WEBVTT - Hour 3 – Albert Breer, Reggie Miller 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.560 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:04.800 Sports Radio. 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.000 Final Hour on this Tuesday, Dan and the Dan EDGs 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:09.800 Dan Patrick Show. Reggie Miller will stop by a little 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:12.840 bit later on. We'll talk to the Monday morning quarterback 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:17.000 Albert Breer lo and behold, the Colts have finally found 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.239 their quarterback. He's forty four year old Philip Rivers. Not 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.520 signed yet, but I guess he worked out. We'll talk 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.479 to Albert Breer about that possibility. I'm guessing Riley Leonard 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.040 is going to be out there even on one leg 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:35.600 against Seattle. I can't imagine having anybody quarterbacking against Seattle's defense, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.080 let alone a forty four year old Philip Rivers out 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:42.680 there in Seattle Chargers over the Eagles. Chargers are now 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:45.960 nine to five. Philly is eight and five, and that 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:50.560 was all on Jalen Hurtz, including the overtime interception. Four 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:55.160 interceptions also had to fumble as well. The acc responded 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.800 to Notre Dame saying that they value the partnership and 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:03.040 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Notre Dame 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.880 has a press conference in an hour from now. From 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:10.200 what we've been told two different sources that this was scheduled. 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:14.960 This isn't in response to the ACC and being snubbed 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.200 by the College Football Playoff Committee. But I'm sure that 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.959 there will be questions about the ACC. This is more 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.840 for the local media to kind of do the reset 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.240 as you go into the offseason. That's what we were told. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.680 Don't know if there's going to be any declaration. My opinion, 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.720 my advice would be, if you want to say anything 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.560 about the ACC and your relationship, why not say we're 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:41.600 going to take thirty days to reassess our relationship with 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:42.160 the ACC. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.120 That way, you don't react right away. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.720 I think they reacted right away when they got snubbed 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.600 with the playoff committee and the players voted and said 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.120 we're not going to play. I think if you gave 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.040 them a couple of days to say, hey, we can 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.240 still play as a team. We're not going to have everybody, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.360 but we still get to play as a team. You know, 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.160 that would be a great way to end the season. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.040 Not the way we thought, but you know what, we're 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.040 Notre Dame. Let's go out headheld high, be proud of 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.239 who we are and what we did this year. This 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.560 isn't our fault, it's somebody else's. I mean, that would 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.160 be the approach that I would have. But from what 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.840 we're told, this was scheduled. This was really for the 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.679 local media. Stat of the Day is always brought to 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.079 you by Panini America, the official trading cards of the 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:29.440 Dan Patrick Show, Seaton. How about the poll question for 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.239 the final hour, and then we'll get to the popular 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:32.960 Albert Brier. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.160 Yeah, we got up there right now, Philip Rivers coming 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.680 back to the Colt. Seventy three percent of the audience 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.720 have that as a terrible idea, and man, they're in trouble. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.280 Colt Chiefs, Eagles, ravens, cults are running away with that one. 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.359 About half the vote. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.720 Albert Brier, the Monday morning quarterback, senior NFL reporter. They 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:56.040 call him Bert locally. I was watching the Patriots pregame 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.919 show and all I know is Tom Kern and Michael 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.280 Hawley kept saying, let's go out to Bert, and I go, 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:02.800 who's Burt? 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:03.840 Next? 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.919 Thing I know, I got Albert Breer on the field. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.080 So should I call you Bert? You can call me. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:09.720 Whatever you want to. 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.000 I never correct anybody on that, So whatever you're most 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:13.560 comfortable with. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:17.119 I'm good with okay, If Philip Rivers is the answer, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.880 I don't want to know the question, but I do 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.880 have aunse that question. If not Philip Rivers, what are 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:26.760 the other options for the Colds as a backup quarterback 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.919 or starting slashed backup quarterback? 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.119 I mean the plan if it's not Riley Leonard, which 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.400 we'll see, you know, you know he's got the spray knee. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.760 If it's not Riley Leonard, Brett Rippon, who does have 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.480 experience and has played in the NFL, would probably be 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.600 the next answer. And you'd be working out some guys 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.480 on Tuesday, which is today, to try to try to 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:49.320 figure out, you. 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.880 Know, where you can go. This is really sort of a. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.920 You know, I got a perfect storm of quarterback crap, 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.720 you know, like in dealing with with Daniel Jones getting 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.480 hurt and I'm not making light of it, but like 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:07.480 Daniel Jones having the torn achilles after playing on a 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.720 fracture of fibula, Riley Leonard tweaks his knee, You've got 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:16.120 Anthony Richardson who has the orbitable orbital injury. Like from 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:17.960 what I understand, he's still resting that eye. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:22.240 There's no timetable for his return, and you know, you've 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.839 got a team that's clearly reeling, there's lost three games 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.680 in a row, that's got a gauntlet down the stretch, 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.320 has Seattle in San Francisco the next couple of weeks. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:36.520 You know, if you're Chris Ballard and Shane Stikeen and 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.960 the guy's in charge there, you're doing everything you can 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.960 to try to create some level of hope that they can, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.600 you know, dig what was an incredibly promising season out 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.680 of a ditch. And so I'm sure we'll get more 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.200 into why Philip and all of that, but you know, 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.880 there aren't a ton of options. We're past the trade deadline. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.120 You know, the guys that are out there out there 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.600 for for for for a pretty for clear reason, you're 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.400 not available at the most important position on the field 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.200 at this time of year. If there are a lot 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:07.960 of teams that think he can help, he. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:09.480 Hadn't played in five years now. 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.600 Granted, yeah, I don't think his arm strength is going 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.160 to be lesser because it wasn't great and didn't have mobility. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.880 But I mean, can you see a scenario where Philip 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:25.040 Rivers is playing football the rest of the season, Well. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.480 So, he had his workout last night, and my understanding 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.000 as he threw up pretty well, but like you said, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:30.240 like I think you sort of expect that. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.760 I remember having this conversation with Joe Flacco. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.560 Earlier this year and he said to me, He's like, 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:37.120 I think I'm going to be able to throw at 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.920 an NFL level until I'm fifty. He's like, I don't 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:43.200 think my arm strength is going away. And I think anybody, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.680 like even like a suburban dad like me, like I 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.720 can go out and throw the football in the backyard. 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.280 I can't run like I used to, but I can 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.120 go out and throw the ball to my kids. 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:51.080 You know. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.560 So I think that's one of the lot that's one 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.280 of those things where it's like, yes, he can still 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.760 throw the ball. He's been coaching high school football, so 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.360 he's been around it, coaching his son down there in Alabama, 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:05.400 and you know, he has been working out and training 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.920 NFL and college quarterbacks over the last few years. So 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:13.599 he's stayed connected, he's stayed working. He's still throwing. That's 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.920 not the question. The question is can he still move 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.279 around enough to protect himself. Has he been doing the 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.320 work to keep himself in the shape, to the shape 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.359 he needs to be in to do that, you know, 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:23.760 And then I. 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:25.839 Think the big question is how how are you going 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:26.440 to take a hit? 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:26.880 You know? 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.720 That's the thing is, like I don't think anybody can 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:35.440 project you know what it's what's going to happen if 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.080 he were out there on Sunday and you know, Byron 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:42.000 Murphy the three technique from Seattle gets through the line 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:42.960 and buries him. 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:44.320 Like is he going to be able to get up 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:44.599 from that? 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:45.159 You know? 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.640 I think that's probably the biggest question. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.400 And you know, I think the timing of it is 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:50.880 a question too. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.440 You mentioned the five year layoff. You remember Drew Henson right. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:56.920 Yep, back in the day. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.960 So for those who don't know, if Drew Henson, you know, 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.360 had come out of Michigan, you know, in twenty twenty 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:04.560 two and it kept playing. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.919 Football at Michigan. If he had come out in twenty twenty. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.080 Two, he might have been a contender to be the 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.200 first overall pick. Instead, he takes the money and goes 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.720 in place for the Yankees. That doesn't work out. He 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.200 tried to come back to football. 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:14.600 A few years later. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:17.480 Well, you know, I remember talking to some Cowboys people 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.600 I covered the Cowboys on the beat a few years 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.400 after that, and I remember having just casual conversation with 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.920 people about Drew Henson and why. 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.240 He didn't make it, because physically it's very talent. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.440 He was a really good quarterback at Michigan, the successor 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:35.280 to Tom Brady there. And you know what the Cowboys 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.120 people said to me was, you don't understand when you're 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.840 away from it, how quickly the timing goes away, and 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.360 how hard it is to replicate that, and all the 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.680 things that go along with being able to stand in 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.240 the pocket with your eyes downfield, with you know, two 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.600 hundred and fifty three hundred pound guys who are elite 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.760 athletes coming at you at full speed, like there's no 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.680 way to replicate that. So if you're out of it 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:59.680 for a few years, it's hard to get it back. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.240 And there's thing was, that's what happened to Drew Henson, right, 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.119 wouldn't that apply here to I mean, I know Rivers 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.960 obviously has a ton more experience, but if you've been 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:09.720 out of it, I would think the timing. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:10.640 Of it would be an issue too. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.400 So there's a ton of reason to ask questions about it, 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.320 you know, And I like I think, you know, if 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.440 if nothing else like this at least shows the Colts 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.920 locker room that this stiching and ball are doing everything 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:27.840 they possibly can to create some modicum of hope. You know, 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.080 whether or not it can actually work, I think, you know, 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:31.960 I don't know that anybody has the answer to that question, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.480 because this feels pretty unprecedented. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:38.400 You know, why is the trade deadline where it is 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.199 during the season, Well. 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.880 I mean the main reason is so you don't see 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:48.120 teams dumping players late. That's the main thing is. You know, 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.280 what what the NFL want wants to avoid is a 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.480 situation where you have you know, some three win team 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.960 or two win team, and the general managers or buddies 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.800 or whatever, and you see competitive balance getting thrown off 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.960 because this player or that player is getting moved to 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:05.800 another team at the end of the year. Now that 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.319 team that's already non competitive becomes even less competitive. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.240 I think it has more to do with that in 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:13.400 that like your team. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.400 Is your team, they have done work to move it back. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.480 I mean, you know this DP as well as anybody, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.040 Like the last few years, they have you know, been 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.240 in those situations where it's like okay, like we're going 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.880 to move it back another week. And I've actually seen 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.480 some of the data on this, which is interesting that 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.480 the percentage of the season that's done when they have 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.040 a trade deadline is lower in football than it is 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.280 in baseball or basketball. And the case for moving it 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.280 back even further than it is now is to kind 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.200 of get it up to that standard that you see 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.960 in other sports. But the main reason why is like 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.160 the NFL wants to avoid a situation where you. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.520 Know, you have teams end in November beginning of December. 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.920 Dumping all of these players can affect attendance at games, 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.479 can affect the the competitiveness of certain matchups. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:00.480 That's really the reason and why. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.240 Talking Albert Breer, the Monday Morning Quarterback, senior NFL reporter, 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.440 you have this proliferation of long field goals in the NFL, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:10.480 and we're about aesthetics. 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:11.240 Yep. 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.160 And I don't know if the Competition committee has ever 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.720 addressed can you raise the crossbar? Like is there something 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.640 that they've gotten too good at this? 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:21.960 Yep? 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:23.479 Just like the extra. 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:30.080 Point that would maybe change the philosophy of all these 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:31.480 longer field goals here. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.920 Yeah, I think there are there are things you could 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.480 do you could raise the crossbar, you could narrow the uprights. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.520 You know, I think you got to look at the 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.959 reasoning why this is happening too. Like, I had a 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.560 really good conversation with Nick Folk about this, you know, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.839 a couple of weeks ago, and he's obviously been doing it. 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:51.480 For a long long time. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.760 I believe this is his nineteenth year in the NFL, 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.760 And so I asked him, I said, like, what do 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.160 you think it is? He said, the caball is definitely 0:10:58.160 --> 0:10:59.920 a factor. Now again, for those who don't know. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.679 Explain the cable, explain explain the cable. 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.840 Right, So, like, I guess we can relate this to 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:07.440 the flightgate. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.640 Like, quarterbacks have always been given the opportunity to prepare 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.720 balls right to so they can have each game ball 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:16.920 just as. 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:18.560 They like it for game day. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.480 So the quarterbacks have always had that opportunity to do that. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.280 They don't They didn't allow kickers to do that until 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.600 this year. So now kickers have the same opportunity to 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.520 prepare the caballs, which are the balls that are there. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:33.240 For the kickers. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.559 The kickers and punters can prepare the balls the same 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.000 way the quarterbacks do for game day. So I think 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.240 most kickers would tell you that's a factor. I don't 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.920 know exactly what they're doing, whether I actually asked him, 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.960 I said, is there something everyone's doing to the ball. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.800 He's like, I don't know. I just haven't talked to 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:50.679 enough people to know. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.520 But I'm sure that everybody's done research onto it and 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.120 looked into it and it's doing something that's helping them. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:57.280 So that's number one. 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.880 The second thing that folks said to me was more interesting, though, 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:05.400 He said, because it's become so competitive for college scholarships. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.760 And then obviously, you know spots in the NFL. You know, 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.800 you what you're seeing is better athletes the position now. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.600 And so you've got a guy who you know, is 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.800 a really good high school player who's maybe a really 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.079 good high school receiver or a really good high school 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.040 corner or a really good high school linebacker, and maybe 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.680 he could play Division two or three college football. But 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.000 if he learns how to kick, he can kick at Alabama, 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.000 or he can kick at Oregon, or he can kick 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:31.920 at Ohio State. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.040 And so now you. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.480 Have these guys who are like really good athletes in 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.520 their own right, who are probably you know, college football 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.600 players at a baseline and now they're learning how to kick, 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.119 and so you have these guys who are more explosive, 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.680 who have better legs learning how to do it. You 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.960 add on too that some of the personal training they're 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.160 getting and better athletes are making it at that position. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.760 He had mentioned actually Tyler Loop, who is the Ravens kicker, 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.280 who was from the University of Arizona. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.200 Which is Folks alma mater. 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:02.760 He said he worked out with him and he was like, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.439 I couldn't believe, Like when I talked to the strength 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.640 coaches at Arizona what sort of athlete he was. He 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.439 said he was like a twenty one or twenty two 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.880 mile an hour guy on the GPS, which is insane, 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:15.760 you know what I mean, Like, that's not that far 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:20.320 off from what like the field players you know, run. 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.240 So I think it's a number of factors, and you know, 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.360 I don't know exactly how you address it, but I 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:28.520 do think that that's the one part. 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.760 That you that you really won't change. 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:32.880 You know, you could go back to the old rules 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.240 and the CA balls and everything else. But I mean 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.240 the fact that there are better athletes that are more 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:38.400 specialized doing it. 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:39.680 I think as a factor as well. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.760 How many head coaching vacancies do you think we're going 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:43.080 to have? 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.000 I mean I think the normal number probably seven or eight. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.200 You know you felt total with like what happened with 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:51.080 the Giant. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.680 Yeah, I mean you have the Giants and the Titans. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.760 Now, you know, I think there are definitely some like 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.920 that have come up that maybe we didn't expect to 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.520 months ago. Atlanta, Arizona would probably be in that bucket 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:05.440 that are at least going to be, you know, under 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:06.719 some level of evaluation. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:07.840 What does Cleveland do? 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:09.520 You know? 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.320 And then you have like your curve ball. 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.160 You know, like that would be like if Pittsburgh and 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:15.920 I don't think this would be a firing, but if 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.320 Pittsburgh and Mike Tomlin have a mutual parting. 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.800 So I think we'll get to that number to seven 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:23.200 or eight. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.080 And you know the interesting thing about it is, I 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:26.640 think a lot of teams are gonna have to evaluate 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.000 this Dan and say, is what's behind door number two 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.440 worth getting rid of what we know is. 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.440 Already behind door Penn State? 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:37.880 Right, I mean, I think that's that's going to be 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.440 it for a lot of these teams because I would 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:43.440 make this argument, right, I think if you's today December ninth, right, 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.440 So if you ask me on December ninth, twenty twenty four, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.920 I would have told you Ben Johnson and Mike Rabel 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.920 are going to be head coaches next year. I don't 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.200 know where. I can't tell you exactly where, but those 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.240 two guys are going to be head coaches next year. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.600 I'd even maybe have given you Aaron Glenn at that time. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.520 I'm like, I'm pretty sure he's go at one? 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:00.960 Right? 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:02.760 Who is that this year? 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:09.000 I don't know if there's a hot guy and that's it, 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:10.120 you know what I mean? 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.680 Like, I like, you have some interesting names, like Jesse 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.000 Mentor has done a great job with the Chargers defense. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.400 I think Mike McDonald because their similar background helps him 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:19.680 a lot. 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.280 Mike McDonald's had great success in Seattle. Of course. 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.359 You know Chris Shula, who's you know, got the bloodlines 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.640 of course, is in the RAMS program. Like he's another one, 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:31.920 like the hot offensive guy, I mean, who is it now? 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.840 I mean, Joe Brady's had like a little bit of 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.400 an up and down year in Buffalo. He's interviewed really well, 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.840 so I think if the bill's finished strong, maybe he 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.120 becomes the guy you know, and then you've got a 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.800 couple of the second chance guys, you know, Mike McCarthy 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.880 I think will be in the mix, But I don't 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.000 know like that you would look at it right now 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.560 and say yes, like this guy will be a head 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.200 coach next year. And you had at least a couple 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.160 of those guys last year. And I think in most 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.760 years you have at least a couple of guys where 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.560 you can say, yeah, like that guy's going to be 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.920 a head coach this year. And so if you're a 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.400 team that's like considering a changer, you're on the fence. 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.800 Maybe that gets your your guy a stay of execution. 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.000 I even argue with Miami right like where Mike McDaniel 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.640 has now you know, like resurrected, you know, like perception. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.760 I it was interesting because I was having these conversations 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:22.880 with some people with the Dolphins, and you know what 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.720 one person told me is like that Steve Ross was 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.320 hearing the buzz that Mike McDaniel will be a great 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.800 second chance head coach. And it caused Ross to say, well, 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.760 wait a second, then, why why would we get. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:36.200 Rid of him? 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.200 You know what I mean, like like if. 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.560 He's going to be such a good it's gonna be 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.800 such a good hire for somebody the second time around. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.160 Why aren't we trying harder to see if we can 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.520 make the first time around work. So if you're them 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.400 now and you're the Dolphins, you're looking at it and 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:54.200 you're saying, Okay, we fired the general manager. Now Mike 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.600 McDaniel has this team at six and seven and going 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:59.320 into Pittsburgh on Monday with a chance to get to 0:16:59.360 --> 0:16:59.800 five hundred. 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.520 Were eliminated from the playoffs. We haven't lost since we 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:07.119 fired the GM on Halloween. I wouldn't you think twice 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.119 about that? So I think that's part of the equation 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:10.360 for a lot of these teams. 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:12.959 Thanks again, Bert, good to have you on. 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:14.119 You got it. 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:15.160 You can call me whatever you want. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.680 Albert Breer, the Monday Morning Quarterbacks senior NFL reporter. Yeah, 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.399 I stumbled onto the Patriots pregame show and our good 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.840 buddy Tom Kerr and Michael Holly, They're like. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:24.760 Let's go out to Bert. 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.520 I go who is Burt And all of a sudden, 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.560 it's Albert Breer there on the sidelines. 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.000 Take a break. Red G. 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