Speaker 1: The volume all right, Chad Millman, co host of the
Speaker 1: Favorites Sharper Square. All odds provided by DraftKings. So I
Speaker 1: had a rare I don't think I had an undefeated
Speaker 1: week this year three and oh last week. And I
Speaker 1: think it's actually easier in the playoffs. I've had back
Speaker 1: to back weeks because the quarterbacks are all you know,
Speaker 1: it's sudden death, it's the best quarterbacks. Yeah, it's don't
Speaker 1: want to start with this before we start with anything.
Speaker 1: You know, there's this sense that, you know, Kansas City,
Speaker 1: Jason McIntyre's on this thing about the calls going a
Speaker 1: certain way, and I always point back, Kansas City's gotten
Speaker 1: the benefit of the calls. Well, my argument is, we
Speaker 1: all know coaching matters more in football than managing in
Speaker 1: baseball or coaching in basketball. We know coaching college or pro.
Speaker 1: You've seen Jim Harbaugh take over the worst defense make
Speaker 1: it the best. Coaching matters in football more than other sports.
Speaker 1: You have like a phone book that offensive players have
Speaker 1: to memorize and system scheme, culture building. And I remember
Speaker 1: when I lived in Connecticut watching all the Patriot games,
Speaker 1: and I can remember watching for years and it just
Speaker 1: popping into my head when they were playing a team
Speaker 1: and a team fumbled, I'm like, God, I don't think
Speaker 1: the Patriots have fumbled since Thanksgiving. And you went back
Speaker 1: and looked and they literally were the team in the
Speaker 1: league that didn't fumble. And I'd asked Patriot players about this,
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, yeah, Bill would not let you stretch
Speaker 1: for extra yards. That was a fine, that was a suspension.
Speaker 1: You could only do it if it was fourth down
Speaker 1: in the ends. Otherwise you were not allowed to stretch.
Speaker 1: And I look at the Chiefs and I say to myself,
Speaker 1: really good coaches are really good teachers, and you can
Speaker 1: teach your way out of penalties with good communication, thorough repetition.
Speaker 1: Damian Woody always told me Patriot practice was different than
Speaker 1: every other practice has Detroit his Jets practices. So what
Speaker 1: your take on the Chiefs get all the calls, because
Speaker 1: if you go back and look at the penalties during
Speaker 1: the New England era, they were last penalized as well.
Speaker 2: I think it's bullshit.
Speaker 3: I think it's a media constructed argument because people are
Speaker 3: looking for reasons as to why the Chiefs keep winning
Speaker 3: other than they have a generationally great quarterback, a generationally
Speaker 3: if not historically great coach. Our mutual friend Ryan Risillo
Speaker 3: had a great stat on his podcast the other day.
Speaker 3: The past two years, Kansas City opponents have been flagged
Speaker 3: for forty eight penalties in the fourth quarter in ot
Speaker 3: of one score games. Colin, how many have the Chiefs
Speaker 3: had in the same period, twelve forty seven. So let's
Speaker 3: not get off, Okay, Well, you have in the Chiefs
Speaker 3: are a coach who has found the perfect cheak code
Speaker 3: for his scheme. He's got a guy who is ultra competitive,
Speaker 3: who can make magical plays, who, by the way, as
Speaker 3: Tom Brady pointed out on your show, having to defend
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes for four downs in the playoffs is just
Speaker 3: so freaking hard. You don't get to seven conference championship
Speaker 3: games because people are calling penalties against the opponents more often.
Speaker 3: Ask Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson has two MVPs. He might
Speaker 3: get a third. He should get a third. How many
Speaker 3: AFC title games has he played in? How many Super
Speaker 3: Bowls has he played in? He is as brilliant an
Speaker 3: athlete and as brilliant a quarterback as there is in
Speaker 3: the NFL. He's not getting there. Patrick Mahomes and the
Speaker 3: Chiefs do something different, and I think it. I think
Speaker 3: it's in the head of every single team they play.
Speaker 1: Well, let's start off with the Commanders and the Eagles.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Philadelphia minus six. I'm also going to
Speaker 1: take the over. I do think they've played twice. Philadelphia
Speaker 1: should have won twice, but Jalen got hurt, Kenny Pickett
Speaker 1: came in. So I think the number I look at
Speaker 1: over two games is average yards per carry, and it's
Speaker 1: five and a half yards for Philadelphia. Well, that's just
Speaker 1: that's a physical mismatch. The O line for Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: almost better to a man than the D line for Washington.
Speaker 1: That's not going to change. That's not scheme. The guards
Speaker 1: for Philadelphia are like six seven and a half. It's
Speaker 1: like the biggest guards in league history. There are four
Speaker 1: of Their offensive linemen are like arguably the best in
Speaker 1: the NFL at their position. So they will run the
Speaker 1: ball and they will move the ball. But I do
Speaker 1: think the Commanders will have to score and know what
Speaker 1: going in, so they'll take chances. They'll do some four
Speaker 1: down stuff. So my take is it's a fairly high
Speaker 1: scoring game, which makes me more comfortable laying the six
Speaker 1: with Philadelphia Sharper Square.
Speaker 3: So it was sharp at four and a half, it's
Speaker 3: gotten to six. It actually got up to six and
Speaker 3: a half. And wise guys have been buying back and
Speaker 3: in a lot of the conversations I've had this week,
Speaker 3: and Simon Hunter and I talked about this on the
Speaker 3: Favorites today when we sort of bring in the feedback
Speaker 3: from professional betters, they were liking Washington and it honestly
Speaker 3: doesn't make sense to me or to Simon and apparently.
Speaker 2: To you either.
Speaker 3: Last week people were coming in and they were hammering
Speaker 3: the Rams. I love the Eagles all week, and if
Speaker 3: not for Jake Elliott missing a couple extra points, that
Speaker 3: game is not a push, it's a cover for the Eagles. Yeah,
Speaker 3: same thing this, I don't get it. I feel like
Speaker 3: there's so much recency bias in relation to Jaden Daniels
Speaker 3: and both of these games. Weirdly, there is so much
Speaker 3: public support for the road underdogs against the higher seeds
Speaker 3: because of the status of the quarterbacks and the seasons
Speaker 3: they're having. Josh Allen is having a better year than
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, Jade Daniels having a better year than Jalen
Speaker 3: Hurts but people are forgetting that this Eagles team is
Speaker 3: not built around Jalen Hurts, right, It's built around Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3: And one of the things that I tried to unpack
Speaker 3: this week when I was thinking about this game is
Speaker 3: the Eagles win so often with explosive plays. We saw
Speaker 3: this past weekend two huge runs from Barkley, a great
Speaker 3: run from Hurtz. That's how they're scoring touchdowns right. Earlier
Speaker 3: in the season in November in Philadelphia against the Commanders,
Speaker 3: the Eagles were losing most of that game. I was
Speaker 3: at that game. They won that game because Saquon Bardley
Speaker 3: had two long touchdown runs. So you think about explosive
Speaker 3: play as well.
Speaker 2: Is that random? Can you predict it?
Speaker 3: I think is more random when it's quarterbacks throwing long
Speaker 3: touchdown passes with the circumstances have to be perfect. It's
Speaker 3: less random when it's your running back who has an
Speaker 3: offensive line that is as dominant as you.
Speaker 2: Just talked about.
Speaker 3: Who's by the way, his rushing prop is one hundred
Speaker 3: north of one hundred and thirty yards, which DraftKings has
Speaker 3: announced is the highest total they've ever had for a
Speaker 3: rushing prop in the years that they've been doing business.
Speaker 3: So I'm with you, man, I like the Eagles. I
Speaker 3: think it's the right spot. I think they're the better team.
Speaker 3: I tend to favor the dominant, physical team.
Speaker 1: So yeah, is there a prop you could give our
Speaker 1: audience that you like? I like the over in this game,
Speaker 1: but a prop you.
Speaker 2: Like, zach Er is over three and a half receptions.
Speaker 3: I think that the Eagles defensively on the edges at
Speaker 3: cornerback Quinnyon Mitchell is supposed to play. We already know
Speaker 3: about Cooper Degene and the slab Darius Slay obviously. On
Speaker 3: the other side, that's where Jaden Daniels, who was already
Speaker 3: predisposed to wanting to go to zach ertz if Terry
Speaker 3: McLaurin isn't available, isn't open, I think that that's where
Speaker 3: the offensive opportunities are going to be.
Speaker 2: So, Zach Er, it's over three and a half.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. I was talking on the show
Speaker 1: today ten years ago Peyton Manning, Big Ben and Brady,
Speaker 1: where these iconic legends past their prime. In fact, Peyton
Speaker 1: was in Denver, but I remember thinking at the time,
Speaker 1: she's what is the league gonna do? What is the
Speaker 1: league gonna do and now we've got Lamar, Mahomes, Allen
Speaker 1: and Throwin Burrow. Yeah, but in the NFC ten quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the last ten Super Bowl appearances for NFC teams,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of rotational quarterbacks. That's why it almost
Speaker 1: feels like Jaden Daniels has a shot. Hurts would be
Speaker 1: the second time for him. So I do I said
Speaker 1: this today as I watched Jaden Daniels, and I feel
Speaker 1: like the NFC got their Mahomes that every they'll be
Speaker 1: tailing Washington going forward. I don't think it's a particularly
Speaker 1: warm take. I feel like he is either Lamar or Mahomes.
Speaker 1: But the NFC has had this sort of goff an
Speaker 1: older Stafford, a prickly Aaron Russell, Wilson aging Kyler. Murray's talented,
Speaker 1: but there's just been a lot of these qualifiers and
Speaker 1: they haven't had their no issues, low maintenance, high thrower,
Speaker 1: good mover. I think he's the Mahomes of the NFC.
Speaker 3: What's really going to be interesting. I agree with everything
Speaker 3: you said. What's going to be interesting is next year.
Speaker 3: Next year, the Commanders are already sixteen to one to
Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl. That feels very aggressive. Whyren't we
Speaker 3: saying the same things about c J. Stroud exactly a
Speaker 3: year ago?
Speaker 2: And did c J.
Speaker 3: Stroud not come back down to earth the defenses, not
Speaker 3: spend an off season figuring out that he's not great
Speaker 3: against certain defenses, that it's going to be challenging for
Speaker 3: him to succeed at the level that he did in
Speaker 3: his rookie year.
Speaker 2: And he didn't.
Speaker 3: Not saying he's not great, not saying he's going to
Speaker 3: be great. But of all the great quarterbacks you just
Speaker 3: mentioned when the season began, c J. Stroud was on
Speaker 3: that list.
Speaker 2: Now he's not.
Speaker 3: So next year is there going to be an opportunity
Speaker 3: to fade the Commanders? Like in reality, the Commanders should
Speaker 3: probably be seven seven and a half point underdogs in
Speaker 3: this game. The Eagles are dominant physically on the defensive
Speaker 3: side of the ball and on the offensive side of
Speaker 3: the ball. The Commanders are not going to have their
Speaker 3: right guard Sam Cosmy, who's their best offensive lineman. The
Speaker 3: eagles best defensive lineman is Jalen Carter. And normally you're
Speaker 3: not going to worry about a right guard being out
Speaker 3: as being a challenge for your pass protection. But when
Speaker 3: Jalen Carter is rushing up the middle. Your right guard
Speaker 3: might be the guy who needs to grab a piece
Speaker 3: of him every once in a while. You're now not
Speaker 3: going to have a guy, and so all of a
Speaker 3: sudden these things change. You're already getting the benefit. I
Speaker 3: think of Jaden Daniels being someone who people believe is
Speaker 3: a cheat code, and they're overvaluing that in the scope
Speaker 3: of the entire game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I will say though, that CJ. Stroud didn't have
Speaker 1: the mobility edge, which I've always thought mobility's best for
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the first two years because as you're
Speaker 1: learning NFL coverages and waiting for the light to go on,
Speaker 1: you can just pick up first downs moving, whereas c J.
Speaker 1: Stroud is going to pick up first downs throwing, and
Speaker 1: so he is much more susceptible. As coverages get more sophisticated,
Speaker 1: you face better teams. He had injuries on the old line.
Speaker 1: They didn't have protection. I think running quarterbacks Lamar. He
Speaker 1: never really dipped mahomes Allen. They just kept getting better.
Speaker 3: Off.
Speaker 1: Was was beholden to how good his O line was.
Speaker 1: You know, bad Whitworth good, Whitworth leaves not as good
Speaker 1: or around that time when Whitworth was aging, and then
Speaker 1: he goes to Detroit. Not good, early line got better,
Speaker 1: He's better, So I think I think Jaden. I think C. J.
Speaker 1: Stroud's NFL comp was Goff, and like Goff, he deteriorates
Speaker 1: with really bad line play significantly, whereas I think Jaden
Speaker 1: is Lamar and Mahomes where it's just ascension because he
Speaker 1: moves the chains while he's figuring out defenses and it
Speaker 1: takes about even Mahomes said it was the beginning of
Speaker 1: year three when everything just sort of slowed down. So
Speaker 1: I don't think I think he's I think we're really
Speaker 1: looking at something special here.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree.
Speaker 3: I think the guy is a brilliant player, and I
Speaker 3: think it's more evidence that you want to get quarterbacks
Speaker 3: who have a lot of experience playing in kind, who've
Speaker 3: taken a lot of snaps, who've played a lot of games.
Speaker 3: That's always been a threshold for GMS and coaches who
Speaker 3: are looking to draft quarterbacks. I remember when Philip Rivers
Speaker 3: came out, he had played so many games in college,
Speaker 3: people didn't really know who he.
Speaker 2: Was at NC State.
Speaker 3: I know I'm throwing a name out there, from like
Speaker 3: twenty five years ago. But I remember this so clearly.
Speaker 3: I was at ESPN the magazine, and we were doing
Speaker 3: a draft issue, and it was the first time I
Speaker 3: ever heard a scout talk about the importance of seeing
Speaker 3: quarterbacks on tape with a lot of games as they
Speaker 3: get older. And we're seeing that with Jaden Daniels, like
Speaker 3: his experience level keeps him from being really frightened in
Speaker 3: these experiences because he's so much older than the average
Speaker 3: quarterback coming out, and he's had so many more snaps,
Speaker 3: and he understands the rhythm of the game and understands
Speaker 3: the moment a little bit better in addition to his
Speaker 3: unbelievable talent. But I can guarantee you right now we
Speaker 3: can set a number on it. The number of times
Speaker 3: will set it at seven and a half at.
Speaker 2: This time next year. How many times over.
Speaker 3: The course of Sharper Square have I said to you, well,
Speaker 3: commanders are overvalue here because Jaden Daniels is getting too
Speaker 3: much credit and too much attention. I guarantee I'm going
Speaker 3: to say that an every other week basis to you
Speaker 3: on this show.
Speaker 1: Let's go AFC. I'm riding with the bills. I have
Speaker 1: for the last month. I feel they're the best team
Speaker 1: in football. The Rams had to play a perfect game
Speaker 1: at home to slip by in the Rams, I think
Speaker 1: we're a very good team at the end. I'll take
Speaker 1: the one and a half again. I think there's going
Speaker 1: to be points scored. I think there's limitations on stopping
Speaker 1: Allan and Mahomes. I think you get into these games.
Speaker 1: Coaches are more willing. Brady and Andy Reid are more willing.
Speaker 2: To take risks.
Speaker 1: It's sudden death. You empty the playbook because you have
Speaker 1: two weeks to prepare for the Super Bowl, so just
Speaker 1: empty the playbook. I take the over forty seven and
Speaker 1: a half bills plus one and a half. I can
Speaker 1: absolutely see Kansas City winning. I think this is the
Speaker 1: best version of Buffalo for two reasons. One, they do
Speaker 1: not turn it over, they're not heavily penalized, and you
Speaker 1: can't get to Josh Allen. They're the mature version, which
Speaker 1: Baltimore hasn't become yet with Lamar. They're still. Like I've
Speaker 1: said this before, Buffalo's always been a Ferrari with Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: They just no longer get speeding tickets. They don't make
Speaker 1: the mistakes. They don't get caught like they slow down
Speaker 1: in front of the cops. So they have all the talent,
Speaker 1: but they don't have that sort of and Baltimore's trying
Speaker 1: to work theirself out of this. That's sort of like,
Speaker 1: we can't slow down. We just we go one hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour. So I think they've become they become
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and I think eventually they're going to beat
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, which they have in the regular season. Sharper
Speaker 1: square bills plus the points sharp ish.
Speaker 2: It's been an interesting number.
Speaker 3: It opened at one and a half, and even though
Speaker 3: the majority of the money, which indicates professional betters like
Speaker 3: the bill, and the majority of the tickets, which also
Speaker 3: indicates the public likes the bills, it's kind of stuck
Speaker 3: at one and a half.
Speaker 2: In fact, there's been a.
Speaker 3: Little bit of sort of juice movement, meaning they're making
Speaker 3: it more expensive to bet the one and a half
Speaker 3: on the Chiefs because they want you to take that
Speaker 3: one and a half because pretty soon they're going to
Speaker 3: go to two. I think that you're on the professional side,
Speaker 3: not in a dominant way. I'm going to play devil's advocate.
Speaker 3: Everything you're saying is right. Josh Allen gets out of
Speaker 3: the pocket. To me, he's as frightening as and frustrating
Speaker 3: as Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes and their running game
Speaker 3: this year has been so freaking good. They played the
Speaker 3: number one team in defensive rush success rate in the
Speaker 3: Broncos and rush them on the ground. They played the
Speaker 3: number two team in defense rushed success rate in the
Speaker 3: Ravens and crush them on the ground. The Chiefs are
Speaker 3: not nearly as good at defending the run as either
Speaker 3: the Ravens or the Broncos. And they're going to have
Speaker 3: to figure out how to manage Josh Allen when it's
Speaker 3: third and one or fourth and one, who's clearly unstoppable.
Speaker 3: How they're going to have to manage James Cook. All
Speaker 3: that is true, There is zero evidence colin that Patrick
Speaker 3: Mahomes is going to lose this game. Zero like in
Speaker 3: November on in games where the weather is forty degrees
Speaker 3: or less, twenty three and two in his career. The
Speaker 3: last loss was to Tom Brady in twenty nineteen. He's
Speaker 3: won twenty in a row. Andy Reid with Mahomes with
Speaker 3: an extra day of rest, just one extra day of rest,
Speaker 3: which he has twenty and three fourteen and one at home.
Speaker 2: It's just.
Speaker 3: Why would I want to do this. I've been given
Speaker 3: every opportunity to bet the Chiefs as a.
Speaker 2: Short home dog.
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes seven straight AFC title games, three Super Bowls
Speaker 3: in the past five years, going for third in a row.
Speaker 3: He is going to challenge Tom Brady as the greatest
Speaker 3: quarterback who's ever played, and he might do it before
Speaker 3: he's thirty two years old. Like, what am I doing here?
Speaker 3: Why would I bet against Patrick Mahomes. I had a
Speaker 3: buddy call the other day and tell me I'm all
Speaker 3: over the Bills. I'm like, why and why would you
Speaker 3: do that? With confidence? Like you just can't. It's it's hard.
Speaker 3: I get it. I'm afraid of it. But there's no
Speaker 3: way I'm betting against Patrick Mahomes. There is no way.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I like the.
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Speaker 1: So I saw a story this week, and apparently sometimes
Speaker 1: in the media, I think media people like to be
Speaker 1: viewed as smart and they try to figure stuff out.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm guilty of this. I'm always trying to figure
Speaker 1: out theories or why, and sometimes the answer is always
Speaker 1: the simple answer. So I saw a story this week
Speaker 1: and it just made me laugh where the college football
Speaker 1: game was down three million viewers and everybody was flummixed.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, guys, men like Trump statistically in this election,
Speaker 1: young men love Trump, young men love football. Inauguration Day
Speaker 1: was Monday, That's the day of the National Championship, and
Speaker 1: so the number was down about three million viewers, especially
Speaker 1: when Notre Dame fell behind thirty one to seven. That's
Speaker 1: the answer, right, Like, it wasn't that we hate Ohio
Speaker 1: State and Notre Dame. It was every four years in
Speaker 1: inauguration with a polarizing Trump, who for the record, does
Speaker 1: very well in this election with young men.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw the numbers too, It's so funny you
Speaker 3: say that because I saw the numbers this morning and
Speaker 3: I saw a story just the headline, you know, down
Speaker 3: whatever percent it was ten percent or whatever, it was
Speaker 3: right twelve percent.
Speaker 2: And as soon as I.
Speaker 3: Clicked out, and I'm like, someone's going to try to
Speaker 3: explain why this is. This isn't rocket science trying to
Speaker 3: find patterns when you do year over year comps. You
Speaker 3: can do year over year comps with every podcast in
Speaker 3: the Volume network. You can do it with your show.
Speaker 3: The circumstances are always different. We do this at Action
Speaker 3: all the time too. How come this Monday night game
Speaker 3: is down from the year before, Well, who was the matchup?
Speaker 3: Was it a game where you had Was it a
Speaker 3: night where you had two Monday night games play being
Speaker 3: played instead of one? Because when you have two Monday
Speaker 3: night games, traffic sometimes dips a little bit because attention
Speaker 3: is diverted and games start a little bit earlier, so
Speaker 3: people aren't online as early. Like, there's so many easy
Speaker 3: to unpack answers to so many of the questions that
Speaker 3: are asked in sports. It's phenomenal that we try to
Speaker 3: make it as complicated as we do. And to your
Speaker 3: point about politics, mixing with sports, and impacting sports. Two
Speaker 3: years ago, ninety three of the top one hundred broadcasts
Speaker 3: in the United States were sports. This past year, twenty
Speaker 3: four eighty one of the top one hundred. Do you
Speaker 3: know why, because there were so many debates and so
Speaker 3: many political events that we're leading the coverage that we're
Speaker 3: getting so many more viewers. So of course there's going
Speaker 3: to be changes on a year to year basis because
Speaker 3: of the overall world and what's happening, not because of
Speaker 3: anything about myopically what we think of Ohio State or
Speaker 3: Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Well, I have, I have. I worked in local TV
Speaker 1: for over a decade and so I still you know,
Speaker 1: I still have friends in local TV. Not as many.
Speaker 1: Many have retired or dodd or things or moved on.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's like you're going to notice over
Speaker 1: the next ten years there'll be a little bit of
Speaker 1: renaissance in local TV ratings. Why because of climate change
Speaker 1: and whenever you have severe weather or disasters. Local reporters
Speaker 1: are better than national reporters. They've built trust for the
Speaker 1: audience and they know the terrain. Dallas Reporter, a Chicago, Minneapolis,
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, New York reporter if something happened to the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Bridge. Forgets CNN, I'm watching the local guys, right.
Speaker 1: So LA local news ratings went up four hundred percent
Speaker 1: over the last two weeks. And I watched the coverage.
Speaker 1: It was significantly better than CNN. And it's not a
Speaker 1: political It was significantly better than all national coverage because
Speaker 1: the local reporters they all live in these towns and
Speaker 1: they knew They just know the topography and the canyons
Speaker 1: and the history, and so you know, it's you're gonna
Speaker 1: watch local TV ratings and you can call it whatever
Speaker 1: you want. But we're just getting more severe weather. It
Speaker 1: snowed in Pensacola a foot, whatever, LA had a blizzard
Speaker 1: two years ago, whatever. So yeah, I think most of
Speaker 1: the stuff is fairly explainable. So when local TV ratings
Speaker 1: have a renaissance here in the next decade, that's mostly
Speaker 1: what it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: I love that you talk about the weather component of it,
Speaker 3: because those are the only people I remember growing up
Speaker 3: when I watched local TV, and even here in West
Speaker 3: Herford where you used to live, like Stacy and I,
Speaker 3: my wife and I, we love the local weather guy,
Speaker 3: and I love the local weather guy because he knows
Speaker 3: our town, and he knows all the towns around us,
Speaker 3: and he knows the difference between here, we're in the valley. Here,
Speaker 3: you're a little bit on a hill, so it's going
Speaker 3: to be a little bit colder here in the morning,
Speaker 3: you might have a little more frost. I live by
Speaker 3: what this guy says, and I completely connect with what
Speaker 3: you're saying. What's actually frightening. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: saw it this week, but there is one broadcaster that
Speaker 3: owns a lot of local stations that is letting go
Speaker 3: of all their local weather people and having a singular
Speaker 3: sort of source of weather information and segments that is
Speaker 3: then being distributed out to the local channels. It's sort
Speaker 3: of like the single service provider within an organization, which
Speaker 3: is idiotic.
Speaker 2: That is the.
Speaker 1: Opposite of what I would do over the next ten years.
Speaker 1: Get rid of the local sports guys. Love them to death,
Speaker 1: but everybody's watching some other platform. I want massive weather
Speaker 1: people locally for the next decade. Whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it. We're just getting more combustible weather, hot, cold, wind, rain, whatever.
Speaker 3: It makes no sense, I saw it. I'm like, the
Speaker 3: one thing people care about is weather. It's the only
Speaker 3: thing people are checking for in the morning, Like that
Speaker 3: is what can save local television. And you're going out there,
Speaker 3: you're firing all the weather people. It made zero sense
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 1: Zero Sometimes I wish Sometimes I wish I was a billionaire.
Speaker 1: Not because I'd buy a bunch of stuff, because I've
Speaker 1: never had a second car. I'm not a boat guy.
Speaker 1: I'm not a jewelry guy or a watch guy. I'm
Speaker 1: not a collector. I'm really not. I don't care. But
Speaker 1: there are things I would like. Things I would like
Speaker 1: to do in society they can't afford to do. Like
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, when Fox created a weather channel,
Speaker 1: I wish I could have been the CEO of Fox's
Speaker 1: Weather Channel. I would have loved that job. And if it,
Speaker 1: if it paid what I make and I could still
Speaker 1: make my mortgage, I was I've always wanted Like Byron Allen,
Speaker 1: the former comedian who became a wildly successful entrepreneur, bought
Speaker 1: the Weather Channel, and I think it's the only time
Speaker 1: I've ever been jealous of another member of the American media.
Speaker 1: Was Byron Allen bought the Weather Channel, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: damn it.
Speaker 2: By the way.
Speaker 3: It might be Byron Allen who fired off a local
Speaker 3: weather people because he was the weather to come from
Speaker 3: the Weather Channel.
Speaker 1: All I know that is forget Oprah. That's the most
Speaker 1: successful local media person in the history of our business.
Speaker 1: He's the one guy I'm jealous of.
Speaker 2: I'm just checking right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Alan Media Group replaces meteorologists, dozens of meteorologists with
Speaker 3: pre recorded feats.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think we got a call brot Byron and we
Speaker 3: got to tell him we think this is a bad idea,
Speaker 3: and we are very respected and admired members of the media.
Speaker 3: Do you have a take on the Jaguars firing Trent
Speaker 3: Balky the GM and Liam Cohne deciding to go back
Speaker 3: to the box as an assistant. I'll love Ben Johnson
Speaker 3: the year before in them not being able to find
Speaker 3: someone to take that job.
Speaker 1: Plot twist Bucks offensive coach Liam Cohen has now done
Speaker 1: a U turn is speaking with the Jaguars in person
Speaker 1: for their head coaching job. So when you ask what
Speaker 1: do you make of Trent Bulkey, this, Tom Pelasero reporting
Speaker 1: this and Ian rappap this is what I think of
Speaker 1: Trent Balke. Bulkey's there I'm not interested. Bulkey fired, let
Speaker 1: me turn around the U haul. Is amazing that that
Speaker 1: just tells you that Balkey was the orange cone in
Speaker 1: the road.
Speaker 2: He was the roadblock.
Speaker 3: But it also goes even to prove the point coordinators
Speaker 3: and job applicants and potential head coaches are willing to
Speaker 3: be more selective, I think than they ever have been before.
Speaker 3: And if they don't feel like they're being set up
Speaker 3: in the right circumstances, they're not jumping at a job.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Cohen's good, Jack Laville, Yeah, no, he's he's good. I mean,
Speaker 1: Baker leads the NFL in touchdown passes the last two seasons.
Speaker 1: I like Mike Evans, I don't like him that much.
Speaker 3: Also, Todd Bowles just impressive. The fact that he had
Speaker 3: Canalis turn turn Baker Mayfield around. Liam Cohen turned Baker
Speaker 3: Mayfield around. He's gonna have to go find him again
Speaker 3: a new guy if William Cone takes this job. But
Speaker 3: I'm starting to like Todd Bowles quite a bit as
Speaker 3: a head coach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his first year in New York, he almost didn't
Speaker 1: know where to stand. He was such a kind of gentle,
Speaker 1: low key personality. He was, you know, in the city
Speaker 1: with Rex Ryan, it was like where is he? And
Speaker 1: he spoke like an assistant or a coordinator. He just
Speaker 1: didn't want to be in front of a microphone. But
Speaker 1: I always thought he was thoughtful that anytime you heard
Speaker 1: him talk, you know, he came across as like humble
Speaker 1: and focused. Andy And I also think the internet doesn't
Speaker 1: allow this. People improve, people get better, Yeah.
Speaker 2: They just yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like like Brandon Staley's not going to
Speaker 1: get a second chance, maybe as a coordinator, but not
Speaker 1: as a head coach. But you know a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys Raheem, Morris, Todd Bowles, there's something there. There's
Speaker 1: a reason you hired him, Like you know, it's almost
Speaker 1: like when you get a divorce in life. Well, there's
Speaker 1: a reason you together for twelve years. I mean there
Speaker 1: were some positives there. You produce good kids. You know,
Speaker 1: you're good co parenting. There's no reason to hate each other.
Speaker 1: Like it's shit happens. Like you're in big cities. You
Speaker 1: have a bad stretch, your quarterback gets hurt, you don't
Speaker 1: have a backup on the roster. I mean Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: from Miami a year and a half ago was the
Speaker 1: bell of the ball and now we're all.
Speaker 2: Like, you know, he's kind of.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like he owns the room like Dan Campbell.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if this works. It's the way it
Speaker 1: works in life sometimes.
Speaker 2: All Right, buddy, I meant see you later.
Speaker 1: The volume