Speaker 1: Welcome to the Best of the Week for What's Right
Speaker 1: with Nick Right, the best takes and moments from this
Speaker 1: week on the show. Enjoy. I didn't really sleep last
Speaker 1: night and then got up this morning, took your sister
Speaker 1: to school, picked your mom up from the gym. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I said ten words to either one
Speaker 1: of them. I then just laid on the couch, which
Speaker 1: I never do in the mornings, and tried to like
Speaker 1: take a nap. That didn't work. You know how I
Speaker 1: can tell your mom knows I'm in a teetering emotional
Speaker 1: place is Well, here's here's how I know that she
Speaker 1: knows and that she's empathetic, because there were she's doing
Speaker 1: like a whole giant house cleaning thing prior to her birthday. Well, no,
Speaker 1: hold on there. Within the nineties seconds when I came downstairs,
Speaker 1: there were three things I saw her do that she
Speaker 1: had asked me to do previously, and she wasn't even
Speaker 1: mad at me. Yep, I was like, oh, she legit
Speaker 1: feels bad for me right now, She's like, she is
Speaker 1: really showing a real amount of empathy.
Speaker 2: Because I was.
Speaker 1: Supposed to put those coffee cups away. I was supposed
Speaker 1: to throw that backpack away, and she's doing all of it,
Speaker 1: and she's doing with a smile on her face, which
Speaker 1: means she has correctly clocked that I'm not doing great.
Speaker 1: Hopefully this will be my Catharsis. Let's get to Monday
Speaker 1: night football.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Audre. So we saw what Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 3: did to the Chiefs yesterday. It was also his twenty
Speaker 3: sixth birthday, and he walked out of there with a dub.
Speaker 3: What do you want to talk about first, your Prince's
Speaker 3: success or your chief's downfall in this game?
Speaker 1: Okay, as much as I'd like to start with Trevor,
Speaker 1: we have.
Speaker 2: To start with Chiefs.
Speaker 1: And here's the reason. That game is so so much
Speaker 1: more upsetting than the Charger game or the Eagle game,
Speaker 1: and so much more upsetting than any recent memory regular
Speaker 1: season loss. One thing about the Chiefs being the Chiefs
Speaker 1: is they simply do not lose games like that. Now,
Speaker 1: they get out played. Sometimes the offense we've seen over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years get stuck in the mud.
Speaker 1: They you know, there are ways that they can lose
Speaker 1: a game and other people panic or you know, talk
Speaker 1: about in what bad shape the team is in and
Speaker 1: I do not because of the the full confidence that
Speaker 1: by the end of the year Patrick will have figured
Speaker 1: stuff out, or the team will get healthier, or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. Losing a game like that last night, they
Speaker 1: don't blow two touchdown leads. Every other team in the league, mate,
Speaker 1: they don't. They did last night countless countless special teams
Speaker 1: mistakes the multiple The same player, Jack Cochrane, who held
Speaker 1: on a big kick return earlier in the game, does
Speaker 1: the only thing he can't do on the final kickoff
Speaker 1: of the game, which is hold again. Because in that moment,
Speaker 1: I thought, while I didn't like what had happened, twenty
Speaker 1: three seconds, three timeouts, the Chiefs gonna have the ball
Speaker 1: around the twenty five to thirty yard line. I fully
Speaker 1: trusted that we were at least gonna get a kick
Speaker 1: to tie the game. But that hold has the double
Speaker 1: whammy of they returned it, so you burned six of
Speaker 1: the twenty three seconds and you started on the fifteen.
Speaker 1: Also with the special teams, Bucker kicking it out of
Speaker 1: bounds when he has been shaky Buck. We are now
Speaker 1: five for five in games this year where Bucker makes
Speaker 1: a mistake, either missus an extra point, miss it, Yes,
Speaker 1: missus an extra point miss is a kick or kicks
Speaker 1: it out of bounds. And then and I'm not this
Speaker 1: oddly is the part of the game that was least
Speaker 1: bothersome to me, But it was the most damaging was
Speaker 1: you know, Patrick made a mistake he simply doesn't make,
Speaker 1: which is the ninety nine yard pick six that flipped
Speaker 1: the end higher game. Now that you can fairly say
Speaker 1: that cost them the game. I mean that was a
Speaker 1: basically a true fourteen point swing. But I know this
Speaker 1: might sound odd to the audience. That is the least
Speaker 1: of my concerns. The committing that many penalties that consistently,
Speaker 1: And now what does make me feel like the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are very close to being the Chiefs again, is there
Speaker 1: is a direct correlation to how scary the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: to the rest of the world and how quickly and
Speaker 1: loudly we get the idiotic conspiracy theories once again, when yes,
Speaker 1: they missed a DPI on an interception, but this game
Speaker 1: would have been well, I don't know that it was.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it was worse than when the
Speaker 1: Jags are down fourteen to nothing and it's third and
Speaker 1: fifteen and there is a phantom DPI that kept them
Speaker 1: in the game. Like calls get missed in both directions.
Speaker 1: The people got mad because Patrick correctly pointed out to
Speaker 1: the ref we get one yard on the rub route
Speaker 1: on Kelsey's touchdown, and I don't know what the hell
Speaker 1: Russell Yurke was looking at. He says, the play was
Speaker 1: snapped at the two juju is setting the pick at
Speaker 1: the one. That is the definition. You literally had the
Speaker 1: little hashmark showing you it was a yard, and so
Speaker 1: I unders listen, they missed. The ref's missed a really
Speaker 1: bad call, there's no question about it. And the Chiefs
Speaker 1: got to pick out of it. The Chiefs were penalized
Speaker 1: I think ten times more or nine times more than Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: That was not a oh. The Chiefs got all the calls,
Speaker 1: but also those weren't bad except for the DPI on
Speaker 1: third and fifteen. Those weren't bad calls against the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: They were making mistakes. And here's the other piece of it,
Speaker 1: and this is what is so And Patrick kind of
Speaker 1: said it without saying it when he said we've already
Speaker 1: lost too many games. They they had a nightmare, nightmare
Speaker 1: opening two weeks of the season and they had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to make it all back by week five, go
Speaker 1: from zero and two to Tide for first in the division,
Speaker 1: one game out of first place in the entire conference,
Speaker 1: and to and you guys, notice I didn't have Kansas
Speaker 1: City minus three and a half in Knicks picks. I
Speaker 1: actually think Jacksonville is better than people gave him credit
Speaker 1: for it. And I was saying all we Jacksonville was
Speaker 1: three and one despite Trevor, and that if Trevor played well,
Speaker 1: they're a very dangerous team. And we'll get to Trevor later,
Speaker 1: because that was just a perfect Trevor Lawrence game. Some
Speaker 1: horrible mistakes, some great throws, used his legs, you know,
Speaker 1: better than he usually does, even though he's great with that.
Speaker 1: The So I didn't It's not that I think losing
Speaker 1: to the Jags.
Speaker 3: It's just that was a game that I feel like
Speaker 3: they needed. They really wanted that game and they didn't
Speaker 3: get it. And it was also like it was the
Speaker 3: Jaguars at the same time that.
Speaker 1: They needed it, demands, they wanted it, and they had
Speaker 1: it right like the While the Chiefs don't blow teams
Speaker 1: out the way the other excellent teams in football do,
Speaker 1: over the last few years, they just simply never beat themselves,
Speaker 1: and yesterday they beat themselves. Yesterday is the first game
Speaker 1: in four years the Chiefs have won the turnover battle
Speaker 1: and lost the game. There have only been three games
Speaker 1: in the last four years where they have won or
Speaker 1: tied the turnover battle and lost the game. Week one
Speaker 1: against Detroit couple of years ago, the pick six, Week
Speaker 1: one against the Chargers this year and neither team turned
Speaker 1: it over. And then this week with a pick six,
Speaker 1: and so all of that just it. It's just a
Speaker 1: horrible loss. Let me add another thing before I get
Speaker 1: to the other side of it. My biggest concern with
Speaker 1: Kansas City after Week one, whenever there have been let
Speaker 1: me rephrase it. There have been two concerns that I
Speaker 1: have had about the Chiefs, basically from week one on
Speaker 1: that while everyone else was focused on Mahomes in the
Speaker 1: passing game, I was simply not worried. One was the
Speaker 1: lack of any type of burst or explosion in the
Speaker 1: running game. Now I thought that was Pacheco and Hunts,
Speaker 1: both of them, you know, one of their better if not,
Speaker 1: they're each of their best games of the year. My
Speaker 1: hair is a mess. I apologize, but it still feels
Speaker 1: like that's a spot they need to upgrade, and Patrick
Speaker 1: leading the team in rushing is unacceptable and makes me nervous.
Speaker 1: But the other thing that was greatly concerning to me
Speaker 1: about week one was total inability to generate a pass
Speaker 1: rush without sending a blitz, and I felt like you
Speaker 1: saw that again last night. So those the running back
Speaker 1: position I think can be. Of all the weaknesses you
Speaker 1: can have, that to me is the simplest to attempt
Speaker 1: to remedy because they should be able to relatively cheaply
Speaker 1: trade for and upgrade at running back. The pass rush
Speaker 1: just has to get better. And Chris obviously has a
Speaker 1: brutal film on the play when Trevor fell down. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't actually think him standing there or if he
Speaker 1: would have been going one hundred miles an hour, it
Speaker 1: would have changed the impact of the play, But that
Speaker 1: is brutal, brutal tape.
Speaker 3: I think he could have absolutely made a play on it.
Speaker 3: He could have stopped him from scoring touchdown. You think so,
Speaker 3: I think I feel like he's watching the action from there.
Speaker 3: If he starts running off to the right, might be
Speaker 3: able to intercept Treman Lawrence.
Speaker 1: Oh I right, I agree that right there he starts
Speaker 1: running off to the right. My point is, by the
Speaker 1: been going full bore. If he would have been going
Speaker 1: full bore, he wouldn't have he wouldn't have be lined
Speaker 1: to the right. He would have gone upfield and then
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. I want to make this clear.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter that he wouldn't have made the I
Speaker 1: don't think he would have made the play. What matters
Speaker 1: is how the hell are you doing that in that spot?
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean, like, what is the uh?
Speaker 1: He played it almost as if the Chiefs coaching point
Speaker 1: there was let them score, so we get the ball
Speaker 1: back with a chance to tie it. But no one
Speaker 1: else on the defense was you know, had that was
Speaker 1: feeling that way? And so all of those things demon's
Speaker 1: are uh truly greatly real like issues and why this
Speaker 1: has been so such a troubling twelve hours now the
Speaker 1: flip side, Patrick looks great, and he looks great. And
Speaker 1: the offenses, I mean they what they have five hundred
Speaker 1: yards of offense yesterday almost like now again that's not
Speaker 1: the Andy said it, and he's right. The goal of
Speaker 1: the game is not to put up a ton of
Speaker 1: yards put up points and our red zone issues that
Speaker 1: you know he didn't say this, I'll say this Patrick's
Speaker 1: bad mistake. The penalties. Those things are how you lose
Speaker 1: football games. But Kansas City, particularly when Rashi gets back,
Speaker 1: I think is going to be back to being a
Speaker 1: very explosive offense again. So that part is great, But
Speaker 1: two and three is none. And you just you had
Speaker 1: the opportunity had you taken care of Going into last
Speaker 1: night's game, you were like, there were there's the four
Speaker 1: and one Bills who you play later this year, the
Speaker 1: four and one Colts who you play later this year,
Speaker 1: and the Jags were sitting there with one loss and
Speaker 1: you were playing them that night. And so it also
Speaker 1: puts a lot of pressure on next week. And next
Speaker 1: week is the Detroit Lions, who post Week one have
Speaker 1: looked like the best team in the league. By the way,
Speaker 1: Lebron just posted, I guess did Hennessy front run him
Speaker 1: on this? That's so funny? Real quick?
Speaker 2: Is that the announcement or hold on.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you guys hear it. I hope,
Speaker 1: hold on, let me see if I can do this.
Speaker 2: Hold on?
Speaker 1: What here? It is? No I got I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: do it like this, You'll do it old school.
Speaker 4: Well, everyone's on pens and needles across the country. Are
Speaker 4: you ready to go?
Speaker 1: Lebron?
Speaker 5: Where's the powder left at home?
Speaker 4: Lebron fans want to know where you're taking your talents
Speaker 4: this year. What's your decision in this fall?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 5: This is tough. In this fall, I'm gonna be taking
Speaker 5: my talents to ansop.
Speaker 4: And this was the conclusion you woke up with this morning.
Speaker 5: That was a conclusion I woke up with this morning.
Speaker 5: Why I feel like it's gonna give me the best
Speaker 5: opportunity to win more at hosting. And not only that,
Speaker 5: when that signature in hottails, we didn't have a good time.
Speaker 5: We didn't making memories, we didn't making it look easy.
Speaker 2: We and at leaving.
Speaker 1: People wanting more.
Speaker 4: Lebron appreciate it.
Speaker 1: DECII okay, so real quick quick sidebar of course, like
Speaker 1: now listen, I would have been wrong. I thought I
Speaker 1: had something to do with Amazon Prime Day because he
Speaker 1: worked with Amazon. But Danny yesterday when Lebron sent that tweet,
Speaker 1: he came, He's like, you saw Lebron's thing. I'm like yeah,
Speaker 1: And he asked, he said, you think it's anything. I
Speaker 1: was like, I would bet anything. It's an AD And
Speaker 1: he asked me why, and he thought my answer was
Speaker 1: kind of ridiculous. But it's why I knew it was
Speaker 1: an AD. I said, because it's at noon. It's what
Speaker 1: he said it.
Speaker 2: Was going to be.
Speaker 1: And he's like, that's the reason, and.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, it's like more of like a
Speaker 2: night thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's prime time. He's like, if Lebron is going
Speaker 1: to announce his retirement, it's not going to be Noone
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday. I'm gonna tell you right now. It's
Speaker 1: just so I there there was real like questions. I
Speaker 1: got text from people or whatever about what we like
Speaker 1: this show or the TV show or whatever. What are
Speaker 1: what we want to do? And I don't want to
Speaker 1: say I ignore them, but I in my head I
Speaker 1: ignored him. I'm like, guys, I promised, this is not
Speaker 1: like Intel. I didn't talk to I didn't. I was
Speaker 1: so non plussed by this, Like I obviously am real
Speaker 1: close with some of Lebron's closest people, Mavericks and dear friend.
Speaker 1: I see Rich a few times a year. You know,
Speaker 1: Rich works with my agent. I didn't even send any
Speaker 1: of them a text like with a question mark like
Speaker 1: they it was so obvious to me. To me, it
Speaker 1: was just like if if he had set the exact
Speaker 1: same tweet and it said Monday, seven pm, my heart
Speaker 1: would have skip to beat like a little bit yeah,
Speaker 1: like maybe like there might be uh, there might be
Speaker 1: something here, But Tuesday at noon. The guy is not
Speaker 1: announcing his retirement Tuesday now he was. If you didn't
Speaker 1: get the and I didn't show you the he's wearing
Speaker 1: the same shirt he wore to the original decision, like
Speaker 1: kind of right, and the the script is the questions
Speaker 1: he was asked, like the no powder that it's all
Speaker 1: the exact same beats of the original decision. But yes,
Speaker 1: listen shout. Also, by the way, I don't know what
Speaker 1: Hennessy you know, paid Bron, but I do know that
Speaker 1: they are now going to get a lot of free
Speaker 1: media out of it by simply Lebron sending one tweet
Speaker 1: like so, I don't know what his tweets are worth,
Speaker 1: but that you know, I would consider that likely money
Speaker 1: well spent. All right, back to the discussion we were having.
Speaker 1: What were we talking about? Oh, the Lions game now
Speaker 1: is massive. Oh that's why I I saw it because
Speaker 1: I was going to hard rock bet to see going
Speaker 1: into last night, and here's a fun one. Demon's wait. No,
Speaker 1: going into last night, it was Casey minus a point
Speaker 1: and a half. Now, typically, oddly, when a good team loses,
Speaker 1: if they don't suffer real injury, they become bigger favorites
Speaker 1: by a tiny bit the next week. I don't anticipate
Speaker 1: that's what will happen here. So what, oh, what do
Speaker 1: you think? Do you think the line moved or stayed
Speaker 1: the same, And if it moved in what direction?
Speaker 2: You said? Yesterday it was minus one and a.
Speaker 1: Half, Kansas City favored by a point and.
Speaker 2: A half a half?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it probably what is it minus two? Now?
Speaker 1: It's it stayed, it stayed the same. I thought there
Speaker 1: was a chance it would have gone the other way,
Speaker 1: but I think the reason it didn't was because the
Speaker 1: Chiefs offense did look really good and that Jags defense
Speaker 1: is legit. It's just so frustrating. And this is all
Speaker 1: I said going into it was if they don't turn
Speaker 1: the ball over, they can't lose, and they made Listen,
Speaker 1: it was the worst type of turnover you can make.
Speaker 3: With that defense being how good it is like Jacksonville's
Speaker 3: defense is it's legit.
Speaker 2: They even came in.
Speaker 3: They got to pick six against Patrick Malmes. Like with
Speaker 3: the Travis Hunter thinks, I think it's so unfortunate that
Speaker 3: he wants to play on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 3: because I think he would make the defense that much
Speaker 3: more dominant, or if he wanted to be one hundred
Speaker 3: percent offense, he would just give Trevor Lawrence even that
Speaker 3: better of a hand.
Speaker 2: But I think.
Speaker 3: Because it doesn't seem like he's being super effective on
Speaker 3: either side, he's that he maxed out as long right.
Speaker 1: Now, No, right now, it's kind of the worst of
Speaker 1: both worlds, right listen. I know he made one really
Speaker 1: big play in this game. Yeah, but the Jags aren't
Speaker 1: at a shortage of weapons and right now now the
Speaker 1: the the they trade, the only way you can justify
Speaker 1: trading what they traded for a non quarterback is because
Speaker 1: you thought you were getting two players. But right now
Speaker 1: he's having less of an impact than all the guys
Speaker 1: drafted around him who are just one way players. And
Speaker 1: so that's the really disappointing part if you're Jacksonville, Like,
Speaker 1: let me go to real quick, because Mason Graham, who
Speaker 1: was the fifth pick who was part of essentially the
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter trade, has been great. Abdullah Carter is making
Speaker 1: a real impact. Will Campbell's the everyday left tackle. Mason
Speaker 1: Graham has been excellent. Genty. I know that there have
Speaker 1: been some questions about gent Genty's great. He's just the
Speaker 1: how often is he getting the ball and how often
Speaker 1: are they blocking for him? But you've seen more from
Speaker 1: him already than you've seen. Travis Mimbo has been excellent
Speaker 1: at tackle for the Jets even though they've been terrible,
Speaker 1: and Teed McMillan has made a bigger impact the wide
Speaker 1: receiver for Carolina. For Carolina, No, the Tampa Bay receiver's
Speaker 1: a Buka who's been unbelievable. But he was you know,
Speaker 1: he was a mid first round pick. He was nineteen
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I do think that they haven't yet
Speaker 1: figured out how to use Travis. Now listen on the Prince.
Speaker 1: This is why he's such a tough player to quit,
Speaker 1: because he can make that throw to Brian Thomas Junior
Speaker 1: down the sideline, and he is he at Clemson, he
Speaker 1: ran a lot and he is big and strong and
Speaker 1: all those things and fast. He also loves that leap
Speaker 1: over the goal line QB sneak. That's not the first
Speaker 1: time it's been knocked out of his hands. He also will,
Speaker 1: as Aikman pointed out, miss some layups and he's it's fair,
Speaker 1: is fair. He should be better at this point than
Speaker 1: he is. But he is now positioning himself where he
Speaker 1: is going to have a real opportunity to have, you know,
Speaker 1: another postseason, and the best moment of his career came
Speaker 1: in the postseason, and so now like it's starting to
Speaker 1: take shape a little bit right it feels to me
Speaker 1: Demanse like like the playoff teams we can say with
Speaker 1: confidence are Buffalo, Indie, Jacksonville, the four and one teams,
Speaker 1: like we just got to give them credit. One team
Speaker 1: out of the AFC North. I can't write off Baltimore yet,
Speaker 1: but that's the only way Baltimore does it is if Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: The reason I'm not saying two teams out of the
Speaker 1: North is if Pittsburgh just continues winning, Baltimore's cooked. Like Baltimore,
Speaker 1: Baltimore's path is going to be that nine wins can
Speaker 1: win you the division. So there's four and then I
Speaker 1: obviously believe the Chiefs are going to be in the
Speaker 1: I can't. It would be unfair for me to say
Speaker 1: pencil like to put the Chiefs in pen because they're
Speaker 1: two and three. So if we have Buffalo, Indy, Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: and an AFC North team in then it would be
Speaker 1: Deman's three spots, four Chiefs, Broncos, Chargers, Patriots, three spots
Speaker 1: for those four teams. And right now the team that
Speaker 1: probably of those four teams this moment, which team do
Speaker 1: you think is most anxious? Because to me, I think
Speaker 1: it's pretty clear out of Chiefs, Chargers, Broncos, Patriots, if
Speaker 1: one of them is gonna.
Speaker 2: Go Chargers probably, Yeah, the most anxious, it's the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to me, it's definitely.
Speaker 3: The Jay and Daniels more respectable, but coming off injury.
Speaker 1: JA and only scoring ten points and we'll get to
Speaker 1: that game later. Wow. The producers don't always nail it
Speaker 1: on this show. They always try with their humor, but
Speaker 1: sometimes they they miss. This one's pretty good, yeah, because
Speaker 1: you know, I obviously coined the tackle that turned the tide,
Speaker 1: and by the way, I given how Patrick has played
Speaker 1: since that moment, I think it's still even though they
Speaker 1: lost and he threw the pick six. I think it
Speaker 1: still applies. I thought Patrick was for seventy five out
Speaker 1: of seventy six plays excellent yesterday. Now, the one mistake
Speaker 1: he made like fair is fair. It flipped the game,
Speaker 1: and so I'm not giving I'm not giving him a pass.
Speaker 1: But if I were, if I were saying, was that encouraging? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they said, was that the pick that made Nick sick?
Speaker 1: And you know who suggested that?
Speaker 2: Vic?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, well done, well done, guys. But
Speaker 1: they said, is Trevor's TD the stumble that started the succession?
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. I think that's pretty good. I think
Speaker 1: it's pretty good. I like it, guys. All Right, you
Speaker 1: guys made me feel a little bit better.
Speaker 2: God, I was upset.
Speaker 1: Dan, I'm gonna have to deal with It's one thing
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna have to deal with Colin in a
Speaker 1: couple hours. But you know who is privately, I'm sure
Speaker 1: take demonte off camera reveling in this in my pain.
Speaker 1: J mac oh Man and the Chiefs and the Chiefs loss.
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Speaker 3: Things have not been going well over there in UNC
Speaker 3: for Bill Belichick. They are off to a two and
Speaker 3: three start, and there's even talks of the documentary being canceled.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's actually canceled.
Speaker 3: And there's other talks of Bill Belichick initiating his only
Speaker 3: million million dollar buyout.
Speaker 2: You wanted to talk about this. Things are looking rough
Speaker 2: for Bill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So listen. I think that it is noteworthy what
Speaker 1: Ali Connolly is saying. So you guys might be like,
Speaker 1: who is Ali Connolly? People that listen to NFL Daily
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal's Great Pod are familiar with Ali Connolly. He
Speaker 1: also has a substack in a newsletter called The Read Optional.
Speaker 1: I think he also is involved in some of in
Speaker 1: but he's in the UK. He's a he's in the UK.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's British, if he's Irish, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I think he's British. I know that that's
Speaker 1: one you don't want to get wrong. My apologies regardless.
Speaker 1: The reason I am mentioning it is he was the
Speaker 1: guy who broke Belichick to North Carolina, and people initially
Speaker 1: like one of the reasons they it didn't get taken
Speaker 1: as gospel initially was because it's like, why is this
Speaker 1: guy in the UK breaking this story? But he had
Speaker 1: it first by a lot. So he then yesterday sent
Speaker 1: out the following tweet thread that I want to read
Speaker 1: to the audience again. The guy who first had Belichick
Speaker 1: to Carolina told us this Bill Belichick has discussed buyout
Speaker 1: options with North Carolina's hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness
Speaker 1: to trigger his own million dollar buyout if he can
Speaker 1: find a soft landing with another team or in media.
Speaker 1: He goes on members of Belichick's coaching staff have already
Speaker 1: spoken to other schools that are expected to be in
Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff about taking on roles during the postseason.
Speaker 1: From one coach quote, the rats are leaving the ship
Speaker 1: end quote. Some staffers believe a change will come within
Speaker 1: two weeks. Reports of serious recruiting violations remain under investigation
Speaker 1: at UNC. Recruiting and practice violations have already been by
Speaker 1: the school. According to multiple sources, using recruiting violations to
Speaker 1: knock down and coaches buyout has become a standard practice.
Speaker 1: If Belichick cannot find a landing spot to trigger his
Speaker 1: own buyout, he's expected to accept a greatly reduced compromised rate.
Speaker 1: More on that in a second. I'll explain it. Belichick's community.
Speaker 1: Back to Dolly Connolly. Belichick's communication with his staff in
Speaker 1: the past two weeks has been described as weird and
Speaker 1: distant by multiple members of UNC's coaching staff. Multiple coaches
Speaker 1: were unable to get a hold of him during un
Speaker 1: c's bye week last tweek. From one UNC defensive assistant,
Speaker 1: what we've done to these kids is ft up and
Speaker 1: of tweet threat. So let me just give a little
Speaker 1: explanation about the buyout stuff. So people understand, if Belichick
Speaker 1: gets fired, they owe him like twenty million. If Belichick
Speaker 1: leave on his own accord, one thought, potentially for another job,
Speaker 1: they Belichick or whoever's hiring him has to pay one million.
Speaker 1: What Ali is reporting is that it is now on
Speaker 1: the board that Belichick pays that million himself just to bounce,
Speaker 1: just to be out of there, or if that doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: if he doesn't have you know, like they said soft landing,
Speaker 1: that he agrees to a greatly reduced number off that
Speaker 1: twenty million. But what Ali Connelly is reporting the too long,
Speaker 1: didn't read version is this thing's already over If you
Speaker 1: already have coaches talking about who they're going to coach
Speaker 1: this year's playoffs, it's over there. And that would be
Speaker 1: we have talked about like, can Belichick, is it fair?
Speaker 1: Can your legacy ever go backwards? In sports?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Like all, let's say bron was in year twenty five
Speaker 1: and averaged three points a game and was terrible, Like,
Speaker 1: would that be fair to hold against him? And my
Speaker 1: general rule has always been you shouldn't. You should not
Speaker 1: be penalized for continuing to do something if like if
Speaker 1: your legacy was here. I'm putting my hand if you're
Speaker 1: listening up to my eyebrows, basically, and if you quit,
Speaker 1: it was going to end there. Then continuing to play
Speaker 1: your coach. It doesn't necessarily have to raise it, but
Speaker 1: you shouldn't go backwards, right. There are rare instances, though,
Speaker 1: where it feels like people do go back I think
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson post Seattle, I think he went backwards a little.
Speaker 1: I think of Russell Wilson after when Seattle had said
Speaker 1: I'm retiring, and we never saw him be bad. We
Speaker 1: never saw him on awful teams. We never saw teams
Speaker 1: repeatedly move on from him. We would hold him in
Speaker 1: a probably higher light. For Belichick for the thing at Carolina.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he needed to be great there. But
Speaker 1: the fact that they are yet to beat a Power
Speaker 1: five school. The three legitimate teams they've played have beaten
Speaker 1: them by an average of twenty six points per game,
Speaker 1: and they are averaging on scoring themselves eleven points per game,
Speaker 1: and he might just be ready to call it holy
Speaker 1: smokes man. I it is unfathomable that it would have
Speaker 1: gone on this wrong, this gone this wrong. And I
Speaker 1: say this with all sincerity. It is a bit of
Speaker 1: a lesson, and not just Hubrius, but in what can
Speaker 1: happen if you only surround yourself with acolytes and with
Speaker 1: yes men like the GM is Lombardi whose whole The
Speaker 1: only you know, the only relevance he has left in
Speaker 1: the NFL and in football is his relationship with Belichick.
Speaker 1: I don't listen, I don't relish saying that for I
Speaker 1: don't know how much of the audience knows this. But
Speaker 1: when I started with Fox, I did a three time
Speaker 1: a week, two time a week for a full football
Speaker 1: season podcast where it was just me and Mike Lombardi.
Speaker 1: It's called make Me Smarter. I mean, I know the guy,
Speaker 1: but I got fair is fair? I have to call
Speaker 1: it what it is like. In the last decade, his
Speaker 1: connection to pro football has been his connection to Belichick.
Speaker 1: Lombardi's kid is on the coaching staff. Both of Belichick's
Speaker 1: kids are on the coaching staff. They they have they
Speaker 1: have not There is not a lot of new ideas
Speaker 1: coming in. They seemingly did a very poor job in
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. And I mean there was the quote.
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you where.
Speaker 3: I saw it going against the integrity of the game,
Speaker 3: but their recruiting process and all that, Like he's it
Speaker 3: sounds like they were kind of cheating a little bit.
Speaker 1: Well, so that so that listen, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I how much of that is true.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, I know, I don't know enough yet about
Speaker 1: the recruiting violations. And I also, to be totally honest,
Speaker 1: don't even know what's legal and what's illegal in college,
Speaker 1: Like I don't even know what. Like it seems like
Speaker 1: I don't know how you could break the rules these days,
Speaker 1: like and so that part of it is odd, but
Speaker 1: set that aside. There was a quote from a coach
Speaker 1: of a non Power five school last week that said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I knew North Carolina was going to be screwed because
Speaker 1: they were recruiting all the same players we were. He's like,
Speaker 1: whenever there's a team that is recruiting all of the
Speaker 1: guys we're after, I know that team's not going to
Speaker 1: be able to compete at the top level, but they
Speaker 1: so they And that sounds mean from the coach, but
Speaker 1: that coaches. Again, I'm not saying what's school exact, because
Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, he's saying he's coaching a
Speaker 1: small school and so they should not be going after this.
Speaker 1: Northern should be able to get elite players and did again.
Speaker 1: I don't want, I don't want to put you on
Speaker 1: the spot here. But you had a friend or someone
Speaker 1: you knew.
Speaker 3: Yeah he was, but he he ended up going to Colorado.
Speaker 3: But he he Yeah, he went on, did the whole process.
Speaker 3: I think he was going to do it, but you know,
Speaker 3: playing at Colorado this year.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, but he was recruited by Belichick's crew as
Speaker 1: a transfer student, right, He wasn't a graduating senior.
Speaker 2: He was transferring somewhere.
Speaker 1: Right, Those seventy kids that transferred into North Carolina did.
Speaker 2: It yeah for Bill? Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if we are five games in and they're already
Speaker 1: talking buyout and just giving up, that's pathetic, man. And
Speaker 1: I do think that. And I try to always be
Speaker 1: consistent and honest on this. I so the revisionist history
Speaker 1: that some folks do, acting as if those first three
Speaker 1: Super Bowls weren't teams that were led by the defense,
Speaker 1: which Belichick was in charge of. I'm not down for that.
Speaker 1: And the final Super Bowl they held the Sean McVeigh,
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley Good, Jared goff Rams to three points. So
Speaker 1: I am not going to act like Belichick was carried
Speaker 1: by Tom Brady. I don't think that is the case
Speaker 1: at all. I think they both helped each other greatly.
Speaker 1: But I'm also not going to act like.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 1: The last half decade has not been an abject disaster
Speaker 1: for Bill. He stopped being able to draft, he made
Speaker 1: outrageous coaching staff decisions, his personal life became very public
Speaker 1: and a legitimate distraction. All the bridges with New England
Speaker 1: seem to have been burnt. And now he goes to
Speaker 1: North Carolina and we're talking about it being over already.
Speaker 1: That's a train wreck. And there is not yet any coach,
Speaker 1: any modern coach demon's dat has a close enough resume
Speaker 1: to Belichick's to start a reel who's the best coach ever?
Speaker 2: Debate?
Speaker 1: But if we get you know, Andy is the obvious
Speaker 1: one that has a shot. But I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: make this about the Chiefs. I'm not even really trying
Speaker 1: to make this about Andy. The point I'm making is this,
Speaker 1: if somebody gets close how it is ending for Bill
Speaker 1: will hurt him. The fact that it was just rank
Speaker 1: incompetence across the board. The moment Tom left even will
Speaker 1: make people do something that I think is unfair, as
Speaker 1: I said a moment ago, which is start to put
Speaker 1: a bit of a curve negative curve on what he
Speaker 1: did with Tom. And so I normally would not.
Speaker 2: Leading with this.
Speaker 3: All this was with Tom and then like every single
Speaker 3: thing he did after that.
Speaker 1: It's been a disaster. It's and so and.
Speaker 3: Again the thing was him trying to recover on that.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, I went to college at what I
Speaker 2: did and.
Speaker 1: Correct or and that's one of the reasons he wanted
Speaker 1: to go to another NFL team to show he could
Speaker 1: do it. And so it will just like again just
Speaker 1: to bring up the Andy piece of it, like Andy
Speaker 1: had an awesome run without Patrick Mahomes, you know, like
Speaker 1: double digit playoff appearances, went to a super Bowl, multiple
Speaker 1: conference championship appearances, all like it, didn't get to the
Speaker 1: top of the mountain, but was an excellent coach without Patrick.
Speaker 1: Now he had Donovan mcnabby, had Mike Vick. He had
Speaker 1: good It's not like he had terrible quarterbacks. Obviously had
Speaker 1: really really good quarterbacks. And so it's not an apples
Speaker 1: to apples comp I'm not acting like it is. But
Speaker 1: and nobody cares about, like where did Vince Lombardi see
Speaker 1: you know how I know nobody cares. I don't even remember,
Speaker 1: like Vince Lombardi, did he finish with the Saints? The
Speaker 1: oh no, Washington, Washington for a year? Like people don't
Speaker 1: tend to care about, you know, the final chapter of
Speaker 1: an all time legend if it even if it doesn't
Speaker 1: go well. But this has gone so horrifically, Like nobody
Speaker 1: does the audience remember what Bill Parcell's final stop was,
Speaker 1: and it was the Dolphins. But he wasn't the head coach.
Speaker 1: He was the you know, basically the guy in charge
Speaker 1: of everything, and so people don't people don't typically hold
Speaker 1: that stuff against you. But this is such a train
Speaker 1: wreck that and I, by the way, I believe Ali Connolly.
Speaker 1: If Ali Connelly says this could happen in the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, This could happen in the next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. And what I think is now locked and
Speaker 1: why it's worth discussing, and then we'll move on. I
Speaker 1: think it is. I think it is now minus one
Speaker 1: thousand that Belichick is not the head coach of North
Speaker 1: Carolina next year, which leads us to this, and then
Speaker 1: I promise we will move on. I guess he's just
Speaker 1: not gonna coach again, Like if the NFL was leary
Speaker 1: of him after the Patriots stint, then I guess this
Speaker 1: is just how it ends. What a crummy ending man.
Speaker 3: And hey, if they just start winning.
Speaker 1: Games, they're not good. I mean, I don't think they
Speaker 1: recruited the right players. I don't think they And it
Speaker 1: seems like there was an article on w r A
Speaker 1: L Yeah, I think, which is like the A rally Raleigh,
Speaker 1: the city in North Carolina? Is it Raleigh Rally? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pronounce it wrong, Raleigh, I think. But MANA used
Speaker 1: to live there. That uh about the dysfunction and the
Speaker 1: infighting amongst players. It's a bad situation man. By the way,
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Speaker 3: Your Chiefs in primetime again, this time against Detroit. Detroit
Speaker 3: we know has looked pretty well ever since that week
Speaker 3: when lost in Green Bay. Kansas City is two and
Speaker 3: three coming off of brutal loss to Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: You guys really need this one. How are you feeling.
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: It would feel like it makes up for giving away
Speaker 1: the game to the Jags right that after that Ravens
Speaker 1: game when they steadied themselves. If you had said the
Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna be three and three getting Rashi Rice back,
Speaker 1: you just said, okay, like that now, the assumption would
Speaker 1: have been they win at Jacksonville and lose at home
Speaker 1: to the Lions. I thought they could win both those games.
Speaker 1: They obviously, you know, could have won the Jags game.
Speaker 1: We spent a lot of time on it on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We don't have to rehash it. They they they didn't
Speaker 1: do it. I am going to spend a lot of
Speaker 1: time on this game during our pick show because the
Speaker 1: line is interesting. Of all the games where you thought
Speaker 1: the Chiefs might be home dogs, this would have been
Speaker 1: high on the list, and they're not. The Lions are
Speaker 1: the hottest team in the league, and the Chiefs are
Speaker 1: coming off of many meltdown against Jacksonville, and the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are still the favorites. This is what I'll say. Being
Speaker 1: two and four through six weeks not a death knell,
Speaker 1: but not great. So how badly do they need it?
Speaker 1: They need it, and I also think they they have
Speaker 1: played so many high leverage playoff games that you don't
Speaker 1: want to be playing a ton of high leverage regular
Speaker 1: season games leading into the playoffs.
Speaker 3: And so the do you think the NonStop primetime games
Speaker 3: ever wavel on Kansas City?
Speaker 1: Well, listen, yeah, I think. I think the the fact
Speaker 1: that they are the premieer. I don't care what their
Speaker 1: record is. I don't care honestly that the Eagles won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. The Chiefs are the premier team in
Speaker 1: the league, and because of that, for five years or
Speaker 1: six years now, they get everyone's best shot every single
Speaker 1: week they and they play. They're under the spotlight more
Speaker 1: than any other team. They have the you know, like
Speaker 1: you said, prime time pressure, all of it, more than
Speaker 1: every other team. And I think they have dealt with
Speaker 1: it as well as any team in the history of
Speaker 1: the league since you know, other than Brady's Pats, to
Speaker 1: be totally fair, and they felt with it to me
Speaker 1: as well as Brady's Pats. But they're not typically in
Speaker 1: this position of a slow start. Now. The last time
Speaker 1: they lost the Super Bowl, and I've said this many times,
Speaker 1: will say it again, they started that year three and four,
Speaker 1: and if they lose this game, they're gonna start this
Speaker 1: year three and four. And you might say, well, they
Speaker 1: could start two and five their next games against the
Speaker 1: Raiders and after that, so that they should be fine
Speaker 1: on that front. But I I this is a huge
Speaker 1: spot and we'll talk about it more on Friday show.
Speaker 1: I know you have a couple quick follow ups on it.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 3: Mahomes and Golf have gotten into a legendary shootout against
Speaker 3: each other before, what are you expecting in this one.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna I think shootout is what it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. I think, And also Golf, I believe is
Speaker 1: one of the only act that maybe the only active
Speaker 1: starting quarterback that Patrick's played more than once that he's
Speaker 1: never beaten. I think he's zero to two against Golf
Speaker 1: the fifty four fifty one Classic on Monday Night six
Speaker 1: seven years ago and we see one over. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think those are the only two times they've played. And so,
Speaker 1: oh that's pretty That's an interesting little wrinkle to it.
Speaker 1: The bruises can tell me if I'm wrong on that,
Speaker 1: But I think that's and that might be hard to
Speaker 1: look up in real time, and but I think that's
Speaker 1: the case.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Uh, Golf, we know is a different quarterback
Speaker 3: when he's under pressure. Are you expecting a crazy game
Speaker 3: from Chris Jones or what are you expecting from Chris Jones?
Speaker 1: Listen, I think Chris. You know, Chris has to bounce back.
Speaker 1: It's a tough moment for him at the end of
Speaker 1: that game. I'm not going to overreact to it was
Speaker 1: a tough moment.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: And you know Patrick had a bad moment with the
Speaker 1: Big six, Chris had a bad moment with the play
Speaker 1: when Trevor fell down. And so you need your first
Speaker 1: ballot Hall of Fame guys to respond and I and
Speaker 1: I expect they will all right, next game.
Speaker 3: All right, so it looks like we got Mac Jones again.
Speaker 3: Party's still dealing with that turf toe. You said there's
Speaker 3: no quarterback controversy in San Francisco, but if Mac Jones
Speaker 3: kid managed to pull this one off again, it's Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: I don't think there will be a controversy in the building.
Speaker 1: I don't think Shanahan is going to, you know, consider
Speaker 1: not playing Brock when he's healthy. But I do think
Speaker 1: there will be a lot of noise surrounding it. And
Speaker 1: I also think the better Mac plays and the better
Speaker 1: the team plays, the more cautious they'll be with Perty's
Speaker 1: injury that we're now told could linger all year. And
Speaker 1: I do think because of the injury, if Purdy comes
Speaker 1: back and plays really poorly, I think that there are
Speaker 1: they have an out to go back to Mac Jones
Speaker 1: without being like we benched Brock, to be like, no,
Speaker 1: he's not healthy, and listen, I think Shanahan will just
Speaker 1: They drafted a kid third overall and before he had
Speaker 1: barely played, they were like, no, we're going with Purty.
Speaker 1: They you know they are not he He is willing
Speaker 1: to simply play whoever he thinks that season. Those games
Speaker 1: give him the best chance. And I've been skeptical of
Speaker 1: the Niners, but you have to give him credit for
Speaker 1: being four and one, dealing with all these injuries, and
Speaker 1: you know some Kittle will be back. The other receivers
Speaker 1: you know will be back. I don't know how much
Speaker 1: to expect for MAYUK, but they're a dangerous team at
Speaker 1: this point. And San Francisco Tampa is just an awesome game.
Speaker 1: It's one of the games of the weekend.