WEBVTT - Happy Half Hour Episode 65: Storylines Galore 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.760 It's time for the Happy Half Hour with your friends 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:22.560 Kristen BALBONI, Will Bryant and Darren Gant. Welcome to the 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.640 Happy Half Hour. Here with Darren Gant, I am Will Brian, 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.080 have another fun episode for you guys. Let's jump in 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.640 on the big news of the week, Darren, Ben McAdoo. Yeah, 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:36.960 how about that? Yeah? And I tell you what it's 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.920 it's a name. I know there's probably not a parade 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.199 out in the street right now when the Ben McAdoo 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.519 news was announced, But considering the spot the Carolina Panthers 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.400 were in and just the challenge of finding offensive help 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.120 in general, probably not the worst higher they could have made. 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.520 I mean, to be honest with you, macadoo as a 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.640 play caller has had success. Uh he was. He was 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.280 a guy I who worked in Green Bay with Mike McCarthy, 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.440 helped Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers had positive things to say 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.400 about him at the time. He goes to New York 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.959 works with Tom Coughlin, so you know there's Matt rule 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:15.240 connection um and a shared background, so to speak. And 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.200 he put up pretty good numbers as a coordinator there. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.119 And if you look at the job Eli Manning did 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.039 when McAdoo was calling plays in the first year he 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.160 was a head coach, you think, okay, that's pretty good. Now, 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.319 it didn't end well for being in New York obviously, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.000 and it would probably be hard to get Eli Manning 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.520 to testify on his behalf now because the way things ended. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:41.319 But you know, as a play caller, mcadoo's had some success. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.319 And and that's the problem the Panthers were in right 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.520 now is they are a hundred guys they might have 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.840 wanted to talk to. But when nine teams in the 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.160 NFL are looking for head coaches, good offensive coordinators are 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:58.000 getting head coaching jobs. Uh, so you're back in the 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.320 position of do I try to find some young whiz 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.440 kid where they just did that? Um, you were you 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.440 talked about that a lot. You know, you had kind 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.160 of the Joe Brady model here. So now you go 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.640 with someone with head coaching experience, has been around the league. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.200 You know, the kind of the different I mean that's 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.480 laughed in the past. The number one rule of NFL 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.560 coaching searches. If the last guy was fat, the next 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.760 guy I'll be skinny. So what do you have before 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.959 you had young whiz kid? What do you go for now, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:26.080 you find some old guy. I mean, and it wasn't 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.800 Dan Henning kind of old. It wasn't that kind of 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.400 veteran presence. But Ben McAdoo has been around, he's called 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.520 the plays, he's done the thing. So I think for 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.360 a team that is trying to find some stability and 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.480 some kind of get your feet underneath you for a second, 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:47.120 as they try to rebuild that offense without knowing for sure, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.399 I mean, they don't have the luxury of knowing who 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.520 their quarterback for the next five years is going to be. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.399 They don't have the luxury of you know, a lot 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.680 of names right now on that offensive line. But I 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.320 think a lot of that's going to change over the 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.160 next six months. And yeah, we'll see what Ben Macado 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:03.480 is able to do with all of it. Yeah, and 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.440 I think there's a you know, a lot of reaction 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:09.440 one way or another two Macado and but that that, 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.600 I mean, that's kind of the point though, like what 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.120 what are you responding to? Already? The big thing is 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.120 who are the players? You know, who are the offensive 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.720 lineman that you needed? You know what, what's the quarterback situation? 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.400 It's not so much oh, what's his history? With play calling. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.960 That's obviously important, but who he's calling the plays with 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.160 is you know, it's kind of still to be determined, 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.400 and that's in the Scott fitteral Realm. Yeah, what people 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.520 are responding to right now is the big suit in 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.200 the slick back hair, and and the fact that at 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.320 times in New York Been Macca do gave people openings 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.800 to poke fun at him. I mean, and he's talked 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.960 about the suit in the past, and I think, you know, 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.000 it's just when you don't make very many public appearances 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.280 and your body changes over time, all of a sudden 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.200 you I mean, I know, I've got a closet full 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.960 of fat close I you know that I try to 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.160 wear out anymore and my wife just looks at me 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.640 and says, no, no, honey, don't don't put that on. 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.320 Don't wear that the work I mean, if if for 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.160 for those that may remember when d J. Moore first 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.960 came to Carolina after he was drafted out of Maryland, 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.560 the suit that he was wearing was was not his 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:15.080 best work, not at all. And I still remember Steve 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:20.120 Smith's just like J Man, and I think it was 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.159 Devin Funches that was like that was here to welcome 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.000 and Devin's like, we gotta work on some things, man, 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.159 we gotta work on this. And you know, and now 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.880 DJ is you know Mr g Q everything, you know, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.120 so and Ben's gonna be living down that suit for 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.559 the rest of his life. That's that's what we do now. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.400 But uh yeah, I mean he's he's not the guy 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.159 I think. You know, when people heard the word rock 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:43.400 star out of j Glazer's mouth during a pregame a 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:46.440 while back, I mean, it's not what you envisioned. But 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.440 you don't get a rock star as offensive coordinator unless 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:55.760 you're hiring somebody of the Joe Brady ilk or unless 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.560 you've got a great quarterback in a really good situation 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.480 and and coming off five in seasons when a lot 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:05.080 of people aren't, you know, I mean, coaches have natural reservations. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.279 And Matt knows that when he walked into the search 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:08.800 had talked to him the other week, and he was, 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.159 you know, cognizant of the fact that not everybody he 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.280 might want to talk to would be willing to come here. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.560 And so that's one of the challenges finding that job. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.680 You know, they know that, and and coaches look out 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.279 for their own interest I mean, as everybody else does 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:27.240 in every industry. So trying to recruit someone to this 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.720 situation where there is some degree of uncertain he's a 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.120 little harder. So I think, all things considered, I don't 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.400 know how Ben Macadoo's gonna work outs will points out. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.839 I mean, wisely, it depends on what they do. You know, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.320 if you go out in the draft and you bring 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.599 in Evan Neil or Charles Cross and all of a sudden, 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.599 you've got left tackle fixed for the next five years, 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.880 things seem better and the idea. Okay, if you go 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.880 out in free agency and you sign a Lake and 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.279 Tomlin center and Andrew Norwell to come in here and 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.160 play right guard, and all of a sudden you've got uh, 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.000 a draft pick and Brady Christiansen and a serviceable pad 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.839 elf line at center and a an established guard and 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.320 Taylor Moton Well, then we're having a whole different conversation. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.800 Then then things have changed. I mean, then you can 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:18.479 put into play the stuff about, okay, how do you 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:23.000 work around what Sam Donald offers? How do you maximize 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.840 what he brings? You know, throughout his career, whether it 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.160 was in New York or here. Last year, Sam has 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.360 been dealing with that stuff of when he's well protected, 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.840 he can fill in the blank. We never had an 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:36.920 opportunity to do that in New York and he barely 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.200 had an opportunity to do it here. So um, yeah, 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.880 we'll see. I mean, it's gonna be a fascinating offseason 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:48.599 because a lot of stuff can change. Speaking of changes changes, yeah, man, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.359 we woke up this morning and and eurote An article 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.680 and here we are with a whole new NFC South, 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.279 my goodness, and what an NFC South that could be. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.680 Uh Man, Sean Payton walking away from New Orleans is 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.960 a uh game changer literally for this division. I mean, 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.480 the one thing you could count on. I mean, they 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.040 had it. Helps when you've got Drew Brees for fourteen 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.480 of your fifteen seasons in New Orleans, you're gonna be 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.520 competitive if you've got a Hall of Fame quarterback under center. 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.200 But man, look at what they did forty nine wins 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.240 over the last four years. Prior to last year. You know, 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.440 it was just Sean Payton and Drew Brees at the 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.400 top of their game. And they didn't push through and 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:32.240 win a Super Bowl like they did previously in their run. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.680 But that was one of the best teams in the 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.400 NFL for four years in a row. Now Drew Brees retires, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.400 all of a sudden things change. But now Sean Payton 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.760 walks away. And it's easy to look at the Saints 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:49.680 and say, what are they gonna do? Because they're sitting there. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.160 You know, they are used to being way over the 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.240 cap and trying to restructure contracts and kick the can 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.560 down the road and push money into the future and 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.720 all that kind of stuff. But I think when you 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:04.640 go into an off season knowing you're changing coach, knowing 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.800 you're over the cap, knowing you don't have an answer 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.800 at quarterback because Jameis Winston, who they brought in last 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:13.840 year to be the guy, gets hurt in the middle 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.120 of the year. All right, are the Saints in that 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.200 spot where they just go hard reset and say, all right, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.800 we gotta clean up the books, we gotta get out 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.480 from under some of this mess and see what happens. Yeah, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.800 and obviously who the new coach will be, you know, 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.319 how they make those decisions, Those are all to be determined. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:36.720 And then you look around and the potential challengers to 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.400 the top. You had Tampa Bay that had kind of 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.520 gone all in on, We're going back to back, We're 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.440 doing all these things. And now after this final drive 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.680 in a Matt Gay field goal from the Rams, it's 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.680 like that just seems to fall apart all of a sudden. Yeah, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.240 they looked old in a hurry for most of that game. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.040 Now they made the run and made it close late 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.640 to set up those Rams heroics and to force him. 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.520 But when that game was twenties having at three, you're 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.000 looking at the Bucks like, oh god, these guys got 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:07.240 old all at once. And that was without Tristan Worths. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.160 He was inactive for the game. He was hurt. Then 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.840 they had another injury upfront during the game and it 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.880 kind of affected a lot of what they were doing. 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.800 But man, the Bucks had built. Part of the reason 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.480 Tom Brady was able to succeed is they spent a 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.000 lot of draft picks and money onlinnement and had a 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.960 really good line. And with Worths out, you're patching and 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:31.120 they the Rams just kept sending dudes a Donovan Smith, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.120 I mean, different guys over and over and in waves, 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:35.760 and they were getting a lot of pressure and Tom 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.320 was looking old, and it was like, WHOA, that team 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:44.360 is vulnerable you know, especially without Antonio Brown who left 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.640 under dubious circumstances the other week. Chris Godwin has been 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:49.679 out for a while with that A C. L. You know, 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.680 you've still got my daring in the secondary on the 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.319 back of the defense. Yeah, I mean, they're beat up 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.480 and they're old, and you wonder what it's gonna be. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:02.559 And if Tom bless him for everything he's done. And 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.080 and I've been the idiot for a long time. I 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.280 went through long stretches where I had to look at 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.480 Tom Brady and say, ah, that's been It's been a 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.840 great run, but that's it. And then he keeps just 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.800 making me the biggest moron in the world. He kept 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.360 winning everywhere he went. So um. I mean, if Tom 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.760 Brady comes back, there's no reason to think the Bucks 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.360 aren't gonna be good next year. But if Tom Brady 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.000 didn't come back, then it's all of a sudden, what 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:31.720 are you doing? Who? Who? And again, it's going to 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.080 be a crazy offseason, not just in this division but 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:39.479 in the entire NFC, because you know, if Tom Brady retires, 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.360 the Bucks are kind of up against it. Now if 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.080 they go trade for Aaron Rodgers, all of a sudden 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.000 things are better there? Right? And then what happens in 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.240 Green Bay? And then what happens in Green Bay? Or 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.079 what's going on in Seattle with Russell Wilson, I mean, 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.040 who seems to create his own drama for the last 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.640 couple off seasons? And what are they doing? Is he 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.160 really satisfied being with Pete Carroll? What the forty Niners doing? 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.640 Is Jimmy Garoppolo the guy? Or did they transition to 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.440 Tray Lance who they gave up a lot of stuff 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.480 to draft last year? You know, what's Minnesota doing with 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:15.240 Kirk Cousins. What is happening in Dallas around Dak Prescott? 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:18.760 I mean, I mean, honestly, do we can we be 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:21.800 sure that Sean Payton ain't gonna end up coaching Dallas Cowboys? No, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.960 we we cannot be sure because he's so close with 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:29.120 Jerry Jones, and um, you know, I mean if he 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.360 goes to Dallas, that's a different situation. What the rest 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.560 of the NFC East is, Like, your guest is as 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.480 good as mine. What's Washington doing at quarterback next year? 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.599 I have no idea is Daniel Jones ever going to 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.840 be any good or Okay? From physicals. Temp not sure 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:46.200 right now. And what about Matt Ryan? What's Matt Ryan 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.160 has the largest salary cap number of any player in 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:53.400 the NFL for two forty eight point seven million. Of 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.800 the falcons two eight million salary cap is devoted to 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.920 Matt Ryan right now. Um, so when a quarter of 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.160 your cap is tied up in a thirty six year 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.560 old guy, I mean, granted, a thirty six year old 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.000 guy who's still pretty good at football. Yeah, it's a 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.160 lot of stuff going on here, is what I'm trying 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.520 to say. Thank goodness, we're not around the Joe Burrows 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.319 and the Justin Herbert's and the Patrick Mahomes and the 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.600 Josh Allen's and all that going on over there. Yeah, 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.880 I mean truly, when you look at the way the 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.800 league stacked right now, all those great young quarterbacks are 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.960 on the other side. So at least, I mean, and 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.800 again that's kind of what I wrote this morning. I'm 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.440 not going to try to lie to you and tell 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.880 you the Carolina Panthers are in a great shape going 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.040 into this offseason. They got a lot of stuff to do, 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.840 but it's at least easier than it was a week ago, 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.320 especially if Tom Brady retires now of a sudden. You know, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.480 I'm not suggesting they're gonna win a division or anything 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.640 like that, because they got a bunch of items on 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.360 their own shopping list this offseason, but it's at least easier. 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.320 Do you think, is there any chance Tom Brady play 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.440 for a team other than the Bucks next year? You know, 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:06.520 it's possible, and some people have speculated about that, and 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.240 and really that's the thing that one guy knows. And 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.880 Tom is always and he's a California kid, and he 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.319 and he spent his entire career on the East Coast. 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:17.360 Does he want to get back closer to home? And 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.480 is there is there an opening for him closer to home? 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.240 I mean, the Rams aren't in the market for a quarterback. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.360 They they kind of dig what they've got going on 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:30.640 right now in Matt Stafford and the forty niners. You know, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.520 there's a there's an r there, aren't they with Jimmy 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.880 Garoppolo right now? And you would assume that if it's 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.400 not Garoppolo, then they're in a cast here a lot 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.199 with Trey Lance. But maybe I don't know. I mean, 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.480 there's what if many things that could happen. I love 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.600 this league. What if the forty Niners go on to 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.600 win the Super Bowl in l A, get rid of Garoppolo, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.120 bring in Brady for next year. I mean, I'm here 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.520 for the chaos. I mean, right, let's let's do it. Yeah, 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.080 it's uh, there's a never ending supply of storylines in 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.760 this league. Gotta know that for sure. But yeah, it's 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.800 a there's all this stuff going on. But in going 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.120 through that and right in it this morning, you just 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.480 realize it comes through loud and clear how wide open 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:17.680 the NFC in general is. Because I mean, who's actually 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.840 good in the NFC that you know is going to 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:25.400 be good next year? The Rams, maybe, the Cardinals maybe 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.360 maybe I don't know, man, but we haven't mentioned them 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.840 as having drama. It's at least they have a young quarterback. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.000 It's been a long time since they were really good. 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.320 Remember when Cam Newton rolled in there and beat them 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.880 that day and that dropped them to eight and two, 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.960 and that may have triggered the avalanche. I mean it 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:45.040 never really got it didn't get back after that hot start. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.400 And I think there are a lot of people, you know, 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.120 to to date, they are not on that list of 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.080 teams looking for new coaches. But you know, with the 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.440 way things have ended in the last couple of years, 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.720 you know, Cliff Kingsbury is going to be one of 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.680 those guys who walks into next year on that hot 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.880 seat list. And they've earned it. I mean, they kind 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.480 of look like front runners a little bit, and you know, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.640 it's interesting the way they designed themselves. I mean, Kyler 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.880 Murray is an exceptional talent. He's one of those guys 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.560 who's fun to watch because he runs around, he does 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.600 the thing. But man, if they get into a December 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.000 game where they need to line up and you know, 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.240 they're sort of susceptible to somebody punching them in the 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.160 mouth a little bit, and that's, um, that's a construction 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.080 thing that I don't know that it's easily fixed. So 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.880 we'll see. So we've touched on a little bit already. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.040 But to finish off, out of these four teams left, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.600 who do you who do you like? This weekend? Rams? Niners? 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.520 Here's and then just pretty much Chiefs. Right, here's the thing. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:48.520 You know what I don't know, I don't know the 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.560 Bengals a team of destiny. I kind of dig what 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.520 the Bengals are putting down out there. I mean, Joe 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:59.920 Burrow does not care. He truly, He's like, it's interesting 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:04.200 thing that you know he's following up Buffalo because Joe 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.800 Burrow reminds me a little bit of young Jim Kelly. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.240 He's got his shoulders back. Man, this thing ain't too 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:14.400 big for Joe Burrow. He dresses funny, he's got that 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:18.920 swag about him. You know, he's probably more confident than 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:22.520 anybody who quarters backs the Cincinnati Bengals ever ought to be. 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:28.920 But man, it's working, and Jamaar Chase is incredible. I 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.440 was one of the people who thought they might have 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.960 made a mistake during the draft when pinasul is sitting 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.080 there and there's the left tackle. You need to protect 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.520 that quarterback. And my gud, after Joe Burrow takes nine 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.480 sacks against the Titans, you you start to wanner, Oh God, 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.600 they're gonna break Joe Burrow. Um. But it's worked so 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.200 far and they're going to need to protect him. I mean, 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.800 they'll be one of that one of those teams, you know, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.920 like the Carolina Panthers who were looking for a lot 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:59.960 of offensive line helped this offseason. But man, there's there's 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.440 just something about having that kid at quarterback and having 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:09.040 that opportunity that's just so exciting for an entire fan base. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.400 That's been a long time since good news. I mean 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.680 thirty one years since they had won a playoff game. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:15.600 Now of a sudden, they're in the a f C 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.399 Championship Game, and it's like, why not. I mean, I 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.200 don't think they're gonna beat the Chiefs because I mean 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:26.720 the Chiefs, my god, thirteen seconds, but it's I didn't 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.080 think they were getting this far. So it's a great 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.080 story either way. I want to pull out all the 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:35.960 old tapes from that Super Bowl in eighty two between 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.800 the Niners and the Bengals where they got caught in 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.240 a so storm and showed up late to warm ups 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.800 because they couldn't get their busses too. Uh was it 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.199 the not the Superdome? What do they call that old thing? 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:51.280 The Lions Stadium, the Silver Dome, the Silver Dome, that 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.520 Silver Dome? Yeah? Do you remember that Super Bowl? Yeah? 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.760 I do. I mean, And and that's the thing. Bengals 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:01.200 forty Niners would be the ultimate KO Super Bowl because 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:06.040 the you know, there's um, there's a linel Charlie Daniels song. 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.120 He says the eleven bishop sitting on a baila. Hey 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:11.920 ain't good looking, but he's sure can play. Um, that's 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.960 the forty niners. Come on, Jimmy. Garoppolo is beautiful. I mean, 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:19.480 he's an extremely handsome Empirically speaking, that's what we'd all 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:23.040 want to look like if we had the opportunity. But man, 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:29.040 they do everything wrong until they don't. It's just a 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:32.359 train wreck and it's moving slowly and you can see 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.800 the other one coming toward it on the trestle and 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.880 rite at the last minute, somehow or another, they switched 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.880 tracks and avert disaster and they win a game. I mean, 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.080 who thought they had any business going into Green Bay 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:49.400 and winning that game? Not me? Um and Garoppolo frankly, 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.240 at times looked kind of shabby doing it. I mean, 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.920 it's like, but it doesn't work. It doesn't work. It 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:59.520 doesn't work, It doesn't work well it worked, and you're 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.520 constantly surprised. And that's why I think people have this 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:08.879 negative reaction to Garoppolo. But he gets things done in 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.920 a weird way and he fits what they're doing. So 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.800 I don't know that it would work everywhere. I don't 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.000 know that he's a slam dunk cancer for a team 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:22.840 that's looking for a quarterback hashtag self awareness. But at 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.959 the same time, it's kind of hard to argue with 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.520 the results, and it shows what it looks like when 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:31.640 you've got all the pieces around him. I mean, Jimmy 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:35.840 Garoppolo is the least of the quarterbacks involved in the playoffs, 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:39.320 and that's not necessarily a slur, but he's clearly the 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.720 fourth of four involved in this thing right now. But 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:45.000 they ran a play the other night that I just 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.320 as an advocate of old guy football, I kind of 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:52.080 got a little goose bumpy when you see them put 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:56.399 an extra offensive lineman on the field and Sentrick Williams, 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:00.919 you know, Williams in motion across the It's like, what 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:05.600 are they doing? And you know there were opportunities there. 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:07.720 They didn't pop some of those plays the way they could, 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.160 but it's like, what are your what are you doing? 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.480 Kyle Shanahan. Oh, I'm gonna take the best offensive lineman 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:15.520 in football and I'm going to turn him into a 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:18.440 move tight end. Sure, why not? Of course you are, 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:23.120 you know, And that's the forty Niners kind of got 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.760 that vibe about them. Where they're not going to do 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:31.240 things conventionally and until it doesn't work, those guys kind 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.800 of think it's gonna work. I mean, you have you 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.360 have running backs playing wide receiver and wide receivers playing 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:40.639 running backs, and left tackles playing out in motion, in 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:45.400 motion pulling Trent Williams across. It's just fantastic. The other 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.679 thing I thought about, as it pertains to the local 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:52.440 professional football team, is when Deebo Samuel's out there doing 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:56.879 Deebo Samuel stuff, he looks a lot like d J. Moreton. 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.560 And rule talked last year at times out it when 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.159 DJ was on that run early in the season and 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.000 there was the play where he gets downfield and blocking 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.800 and springing guys in Dallas, and Matt said then he 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:12.639 was like, if d J. Moore was coming out twenty 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.800 years ago, he'd been a tailback. There's part of me 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:19.760