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Speaker 1: we now have what is it? Eight team set? We
Speaker 1: have the divisional round set? We had Monday Night football. Uh,
Speaker 1: two big brands. A lot of pressure on the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and you gotta give the coaching staff and they'll start.
Speaker 1: I guess with Dak, who was you know, probably played
Speaker 1: one of his better games of his career. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: thought that was as good a performance as Dak's ever had.
Speaker 1: Um My rule has always been a good quarterback. Has
Speaker 1: a lousy week, they'll bounce back. Um. These are pro athletes.
Speaker 1: You don't become a pro. I mean Deck has never
Speaker 1: been a pro athlete because he has a beautiful arm,
Speaker 1: because he's the twitchiest this or the most gifted that.
Speaker 1: He's a very driven aspirational guy. He works really really
Speaker 1: hard that his craft and doesn't need you know, a
Speaker 1: self motivated guy. And when you play really bad for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys or any big profile team, you almost always
Speaker 1: bounced back. So I like Dallas tonight. I thought Doc
Speaker 1: would play really well. I thought he had a drive.
Speaker 1: May have been at the end. I'm looking at my
Speaker 1: notes here can eleven straight complations at one point. Um.
Speaker 1: I thought he kind of gave his body up a
Speaker 1: couple of times tonight, Like it felt like like Dak
Speaker 1: really understood it was big. Yeah, like the opposite of
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, who I felt even yesterday. You know, underneath throws,
Speaker 1: Dak was running out there, um throll going head first,
Speaker 1: jumping in the defenders. It was like Dak really understood
Speaker 1: what it meant for him, the team, the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: I thought he was terrific. I really thought Doc was
Speaker 1: as good as I've seen him as a pro. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes him and Cousins get lumped in. You know,
Speaker 1: they're kind of that second tier guy. Statistics sometimes parallel
Speaker 1: each other. But when you saw tonight, they get Dac
Speaker 1: on the move. Cousins doesn't have that in the bag.
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the reasons dak You know, he
Speaker 1: wasn't a great passer in college, it was athletic ability.
Speaker 1: And I think ever since the ankle injury, you get
Speaker 1: him on the move. I watched tonight thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: this is that player is a problem for the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: If he's gonna play at that level on the move,
Speaker 1: he's not. He's never gonna be Peyton Manning and Tom
Speaker 1: Brady from the pocket. But if you can mix up
Speaker 1: the play action stuff, obviously the play action touchdown, he
Speaker 1: has other elements to his game that when you ask
Speaker 1: him to throw at forty plus times from the pocket,
Speaker 1: that's when he gets in trouble. Yeah, I think Dallas
Speaker 1: Dallas is an interesting matchup. They can put pressure on
Speaker 1: pretty The weakness of the Niners tends to be their
Speaker 1: old line, especially the center right. So I think you
Speaker 1: can move Mica around DeMarcus Lawrence. I think they can
Speaker 1: create um, a little discomfort for the forty Niners. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know Dallas. Now, Dallas tonight played virtually flawless, So
Speaker 1: let's expect Dallas to not play as well next week.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of They're a highly emotional team.
Speaker 1: Many of their best players, Trayvon dig Ceedee Lamb Micah
Speaker 1: Parsons are very young players. They tend to be emotional,
Speaker 1: so they're a little hot and cold. They'll probably pull
Speaker 1: back next week. I expect the Niners to win, but
Speaker 1: I will say this. I talked about this on my
Speaker 1: show today. Mike McCarthy took one hundred percent of the
Speaker 1: pr beating in the divorce with Aaron Rodgers. Aaron three
Speaker 1: straight years losing at Lambeau, outplayed by an old Tom
Speaker 1: Goff and Garoppolo in the fourth quarter. Mike McCarthy with
Speaker 1: a nearly flawless game plan tonight. I'm not saying Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy didn't shouldn't shoulder some of the blame with Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: but Matt Lafleur hasn't solved kind of the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, hasn't solved the playoff disappointment Aaron Rodgers. And
Speaker 1: here's McCarthy four and one with Cooper Rush sixty winner
Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott. We got to give Mike McCarthy a
Speaker 1: little respect like that was a hell of a performance tonight.
Speaker 1: Well I wrote it down. The coaching The Cowboys coaching
Speaker 1: staff was phenomenal offensively. Obviously he's an offensive guy. Him
Speaker 1: and Kevin Moore. Dan Quinn has been interviewing for head
Speaker 1: coaching jobs. The one thing that's interesting, right, there's the
Speaker 1: second year of the Monday Night games. Well, last year
Speaker 1: the Rams won the Super Bowl playing in the Monday
Speaker 1: Night Game, but they played at home. So tonight the
Speaker 1: forty played on Saturday Day the first game, so they
Speaker 1: get the extra day on Sunday, and then they really
Speaker 1: get all day today. And even Kyle mentioned, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be at home watching this game. We're gonna prep for both,
Speaker 1: and I bet by about early on in that game,
Speaker 1: he told us coaches, let's just focus on Dallas. But
Speaker 1: now Dallas has to fly home the night. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not a math major here, but let's say three
Speaker 1: or four in the morning they get back to Dallas. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the players get tomorrow off, but the coaches are spent
Speaker 1: that they put they threw, you know, through the kitchen
Speaker 1: sink tonight. It's a lot, you know, it's snowballs on
Speaker 1: your fast. Like you said, the players there might not
Speaker 1: be flawless, but now you gotta get the coaches locked
Speaker 1: and loaded back. That's to me, is a pretty big
Speaker 1: disadvantage When you're the road team on Monday night and
Speaker 1: you end up playing, you know, a team that played
Speaker 1: on Saturday. That's a pretty big swing for rest. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think both the Giants and the Cowboys will come
Speaker 1: back down to earth against the Eagles and the Niners. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I was. I was laughing today about Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: He had three games this year over three yards tour
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. And I was talking to an NFL
Speaker 1: coach uh texting today and he said he thought the
Speaker 1: Vikings defensive coaching was abysmal. He said, those schemes, they
Speaker 1: they really really He echoed what Sean Payton said on
Speaker 1: my show today, which is they missed Mike Zimmer defensively,
Speaker 1: and they do so. Daniel Jones with a pass rush,
Speaker 1: the inability to run with Say Kwan is going to
Speaker 1: come back down to earth. And I think the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: with a two day rest disadvantage, probably come back down
Speaker 1: to earth. I you know, Dallas's defense has some really
Speaker 1: spectacular players. I still contend it's not consistently a great defense.
Speaker 1: So you know, listen, this is what's fun about the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I think the a F c is fascinating because now
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's missing three offensive line starters. Buffalo is not mistake prone.
Speaker 1: Uh so it's you know, I I think the NFC
Speaker 1: we see it as wide open. I think after this
Speaker 1: next weekend it won't look nearly as wide open. Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and the Niners will look like far and away the
Speaker 1: best teams. Yeah. To me, if the Niners stay healthy
Speaker 1: and Jalen is just nine plus percent, they feel like
Speaker 1: they're on a collision course before we dive into a
Speaker 1: couple of other things. Obviously, Tom I've been saying for
Speaker 1: a while he's a shell of himself, not from his
Speaker 1: inability to throw. Right, Breeze couldn't throw, Ben couldn't throw,
Speaker 1: Peyton couldn't throw. At the end, Tom could still throw.
Speaker 1: I mean hell, right until the end of that game,
Speaker 1: he was you can see the arm strength. He wants
Speaker 1: no part of being hit. I don't blame him. He's
Speaker 1: forty years old. I bet you go down ski slopes
Speaker 1: you know, yesterday differently than you would have thirty years ago. Right,
Speaker 1: You just there's a factor. His age makes no sense.
Speaker 1: But he can't play quarterback at a high level if
Speaker 1: he's not willing to stay in there because he's never
Speaker 1: been able to move, and that was always kind of
Speaker 1: a point of differentiation for him. He would stay in
Speaker 1: there and throw the dart at the last second, right,
Speaker 1: and now he just won't. And let's face it, no
Speaker 1: matter any of the teams that have options that no
Speaker 1: team has the mid nineties Cowboys offensive line. So he's
Speaker 1: gonna get hit. That's part of the sport right now,
Speaker 1: because well, offensive lines aren't that great. So I mean,
Speaker 1: what's he gonna do. Miami feels like the fit to
Speaker 1: me because that's a distribution offense with a lot of
Speaker 1: good weapons. But I was texting a friend tonight and
Speaker 1: I said, you know, Tom needs to now cherry picked
Speaker 1: teams without holes. Offensively, he no longer elevates others, right
Speaker 1: Whereas like when he went to Tampa, get me Tristan worse,
Speaker 1: get me Lenny, playoff, Lenny, bring wrong, get me a bat.
Speaker 1: The reality with taunt like brock Purty costs nothing for
Speaker 1: four years, he's more, he's in his prime. Tom's not.
Speaker 1: He's more mobile, he's um now he's gaining playoff experience.
Speaker 1: Like this idea that San Francisco is gonna make a
Speaker 1: move on him, they got Tray Lance Brock pretty and
Speaker 1: they're not paying either one of them anything. If you
Speaker 1: want to keep this defense, if you want to keep
Speaker 1: both those linebackers, if you want to keep all those
Speaker 1: d lineman, you gotta save somewhere. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think I think to your point, Brady now no longer elevates.
Speaker 1: He needs protection. You can't have a bad right tackle
Speaker 1: with Tom. You can't look at their offense in the
Speaker 1: last three months. You have to have a run game
Speaker 1: the Mahomes Burrow, Alan Herbert Um. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: go look at statistically, the Chargers don't do anything well
Speaker 1: and they took a twenty seven nothing lead in a
Speaker 1: playoff game on the road. Like so, I think I
Speaker 1: think Miami looks like a good fit for Tom in
Speaker 1: terms of they kind of have offensively, they kind of
Speaker 1: have all the pieces, a lot of bull screen guys,
Speaker 1: one over the top guy, tight end that one. And
Speaker 1: it's the San Francisco system. In San Francisco needs a
Speaker 1: quarterback that's upright and healthy seventeen eighteen weeks a year.
Speaker 1: When you look at the quarterbacks right now that are
Speaker 1: having success, beside Brady Cousins is the only guy probably
Speaker 1: in the top twelve who can't move. Every single guy
Speaker 1: can move. I mean, look at Party now, obviously, Lawrence Herbert,
Speaker 1: all the top guys, Burrow, Allen, you know, Rogers, Mahomes,
Speaker 1: I mean all these guys, Kyler went healthy, Lamar went healthy.
Speaker 1: That this is a movement. You know that that position
Speaker 1: is dramatically changed in five years overnight. I mean all
Speaker 1: these guys that there was not None of these guys
Speaker 1: are coming in the league like that either, right, All
Speaker 1: the college quarterbacks are all really athletic. You talked to
Speaker 1: Sean Payton today, uh when viral was it was I mean,
Speaker 1: that's about his candid of a coach ideal situation. Pretty cool.
Speaker 1: What was your big takeaway? Um, Sean's gonna be very picky.
Speaker 1: I'm having dinner with him tomorrow. Sean's going to be
Speaker 1: very picky on jobs. I asked him a question on
Speaker 1: the air that I kind of knew the answer to,
Speaker 1: but I wanted him to say it. Um. I said,
Speaker 1: owner and quarterback really is what matters to Sean stable owner,
Speaker 1: top quarterback. So you can start eliminating a lot of
Speaker 1: people over the next three or four days. Arizona Audios,
Speaker 1: Houston Um, yeah, so so, I mean I think it's
Speaker 1: I think, you know, in my opinion, Um, well, the Chargers.
Speaker 1: If McVeigh would have left, that would have been interesting
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Sean lives in Los Angeles and likes it
Speaker 1: a lot. But when I hear a lot of the
Speaker 1: reporting on where Sean would like to go, just to
Speaker 1: ask yourself, owner quarterback, he's not desperate. Shaan's making a
Speaker 1: lot of money at Fox. Fox loves him. We're not
Speaker 1: moving off him. I mean, you know, selfishly, I hope
Speaker 1: he stays with us one more year because I've had
Speaker 1: so much fun talking to him. You know. Looking at
Speaker 1: the Chargers pick, it's twenty one obviously recording this, Brandon
Speaker 1: Staley still employed. I mean, he was pretty candid today
Speaker 1: about it's gonna take a first round pick. I mean
Speaker 1: he's obviously boys with Nicky Loomis one. Could you see them?
Speaker 1: Could you see that coming together? If they fired Brandon
Speaker 1: Staley not only paying Sean baby, which is something the
Speaker 1: Chargers never did, and give it, I'd give a pick
Speaker 1: twenty one for him all day long. I mean that's
Speaker 1: the easy part. Will they pay him twenty plus million
Speaker 1: dollars a year? Yeah, Jimmy Johnson, the Spanos family. They
Speaker 1: offered Jimmy Johnson the job. And it's kind of well documented.
Speaker 1: Jimmy didn't want to live out West Jimmy, you know
Speaker 1: the Spike Miami like and and Jimmy's a Miami guy.
Speaker 1: They came and offered Jimmy the whole thing. The Spanos
Speaker 1: is from what I've been told through the years, Jim
Speaker 1: trotter Man and this, and he's he's very accurate. Jim
Speaker 1: does a great job. He's very accurate. You know. The
Speaker 1: Spanos says they're not going to give power to I
Speaker 1: mean to one guy. They're you know, sons are in
Speaker 1: the front office. I know they're sons. They're nice guys,
Speaker 1: they're bright. U t LESCo. They want everybody. I remember
Speaker 1: when Marty Schottenheimer wanted a son on his staff and
Speaker 1: a j Smith. The GM said no, and they you know,
Speaker 1: so um, this is an organization where they don't want
Speaker 1: one person having all the power. And I do think
Speaker 1: Sean really works with Talsco. Sean is passionate and intense,
Speaker 1: and Talsco is um very capable, very emotionally capable of
Speaker 1: dealing with a live, passionate coach. Um, so I think
Speaker 1: Sean would be perfect. You know, my guests as they
Speaker 1: stay with Brandon Staley. Um, you know they went from
Speaker 1: like nine wins to ten wins. Um. You know heard
Speaker 1: somebody two weeks ago I that I trust, I asked
Speaker 1: about Staley and I voiced my concerns on I think
Speaker 1: he's smart. I don't think they do anything particularly great
Speaker 1: run the ball, get turnovers. They're not a great second
Speaker 1: half offense or defense. What's their identity? And you know, Staley,
Speaker 1: like a lot of young smart coaches, UM, can I think,
Speaker 1: get a little stubborn. I've heard a tad stubborn on
Speaker 1: what he believes. Now, they did talk him out of
Speaker 1: some of these analytic decisions this year, but he clearly
Speaker 1: rolled that back a little bit this season. I just
Speaker 1: worry that two years in, what are they dable? Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, Kevin O'Connell created an identity in six games,
Speaker 1: Ryan Flores who got fired in Miami, but six games
Speaker 1: in you were like, wow, that defense and those special
Speaker 1: teams were two years in. Now, what do the Chargers
Speaker 1: do exceptionally? Well? I just think in action, when you
Speaker 1: have a talent at a quarterback is every year you
Speaker 1: waste with that guy and Herbert could have played a
Speaker 1: little bit better in that game. But you have the
Speaker 1: chance to be something special. I mean you play, you
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Speaker 1: you because I know you love the wiring of the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I saw Kittle talk to Peter King and on party,
Speaker 1: and he said failure is a big part of learning
Speaker 1: to play quarterback in this in the NFL. And Brock
Speaker 1: had success and failure in college, so nothing is really
Speaker 1: unknown to him. Since he's got here, he understands. And
Speaker 1: you see some of these quarterbacks that get to the
Speaker 1: NFL and have a lot of success. Patrick Mahomes failed
Speaker 1: a lot in college, Josh Allen up and down roller
Speaker 1: coaster in college, Joe Burrow had to leave a college. Right,
Speaker 1: these guys aren't just going to Alabama Ohio State and
Speaker 1: winning it all and just getting the job from the jump,
Speaker 1: go through ups and downs, because I what what he's
Speaker 1: doing obviously is unprecedented. But when you really dive in
Speaker 1: and look beside his size, all big twelve guy, first
Speaker 1: team twice, second team or is sophomore year so a
Speaker 1: lot of success and it didn't all go perfect, had
Speaker 1: a great year, and then a senior year didn't go
Speaker 1: as well. So mentally you watch him talk, you go, god,
Speaker 1: this guy kind of feels like he's talks like a quarterback,
Speaker 1: like he's not it's not too big for him. Well,
Speaker 1: the thing I really noticed, John, there not two things
Speaker 1: that jump out, and this is first of all, tells
Speaker 1: you how good Kyle Shanahan is hit all fifth round,
Speaker 1: Jennings sixth round, Elijah Mitchell sixth round, pretty seventh round.
Speaker 1: Name another offense in the league that has this many
Speaker 1: late round like highly productive players. Kyle's brilliant. That's first
Speaker 1: thing this system can take guy. Now, Kittle would have
Speaker 1: starred anywhere. I don't think the young guys would. The
Speaker 1: second thing is Matt Campbell's a very good football coach
Speaker 1: at Iowa State. If Harbaugh left, he would be a
Speaker 1: finalist for Michigan. They were very good with Purdy he left.
Speaker 1: They were awful this year the time out, so they
Speaker 1: were recruiting on the success with Purdy. The recruiting has
Speaker 1: got up. Campbell's coach the Big twelve was not very good,
Speaker 1: and I always stay it was awful. Maybe Brock Purty
Speaker 1: is Romo or Kurt Warner. He was just um either
Speaker 1: under scouted or overlooked. That like when I watched him.
Speaker 1: The one thing that jumps out to me he is
Speaker 1: his quick decision making is exceptional. Like he dirted that
Speaker 1: ball yesterday when the play blew up and he just
Speaker 1: dirted it. He really, you know, he um. He's very
Speaker 1: good at like moving out of the pocket and re
Speaker 1: establishing his feet and his shoulders like he's just mechanically.
Speaker 1: When I read the scouting on him, and you're a
Speaker 1: former NFL scout, it was he was sloppy and erratic.
Speaker 1: I think some of it is Kyle's coach, some of
Speaker 1: it out of him. He looks really, his feet are good,
Speaker 1: his decision making, you know, he straightens himself out. He
Speaker 1: goes from sideways quick to the feet. Some of this
Speaker 1: is Kyle. We gotta give Kyle a lot of credit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and I think he has some natural instincts
Speaker 1: and he's a better athlete. You know, his ten time
Speaker 1: the ten yard split in the forties, the same as
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey's. And Pete said after the game, he said,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't realize he was this mobile. I
Speaker 1: looked over there, I thought it was fran Tarkington running around.
Speaker 1: I mean they couldn't. I mean, they were chasing them all. Now,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys Micah probably does catch him, so he's got
Speaker 1: to be but he has a very good understanding of
Speaker 1: his speed relative to the guy chasing him, and that's
Speaker 1: something that you can only learn. You know, Trey Lance,
Speaker 1: for an athlete, didn't play very fast and in fairness
Speaker 1: to him, how would he played one season at a
Speaker 1: small school Purties used to see an NFL guys chase him.
Speaker 1: That's a really good point. I you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: write that down. That's a very good point. I heard
Speaker 1: the same thing about Trey Lance, that he's a power runner,
Speaker 1: more cam than Lamar, and that pretty is a little
Speaker 1: bit more twitchy than praise, big, strong, power arm. He's
Speaker 1: actually kind of the opposite of Pretty, where Brock is
Speaker 1: accurate twitchy, uh quick, Pray is a power arm. His football,
Speaker 1: his football smarts that I mean to have this offense
Speaker 1: down like he does is in st Matt Ryan said,
Speaker 1: it took him a year to figure it out. This
Speaker 1: guy's in his rookie season. It's it's it's pretty crazy
Speaker 1: to watch. Last, but not least, the day ball Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: What he's done with this quarterback, to me, has a
Speaker 1: lot of similarities what Jim Harbaugh did in two thousand
Speaker 1: eleven with Alex Smith. You know, a high pick who's
Speaker 1: probably not as talented as the elite guys, but clearly
Speaker 1: has a lot going for him. You know, Duke guy,
Speaker 1: Utah guy, smart, big, can move what he's got going
Speaker 1: on with Daniel Jones. Obviously, Minnesota's defense sucks, but just
Speaker 1: throughout this season it's been He's worth his weight in
Speaker 1: gold to the Giants immediately. Just doing that, I think
Speaker 1: the Alex Smith comps really smart. Um. I think Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones is a little bit better arm too. If you
Speaker 1: watch what they did doing so over the first let's say,
Speaker 1: until Thanksgiving, they pulled down the mistakes. They slightly elevated
Speaker 1: his completion percentage. This is what he did with Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: They eliminate the mistakes, they give him some easy lay
Speaker 1: up throws, take some risk out of it with Daniel.
Speaker 1: Now Daniels not Josh Allen athletically, but what they did was,
Speaker 1: I mean, Daniel led the NFL like in quarterback fumbles.
Speaker 1: The first couple of years, he was a mess. No,
Speaker 1: he was. He turning the ball over, not stopduced that,
Speaker 1: and then a little more accurate. And then after Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: a few weeks after it, then they kind of let
Speaker 1: him loose. Okay, we're gonna go from They let him loose,
Speaker 1: and they did it against the Vikings the first game. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Dabel looks at the film and says, this defense I
Speaker 1: can let him loose, and they did it again. So
Speaker 1: this is what worries me about Daniel. He's really his
Speaker 1: two best games of the year arguably were against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: He had a good game against the Lions. But Carolina
Speaker 1: ate him up, Dallas ate him up twice, Philadelphia him
Speaker 1: up once, him up once. I think Daniels limited. I
Speaker 1: think we're going crazy right now. I think what you
Speaker 1: do if you're the Giants, um, they got to get
Speaker 1: a tight end, a receiver, probably a corner. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be I don't think it's crazy. This sounds nuts. Fifth
Speaker 1: sixth round draft another quarterback, just I think, or your
Speaker 1: franchise tag him John that's more than you want to
Speaker 1: pay them. But they don't have a ton of huge contracts,
Speaker 1: right so say Kwan Dexter Lawrence. But they don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of big contracts. They're gonna rebuild this offensive lot.
Speaker 1: Both their tackles now, Evan Neil and Thomas are you know, cheap.
Speaker 1: They're gonna They're gonna draft receivers and tight ends. So
Speaker 1: this offense outside of Barkley is not very expensive. And
Speaker 1: he but he's a free agent, and it's hard. What
Speaker 1: do you do with running backs. You don't like giving
Speaker 1: him long term contracts, but damn, I think you have
Speaker 1: to keep him because of Daniel's little I think you
Speaker 1: have to. Okay, I got hit on one more thing.
Speaker 1: You might have talked about it in a showed that
Speaker 1: I didn't see the Lamar Jackson situation, which has clearly
Speaker 1: gotten weird. And my thoughts pretty simple. Money is all relative.
Speaker 1: So whether you make fifty grand you think you're worth eighty,
Speaker 1: whether you make a million dollars and you think you're
Speaker 1: were two, or whether you make twenty five million you
Speaker 1: think you're worth two. Things get weird when their animosity
Speaker 1: with money comes up, and in sports when injuries factor in.
Speaker 1: Things got weird in Baltimore. And it does feel like
Speaker 1: enough reporting from people that are in the know that
Speaker 1: they might have crossed, Like I wouldn't be stunned if
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is on another team. And usually you know,
Speaker 1: you just write out quarterbacks who are successful. But I
Speaker 1: had some people like, is it crazy? Maybe the Bears
Speaker 1: are open they get you know, justin fields they move
Speaker 1: on from them. The Bears kind of restart. What about
Speaker 1: Seattle they have a power run game. I think you
Speaker 1: have to. I think you have to. And and we
Speaker 1: know John will take some big swings with Pete. I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, I kind of expect him to be on
Speaker 1: another team. To be honest with you, at this point,
Speaker 1: there's a little Kauai and Leonard here, non verbal, too
Speaker 1: much mystery family involved, no agent, you know, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: just um you know, both Kauai and Lamar thought they
Speaker 1: were sort of overlooked into college, overlooked out of college,
Speaker 1: a little chip on their shoulder. Um yeah, I I
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was his call. I didn't
Speaker 1: like him not being in Cincinnati, but you know that
Speaker 1: what's really interesting, John, when you look at Baltimore playing
Speaker 1: Huntley in Cincinnati almost pulled that thing off, that culture
Speaker 1: and that that kind of power football. You could go,
Speaker 1: that's the kind where you could bring in a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback if he had two or three years starting. I mean,
Speaker 1: Kenny pick it. At the end of the year, Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: felt like a playoff team. I think culture in Baltimore. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean, I really like what Lamar brings to the table,
Speaker 1: but I could see them starting over and just saying listen,
Speaker 1: we it's not working. By by the way, would they
Speaker 1: What if they went and got Anthony Richardson from Florida,
Speaker 1: you know, and and they just said, listen, we're gonna
Speaker 1: do what we did with Lamar. We're just gonna get
Speaker 1: tight ends, running backs, linemen and defense around him. I
Speaker 1: could see him doing it Baltimore. So their culture is
Speaker 1: so formidable, you're not gonna score much on that defense
Speaker 1: over the next two years. I mean, they took to
Speaker 1: average pack twelve quarterbacks and Huntley and Brown and competed
Speaker 1: in games. That's insane. You know, those those guys couldn't
Speaker 1: play in the Pac twelve. It's crazy, You're right, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you see what they do with talent like Lamar. Sure, well, Colin,
Speaker 1: what you get on with your night? Fun talking to you?
Speaker 1: And uh should be a fun week. Alright, Buddy good seen. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's dive into the middle cough mail bag. But before
Speaker 1: we do, I just want to hit on a couple
Speaker 1: of quick things. I probably mentioned it yesterday on Sunday
Speaker 1: Night's pod, but there was a lot going on. Maybe
Speaker 1: I missed it. I definitely talked about it on Twitter
Speaker 1: with some people. The final play for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: I've seen it now several times. My issue always with
Speaker 1: a situation on fourth down, not in the middle of
Speaker 1: a game, but at the end of a game, especially
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, when you run arount or a play
Speaker 1: even if the quote unquote hot route or the underneath
Speaker 1: is there for a reason, right to clear out a
Speaker 1: defender or whatever, that if the quarterback eventually goes there,
Speaker 1: it's a disaster. And obviously Cousins did so I put
Speaker 1: some blame on the coach for calling a play that
Speaker 1: calls for a guy well be uh you know before
Speaker 1: the sticks that he would especially if he's covered, would
Speaker 1: have to make him miraculous broken tackle, stiff arm. I
Speaker 1: don't even know to get the first down. Now when
Speaker 1: I've rewatched the play. Here's another issue I have, and
Speaker 1: this is the ultimate knock on Kirk Cousins, who has
Speaker 1: turned in to a really good player. Is Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: ever gonna be any of the top five six guys? No,
Speaker 1: but as he's solid somewhere between ten to twelve, and
Speaker 1: you can win double digit games and make the playoffs
Speaker 1: with him every year. Yes, And there's something to be
Speaker 1: said about that Minnesota Vikings are gonna print cash. They're
Speaker 1: never gonna win the Super Bowl with the guy. But
Speaker 1: they're always gonna be competitive and they should be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs for the foreseeable future with him playing quarterback.
Speaker 1: But when you watch the play now, he's about to
Speaker 1: get hit. But I don't know if he truly feels
Speaker 1: the pressure. The knock on him in league circles has
Speaker 1: always been he's very robotic, right, Like, why is brock
Speaker 1: Purty having some success because he can make plays? Right? Obviously,
Speaker 1: the top guys Burrow, Alan Mahomes, you know, Lamar went Healthy,
Speaker 1: those guys, Herbert, those guys can make plays with their legs,
Speaker 1: Rogers forever. They're very athletic and they can add lib
Speaker 1: on the fly. Because every play call, whether it's fourth
Speaker 1: down with the season on the line or just some
Speaker 1: random play call in the middle of a game in
Speaker 1: the middle of the season, it is not always gonna
Speaker 1: work right. Sometimes you're gonna get wrong looks, sometimes the
Speaker 1: defense is going to disguise stuff. It's just football players
Speaker 1: don't always work and I need the quarterback to uh
Speaker 1: to make some place. And when you watch that, Cousins
Speaker 1: goes in to what he's always been, a robot And
Speaker 1: when you watch his eyes on that play. It's one
Speaker 1: to boom, and that works the majority of his career,
Speaker 1: because the majority of his football career is not fourth
Speaker 1: and eight in the playoffs, one to not there, getting
Speaker 1: getting at rid of the football. He's just very robotic,
Speaker 1: and that play, to me, symbolizes a lot of when
Speaker 1: I say the bad with Cousins, I would say the limitations.
Speaker 1: It's hard for him to add lib on the fly.
Speaker 1: This is not his deal. And as long as you
Speaker 1: know that, it's why I put a lot like you're
Speaker 1: dealing with somewhat of a robot. So when you call
Speaker 1: a play with that being the option, like he might
Speaker 1: go there, you know somewhat is on the coach to
Speaker 1: just not call the play. Now, if Cousins audible into
Speaker 1: the play or whatever, then obviously I don't know the
Speaker 1: details of it, but I cannot call a play without
Speaker 1: guys at least close to the sticks on fourth to date,
Speaker 1: if I'm running a guy two yards off the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, I mean, that's it's a long way to go.
Speaker 1: It just is. I saw that Pete Carroll said that
Speaker 1: he talked to Gino Smith about a contract. Obviously they
Speaker 1: finished on Saturday, so they've had the last couple of
Speaker 1: days to talk and they want him there, and Gino
Speaker 1: would be smart to stay if they do want them,
Speaker 1: if they can figure out the financials and really want
Speaker 1: to say, figure out the financials, Like, who's really throwing
Speaker 1: a lot of bread at Gino? Probably not, uh to me?
Speaker 1: If you could sign them to like a two year
Speaker 1: fifty million dollar deal paying them twenty five a year
Speaker 1: and guarantee like so basically guarantee one year of it,
Speaker 1: Like who are you competing against for that contract? So
Speaker 1: you're you're compensating a guy who just can throw thirty touchdowns,
Speaker 1: high character guy, but you're also not like breaking the
Speaker 1: bank for him. I don't know, giving the guy hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars because go get a hundred million dollar contract
Speaker 1: on the open market. I bet you can't. Because ultimately
Speaker 1: Gino is the ideal Bridge quarterback. For a lot of years,
Speaker 1: Bridge quarterbacks were like Mike Glennan, you know, Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: Like to me, if for whatever reason, Trey Lance is
Speaker 1: not on the Niners next year, I would sign Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton to be Brock Purty's backup. Got there's certain guys
Speaker 1: that become backup quarterbacks when they're done starting and then
Speaker 1: they're kind of quote unquote bridge quarterbacks. Alex Smith was one.
Speaker 1: I think Gino Smith. Now we'll see Alex had done
Speaker 1: it longer. But if he plays just at a solid level,
Speaker 1: that can you know, put you in the eight to
Speaker 1: ten win range. That's an excellent bridge quarterback. And you
Speaker 1: can still pull the trigger on drafting a guy, uh
Speaker 1: if you feel, you know, you like one of them
Speaker 1: high in the draft, because what are they picking fifth?
Speaker 1: I I sometimes I gotta relook at drafts because it's
Speaker 1: not the actual teams like, oh yeah, they traded with them,
Speaker 1: they traded with Denver, they traded with the Rams, they
Speaker 1: traded with the Browns. Because that's a lot of that.
Speaker 1: That's the Eagles pick. That that happens a lot in
Speaker 1: this draft. There are a lot of teams drafting like
Speaker 1: the top twelve that actually are like in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: we're pretty competitive. You're like, you know, the Lions went
Speaker 1: nine and eight. They're also they gotta also pick in
Speaker 1: the teams. You kind of gotta do some mental gymnastics,
Speaker 1: but by about another month we'll just know. I mean
Speaker 1: I already do. But sometimes when you look at it,
Speaker 1: you gotta kind of mix and match the teams. But
Speaker 1: I think Gino Smith, assuming the Pete Carroll wants them,
Speaker 1: which it sure sounds like he does, that they will
Speaker 1: him do a number that will be far less than
Speaker 1: what some of these people are talking about. Uh. Last,
Speaker 1: before we dive into a couple of mailback questions, Harbaugh
Speaker 1: officially announced that he's staying at Michigan, and I think
Speaker 1: part one of his quotes in his press release was like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's not a happy happy or happy happier
Speaker 1: or something like that, basically like when you're happy, like
Speaker 1: you got it pretty good. And I think he's realized,
Speaker 1: like I got a pretty good deal at Michigan. The
Speaker 1: Big Ten isn't quite the SEC, but in terms of interest,
Speaker 1: it's not far behind. Both those conferences are basically like
Speaker 1: the NFL Light They do huge television ratings, You get
Speaker 1: paid a lot of money. You know you gonna go
Speaker 1: to the Denver Broncos. Because I think Mike Cliffs, who's
Speaker 1: boys with Elway and boys all the Denver guys, said
Speaker 1: that Harbach called, I want to say the owner, I
Speaker 1: mean technically is the owner. He's the owner's son in law. Uh.
Speaker 1: The dude that's that runs the Broncos to say he
Speaker 1: was out. I think they had talked a couple of times.
Speaker 1: Why would you want to Why would you want to
Speaker 1: mess with Russell? You know, why would you want to
Speaker 1: do that? It's just too risky that he's never gonna
Speaker 1: be any good again. And like that, there's a decent
Speaker 1: chance that he is, even if he gets some mojo back,
Speaker 1: he's of what he once was. I got into an
Speaker 1: argument with a guy on Instagram. I'm not afraid to
Speaker 1: mix it up on the social media streets and the
Speaker 1: d M s he was. He was very mad. He's like,
Speaker 1: you talk a lot about investing, how about seeing the
Speaker 1: big picture long term? Row I, how can you call
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos move a disaster because what we saw
Speaker 1: this year, like typically a guy at thirty three years
Speaker 1: old doesn't just fall off a fucking cliff and then
Speaker 1: when he factor in, he doesn't move like he once
Speaker 1: was and part of his deep ball accuracy, like d
Speaker 1: K mccalf played a pretty big role in that for
Speaker 1: three years. So that guy does not exist. You kind
Speaker 1: of gotta be a little bit more of a surgeon,
Speaker 1: and that's never really been his deal. It's been ad
Speaker 1: living and he's one of the great ad libbers of
Speaker 1: all time. And the other thing with Russell is he
Speaker 1: pushed back when it's like, let's run the ball. Let's
Speaker 1: run the ball thirty five times a year. So while
Speaker 1: the you know, a lot of the analytical nerds were
Speaker 1: like let Russ cook. Also a big part of it
Speaker 1: was like people like Russ's, people like let me cook.
Speaker 1: He was the guy pushing that narrative. So I think
Speaker 1: Hardbob made the right decision to not take the Broncos
Speaker 1: job and just maybe see what's out there next year. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's never coming back to the NFL,
Speaker 1: but he definitely has a pretty happy situation when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Michigan Wolverines. Okay, let's dive into a
Speaker 1: couple of Middlecoff mail back questions firing those Middlecoff mailbacks
Speaker 1: at John Middlecoff, is the Instagram there wide open, more
Speaker 1: than welcome to firing. I need some questions. I went
Speaker 1: through and I probably spent like an hour and a
Speaker 1: half just answering some questions. Uh, no, big deal. I
Speaker 1: had some time in my hands today Martin MLK day,
Speaker 1: so I I manually answered some of you guys, and
Speaker 1: if some of people have asked me questions like a
Speaker 1: month ago, it like cut me off after two weeks.
Speaker 1: I couldn't keep going back. I don't know what uh
Speaker 1: woman man Zuckerberg is doing at the Meta headquarters, but
Speaker 1: the apps was acting funny. I used to be able
Speaker 1: to basically go back forever, I go back two months
Speaker 1: and keep answering questions. It wouldn't let me do that. Uh,
Speaker 1: now you can also blame me. I let it go
Speaker 1: for a while. I gotta try to like carve a
Speaker 1: couple of hours a week just to answer questions for
Speaker 1: the ones I don't get, try to interact with the people.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Okay, question. As a Herbert fan,
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if maybe he's not quite as good as
Speaker 1: we help. It's easy to blame coaching and injuries, but
Speaker 1: if he needs a perfect situation to find success, then
Speaker 1: we're looking someone akin to car or cousins. Do you
Speaker 1: think Saturday's loss is mostly a result of coaching. I
Speaker 1: think there's two ways to look at it. There are
Speaker 1: people that just want to shoot on him, to shoot
Speaker 1: on him, and those people are idiots. And you can
Speaker 1: also say objectively like he could be a little bit better,
Speaker 1: but he has a coach which I'm not even talking
Speaker 1: the head coach, the offensive coordinator who is fire able.
Speaker 1: And he has a head coach that you know by
Speaker 1: the time you listen to is maybe he's fired. If
Speaker 1: he's not fired, that's insane. Kind of a chaotic situation. Now,
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert is not Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen or Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: So when we say he's really good, like there is
Speaker 1: a trio of young guys that are in their own
Speaker 1: little world, but he's proven that he's not far behind
Speaker 1: him and the stats for him kind of speak for themselves.
Speaker 1: He's been excellent. So could they have used could he
Speaker 1: have hit the Keenan Allen on the one play? Yes,
Speaker 1: of course. But this notion that like he thinks or
Speaker 1: he's underachieving, like there is not a team in the league.
Speaker 1: They would laugh at you if you compared him to
Speaker 1: Carr Cousins. They really would. So I would say he
Speaker 1: can improve, he could go to another level. Um, but
Speaker 1: part of going to another level, like look at Josh
Speaker 1: Allen had Brian Dable, look at Patrick Mahomes had Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow might be a freak, and doesn't you know
Speaker 1: he had a Who's Your on? And now he's got
Speaker 1: Zach Taylor, so maybe it doesn't even matter for him.
Speaker 1: But I would say most guys from Joe Montana to
Speaker 1: Tom Brady needed some assistance from good coaching. But by
Speaker 1: no means is is Herbert number one or even top
Speaker 1: three or really four? But like, let's look at the group.
Speaker 1: Would you take him over Cousins or Dak Prescott or
Speaker 1: Derek Carr? Of course you would, right, Would you take
Speaker 1: him over Kyler and Lamar? You wouldn't even hesitate. So
Speaker 1: Tom Brady sixty years old, Aaron Rodgers when he's on,
Speaker 1: is better than him, clearly, but he is also thirty nine.
Speaker 1: He talks about retirement like every other day. So really
Speaker 1: the top three guys I listed and Trevor when he's on,
Speaker 1: but Trevor can also be off. But you know in
Speaker 1: two years Trevor could easily be better than Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: and that that wouldn't be that crazy. Longtime listener and
Speaker 1: enjoy your takes. Question for the pot this is brocks floor.
Speaker 1: What are his ceiling possibilities? I mean with more reps
Speaker 1: and another offseason working on arm strength and accuracy. Sky's
Speaker 1: the limit, right, I get a lot of questions like
Speaker 1: what's your camp and just texting with buddies on brock Purty.
Speaker 1: There really aren't that many brock Purties, right, because he's
Speaker 1: kind of got the Drew Brees build. But he's pretty
Speaker 1: damn athletic, right. His ten time in the forty was
Speaker 1: the same as Christian McCaffrey's. And you saw him against
Speaker 1: Seattle like the you could scramble around. And here's the
Speaker 1: other thing about his scrambling. I say this all the
Speaker 1: time when it comes to quarterbacks, and it's not like
Speaker 1: I came up with this. I learned this when I
Speaker 1: was around football in college in the pros. Instincts, instincts, instincts.
Speaker 1: You can't teach what you can through experience, and he
Speaker 1: has a lot of experience. Four year starter in the
Speaker 1: Big twelve, multiple time All Big Twelve first team and
Speaker 1: one time second team. So for three years he was
Speaker 1: one of the best two quarterbacks in the Big twelve,
Speaker 1: an offensive conference. So he got a ton of reps. Right.
Speaker 1: His athletic ability, even Pete Carroll was like I was
Speaker 1: shocked how athletic he was in person. I thought he
Speaker 1: was Fran Tarkington. He can really move around behind the pocket.
Speaker 1: But he's not a runner, right, He's not Lamar Kyler.
Speaker 1: That's not really his game. But he can scramble like
Speaker 1: a younger Russell Wilson or Deshaun Watson behind the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, keep his head up and keep making throws.
Speaker 1: That to me is I didn't realize, not that I'll
Speaker 1: be honest. I don't watch a lot of Iowa State football,
Speaker 1: So any of you fans that watch a lot of
Speaker 1: Big twelve, and I've seen him playing in college, I
Speaker 1: don't know if he was this mobile in terms of
Speaker 1: they asked him to do this, but that has been
Speaker 1: a major, major reason for his success so far in
Speaker 1: the pros. And he's got sixteen touchdowns before picks. Obviously
Speaker 1: he could have thrown a couple more interceptions, and he
Speaker 1: easily could have thrown a couple more picks, so I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of evened out. I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: four to one ratio right now, but his mobility has
Speaker 1: been beyond eye opening. So when you talk about his ceilings,
Speaker 1: like I don't see why he couldn't you know. I
Speaker 1: mean took Kirk Cousins a long time to get going.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, you know, those guys are bigger, but like
Speaker 1: Brock's every bit the playmaker. Now, the one thing Brock
Speaker 1: benefits from is a really good supporting cast, right, I
Speaker 1: mean I used to study Debos, a star kills a star, McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: Mitchell studs, used Jackson stud his offensive coordinators study. He's got,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty good landing spot. It's also why we
Speaker 1: bet on Trey Lance. You're like ship, how do you
Speaker 1: screw this up? And then we watched them, you know,
Speaker 1: play four games like god, he really struggles to make
Speaker 1: plays happen. Brock Party gets in there immediately play started happening.
Speaker 1: Either make plays or you don't. As Charles Woodson one
Speaker 1: said when I was around the Raiders when he was there,
Speaker 1: work hard and make place, right. There's just a couple
Speaker 1: of things that is demanded in football. You come every
Speaker 1: day ready to grind, and then when the game starts,
Speaker 1: makes it happen like no one really. You can give
Speaker 1: excuses all you want, like you either make plays or
Speaker 1: you don't. After a while, and Brock Party just makes place.
Speaker 1: You know. I'd be honest, I didn't see it coming.
Speaker 1: It's like I would have bet the house on this,
Speaker 1: but it's happening. We're all seeing it. Just listen to
Speaker 1: Sunday's episode. I'm glad someone finally said it. Tony Dungee
Speaker 1: is a wet towel of commentary. Even when he was
Speaker 1: on set, he would make bland statements, providing minimal insight.
Speaker 1: Some people have pushed back to me that that al
Speaker 1: Michaels was also terrible, and maybe I didn't notice because
Speaker 1: I've really listened to some of the costs. They weren't great.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, they were not great. He was I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say comatos, but he definitely didn't have all the juice.
Speaker 1: I do think your partner in crime in a booth
Speaker 1: when it comes to play by play guys, impacts your
Speaker 1: energy now hours old and Jack's chargers. I was in
Speaker 1: a lot of bigger games than that, but the game
Speaker 1: turned out to be really good and he wasn't great.
Speaker 1: But I cannot get away from blaming the dudes at
Speaker 1: NBC for putting on one of the most boring human beings.
Speaker 1: If I wanted someone to talk to my team or
Speaker 1: give me a leadership advice or coach a team, or
Speaker 1: you know, talk about the Bible. Tone Dungee might be
Speaker 1: your man, but not everyone is meant to have a
Speaker 1: mic in front of their mouth, because having a mic
Speaker 1: in front of your mouth, you gotta entertained, you gotta
Speaker 1: have a little something to you and say what you
Speaker 1: want about Tony Romo. There's a lot of energy there.
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen feels very well prepared. Troy Aikman, damn good
Speaker 1: at his job. Herb Street with College, damn good at
Speaker 1: his job. John Smoltz, we can go around the horn
Speaker 1: here and pick a lot of guys that are good
Speaker 1: with a mic in front of them if you're a
Speaker 1: golf guy. For every Johnny Miller was just he had
Speaker 1: it because he wasn't afraid to say whatever that's which is.
Speaker 1: This is an entertainment property in NBC. Whoever the you know,
Speaker 1: coastal elite that put Tony Dungee on the broadcast, I'm
Speaker 1: sure they'll be like, well, I did a historic rating
Speaker 1: on on Saturday Night. I could bend over and talk
Speaker 1: like Ace fin Tura with my butt cheeks and the
Speaker 1: rating would be wouldn't be impacted. It does not matter now.
Speaker 1: Obviously having a better crew. You know, Burkhardt and and
Speaker 1: Olsen are good, Buck and Aikman are good. But we're
Speaker 1: watching football regardless. Look at the ratings. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of bad cruise all over the NFL, and we
Speaker 1: consume it anyway. So to throw Tony Dungee, you have
Speaker 1: an ability to hire anybody, any young up and comer,
Speaker 1: any solid former player who's done it before. There are
Speaker 1: a million options to put him there. I thought was insane.
Speaker 1: I I thought it was malpractice. I thought it was
Speaker 1: an embarrassment for us, the consumer who give our time.
Speaker 1: And I say it all the time like I did.
Speaker 1: I'm not being sarcastic here. Our time is the most
Speaker 1: valuable thing we have and we give a lot of
Speaker 1: it to the NFL, and in big games. Historically, they've
Speaker 1: given us Madden, they've given us Al Michaels, They've given
Speaker 1: us Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. I like collins Worth
Speaker 1: Tariko that these are big time guys. Say what you
Speaker 1: want about Gruden, he was entertaining there for a while.
Speaker 1: You can't give me Tony Dungee with all the marbles
Speaker 1: on the line on my Saturday night. Now, I do
Speaker 1: this for a living. I got no choice. And some
Speaker 1: of you, you're addicts, you ain't gonna miss it. But
Speaker 1: for some people are like, that's kind of boring watching
Speaker 1: this guy. Luckily the game, you know, made up for it,
Speaker 1: but holy Connoli, that's just how does that happen? Okay,
Speaker 1: audios firing those d M s at John Middlecoff and
Speaker 1: um we will see you later in the week. Peace.
Speaker 1: The volume