Speaker 1: The volume. Hi, everybody, really really good stuff with John
Speaker 1: Middlcoff at the volume coming up. I'm going to have
Speaker 1: John and I are going to talk every Sunday night
Speaker 1: during the season. So John just has a wealth of information.
Speaker 1: The former scout. He's a buddy, he's a friend, He's
Speaker 1: really good at stuff. You know. I was thinking about
Speaker 1: if you go look at the quarterback position in the NFL,
Speaker 1: it almost feels corporate. Even Tom Brady's personality was suppressed
Speaker 1: when he was in New England. It was suppressed. He
Speaker 1: got a little lively and added some personality in Tampa.
Speaker 1: But that's the league. It's very corporate. And what's interesting
Speaker 1: to me. If I said to you big personality at quarterback,
Speaker 1: most of the guys I would mention Baker Mayfield, Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: Jay Cutler, Johnny Manziel don't work. The guys that are
Speaker 1: kind of cliched and coach speak. It's been through the
Speaker 1: years sort of Brady, Trevor Lawrence, justin Herbert, Joe burrow Is.
Speaker 1: That personality is wonderful, but what you're basically doing. The
Speaker 1: more power you have in life, the more you will
Speaker 1: suppress information because you'll have more information and it'll be
Speaker 1: more vital information. I told somebody once when I was
Speaker 1: in my twenties and thirties, I wanted to pretend I
Speaker 1: knew everything, And then I got to my fifties, I
Speaker 1: have more access to stuff, and I suppress more information. Well,
Speaker 1: when you're a quarterback in the NFL, there are discussions
Speaker 1: you're having with the coach, the coordinator, and the GM
Speaker 1: that are not shared with other players. And so what
Speaker 1: makes Aaron Rodgers very unique. He's a star quarterback and
Speaker 1: he's sort of like a rogue, independent and personality like
Speaker 1: most guys that have that. Jeff George was outspoken, Cutler
Speaker 1: was outspoken. It mostly goes sideways. This is you are
Speaker 1: the face of the franchise. You do that Wednesday press conference,
Speaker 1: you stand in front of the media. You're not here
Speaker 1: to be glib and funny. You're here when they ask
Speaker 1: tough questions, to be a cooler, to be a blanket,
Speaker 1: a wet blanket on a possible inflammatory story. I mean,
Speaker 1: they did a sketch in the eighties on Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live about Joe Montana and Phil Hartman was involved, and
Speaker 1: the whole joke of the sketch was Joe Montana was great,
Speaker 1: but the most boring man in the world. Because quarterbacks
Speaker 1: are paid to suppress information. You want to bring the
Speaker 1: temperature down in the room and concentrate on football. That's
Speaker 1: the opposite of Aaron. Aaron is our e lax. And
Speaker 1: now with the New York media, who was you know,
Speaker 1: they're created to inflame. I think it's a fascinating relationship.
Speaker 1: And the schedule's tough enough and the O line is
Speaker 1: concerning enough that the Jets could get pushed around in
Speaker 1: the opener against Buffalo, And in fact, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite bets in Week one is Buffalo minus like one
Speaker 1: and a half against the Jets. I think their defensive
Speaker 1: front will give the Jets trouble. And I think you're
Speaker 1: going to be able to identify very quickly what New
Speaker 1: York's problem is. That's why it's really important Makai Beckten
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers the right tackle the quarterback playing against
Speaker 1: the Giants. It's interesting if it's a turnstile, it's a
Speaker 1: problem because the Giants have a good pass rush. You know.
Speaker 1: This is why for years and years I've said I
Speaker 1: don't mind personality. I don't want it at quarterback, Like
Speaker 1: Mahomes is funny. He's able to compartmentalize a lot of
Speaker 1: moving targets. But if you really listen to Mahomes, he
Speaker 1: always says the right thing. Aaron often says the most
Speaker 1: interesting thing can be with Pat McAfee, it can be
Speaker 1: at a press conference. He can be direct, he can
Speaker 1: be passive aggressive, So that's who he is at his core,
Speaker 1: never married, no kids, independent thinking, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million dollar networth or more probably
Speaker 1: three hundred million, So I think that's it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: going to be volcanic. But if you look at the
Speaker 1: big personalities at quarterback, most implode. Aaron at the end
Speaker 1: of Green Bay certainly didn't implode, but regressed. It just
Speaker 1: didn't work even in a small media market like it
Speaker 1: didn't play into his favor. So this is who Aaron is, right,
Speaker 1: He's not had to sacrifice a lot in his life
Speaker 1: due to his talent and his lifestyle. So I can't wait.
Speaker 1: I absolutely cannot wait to watch it, and I think
Speaker 1: very early they will struggle to protect Aaron against Buffalo,
Speaker 1: so we're not going to have to wait very long.
Speaker 1: That Monday Night opener, Bill's Jets. From that point forward,
Speaker 1: we're going to have of ourselves a very prickly bumpy story.
Speaker 1: The team I want to watch the most. And because
Speaker 1: the NBA is very much about the shield and corporate
Speaker 1: it's not a drama league, right, Like in the NBA,
Speaker 1: A lot of times you don't care about the team,
Speaker 1: but the story's good, you know, Like KD leaves Westbrook,
Speaker 1: Westbrook wins the MVP. It's a good story, you know.
Speaker 1: Can the Philadelphia seventy six ers finally win and get
Speaker 1: to a second playoff series? The story's better than the team.
Speaker 1: Right in the NFL, I just kind of like winners.
Speaker 1: I do think the Broncos with Peyton and Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: I think it's the best story because if it doesn't work,
Speaker 1: they're kind of ft. I mean because Russell, I mean,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's cap hit next year and you can manipulate it.
Speaker 1: By the time it arrives is going to be like
Speaker 1: eighteen percent of the cap for the Bills, Like they
Speaker 1: have to win now. They can't screw around with Stefon Diggs.
Speaker 1: Like the reason the Dolphins are interested in Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: is like two is only four and a half percent
Speaker 1: of the cap DA's twelve, right, Josh Allen's going to
Speaker 1: be eighteen and a half. They have to win this year.
Speaker 1: So I think that's really interesting the drama around Buffalo.
Speaker 1: But I also think there's a weird thing in sports.
Speaker 1: If you ask how many players believe in God, it
Speaker 1: would be ninety percent. But Kirk Cousins, Derek Carr, and
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson wear it on their sleeve. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people view like Russell as inauthentic, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, he's very religious, great conviction. I always thought
Speaker 1: that's just who he is. You know. People say Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins is soft and corny, and I'm like, he's a
Speaker 1: family man, he's religious, It's who he is. I've had
Speaker 1: two different raiders say, you know, Derek Carr wore some
Speaker 1: guys out, and I'm like, who he is. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a man of faith. And I asked Kevin Clark
Speaker 1: this yesterday. Do you view Russ as inauthentic or just religious?
Speaker 2: I view him as inauthentic, But I've talked to an
Speaker 2: enough people that is he's kind of robotic. So this
Speaker 2: version that everyone makes fun of is actually who he
Speaker 2: was because you know, I would say the thing that
Speaker 2: I value the most in any human being is just
Speaker 2: be yourself, right. It's why I think, you know, people
Speaker 2: in the medium were in having the most success or
Speaker 2: the most honest and just act like or you don't
Speaker 2: pretend to be something they're not, can just be very
Speaker 2: authentic to themselves whether you agree with them or not.
Speaker 2: And I think Russell comes off too often, or at
Speaker 2: least has. I haven't been locked into all his press conferences.
Speaker 2: Sean Payton got there, but it is just kind of
Speaker 2: a phony. And you know, I heard a story once
Speaker 2: that he had a golf tournament and invited everyone to
Speaker 2: the golf tournament. Right, everyone at the golf tournament was
Speaker 2: an invitation from him. So he knows a lot of
Speaker 2: former players, coaches, whoever, and he had security when he
Speaker 2: showed up. So there's an element like one of the
Speaker 2: things that Patrick Mahomes you know, far have had this forever.
Speaker 2: I think Peyton and Tom were the biggest stars that
Speaker 2: that kind of were able to play both sides of
Speaker 2: the fence perfectly on this as they always felt one
Speaker 2: of the guys, right, Tom always felt like even though
Speaker 2: ironically he was a health Nut could drink beers, slam
Speaker 2: cheeseburgers with his offensive line, and same with Peyton. You know,
Speaker 2: you go back throughout the history of the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: Joe Montana was friends with all his teammates. Now, I
Speaker 2: also think that players, if you are true to yourself,
Speaker 2: like Derek Carr's married, he's got four kids. Kirk Cousins
Speaker 2: is very very religious, so is Derek. If they think
Speaker 2: that you're being authentic about it. I don't think it
Speaker 2: bothers guys deep down, especially if you're playing well. I
Speaker 2: think once you get the poor play and you have
Speaker 2: the weirdness. Because I remember when I was scouting, I
Speaker 2: ran into a dude from Denver and they had just
Speaker 2: signed Peyton Manning or maybe it was during the season,
Speaker 2: so Peyton had been there for a while and he
Speaker 2: was like, Peyton's a lot man. We had to dedicate
Speaker 2: a couple of scouts for him. He got his own office.
Speaker 2: So all the stuff last year with Russell Wilson they
Speaker 2: had done before. But what happened Peyton got there, superstar MVP.
Speaker 2: They start kicking. No one cares. Peyton was not easy
Speaker 2: to work with, right, but when you're winning, when you're
Speaker 2: playing at a high level, and everyone knew they needed
Speaker 2: Peyton more than probably he needed them. He could have
Speaker 2: gone a bunch of plays. I think last year Russell,
Speaker 2: everyone opened their arms immediately, and then he started playing poorly,
Speaker 2: and then the story started leaking about you know, him
Speaker 2: making the Seattle. It just imploded, and obviously Nathaniel Hackett
Speaker 2: over his head. But and I heard you talking about this,
Speaker 2: and I agree, he's definitely slimmer. He moved better the
Speaker 2: other night against the forty nine ers. But the pressure,
Speaker 2: I think the pressure on him and the pressure on Rogers,
Speaker 2: every game is going to be just treated probably five
Speaker 2: x most of these other games. Just part of it
Speaker 2: has to do with who they are, how famous they are,
Speaker 2: how much money they make the trades, how much power
Speaker 2: they have over coaches and owners. It is just you
Speaker 2: don't see it very often, these Hall of Fame quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: I mean, Rogers is older, but Russell in his prime.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's what makes the Pete Carroll angle. So
Speaker 2: are they just going to be really good? Is Pete
Speaker 2: just gonna win this trade seamlessly? I know that in
Speaker 2: Jigba got hurt today, But obviously if they're healthy Seatle's
Speaker 2: going to be good again. We don't know. I mean,
Speaker 2: Denver easily could be seven and ten. Pete goes ten
Speaker 2: and seventies in the playoffs, Like, I'm sorry he wins
Speaker 2: the trade.
Speaker 1: Well, I think here's my take is that if you
Speaker 1: look at Aaron Rodgers and the Jets and Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: with Denver's there's a lot of similarities. They're both in
Speaker 1: the AFC, they're both in good divisions, they're both veterans,
Speaker 1: they both have you know, declining athleticism, but both still
Speaker 1: good athletes, and they're both going to get a lot
Speaker 1: of Hall of Fame votes. Both have a new coach,
Speaker 1: both have I would say intense coaches. Peyton and Sala
Speaker 1: are intense coaches, and there's pressure on both. This is
Speaker 1: where Russell's optimism could be very beneficial. I think at
Speaker 1: his core, Aaron's more agnostic. Aaron's more cynical, a bit
Speaker 1: more snarky. I think that's who he is at his core,
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a hipster. That's who he is,
Speaker 1: and that's okay. I can be a little bit too,
Speaker 1: and so I think when Fit hits the shan, Aaron's
Speaker 1: who he is is a little cynical and a little snarky.
Speaker 1: I think when Fit hits the shan for Russell, he
Speaker 1: tends to be optimistic and we'll get through this. And
Speaker 1: I do think that placebo effect, the power of the mind,
Speaker 1: is valuable. And I do think they're going to have
Speaker 1: both of these quarterbacks this year. John are going to
Speaker 1: have turbulence and what I know, you know Russell will
Speaker 1: be highly optimistic. If they're five and five, We're going
Speaker 1: to get through this. There's a brighter day, that's the messaging.
Speaker 1: If the Jets are five and five, there's a chance
Speaker 1: Aaron bails on his right tackle who can't protect him.
Speaker 2: Colin. That could happen like Week one. The difference, too,
Speaker 2: is in Denver, the head coach is going nowhere right.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's on scholarship for a while. He's the boss. Aaron.
Speaker 2: Let's just say it's always easy in football, probably more
Speaker 2: than any other sport. Things are so optimistic in general
Speaker 2: in the offseason, and then in training camp, and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden it's middle of September and you're
Speaker 2: zero to two and things are getting tight. And listen,
Speaker 2: I was a big believer in the Jets and then
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to do all my scouting on hard knocks.
Speaker 2: But their offensive line is a disaster. Now can they
Speaker 2: make up for with an elite defense? Like if they're
Speaker 2: the number one defense and Rogers just understands how to
Speaker 2: kind of manipulate it all. But that's probably still best
Speaker 2: case nine or ten, not thirteen or fourteen. You cannot
Speaker 2: if your offensive line is bottom ten in the league,
Speaker 2: I don't care. If you've got Montana Rogers manning in
Speaker 2: their problem. That's a problem, right, and they got to
Speaker 2: figure that out. And I'm sure they are going to
Speaker 2: be claiming guys off the waiver. They're willing to make trades.
Speaker 2: But that that is, to me, the current biggest problem
Speaker 2: for all a team that has the upside. If they
Speaker 2: had a good offensive line, I think everyone would pick
Speaker 2: them to be like an AFC contentment, a real oneah Right,
Speaker 2: But if Rogers, who I was reading Peter King earlier,
Speaker 2: he's the oldest quarterback in the NFL by a pretty
Speaker 2: wide margin, right, he's about to turn forty. All the
Speaker 2: other guys, even the older guy's cousins and Daniel, they're
Speaker 2: thirty five. What's Russell thirty three? Thirty four. That's a
Speaker 2: pretty big gap when we had a long stretch, you know,
Speaker 2: with the Eli, the Carson Palmers, the Peyton Manning is
Speaker 2: the Obviously Tom's a little bit of an outlier. But
Speaker 2: guy Roethlisberger got Drew Brees thirty nine. There were a
Speaker 2: ton of them. Now he clearly is the oldest, and
Speaker 2: let's face it, and I don't blame him. And he
Speaker 2: saw this definitely last year with Tom, and I think
Speaker 2: he kind of saw it for two years with You
Speaker 2: don't want to get a hit anymore. You know, you
Speaker 2: check your bank account, you got you know, nine figures,
Speaker 2: you're already a Hall of Famer. You want to win.
Speaker 2: But there is a level of I'm not gonna get
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna play like Archie Manning here and just
Speaker 2: get driven into the ground every play right, and you
Speaker 2: already kind of you know, if you watch Hard Knocks
Speaker 2: episode two, Rogers's and I don't blame him. I mean
Speaker 2: the upfensive line. This is the pros. The expectations are high.
Speaker 2: We've invested a lot, we've we've drafted guys, but if
Speaker 2: they're not good enough. The thing in the NFL, this
Speaker 2: is not the NBA where you're kind of stuck. You
Speaker 2: will just bench a guy, you will remove a guy,
Speaker 2: you'll move other guys through. But that is that's probably
Speaker 2: the hardest position group to just running backs. I can
Speaker 2: rotate wide receivers. I can rotate DB's offensive line. If
Speaker 2: you've got a constant rotation, you probably got a you know,
Speaker 2: tire fire in your well. And the other thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a psychologist, but there is a reality
Speaker 1: is that if you're married, you have kids, your life's
Speaker 1: a series of sacrifices. I know, I live in that tunnel,
Speaker 1: you know, Aaron's and Kevin Durant never married, no kids.
Speaker 1: He kind of gets his way a lot, right, So
Speaker 1: you know when when when again, when stuff unravels for me,
Speaker 1: I got kids, I got a wife. I make sacrifices daily.
Speaker 1: It's just part of my existence. But you know, Eran's
Speaker 1: in that Durant tunnel where it's rich. He's the son
Speaker 1: in his galaxy, kind of gets his way, wants to
Speaker 1: take a nap, wants to go on a hunting trip,
Speaker 1: fishing trip. I had this thing years ago. I told
Speaker 1: the scout, I like my quarterbacks married, and he joked
Speaker 1: about it. He said there's value in this is because
Speaker 1: when you're married, you get very responsible, very quickly. You
Speaker 1: have to learn to compartmentalize your life, school with the kids,
Speaker 1: recital practice, film, he goes single. Guys don't have to
Speaker 1: compartmentalize stuff. It all MUSHes together. What do I feel
Speaker 1: like doing whatever I want to do? And I said,
Speaker 1: I think quarterback being married. You know most of the
Speaker 1: great ones, even ones that drove me nuts, big bend
Speaker 1: sometimes he was married, he had kids, He had sort
Speaker 1: of a hierarchy of things, you know, a pattern of life.
Speaker 1: And I guess my point is, if shit those sideways
Speaker 1: for Aaron, it didn't a lot in Green Bay. Most
Speaker 1: of it was Aaron inflicted and Aaron created. I mean,
Speaker 1: no chaos front office, good offensive lines, never whipped on drafts.
Speaker 1: Media was kind of in a sidecar. You know, they
Speaker 1: were your buddy, what I mean. The the turbulence for
Speaker 1: Aaron in Green Bay was kind of Aaron created. He's
Speaker 1: never had it land in his lap, not of his
Speaker 1: own creation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think there's definitely something to the
Speaker 2: way the scouting community, but just human beings, right, A
Speaker 2: lot of guys, even if you are a career driven
Speaker 2: I know, for me, up until about my mid thirties,
Speaker 2: I was always like, you know, no serious relationships. These
Speaker 2: last i'd say three or four years, I've been in
Speaker 2: two serious relationships, and I've gotten better at every aspect
Speaker 2: of my life. I've had to give up things that
Speaker 2: I used to be able to do. But you become
Speaker 2: more balanced, you become more reliant on other people. They
Speaker 2: become more reliant on you. You drop bad habits. And like
Speaker 2: you said, Tom Brady when he played the best football
Speaker 2: of his life when he got married Gazelle for the
Speaker 2: next whatever decade, right, Peyton was married the whole time.
Speaker 2: So I think part of this just gets back to
Speaker 2: the Jets are just a not the most consistent organization,
Speaker 2: and they have and this gets back to the difference
Speaker 2: between Sean Payton and Russell. Like this, if it doesn't
Speaker 2: go well, Robert saw is gonna get fired, right, Joe
Speaker 2: Douglas is in major trouble. That's just the way the
Speaker 2: sport works, right. If Aaron were to want them gone,
Speaker 2: they would go. This is where the other problem is, Like,
Speaker 2: he's got way more juice than anyone in the organization now,
Speaker 2: and he's shown before he can be a little selfish,
Speaker 2: and he's doing all the right things. I am throw
Speaker 2: what we've seen out of Rogers. Clearly he's going above
Speaker 2: and beyond, eating lunch with all these different guys every
Speaker 2: single day, coaching the defensive backs up like I think
Speaker 2: he understands it. But like you said earlier, it's easy
Speaker 2: to do when everything's going well. Off season start one
Speaker 2: to three and everyone talking shit about you everywhere you look,
Speaker 2: because all of a sudden you start slowing the AFC.
Speaker 2: There is no making up for it right none.
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Speaker 1: If you had a team that you're sort of selfishly
Speaker 1: rooting for, I think it would be Chicago for me.
Speaker 1: I work at Fox. We have the NFC, we have
Speaker 1: a lack of star quarterbacks. I think we need justin
Speaker 1: fields to be fascinating. You know, for years and years,
Speaker 1: Fox and the NFC had this huge advantage. We had
Speaker 1: these great teams and Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson, and
Speaker 1: even though Kaepernick wasn't great, he was newsworthy. We just
Speaker 1: had Yeah, we just had really good quarterbacks. Now, like
Speaker 1: Jared goff On any Sunday is the best NFC quarterback
Speaker 1: and I like golf, but he's probably tenth twelfth best
Speaker 1: in the league. And I do think that there's a
Speaker 1: team for me. I would like I think. I think
Speaker 1: I want to see Chicago be big because I think
Speaker 1: it's such a great American sports city. It's an NFC team.
Speaker 1: I work for Fox. Is there a team for you? You
Speaker 1: look at and you just think, you know what, they
Speaker 1: make my life better. I'm into them. The more football
Speaker 1: is more fun. Is there a team for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I'm an NFC guy growing up, you know,
Speaker 2: on the forty nine ers. I think the Giants. You know,
Speaker 2: Brian Listen, I root for bal Chevy guys, So Brian
Speaker 2: Dave Ball is an easy root for me. But I
Speaker 2: actually think there are a lot of parallels with Daniel
Speaker 2: Jones and Alex Smith. It is very powerful when a
Speaker 2: coach not just gives you confidence, totally believes in you,
Speaker 2: but then knows what he's doing. And you saw with
Speaker 2: Alex who was the number one overall pick, and once
Speaker 2: he left Urban Meyer, he went through Mike Nolan and
Speaker 2: Mike Singletary and it was he looked like a royal
Speaker 2: bust disaster. But he's mentally tough and he somehow held
Speaker 2: on to get Once Harball got there, changed his life.
Speaker 2: And then he gets to Andy Reid, a much better
Speaker 2: schematic coach than Harball, makes him into a really, really
Speaker 2: good player. I'm not trying to overreact to the preseason game,
Speaker 2: but I thought Daniel Jones just looked noticeably more confident.
Speaker 2: And I think he's more physically gifted than Alex. He's more,
Speaker 2: he's bigger. Yeah, and that organization, I'll give them credit
Speaker 2: because I probably wouldn't have touched this guy. He had
Speaker 2: been injured, he got paid, he didn't seem like the
Speaker 2: same guy. Darren Waller looks like he's back to two
Speaker 2: thousand and nine team. You can't how do you cover
Speaker 2: a guy six foot five, six foot six that can
Speaker 2: run like a deer and who has elite ball skills
Speaker 2: when he's healthy, He is a dominant player. The other
Speaker 2: thing is you have Saquon Barkley, who you know, it
Speaker 2: looked like it was going to go down the Jonathan
Speaker 2: Taylor Josh Jacobs role, and he said, I'll just sign
Speaker 2: for the franchise tender. He's all in. They draft the
Speaker 2: kid from Tennessee who can run like ninety miles an hour,
Speaker 2: hight if Dave Ball is the next you know McVeigh shanahan,
Speaker 2: which last year what he did with that roster and
Speaker 2: a not confident Daniel Jones, what can he do now
Speaker 2: that he has this quarterback? The division's are and they
Speaker 2: got molly wopped by the by Philly a couple of times,
Speaker 2: and Dallas is clearly better. Can they just shrink that gap?
Speaker 2: Even if they go one and three against those two teams,
Speaker 2: but instead of this nine and eight, it's maybe ten
Speaker 2: and seven. But it just looks better. And I know
Speaker 2: they won a playoff game last year, it was against
Speaker 2: that Viking team. I just wonder if they're a little
Speaker 2: more formidable, and like you said, the NFC, if you
Speaker 2: get the Bears a little relevancy, the Giants are back
Speaker 2: the NFC East rolling with the forty nine ers. You
Speaker 2: know the NFC is we all talk shit about it,
Speaker 2: but it might be a little stronger than you think.
Speaker 1: You know, and I'm with you on the Giants. So
Speaker 1: first of all, every great team in this league feels
Speaker 1: like they have a pass rush, so they have a
Speaker 1: good defensive front. Cavon Thibadeau will be second year in
Speaker 1: the pros. He should pop elite left tackle weaponon Waller
Speaker 1: and Barkley an experienced playoff quarterback, progressive, smart offensive coach.
Speaker 1: They're in a winnable division. I mean, it's certainly not
Speaker 1: the AFC West, it's not the AFC East. I look
Speaker 1: at the Giants and I think the one thing I'll
Speaker 1: say about Daniel Jones and Alex Smith had this, he
Speaker 1: doesn't lose you games. He had five picks last year.
Speaker 1: You know, Daniel is one of those guys that, in fact,
Speaker 1: a golden Tate told me a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He said his issue he doesn't let it rip enough. Well,
Speaker 1: the upside to that is Alex and Daniel Jones didn't
Speaker 1: throw a lot of picks like they know what they are.
Speaker 1: They know, but they're not. They're both big Jalones bigger,
Speaker 1: both straight line speed, both really coachable both super Bright.
Speaker 1: Golden said he just overthinks the room. He said, he'll
Speaker 1: never get in trouble in New York. He's like Eli,
Speaker 1: he goes home film Guy do, Guy Bright, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think the Giants are better than people think. In fact,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be. I mean, if we were guessing a headline,
Speaker 1: would you be shocked if this was the headline? Giants
Speaker 1: end up with better record than the Jets. That feels
Speaker 1: like a headline.
Speaker 2: Well and tell me this. If I tell you the
Speaker 2: final four in the NFC is the forty nine Ers,
Speaker 2: the Giants, the Eagles and the Cowboys. Who's not signing
Speaker 2: up for that? Right at the markets? The history. The
Speaker 2: other thing I give Brian Daball a lot of credit
Speaker 2: on is like to be a good like, you can
Speaker 2: only do so much as the head coach. You need
Speaker 2: good assistance and you need good coordinators. He hired Mike Kafka,
Speaker 2: who when I was with the Eagles, we drafted apprentice
Speaker 2: under Andy Reid and Naggie and Doug Peterson forever in
Speaker 2: Kansas City. So you bring him over to him as
Speaker 2: well and making your offensive coordinator. And then he hires
Speaker 2: Wink Martindale, who right there with Vic Fangio, an older guy,
Speaker 2: elite scheme guy, different than Vick. He's much more of
Speaker 2: an aggressive defensive coordinator, but he's the real deal. He's
Speaker 2: a top five defensive coordinator. Their coaching staff is really,
Speaker 2: really good. And I remember when I was a kid
Speaker 2: in like the late nineties and some of those good
Speaker 2: John Fossil Giants team, they were just well coached, and
Speaker 2: they got away from that for a long time. And
Speaker 2: they say what you want about the Cowboys, they just
Speaker 2: had better coaching staffs. Obviously the Eagles did, and that's
Speaker 2: why they were getting worked and for the first time.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you gotta get a little lucky anytime you
Speaker 2: hire a first time head coach McVeigh, Kyle, whatever, right,
Speaker 2: you need luck on your side. But then if you
Speaker 2: hire the right guy, your franchise will be okay. It's
Speaker 2: why so many of these teams just suck in perpetuity.
Speaker 2: They just constantly hire these guys that should not be
Speaker 2: head coaches. It's not that complicated of a sport if
Speaker 2: you can just get the right head coach.
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