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Speaker 2: the Monday Morning quarterback Albert Breer. He's been busy. The
Speaker 2: Giants are keeping their coaching staff. The Jags are not.
Speaker 2: They fired Doug Peterson, the Patriots fired Gerrod Mayo. Still
Speaker 2: don't know what's going to happen with the Raiders. Could
Speaker 2: be a coaching change there as well. We'll talk to Albert,
Speaker 2: he'll join us.
Speaker 3: Coming up.
Speaker 2: We'll check in with the Patriots as well. What are
Speaker 2: they doing. You don't fire Girodmeo unless you know you're
Speaker 2: getting your guy. And that guy it appears is Mike
Speaker 2: Vrabel eight seven seven three DP Show email addor SDP
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Speaker 2: we move into the final hour on this fun day.
Speaker 4: Heck, yeah, sure can Dan. Okay, let's see right now
Speaker 4: we've got up there. The Raiders should either a trade
Speaker 4: up for Shad Sanders or b keep the pick and
Speaker 4: sign Aaron Rodgers and bring back DeVante Adams, which I
Speaker 4: don't think is going to happen. Uh. I don't know
Speaker 4: that the Raiders are really in the DeVante Adams marketing.
Speaker 4: A would not be I mean, let's feel like you
Speaker 4: could still smell those bridges burning. I don't think he
Speaker 4: left on friendly terms there anyway. But people think that
Speaker 4: they should About fifty seven percent think they should trade
Speaker 4: up fors Okay, more surprising Broncos in the playoffs are
Speaker 4: Bengals not in the playoffs? People more surprised by the Bengals.
Speaker 4: And who would you rather have in the playoffs? People
Speaker 4: would rather have the Bengals and not the Broncos.
Speaker 2: Of course you would, of course you would.
Speaker 5: But unfortunately that's not the case.
Speaker 6: The Broncos were playing the Bills.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, unfortunately not the case, Haiders.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a little late to be firing your defensive coordinator.
Speaker 6: You needed to win a few games earlier in the seas.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Todd.
Speaker 3: Or Borough.
Speaker 6: Throws through one thousand guys, they still lose. Come on,
Speaker 6: get it together, sin See what.
Speaker 2: Now he threw for almost five thousand.
Speaker 8: I'm saying no, I'm saying, like at a game, I
Speaker 8: was just kind of exaggerate guy the first four five
Speaker 8: hundred yards a game, and they still find a way that.
Speaker 2: Look's not his fault.
Speaker 5: It's the defense.
Speaker 2: They had an easy schedule. You start out zero three,
Speaker 2: you lose a home game to the Patriots. Your defense
Speaker 2: was terrible. I think they had six games where they
Speaker 2: gave up over thirty point. I mean, there's only so
Speaker 2: much that offense can do, and the offense was pretty explosive,
Speaker 2: dynamic led by Burrow and Jamar Chase. All Right, so
Speaker 2: the Broncos are in, Bengals, Dolphins out. The Tyreek Hill situation,
Speaker 2: it borders on being a mess. He says he's out,
Speaker 2: and then he apparently took himself out of the lineup
Speaker 2: late in that game with the Dolphins and the Jets,
Speaker 2: the Buccaneers are in, the Falcons are out, and the
Speaker 2: Lions get the number one seat in the NFC. The
Speaker 2: Vikings with fourteen wins, their reward is they get to
Speaker 2: go to Los Angeles and face the Rams. All right,
Speaker 2: so we'll check in with the Patriots. Let's bring in
Speaker 2: Albert Breer, the Monday Morning quarterback, who joins us on
Speaker 2: the program. Well, let me start with the Patriots. You've
Speaker 2: been close to this situation. Why are they moving on
Speaker 2: from their coach who was a coach in waiting for
Speaker 2: a good five years.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I think, you know, really it kind
Speaker 8: of relates back to the end of the Belichick era,
Speaker 8: the state the roster was, in, the climate in the
Speaker 8: building when they fired Bill, and you know, like how
Speaker 8: you know there are factions, and you know, like the
Speaker 8: the fact that they put that clause in his contract,
Speaker 8: the succession plan in his contract, I don't think made
Speaker 8: anything better. So like it forced the Patriots to go
Speaker 8: to girod Mao probably a good two three years before
Speaker 8: he was ready, certainly before they intended to. And I
Speaker 8: think the where the building was in twenty twenty two
Speaker 8: and twenty twenty three made it so Belichick wasn't going
Speaker 8: to help mentor mal and help him fill in the
Speaker 8: gaps that would be created by his lack of experience.
Speaker 8: And so, you know, I still think the Crafts really
Speaker 8: liked drad Mail I'm not sure what mail It thinks
Speaker 8: of the Crafts anymore, but I do think they still.
Speaker 6: Really like him and think that he'd have a bright
Speaker 6: future in coaching.
Speaker 8: But it just like based on the way they're set up,
Speaker 8: and they're set up for a coach to have a
Speaker 8: very strong voice in so many different areas. Because the
Speaker 8: way it was set up under Bill for so long,
Speaker 8: they weren't able to support him with the roster, they
Speaker 8: weren't able to support him with the infrastructure, and I
Speaker 8: think that led to a disorganized mess over the last
Speaker 8: couple of months, which led them down the road where
Speaker 8: you know, there were a couple of games there at
Speaker 8: the end where you just could not see the light
Speaker 8: at the end of the tunnel. I think the lost
Speaker 8: Arizona a couple of weeks ago is won, and then
Speaker 8: obviously that Saturday loss and a standalone game to the
Speaker 8: Chargers might have been the flashpoint because clearly, going into
Speaker 8: the game yesterday they knew what they were doing, or
Speaker 8: else they wouldn't have had a statement, you know, ready
Speaker 8: to go less than an hour and a half after
Speaker 8: the Bills game ended.
Speaker 2: But you're also not going to make this move unless
Speaker 2: you know who you're coaching waiting is I would have
Speaker 2: assumed no, I see.
Speaker 8: I think I think they'd be making a mistake if
Speaker 8: they approached it that way. And here's why I say that, Dan,
Speaker 8: I think last year they really cost themselves the chance
Speaker 8: to take a look at the way the rest of
Speaker 8: football works, and they hadn't had the chance to do
Speaker 8: that and so long, because they haven't conducted a coaching
Speaker 8: search in so long, you know, and so you know,
Speaker 8: really if you look at it for over twenty five years,
Speaker 8: as all these other teams that were stumbling all over
Speaker 8: themselves got a chance to interview people left and right
Speaker 8: and see the way the best organizations in football were doing.
Speaker 6: And the Patriots were really insular. They didn't really bring
Speaker 6: in a.
Speaker 8: Lot of people from the outside, and they didn't have
Speaker 8: the opportunity to see inside other organizations through an interview process.
Speaker 8: And then last year, I mean, they rushed Drodmeyo into
Speaker 8: that role, and the same thing with Elliott Wolf after
Speaker 8: the draft into the EVP of player personnel role, And
Speaker 8: you know, I think they really cost themselves a chance
Speaker 8: across the league. And you say, like, okay, like maybe
Speaker 8: you do know who it's going to be and you
Speaker 8: don't want to go through a sham of a process.
Speaker 6: Well, you can't tell me.
Speaker 8: The Chargers didn't know in November or December that they
Speaker 8: were going to target Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 6: Yet they still looked at what was at twelve.
Speaker 8: Fifteen head coaching candidates, ten general manager candidates.
Speaker 6: So they went through a.
Speaker 8: Full process and got to learn a lot of stuff
Speaker 8: about things worked with other teams, the way things worked
Speaker 8: with other teams, and Jim Harbaugh and Joe Ortiz, who
Speaker 8: are running the team now benefit from the team having
Speaker 8: gone through that. So I do think they're going to
Speaker 8: run a full process. Frabil is obviously a name that's
Speaker 8: going to be at or near the top of their
Speaker 8: list to begin with. But I would think that the
Speaker 8: Crafts are going to let the process take take them
Speaker 8: where it goes, you know, and you know, we've been down.
Speaker 6: This road before.
Speaker 8: I mean, Pittsburgh's a great example from two thousand and
Speaker 8: seven when they move off the Bill Cower air era.
Speaker 6: You know, cow Or retires and I think everybody everybody.
Speaker 8: Thought at that point it was either going to be
Speaker 8: Ken wizen Hunt or Russ Graham, who had a ton
Speaker 8: of background with the organization, but they go through a
Speaker 8: full process, they commit to it, and they wind up
Speaker 8: falling in love with Mike Tomlin. I wouldn't rule out
Speaker 8: something like that happening here, although I think clearly Vrabel
Speaker 8: is the leader in the clubhouse, and you know, I
Speaker 8: think that it would behoove them even if it does
Speaker 8: wind up being very able to go through that full process. Right.
Speaker 2: You got the Raiders situation, yep, and you got the
Speaker 2: Cowboys situation. Do you see changes in either of those locations?
Speaker 6: I think the Raiders are still up in the air.
Speaker 8: There's been a lot of momentum going in the wrong
Speaker 8: direction over the last couple of months, you know, and
Speaker 8: where they are and what sort of voice is Tom
Speaker 8: Brady gonna have in this? You know, The opportunity maybe
Speaker 8: to get somebody like for Able because of Brady, you know,
Speaker 8: I think would entice ownership there. And you know, I
Speaker 8: I I think that they they they've had to look
Speaker 8: at the last couple of years and the way things
Speaker 8: are gone, and now some of the changes in ownership
Speaker 8: is their influence on on Mark Daves to do one
Speaker 8: thing or another.
Speaker 6: You know, I think we'll find out over the next
Speaker 6: three or four hours. What will happen there?
Speaker 8: The Cowboys are fascinating because we all went through it,
Speaker 8: you know, five years ago, and the way they dragged
Speaker 8: their feet on Jason Garrett, it was that was so weird.
Speaker 6: You remember that dam like the way all that worked.
Speaker 8: Where Garrett was employed, but like they're really gonna move on,
Speaker 8: and so Garrett's still working there, but they're interviewing people.
Speaker 8: The same thing could happen here because you know, Mike
Speaker 8: McCarthy's contracts up the same way Garrett's was. He's got
Speaker 8: relationships in the Saints organization for example, right like he
Speaker 8: and and Mickey Loomis were together there think it was
Speaker 8: five years and Mickey Willmis' first five years with US
Speaker 8: Saints when McCarthy was there working for Jim Haslett. So
Speaker 8: there could be opportunity outside that Mike McCarthy wants to
Speaker 8: take a look at. The Cowboys could take a look
Speaker 8: on their you know as well. And I think one
Speaker 8: thing that complicates the whole thing is, you know, not
Speaker 8: only do you have to drop a new contract for
Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy, so it's not like you can just kick
Speaker 8: the can down the road for another year. That's also
Speaker 8: the case I'm told with their entire coaching staff, everyone
Speaker 8: is up, so you've got to read you've got to
Speaker 8: drop new contracts for the entire coaching staff as well.
Speaker 8: So that's gonna be an interesting one. That's, you know,
Speaker 8: as as you might expect from America's team, a little complicated,
Speaker 8: a little complex.
Speaker 6: And that's another one.
Speaker 8: You need to hear Vrabel's name a lot. But that's
Speaker 8: another one that I have heard Rabel connected to.
Speaker 2: Tough to handicap Aaron Rodgers. But if you were going
Speaker 2: to if I said, Aaron Rodgers next year will be blank.
Speaker 6: I don't think he knows.
Speaker 8: I don't think the Jets can tell you what their
Speaker 8: plan is until there's a head coach and general manager
Speaker 8: in place.
Speaker 2: You know, would there be a market for Rogers outside
Speaker 2: of the Jets?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think somebody, somebody would take a look at it,
Speaker 8: like I look like, do I think he is what
Speaker 8: he was three or four years ago?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 6: Do I think there's a possibility.
Speaker 8: That you'd be getting a very motivated Aaron Rodgers if
Speaker 8: the Jets wound up dumping him.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I mean I can remember talking to Aaron about this
Speaker 8: in July and August, right and he said to me,
Speaker 8: I didn't like part of my reasoning for coming back
Speaker 8: and going through everything that that it takes to go
Speaker 8: through to get to the point where you can play
Speaker 8: quarterback in the NFL in twenty twenty four was coming
Speaker 8: off the Achilles, and I didn't want to go out
Speaker 8: like that.
Speaker 6: Dan, do you think he wants to go out like this?
Speaker 6: Like this is worse than the Achilles, isn't it?
Speaker 8: Like if like everybody would understand if youre going if
Speaker 8: you're forty years old, you're going out with the Achilles,
Speaker 8: Like everybody understand that like this, this this is like
Speaker 8: going out like this is worse.
Speaker 6: So you know, I don't think he knows what he's
Speaker 6: gonna do, but I I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't remember what what would you say? Okay, Now
Speaker 2: I can go out, Like if you're Rogers, I know,
Speaker 2: hey we went nine and eight and uh we didn't
Speaker 2: make the playoffs. Now I can go out.
Speaker 8: Look, there could be there's the possibility that he goes
Speaker 8: through the contemplation of you know, all of this, and
Speaker 8: he he comes out of it and says, you know what,
Speaker 8: I just can't put my body through it again.
Speaker 6: I don't want to go through what.
Speaker 8: It's going to take the next six months to position
Speaker 8: myself to play football at forty one years old. That's
Speaker 8: certainly possible. I think it's also possible that, like he
Speaker 8: has a Brett Farv hair Across has asked the way
Speaker 8: that Farv did when the Packers let him go, and
Speaker 8: and and you could see like a Vikings year for
Speaker 8: far from from from Rogers somewhere else. Like, I don't
Speaker 8: think that that's impossible, that you know, like maybe one
Speaker 8: last time he wants to come back and put everything
Speaker 8: into it and say, this is my last year and
Speaker 8: I'm gonna I'm gonna do everything I can to be
Speaker 8: in position to play, and some team out there looks
Speaker 8: at it and says, this guy could be a bridge.
Speaker 6: How would he look at Pittsburgh? I don't know, I mean.
Speaker 2: Serious, Okay, how would Mike Tomlin deal with that?
Speaker 6: Daved? But how would he deal with Russell Wilson? He
Speaker 6: dealt with Russell Wilson, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I don't think Russ is as much a
Speaker 2: diva as Aaron Rodgers is.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think people that have coached the two,
Speaker 8: that have coached those two might disagree.
Speaker 2: Russ, gott Humbolt. Russ truly got humiliated in Denver.
Speaker 8: Right and I and I think to some degree Rogers
Speaker 8: has been with the Jets too. I look, here's the
Speaker 8: way I look at it. I think this, there's gonna
Speaker 8: be an environment out there with quarterbacks, right, I mean
Speaker 8: he go to Cleveland too. I look at like this
Speaker 8: as like, if you're a team that needs a quarterback
Speaker 8: right now, and you know you're looking at the draft,
Speaker 8: are you do love Schador Sanders?
Speaker 2: Do you love cam Ward?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 8: I feel like this year's class and the draft is
Speaker 8: closer to the twenty two class, the picket class than.
Speaker 2: It is the last year.
Speaker 6: So if you're a team that says, like, okay, like.
Speaker 8: We want to get a young quarterback, but we need
Speaker 8: something to get us by for one year, wouldn't Rogers
Speaker 8: appeal to you, like just the chance.
Speaker 6: Of what it could be.
Speaker 8: Was a motivated Rogers who is going to come back
Speaker 8: and show everybody like I don't think it's the worst idea.
Speaker 2: In the world, you know what I mean?
Speaker 8: Like, and I will say this for Mike Tomlin and Pittsburgh,
Speaker 8: like he showed a remarkable ability to deal with whatever
Speaker 8: personality comes his way. I mean, we didn't know that
Speaker 8: Antonio Brown was a problem until like the very in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8: Think about that, you know what I mean, Like we
Speaker 8: didn't know who he had in that receiver room. You know,
Speaker 8: like at the time he had Antonio Brown and Mike
Speaker 8: Wallace and Emmanuel States. Big personality's Le'Veon Bellet running back.
Speaker 8: Like I mean, how he's managed George Pickens over the
Speaker 8: last few years. I'm not willing him to Pittsburgh, but
Speaker 8: I'm just telling you, like, I don't think that part
Speaker 8: of it would be as big a problem for Tomlin
Speaker 8: as it might be for another coach.
Speaker 2: Right final thirty seconds, rock Perty's yearly contract will start
Speaker 2: with the number blank.
Speaker 6: Four or I think I think they will find a
Speaker 6: happy medium. And I think I think like Brock is
Speaker 6: Brock's a team guy.
Speaker 8: Now, I have heard some stuff that his dad's experiences
Speaker 8: as an athlete might affect the way he approaches this
Speaker 8: a little bit. The Niners are a really smart organization
Speaker 8: and they're going to be turning the page in a
Speaker 8: lot of different ways, and they're gonna have to make
Speaker 8: some tough decisions on some veteran players like Deebo Samuel over.
Speaker 6: The next few months.
Speaker 8: So I would expect the Niners to take an early
Speaker 8: swing of getting this done. Remember when they resign Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 8: That happened in Chan so they were very aggressive with Garoppolo.
Speaker 8: I don't know if they'll be quite that aggressive with Purdy.
Speaker 8: But if it's gonna get done early, I think it'll
Speaker 8: get done. It's something that's a little less than the
Speaker 8: top of the market.
Speaker 2: Tyreek Kill next year will be back with the Dolphins, or.
Speaker 8: It doesn't sound like it, right, It doesn't sound sounds like.
Speaker 2: He wants to move on Chiefs. Oh they bring him back?
Speaker 8: I mean, I mean that would be that That would
Speaker 8: be the classic move, right, the Chiefs have already started.
Speaker 8: I have already done these things that they brought Oh yeah,
Speaker 8: Juju Smith Schuster was gone for a while, kareem hunt right, Like,
Speaker 8: it's like what the Patriots used to do. You remember
Speaker 8: they they lost, They traded away a Dion Branch and
Speaker 8: brought him back. Bill loved that, like was like, all right,
Speaker 8: we're gonna get all these assets for this player, and
Speaker 8: then three years later he's gonna come back home and
Speaker 8: play for me again.
Speaker 6: Wouldn't it totally make sense if Tyreek Hill wound up
Speaker 6: back on the Chiefs next year.
Speaker 2: Kareem Hunt, they brought him back, yep.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So I mean like they've got the sort of
Speaker 8: program that can absorb it. And god, can you imagine
Speaker 8: you know, Tyreek Hill and Xavier Worthy running downfield for
Speaker 8: homes next year. I know Hill may not be exactly
Speaker 8: what he was, you know, even last year, but the
Speaker 8: idea of bringing him back at a little bit of
Speaker 8: a discount I think would probably appeal to some people
Speaker 8: in the Chiefs organization, and I'd imagine for Hill himself
Speaker 8: it might put a nice capsung on his career.
Speaker 2: I know you're busy. Thanks for making time, you got it, Thanks.
Speaker 8: DP, And I appreciate the flexibility today too.
Speaker 2: That's Albert Breer, the Monday morning quarterback. Yeah. We were like,
Speaker 2: whenever Albert can join us, and then he wasn't able
Speaker 2: to join his last hour, and then I said, well,
Speaker 2: he actually has another job. So I said, Fritzy, it's okay.
Speaker 2: He's such a great information person to have him on
Speaker 2: when we come back. We'll check in with Tom Kern
Speaker 2: with the Patriots. I thought, what you know Albert brought
Speaker 2: up was interesting there that you're locked in to girod
Speaker 2: Mayo because of the contract, and maybe they kind of
Speaker 2: put themselves in a corner there that they had a
Speaker 2: guy who wasn't ready for this, didn't think he was
Speaker 2: going to be their head coach. So we'll talk to
Speaker 2: Tom Current about that. We're back after this on the
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Speaker 2: Before we check in with Tom Curran covers the Patriots,
Speaker 2: Lou and New Jersey. Hey Lou, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 11: Hey Dan? First time, longest time, five eight one sixty five.
Speaker 11: Thank you Dan. This is this is super surreal and
Speaker 11: I'll have a lot to get in and I'm going
Speaker 11: to try to keep it short and short and sweet.
Speaker 11: I have some advice I need from you, and I
Speaker 11: know it's not super sports related, but I've been listening
Speaker 11: to you. I go you guys like my best friends,
Speaker 11: I mean do guys from my adopted family for about
Speaker 11: twenty years. I go back to listening to you and
Speaker 11: on my little radio at getting taking the bus to
Speaker 11: my internship at k Rock Radio in the city.
Speaker 3: You know, it's.
Speaker 11: It's just been. It's crazy even be talking to you.
Speaker 11: So I'm trying to keep it all together. Yeah, there's.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 11: I just give you one second. I worked in radio
Speaker 11: for a long time. I worked at Serious XM. I
Speaker 11: tried to model my show our show after yours, which
Speaker 11: you can imagine was a little challenging, and I unceremnously
Speaker 11: left when when McLevin left, I was going to send
Speaker 11: in my demo tape for for the Danette Show because
Speaker 11: there's maybe five things I don't suck at in life,
Speaker 11: and it's it's it was radio.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 11: I write about cars, you know, I read for Motor
Speaker 11: Trends and some other freelance stuff. Who's I've been bartending
Speaker 11: for my entire basically my entire life, because I can't.
Speaker 11: I don't have to tell you how radio usually pays
Speaker 11: sorry to stuff a month.
Speaker 2: So give me your question here, Lou.
Speaker 11: I'm sorry. So there's there's Basically, when the Dead Dad
Speaker 11: Club and the Dead Dog Club came around, I kind
Speaker 11: of cringed, and on Thursday, I very unexpectedly lost my dog,
Speaker 11: and I feel like I should have done more. And
Speaker 11: then I found out same day that my dog went
Speaker 11: in to the hospital and passed away. My dad went
Speaker 11: to the er and he's not doing so well. He
Speaker 11: just guys forced to retire from the post office after
Speaker 11: fifty eight years. And so I just wanted to ask,
Speaker 11: there's no there's some universal law that says you can't
Speaker 11: lose your dog and your dad in the same weeker month, right,
Speaker 11: And then more importantly, just how to deal with the
Speaker 11: grief of a dog, because you've can get given me
Speaker 11: advice that I've taken pretty much throughout my INtime. I
Speaker 11: took my dogs to go see my dead dog because
Speaker 11: you said it. Your voice was in my head when
Speaker 11: that happened, and I brought them back and everyone at
Speaker 11: the hospital was shocked and loved it that that that
Speaker 11: was something that I thought of, and I gave you credit.
Speaker 2: You know, well, we'll just try to be here. I
Speaker 2: think if we're your comfort food and we're here every
Speaker 2: day for you, then great. But as far as the
Speaker 2: grieving process goes, certainly with an animal, don't try to
Speaker 2: replace that animal right away. Grieve The reason why it
Speaker 2: hurt so much is you love him so much. So
Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with them. I hope your father feels better,
Speaker 2: but no, there's no universal law that says you can't
Speaker 2: lose your dog and your dad in the same week.
Speaker 2: Somehow make a smooth segue to Tom Kerrn, NBC Sports
Speaker 2: Boston Insider. Hey, Tom, how are you today?
Speaker 5: Feel a little bit like Casey casem here with that
Speaker 5: longest dedication.
Speaker 2: Of my dad a dog named Snuggles, Hey, reporter.
Speaker 5: I hope he finds peace with both his struggling You
Speaker 5: know what.
Speaker 2: That's gonna fix it right there, Tom, thank you for
Speaker 2: helping one well.
Speaker 5: You gave neither thoughts nor prayers, which is to be expected.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Dan, Hey, Happy New Year.
Speaker 5: You let me go. I thought it was January fifth.
Speaker 2: I let you go because I think you're trying to
Speaker 2: find happiness because of what's going on with the Patriots there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jirobmeo was truly safe until December began, and it
Speaker 5: was such a rapid decline, and it was an on
Speaker 5: all fronts decline.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 5: The Crafts beginning the season said we expect to struggle.
Speaker 5: I hope we don't struggle. We expect we're going to struggle,
Speaker 5: and they ended up with four wins, which I think
Speaker 5: if you said, on the face of it, Okay, it's
Speaker 5: gonna be a tough year, you're gonna win four games,
Speaker 5: they wouldn't have boked. But the nature of these last
Speaker 5: four games, the embarrassing loss coming off a bout Arizona,
Speaker 5: followed by a decent representative effort against the Bills, followed
Speaker 5: by what could have been a fifty to nothing loss
Speaker 5: to the Chargers really kind of sealed Jerrod's fate. And
Speaker 5: it was also the messaging around those games, where the
Speaker 5: postgame press conferences were sometimes disjointed with you'd come out
Speaker 5: of them with more questions than you went in. So
Speaker 5: he was strapped to him. He was strapped to a
Speaker 5: runaway train, I think, with this roster and this team.
Speaker 6: So they made them move.
Speaker 2: But we just talked to Albert Breer and he brought
Speaker 2: up something interesting I had not thought of, is they
Speaker 2: put this language in Drodmeyo's contract, so he was the
Speaker 2: coach in waiting, and then maybe they realized that he
Speaker 2: might be the coach in waiting, but he shouldn't be
Speaker 2: our coach now, maybe that the job was a little
Speaker 2: too big for him. What do you think of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was hope against hope. And I think that
Speaker 5: the Patriots have operated really and I've said some people
Speaker 5: blocking they say they won the Super Bowl with twenty seventeen.
Speaker 5: They have operated with a lack of urgencies for the
Speaker 5: better part of six seasons. And there has been very
Speaker 5: much a tendency that Bill fostered and oftentimes it worked,
Speaker 5: and then towards he ended didn't, and the Crafts have
Speaker 5: followed suit with we'll see how it works out. We're
Speaker 5: going to try this. We'll see how it works out.
Speaker 5: You know, it happened with Brady. Well, he's moving on.
Speaker 5: I mean, we're pretty smart here. We'll see how it
Speaker 5: works out. Didn't work out, he wins Super Bowl. You know,
Speaker 5: McDaniels leaves. We're going to elevate these two guys. We're
Speaker 5: pretty smart people. We know a lot about football. Patricia
Speaker 5: and Judge will be fine. I'm still here. We'll see
Speaker 5: how it works out. Didn't work out. And then the
Speaker 5: Crafts I think in moving on from Bill a year
Speaker 5: earlier than they wanted to because he had a two
Speaker 5: year deal. They wanted to continue. They wanted him to
Speaker 5: set the record here, but it became so untenable with
Speaker 5: him that they moved on. And I think with Gerrod
Speaker 5: they saw a terrific leader, a smart guy who needed seasoning.
Speaker 5: He was put into the position before he got the seasoning,
Speaker 5: and the tenor of the season was we'll see how
Speaker 5: it works out. So they need to be more urgent.
Speaker 5: I really think Dan that making a move within an
Speaker 5: hour the game's end, when there was so much uncertainty
Speaker 5: whether or not a move would even be made, shows
Speaker 5: the urgency.
Speaker 2: I think that they're feeling, do you make this move
Speaker 2: if you don't have that coach in waiting? Granted you
Speaker 2: have to go through the process here, but do you
Speaker 2: think that they made that move knowing who they're going
Speaker 2: to hire.
Speaker 5: I think they made that move knowing who they are
Speaker 5: going to pursue, and feeling safe enough that the interest
Speaker 5: will be reciprocated that they might be able to move on.
Speaker 5: You can't just move on and then hire Bobby Slowick.
Speaker 5: Not that Bobby Slowack isn't a good candidate, but what
Speaker 5: ties does Bobby Slowak as an offensive coordinator in Houston
Speaker 5: havefter the New England Patriots. The Patriots, it's very important
Speaker 5: to them they have somebody who has Ties, So the
Speaker 5: most obvious candidate would be Mike Vrabel. Rabel has always
Speaker 5: shown great deference to the Crafts in terms of what
Speaker 5: they built here, what this team's all about, and he
Speaker 5: would be the antidote. It was funny I heard Rex
Speaker 5: Ryan talking about why he would be a good candidate
Speaker 5: for the Jets today, and in saying so, he said,
Speaker 5: you need somebody to understand that fan base and connect
Speaker 5: with that fan base. Was taught. I'm not talking about
Speaker 5: x's and o's, but that's exactly what Rabel would do.
Speaker 5: In a way, I think that that Bill didn't like
Speaker 5: Rabel was excuse me, Mayo was the antithesis of Bill
Speaker 5: in some ways, they need somebody to split the difference.
Speaker 2: Talking to Tom current NBC Sports Boston insider, knowing what
Speaker 2: you know of Tom Brady, there was a report that
Speaker 2: came out Andrew Marshawn that Tom's probably going to be
Speaker 2: one and done, which would not surprise me, and maybe
Speaker 2: get more involved in the Raiders situation. But knowing Brady
Speaker 2: and how much involvement do you see him with the
Speaker 2: Raiders and can you see a coaching change here.
Speaker 5: Well, that's a good question. I think Antonio Pears and
Speaker 5: Gerard have similar styles. I am not close enough to
Speaker 5: know exactly how the ins and outs are working there.
Speaker 5: I think if they did make a coaching change, what's
Speaker 5: Jermaine to me? And this I love you is the
Speaker 5: word Jermaine is that it immediately makes me think. When
Speaker 5: you mentioned Brady, I thought you were going to say, well,
Speaker 5: they're going to go after Rabel, and I wonder if
Speaker 5: that would be the case. In the case of Rabel.
Speaker 5: I would think that Brady would see him as the
Speaker 5: best candidate out there. I think the Brabel is the
Speaker 5: best candidate out there for a variety of reasons, the
Speaker 5: main one being experienced. Girod failed in large part because
Speaker 5: he didn't have podium experience and couldn't anticipate what he
Speaker 5: was going to deal with. Rabel is incredibly astute of
Speaker 5: dealing with that and being one person at the podium,
Speaker 5: being one person behind the scenes with the media, being
Speaker 5: a certain way with everyone. So would Brady pursue Rabel
Speaker 5: if he could get him. Would a bidding war ensue
Speaker 5: coast to coast for the services of Brabel? I think
Speaker 5: that would be interesting to see what I still think
Speaker 5: Vrabel would be more amenable to New England just because
Speaker 5: he was here for ten years and understands this area
Speaker 5: as supposed to going all the way out to San
Speaker 5: Francisco and not knowing if Aidan O'Connell was his quarterback
Speaker 5: or Gardner Minshew, whereas Drake may is such a draw here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I wonder if the Crafts are kind of.
Speaker 5: Doing the same thing.
Speaker 2: Well, they've slowed the progress. Everybody's a genius when you've
Speaker 2: got the greatest coaching quarterback of all time. Then when
Speaker 2: you don't, then all of a sudden, we're looking for
Speaker 2: answers here. And I like, you have complete trust in
Speaker 2: the Crafts that they'll figure this out, and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you guys restore the dignity here.
Speaker 5: No, I don't, And I've said that a number of times,
Speaker 5: and I spoke to somebody high up in the organization
Speaker 5: today and I said it very much reminds me of
Speaker 5: nineteen ninety seven when they moved on from Parcels. I
Speaker 5: hired Pete Carroll because he was the antithesis of Parcels,
Speaker 5: and that team went from the Super Bowl out of
Speaker 5: the playoffs in three years. I brought in a major
Speaker 5: Domo type in Bill Belichick and it went beautifully. The Crafts,
Speaker 5: I think we're out of practice football wise. Bill had
Speaker 5: taken a hold of everything. So this is my stuff.
Speaker 11: I do this.
Speaker 5: This is my football team. You guys run the organization.
Speaker 5: It's your franchise, my football team. And people like to
Speaker 5: think of the Crafts as puppet masters. I just don't
Speaker 5: think that that's true. They ask questions and they register
Speaker 5: their disappointment if things don't go well, But I don't
Speaker 5: think they're making football decisions, and they don't want to.
Speaker 5: They need to get somebody at that friggin level band
Speaker 5: who's making the football decisions. How do they know if
Speaker 5: they're director of West Coast scouting is good or their
Speaker 5: SEC evaluations are good. They don't. So they need somebody
Speaker 5: above those personnel people who can make those decisions, who
Speaker 5: can look at a wide receivers coach and say, my god,
Speaker 5: what are you telling these guys? We got three catches
Speaker 5: from our rookies this year. What are we doing? So
Speaker 5: they need that, I think. So they're in the wilderness
Speaker 5: right now. But the notion that they're cheap or don't
Speaker 5: care about winning, I think is bizarre given and that's
Speaker 5: pretty prevalent around here in New England. I think they
Speaker 5: care incredibly about winning.
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't want girod Mao to be fired, but
Speaker 2: if it meant that I could have you back on
Speaker 2: the show, then he had to pay the price. There's
Speaker 2: an upside. Yeah, there's an upside to then.
Speaker 5: So Albert was in performing huh.
Speaker 2: Well, Fritzy, do you want to answer that with Tom Kern?
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was a change of plans at the last minutes.
Speaker 5: You know, sometimes someone's available at one time and there's
Speaker 5: got to shift to another time. There's really no specific
Speaker 5: rhyme or reasons when everyone's available.
Speaker 6: It's not a list of top to bottom who's most important?
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, sounds sounds kind of like what the Patriots
Speaker 5: went through. Albert was available.
Speaker 2: You're are gid Mao. Hey, great to talk to you,
Speaker 2: all right, Dan, Thank you, Bunny, Thank you Bunny. All right,
Speaker 2: I could ask you about Bill Belichick. By the way,
Speaker 2: are you are you expecting Bill Belichick to be there
Speaker 2: for Wait? Why are you shaking your head?
Speaker 5: I'm not.
Speaker 6: I don't wait.
Speaker 5: I don't think he's gonna be there very long.
Speaker 2: Where's he going?
Speaker 5: I don't think it's gonna go great. Either, it's not
Speaker 5: gonna it's not gonna go the way people think it's
Speaker 5: gonna go. He's not gonna wave a Magic belichickie in
Speaker 5: wand and have everybody. The portal is a real thing.
Speaker 5: There's no portal in the NFL. Those guys are gonna
Speaker 5: get yelled at one time. We're told they don't know
Speaker 5: where they're asked from their elbow and they're gonna be
Speaker 5: portal in Lake Maniacs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you don't have to, you know, be uh,
Speaker 2: you know, stuck with the salary cap or the draft.
Speaker 2: You know you can go out. You do though, No,
Speaker 2: there's no draft.
Speaker 5: Well, they want twenty million dollars for spending on these players,
Speaker 5: so you have to figure out how are we gonna
Speaker 5: spend money on these players? Who gets allocated the most money?
Speaker 2: And that's what Mike Lombardi does for him.
Speaker 5: His eyes are going to be rolling like kicken balls.
Speaker 2: Would say over under one and a half years at
Speaker 2: North Carolina.
Speaker 5: Oh that's a great one. I would say I would
Speaker 5: take the over, but if the odds are good enough,
Speaker 5: I would the smart bet would be over. But I
Speaker 5: could say under. I mean he's got an out next
Speaker 5: June no, He's basically announcing if something better comes along,
Speaker 5: see at Chapel Hill.
Speaker 2: Thank you Tom, Thank you, goodbye Tom. Current NBC Sports insider.
Speaker 2: By the way, did you see when the Jets took
Speaker 2: the field yesterday with the Dolphins the flag? They have
Speaker 2: the flag upside down? Now that might be considered a
Speaker 2: political statement. Is that like a sign of circles? We
Speaker 2: do not support this, but I'm like you knuckle heads,
Speaker 2: you got the upside down unless somebody said, hey, watch this,
Speaker 2: this will be funny, but uh yeah. That pretty much
Speaker 2: emblematic of the Jets season upside down. Take a break.
Speaker 2: Last call for phone calls? What we learn? What's in
Speaker 2: store tomorrow? Right after this, be.
Speaker 1: Sure to catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio WAPP.
Speaker 2: There is football tonight and I'm excited about it. North
Speaker 2: Dakota State versus Montana State. It's the FCS Championship. Got
Speaker 2: the night to themselves. That'll be great, all right, Last
Speaker 2: call for phone calls.
Speaker 3: What we learn?
Speaker 2: What's in store tomorrow. By the way, I'm going to
Speaker 2: make a declaration. It's not a hot take. It's just
Speaker 2: a declaration. By the time I retire in three years,
Speaker 2: Victor Wembenyama will be the MVP of the NBA. I
Speaker 2: watched him against Joker the other night. Man, if you
Speaker 2: don't get him now or next year, you're not going
Speaker 2: to stop him. It is scary, it really is. And Joker,
Speaker 2: I still think is the best player in the game.
Speaker 2: But when you see that's the best player, and Victor
Speaker 2: Wembanyama is just starting out, he's going to be an MVP.
Speaker 2: I think before he's twenty five, I really do. I
Speaker 2: think he's that impressive. And by the way, I know
Speaker 2: we don't focus on it. I know the other shows
Speaker 2: don't focus on it. I probably focus on them more
Speaker 2: than the other shows, but I'm not doing it for clicks.
Speaker 2: The Cleveland Cavaliers have been unbelievable this year. Unbelievable, make
Speaker 2: a case the best team in basketball right now. I
Speaker 2: don't know how this translates to the postseason, but they're
Speaker 2: thirty one to four, So just throwing that out there.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not the Lakers, it's not Golden State,
Speaker 2: it's not the Celtics, not the Knicks. Cleveland is thirty
Speaker 2: one and four. They are historically great off to historically
Speaker 2: great star but just a couple of things maybe you know,
Speaker 2: doesn't get focused on as much with the national media,
Speaker 2: But Cleveland has been pretty incredible this day in sports history.
Speaker 12: Paul just got a couple. In nineteen six seventy six,
Speaker 12: Ted Turner bought the Atlanta Breve for blank million dollars,
Speaker 12: blank million dollars UH ten million dollars, twelve million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yang, Wow, that's why I lost out. I bid ten
Speaker 2: he bid twelve.
Speaker 12: Nineteen ninety seven, Peter O'Malley announced the Dodgers were for sale.
Speaker 12: They've been in this family for forty seven years. Nineteen
Speaker 12: ninety eight, Barry Switzer resigned as the head coach of
Speaker 12: the Dallas Cowboys, and uh oh our buddy Gilbert Arenas
Speaker 12: had a rough day in twenty ten bringing a bag
Speaker 12: of guns to the facility. Seems like a nice guy now.
Speaker 2: Though, Yeah, you know, I like him the rough week.
Speaker 2: I'm always bagg of guns. I like when somebody puts
Speaker 2: something in their bag, in their luggage and then they're
Speaker 2: surprised that they had I brought the gun to the airport. Yes,
Speaker 2: you can't do that.
Speaker 6: Damn.
Speaker 2: Has anybody seen my gun?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Han, I put it in your suitcase?
Speaker 3: Did you?
Speaker 2: Oh? I brought that to the airport. Oh. Let me
Speaker 2: see Tony in Rochester. Hi, tone, thanks for holding what's
Speaker 2: on your mind today?
Speaker 8: Hey Dan?
Speaker 7: First time, long time?
Speaker 5: Yeah, eleven.
Speaker 7: Member of the Dead Dead Club. Okay, uh, indexing in
Speaker 7: about a sixteenth.
Speaker 2: Tony, Tony, are you in a spaceship or something?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: Sometimes I feel that way?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, what was the noise?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 7: I was sitting up perhaps, Okay, but I just want
Speaker 7: to get I mean, Josh Allen seems to me his
Speaker 7: consecutive starts, he's had a great season. He's he's transformed
Speaker 7: himself from like a you know, the turnover and waiting
Speaker 7: and now he's arguably the m v P. And he
Speaker 7: really is, you know, in Western New York, like a
Speaker 7: folk hero. I mean. The funny thing is one of
Speaker 7: the hottest commodities around here is like one of those
Speaker 7: life size cutouts of him. Like if you see one
Speaker 7: at a store and you just ask them for it,
Speaker 7: the people will tell you.
Speaker 2: We we just got to.
Speaker 7: An offer for one thousand dollars for this day. We're
Speaker 7: gonna raffle it off. We're gonna raise money like you
Speaker 7: can't get your hands. People put it in their windows.
Speaker 2: Tony, is is there a question here or like? I mean,
Speaker 2: it's nice to know that they have a cardboard cutout
Speaker 2: of Josh Allen and people want to take him home.
Speaker 2: But got anything else?
Speaker 7: But I think the worst I think the worst of
Speaker 7: the weekend is and probably the worst of the year
Speaker 7: is Sean McDermott. I think that his job is very
Speaker 7: much in jeopardy if they don't win the super Bowl.
Speaker 7: And I think it's been a couple of years.
Speaker 2: Wait, I think he's done a really good job this year.
Speaker 2: In other years maybe not. And good luck with your
Speaker 2: Josh Allen cardboard cutout there. Tony was on hold for
Speaker 2: over an hour and a half. I didn't I didn't
Speaker 2: know if there was a point getting his money's worth?
Speaker 2: Yeah damn it? Yeah? AnyWho? Uh let me see Alex
Speaker 2: in Utah. Hi, Alex, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 9: I think, thank thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 11: Thirty eight to zero. That was my best of the weekend.
Speaker 9: I understand that it was the Kansas City be team,
Speaker 9: but anytime you can just open up a go to
Speaker 9: old fashion can of a butt whooping on the division rival.
Speaker 9: It just feels good, especially to secure a playoff spot Sure, Fritzy,
Speaker 9: I love the smack talk.
Speaker 11: Keep it up real quick.
Speaker 9: I I guys, I have not been able to get
Speaker 9: Steven Wilson Junior the Third out of my mind since
Speaker 9: that interview. I mean, like I am a song is
Speaker 9: playing constantly on the background, like it's not on Spotify,
Speaker 9: so I gotta watch your interview with him over and
Speaker 9: over again.
Speaker 11: I mean like when Seaton.
Speaker 9: Said best song he's ever heard, I was like, all right, okay,
Speaker 9: like let's tone it down.
Speaker 11: But I hear it every time I hear it.
Speaker 9: I'm like, I gotta call my dad tell him I
Speaker 9: love him so for me.
Speaker 11: Best interview of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 9: Thanks for introducing me to him.
Speaker 11: You guys have a great week.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Alex, Thank you. Yeah. Steven Wilson Junior is
Speaker 2: the artist and if you go to Spotify, he's very talented.
Speaker 2: Glad that we had him in studio and hopefully we
Speaker 2: gave him a kind of a sounding board, a launching
Speaker 2: pad for the rest of the country to experience his music.
Speaker 2: Ted and Tampa Hi, Ted.
Speaker 3: Had end at Ted and Tampa Bay for It's Clear
Speaker 3: Blue and seventy two. Okay, yeah, best and best of
Speaker 3: the weekend, of course, it was a Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 3: beating squeak them by the New Orleans Saints. The second
Speaker 3: best of that week was Jerry Jones had his acting
Speaker 3: debut on your Favorite show land Man yesterday. He was
Speaker 3: on for twenty five minutes. He did a great job.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, I stopped watching land Man and I love
Speaker 2: Billy Bob Thornton. I just something was missing. And I
Speaker 2: know they tried to create a like an oil version
Speaker 2: of Yellowstone, but it just it wasn't there for me.
Speaker 2: I'm also trying to get through Squid Game two. I'm
Speaker 2: struggling a little bit here. Seton said that it's worth it,
Speaker 2: but it's not as good as season one. Let's go
Speaker 2: around the room. What we learned on the program, Todd
Speaker 2: would you learn today?
Speaker 12: Albert Bria thinks Aaron Regers could very well have a
Speaker 12: Brett farm of hair across his ass and wants to
Speaker 12: prove the Jets are everyone wrong if he goes to
Speaker 12: another team.
Speaker 4: All right, Seaton, I think we start booking guests in
Speaker 4: order of importance.
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