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Speaker 2: and he said we could have eight to ten openings
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Speaker 2: of the Dan Patrick Show. The Packers lost Christian Watson
Speaker 2: for the playoffs. Now I'm watching this game, and I'm
Speaker 2: watching this in real time, and you can tell when
Speaker 2: somebody gets hurt and they know they're hurt, and it's
Speaker 2: not just hey, I got banged up, it's this is serious.
Speaker 2: And you solved his reaction and then I knew. I said,
Speaker 2: he probably tours ACL and that's what it turned out
Speaker 2: to be. This is one of those Wow to me,
Speaker 2: people aren't talking about the Packers. The Packers have a
Speaker 2: good defense, they can run. You got Jordan Love. Now
Speaker 2: you lose watching that's a big loss, big loss, and it's.
Speaker 3: Probably being underplayed here.
Speaker 2: But I think everybody's been focused, certainly on the Lions,
Speaker 2: and I'm looking at point spreads. So DraftKings sent me
Speaker 2: some point spreads. These are hypothetical matchups. The Vikings would
Speaker 2: get three and a half against the Lions. In a rematch,
Speaker 2: the Rams would get six and a half against the Lions.
Speaker 2: The Packers would get three and a half against the Lions,
Speaker 2: the Ravens would get one against the Bills, the Vikings
Speaker 2: would get four against the Eagles, Chargers four and a
Speaker 2: half against the Chiefs, Texans get seven against the Chiefs,
Speaker 2: and the Buccaneers would get six and a half if
Speaker 2: they face the Eagles. The Eagles situation is also something interesting.
Speaker 2: This is being under sold as well, and that's Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 2: He's been in concussion protocol and that's why I was
Speaker 2: all for sake one Barklay not playing in that last game.
Speaker 2: What I'd like to see him break the record. Sure,
Speaker 2: but you have to have a bigger goal than an
Speaker 2: individual goal. And you can't say, well, you can get
Speaker 2: hurt in it every game. You can't get hurt in
Speaker 2: the game you don't play in. I want to make
Speaker 2: sure my quarterback's in concussion protocol. Is he going to
Speaker 2: be available to play? I don't know that. But here's
Speaker 2: Nick Siriani being very evasive about the health of his quarterback.
Speaker 1: As you put the game plan together, is it with
Speaker 1: the intention of jaelling is the starting quarterback this weekend?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I have no new information for you guys, like I
Speaker 4: said yesterday, progressing through the protocol.
Speaker 5: Are you able to say if he's in the building today?
Speaker 3: I got no new info for you guys here today.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Wait, you can't confirm he's in the building?
Speaker 2: Nikes, where's shifty when you need him somebody outside spying
Speaker 2: on a grassy knoll to see if it's that hurts?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: See, what is the huge benefit to holding back that
Speaker 6: bombshell information unless he's.
Speaker 2: Not in the building and that he's at a hospital
Speaker 2: or wherever you go for concussion protocol. I think what
Speaker 2: Nick has done is he's made it worse. I can't
Speaker 2: even tell you if he's in the building or not
Speaker 2: now all of a sudden, I'm really curious. But this
Speaker 2: is Nick Siriani who doesn't handle the media very well.
Speaker 2: And in this situation, you know, if he's there, there's
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with saying that he's not here today.
Speaker 3: We expect him tomorrow. Like you can move around these things.
Speaker 2: Sometimes these coaches try not to tell you something while
Speaker 2: in the process really telling you something. All right, poll
Speaker 2: question to start out first down? Or is going to
Speaker 2: be what seeden most attractive opening?
Speaker 3: Right now?
Speaker 6: Wow, Bear's Jaguars, Jets, Patriots sings.
Speaker 2: Okay, by the way, I had a source say, hey,
Speaker 2: keep an eye out on the Colts Monday.
Speaker 3: They may be blowing this thing up. Well they didn't.
Speaker 2: They brought back their coach and GM, but they fired
Speaker 2: their defensive coordinator, Gus Bradley. I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: really detonating anything here, but somebody had to pay the price.
Speaker 2: So Gus Bradley was fired with the Colts. But the
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurt situation that bears watching here practice coming up
Speaker 2: tomorrow will certainly get a better indication if Kenny Pickett
Speaker 2: is going to be the answer. You don't like the
Speaker 2: question if you're a Philadelphia Egle fan. North Dakota State
Speaker 2: they won the FCS title. The Bison they win again.
Speaker 2: I think that's ten national championships, and we were thinking,
Speaker 2: if you win the national championship in FCS, can we
Speaker 2: schedule something where you get to play the team that
Speaker 2: wins the national championship.
Speaker 3: Let's say Ohio State.
Speaker 2: Wins and Week zero you get North Dakota State against
Speaker 2: Ohio State. Now it's not going to be on a
Speaker 2: neutral site because Ohio State wouldn't do that. But you
Speaker 2: get North Dakota State, big moment. Now, granted, the team
Speaker 2: that won the national championship won't be the team that
Speaker 2: takes the field next year. That could be a problem,
Speaker 2: but that'd be nice because I'm all for legation. I
Speaker 2: think that would be awesome if we eventually get to
Speaker 2: my playoff picture, my landscape for college football, which maybe
Speaker 2: the top fifty schools, maybe sixty, split them up in divisions,
Speaker 2: and you have an NFL style model.
Speaker 3: But could you have that last.
Speaker 2: Day, that last game, those last games where they mean
Speaker 2: something where you better win or you're going to FCS
Speaker 2: or if you win, you're going up to FBS, you
Speaker 2: get to play, and the money is going to be
Speaker 2: a lot more. I think it would be fun to
Speaker 2: watch that. I don't know how practical it is, but
Speaker 2: I think if you had that, just like with the
Speaker 2: Premier League, like sometimes you'll have those last days where
Speaker 2: you're like, uh, oh score differential, gold differential, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: we're in trouble.
Speaker 3: Now you're going to be relegated. No, not the R word,
Speaker 3: You're relegated.
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Speaker 4: Based off that North Dakota State would be promoted to
Speaker 4: maybe the Big twelve, and unfortunately this year Kent State
Speaker 4: would drop down to FCS Kent State one.
Speaker 2: No, I think Kent State probably should be relegated, even
Speaker 2: though there's no relegation. They lost every game, but I
Speaker 2: think over thirty points like they weren't even they like
Speaker 2: winning was a rumor for them.
Speaker 3: Maybe not even a rumor for that.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see a couple other things here, some
Speaker 2: facts that you might be interested in. Bo Nicks is
Speaker 2: twenty four years, three hundred and twenty two days, and
Speaker 2: that will be on Sunday. That's how old he will be,
Speaker 2: the second oldest rookie quarterback to start an NFL playing
Speaker 2: playoff game. I could give you a hundred gain, I'd
Speaker 2: give you a thousand guesses. You aren't going to guess
Speaker 2: the oldest rookie to start a playoff game in NFL history.
Speaker 2: It did happen in twenty twenty two. If if that's
Speaker 2: a hint for you, I'll give you his college, which
Speaker 2: would probably give it away. I believe he played at
Speaker 2: Kansas State, and he takers here not Michael Bishop. That
Speaker 2: was Marvin you were going, there were Skuyler, Thompson.
Speaker 3: Paul Tooley.
Speaker 7: Just like stat of the Day, Sat of the day,
Speaker 7: that passed out of the day, stat of the day,
Speaker 7: here comes that what stand.
Speaker 3: Out of the day? All right?
Speaker 2: So the best opening West Devin mccordy, about that, with
Speaker 2: the openings that we had, you had Robert Kraft. I
Speaker 2: can't say this was a press conference. It was just
Speaker 2: he addressed the media yesterday and he kind of fell
Speaker 2: on the sword where he fired drowd Mail after one year, this.
Speaker 5: Whole situation is on me.
Speaker 8: I feel terrible for Girard because I put him in
Speaker 8: an untenable situation. It was very hard because the personal
Speaker 8: relationship I feel for Girard and the human being he is,
Speaker 8: and I felt guilty I put him in that position.
Speaker 3: Okay, yes you did.
Speaker 2: You know, everybody's a genius when you got Belichick and Brady,
Speaker 2: and then when you only have one, not everybody's a genius,
Speaker 2: including the genius. And then when you don't have either,
Speaker 2: then it falls back to who's running this team. And
Speaker 2: the Crafts have been running this team, not Bill Belichick
Speaker 2: the last five years and maybe longer Okay, you have
Speaker 2: Gerrod Mayo, who is a coach in waiting. Now Belichick
Speaker 2: didn't know apparently that they had already put this in
Speaker 2: his contract that he was going to be the coach
Speaker 2: in waiting. That's the first problem. You have to let
Speaker 2: Bill know because and Bill may say, hey, then I
Speaker 2: don't want to be around and you may have to
Speaker 2: eat that one. But you can't do that to Belichick.
Speaker 2: Where you go, we're going to put this in the
Speaker 2: language in your contract, you're the coach in waiting, and
Speaker 2: then tell me that after five years of being the
Speaker 2: coach in waiting, he's not ready to be the coach
Speaker 2: after waiting five years.
Speaker 3: See, that's embarrassing. Now.
Speaker 2: I think what this came down to was not necessarily
Speaker 2: the performance on the field as much as maybe handling
Speaker 2: yourself as a head coach. And I think Drodmeyo failed
Speaker 2: with those responsibilities because I think he wanted to be
Speaker 2: the antithesis of Bill Belichick. When he went to a
Speaker 2: press conference, he was actually going to say something. Maybe
Speaker 2: he was a little more confrontational with his players, not
Speaker 2: that far removed from being a player himself, and I
Speaker 2: don't think he handled himself the way maybe the Crafts
Speaker 2: wanted him to handle himself as a head coach. I
Speaker 2: don't know what they expected because you didn't spend any money.
Speaker 2: You have a quarterback, you kind of have a running back.
Speaker 2: You were supposed to have a really good defense. The
Speaker 2: last part of last season. You were one of the
Speaker 2: better defenses in the NFL. Now you're going to bring
Speaker 2: in who Brian Flores, You're going to bring in Mike Rabel,
Speaker 2: Ben Johnson. But I don't know if you make that
Speaker 2: move unless you know, like, what if they whiff on
Speaker 2: Vrabel Ben Johnson.
Speaker 3: Let's say Brian Flores the defensive coordinator with the Vikings.
Speaker 2: Now, what are you going to bring in another inexperienced
Speaker 2: head coaching candidate, Like you can't whiff Like they have
Speaker 2: to get their person, They have to get Mike Rabel.
Speaker 3: It feels like Ben Johnson. We don't know.
Speaker 2: As I've said many many times, not every coordinator should
Speaker 2: be a head coach. Ben Johnson has done a wonderful
Speaker 2: job in Detroit.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Once again, you.
Speaker 2: Can be great at your job, but there are other
Speaker 2: jobs that go with that. How do you handle prescott differences?
Speaker 2: It's really important, is Pete Carroll going to get a shot.
Speaker 2: It feels like there's some momentum that maybe he gets
Speaker 2: a shot. I don't know why. Now he's been available
Speaker 2: in the last couple of years. It's one of those
Speaker 2: that it's like, you know, you find out that some
Speaker 2: girls available and you didn't know she was available, and
Speaker 2: you're like, well, what happened? I didn't know that Pam
Speaker 2: Anderson's available? Well maybe Pete Carroll is the Pam Anderson
Speaker 2: of the NFL. Nice you know he's available, Okay? And
Speaker 2: the Patriots got cap room. They have I think over
Speaker 2: one hundred million dollars. Why weren't they spending that before?
Speaker 2: If you're not going to spend it now, that'd be
Speaker 2: my first question. If I'm going to be Mike Brabel
Speaker 2: and I walk in and go, why do we have
Speaker 2: a hundred million dollars that we didn't spend? Can we
Speaker 2: can we buy a receiver? Can we can we buy
Speaker 2: offensive line? Can we buy a running back? Could we
Speaker 2: have gotten Saquon Barkley?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You just asked questions where why are you stockpiling all
Speaker 2: this money? Are we going to spend this money now?
Speaker 2: I'm interestooed in the job. If not, why would you
Speaker 2: take that job? Yes, you got Drake May, but you
Speaker 2: need more than Drake May. You're gonna win four or
Speaker 2: five six games. Okay, that's not the Patriot The Patriot
Speaker 2: way is done. Okay, the Patriot way was Belichick and Brady.
Speaker 2: Let's be honest here, it's not the Crafts. It's Belichick
Speaker 2: and Brady. Because once the emperor has no clothes, it's
Speaker 2: pretty freaking cold. And that's what you have going on there.
Speaker 2: How did it get here? And it happened right before
Speaker 2: our very eyes? Yes, Pauline.
Speaker 4: That being said, even though it was an awkward day
Speaker 4: for the Patriots, could it have been the right decision?
Speaker 4: Because you have cap space and a quarter of that
Speaker 4: people like on a rookie deal. It's one of the
Speaker 4: more attractive jobs financially, not so much talent wise, but
Speaker 4: financially you have an open slate, Like if you're a
Speaker 4: new GM, which I'll actually have a GM or a coach.
Speaker 4: It seems like a blank slate.
Speaker 2: But I have to know if they're spending money, how
Speaker 2: involved are the Crafts. That's what I want to know.
Speaker 2: They got more involved, and I think to the detriment
Speaker 2: of the team.
Speaker 3: You didn't spend any money.
Speaker 2: How do you bring in a rookie coach and a
Speaker 2: rookie quarterback and don't surround them. This goes back to
Speaker 2: what happened with Andrew Luck. Every team should be reminded
Speaker 2: of that. If you're going to bring in a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 2: get an offensive line, give them a couple of skilled
Speaker 2: position players. If not, then don't use the pick on
Speaker 2: a quarterback if you're not going to protect him, you know,
Speaker 2: like Bryce Young, Hey Bryce, go out there and be
Speaker 2: a savior. That's not the kind of quarterback he is.
Speaker 2: Hey Bryce, sorry, you got to run for your life.
Speaker 2: Hey Bryce, you suck.
Speaker 3: Come on over.
Speaker 2: Andy Dalton's going You didn't help him protect him, and
Speaker 2: New England didn't do that with Drake Man and as
Speaker 2: a result, you get rid of Gerrod Mayo. And maybe
Speaker 2: Mayo wasn't the right guy to begin with. Maybe they
Speaker 2: made a mistake to put in the coach in waiting.
Speaker 2: But now you got to get Mike Rabel. His Rabel
Speaker 2: gives you a culture. And I know that's one of
Speaker 2: those weird words, but Dan Campbell created a culture in
Speaker 2: Detroit like certain coaches create a culture.
Speaker 3: Rex Ryan, you know.
Speaker 2: For the the good and the bad of all of that.
Speaker 2: He had a culture with the Jet. He's still trying
Speaker 2: to bank in that culture, saying I'm the best guy
Speaker 2: for the job. We're not going to let it be
Speaker 2: a country club atmosphere for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: I go, okay, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 4: Any chance of rabel is the wrong choice because he
Speaker 4: reminds everyone of Belichick. He'll probably walk in and say
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do this like it was done five years ago.
Speaker 4: Free agents didn't want to go play there, especially towards
Speaker 4: the end. I don't know if Mike Ray will be
Speaker 4: attractive to free agents with Atta Kapram.
Speaker 2: Players didn't want to play for Belichick. They wanted to
Speaker 2: play for Belichick and Brady because that meant you were
Speaker 2: going to get a chance to play in a Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: plain and simple. Like the last four years, did you
Speaker 2: hear players go, you know what, before I retire, I
Speaker 2: want to play for the greatest coach of all time. No,
Speaker 2: they said, even defensive players, Hey, I'll put up with this,
Speaker 2: but I want to go and play with Brady. I
Speaker 2: got a chance, Chris Long one year to play for
Speaker 2: you play in a Super Bowl and he won one.
Speaker 2: They weren't going to play for the greatest coach in history.
Speaker 2: They wanted to play for the greatest coach with the
Speaker 2: greatest quarterback. The Patriot Way. Devin mccordy was part of
Speaker 2: that Patriot Way. He'll join his coming up phone calls
Speaker 2: always welcome. Got our poll question here the best head
Speaker 2: coaching vacancy right now? Why are the Bears asking permission
Speaker 2: to talk to Mike McCarthy. Well, we'll talk about that
Speaker 2: coming up back after this Dan Patrick shit.
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Speaker 2: Montana State lost the FCS title game last night. They
Speaker 2: will open up the season against Oregon. How about that,
Speaker 2: we were talking about the winner. That'd be great if
Speaker 2: the winner of North Dakota State got to play the
Speaker 2: winner of the FBS Ohio State, And granted it would
Speaker 2: be in Columbus, but that's okay. Also, let me clarify
Speaker 2: with Kent State. They went zero to twelve. They lost
Speaker 2: by an average of thirty points per game, but they
Speaker 2: did have two games where they lost one by two points,
Speaker 2: won by six points, but they did have consecutive losses
Speaker 2: to Tennessee and Penn State by combined one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty seven to nothing.
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Speaker 2: He is Devin mccordy, NBC Football Night in America studio analyst.
Speaker 2: He was on site with the Sunday Night Crew vikings
Speaker 2: and the lines worst loss you ever had in college
Speaker 2: was what.
Speaker 5: My freshman year we lost to Louisville fifty five to
Speaker 5: like five. We had a safety that was sprinkled in there.
Speaker 5: It was something like that.
Speaker 3: What's that feel like?
Speaker 5: You hear the song that they play on kickoff a
Speaker 5: lot throughout the game, and I still remember it was
Speaker 5: a young jeezy song and they would always play Boom
Speaker 5: Boom clatt And we heard that a lot that night.
Speaker 5: So you used to hearing that song when you get
Speaker 5: blown out.
Speaker 3: What was the atmosphere like in Detroit?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: It was awesome. You know, I think even in pregame
Speaker 5: warmost of each kind of wave of guys that come out,
Speaker 5: you know, first the returners come out, the crowd goes
Speaker 5: and then the skill positions, and then ultimately Jared Golf
Speaker 5: came out and they went nuts. And what I love though,
Speaker 5: is every time somebody from the Vikings came out, it
Speaker 5: was just NonStop booze, and I think like you could
Speaker 5: feel it before the game started up, the impact that
Speaker 5: crowd was going to have in the game.
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I was curious about. That they have
Speaker 2: home field advantage throughout in the NFC, But how much
Speaker 2: of an advantage is it to Detroit. Is there any
Speaker 2: other place that compares like Kansas City that home field advantage, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Kansas City. I think Buffalo like those teams that, for one,
Speaker 5: your fan base is intense, they're loud. But I think
Speaker 5: they get an advantage too of playing in the cold
Speaker 5: depending on who comes there, like we saw last year
Speaker 5: when Miami had to go to Kansas City and playing
Speaker 5: that historically cold game, but you don't have a shot.
Speaker 5: And I think Detroit's advantage is being in that dome.
Speaker 5: That dome gets loud and it gets rocking, and those
Speaker 5: people are intense. I just talked to Mike Florial on
Speaker 5: Pro Football Talk on the podcast they went and did
Speaker 5: their podcast Monday morning, him and Chris Simps. They still
Speaker 5: could smell the beer like those people had a great
Speaker 5: time in there. So it's a tough place to play.
Speaker 2: What's it like to play in a quiet stadium.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you hear all the checks. You know, you think about,
Speaker 5: you know, defenses, and you know, honestly, it's fun for
Speaker 5: defense when you're out there and you can hear with
Speaker 5: the offense checks and you can hear yourselves usually like
Speaker 5: if you're at home and those kind of big time
Speaker 5: matchups in the crowds going crazy making it hard for
Speaker 5: the offense. You have to remember, as a defense, you
Speaker 5: got to get used to making your calls and stuff
Speaker 5: with that noise. But when you're out there and it's silent,
Speaker 5: the energy's tough sometimes, but you get the advantage of
Speaker 5: really hearing everything the offense is trying to check and
Speaker 5: get to.
Speaker 2: I guess there's usually one surprise firing every cycle. I
Speaker 2: thought Gerrod Mayo was a surprise. I don't know how
Speaker 2: you felt, but one and done in New England. Your reaction, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Got the opportunity to go up to the press conference,
Speaker 5: and I remember being in that moment of how special
Speaker 5: it was a guy I got an opportunity to play
Speaker 5: with a guy that I think for that franchise as
Speaker 5: the number ten pick, came in and did so many
Speaker 5: things and ultimately was a great leader for the organization.
Speaker 5: So when when he was named head coach, I was
Speaker 5: so excited. I thought he would get an opportunity to
Speaker 5: really grow into that role. Not much experience in coaching overall,
Speaker 5: but I thought he would get the opportunity to grow
Speaker 5: and he didn't. And for me, it was a reminder
Speaker 5: of this league of I don't care how awesome the
Speaker 5: story is, the personal relationships and all that. When you
Speaker 5: get in and you're a head coach, they're looking for
Speaker 5: a certain thing. They're looking for wins, they're looking for
Speaker 5: the alignment and what the vision looks like. And ultimately,
Speaker 5: the Crafts felt like it wasn't there and they moved
Speaker 5: on from Jiraw. But you know, I think down the
Speaker 5: end it didn't. It wasn't surprising. But if I think
Speaker 5: back to the beginning, no way I thought that it
Speaker 5: would even be a thought of him being one and
Speaker 5: done as a head coach.
Speaker 2: But how can he be the coaching waiting for five
Speaker 2: years but not be ready for this moment. According to
Speaker 2: Robert Kraft.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean you look at that press conferences and
Speaker 5: he said, I think he has all the skills to
Speaker 5: be a great head coach someday. And that to me
Speaker 5: was why you named him head coaches. You thought somebody
Speaker 5: else would get to take advantage of that, and they
Speaker 5: only give him one year. I think it's really tough,
Speaker 5: you know, And I think back to Jimmy Johnson spoke
Speaker 5: to our team my rookie year and he said, the
Speaker 5: NFL is not about fair. You're gonna get opportunity and
Speaker 5: that's all you can ask for. And you know, honestly,
Speaker 5: it wasn't fair for Draw Mayo to think he would
Speaker 5: have everything button up in year one. But that's the
Speaker 5: reality of the NFL.
Speaker 2: Devin mccordy Football Night in America Analyst and wild Card
Speaker 2: Weekend NBC and Peacock will bring you the Commanders at
Speaker 2: the Buccaneers. Better season turned in by Jaden Daniels or
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 5: Oh, I think you gotta go Jaden Daiels just because
Speaker 5: a little bit of what Baker's doing was expected, you know.
Speaker 5: I think Baker in Tampa has been a beautiful fit
Speaker 5: and he showed that he can be you know one
Speaker 5: of the top quarterbacks in the league. Jade and Dais
Speaker 5: took over a Washington team that we thought, even with him,
Speaker 5: they would struggle this year, and you look up and
Speaker 5: they're in the playoffs. They're going to be in the
Speaker 5: playoffs playing an opportunity advance that just wasn't expecting. And
Speaker 5: the truth is it's all because of Jayden Daniels as
Speaker 5: their best player.
Speaker 2: The Eagles situation is interesting and I think it's being
Speaker 2: under sold. And that is Jalen Hurts and concussion protocol.
Speaker 2: Here have you ever been in concussion protocol?
Speaker 5: Actually, my first time being a concussion protocol, I don't
Speaker 5: want to say it was the same, but it was
Speaker 5: similar into what Jalen Hurst is going through of and
Speaker 5: the process was a little different. But I had passed
Speaker 5: certain tests so I was able to practice, but I
Speaker 5: didn't pass a test yet to be able to have contact,
Speaker 5: so I had got a concussion missed the last week
Speaker 5: of the season. Then we had to playoff bye week,
Speaker 5: so I didn't practice the last week of the season,
Speaker 5: but the playoff bye week, I was cleared to be
Speaker 5: able to practice, but still was non contacting. The Ultimately
Speaker 5: to get out of protocol. I had to get an
Speaker 5: MRI of my brain to be fully out of the
Speaker 5: concussion protocol. So it was a whole process, and more
Speaker 5: of a process than normal when we think about concussion protocol.
Speaker 5: So I felt a little bit of what he's going through.
Speaker 2: Now, if you were Mike McCarthy and you had an
Speaker 2: opportunity to leave the Cowboys, let's say the Bears job
Speaker 2: is legitimate, you know, he's going to be a free agent,
Speaker 2: and I don't know if there's any rush for Jerry to,
Speaker 2: you know, sign him.
Speaker 3: They could have done this.
Speaker 2: He's been a lame duck coach, but it's hard to
Speaker 2: pass on being the Cowboys head coach. But sometimes you
Speaker 2: want to get out from underneath Jerry Jones and that
Speaker 2: that star.
Speaker 5: That Cowboys head coaching job. It's hard to turn down
Speaker 5: until you've been in it for five years. And I
Speaker 5: think Mike McCarthy knows exactly what it feels like and
Speaker 5: what it is to be in that job. So I
Speaker 5: think it'll be telling if he does want to go
Speaker 5: on these interviews that he is seeking to see what
Speaker 5: it feels like and what it could look like somewhere else.
Speaker 5: And the Bears, they had to see it firsthand when
Speaker 5: he was coaching the Green Bay Packers, So there might
Speaker 5: be a little bit of an infatuation of Mike McCarthy
Speaker 5: and what he was able to do, and he might
Speaker 5: want some breathe and room from being on that kind
Speaker 5: of soap opera box that the Cowboys give you every
Speaker 5: year you're in that position.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a road team, at least one road
Speaker 2: team win this weekend with these games. Give me the
Speaker 2: surprise this weekend, the surprise, I would say.
Speaker 5: And I know it's a little harder because of Jordan
Speaker 5: Love's injury and Christian Watson being done, but I just
Speaker 5: think the Green Bay Packers they're one of those teams
Speaker 5: that are a little inconsistent. You don't always know what
Speaker 5: you're gonna get. But if they can get hot and
Speaker 5: they can get going, they have a Jeff Afleet or
Speaker 5: defensive coordinator, has different kind of looks and disguises that
Speaker 5: they can give you. They're gonna play Eagles team that
Speaker 5: comes off a week where they're resting, so they might
Speaker 5: be a little bit of a slow start getting back
Speaker 5: into the field of things that I think green Bay
Speaker 5: could surprise Philadelphia. I think Philadelphia is a better team
Speaker 5: and should win, but I wouldn't be surprised if Green
Speaker 5: Bay could get it going at Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh has problems with Baltimore.
Speaker 5: Why, I just ultimately, I think Baltimore is a better
Speaker 5: football team. I think we fell in love with what
Speaker 5: Russ was able to do took over Pittsburgh that went
Speaker 5: on a little winning streak. But I think what we
Speaker 5: saw what Baltimore is able to do over these last
Speaker 5: few weeks, that's their team and I think they're playing
Speaker 5: their best ball right now. And I think Pittsburgh they're
Speaker 5: just not the inabilities of the offense to get the
Speaker 5: ball down the field consistently, to be able to pick
Speaker 5: up short gains and drive and have ten to twelve
Speaker 5: play drives, like that's not what they do well. So
Speaker 5: when you're relied on the deep ball non stop, and
Speaker 5: if Pickens doesn't come out and have a big game,
Speaker 5: then that just leaves you so handicap that I think
Speaker 5: Baltimore has so much firepower that you can't really play
Speaker 5: that way. But I will say these two teams, they battle,
Speaker 5: and each time they play, it seems like the game
Speaker 5: goes a different way. So it's a scary game a
Speaker 5: little bit for Baltimore playing a division opponent in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: What if Bill Belichick called you and said, would you
Speaker 2: join me on my staff at North Carolina?
Speaker 5: I would ultimately think about it, and I would second
Speaker 5: I would think about my wife killing me, so I
Speaker 5: would have to I would have to say, Bill, I
Speaker 5: love you, respect you so much, but coaching is just
Speaker 5: not going to be about future.
Speaker 2: Okay, what advice would you give if Bill Belichick said,
Speaker 2: come down and talk to my players.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be in the room. What would
Speaker 3: you say.
Speaker 5: I would tell them, prepare for something that won't be easy,
Speaker 5: but prepare for a chance to be one thing, a
Speaker 5: champion in college, but ultimately an opportunity to be the
Speaker 5: best football player you could be. And for some of them,
Speaker 5: that's going to be in the NFL. You're going to
Speaker 5: learn things about the game of football that are going
Speaker 5: to travel with you far after your career. I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm doing TV primarily because I sat in team meeting
Speaker 5: rooms for thirteen years and heard the most brilliant mind
Speaker 5: and Bill Belichick talk about the game of football. I
Speaker 5: know about situations that I've never known. Offense, special teams
Speaker 5: defense because of all the things he hit about, you know,
Speaker 5: over my thirteen years in football, and for those young
Speaker 5: guys like that won't leave you. There's life lessons in there,
Speaker 5: There's everything. So I think ultimately you want to be
Speaker 5: a winner and be the best version of yourself. Get
Speaker 5: an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick. That's going to
Speaker 5: give you that.
Speaker 3: Did you ever want to punch you?
Speaker 5: I mean, how many times would you be? The question?
Speaker 5: I remember we went my rookie year. We went nine
Speaker 5: straight days of full pads in practice in training camp.
Speaker 5: Can't do that anymore, but that like, that's what we
Speaker 5: did my rookie year in training camp, like we were
Speaker 5: ready to go by top seasons started.
Speaker 2: Good to talk to you again. Have fun in the postseason.
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Speaker 3: Early poll results seton what do you have.
Speaker 6: For me early poll results on the most desirable job
Speaker 6: right now?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 6: Your options are Bears, Jaguars, Jets, Patriots, Saints. Right now,
Speaker 6: the Bears have forty six percent of that vote, followed
Speaker 6: by the Patriots at twenty one. Jaguars, Saints and the
Speaker 6: Jets are in last.
Speaker 2: I don't want to take the Jags job if you
Speaker 2: have the same GM who's been there for a couple
Speaker 2: of head coaches, Trent ball Keys still there. Patriot situation,
Speaker 2: I want to know, are you going to spend money,
Speaker 2: how involved are the crafts with the decisions. Saints probably
Speaker 2: would be at the bottom of my list. I think
Speaker 2: the Jets have the potential, but they've had the potential
Speaker 2: for decades. The Bears is the best situation, I think,
Speaker 2: just because you have the best quarterback probably out of
Speaker 2: that group, although you can make an argument Drake may
Speaker 2: was better than Caleb Williams this year. I just think
Speaker 2: get some familiarity, continuity, and you can't have a rookie
Speaker 2: quarterback or even a second year quarterback, and you have
Speaker 2: a coach who may get fired or gets fired. Now
Speaker 2: you bring in another coach, another philosophy, another offensive coordinator,
Speaker 2: it's too much to ask. It's too difficult for these
Speaker 2: quarterbacks to go in learn a system, now learn another system.
Speaker 2: And that happened with Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield has played great.
Speaker 2: He's a top ten quarterback. May not want to admit it,
Speaker 2: but getting continuity, having a couple of really good receivers
Speaker 2: and you're putting up forty touchdowns here. But the Bear situation,
Speaker 2: I think that's a really good situation. I just don't know.
Speaker 2: It feels like they got enough too many front office
Speaker 2: people for my liking there. But you look at some
Speaker 2: of these vacancies. The Jags ownership, how involved the Jets
Speaker 2: front office ownership is a disaster. Patriots, what just happened?
Speaker 2: The Saints, they're just kind of, I don't know, neutral bland.
Speaker 2: If you could put a color on these teams, the
Speaker 2: Saints would be opal, not oprah opel. Patriots would be beige.
Speaker 3: Jaguars.
Speaker 2: Give me a color for the Jags, Fusia like futility. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Bear's color. Bear's color. I'm gonna give them orange,
Speaker 2: orange like a traffic cone. Orange like they can protect you,
Speaker 2: but there could also be danger lurking there.
Speaker 4: Yes, Paul, Yeah, the Jaguars. They have the job opening.
Speaker 4: No one ever talks about. Is it possible that Trevor
Speaker 4: Lawrence never works out? We're four years in, He's twenty
Speaker 4: two and thirty eight as a starter, sixty nine touchdowns,
Speaker 4: forty six picks, and despite him being injured this past year,
Speaker 4: he wasn't good when he was healthy, and he just
Speaker 4: signed a five year, two hundred and seventy five million
Speaker 4: dollar deal. Here's your quarterback at minimum for the next
Speaker 4: two years. Yeah, no one discusses him as a I
Speaker 4: don't want to use the word bus but eight underwhelming.
Speaker 3: But they don't talk about the Jacks.
Speaker 2: Once again, understanding the news cycle, how the sausage is made,
Speaker 2: you get no clicks if you're talking about the Jacks.
Speaker 2: I mean, let face it, you can go and nobody's
Speaker 2: gonna talk about the Saints, Bears you'll get clicks, Jets
Speaker 2: you'll get clicks. Patriots you get clicks, Jags, Saints you will,
Speaker 2: not the Cowboys you will obviously if Mike McCarthy stays
Speaker 2: or Mike McCarthy goes. That's how it works. It's like
Speaker 2: your radio station that plays top forty hits. That's what
Speaker 2: TV and radio has become you just play the hits
Speaker 2: because that's what you're told. You have programming people who
Speaker 2: tell you what to talk about, and I understand it,
Speaker 2: play the hits. It just I got into this to
Speaker 2: cover sports, not just the top end sports, and I
Speaker 2: did this at the Mothership. How many times did we
Speaker 2: talk about Duke North Carolina Basketball, Yankees and the Red Sox,
Speaker 2: Tarall Owens, Mike Tyson. Now, granted, those are people you
Speaker 2: did want to hear about or from, but you just
Speaker 2: don't want to lose some of the other like the
Speaker 2: Cavaliers and the Oklahoma City Thunder are playing wonderful basketball,
Speaker 2: Nobody's going to talk about them, and that's unfortunate, but
Speaker 2: this is sort of the sports society that we cultivated here.
Speaker 3: You're just going to play the hits. People would rather
Speaker 3: hear about.
Speaker 2: How bad the Lakers are, why aren't the Lakers good,
Speaker 2: or what kind of trade they can make than they
Speaker 2: would Cavalier is a great story in Oklahoma City, a
Speaker 2: great story, and it might just ended that, Hey, Okloma City,
Speaker 2: great story.
Speaker 3: That's it. Yeah.
Speaker 6: The interesting part of what you're saying, too, is that
Speaker 6: for traditional media, playing the hits is very important, but
Speaker 6: with like podcasts and social media and everything, you.
Speaker 3: Can narrow down and zero in.
Speaker 6: On one very specific thing that you're interested in, and
Speaker 6: there's probably a dozen podcasts covering just that one thing.
Speaker 6: So people, it's weird like, are probably more educated than
Speaker 6: ever on certain things, like whether it's x's and o's
Speaker 6: or whatever, because you can nerd out hardcore on any
Speaker 6: minutia of sport if you want.
Speaker 2: But even at my broadcasting school, when students say, hey,
Speaker 2: I want to start a podcast, and I always say, okay,
Speaker 2: what are you going to talk about? When they say sports,
Speaker 2: I go, nope, never make it. You got to be
Speaker 2: really specific. What are you going to give that somebody
Speaker 2: doesn't give? And I had one of my students say,
Speaker 2: I'm just going to talk about the Cowboys. Well, he's
Speaker 2: had a successful podcast because he's talking about the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: You talk about the Laker. I mean, this is how
Speaker 2: it works. May not be fair. Nobody said it was
Speaker 2: going to be fair. If you're Mike McCarthy, what are
Speaker 2: you waiting for? I mean, Jerry Jones is really embarrassing him.
Speaker 2: Mike has won a Super Bowl. He might be a
Speaker 2: borderline Hall of Fame coach, maybe as a Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame coach, But what are you doing? And if you're
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy, I think by Thursday he's a total free agent.
Speaker 2: And we're going to check in with the Cowboys coming
Speaker 2: up next hour, because now we brought the Bears into
Speaker 2: the equation. The Bears are going to interview Mike McCarthy. Okay,
Speaker 2: And if you're a Bears fan, don't be high and
Speaker 2: mighty and go, oh, we can't have him come in.
Speaker 2: If he was when he was in Green Bay and
Speaker 2: I said you could have him as your head coach,
Speaker 2: you would have taken him in his second.
Speaker 3: Good coach he is.
Speaker 2: His resume is similar to Sean Payton's. Let that sink in.
Speaker 2: Because Sean Payton's a genius with a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy doesn't get that. Well, he had Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 2: they only won.
Speaker 3: One Super Bowl. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Sean had Drew Brees, they won one Super Bowl. Mike
Speaker 2: McCarthy's a good coach. I think being in that organization,
Speaker 2: you're you're gonna get blamed, You're never gonna get credit.
Speaker 2: But Jerry has let you be a lame duck coach.
Speaker 2: And if I'm Mike McCarthy. I don't know if the
Speaker 2: bear situation is real. I don't know if that's somebody
Speaker 2: from Mike McCarthy saying, hey, can you do me a
Speaker 2: solid so I can he wants to go back to
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. What's Jerry waiting for now? Jerry does love
Speaker 2: being in the news cycle. He truly, you get addicted
Speaker 2: to this. They want that publicity, they want that attend
Speaker 2: You see player o Cho Sinko taroll Owens. When they're done,
Speaker 2: they're like, wait a minute, hey, notice me. Well, Jerry
Speaker 2: Jones loves the attention. I think that's why hegged he
Speaker 2: was dragging out Dak Prescott's contract c D Lamb. Now
Speaker 2: will drag out Michael Parsons. Why you're in the news
Speaker 2: cycle constantly talking about your product? And I think that
Speaker 2: has got in the way of the Cowboys progressing and
Speaker 2: being a really good team again, because Jerry gets caught
Speaker 2: up in this, loves it. Probably loves that we're talking
Speaker 2: about Mike McCarthy. I'll get around. You know, he's doing
Speaker 2: cameos in a Landman series, by the way, got good reviews.
Speaker 2: But I think Jerry likes being a star. It's like
Speaker 2: the crafts like being a star. Arthur Blank loves being
Speaker 2: a star. I want my owner to just let people
Speaker 2: do their job, let them be stars. These owners love it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go down there on the sidelines, bring my
Speaker 2: girlfriend down there on the sidelines. We're gonna win a
Speaker 2: super No, we're not. Jerry loves being a star.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pulling By the way, Mike McCarthy in the past
Speaker 4: eighteen years has made the playoffs thirteen times. In the
Speaker 4: past eighteen years, the Bears that made the playoffs four times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike McCarthy is a good coach.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's the image the you know,
Speaker 2: when you look at Mike McCarthy like you don't see
Speaker 2: Matt Lafleur. I mean I think that people probably it's
Speaker 2: sad to say that, but I think you look at
Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy like he's not all buttoned up slovenly there
Speaker 2: on the side. They did this Andy Reid. It felt like, oh,
Speaker 2: Andy Reid. Now we've embraced Andy Reid. But sometimes that
Speaker 2: coach like Tom Landry looked like a coach. Don Shula
Speaker 2: looked like a coach. Look at Lombardi out there. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you look at that coach, and maybe he's not in
Speaker 2: the image of what you think a coach should be.
Speaker 2: And I think Mike McCarthy has suffered from them. I
Speaker 2: think we look at Mike McCarthy and you have an opinion. Yes,
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel gets that treatment. Yes, he didn't look like
Speaker 2: a coach. No, his pants, yes, well he got his
Speaker 2: pants pulled up like that. Coaches don't look like that. Yes,
Speaker 2: that's a great point, but I do. I think we
Speaker 2: look sometimes and somebody doesn't look like a basketball coach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Paul, who's the most coach looking coach of all time?
Speaker 3: Pat Riley? Pat Riley, but you're casting him.
Speaker 6: That's exactly who you would catch too slick, too soon?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Don Shula, Shula did look like a coach. How
Speaker 3: about Bill Cower? Bill Cower?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jimmy Johnson in there, that fellow looked like a coach,
Speaker 6: Tom Landry, what about Bob. We'll check in with the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: One hour in the books, two more to go.