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Bills Beat Rams on Monday Night Football, Brock Purdy Is Great, NFL Clock Management & Cowboys Concerns · 3 and Out with John Middlekauff

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Speaker 1: What is going on, my people? How are we doing?
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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff, Three and Out podcast. We got a lot
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Speaker 1: going on. Crazy Monday night football game that we will
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Speaker 1: dive right into. We got Brock Purdy, CEO, head coaches,
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Speaker 1: blowing games with clock management. We got... We got the
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys bringing in help for their young defensive coordinator.
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Speaker 1: Chime in on the Oregon Ducks who are in a
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Speaker 1: free fall and answer some mailbag questions as well. At
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1:03
Speaker 1: just dive into... The craziness that was Monday Night Football.
1:08
Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills pull one of the crazier Ending fourth
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Speaker 1: quarter overtime, you are going to see. You know the
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Speaker 1: clock management was on McVay and Joe Brady's thoughts. Headed
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Speaker 1: down the stretch there, but a lot going on in
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Speaker 1: this game. Josh Allen doesn't even have 20 pass attempts,
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Speaker 1: but he runs for 700 yards. Stafford throws 54 passes.
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Speaker 1: Puka gets targeted 24 times. You know what's funny about
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Speaker 1: football is at any level, but definitely high-level college and
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Speaker 1: the pros, coaches harp on the little things. Effort, never
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Speaker 1: giving up, never thinking you're out of it. This game
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Speaker 1: will be defined by Stafford's touchdown passes, Josh's runs, crazy
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Speaker 1: offensive production. But two things are going to stand out
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Speaker 1: to me. Is the shoestring tackle on Shakir to give
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Speaker 1: them a chance the very next play to force the
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Speaker 1: fumble on Cook. And Rousseau blocking the field goal. You know,
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Speaker 1: for all the great plays and obviously bad plays, there
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Speaker 1: was 24 accepted penalties. I mean, the ref show right
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Speaker 1: now in this league feels a little out of control.
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Speaker 1: I understand some things are blatant, but there is an
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Speaker 1: ebb and flow currently to a lot of these games
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Speaker 1: that just can be a little rough. There is a
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Speaker 1: flag on the field and it feels like it every
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Speaker 1: other play in every game we watch. 24 penalties. I mean,
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Speaker 1: these are two teams that most people expected to be
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Speaker 1: potentially in the Super Bowl. Definitely locked playoff teams. The Bills,
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Speaker 1: 4-1 in great position. Their schedule opens up a little bit.
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Speaker 1: A lot of games coming up against the Raiders, the Jets,
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Speaker 1: the Dolphins, the Vikings. That would be a pretty good game.
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Speaker 1: The Ravens, but... I really believe that the Buffalo Bills
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Speaker 1: are kind of what they've been the last several years.
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Speaker 1: Like what I just witnessed is kind of, I feel like,
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Speaker 1: what I was witnessing with Sean McDermott. And Josh Allen
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Speaker 1: is a remarkable player. There is, you know, I was
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Speaker 1: thinking tonight watching him run around and Troy Aikman's chiming in.
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Speaker 1: Why don't they put a spy on him? Well, I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at the Rams and I don't exactly see Brian
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Speaker 1: Urlacher or Ed Reed. What are you going to do?
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Speaker 1: He is running on 3rd and 17 for first downs
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Speaker 1: with ease. You know, he's not Lamar or Kyler in
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Speaker 1: his prime fast. But given his size, you saw it
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Speaker 1: when they were going to overtime at the 50-yard line,
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Speaker 1: the coin flip. Stafford is a big dude. He towered
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Speaker 1: over him. He made him look like he's Brock Purdy
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Speaker 1: or Baker Mayfield. And he is not a slider. This
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Speaker 1: guy is lowering his shoulder on contact. Defensive backs fly
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Speaker 1: off of him. It takes multiple guys to bring him
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Speaker 1: to the ground. And I think the scary part is,
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Speaker 1: like most people that aren't like diehard Buffalo Bills fans,
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Speaker 1: I am a fan of Josh Allen. And I think
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Speaker 1: it would be cool for the fan base. given all
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Speaker 1: the heartache they've had over this era, obviously going back
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Speaker 1: to when I was a really little kid. I mean,
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Speaker 1: can you imagine losing four straight Super Bowls? Like a
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Speaker 1: 60-year-old Bills fan. I can't even imagine going through that.
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Speaker 1: Four straight Super Bowls, losing them all. Some getting your
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Speaker 1: ass kicked, some on missed kicks. I mean, that's... Something
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Speaker 1: that would stay with you for life. And then you
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Speaker 1: get this guy who is just an all-world talent. He's
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Speaker 1: obviously one of the most talented players we've ever seen.
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Speaker 1: Some would make the argument he's the most talented. We
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Speaker 1: could argue until we're blue in the face. He clearly
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Speaker 1: is a special, special player. But what is required for
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Speaker 1: him to be great? It's insane because their defense is
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Speaker 1: so terrible. when they scored at the end of the
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and there was, honestly, there could have been
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Speaker 1: like 45 seconds left on the clock. Obviously, there was
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Speaker 1: like a minute 30. The Rams didn't even have to
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Speaker 1: use a timeout and walked right down the field. Matt
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Speaker 1: Stafford with ease. Remember, Stafford cannot move. He is the
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Speaker 1: polar opposite currently of Josh Allen, who's running around like
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Speaker 1: he's Cam Newton in his prime and slinging that pill
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Speaker 1: like he's John Elway in his prime. Yet Stafford cannot
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Speaker 1: move a lick. When he does, he gets tackled. There's
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Speaker 1: nothing he can do. He's just a pocket quarterback. And
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Speaker 1: you know he can't move, and it's just bang, bang, boom, boom, touchdown.
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Speaker 1: They got a little, I would say a little risky
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Speaker 1: there at the end with the way they handled the
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Speaker 1: last like 10 seconds. You know, they're not calling the timeout,
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Speaker 1: but it worked. And part of the reason it worked,
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Speaker 1: because I don't know if you would have approached that
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Speaker 1: against any defense. You just know this defense kind of
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Speaker 1: Swiss cheese. They cannot cover a soul. And I want
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Speaker 1: to be like the Bills can win the Super Bowl.
6:20
Speaker 1: I want to say that. I want to say the
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Speaker 1: Bills could win the AFC. But one thing I know
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Speaker 1: as someone who's watched this sport for a living now
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Speaker 1: for over 15 years, and I would consider the highest
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Speaker 1: level of colleges as well. You cannot win the national
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Speaker 1: championship and you cannot win the Super Bowl if you
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Speaker 1: play no defense. It is not possible. Now their defensive line,
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Speaker 1: once Oliver comes back, is pretty good. But they are
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Speaker 1: so reliant on this guy to be superhuman. And tonight,
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Speaker 1: with his legs, he literally was superhuman. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what they could do. It's like everyone in Seattle, it's like,
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Speaker 1: why don't you double Mike Evans? What does that even mean?
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Speaker 1: Just have two guys run around like it's punt coverage?
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Speaker 1: It's not really the way it works. I guess you
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Speaker 1: can kind of bracket him. They're kind of trying. He's
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Speaker 1: got all these guys by five inches. If Purdy's going
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Speaker 1: to throw alley-oops, he's going to catch them. It's like,
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Speaker 1: why don't you do what to Devontae in the red zone?
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Speaker 1: He's going to beat you. Like Stafford's precision in the
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Speaker 1: red zone, they're running these routes to the corner of
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Speaker 1: the pylon and he's placing them with perfection. Like there's no,
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Speaker 1: unless you got Sherman or Revis in their prime, no
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Speaker 1: one is covering that. But I know for sure who
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Speaker 1: is not covering that, that's the Buffalo Bills. And I
7:41
Speaker 1: do think their margin for error is, dependent on Josh's greatness,
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Speaker 1: is slim to none. Because, and listen, you'd be like, well,
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Speaker 1: what about the Rams defense? Clearly, they got one guy
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Speaker 1: on the sideline who's the reigning defensive player of the year.
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Speaker 1: Not going to solve all their issues. I mean, they
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Speaker 1: were getting gashed. I know Cooks fumbled a couple times.
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Speaker 1: One was clearly really big. But, like, a lot of
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Speaker 1: those plays were just, I don't think there's a team
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Speaker 1: in the league even with Seattle's team speed on defense
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Speaker 1: or the 49ers team speed on defense, that wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: given up a bunch of those first downs. He's looking, looking,
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Speaker 1: and then he just takes off and he's going like
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Speaker 1: a gazelle. And then if he's a couple yards away
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Speaker 1: and your DB comes up, who let's say weighs 210 pounds,
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Speaker 1: what do you think Josh is? 245 pounds of freight
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Speaker 1: train lowering his shoulder. He's gaining an extra couple yards
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Speaker 1: on contact. There is literally nothing you can do in
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Speaker 1: this modern day NFL against that. Absolutely nothing. He is
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Speaker 1: an unguardable force when he's running around like that and
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Speaker 1: he has speed coming downhill. But I was taken back,
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Speaker 1: and I get it. Puka is, I use this word
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Speaker 1: probably too much, but I do think it's fair in
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Speaker 1: this scenario. He's one of the most unique players we've
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Speaker 1: ever seen. I don't remember a wide receiver being that physical.
9:09
Speaker 1: Debo in his prime used to run over guys and
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Speaker 1: shed tackles, but yeah, he's kind of built like a
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Speaker 1: running back. Puka doesn't look like that. Yet the way
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Speaker 1: he plays, I mean, they're running him on counters, like
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Speaker 1: kicking out the defensive end and linebacker on runs. The
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Speaker 1: guy is a fucking monster. I mean, he had 24
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Speaker 1: targets tonight, 17 catches. Half the time, it's like, hey guys,
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Speaker 1: as they're driving down the field, this Puka Nakua character,
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Speaker 1: Sean McVay and Matt Stafford will call his number every
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Speaker 1: single play. And they're just running these zone defenses. He's
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Speaker 1: just running right in the middle, standing there and going
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Speaker 1: like this and Stafford's pitching a catch. So if your
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Speaker 1: defensive linemen aren't getting home, you're going to have no chance.
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Speaker 1: But obviously a very fun game. The first half was rough.
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Speaker 1: Even the second half, like the penalties to me, it
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Speaker 1: does throw off my enjoyment a little bit. And I was,
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Speaker 1: as just maybe a football purist, I got a lot
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Speaker 1: of joy in the shoestring tackle, the land man, you know,
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Speaker 1: Fred Warner punch to knock it out, and then the
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Speaker 1: field goal block. And for as much crap as we
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Speaker 1: give the Bills defense... Which is going to be what
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Speaker 1: holds them back from hosting this trophy. Which they should
10:24
Speaker 1: be in position to do with a guy this good.
10:27
Speaker 1: The Rams special teams is just... Listen, I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to fat shame. I battle weight issues partly because I
10:36
Speaker 1: lack discipline with food. But I could not employ a
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Speaker 1: kicker that looks like Mavis. He's 5'11, 250 pounds. In
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Speaker 1: a locker room full of people. whose entire profession is
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Speaker 1: about being in the best shape humanly possible. Like Johnny's
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Speaker 1: a kicker. Well, great. Like I see that guy. I
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Speaker 1: don't trust him. I mean, he's just that simple. And
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Speaker 1: then he misses a kick. I'm not putting the block
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Speaker 1: on him, but you could tell even the booth, they
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Speaker 1: didn't want to call him fat, but Joe definitely threw
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Speaker 1: out 5'11, 243. I mean, he's got fucking rolls hanging
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Speaker 1: over his pants. I mean, what are we doing here?
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Speaker 1: They're a special teams unit. You can hire Bubba Ventrone.
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Speaker 1: The Rams now have lost... I feel like they have
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Speaker 1: some of the more memorable field goal blocks against them
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Speaker 1: in like the internet era. I mean, it happens over
11:31
Speaker 1: and over. It's one thing when you're a crappy team
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Speaker 1: and no one knows what they're doing. Like, you are
11:36
Speaker 1: a team that paid all this money, made all these moves...
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Speaker 1: to try to win the Super Bowl. And I think
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Speaker 1: when healthy, their schedule, you know, the Bills are going
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Speaker 1: to win 12 or 13 games as long as Josh
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Speaker 1: stays healthy because he's, I mean, an unstoppable force. Once
11:53
Speaker 1: you put yourself in a two and three hole, not ideal.
11:56
Speaker 1: You're already three games back, you know, of the 49ers
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Speaker 1: and lost to them and have to come to the Levi's.
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Speaker 1: But you get the Cardinals. That's a win. That franchise
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Speaker 1: is a joke. You get the Raiders in Vegas. I've
12:08
Speaker 1: given you the win there. You get the Chargers, whose
12:11
Speaker 1: coach is, I mean, lost his marbles. Commanders, they are
12:16
Speaker 1: going to be done by then. You get the Cardinals again.
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Speaker 1: So they could rattle off a bunch of wins. We
12:20
Speaker 1: look up, all of a sudden they're 7-3, 8-4, and
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Speaker 1: everything's steadied. But more than likely... For another year, this
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Speaker 1: is a couple years ago, what happened? Lost in Philly.
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Speaker 1: What happened last year? Had to go to Seattle. What's
12:36
Speaker 1: probably going to happen this year because of the hole
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Speaker 1: they're in, unless the 49ers lose a bunch of games,
12:42
Speaker 1: you know, randomly, and this week they get the commander,
12:44
Speaker 1: so more than likely they're going to be 6-0, is
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Speaker 1: you're going on the road. And when you're on the
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Speaker 1: road with such sketchy special teams... Like Stafford, if you
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Speaker 1: can block for him, is a remarkable player. There is
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Speaker 1: not a better pocket quarterback in the NFL right now
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Speaker 1: than him. Partly because they don't even exist. It's basically
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Speaker 1: him and Jared Goff. And like whatever the hell Jacoby
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Speaker 1: Brissett is. But he's incredible. The thing is, and this
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Speaker 1: is like cousins, and you know, in the history of
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Speaker 1: the league, all the other guys that couldn't move. If
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Speaker 1: you can make him move... and make him uncomfortable, you
13:21
Speaker 1: can rattle. When they can block for him, and he's
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Speaker 1: playing a team that can't cover a soul, it's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's going to play pitch and catch with Devontae, Higby,
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Speaker 1: and Puka. I mean, 17 catches? There has to come
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Speaker 1: a point in a game, and this goes back to
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Speaker 1: Houston against CeeDee Lamb, where Jim Leonard, the defensive staff,
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Speaker 1: the head coach, gets on the microphone and goes, hey guys,
13:45
Speaker 1: we got to do something else to change the look
13:48
Speaker 1: for number 12 they're throwing it to him every single
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Speaker 1: play every single play and there were a couple plays
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Speaker 1: he was open one in the end zone a couple
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Speaker 1: other you know random ones around the field that Stafford
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Speaker 1: just miss because again you're throwing it 54 times even
14:04
Speaker 1: if you're on which for a lot of the game
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Speaker 1: especially as the game got going he definitely was he's
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Speaker 1: still you're still going to miss a passes like I
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Speaker 1: mean a great game is 70 completion percentage anytime you're
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Speaker 1: throwing it that much you know, a completion percentage, it's
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Speaker 1: going to be harder to get it higher and higher.
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Speaker 1: But man, what a crazy experience. I mean, truly is.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm being negative here. I did
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Speaker 1: enjoy the drama of it all. I had the Bills
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Speaker 1: two and a half. But I just think there is
14:35
Speaker 1: some pretty big question marks with the Bills, a team
14:38
Speaker 1: that most of us want to wrap our arms around.
14:42
Speaker 1: Most of us would love to see that fan base.
14:44
Speaker 1: I know a ton of Bills fans. Hell, I've met
14:47
Speaker 1: several since I've moved to Arizona. The passion they have.
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Speaker 1: But I think they'd be the first to tell you.
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Speaker 1: It's like, God, how can our defense continue to be
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Speaker 1: this bad? I mean, it's crazy. It's like our quarterback
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Speaker 1: is so exceptional. We hit such a home run on
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Speaker 1: this running back. I get he fumbles sometimes. But he's
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Speaker 1: a fucking baller. I mean, Shakir's excellent. Keon Coleman, they've
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Speaker 1: resurrected his career. The offense is never going to be
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Speaker 1: their problem. It's just going to be simply, hey, when
15:19
Speaker 1: we play the best teams in the playoffs, can we
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Speaker 1: get stops? And historically, the answer has been no. And
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Speaker 1: you're watching this now play out again, and it feels
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Speaker 1: like the same thing. Now, I do understand they've had
15:32
Speaker 1: a tough schedule. They've played, you know, the Patriots. You know,
15:37
Speaker 1: the Lions are an excellent offense. That first game against
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Speaker 1: the Texans, like, all things were equal that that was,
15:43
Speaker 1: you know, a tough game, but God, I mean, 31 points,
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Speaker 1: 31 points, uh, Patriots scored 29 points today, 34 points.
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Speaker 1: Even before overtime, it's like, if you start a game
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Speaker 1: and you're a Superbowl contender and you can score 34
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Speaker 1: points on the road and it's like a nail biter,
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Speaker 1: like that's pretty problematic. It really is. So, um, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, man. I don't know really what you do.
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Speaker 1: It's not like there are big trades out there for DBs.
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Speaker 1: They've invested in these guys. They drafted Maxwell, the kid
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Speaker 1: from Kentucky, in the first round. But I defend the
16:22
Speaker 1: Brandon Beans, the John Schneiders, how he's getting some of
16:26
Speaker 1: this crap right now. When you're going to the playoffs
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Speaker 1: every year and going to the second or third round
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Speaker 1: and you're drafting 25 to 32, it's a lot harder
16:34
Speaker 1: to hit on draft picks, right? Because 25 to 32,
16:37
Speaker 1: that's every round. It's way easier to turn your franchise
16:41
Speaker 1: around in terms of young talent when you're like the
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Speaker 1: Browns or the Jets. It's like, well, yeah, they've had
16:46
Speaker 1: top five picks for the last four years. You watch
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Speaker 1: the Jags now. It's like they were shitty for 15
16:52
Speaker 1: straight years. The law of averages, you're just not only
16:55
Speaker 1: first round picks, but like in the third round, you're
16:58
Speaker 1: drafting at the top of the third round. It is
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Speaker 1: easier to accumulate talent. So you just, there's obviously an
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Speaker 1: element of luck involved. There's development, but there is just
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Speaker 1: a lack of, I don't know, physicality to them. It's like,
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Speaker 1: where's the, the, the, the tight players that they've acquired,
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Speaker 1: which to me falls on Bean a little bit. Now,
17:19
Speaker 1: how much him and McDermott went back and forth on personnel,
17:23
Speaker 1: obviously that was a push and pull. It's like I'm
17:26
Speaker 1: not absolving the Rams defense. I just think, I don't
17:30
Speaker 1: know what anyone was going to do indoors. The other
17:33
Speaker 1: thing is, when Josh is indoors, they're made to play indoors.
17:39
Speaker 1: They'd be better off playing all these games in a
17:42
Speaker 1: dome down the stretch. It was like that forever with
17:44
Speaker 1: the Packers. When the Packers' defense wasn't great with some
17:48
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers' awesome offenses, it's like, well, yeah, they
17:51
Speaker 1: get home field advantage. They got Aaron Rodgers. They got
17:54
Speaker 1: three straight, you know, three sweet wide receivers. He wants
17:57
Speaker 1: to throw for 400 yards, and it's zero degrees out.
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Speaker 1: So it's like, well, that's not really the game that's
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Speaker 1: going to be played. You go back to the Patriots
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Speaker 1: all those years, like they could play in a rough
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Speaker 1: and tumble game. They'll just pitch and catch with the
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Speaker 1: slot receiver. They'll run the ball, throw it to the
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Speaker 1: tight end, and just play in a game that they'll
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Speaker 1: win 19-15. And it feels like they won a lot
18:18
Speaker 1: of games like that in frigid conditions. The Chiefs historically,
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Speaker 1: especially the second and third Super Bowl, played in games
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Speaker 1: like that. They can ugly it up. That's my question
18:29
Speaker 1: mark with the Bills. Josh can ugly it up. Their
18:31
Speaker 1: offense can. But can their defense? And I would say 100% no.
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Speaker 1: They just don't feel built for that. And can the Rams,
18:40
Speaker 1: you know, big picture, get Myles Garrett back? They're definitely
18:43
Speaker 1: going to have to be better. Because secondaries, I would say,
18:46
Speaker 1: still a little bit of an issue. It's not exactly lockdown.
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Speaker 1: Is improved from last year. I like Landman and their
18:53
Speaker 1: defensive line. But that was a thrilling end. It was.
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Speaker 1: Anytime a field goal gets blocked to either, you know,
19:03
Speaker 1: if you're like down one or two points to end
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Speaker 1: the game. Or in a situation that would be a
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Speaker 1: walk-off field goal and you block it to continue the game.
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Speaker 1: That's one of my favorite plays in football. So props
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Speaker 1: to the Bills for not giving up. Because I would
19:19
Speaker 1: say most human beings, even with the chubby kicker, you
19:23
Speaker 1: thought he's probably going to hit this. And then all
19:25
Speaker 1: of a sudden you see that ball come off his hands.
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Speaker 1: You're like, oh my God, it's blocked. You can't quite
19:29
Speaker 1: tell in the air. You're like, is it still going
19:31
Speaker 1: to go through? And then you see the other angle
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Speaker 1: and it falls well short. And then what happens? Two runs, boom,
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Speaker 1: field goal range, ball game. And now they get to
19:41
Speaker 1: hang out. I would guess they stay in Southern California,
19:43
Speaker 1: and then they go. I know Troy Aikman mentioned tonight
19:46
Speaker 1: they're not flying back to Buffalo because they play Vegas
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Speaker 1: here in six days. Maybe they go to who knows,
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Speaker 1: somewhere in Southern California for the next. This is actually
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Speaker 1: clearing organization. You know, I've been thinking a lot about
22:01
Speaker 1: Brock Purdy after the performance the other day against the
22:04
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks about why it's so difficult for us to
22:09
Speaker 1: understand this individual player. And I've had a longstanding theory
22:13
Speaker 1: that anytime you're like a fourth round pick, obviously through
22:17
Speaker 1: the end of the third day, Tom Brady famously pick 199.
22:20
Speaker 1: A lot of you guys are too young. We got,
22:24
Speaker 1: you know, we have demos all over the place, but
22:26
Speaker 1: our demo skews younger. are too young to remember that
22:31
Speaker 1: 25 years ago when Tom Brady hit the scene and
22:34
Speaker 1: started winning Super Bowls, the argument is, well, he's carried
22:38
Speaker 1: by his defense. He's carried by Bill Belichick and the organization.
22:42
Speaker 1: He's a game manager. Peyton Manning is the way better player.
22:47
Speaker 1: This was after Tom Brady had won three Super Bowls.
22:49
Speaker 1: It wasn't until Randy Moss and Wes Walker showed up
22:52
Speaker 1: and he started putting up Peyton Manning numbers that everyone's like,
22:55
Speaker 1: oh yeah, he's just like Peyton Manning. And then 10
22:58
Speaker 1: years after that, everyone's like, yeah, he's actually better than
23:00
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. And I've always thought that a huge reason
23:04
Speaker 1: that most people struggle with that early on is because
23:09
Speaker 1: he's a six-round pick. You've seen it with guys like,
23:12
Speaker 1: think how long it took for Kirk Cousins to be like, yeah,
23:14
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is a good player. Took Dak Prescott like
23:17
Speaker 1: seven or eight years. Like, yeah, Dak Prescott's just a
23:19
Speaker 1: good quarterback. Why? Because they were mid-round picks. Hell, Russell Wilson,
23:25
Speaker 1: who won a Super Bowl early, was like, yeah, carried
23:26
Speaker 1: by his defense. He ain't that good. And then once
23:30
Speaker 1: they got rid of all those guys, he started putting
23:32
Speaker 1: up way better numbers. Like, okay, yeah, he's actually really good.
23:35
Speaker 1: If Russell Wilson had been the second pick in the draft,
23:37
Speaker 1: I think we would have discussed him way differently than
23:40
Speaker 1: he was the third round pick. It just comes with
23:42
Speaker 1: the territory. And I've always been a big believer of
23:47
Speaker 1: the people who believe in you The people who come
23:52
Speaker 1: out in defense or support or pay respect or reverence
23:58
Speaker 1: to your work goes a long way for me. You know,
24:02
Speaker 1: and I think when you look at Purdy, you know,
24:05
Speaker 1: Mike McDonald leading up to this week, he was asked like,
24:08
Speaker 1: why is Purdy so underrated? And he's like, well, he's
24:10
Speaker 1: not underrated to me. And kind of went on this
24:12
Speaker 1: rant about how good he is at all three levels
24:14
Speaker 1: of the throws, extending plays, an underrated athlete. and just
24:19
Speaker 1: what a challenge it is. And this is a guy
24:21
Speaker 1: who's faced him countless times over the last several years.
24:25
Speaker 1: But I think if you go back over the course
24:28
Speaker 1: of the years, you get Steve Spagnuolo, who I would
24:32
Speaker 1: say in his role as a defensive coordinator is a
24:36
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Won a Super Bowl with the Giants,
24:39
Speaker 1: who were led by their defense, specifically their defensive line.
24:43
Speaker 1: And then obviously with the Chiefs, with Patrick Mahomes, completely
24:48
Speaker 1: changed that operation to become a well-rounded team over the
24:52
Speaker 1: last seven, eight years, right? And a couple of them,
24:55
Speaker 1: they kind of won it because of defense. Well, after
24:57
Speaker 1: they beat Brock Purdy in the Super Bowl, Spagnuolo got
25:02
Speaker 1: his phone number and shot him a text message, I
25:05
Speaker 1: think a couple weeks after the Super Bowl, just basically
25:08
Speaker 1: to tell him how much respect he had for him
25:10
Speaker 1: as a player and how impressed he was with his
25:13
Speaker 1: toughness in that game getting hit over and over again.
25:19
Speaker 1: And I've said this for a long time, because I
25:22
Speaker 1: think the way we talk about quarterbacks, toughness is not
25:26
Speaker 1: discussed enough. It is such... an important attribute to a quarterback.
25:33
Speaker 1: We talk about it with all these other positions. Mike
25:36
Speaker 1: Evans is a good example. The 49ers revere that guy
25:40
Speaker 1: because clearly they knew he was a really good player.
25:44
Speaker 1: And then he shatters some ribs, doesn't miss a snap,
25:46
Speaker 1: and has been unreal the last two games with broken ribs.
25:50
Speaker 1: It's like, Jesus, war daddy. It's how football players gain
25:54
Speaker 1: respect from their peers and their coaching staff. Yet with quarterbacks, like,
26:00
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to prove it. You just got
26:03
Speaker 1: to get lit up and then just hop right back up,
26:04
Speaker 1: get in the huddle and call the play. And I
26:07
Speaker 1: think with Purdy, it's like, well, he's kind of short. Well,
26:10
Speaker 1: his arm's kind of average, maybe slightly above. You know, well,
26:14
Speaker 1: he's from Iowa State. Wasn't some blue chip player. Well,
26:17
Speaker 1: he wasn't a high draft pick. It's like, well, he
26:19
Speaker 1: was the Arizona player of the year. He went on
26:23
Speaker 1: a recruiting visit to Alabama in the peak of their dynasty.
26:26
Speaker 1: They just chose Mac Jones essentially over him and were
26:30
Speaker 1: uncomfortable offering a scholarship. But it wasn't like this guy
26:33
Speaker 1: started at UC Davis. Then he went to Iowa State,
26:36
Speaker 1: which at the time was viewed as kind of like
26:39
Speaker 1: a throwaway Power 4 program. And Matt Campbell has gone
26:43
Speaker 1: on record to say this guy helped and was a
26:47
Speaker 1: driving force to change the program. And let's face it,
26:51
Speaker 1: helped put Matt Campbell on the map. And for years,
26:54
Speaker 1: he turned down job after job after job before finally
26:58
Speaker 1: accepting the Penn State job this year. And I think
27:01
Speaker 1: when you look at Purdy, he's a good example of
27:04
Speaker 1: typically these mid-round guys take a little bit longer for
27:09
Speaker 1: us to wrap our heads around. I feel like it's
27:11
Speaker 1: taken six, seven years for everyone to embrace. We'll see
27:15
Speaker 1: what he can do in the playoffs, but Dak Prescott's
27:17
Speaker 1: a really good quarterback. Yet anytime you're drafted high, it's like,
27:22
Speaker 1: I knew it. If Purdy had been doing what he
27:25
Speaker 1: was doing and the 49ers had selected him number three overall,
27:30
Speaker 1: I think within like four or five games, like, oh,
27:32
Speaker 1: they nailed it. Good pick. Yet when you're a late
27:35
Speaker 1: round pick at quarterback specifically, people go, this can't be real.
27:41
Speaker 1: Partly because we can't envision a player becoming a Pro Bowl, high-end,
27:47
Speaker 1: MVP caliber guy that lasts that long. How could everyone
27:53
Speaker 1: miss because it's the fucking draft? And the reality is
27:57
Speaker 1: no matter how much everyone thinks they know, if you
28:00
Speaker 1: told all the GMs right now, if you just gave
28:04
Speaker 1: them like a month to study every snap of all
28:07
Speaker 1: the rookies who have played so far in the NFL,
28:11
Speaker 1: How different do you think the draft order would have been?
28:14
Speaker 1: Maybe not the first several picks, but just over the
28:17
Speaker 1: course of the first hundred picks. I think it's fair
28:20
Speaker 1: to say it would be dramatically different. Because you never know.
28:26
Speaker 1: You cannot determine... the drive, the work ethic, some of
28:32
Speaker 1: the innate characteristics upstairs. Because for Purdy, who is a
28:37
Speaker 1: good athlete, he really hangs his hat on processing, dominating
28:43
Speaker 1: the understanding of the offense, and operating it at rapid speed.
28:48
Speaker 1: Because he's not going to be a second late and
28:51
Speaker 1: put a ball in a place that Roger Stafford or
28:53
Speaker 1: Josh Allen can make the throw. He's not going to
28:56
Speaker 1: be able to heave it 80 yards downfield like Patrick
28:59
Speaker 1: Mahomes in his prime. Doesn't have those characteristics. Neither did
29:02
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, who some of you guys think I'm down on. Listen,
29:06
Speaker 1: he's an all-time great player. He's a first ballot Hall
29:09
Speaker 1: of Famer. But like Drew Brees or even Peyton Manning,
29:13
Speaker 1: they had to do things like they didn't have the
29:16
Speaker 1: arm strength of Tom Brady. They didn't have the arm
29:18
Speaker 1: strength of Eli Manning or young Ben Roethlisberger. So they
29:23
Speaker 1: had to master their skill set. Which I'd argue is
29:28
Speaker 1: very important no matter who you are, no matter what
29:32
Speaker 1: you do. I was thinking about this the other day.
29:35
Speaker 1: One of my close friends a couple years ago had
29:38
Speaker 1: a 40th birthday party, and we were home doing something
29:41
Speaker 1: in Napa at this kind of swanky winery. I mean,
29:45
Speaker 1: really swanky winery. I'm not a big wine tasting guy. Hell,
29:48
Speaker 1: I don't even really like wine. But we went and
29:51
Speaker 1: met them, and there were a ton of people That
29:54
Speaker 1: I went to school with. I wouldn't consider myself friends with.
29:58
Speaker 1: But guys that I went to college with. Guys and girls.
30:01
Speaker 1: And I would say the number one thing I left with.
30:03
Speaker 1: Is like all these people are crushing it. They were
30:07
Speaker 1: all like multi-millionaires. Like doing really well in all their fields.
30:13
Speaker 1: We didn't go to UCLA. We didn't go to Cal
30:15
Speaker 1: or USC. We went to a state school. And I
30:18
Speaker 1: would imagine if I got the GPAs for most of
30:21
Speaker 1: these people, if I just showed the average person around America,
30:24
Speaker 1: this subset of people, there was like, I don't know,
30:27
Speaker 1: 20 different people there with their significant others. And you said,
30:30
Speaker 1: these are these guys' resumes. How do you think they
30:33
Speaker 1: ended up? You'd be like, what were their college GPAs?
30:35
Speaker 1: I'm like, most of them probably in the twos, like
30:38
Speaker 1: two fives, two sixes. But you know one attribute they
30:41
Speaker 1: all had, and a lot of them were in sales?
30:44
Speaker 1: They loved to socialize. I personally say they loved to party,
30:48
Speaker 1: but they just loved to socialize. They loved to interact.
30:52
Speaker 1: And that carries over to the jobs they all do,
30:55
Speaker 1: which is kind of doing deals in whatever specific, they're all,
31:00
Speaker 1: a lot of them are in tech. Some of them
31:02
Speaker 1: are in, you know, businesses like booze or different things,
31:05
Speaker 1: but they're all in sales. And they, it blew me
31:08
Speaker 1: away how well all these people were doing. You see
31:10
Speaker 1: on Instagram, but then you get around them and talking
31:12
Speaker 1: to my close buddies, like, God, you don't, these guys.
31:15
Speaker 1: But on paper, it's like, they didn't go to Harvard.
31:17
Speaker 1: They weren't 4.0 students. None of these people were valid Victorians. Hell,
31:20
Speaker 1: fucking half of them never went to a class. But
31:22
Speaker 1: they all have the ability to get into a room
31:25
Speaker 1: and people like them and want to do deals with them.
31:28
Speaker 1: And that's a quality of quarterbacks. It's like you can't really...
31:32
Speaker 1: You just kind of know it when you see it.
31:34
Speaker 1: I couldn't do that. I don't like people enough. I
31:36
Speaker 1: could fake it for a little bit, but I couldn't
31:38
Speaker 1: socialize every single weekend, every single week. But that's a
31:42
Speaker 1: huge part of the job. And if you have that ability,
31:44
Speaker 1: you can do really well in this country. Right? And
31:47
Speaker 1: it's no different with quarterbacks. If you're tough as shit...
31:51
Speaker 1: you're accurate, and your ability upstairs is really, really high level,
31:56
Speaker 1: you're going to have a very, very good chance to
31:58
Speaker 1: have success. And then if you have some innate qualities,
32:01
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Peyton Manning had this in spades, like
32:03
Speaker 1: they just got along with people. People liked them. They
32:06
Speaker 1: could take the boys out for a beer. They could
32:08
Speaker 1: just hang out with everybody. That kind of matters. I mean, listen,
32:12
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to shit on the guy, but I
32:14
Speaker 1: would say Jaden Daniels sitting up there with a smile
32:16
Speaker 1: on his face after that game, like, hey, man, probably
32:20
Speaker 1: not the best look. I'm not saying you need to
32:23
Speaker 1: be Hertz, very, very stoic, which I actually think works
32:26
Speaker 1: to his benefit. And he's on the extreme, like Nick
32:30
Speaker 1: Saban level, but smiling like, you know, that GF of
32:34
Speaker 1: Jonah Hill, like I, that's to me like, nah, I
32:37
Speaker 1: don't know if this is a good look. Why? Because
32:40
Speaker 1: having an EQ of the situation sometimes is more important
32:44
Speaker 1: than having the IQ. It's why when guys would retire...
32:48
Speaker 1: That played with Drew Brees... They would cry on the dais.
32:53
Speaker 1: Because of the respect... And how much they loved the individual.
32:57
Speaker 1: It's hard to get emotional talking about someone else... If
33:00
Speaker 1: you don't just really like the guy. Because I respect
33:04
Speaker 1: a lot of people... In America that I'll never even meet.
33:08
Speaker 1: I wouldn't cry if they died. But once you meet someone...
33:13
Speaker 1: And that person earns your respect... and then you can
33:16
Speaker 1: just have a genuine connection with the person, that goes
33:21
Speaker 1: a really long way. I would say that's most of
33:24
Speaker 1: our close friendships in life. Most people that we maintain
33:28
Speaker 1: relationships that we've known maybe since high school or college
33:31
Speaker 1: as we get into our 30s, 40s, and 50s is
33:33
Speaker 1: because a bond was made that is hard to break.
33:37
Speaker 1: I was at a wedding early this year and I
33:39
Speaker 1: saw a buddy from high school I probably haven't seen
33:41
Speaker 1: in like 20 years. And we started talking like, We
33:45
Speaker 1: saw each other last week. And there are certain things,
33:49
Speaker 1: and this is why these quarterbacks, when I was back
33:51
Speaker 1: at the Super Bowl this year in San Francisco, and
33:55
Speaker 1: I went to this thing with Jackson, there was Ronnie Lott,
33:59
Speaker 1: Brent Jones, Jonathan Taylor, Joe Montana, up on this stage
34:05
Speaker 1: with a couple other guys, Harris Barton, and Chris Berman
34:09
Speaker 1: narrating it. The bond those men have go back, obviously,
34:14
Speaker 1: what they went through, the Super Bowls, the fame they
34:16
Speaker 1: share together. But deep down, they just like each other.
34:20
Speaker 1: And I think that's an underrated part of Purdy. These
34:24
Speaker 1: guys really like him. Now, they wouldn't like him to
34:27
Speaker 1: the degree they do if he couldn't play. But it's
34:30
Speaker 1: hard to earn the respect of elite players. It's why J.J.
34:35
Speaker 1: McCarthy got ran out of town so fast. Clearly, the
34:38
Speaker 1: other players on the Vikings... Not really feeling this, especially
34:42
Speaker 1: their star high-end guys. Yet from the moment Purdy got there,
34:46
Speaker 1: a guy like Trent Williams that a lot of seventh-round
34:49
Speaker 1: picks he doesn't even have to pay attention to, his
34:52
Speaker 1: first press conference, the game after he made the team,
34:56
Speaker 1: was like, I told Brock, you don't understand how impressive
34:59
Speaker 1: it is to make the team as a seventh-round pick,
35:03
Speaker 1: even as the third stringer, for them to cut a
35:05
Speaker 1: guy that they had just guaranteed seven figures to. I
35:09
Speaker 1: forget the player it was, but not Kyle Allen, Jimmy Allen,
35:12
Speaker 1: Billy Allen, some random guy who just can't play, they
35:15
Speaker 1: gave a couple million dollars to. And I just think
35:19
Speaker 1: it's very, very hard for us to wrap our heads
35:21
Speaker 1: around these late round picks that become high-end players. They
35:25
Speaker 1: check a lot of fucking boxes. Some of them, you
35:29
Speaker 1: can't necessarily quantify. Just like a lot of people in life,
35:32
Speaker 1: it's like, how's this guy doing so well? Because he
35:35
Speaker 1: has things that aren't necessarily you're going to see on paper.
35:38
Speaker 1: There have been a lot of 4.0 students, valedictorians, summa
35:40
Speaker 1: cum laude's, that you look back when they're 45, it's like, God,
35:44
Speaker 1: life hasn't gone that well. Because typically, I would say,
35:49
Speaker 1: especially at the quarterback position, just like a lot of
35:52
Speaker 1: our positions, intangibles take you a long way. And to me,
35:57
Speaker 1: Purdy separates himself with those. And now as a player,
36:02
Speaker 1: his tangibles... are really showing up. And it helps to
36:06
Speaker 1: have Mike Evans, but athleticism, accuracy, and just overall mental toughness.
36:13
Speaker 1: Because when he threw that pick, I think a couple
36:15
Speaker 1: years ago, it could have unraveled and he throws another one. Instead,
36:18
Speaker 1: he's lights out, flawless. And they win a game that
36:22
Speaker 1: was really important to them, given that team had dominated
36:25
Speaker 1: them the last two times they played. Especially up there.
36:29
Speaker 1: In that environment, so... I just think this thing shouldn't
36:33
Speaker 1: be that complicated. But it'll be complicated again. The next
36:36
Speaker 1: guy who's a late round pick who becomes a star.
36:39
Speaker 1: Drake Greenlaw was suspended today. Which, here would be my take.
36:44
Speaker 1: You go on the sideline. You're on the other team's sideline.
36:47
Speaker 1: If you start creating havoc, okay. You are creating a problem.
36:52
Speaker 1: But when you're on the sideline and you get corralled
36:55
Speaker 1: by half the team. And one of their players comes
36:59
Speaker 1: up to you. Yes, by the letter of the law
37:03
Speaker 1: should you not touch them. But when he gets right
37:05
Speaker 1: into your face and you hit him with your helmet
37:08
Speaker 1: in the head, not to like knock him out, he
37:11
Speaker 1: didn't miss a snap or anything. It's like, I don't know.
37:16
Speaker 1: I think he got kicked out of the game and
37:19
Speaker 1: Ernest Jones was fine, right? To me, it wasn't that egregious.
37:23
Speaker 1: But I also believe this. You need crazy on your team.
37:29
Speaker 1: This is a crazy league. As Moose Johnson once said,
37:33
Speaker 1: you need players of character and characters that can play.
37:38
Speaker 1: And when the game starts, Dre Greenlaw becomes a madman.
37:43
Speaker 1: And you can't tell me that that doesn't, no different
37:46
Speaker 1: than some of Sherman's teams. They had fucking nut jobs.
37:50
Speaker 1: I don't want a team full of choir boys. And
37:53
Speaker 1: I'm not saying guys getting in trouble off the field.
37:55
Speaker 1: I'm saying on the field that push the envelope. Sometimes...
37:59
Speaker 1: Probably crossed the line. And listen, like I said, should
38:02
Speaker 1: he touch the other dude with his helmet? Probably not.
38:05
Speaker 1: Is that putting him in a precarious spot where he
38:08
Speaker 1: gets suspended? Clearly. He's currently appealing the fine. But you
38:15
Speaker 1: need guys like that on your team. There's a reason
38:17
Speaker 1: it didn't work out. Sean Payton envisioned having that for
38:21
Speaker 1: the Broncos. And I watched the Broncos. They're missing something.
38:25
Speaker 1: They could use a little crazy right now. They look terrible.
38:29
Speaker 1: And clearly, Dre Greenlaw couldn't stay healthy, didn't play well
38:32
Speaker 1: when he did. It didn't work out. But I think
38:36
Speaker 1: there's a fine line of, you know, Fred Warner plays
38:41
Speaker 1: with an intensity, but he's very buttoned up. If anything,
38:44
Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago when Dre Greenlaw ran up to
38:47
Speaker 1: Sean Payton, I think if Fred's not standing there, he
38:49
Speaker 1: might have, like, shoved him. I mean, it's just because
38:52
Speaker 1: he was so emotional. And some people, and listen, I'm
38:55
Speaker 1: guilty of this too, sometimes our emotions get the best
38:58
Speaker 1: of us. And we do things we regret. And in
39:01
Speaker 1: those environments with the noise, you know, our wives love
39:06
Speaker 1: to say, I'm overstimulated. And I think there's an element.
39:09
Speaker 1: Some guys, like Tom Brady, you couldn't overstimulate him on
39:13
Speaker 1: a football field. Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, they're just too
39:16
Speaker 1: dialed in. But a lot of guys you can. And
39:19
Speaker 1: if you poke and you poke and you get them
39:21
Speaker 1: in the right situation, you know, Jalen Carter, we've seen
39:23
Speaker 1: him have instances. You can just get in situations where
39:26
Speaker 1: a guy can't control themselves and that's a huge win
39:29
Speaker 1: for the other team when you get a guy kicked
39:31
Speaker 1: out or get a guy suspended like that's that's the
39:33
Speaker 1: fine line that you're walking so uh I I think
39:37
Speaker 1: the best teams like a couple fucking wild cards on
39:40
Speaker 1: their squad Can I tell you about my friends at Quince?
39:50
Speaker 1: You know, the fall, August, September, perfect time to reset
39:55
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41:04
Speaker 1: this yesterday about some of the clock management you know
41:08
Speaker 1: dan quinn came out today saying that he corralled the
41:11
Speaker 1: team and his staff today and he was just furious
41:14
Speaker 1: and embarrassed and how it can't happen i i i
41:18
Speaker 1: just can't get over In the situation, he tried to
41:21
Speaker 1: justify the 50 seconds. They missed a kick. It's like, bro,
41:27
Speaker 1: it's a 43-yard field goal. You don't have any timeouts.
41:31
Speaker 1: Why not just kick the field goal? Even if you
41:34
Speaker 1: weren't going to do that once it got to 45,
41:36
Speaker 1: 50 seconds when they ran the first play. Once you
41:40
Speaker 1: see the situation not unfolding, as the CEO, you're not
41:45
Speaker 1: calling either of the plays. Your job is to run timeouts,
41:49
Speaker 1: yell at people when they come on and off the field.
41:52
Speaker 1: And in a situation like that, late in overtime, be
41:54
Speaker 1: pretty dialed into the clock. You specifically could have screamed
41:58
Speaker 1: at the quarterback. Because Chris Sims, I saw, showed a
42:02
Speaker 1: clip today on social media. The entire team. Not just
42:06
Speaker 1: Jaden who was just kind of laying there. They had
42:08
Speaker 1: wide receivers down the field. They had a tight end
42:11
Speaker 1: laying on the ground. It didn't feel like anyone knew anything.
42:15
Speaker 1: And I've always struggled with this. Right? Like... All these
42:18
Speaker 1: coaches work insane hours. I couldn't imagine working those hours
42:24
Speaker 1: and not getting the results. Working those hours and having
42:28
Speaker 1: situations like that of like... What is the point of
42:31
Speaker 1: all this? If your own players... don't understand what to
42:36
Speaker 1: do in pretty basic situations. End of half, end of game,
42:41
Speaker 1: obviously end of overtime, no timeouts. Like these are basic
42:44
Speaker 1: talking points that you learn in like peewee football, let
42:49
Speaker 1: alone the National Football League. You go over, all these
42:52
Speaker 1: coaches talk about situational football, situational football, situational football. That,
42:57
Speaker 1: especially as the season goes on, that's what you hammer down.
43:02
Speaker 1: I saw Dave Canales, uh, Must have given a press
43:05
Speaker 1: conference today. And they had a bye week this week,
43:08
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers head coach. I don't know if he
43:12
Speaker 1: was dialed into football. He said he was like with
43:14
Speaker 1: his family, just hanging out. And he said his phone
43:17
Speaker 1: Sunday was just blowing up with everyone on his staff.
43:21
Speaker 1: Just like, hey, did you see this situation? You see
43:23
Speaker 1: this situation? You see this situation? And he said that
43:26
Speaker 1: they must have made a cut up and showed the team.
43:29
Speaker 1: But it's like these are teaching moments for everyone else.
43:33
Speaker 1: But they're pretty basic. We have seen some moments that
43:36
Speaker 1: are tough for us to wrap our head around. Like, ah,
43:38
Speaker 1: this is the first time I've ever seen that happen.
43:41
Speaker 1: These were just pretty basic. Even there was a clip
43:44
Speaker 1: going around today that I didn't notice when I was
43:46
Speaker 1: watching the game. The Philadelphia Eagles, when they punted with
43:52
Speaker 1: 2.15 left in the game, if they punt, if they
43:58
Speaker 1: tackle Parker Washington before the two-minute warning, they're going to
44:02
Speaker 1: get a free, you know, an extra stoppage because the
44:07
Speaker 1: two-minute warning. So it's like they wouldn't even need to
44:11
Speaker 1: use a timeout. They just use a two-minute warning. Well,
44:14
Speaker 1: I don't know if Parker Washington said this or Liam
44:16
Speaker 1: Cohen said this, but they had told Parker, because usually
44:20
Speaker 1: a punt's in the air for four or five seconds.
44:22
Speaker 1: So by the time Parker Washington caught the punt, there
44:25
Speaker 1: was two minutes and eight seconds on the clock. He
44:29
Speaker 1: ran the entire length of sideline to sideline to run
44:36
Speaker 1: out the clock so when he finally went out of bounds,
44:40
Speaker 1: it was the two-minute warning. And they specifically told him
44:44
Speaker 1: to do that. Because in the heat of the moment,
44:47
Speaker 1: and especially late in games, fatigue, exhaustion, you might not
44:53
Speaker 1: be thinking straight. You are paying all these coaches... I
44:58
Speaker 1: don't think people quite comprehend. Obviously, the head coach and
45:02
Speaker 1: the coordinators are making over... The coordinators are all making
45:06
Speaker 1: seven figures. Do you understand that a wide receiver coach,
45:09
Speaker 1: a low-paid wide receiver coach, makes like 500 Gs? A
45:13
Speaker 1: running back coach, a DB coach, these guys are all...
45:16
Speaker 1: If you've been in the league a long time, you're
45:18
Speaker 1: talking $ 700, 000, $ 800, 000. Hell, assistant DB coaches are making $ 150, 000, $ 200, 000.
45:21
Speaker 1: The amount of money... these coaching staffs are paying all
45:30
Speaker 1: these individuals and all these coaching staffs have assistant position coaches,
45:36
Speaker 1: let alone assistants to the coordinator, assistants to the head coach,
45:40
Speaker 1: seven quality control guys. Yet these situations happen over and
45:45
Speaker 1: over and over and consistently with the CEO head coaches.
45:49
Speaker 1: I somewhat understand it for the head coaches who are
45:53
Speaker 1: calling the offense or the defense. Then there was a clip,
45:57
Speaker 1: When was it? Oh, it was yesterday. It's like, if
46:00
Speaker 1: you're the GM for the Arizona Cardinals, do you know
46:01
Speaker 1: the shittiest part about that job, besides that you're the
46:04
Speaker 1: GM for the Arizona Cardinals, that have won seven playoff
46:07
Speaker 1: games in 106 years? Do the math on that one.
46:09
Speaker 1: I mean, that's, what a dogshit franchise. Is you have
46:13
Speaker 1: to sit next to Michael Bidwell. Just an embarrassment of
46:16
Speaker 1: an owner. His entire family that has owned this franchise forever,
46:20
Speaker 1: it's just, they don't get, them and the Titans, because
46:24
Speaker 1: we'd all go out of business if we spent time
46:25
Speaker 1: talking about them, It's just a complete clown show. But
46:30
Speaker 1: you have to... Monty Austin Fort, who we get into
46:32
Speaker 1: here in a second, is sitting right next to him.
46:35
Speaker 1: So I have them on. They didn't even get a
46:37
Speaker 1: TV yesterday because I assumed the Lions would beat them.
46:40
Speaker 1: They fucking destroyed them. I was sitting on my couch
46:43
Speaker 1: and I had my extra computer monitor on the game
46:46
Speaker 1: and I turned it around. I'd peek up and there's
46:49
Speaker 1: another bomb to Jamison Williams. But one time I look over,
46:52
Speaker 1: they're sitting there down looking at the field and Buda
46:55
Speaker 1: Baker was on the ground. So Budabek is laying there
46:57
Speaker 1: on the ground. And so I'm watching. I'm like, God,
47:00
Speaker 1: is he out for the season? They were both, especially
47:03
Speaker 1: the owners, got his binoculars. He looks like Belichick in
47:05
Speaker 1: the famous GIF. And then they go to the sideline,
47:08
Speaker 1: and Matt LaFleur, or I guess Mike LaFleur, the head
47:11
Speaker 1: coach of the Cardinals, is just on the bench with
47:15
Speaker 1: his iPad. You know, offense, offense, offense, plays, plays, plays. Which, again,
47:20
Speaker 1: I don't love. There's a balance there. But first-time head coach,
47:25
Speaker 1: like I'm giving you a little bit. Totally understand. He's
47:27
Speaker 1: the offensive play caller. It's a lot on your plate.
47:29
Speaker 1: Like all these guys. It's, you know, McVay and Kyle
47:32
Speaker 1: and some of these guys have been doing it long enough.
47:34
Speaker 1: They're less inclined to just go sit at the bench
47:36
Speaker 1: and scroll, right? They kind of try to balance both acts.
47:40
Speaker 1: But every once in a while, you got to do it, right?
47:42
Speaker 1: I bet LaFleur does it every game. I haven't been
47:45
Speaker 1: super locked into all of his mannerisms. But these CEO
47:50
Speaker 1: head coaches that make these mistakes, I just can't. I
47:53
Speaker 1: don't understand what you're paid to do if you can't
47:55
Speaker 1: handle that. That should be one of the key elements
48:00
Speaker 1: to your job. And they all have these staffs now
48:05
Speaker 1: in control of the clock, chiming in about the analytics.
48:10
Speaker 1: It's just a complete embarrassment. And I don't think you
48:15
Speaker 1: get over it. Like, I would get to the point,
48:18
Speaker 1: and I'm like this in life, many people are. There
48:20
Speaker 1: are certain things if you do, like, I can just
48:23
Speaker 1: never look at you the same. We've all worked with
48:25
Speaker 1: these people that maybe, you know, you're working with or
48:30
Speaker 1: they're under you or maybe they're over you. And something happens,
48:34
Speaker 1: you're like, what? What the fuck? And maybe he's like, hey,
48:37
Speaker 1: give them the benefit of the doubt. And then if
48:38
Speaker 1: it's like something, he's like, I can't. I can't even
48:41
Speaker 1: take this human seriously. And your relationship with that person
48:45
Speaker 1: becomes almost non-existent because you can never in your mind
48:48
Speaker 1: get over the fact of like, I can't do it
48:52
Speaker 1: with this person. And that's the way if I was
48:56
Speaker 1: like the GM, definitely the owner, I wouldn't. And I
48:59
Speaker 1: know he's a great guy. Everyone I know, people in Seattle,
49:03
Speaker 1: you're going to hear it this week with Raheem Morris
49:05
Speaker 1: and Kyle Shanahan, they love Dan Quinn. Like high character guy.
49:09
Speaker 1: People think he's a good coach. As a coordinator, I
49:12
Speaker 1: think as a head coach, he's just completely over his skis.
49:15
Speaker 1: Completely over his skis. uh got a little meathead vibes
49:19
Speaker 1: and I I need a little more uh intellectual capabilities
49:23
Speaker 1: I I need some more brain cells firing on all
49:26
Speaker 1: pistons and it doesn't seem like him and Sirianni they're
49:29
Speaker 1: kind of out to lunch meanwhile Liam Cohen and his
49:31
Speaker 1: staff is telling Parker Washington fucking run around keep this
49:35
Speaker 1: clock moving and get that thing to two minutes And again,
49:38
Speaker 1: we're not talking about building bridges here. We're not talking
49:40
Speaker 1: about sending spaceships to Mars. You know, this ain't SpaceX.
49:46
Speaker 1: This is, hey man, you're going to catch it around 207, 208,
49:50
Speaker 1: 209 range. If at all possible, I know physically they
49:53
Speaker 1: might be able to tackle you, but if you can't
49:55
Speaker 1: avoid it, try to. That's just a basic conversation that, hell,
49:59
Speaker 1: a high school coach might have with a player, let
50:02
Speaker 1: alone in the pros. And these guys can't have those conversations.
50:06
Speaker 1: Because again, are they not paying attention? Or are they
50:09
Speaker 1: just completely lost? I don't get it. I also saw
50:16
Speaker 1: that Kelsey is getting crushed for saying we on the broadcast.
50:21
Speaker 1: I mentioned yesterday, the London broadcast, I hold to such
50:25
Speaker 1: a low standard. It doesn't, nothing on that broadcast bothers me.
50:29
Speaker 1: Rich Eisen used to get shit on, didn't know anything.
50:32
Speaker 1: I didn't care. I mean, having coffee, eating a little breakfast,
50:36
Speaker 1: maybe try to get a little gym action in before
50:38
Speaker 1: the real games kick off. But everyone's like, he's saying we.
50:45
Speaker 1: Who do you think Jason Kelsey is rooting for in
50:47
Speaker 1: the booth? Do you think deep down he played for
50:53
Speaker 1: Howie Roseman drafted? They got rid of a couple. I mean,
50:57
Speaker 1: one retired, but. He snapped to Jalen Hurts. Do you
51:00
Speaker 1: think deep down he's not rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles?
51:04
Speaker 1: Like Joe Davis. Pretty sure, right, the Dodgers brewers are
51:07
Speaker 1: on Fox. He calls all the Dodger games. It doesn't
51:11
Speaker 1: mean you can't be a professional and call that game normally.
51:15
Speaker 1: But you don't think he's rooting for the Dodgers to
51:17
Speaker 1: win this series and then go to the World Series,
51:19
Speaker 1: call that, and then win it? You think Drew Brees,
51:22
Speaker 1: when he just did the Saints, didn't he just do Saints-Vikings?
51:24
Speaker 1: Who do you think Drew Brees wants to win that game?
51:27
Speaker 1: When JJ Watt calls TJ Watt games, do you think
51:31
Speaker 1: he's rooting for the opponent deep down? It doesn't bother
51:34
Speaker 1: me at all. We're all rooting for somebody at some
51:38
Speaker 1: point in time, especially in situations where family members, former teams,
51:43
Speaker 1: organizations that created these players in some situations that you
51:48
Speaker 1: work for. You don't think the corporation or the company
51:51
Speaker 1: that you work for, you root for them to do well?
51:54
Speaker 1: Of course not. So this notion that everyone needs to
51:57
Speaker 1: be unbiased, that used to be like the 70s, the 80s,
51:59
Speaker 1: and the 90s. When you just turn on the news
52:01
Speaker 1: and they just gave you the news. Now that's fucking gone.
52:04
Speaker 1: And we all know it. But we all expect it
52:06
Speaker 1: when we turn on the news if you're dumb enough to.
52:09
Speaker 1: Because you're just going to get who knows what. And
52:11
Speaker 1: they pretend they don't have a bias when we all
52:13
Speaker 1: know they do. And so it's like, it's no different
52:17
Speaker 1: with these announcers calling these games. Like, of course, JJ
52:22
Speaker 1: is rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers. I would red flag
52:25
Speaker 1: him if he wasn't. You don't think Jason Kelsey wants
52:28
Speaker 1: the Eagles to win? You mean the team that he's
52:30
Speaker 1: going to go in when he goes in the Hall
52:32
Speaker 1: of Fame, he's going to be a Philadelphia Eagle Hall
52:34
Speaker 1: of Famer? What the fuck are we talking about? So
52:38
Speaker 1: I'm not as bothered by that. I also think that's
52:40
Speaker 1: a lot of internet talk. Now, whether you think he's
52:43
Speaker 1: good at his job or not, that's another discussion. Whether
52:45
Speaker 1: you think he should be calling games, okay, I've listened
52:49
Speaker 1: to that conversation. Listen, I don't mind JJ at all,
52:53
Speaker 1: but I totally understand, like, is JJ a star? And
52:57
Speaker 1: I don't mean like he is name recognition, but just
53:00
Speaker 1: as a broadcaster. You know, my recommendation would be to
53:05
Speaker 1: JJ is like, bro, you're a line of scrimmage guy.
53:08
Speaker 1: So when you played, it was about lifting, eating, physicality.
53:13
Speaker 1: You're actually closer to a John Madden type, like you
53:16
Speaker 1: like that type stuff than trying to be this, what
53:20
Speaker 1: you think of broadcasters. Lean in to who you are. No,
53:24
Speaker 1: same with Jason Kelsey. Same with all these guys. Lean
53:27
Speaker 1: into your strengths. Part of the problem with Tony Romo
53:29
Speaker 1: is he couldn't lean into his strengths anymore because he
53:31
Speaker 1: wasn't watching any film. Too busy playing nine. You know,
53:34
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, Tony, Like golf is much to the
53:36
Speaker 1: next guy, they're paying you $ 17. 5 million a year. You
53:40
Speaker 1: have zero, like, you have no liabilities. Like, you can't,
53:47
Speaker 1: they pay for you to fly out and fly back.
53:49
Speaker 1: If anything bad happens, the stadium blows up, someone commits
53:53
Speaker 1: a murder on the staff, none of it's your problem.
53:57
Speaker 1: It's one of the greatest gigs in the history of America.
54:01
Speaker 1: Some of these other people making similar money as players,
54:04
Speaker 1: at any moment their body could get broken. Tony's did.
54:07
Speaker 1: And if you ran these companies making that type of compensation,
54:11
Speaker 1: all the responsibility falls on your back. Literally, as just
54:15
Speaker 1: the analyst, number one guy for one of these networks,
54:18
Speaker 1: nothing is on you besides some people on the internet
54:21
Speaker 1: talking shit. Just try a little, you know? And I
54:26
Speaker 1: am not bothered by the we at all because, of course,
54:30
Speaker 1: we all have we's. Even Peyton Manning, when they played Tennessee,
54:34
Speaker 1: he's like, are you rooting for Arch? Are you rooting
54:36
Speaker 1: for your alma mater? He's like, I'm rooting for my blood.
54:40
Speaker 1: That's where my loyalty lies, to my family. I'm like,
54:44
Speaker 1: are you guys fucking idiots? The Cowboys hired Mike Pettin,
54:51
Speaker 1: former longtime defensive coordinator, head coach a couple years with
54:55
Speaker 1: the Browns, for Christian Parker to help him out. I
54:58
Speaker 1: guess they, I was reading today, they worked together when
55:00
Speaker 1: he was assistant at Green Bay years ago. It shows
55:05
Speaker 1: you how desperate they are because this gets back to
55:08
Speaker 1: Sean Mannion. Davis Webb's lucky Peyton is there, and Bo
55:13
Speaker 1: Nix might stink so bad they can't do anything to
55:15
Speaker 1: fix that. Some young people, when they get into tough predicaments,
55:20
Speaker 1: they just need help. We've all been there. We need
55:23
Speaker 1: a helping hand. And I'm not acting like this is
55:25
Speaker 1: going to fix anything, because who knows, maybe the defense
55:29
Speaker 1: they're trying to run is not made for these players.
55:31
Speaker 1: Who knows? I mean, there are a lot of different variables.
55:34
Speaker 1: But he needs some help. And if he doesn't get
55:37
Speaker 1: any help, you have zero chance to not just constantly
55:42
Speaker 1: do the same thing over and over. You're playing the
55:44
Speaker 1: Packers this week. Those two wide receivers look incredible. So
55:50
Speaker 1: if you don't change or fix anything, you got no
55:53
Speaker 1: chance to make the playoffs. Because your defense is that putrid. So,
55:58
Speaker 1: you know, Jerry's probably always a little hesitant. They probably
56:00
Speaker 1: had to talk him in to pay another guy. You know, Jerry...
56:03
Speaker 1: For a guy with a big yacht, for a guy
56:05
Speaker 1: with a franchise worth, I mean, if he put the
56:07
Speaker 1: Cowboys up for sale, it would shatter records. His net
56:11
Speaker 1: worth has never been higher. Sneaky cheap when it comes
56:15
Speaker 1: to the coaches. Colin talked about this last week of
56:19
Speaker 1: how they got everything inverted. It's all the wrong way.
56:23
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, Jerry, you know there's no salary cap
56:26
Speaker 1: for front office people and coaching staffs? Well, I think
56:29
Speaker 1: it's hard for Jerry to wrap his head around, like
56:31
Speaker 1: some of these other owners who have been in the
56:33
Speaker 1: league since the 70s and 80s, even going back farther
56:36
Speaker 1: than that, because they remember a time and a place
56:39
Speaker 1: where you could pay a head coach $ 100, 000, $ 200, 000, $ 700, 000.
56:44
Speaker 1: When a guy made $ 1 million, it was insane. When
56:48
Speaker 1: once upon a time Seattle and Paul Allen gave Mike
56:51
Speaker 1: Holmgren $ 4 million a year, people thought they were high
56:54
Speaker 1: on drugs, which a lot of people in that city
56:56
Speaker 1: probably were. probably the good stuff too. But I just
57:02
Speaker 1: think that you can't go cheap with coaches because when
57:07
Speaker 1: you do– and it doesn't guarantee anything. I mean, the
57:09
Speaker 1: Chargers are paying a lot of money to Jim Harbaugh,
57:12
Speaker 1: who clearly that whole coaching staff feels like they're out to–
57:16
Speaker 1: like just lost. They have no answers, no fixes, and
57:20
Speaker 1: it's not going to get any better. They feel completely screwed.
57:25
Speaker 1: I mean, the Chargers– Honestly feel like they're going to
57:28
Speaker 1: lose every game. And, you know, someone that I'm never
57:32
Speaker 1: betting on them again this year. Taking them with points
57:35
Speaker 1: at home. One, their home field advantage is not a
57:37
Speaker 1: home field advantage. But, like, up 17-10, of course they
57:41
Speaker 1: lose by six. It's like they ain't covering. You know,
57:44
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just a nightmare. Herbert is playing worse
57:47
Speaker 1: by the week, making awful decisions. And Jim's just standing
57:51
Speaker 1: there on the sideline with no answers. Again, CEO, head
57:54
Speaker 1: coach of, like, you can't call the offense. I do
57:59
Speaker 1: not understand an offensive coach who just can't call the offense.
58:04
Speaker 1: That seems crazy to me. Especially these guys like... Jim
58:08
Speaker 1: Harbaugh was a quarterback. Think about that. And he just
58:12
Speaker 1: can't call the offense. Never has. Never will. Before we
58:16
Speaker 1: do a couple mailbag questions, I was thinking about Oregon,
58:18
Speaker 1: who obviously is a disaster. Just actually a complete disaster. And...
58:26
Speaker 1: There is something to be said about, like, let's use
58:30
Speaker 1: Georgia and Ohio State. They're not going to win the
58:33
Speaker 1: championship every year, but the expectations in the building and
58:37
Speaker 1: in the fan base are championship or bust. And that expectation,
58:43
Speaker 1: these programs are just kind of used to. And Ohio
58:46
Speaker 1: State has kind of been like that since Ryan Day
58:47
Speaker 1: got there. He got a hand to do them from Urban.
58:50
Speaker 1: And really since Kirby got over the hump and won it, whatever,
58:52
Speaker 1: five years ago. So every single year the season starts,
58:55
Speaker 1: Georgia fans go, we can win the championship. It was
58:58
Speaker 1: like that for over a decade with Nick Saban. Championship
59:03
Speaker 1: or bust. Well, Oregon has been a consistent, I would say,
59:08
Speaker 1: from Bloddy to Chip Cavanaugh they elevated to a top
59:11
Speaker 1: five program. Then they had a downswing post-Chip Kelly, kind of,
59:15
Speaker 1: and then they have got back up with Dan Lanning
59:17
Speaker 1: to be a top five, six program every year. But
59:20
Speaker 1: I do think for the first time, they were just
59:23
Speaker 1: universally picked. Everyone's, this team is going to win the
59:27
Speaker 1: national championship. Everyone's picking them. The most talented roster they've
59:32
Speaker 1: ever had. Joel Klatt, best defensive line ever. Best defensive
59:37
Speaker 1: line I've ever seen with Oregon. Which is like, are
59:39
Speaker 1: you sure? Because they once had a defensive line with
59:41
Speaker 1: Deion Jordan, who was a third pick in the draft,
59:44
Speaker 1: and DeForest Buckner and Eric Armstead, who I both saw
59:48
Speaker 1: playing yesterday. They were drafted well over 10 years ago.
59:52
Speaker 1: Both of them. So it's like, I'd pump the brakes
59:55
Speaker 1: a little bit there. But clearly, a lot of talent
59:58
Speaker 1: on the team. And currently they just lose to UCLA.
1:00:01
Speaker 1: They have seven turnovers and they lose at home, which
1:00:03
Speaker 1: is unheard of, especially to a program. UCLA's on the
1:00:06
Speaker 1: come up, but UCLA, even if they made the playoffs,
1:00:10
Speaker 1: they didn't win a playoff game. I wouldn't expect, depending
1:00:13
Speaker 1: on the matchup, I guess. I mean, they just lost
1:00:14
Speaker 1: their quarterback for the year. My point is, the pressure,
1:00:19
Speaker 1: you know, the old saying is that the wind blows
1:00:22
Speaker 1: the hardest in the top of the mountain, right? Heavy
1:00:24
Speaker 1: is the head that wears the crown. There is a
1:00:28
Speaker 1: pressure of being Tom Brady and Bill Belichick for those 15,
1:00:31
Speaker 1: 20 years. There was a pressure of being Nick Saban
1:00:35
Speaker 1: or Urban Meyer, knowing everyone is gunning for you. You
1:00:38
Speaker 1: are everyone's biggest game by a mile. Lane Kiffin has
1:00:43
Speaker 1: created that, and he's never even won these big games.
1:00:45
Speaker 1: You know? Like... And I do wonder if in the
1:00:50
Speaker 1: NIL era, you have so many moving parts, everyone is
1:00:53
Speaker 1: making big money... that pressure does feel like it fractured
1:00:57
Speaker 1: Oregon a little bit because when I have watched them
1:01:02
Speaker 1: this year, they feel like a team that doesn't really
1:01:04
Speaker 1: like each other. You know, they feel like a team
1:01:08
Speaker 1: sometimes is like, did they practice? And I understand their
1:01:11
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks in the game and he completely shits the bed.
1:01:15
Speaker 1: Like it was statistically harder to play much worse than
1:01:17
Speaker 1: he actually played, but they should be so good given
1:01:23
Speaker 1: how much they're spending on the roster that, okay, you're,
1:01:26
Speaker 1: UCLA scored 17 points. We can win this weird-ass game 28-17.
1:01:30
Speaker 1: A national champion team going through a little bit of
1:01:35
Speaker 1: their backup quarterback finds a way. And not only did
1:01:39
Speaker 1: they not find a way, it felt like that loss
1:01:42
Speaker 1: kind of put everything under a microscope of like, pressure's
1:01:46
Speaker 1: no joke, man. It really is. Especially in an industry
1:01:51
Speaker 1: where once a week you find out Like, have you
1:01:55
Speaker 1: been doing the right things? Have you been putting in
1:01:57
Speaker 1: the work? Do you guys have good team chemistry? You know,
1:02:00
Speaker 1: they had to replace some coaches. And it's been fascinating
1:02:03
Speaker 1: to watch. And I think that's an underrated part. Like, listen,
1:02:07
Speaker 1: I kind of needed a team to root against. So
1:02:09
Speaker 1: I just naturally kind of picked Ryan Day a long,
1:02:12
Speaker 1: long time ago. I do respect the shit out of
1:02:14
Speaker 1: their program. They have been good my entire life. And
1:02:20
Speaker 1: they obviously are an excellent team right now. And they
1:02:23
Speaker 1: really have been the last several years. and Ryan Day
1:02:26
Speaker 1: goes out and hires coordinators that he doesn't even know,
1:02:29
Speaker 1: NFL guys, recruits his ass off, and you just watch
1:02:32
Speaker 1: them play. It doesn't mean they're going to win every week.
1:02:35
Speaker 1: They've lost some games over the years, and obviously the
1:02:38
Speaker 1: Michigan game. That could have fractured them, and it didn't.
1:02:41
Speaker 1: They went on to win the natty. Last year, it
1:02:45
Speaker 1: took a heroic effort from Indiana to take them down,
1:02:49
Speaker 1: and Fernando Mendoza. This year, they just... Arch Banning had
1:02:54
Speaker 1: the best couple series of his career, of his life.
1:02:56
Speaker 1: It's like, I bet if Ohio State played Texas again,
1:02:59
Speaker 1: I'll promise you this, Ohio State ain't going to be
1:03:03
Speaker 1: the underdog. Hell, they could play Texas this week in Texas.
1:03:08
Speaker 1: Ohio State's got a negative next to the point total.
1:03:11
Speaker 1: I'll promise you. So, look at Kirby Smart. And I
1:03:16
Speaker 1: do wonder, you know, Dan Lanning's a guy who has
1:03:21
Speaker 1: a lot of big games, you know. So I know
1:03:24
Speaker 1: he's really into it, his energy. I think he's good.
1:03:27
Speaker 1: But I remember him a couple years ago when he
1:03:30
Speaker 1: used to play DeBoer. Lost every time. Obviously, these playoff
1:03:34
Speaker 1: games the last couple years have not gone well. And
1:03:36
Speaker 1: then we just anointed the program because of everyone returning,
1:03:40
Speaker 1: how much they were spending. It was just national championship.
1:03:46
Speaker 1: And still got a long way to go. I mean,
1:03:47
Speaker 1: they technically could still run the table, though you'd probably
1:03:50
Speaker 1: bet against it what we've witnessed. They're probably not going
1:03:53
Speaker 1: to go to the playoffs this year. The shit's hard.
1:04:12
Speaker 1: Let's do a couple mailbag questions. Is the Instagram fire
1:04:17
Speaker 1: in those DMs? Get your questions answered on the show.
1:04:22
Speaker 1: Question for you. If you're the Chargers and they continue losing,
1:04:28
Speaker 1: who would they move off first? The quarterback or the coach?
1:04:33
Speaker 1: Been a disastrous season for them. One million percent Jim
1:04:38
Speaker 1: Harbaugh goes before Justin Herbert. There is not a chance
1:04:42
Speaker 1: on God's green earth unless I... It would be stunning.
1:04:47
Speaker 1: If they were to, because I get a lot of
1:04:49
Speaker 1: DMs about like, hey, should the Vikings trade for Herbert?
1:04:52
Speaker 1: Would Herbert be available? If I own the Chargers, if
1:04:55
Speaker 1: I was the Spanos family, and we had to make
1:04:58
Speaker 1: a decision, Jim's gone. If Justin Herbert's like, I can't
1:05:04
Speaker 1: work with these guys anymore. See ya. I'm not saying
1:05:07
Speaker 1: that Justin Herbert's going to change his career and become
1:05:10
Speaker 1: some Hall of Famer after that. But you ain't getting
1:05:13
Speaker 1: rid of Justin Herbert to keep Jim Harbaugh. And to me,
1:05:17
Speaker 1: the trade talk, we're still a couple years away from
1:05:21
Speaker 1: moving on him. Like, he's going nowhere. Because you would
1:05:25
Speaker 1: just be trying to find another version of that. Which
1:05:27
Speaker 1: is extremely hard to do. I think the question mark is,
1:05:34
Speaker 1: has Jim Harbaugh kind of lost his marbles? I mean,
1:05:36
Speaker 1: you watch him in some of these press conferences. You're like,
1:05:37
Speaker 1: is he all there? Yeah. Is he going to be
1:05:41
Speaker 1: the coach in 2027? A couple weeks ago, I said
1:05:44
Speaker 1: that was nuts, but it's no longer nuts. It definitely
1:05:46
Speaker 1: feels plausible now that maybe they got a new coach
1:05:49
Speaker 1: next year. The only thing that would hesitate me saying
1:05:53
Speaker 1: I feel good about that happening is that they'd have
1:05:55
Speaker 1: to pay him a lot of money to go away.
1:05:56
Speaker 1: And I know that's difficult for Dean because he likes
1:06:02
Speaker 1: seeing that money in the high-yielding savings account. He's like,
1:06:04
Speaker 1: I don't want to part with that cash. What is
1:06:11
Speaker 1: your personal opinion on the first drives being scripted? What
1:06:14
Speaker 1: is the advantage and disadvantage of them? And why do
1:06:17
Speaker 1: most teams not abandon them when it clearly isn't working? Well,
1:06:23
Speaker 1: I think the biggest advantage is you just get to
1:06:27
Speaker 1: practice those plays during the week. So you create these plays,
1:06:31
Speaker 1: you script these plays against the defenses that you feel
1:06:34
Speaker 1: pretty good, especially as the season goes, that you're going
1:06:36
Speaker 1: to see early in the game based on their tendencies.
1:06:40
Speaker 1: And you run plays that you think are going to
1:06:42
Speaker 1: work against those. And you've got to practice those Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
1:06:47
Speaker 1: Make tweaks as things work or don't work. Walk through
1:06:50
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Maybe do a pregame meeting and talk about it.
1:06:55
Speaker 1: You have just hammered it home. And then as the
1:06:57
Speaker 1: game goes on, you just kind of run plays going
1:07:01
Speaker 1: back to like training camp. Some of your bread and
1:07:02
Speaker 1: butter stuff. Maybe some installed plays throughout the week. Maybe
1:07:05
Speaker 1: you tweak them. But anytime you get to do something
1:07:09
Speaker 1: that you've scripted, it's like, is it easier for actors
1:07:14
Speaker 1: to just say the lines that they've been given on
1:07:18
Speaker 1: the sheet, you know, in a play or a movie,
1:07:21
Speaker 1: or ad-lib? You would say most people aren't that good
1:07:24
Speaker 1: of ad-libbers, right? Most actors read the lines they're given.
1:07:29
Speaker 1: There are only so many Denzel McConaughey's that can go
1:07:32
Speaker 1: off the cuff and create greatness. Most of them can't.
1:07:37
Speaker 1: So I think it's just... Basic human psychology. Anytime you
1:07:42
Speaker 1: know exactly what you're doing, what's expected, and you've practiced it,
1:07:46
Speaker 1: you're more likely to have success. And the better your
1:07:49
Speaker 1: coordinator is scripting those plays, the more likely they have
1:07:53
Speaker 1: a tendency to work. It's why you see a lot
1:07:54
Speaker 1: of good first drives, you know, on Saturdays and Sundays
1:07:58
Speaker 1: in football. When reports come out from anonymous sources, where
1:08:03
Speaker 1: are they typically coming from? Did you ever get approached
1:08:06
Speaker 1: for information as a scout? Or is it typically higher
1:08:09
Speaker 1: level people in the organization like GMs or coaches? I...
1:08:15
Speaker 1: Mike Silver, I met at a game. I gave him
1:08:20
Speaker 1: my number. I helped him out with a couple articles
1:08:23
Speaker 1: on like college prospects. My third year there. But it's typically...
1:08:30
Speaker 1: When you see an anonymous source... I would say typically
1:08:34
Speaker 1: it's the GM. It's maybe one of the GM's right-hand
1:08:39
Speaker 1: men or position coaches and coordinators. So it's usually not
1:08:45
Speaker 1: the lowest guy on the totem pole, though it could be.
1:08:49
Speaker 1: But I would say a lot of times, think about this.
1:08:52
Speaker 1: Think about head coaches who then become coordinators. So it's
1:08:57
Speaker 1: like I'm a coordinator, I become a head coach, and
1:08:59
Speaker 1: then I become a coordinator and I'm not saying this
1:09:02
Speaker 1: guy's doing this but like a Jonathan Gannon or Robert
1:09:06
Speaker 1: Sala who's like there's gonna know a lot of people
1:09:08
Speaker 1: in the media haven't been a bunch of roles been
1:09:10
Speaker 1: in different markets obviously the longer like think how long
1:09:16
Speaker 1: guys like Jason Light and Howie Roseman John Schneider and
1:09:19
Speaker 1: John Lynch who worked in the media and Les Snead.
1:09:21
Speaker 1: These guys have been in their positions for over a
1:09:24
Speaker 1: decade going to owner's meetings, going to combines. You just
1:09:28
Speaker 1: get to know really well all these guys. You see
1:09:30
Speaker 1: them at your practices during training camp and the offseason.
1:09:34
Speaker 1: So I think a lot of times anonymous sources are
1:09:37
Speaker 1: just GMs. And again, sometimes it's biased. There's an agenda
1:09:43
Speaker 1: behind it. And sometimes they're just telling the truth. So
1:09:47
Speaker 1: it's hard to know. I would say on a lot
1:09:50
Speaker 1: of articles in certain situations. And let's face it, especially
1:09:55
Speaker 1: in the offseason when you're talking, you know, the draft
1:09:58
Speaker 1: can get weird because they're definitely manipulating. But like contract talks,
1:10:02
Speaker 1: like they're on the team side, right? So when you see,
1:10:06
Speaker 1: you can always tell like, is this coming from an
1:10:07
Speaker 1: agent or is this coming from the team? This is
1:10:11
Speaker 1: for the mailbag. I don't know exactly who picks the
1:10:13
Speaker 1: defensive players for the Niners, but he needs a race.
1:10:17
Speaker 1: It seems to me that literally everyone on the Niners
1:10:19
Speaker 1: secondary are just as physical and love to tackle as
1:10:22
Speaker 1: much as linebackers. And the only other DB that does
1:10:26
Speaker 1: that is Jalen Ramsey. I just admire having a thing
1:10:29
Speaker 1: for corners and safeties who like tackling. Well, I mean,
1:10:32
Speaker 1: their GM is one of the hardest hitters in NFL
1:10:35
Speaker 1: history in John Lynch. I mean, he literally was a
1:10:38
Speaker 1: guy that hung his hat on tackling and hitting. So
1:10:42
Speaker 1: I also think the style in which the Shanahan family,
1:10:46
Speaker 1: like they're a running team. So when you run, who
1:10:50
Speaker 1: do you like, right? Running backs that, especially in their
1:10:54
Speaker 1: scheme that get vertical. So if you're a vertical running back,
1:10:58
Speaker 1: not a bounce around running back, you're going to be
1:11:00
Speaker 1: more of a physical player. Well, who are they watching?
1:11:04
Speaker 1: Try to stop those guys, physical tackling linebackers and DBs.
1:11:08
Speaker 1: Because in theory, your offensive line is going to position
1:11:12
Speaker 1: block the defensive lineman. So a lot of times against
1:11:16
Speaker 1: the 49ers, if you just watch Seattle, who is making
1:11:18
Speaker 1: most of the tackles? Linebackers and the DBs. So you
1:11:22
Speaker 1: just value physicality. And I also think you breed that.
1:11:29
Speaker 1: You create an environment. It's very, very difficult if you're
1:11:33
Speaker 1: a softer player. and you show up in a physical environment,
1:11:37
Speaker 1: like if I showed up for the Ravens or the
1:11:39
Speaker 1: Steelers in 2008, or the LOB Seattle Seahawks or Jim
1:11:45
Speaker 1: Harbaugh 49ers in 2013, if I'm not a hitter or
1:11:50
Speaker 1: a physical player, it's going to be hard for me
1:11:53
Speaker 1: to mesh in that environment. I will get washed out quick.
1:11:58
Speaker 1: So it kind of exposes people, or you just gravitate
1:12:02
Speaker 1: and you become more crazy. which I think happens a
1:12:06
Speaker 1: lot in the NFL. Diehard Raider fan. I'm getting pretty
1:12:10
Speaker 1: worried about Ashton Jenney. Nothing about him jumps off the screen.
1:12:13
Speaker 1: Nowhere near the high end speed or quickness of guys
1:12:15
Speaker 1: like B. John Gibbs or even the rookie love. He's small,
1:12:18
Speaker 1: not really a great receiving back and never seems to
1:12:20
Speaker 1: find the big holes. He averages 3.7 yards a carry
1:12:24
Speaker 1: last year and 3.4 so far this year. He has
1:12:27
Speaker 1: three total runs of over 20 yards in his career.
1:12:31
Speaker 1: Apparently he's playing banged up. I truly hope He becomes great,
1:12:35
Speaker 1: but I just don't see it. He did hurt his ankle.
1:12:39
Speaker 1: Was that week one or right before the season? Remember
1:12:42
Speaker 1: he got hurt at practice? It's all kind of running
1:12:44
Speaker 1: together now. I think you've got to hope to that.
1:12:48
Speaker 1: I know I have not, Spytek didn't tell me this,
1:12:51
Speaker 1: but I've got a very, very close friend that works
1:12:54
Speaker 1: for Spytek that told me during camp he looked fantastic.
1:12:59
Speaker 1: And this guy has a pretty good idea of what
1:13:01
Speaker 1: works and what doesn't. And I do wonder if that
1:13:04
Speaker 1: ankle injury kind of derailed him. Now, I'm with you.
1:13:08
Speaker 1: He's not going to be Bijan. He's not Bijan. I mean,
1:13:11
Speaker 1: Bijan's one of the great... I have a buddy that
1:13:15
Speaker 1: has been scouting for, what year is it, 26? So
1:13:19
Speaker 1: over 15 years that said he'd argue Bijan's the best
1:13:22
Speaker 1: player he ever scouted. When you just factor in total package,
1:13:26
Speaker 1: on and off the field, elite off the field character, intangibles,
1:13:30
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Big, fast, elite at everything. Can make
1:13:36
Speaker 1: you miss, has the power to break your tackles, can
1:13:38
Speaker 1: catch the ball. He gets in space, he's fucking gone.
1:13:42
Speaker 1: He's literally like a borderline perfect prospect. You know, I mean,
1:13:47
Speaker 1: it's kind of crazy. So like, he ain't that. Gibbs
1:13:50
Speaker 1: is pretty unique. He ain't Gibbs. You know, he's not
1:13:54
Speaker 1: peak McCaffrey. So it's like, that was always my question
1:13:58
Speaker 1: when you drafted him that high. Like, pretty risky. But
1:14:02
Speaker 1: I do think he can become a good player. If
1:14:05
Speaker 1: you've been listening to this podcast long enough, you knew
1:14:07
Speaker 1: where I stood on that. I didn't love it. Now
1:14:10
Speaker 1: I have to go, I don't know, if I remember correctly,
1:14:13
Speaker 1: it was kind of a weird draft. It's not like, well,
1:14:15
Speaker 1: they passed on Justin Jefferson for him. It was kind
1:14:20
Speaker 1: of a weird spot. I do think at running back, though,
1:14:26
Speaker 1: you kind of just know. Like, McCaffrey, you kind of
1:14:29
Speaker 1: knew right away. Gibbs, you kind of knew right away.
1:14:32
Speaker 1: Even he was the backup, remember? Bijan, it was pretty clear. Like, God,
1:14:36
Speaker 1: this guy's got a lot of talent. Some guys take
1:14:41
Speaker 1: a little longer. I wouldn't sell my Jetsy stock yet.
1:14:47
Speaker 1: This guy sent me a graphic. It said, fewest points
1:14:50
Speaker 1: scored by a 5-0 team since 2010. Obviously, the Vikings
1:14:55
Speaker 1: have scored 109 points. The 2015 Peyton Manning-led Broncos, remember
1:15:01
Speaker 1: his arm didn't really work, they won the Super Bowl
1:15:02
Speaker 1: that year, scored 113. Two years ago, it was the Chiefs, 118. 2016,
1:15:08
Speaker 1: it was the Vikings. And in 2013, it was the Chiefs.
1:15:12
Speaker 1: That was Andy's first year. This guy's basically just mad
1:15:17
Speaker 1: that no one was shitting on the Chiefs in 24
1:15:19
Speaker 1: and they had Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes. People just
1:15:21
Speaker 1: love to shit on the Vikings. I promise you they don't.
1:15:26
Speaker 1: I think it's more that a lot of people, myself included,
1:15:28
Speaker 1: are reluctant with your quarterback situation. He played really good
1:15:33
Speaker 1: against the Saints, who might just suck. Probably wish I
1:15:39
Speaker 1: could have a do-over on picking them to win the division.
1:15:42
Speaker 1: Might have been a little bullish. That one blew up
1:15:45
Speaker 1: in my face fast. But defense elite, if Jefferson's healthy,
1:15:50
Speaker 1: maybe it won't matter. Do you guys think Kyler Murray's
1:15:54
Speaker 1: leading you to playoff victories? Hell, I mean, if you
1:15:58
Speaker 1: can just keep winning games, who cares? Biggest takeaway from yesterday.
1:16:02
Speaker 1: Declan Doyle is going to be a great head coach
1:16:04
Speaker 1: in Washington next year. Maybe our friends at Polymarket can
1:16:07
Speaker 1: open something for that. I think when guys start getting fired,
1:16:10
Speaker 1: they'll do some of that. I think I'm out on
1:16:13
Speaker 1: CEO head coaches. If you're doing a coach redraft, who
1:16:16
Speaker 1: and when does the first quote CEO head coach get drafted?
1:16:20
Speaker 1: One of the Harbaugh's probably, Tomlin type, but has to
1:16:23
Speaker 1: be outside the top 10. The offense defensive gurus head
1:16:26
Speaker 1: coaches are inherently more valuable because they call plays. With
1:16:31
Speaker 1: CEO head coaches, even once you find a great offensive
1:16:34
Speaker 1: or defensive play caller, they end up leaving. Yeah, I mean, I...
1:16:39
Speaker 1: Who are the best CEO head coaches? Let's just pull up.
1:16:47
Speaker 1: I'm just going the list in the league of all
1:16:49
Speaker 1: the winning teams. Niners 5-0, Kyle, coordinator. Andy, nope. Vikings, nope. Ravens, nope. Jags, nope. Bills, nope.
1:17:00
Speaker 1: Giants 3-1-1, yes. Packers, nope. Patriots, nope. Patriots, yeah. He's
1:17:07
Speaker 1: probably the best. I'd probably take Vrabel over Harbaugh. But
1:17:11
Speaker 1: in the current NFL, because Bears no, Broncos no, Lions,
1:17:17
Speaker 1: it would probably be... It'd probably go Vrabel, Harbaugh, Dan Campbell.
1:17:24
Speaker 1: Maybe some teams. I mean, the Giants would choose John
1:17:27
Speaker 1: Harbaugh over Vrabel for sure. But yeah, I mean, most
1:17:33
Speaker 1: of the top coaches are coordinators. If you're doing a
1:17:35
Speaker 1: coaching draft... Who would you take Vrabel over? Would you
1:17:40
Speaker 1: take him over Andy Reid or Sean Payton? No. Because
1:17:43
Speaker 1: they call the plays. Would you take him over any
1:17:46
Speaker 1: of the young guys? Kyle, McVay, McDonald's defensive coordinator, but
1:17:52
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, Liam Cohen, I'm with you. But it's also hard.
1:17:59
Speaker 1: Just because a guy's a good coordinator doesn't mean he's
1:18:02
Speaker 1: going to be a great head coach. Can you explain
1:18:07
Speaker 1: to me what people are seeing in Arch Manning? I
1:18:09
Speaker 1: don't get it. I think he's overrated, especially when you
1:18:11
Speaker 1: compare him to some of the other guys in the upcoming... Yeah,
1:18:14
Speaker 1: you guys know where I stand on that one. I
1:18:16
Speaker 1: feel like I'm beating up on the kid. He didn't,
1:18:18
Speaker 1: you know, you don't choose your family. But, yeah, I
1:18:23
Speaker 1: don't get it. Don't get it. There was a video
1:18:27
Speaker 1: of Sark kind of making the rounds after that game.
1:18:31
Speaker 1: It looked like he just saw, you know, 10 people
1:18:36
Speaker 1: get murdered. He was shook. He was shook. I would
1:18:41
Speaker 1: be too. Words of encouragement for a Colts fan question.
1:18:46
Speaker 1: I'm ready for a change. Have been at least the
1:18:49
Speaker 1: last four. or five seasons. Are there even any good
1:18:52
Speaker 1: candidates this time around? It feels like we're closer to
1:18:56
Speaker 1: the Dolphins or Jets purgatory than being competitive. I genuinely
1:19:01
Speaker 1: think we're headed toward three or four seasons of trash
1:19:05
Speaker 1: before we have a chance to improve. I actually like
1:19:10
Speaker 1: Carly on the sidelines, keeping close tabs on things. She
1:19:13
Speaker 1: pays the bills. Why not know what these brain-dead morons
1:19:17
Speaker 1: are doing on a daily basis? We will end on
1:19:20
Speaker 1: this question. I saw this stat from the old X
1:19:26
Speaker 1: Everything app. That Shane Steichen, in his tenure with the Colts,
1:19:32
Speaker 1: is 7-24. Let me repeat. 7-24. So he's played, what's that,
1:19:41
Speaker 1: 31 games? And he's won seven of them against teams
1:19:44
Speaker 1: with a 500 or better record. So when he plays
1:19:47
Speaker 1: a competitive team, he is losing all the time. And
1:19:52
Speaker 1: you would think in some of these, like yesterday, they
1:19:54
Speaker 1: were never winning that game. Ever. I do wonder big
1:20:02
Speaker 1: picture if she fires everybody. you know, if she'll, she
1:20:07
Speaker 1: will be a detriment to getting quality candidates on board.
1:20:13
Speaker 1: Just like you want me to be the head coach.
1:20:15
Speaker 1: You're always going to be on the sideline. You're going
1:20:16
Speaker 1: to be in, she's in meetings, which I have, you
1:20:20
Speaker 1: pay the bills. You can do whatever you want. But
1:20:24
Speaker 1: I'd also say this, like you were born into the,
1:20:29
Speaker 1: she's a Nepo baby, a Nepo billionaire, right? I mean,
1:20:33
Speaker 1: let's face it. I mean, I saw Ethan Strauss wrote
1:20:35
Speaker 1: a long article about her credentials. Doesn't really blow you
1:20:39
Speaker 1: off to, you know, go to her LinkedIn. You know,
1:20:43
Speaker 1: she's like, well, she was, you know, VP of JP
1:20:45
Speaker 1: Morgan Chase, and then she created her own company. Like,
1:20:49
Speaker 1: how do, what the fuck does she know? You know,
1:20:52
Speaker 1: now you can say the same thing about her dad.
1:20:54
Speaker 1: Family's a little, little wacky. Yeah, a little wacky. So,
1:20:59
Speaker 1: you know, at least with Jim... He had done it
1:21:03
Speaker 1: for a long time, but a lot of people complained
1:21:07
Speaker 1: about that situation. Listen, a lot of these owners, Bidwell, Haslam,
1:21:13
Speaker 1: they're just tepper. I don't care if you're self-made. These
1:21:17
Speaker 1: are crazy tough situations. These are not easy jobs. The
1:21:21
Speaker 1: pressure is immense. You have to lead and handle. If
1:21:26
Speaker 1: you factor in practice squad, 65, 70 young people, all rich,
1:21:31
Speaker 1: the majority of them are, You got a coaching staff
1:21:34
Speaker 1: with a bunch of guys making a lot of money
1:21:36
Speaker 1: with huge egos. You got an owner breathing down your neck.
1:21:38
Speaker 1: You got fans shitting on you and wanting you to
1:21:41
Speaker 1: do different things. These are really, really hard jobs. So,
1:21:45
Speaker 1: I mean, the percentage of people that can handle them
1:21:47
Speaker 1: is pretty small. It is really, really difficult, the pressure
1:21:51
Speaker 1: that goes along with it. And then you factor in, like,
1:21:53
Speaker 1: do they even have that much talent on their team?
1:21:56
Speaker 1: Warren's good. Obviously, Jonathan Taylor's good. Defense, pretty average. I mean,
1:22:00
Speaker 1: Jalen Warren looked like Barry Sanders against them. Now, he's
1:22:04
Speaker 1: a good player. But, holy cannoli. I mean, to me,
1:22:09
Speaker 1: the Colts, after watching them yesterday, and I had the Steelers,
1:22:14
Speaker 1: I would say they're probably like 7-10. But kind of
1:22:18
Speaker 1: a lifeless 7-10. It's like, I bet mathematically, come like
1:22:23
Speaker 1: a couple weeks before Christmas, they're still in it. But
1:22:27
Speaker 1: they're kind of not in it. We talked about it
1:22:29
Speaker 1: with the backup quarterbacks. Sometimes you get benched because like, yeah,
1:22:32
Speaker 1: we need to smark. We need to do something. And
1:22:34
Speaker 1: sometimes you get benched because you suck. You know, I
1:22:37
Speaker 1: think the Colts are, they don't suck. They're not going
1:22:41
Speaker 1: to win two or three games. But they're closer to
1:22:44
Speaker 1: sucking than they are like, God, they could have just
1:22:47
Speaker 1: had a season like the Ravens or the Chiefs. You know,
1:22:50
Speaker 1: it's like, no, you couldn't have. The Volume.