all of a sudden, that wasn't that wasn't
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truly you know, a bottom ten of you know, in the NFL roster.
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It was just, hey, they had some they had a rough season
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the year before, and now they're a solid team with a really good quarterback
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and a really good coach and he's off to the races. So I it
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sucks for the Cardinals and Mahomes. It was a great situation for him,
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and again we all know the mutant that he is, so it kind of
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just was what it was. But I'm sorry to see it. I'm sorry
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to hear it, and I feel your pain because at least you had more
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success than my Jacksonville Jaguars. Well, okay, we're gonna send this to
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the man that was that is in Chicago, and I know that was one
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of the names for the Cardinals. When you look at their chronology, right,
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you have the Chicago Cardinals, and then you have the Saint Louis Cardinals,
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and now you're in Arizona. So we'll turn over to jbl as.
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Seventeen and seventeen equals thirty four wins and one hundred. I mean, those
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numbers are just staggering, aren't they. It's shocking to think of the one
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team's success and one team's failures. Granted we're talking about one player, but
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still, I mean, it's been a team for that whole period of time
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that's had that success, you know, and it'd probably be eighteen and nineteen
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if it wasn't for a defense of all sides the first year, you know.
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So that's just scary to think. Mahomes is just he has that that
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that I am a tiger that you want to call it. He doesn't let
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his team lose the last guy I remember that was like that as good as
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he is, guy by the name of Joe Montana, right, you know,
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And I don't like to throw out names like that, but it doesn't
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matter what time of the game it is. If you're down within a score
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and you have the ball with time left, who Joe Montana comes to mind?
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That You're not worried. You have a chance to win. Patrick Mahomes
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is the same way. You know, you knew they were going to score
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that last possession against Buffalo. We all knew that it was a matter could
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Buffalo stop them, you know, after they score and they could move the
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ball down and get points back. You know, you just know certain there's
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very few guys that play the game that you just have that much faith.
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And you know he's just like clockwork, you know. I mean to think
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this was his first playoff road game, could you imagine? And they had
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how many wins already? That was the first one of the road we had
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one. He's perfect on the road of the playoffs. Yeah, he's the
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same record as Eddie Stinky. Once upon a time you ever heard of Eddie
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Stinky. Eddie Stinky was one and over the Texas Rangers as a fill in
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manager until they hired somebody else. Want to know, So Patrick Mahomes and
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Eddie Stanky, who in the right mind would think I'd make that comparison.
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But then again, in my ever, in my right mind, don't answer
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that question because you already know I'm not. But still all right, so
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all right, you know, I mean, let's face it, when I
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saw that stat it just blew me away. Seventeen playoff wins in that one
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hundred and four year history of the Cardinals and then seventeen for Mahomes. That's
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surreals. So with that said, mister opinion, tackle it, mister fact,
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just calling mister fact. No, The thing is, it's like,
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now we can you said, Eddie stink you want to know before his replacement,
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we can do Ted Turner, oh and one, just like the Arizona
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Cardinals, but like we think, he was a manager for the Atlanta of
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Good Braves. But the big, the one big thing also you got to
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realize is as awesome as as he is. And I mean Patrick Mahomes as
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a mutant, like Travis says, remember this part. Also a lot of
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those years that the well, the Cardinals were horrible teams, whether in Chicago,
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Saint Louis, Arizona as we could call it. First, they were
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terrible. Got to remember one maybe two playoff games. Now we're going up
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to four if you don't have a bye week, you know what I'm saying.
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So there's more opportunities to be able to beat those records in those numbers.
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I'm like, I will I remember, I'm as a Bears fan.
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Ditka in his time had in his time, had twelve playoff wins, I
24:23
believe in his time, but they haven't had twelve since they've had exactly twelve
24:29
cents. But there's also more playoff games since that time. It's like it's
24:34
just there's more opportunities and more option and we're probably and especially with the seventh
24:40
seed, there is now too, So there's going to be seven seeds that
24:42
go beat the Arizona's record. So remember that. Well, yeah, you're
24:48
talking about how many years of being a franchise being around compared to a player
24:53
you know that well did well is the reason for that? Anyway? Well
24:56
regard look, Jacob, the bottom line isn't listen to jb Ellis were trying
25:00
out loud, make it around, Okay, wait, you need a little
25:06
bit about baby Ellis math. Okay, seventeen over one hundred and four,
25:11
don't even nastic because I don't even have a calculator nearby. Is a long
25:15
long time, that's all I can tell you. And seventeen wins over what
25:19
seven seven months? Seriously, come on, christer, what are you thinking
25:23
about here? Man? Listen to the professor Ellis. He's trying to edumicate
25:29
you. Go ahead, Ellis, that's just you know, you're talking about
25:33
how many years they've been around, close to one hundred years. That's a
25:38
win less than every five years of the playoffs. So if just take Mahomes
25:44
five years, throw this year out right, Yeah, what is it?
25:48
Five years by us? This year will make five. So he has sixteen
25:55
and he was one behind them in their whole existence. He now tied them
26:00
next year. Yes, that's pretty pathetic. And he is a mutant,
26:06
and you're right on it. Aspathetic. I'm just saying he's mutant. All
26:08
right, Well, you know what, Jacob, here's our are you crazy
26:11
moment of the night of the Sports Exchange. Okay, so so after you
26:17
know, we all right, we all have a lot of fun with Jacob
26:18
Christner. We all like to throw that are You Crazy? Moment? Presented
26:22
by n GBN T, NGBN TV, Sideline Sports, and South Florida Tribune.
26:29
So are you crazy? Okay, he's sorry, he gets it once
26:32
a week, all right, no problem. Then it's an unbelievable stat That's
26:36
why it made the show. All right, let's talk about the quarterback matchups
26:40
for both games. We don't need a story, we need a synopsis.
26:44
Okay, we have Patrick Mahomes against Lamar Jackson. We'll start off with Christner.
26:48
Okay, who do you got? And why? Boy? It's gonna
26:53
be a wonderful game. But I'm gonna go Mahomes. I'm gonna go because
26:57
one of the things that and I believe Lamar Jackson has the better OC now
27:02
with Todd Munkin, who allows him to do more. It's I called I
27:07
called Greg Roman his Techmo Bowl Techmo super Bowl. I called him that because
27:11
it was four or five of his favorite plays at all times, which were
27:15
flashy, but the great defenses could get them, could you know, could
27:18
not basically put a spy in put and put an end of Lamar. Now
27:22
it's gonna get itself a lot better. Same time, Casey's got a really,
27:26
really good defense and the best quarterback that he's playing, I mean,
27:32
just as far as Lamar. And this is a guy who just does not
27:36
like to lose. So I can see this being another field goal game,
27:37
and I see Casey going to Super Bowl. I will go to the next
27:41
game. You're gonna have Jared Goff against Ron Purdy. I'm gonna go San
27:47
Francisco. I'm going to San fran Detroit. No, there's nothing against that
27:52
wonderful year, wonderful Dan Campbell enjoy it a lot. But they're saying the
27:59
Deebo gonna be Deebo, Samuel's going to be around. That's just too many
28:03
weapons for Detroit, and Detroit's the past defense is a little iffy, even
28:07
with all the other great things they've had, so they can kind of throw
28:10
on them. That's the big deal. So I'm gonna go with San Francisco
28:15
and pull away the fourth quarter. Okay, we'll turn over to Travis.
28:22
Yeah, I think I agreed. Well, I'll get into it, but
28:26
the gist of it is, as far as the Ravens game you're talking,
28:32
I'm taking the Ravens over the Mutant Currently and I know that's a hard thing
28:37
to take because it's like that's like voting against Bill Belichick or or in this
28:41
case, I guess he's the quarterback Bill Belichick. I don't know another way
28:45
to say it. Yeah, you don't vote against Pat Mahomes, But that's
28:48
exactly what I'm gonna do, because I think this might be the best Baltimore
28:51
Ravens team, like across the board defense and offense team that I've seen,
28:57
probably in my adult life at minimum, because you have some of those ninety
29:02
teams I don't know, but absolutely in my adult life, the best defense
29:07
in the league as far as DVOA. That like, literally the best defense
29:11
in the league in multiple categories. And the Chiefs defense aren't bad, they're
29:18
top seven. It's just at the end of the day, I don't see
29:23
the Chiefs having an equal team to the Ravens. And Lamar can be amazing,
29:30
incredible, over the top, superhuman whatever you want to say about him
29:34
by himself, in addition to the rest of that team, and I don't
29:37
see them leaving Kelsey wide open like he was last week on a few occasions.
29:42
And if they don't have those busted coverages, this is going to feel
29:45
more like that Detroit Lions versus Kansas City game earlier in the year, a
29:51
lower scoring, defensive fest where it's going to be like a twenty something.
29:52
A twenty something game I'm scoring with the Ravens and we have Jared Golf and
30:03
Rock Party San Francisco. I mean, yeah, that feels like it's going
30:06
to be unless the Rock Party, who throws four interception shows up. I
30:11
think that's probably gonna end up being in San Francisco win. I just think
30:14
they're more kind of the same thing. These are two really complete teams with
30:18
San Francisco and Baltimore. I just feel like that's going to be the case.
30:22
You've heard me talk about it on multiple weeks. I want Detroit to
30:25
be there. It's a better story. I just like, I like rooting
30:29
for the underdog, but I don't believe this is the game. I just
30:30
think that matchup is going to be too rough in so many ways it can
30:33
go wrong for him. Jb Ellis, Listen, you know the Ravens as
30:41
good as a year as they had, and Lamar, who I love,
30:45
I'll never forget. I was driving on the highway when he got drafted.
30:49
I heard about the trade that the Patriots made. It was the last pick
30:52
of the first round, and the Giants were up second and we missed Baker
30:56
Mayfield. I wanted to drive off the road. I was so angry because
31:00
I wanted a quarterback because we needed someone to back up Elie to play in
31:04
the future, and I want Baker. But they didn't have the number one
31:07
pick, so that was gone. And you know, obviously Baker Lamar was
31:11
the better choice at this point. But then you know, Lamar's had a
31:17
good career. He hasn't been great in the playoffs. They had a nice
31:19
win last week, but you know, Patrick Mahomes doesn't really lose in the
31:23
playoffs. And you know the Zebras are with them. They they all play
31:29
on that same team for some reason. You know, the Chiefs defense is
31:33
finally good. If he had that defense a couple of years back, this
31:37
team would have many more super Bowls than what they have right now. You
31:41
know, they finally got it. They their offense is what it used to
31:45
be. They don't have the receivers they used to have. They have a
31:48
little bit of a running game with Pacheco. But this team, it's gonna
31:52
be a tough, tough game to beat. The Ravens have to play a
31:55
perfect game if they can do that, and they're capable because they've beaten everybody
31:59
that's been good that's gone to Baltimore this year, has flown had that long
32:04
trip home on that airplane to think about why they weren't that good. But
32:07
when it's all said and done, just what's gonna be tough? I don't
32:10
think the Ravens are gonna be able to do it. I think I'm gonna
32:14
be covering Kansas City. I'm gonna get to ask Travis Kelcey another question when
32:17
he's at the podium. I'm gonna get to ball to Andy Reid and the
32:21
fake Andy Reid will probably be walking around, you know, media row,
32:25
radio row and the other game. You know, San Francisco was beatable on
32:30
on Sunday night or Saturday night. Green Bay had the opportunity. They were
32:37
rusty, they had two weeks off. Green Bay had that game. Now
32:40
San Francisco got a game back. Rock Party is not as good as Jarreck
32:45
Goff. He's a very good quarterback. He's a game manager, and they
32:50
had a better game manager and Garapolo when they got rid of him. Now
32:53
you got brock Party. He's very good, but he's not a superstar.
32:57
I like GoF I liked him when he was in LA. I think the
33:00
Lion's got a great deal getting him. This is a tough ass to go
33:02
beat a team that's got superstars all over the field. I think it's gonna
33:07
be a long day for Detroit, and I think the Ravens are gonna be
33:09
disappointed like the Bills were. Okay, well, I'll tell you what.
33:14
Here's what we have here. I'm gonna go with Lamar Jackson. I think
33:17
Tommy Lasorda once told me because God delayed does not mean that God denied.
33:22
Okay, this guy has lost a lot of games, but I think for
33:27
some reason or another, this year will be his year. You know,
33:30
he's running a lot better, he's being paid a lot more money, he's
33:36
taking a leadership role on that team, he's taking ownership of it. And
33:39
you know when you add Odell Beckham Junior to your lineup, Zay Flowers and
33:45
the list goes on. He's got much better weapons. And even Jacob mentioned
33:47
Todd Monkin. So I don't know, I have a real weird feeling that
33:52
Baltimore is gonna come away with it. I don't know why, it's just
33:54
a gut feeling I have as to the Lions game against the forty nine ers.
34:00
You know what, Jab, you pretty much set part of what I
34:02
wanted to do. I think that when the Green Bay Packers made it very
34:07
competitive against the forty nine ers, that may have opened the window for Detroit
34:12
to say, let's take a look at what we've got here, that this
34:15
team is beatable. And Jared Goff has been disrespected for a long time.
34:19
I don't care get a lick about what Skip Bayless's got to say about him.
34:22
After all his critical comments either anger you, or you like him or
34:28
you don't. But Jared Goff has been a cool customer in Detroit. He's
34:31
won in the playoffs, He's been in the playoffs before. I think if
34:35
the Lions were to lose, Christian McCaffrey will be the reason why they do
34:38
do it. But don't underestimate the weapons that the Lions had. Jamir gives
34:43
pretty good, Okay, Sam Laporta pretty good, right, I'm on,
34:46
Saint Brown pretty good. The list goes on and on. So and Dan
34:51
Campbell would like nothing better. Than to do the final checkbox where there's four
34:55
teams that have never been to the Super Bowl. Now there will be only
34:59
three, the Lions being in it now. As I mentioned last night and
35:02
inside the Pigskin, when you talk about when these games are televised, the
35:07
NFL is not stupid. Okay, they wanted Kansas City and Baltimore to be
35:12
the early game because now they're in love with the Lions in prime time.
35:15
And guess what, the Lions don't lose in prime time unless you talk about
35:20
the Dallas game where they were hosed in the first place. So you know,
35:23
think about it the whole The Lions played the Rodney dangerfield card for many
35:29
years because their records certainly deserved it. They weren't getting any respect. But
35:32
now they are getting the respect and they're getting prime time. So I don't
35:37
know, am I leading with my heart? Maybe a little bit? And
35:39
yeah, but you know what, I think it's about time for my hometown
35:43
to finally get the Lions in the Super Bowl and make that list of four
35:46
dwindled down to three in terms of teams that have never been in the Super
35:50
Bowls. So all right, well, you know what, we got a
35:52
great lead in here, but I'll let Jacob real quickly. I know they
35:57
got Kansas City in the early game because all of Taylor Swift Swiss can stay
36:00
up that early for that game. You know what I'm saying. That's why
36:02
they have it. Yeah, you know what. Boom, all right there
36:06
they go, all right, boom, I'm gonna boo you again. All
36:09
right. I won't use it as a hashtag because they use it in Philadelphia
36:13
when they go out there and boo Santa Claus. We'll leave that a little
36:16
bit. So all right, Well that said, you know, mister Krishner,
36:21
will let you lead off of this one. Give me the predictions for
36:22
both games. We don't need a story. We need some predictions a little
36:25
bit there. But scores, you mean, well, predictions, scores,
36:30
whatever you want, all right, as far as the does game goes,
36:36
like I said, I'm going with the final field goal thirty three thirty casey
36:40
over Baltimore and pull away in the fourth quarter San Francisco, uh, twenty
36:47
seven to seventeen, final pull away. You know it's like they they'll have
36:52
a there'll be a close game all the way to the fourth detroital way out
36:54
a little bit that party's gonna kind of figure it out a little bit and
36:59
a few good past this is gonna wear on Detroit twenty seven to seventeen.
37:02
Okank, we'll turn over to Travis. Yeah, I think I'm in agreement.
37:08
As far as general scores, kind of what I said earlier, I
37:12
think San Francisco is going to win the over Detroit, and I think that
37:16
one's probably going to be something closer to a thirty one to twenty one or
37:21
maybe even thirty thirty one twenty four kind of range game. I think at
37:27
one point or another will be a ten ten point game, and whether or
37:30
not Detroit trying to make it a game later in the fourth quarter, I
37:32
can I could reasonably see that happening. As far as Baltimore case, kind
37:38
of what I stated earlier, I think it's going to be a lot like
37:40
that Detroit Lions Kansas City earlier season game. I think it might have been
37:45
Week two where it's going to be something like a twenty one to twenty.
37:50
We were expecting these fireworks and everything else, and I think these two defenses
37:53
just show up and make it make this a game where they're just having to
37:57
matriculate the ball down feeling, don't screw up. So yeah, I still
38:00
think it's going to be a close win for Baltimore, but I do believe
38:02
Baltimore pulls away, all right, JB. Yeah, I'm going to say
38:07
San Francisco by ten thirty four twenty four. Their defense is a little bit
38:15
to be desired, even though they're playing better lately. And I'm going to
38:17
go kids A City thirty one to twenty eight at a close game, Mahomes
38:24
making with a drive at the end. Okay, well, I'm going to
38:30
go Baltimore twenty four to seventeen over Kansas City. They got the home field
38:35
advantage. It's got to be worth something over there. And of course Lamar
38:37
Jackson is playing out of his mind. They'll go as far as his legs
38:42
go in this game. And as far as the Lions, I'm going to
38:45
give Detroit the advantage thirty to twenty six. So all right, Well,
38:49
let's talk about the Chiefs spills a little bit more because during that game,
38:52
it top fifty million viewers to become the most watched divisional game ever. So
38:58
Travis Holmes, what are your thoughts about that amount of people watching? I
39:01
mean, this has been something that's been ongoing since throughout the season, and
39:06
we had multiple articles, mostly Jaguar related because again I covered the Jaguars,
39:12
but talking about all the random weird I guess quirky nonstandard broadcast that the NFL
39:19
has been slowly leaning into to try to get the under thirty five crowd in
39:22
involved and even the kids involved. And throughout this past season and throughout the
39:27
year, they had, you know, plus ten percent increase in the under
39:30
thirty five crowd, so they had like a ten percent increase in just the
39:34
female audience. So we knew going into the playoffs that it was going to
39:37
be a spike in viewership because they they're allowing more people to watch the game.
39:43
And then on top of that, you have the two For everyone who's
39:46
like ready to just ready to eat up this great football play. You have
39:51
these two mutants, these two superheroes playing against each other in a close game.
39:55
Come on, that's gonna get that's gonna get you there. Like if
39:59
you're giving of people five different ways to watch the game at the perfect time,
40:02
and you were, you know, and you were also expanding the sport
40:07
via all these different avenues. Yeah, it was a great game to watch,
40:09
and it was absolutely worth being in this conversation of you know, fifty
40:13
plus million eyes on it. Okay, JB. Yeah, I'm sorry,
40:20
coun you repeat the question. I apologize. Oh no, well it's okay.
40:22
She's built top fifty million viewers to become the most watched divisional game ever.
40:28
Does that surprise you at all? Not at all. It was the
40:30
game everybody wanted to watch, Mahomes versus Allen. It was the game we
40:35
hoped to get at the beginning of the year. The Ravens proved that they're
40:38
the best team of the AFC this year. But you know, the Chiefs
40:43
sell, the Bill sell. They've had a long rivalry and top it off,
40:46
you got Taylor Swift now and no matter what, that brings people and
40:51
watch games. Unfortunately, you know, we may not enjoy her, but
40:54
the people that all the sports networks that have Stell advertising are glad that she's
40:59
there every week. You know, Jacob, well, you for Hey,
41:05
Ralph, are you doing no? You forget the one thing that really brought
41:07
the audience Jason Kelsey shirtless. I mean you gotta remember that type of deal.
41:14
Everybody wanted to see that all of the all fifty million wanted to see
41:16
that. But the thing is we are. It is not a shock,
41:22
not in the least. We had the We had the and you know this
41:25
one big time, Travis. We had the Toy Story game. Yeah,
41:30
we had the Toy Story Game. We had that part. And then it's
41:34
going since like the very first Nickelodeon game they had the Nickelodeon, you have
41:37
all those type of things. They are I heard from a old buddy of
41:42
mine. He used to say to me, I didn't like the Nickelodeon things
41:45
like that kind of stuff at first, on what's going on with that Toy
41:46
Story then he reminded me of fifty three percent of kids watch it the same
41:51
way we used to sports. They watch it the same way. So they
41:53
have to do what they can, which means Toy Story games, which means
41:57
Nickelodeon, which means Taylor Swift right, And it's like, and it's gonna
42:00
be here's the thing. They're gonna pray and hope Travis Kelsey has one more
42:06
year any because we won't see Taylor again. And then truthfully, even though
42:10
we're gonna have big audiences still, I mean, fifty million, are we
42:14
going to break records without her. It's like those are kids watching their casuals.
42:19
They want casual sports, wants casuals. That's the big thing. Well,
42:24
keep in mind that Jason Kells retired, so we'll see what happens there.
42:30
All right, let's go over to some top headlines of Miami Dolphins and
42:32
defensive coordinator Big Fangio have agreed to part ways after one season together. The
42:37
team announced Wednesday. So it looks like Fangio is going to be headed to
42:40
Philadelphia to be with the Eagles. I know that he obviously lives in the
42:45
Pennsylvania area. Other Newsworth talking about here that I want to get to,
42:51
is this okay? Apparently the Las Vegas Raiders are scheduling an interview with USC
42:57
assistant coach Cliff Kingsbury for their offensive coordinator position. Does anybody have any thoughts
43:02
about that? Which team? The Raiders? Yeah, Steelers were supposed to
43:08
be doing that also, I wanted I think the Bears did. Also.
43:14
I don't want him as a coach. I think he's got a great I
43:16
mean, you gotta I don't want Hm as a coach. You gotta realize
43:19
though, as an offensive coordinator he the quarter of his career games had thirty
43:24
plus points. He knows the game. He knows the offensive game, defensive
43:30
game. He's horrible. He's garbage. Keep him away from the head job.
43:34
Put him as a coordinator, and if he would go here's the thing,
43:37
I'm all I'm gonna say. If he goes to Pittsburgh knowing what they
43:40
did with Arians Hayley, anybody else's offensive coordinator, what those fans did with
43:45
them, shut up, let them do their job. You keep running them
43:49
out. If you keep running them out, you'll get another Matt Canada and
43:52
that is your karma. So guess what. Whoever gets whoever gets this guy
43:57
as an offensive coordinator, they've got to treat them. Just don't let him
44:00
take over the coach job. Well that's fine. All I can tell you
44:04
is that at the moment he's interviewing for the Raiders, So will stay on
44:07
point of that. Anybody else have anything to say about it. I'm ify
44:10
on Cliff and I've always been ify on him. You know when he was
44:15
in the league, because his offensers were always middle of the pack, and
44:20
in most advanced metrics, like they were always just middle of the pack.
44:22
At one point there were fifteenth in points. Actually no, I'm actually looking
44:27
at an article right now. They're fifteenth in points, fifteenth in total yards,
44:30
eighteenth in yards per play. Like they are pretty consistently just a middle
44:36
of the pack offense, which will be an immense increase for a lot of
44:39
these offenses. To be clear, you're talking to Raiders, you're talking to
44:43
Steelers, et cetera. Like you get Mike Tomlin an offense that's fifteenth in
44:49
the league. I mean, these guys are waving players and talking about Super
44:52
Bowls, like in the way that they play defense. So in that way,
44:54
yeah, that would be a good situation. But if you're a team
44:58
that hasn't even an attic that previously had an adequate offensive coordinator, he's not
45:04
going to be that guy to bring you to make you a top ten offense
45:07
consistently. But yeah, he'll get you there if you could play some solid
45:09
defense and run the rock and well, the worst case, worst case secret
45:15
and Wisconsin became a reality. As Joe Barry as out as the Packers defensive
45:19
coordinator after three years, everybody wanted them out. I didn't think Mad had
45:23
it in baby, I really don't think had it, But I don't think
45:28
you see the moves like that would irritate me with teams. You know,
45:34
there's you know, granted, I don't really ever root for anyone to be
45:37
fired, and but there are times that's necessary. Was this a uh necessary
45:42
move? I mean, what had his body of work with the way the
45:45
team played this year? Was he the reason that they that they lost?
45:50
And you know, so this is an interesting one because I thought that when
45:57
I when I said earlier, I'm like, I didn't think mad had like
46:00
I played it for Matt Laflora up in Northern Michigan. So I'm all,
46:02
I've been paying really close attention to him. You know, I'm always in
46:07
that guy's corner, like in that way, and I didn't when I said
46:12
I didn't think he had it in him. Is because he Joe didn't call
46:15
a game in which it would be egregious. I would say, like,
46:19
it's not something that was so bad that you had to fire him, but
46:23
it was also not good enough based with the athletes that he had, and
46:28
it would not aggressive enough with the guys that he had in the way that
46:30
you knew it wasn't going to work long term. So if it's not going
46:34
to work long term, Like what must be done today must be done tomorrow,
46:37
right, whether or not it's three years from now or not it's two
46:39
years from now. If you know it's not going to work eventually, you
46:44
can pull the band aid off now. You can pull it off later,
46:45
but you know the bandate is going to be pulled off eventually. I don't
46:49
know. I disagree with us move. I think you know team was on
46:52
an upswing. You're blaming him for the wrong things. It wasn't the year
46:59
to win the super Bowl. This was supposed to be a rebuilding year.
47:01
You made it into the playoffs, You spank Dallas, you played competitive against
47:06
San Francisco. You know, you get a positive outlook after all this.
47:09
To let somebody go shows that there was a problem somewhere on this team,
47:15
you know, And obviously the head coach is not the problem. You know,
47:21
he's done a phenomenal job. And I'll go back to when Rogers was
47:23
there and he had the team performing well, dealing with all of rodgers crap
47:29
that he just disappeared and did whatever he wanted to do, and that team
47:31
always came out and fired all cylinders. Then this year is supposed to be
47:36
a rebuilding year. Nobody wants to see Love loves garbage. Love is this?
47:39
Love is that Jordan Love had a phenomenal season. You know. I
47:44
think I was one of the few people that said, let's see what the
47:45
kid could do before we say he's horrible. You know, he has talent
47:50
and he had a great year. I think that, you know, to
47:53
go and fire somebody when you could have built on what you had, it's
47:58
like taking a step back because now you're going to get a whole new defensive
48:00
system. And I just don't see it as a positive. I think,
48:04
you know, it kind of took away from the great season that they had.
48:08
Well don't know, I don't know that. I don't know that I
48:10
view it as a positive or negative. I just view it as a net.
48:13
I just view it as like a black line, like I don't know
48:16
that it's worse or better. Because when you had to stop someone, you
48:20
couldn't stop them. And if there's a feel and if there is as far
48:23
as a philosophy on how the defense should be called, if there is a
48:27
gap there between the head coach and the DC, yeah, that's something that
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where you could just easily mutually just decide to split. I mean, it's
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not significantly different than what happened in Miami. Yeah, but if there was
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a significant difference, it should have been way before a game. You guys
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should have got blowed out and you played a great game. You lost by
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a one score game, you know, after you shut down Dallas's offense the
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week before. I mean you basically pitched a shutout the whole first half.
48:57
The only the only points was when your defense it's a backfell and uh,
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CD got White got wide open because of it. So you basically, I
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can't say that the defensive coordinator doesn't know what he's doing or he's got a
49:07
bad scheme because Dallas has a great offense and you were shutting him down.
49:12
DAK and CD looked like they were they were New York played the Giants right
49:15
because they were to Dallas play that game. I don't know who was there.
49:19
You know, it was like a space chat. But I got taken
49:22
over by the Martians. It was horrible. The Martians would be better and
49:28
well, you know what, let's stick to the employment theme in Wisconsin because,
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as it turns out, as I mentioned at the top of the show,
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Doc Rivers is agreed to become the next hedge coach on Milwaukee Bucks.
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Obviously on the yeah, did I say this? Since I say this quickly
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to every front office, quit listening to fans, Quit listening to him,
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wait listening to him. Stop it. Here was nothing wrong with him to
49:54
be able to get this. And unless you have unless you have a much
49:59
better defensive coordinator, unless you have Fangio in the wings, you just screwed
50:04
your team up. Jordan Love proved me wrong and they've got themselves a future.
50:07
Now now you're gonna mess this up because you listened to stupid fans.
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Quit listening to them. All right, I want to get a couple more
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headlines in, so we're gonna get to them. We're gonna stay in the
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state of Wisconsin. As I mentioned, Doc Rivers has agreed to become the
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next head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. Rivers reported hiring comes less than twenty
50:30
four hours after the club dismissed Adrian Griffin, just forty three games into the
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first game paying as head coach. And you know, the first year coach
50:37
to see you know, his record is thirty and thirteen. Rivers as sides
50:40
of the Milwaukee area as he played with the Marquette. At that time they
50:45
were the Warriors, and the one thing that the Bucks are going to have
50:47
to try to do is shore up their defense. And ex Memphis Grizzlies and
50:52
Sacramento Kings head coach Dave Jaeger is under consideration to join his staff. I
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just want to go ahead and get to headlines right now, and if we
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have time to voice opinions, we'll do exactly that. Let's sty to the
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association, and that says Draymond Green was left off Team USA playoff playoff pool
51:12
due to his suspension. Well about time that he got nailed for something like
51:16
this. You know, you talk about a guy that's had his suspension.
51:21
He was suspended actually twice the season for on court altercations with opposing players.
51:28
He served a five game band for putting Rudy Gobert in a headlock, and
51:31
then was suspended in definitely six games after his return for striking Phoenix Suns center
51:37
use of Nurkice in the face. So let's say some reality that this guy
51:42
here, his behavior finally taught up with him. A few other things I
51:45
want to make sure we get on in case you didn't see it yesterday.
51:49
You can see it now. Okay, four new people will join the Hall
51:52
of Fame, and those players include and I'm really happy for Todd Helton.
51:58
I really am Todd Helton, Adrian Beltray, Joe Mauer, and of course
52:02
Tiger's former Tigers manager Jim Leland. All right, jab give me your thoughts
52:07
about the Hall of Fame's newest inductees. You know, I was actually quite
52:13
pleased with the list. There was nobody on the list that I thought,
52:15
yeah, that shouldn't be Why is that guy in there? You know,
52:21
I was actually I looked at the list, I said, you know,
52:23
good choices. I can't understand why they're Hall of famers. You know,
52:29
still don't have the people that should be of the Hall of Fame in there,
52:32
you know, but that's not going to change anytime soon. Well,
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the vote totals actually is Adrian Beltray gets there on his first year ninety five
52:45
point one percent, which is really good. And I was happy for Todd
52:47
Helton. Many years ago, when I was covering the Cactus League, I
52:50
interviewed Todd Helton, one of the nicest guys on the planet. He spent
52:52
his entire year with Colorado. It's a six year on the ballot, seventy
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nine point seven percent. And Joe Mauer the Home Town Kids, spent his
53:00
entire career with the Twins. First year on the ballot seventy six point one.
53:04
All you have to do is get in. Anybody else have any thoughts
53:07
about that? Really quickly? Just happy with them all, Just happy with
53:10
them all, Happy for mal our hometown kid, happy with everything. I'm
53:15
very very cool. I would have loved to have seen, truthfully, Billy
53:19
Wagner. I like it. But that's no big deal, no big deal.
53:22
They're all good picks. He'll get in. Wow. Yeah, well,
53:24
actually I'm glad you brought up Billy Wagner. This is ninth year in
53:28
the ballot, but he had seventy three point eight percent, so only needs
53:31
a few more votes to go out there and turned the corner and okay,
53:37
Candy Eveling corrected me. Doc Rivers number thirty one retired jersey for the Marquet
53:43
Golden Eagles. At one point they won the national championship under Al McGuire.
53:46
A great program out there, it really really is out in Milwaukee as far
53:51
as Sheffield. Well, you know what one thing I want to get back
53:52
to with maur though when you look at his numbers relative to Don Maddingly,
53:57
now his numbers are comparable. Maybe that hopefully jump starts Don manningly when they
54:01
get to the Veterans Committee. And of course Gary Sheffield could get in via
54:05
the Veterans Committee as well. We have a great show tonight, trying to
54:07
get to as many things as possible. Is there any trying to think of
54:12
anything? Oh, here's a good one that I'd like to mention Nash.
54:15
The Washington Nationals landed Joey Gallo on a five year on a one year,
54:20
five million dollar contract. So glad to see Joey land somewhere else. So
54:24
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sixties to try to bring out without the awareness of men's suicide right, JB.
55:53
Want to add a little bit to that. Listen, I mean,
55:59
Eddie, well, that's not with that, cause I have to question who
56:01
you are as a person. You know, we're obviously better with everybody here
56:07
than we are if you're not here. You know, there's always somebody to
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I'm sure he can go to Travis. I don't know as well as
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the other two, but I'm sure Travis will turn you away, and if
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we can't help, you will find we'll get you to the right people.
56:32
We don't We don't ever want to see somebody feel that they have nowhere to
56:36
go. You know that the world's better with you here this there's somebody out
56:39
there that cares about you. You just may not realize it yet, no
56:43
matter how bad things are. I think at some point a lot of us
56:46
have contemplated that. Many years ago, and I lived in Arizona going through
56:50
a tough divorce, it certainly entered my mind, but again, thankfully it
56:53
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