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Speaker 1: and out podcast Back at it again Monday, December. Just

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Speaker 1: witnessed in book verse to a talking BOYLA little Notre Dame,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of that. Uh. Some thoughts I saw tonight,

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Speaker 1: Uh that it was story broke, that Trent Bulky is

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Speaker 1: and then a lot going on. We'll dive in all

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Speaker 1: over the league. Some NFC East thoughts, you know, the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, Sean McVeigh and Matt Stafford, Brandon Staley, Little

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Speaker 1: the guy has become a little bit too much of

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Speaker 1: a politician for me. For a guy that makes Rex

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Speaker 1: Brokehead look like Walter Payton. It's like, bro he's a

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Speaker 1: conferences for someone who's a defensive guy and whose defense

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Speaker 1: can't stop a nosebleed. Just I've had enough. I'm out.

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Speaker 1: I'm out. Twitter likes you that much, I'm out on you.

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Speaker 1: It really that simple, Uh in the Middlecoff mail bag

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Speaker 1: up into those d M. I'm gonna save the mail bag,

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Speaker 1: I think for Friday, while the big Friday show. Maybe

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Speaker 1: and I'm already kind of liking a little bit of

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Speaker 1: and let's start with what we witnessed tonight. And let's

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Speaker 1: face it, I thought this weekend what was borderline silly?

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Speaker 1: You know, all these teams playing with ten, fifteen, twenty

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Speaker 1: We we saw it happening all over the league. Now, listen,

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Speaker 1: he can coach. You know, he comes think of where

427
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Speaker 1: Syrianni comes from, Frank Craig, Philip Rivers throwing the football right,

428
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 1: I mean it's they've run a drop back passing game

429
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Speaker 1: and him able to kind of institute I would say

430
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 1: more of a collegiate what they did at Oklahoma style

431
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,960
Speaker 1: with the Eagles has been really really impressive. And the

432
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,240
Speaker 1: other thing sometimes you get with young offensive coaches that

433
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,480
Speaker 1: can be hit or miss is your team is not

434
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Speaker 1: that tough. Uh. And part of it, when you run

435
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Speaker 1: the ball out like the Eagles do, you add some

436
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 1: tough just like they're a tough team. Now they've benefited

437
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Speaker 1: from playing in the division, taking advantage of the Giant

438
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,080
Speaker 1: taking advantage yesterday. I guess the Giants pea earlier in

439
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,040
Speaker 1: the season. But they beat the Saints, they beat the Broncos,

440
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 1: who aren't terrible. Um, obviously, you know they're gonna probably

441
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 1: sweep the football team. They did get throttled early on

442
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 1: the season against Alice. Uh. Now obviously Week eighteen against

443
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,200
Speaker 1: Alice in Philly, It's hard to tell. With two weeks remaining,

444
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 1: who's gonna play Guys, the seating, there's still a lot

445
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 1: up in the air in the NFC. Will it'll be

446
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:29,679
Speaker 1: interesting obviously Green Bay, Uh more than likely if they

447
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Speaker 1: win these I mean, it's not more than likely they

448
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:32,880
Speaker 1: win these last two games are gonna be the one seat.

449
00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:36,400
Speaker 1: But then the seating with Tampa, Dallas and the Rams,

450
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Speaker 1: assuming the Rams are gonna win the division, which I'm

451
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 1: going to assume. Uh, we'll get a better feel for

452
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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. Uh. So, yeah, I mean, I give

453
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Speaker 1: the Eagles a lot of credit, and I think, you know,

454
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,080
Speaker 1: I get some d MS. You know, I don't know.

455
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,000
Speaker 1: He probably won't win the Coach of the Year, but

456
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:57,080
Speaker 1: I think if you've voted for Sirianni Coach the Year, especially,

457
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Speaker 1: they win these last two games, and again Dallas would

458
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 1: sit everybody and they could get to ten wins by

459
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: you know, pretty easily. Uh that that is a really

460
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,200
Speaker 1: really impressive thing to do when you started two in five.

461
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 1: And then on the other end, one of the biggest

462
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: stories in the league, I guess over the weekend was

463
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 1: the Giants announcing. Maybe they didn't announce, but indirectly they

464
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,480
Speaker 1: did through the media. Did Joe Judge and Daniel Jones

465
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: will be returning to the Giants. Uh, let's start with

466
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,400
Speaker 1: the coach. I understand where they're coming from. This would

467
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 1: be their third straight coach that they fired after two years.

468
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,480
Speaker 1: That's not an ideal situation. Now, McAdoo was a disaster.

469
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 1: You had to fire him. Suremoert, you never should have

470
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 1: hired him in the first place. But this was a

471
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,479
Speaker 1: pretty big bold swing for the Fences right when they

472
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Speaker 1: hired Joe Judge. Unless you're like some die hard Alabama

473
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Speaker 1: or Patriot fan, I don't know if a lot of

474
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Speaker 1: us knew exactly who the guy was, or you're a

475
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,120
Speaker 1: Mississippi State fan you had watched him playing college because

476
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: I didn't, and I follow I do this for a living,

477
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,120
Speaker 1: and I was like, who what? So it was a

478
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: somewhat out of nowhere higher But now they're gonna be

479
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: in this weird spot of Gettleman's done. We already know

480
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: that Gettleman is going to be fired. So does the

481
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 1: next general manager have to at minimum spend one year

482
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Speaker 1: with Joe Judge and almost evaluate him a little bit

483
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: like George Patton is doing with Vic Fangio. And then

484
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: if he has another down season, you just immediately fire

485
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: him and then you get to hire your own guy.

486
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 1: Is that an ideal situation to be in? Now that

487
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 1: there is? When you're losing, you know, who is he

488
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,520
Speaker 1: to dictate any terms? Does Joe Judge get to influence

489
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: the general manager hiring because of me? That's a major

490
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 1: question mark because if you're letting him a guy that

491
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 1: has not won many games and whose team, let's face it, now,

492
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,399
Speaker 1: they have serious issues at the quarterback position, which he

493
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,439
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily pick the players this general manager does, but

494
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: they're getting throttled every week. You know, gut list might

495
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,200
Speaker 1: be strong, but effort is pretty questionable as the season

496
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: has gone on, and that happens to bad teams. But

497
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: part of keeping a guy who's losing is like, well

498
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 1: was his team fighting? Do you want to go to

499
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,959
Speaker 1: war with this guy? What is the deal? And I

500
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 1: think right now you could question that now. One thing

501
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 1: I've heard from my buddies in the league is like,

502
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: there are some teams like the Jacks right who are

503
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: just poorly coached, and we're poorly coached all season, and

504
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: then you get a team like the Giants, who they

505
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 1: say actually fundamentally pretty you know, not a poor You know,

506
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: the coaching isn't as bad as some of the lower

507
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: level teams. They do have some fight, or at least

508
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: they did up until the last couple of weeks. But

509
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 1: they just don't have that much talent, and so it's

510
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: easy to blame the general manager. But in one offseason,

511
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 1: are you gonna fix this thing? Because whatever, whenever you

512
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 1: say something about a quarterback returning, I don't put that

513
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,400
Speaker 1: much stock in like Daniel Jones returning. He's under contract.

514
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 1: You're not gonna cut him. You've alady paid him all

515
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: this guaranteed money when he's the number six overall quarterback.

516
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: The question is, and there are some breaking news today

517
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: Jimmy garoppolos braying his hand. So it's not a serious injury,

518
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,959
Speaker 1: but who knows, maybe Jimmy mrs the rest of the season.

519
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,479
Speaker 1: To me, Jimmy Garoppolo is the Giant's written all over him.

520
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: You bring in him, you haven't compete with Daniel Jones,

521
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: and Jimmy beat him out. But I do not believe,

522
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 1: or at least I will be pretty shocked if Daniel

523
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 1: Jones is the New York Giants opening day starter in

524
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: two thousand two, especially with Gettleman probably the only believer

525
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,919
Speaker 1: in Daniel Jones gone from the building. Especially when you

526
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Speaker 1: get a new general manager in and if Joe Judge

527
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: is still the coach, he's going to have influence on

528
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Speaker 1: who's the starting quarterback, especially because you know at his

529
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: core he has a former quarterback coach and wide receivers,

530
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: even though he's known for a special team's coach. Uh.

531
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Speaker 1: I I actually think that Jimmy Garoppolo in New York

532
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. But I I just don't.

533
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure how they're gonna do this whole

534
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: general manager thing. You just independently, let the guy interview

535
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: the guy without Joe Judge around, does he get to influence?

536
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: I always hate when they're off kilter, and that's what

537
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 1: the Giants are about to be off kilter? Uh Matt

538
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: Rule who that team? I watched some of that game yesterday.

539
00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: They stink. I mean, the Carolina Panthers are awful. And

540
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: I looked up today because I sometimes I think I

541
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,639
Speaker 1: threw out the wrong number. They gave him seven years,

542
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: sixty two million dollars, so basically nine million dollars a

543
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: year from that rule. Now in fairness. That was based

544
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: on what he was making at Baylor. And he was

545
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: making a lot of money at Baylor. So it's not

546
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,159
Speaker 1: like he was making three million dollars in college and

547
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: they gave him a six million dollars a year race.

548
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,479
Speaker 1: That's not what happened. He was making huge catch in Baylor.

549
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: He was comfortable there. They had to spend a lot

550
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: of money to get him. I do not blame David

551
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: Tepper for hiring him. A lot of people were interested

552
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: in Matt Rule. It was the right type guy to

553
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 1: be on now. I also think he was known for

554
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: being an NFL coach. He had spent one year in

555
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: his career as and assistant offensive line coach with the Giants.

556
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: It's not like he had been in the like Mil Tucker.

557
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: People like he's an NFL guy. Google Mill Tucker's resume.

558
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: Spent a lot of time right when Pete Carroll went

559
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,199
Speaker 1: back to Seattle or went to Seattle left sc he

560
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: had spent a lot of time in the NFL. Like

561
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,720
Speaker 1: are some people like Steve Mariucci coach to cal for

562
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: one year, but it's been with the Packers for a

563
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: long time, right, and then he coached the Niners and

564
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: then he coached then like he was an NFL guy.

565
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: To me, Rule was a college guy. And there's clearly

566
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,479
Speaker 1: it's a challenge because they're completely different industries. But like

567
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: Ryan Day, I'll get Brian Dason gret he spent several

568
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: years in the National Football League as a position coach,

569
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: not an assistant position coach, as the position coach. Now,

570
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 1: when I say Ryan Day and I personally think of

571
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: Ryan Day, I think of him more as a college coach.

572
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: And some guys like what's Pete Carroll. Pete Carroll has

573
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,720
Speaker 1: done both. Jim Harbaugh, Jim Harbo has done it both.

574
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: Matt Rule so far successful college coach, having major issues

575
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,960
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Now he compared the Panthers UH to

576
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: Jay Z and it took jay Z seven years. I

577
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: don't know if he's at the Jay Z part in

578
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: his life when Jay Z was like selling crack, because

579
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure jay Z hit it pretty big pretty

580
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: early on. I'd have to go to Jay Z's Wikipedia page.

581
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: But anytime you compare yourself to Jay Z, probably you know,

582
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: top three or four most successful individual in his field.

583
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty bold stretch because right now

584
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: Matt Rule. You're like vanilla ice, but you don't even

585
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: have You're not even a one hit wonder. You haven't

586
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: had any success in the league. You went five and

587
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: five and eleven last year, you're five and ten and

588
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: there's a pretty good chance you're gonna end the season

589
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: at five and twelve. Now, ultimately, they can't get the

590
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: quarterback position right. Last year they didn't have one. This

591
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 1: year they made a trade for Sam Donald. He wasn't

592
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: any good. They had to, uh, you know, kind of

593
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: scrap them. They resigned Cam Newton, which I said at

594
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 1: the time was kind of a PR stunt, and let's

595
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: face it, it kind of was. The problem is Cam

596
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: is not any good, So the PR stunt after the

597
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: first week kind of dwindles. No one cares. And I

598
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: don't really know how you overcome this, how you fix

599
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: the problem, because how do you get a quarterback? You're

600
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: stuck because you picked up a your option with Sam

601
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: Donald on the books. So now that you're stuck with

602
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: him on the books, what do you do? I don't

603
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: know the answer to that, But I I don't really

604
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: know how they ever become jay Z, Like, how do

605
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: they become just a guy that can sell some albums,

606
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,719
Speaker 1: like how could they? How could he become some artists

607
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: that anyone would want to listen to because right now

608
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: they're unwatchable with let's face it, not much hope in sight.

609
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: You know, they really don't have. And the other thing

610
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: is when you ever you have a new owner like

611
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: this and Dave Tepper, I think is a lot of

612
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: parallels to Steve Balmer, just unlimited amount of wealth. Obviously

613
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: Bombers richer than Temper, but big ego, smartest guy in

614
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: the room, always the most successful guy. It's very, very hard.

615
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: At least in basketball, he could you know they made

616
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,480
Speaker 1: a move for Kawhi Leonard right that there is no

617
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard to be had, Like who are Aaron Rodgers?

618
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: Don't come to the Carolina Panthers. Russell Wilson who I

619
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,239
Speaker 1: think we have to question, Like Russell Wilson kind of

620
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 1: sucks right now. We'll get in him a little bit later. Uh.

621
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: I just don't know how you improve that spot you're

622
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: paying your running back listen when the guy is healthy.

623
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: I love Christian McCaffrey. Who doesn't he's just stud He's

624
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 1: just always injured. So you got a lot of money

625
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: tied up in him. You're you just you have no

626
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: quarterback and there's no way to fix that thing overnight.

627
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: Let's get to a game that was near and dear

628
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: to my heart because I put several shackles on the

629
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers. They're playing the Texans. The Texans have

630
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: seventy five guys on COVID list, they have a rookie quarterback,

631
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: they have a bunch of role players who are starting.

632
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: And you're like, you know, Chargers, big game, They're going

633
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: into the game. They're one of the playoff wild card teams.

634
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: They got justin Herbert. You're like, they're gonna kill these guys.

635
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: The number by kickoff was almost twelve points. They were huge,

636
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: huge favorites, and I didn't think it was that crazy.

637
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: And then by about midway through the game, before halftime,

638
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: I knew I was screwed. Now. I didn't think the

639
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: Chargers were necessarily gonna lose the game, but I knew

640
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: they weren't gonna cover. And by the second half, the

641
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: Houston Texans throttled the Chargers. That was a good old

642
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: fashioned ass kicking. And here's the thing with Brandon Staley,

643
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: it's pretty easy, pretty easy to play the media. And

644
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: I noticed one thing he did early on in his

645
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: in his tenure is he called all the media members

646
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: by names, all the all the scribes in the press conferences.

647
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,480
Speaker 1: Like that's a go to move to get them to

648
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: like you. Now, it's an easy one, but also to me,

649
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: it can be a little fraudulent. Like if you watch Belichick,

650
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: you watch Andy, they might call some guys by names

651
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: they know them for twenty years. You know Brandon Satley

652
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: first on the job. It's like he's almost too smart

653
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: for the room and he's playing. It's very it's a

654
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: very political type move. And again I noticed this stuff,

655
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: probably more than most, but he said something a couple

656
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: of weeks ago that just made me want to puke

657
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: in my mouth. Joey Bosa had got his had got

658
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: has got his bell rung. And obviously any time that

659
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: you have a potential concussion, you go right to the

660
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: independent neurologist. This is no longer the junction boys, This

661
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: is no longer Bill Walsh and Bill Parcels grabbing you

662
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: and telling you get back into the game. That has

663
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: been legislated out. So when you have a potential concussion,

664
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: you go to the neurologist and wherever your team lives.

665
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: Like the Niners, their neurologists are coming from Stanford. When

666
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: you play in l A, your doctors are probably coming

667
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: from U C. L A. Dallas. I'm sure it's like TCU. Right,

668
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: just the top academic doctors from all the different regions. Right.

669
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: And Brandon Staley, they ended up not putting him back

670
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: in the game, even though he cleared protocols and he

671
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: said something after the game that I was like, give

672
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: me a break. He's like, as long as I'm the

673
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: head coach here, I will always you know, lean on

674
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: not putting a guy back in the game. And the

675
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: media loved it that he had them eating out of

676
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: their hands. It's like, bro, you're not teaching life lessons here.

677
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: You're not saving people's lives. If the doctor gives you

678
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: the go ahead, every single coach around the league puts

679
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: the guy back in the game. Hell, it happened to

680
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: boast his brother the other week. Nick I think two

681
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: weeks ago, had something that might have got a concussion,

682
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: goes to the independent neurologist and says he's good to go.

683
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: Nick comes back in the game. But when Brandon said

684
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: that as long as I'm the head coach here, it's like,

685
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: give me a fucking break. You've been in a lead

686
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: five years, buddy, Stop acting like you're reinventing the wheel here,

687
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: my man, you're you're eight and seven, you're underachieving. You're

688
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 1: a defensive guy, and your team gets their ass kicked

689
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: on defense every single week. Your star quarterback that literally

690
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 1: every GM except like four in the league would do

691
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: anything to get their hands on right now can be

692
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: a little hit or miss. It's a little weird. He

693
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: did not play well in that game. He was better

694
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: last season start to finish. Now they've had some injuries

695
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: or whatever. But to me, this Brandon Saila guy is

696
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: the apple of the media's i they love the guy.

697
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: Yet I watched him coach. He's a defensive guy. His

698
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: defense blows. I mean, I think the Texans almost ran

699
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: for two hundred yards to Arian Foster eight walking through

700
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: that door. It was Rex brookehead. It was some guys

701
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: that Davis Mills thrown too. I'll be honest, I've never

702
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: heard of because most people haven't. I mean, the Texans

703
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: have a random guys on the team destroyed the Chargers

704
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: and it was a big game. It was. It's not

705
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: like the Chargers are twelve and three and that game

706
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 1: was and gonna like they were going to the playoffs

707
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 1: no matter what. They gotta win. Louds to the Texans.

708
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: At one point time they're down like three scores in

709
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: the second half. The score ended up being closer because

710
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: they got some hollow touchdown. So I just I think

711
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: the Brandon Staley love we need to pump the brakes

712
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:17,959
Speaker 1: a little bit now. It might not be all his fault.

713
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: They've drafted several guys on defense the last couple of

714
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: years in the top fifty. They're not playing very well.

715
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,440
Speaker 1: But isn't that why you hired Brandon Salley. He's their

716
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. I say this all the time with experience.

717
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,959
Speaker 1: Experience matters. There's only so many Sean mcveigh's, and even

718
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh. When Sean McVeigh got hired by the Chargers,

719
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 1: I think he was thirty two or thirty three years old.

720
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: He had been in the league for a decade a decade.

721
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: He had been a coordinator for several years for Jay Gruden.

722
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: He'd worked for Jay Gruden, He'd worked for Mike Shanahan,

723
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: and Kyle Shanahan, and he'd worked for John Gruden. Brandon

724
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: Stalley had been in the league before he became a

725
00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: head coach for five seasons. Sean McVeigh had worked the

726
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: amount of time. Now, he was younger when he got

727
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: hirer than Brandon Staley, but he was definitely more equipped.

728
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: He had been in the league longer. Hell, he had

729
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: been you know, I think I don't know if he

730
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: technically ever was, but he had been part of stabs

731
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 1: that were fired. So Brandon Staley, to me, I think

732
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,439
Speaker 1: it's fair to say, is he a little over his head?

733
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: Nobody can give a better press conference calling the local

734
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: l a Times writer by his first name say in

735
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: some comment that will get fifty retweets like this is

736
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: my guy. But yet when we actually play the games,

737
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: the way we judge you on Sundays is wins and losses.

738
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 1: Everything else is fluff. It's all bullshit. None of it

739
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: matters do you win or do you lose? And right

740
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: now you inherit a team last year they went seven

741
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: and nine, and we say no team in the league

742
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: underachieved like the Chargers. Well, right now, I mean, are

743
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: they gonna end up a nine? Because if they did. Hell,

744
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: even nine and eight feels like a pretty average season

745
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: given the talent they had on their team, especially when

746
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: you factor in how terrible their defense is. How do

747
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: they have the same record right now as the as

748
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: the Raiders. The Raiders coach was fired five games into

749
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: the season over emails that that were his, but it

750
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: was part of an investigation that he had nothing to

751
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: do with their star wide receiver killed. Somebody is gonna

752
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: go to jail for decades. There other corner who first

753
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: round pick who wasn't any good they had to cut

754
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: because he had machine guns in an instagram, And they're

755
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:33,280
Speaker 1: eight and seven. They're eight and seven. You have Herbert

756
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen Bosa. I know he didn't play yesterday, but

757
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: still you have all these top picks and you're struggling

758
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: to win games. I I just don't get it. But

759
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: like the everyone wants to love this guy, but I'm

760
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: just judging him on his results, and his results are

761
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: pretty average. Hell literally average, eight and seven. I mean

762
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: you're either eight and seven, seven and eight, like, that's

763
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: that's average at this point in time in the year.

764
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: The other thing that I was thinking a lot about

765
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: today was that I give the Rams a lot of credit.

766
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 1: They made a huge swing for Matt Stafford. And listen,

767
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: anything you do in life is risky. You know, getting

768
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: in your car to go pick up your children is risky,

769
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: right you get hit. Uh, Having children is risky. Taking

770
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: a job as risky. Eating food is risky. You don't

771
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 1: know who cooked it, especially if you go pick it

772
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: up right you have no clue. Literally, everything you do

773
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: in life has some risk to it. And obviously in

774
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: business you have to take risks to to make progress right.

775
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: If you don't, you will stay in the slow lane

776
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: and you will get past. So I admired their willingness

777
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 1: to take a huge swing, and I have always been

778
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: a Stafford believer. Obviously, new people with Chicago Bears who

779
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: played him for years, they've sing his praises, how talented

780
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: he is. Most of us don't watch that much Lions

781
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: football beside Thanksgiving, and occasionally they've only been good a

782
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: couple of times in his career. But if if you

783
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: follow the NFL, you knew his physical attributes are pretty special.

784
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: And then I've known a couple of guys that have

785
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: played with mass Stafford. They love the guy. He's easy

786
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: to root for. I am a Matt Stafford the person fan,

787
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: but as a player. One thing I've thought about this year,

788
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: just watching him play, is that maybe I've overvalued him

789
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: a little bit. Like listen, the Rams and the Niners

790
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 1: took huge swings, and obviously there was way more data

791
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,879
Speaker 1: on Matt Stafford. Right he had been in the league

792
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: for a decade, he had had he had won games

793
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: like you knew, Trey Lance might might have been one

794
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: of the biggest hail Mary's in the history of the draft,

795
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: just based on he had only been a one year starter.

796
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 1: Uh he had played one game because of COVID the

797
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: following year it was a Both are huge risks, but

798
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: at least there's a lot of unknown with Trey Lance.

799
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: He may turn out to suck. There is in hell,

800
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: he might have to start the last couple of weeks,

801
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: so we'll learn a little bit how far he's come.

802
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: But we have no idea how good or bad the

803
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: guy is gonna be. But I think we got a

804
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: pretty good idea with mass Stafford. Who he is. He

805
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: has a massive arm, he could make some enormous plays.

806
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: He's a good athlete and can keep plays alive. He

807
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: will turn over the ball the Pixie through He has

808
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: three games this year where he has double digit turn

809
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,720
Speaker 1: double digit interceptions. I don't know how. And the Ramps

810
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: clearly are going to have to play three games to

811
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: get to the super Bowl. Right, They're not going to

812
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: be the number one seed. Even though they've had a

813
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: good season and they've won eleven games. There's these chances

814
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: they end up with third team again. It's hard to

815
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 1: tell that last week, who's gonna play guys? I think

816
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: they are. They play the Ravens this week. I'm gonna

817
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: give him a win there. We don't know if Lamar

818
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 1: is gonna play. At worst, are gonna be twelve and five?

819
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 1: They could rest everyone in the following week. Twelve and

820
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: five is a really good season. But like when you

821
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: watch Stafford, I get nervous a little bit when I

822
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: watch him, and I'm not he he makes some plays

823
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: that are like rookie level decisions. Now, part of it

824
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: could be new offense whatever. That's what I kept telling

825
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: myself early on the season, like it's past Christmas? What

826
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: are we doing here? Matt like that. There were a

827
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: couple of plays in that game, and he said it

828
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: after the game, how's he making that throw. I'm not

829
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: expecting him to play like Aaron Rodgers. Just throw note picks,

830
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 1: just completely take care of the ball at all costs

831
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: while making extraordinary place part of the deal with Mats Stafford.

832
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: He's gonna turn the ball over a little bit. I

833
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 1: I can live with that. His turnovers, though, can look

834
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: like Zack Wilson or Jimmy Garoppolo. Right, it's it's now

835
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: Kenny over the off season, more practice. Can he get

836
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: that to go away? I don't know. Only time will tell,

837
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: But right now I know this, and again I understand

838
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: why they did it, and I would have done it too.

839
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: In their shoes. It was the right move. But I

840
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 1: wonder if you were sitting there, you poured a couple

841
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: of you know, double t do sodas with Sean McVeigh,

842
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: put your feet up over his nice multimillion dollar pad

843
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 1: that overlooks Los Angeles, and just started talking football with

844
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: him and talking his team. If he tell you, you know,

845
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: I didn't quite realize some of these bone headed decisions

846
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 1: the guy would make. I thought, once we got him

847
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 1: in our infrastructure with a better team, he would just

848
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:58,320
Speaker 1: be better, you know now, But he hasn't and I

849
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: don't know how you can try ust him in some

850
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: of these games. I was thinking about if I was

851
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: gonna rank the quarterbacks in the NFC going into the playoffs,

852
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: there's obviously Brady and Rodgers, who are in a different

853
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: stratosphere than everyone else in the NFC. I would then

854
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: go and obviously these are gonna be the four teams

855
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: are gonna win the division. I would take dak Prescott,

856
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: Dakota Prescott over Matt Stafford if I had to have

857
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 1: one quarterback, So why I would hitch my wagon to

858
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,439
Speaker 1: the Cowboys over the Ramps, just because I trust Dak

859
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: more and Dad can do some dumb things too, But

860
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: I would say over the life of his career, he's

861
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: a more trustworthy player than Matt. Now, Matt's been playing longer,

862
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:38,280
Speaker 1: but his You cannot have a multi pick game against

863
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, against the Packers, against the Bucks and win,

864
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: you will lose in the playoffs. You can do it

865
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,919
Speaker 1: against Minnesota, who was hanging on for dear life and

866
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: he tried to keep him in the game. But he

867
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: does that like several Like if you watched them all

868
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: season long. I'm not going to agree with the people

869
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: that thought he was super super overrated. But I'm also like,

870
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: I am no longer of the camp that he's like

871
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: an underrated He's not a gym because we all know

872
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: who the guy was. But I'm somewhere in the middle.

873
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 1: He's a very talented player who is probably gonna let

874
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: you down. Now, he's gonna have the chance to shut

875
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,839
Speaker 1: us all up, but I will be stunned. I think

876
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: it'll be hard for them to I can see them

877
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: getting bounce in the second round, especially if they have

878
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: to go on the road. A couple other stories from

879
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: this Russell Wilson. I mentioned it earlier, Like listen, he's

880
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 1: been back now from the hand injury for a while.

881
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: He looks like he used to be. He was never

882
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray or Lamar Jackson. That wasn't his style as

883
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 1: a runner, but he was a very very effective runner.

884
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: He doesn't. He can't run anymore. He looks slow. You

885
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: don't now. I wouldn't say he's fat, because he's always

886
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: been thick, but he just looks like a slower version

887
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: of himself now. Whether he's carrying extra weight, whether it's

888
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: just age, whether it's just he doesn't want to run,

889
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: I don't know, I can't put my finger on it,

890
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: but I have been watching Russell Wilson very closely his

891
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: entire career. Obviously, I get all the NFC West games

892
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 1: just living in the West in California, so I probably

893
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: get just on my national feed. I don't know. It

894
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: feels like ten of the sixteen games a year of

895
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, and then he just naturally plays in a

896
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: lot of primetime games. He looks terrible right now. Now.

897
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 1: There was some scuttle butt on the internet like if

898
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: he does ask for a trade, his trade value, he's

899
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 1: still gonna go for a lot because he's still thirty

900
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 1: three years old. His body of work speaks for itself.

901
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: But I do think it's fair to say to be like,

902
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: would you be a little more nervous, Like just a

903
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: little nervous, because part of Russell Wilson has been his athleticism.

904
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: Even though he I never considered him a runner. He

905
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,240
Speaker 1: was more of a scrambler to throw it a little

906
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: bit like Aaron Rodgers. They scramble a lot behind the

907
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage to then make throws. When I watched

908
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: him do that, now, what is accuracies way off? He

909
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 1: makes some throws his story clean. When Russell Wilson would

910
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: roll to the left of the right turn, set his

911
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 1: feet and let it rip, I'd always think there's a

912
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: thirty yard completion. There are a couple of times, and

913
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: I get it was snowing in Seattle where the ball

914
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: just overflew the wide receiver by like fifteen yards. Like

915
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: this is not the Russell Wilson that I know and

916
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: love he is. You know, Steve Young was easily my

917
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: favorite player growing up him or far, but I was

918
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: a Niner fan growing up, so I was I gravitated

919
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: towards Steve, and I always said that Russell was like

920
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: the modern day Steve. You know, he was super athletic,

921
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: but he was so accurate, and he was just such

922
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: a playmaker, and he was just such a winning player. Now,

923
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: Steve I was a better player, But Russell was pretty remarkable,

924
00:45:43,719 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 1: you know, especially given how fast the NFL has become

925
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: the last you know, five six years, so much speed

926
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: on the field that he could always play fast yet

927
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 1: play under control. It's way off now it might just

928
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: be simple as season from hell. We we've seen it

929
00:45:58,080 --> 00:46:01,839
Speaker 1: from players, right. Philip Rivers, like seven eight years ago,

930
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,359
Speaker 1: had a season that looked like, is this guy's career over?

931
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: I think it was like thirty four at the time,

932
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: and then he had like four or five bounce back years.

933
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: So I'm not trying to write the guy off. He

934
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 1: works too hard, he cares about football too much. But

935
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: it can't be disputed that he has been pretty terrible

936
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: this season, like looked very, very off. And we judge

937
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: like we judge Steph Curry, we judge Garrett Cole, we

938
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: judge Bryce Harper, we judge Davante Adams, like Russell Wilson.

939
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: The best players in sports, they get judged at a

940
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: higher level. We nitpicked them differently. It's always why when

941
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: like people getting mad, like why are we being so

942
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: hard on these you know, uh, these quarterbacks in the

943
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: draft process, Because these teams are gonna hit their wagon.

944
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: The franchise is going to invest literally the franchise into

945
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: the player, so you better nitpick. Like I don't nitpick

946
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: defensive linemen, like I don't care if they're a little dumber,

947
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: if they skip some class in college, if they're not

948
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: the nicest guy, do they rush the passer? Because if

949
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: they do, I want him on my team, Like I

950
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: I can have a wide receiver, be a little all

951
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: over the place emotionally doesn't bother me. But my quarterback,

952
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: Like I'm shooting for Rogers, for Brady from Homes, Josh Allen,

953
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson. Like we're talking high level talents and

954
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:19,280
Speaker 1: high level people, and Russell Wilson always fell into that category.

955
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: But now his talent again, it might just be a

956
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,919
Speaker 1: one off season, but it's it's it's off right now.

957
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: I gotta give the text in some credit. You know,

958
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,720
Speaker 1: we all made fun of them all off season. What's

959
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: his name? The evangelists, you know, is preaching that they

960
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: were gonna not win a game, like like the Lions.

961
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: They've won more games in Lions. They never know one four.

962
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: They've played really hard and like, I don't want to

963
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: say they got something, but they definitely might have a

964
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: little something in Davis Mills, the quarterback for from Stanford

965
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: who on my other podcast we had talked to David

966
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 1: Shaw during the draft process. He kept his hammered home

967
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: like this guy, David Child has been around a lot

968
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: of NFL players that he's produced. David Child worked in

969
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 1: the NFL and obviously Davis Mills had injuries in college,

970
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: but You'll watch him play like he looks pretty good

971
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: as a third round pick, like he does, and it's

972
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: not like the Texans are good. So Zack Wilson does

973
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: not look good. You know, Trevor Lawrence has not looked

974
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: that great, right Justin Fields has been very hit or

975
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: miss well. The Texans fall into that category of just

976
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: not being a great team, and these last couple of

977
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,959
Speaker 1: weeks he's been pretty consistent. You gotta give David Colley

978
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: some credit. I'm a guy that you know. I've known

979
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: him when I've worked with Philly. He was Andy Reid's

980
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,320
Speaker 1: wide receiver coach, one of the nicest guys in the world.

981
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: I didn't think he was gonna be a good head coach.

982
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's a good head coach, but the

983
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,439
Speaker 1: guys are saying him and Dan Campbell like his their

984
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: teams play hard for them. That can't be argued. That

985
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: goes back to the Joe Judge thing. It's like, when

986
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:45,959
Speaker 1: we're judging you, we're not even judging you on wins

987
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: and losses, but you're definitely just not winning games. So uh,

988
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: you already excuse me. It's we're not judging on the

989
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,280
Speaker 1: wins losses, but we do judge you on the effort,

990
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: and the effort has been there for the Texans, it

991
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: really has also last but not least, the Raiders. It

992
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: really you gotta tip your hat to the just their

993
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: their interim head coach, the guys that are playing. You know,

994
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: Darren Waller hasn't played in forever, he's been injured. But

995
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: Max Crosby, Derek Carr, Josh Jacobs. I don't think they're

996
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: gonna win these next two games. They go to Indy

997
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: there like a ten point underdog. Then they played the

998
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: Chargers the final week of the season. I think that

999
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:23,879
Speaker 1: games in uh In Vegas, so maybe they could win

1000
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,280
Speaker 1: that game, even though they'll be I'm sure an underdog

1001
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: in that game as well. But just getting to eight

1002
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: potentially nine wins is a pretty remarkable accomplishment given one

1003
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: just how dysfunctional their organization is. I mean, they have

1004
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: you know, Dan Snyder, Mark Davis. I mean, it's just

1005
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 1: one of the worst owners in the league. Uh not

1006
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,359
Speaker 1: necessarily because he's not a meddler or anything, but it's

1007
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 1: just his resume speaks for itself. And then all the

1008
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 1: things they went through from Gruden to Henry Ruggs. Uh.

1009
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: I mean they had to sign to Sean Jackson in

1010
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: the middle of the season. Uh. Their offensive line, like Leatherwood,

1011
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 1: the guy they draft in the first round, is terrible,

1012
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: and they just compete. You know, Rich Piscotchia, There's a

1013
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: reason that every single former NFL player who had been

1014
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 1: around him swears by him, loves him, called him a

1015
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 1: foxhole guy. They have not tapped out, they have not quit,

1016
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: and somehow, you know, going into uh basically two thousand two,

1017
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:18,040
Speaker 1: the Vegas Raiders are still alive for a playoff spot.

1018
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: I would not have seen that coming whatever three months ago,

1019
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 1: or I guess I'll probably even less than that two

1020
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 1: months ago. So so props to them. Audios volume