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Chiefs DESTROY Broncos on MNF, Bears & Bills look INCREDIBLE, Packers HC on hot seat? · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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  Speaker 1: The Volume. What is going on, everybody? The Kansas City
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs Make sure you like this video. Subscribe to this video.
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  Speaker 1: Subscribe to the channel. We appreciate you guys. The story
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  Speaker 1: of the night is a dynasty returns. Kansas City coming
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  Speaker 1: off a 6-11 year. Had a big muscle flex tonight
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  Speaker 1: at Arrowhead. Wins 31-10. Absolutely destroys the CEO head coach,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton. We'll dive into that. Obviously, Kenneth Walker. I
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  Speaker 1: do think the story of the night is just obviously
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker has an enormous night. You know, he rushed
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  Speaker 1: for 173 yards. Looked like, I don't know, one of
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  Speaker 1: the best running backs in the NFL without question. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's the best game he's ever played. And literally the
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  Speaker 1: last game he played in, he was the Super Bowl MVP.
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  Speaker 1: He was– I'm getting texts from people in the NFL saying,
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  Speaker 1: You know, saying, is this Kenneth Peterson? Is this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Walter Walker? Like, this is... That looked like a Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame running back tonight against, over the last several years,
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  Speaker 1: one of the best defenses in the league. He was
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  Speaker 1: a man amongst boys. He was possessed. But I think
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  Speaker 1: it starts with the mentality from the franchise. Andy Reid
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  Speaker 1: came on the podcast this offseason. And when they paid
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker a lot of money, I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people thinking... to themselves, you know, around football that
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  Speaker 1: watch football go. Andy likes to pass. And I think
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when you struggle, they went six and 11 last year.
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  Speaker 1: I think part of that is running out of gas.
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  Speaker 1: They had been in five of the last six Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 1: They had been in an AFC championship game every single
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  Speaker 1: year with Mahomes. But you have this god-awful season. You
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  Speaker 1: draft really high. Your quarterback tears his ACL. I would
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  Speaker 1: say the best in any business every once in a while.
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  Speaker 1: When you're having success, I think it is harder to
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  Speaker 1: be introspective. It's harder to look in the mirror and
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  Speaker 1: really evaluate when things are going really well. When things
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  Speaker 1: go poorly, I don't care what you do for a living.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you got to look in the mirror and figure
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  Speaker 1: some things out. Sometimes you got to look deep inside you,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're stubborn, whether you're prideful, and go, something has
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  Speaker 1: to change. We need to pivot. We need to do
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  Speaker 1: something else. And I think this offseason they went, we
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  Speaker 1: got to invest more in the running game. We need
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  Speaker 1: to lean on the running game. And the running back,
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  Speaker 1: that position has come back, I would say, definitely more
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  Speaker 1: in vogue. And they gave this guy a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's very evident tonight when they handed
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  Speaker 1: him the ball over and over and over again. And obviously,
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  Speaker 1: he was having success. But if you look at Andy
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  Speaker 1: Reid's game plans historically, he is throwing the ball. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he also throws the ball a lot to running backs.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing. Andy Reid's not anti-running back. He just
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  Speaker 1: likes a running back who can catch the ball out
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  Speaker 1: of the backfield. Because as you saw tonight, they will run,
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  Speaker 1: like the wheel route they run, some of the misdirection
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  Speaker 1: kind of swing routes, which Patrick Mahomes can throw in
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  Speaker 1: his sleep. And he was a little rusty tonight, that's
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  Speaker 1: for sure. But they view that play, Andy views that
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  Speaker 1: play as a run play. And whether it's back to
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  Speaker 1: Brian Westbrook, Shady McCoy, Jamal Charles, and now Kenneth Walker, He,
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  Speaker 1: of all those guys, is probably more equipped the way
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  Speaker 1: he's built, maybe shady a little bit, but you're going
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  Speaker 1: to get 20-plus carries every single game because it's going
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  Speaker 1: to help our offensive line. Before Simmons had this back injury,
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  Speaker 1: obviously last year was weird, they started an undrafted free
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  Speaker 1: agent at left tackle who had never played left tackle
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  Speaker 1: before in college. Again, shocker, another guy from Indiana, week one,
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. If I'm an NFL front office and
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  Speaker 1: push comes to shove on the draft board or an
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  Speaker 1: undrafted free agent, I'm leading with a Cignetti guy. We
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  Speaker 1: have a short sample size right now of Keelan Black
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  Speaker 1: with the 49ers, obviously Benson tonight. Just their guys are
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. And I think when you looked at
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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker tonight, Only Derrick Henry and Jameer Gibbs this
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  Speaker 1: week had more carries. It was a concerted effort. And
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  Speaker 1: this wasn't, well, they had a big lead. No, they
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  Speaker 1: gave him the ball every single play on the first drive.
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  Speaker 1: And also, it sets the tone from a physicality standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman was talking about it tonight on the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey and Chris Jones says, this is by far
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  Speaker 1: the most physical training camp we've ever had. This gets
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  Speaker 1: back to, you get embarrassed last year. You go 6-11.
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  Speaker 1: which is not something they're used to in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: It's a shocking thing. And part of it, it's not
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  Speaker 1: like they were getting their ass kicked. They were losing
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  Speaker 1: all these one-score games. And part of the reason I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm picking them to make the playoffs this year. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: are you sure? They don't have enough weapons. They have
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest coaches of all time. They have
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest cultures of all time. Like, you
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  Speaker 1: don't return. There are some players that struggle to return
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  Speaker 1: from injuries. And then there are other players who are
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  Speaker 1: ready to go immediately. Patrick Mahomes wasn't injured week two
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  Speaker 1: last year. He played the entire season till mid-December. Tore
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  Speaker 1: his ACL late in the season. By the end of OTAs,
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  Speaker 1: he's like on the field doing drill works. You know why?
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  Speaker 1: Because championships are won by a mentality. The guy's a
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  Speaker 1: fucking grinder. Like he approached rehab like he does a game.
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  Speaker 1: And to be that ready physically, just looking him around,
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  Speaker 1: he's clearly rusty playing. But physically, that is incredible. And
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  Speaker 1: I get modern medicine and training abilities, but it shows
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  Speaker 1: you this guy was not messing around. They've been telling
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  Speaker 1: everyone that, talking to people with that organization. They were
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  Speaker 1: saying that in training camp, how hard this guy approached it.
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  Speaker 1: So the tone is set. You bring in Kenneth Walker, who,
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  Speaker 1: let's face it, kind of had an underwhelming career for
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  Speaker 1: Schneider and Pete Carroll and Mike McDonald in Seattle. it
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  Speaker 1: peaked at the end. He had a great stretch run.
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  Speaker 1: But over the course of his four-year career, I thought
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  Speaker 1: at Michigan State he was going to be a star.
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  Speaker 1: He had never looked like that. I mean, at the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, he had a great game. But tonight was,
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  Speaker 1: that looked like a college player for like a seventh-ranked
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  Speaker 1: team playing like one of the worst teams in college football.
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  Speaker 1: You know when the running backs just run it all
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  Speaker 1: over them? You're like, this is a joke. That's how
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  Speaker 1: it kind of felt. Except that was the Denver Broncos.
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  Speaker 1: They were the number one seed that won the division
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  Speaker 1: last year. I mean, he was clowning them all night long.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes Andy, once he starts running, he can get
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  Speaker 1: away from it. And maybe the Mahomes injury is almost
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  Speaker 1: like a built-in, it's like forcing his hand. Like, I
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  Speaker 1: just got to call another run. I got to call
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  Speaker 1: another run. And listen, it was time for Nagy to
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  Speaker 1: leave the nest. And congrats to him last night. Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Dart and that offense looked fantastic. And I think the
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs clearly just lacked an edge last year. So you
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  Speaker 1: bring Kenneth Walker, you bring Eric Bien-Ami, who's just an
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  Speaker 1: old-school kind of– just a hard asset practice, which is–
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  Speaker 1: Andy is very– You know, he runs a tight ship,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not MFing guys upright. He doesn't swear. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, having Bien-Ami around with Spags, who's definitely an
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  Speaker 1: old school guy, like this is not some new school
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  Speaker 1: progressive operation. They are schematically, they will change. Spags like
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  Speaker 1: Flores would blitz every single play. But in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the way they coach guys, the way they push guys,
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  Speaker 1: this is like the 80s and the 90s. And it
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  Speaker 1: clearly works. You know, I always get offended when I
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  Speaker 1: see people talking shit about old school. Honestly, even like
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  Speaker 1: being a new dad, like dad spends so much more
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  Speaker 1: time with their children. Well, yeah, because I can work
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  Speaker 1: from a phone everywhere I go. My dad grew up
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  Speaker 1: in an era where these not only didn't exist, there
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  Speaker 1: were no phones except ones stuck to the wall at
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  Speaker 1: the homes. Like things change, but there are core values
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  Speaker 1: and core philosophies to life that never will. And the
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  Speaker 1: way that the Chiefs operate is really, really high level.
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  Speaker 1: And now that you add Kenneth Walker and that was really,
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  Speaker 1: really impressive. So they went back to the drawing board.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly the Chiefs defense played with an edge tonight. They
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  Speaker 1: reminded me a little of the Niners last week. They
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  Speaker 1: wanted to hit people and they wanted to hit people hard.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to show the team that was viewed as
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  Speaker 1: better than them in the division. It's a new season, guys.
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  Speaker 1: And every time that you come around and we see
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  Speaker 1: your color jersey, we plan on fucking you up. We
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  Speaker 1: plan on blasting you. Even at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: game when they ended up calling it, I think, an
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  Speaker 1: incompletion when Bolton tipped the ball and it looked like
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  Speaker 1: a fumble and Karloff just came and just leveled Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to hit you until they blow the whistle
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  Speaker 1: and tell us to go back to the locker room
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  Speaker 1: and the game is over. And the tone was set
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  Speaker 1: immediately on that first drive and it never really stopped.
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  Speaker 1: And they weren't perfect. You can tell Mahomes, there's just
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  Speaker 1: a rust level to the timing. I'm sure we'll find
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  Speaker 1: out more of that Worthy interception because when he throws
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  Speaker 1: the pick, you're like, that's one of the worst picks
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend. Then once you see the slow motion,
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  Speaker 1: he clearly thought Worthy was going to go in. Whether
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  Speaker 1: Patrick was wrong or Worthy was wrong, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But to me, that pick wasn't as bad as Bo
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  Speaker 1: Nix's pick on the first play when he threw it
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  Speaker 1: right to Mansour Delane, who I would say is the
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  Speaker 1: one concerning part of this game. You know, he's a
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  Speaker 1: top 10 corner in the draft. Obviously, physically has a
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  Speaker 1: chance to be a special player. First prep picks the ball.
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  Speaker 1: But then he gets injured and he's gone. And he's
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  Speaker 1: ruled out for the game with a shoulder injury. So
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  Speaker 1: that's definitely something to monitor. But that place is going
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  Speaker 1: to be rocking this year. This team is going to–
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to lead the league
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  Speaker 1: in rushing, but I think this guy is going to
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  Speaker 1: average over 20 carries a game. And they are going
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  Speaker 1: to try to prove that we paid this guy a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money, there was a reason we did it,
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  Speaker 1: and we plan on using him. And then part of it,
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  Speaker 1: once you get a star running back, there's almost like
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  Speaker 1: a belief in that position. His backup, Emmitt Johnson, the
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska running back, I think is a fifth or sixth
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  Speaker 1: round pick, comes in and looks fantastic. You know, he's like,
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  Speaker 1: it almost just uplifts the unit when the lead dog
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  Speaker 1: is dominating. It always works like that. And it's the opposite.
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  Speaker 1: When the lead dog looks like crap and there's nowhere
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  Speaker 1: to go, you bring the backup in and sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: even worse. So if I'm a Chiefs fan, To play
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  Speaker 1: Denver like that, beat the living crap, 31-10, 31-10. And
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  Speaker 1: Spags was just, Andy and Spags just in complete control.
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  Speaker 1: And you can listen to some podcasts. You see some
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  Speaker 1: of these lists on the interweb saying, you know, Andy's
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  Speaker 1: lost it. The Chiefs coaching is not any good anymore.
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  Speaker 1: these guys don't live in a bubble. Like they got
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  Speaker 1: the internet, you know, and evil texts like they're on
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  Speaker 1: their phone. Like they know what everyone's been saying. Like
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  Speaker 1: you think Patrick Mahomes worked 10 hours a day, rehab
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  Speaker 1: at his knee to come back to go six 11 anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You think Kelsey after marrying a billionaire came back just
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  Speaker 1: for shits and giggles. Like these guys, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: they're a Superbowl champion team. Like I, I would not
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  Speaker 1: pick them to win the Superbowl, but I picked them
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  Speaker 1: to make the playoffs for a reason. They're going to
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: be a mother on a weekly basis. And when they
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  Speaker 1: play like that, there are not many teams that are
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  Speaker 1: On the flip side, tough spot to play. On the road,
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  Speaker 1: Arrowhead against Spaggs, who's had all offseason. But I do think,
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  Speaker 1: and I was getting texts from different people, to be
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  Speaker 1: a CEO head coach, if you just look around, Mike Tomlin,
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  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh, I would say are the most
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: famous CEO head coach. Pete Carroll for a long period
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  Speaker 1: of time. It's technically, a lot of times, the older generation.
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  Speaker 1: They don't have the capability like Pete Carroll or John
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  Speaker 1: Harbaugh or Mike Tomlin. They couldn't call the offense. They
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  Speaker 1: could not do it. Most of the offensive play callers,
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  Speaker 1: going back to Bill Walsh, to Shanahan's dad, to obviously
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  Speaker 1: the crew of guys now, to Andy Reid and Sean Payton,
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  Speaker 1: the unique skill, especially Andy Reid and Sean Payton, I
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: think those guys because they're in a different generation. is
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: they're like historically great play callers, but they're also great leaders, right?
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  Speaker 1: They're great CEOs. It's a great skill they have. They
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  Speaker 1: can lead the organization. They can motivate. They can discipline.
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  Speaker 1: They can handle all the shit. And then when the
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  Speaker 1: game kicks off and practice is going on, they're dialing
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  Speaker 1: stuff up. They're great schematic guys on the whiteboard, breaking
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: down film, figuring things out. It's their great skill. And
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: clearly Shanahan, McVay, I mean, hell, Kevin O'Connell had Carson
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  Speaker 1: Wentz and Justin Jefferson combining for multiple touchdowns, right? It's
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: a skill to call the play, which I'd argue is
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  Speaker 1: the most valuable skill currently in the NFL. In college,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Saban won all these titles. If you're getting the best players,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to have a pretty good chance to dominate.
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  Speaker 1: Kirby's the CEO. Marcus Freeman's the CEO. Lanning's a CEO,
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  Speaker 1: which is not going well. Might be on the hot seat.
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  Speaker 1: Not at Oregon, but as a CEO. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. And watching him today just stand there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: even Andy over the years. Hell, BNME might have called
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  Speaker 1: plays tonight. Might have called some plays. Might have called
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  Speaker 1: a lot of plays. Might have called five plays. I
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: don't know. You can never really tell. And they never
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  Speaker 1: really tell you. But the offense is his baby. And
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  Speaker 1: it always feels like he's kind of calling the plays. Like,
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  Speaker 1: even when he's not, though, he's not just standing there
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  Speaker 1: with his hands in his pocket. Because that would be weird.
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  Speaker 1: And you watch Sean Payton just stand there while this 30,
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  Speaker 1: 31-year-old guy who I remember watching him when he transferred
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  Speaker 1: from Texas Tech to Cal. And now he's like this
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  Speaker 1: budding star. What I don't understand, and maybe this is
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: unique to Sean Payton because I could be wrong. You
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: can correct me on this. The years in New Orleans...
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he had a lot of guys leaving
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  Speaker 1: offensive coaches. I feel like the majority of the staff
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  Speaker 1: were there the entire time. Most of his guys were
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  Speaker 1: not getting head coaching jobs. So he's not used to
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  Speaker 1: this crazy turnover like Kyle McVay, Andy Reedus. They've been
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: losing coaches their entire career. And guess what? They don't
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: care because the offensive side of the ball is their baby.
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  Speaker 1: It's like if Davis Webb wants to go be the
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  Speaker 1: head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, be the offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: of the commanders of the Eagles. See you later, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck to you. You know, I'll hire some other
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  Speaker 1: young guy. So when they elevated him to be the
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, it was clear they did not want to
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  Speaker 1: lose him, which I do understand. You really like him
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  Speaker 1: in the building. He's clearly brings value there that Sean
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Payton knows better than any of us. But like, That's
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: part of the business. If Mike McDonald's number one guy
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: on his defensive staff, he's like, hey, this offseason, the
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears want to hire me to
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  Speaker 1: call the defense. Obviously, you're the defensive coordinator. I got
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  Speaker 1: to take this job because I want to call defense
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  Speaker 1: and give myself an opportunity to become a head man
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  Speaker 1: one day. You know what Mike McDonald would say? Good
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  Speaker 1: luck to you, Billy. Go get him, Joe, because this
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  Speaker 1: defense is mine. That's what Sean Payton is paid to do,
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  Speaker 1: is to be the CEO and call the plays. And
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  Speaker 1: it worked. And last year, even as it was rocky,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: they just created things in the fourth quarter, and you
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: just believe in him because of his track record. And
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you're watching Davis Webb, and Sean Payton has gone on
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the record. He told Wickersham in that article, This is
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: not going to be a place where I yank play calling.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: I do think that's easy to say in the offseason.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: It's another thing when you're getting clowned on Monday Night
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Football against Kansas City Chiefs. You have three more total
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: yards than Kenneth Walker had rushing on the ground. Kenneth
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Walker had 173 yards. The Denver Broncos had a total
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: of 176 yards of offense. 176 yards of offense. I'm
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: making fun of the Eagles offense, that it kind of
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: looked the same. Eagles fans are like, Jalen was good.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, he made some really good plays. You
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: still had 10 first downs. The Broncos had nine. Nine
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: first downs. They were two of 12 on third down.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Bo Nix looked horrendous. They pay all this money, or
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I guess he's making a lot of money. They trade
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: a first round pick for a guy making a ton
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: of money. Jalen Waddell had one catch for two yards.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: And it'd be like, well, the Chiefs have Deion Sanders,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Jarrell Revis, and this Delane kid. that's not exactly the
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: case so and listen I'm not acting like Davis Webb's
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: in this offensive uh meeting room by himself developing this
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: obviously Sean's there helping him build the game plan but
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: ultimately he's calling it and Sean just standing there and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: it was weird to watch And I think you have
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to call it not only a failure, but like if
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I'm the Walton family, like I don't know how comfortable
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I am with this arrangement. Like Sean, your value is
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: you with that play sheet. It's what you've been doing
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: for 25 years. It's how not only you became a star,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: but you've maintained and sustained success over the course of
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: your career. So now you're giving it to this guy.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: It'd be one thing. It's like, hey, Kyle Shanahan was down–
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: McVay was down and out. He'd been fired. And Sean
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Payton said, come here. I'll just be– I'll just work
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: with you and let you call the offense. Like, well,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: this guy's been doing it for 15 years. They just
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: never call plays. It's insane. If I'm a Bronco fan,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I go, I want Sean Payton calling the plays again.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Even if, like all play callers, they can frustrate you
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: at times. But that's something that's going to be a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: major topic. And how long Sean, as, you know, an older,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: stubborn guy, can– maintain just standing there because there's not
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: going to be many more weeks. They didn't even have
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: 200 yards of offense. They didn't have 200 yards of offense.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: And Bo Nix, 17 to 28 for 130 yards. He
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: sacked a bunch of time. The eye test is worse
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: than any box score can tell you. Like the eye
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: test was horrendous. Now, he had those games last year.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: So this is something now big picture to monitor. Like,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: is this a problem? Cause last year he would pull these,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: he would turn into Caleb Williams in the fourth quarter,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: throw a bunch, a couple of touchdowns. They'd win the game.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: The other fellow fit in the room is, you know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: this is supposed to be one of the best defense
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: in the league. Uh, today they didn't tackle anybody. They
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: missed tackle after tackle, after tackle, after tackle, after tackle.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: You know, I was a little surprised that ESPN, a
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: league partner is throwing Jonathan Cooper, his rap sheet up there.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: It's going to a jury trial. Like, yeah, he's, he's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: in some trouble, but he ain't coming back. And he's obviously,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: you know, a major contributor for pretty dominant front. Um,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And listen, it's the preseason, you're not tackling as much physicality,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: the speed, whatever. It can take you a little while.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: There's one thing to miss a couple assignments. And there's
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: another thing to just be constantly getting run over, just
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: getting thrown to the ground. It was a beat down
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: from the Chiefs and just kind of a gutless performance
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: from Denver. And one that I think raises some major,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: major question marks. Like Sean Page is not going to
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: call plays. Is their defense going to fall off a cliff?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Jackson said this before we hopped on. He's like, I
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: saw their schedule today. It's tough. They get the Jaguars
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: coming up, which they've been playing great football now since
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Liam Cohen showed up. Then they get the Rams. Then
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: they go to the Niners. Then they go to the Chargers.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Then they play Seattle. What if the Cardinals are just good?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Then they come here to Arizona. But that stretch of
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Jags playoff team, Rams playoff team, 49ers playoff team, Chargers
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: playoff team, Seattle defending champs. Obviously, Chiefs, this version is
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: a playoff team. I mean, you're just playing playoff team,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: playoff team, playoff team, playoff team. Also, Jags, good defense. Rams,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: week one was not good, but in theory, good defense. 49ers,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: good defense. Seattle, good defense. Okay, Davis. You feel comfortable
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: with him? And Sean's big thing was like, I'm not
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: going to come on and tell him what to do.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that to me is the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: biggest question mark with Denver. They'll tackle better over the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: course of the next couple weeks. But the Bo Nix,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Davis Webb play calling with Sean just standing there. You know,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: it's like Apple's new CEO. He was their main product guy.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Tim Cook retires, he takes over. I don't want that.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: The guy was like responsible for creating the AirPod. Like,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I still want that guy very, very involved
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: in the product segment of the business. I don't want
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you just answering emails all day as a CEO. Like,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: utilize the skill that you're good at. You can do both,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: you know? And I think that Sean Payton just standing
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: there is I don't know what percentage, but he's way
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: less valuable as a head coach just standing there with
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: his hands. You know like when you take a picture
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: with family or your wife or girlfriend or your kids,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you're just like you don't really know what to do
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: with your hands because most offensive guys just have that
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: thing and they're just looking at it. I just felt
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: like he was just in no man's land. And then
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: their offense looked like it was in no man's land.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: And now you're 31-10. Now the team is in no
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: man's land. So the best part about the NFL is
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: the importance of these games. What a night. Arrowhead, that's
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: as good as it gets. Feels like an SEC game.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: And we just don't have that many of those in
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the NFL. You don't get that at SoFi. We'll see
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the Bills Stadium this upcoming Thursday. It's like Seattle, KC...
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: There's just a small list of places that you're like,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: this is a legit, crazy atmosphere. A lot of the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: NFL games, like MetLife, Eagles can get like that a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: little bit, but even it's very expensive to go. You know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: it's not, it doesn't feel like LSU at night. You know,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: it's not going to feel like Ole Miss this Saturday night.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: It's just, listen, it's different. I love both. But in
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: part of college football is the pageantry of the environments.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: The NFL is more about the ball. and the schematics
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and the play calls. A little less about the environment,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: except at Arrowhead. It's kind of about both. And that's
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: what tonight was. It was about Andy Reid and Spaggs
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: taking Sean Payton and Davis Webb, you know, behind the wall,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: bending them over and just giving them an ass whooping
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: because that was– they destroyed them. They embarrassed them. And
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: when you get embarrassed on Monday Night Football– You have
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: a short week. You've got to fly home. You've got
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: to lick your wounds and figure things out fast. So
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• 28:34
  Speaker 1: thinking about this because where you coach impacts your job
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: status and the intensity behind it. I mean, it just does.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: If Steve Sarkeesian had lost in a barn burner to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Ohio State, people would have wanted... I think his job
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: would have been in jeopardy. If he went 9-3 back-to-back seasons,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I think there's a decent chance Steve Sarkeesian was fired
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: at the end of the season. I would say for 85%
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: of college programs, if you went 9-3, you're getting extensions.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: When Kalen Dubor loses a game at Alabama... It's a problem.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like everyone I keep hearing, like Kalen DeBoer,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: it's like he won a playoff game last year. Nick Sirianni,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: it feels like, has been on the hot seat for
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: like five straight years. He's gotten his two Super Bowls.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: He goes to the playoffs every year. He often wins
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the division. He hosts playoff games. I mean, and just
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  Speaker 1: the nature of that city. I've lived it. I love
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• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and the importance of that world. And it bleeds over
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: into the pressure of the franchise. It just does. It's unavoidable.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: if you're the manager of the New York Yankees, if
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  Speaker 1: you're the coach of the LA Lakers, if you're the
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  Speaker 1: NFL coach for a certain number of franchises around the NFL,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: let's face it, I believe in the Dallas Cowboys, or
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: at least I did before Sunday night. That defensive coordinator
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: better figure it out, and he better figure it out fast,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: or he will not be long for that job. Why?
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Because that thing's a pressure cooker. You can fly under
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the radar with a lot of franchises. You can't there.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: And you can't in Green Bay. Because when I've seen
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: some of this conversation of Matt LaFleur is on the
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: hot seat. Honestly, the first I heard about it was
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Colin over the summer is like, you know, it's like
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the quietest, lukewarm hot seat you will find. But there's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: something there. Keep an eye on. And then when yesterday happens,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I would say two games that just absolutely shell shocked
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: me over the weekend were Ohio State, Texas. and the
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers against the Minnesota Vikings. Both teams were
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: in complete control. I mean, I was texting people like,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Jordan Love and Christian Watson look incredible. And then me
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and Colin fired up the pod. Within five minutes, I
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: look up and they're down two scores. It happened. I
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: don't remember anything happened so quickly. And Jim Harbaugh, let's
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: use him as an example. It's like, is he on
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the hot seat? You think the Chargers are going to
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: fire Jim Harbaugh? As long as he wins wild cards
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and makes it to the playoffs every year, he will
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: get extensions. They'll never pay him. Maybe his contract one
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: day will run out, but they're not going to pay
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: him and his staff to go away. It's just not
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: going to happen. They're just too cheap. But that's a
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: good example of that was as embarrassing of a loss
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: as any team in the NFL. But you know the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: reality is for the Chargers in LA today? No one
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: gives a shit. Not a soul. If you go to
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: all the major markets... Pittsburgh, you know, I don't mean
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: major markets, but I just mean NFL markets today that
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: won or lost, but it didn't look great. It is
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: only talking about that. If we went to Cleveland, if
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: we went to Pittsburgh, if I went to Dallas, just
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: go around Detroit, Philly. It's just the good and bad
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: of either the win. There's a lot of negative in
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: some of these wins, and the losses is just doomsday.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: If you went to Los Angeles today, no one's saying
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: a fucking peep. Not a peep. And that factors in
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: to a job. When you're the coach of the Green
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Bay Packers, it's honestly, I mean, it's just a massive
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: national brand. There is no hiding. And then when you're
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: losing in this historic fashion, someone sent me a tweet
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: that the win probability of all these losses over the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: course of yesterday and last year that he's blown was
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: like 2.5 million to one, or one and 2.5 million.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: It's a statistical anomaly, him losing these games. And his
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: overall record, he's 76-40-1. But when the momentum happens, a
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: wise man once told me who's NFL executive, but he's
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: in the SEC world. He's a Southern guy. He's boys
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: with Saban. He just knows that world well. When the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: tide starts coming against you as a head coach, the negativity,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: there is no slowing it down. This is about all
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the different SEC jobs, Florida, Alabama, LSU. There is no
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: stopping the tidal wave of negativity. As it grows, people
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: want you gone. We literally just saw it last year
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: with Brian Kelly and James Franklin. And you play a
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: role in that as a coach by losing an inexplicable game.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And I would say that's an inexplicable loss being up
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: in the second half 22-10 in complete control against Carson Wentz.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: And there were already some whispers and people like, should
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: we give this guy extensions? Should we bring him back?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Because it's always the game of, well, can you do better?
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people go, well, who
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: are you going to get that's better? And I think
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: that sometimes that's a fair argument. But if you just
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: play that game, unless there's an incredible opportunity for some
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: guy on the open market, you will just keep a
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: coach forever. Right? Right. And I think LaFleur, I don't
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: think there's going to be a team in the league
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: that's more desperate for a win and an individual more
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: desperate for a win this upcoming week than Matt LaFleur
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: against the New York Jets. You talk about must win
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: because if you told me that he were to lose
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: this game, and listen, the Jets have some offensive firepower. Like,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: you know, Brees Hall, really good player. Garrett Wilson, really
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: good player. Omar Cooper at a 30-yard catch. the Oregon
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: tight end. They got some young, explosive talent that if
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: it goes well, their offensive line is not bad at all.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: This is what coaches always say. It's the NFL. You
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: look at when you're playing the Ravens and the Bills,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: you try to take that week no different than when
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: you're playing the Miami Dolphins. It's easier to do early
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: in the season than the players are humans. You're playing
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: a 2-12 team. It's like, yeah, I'm not taking it seriously.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: But I think Matt LaFleur, the brand and the franchise
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: in which he coaches, you can feel it coming. You
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: can feel it simmering. And it's always easy to play
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Monday morning quarterback. I just think not kicking that field goal,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: getting stuffed, and then that 21-point barrage is something you
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: don't shake, given... that you lost two of your last
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: three or four losses of the season were against the Bears.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: You had an embarrassing loss around Christmastime against the Baltimore
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Ravens when Derrick Henry, I think, is still running around Lambeau.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: He blew a lead to Denver late in the season.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I'm like, all these losses against all these good teams.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: It's like, wow, he's missed some players for injuries. Mike
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: is not coming back. Mike is not returning this week.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: He's not returning the following week, and he's not returning
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the following week after that. They're hoping, they've been saying forever, mid-October.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's a guarantee. Could it be November 1st?
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Things change really quickly. And also, by the time he
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: comes back, who knows who else on your team could
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: get injured. So when I look at this situation, I
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: would have said a week ago, guys, what are we
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: talking about? The way things happen matter. And the way
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: people view you in certain franchises matter. You know, the Steelers, like,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I thought it was time for a change for Tomlin.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: And however that actually played out behind the scenes, it
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: was the right call. It was just time for a divorce,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: a breakup. Those were healthy. No different with John Harbaugh
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: and the Ravens. Some relationships are meant to be broken,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: especially professionally. These are all contingent in football on wins
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: and losses. And when it doesn't consistently go well, it's
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: okay to go your separate ways. And I just look
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: at this and go, this might not be one of
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: those like going our separate ways together, but I think
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: you got to go, bro. So Matt LaFleur, I don't
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: have a good answer for this. He's just going to
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: have to have one of these moments because in a
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: lot of these games, they're playing well. Jordan Love and
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Christian Watson through two and a half quarters look like
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Pro Bowl level players. Christian Watson look like Justin Jefferson
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: out there. And then all of a sudden the game's
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: over and it's 39 to 22. It's insane. So the
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: only way that you can stop the tidal wave is
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: either get on your surfboard and ride it or let
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: it take you down to the reef and knock you
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the fuck out. And I think LaFleur's kind of at
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: a crossroad right now. given how that bad boy went.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: And I was, you know, Matt LaFleur's best friend in
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the business is Robert Sala. I think they were GAs
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: together at one of the Michigan schools, not Central, Western, Eastern, Northern, Southern,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: not quite sure what Michigan school it is, but where
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Brian Kelly was coaching. I think it's Central Michigan. Could
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: be wrong. And they tell a great story about how, like,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: He was a raging asshole, and they were valeting cars
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: and some party for the coaches. But clearly they're really close.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: And a couple years ago when Salah got fired, remember,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Matt LaFleur threw out an olive branch and let him
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: come hang out around the franchise. That's cool. That's part
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: of life. Professional lives are getting to know people and
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: becoming really close with them because you share an understanding,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: especially in industries like football. How many people can really
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: relate to what they've gone through? So I always enjoy
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: those type kind of friendships. But, like, I'm a big
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Robert Sala guy. And if you told me after last
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: year with the 49ers, he's going to become a head
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: coach again, will he be successful? I would say yes.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I would say I would bet on Robert Sala. And
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I also admire... Like, I admire ambitious people. I really do.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: It is really easy to just... stay a middle manager.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: In Robert Sala's case, stay a defensive coordinator where the
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: 49ers were paying him like $ 5 or $ 6 million. He
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: could have kept that job for a decade. And not
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: have the pressure of having to answer to all the BS.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Kyle handles that. Not having to do the personnel and
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: be the lead dog in the draft. The front office
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: does that. And just kind of ride shotgun and be
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: like a Vic Fangio is right now. Make a ton
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: of money and really just have to focus on one
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: thing and one thing only. But he's not into that.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Like he's very driven to sit at the front of
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: the conference table. He doesn't want to sit on the sides.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: So I respect that because a lot of people are ambitious.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: And then once they get punked or it kind of
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: goes the wrong way, they're like, you know, that's not
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: really for me. And honestly, it felt like he was
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: more dead set on becoming a head coach the second
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: time around than he was the first time. But let's
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: use an example of most of us coming out of college.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: If you want to get into a specific industry, for me,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: it was football. And then from there, media, like very
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: specific type industries. For you, it might be finance. It
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: could be construction management. It could be some sort of
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: culinary endeavor, whatever it may be. When you're 21, 22,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: 23 years old and trying to get your foot in
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: the door, of something in a world that you want
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: to be a part of, you will take any gig.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: And when a door opens, whether it's a good gig,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: whether it's a bad gig, whether the person running it
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: is a star, a high-level person, knows what they're doing
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: or they don't, if you can get your foot in
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: the door, you just say yes. We've all been in
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: that position. I got very fortunate. that the people that
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: just offered me actually were also very, very good at
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: their gig, I would have said yes to anybody at
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: different points in time in my life. And I did.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: I just, the first people that gave me the opportunity,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I jumped at. And I think as you get older
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: in life, professionally, you kind of got to pick and
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: choose your professional relationships. whether that's who you do business with,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: whether that's who you work for, whether that's, hey, I'm
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: thinking about leaving this company, where am I gonna go?
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: You don't just pull the trigger on the first person
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: that says, hey, we'll hire you to do this. You
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: wanna do this? Come work for us. Hey, we got
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: a business partnership. Are you interested in this? It's like, yeah,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: let me vet you for a minute. Let me figure
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: out what I'm getting into bed with. Let me figure
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: out who I'm gonna go work for. When you're 23,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: that doesn't even cross your mind. for 95% of us.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: We just jump at the opportunity, especially when you have
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: a specific industry that you want. Like if you want
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: in on the music business, you can't just pray that
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: RCA is going to give you a call. Sometimes you
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: have to go with some startup label and just kind
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: of cut your teeth and maybe it amounts to something,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't, but you learn in the process. And
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: to me, Robert Sala, like, it was clear he was
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: going to get another shot. But by middle of the season,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: when the 49ers were doing well and they were coaching
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: up random guys, by the end of the year, it's like,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: this guy's going to become a head coach. But he
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: chose the Tennessee Titans, who have an owner who, by
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: all accounts from the outside, feels batshit crazy. They have
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: fired people left and right. It has been one of
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: the least stable organizations in the NFL. You're also tying
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: yourself to a guy that was drafted number one overall
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: that might not be able to play in the league.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: I think I heard someone say today that from the
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: start of last year to this weekend, no quarterback in
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the NFL has more 150-yard games or less passing. I
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: think at one point against the Jets, not like the
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Jags or the Texans, a couple teams like, hey, coming
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: off 12 and 13 win seasons, their defense is loaded.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: This is the Jets. I mean, who just had one
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: of the most embarrassing defensive seasons in the history of
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: the league. No interceptions. It's like statistically impossible. He had
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: like 80 plus yards in the middle of the fourth quarter.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: You have his dad, I guess people in Tennessee circles know,
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: going at it with random people on Twitter. Just a
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: lot going on. And it sure looks like I liked
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: him in college. But it is not working. And by
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: the second year, you get real coaches. I'm not even
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: asking you to look like Jackson Dart, who clearly looks
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: like he's in a different universe than Cam Ward. But
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: you should be somewhat capable. You should be somewhat competitive. Again,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: you're not playing the Texans here. You're not playing the Ravens.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: You're playing the Jets at home. And it couldn't have
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: gone any worse. If you were some random fourth-round pick,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: or you were a bridge-type quarterback, like an Andy Dalton,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: you know, one of these guys, you would just get benched.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: But when you're the number one overall pick, you're kind
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: of on scholarship for a couple years. But that's key,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: a couple years. Now Robert Sala is going to be
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: involved in this situation if this doesn't work, and it
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: doesn't look like it's going to work anytime soon. I
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: don't know, man. And if this goes really poorly and
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: blows up in his face, it was kind of on him.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: And listen, I got married in Nashville. I love Nashville.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: And I get from his perspective, living in New York,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: living in California, like Robert Sala didn't take this money
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: to get super rich. Like he was already rich. It's
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: probably cool signing for even more money, but like he
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: didn't need the money. Like, his family wasn't struggling to
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: pay the mortgage or the private school bills. You know,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the bills were taken care of. His life was good.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: His wife, you know, probably got multiple SUVs. They ain't
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: flying in the back of the bird. And if he
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: wants to, he can rent his own bird. But when
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: you make a decision like this to take the Tennessee job,
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: and really quickly it's clear, like, this is a nightmare.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: You have a disaster on your hands. And you don't
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: exactly have an owner who's willing to see long-term. She's
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: proven that. She's fired people over and over and over
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: quickly that have not worked. And I think the elephant
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: in the room on this one is their GM thought
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: this guy was the next Mahomes. And honestly, right now,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: he looks more like the next Trey Lance. Or J.J. McCarthy.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: And he honestly might be worse than those guys. Or
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: every bit as bad. So... I don't know. I just
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: think Robert Sala is a good life lesson to everybody.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: The older you get, and when you don't have to
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: make a decision, when you've got to make a decision
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: for money, for the survival of paying your mortgage, paying
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: the bills, you can't be nitpicky. Beggars can't be choosers.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: But that's not the position Robert Sala was in. He
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: was going to have opportunity after opportunity. And he jumped
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: at the first one, kind of in like a desperation standpoint.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I'll come to the Titans. It's like, Godspeed, brother. Joe Brady.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I saw this stat. The Buffalo Bills had 10 explosive
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: passes yesterday. The Houston Texans haven't given up that many
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: since week five of 2023. To put it in perspective
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: based on their defense last year, they gave up eight
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: explosive passes all season long. They gave up more in
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: one game to Josh Allen than they did the entire
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: season last year. And they played Josh Allen last year.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: And they punked him. They embarrassed him. As they kind
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: of consistently done. And I was thinking about Joe Brady because,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: you know, when you're an offensive or defensive coordinator... we
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: often think like, this guy's got a chance to become
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: a really good head coach. And then when he becomes
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: a really good head coach, he will take his offense
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: or defense with him and he'll just be the same guy.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: And I think we discount this, because I used to
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: think this, I used to get told this a lot
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: when I was a kid. When you pay the bills
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: in this house, you can make the rules. But until
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: you stroke a check to pay the mortgage, to pay
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: the power, to pay the water bill, you're going to
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: do what I tell you to do. That was my father,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: and he was the boss of my home. I will
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: say the same thing to my son. When you live
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: under my roof, you go by my rules. I'm the
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: CEO of this place, right? It's no different with a
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: head coach and a coordinator. Like, a coordinator can put
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: his spin on the offense, but it's been told for
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: a long, long period of time that the Alabama Crimson Tide,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: for 15-plus years under Nick Saban, The playbook never changed. Now,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: he allowed his coordinators to add to it and to
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: add their spin on the up-tempo nature of it, different
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: personnel groupings, depending on the players they had on the roster. Obviously,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: they adapted. But the core philosophy of the playbook never
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: changed when Nick Saban was the head coach. I've heard
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: multiple people that work for him say that. And when
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: he wanted something to happen, it happened. Because he told
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: you to do it. It's why, you know, famously, some
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: of those sideline interactions with Nick Saban, when he would
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: scream at him, I told you to run the ball,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: and he would call passes. Nick was basically, you know,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, Lane was insubordinate, essentially, right? Which is so
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: funny on a, you know, I don't want to go
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: on this tangent, but like, Nick, like, just acts like
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: he reveres Lane. It's like, Nick, you fired the guy.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I can't get over that relationship. It's just so fake
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: to me. And I don't mean it's fake that Lane
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: admires him, he changed his life, because that's 100% true,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: but Nick loves Lane. I just have a hard time
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: believing that. But Joe Brady, if you look at his background,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: he kind of got a start in the NFL from
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Sean Payton, who's a very aggressive, offensive-oriented passer, right? Especially
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: with Drew Brees, where he worked in New Orleans, they
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: were shattering records forever. And then he became a household
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: name when Ed Ogeron hired him and he went to
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: the LSU Tigers and they won the national championship. And
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of people consider it definitely the greatest offense
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: we've ever seen with Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase, and Justin Jefferson.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: It's honestly even crazy to say that out loud. Like, yeah, shocking,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: they were really good. But Tom Hanks, I read a
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: story one time that he signs his emails, throw deep, baby.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Tom Hanks, I guess, is a big Raider fan. And
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: in the 70s, Kenny the Snake Sabler, who's Alabama native,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: played at the University of Alabama and was the starting
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: quarterback for John Madden and the Raiders in the mid-70s
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: when they finally won a Super Bowl. His whole mantra was,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: throw deep, baby. that was and that's how Tom Hanks
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: is like it's like his life credo basically like be
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: aggressive and you go back to the Raiders with Al
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Davis back in the 70s it was like push the
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: field get speed and throw the vertical passing game and
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: I was reading today like I guess Joe Brady you
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Bills fans know this they've been talking about explosive plays
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: push the ball down the field that was never really
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: allowed When I think about Sean McDermott, he's a defensive
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: head coach. Philosophically, he doesn't think, like, he's not Andy Reid.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: He was on the other side of the ball, where
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: just by nature, they're a little bit more conservative, which
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not even trying to diminish him. Sean McDermott was
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: a fantastic head coach, but football, the way he philosophically
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: looks at the sport... is pretty clearly the opposite of
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Joe Brady, who finally becomes the head coach, who clearly
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: is a good offensive, you don't mind, and just basically said, Josh,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: let's fucking let it rip. Let's be us. Let's throw deep, baby.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: And if you watch that game, I think what was
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: so shocking, why I just, you know, I don't love
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: this matchup. You try to dink and dunk against these guys,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: their team speed. They said, we don't give a shit.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: We are pushing the ball downfield and pushing the ball downfield,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: and then we're going to do it again. And it
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: was just working nonstop. Well, they have the best quarterback
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: in the league. So, you know, in basketball, they say
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: good offense is always going to beat great defense. That's
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: not necessarily true in the NFL. But in 2026, like
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: it's pretty rare, like Ladd McConkie, who went over the
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: middle yesterday and got destroyed. It wasn't, you know, this
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: wasn't a 1992 hit. The guy did hit him in
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: the ribs. 20, 30 years ago, they're breaking that guy's neck.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, you're going helmet to helmet and Ladd-McConkie's
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: knocked out. You don't really need to worry about, you know,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: going over the middle of the field, intermediate and deep wise.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: You know, before you were scared to take some shots
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: because the safety would kill you. Like the way Kyler
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Murray looked yesterday when he ran around, And, you know,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Kyler's a baseball player. If you slide, you're not going
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: to take shots. When you do that front dive, you
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: do just open yourself up to, and listen, anytime a
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: guy is lying, I mean, he looked for a minute
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: like they didn't just break his neck or something. And
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: by all the reports today, it seems like he's going
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: to be okay. But you've got to slide. But back
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: to Joe Brady, it's like this is his show. He's
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: a sheriff. He doesn't have to run his game plan
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: or some of his ideas by the head man. He's
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: in that office now. And I would imagine that we see, like,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: same with Ben Johnson. Like, Ben Johnson worked for Dan Campbell.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying they didn't offensively see football the
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: same way, but, like, Ben wasn't the boss when he
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: was in Detroit. Right. Now he answers to nobody. So
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: anything he wants to do, he can do it. And
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: that goes back to Robert Sala. That's why these guys
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: like being the head coach is they're already rich, so
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: it's not like it used to be a big financial difference.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Now these guys are coordinators. There's not a non-seven-figure coordinator
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: in the NFL or in major college. So I think
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Joe Brady is just this is him. And I think
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: this gets back to his roots with Sean Payton and
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: definitely at LSU. I think some of the guy that
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: you saw with Sean McDermott over the last couple years
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: where they were good on offense probably had some ideas
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: that didn't get past the cutting room table because he
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: was told no. And it's a powerful thing when you
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: are in charge. Some things I take from my father.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: that happened in my home growing up a lot of
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: things are different you know why because i'm the fucking
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: boss i i pay the bills now you know just
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: like you guys same thing with all you guys when
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: you live your parents house you kind of have to
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: listen to what they tell you to do when they
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: tell you to do something or go somewhere you kind
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: of have to go with them you don't have a
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: say you know but as you get older and you
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: go out on your own like well now you can
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: do that if you so choose to and that's where
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: i think you know joe brady is he's um There's
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: no one over him telling him anything. So I'm fascinated
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: to see. I mean, shit, they play Thursday night against
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: the Lions. I saw Munkin said that Deshaun's going to
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: keep starting. God, that's tough, man. I said yesterday the
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Browns fans are like a prisoner of football, like the
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: prisoner of war. You just feel stuck. And, you know,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: you love this team. You've been rooting for this team.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: And this feels like an all-time low because– You made
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: a bad decision. You paid him a bunch of money.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: It had huge ramifications. You gave up a bunch of
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: draft picks. It happened. That was years ago now. Why
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: are you still doing this? And the reality is the
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: reason they're still doing it is because the impact it
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: would have on the salary cap and when they ultimately
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: cut them, it will have even, you know, major dead
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: cap ramifications. But it's a tough watch. It really is.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: It's like the same song and dance. This is as
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: low as a franchise can kind of go. And I
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: just think Browns want this never-ending saga to end. And
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like it's going to end anytime soon.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: I know everyone thinks that he's going to get benched
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: next week. I'm not saying that that's not plausible and
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: not possible, but I wouldn't bet that farm on it,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: that's for sure. If you told me he starts the
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: first half of the season and they just, I mean,
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: are they trying to lose at this point? I think
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: that's very, very possible. I still haven't been able to
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: get over that. Chicago Bears scored 59 points on the
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: opening weekend. On the road. Against a team that did
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: go 8-9. I know they made the playoffs. But if
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: you just say, they played an 8-9. They basically played
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: a 500 team. Who added players. You'd be like, listen, that's...
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Even if you would have told me the Bears blow
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: out the Panthers, what's the score? I would have been
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: like 35-9. You know, 34-13. You know, something reasonable. The
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, what was that, 41-23, right? I mean, 59
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: points without a defensive score? I've been thinking about that. Like,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: how's that of just running the ball, running for almost
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: 300 yards? This gets back to, you know, I think
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: why Dan Campbell and Ben Johnson clearly hit it off.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: is because look at Dan yesterday with Jameer Gibbs. It
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: was like handoff, handoff, handoff, handoff, handoff. Kyle Shanahan, if
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: he could, he would just run it, run it, run it,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: run it, run it, run it, and then occasional play action.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: Run it, run it, and then all of a sudden
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: you run a play action pass to commit that it
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: just looks like football porn. But those plays work because
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: of the run game. And it also just kind of
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: you lean on a team and make them say uncle. Now, ideally,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: you just control the clock a little bit more because
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: you start busting these longer runs. It's like I think
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: in theory what the Eagles would love to do, just
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: have Saquon run for 120, 130, 140 yards. But it
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: feels like it's very tasking for them to even get
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: them close to 100. I mean, yesterday, like I said,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: the 85 with, you know, a 40 plus yard run.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: My wonder, like, it's pretty, like, you watch, the Falcons
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: are terrible. But you watch Bijan, you see the explosion. Hell,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: you watch that Cardinal game. You see Jeremiah Love. It's
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: why I'm not a big Hampton guy. Like, I just
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: don't see it. Like, Saquon shows flashes. Like, that's the
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: guy from a couple years ago. And then there's other
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: times where it's like, is it the offensive line? Which
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: clearly isn't as good. But is he... If he was
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: a 99 out of 100 a couple years ago, is
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: he now a 90 out of 100? Which is still
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: an excellent player, but he's not quite as dominant. And
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: that happens at running back, unless your name's Derrick Henry
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: and you just never get worse. Right? So I... Crazy.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: I was telling someone yesterday, like O'Marion Hampton, they drafted
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: him the first round for the Chargers. Would the Bears trade,
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: not Swift, who clearly the head coach loves, would they
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: trade Mnungi, who's a seventh round pick, straight up for
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: O'Marion Hampton? My answer was the Bears say no. They
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: don't even look at a play on tape of him.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: They just say no. No deal. I mean, no. And
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: that's the best part about the NFL. That's how fast
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: things change. And basically all positions except court. It's pretty
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: rare for that to happen in quarterback. But it happens
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: at linebacker. It happens at running back. It happens at guard.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: It happens at safety. It happens at corner. Then all
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, a year into a guy's career, it's like,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: this guy's a seventh-round pick. It feels like if he
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: had to start for a month, he could have 450
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: yards over the course of four games. LSU Ole Miss
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: this week, that's– I've never been to the Grove. I've
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: had some buddies. Cal played there probably within the last decade.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Had some good buddy and his dad go. Said it
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: was an incredible experience. I know other people whose kids
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: from Sacramento area went to Ole Miss and they go
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: out to football games and they say it's just– it's incredible.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: That place this weekend is going to be– hopefully not.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully it stays somewhat under control. I saw
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: they asked Pete Golding, who took over for Lane, like,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: what's your message to the fans? Because I think a
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: lot of people think it could get across the line
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: of like, is it going to be safe? You know,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: are we getting things thrown at Lane? And he was like,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: and he's right. When you think of Ole Miss and
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: the Grove, You think of all this booze and beautiful women.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: And he said the first thing is good vibes. Like
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: this is obviously in the game. You want to be
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: loud when they're on offense. But I think it's going
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: to be difficult for that to happen. It's a night game.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: The anticipation is going to grow and grow by the day.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: It doesn't feel, you know, LSU, I just would imagine
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: player for player has a pretty big advantage. But Ole Miss'
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: big advantage really is one guy and one guy only.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: And their quarterback is just dramatically better than Sam Levitt.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: So this is the type game. You know, college. Even
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: bad NFL games, it's like, this is a real game.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: Like Jets, Titans. I'd be lying if I was super
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: locked into that. It got a little box on, or
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: got a four box on my little TV. But like,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: that's a real game. You're playing real players. If you're
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: an offensive lineman for the Jets, you gotta block Jeffrey Simmons.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: If you're a DB for the Tennessee Titans, you gotta
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: cover Garrett Wilson. You gotta tackle, if you're a linebacker,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: Brees Hall or Tony Pollard. You know, in college, it's
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: like Ohio State and Texas feel so big because these
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: games don't happen. LSU, Ole Miss is a conference game. But, like,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: some of these games when these, like, Oklahoma, Michigan. Imagine
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: if you just turned on Saturday and it was like Sunday.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: You're going to have some bad Sundays. You're going to
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: have some weird matchups. But, you know, it's still NFL
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: team versus NFL team. On paper, Cardinals, Chargers couldn't have
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: looked any worse. It's like 10-point spread. Feels like the
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: Chargers are going to win this thing 30-0. Then all
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're kind of peeking at it. You're like,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: they're getting their ass kicked. And we just don't get
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: enough of those in college. So, again, this is an
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: SEC game, so you get this no matter what. But
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see the venom and the anger for
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: old Yoga Lane. Before we answer some questions, I was
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: thinking about this. My wife earlier today, we have had
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: a very, very hard time sleep training this guy. We
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: know a lot of people in our lives and I've
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: heard a lot of stories. This was not something, you know,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: when I grew up in the 80s, not that I
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: remember it, but you were just kicked out like you
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: were born and you were just thrown into a crib
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: very young. And back then there were like a bunch
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: of stuff in the crib, which is definitely not safe,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: you know, and not the way things are done now.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: They're just thrown in an empty crib. But a lot
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: of people nowadays sleep with their child. I don't mean
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: like that way. I just mean the child sleeps in
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: the parent's bed. And I've heard stories that it can
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: go on for years. A person told me, my cousin actually,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: I was texting with him probably a month or two ago.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: He's like, I've heard, we knew someone that did it
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: until the kid was like seven or eight. And that
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: was never going to happen in my house. We were
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: on board, like both of us. This wasn't something we argued.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: It's like, he's out. He never really slept in the bed.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: So we kicked him to the crib. The problem is
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: over the summer, we were traveling a lot and the
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: sleeping has just gotten outrageous. And it's like every single
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: night he's waking up every couple hours and we've tried
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: all the different methods and they've just fired. They've just
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: backfired literally everything. And I'm kind of hoping like, is
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: he's going to be one of those geniuses that doesn't
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: need any sleep? which I'm kind of keeping in my
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: back pocket, but I can't say that out loud when
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: my wife's averaging two hours total of sleep by 7 a.m.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: It's like you can't continue at this rate. You're going
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: to just crumble. So I don't have a lawyer. I
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: have an accountant, but we now have a sleep consultant.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: So if you would have told me, these are the
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: type of things, if you would have told me a
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: couple years ago, you will pay someone Now, this is
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: an incredible sleep consultant. You can text, call them at
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: any moment. She does this for a living. We've already
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: made progress in a four or five day span. We
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: had one backwards night, but I currently have a sleep
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: consultant on retainer. And the amount of money I'm paying her, which,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: you know, some people might think it's a lot. Some
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: people might think it's nothing. I mean, it's not nothing crazy.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: is I would have paid 20x if you just told
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: me moving forward he can just be a normal baby sleeper.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: Put to bed at 7, wakes up at 6. But
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: the way we're going is our house is going to crumble.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: Our house is going to fall apart. So all of
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: our hopes and dreams, and more her than me. I mean,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: she's like, you get a six-hour night's sleep. Kind of,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: I hear you, going in and out. Rest in the sleep, consultant.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: If she's good, shit, I will fund her a lot
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: of business. I'll tell you that much. You just can't
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: function in society when people have things to do with
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: no sleep. It's one thing. We all have a night
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: or two throughout life when you just don't get much sleep.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: You have to work. You have to travel. It's part
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: of being a grown-up. But when it happens for multiple
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: months straight and you just go, this is not sustainable.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Something has to change. and no book and no method,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: none of them are fucking working, you just become desperate.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: And you just get on the horn and you look
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: to improve. You know, you look to improve. It's like
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: when LeFleur brought in Robert Sala to check out his offense. Okay,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: let's bang out a couple quick mailbag questions. At John Middlecoff,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff is the Instagram firing those DMs questions
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: here on the show. Is Derrick Henry the most underrated
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: running back of our lifetime? For years now, anytime someone
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: discusses the best backs... In the NFL, it's Gibbs, it's Bajon,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: it's McCaffrey, it's Saquon Barkley, and they seldom mention his name.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: Yet in a decade when the rushing attack was pushed
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: out of style, Henry currently stands 10th all time and
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: hasn't had a season under 1,000 since he put up
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: 940 eight in eight games in 2021. He finished second
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: in rushing yards in 25 to go along with 16 touchdowns. Yesterday,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: he kicked off age 32 season with 144 yards and
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: three touchdowns. He's big, incredibly fast, deceptively elusive, unique longevity,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: and has proven to be a weapon in the passing game.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: For a guy who has shot up all the rushing
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: leaderboards in an era where the passing game is king.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: It really is remarkable to watch. Like you said, he's
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: deceptively elusive. Because he's not like a shady McCoy... or,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: you know, who's, I would say, Bijon and Gibbs. They
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: got a lot of kind of wiggle in the hips.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: But his feet are so light that he can, like,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: chop his feet to move, and then obviously the stiff arm.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: And once the locomotive gets running, choo-choo, he's out the
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: gate and he's gone. Being a home run hitter at
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: running back is the least important thing. Like, you don't
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: need to be great running backs, a lot of them
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: are not, four, three guys. It's very rare to be
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson to have home run speed like Chris Johnson, right?
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: Those guys are rare. Frank Gore was like a four,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: eight guy. It didn't matter because if you have vision,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: make guys miss, you know, break arm tackles. To me,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: what makes him so special is how fast he is
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: once he's in the open area. I mean, yesterday on the,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was like a pistol or shotgun,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: he was kind of off to the side. They just ran,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: it looked like, just like an outside zone. I forget
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: what yard line they were at, probably like the five
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: or six yard line, maybe three or four yard line.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: And he basically just ran at the pylon. And it
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: was either Sauce or Charverius. I mean, you're talking DBs.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: They have no chance to catch him to the pylon.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: And he walks in the corner of the end zone,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: like untouched. It's like his play speed. Now, his one
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: downfall is he's like, like Scataboo is a better short
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: yard runner. And I think part of that is he's
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: so erect. You know, he's so tall. So he's such
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: a big target to, you know, on goal line, short
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: yardage stuff. This is really the only knock. But he,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: him and Lamar combined, it feels like one of the
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: greatest rushing back fields in the history of the NFL,
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: quarterback and running back. Yesterday was, as just a fan
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: of the sport of football, was a joy to watch
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: those two play football. Joy to watch. And I'm with
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: you on Derek. First bout Hall of Famer, all-time great player.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: But when's he going to the Hall of Fame? How
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: many guys in the NFL, any position, any position, look
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: better than him? I mean, think about it. He's one
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: of the best players in the NFL. Colts fan, speaking
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: of them. Ugly game. I know you're out on AR,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: which is fair. However, I watched the game in Indy
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: yesterday and couldn't help but think the Colts have no
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: dynamic ability on offense. When I watch Lamar do simple
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: play action and get outside, throw easy passes to guys
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: on the move, the outside zone run to Henry causes
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: the DN to hesitate on what to do. My hot
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: take is, could AR not actually do that? No, he can't.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: If he could, he would have been playing. He can't function.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: He can't run the offense. You know, it's like he's
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: not accurate. He has no feel for the defense. I mean,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: he's just not a good football player at the NFL level.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: You know, he can get by in his limited time
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: in college just on athletic ability. But, like, Lamar's in
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: complete control. And then here's the other thing. Lamar's accurate.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: So Lamar's accurate. He knows what you're doing on defense.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: And even if he doesn't know what you're doing on defense.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: That play where he ducked two guys, he is just
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: a magician. Andy Richardson doesn't bring any of that to
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: the table. Coming back off the Achilles, Daniel Jones, athleticism,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: I would imagine he's way slower right now. You pay
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: for Alec Pierce, who's just getting off the injury. He's
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: still got, in theory, pieces on offense, but that might
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: just be a bad matchup. I'm going to give you
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: guys a little bit of a mulligan. The Ravens showed
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: up to, I don't think there's a team in the NFL.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: The only teams I saw yesterday that would have beat
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: or could have beat the Ravens over the course of
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: this weekend, like for as good as Seattle is, I, they,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't have been able to beat them once drew
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: lock came in the 49ers probably could have given them
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: a game the way they played, but they've been owned
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: by the Ravens. Um, The Bills and the Bears, their
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: problem is their defenses are so shitty that Lamar and
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Henry would have destroyed them. The Ravens probably beat any
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: team in the league yesterday. I think you've got to
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: just give it a couple games. Now, if these continue
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: to be an issue, that's a problem, but it might
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: be a little bit of an outlier. I don't even
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: know who you guys... Sometimes you're so into Week 1,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: you're like, who are Week 2 games? I don't even
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: know who's playing who. So whoever you play, it's... Pretty important.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: Let's look really quick who Indy plays here. Week two,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: we got Indy. You play the Chiefs in Arrowhead Sunday
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: Night Football. I'm recording this part before the Monday night game,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: so maybe it's good, maybe it's bad. I don't know.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: Time will tell. Question for the bag. As a big
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Seahawks fan, the Cardinals really scare me. I've had this
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: feeling all offseason, but never really thought much of it
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: because they're the Cardinals and always been a dumpster fire.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: But watching them Sunday showed how much talent the team
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: really has and how dangerous they can be on both
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: sides of the ball. How worried do you think the
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks should be of the Cardinals and what do
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: you think the Cardinals ceiling is? Here's the thing. For
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: as good as Jacoby was, he's going to have some
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: bad games. So I think if they went 6-11, that
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: would be pretty remarkable. If they were drafting outside 11th,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: that would be. I know they look good. I know
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: they were awesome on the road. I'm going to pump
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: the brakes a little bit. But if they play like
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: that yesterday, they could win 7 or 8. And they
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: could take out. I mean, they play the Niners, I think.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: They play Seattle this week and the Niners next week. Like,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: if they're going to play like that, they're liable to
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: win one of those games. And he knows these teams
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: well because he's coached in this division. Everyone's talking about
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: the Bears. They forget to bring up Bryce's performance because
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: they're glazing Caleb. He played just as well. I wouldn't
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: say just as well. I mean, Caleb had two incredible runs.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: Bryce was 23-37, threw in her 70 yards, four total touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: His defense gave up 59 points. Whenever I'd look and
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: they were on offense, I feel like his arm looked
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: a little stronger. I feel like he had a little
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: more zip on the ball. I'm with you. He played well.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Still low on the Giants question, dart greater than shuck.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: I would agree. All jokes aside, When you were with Philly,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: did you have issues keeping your team alliance and job
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: alliance separate? Not sure how long you were a Niner fan,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: but wonder if that drew internal division when you scouted
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: for Philly and they played against the Niners. This is
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: going to sound crazy, but when you're a kid and
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: you root for these teams and if you love the
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: Yankees or you love the 49ers or you love the
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: Packers or whatever... and you want to work in the sports,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: and then you get a job for the Baltimore Orioles
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: or the Chicago Bears, and you're in the bunker with them,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: you kind of just forget about everything. You really do.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: So you just kind of become numb to it. You
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: don't even think about it. I think when you work
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: in football, too, you just have a little less time.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: I would say in a weird way, your fandom, your
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: love of the sport is obviously still strong because it's
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: all you're doing. But your fandom just kind of goes away.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: I found myself becoming fans of people I would meet
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: that I was impressed or players you'd watch. assistant coaches
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: around the league, talking to people about other guys. You're like,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: this guy's really impressive. I think you look through it
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: through a completely different lens. And I've never really been
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: the same. Don't get me wrong. My wife loves the 49ers.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: Most people do. The true fandom that was with me
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: deep down, it's not quite the same. I'm jealous of
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: some people that have it. Don't get me wrong. I
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: wanted the 49ers to beat the shit out of the Rams.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: But I just don't live, like, I do this for
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: a living. I care much more about, like, this than
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: I do. It's just different. I don't really know how
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: else to describe it. But I'm also not one of
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: those people, like, be unbiased. Like, no, I'm giving you
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: my opinion. I'm very biased on everything I see. These
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: are literally my bias. These are my opinions based on
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: everything I know. So, I mean, I never understand that. Like,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: keep your opinion. Shocking, the media is dying. Mr. Middlecoff,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: can you finally tell Colin the Chargers are overrated and
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: Herbert stinks? Can't y'all stop pretending because you're not fooling anybody?
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: I know Coward loves the Harbaughs, but can you speak
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: the truth? This notion that Jim Harbaugh is just some
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: bum and idiot, he lost the game. It was a
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: bad loss. It was a bad loss. And they got worked.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: They got worked. But, like, I would, if you want
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: to sell some stock, I will buy more. Now, do
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: I feel comfortable betting on them to win titles and
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl? I do not. But, sitting here after, again,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: probably the ugliest loss when you factor in the opponent yesterday.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: Based on their previous history, maybe the Cardinals are better.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: You've got to be careful with that when you talk
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: about strength of schedule. But, I'd be stunned if they're
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: not a double-digit win team. Stunned. I'd be stunned. Big-time fan,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: long-time listener. However, I got to push back on behalf
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: of a lot of the Birds fans. Jalen was outstanding.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: As you correctly point out on Colin, the offensive line
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: has deteriorated tremendously. since the Super Bowl run. There is
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: a chance that Dickerson just needs to retire. With that said,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: Hurts is the only reason the Eagles won that game.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: His touch passes were elite. His scrambles when the offensive
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: line deteriorated were incredible, and to me, and probably many others.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: He looked like a top five quarterback in the NFL.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: They had 10 first downs. Maybe I gotta dial back
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: in and re-watch that game. He made some awesome passes.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: This is my take on Jalen. He is truly one
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: of the most bizarre players I've ever seen because his
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: good is exceptional. The multiple throws to Wicks, the bomb,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: the touchdown, the touchdown to Goddard, the scramble in the
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. He throws a beautiful ball, but they also
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: just completely sputter on offense. Do I feel that comfortable? Again,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: 10 for downs which I wonder if yesterday for any
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: team that won if that was last in the league
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: like I'll give you an example like like how many
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: first downs let's just pick the Raiders they had 21
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: first downs the Bills, and let's pick the Saints. I'll
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: bet they're 25. Yeah, Saints 29, the Lions 26. Like,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: it's just, it's hard to go, he's a top five
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: quarterback when they have 10 first downs. And we always blame,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: it's always the coordinators always get, I just think sometimes
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: there's a, and this gets to the offensive line, which
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: I would say is the number one culprit. They can't
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: control the game on the line of scrimmage. But top
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: five quarterback to me, I watch Josh Allen. If you
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: just watched football yesterday, I'm not even talking notes or whatever,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: just sitting there having a Coke Zero, eating some snacks,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: watching ball all day. It could be coffee, it could
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: be whatever you drink. Beer, I don't know, cocktail. You
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: watch Lamar, Caleb, and Josh in the morning, and then
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: you watch Jalen, you would not just put him in
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: that category of that's what he looks like as a player. Again,
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say he's like with the scrubs. He's clearly
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: a good player and his high end plays are awesome,
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: but he's not a consistent player. He has to bear
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: some responsibility to me of just like them going three
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: and out as much as they do and just their
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: drives going nowhere and keeping Washington in the game. Again,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not like trying to blame and say that he's
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: the reason because there are multiple variables, but He's not
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: a top five quarterback. That game, if Diggs, you know,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: he likes to hump his chefs, his girlfriends, the goalposts.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: Got to control those emotions, man. Got to control those emotions.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: Game was pretty close. Game was pretty close. I did not,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: if you would have told me final score, Washington Eagles,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: start of the day, I would have been like, Eagles 26,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: Washington 13, something like that. So to be in somewhat
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: of a dogfight down the stretch, this learning process with
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: the new offensive coordinator, part of Brady or Declan Doyle
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: or whoever just gets to control the offensive play calls,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: why is it just so much more seamless with these
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: other quarterbacks? It's just always bumpy. And there's always like, oh,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: it's the offensive line. It's, you know, Sirianni. It's like, well,
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: could it just be Jalen a little bit? A little bit.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: Like he's just not a perfect player. And listen, I
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: think sometimes this goes back to like Bill Simmons wrote
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: the article, the 90-10 article on Russell Westbrook a long
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: time ago. How like there are some players who are
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: so great in the 90%, you just got to live
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: with the 10%. And there's some of that with Jalen.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: And that's why he's been the starting quarterback for a
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: long time. They kind of live with the ebb and
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: the flow because he does make a lot of plays
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: when he's on. And yesterday, more than last year down
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: the stretch, you're throwing for touchdowns, you're busting off a
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: big run or two. No one will say shit. But
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: 10 first downs, that to me is, if you just
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: look at the box score, how does Washington have 20 more,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: or they have 10 more first downs. They double your
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: first downs. So I bet time of possession, it's just,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 1: you're just going to have so many three and outs
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: when you're not getting first downs. So your defense gets
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: gassed as the game goes on because they're on the
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: field more. That to me is just crazy. Six to 14,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: which not terrible on third down, not great, but if
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: it was seven for 14, you'd feel great. I just don't.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: I just think it's crazy how they don't get successful
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: plays on first or second down. Because if you look
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: at Washington, they were 5-15 on third down. Meaning they're
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: getting a lot of first downs on first or second down.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: I just think they've got to find a way to
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: have some of the games which would make everything easier
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: in Philly. Who knows if it's even possible anymore. It's
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: just like back-to-back games where Saquon goes, a buck thirty-five
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: and a buck forty-three. So in the course of two games,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: he rushes for like 280 yards. And you just rely,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: the offense will look way better. And that number will
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: go from 10 to 20. But when you can't consistently
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: run it, I just think that has dramatically impacted the
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts game. I think we would all agree with that.