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Speaker 1: to elevate his game once you got to the postseason.

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Speaker 1: You've noticed that in New England over the years, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's ever been more noticeable, and

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Speaker 1: I think probably some of the signs were there. At

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Speaker 1: the end of the year, you can start to see

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady start to build a little bit and he

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Speaker 1: just has a way to kind of find that other level,

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Speaker 1: and they wore them out on crossing routes that they

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Speaker 1: were able to find that open part, open third of

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Speaker 1: the field, be able to check up with hitches, and

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Speaker 1: then they just ran over routes after over route after

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Speaker 1: over route, And to me, it was it was just

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Speaker 1: a clinic by Brady and company. Yeah, And to your point, DJ,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this literally was the most productive final four

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Speaker 1: game stretch of a regular season of any in Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady's illustrious career. I mean, like it's it's kind of

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Speaker 1: strange to think about that in your forty three year

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Speaker 1: old season. Um, that at the tail end of that year,

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Speaker 1: you are absolutely playing the best call maybe of your career.

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Speaker 1: That's like that, it's like a country song. It's like,

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Speaker 1: I think it's like a Toby Keith song. Right, I'm

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Speaker 1: not as good as ever was. That's it, you know,

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Speaker 1: he didn't have to put together twenty games, just just

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Speaker 1: do it here for a little bit. All right, what's

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Speaker 1: what's the next game? We've got the final game, final game,

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Speaker 1: Our final game. Takeaway here is taking us to the

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Speaker 1: Rams and the Seahawks. For the Rams served up the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks cold m Wilson gets the snap, he looks, he

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Speaker 1: throws lap side, that's intercepted. It's going back down the

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Speaker 1: sideline for a Rams touchdown. Darius Williams jumped around and

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Speaker 1: strolls in a defensive touchdown and the Rams extend the lead.

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Speaker 1: What a play by Darius Williams. They tried the quick

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Speaker 1: screen out to the left and he's he saw it

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Speaker 1: all the way. First off, I'm halfway surprised that that

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Speaker 1: doesn't happen more often in the league. But we'll get that.

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Speaker 1: That's a that's a conversation for another day. Um. So,

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Speaker 1: the gourmet meal that Russ had cooked up weeks one

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Speaker 1: through five was clearly stuck in the fridge, and by

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Speaker 1: the first weekend of the playoffs, they were just picking

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Speaker 1: at it out of the fridge, and the Seahawks decided

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Speaker 1: just to take it all out, and just or the

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Speaker 1: Rams decided to take it all out just to serve

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Speaker 1: it up to ice cold. It tasted terrible. Twelve completions

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Speaker 1: for Russell Wilson. Um, I went too far with that analogy,

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Speaker 1: but you get it. It was. It was bad, it

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Speaker 1: was gross. Nobody likes the ice cold leftovers that have

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Speaker 1: been in there a couple of days to again, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean, You're still You're still good. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, I just want to make sure I've painted

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Speaker 1: that completely clear for you. So the golf had thumb

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Speaker 1: surgery twelve days ago, coming into that game, was pressed

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Speaker 1: into duty because Wolford went out. I mean that that

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Speaker 1: wasn't you know that, even while it was a storyline

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Speaker 1: just because it's your starting court, the storyline was the

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Speaker 1: Rams defense absolutely dominating the Seahawks, once proud passing attack,

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Speaker 1: once proud protection of Russell Wilson. Um. They didn't have

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Speaker 1: a run game to turn two, which has kind of

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Speaker 1: been a theme all season long. And I have never

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Speaker 1: seen Russ miss like that. I've never seen him, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, pressured into more in completions in two, more

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Speaker 1: bad throws and bad decisions and just overall out of

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Speaker 1: sync offensive play from the Seahawks in a game like this.

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Speaker 1: I get why Pete Carroll said I don't have space

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Speaker 1: in my brain to contemplate and to understand this kind

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Speaker 1: of result. I'm right, I mean, I'm right with him

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Speaker 1: on that, because those first five weeks should the first

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Speaker 1: time weeks told us an outcome like this at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year should never happen. Yeah, but you know, Red, like,

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Speaker 1: here's the thing that let Russ Cook movement has always

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Speaker 1: been fools gold for the Seattle Seahawks. Whenever they have

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Speaker 1: been able to win consistently, it has always been because

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Speaker 1: the running game and the defense plays at a high level,

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Speaker 1: and then Russ makes it right in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: And sometimes we get seduced into thinking that more rust

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Speaker 1: is better, but we've seen time and time again when

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Speaker 1: he throws more than thirty times, it falters for whatever reason.

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Speaker 1: With the Seahawks and DJ and Read, we've all had

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Speaker 1: this conversation. Sometimes your DNA is your DNA as a team,

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Speaker 1: and there's a way that you win games, and whenever

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks try and get outside of that, they always

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Speaker 1: come back to the pack. And so this would be

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Speaker 1: something where Pete Carroll, Brian Schottenheimer, they have to get

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Speaker 1: together and figure out the best way to proceed. But

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Speaker 1: I think this year we saw that letting letting Russ

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Speaker 1: Cook isn't the best method for the Seahawks to win,

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Speaker 1: to win at the highest level. Yeah, and I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at that team and man along the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 1: both sides, right, offensive line, defensive line. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're they're close to what they were in those Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl years where they won one and went went back

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Speaker 1: to one. So you're not really where you were. And

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Speaker 1: if you look at it, I mean, no first round

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Speaker 1: pick this year, no first round pick next year. Where

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Speaker 1: does that help coming from? Because offensive lineman, first of

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman rarely get to the market. If they do

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Speaker 1: get to the market, you are in a massive bidding

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Speaker 1: war with all these other teams that have all the

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Speaker 1: south recap space, so that's gonna be difficult to get

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Speaker 1: that done. And same on the defensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know. They're in a pickle, man. And

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Speaker 1: you've kind of set this thing up now where you're

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Speaker 1: gonna put all this on the quarterback shoulders. And as

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Speaker 1: great as Russell Wilson is, Bucky you laid it out perfectly. Um,

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Speaker 1: there's still a formula that works for them, and I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's it. So this is an organization, I know, man,

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Speaker 1: It's it's weird saying that you just won the division.

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Speaker 1: You look at all the success that they've had. They're

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Speaker 1: in a little bit of a bind here rhet when

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Speaker 1: you when you think about them going forward here the

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Speaker 1: next few years. Yeah, you've gotta count on some development.

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Speaker 1: You gotta count on your coaching stat to develop what

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Speaker 1: you got in there right now and and hope that

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Speaker 1: you know, the the LJ. Collier's, the Jordan Brooks is

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Speaker 1: on the defensive side continue to emerge, the Damian Lewis

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Speaker 1: is on the you know, on the offensive side up front,

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Speaker 1: you know, continue to get better and you can develop

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Speaker 1: those guys while you're waiting for that capital to kind

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Speaker 1: of replenish itself. So um, it almost feels like there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot on this coaching staff here moving forward.

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Speaker 1: And then that that leads to other question is how

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Speaker 1: much longer does Peate Carroll want to do this, especially

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Speaker 1: if you feel like that championship carrot might be drifting

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Speaker 1: a little bit further away. So, hey, interesting interesting times

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Speaker 1: ahead for the Seattle Seahawks as we marched towards the

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Speaker 1: off season. The Takeaway Podcast continuing now with our final

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Speaker 1: four takeaways and some news items essentially some kind of

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Speaker 1: big picture items that we're looking at here, and we're

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Speaker 1: starting with some big decisions up here looming for some

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Speaker 1: veteran quarterbacks. Saw the uh oh four quarterback class take

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Speaker 1: a hit here with Philip Rivers making his exit and

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Speaker 1: Roethlisburger making his exit as well. And now you've got

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Speaker 1: Brady and Breeze lined up in the divisional round of

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. So uh DJs, you look at the two

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Speaker 1: guys now who are out starting with Philip Rivers. What

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Speaker 1: do you what do you make of the decisions that

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Speaker 1: are on tap here? Well, I mean, I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be fascinating, right You You laid it out there

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Speaker 1: with some of these veteran quarterbacks and you've got two

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Speaker 1: of them still going here and Breeze and Brady. But

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Speaker 1: you when you look at that old four group with

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Speaker 1: with Ben and with Rivers, big decisions for them to make.

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Speaker 1: And I can't help but think of this, you know,

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Speaker 1: somewhat changing of the guard, right You saw it in

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Speaker 1: that game with Indianapolis playing against Buffalo. And I was

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Speaker 1: thinking about that about the pre draft process. Remember that

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Speaker 1: draft class with Sam Donald and Josh Allen, Kyle Own

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Speaker 1: all those guys were working out together in San Clementi

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Speaker 1: in California, and Philip Rivers actually came up and spent

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Speaker 1: some time with them to cry and help them as

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Speaker 1: they were trying to get on their journey. And actually

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Speaker 1: we're able to get some some video of a conversation

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Speaker 1: that Rivers had with them as he was trying to

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Speaker 1: show them kind of show them the way. And I thought, man,

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Speaker 1: this is a great time we got a hold of

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Speaker 1: this to show this conversation because it did feel a

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Speaker 1: little bit like the changing of the guard. So check

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Speaker 1: this out, Philip, he gus all about ball will get better.

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Speaker 1: So there's growth, there's great they all said, all the

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Speaker 1: great room. So really this spirit, I can't really right?

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Speaker 1: Are you're comfortable? You can have room? But really Jordan's

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Speaker 1: job and who had who was helping me? Right? Just

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Speaker 1: to make you uncomfortable? Spirit uncomfortable? You got great girl? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean thank you. I mean you'd probably get better.

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Speaker 1: I mean you get better, have a good spirit. I'm

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Speaker 1: ready to go to the ball. Let's learn. This is nice.

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Speaker 1: I'm comfortable. Everything's great, alright, anything, bro, but you got

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Speaker 1: great goes and get uncomforble right, So that's why George's

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Speaker 1: you know, I think you are gonna be up. This

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Speaker 1: is hard to be a little bit uncomfortably some parting office.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna run this this. Yeah, but that's where

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Speaker 1: you have great enough those lads. Was hard and you're

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Speaker 1: not uncomfortable. Yeah. I don't know if Philip Rivers thought

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Speaker 1: during that time that there'd be a time when one

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Speaker 1: of the guys sitting there on the couch and Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen be one that ushered him out of the postseason,

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Speaker 1: which he saw this last weekend. But yeah, well yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see it. The interesting thing to me, I

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Speaker 1: thought Rivers actually played really well in that game through

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Speaker 1: for over three yards, two touchdowns, no picks. Mentioned a

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Speaker 1: little bit earlier about the running backs letting him down.

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Speaker 1: Does he decide to come back, maybe for one more

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Speaker 1: year with a team that can protect him up front

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Speaker 1: with that offensive line. I tend to believe that maybe

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Speaker 1: that is where it goes, one more year for him.

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Speaker 1: But Buck, when you look at Ben um Man, I

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I know there's been talking about him

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Speaker 1: coming back. I believe the numbers like a forty one

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Speaker 1: million dollar hit if he comes back. I think it's

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Speaker 1: twenty two million if he doesn't. And this is a

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers team. That's uh in a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a tough spot here when you look at their salary

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Speaker 1: caps set up. Yeah, Look, I think it's a tough

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Speaker 1: situation for the Pittsburgh Steels when you look at Ben Roethlisberger.

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Speaker 1: If you bring him back, I think you have to

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Speaker 1: bring him back and completely revamp your offense. Right now,

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger has too much on his plate. Some of

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Speaker 1: that is by choice because he wants to throw the

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Speaker 1: ball around the yard and do those things. But if

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers aren't able to protect him, if they

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Speaker 1: are unable to run the football, and if they aren't

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Speaker 1: able to consistently cast the ball down the field, I

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Speaker 1: don't think Ben Roethlisberger can play at a high level.

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Speaker 1: And so Mike Tomling, Kevin Colbert, all of the people

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Speaker 1: in the front office, they have to figure out how

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Speaker 1: can we best construct this offense with an aging quarterback

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Speaker 1: who's im mobile as our QB one. Well, look here,

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Speaker 1: my takeaway is that we know what Rivers is gonna

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Speaker 1: do next. If it's not football, right, he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: coaching down in in Alabama. And the good news is

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Speaker 1: that he's made himself uncomfortable enough on the white board

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Speaker 1: to experience great growth as a coach. Um, he really

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Speaker 1: put himself in an uncomfortable spot there with that white

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Speaker 1: boards giving him all you can handle. So I'm glad

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00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: to see that now he's in. He's in good shape here.

642
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: Either way, Look, I kind of feel like, um, and

643
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,239
Speaker 1: I'll move to the two guys that are still in.

644
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: It feels like to me, seeing how well Brady has

645
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: played that unless he goes out with a Super Bowl

646
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: and says, look sevens enough, UM, I think we're gonna

647
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: see him back whereas it certainly feels like and basically

648
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: from all the rumblings we've been hearing like for Breeze,

649
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: probably probably the end here this year, almost no matter what. Um.

650
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,239
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure there's something that that could change that.

651
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: But that's that's that's my feeling on the Brady Breese side,

652
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: you know, Red, I want I want to say this

653
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: about Brady. I think the reason why it works for

654
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 1: Brady and why he'll be able to continue on two

655
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: factors stand out to me. One, he is surrounded by

656
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: a five star cast of playmakers around him. They really

657
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: make the game easy. And the move from New England

658
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: to Tampa. I don't think we can underestimate the warm

659
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: weather and the impact it has had on his ability

660
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: to function and thrive at the end of the year.

661
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: It's kind of like playing golf. The ball flies farther

662
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: when you play in warm weather as a fools to

663
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: playing in the cold. I think he has realized the

664
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: benefits of playing in really what twelve games a year,

665
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: eleven games a year and a warm weather environment. I

666
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: think that works well for an older player, like yeah, yeah,

667
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: not to mention practicing every day in the warm weather,

668
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: that's a big part of it. And I agree with

669
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Speaker 1: you what we got next here, So up next, we're

670
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: talking about the turmoil with the Texans. By now, you've

671
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: probably consumed the s I piece on Jack Easterby's influence

672
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: in Houston. You've read the reports about the whole GM

673
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: search with Nick Kissario eventually ending up the kind of

674
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: out of the blue candidate that gets the job, and

675
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: now the priorities for Cassario. Here, Bucky Brooks, as we

676
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: look at Deshaun Watson's happiness in Houston and whether he

677
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: feels like this is more of the same as he

678
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:45,719
Speaker 1: is tweeted now since the Cassio hiring that something's never changed.

679
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: How do you view priority one for Cassio and whether

680
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: that is you know, trying to get to Shaun Watson

681
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: to come around or not and moving on. No, No,

682
00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: I think it's all about keeping DeShawn Watson in the fold.

683
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 1: And I think it's very clear. It's very easy to

684
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: create this relationship and making the relationship that you want.

685
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: It's about trust and communication. The first thing that Cassario

686
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: has to do is he has to communicate with the quarterback.

687
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: They got to clear the air and talk about all

688
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: the things that happened in the past, and that bygones

689
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: be bygones. And then it's about earning the trust. And

690
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: even though DeShawn Jack, Deshaun Watson may have been promised

691
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: to be in part, in part of the discussion or whatever,

692
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: it didn't happen. And so now he has to show

693
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: Deshaun trust me. We're gonna build this team around you.

694
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,879
Speaker 1: We know you give us the best chance to get

695
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: to a super Bowl. We're going to make sure that

696
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 1: your position in the spot where you're elevated as a player.

697
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 1: Let me go to work. You buy in and this

698
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: will work out. But it starts with that initial conversation.

699
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 1: I was fascinating when there when there was the rumors

700
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: floating around about the Dolphins and you had the to

701
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: uh discussions and maybe it's two and picks, which ironically

702
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: would be Houston getting back the third pick that given

703
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: to Miami. I love that part of it. So you

704
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: get Larry tuns Alo in that trade, you give up

705
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: the two ones and you end up getting one back.

706
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,800
Speaker 1: But now, man, to me, that's a pretty steep drop

707
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 1: there when you look at what Watson has accomplished in

708
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: this league with some of the uncertainty there with Toa.

709
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: But you know, look, there's all these rumors floating around.

710
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you put into it. But

711
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: when you when you see the two A thing, you

712
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,279
Speaker 1: can make the connection between Nick s Sario and then

713
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: you also look at potentially Brian day Ball because of

714
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,720
Speaker 1: their relationship, him coming in as a head coach. Brian

715
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: Dayball haven't been the offensive coordinator Alabama with TOA. We

716
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: think about the play that set to his career off

717
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: the game winning touchdown past the Davante Smith. There you go,

718
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: and and the ironic thing, Buck, how about this reunion

719
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: you make the trade. You you signed day Ball as

720
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: your head coach. You get the third pick, right, so

721
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: you get to and the third pick plus whatever else.

722
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: Use a third pick, you take DeVonta Smith's. So you've

723
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: got to a DeVonta Smith and day Ball all in Houston,

724
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:58,959
Speaker 1: and then your head just explodes. We've gotten a time machine. Yes, absolutely,

725
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: absolutely loads. Yeah. I mean that that's that's crazy to

726
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: think about there, because I think the Patriots or Texas

727
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: fans are are tired to be in the Patriots South

728
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: so much so that call McNair had to acknowledge that

729
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: he does not believe that they are Patriots South owner

730
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: of the Texas. Now they'll just be Alabama West, so

731
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: that would be You know what's interesting though, is that

732
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: there are there are teams, especially the teams that have

733
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: a lot of turnover, like you think about it. With

734
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, I I ended up going towards the

735
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: last half of Phil Savage's time with Cleveland because Cleveland

736
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: had been a little bit obsessed with Baltimore. Then George

737
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: Cokens came in there, it's a GM in Cleveland eventually

738
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: brought in Mike Petton as a head coach who had

739
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: spent time in Baltimore as a defensive coordinator. Some organizations

740
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: get a little obsessed with with other ones. That's interesting, Yeah,

741
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 1: it is to follow those patterns. All right. Let's move

742
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: on to another organization looking for a new power structure,

743
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: one that could be filled by one man whose former

744
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: team is on display tonight in the National Championship Games

745
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: Ohio State battles Alabama. Here, of course, talking about Urban Meyer,

746
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: the potential DJ that he ends up in Jacksonville as

747
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: the new head coach, maybe more with some personnel responsibility

748
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: with the Jags. How do you see? Like The strange

749
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: part about this one for me is he's such an

750
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: accomplished coach, right, DJ that, but it still feels like

751
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: a little bit, I don't want to say a reach,

752
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: but a bold move the guy with very little NFL experience. Yeah,

753
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 1: I think that that's been said a bunch, right. And

754
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: I've heard this theory and I'll get to Bucky on

755
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: this as well, but we've heard this theory. The best

756
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: thing Urban Meyer does his recruit and so he's got

757
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: better players and everybody else he plays against, that's why

758
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: he wins. You're not gonna have those same built in

759
00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: advantages with the competitive balance at the professional level. My

760
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: counter to that would be, Okay, not only has he

761
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 1: been able to identify and recruit kids, he's also developed them.

762
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 1: We've seen him take guys like Mike Thomas and developed

763
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: them throughout their career. He's bought it. Of course, he's

764
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: brought in the five star kids, but he's been able

765
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: to even get those guys better. How many times have

766
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: we seen five stars go to these other places and

767
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: fizzle out? So he's been able to develop guys once

768
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: they've got there. He's got a winning um culture and

769
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: program that he's set up in terms of how they

770
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: go about their business and being physical, being competitive. I

771
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: think that's gonna play well. I think Jimmy Johnson is

772
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: kind of a good is is a good marker for

773
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: him of what you're hoping he can be. Another thing

774
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 1: is if he goes to Jacksonville, they've got a zillion picks,

775
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: so he's gonna get a chance. And one fills swooped

776
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 1: to bring in all these young players. Do I think

777
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:28,240
Speaker 1: that you know, Urban Meyer with a ton of veterans

778
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: on a veteran roster that you know, I could see

779
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: maybe that could get sideways. That's not the case. This

780
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: is very similar to the Cowboys buck when when Jimmy

781
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:36,919
Speaker 1: Johnson got there, They're gonna have a ton of young

782
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: players with a ton of young picks. You know. Dj

783
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: is something that you pointed out because everyone kind of

784
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: glosses over, Oh, well, he is a recruiter. He's always

785
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: used to having the most talent and so that's why

786
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: he wins. But go back and look at what he

787
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: did at Bowling Green Butt. He had go back and

788
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: look at what he did at Utah and how he

789
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: developed Alex Smith, and how Alex Smith went from being

790
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,399
Speaker 1: a freshman that was playing okay to be a guy

791
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 1: that was the number one overall pick in the draft

792
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: because of the influence and the development that urban Meyer

793
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: had at Utah. That's it. There will be a bit

794
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 1: of a transition and an adjustment. But when you look

795
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: at the Jacksonville Jaguars, this is a team that needs

796
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: a program builder from top to bottom to bring it

797
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: all the way up to develop the young players. And

798
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: because the roster is so young and because you have

799
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: so many draft picks, this is basically just an extension

800
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: of college in terms of how he rebuilds this. Yeah,

801
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: he'll bring on some veterans, but to develop it the

802
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,280
Speaker 1: right way and to put the onus on the coaches

803
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: to take the players where they are and to get

804
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: them to another level. I absolutely believe he could be successful.

805
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,720
Speaker 1: The only thing is can he take some initial losing

806
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 1: and how long is he for this kind of job?

807
00:39:48,440 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: Would I don't think the Jets to watch that National

808
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 1: Championship game with their Justin's Fields pomp pomps on either way. Man,

809
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: They're like, either way, this is great for business if

810
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: he plays well, all right, let's keep it moving here.

811
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: Final takeaway here following Super wild Card weekend and with

812
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 1: the ten takeaway, the Eagles fired Doug Peterson. You know,

813
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: this is a move that is a little surprising based

814
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: on the amount of success that Doug Peterson had took

815
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: the Eagles to their only Super Bowl victory. Uh, he

816
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: has a winning record well over five when he comes

817
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: to it, went to the playoffs three times. And when

818
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: I look at this move, I'm really comes down to

819
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz or Doug Peterson. Carson Wentz your franchise quarterback.

820
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: You have a lot of money invested in Carson Wentz.

821
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: He is really like too expensive to really cut, and

822
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 1: so you have to keep him, and so it's easy

823
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: to move on from the head coach. And when you

824
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:51,720
Speaker 1: think about this relationship, it was fractured, evidently beyond repair.

825
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 1: And when Doug Peterson reportedly met with ownership, Jeffrey Lurie

826
00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily like what he heard, and so may he

827
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: couldn't articulate division. Maybe he couldn't necessarily plot a plan

828
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 1: for getting the Eagles out of this rut. And then

829
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: for Doug Peterson, it may have been a situation where

830
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: he's like, too many people are advising me on how

831
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: to run this team, first when it comes to ownership

832
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: and telling them what they wanted to see, potentially with

833
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Then when it comes to Doug Peterson running

834
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: this offense. He brought in a bunch of offensive advisors

835
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: Marty Moorewig Press Taylor, Rich Get Grello to try and

836
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: help this offense get going. And we saw the struggles

837
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: and so some of that frustration, I'm sure from Doug

838
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:40,800
Speaker 1: Peterson standpoint is his failures may not have been completely

839
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: on his own accord, meaning he didn't get a chance

840
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 1: to do with his way. So now you have a

841
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: clean break from the Eagles, Doug Peterson can go and

842
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: pursue other jobs, maybe lands in New York with Joe Douglas,

843
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: who they have a relationship with from the Eagles, and

844
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: the Eagles can go and find someone who can repair

845
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz and so this to be a fascinating development

846
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: to watch. But if you're the Eagles, it is all

847
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 1: about putting all your eggs in the Carson wins back

848
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: basket and hoping that your franchise quarterback can lead you

849
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: back to the postseason going forward. All right, Buck, this

850
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,879
Speaker 1: has been a jam packed episode. Man, It's uh, it's

851
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: really my favorite weekend of the year because we had

852
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: those those six playoff games which were outstanding. Fun time

853
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,399
Speaker 1: breaking that down today, But then we also can look forward.

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Speaker 1: It absolutely should be a great one. All eyes are

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Speaker 1: So be on the lookout for that. On the Move

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Speaker 1: there as well. Well, that's gonna do it for us today.

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