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Speaker 3: Dave Wanstat, the former Bears head coach, has thoughts on
Speaker 3: justin fields. You know he's from Pittsburgh. He's gonna have
Speaker 3: thoughts on the Steelers. My takeaway in the first game,
Speaker 3: as boy, that was ugly. The Saints are now two
Speaker 3: to zero undefeated. Derek Carr comes through in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3: Through his career, he's been a pretty good fourth quarter quarterback.
Speaker 3: Bryce Young is small. He's never going to be a
Speaker 3: dominant player in this league. He's accurate, he moves well.
Speaker 3: They just don't have any playmakers. They gave up Dj
Speaker 3: Moore to get him, and they need receiver DJ Moore back.
Speaker 3: That was the downside of that move. But if you
Speaker 3: wanted to control the draft and get your quarterback, then
Speaker 3: that's what you do. Smallish, accurate moves. Well, he's tiny, though,
Speaker 3: and I think you know he's not going to ever
Speaker 3: push the ball down the field. It's not what you're
Speaker 3: going to get. But he's got an offensive coach. They
Speaker 3: had a very very vanilla game plan for him, so,
Speaker 3: I mean it was it was a remedial game plan,
Speaker 3: not a lot of motion. They didn't ask him to
Speaker 3: do a lot, but they don't have a lot to
Speaker 3: work with, so they tried to kind of play you know,
Speaker 3: field position and eventually gave up a huge play down
Speaker 3: the sideline from Derek Carr that felt like a big
Speaker 3: advantage in this football game. A bobbled but caught ball
Speaker 3: on the left sideline and they hold on, you know,
Speaker 3: a push. I didn't have a great first two weeks.
Speaker 3: Got to push on that had Carolina plus three Carolina.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad I was talked out of it. I
Speaker 3: had the Saints winning Division Atlanta a wild card team.
Speaker 3: I like Carolina through the summer, but I did have
Speaker 3: questions about the offensive line and their skill people, and
Speaker 3: they just don't have any juice. Both of these were
Speaker 3: ugly games. I would prefer we had more Sunday games
Speaker 3: one Monday night football game. I'm not a huge fan
Speaker 3: of Thursday night football. Most of the games are uninspired.
Speaker 3: Al Michaels and Kirk kirk Street sometimes seemed like, you know,
Speaker 3: they're pros. They do a good job, but I mean
Speaker 3: the games just don't have any juice, any energy. As
Speaker 3: far as the Pittsburgh Steelers, they won a game tonight
Speaker 3: with nine first downs. I don't know how long Matt
Speaker 3: Canada is going to get in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: I don't get it.
Speaker 3: Five years, the offensive line still suboptimal, the run games
Speaker 3: hit and miss. I don't see clever. But Mike Tomlin
Speaker 3: and the Steelers, they're all about continuity and loyalty, so
Speaker 3: Matt Canada retains employment. I just don't see it. When
Speaker 3: you watch the Rams and McVeigh and the Niners and
Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan and the Dolphins, where they spend their money,
Speaker 3: the coaching, the schematics, the adaptability, they're just playing a
Speaker 3: different game than the Steelers.
Speaker 2: They won a game.
Speaker 3: It never breaks my heart when Deshaun Watson, who I
Speaker 3: think the creepy guy, loses a football game. I just
Speaker 3: don't think he's I think you take a year and
Speaker 3: a half to two years off in the NFL. I
Speaker 3: mean you can make it as a coach, I don't
Speaker 3: think you can do it as a quarterback. I just
Speaker 3: don't think he's that good. I don't think he's a
Speaker 3: top twelve quarterback in the league. I never loved how
Speaker 3: he threw a football. He was a playmaker in his
Speaker 3: best years. But we've had so many young quarterbacks get
Speaker 3: drafted in the last three years and emerge in the
Speaker 3: last year or two. I just don't consider Deshaun Watson
Speaker 3: an elite quarterback. You know, he probably should have gotten
Speaker 3: the benefit of a pass interference call, and that one
Speaker 3: that's sailed out of bounds you're on the road, you
Speaker 3: don't get the call. But the Steelers won with nine
Speaker 3: first downs and being dominated.
Speaker 2: In time of possession.
Speaker 3: You're not supposed to win that game if you're a
Speaker 3: star quarterback and you're Deshaun Watson. Nick Chubb injury is gross.
Speaker 3: I saw the video once.
Speaker 2: That was enough.
Speaker 3: I don't want to see it again. But you know,
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh one in one one, they find ways to win.
Speaker 3: But I just I feel like they're playing a different game.
Speaker 3: They feel very much like New England with better players.
Speaker 3: I just don't think there's much of a ceiling offensively.
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Speaker 3: in Dave Wanstat former Baron Dolphin coach. All right, Dave,
Speaker 3: it wasn't pretty. Nine first downs, barely had the football.
Speaker 3: It was very much I guess this is my takeaway
Speaker 3: with the Steelers. So this is an organization that Chuck Noll,
Speaker 3: Bill Kauer, Mike Tomlin. I mean, it doesn't even make sense.
Speaker 3: In the NFL, they're all about loyalty and continuity. How
Speaker 3: many years does Matt Kennedy get the OC job. They
Speaker 3: can't get the O line right, they can't run the football.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just look at this and I think
Speaker 3: to myself, Yeah, though eight or nine games, they'll finish
Speaker 3: about five hundred. I just look around this league at
Speaker 3: the Dolphins and the Niners and Philadelphia and some of
Speaker 3: these clever offenses and coach This is a tough way
Speaker 3: to make a living. I just I think there's a
Speaker 3: ceiling to Steelers football when I see your thoughts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I offensively it is. It's tough to watch. And
Speaker 1: we know that. Kenny Pickett, in my opinion, I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit partial because he's a pick guy and I'm
Speaker 1: a pick guy called him. But the guy didn't have
Speaker 1: much of a chance. In a minute that you see
Speaker 1: your quarterback running for his life like he did, my
Speaker 1: first instinct is we gotta slow that down. And how
Speaker 1: do you slow it down? You run the football. And
Speaker 1: with three minutes to go into the third quarter, the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers had twelve yards rushing.
Speaker 2: I know it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean that, I can't I can't comprehend that.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could go up and take a knee,
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen times at that point in the game
Speaker 1: and make more than twelve yards. I mean, it really
Speaker 1: makes no sense. And at the end of last year,
Speaker 1: and I go back to Art Rooney, who's a friend,
Speaker 1: you know, he made the statement Mike Pomlin has. But
Speaker 1: at the end of last year, check it out. Art Rooney,
Speaker 1: the owner said we will run the football next year.
Speaker 1: We're not going to put up with what we did
Speaker 1: this year. We're going to get back to Steeler football.
Speaker 1: And here we are and and nothing's changed, nothing's changed,
Speaker 1: you know. Thank God for that defense, thank God for
Speaker 1: playing at home. Unfortunate injury with Nick Chubb. I mean,
Speaker 1: he he's their lifeline. He was averaging six yards of
Speaker 1: carry before he got hurt tonight, so I think he
Speaker 1: would have he would have made a difference. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett right now, I think he's really is concerned
Speaker 1: about the rush as he is sitting back and reading
Speaker 1: the coverage. If he doesn't look, he looks he truly
Speaker 1: looks like his focus isn't on reading one, two, three,
Speaker 1: what's the coverage, it's where's the rush coming from? And
Speaker 1: do I have to scramble? Do I have to get
Speaker 1: the ball out? It's tough for a quarterback to operate
Speaker 1: under those circumstances.
Speaker 3: A lot of young quarterbacks struggling justin fields. Mac Jones,
Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett have defensive head coaches. This is not a
Speaker 3: shot at them, but I do think there's a sensibility
Speaker 3: in a language offensive coaches speak, and I feel like,
Speaker 3: you know, defensive coaches, you know, they're not going to
Speaker 3: be quite as creative, they're not going to be quite
Speaker 3: as risk taking. And frankly, a lot of offensive coaches
Speaker 3: played quarterback, they were offensive players. And I is it
Speaker 3: a fair criticism to say Pittsburgh's a defensive culture and
Speaker 3: unless they get a young progressive, that's its culture is
Speaker 3: toughness and physicality, And I just look at it and
Speaker 3: I think that's not doing Kenny Pickett the same thing
Speaker 3: for New England coach Matt Jones had a defensive coordinator
Speaker 3: Holland plays last year. Is that a fair criticism?
Speaker 1: Well, I think there's some degree it is the problem
Speaker 1: that you have in Pittsburgh. Is it tomorrow? It's gonna
Speaker 1: be the terrible Towles did it again in the defense,
Speaker 1: and they go on to the next week. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's nothing going to change. You know what's crazy? Uh,
Speaker 1: you talk about and and and we're going to get
Speaker 1: into the Dolphins in a minute. When we do, I
Speaker 1: want to bring up a point to you about defensive
Speaker 1: head coaches because, uh, we're having to do with San
Speaker 1: Diego when they played the Dolphins in that first game.
Speaker 1: But yeah, back back to Pittsburgh. I don't see I
Speaker 1: don't see it changing. I really don't. Uh, that's their identity,
Speaker 1: that's who they are. If they face a team that
Speaker 1: doesn't have the pass rush with with this Arius Smith
Speaker 1: and Miles Garrett, like Cleveland is really good on defense,
Speaker 1: then Kenny Picket will have a good game and he'll
Speaker 1: throw for three touchdowns. But against the quality pass rush defense,
Speaker 1: nothing will change.
Speaker 3: All right, let's pivot to Chicago, where you spend a
Speaker 3: great deal of your time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I came into the season and I said, I think
Speaker 3: I'm kind of fifty five forty five sixty forty justin
Speaker 3: fields will work. I thought DJ Moore was a huge
Speaker 3: get for them, and he's been kind of their receiving corps.
Speaker 3: But Dave, I just don't think he sees the field well.
Speaker 3: He reminds me a lot of Zach Wilson. He's got
Speaker 3: a good arm, he moves well, and he just doesn't
Speaker 3: anticipate the play. I think justin fields. I mean I
Speaker 3: watched him on a lot of different views, almost like
Speaker 3: drone footage or behind him. There's wide open guys everywhere
Speaker 3: he has time on certain plays. Do you think in
Speaker 3: the you know you know this, the GM and the
Speaker 3: head coach can say we didn't draft him, he's not
Speaker 3: our guy. And next year there's six to seven first
Speaker 3: round quarterbacks. The Bears could have two top six or
Speaker 3: seven picks. Coach, I think it's really hard if he
Speaker 3: ends up. I mean he's five and twenty two. If
Speaker 3: he goes seven and ten, six and eleven, yeah, they're
Speaker 3: not sticking with him in Chicago.
Speaker 2: There's no way.
Speaker 1: No. They have two number one picks next year, as
Speaker 1: we know their's and the Panthers with the trade Carolina,
Speaker 1: so they're gonna they're gonna be Uh. They could have
Speaker 1: two ten top picks. I mean maybe two five top five.
Speaker 1: Who knows the way this thing's unraveling. But uh, you
Speaker 1: know the whole plan here, and I'm close to all
Speaker 1: those guys, Ryan Poles and Matt Egriflus. I'm up there
Speaker 1: all the time OTA's training camp, and the blueprint was
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. You know, two years ago people were
Speaker 1: uncertain of Jalen Hurts. That's when they went and got
Speaker 1: a J. Brown. Uh, That's that's when they kind of
Speaker 1: changed their philosophy and they buried down. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a quarterback o t you know, quarterback run pass option
Speaker 1: offense that Jalen Hurts can execute to a high level. Uh. Well,
Speaker 1: the difference is so that's what So they go on
Speaker 1: and they get DJ Brown here, absolutely outstanding. The problem
Speaker 1: is Philadelphia Eagles got one of the best offensive lines
Speaker 1: and last year they led the NFL in sacks. The
Speaker 1: Bears can't, but they the strong safety was the leading
Speaker 1: socker for the Bears last year, and you saw him
Speaker 1: against Baker Mayfield. Even when they got in there, their
Speaker 1: defense couldn't get Baker on the ground. I mean, he
Speaker 1: said they make no plays on defense. Now, So my
Speaker 1: point is this that justin fields, Yes, he did have time.
Speaker 1: He held the ball for once. I was timing him
Speaker 1: over three seconds. One time it was four seconds, one
Speaker 1: time five seconds. And he's trying to be not a
Speaker 1: running quarterback. Last year he leads the league in rushing calling,
Speaker 1: and there was an outcry, we can't win a super
Speaker 1: Bowl that way. He's got to throw it, and I'm
Speaker 1: afraid to say I think I think Luke gets see
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator fell into the same trap as Justin did. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're going. They had one quarterback run in the opening game.
Speaker 1: It was a quarterback sneak. That was it. That was
Speaker 1: the only call for and they were averaging about ten
Speaker 1: or twelve game last year. I thought it was too many,
Speaker 1: but they were moving the balls and the offense was
Speaker 1: generating a rhythm. That's all gone in this game. The
Speaker 1: opening drive. The second week against Tampa, they have the
Speaker 1: run pass option on the rollout, Justin keeps it, runs
Speaker 1: it in. DJ Moore was open for a pass across
Speaker 1: the middle. Never saw it again. They go back to
Speaker 1: the drop back. They're kind of running. You know, Luke
Speaker 1: Getzi came from Green Bay and it almost looks like
Speaker 1: a Green Bay Packer type of offense. And we can't
Speaker 1: do that. They've got to abandon that their only chance
Speaker 1: and go back to the run quarterback run option and
Speaker 1: hope that their defense gets better. Otherwise, this kid's got
Speaker 1: no chance chance.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 3: It's like right now, the Philadelphia Eagles are a good
Speaker 3: team that doesn't have an identity, and they won't embrace that.
Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts is a power running quarterback. That's what he is. Baltimore,
Speaker 3: to their credit, is allowing Lamar Jackson to be Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson last year in Denver stopped running. Kyler Murray
Speaker 3: doesn't want to run. To me, it doesn't matter if
Speaker 3: it's basketball, football, or baseball. Lean into what you do.
Speaker 3: And I look at this when I watch justin Fields. Listen,
Speaker 3: it's Zach Wilson. He's got some gifts, but he's a big,
Speaker 3: strong kid who moves.
Speaker 1: This. What's happening now is he's dropping back if he
Speaker 1: doesn't like his throw, rather than running and making something positive.
Speaker 1: DJ Moore twice was open clapping his hands during the game,
Speaker 1: trying to get his attention to throwing the ball. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's your only chance is to go back
Speaker 1: to what they did last year and turn them loose.
Speaker 1: Get him on the move and in passing situations. Hope
Speaker 1: that he has improved. Now their offensive line might be
Speaker 1: worse than last year. The draft picks a player Darnel
Speaker 1: right the right tackle, but the right guard, the right guard.
Speaker 1: They're in their third right guard, Davis. They signed him.
Speaker 1: He don't practice then he had personal reasons. I think
Speaker 1: it was a family thing. So they started a guy
Speaker 1: and they drafted in a seventh Drownd. Last year he
Speaker 1: never played. Lucas Patrick the center. He he didn't take
Speaker 1: one snap in a preseason. He's starting at center. The
Speaker 1: offensive line too, is struggling bad.
Speaker 3: And so again, by the way, another another defensive coach,
Speaker 3: Sean McDermott, Mike Tomlin, Matt eberflu struggling with the old line.
Speaker 3: Do you know in Week one ten of the eleven
Speaker 3: top rated old Lions For offensive coaches, Andy Reid fixed
Speaker 3: his in an offseason. Sean McVay this year fixed his
Speaker 3: in an offseason. I think we have to be honest.
Speaker 3: Defensive coaches can fix D lines quickly. Offensive coaches can
Speaker 3: fix O lines quickly. How many years in a row
Speaker 3: can the Bears two? Three years in a row? They
Speaker 3: can't get the offensive line right. And by the way,
Speaker 3: They've used a lot of draft capital and money on it.
Speaker 3: They've drafted a lot of offensive linemen. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: just I think no.
Speaker 1: It's their first round pick this year, darned Now, right
Speaker 1: out of Tennessee. He's going to be a player. But
Speaker 1: from there they've got some guys that need to develop,
Speaker 1: and they've got some older guys. Now, it's not it's
Speaker 1: not conducive to giving your quarterback a lot of time
Speaker 1: and having him sit back there and be able to
Speaker 1: read the field. So they can't they can't do what
Speaker 1: they're doing now. They've got to go back to the
Speaker 1: run offense, abandon this, hope their defense comes up with
Speaker 1: a few plays. You know, we get no help from
Speaker 1: our defense in Chicago because you know, the balls on
Speaker 1: the ground, we don't do it, even get it against
Speaker 1: Tampa we had just for interceptions. We don't get them.
Speaker 1: So the offense never gets a short field, you know,
Speaker 1: they never get a it's always drive eighty yards to
Speaker 1: score a touchdown, and that doesn't happen in the NFL.
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Speaker 3: Let's transition to Miami, which I think is as good
Speaker 3: as any team in the league. I mean, they're just
Speaker 3: they almost look like a Canadian football league with all
Speaker 3: these motions pre snap motions. I will say this, you
Speaker 3: know Miami wants winners because you have the Awqua water
Speaker 3: in the beach. If you win, they care. If you don't,
Speaker 3: they're out. I worry that this team couldn't play physical football.
Speaker 3: It would be a finesse speed team. I watched them
Speaker 3: in New England coach. They played between the tackle, run football,
Speaker 3: power football, and I was like, okay, Plus, you love
Speaker 3: Vic Fangio. Almost every defensive coach I know likes Vic Fangio.
Speaker 3: He's dialing up pressures. I gotta tell you, I don't
Speaker 3: see a big hole. I sometimes I worry when a
Speaker 3: team spreads it out and they're a speed team that
Speaker 3: that's what they practice, and they can lack a physical
Speaker 3: they lack of physicality. Tough teams, tough practices. I worried
Speaker 3: a little bit about that with Miami. But you know,
Speaker 3: it is San Francisco's offense, and San Francisco plays a
Speaker 3: power game actually, so it feels like it's a bit
Speaker 3: more finesse than San Francisco's version. You know this, Mike
Speaker 3: McDaniel is an IVY League Kyle Shanahan. It's a little
Speaker 3: more spread out, a little more motion, a little more finesse.
Speaker 3: But I was impressed with their physicality against New England.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, Yeah, I yes, anytime you can you can
Speaker 1: go shoot a shoot with the Patriots, that's saying that
Speaker 1: you're a physical football team. So they did that. You know.
Speaker 1: The two thoughts Number one two is doing a fabulous
Speaker 1: job when you talk about physical and running the ball,
Speaker 1: the two things that I got to see from the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: McDaniel's got to stay and be trying to be as
Speaker 1: bollaced as he can. That's tough for him to do.
Speaker 1: You got to remember back last year Buffalo up there playoffs.
Speaker 1: They had their thirteen quarterback Skyler Thompson. You have Dolphins.
Speaker 1: We're downed to their thirteen, and they threw it twice
Speaker 1: as much as they ran it. They threw it forty
Speaker 1: five times, they ran it twenty And I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: run the football and you're gonna beat the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: You're gonna beat these guys in a snowstorm up there,
Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, they didn't do it. I think
Speaker 1: that is one thing that McDaniel's got to keep going
Speaker 1: back to, trying to be balanced as many weapons and explosives,
Speaker 1: trying to be balanced. I think you know the game plan.
Speaker 1: I loved the game plan that the Chargers had. If
Speaker 1: I'm playing the Dolphins tomorrow, I'm gonna do what they do,
Speaker 1: except that how do you leave Tyreek Hill? You know?
Speaker 1: One on one? That was the only thing I would
Speaker 1: have never played, man, I would have played zone, but
Speaker 1: their philosophy was Herbert. They ran the ball ten more
Speaker 1: times than Herbert passed it. Yep, and they took the air.
Speaker 1: They ran the ball on Fanzio's defense for one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty some yards. I mean, that's the way you
Speaker 1: beat these guys, and you take the air the football,
Speaker 1: but you don't let the most fastest guy in the
Speaker 1: world be one on one. That was the only thing
Speaker 1: that made no set in this game plan. He's supposed
Speaker 1: to be a defensive guy, you know. But I thought
Speaker 1: the big picture plan on offense was perfect. You want
Speaker 1: to beat them, that's what you do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want to get into a track meet
Speaker 3: with Miami. What you want to do is you want
Speaker 3: to have And I thought I agreed with you completely.
Speaker 3: Brandon Staley drives me nuts. I've never seen a team
Speaker 3: give up more third and longs. But their game plan
Speaker 3: was sound. It was We're gonna run the ball, eat
Speaker 3: the clock, give them probably two fewer possessions, and take
Speaker 3: our chances late.
Speaker 2: That's the way to beat Miami.
Speaker 3: Nobody's gonna beat them, and a track meet, especially in
Speaker 3: South Florida, it's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: No, No, no, So you know, I agree with you,
Speaker 1: and it's just at the coverage. You always got to
Speaker 1: stay on top of hill, you know, and if he
Speaker 1: if he curls up and catches it in front of you,
Speaker 1: then you got to come up and tackle a guy.
Speaker 1: But you can't get into a foot race with him.
Speaker 1: He just can't do it. And that's what they did,
Speaker 1: and they lose the game because of it. But I
Speaker 1: liked the game plan. I thought it was very good,
Speaker 1: and all the players bought in, and you know, and
Speaker 1: New England tried doing the same thing, but they didn't
Speaker 1: have as good players, didn't have as good receivers, didn't
Speaker 1: have as good a quarterback. So you know, obviously the
Speaker 1: plan didn't wasn't effective almost almost.
Speaker 3: One of the things I think I've noticed in the
Speaker 3: first couple of weeks is there is a reluctance. Now
Speaker 3: we have instead of four preseason games, coach, we have three,
Speaker 3: and there is this continued reluctance to play starters. So
Speaker 3: I think it's really hurt offensive line play. I think
Speaker 3: some of the best offenses, Kansas City's, Cincinnati's really sputtering.
Speaker 3: When you have these star quarterbacks, they want to protect
Speaker 3: and not play. I wonder if we have a little
Speaker 3: bit of a move back to playing starters in the preseason,
Speaker 3: because you you know, defensively, you could probably use a
Speaker 3: little less practice. But if you're a line, if you
Speaker 3: got new starters and you don't play it all together
Speaker 3: in the preseason, you're gonna be a mess in September.
Speaker 3: And I think that's one of the things I've noticed.
Speaker 3: My kind of macro view of the NFL two weeks
Speaker 3: in is are we gonna Are we gonna go back
Speaker 3: to playing starters in the preseason. I think the offenses,
Speaker 3: a lot of the better offenses in the league have
Speaker 3: completely struggled. That's my takeaway and what I've seen your thoughts, Yes.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent. And I think Nick Siriani from the Eagles,
Speaker 1: what was the first thing he said in his press
Speaker 1: conference and they won the game in the opener, I
Speaker 1: will never let this happen again. What happened in the preseason.
Speaker 1: Our starters are playing next year. Write it down because
Speaker 1: I didn't do a good job in the preseason. We
Speaker 1: were physically not ready to play. He totally agree with them.
Speaker 1: I looked up when when when the Bears lost their
Speaker 1: opener to Green Bay. I looked up to see the number.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields played eleven percent of all the preseason snaps
Speaker 1: and Green Bays quarterback Jordan Love he played over thirty percent.
Speaker 1: So this kid played, you know, more, considerable more. But
Speaker 1: Justin Fields had nine eleven percent of the snaps. Are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? This kid needs to play eighty percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps. He needs to play, and so does
Speaker 1: that offensive line. Like you said, I definitely think that
Speaker 1: there's going to be a movement back to that, just
Speaker 1: because of the reasons just you said it and Sarah
Speaker 1: and you hear coaches say I want.
Speaker 3: I want to move back to the Bears on this
Speaker 3: you I was. I spent the weekend in Chicago. You
Speaker 3: spent a lot of time there. It's my favorite American city.
Speaker 3: I just love the architecture of the people. It's so
Speaker 3: passionate politics and sports. It's like a nicer version of Boston,
Speaker 3: a friendlier version of Boston politics and sports. Rule to day,
Speaker 3: the has had some whiffs, but also had some hits.
Speaker 3: The coach has a lot of detractors, but with the
Speaker 3: draft being as strong as it is for quarterback, if
Speaker 3: there has to be a choice made, go back, and
Speaker 3: you tell me the history of the Bears, will they
Speaker 3: stick with the coach and move off the quarterback. That's
Speaker 3: my gut feeling today that eber Flus only has two years.
Speaker 3: He didn't pick fields, the GM didn't pick fields. My
Speaker 3: guess is they're going to keep the GM and the coach.
Speaker 3: Are Are you backing me there? But you know the
Speaker 3: history of the organization.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely think that if they make a change,
Speaker 1: it would be at quarterback, not the coach at GM.
Speaker 1: I really believe that, And I think they're sitting there
Speaker 1: with just for the reason you said it probably not
Speaker 1: fair to Justin. You know that he wasn't drafted by them,
Speaker 1: he couldn't control that. But if they make a move,
Speaker 1: I definitely believe that's the way they would go. I
Speaker 1: do think that, you know, they got a new president
Speaker 1: of the team, and I know the owner, George McCaskey.
Speaker 1: I think everybody's working well together, so there's not an
Speaker 1: internal conflict right now. So I definitely think if they
Speaker 1: do make a change, if something gets major shake up
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, it would be the quarterback.
Speaker 1: It would not be the head coach.
Speaker 2: Do you hear the players like justin Fields, how is he?
Speaker 1: They do? They do? And he's tough. I watched that
Speaker 1: kid last year in December getting ready for the Packers
Speaker 1: whether a cold, they can't win a game, the fans
Speaker 1: are booing. He gets a separated shoulder and he walks
Speaker 1: up to the podium in a sling, and they said,
Speaker 1: how are you going to be next week? And he said,
Speaker 1: how am I going to be next week? If it's
Speaker 1: Packer week, I will be ready to go. And to me,
Speaker 1: that's what you needed at Chicago. That's Chicago right there.
Speaker 1: Knockdown shoulder, it's snowing out, it's freezing cold, but I'll
Speaker 1: be ready to go next week. So I mean he
Speaker 1: has the toughness, he has the commitment to be successful. Why,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, if you go back to
Speaker 1: his college days, Cohen, you know, because I took a
Speaker 1: look at this. He started two years in Ohio State
Speaker 1: and two years he was sacked like forty nine times,
Speaker 1: like twenty eight eight twenty nine times a year. And
Speaker 1: then he leaves and C. J. Stroud takes over quarterback
Speaker 1: now down at Houston, and they actually threw the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit more, and I think he was only
Speaker 1: sacked twelve times. So this holding the ball syndrome or
Speaker 1: or making a decision syndrome or whatever it is, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, it was, it was there in Ohio State
Speaker 1: a little bit. And I don't think anybody wants to
Speaker 1: admit it, but it was there. If you look at.
Speaker 3: The Kyle Shanahan had told people inside the building in
Speaker 3: San Francisco that he was concerned that that was his
Speaker 3: knock on justin field, that he just didn't see the
Speaker 3: field and that he just held onto the ball too long.
Speaker 3: And I think that's a great that's a great nugget
Speaker 3: by you, is that they threw more with C. J.
Speaker 3: Stroud and he was sacked significantly less. Now, some of
Speaker 3: that can be personnel, but Ohio States always had you know,
Speaker 3: four and five star you know it's Ohio State.
Speaker 1: They got guys as big as that door blocking guys
Speaker 1: from Northwestern and want to be doctors. I mean think
Speaker 1: about it, right, I mean come on, yeah, I mean yes, yes,
Speaker 1: time to throw.
Speaker 3: The Okay, finally, you love the Big ten. I love
Speaker 3: college football, Notre Dame Ohio State this weekend. But I
Speaker 3: want to ask you about Dion Sanders now Travis Hunter
Speaker 3: won't be available for Oregon or USC, and I think
Speaker 3: that'll be their undoing. I think he's such a special
Speaker 3: player that gave them a real shot in those games.
Speaker 3: How surprised are you not? That he drew attention, but
Speaker 3: I mean seventy percent of his roster coach is transfer portal,
Speaker 3: and they've been They've been pretty efficient, not heavily penalized
Speaker 3: now that I think, you know, looking ahead to Oregon
Speaker 3: and off of Nebraska game that was highly emotional, I
Speaker 3: just think they were flat. You know this in college football,
Speaker 3: you don't get the same right. They were just they
Speaker 3: got USC and Oregon coming, they played Colorado State, they
Speaker 3: were completely flat. Are you surprised though, at the immediacy
Speaker 3: of the efficiency? And they looked like a fairly well
Speaker 3: oiled machine offensively, Are you surprised by it?
Speaker 1: No? Because I know the couple of the coaches on
Speaker 1: the staff there and the guy that's in offense coordinario
Speaker 1: who was a head coach at Kent State and was
Speaker 1: at a heck of a job, and he went there
Speaker 1: and then he had a chance to go to Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: A week after he took the Colorado Jame job, Reese
Speaker 1: left Notre Dame and went to Alabama and they tried
Speaker 1: hired him away from Beyond and come into Notre Dame
Speaker 1: and stayed because he was committed. And that told me
Speaker 1: something right there that you know what this because this
Speaker 1: guy's a heck of a coach. And I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I was waiting to see twelve men on the field, right,
Speaker 1: guys jumping off sides. Too many men on the field
Speaker 1: for a punt. Can't get the field ball team out there.
Speaker 1: They were smooth, They were as smooth as anybody. You
Speaker 1: got to give d On credit for that. And you
Speaker 1: know with this transfer portal, the one thing that happens.
Speaker 1: You know, very few kids go into the transfer portal
Speaker 1: unless they got another place to go. Now that might
Speaker 1: be a level below or whatever it is. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's not like it was when I went to school
Speaker 1: and Johnny Majors took over a pit, they opened the doors.
Speaker 1: He brought in almost ninety freshmen. In fact, there was
Speaker 1: a story in Sports Illustrated a month ago that was
Speaker 1: the biggest turner on behind what Dion did. But we
Speaker 1: had no choice. We either played and we jumped on board,
Speaker 1: or we were out and lost our scholarship, so there
Speaker 1: was no transfer portal where now these kids did leave
Speaker 1: they didn't fit in or whatever the circumstance was. I
Speaker 1: was a little head reservations because you know, you kind
Speaker 1: of say, is this the right thing to do for
Speaker 1: college football? But the more and I know Dion a
Speaker 1: little bit from the Florida State Miami days in Dallas days,
Speaker 1: and the more that I hear Dion talk, you know,
Speaker 1: he talks about his faith, he talks about his family,
Speaker 1: about making these guys get father good husbands. I mean,
Speaker 1: he talks about the right things. And then you know
Speaker 1: you're going to be in a pro system nowadays. You
Speaker 1: know why these kids go to college. I mean, I
Speaker 1: hate to say this. When I went to pit my
Speaker 1: first year, I remember going back there because the first
Speaker 1: time I was a pitter's assistant with Johnny Major's when
Speaker 1: we won national championship. You know, kids went to school
Speaker 1: somewhere because they wanted to get a good education. And
Speaker 1: like myself is I'm a junior and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: someone said, hey, you might be good enough to go
Speaker 1: to the NFL, And I said, I mean, you know, no,
Speaker 1: there was no social media. No one talked about it.
Speaker 1: You just want there to try to get a degree
Speaker 1: and play football and hang on with the guys. Now.
Speaker 1: So I go into my first home. I go back
Speaker 1: to Pitt in the mid two thousands there, and I
Speaker 1: go into a home and it was us in Notre
Speaker 1: Dame and Charlie Weiss was at Notre Dame and he
Speaker 1: was coming out, and I'm getting ready to go win,
Speaker 1: and I'm wearing my Pitt National Championship ring and I'm
Speaker 1: going there and I'm talking about why he should come
Speaker 1: to Pitt and our great business school and on and
Speaker 1: on and on and the tradition of Pitt and Tony
Speaker 1: Dorsett and Dan Marino. And I walk on and I said,
Speaker 1: did you see what Charlie was wearing? A Super Bowl ring?
Speaker 1: And my assistant coach said, Coach, you've been in the
Speaker 1: NFL for about fifteen years. These kids, unfortunately, don't want
Speaker 1: to hear by getting this degree. They want to hear
Speaker 1: how quick you're going to make them first rund draft picks.
Speaker 1: And I took that National Championship ring and put it
Speaker 1: in the drawer and I put my Super Bowl ring
Speaker 1: on and that was the end of it. And my
Speaker 1: point is with the story is that these kids nowadays,
Speaker 1: how quick can you make me a first round draft pick?
Speaker 1: And can you get me into the NFL? And if
Speaker 1: you're running a pro system like don runs on offense
Speaker 1: and defense and you have the NFL pedigree, it's attractive,
Speaker 1: it really is. And he's gonna do well and he's
Speaker 1: gonna get great players in great talent. And I could
Speaker 1: just hear Deon in the house with the mama. You know,
Speaker 1: you're talking to you someone's mother. And and he'll win
Speaker 1: the mothers over in the household. I promise you that.
Speaker 1: You know they're gonna love them. They're gonna love them.
Speaker 1: And no, so it just be a matter of he'll
Speaker 1: stay at Colorado, that's the only question. Because he's gonna
Speaker 1: be set in and he's good for he's good for
Speaker 1: college football. You know, there's so much negativity out there
Speaker 1: with you know, with obviously real lot, and you know,
Speaker 1: there's so much stuff that people are complaining about. You know,
Speaker 1: I think he's just a fresh breath of uh of
Speaker 1: fresh air.
Speaker 3: You know, I really know, I mean, I've I've he's
Speaker 3: bringing new people into the tent. I love college football.
Speaker 3: This weekend's a great game. Alabama Old Miss Notre Dame,
Speaker 3: Ohio State, Colorado, and Oregon. Uh there's I think, uh
Speaker 3: you know there's a there's a West Coast game?
Speaker 2: Is it UCLA Utah? Could be? I could be wrong
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 3: Dave wanstat We talked Bears, we talked Dolphins, we talked Steelers. Well, listen,
Speaker 3: you win in the NFL. You win Pittsburgh nine. First
Speaker 3: down is going to w So that's good, coach, Goodsetinias.
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