WEBVTT - NFL REPORT: Panthers Fire Head Coach & are changes coming to New England? 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:08.760 What was going on as Issiah Franklin linebacker the Napolis Coats, 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:10.600 And this is the NFL Report. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:14.360 All right, Welcome to the Week twelve edition of the 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.120 NFL Report. I'm Steve whitehe as my guy, James Palmer JP. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.119 We saw the Jags, we saw the Ravens. Oh and 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.680 did we ever see the Eagles get big wins as 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.120 well as those Atlanta Falcons to take over the NFC 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:28.520 South JP. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.520 Every other team in the NFC. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.000 South took a loss, and one of them proved very 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:36.400 costly down to Carolina. 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.880 There is a second coaching change in the NFL. Steve 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.080 frank Reich is out. We know this that happened this 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.000 morning after starting one in ten and the offense that 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.760 he was put in charge of, specifically David Tepper. The 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.600 owner wanted to hire an offensive mind their twenty eighth 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:00.840 or lower in almost every single offensive category. Soper moves 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.479 on with his third head coach firing. He's had two 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.640 with his MLS team. And to break all of this 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.840 down with the quick trigger finger of David Tepper is 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:16.040 as I'm calling him, the official NFL Insider of the 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:21.320 NFL Report. Mike Carrafollo should be joining the show. There, yeah, 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:23.800 there he is. He just flies into the middle of 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.640 the show. Mike, I know you got a pulse on everything. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.199 Yeah, I mean, I'm the official insider because hean treated 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.640 you so rudely on the inside of I don't think 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:34.400 he's out for good. 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.399 Listen, you know why I made the call, and I'm 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.600 making it today on the show official Insider of the 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.840 NFL Report, Mike, you got a pulse on everything, you 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:46.920 know when things are kind of coming. I did this 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.600 game against the Cowboys a week ago, and I could 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.080 start seeing things happening when I was at that game 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.120 talking to people in Charlotte. When did you really get 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:58.240 a sense that this was possibly or almost certainly happening 0:01:58.960 --> 0:01:59.760 on Monday morning? 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.680 Well back up, because I thought you're gonna ask me, 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.640 when did I get a sense that this was possible 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.800 that Frank Reich was not going to survive past year one. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:10.880 I would say back to when I had the game. 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:12.920 I guess it was before the Cowboys game. It was 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.799 the Thursday night game in Chicago. Maybe it was a 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.560 couple of games before that where that was the game? 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.160 Where did Frank Reraich take back play call? I'm so 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.840 lost because he gave it up and he took a check. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:25.679 So I don't remember the Cowboys. 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:26.880 You must have gave it up then, like. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.720 It maybe it was when he gave it up. And 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:31.760 all these weeks are running together, guys, you know how 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.560 it is. But I remember that night talking to people, 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.320 was like, well, you know, Bryce's brain is kind of 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.160 scattered right now, because you know, you've got a different 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:41.800 play callers. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.840 Thomas Brown was taking some of the concepts that he 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:45.640 was doing. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.680 With the Rams, or Michean McVay was doing with the 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.840 Rams that he kind of learned there, and they were 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.240 trying to mesh it with what Frank Reich was doing 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.400 or had done with Indianapolis and Philadelphia, and it wasn't meshing. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.480 And so you've got two different guys, two different voices 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.680 inside Bryce Young's head there, and then you add in 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.960 Josh McCowen as well, who was trying to mesh these 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.440 two together, and it just wasn't working. And I started 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:08.840 to get the sense that this was just not a 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:09.440 great setup. 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:09.639 Now. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.760 I had Steve Smith with me that night, and I 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.120 asked Steve just his opinion. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.280 I said, Steve, what do you think he goes? 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.840 I don't think that they want to fire another coach 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.440 after one and done. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.480 I would imagine David Tepper doesn't. 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.320 And Ian reported that today David Depper did not want 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:27.240 to do this, but felt like he had to. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:32.360 So look, I know he wanted an offensive mind. 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.040 I understand that thinking that is something that Jeffrey Lorie 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.760 and the Eagles have had. They want to higher offensive 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.400 minded head coaches. It's worked out for them, but not 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.120 because those guys are offensive minded, because they've been the 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:43.640 right call. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.000 And David Tepper really wanted Ben Johnson. Last year. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:51.560 Ben Johnson withdrew from that chase, which I would imagine 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.360 he's at least going to be on David Tepper's radar 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:54.280 again this year. 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.280 Steve Walks was sitting there staring him right in the face. 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.520 Right, So, if your number one target was gone, why 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:02.400 not just go with the guy that did a great 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:04.800 job as the interim coach with a staff that wasn't 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.120 even his and really didn't have a chance to set 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.240 the table for himself. Never mind what happened back in 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.280 Arizona when he never got the chance to hire his 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.200 own staff and set the table for himself. 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:15.880 I just at this point, Steve Wilks could have done this. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.159 So I go what you're saying, Mike, So that that 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.200 leads me to this question as we push it forward 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.440 and we want to move forward with this. You look 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.400 at what they did in terms of naming an interim 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.240 head coach. They didn't name Thomas Brown, who's going to 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.800 run the offense. They didn't name Giero Evro who's going 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.000 to run the defense. Either one of them isn't named 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.279 the interim head coach. What I'm curious is do you 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.880 think that's a move to where you don't fall into 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.560 the same situation that you were in last year when 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.480 run happens like it happened with Steve Wilkes, and maybe 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.719 just already your mind is made up that you wanted 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.679 to be somebody outside of the building. 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.680 What was the thinking that maybe both of those guys, because. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.880 They're on the list, almost every one of them for 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.560 up and coming potential head coach and Cannon and and 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.200 you don't name either one of them your interim head coach. 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.159 My sense is that it's a little twofold one. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:07.880 This is kind of what we're seeing in the NFL 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.120 these days, the days of well, let's just promote the 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.880 offensive end or defensive coordinator that we think is closest 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.200 to being a head coach. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.040 No, let's go with the special. 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.200 Teams guy, or in Antonio Pierce's case, it was the 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.600 linebackers coach. So we can allow our coordinators to be 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.440 coordinators and focus on that. And I think, particularly on 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.680 the offensive side of the ball, that is definitely what 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:29.960 David Tepper wants, because he wants Thomas Brown to be 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:34.080 focused on nothing except making sure that Bryce Young starts 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:35.719 to move in the right direction. Because it doesn't matter 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:37.800 who the coach is next year. They want to make 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.599 sure that they have some positive momentum with Bryce Young 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.160 that he can capitalize on as he ends this season 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.440 and carry it forward into twenty four. And then you 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.920 would think, again, you would think with an offensive minded 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.880 head coach the right higher, the guy that David Tepper 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:54.440 feels really good about bringing a quarterback along, that you 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.040 get that momentum plus to hire and now. 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:58.480 We've got this kid moving in the right direction. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.680 Well, who says he need offensive coach to get a 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.200 rookie quarterback going, because it looks like down in Houston 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:06.760 that's working okay for Damico Ryans and CJ. Strout, But 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.440 Michae a couple of points you made here. You know 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.000 they wanted to streamline things right with Thomas Brown's voice there, 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.760 so they get rid of Duce Daly and Josh McCown, 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:19.040 two rising assistants whose careers now are probably going to 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.599 be lateral at best because of the disaster it's happened 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.080 to Carolina. But more importantly, you mentioned Ben Johnson, the 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.719 lines offensive coordinator, could be on the radar, but everyone 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.520 knows David Tepper. Now, yeah, he pays big bucks, but 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:33.799 he got an itchy trigger finger. 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:35.080 He meddles. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.560 I think that's when Frank Reich stepped on the green 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.040 Mile when he went publicly and said that the owner 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.440 is very involved. Why is this an attractive job because 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.840 it's one of thirty two and whoever comes in, he's 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.080 got to take Bryce Young. Not everybody like Bryce Young. 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.839 Yeah, well, I would say that sometimes I've seen this 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.880 where you get the bank bank firing, and then you 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.200 get the extended run for the next coach, because you 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.480 don't want to get into that rhythm of we're continuing. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:06.599 To turnover coaches and turnover coaches. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.520 I remember the Giants, a couple of years ago when 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:13.280 I heard Brian Daboll Cleveland, Yeah yeah, and then San Francisco. 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:13.920 How about that one. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.280 Let's got back to San Francisco because they made sure 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:19.400 that they had matching six year contracts for Kyle Shanahan 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.560 and John Lynch as a message to those guys, to 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.880 the team and to the fan base to say, no, 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:26.920 we're giving these guys some runway here. 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.239 So that's a potential. 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.000 Positive here as you're coming up as a candidate for 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.600 this job to say, you know, David Tepper does not 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.760 want to do the quick trigger again, so I'll probably 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:39.920 get a little bit more leeway here than maybe I 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:40.880 ordinarily would have. 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.760 You know, that's number one, number two. It is a 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:44.880 good organization. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:48.400 Otherwise, I've heard a lot of positive things about working 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.960 there and being an employee there, certainly under David Tepper, 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.040 other than guys that have been the head coach recently, 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.880 but he certainly is Listen, there's a passion there, there's 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.200 a desire to win, right, I'll give him that much. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.360 I understand what you're saying about the meddling. Maybe one 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.040 day we'll hear the full story about who wanted c J. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.800 Shrowd and who wanted Bryce Young because we've heard different 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.080 versions of it. Certainly behind the Steves, behind the scenes, 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.760 Steve and James, I know you guys have as well. 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.480 And maybe the owner who was on all those trips 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.960 and in all those meetings and at the pro days, 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.280 was making a little bit too much of the decisions. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.680 We shall see if that ever comes to late. Frank 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.640 Braich did have a chance today in speaking with Scott 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.640 and Filer of this Charlotte Observer, to take some shots back, 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.880 and instead he took the high road. 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:35.839 Yeah. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.480 I mean, honestly, guys, in my opinion, I think this 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.920 job is less appealing now than it was a season ago. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.120 I agree, I really do, because now you don't have picks. 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.360 You don't get to pick the quarterback. Quarterback's been selective 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.000 for that quarterback's not going anywhere. And you also, as 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.679 Steve mentioned, you now have concrete evidence, Mike in multiple 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:57.880 occasions about how David Tepper operates and how difficult things 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.440 kind of can be on you as a head coach 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.920 in that building. So I'm curious really in that sense 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.000 to where I think it is is maybe less appealing 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.640 this year than it was the time around a year ago. 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.520 But Mike, before we move on, I am curious are 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.679 we giving Bryce Young a pass in this situation? I mean, 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.240 you mentioned what they did. You know, they really changed 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.679 offenses from what I'm told one way or another four 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.640 different times during OTAs they continue to do it throughout 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.920 this season, putting more and more in terms of what 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.120 he did at Alabama and trying to find different ways 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.280 room successful all the change and everything he's been through. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.760 What have you heard about about him? Especially? Are we 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:35.959 giving him a pass because of. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.800 The situation or are there concerns about his future overall? 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:41.960 Because there has to be some. Yeah. 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:43.680 And first of all, by the way I do you 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.360 were laying out the reasons why this job is less attractive, 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.400 Steeves questioned me, was why is it attractive? I do 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.320 agree with you, Yes, yes, you got to look at 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.360 this job a little side eye if you are canaday 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.760 for it for sure. But back to your question about 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.400 Bryce Young? What have I heard? I he did talk 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.680 about the differing schemes and how that was messing with 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:05.600 his head and blowing him down a little bit. 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:06.280 That's number one. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.320 The other thing that I heard is the way that 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.280 he's trying to play quarterback it's almost like a positive 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.960 became a negative. So coming out of college we talked 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.559 about him and his ability to process and his ability 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.840 to see everything and go through all of his reads. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:21.520 This team is not there yet. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.280 The offensive line is not going to provide him with 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.480 the time number one, and it's not like he's got 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.600 four legitimate options that he can kind of go through 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.520 here and read from one all the way to four. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.600 It's like, yes, he does feeling, Adam feeling. 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:36.920 Who else Adam feeling? 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:38.800 I think those are his best two reads. I think 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.720 those are his first three. Yeah. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.040 Well, and that's why Scott Fitterer of the GM did 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.400 try at the trade deadline, even though they knew they 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.320 weren't going to make the playoffs, to trying to bring 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.719 in a legitimate target, and the price wound up being 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.160 too high for any of the guys that were available. 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:54.280 So he said, you know what, I'm not going to 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.760 risk that just to get it in house this year. 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.600 We'll work on that in the offseason and they will. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.440 This will be a team that will be lo in 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.360 free agency and maybe via the trade market to bring 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.880 in legitimate targets or Bryce Young. But the point I'm 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.199 trying to make is he was trying to play quarterback 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.439 as if he was loaded with the greatest show on turf, 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.079 and I could just kind of go through everything, and 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:15.760 they were kind of telling him, like, dude, that's not 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.679 where it is right now. So that's a good thing 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.600 maybe down the line, or like in college when you 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.559 played at Alabama, Yeah, and you had sec defenses on 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.440 the other side, but you had Alabama's offensive line of. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:26.280 Targets in front of you. 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.160 So yeah, he's got to figure this all out, right, 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.000 He's got to sort of simplify it and dumb it 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.480 down in his own mind, but not lose that ability 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.480 because one day he may be in a situation where 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.280 he's got a loaded offense and that's the way you 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:39.840 do want to play quarterback in the NFL. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:40.880 Yeah, he gets a pass. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:42.880 Look, we see this a with Tua where he comes 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.280 to a situation that's not very good. They changed coaches, 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.760 it's a personnel. Now, look what happened. So this is 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.280 I think he gets a pass on this because this 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.040 was just a colossal disaster. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:54.199 Mike. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:55.439 One day, we're going to have you back on see 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.720 if Jim Harbaugh might be a potential candidate even though 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.560 issues with authority are something that he tends to have 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:03.360 with a hair triggered owner. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:07.120 I don't know if that is ideal. But also, Mike, no, 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:08.280 not at all. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.920 But you were at you were at like the best 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.120 game of the weekend, Mike, the Giants and the Patriots. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.600 Oh yeah, dandy right there. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.760 And so we do know that the Patriots took a 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:23.679 loss on that game on this misattempt. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.160 At the very end, the rookie is set from thirty 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.559 five to time, snap is. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.520 Good, kick on, it's playing, and go for wherever it's go. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.520 Good bet mister white lamp. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.480 Playal with mister white. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:46.560 Laugh sonother rookie beats Bill Belichick. Oh boy, oh boy. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.240 So we needed to see it again. 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:49.840 Yeah, we we just had to see that game of Mike. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.439 When you when you when you look at this game, 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:52.920 and we'll forget the outcome. 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:53.200 Right. 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.560 We know the Patriots they are what they are. But 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.280 Bill Belichick his situation because we know there's gonna be 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.160 a bunch of coaching changes at the end of the season. Heck, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:02.960 Frank Wright might not be the only one from the 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.000 NFC South, but Bill Belichick just some things that you 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.000 garnered what could be happening in New England in the 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.760 offseason and where his future could be probably not Caro lineup, 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.360 based on the way he handled developing a rookie quarterback 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:17.160 in mac Jones. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:19.880 Well, let's actually start with the outcome of the game, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:21.240 because I haven't shared this yet and this is a 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.920 perfect opportunity for me to do it. In the pregame, 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:28.720 Dad Ryland from roughly where he was kicking that game 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.080 winning or game tying field goal was missing left and right, 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.560 as a matter of fact, missing left. And I was 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:36.680 standing there with a couple of Patriots folks and I 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:40.040 was like, is this dude struggling? And they were like, now, 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.760 I always does that in the pre game. He's terrible 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.640 in the pregame and then he comes in and he's 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.960 fine during the game. Literally, the kick after he tried 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.520 a kick in the pre game missed it wide left, 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.960 almost identical to the one that he missed there at 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:53.600 the end of the game. 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:55.280 Is when I asked the question and they were like, Noah, 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.160 w whatry about it. He's good, he's good, earned out 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:58.679 he wasn't good. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.680 Back to your question about Belichick in his future, it 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.240 just feels like time it does Robert Craft really has 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.600 not led it on his full feelings on the situation. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.760 Go back to March, go back to the league meetings 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.800 when he said that girod Mayo was the basically coach 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:15.839 in waiting, and it. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.960 Was like, wait a second, I'm sorry, what hello? Oh 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:18.719 did you just. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.840 Say what we think you said? And he doesn't say 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.200 it by accident. Robert Craft knows exactly what he's doing. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.640 I thought the League meeting in October was going to 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.280 be the chance for us to get Robert Kraft's feel 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.440 on what's happening with the Patriots. He did not elect 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.840 to even walk by the cameras in the hotel lobby 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.440 that day. I believe he's been on CNBC since then. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.680 He did an interview with Rich Eisen in Germany before 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:48.080 the game there and really didn't get into great depth 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.880 about anything, which I think the fact that he's saying 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.360 less actually tells me a little bit more so, it 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.120 just feels like time for Bill Belichick to move on 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.800 from New England. He's not saying much. Craft isn't saying much, 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.440 So this is gonna be a lot of speculation, But 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.840 I will say I mean, I've had conversation with people 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:07.800 in the building and they say that they're kind of 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.040 feeling the same thing as well. 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:10.680 So let's see how it plays out. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:12.600 Doesn't feel like Bill Belichick's the kind of guy that 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.320 wants to just sail off into retirement. 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:15.720 There will be opportunities. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:20.800 Some have speculated about Washington and it's proximity to Annapolis. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.480 You know about his Navy connections and his feel for 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.160 the area down there. We shall see again, this is 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.120 all informed speculation at this point. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.000 Love it, Mike, Love all the insight. Right before we 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.040 let you go, how do you feel about your new title? 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.160 Exclusive insider to the Report. 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:38.640 I think I feel like it's great. I think it 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.400 should be on the screen. I think it should be 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.800 probably on the shelf behind me, right by Carmen's. This 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.200 is the drawing of a football. This guy looks like 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.360 a son of a beard. The upside down at heart. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.320 I don't know why it's upside down. No, she's getting 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.920 to the age now, she's six, and James, you've got 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.080 an artistic son. So we're now going to have to 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.720 start look like we got to figure out what was 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:00.600 in the artist's mind. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.320 Why was the heart upside down on the football? 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.320 I don't know. You won't tell me. It's all the 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.080 beauty of appreciating art. 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.760 Mike. You know this multiple levels, Mike, No, she's thinking 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.600 that to a through it. It's the left handed rotation 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:19.880 on the throw. As to why the heart is upside down, Mike, j. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.200 Why she's a football art girl? 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.160 Thereil Mike t you are the man. Thank you so much, 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.920 great insight. The story is not going away, and now 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:28.440 what else. 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.240 Is it going away? Bigger news? 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.360 That was the biggest news watch But now the bigger 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.600 news is coming back and it does involve the Houston Texans. 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.400 Oh and the team they lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars. 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.240 Next on the NFL Report. 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.480 So the game ends if he misses from fifty eight 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.960 yards away, Johnson puts it down. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.200 There's the kick. The fifty eight yard. 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:59.840 Field goal is no God, it hit the crossbar. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:00.920 It came back. 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.320 The Jacks have coment beaten the Houston Texans. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:05.800 How good is that? 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.280 Welcome back to the NFL Report, James Palmer, Steve whitch 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:09.560 with you. 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:10.040 Steve. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.320 We slid down Bigger news because we had massive news 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.399 with Leshi at the top of the show. But every 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.399 Monday we usually like to start with bigger news. So 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.760 I'm gonna start with what is bigger news, Steve. Is 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:26.040 it the Jaguars going down to Houston and beating the Texans, 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:30.320 creating a two game lead in the Division of the 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.560 AFC South, Or is it the Philadelphia Eagles where I'm 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.760 still here in Philadelphia winning just an insane game over 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.400 the Buffalo Bills to move to ten and one and 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.960 remain the best team in the NFL as they look 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:49.399 to face the forty nine Ers in a massive contest 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:50.640 next Sunday. 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:51.560